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Julie Keeps Quiet and To A Land Unknown
Arcadia
(Country: Greece, Bulgaria, US; Year: 2023; Director: Yorgos Zois; Writer: Konstantina Kotzamani, Yorgos Zois; Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Angeliki Papoulia, Elena Topalidou, Nikolas Papagiannis, Vangelis Evangelinos)
Neurologist Katerina accompanies Yannis, a retired doctor, to identify the victim of a car accident. Once there, she sees her worst suspicions confirmed.
Edge Of Night
(Country: Turkey, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Türker Süer; Writer: Türker Süer; Stars: Eda Akalin, Baran Akbulut, Hasan Arik, Mert Aygül, Deniz Benol, Hüseyin Canburdurluoglu, Hasan Gaffar Dalgali, Mehmet Dindar, Zeki Eker, Poyraz Aras Etik, Yilmaz Gökgöz, Sencan Güleryüz, Emir Güven, Berk Hakman, Bülent Haykir)
Two brothers travel together as one takes the other to be handed over to a military court trial.
Happy Holidays
(Country: Germany, France, Italy, Qatar, Palestine; Year: 2024; Director: Scandar Copti; Writer: Scandar Copti; Stars: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Merav Mamorsky, Toufic Danial, Raed Burbara, Neomi Memorsky, Shani Dahari, Sophie Awaad, Imad Hourani, Rana Matar, Michal Dasberg, Juhaina Habib Kandalaft, Issam Hadad, Amal Harb, Riyad Houssari)
Four interconnected characters share their unique realities, highlighting the complexities between genders, generations, and cultures.
Julie Keeps Quiet (Julie zwijgt)
(Country: Belgium, Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Leonardo van Dijl; Writer: Ruth Becquart, Leonardo van Dijl; Stars: Tessa Van den Broeck, Grace Biot, Alyssa Lorette, Ruth Becquart, Koen De Bouw, Pierre Gervais, Claire Bodson, Laurent Caron)
As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club's players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet…
Meat (Kreas)
(Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Dimitris Nakos; Writer: Dimitris Nakos; Stars: Kostas Nikouli, Akyllas Karazisis, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Maria Kallimani, Giorgos Symeonidis)
When a young man commits murder and the only witness is an immigrant whom his father has mentored and cared for, the older man must decide which of them will take the blame.
On Falling
(Country: UK, Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Laura Carreira; Writer: Laura Carreira; Stars: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Neil Leiper, Ola Forman, Deborah Arnott, Katharine K.K. Kennedy, Piotr Sikora, Robert Rutonic, Ross Ian-Martin, Daniel McGuire, Helen Robinson)
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
Pierce (Cì Xīn Qiè Gŭ)
(Country: Singapore, Taiwan, Poland; Year: 2024; Director: Nelicia Low; Writer: Nelicia Low; Stars: Liu Hsiu-Fu, Tsao Yu-Ning, Ding Ning, Lin Tsu-Heng, Rosen)
After being released from juvenile detention, where he served seven years for killing an opponent in a fencing match, a young man begins to train his brother for a national competition.
September Says
(Year: 2024; Director: Ariane Labed)
Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland.
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.
Under The Volcano
(Country: Poland; Year: 2024; Director: Damian Kocur; Writer: Damian Kocur, Marta Konarzewska; Stars: Sofia Berezovska, Roman Lutskyi, Anastasiya Karpenko, Fedir Pugachov, Anthony Rathbone, Alba Victoria Quintana Garcia, Ignacy Perchel, Aron Alejandro Gascon Raga, Clara Ileana Rivera Barreto, Paula Jordi de la Rosa, Brendan Lund, Marlene Fernandez Diaz, Isaac Awuah, Guillermo Marmol Lynch, Marcos Burgio Lloret)
A Ukrainian family on holiday in Tenerife find themselves in exile after their homeland is invaded.
Went Up The Hill
(Country: New Zealand, Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Samuel Van Grinsven; Writer: Samuel Van Grinsven; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Dacre Montgomery, Sarah Peirse)
When the estranged son of a woman who has just died arrives at her wake, he and her former partner find themselves alternately possessed by the dead woman while they sleep.
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