A journalist meets Salvador Dali several times as part of a documentary project.
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Romain Duris, Pierre Niney, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Alain Chabat, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï, Edouard Baer, Didier Flamand, Jérôme Niel, Hakim Jemili, Agnès Hurstel, Nicolas Carpentier, Tom Dingler, Marc Fraize)
Out of Competition
Fez Summer '55
Summer 1955. Kamal, an 11 year old boy of the Medina of Fez, is experiencing the last months before Morocco's independence. Months that will change his life.
Ten uneasy lessons in a tiny apartment in Ukraine. Teacher Nadia launches an EU-funded LGBT+ acceptance program. A typically intolerant family hesitantly decides to sign up to receive tempting financial supplements. Their task is to spend 24 non-alcoholic days with Vasyl, who is gay but might also be a best friend, long-forgotten relative, good therapist, attentive social worker, or a plumber photographer.
Tala, 33, an Israeli offbeat musician, just had her first baby. Desperate to make a living and support her kid with no father in the picture, she takes up a job at the “Milky Way”, selling her breast milk.
Drama about the Colonia hospital, where those who didn’t fit the standards of society, or their family’s perception of it, was locked away, tortured, and killed.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2023; Director: André Ristum; Writer: André Ristum, Marco Dutra, Rita Gloria Curvo; Stars: Fernanda Marques, Augusto Madeira, Andréia Horta, Rejane Faria, Naruna Costa)
Observing
(Opazovanje)
The true story of a live streaming of a beating that went viral is the starting point for this thriller.
(Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia; Year: 2023; Director: Janez Burger)
Viewers … must be patient and wait for their rewards – but like the old man, we are sometimes caught be surprise, confronted with sudden moments of exquisite beauty.
As the old man goes about his day to day toil on the land, his children squabble over its future.
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Nicholas Parish; Writer: Nico Mensinga; Stars: Rory Kinnear, Emily Beecham, Roger Marten)
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2023; Director: László Csáki; Writer: László Csáki; Stars: Nóra Trokán, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Renátó Olasz, Vivien Rujder, Miklós Kapácsy, Börcsök Olivér Benjámin, Gábor Csöre, Ágoston Kenéz, Vilmos Vajdai, Norman Lévai, Tegyi Kornél, István Kálmánczhelyi, Judit Csoma)
Your Mother's Son
(Anak Ka Ng Ina Mo)
Uses a fake family to reflect on the political changes regarding drugs and destroyed families in his country under the ruthless President Rodrigo Duterte.
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2023; Director: Jun Robles Lana; Writer: Jun Robles Lana, Elmer Gatchalian; Stars: Sue Prado, Kokoy de Santos, Elora Españo, Miggy Jimenez)
