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Linoleum and Simone: Woman Of The Century
Back Then (Zupa Nic)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2021; Director: Kinga Debska; Writer: Kinga Debska; Stars: Kinga Preis, Adam Woronowicz, Ewa Wisniewska)
A Polish family goes on holiday to Lake Balaton in the 1980s.
The Beasts
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Stars: Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, Marie Colomb, Luisa Merelas, José Manuel Fernández y Blanco, Federico Pérez Rey, Javier Varela, David Menéndez, Xavier Estévez, Gonzalo García, Pepo Suevos, Machi Salgado, Emile Duthu)
French couple Antoine and Olga moved to a little village in the Galician countryside some time ago. There they live a quiet life, although their relations with the locals are not as idyllic as they would like them to be. A conflict with their neighbours, the Anta brothers, will see tension rise in the village to the point of no return.
Before, Now & Then (Nana)
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2022; Director: Kamila Andini; Writer: Kamila Andini; Stars: Happy Salma, Laura Basuki, Rieke Diah Pitaloka, Arawinda Kirana, Arswendy Bening Swara, Ibnu Jamil)
Indonesia, the 1960s. After losing her family to the conflicts that shook the country, Nana has built a new life with a rich Sundanese man. In spite of the love she bears for her children, she still feels out of place.
Burning Days
(Year: 2022; Director: Emin Alper)
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Concerned Citizen
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Idan Haguel; Writer: Idan Haguel; Stars: Shlomi Bertonov, Ariel Wolf)
Drama about the perils of gentrification
My Sailor, My Love and The Beasts
Dirty Difficult Dangerous
(Country: France, Italy, Lebanon; Year: 2022; Director: Wissam Charaf; Writer: Wissam Charaf, Hala Dabaji, Mariette Désert; Stars: Clara Couturet, Ziad Jallad, Rifaat Tarabay, Darina Al Joundi, Kawsie Chandra)
An impossible love blossoms between a Syrian refugee and a migrant Ethiopian worker as he is inflicted by a mysterious illness and she tries to free herself from her employers.
Driving Madeleine (Une Belle Course)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Christian Carion; Writer: Christian Carion, Cyril Gely; Stars: Dany Boon, Alice Isaaz, Line Renaud)
A taxi driver drives a passenger across Paris as she recalls her life.
Emily
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Frances O'Connor; Writer: Frances O'Connor; Stars: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Adrian Dunbar, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling)
The journey to womanhood of rebel and misfit Emily Brontë.
Freaks Out
(Country: Italy, Belgium; Year: 2021; Director: Gabriele Mainetti; Writer: Nicola Guaglianone, Nicola Guaglianone, Gabriele Mainetti; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Eric Godon, Claudio Santamaria, Anna Tenta, Emilio De Marchi, Pietro Castellitto, Edoardo Purgatori, Elia Pietschmann, Aurora Giovinazzo, Giorgio Tirabassi, Franco Pistoni, Christoph Hülsen, Massimiliano Ubaldi, Riccardo Angelini, Astrid Meloni)
Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario live like siblings in Israel’s circus. When Israel mysteriously disappears, perhaps in flight or perhaps captured by the Nazis, the four “circus freaks” are left alone in the occupied city.
Golden Years (Die Goldenen Jahre)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Barbara Kulcsar; Writer: Petra Biondina Volpe; Stars: Isabelle Barth, Gundi Ellert, Davide Gagliardi, Esther Gemsch)
A retired couple is getting ready to enjoy life after retirement on a cruise trip through the Mediterranean. The spouses end up going on separate journeys of self-discovery and finding unexpected ways of how to spend their golden years.
A Man Called Otto and Emily
Greener Pastures
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Medora Levy; Writer: Medora Levy; Stars: Jocelyn Shelfo, Emma Starbird)
Stevie hates her dead mother but is confronted with her confusing feelings about the situation when she and her sister, Julia, must spread her ashes.
