Nowe Horyzonty / American Film Festival 2020
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- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsBaran RasoulofZhila ShahiMahtab ServatiThe four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsAgathe BoschUgo BroussotFrédéric Schulz-RichardA landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.
- DirectorLawrence Michael LevineStarsAubrey PlazaChristopher AbbottSarah GadonA filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.
- DirectorRobert MachoianStarsClayne CrawfordSepideh MoafiChris CoyDavid desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife's new relationship.
- DirectorSuzanne LindonStarsSuzanne LindonArnaud ValoisFrédéric PierrotA 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaVladislav KomarovAndrey GusevWhen the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyJekaterina OertelStarsNatalia BerezhnayaOlga ShkabarnyaVladimir AzhippoNatasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsGuillaume TremblayWilcox exists outside the norm. Deserter, delinquent, or survivalist, he quietly roams, looking to put down roots or for what could simply be called freedom.
- DirectorAlexandre RockwellStarsLana RockwellNico RockwellWill PattonThe story revolves around two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsAlia ShawkatJohn MagaroDylan SmithA skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.
- DirectorThomas ClayStarsMaxine PeakeCharles DanceFreddie FoxFanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsJasna DjuricicIzudin BajrovicBoris LerAida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsGundaDocumentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
- DirectorMichael DweckGregory KershawStarsPiero BottoSergio CaudaMaria CicciùDeep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
- DirectorMagnus von HornStarsMagdalena KolesnikJulian SwiezewskiAleksandra KoniecznaThree days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zajac, a social media celebrity surrounded by loyal employees and admirers, who is really looking for true intimacy.
- DirectorMariusz WilczynskiStarsKrystyna JandaAndrzej ChyraMaja OstaszewskaFleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
- DirectorMatthew RankinStarsDan BeirneSarianne CormierCatherine St-LaurentDetermined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsNaian González NorvindEligio MeléndezMónica Del CarmenA lavish high-society wedding unexpectedly turns into a class struggle that leads to a violent coup.
- DirectorBen RiversAnocha SuwichakornpongStarsArak AmornsupasiriNuttawat AttasawatÓliver LaxeThe landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. It captures the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
- DirectorNicolás PeredaStarsGabino RodríguezLuisa PardoFrancisco BarreiroA pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.
- DirectorTim MielantsStarsKevin JanssensPierre BokmaAriane Van VlietA bereaved nudist campsite handyman finds himself on an existential quest as he attempts to recover his missing favorite hammer.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeAnong HoungheuangsyKang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
- DirectorFilip Jan RymszaStarsBeau KnappCharlotte VegaJack KesyWall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns: His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsFélix LefebvreBenjamin VoisinPhilippine VelgeWhen 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams, who opens his eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art and sexual bliss.
- DirectorShalini KantayyaStarsJoy BuolamwiniMeredith BroussardCathy O'NeilWhen MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsJessica LouthanderTatiana DelaunayAnders HellströmRoy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.
- DirectorGianfranco RosiGianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsDennis HopperOrson WellesJanice PenningtonAn intimate and revelatory 1970 conversation between two film giants, Dennis Hopper, then riding high on the massive success of Easy Rider (1969), and Orson Welles, ever the iconoclast and an offscreen interviewer of probing authority.
- DirectorBassam TariqStarsRiz AhmedAiysha HartAnjana VasanA British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- DirectorLois PatiñoStarsRubio de CamelleAna MarraCarmen MartínezIn a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man.
- DirectorJanis RafailidouStarsPenelope TsilikaDimitris LalosMichele ValleyIn a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- DirectorKamen KalevStarsLachezar DimitrovKolyo DobrevIvan NalbantovThe life of a man at the ages of eight, eighteen, and eighty-two
- DirectorCatarina VasconcelosStarsManuel RosaJoão MóraAna VasconcelosThe passing away of their mothers makes Catarina and her own father meet in an emotional place that is different from the one most fathers and daughters know.
- DirectorSandra WollnerStarsLena WatsonDominik WartaIngrid BurkhardElli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
- DirectorGregor BozicStarsMassimo De FrancovichIvana RoscicGiusi MerliIn a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as they weigh fateful decisions for the future, in this touching homage to a lost way of life.
- DirectorAmel AlzakoutKhaled AbdulwahedStarsAmel AlzakoutMade from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their life-jackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.
- DirectorJoshua GilStarsErwin Antonio Pérez JiménezNereyda Pérez VásquezVirgen Vázquez TorresIn a small village on the edge of the war between the military and the cartels, a little boy escapes to the forest to plead to the gods of nature for his disappeared mother's safe return.
