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The Matchmaker and The Kiev Trial
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
(Country: UK, Uganda, US; Year: 2022; Director: Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp; Stars: Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi)
A documentary about how Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine took on the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
Call Of God (Köne Taevast)
(Country: Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Lithuania; Year: 2022; Director: Kim Ki-duk; Writer: Kim Ki-duk; Stars: Abylai Maratov, Omurbek Nurdinov, Zhanel Sergazina, Artykpai Suyundukov)
A young woman and an older man embark upon a relationship which becomes emotionally overwhelming for them both.
Chiara
(Country: Belgium, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli; Writer: Susanna Nicchiarelli; Stars: Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio)
A biography of St Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to enter a religious life after hearing St Francis preach.
A Compassionate Spy
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Steve James)
A documentary telling the story of Ted and Joan Hall as they navigate World War Two, FBI surveillance, and raising a family.
Dead For A Dollar
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2022; Director: Walter Hill; Writer: Matt Harris, Walter Hill; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Christoph Waltz, Hamish Linklater, Benjamin Bratt, Guy Burnet)
A famed bounty hunter runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw whom he sent to prison years before.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President and Living
Don't Worry Darling
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Olivia Wilde; Writer: Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke; Stars: Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Kate Berlant, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan)
A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
Freedom On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom
(Country: UK, Ukraine, US; Year: 2022; Director: Evgeny Afineevsky; Stars: Nataliia Nagorna, Stanislav Stovban, Anna Zaitseva, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andriy Zelinskyy)
A documentary about Ukraine's efforts to resist Russian invasion in 2022.
Gli Ultimi Giorni Dell'umanita
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Enrico Ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo)
A documentary inspired by the work of Karl Kraus.
In Quanto A Noi
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Simone Massi)
A film.
In Viaggio
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Gianfranco Rosi; Writer: Gianfranco Rosi; Stars: Pope Francis)
A documentary about Pope Fracis.
Master Gardener and Chiara
The Kiev Trial
(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
A forensic reconstruction of the trial of 15 people which took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators.
Living
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film by Akira Kurosawa; Stars: Bill Nighy, Tom Burke, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Colin Blyth, Daniel Eghan, Richard Cunningham, Ffion Jolly, Dan Robins, Grant Crookes, Oliver Smiles, Michael James, Stuart Whelan, Jamie Wilkes, Edward Wolstenholme)
In 1952 London, veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post-WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
Master Gardener
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Eduardo Losan, Esai Morales, Rick Cosnett, Victoria Hill, Amy Le)
A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager, is persuaded to take on her great niece as an apprentice.
The Matchmaker
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Benedetta Argentieri; Writer: Benedetta Argentieri; Stars: Tooba Gondal)
An interview with an alleged Daesh recruiter, conducted during her time in a detention camp.
Music For Black Pigeons
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Andreas Koefoed, Jørgen Leth)
A cinematic improvisation piece about being present in the now, about playing and improvising, about carrying on the legacy of generations of jazz pioneers and creating something unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
Don't Worry Darling and When The Waves Are Gone
Pearl
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ti West; Writer: Mia Goth, Ti West; Stars: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro)
The story of a woman's transformation into a vicious killer.
Siccità
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Paolo Virzì; Writer: Paolo Giordano, Paolo Virzì, Francesca Archibugi; Stars: Monica Bellucci, Sara Serraiocco, Silvio Orlando, Sata Lazzio, Valeria Mastandrea)
It hasn't rained in Rome for 3 years. Regulations and customs change as a group of intertwined characters deal with the water shortage.
When The Waves Are Gone (Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon)
(Country: Philippines, Denmark, Portugal, France; Year: 2022; Director: Lav Diaz; Writer: Lav Diaz; Stars: John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Shamaine Buencamino, Don Melvin Boongaling)
Lt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug campaign, which is spearheaded by no less than the president of the country, Rodrigo Duterte.
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