Infested and Life Is Not A Competition, But I'm Winning
About Last Year
(Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Dunja Lavecchia, Beatrice Surano, Morena Terranova; Writer: Dunja Lavecchia, Beatrice Surano, Morena Terranova; Stars: Celeste Borgialli, Letizia Nacci, Giorgia Oliverio)
Drama centred on women who are part of the ballroom scene.
God Is A Woman (Dieu Est Une femme)
(Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Andres Peyrot)
Documentary about the Kuna people focusing on a film that was supposed to be made about them in the Seventies.
Hoard
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Luna Carmoon; Writer: Luna Carmoon; Stars: Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires, Deba Hekmat, Cathy Tyson)
1984, London: 7 year old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
Infested (Vermines, Vermin)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Sébastien Vanicek; Writer: Florent Bernard, Sébastien Vanicek; Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Sofia Lesaffre, Théo Christine, Jérôme Niel, Lisa Nyarko)
Kaleb, passionate about exotic animals, accidentally lets his new eight-legged pet slip away.
The Vourdalak and God Is A Woman
Love Is A Gun
(Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong; Year: 2023; Director: Lee Hong-Chi; Writer: Lee Hong-Chi; Stars: Lee Hong-Chi , Patricia Lin, Zheng Qing-Yu, Lin Ke-Ren, Lee Yu-Yao, Edison Song)
An ex-con's quiet life is disrupted by people from his past.
Malqueridas
(Country: Chile, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Tana Gilbert)
Stories of mothers serving long sentences in jail.
Passione Critica
(Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Simone Isola, Franco Montini, Patrizia Pistagnesi)
Examining the relationship between authors and critics in Italian cinema history.
Sky Peals
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Moin Hussain; Writer: Moin Hussain; Stars: Faraz Ayub, Natalie Gavin, Claire Rushbrook, Simon Nagra, Steve Oram, Jeff Mirza, Bill Fellows, Adrian Hood, Maizie Wickson, Alan Cammish, Teresa Mondol, Junaid Arshad, Christian Foster, Vicki Hackett, Lynne Payne)
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
The Vourdalak
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Adrien Beau; Writer: Adrien Beau, Hadrien Bouvier, based on the novella by, Aleksei Tolstoy; Stars: Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider, Kacey Mottet Klein)
Historic vampire tale, adapted from a Tolstoy novella.