- DirectorLemohang Jeremiah MoseseStarsMary TwalaJerry MofokengMakhaola NdebeleWhen her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenMagnus MillangFour high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVitalina VarelaVenturaManuel Tavares AlmeidaA Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- DirectorThéo CourtStarsAlfredo CastroLola RubioLars RudolphA wedding photographer becomes overly intrigued by a young bride-to-be.
- DirectorArie EsiriChuko EsiriStarsJude AkuwudikeKemi Lala AkindojuKelechi UdegbeIn Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families.
- DirectorMichal SzczesniakStarsJulia KijowskaWojciech ZielinskiPiotr AdamczykA woman is kidnapped and kept a prisoner. In captivity she learns she has been adopted and her family buried the uncomfortable truth. In order to break free she needs to solve a mystery from the past.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsAlexandra AidiniKostas BerikopoulosKonstantinos BibisA movie about what is fake and what is real, that flutters between documentary and fiction. About flying and falling, the human need to fly, fear of heights, vertigo, utopia, Gods and man. Inspired by the ancient Greek comedy "Ornithes" by Aristophanes and the homonymous theatrical performance by Nikos Karathanos and Onassis Stegi .
- DirectorFradiqueStarsJosé KiteculoFilomena ManuelDavid CaracolWhen the air-conditioners mysteriously start to fall in city of Luanda, Matacedo (security guard) and Zezinha (housemaid) have the mission of retrieving their boss's ac.
- DirectorSharipa UrazbayevaStarsMeruert SabbusinovaHamza KoksebekAlmas BektibayevIn Zhanash, a far-away village nestled on the Kazakh Steppe, 400 kilometers away from Almaty - and another three kilometers by foot on a dirt path off the main road - Mariam (Meruert Sabbusinova) lives with her husband and four young children in a home without light and water. One winter day, her husband disappears without a trace. Because there is no body, he cannot be officially declared dead. As a result, Mariam cannot receive state financial support. A very reserved person who buries her emotions deep inside, Mariam, alone, must take survival into her own hands. The experience changes her. Then, just as everything has begun to fall into place, her husband suddenly returns as if nothing has happened and expects life to continue as before.
- DirectorHilal BaydarovStarsOrkhan IskandarliRana AsgarovaHuseyn Nasirov'In Between Dying' is the love story of Davud, a young man trying to find his "real" family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it's in the place he has always lived. But it is too late.
- DirectorMelanie WaeldeStarsKatrin BeckmannMichelangelo FortuzziUlrike HübschmannFive young people in provincial Germany. They run into each other and away from each other. They kiss and they fight. It's their last winter together before they leave school, after that it's stay or go. A feature film debut of enormous intensity.
- DirectorEloy EncisoStarsMisha Bies GolasVerónica QuintelaManuel PumaresAnxo is a man that returns to his home village in the Galician countryside in Franco-era Spain after the war.
- DirectorPhilippe LacôteStarsBakary KonéSteve TientcheuJean Cyrille DigbeuA young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
- DirectorMamadou DiaStarsAlassane SyAicha TallaSaikou LoA fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
- DirectorPushpendra SinghStarsNavjot RandhawaSadakkit BijranShahnawaz BhatLaila Aur Satt Geet is part allegory, part ethnographic study, and part feminist fairy tale, using the narrative device of local folk songs - seven, to be exact - to describe the protagonist - Laila's inner and outer worlds.
- DirectorYoon Dan-biStarsChoi Jung-unHeung-ju YangHyeon-yeong ParkTwo kids are moving to their grandfather's house, but everything is going to change when the aunt moves there too.
- DirectorJosé Luis Torres LeivaStarsAmparo NogueraJulieta FigueroaNona FernándezTwo women who have shared a life together are faced with the terminal disease of one of them. The sick woman decides to decline treatment and they move to a small house in the forest until the day death comes.
- DirectorJoe LawlorChristine MolloyStarsAnn SkellyOrla BradyAidan GillenIn this intimate exploration of identity, trauma and power, a young woman seeks out her birth mother, inadvertently triggering a string of events which change both their lives.
- DirectorAlejandro Telémaco TarrafStarsLucía BautistaLeonardo CastilloWalter GimenezInside the Argentinian highlands, a native llama herder follows the traces of an invisible puma who is killing his livestock. Through his search, a mystical exchange is revealed between him, his ancestors and the changing form of the puma.
- DirectorHeather YoungStarsAndria EdwardsShan MacDonaldWhen an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.
