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Something You Said Last Night and Thunder
Carbide (Garbura)
(Country: Croatia, Serbia; Year: 2022; Director: Josip Zuvan; Writer: Josip Zuvan; Stars: Franko Floigl, Mauro Ercegovic Gracin, Ljubomir Bandovic, Zdenko Jelcic, Asja Jovanovic, Ivana Roscic, Marija Skaricic)
A pair of inseparable friends find their relationship put to the test by a long-running dispute between their families.
Carbon
(Country: Republic of Moldova, Romania, Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Ion Bors)
Moldova, early 90s. Dima, a tractor driver, wants to be enrolled to take part in the war on the Transnistrian border. Vasea, an Afghanistan war veteran, joins him. While on their way to the front, they find a carbonized body and end up on a journey to identify it.
Daughter Of Rage (La Hija De Todas Las Rabias)
(Country: Nicaragua; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Baumeister; Writer: Laura Baumeister; Stars: Noé Hernández, Virginia Raquel Sevilla Garcia, Ara Alejandra Medal, Carlos Gutierrez, Diana Sedano)
A young girl finds herself separated from her mother and working in a recycling plant.
Grand Marin
(Country: France, Iceland, Belgium, Russia; Year: 2022; Director: Dinara Drukarova; Writer: Raphaëlle Desplechin, Dinara Drukarova, Léa Fehner; Stars: Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert, Dinara Drukarova, Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Magne-Håvard Brekke, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Dylan Robert, David Menéndez)
A woman persuades a captain to let her join a trawler where she is the only woman aboard.
The Great Silence
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Katrine Brocks; Writer: Katrine Brocks, Marianne Lentz; Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Elliott Crosset Hove, Karen-Lise Mynster, Diêm Camille, Dorte Højsted, Petrine Agger, Joen Højerslev, Rikke Westi, Bodil Lassen, Lin Ly, Rikke Hagenberg, Lena Bondeson, Thomas Søndergaard)
Alma is about to take her vows as a nun in a Catholic convent, when her estranged brother Erik arrives. His presence unearths a tragedy from their past.
A Tale Of Shemroon and Daughter Of Rage
Jeong-Sun
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Jihye Jeong; Writer: Jihye Jeong; Stars: Geum-Soon Kim, Geumseona Yoon)
A factory worker finds herself a victim of cyberbullying.
Nagisa
(Country: Japan; Year: 2021; Director: Takeshi Kogahara; Stars: Yuzu Aoki, Nanami Yamazaki, Kana Kita)
A young man who suffers from guilt related to his adored sister's death encounters her ghost in a haunted tunnel. He makes repeated visits to the tunnel and re-experiences the past.
On Either Sides Of The Pond
(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Parth Saurabh; Writer: Parth Saurabh, Abhinav Jha; Stars: Abhinav Jha, Tanaya Khan Jha, Dheeraj Kumar, Sheelnidhi, Abhishek Singh Rathod, Nikita Gupta, Sagar Singh, Satyendra Jha, Devanshu Jha, Prashant Rana, Satyam Jha, Avinash Kumar Jha, Ujjwal Raj, Sumit Mishra)
An eloped couple, return to their hometown, due to the financial hardships caused by the lockdown.
Roleless (Miyamatsuto Yamashita)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Masahiko Sato, Yutaro Seki, Kentaro Hirase)
Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only playing that part. Finally he comes face to face with his own life, the one he had lost.
Something You Said Last Night
(Country: Canada, Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Luis De Filippis; Writer: Luis De Filippis; Stars: Carmen Madonia, Ramona Milano, Paige Evans, Joe Parro, Xxavier Woon-A-Tai, Augustus Oicle, Drew Catherine, Mark Winnick, Nate Colitto, Mark Soltermann, Anna Starnino, Lorcan DaSilva Déiseach, Jennifer Balen, Michelle Gidari, Carmelo Nelson)
After being fired from her job, Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her Canadian-Italian family on vacation.
Spare Keys and To Books And Women I Sing
Spare Keys (Fifi)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Jeanne Aslan, Paul Saintillan; Stars: Quentin Dolmaire, Céleste Brunnquell)
Seeking to escape her troublesome family environment, Sophie, 15, jumps at the chance to get the spare keys to her wealthy friend Jade's house... and finds herself on the receiving end of another unexpected invitation.
A Tale Of Shemroon (Chevalier Noir)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi; Writer: Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi; Stars: Iman Sayad Borhani, Payar Allahyari, Masoumeh Beigi, Behzad Dorani)
A brother's get-rich-quick scheme runs into trouble.
Thunder (Foudre)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Carmen Jaquier; Writer: Carmen Jaquier; Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Lilith Grasmug, Mermoz Melchior, Noah Watzlawick, Marco Calamandrei, Lou Iff, Benjamin Python, François Revaclier, Diana Gervalla, Barbara Tobola)
Summer 1900, Switzerland. The sudden death of her older sister forces Elisabeth to return home. Stiffled by the strict rules of the village, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel for her right to live her life.
Tobacco Barns (Secaderos, Tobacco Farms)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Rocio Mesa; Writer: Rocio Mesa; Stars: Rocio Mesa)
A tiny rural village is a paradise for a city girl and a prison for a local teenager. Two parallel stories take place among tobacco drying rooms of a single summer.
To Books And Women I Sing
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Maria Elorza)
Documentary about women who act as guardians of forgotten books.
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