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Légua and Creatura
Abraham’s Valley (Vale Abraão)
(Country: France, Portugal, Switzerland; Year: 1993; Director: Manoel de Oliveira; Writer: Agustina Bessa-Luís, Manoel de Oliveira; Stars: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho)
Special screening
An attractive young woman who is uninterested in her doctor husband decides to acquire a lover.
Agra
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Kanu Behl, Atika Chohan; Stars: Mohit Agarwal, Priyanka Bose, Vibha Chhibber, Rahul Roy, Aanchai Goswami)
The story of a family and an exploration of space in an increasingly crowded world, following one person's the quest for a sexual odyssey.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
(Country: Georgia; Year: 2023; Director: Elene Naveriani; Writer: Elene Naveriani, Nikoloz Mdivani based on the novel by Tamta Melashvili; Stars: Eka Chavleishvili, Temiko Chinchinadze, Anka Khurtsidze)
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
The Book Of Solutions
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Michel Gondry; Writer: Michel Gondry; Stars: Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Camille Rutherford and Vincent Elbaz)
Details coming soon...
Creatura
(Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Elena Martín Gimeno; Writer: Elena Martín Gimeno, Clara Roquet; Stars: Elena Martín, Oriol Pla, Alex Brendemühl, Marc Cartanyà Carla Linares, Mila Borràs, Clàudia Dalmau, Clara Segura)
A woman realises the source of her trauma and sexual appetite after returning to her coastal-town home.
The Goldman Case and Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
Déserts
(Country: Morocco; Year: 2023; Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi)
A debt collection agency sends two employees to track down bad payers in the Sahara... where their path crosses that of a fugitive.
The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Joanne Arnow; Writer: Joanne Arnow)
A fragmented, experiential look at the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
The Goldman Case (Le Procès Goldman)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Cédric Kahn; Writer: Nathalie Hertzberg, Cédric Kahn; Stars: Ariel Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Jeremy Lewin, Nicolas Briancon, Stephan Guerin-Tilie)
A chronicle of the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
Opening film
Grace
(Year: 2023; Director: Ilya Povolotsky)
Details to come
Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
(Country: Vietnam; Year: 2023; Director: Thien An Pham; Writer: Thien An Pham; Stars: Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh)
A man has to return his sister-in-law's body to her hometown after an accident while, along with his nephew, he searches for his long-lost brother.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry and In Flames
In Flames
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Zarrar Kahn; Writer: Zarrar Kahn; Stars: Ramesha Nawal, Omar Javaid, Bakhtawar Mazhar, Mohammad Ali Hasni, Adnan Shah)
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
In Our Day
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Hong Sangsoo; Writer: Hong Sangsoo)
Details coming soon...
Légua
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2023; Director: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra; Writer: José Filipe Costa, João Miller Guerra, Sara Morais, Filipa Reis, Letícia Simões; Stars: Carla Maciel, Fátima Soares, Vitória Nogueira da Silva, Sara Machado, Paulo Calatré, Manuel Mozos)
When one of the women looking after a mansion with absent owners falls ill, her younger colleague takes on the responsibility of caring for both her and the mansion, even to the detriment of her own family.
Mambar Pierrette
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Rosine Mbakam)
Drama about a seamstress who is trying to make ends meet.
The Other Laurens (L’Autre Laurens)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Claude Schmitz; Writer: Claude Schmitz; Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Marc Barbé, Tibo Vandenborre and Francis Soetens)
A private detective investigates the death of his brother.
Riddle Of Fire and The Other Laurens
A Prince (Un Prince)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Pierre Creton)
Drama about a gardening apprentice.
Riddle Of Fire
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Weston Razooli; Writer: Weston Razooli; Stars: Lio Tipton, Weston Razooli, Charles Halford, Phoebe Ferro)
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.
She is Conann
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Bertrand Mandico)
Gender-flipped version of Conan The Barbarian.
A Song Sung Blue
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Zihan Geng)
Liu Xian will always remember the summer when she was 15. When her mother went to Africa to provide medical aid as a doctor, she was thrown into the care of her father who had been divorced from her mother for many years.
The Sweet East
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Sean Price Williams)
A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.
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