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- DirectorAnthony LapiaStarsLouise ChevillotteMajd MastouraNatalia WiszniewskaA club in Paris. Driving techno beats sweep everyone away. People dance, consume and talk. Félicie meets Saïd and takes him to her place for an afterparty. On the cusp between night and day, different lives and views collide.
- DirectorElene NaverianiStarsEka ChavleishviliTemiko ChichinadzeLia AbuladzeEtero, 48, single in a Georgian village, encounters gossip. She unexpectedly falls for a man, caught between a relationship or independence. She navigates her emotions while grappling with societal norms, searching for happiness.
- DirectorRodrigo MorenoStarsDaniel ElíasEsteban BigliardiMargarita MolfinoBank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.
- DirectorOlga ChajdasStarsLena GóraBoguslawa SchubertMateusz WieclawekAbout Ela a rebellious artist struggling with the deep gray everyday life of Poland in the 1980's, including family problems and personal demons originating in bipolar disorder.
- DirectorHelena WittmannStarsSteffen DanekGustavo JahnDenis LavantIda lives on a sailing yacht with a crew of five men. While on shore leave in Marseilles, she becomes fascinated with the French Foreign Legion and decides to sail to Sidi Bel Abbès, the Legion's former headquarters in Algeria.
- DirectorPhilip SotnychenkoStarsAndrii ZhurbaNovruz HikmetValeria OleinikovaUkraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
- DirectorBas DevosStarsStefan GotaLiyo GongTeodor CorbanSet in Brussels, the film revolves around a potential love story between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese doctorate student of moss, who cross paths just before the former is about to move back home.
- DirectorAnn OrenStarsSimone BucioSebastian RudolphSimon Jaikiriuma PaetauWhen her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara's job as a Foley artist. Then, a horsetail starts growing out of her body.
- DirectorJi HuangRyûji OtsukaStarsHonggui YaoXiaoxiong HuangLong LiuWhen Lynn discovers that she is pregnant, finishing her studies as a flight attendant is called into question. Not wanting to have an abortion and hide her pregnancy from her absent boyfriend, Lynn hopes to give the child away at birth.
- DirectorLeila KilaniStarsIfham MathetBahia Boutia El OumaniMustafa ShimdatWhile the matriarch of the Bechtani clan wants to clear out the family land and sell it, her son and granddaughter live within nature in a fully mystical way, paying heed to coincidences and signs that announce a coming social revolution.
- DirectorLois PatiñoStarsAmid KeomanyToumor XiongSimone MilavanhIn the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.
- DirectorAmi-Ro SköldStarsEliza SicaDaysury ValenciaArbi AlviatiHomeless women live off salvaging food from the dumpster of a discount grocery store. Meanwhile, the store's employees struggle under hardening working conditions. Complex relationships, conflicts and dependencies arise between the groups.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJuliette BinocheBenoît MagimelEmmanuel SalingerThe story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.
- DirectorColm BairéadStarsCarrie CrowleyAndrew BennettCatherine ClinchIn rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsMia WasikowskaKsenia DevriendtLuke BarkerA teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
- DirectorCharlotte ReganStarsLola CampbellAlin UzunCary CranksonGeorgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
- DirectorMolly Manning WalkerStarsAnna AntoniadesMia McKenna-BruceLara PeakeThree British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsJosh O'ConnorCarol DuarteVincenzo NemolatoA group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsSakura AndôEita NagayamaSoya KurokawaA mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsTilda SwintonLouisAugust JoshiReturning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlma PöystiJussi VatanenJanne HyytiäinenIn modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsKoji YakushoTokio EmotoArisa NakanoHirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
- DirectorCeline SongStarsGreta LeeTeo YooJohn MagaroNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
- DirectorIra SachsStarsFranz RogowskiBen WhishawAdèle ExarchopoulosA gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsNaíma SentíesMontserrat MarañonMarisol GaséSeven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsMamadi BarriWalid BenzianeSabine BerlièreFollows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsThomas SchubertPaula BeerLangston UibelA group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoStarsMontserrat HernandezMaría de los Ángeles Pacheco TapiaLuz María Vázquez GonzálezIn the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenChiara MastroianniAlaina CliffordMurphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsJohn Lloyd CruzRonnie LazaroShamaine BuencaminoLt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug campaign, which is spearheaded by no less than the president of the country, Rodrigo Duterte. The moment Duterte sat as the new president of the Philippines in the year 2016, his biggest act was launching his so-called war against drugs, shocking the world for its brutality and the ensuing human rights abuses. Extra-judicial killings attributed to drugs have become rampant and most of the crimes are connected to the police. The atrocities are corroding Lt. Papauran physically and spiritually. He suffers from severe psoriasis, a skin disease resulting from insidious anxiety. A dark past haunts him and it has eventually and literally come back for a reckoning, for a closure.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsAliocha SchneiderAgathe BonitzerMarisha TriantafyllidouAbandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiVahid MobasseriBakhtiyar PanjeeiTwo parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPaolo PierobonFausto Russo AlesiBarbara RonchiA Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNatasha WanganeenCraig BehennaMwajemi HusseinFollowed by BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Once she escapes the cage, she walks from desert to mountain to city, to find - more captivity.
