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The festival ran from from September 17 to October 11. The 58th edition opened with Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock and had Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland as its centrepiece gala. Due to the pandemic, its focus was on outdoor and virtual screenings.
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A woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret.
A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
Fox Rich fights for her husband’s release from jail, after he is sentenced to 60 years of incarceration for a bank robbery, a crime she also served time for in the Nineties.
A young man is sent to La Maca, a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new Roman and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's documentary explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.
A documentary about the history of voter suppression in the United States.
A film of Byrne's acclaimed Broadway show.
A Manhattan socialite whose inheritance is running out moves to a borrowed apartment in Paris with her son and cat.
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles.
Undine is a city historian on urban development in a Berlin museum, the 'place by the swamp'. When her boyfriend leaves her, she vows to kill the faithless man but soon meets another.
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