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7 Lives, 7 Lakes
In this touching and life-affirming road documentary, Dabiz Riaño, a Spanish researcher diagnosed with ALS, sets out in an outfitted van with his two lively caretakers to fulfill his dream of swimming in the scenic lakes of Eastern Europe.
In competition for the Ibero-American Award.
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Running Time: 105
Any Day Now
This endearing coming-of-age dramedy centers on an Iranian tween whose family is seeking asylum in Finland and expects news “any day now.” Even though it deals with hard realities, it is a film abuzz with summery energy and the happiness of childhood memories. In competition for the Bridging the Borders Award and Young... Read More
Running Time: 82
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
A school teacher’s life flips upside down after her homemade sex tape leaks onto the internet and causes pandemonium among her students’ parents in rascally auteur Radu Jude’s latest biting social comedy of errors.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 106
Ballad of a White Cow
Mina is slowly adjusting to her new life as a widow and single mother when she learns that her husband was executed for a crime he did not commit. So begins her quest for justice in a system in which the odds are inherently stacked against her. Read More
Running Time: 105
The Best Families
A big family birthday bash hosted by two gossipy aristocratic sisters erupts into farcical mayhem and open class warfare when ancient betrayals, amorous entanglements and long-buried secrets rise to the surface. Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León's boisterous and barbed social comedy is a party not to be missed. In competition... Read More
Running Time: 99
Brother’s Keeper
To save his mysteriously sick classmate, a young Kurdish boy is forced to navigate the chilly hallways of his Turkish boarding school and the oppressive, inept bureaucratic administration that runs them. Read More
Running Time: 85
Casablanca Beats
Anas is the new hip-hop teacher at an arts center in one of the poorest suburbs of Casablanca. By showing his students how to channel their frustrations through rap, he will build their self-confidence and empower them to overcome their adversities.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 101
Clara Sola
In this mystical feature debut, a sheltered 40-year-old woman attempts to unshackle herself from the social and religious customs that have held her back while living with her strict mother in a remote Costa Rican village.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Ibero-American Award.
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Running Time: 106
Compartment No. 6
Two strangers share a train journey from Moscow to Murmansk that will ultimately change their perspective on life in the beguiling new film from the director of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (PSIFF 2017).
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 107
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Up in the Lebanese mountains, the Badris live secluded from society. But the Eden they have built for their family becomes threatened when the government seizes the neighboring land and starts disturbing their idyllic lifestyle.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 106
Escape from Mogadishu
In this pulse-pounding political thriller based on real events, North and South Korean officials stationed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu are forced to put their differences aside in a last-ditch effort for survival when bloody civil war engulfs the city.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Local Jury Award.
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Running Time: 121
The Good Boss
Caught in a web of intrigue, infidelity and the mutiny of a vociferous ex-employee, kindly scale manufacturer Julio Blanco’s (Javier Bardem) true self comes to the fore in this razor-sharp dark comedy.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 120
The Gravedigger’s Wife
Guled's wife is in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but the cost of the medical procedure equals his entire salary as a gravedigger. Now facing a race against time, Guled must find a way to save the love of his life.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 82
Great Freedom
Franz Rogowski (Transit PSIFF 2019) gives a superlative performance in this tender, sensuous and empathetically told story of a gay man repeatedly incarcerated under postwar Germany’s infamous Paragraph 175 law.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 116
The Great Indian Kitchen
An unnamed new wife faces a life of never-ending drudgery and joyless sex in writer-director Jeo Baby's riveting, perceptive evisceration of a patriarchal Hindu marriage. Read More
Running Time: 103
The Hand of God
Morality and beauty intertwine in this handsome, sun-baked, semi-autobiographical snapshot of a turbulent youth from director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty PSIFF 2014), which follows Fabietto Schisa, a young man obsessed with two things: women and soccer player Diego Maradona.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 130
Greener Pastures
In this clever humanist comedy, a pensionless widower trapped in a care facility against his will reinvents himself as a cannabis entrepreneur in an inspired attempt to buy back his family home. Read More
Running Time: 90