Films A to Z
Fear
Xenophobia and bitter jealousy in a small Eastern European town lurches into overdrive after a widowed former school teacher takes in a Malian refugee making his way to Germany in this ironic and blackly comic fable about intolerance.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Bridging the Borders Award.
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Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen
A richly detailed examination of the nuts and bolts of moviemaking, this 50th anniversary celebration of Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof, narrated by Jeff Goldblum, shows us how the beloved musical made its triumphant, hazardous journey to the screen.
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The First 54 Years
Using the 54-year Israeli occupation of Palestine as an example, this sobering and vital treatise from influential provocateur Avi Mograbi compiles testimonies of Israeli soldiers gathered under the Breaking the Silence Project to dissect how a military sustains its control.
In competition for the Best Documentary Award and the Bridging the Borders Award.
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Gemmel & Tim
Both hard-hitting exposé and impassioned memorial, this moving documentary sets out to reclaim the humanity of Timothy Dean and Gemmel Moore, two gay Black men who died at the hands of the twisted, well-connected white political donor Ed Buck.
In competition for the Best Documentary Award.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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A Hero
Two-time Academy Award®-winning director Asghar Farhadi returns with a tantalizing cinematic web of morality about an imprisoned Iranian man who becomes a national hero after a seemingly selfless act garners him fame, arousing suspicion.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Bridging the Borders Award.
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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.
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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 for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Hold Your Fire
This gripping documentary recreates the longest hostage siege in New York history, a showdown in Brooklyn in 1973 that resulted in the first use of hostage negotiation techniques. The survivors tell the tale of the bungled robbery and fraught standoff with Rashomon-like complexity.
In competition for the Best Documentary Award.
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House of Gucci
House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately…murder. In conversation with Lady Gaga
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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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Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music
Featuring appearances by music icons Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Chely Wright, this illuminating documentary showcases the inspiring, untold stories of a group of lesbian and trans songwriters within the male-dominated, conservative-leaning country music industry.
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