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Dahomey and I Saw the TV Glow
Across The Waters
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Viv Li)
Sandstorm blows, water becomes scarce. In a remote mining town without any radio signals, a quirky teenage girl gets curious about a passing truck driver.
April
(Country: Georgia, Italy, France; Year: 2024; Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili; Writer: Dea Kulumbegashvili; Stars: Merab Ninidze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili)
After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an ob-gyn, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumors that she performs illegal abortions for those in need.
Big Shadow
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Maximiliano Schonfeld; Stars: Blas Jaime , Mario Wendler, Darío Wendler, Emilia Gauss, Lucas Schell, Benigno Lell)
A few years ago a man appeared, claiming to speak an ostensibly lost language: Chaná. In only a short time dictionaries were published and the language was completely recovered. This man also situated the Chaná people in the same place where the descendants of the Volga Germans, in the Entre Ríos province, are today inexorably losing their dialect.
Collective Monologue
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Jessica Sarah Rinland)
Intimate and fragmented moments unfold in a community of zoos and animal rescue centers across Argentina. As histories of these institutions are uncovered, dedicated workers commit both day and night to caring for the remaining enclosed animals, fostering a mutual bond that transcends imagined boundaries between human and animal.
Dahomey
(Country: France, Senegal, Benin; Year: 2024; Director: Mati Diop)
Documentary about the return of artworks to Benin that were looted by French colonisers.
Southern Brides and Hymn Of The Plague
Every You Every Me (Alle Die Du Bist)
(Country: Germany, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Fetter Nathansky; Writer: Michael Fetter Nathansky; Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Carlo Ljubek, Youness Aabbaz, Sara Fazilat, Naila Schuberth, Peter Brachschoss, David Hürten, Moritz Klaus, Sascha Mahlberg, Jule Nebel-Linnenbaum, Dagmar Sachse, Sammy Schrein, Frank Stüdgens, Nadja Zwanziger)
Drama about falling in and out of love.
Filmlovers! (Spectateurs)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Arnaud Desplechin; Writer: Arnaud Desplechin; Stars: Milo Machado-Graner, Mathieu Amalric, Françoise Lebrun, Micha Lescot, Salif Cissé, Olga Milshtein)
A film enthusiast follows the footsteps of Paul Dédalus.
Here Comes The Sun
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Wu Lang)
On the seaside, a rocket base breaks the tranquility of the fishing village. As the rocket takes off, life begins to change. Grandma wakes up during the evacuation, longing to find Ah-Wen and the good old days.
How To Be Pehuén Pedre
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Federico Luis)
Pehuén Pedre trains two actors for an examination at the civil registry, where both will have the opportunity to obtain their own disability certificate.
Hymn Of The Plague (Gimn Chume)
(Country: Germany, Russia; Year: 2024; Director: Ataka51; Writer: Ataka51)
Strange things happen at a recording studio.
Milky White and Super Happy Forever
It's Not Me (C'est Pas Moi)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Leos Carax; Writer: Leos Carax; Stars: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Ekaterina Yuspina, Anna-Isabel Siefken, Bianca Maddaluno, Loreta Juodkaite, Petar Antevski)
Consideration of the filmmaker's own filmography.
I Saw the TV Glow
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Justice Smith, Michael C. Maronna, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Amber Benson, Danny Tamberelli, Conner O'Malley, Danielle Deadwyler, Emma Portner, Helena Howard, Will Fitz, Ben Heineman, Ian Foreman, Timothy Griffin Allan, Michael Twaine, Michelle Santiago)
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show - a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Leela
(Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Tanmay Chowdhary)
In a coastal town in India, two young women encounter the news of a missing acquaintance Leela. Rumors about her death have spread, with uncertainty surrounding whether she took her own life or managed to escape to the city. As they go on about their day debating her disappearance, the nature of their relationship in this dead end town reveals itself.
Milky White
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: YoYo Liu)
In a remote rural area, a mother tragically dies during childbirth, leaving behind a daughter who witnesses the event. With no breast milk for the newborn, the family's cow becomes their lifeline, providing sustenance and hope
My Sunshine (Boku No Ohisama)
(Year: 2024; Director: Hiroshi Okuyama)
Drama centring on two kids with opposing personalities who become a figure-skating pair.
Across The Waters and Pepe
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.
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.
Southern Brides (Las novias del sur)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Elena López Riera)
Older women talk about their wedding, losing their virginity and sex.
Super Happy Forever
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kohei Igarashi)
It's summertime. Sano, whose wife Nagi died recently, is staying at a seaside hotel in Atami with Miyata, his best friend. Overcome by grief and nostalgia for the place, strangely, he starts looking for a red cap that Nagi had once misplaced. Five years earlier. Nagi, a young photographer on a sightseeing trip to the same hotel, meets Sano. As the days go by, they grow closer and fall in love. Before leaving, Sano gives her a red cap.
To A Land Unknown
(Country: Greece, Denmark, United Kingdom, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Mahdi Fleifel; Writer: Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Jason McColgan; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Mahmood Bakri, Manal Awad, Mohammad Ghassan, Monzer Reyahnah, Aram Sabbah, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Mohammad Alsurafa)
Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages.
Here Comes The Sun and It's Not Me
Ulysses
(Country: Japan, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Hikaru Uwagawa; Stars: Alevtina Tikhonova, Dimitri Tikhonov, Enaitz Zulaika, Izumi Ishii, Kazuko Hara, Hikaru Uwagawa)
A son and his immigrant mother in Madrid wait for his father to return. A Basque woman and a Japanese man meet in San Sebastian and he shares his stories about home. A drifting Japanese man returns to his family for Obon to welcome the spirits of the deceased. These fragmental stories of each daily life in different places of the world imply their reminiscence of home.
When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Izibene Oñederra)
A small community brought to its knees by an environmental crisis adapts as it can to the new reality. The more privileged inhabitants enjoy a hedonistic life based on the notion of carpe diem, while the others have no choice but to get by as they can. What does the future hold? If there’s nothing else, can anything save us?
Where Time Stood Still
(Country: Georgia; Year: 2024; Director: Nino Benashvili)
A widowed mother and daughter's ascetic life in an isolated village in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveller in need of shelter. His presence awakens erotic longing in both women, who are left to simmer in their guilty consciences after the traveller departs.
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