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I'm Still Here and April
And Their Children After Them (Leurs Enfants Après Eux)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma; Writer: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma, Nicolas Mathieu; Stars: Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Memmi)
In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.
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.
Babygirl
(Country: US, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Halina Reijn; Writer: Halina Reijn; Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor, Vaughan Reilly, Victor Slezak, Leslie Silva, Gaite Jansen, Robert Farrior, Bartley Booz, Anoop Desai, Mary Ann Lamb, Gabrielle Policano, Gabriela Torres)
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
The Brutalist
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Brady Corbet; Writer: Brady CorbetMona Fastvold; Stars: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola)
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.
Campo Di Battaglia
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Gianni Amelio; Writer: Gianni Amelio, Alberto Taraglio; Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giovanni Scotti, Vince Vivenzio, Alberto Cracco, Luca Lazzareschi, Maria Grazia Plos, Rita Bosello)
In WWI, Dr. Stefano Zorzi works at a clinic, treating soldiers' wounds and cases of self-injury to avoid combat.Dr. Giulio, who helps soldiers, becomes a silent competition that also involves nurse Anna. The Spanish flu strikes the city.
Kill The Jockey and The Room Next Door
Diva Futura
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt; Writer: Debora Attanasio, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt)
Drama about the porn film studio.
Harvest
(Country: UK, Germany, US, France, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Joslyn Barnes, Jim Crace, Athina Rachel Tsangari; Stars: Harry Melling, Caleb Landry Jones, Frank Dillane, Arinzé Kene, Rosy McEwen, Grace Jabbari, Thalissa Teixeira, Stephen McMillan, Gordon Brown, Emma Hindle, Mitchell Robertson, Neil Leiper, Noor Dillan-Night, Gary Maitland, Logan Buchanan)
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
I'm Still Here (Ainda estou aqui)
(Country: Brazil, France, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Walter Salles; Writer: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Marcelo Rubens Paiva; Stars: Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.)
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
Joker: Folie À Deux
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Todd Phillips; Writer: Scott Silver, Todd Phillips, Bob Kane; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz)
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while in Arkham State Hospital. Upon release, the pair embark on a doomed romantic misadventure.
Jouer Avec Le Feu
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin; Writer: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, Laurent Petitmangin; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Benjamin Voisin, Stefan Crepon)
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Kill The Jockey (El Jockey)
(Country: Argentina, Spain, United States, Mexico, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Luis Ortega; Writer: Fabian Casas, Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios; Stars: Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girólamo, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Roly Serrano, Luis Ziembrowski, Daniel Fanego, Roberto Carnaghi, Osmar Núñez, Adriana Aguirre)
A jockey embarks on a new identity after an accident but a mobster is on his tail.
Love (Kjærlighet)
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Dag Johan Haugerud; Writer: Dag Johan Haugerud; Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Morten Svartveit)
Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.
Maria
(Country: Germany, US, United Arab Emirates, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Pablo Larraín; Writer: Steven Knight; Stars: Angelina Jolie, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Haluk Bilginer, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Zora Gerda Fejes, Jeremy Wheeler, Rebecka Johnston, Alessandro Bressanello, Toma Hrisztov, Stephen Ashfield, Christiana Aloneftis, Philipp Droste, Marcell Lengyel)
Dramatisation of the life of the opera singer Maria Callas.
The Order
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Justin Kurzel; Writer: Zach Baylin, Kevin Flynn, Gary Gerhardt; Stars: Marc Maron, George Tchortov, Daniel Yip, Daniel Doheny, Sebastian Pigott, Jude Law, John Warkentin, Nicholas Hoult, Phillip Forest Lewitski, Vanessa Holmes, Bryan J. McHale, Rae Farrer, Carter Morrison, Odessa Young, Tye Sheridan)
An FBI agent comes to believe a series of violent crimes are the work of domestic terrorists.
Queer
(Country: Italy, US; Year: 2024; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Justin Kuritzkes, based on the short story by William S Burroughs; Stars: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, David Lowery)
Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker.
The Room Next Door
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Pedro Almodóvar; Writer: Pedro Almodóvar, Sigrid Nunez; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Victoria Luengo, Alex Hogh Andersen, Esther McGregor, Alvise Rigo, Melina Matthews)
Martha's strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them apart. Their mutual friend Ingrid sees both sides of the rift.
Sicilian Letters (Iddu)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2024; Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; Writer: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; Stars: Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Antonia Truppo, Tommaso Ragno, Betti Pedrazzi, Filippo Luna, Rosario Palazzolo, Roberto De Francesco, Vincenzo Ferrera, Maurizio Marchetti, Gianluca Zaccaria, Lucio Patanè)
A time during Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro's three decades as a fugitive from Italian justice, when he was at the peak of his nefarious powers.
Stranger Eyes (Mo Shi Lu)
(Country: Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States; Year: 2024; Director: Siew Hua Yeo; Writer: Siew Hua Yeo)
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple begins to receive strange videos, realising someone has been filming their daily life.
Trois Amies
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Emmanuel Mouret; Writer: Carmen Leroi, Emmanuel Mouret; Stars: Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, Damien Bonnard, India Hair, Vincent Macaigne, Grégoire Ludig)
Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: she herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend.
Vermiglio
(Country: Italy, France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Maura Delpero; Writer: Maura Delpero; Stars: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Rachele Potrich, Anna Thaler, Patrick Gardner, Enrico Panizza, Luis Thaler, Simone Bendetti, Sara Serraiocco)
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
Youth (Homecoming) (Quin Chun Gui)
(Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)
Third instalment of a documentary trilogy about young Chinese workers. It follows them over Chinese New Year.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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