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The Adventures Of Gigi The Law
(Country: Italy, France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Alessandro Comodin; Writer: Alessandro Comodin; Stars: Ulisse Buosi, Tomaso Cecotto, Annalisa Ferrari, Mario Fontanello, Rebecca Martin, Ezio Massarutto, Pier Luigi Mecchia, Massimo Piazza, Mario Pizzolitto, Ester Vergolini)
North American premiere
Slice-of-life portrait of a good-natured, contemplative policeman in a small village in northern Italy.
Coma
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Bertrand Bonello)
North American premiere
A teenager who appears to live alone during Covid lockdown gradually begins to experience the dissolution of boundaries between her real and imagined zones.
The Dam (Al-Saad)
(Country: Serbia, Germany, Sudan, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ali Cherri; Writer: Bertrand Bonello, Ali Cherri, Geoffroy Grison; Stars: Maher El Khair)
Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.
US premiere
Dry Burning Ground
(Country: Brazil, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós; Writer: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós)
US premiere
In a future Brazil an outlaw Chitara leads an all-female gang that siphons and steals precious oil from the authoritarian government.
Human Flowers Of Flesh
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Helena Wittmann; Writer: Helena Wittmann; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Denis Lavant, Mauro Soares, Ingo Martens, Steffen Danek, Vladimir Vulevic, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Nina Villanova)
Ida and her crew travel across the Mediterranean’s land and seascapes, lured by the mystique of the French Foreign Legion.
North American premiere
Mutzenbacher and Coma
Mutzenbacher
(Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Ruth Beckermann; Writer: Ruth Beckermann, Claus Philipp)
North American premiere
With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, Mutzenbacher, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.
Queens Of The Qing Dynasty
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Ashley McKenzie; Writer: Ashley McKenzie; Stars: Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng, Xue Yao, Cherlena Brake, Julia Rideout, Amandeep Bhatia, Andrey Burdeyny, Patrick Cadegan, Clifton Cremo, Mark DeLaney, Angela Deveaux, Harry Doyle, Mary-Jean Doyle, Carl Getto, Andrew Gillis)
US premiere
A friendship blooms between a suicidal teen and a volunteer immigrant hospital worker.
Remote
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi)
Follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.
Rewind & Play
(Year: 2022; Director: Alain Gomis; Stars: Thelonious Monk)
Thelonious Monk profile.
Slaughterhouses Of Modernity
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Heinz Emigholz)
World premiere
Documentary focused on creation and destruction in cities and provinces in Argentina, Germany, and Bolivia.
Tales Of The Purple House
(Country: Iraq, France, Lebanon; Year: 2022; Director: Abbas Fahdel; Writer: Abbas Fahdel, Abbas Fahdel; Stars: Nour Ballouk)
The experiences of Nour Balllouk, a Lebanese artist living in the house she shares with director Fahdel (her husband, who stays off-screen) in the dramatic mountainous countryside outside of Beirut.
Three Tidy Tigers Tied A Tie Tighter
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Gustavo Vinagre; Writer: Gustavo Vinagre; Stars: Jonata Vieira, Pedro Ribeiro, Gilda Nomacce, Carlos Esher, Julia Katharine, David Lobo, Everaldo Pontes, Ivana Wonder, Inês Brasil, Majeca Angelucci, Gabriel Stippe, Cida Moreira, Nilcéia Vicente, Lizette Negreiros, Filipe Rossato)
Three friends in the working-class suburbs of São Paulo attempt to make their way in a world that’s been harshly affected by rampant capitalism and a pandemic.
The Unstable Object II
(Country: US, Germany, France, Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Daniel Eisenberg)
US premiere
Triptych that patiently observes people working at three factories around the world.
Will-o’-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fatuo)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Ramiro Rodrigues; Writer: Ramiro Rodrigues; Stars: Bella Bittar, Ana Vitória Prudente, Alexandre Cruz, Tomás Saraiva)
Currents opening night. US premiere.
Details to come.
You Have To Come And See It (Tenéis que venir a verla)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Jonás Trueba; Writer: Jonás Trueba; Stars: Itsaso Arana, Francesco Carril, Irene Escolar, Vito Sanz)
Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside.
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