All To Play For and The Delinquents
All To Play For (Rien À Perdre)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Delphine Deloget; Writer: Delphine Deloget; Stars: Virginie Efira, Felix Lefebvre, Alexis Tonetti, Arieh Worthalter, Mathieu Demy, India Hair)
A mum battles to get her child back after an injury while she was out sees him taken into care.
First Film
The Animal Kingdom (Le Règne Animal)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Thomas Cailley; Writer: Thomas Cailley; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris, Paul Kircher)
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
Opening Film
The Breaking Ice
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Anthony Chen; Writer: Anthony Chen; Stars: Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao)
The relationship between a trio of young people over a period of a few days in the snow.
The Buriti Flower (Crowrã)
(Year: 2023; Director: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora; Writer: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora)
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The Delinquents (Los Delincuentes)
(Country: Argentina, Brazil, Luxembourg, Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Rodrigo Moreno; Writer: Rodrigo Moreno; Stars: Margarita Molfino, Esteban Bigliardi, Cecilia Rainero)
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
The Mother Of All Lies and The Animal Kingdom
Goodbye Julia
(Country: Sudan, Egypt, Germany, France, KSA, Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Mohamed Kordofani; Writer: Mohamed Kordofani; Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Goma, Ger Duany, Issraa Elkogali Häggström)
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
First Film
Hopeless
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Kim Chang-Hoon)
A teenage boy struggles to escape his difficult life in a violent hometown.
First Film
How To Have Sex
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Molly Manning Walker; Writer: Molly Manning Walker; Stars: Mia McKenna Bruce, Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Sam Bottomley, Enva Lewis, Laura Ambler)
Three friends contend with peer pressure in their decision to “do it”.
First Film
If Only I Could Hibernate
(Country: Mongolia; Year: 2023; Director: Zoljargal Purevdash)
A poor but proud Mongolian teen aspires to win an Academic Olympiad; first, he and his siblings
must survive the bitter winter in Ulaanbaatar’s Ger district.
First Film
Les Meutes
(Country: Morocco; Year: 2023; Director: Les Meutes)
Trouble brews for a father and son in the wake of a kidnapping gone bad.
First Film
How To Have Sex and The New Boy
The Mother Of All Lies
(Country: Morocco, France, Qatar; Year: 2023; Director: Asmae El Moudir)
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.
The Nature Of Love (Simple Comme Sylvain)
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2023; Director: Monia Chokri; Writer: Monia Chokri; Stars: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau , Pierre-Yves Cardinal, François Létourneau , Monia Chokri)
Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor. Sylvain is a craftsman, renovating Sophia and her partner Xavier's new country house. When Sophia and Sylvain meet, Sophia’s world is turned upside down.
The New Boy
(Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Warwick Thornton; Writer: Warwick Thornton; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Mezi Atwood, Deborah Mailman)
The story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world.
Rosalie
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto; Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel)
19th century tale of a bearded woman.
The Settlers (Los Colonos)
(Country: Chile, Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Felipe Gálvez; Writer: Felipe Gálvez)
19th century drama. A man on an expedition is forced to take part in a massacre. Afterwards he forms a bond with the only survivor.
First Film
Goodbye Julia and The Settlers
Terrestrial Verses
(Country: Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Ali Asgari; Writer: Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami)
Nine individuals facing various accusations by Iranian authorities – from school to police – reveal their revolutionary spirit.