- DirectorSacha PolakStarsVicky KnightEsme Creed-MilesCharlotte KnightFifteen years after she got burnt when the pub where she slept as a child caught fire, Franky (23) seeks revenge because she still hasn't found any answers.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDeniz CelilogluMerve DizdarMusab EkiciA young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsAnabela MoreiraRita BlancoMadalena AlmeidaFollows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsNuno LopesFilipa AreosaLeonor SilveiraFive women are running an old hotel. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend and are drawn into a web of ongoing conflict.
- DirectorGiovanni BucchieriStarsGiovanni BucchieriLouise PeterhoffKarin Franz KörlofTwo dancers, once lovers, now go about their separate lives. Giovanni can't help reliving his first love via a collection of home videos. Louise, now a director, is projecting her bad memories on her production of Romeo and Juliet.
- DirectorA.V. RockwellStarsTeyana TaylorAaron Kingsley AdetolaAven CourtneyAfter unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.
- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsOumaima BaridMehdi DehbiFouad OughaouAs she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
- DirectorGeorgia OakleyStarsRosy McEwenKerrie HayesLucy HallidayIn 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
- DirectorAmjad Al RasheedStarsMouna HawaHaitham AlomariYumna MarwanA widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws.
- DirectorTatsunari ÔtaStarsTsuchi KanôAn OgawaA woman visits a strange town where she encounters a man skipping stones by the riverside. They occupy their time with mindless play until at last twilight falls.
- DirectorGiacomo AbbruzzeseStarsMorr NdiayeWahab OladitiSalem KisitaAfter a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
- DirectorZaida CarmonaStarsZaida CarmonaRocío SaizAlba CrosThey are in their thirties but live just as they did in their twenties. They are in love with love but, in their search, they tear each other apart, wandering from ex-girlfriend to ex-girlfriend, from relationship to relationship.
- DirectorMalene ChoiStarsCornelius Won Riedel-ClausenBjarne HenriksenBodil JørgensenA coming-of-age story about two adolescents facing racism in their adopted families, while confronting a society where immigration has become a divisive issue.
- DirectorDavid ZonanaStarsSantiago SandovalFernando CuautleEsteban CaicedoLuis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier
- DirectorMaria Kaur BediSatindar Singh BediStarsMaria Kaur BediSatindar Singh BediThis is a story of the great love between Maria from Switzerland and Satindar from India. But alcohol forces its way between them like an evil demon. Their joint struggle with Satindar's addiction, their despair and rage, are all captured in THE CURSE in rich impassioned images. The couple confront each other with unsparing honesty, but always supported by an unshakable belief in the power of their love. THE CURSE is a moving, autobiographical love story. Striking. Tender. Fast-paced. Unique.
- DirectorRoberto De PaolisStarsKevin GloryLino MusellaMaurizio LombardiA young African woman is a victim of the sex trade.
- DirectorBianca LucasStarsBecca BegnaudCorinne BordelonBrooke Keel BullockThe personal and collective process of grief, repression of trauma of John who after finishing a job on a Texas oil rig returns to his home town in Mississippi.
- DirectorFabian StummStarsHaley Louise JonesGodehard GieseAnneke Kim SarnauBoris and Jonathan's relationship is at a turning point. Actor Boris begins to confuse work and reality and writer Jonathan must face his fears.
