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#Manhole and Talk to Me
Boom! Boom! The World Vs. Boris Becker
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2023; Director: Alex Gibney)
World premiere
Documentary about the tennis ace.
Der Vermessene Mensch
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Lars Kraume; Writer: Lars Kraume; Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Girley Charlene Jazama, Peter Simonischek, Sven Schelker)
World premiere
A young German ethnologist in their South West Africa colony is supposed to be collecting artefacts to bring back to Berlin, but is troubled by the cruel and racist treatment he witnesses the Herero and Nama peoples subjected to.
Golda
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Guy Nativ; Stars: Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin, Ellie Piercy, Rami Heuberger)
World premiere
Drama about the Israeli premier Golda Meir.
Infinity Pool
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Brandon Cronenberg; Writer: Brandon Cronenberg; Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman)
European premiere
James and Em are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.
The Innocents (Les Innocentes, Agnus Dei)
(Country: France, Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Anne Fontaine; Writer: Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine, Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial; Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Anna Próchniak, Dorota Kuduk, Eliza Rycembel, Katarzyna Dabrowska, Klara Bielawka, Helena Sujecka)
A young doctor becomes the soul hope for traumatised nuns.
Tár and Love To Love You, Donna Summer
Kill Bok-soon
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Sung-hyun Byun; Stars: Hwang Jung-min, Jeon Do-yeon, Sol Kyung-gu, Esom, Koo Kyo-hwan)
World premiere
A single mother who is a renowned hired killer finds it difficult to achieve a balance between her personal and work life.
Kiss The Future
(Country: US, Ireland; Year: 2023; Director: Nenad Cicin-Sain)
World premiere
The inescapably current story of defiance amid the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo. An underground community uses music and art to effect change and garner global attention, and a post-war concert by U2 celebrates the city’s triumph over ethnic nationalism.
Last Night Of Amore (L’ultima Notte Di Amore)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Andrea Di Stefano; Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Linda Caridi, Antonio Gerardi, Francesco Di Leva)
World premiere
Milan. On the night before his retirement after 35 years without having fired a shot, Lieutenant Amore sees his world turned upside down.
Loriot’s Great Cartoon Revue (Loriots Große Trickfilmrevue)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Peter Geyer, Loriat)
World premiere
Selection of 31 films from the animator from across five decades.
Love To Love You, Donna Summer
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Roger Ross Williams, Brooklyn Sudano)
Documentary about the Disco star.
World premiere
The Innocents and Infinity Pool
Mad Fate (Ming On)
(Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2022; Director: Cheang Soi; Stars: Lam Ka Tung, Lokman Yeung, Berg Ng, Ng Wing Sze, Chan Charm Man Peter)
World premiere
A woman seeks the help of a fortune teller to solve a murder.
#Manhole
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri; Writer: Michitaka Okada; Stars: Nakajima Yûto, Nao, Nagayama Kento)
A real estate worker who is about to marry his boss' daughter falls down a deep manhole and can't work out how to escape.
International premiere
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (Laggiù Qualcuno Mi Ama)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Mario Martone; Writer: Mario Martone, Anna Pavignano; Stars: Massimo Troisi)
World premiere
A documentary about the much-loved Neapolitan actor and Il Postino director Massimo Troisi.
Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Robert Schwentke; Writer: Robert Schwentke, Matthew Wilder; Stars: John Malkovich, Louis Hofmann, Geraldine Chaplin, Lilith Stangenberg, Samuel Finzi)
World premiere
A look at the relationship between Seneca and Nero, the infamous Emperor he mentored since childhood and who accused him of plotting his assassination.
She Came To Me
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Rebecca Miller; Writer: Rebecca Miller; Stars: Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James, Anne Hathaway)
World premiere
The story of a composer who suffers writer's block and rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand.
Sun And Concrete (Sonne Und Beton)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: David Wnendt; Writer: Felix Lobrecht, David Wnendt; Stars: Levy Rico Arcos, Vincent Wiemer, Rafael Klein-Heßling, Aaron Maldonado-Morales)
World premiere
Four friends try to survive everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom, until they hatch a dangerous plan.
Superpower
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Sean Penn, Aaron Kaufman)
World premiere
On February 24, 2022, while directors Penn and Kaufman were filming in Kyiv, Putin’s invasion took the world by storm. As explosions rocked the city, they became inadvertent front-row witnesses to this historic “David and Goliath” struggle.
Talk to Me
(Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou; Writer: Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman; Stars: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Zoe Terakes, Otis Dhanji)
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an ancient embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill. Until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world.
European premiere
Tár
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Todd Field; Writer: Todd Field; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Mila Bogojevic, Sylvia Flote, Sydney Lemmon, Mark Strong, Allan Corduner, Zethphan D. Smith-Gneist, Adam Gopnik)
Set in the international world of classical music, this film centres on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
German premiere
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