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Bikechess
(Country: France, Kazakhstan, Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Assel Aushakimova; Writer: Assel Aushakimova; Stars: Saltanat Nauruz, Assel Abdimavlenova, Shyngys Beibituly, Duisenbek Atantayuli, Adiya Mussina)
As Dina, a Kazakh journalist, finds herself disenchanted with reporting inane government initiatives, she
balances supporting her activist lesbian sister while navigating a relationship with her married cameraman.
The Dog Thief
(Country: Chile, France, Mexico, Bolivia, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Vinko Tomicic; Writer: Vinko Tomicic; Stars: Teresa Ruiz, Alfredo Castro)
Martín, an orphan who works as a shoeshine boy, decides to steal the dog of his best client, a lonely tailor he has begun to imagine is his father.
Don’t You Let Me Go
(Country: Uruguay; Year: 2024; Director: Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge; Writer: Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge; Stars: Chiara Hourcade, Victoria Jorge, Eva Dans)
Adela has just lost her best friend, Elena, so she boards a magic bus back in time to spend one last
beautiful weekend with Elena in a house by the beach.
Eternal Playground
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Pablo Cotten, Joseph Rozé; Writer: Pablo Cotten, Joseph Rozé; Stars: Noée Abita, Carla Audebaud, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Philippe Cotten, Alassane Diong, Florence Loiret Caille, Andranic Manet, Arcadi Radeff, Matthieu Rozé, Nina Zem)
It’s the last day of school in Paris and most of first-year music teacher Gaspard’s colleagues are thinking
about vacation. But, Gaspard is surreptitiously planning a weekend sleepover in the school with his childhood crew to honor his recently departed twin sister.
Family Therapy
(Country: Italy, Croatia, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia; Year: 2024; Director: Sonja Prosenc; Writer: Sonja Prosenc; Stars: Marko Mandic, Aliocha Schneider, Katarina Stegnar, Mila Bezjak, Judita Frankovic, Jure Henigman, Kristoffer Joner, Konstrakta, Matija Vastl, Alexis Matera, Borja Repe Novak, Jernej Kogovsek, Zigan Kranjcan, Stane Tomazin, Donatella De Colle)
A nouveau riche family finds their life of detached superiority upended when the patriarch’s son from another relationship arrives at the family home, revealing cracks in their staid façade.
Hunters On A White Field
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Sarah Gyllenstierna; Writer: Sarah Gyllenstierna, Mats Wägeus; Stars: Ardalan Esmaili, Jens Hultén, Magnus Krepper)
Three men go on a hunting trip deep in the Swedish forest. Things start well, but one day all the animals vanish and the forest turns eerily quiet, leaving the men alone as they insist the hunt must continue.
Samia
(Country: Germany, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Yasemin Samdereli; Writer: Giuseppe Catozzella, Nesrin Samdereli, Yasemin Samdereli; Stars: llham Mohamed Osman, Armaan Haggio, Elmi Rashid Elmi, Waris Dirie, Mohamed Omar, Fatah Ghedi, Miguil Ali Soubaneh, Amina Omar, Riyan Roble, Zakaria Mohammed, Fathia Mohamed Absie, Kaltuma Mohamed Abdi, Shukri Hassan)
Raised in a Somalia torn asunder by civil war and extremists increasingly gaining a foothold, Samia Yusuf Omar, an assertive, independent young woman, fights to realise her dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.
Some Rain Must Fall (Kong fang jian li de nv ren)
(Country: China, US; Year: 2024; Director: Qiu Yang; Writer: Qiu Yang; Stars: Yu Aier, Yibo Wei, Di Shike, Gu Tingxiu, Xu Tianyi)
Cai, a 45-year-old housewife from the Chinese middle classes, is in a crisis. She no longer knows who she is or who she wants to be. Following a seemingly trivial incident, her life goes off the rails and she heads into an uncertain future.
Swimming Home
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2024; Director: Justin Anderson; Writer: Justin Anderson, Deborah Levy; Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott, Ariane Labed, Nadine Labaki, Freya Hannan-Mills, Tzef Montana, Michalis Goumas)
The presence of a mysterious houseguest exposes subtle fractures in the marriage between a poet and a war correspondent.
Under The Grey Sky
(Country: Poland; Year: 2024; Director: Mara Tamkovich; Writer: Mara Tamkovich; Stars: Valentin Novopolskij, Palina Chabatarova, Aliaksandra Vaitsekhovic)
Based on true events, a Belarusian journalist is arrested after covertly livestreaming brutal government crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators following rigged elections. Her husband, refusing to leave her, also faces recriminations from a regime determined to break them both.
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