- DirectorMarija KavtaradzeStarsGreta GrineviciuteKestutis CicenasPijus GanusauskasDancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
- DirectorTina SatterStarsSydney SweeneyJosh HamiltonMarchánt DavisA former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.
- DirectorVladimir PerisicStarsJovan GinicJasna DjuricicMiodrag JovanovicA 15-year-old who must accept the unacceptable-that his mother is an accomplice of the regime's crimes
- DirectorAmanda Nell EuStarsZafreen ZairizalDeena EzralPiqaAn 11-year-old girl who is carefree until she starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.
- DirectorMichal VinikStarsLena FraifeldYaakov Zada-DanielDasha TvoronovichTwo Ukrainian sisters, Valeria and Christina decide to marry Israeli men through online-arranged marriages. One already did it and is now living in Israel and the another is considering moving to Israel too and doing the same thing.
- DirectorThien An PhamStarsLe Phong VuNguyen ThinhVu Ngoc ManhA man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
- DirectorBabatunde ApalowoStarsTope TedelaRiyo DavidMartha EhinomeBambino and Bawa meet in Lagos and hit it off immediately. During their long trips around the city, they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society which considers homosexuality taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.
- DirectorMartín BenchimolStarsAlexa OlivoJustina OlivoJustina has been rewarded by her former employer for her lifelong devotion to her as a maid with a colossal mansion deep in the Argentinian Pampa. The only condition is that she must never sell it.
- DirectorDiego LlorenteStarsKatia BorladoAntonio AraqueÁlvaro QuintanaYoung academic who leaves routines, obligations and her boyfriend back in Madrid for a carefree summer in her hometown on Gijón, in the Atlantic coast.
- DirectorChhatrapal NinaweStarsJitendra JoshiMilind ShindeJanardan KadamOn the fringes of central India's Maoist-affected jungles, there is a tense interplay between guerrillas, civilians and the police. Caught between conflicting ideologies, they uncover many truths about themselves and the system.
- DirectorDamian KocurStarsTymoteusz BiesJacek BiesBartosz OlewinskiWhen the student of Warsaw Academy of Music returns to his hometown for summer holidays, he gets involved in the conflict between the local youths and a group of foreigners.
- DirectorSpiros JacovidesStarsEleni KokkidouJulio KatsisNegros Tou MoriaWhile filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with her other, disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs. Even if this means discovering who her son really is.
- DirectorTelmo ChurroStarsPedro InêsDenise FragaJosé Manuel MendesTiago, a tour guide, has had his heart broken. With his father, an old sailor, and his teenage son, he will take a melancholic Brazilian tourist on a tour through defeat and grief.
- DirectorSebastian MihailescuStarsIstván TéglásMãlina ManoviciDenisa NicolaeA surreal trip through the crisis of manhood.
- DirectorGustav Geir BollasonA fusion of documentary, experimental and fiction cinema investigating a forgotten, forlorn space.
- DirectorAusteja UrbaiteStarsAjus AntanaviciusAnne AzoulayArthur IgualA french couple adopt 2 lithuanian kids. To help them adapt they hire Gabi, a bilingual student. Cultural differences, mismatched attitudes, disparate values and diverse educational methods soon ignite conflicts between the adults.
- DirectorRocio MesaStarsTamara Arias de SaavedraFidel PérezAlicia HidalgoThe landscape of a rural area is filled with mysterious tobacco barns. Three generations spend the summer uncovering the secrets of these structures in a little town that is a childhood playground, a teenage cage, and an elder's memory.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAnselm KieferDaniel KieferAnton WendersAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
- DirectorMoyra DaveyMoyra Davey's raw confessional situates the filmmaker and her community of friends alongside tributes, homages, and citations, illuminating a collective memory while fostering a constellation of kinship between artists and thinkers.
- DirectorJustyna LuczajStarsRemigiusz PocicaRyta KurakPrzemyslaw BluszczA modern version of the Oedipus myth. The action of the film takes place in an unspecified place (in a town at the foot of a cliff, between a garbage dump, barns and a forest), where people hide painful secrets. Diana, after years of absence, returns to town with milk flowing from her breasts. He has depression and memory lapses. Her return coincides with a crime committed in the nearby forest. Things get complicated when the main suspect - Maj - befriends ten-year-old Dagmara, the victim's daughter. Their relationship is based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the broken world. When a ponytail entangles them while playing in the river, May knows it's a bad sign.
