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Reinas and Malu
Brief History Of A Family
(Country: China, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Jianjie Lin; Writer: Jianjie Lin; Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Feng Zu, Xilun Sun, Muran Lin)
A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
World premiere
Girls Will Be Girls
(Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Shuchi Talati; Writer: Shuchi Talati; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Jitin Gulati, Kesav Binoy Kiron, Preeti Panigrahi)
World premiere
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Handling The Undead (Håndtering Av Udøde)
(Country: Sweden, Norway, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Thea Hvistendahl; Writer: Thea Hvistendahl, John Ajvide Lindqvist; Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bahar Pars, Bente Børsum, Olga Damani, Jan Hrynkiewicz, Inesa Dauksta, Kian Hansen)
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back.
World premiere
In The Land Of Brothers
(Country: Iran, France, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi; Writer: Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli; Stars: Hamideh Jafari, Bashir Nikzad, Mohammad Hosseini, Marjan Khaleghi, Hajeer Moradi, Marjan Ettefaghian, Mehran Vosoughi)
Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be "at home".
World premiere
Layla
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Amrou Al-Kadhi; Writer: Amrou Al-Kadhi; Stars: Bilal Hasna, Louis Greatorex, Safiyya Ingar, Terique Jarrett, Darkwah, Sarah Agha, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Emma McDonald, Buket Kömür, Adam Howden, Aetheria Angel, Smilla, Tim Bowie, Ali Barouti, Huw Morgan)
World premiere
When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.
Handling The Undead and In The Land Of Brothers
Malu
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Pedro Freire; Writer: Pedro Freire; Stars: Yara de Novaes, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Carol Duarte, Átila Bee, Marcio Vito, Marina Provenzzano, Felipe Haiut)
Malu - a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum - tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.
World premiere
Reinas
(Country: Switzerland, Peru; Year: 2024; Director: Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro; Writer: Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro, Diego Vega Vidal; Stars: Susi Sánchez, Gonzalo Molina, Luana Vega, Jimena Lindo, Abril Gjurinovic)
Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave Lima in 1992 and seek opportunities in the US. Their farewell involves reconnecting with the kids' estranged father, adding to the emotional turbulence of their departure.
World premiere
Sebastian
(Country: UK, Finland, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Mikko Makela; Writer: Mikko Makela; Stars: Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Leanne Best, Dylan Brady, Charlotte Harwood, Fleur Keith, Akbar Kurtha, Marcus Macleod, Laurent Maria, Pedro Minas, Matthias Moret, David Nellist)
World premiere
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
Sujo
(Country: US, Mexico, France; Year: 2024; Director: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez; Writer: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez; Stars: Karla Garrido, Juan Jesús Varela, Kevin Aguilar, Jairo Hernandez, Yadira Pérez, Sandra Lorenzano, Alexis Varela)
When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.
World premiere
Veni Vidi Vici
(Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Hoesl; Writer: Daniel Hoesl; Stars: Laurence Rupp, Ursina Lardi, Markus Schleinzer, Dominik Warta, Alexander Stecher, Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Olivia Goschler)
World premiere
The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but doesn’t shoot animals, as the family's wealth allows them to live totally free from consequences.
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