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My Stolen Planet and Familiar Touch
Bionico's Bachata (La Bachata De Bionico)
(Country: Dominican Republic; Year: 2024; Director: Yoel Morales; Writer: Cristian Mojica, Yoel Morales; Stars: Manuel Raposo, Ana Minier, El Napo, Yasser Michelen, Barbara Plaza, Donis Tavaras)
Bionico is a hopeless romantic addicted to crack, who must take control of his life before his fiancée leaves a rehabilitation centre.
Caught By The Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai)
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Jia Zhang-Ke)
An elusive, decades-spanning love story impacted by life in modern China.
Cidade; Campo
(Country: Brazil, France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Juliana Rojas; Writer: Juliana Rojas; Stars: Fernanda Vianna, Mirella Façanha, Bruna Linzmeyer, Kalleb Oliveria, Andrea Marquee, Preta Ferreira, Marcos de Andrade, Nilcéia Vicente, Raquel Ferreira, Maia de Paiva, Rita Niza, Brenda Lígia, Majeca Angelucci, Felipe Kenji, Andréia Pires)
Two tales of migration, memories and ghosts. After a disaster floods her land, Joana moves to São Paulo and tries to restart her life. Following the death of her father, Flavia moves to his farm in the country with her wife Mara.
Diciannove
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Giovanni Tortorici; Writer: Giovanni Tortorici; Stars: Manfredi Marini, Vittoria Planeta, Luca Lazzareschi, Zackari Delmas, Dana Giuliano)
An investigation of the life of a 19-year-old boy and an analysis of his life and his being a student.
Don't Cry, Butterfly
(Country: Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines; Year: 2024; Director: Duong Dieu Linh; Writer: Duong Dieu Linh; Stars: Nguyen Nam Linh, Bui Thac Phong, Le Vu Long, Le Tu Oanh)
Surreal portrait of a middle-aged woman who finds out her husband is cheating on her.
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder and Formosa Beach
Eight Postcards From Utopia
(Country: Romania; Year: 2024; Director: Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Radu Jude; Writer: Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Radu Jude)
Found footage documentary created using post-Socialist adverts from Romania.
Familiar Touch
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sarah Friedland; Writer: Sarah Friedland; Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Katelyn Nacon, Kathleen Chalfant, Andy McQueen, Carolyn Michelle, Alison Martin, London Garcia, Joahn Webb, Sandy Velasco)
Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Fire Of Wind (Fogo Do Vento)
(Country: Portugal, Switzerland, France; Year: 2024; Director: Marta Mateus; Writer: Marta Mateus; Stars: Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata, Safir Eizner, José Moura, Maria Clara Madeira)
Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter.
Formosa Beach (Praia Formosa)
(Country: Brazil, Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Julia De Simone; Writer: Julia De Simone, Aline Portugal, Mariana Luiza; Stars: Lucília Raimundo, Samira Carvalho)
An African woman forced into servitude in 19th-century Brazil, is suddenly transported into present-day Rio de Janeiro.
My Stolen Planet (Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Farahnaz Sharifi; Writer: Farahnaz Sharifi)
Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in the form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.
Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat and Pepe
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder (As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora)
(Year: 2024; Director: Inadelso Cossa; Writer: Inadelso Cossa; Stars: Inadelso Cossa, Maria Estevão, Moises Langa)
A filmmaker tries to revive his memories of the war raging in a Mozambique village through soundscape exploration and interviews with the villagers.
Pepe
(Country: Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias; Stars: Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García)
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of
time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming
orality of these towns.
Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay; Writer: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay; Stars: Tadeusz Janiszewski, Andrzej Klak, Wioletta Kopanska)
Stop-motion animation.
Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Johan Grimonprez; Writer: Johan Grimonprez; Stars: Dag Hammarskjöld, Nikita Khrushchev, Patrice Lumumba, Andrée Blouin)
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Sugar Island
(Country: Spain, Dominican Republic; Year: 2024; Director: Johanne Gomez Terrero; Writer: María Abenia, Johanne Gomez Terrero; Stars: Francis Cruz, Ruth Emeterio, Juan Maria Almonte, Yelidá Díaz, Génesis Piñeyro, Diogenes Medina)
An unwanted pregnancy, triggers the journey into adulthood for
Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a
community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Cidade; Campo and Viet and Nam
Viet and Nam
(Year: 2024; Director: Truong Minh Quý)
Nam and Việt are coal miners, working 300 meters below ground, where danger awaits, darkness prevails. Nam doesn’t want his future to continue with coal and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world.
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