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Choose Irvine and Afire
Afire (Roter Himmel)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold; Stars: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt)
Tensions and desire bloom among five people at a holiday home by the Baltic Sea.
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Thomas Schubert on imposter syndrome and tonal ambiguity in Afire
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Afire (Roter Himmel), An Affair To Remember, summers, and pronouncing Walter Benjamin and Uwe Johnson
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Afire (Roter Himmel) and summer movies
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Afire (Roter Himmel), An Affair To Remember, summers, and pronouncing Walter Benjamin and Uwe Johnson
, Christian Petzold in conversation on Afire (Roter Himmel) and summer movies
Art College 1994
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Liu Jian; Writer: Liu Jian)
Animation set in 90s China. A group of young people prepare to face a world caught between tradition and modernity.
Choose Irvine (Choose Irvine Welsh)
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Ian Jefferies; Stars: Irvine Welsh, Iggy Pop, Gail Porter, Martin Compston)
Profile of the Trainspotting author.
Chuck Chuck Baby
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Janis Pugh; Writer: Janis Pugh; Stars: Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Celyn Jones, Sorcha Cusack)
Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
Femme
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping; Writer: Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping; Stars: George MacKay, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)
Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.
Is There Anybody Out There? and Femme
The First Slam Dunk
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Takehiko Inoue, Yasuyuki Ebara; Writer: Takehiko Inoue; Stars: Masaya Fukunishi, Yoshiaki Hasegawa, Katsuhisa Hôki, Tetsu Inada, Ryota Iwasaki)
Hanamichi Sakuragi is a delinquent with a long history of getting dumped by girls. After enrolling in Shohoku High School, Hanamichi becomes interested in a girl named Haruko who loves the game of basketball.
Is There Anybody Out There?
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Ella Glendining)
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Joram
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Devashish Makhija)
Revenge thriller.
Kill
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Rodger Griffiths)
A hunting trip turns deadly when three brothers plot to take out their abusive father.
The Lynda Myles Project: A Manifesto
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Susan Kemp)
Work-in-progress documentary about the producer and ex-EIFF director.
Your Fat Friend and Past Lives
Orlando, My Political Biography (Orlando, ma biographie politique)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Paul B Preciado; Writer: Paul B Preciado; Stars: Paul B Preciado)
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
Passages
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos)
A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
Past Lives
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Celine Song; Writer: Celine Song; Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro)
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.
Property (Propriedade)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Daniel Bandeira; Stars: Malu Galli, Zuleika Ferreira, Tavinho Teixeira, Samuel Santos, Edilson Silva)
When rebelling workers occupy Teresa’s family estate, she flees at the last minute into an armoured car. She is trapped, but refuses to negotiate.
Raging Grace
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Paris Zarcilla; Writer: Paris Zarcilla; Stars: Max Eigenman, Leanne Best, David Hayman)
An undocumented Filipina immigrant is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter when she secures the perfect job, taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new position pays well and guarantees a roof over their heads but very soon, she realise that something is amiss.
The First Slam Dunk and Trenque Lauquen
Showing Up
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, André 3000, Judd Hirsch, Amanda Plummer, Matt Malloy, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, Denzel Rodriguez, Eudora Peterson, Ted Rooney, Rowan Vik, Orianna Milne)
Drama about an artist on the verge of an exhibition.
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Hope Dickson Leach; Writer: Vlad Butucea and Hope Dickson Leach, based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson; Stars: David Hayman, Lorn Macdonald, Henry Pettigrew, Peter Singh, Alison Peebles, Tam Dean Burn)
Concerned by his good friend Dr Henry Jekyll's recent behaviour, Gabriel Utterson is driven to uncover the identity of the mysterious and dangerous Mr. Hyde, to whom Jekyll is enthralled.
Superposition
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Karoline Lyngbye; Writer: Karoline Lyngbye)
A couple and their young son choose to move to a remote cabin in the Danish Forest for an experiment in off-grid living, with no human contact for a year. When they encounter another family in the forest, identical
to themselves in almost every way, the fabric of their identities faces a test.
Trenque Lauquen (Trenque Lauquen Part I, Trenque Lauquen Part II)
(Year: 2022; Director: Laura Citarella; Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Verónica Llinás, Juliana Muras, Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Cecilia Rainero, Rafael Spregelburd)
Story set in the Argentinian city of the title, centring on an academic who has disappeared. The story is told across two feature films.
Your Fat Friend
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Jeanie Finlay; Stars: Aubrey Gordon)
Popular anonymous blogger Aubrey Gordon spent five years writing about the realities of living as a self-described “very fat person.” Now, she is about to face the public for the very first time.
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