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Seven Veils and Spaceman
Abiding Nowhere (Wu Suo Zhu)
(Country: US, Taiwain; Year: 2024; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Stars: Lee Kang-Sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy)
A solitary monk slowly paces through bustling streets and tranquil parks. Across town, a
curious young man explores an abandoned building.
At Averroès & Rosa Parks
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Nicolas Philibert)
A documentary portrait of life in two Parisian hospital wards.
August My Heaven
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Riho Kudo; Stars: Shuri Suwa, Yukino Murakami, Takuma Fujie)
The Box Man (Hako Otoko)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Gakuryû Ishii; Writer: Kôbô Abe; Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Kôichi Satô, Ayana Shiramoto)
A man gives up his identity and his normal life to live with a cardboard box over his head. A photographer becomes fascinated and decides to try it himself.
Chime
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Mutsuo Yoshioka)
Tashiro, a student at a culinary school, hears voices in his head. His teacher, Matsuoka, remains unconcerned. But then Tashiro claims that half of his brain has been replaced by a machine.
Abiding Nowhere and Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger
Dostoyevsky (Dostoevskij)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo; Writer: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo; Stars: Filippo Timi, Simon Rizzoni, Tommaso Sacco, Gabriel Montesi, Carlotta Gamba, Federico Vanni)
A detective becomes increasingly obsessed with tracking down the serial killer “Dostoyevsky”.
Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football (Elf Mal Morgen: Berlinale Meets Fußball)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Maximilian Bungarten, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Kilian Armando Friedrich, Indira Geisel, Eva Gemmer, Felix Herrmann, Hannah Jandl, Justina Jürgensen, Hilarija Locmele, Daniela Magnani-Hüller, Sophie Mühe, Camille Tricaud, Marie Zrenner)
Eleven short documentaries about eleven youth football teams for different age groups and with varying prospects.
The Empty Grave (Das Leere Grab)
(Country: Tanzania, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Cece Mlay, Agnes Lisa Wegner)
John Mbano and Cesilia Mollel are on a mission to bring the stolen remains of their ancestor back home to Tanzania.
Exergue – On Documenta 14
(Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Dimitris Athyridis; Writer: Dimitris Athyridis)
The film follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14.
Filmmaking (Filmstunde_23)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz; Stars: Edgar Reitz)
In 1968, the young Edgar Reitz teaches filmmaking at a girls’ school – a ground-breaking educational experiment. Fifty-five years later, there is a class reunion.
Love Lies Bleeding and Sasquatch Sunset
Love Lies Bleeding
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Rose Glass; Writer: Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska; Stars: Kristen Stewart, Katy M. O'Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone)
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: David Hinton; Stars: Martin Scorsese, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell)
Documentary about the acclaimed directors, their work and its legacy.
The Roundup: Punishment (Beom-Joe-do-si 4)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Heo Myeong Haeng; Stars: Ma Dong-seok, Kim Mu-yeol, Lee Joo-bin, Lee Dong-hwi, Park Ji-hwan, Kim Min-jae, Lee Beom-su, Lee Ji-hoon)
“Monster Cop” Ma Seok-do is investigating an illegal online gambling organisation.
Sasquatch Sunset
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner; Writer: David Zellner; Stars: Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek)
A year in the life of a singular family.
Seven Veils
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Atom Egoyan; Writer: Atom Egoyan; Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Rebecca Liddiard, Mark O'Brien, Maia Jae Bastidas)
An earnest theatre director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to colour the present.
Shikun
(Country: Israel, Switzerland, France; Year: 2024; Director: Amos Gitai; Writer: Amos Gitai, Rivka Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme; Stars: Irène Jacob, Yaël Abecassis, Menashe Noy, Naama Preis, Hana Laslo, Helena Yaralova, Pini Mittelman, Bahira Ablassi, Atalah Tannous, Minas Milad Qarawany, Sara Arenberg Gitai, Zvi Szkolnik, Amnon Rechter, Ram Mizrhi Spinoza)
Set within a single Israeli multi-use building, the Shikun, and inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s classic play Rhinoceros, a collection of theatrical episodes dramatises the rise of authoritarian thinking.
Spaceman
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Johan Renck; Writer: Colby Day, based on the novel Bohemian Spaceman by Jaroslav Kalfar; Stars: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, Lena Olin, Petr Papánek, Marian Roden, Zuzana Stivínová, Sinead Phelps, Sunny Sandler, John Flanders, Bash Doran, Petr Bláha, Mikulas Cizek)
An astronaut, has been on a space mission for months. He realises that his wife might not be waiting for him once he returns to Earth. In his desperation, he turns for help to a mysterious creature lurking deep in the bowels of his spaceship.
The Strangers' Case
(Country: Jordan; Year: 2024; Director: Brandt Andersen; Writer: Brandt Andersen; Stars: Omar Sy, Jason Beghe, Angeliki Papoulia, Yasmine Al Massri, Saleh Bakri, Yahya Mahayni, Baeyen Hoffman, Yumna Marwan, Ziad Bakri, Jay Abdo, Vicky Papadopoulou, Constantine Markoulakis, Thanos Tokakis, Ayman Samman, Grigoria Metheniti)
Tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo. This triggers a chain reaction of events involving five different families in four different countries.
Supersex
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini, Francesca Mazzoleni with Alessandro Borghi, Jasmine Trinca, Adriano Giannini, Jade Pedri, Linda Caridi; Writer: Francesca Manieri; Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Linda Hardy, David Kammenos, Giulio Greco, Helena Antonio, Eva Cela, Alberto Ruano, Joelle Hélary, Jade Pedri, Axel Gallois, Filippo Valle, Jasmine Trinca, Adriano Giannini, Saul Nanni, Florence Guérin)
Freely inspired by the life and memoirs of Rocco Siffredi, considers the hidden side of a porn star.
Treasure
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Julia von Heinz; Writer: John Quester, Julia von Heinz; Stars: Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wenanty Nosul, Robert Besta, Oliver Ewy, David Krzysteczko)
In the early 1990s, New York music journalist Ruth travels with her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, through his homeland of Poland.
Turn in the Wound
(Country: US, Germany, UK, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Abel Ferrara)
Explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at war in Ukraine.
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