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The Zone Of Interest and La Palisiada
Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint
(Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2023; Director: Tomas Gomez Bustillo; Writer: Tomas Gomez Bustillo; Stars: Monica Villa, Horacio Marassi, Pablo Moseinco, Silvia Mackenzie, Noemi Ron, Silvia Porro, Hernan Bustamante, Dahyana Turkie, Iair Said)
When a devout elderly woman finds a statue she think is long lost, what she decides to do next upends her life.
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.
I Used To Be Funny
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Ally Pankiw; Writer: Ally Pankiw; Stars: Rachel Sennott, Olga Petsa, Jason Jones, Sabrina Jalees, Caleb Hearon, Ennis Esmer, Dani Kind)
An aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD considers whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.
Melk (Milk)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2023; Director: Stefanie Kolk; Writer: Stefanie Kolk, Nena van Driel; Stars: Frieda Barnhard, Jules Elting, Wimie Wilhelm, Marleen Scholten, Arnoud Bos, Hans Ligtvoet, Murat Toker, Aleksej Ovsiannikov, Dolores Leeuwin, Ruth Sahertian, Christophe Lowie, Monique Heijmink-Wiegman, Tanja Rozeboom, Charles Verhoeff, Maren Jebbink)
A mum who has lost her baby tries to work through her grief as she attempts to donate her milk.
La Palisiada
(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2023; Director: Philip Sotnychenko; Writer: Alina Panasenko, Philip Sotnychenko; Stars: Cast: Novruz Hikmet, Andrii Zhurba, Valeriia Oleinykova, Olena Mamchur, Oleksandr
Parkhomenko, Oleksander Malieiev)
Two old friends, a detective and psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
Toll and Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint
Sira
(Country: Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Senegal; Year: 2023; Director: Apolline Traoré; Stars: Nafissatou Cissé, Mike Danon, Lazare Minoungou, Nathalie Vairac, Ruth Werner)
After a brutal attack, a young nomad refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror. A feminist counterpoint to current reporting from the Sahel region.
Sultana's Dream (El Sueno De La Sultana)
(Country: Germany, Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Isabel Herguera; Writer: Isabel Herguera, Gianmarco Serra; Stars: Mary Beard, Paul B. Preciado, Roberto Bessi, Miren Arrieta, Nausheen Javeed, Ranjitha Rajeevan, Miren Gabilondo, Debjani Mukherjee)
Taking her inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Toll (Pedágio)
(Country: Brazil, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Carolina Markowicz; Writer: Carolina Markowicz; Stars: Maeve Jinkings, Thomas Aquino, Isac Graça, Caio Macedo, Aline Marta Maia, Kauan Alvarenga)
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
The Zone Of Interest
(Country: UK, Poland, US; Year: 2023; Director: Jonathan Glazer; Writer: Jonathan Glazer, based on the book by Martin Amis; Stars: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Stephanie Petrowitz, Marie Rose Tietjen)
The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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