Gyeong-ah's Daughter
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Kim Jung-eun; Writer: Kim Jung-eun; Stars: Kim Jeong-yeong, Ha Yoon-kyung)
Gyeong-ah works as a caregiver and lives alone. The only one she can rely on is her daughter, Yeon-soo, but they barely meet after Yeon-soo moved out. One night, Gyeong-ah receives a shocking message from a stranger.
Haute Couture
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Sylvie Ohayon; Writer: Sylvie Ohayon, Sylvie Verheyde; Stars: Nathalie Baye, Lyna Khoudri, Pascale Arbillot)
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20-year-old woman. Instead of calling the police, she decides to take care of the thief.
The Judgement (De Veroordeling)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2021; Director: Sander Burger; Writer: Bert Bouma and Sander Burger, based on the book by Bas Haan; Stars: Fedja van Huêt, Yorick van Wageningen, Lies Visschedijk, Mark Kraan, George Tobal)
A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial Deventer murder case.
Juniper
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2021; Director: Matthew J Saville; Writer: Matthew J Saville; Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Marton Csokas, George Ferrier, Edith Poor, Cameron Carter-Chan, Carlos Muller, Tane Rolfe, Alexander Sharman)
When 17-year-old Sam is thrown out of boarding school, he could have never imagined his days would soon be filled with an even more laborious task: caring for Ruth, his estranged alcoholic grandmother who has become temporarily immobilised after a domestic accident.
Lullaby and Driving Madeleine
Linoleum
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Colin West; Writer: Colin West; Stars: Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Elisabeth Henry, Roger Hendricks Simon)
When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into the suburban home of a dysfunctional family in Ohio, the father seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into his own rocket ship. While his wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a midlife crisis, surreal events begin to unfold around him.
Lullaby (Cinco lobitos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; Writer: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; Stars: Laia Costa, Susi Sánchez, Ramón Barea, Mikel Bustamante, José Ramón Soroiz, Asier Valdestilla García, Justi Larrinaga, Isidoro Fernández, Gloria Helguera, Carmen Berbaola, Lorena López, Elena Sáenz, Ana Isabel Martínez, Anuska Pernia Sainz, Nerea Arriola)
Amaia has just given birth to her first daughter. She would prefer not to give up her career as a translator, but it’s not easy to balance it with her family and looking after a young child. When her partner goes away on business for seven weeks, the young woman capitulates and goes to stay with her parents in the countryside.
A Man Called Otto
(Country: Sweden, US; Year: 2022; Director: Mark Forster; Writer: David Magee and Fredrik Backman, based on the book by Hannes Holm; Stars: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rachel Keller, Juanita Jennings, Mack Bayda)
Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
Max, Min & Meowzaki
(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy; Writer: Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy; Stars: Nafisa Ali, Vidhatri Bandi, Mandira Bedi, Adil Hussain)
Max and Min are about to break up. They argue endlessly about dividing their possessions, including their cat, Meowzaki, whom they have named after their favourite filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
Melchior: The Apothecary
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2022; Director: Elmo Nüganen; Writer: Indrek Hargla, Olle Mirme, Elmo Nüganen; Stars: Märten Metsaviir, Alo Kõrve, Maarja Johanna Mägi, Siim Kelner, Ken Rüütel, Marko Matvere, Martin Kork, Mait Malmsten, Kristjan Sarv, Andero Ermel, Franz Malmsten, Henessi Schmidt, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Jaan Pehk, Gatis Gaga)
Double bill of films.
Next Sohee and Concerned Citizen
My Neighbour Adolf
(Country: Israel, Colombia, Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Leon Prudovsky; Writer: Dmitry Malinsky, Leon Prudovsky; Stars: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Danharry Colorado)
A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbour is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he commences an independent investigation in an effort to prove his claim.
My Sailor, My Love
(Country: Finland, Ireland, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Klaus Härö; Writer: Jimmy Karlsson, Kirsi Vikman; Stars: James Cosmo, Brid Brennan, Catherine Walker, Nora-Jane Noone)
A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.