- DirectorPierre CretonStarsAntoine PirottePierre CretonGrégory GadeboisFollows Pierre-Joseph, a student of horticulture, whose intercourse with his mentors and botany teacher leads to an original fusion of science, sex, and meditation.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsHong ChauAndré 3000A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.
- DirectorNaomi UmanThis film in three parts depicts life in northern rural Albania, exploring the role of women and the presence of the filmmaker in a land where traditional canonical law rules society.
- DirectorMelisa LiebenthalStarsRocío StellatoVladimir DuránFederico SackOne day, Marina no longer recognizes herself. Is she ill, a different person, prettier? Those around her take it in their stride, her doctor is puzzled, the authorities block her ID card.
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsVera GemmaDaniel De PalmaSebastian DascaluVera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injures a child in a traffic accident in the suburbs, she forms an intense relationship with an eight- year-old boy and his father. But soon she must realize that also in this world she is only an instrument for others.
- DirectorLeonardo MouramateusStarsMauro SoaresMariah TeixeiraSara HanaRómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident sets off a wave of absurd events. Far away, Orlando, his twin brother and a dealer in rare works, tries to buy a book from a Brazilian student with financial problems. The twins' lives will be on a collision course thanks to the arrival of a mysterious manuscript.
- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsSofía OteroPatricia López ArnaizAne GabarainDuring a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorSam H. FreemanNg Choon PingStarsGeorge MacKayNathan Stewart-JarrettNima TaleghaniFollows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsAnnie SprinkleBeth StephensStafford20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back then to find out how their lives and their activism have evolved, how they have grown into their identities and how their energy continues to have an impact today. GENDERATION not only traces altered life plans but also paints an incisive portrait of the United States at the end of the Trump era.
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsSusan StrykerTexas TomboyAnnie SprinkleMonika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several transgender individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The individuals in this film are people whose assigned gender at birth does not match their social gender identity. The subject is pinpointed in the film independent of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
- DirectorD. SmithStarsDaniella CarterDominique SilverKoko Da DollA raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
- DirectorVuk Lungulov-KlotzStarsLio MehielCole DomanMiMi RyderWithin the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life.
- DirectorPaul B. PreciadoStarsArthurEmma AvenaAmir BayllyAcademic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado's Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others' stories of transition through unique reenactments and visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.
- DirectorScott BarleyThe shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
- DirectorAlain GomisStarsThelonious MonkThe lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.
- DirectorPaula GaitánStarsCarloto CottaClara ChoveauxKanu KuikuroA film like a monument: Luz nos trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of both Americas and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
- DirectorPablo Chavarría GutiérrezStarsEli ZavalaSusana HerreraAlejandro AlvaThe earth still moves under the serpent's torsion.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsDelphine SeyrigJan DecorteHenri StorckA lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
- StarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdKirsten RolffesGhita NørbyDoctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
- DirectorAgnieszka ZwiefkaStarsWirginia Szmit84-year-old DJ Vika is a star of Warsaw nightclubs. Charismatic and colorful she refuses to grow old. But can this last forever? "Vika!" is a bitter-sweet portrait of a woman who has to face aging, yet celebrating life till the very end.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsBelarmino FragosoJean Pierre GeblerMaria Teresa de NoronhaInterview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.
- DirectorJoão Rui Guerra da MataJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsIsabel RuthJoão Pedro RodriguesTribute to Paulo Rocha's 1963 classic "The Green Year"
- DirectorSusana de Sousa DiasAnsgar SchäeferJust after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.
- DirectorLuisa HomemPortraiture and history, testimony and geography cohere to absorbing effect in Luísa Homem's interview-based micro-epic. The film's titular subject, a French geographer and adventurer born in 1925, recounts her own life, covering her student years during World War II, her subsequent field research in Africa and Portugal, her loves, her family, her feminism, and her reflections on modernity. Homem strikingly weaves together interviews, archival photos, and home movies to arrive at a complex and immersive portrait of a modern woman perennially fascinated by the world around her and consumed by an insatiable hunger for knowledge.