- DirectorPhilipp YuryevStarsVladimir OnokhovKristina AsmusVladimir LyubimtsevA young hunter sets off on a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorSarah GavronStarsBukky BakrayKosar AliD'angelou Osei KissieduA young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
- DirectorIvan OstrochovskýStarsSamuel SkyvaSamuel PolakovicVlad IvanovTwo students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsGoran BogdanBoris IsakovicNada SarginA Serbian man fights to regain custody of his children.
- DirectorJon RafmanThe Dream Journal, animated with hobbyist 3D software, weaves together deep-web imagery with hardboiled detective story tropes and repressed libidinal fantasies to create a nightmarish vision of an internet addict's unconscious.
- DirectorClaire OakleyStarsMolly WindsorJoseph QuinnStefanie MartiniOn a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into a mysterious obsession when she suspects her boyfriend has cheated on her.
- DirectorMaria IgnatenkoStarsLudmila DuplyakinaVadik KorolyovDmitriy KubasovWhen Victor's wife dies and his world falls into a deep slumber, he sets out to wander the empty streets on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Victor endures an overwhelming experience that leads him to insanity and murder but through which he ultimately makes peace with himself.
- DirectorSabrina MertensStarsZelda EspenschiedMiriam SchiweckFreya KreutzkamThe still life of a family in 57 pictures. Germany in the 1970ies. Stephanie is an intelligent and lively child. But she leads an isolated life with her parents, marked by the symbiotic bonding with her mentally unstable mother. A mother who has never really left her own childhood behind and who lives amidst things of the past and the memories connected to them. Stephanie's relationship with her father is one of mistrust. The passing years only bring aging, but no future. Unspoken thoughts lurk underneath the surface of everyday life. So Stephanie retreats into a dark world of barbaric fantasies, that are nourished by the traces of the past and only belong to her alone. One day, however, Stephanie's secret invades the family's reality.
- DirectorElisa MishtoStarsKatharina SchüttlerKim RiedleMartin WuttkeSmart, quick-witted Julie is in her mid-20s. She marches to the beat of her own drum and has her own manifesto: do nothing. And she really means NOTHING: no work, no studies, no friends. Agnes is a happy-go-lucky nurse of the same age. With a husband and a child, she fits into society's expectations without giving them any great thought--until, that is, she meets Julie. Together they start a rebellion that brings them to the limits of their respective worlds. Stay Still is the story of a generation with a poetic, witty undercurrent. Dangerous, but very exciting.
- DirectorOskar AlegriaStarsOskar AlegriaA documentary drawn from the director's own family experiences, of living alone in the woods for several months.
- DirectorIsamu HirabayashiStarsMariko TsutsuiKeisuke HoribeKaori TakeshitaNitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters'lives.
- DirectorCamilo RestrepoStarsFernando Úsaga HiguítaLuis Felipe LozanoA man comes to terms with his past after satiating his greatest desire: assassinating the leader of the sect of which he was a part for many years.
- DirectorStepan PolivanovStarsGiorgi AbashviliIn a post-soviet republic of Georgia, in South Caucasus where religious and folk traditions are still the main authority, new generation of pro-western youth tries to build their own future. The protest of 10 000 young Tbilisi citizens turns into 2 day massive rave at the Parliament of Georgia.
- DirectorEitan EfratDaniel MannDirectors Eitan Efrat and Daniel Mann revisit three natural locations in Europe: an underground radioactive mine in Germany believed to have healing effects, a mountain with magical rocks in Switzerland and a long closed underground site used by the Nazi's in Poland during the WWII.
- DirectorJazmín LópezStarsRafael FedermanLaila MaltzMartín ShanlyA mysterious and soulful exploration of the complexity of mourning and letting go of a love that is lost.
- DirectorAndrea BussmannStarsVictor PueyoFernando RenjifoZiad ChakarounOn the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literature, myth and local entanglements, the frontier between reality and fiction, and the seen and unseen, no longer apply.
- DirectorAndré Gil MataStarsNur CoricDragan KosticSena MujanovicA day in the life of Sena, who lives in a cinema's projection booth, in Sarajevo, screening the few Yugoslavian films of which copies still remain, taking us on a journey through her past.
- DirectorKaori OdaMiners in a Bosnian coal mine. The camera silently watches over the miners working tirelessly amidst endless noise and the flickering light of lanterns.
- DirectorFabrizio FerraroStarsEuplemio MacriCatarina WallensteinMarco TetiThe film retraces the events of a trail in the Pyrenees, which fleeing fascism that was infecting the heart of Europe. Catalans and internationalist militants fleeing the Franco regime before; Jews, communists and dissidents by the Nazis shortly after.
