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Yardie and Pity
And Breathe Normally
(Country: Iceland, Sweden, Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Ísold Uggadóttir; Stars: Kristín Thóra Haraldsdóttir, Babetida Sadjo, Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson)
World premiere
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategise to get their lives back on track.
Butterflies (Kelebekler)
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2018; Director: Tolga Karaçelik; Writer: Tolga Karaçelik; Stars: Ezgi Mola, Serkan Keskin, Bartu Küçükçaglayan, Ercan Kesal, Tolga Tekin, Hakan Karsak, Tugce Altug)
Three estranged siblings travel back to their home village after a call from their father.
World premiere
Dead Pigs
(Country: US, China; Year: 2018; Director: Cathy Yan; Writer: Cathy Yan; Stars: Zazie Beetz, Vivian Wu, Mason Lee, David Rysdahl, Meng Li, Haoyu Yang)
An ambitious pig farmer, sentimental salon owner, struggling busboy, and a wealthy young woman become intertwined during the social modernisation of Shanghai.
World premiere
The Guilty (Den Skyldige)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Gustav Möller; Writer: Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Gustav Möller; Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen, Jeanette Lindbæk, Simon Bennebjerg, Laura Bro, Morten Suurballe, Guuled Abdi Youssef, Caroline Løppke, Peter Christoffersen, Nicolai Wendelboe, Morten Thunbo)
After he takes a call from a woman in a desperate situation, an emergency operator feels unable to let go.
World premiere
Holiday
(Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Isabella Eklöf; Writer: Isabella Eklöf, Johanne Algren; Stars: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer)
The sugar baby of a mob boss flirts with a stranger on the Turkish Riviera.
World premiere
Holiday and Loveling
Loveling (Benzinho)
(Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Gustavo Pizzi; Writer: Gustavo Pizzi, Karine Teles; Stars: Karine Teles, Otávio Müller, Adriana Esteves, Konstantinos Sarris, César Troncoso, Mateus Solano, Camilo Pellegrini, Ariclenes Barroso, Pablo Riera, Lucas Gouvêa)
Snapshot of a Brazilian family as their son prepares to leave for Germany.
World premiere. Day One
Pity
(Country: Greece, Poland; Year: 2018; Director: Babis Makridis; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Babis Makridis; Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Nota Tserniafski, Makis Papadimitriou, Georgina Chryskioti, Evdoxia Androulidaki)
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
World premiere
The Queen Of Fear
(Country: Argentina, Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia; Writer: Valeria Bertuccelli; Stars: Valeria Bertuccelli, Diego Velázquez, Gabriel Eduardo "Puma" Goity, Darío Grandinetti)
World premiere
Only one month left until the premiere of The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from focused on the preparations for this new production, Robertina lives in a state of continuous anxiety that turns her privileged life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape.
Rust
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2018; Director: Aly Muritiba; Writer: Aly Muritiba, Jessica Candal; Stars: Giovanni De Lorenzi, Tifanny Dopke, Enrique Diaz, Clarissa Kiste, Duda Azevedo, Pedro Inoue)
World premiere
Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story becomes an end.
Time Share (Tiempo Compartido)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Sebastian Hofmann; Writer: Julio Chavezmontes, Sebastian Hofmann; Stars: RJ Mitte, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Miguel Rodarte, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Andrés Almeida, Montserrat Marañon, Pablo Guisa Koestinger)
World premiere
Two haunted family men join forces in a destructive crusade to rescue their families from a tropical paradise, after becoming convinced that an American timeshare conglomerate has a sinister plan to take their loved ones away.
The Guilty and Butterflies
Un Traductor (A Translator)
(Country: Canada, Cuba; Year: 2018; Director: Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso; Writer: Lindsay Gossling; Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Maricel Álvarez, Yoandra Suárez, Milda Gecaite, Genadijs Dolganovs, Nataliya Rodina, Eslinda Núñez, Nikita Semenov, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Jorge Carlos Perez Herrera)
World premiere
A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.
Yardie
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Idris Elba; Writer: Brock Norman Brock, Martin Stellman, based on the novel by Victor Headley; Stars: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Creary, Mark Rhino Smith, Calvin Demba, Naomi Ackie, Frazer James, Akim Gazi, Jumayn Hunter)
Gang wars in Kingston in the Seventies are imported into Hackney in the Eighties affecting the life of a Jamaican boy who seeks vengeance for the murder of his brother
World premiere
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