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The 70th edition of the festival will open with Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley. Dame Helen Mirren will receive and honorary Golden Bear, with the festival screening The Queen in tribute.
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New York in the 1980s. Seventeen-year-old David, who is tentatively beginning to express his homosexuality in the East Village gay scene, gradually starts to question the strict rules of his Jewish community.
Iris is 17 and takes each day as it comes. When she meets the cool Renata, her life changes abruptly.
Even in her job at a children’s day care centre, Anne prefers fun to actual work and often alienates those around her with her erratic behaviour.
A found footage film compiled from countless YouTube videos in which the people of Russia make a direct appeal to President Putin.
A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
Documentary about an activist in Algeria.
Amy, 11 years old, meets a group of dancers called "Cuties”. Fascinated, she initiates herself to a sensual dance, hoping to join their band and escape family dysfunction...
Four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty.
After her mother’s death, Ida moves in with her aunt and cousins... whose ethics are dubious.
When Anja is diagnosed with a brain tumour, everyday life in her patchwork family implodes and her cooling relationship with her partner Tomas is faced with a new kind of reality.
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