- DirectorIvan MarkovicLinfeng WuStarsChuan LiLuying WangRuguang WeiThe city keeps growing and remains unexplored. Li, a migrant worker in Beijing, works by night and sleeps by day; his roommate's rhythm is the opposite. In an underground housing, the two men share the same bed, but never at the same time.
- DirectorMark John OstrowskiStarsJavier de la RosaSofia Costa SadagorskyWhile their bones waste away in the rainy damp climate of a fishing village in northern Spain, the time comes to weigh anchor in the Fishermen's Guild. Pablo's absence becomes too much to bear for Sofia, whose flight brings about the film's tragic end.
- DirectorThéo CourtStarsRafael VazquezÁlvaro BustamanteNano VázquezRafael, an old butler of a decadent farm house, lives with his landlord in that space. Rafael develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume a life and a glorious family past. These actions and gestures will become the only way of sustaining that home and those lives humbled in memory. With the decline of that environment, Rafael will be underdog of his place and his own story, and will be forced to leave in an uncertain trip, towards the last of his possessions.
- DirectorGrímur HákonarsonStarsArndís Hrönn EgilsdóttirSveinn Ólafur GunnarssonÆvar Þór BenediktssonA widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.
- DirectorBenjamin ReeStarsKarl Bertil-NordlandBarbora KysilkovaØystein SteneAn artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
- DirectorDag Johan HaugerudStarsHenriette SteenstrupJan Gunnar RøiseThorbjørn HarrLykke (13), the daughter of a prominent Labour Party politician, has accidentally beaten her classmate Jamie, the son of a local right wing-politician, to death. Lykke claims Jamie's death was an accident, but nobody believes her. The school's principal, Liv, is an idealist who, against her political beliefs, has been living in a secret relationship with Karl Erik, Jamie's father. When they can't keep their relationship a secret anymore, the surroundings react with disbelief. Liv's brother Anders is Lykke and Jamie's class teacher. He was supposed to be in the school yard when the accident happened, and is overwhelmed with guilt for not having been able to prevent the accident from happening. Like water surrounding an undertow, we'll experience how the community relates to the accident and the aftermath. How could it happen - and how is it possible to continue living afterwards?
- DirectorJóhann JóhannssonStarsTilda SwintonTwo billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
- DirectorNatalia MetaStarsErica RivasNahuel Pérez BiscayartDaniel HendlerThe story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJean DujardinAdèle HaenelAlbert DelpyA man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsHelmut BergerMarc SusiniIliana ZabethMadame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.
- DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsFrancisco José Gómez RomeroIsrael Gómez RomeroÓscar RodríguezIsra and Cheíto are two brothers who have gone their separate ways. When Isra comes out of prison and Cheíto's long mission in the navy comes to an end, they both return to the isle of San Fernando, their hometown. The brothers' reunion will refresh the memory of their father's violent death while they were still little, while the need for restoring and making it up with each other will bring them back together.
- DirectorÓliver LaxeStarsAmador AriasBenedicta SánchezInazio AbraoAmador returns home to his aging mother after serving a sentence for arson. He tries to adapt to daily farm life and coping with the villagers' memories of his past actions.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeCristina ChiriacAnna FerraraThe story of an American artist living in Rome with his young European wife Nikki and their 3-year-old daughter, Dee Dee.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsViktoria MiroshnichenkoVasilisa PerelyginaAndrey Bykov1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
- DirectorAtle Solberg BlaksethFrank MosvoldStarsCherokee Rose CastroGard B. EidsvoldJack FisherElla Bella Bingo (Elleville Elfrid) and Henry are best friends, but one day a new boy moves into the neighborhood and everything changes.
- DirectorChristian RylteniusStarsAdam PålssonChristopher WagelinLi HagmanThe kitten Peter-No-Tail lives a wonderful and protected life in the countryside with the girl who loves him so much. After a terrible storm, he ends up alone in the city of Uppsala, a foreign world to him.
- DirectorMatthias BruhnRalf KukulaStarsAli LyonsOisin ConroyLucy CarolanEast Germany, 1989. 12 year old Fritzi takes care of her best friend Sophie's dog Sputnik, while Sophie's family is on summer vacation in Hungary. When Sophie doesn't come back from vacation, Fritzi and Sputnik set out in search of her.
- DirectorLorenzo MattottiStarsAntonio AlbaneseLeïla BekhtiToni ServilloTo rescue his missing son, Léonce the King of Bears, invade the land of men with the help of his clan.