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Parade and Klokkenluider
The Accident (O Acidente)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Bruno Carboni; Writer: Marcela Bordin, Bruno Carboni; Stars: Marcello Crawshaw, Gabriela Greco, Carol Martins, Carina Sehn, Luis Felipe Xavier)
A victim on of a hit-and-run finds things taking an unexpected turn after a viral video surfaces.
Amar Colony
(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Siddharth Chauhan; Writer: Siddharth Chauhan; Stars: Nimisha Nair, Sangeeta Agrawal, Usha Chauhan, Deepak Sharma, Aayush Srivastava)
The story of three female neighbours.
Amusia
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Marescotti Ruspoli; Stars: Fanny Ardant, Maurizio Lombardi, Adriano Chiaramida, Carlotta Gamba, Giampiero De Concilio)
A love story between a girl who "escapes" from music and a boy who "survives" thanks to music.
Barren
(Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Mordechai Vardi; Writer: Mordechai Vardi; Stars: Mili Eshet, Yoav Rotman, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov, Nevo Kimchi, Gil Frank, Golan Azulai, Renana Raz, Henry David, Yana Yossef, Michael Weigel)
Out of competition
A childless young ultra-orthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment to help them conceive.
Double Life
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Martin Wood; Writer: Michael Hurst, Michael Hurst; Stars: Niall Matter, Javicia Leslie, Aaron Douglas, Carmen Moore, BJ Harrison, Vincent Gale, John Cassini, Kaaren de Zilva, William MacDonald, Arlina Rodriguez, Jojo Ahenkorah, Alex Stines)
A widow finds out her husband's death was not an accident.
Everybody Wants To Be Loved (Alle wollen geliebt werden)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Katharina Woll; Writer: Florian Plumeyer, Katharina Woll; Stars: Hassan Akkouch, Lea Drinda, Jonas Hien, Urs Jucker, Anne Ratte-Polle, Pascale Schiller, Raymond Tarabay, Ulrike Willenbacher)
A psychotherapist puts everyone’s needs before hers until one hot summer day changes everything.
The Hatcher
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Grzegorz Molda; Writer: Grzegorz Molda, Monika Powalisz; Stars: Marcin Cecko, Wioletta Kopanska, Agnieszka Kryst, Michal Zielinski)
A young man on parole begines to develop an ambiguous relationship with his teacher.
Klokkenluider
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Neil Maskell; Writer: Neil Maskell; Stars: Amit Shah, Tom Burke, Jenna Coleman)
A hapless government whistleblower and his partner hide out in a remote Belgian cottage, accompanied by two eccentric bodyguards.
The Land Within
(Country: Kosovo, Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Fisnik Maxville; Writer: Fisnik Maxville; Stars: Luàna Bajrami, May-Linda Kosumovic, Florist Bajgora, Armend Smajli, Don Shala)
A boy adopted away from his native Kosovo returns years later in a bid to help identify bodies in a mass grave.
The Man Without Guilt
(Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia; Year: 2022; Director: Ivan Gergolet; Writer: Ivan Gergolet; Stars: Valentina Canelutti, Branko Završan, Enrico Inserra, Livia Rossi, Rossana Mortara, Alessandro Bandini)
A widow, meets the man responsible for her husband's death, by asbestos, and hatches a plot for revenge.
The Other Child
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Kim Jin-young; Writer: Kim Jin-young; Stars: Kim Min-jae, Park Hyo-ju)
After a couple lose a child they adopt a boy with visual impairment... but he starts to sense another presence in the house.
The Other Widow
(Country: Israel, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ma'ayan Rypp; Writer: Ma'ayan Rypp, Anat Gafni; Stars: Dana Ivgy, Ania Bukstein, Itamar Rotschild, Irit Gidron)
A woman who was having a long-term affair with a man who dies, attends his Shiva while masking her identity.
Parade
(Country: Lithuania; Year: 2022; Director: Titas Laucius; Writer: Titas Laucius; Stars: Rasa Samuolytė, Giedrius Savickas, Valentin Novopolsky, Barbora Bareikyte)
A woman finds herself in an absurd situation when, 26 years after her divorce, her ex asks her to help him get their marriage anulled in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Pelican
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2022; Director: Filip Herakovic; Writer: Nikolina Bogdanovic, Filip Herakovic; Stars: Edi Celic, Lucija Barisic, Marko Petric, Tena Nemet Brankov, Ivan Glowatzky, Goran Kosi, Valentina Loncaric, Biljana Lovre, Gordan Marijanovic, Stojan Matavulj, Nina Sabo, Antonio Scarpa, Drazen Sivak, Tanja Smoje, Ana Marija Veselcic)
When a professional footballer is injured and recovering at a health spa, he finds himself embracing a new identity.
Phi 1.618
(Country: Bulgaria, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Theodore Ushev; Writer: Vladislav Todorov, Vladislav Todorov; Stars: Martina Apostolova, Irmena Chichikova, Ivo Dimchev, Deyan Donkov, Vassil Duev, Gerasim Georgiev, Vladimir Lyutzkanov, Nikolay Nikolaev, Nikolay Stanoev, Kitodar Todorov)
Out of competition
In a dystopian future, a nation of asexual immortal men has been built to fit the golden ratio. As they bid to leave the planet, they plan to take only one female but a calligrapher makes a surprise discovery that could change the course of events.
Punch
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2022; Director: Welby Ings; Writer: Welby Ings; Stars: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes, Abigail Laurent, Sage Klein, Karl Willetts, Matt Hicks, Connor Johnston, Simon McConnon, Stephanie Cope, Wesley Dowdell, Wilson Downes, Peter Ford, Fergus Ross)
Drama about a young boxer and his troubled relationship with his father.
Storm
(Country: Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Erika Calmeyer; Writer: Johan Fasting; Stars: Modou Bah, Ella Maren Alfsvåg Jørgensen, Ane Dahl Torp)
A single mum tries to pick herself back up after tragedy.
The Unbalanced (Zošalieť)
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2022; Director: Zuzana Piussi; Writer: Ingrid Hrubaničová; Stars: Ingrid Hrubaničová, Vladimír Zboroň, Jaroslava Sisáková, Daniela Gudabová, Tatiana Marta Rehúšová)
After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain.
Until Branches Bend
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Sophie Jarvis; Writer: Sophie Jarvis, Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers; Stars: Grace Glowicki, Alexandra Roberts, Quelemia Sparrow, Lochlyn Munro, Antoine DesRochers, Cole Sparrow-Crawford, Paul Kular, Janet Walmsley, Michelle Brezinski, Michael Charrois, John Collins, Judi Garner, Shanna Giannozio, Damon Gregory, Fabian Gujral)
Drama about a pregnant woman, after discovering what she believes to be an invasive insect in a peach, must convince her community of the danger.
Upon Entry
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vázquez; Writer: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vázquez; Stars: Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí, Ben Temple, Laura Gómez)
Two would-be emigres face scrutiny upon arrival in New York.
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