Next Sohee (Da-eum-so-hee)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: July Jung; Writer: July Jung; Stars: Kim Si-Eun, Bae Doona)
High school student Sohee starts job training at a call centre, but she faces pressure of greedy company which leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to follow traces to reveal the truth.
The Origin Of Evil (L'Origine Du Mal)
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Sébastien Marnier; Writer: Sébastien Marnier; Stars: Laure Calamy, Suzanne Clément, Doria Tillier, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanc)
Jealousy and bitterness lead a woman to invent a whole other life for herself in order to impress the rich men and women who surround her.
Paris Memories
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Jean-Stéphane Bron, Marcia Romano, Alice Winocour; Stars: Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Maya Sansa, Grégoire Colin, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Amadou Mbow, Ema Zampa, Souleymane Touré, Jean Pierre Horcholle, Clarisse Makundul)
A woman is caught up in a Paris terror attack and three months on she tries to piece together her memory.
Paris Memories and My Neighbour Adolf
Simone: Woman Of The Century (Simone, Le Voyage Du Siècle, Simone Veil, A Woman Of The Century)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Olivier Dahan; Writer: Olivier Dahan; Stars: Rebecca Marder, Elsa Zylberstein, Olivier Gourmet)
An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Somewhere In Queens
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ray Romano; Writer: Ray Romano, Mark Stegemann; Stars: Jennifer Esposito, Laurie Metcalf, Sadie Stanley, Ray Romano, J.C. MacKenzie, Karen Lynn Gorney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tony Lo Bianco, June Gable, Elizabeth Yu, Dierdre Friel, Jon Manfrellotti, Danny Garcia, David St. Louis, Caryn Richman)
An Italian-American dad from Queens gets increasingly involved in ensuring his son’s high school basketball success.
Stonewalling
(Country: China; Year: 2022; Director: Huang Ji, Ryûji Otsuka; Stars: Honggui Yao)
A young flight-attendant-in-training’s plans to finish college are thrown into doubt when she discovers she’s pregnant.
The Storyteller
(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Anant Mahadevan; Writer: Kireet Khurana and Anant Mahadevan, based on the short story by Satyajit Ray; Stars: Paresh Rawal, Adil Hussain, Revathi, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Jayesh More, Rohit Mukherjee)
A story about originality and plagiarism.
Talia's Journey
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Christophe Rolin; Writer: Penda Diouf, Marc Recchia, Christophe Rolin; Stars: Nadège Bibo-Tansia, Aminata Sarr, Oumy Sow)
An exploration of the notion of home through the coming of age of an Afro-European woman who arrives for the first time in Africa.
Freaks Out and The Origin Of Evil
Viking
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Stéphane Lafleur; Writer: Eric K. Boulianne, Stéphane Lafleur; Stars: Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N Aladin)
A behavioural research team observes and attempts to replicate the experiences of the first manned mission to Mars.
Where Life Begins (Tu Choisiras La Vie)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2022; Director: Stéphane Freiss; Writer: Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Stéphane Freiss, Audrey Gordon; Stars: Lou de Laâge, Riccardo Scamarcio, Pierre-Henry Salfati, Astrid Meloni)
The story of a young Haredi woman and a divorced farmer who both long to break free.
Without Her (Bi Roya)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Arian Vazirdaftari; Writer: Arian Vazirdaftari; Stars: Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar, Shadi Karamroudi, Sam Nakhai, Mehri Al Agha, Nahal Dashti, Reza Davoudnejad, Mojtaba Fallahi, Faranak Kalantar, Tiam Kermanian, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Milad Yazdani)
Just two weeks before Roya, a banned Iranian journalist, is set to emigrate from Iranshe encounters a quiet young girl. She takes her in unaware the girl has come to replace her.
The Word
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Beata Parkanová)
A portrait of the family of notary Václav Vojíř, a small-town moral authority, and his selfless wife Věra.
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