A victim on of a hit-and-run finds things taking an unexpected turn after a viral video surfaces.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Bruno Carboni; Writer: Marcela Bordin, Bruno Carboni; Stars: Marcello Crawshaw, Gabriela Greco, Carol Martins, Carina Sehn, Luis Felipe Xavier)
A childless young ultra-orthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment to help them conceive.
(Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Mordechai Vardi; Writer: Mordechai Vardi; Stars: Mili Eshet, Yoav Rotman, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov, Nevo Kimchi, Gil Frank, Golan Azulai, Renana Raz, Henry David, Yana Yossef, Michael Weigel)
Out of competition
Double Life
A widow finds out her husband's death was not an accident.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Martin Wood; Writer: Michael Hurst, Michael Hurst; Stars: Niall Matter, Javicia Leslie, Aaron Douglas, Carmen Moore, BJ Harrison, Vincent Gale, John Cassini, Kaaren de Zilva, William MacDonald, Arlina Rodriguez, Jojo Ahenkorah, Alex Stines)
Everybody Wants To Be Loved
(Alle wollen geliebt werden)
A psychotherapist puts everyone’s needs before hers until one hot summer day changes everything.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Katharina Woll; Writer: Florian Plumeyer, Katharina Woll; Stars: Hassan Akkouch, Lea Drinda, Jonas Hien, Urs Jucker, Anne Ratte-Polle, Pascale Schiller, Raymond Tarabay, Ulrike Willenbacher)
The Hatcher
A young man on parole begines to develop an ambiguous relationship with his teacher.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Grzegorz Molda; Writer: Grzegorz Molda, Monika Powalisz; Stars: Marcin Cecko, Wioletta Kopanska, Agnieszka Kryst, Michal Zielinski)
Klokkenluider
A hapless government whistleblower and his partner hide out in a remote Belgian cottage, accompanied by two eccentric bodyguards.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Neil Maskell; Writer: Neil Maskell; Stars: Amit Shah, Tom Burke, Jenna Coleman)
The Land Within
A boy adopted away from his native Kosovo returns years later in a bid to help identify bodies in a mass grave.
Laucius has a warm approach to comedy, allowing the humour to develop from the enjoyably messy ins and outs of the situations the characters find themselves in.
A woman finds herself in an absurd situation when, 26 years after her divorce, her ex asks her to help him get their marriage anulled in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
When a professional footballer is injured and recovering at a health spa, he finds himself embracing a new identity.
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2022; Director: Filip Herakovic; Writer: Nikolina Bogdanovic, Filip Herakovic; Stars: Edi Celic, Lucija Barisic, Marko Petric, Tena Nemet Brankov, Ivan Glowatzky, Goran Kosi, Valentina Loncaric, Biljana Lovre, Gordan Marijanovic, Stojan Matavulj, Nina Sabo, Antonio Scarpa, Drazen Sivak, Tanja Smoje, Ana Marija Veselcic)
Phi 1.618
In a dystopian future, a nation of asexual immortal men has been built to fit the golden ratio. As they bid to leave the planet, they plan to take only one female but a calligrapher makes a surprise discovery that could change the course of events.
(Country: Bulgaria, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Theodore Ushev; Writer: Vladislav Todorov, Vladislav Todorov; Stars: Martina Apostolova, Irmena Chichikova, Ivo Dimchev, Deyan Donkov, Vassil Duev, Gerasim Georgiev, Vladimir Lyutzkanov, Nikolay Nikolaev, Nikolay Stanoev, Kitodar Todorov)
Out of competition
Punch
Drama about a young boxer and his troubled relationship with his father.
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2022; Director: Welby Ings; Writer: Welby Ings; Stars: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes, Abigail Laurent, Sage Klein, Karl Willetts, Matt Hicks, Connor Johnston, Simon McConnon, Stephanie Cope, Wesley Dowdell, Wilson Downes, Peter Ford, Fergus Ross)
Storm
A single mum tries to pick herself back up after tragedy.
(Country: Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Erika Calmeyer; Writer: Johan Fasting; Stars: Modou Bah, Ella Maren Alfsvåg Jørgensen, Ane Dahl Torp)
The Unbalanced
(Zošalieť)
After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain.
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2022; Director: Zuzana Piussi; Writer: Ingrid Hrubaničová; Stars: Ingrid Hrubaničová, Vladimír Zboroň, Jaroslava Sisáková, Daniela Gudabová, Tatiana Marta Rehúšová)
Until Branches Bend
Drama about a pregnant woman, after discovering what she believes to be an invasive insect in a peach, must convince her community of the danger.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Sophie Jarvis; Writer: Sophie Jarvis, Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers; Stars: Grace Glowicki, Alexandra Roberts, Quelemia Sparrow, Lochlyn Munro, Antoine DesRochers, Cole Sparrow-Crawford, Paul Kular, Janet Walmsley, Michelle Brezinski, Michael Charrois, John Collins, Judi Garner, Shanna Giannozio, Damon Gregory, Fabian Gujral)
Upon Entry
Two would-be emigres face scrutiny upon arrival in New York.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vázquez; Writer: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vázquez; Stars: Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí, Ben Temple, Laura Gómez)
