Opponent and Sisi & I
20,000 Species Of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren; Writer: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren; Stars: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano, Sara Cózar)
An eight-year-old explores her identity over a summer in the Basque country.
Chestnut
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Jac Cron; Writer: Jac Cron; Stars: Natalia DyerRachel KellerDanny Ramirez, Chella Mn, Caleb Eberhardt)
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during her summer after college.
Opponent (Motståndaren)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Milad Alami; Writer: Milad Alami; Stars: Payman Maadi, Marall Nasiri, Björn Elgerd, Ardalan Esmaili, Arvin Kananian)
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
Runs In The Family
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2023; Director: Ian Gabriel; Writer: Gabe Gabriel; Stars: Ace Bhatti, Gabe Gabriel, Rob van Vuuren, Paul Snodgrass, Diaan Lawrenson)
An Indian father takes his transgender son on a road trip across South Africa to rescue his son's long-lost mother from a rehab clinic in eSwatini.
Sisi & I (Sisi & Ich, Sisi And I)
(Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria; Year: 2023; Director: Frauke Finsterwalder; Stars: Sandra Hüller, Susanne Wolff, Georg Friedrich, Stefan Kurt, Sophie Hutter)
In this wild reinterpretation of the “Sisi” myth, the focus is on Austrian Empress Elisabeth’s close friendship with her last lady-in-waiting, Irma Countess von Sztáray, who falls in love with the charismatic Sisi and is captivated by her modern ideas.
