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Happening
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, director Audrey Diwan’s powerful sophomore feature charts the harrowing journey of a gifted young literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in the 1960s, when it was still illegal in France.
In competition for the New Voices New Visions Award.
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Running Time: 100
Haute Couture
On the precipice of retirement as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop, Esther (legendary French icon Nathalie Baye) is robbed by a young woman. But rather than turn her in to the police, Esther enlists the petty thief as her dressmaking protégé. Read More
Running Time: 101
Hinterland
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival, this boldly expressionist drama from the director of The Counterfeiters (PSIFF 2008) finds a former police inspector in 1920s Vienna called upon to solve the sadistic murders of his fellow comrades in arms. Read More
Running Time: 99
Hive
A historic triple award winner at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, this stunning portrait of women’s empowerment follows Fahrije, one of many whose husbands went missing after the Kosovo War, as she defies oppressive misogyny in her village and claims independence as an entrepreneur selling homemade preserves. In competition... Read More
Running Time: 84
I’m Your Man
Programmed to perfectly suit the emotional needs of anthropologist Alma (Maren Eggert), a charming and handsome android Tom (Dan Stevens) finds himself perplexed by the messiness of emotion in this fresh and unconventional high-concept rom-com.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 102
The Judgement
Based on real events, this Dutch crime thriller follows a TV investigative journalist as he challenges the judicial system, media and public opinion in an attempt to uncover the truth surrounding a controversial high-profile murder case. Read More
Running Time: 130
Last Film Show
Director Pan Nalin’s delightful tribute to the imaginative power of film follows mischievous, movie-mad nine-year-old Samay, whose friendship with a cynical projectionist inspires him - despite his father’s objections - to generate his own movie magic. Read More
Running Time: 110
Leave No Traces
Based on a real-life national scandal triggered by a tyrannical system in 1980s Poland, this gripping drama depicts how militia brutality sparks a chain of systematic corruption that destroys numerous lives.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 160
Let It Be Morning
This wry satire about a man forced to spend an unexpected layover at his parents’ home with his wife and son offers a microcosm through which to examine the social and political status of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 101
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
Single mother Amina works hard to provide a better future for her teenage daughter. But her daughter’s unexpected pregnancy, and intention to have an abortion, will test her faith and threaten the life she has built within the Chadian patriarchal society.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 87
Love, Spells and All That
Two women who were teenage lovers separated by their parents reunite after 20 years. The cosmopolitan Eren returns to her childhood island in Turkey determined to rekindle her great passion for working-class, superstitious Reyhan in this one-of-a-kind love story that casts a magical spell. Read More
Running Time: 96
Medusa
Fanatically religious Mariana leads a masked street gang that attacks any woman she deems promiscuous. But as her church grows increasingly authoritarian and Mariana secretly indulges her desires, her long-suppressed rage explodes.
In competition for the Ibero-American Award.
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Running Time: 127
My Brothers Dream Awake
Stuck in a harsh Chilean juvenile reformatory, teen brothers Angel and Flea struggle to hold onto their youth and dreams while raging against an unjust system in this unforgettable, award-winning drama.
In competition for the Ibero-American Award and the Young Cineastes Award.
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Running Time: 85
My Sunny Maad
In this lavishly illustrated romantic drama, Czech student Herra falls for Nazir immediately. Desperate to feel a sense of belonging, she agrees to begin their marriage in his native city of Kabul. But life in post-Taliban Afghanistan is more complex than she could have imagined. Read More
Running Time: 85
Olga
After her mother’s investigative reporting makes it unsafe to remain in her home country, impassioned 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Olga is sent to Switzerland to continue her Olympic training, leaving her mother behind to report on the 2013 Euromaidan protests. In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Young Cineastes... Read More
Running Time: 86
One Second
Legendary auteur Zhang Yimou (Shadow PSIFF 2019) returns with this rapturous love letter to cinema that follows a prison escapee (Zhang Yi) on a desperate quest to hunt down a newsreel that might feature his lost daughter. Read More
Running Time: 104
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
On the Water
This coming-of-age dramedy captures a pivotal year in the life of a shy teen in rural Soviet Estonia who slowly discovers his potential. A poignant script, attractive production design and appealing performances bring something fresh to the genre.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Running Time: 107