It’s a film full of small acts of kindness, a film in which it’s possible to make mistakes and keep on going, and in which the audience is therefore at liberty to be entertained by a series of scrapes which might otherwise be mortifying.
An architect finds her search for love complicated by the fact that whenever she falls for someone she forsees their death.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2023; Director: Rozália Szeleczki; Writer: Zsófia Kemény, Rozália Szeleczki; Stars: Franciska Töröcsik, Antal Agatics, Róbert Alföldi, Gergely Blahó, Bálint Bán, Adél Csobot, Zoltán Friedenthal, László Göndör, Aladár Horváth, Zsófia Kemény, Tibor Kiss, Anna Korom, Attila Lestyán, Vincze Lotár, Márta Martin)
(Country: Colombia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Dominican Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Edgar de Luque Jácome; Writer: Edgar de Luque Jácome; Stars: Nathalia Rincón, Roamir Pineda, Henry Barrios, Jesús Romero, Modesto Lacén)
Giant's Kettle
(Hiidenkirnu)
Silent film set in a futuristic world about a family trip back to the past.
(Country: Finland; Year: 2023; Director: Markku Hakala, Mari Käki; Writer: Markku Hakala; Stars: Henri Malkki, Kirsi Paananen, Atte Vuori)
Inpaintings
After a shattering event, Defne drops her PhD studies in Paris, breaks up with her boyfriend Luke and returns to Istanbul. Things change when she receives an unexpected proposal to restore a late Ottoman era painting for an exhibition.
If one bears in mind that parts of it may be more fiction than fact, it’s an interesting character study, as well as one of the more unusual cinematic portraits of a marriage under stress.
The story of a husband and wife's killing spree.
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2023; Director: Petr Hátle; Writer: Petr Hátle, Tomáš Hrubý; Stars: Lucie Žáčková, Jan Hájek)
Character study of a Columbian maid who goes to work in an opulent home on the Costa Del Sol.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Miguel Faus; Writer: Miguel Faus; Stars: Paula Grimaldo, Ariadna Gil, Luis Bermejo, Pol Hermoso, Violeta Rodríguez, Nany Tovar, Victor Rebull, Eduard Torres, Álvaro Maisons, Miguel Fernandez, Alejo De Soler, Ayoub El Hilali, Jesús Rubio, Ronald Sosa, Óscar Antares)
The characters are not unrealistically attached to their well-intentioned lies, and get into trouble in part because of the ease with which they give way to awkward compromises. As a result, they feel very human.
Absurdist comedy that sees a family try to cope after the patriarch dies with an erection that won't go away.
