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Close and Mediterranean Fever
Ajoomma
(Country: Singapore; Year: 2022; Director: He Shuming; Writer: He Shuming, Kris Ong; Stars: Hong Huifang, Kang Hyoung-suk, Jung Dong-hwan, Yeo Jin-gu)
A widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life to Seoul and finds more than she had bargained for.
Alcarràs
(Country: Spain, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch, Ainet Jounou, Josep Abad, Montse Oró, Carles Cabós, Berta Pipó, Isaac Rovira, Joel Rovira)
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
All Quiet On The Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues)
(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2022; Director: Edward Berger; Writer: Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque; Stars: Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch, Sebastian Hülk, Edin Hasanovich, Anton von Lucke)
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
Argentina, 1985
(Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2022; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski)
A team of lawyers take on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Bardo, Falsa Crónica De Unas Cuantas Verdades)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu; Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio)
An epic comedy about journalism.
Kalev and Mars One
Beautiful Beings
(Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Czechia; Year: 2022; Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson; Writer: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson; Stars: Sunna Líf Arnarsdóttir, Viktor Benóný Benediktsson, Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Anita Briem, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir, Aðalbjörg Emma Hafsteinsdóttir, Blær Hinriksson, Kristín Ísold Jóhannesdóttir, Kamilla Guðrún Lowen, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson)
A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, adopts a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits.
Blanquita
(Country: Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Fernando Guzzoni; Writer: Fernando Guzzoni; Stars: Laura López, Alejandro Goic, Amparo Noguera, Marcelo Alonso, Daniela Ramírez, Ariel Grandón)
An 18-year-old foster home resident becomes the key witness in a sexual abuse scandal which rocks Chilean politics.
The Blue Caftan
(Country: France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Maryam Touzani; Writer: Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch; Stars: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui)
Halim and Mina own a small family tailor shop that specializes in sewing ceremonial caftans. Since traditional hand-crafted work is time-consuming, Halim decides to hire an assistant, Youssef. The presence of the attractive young man arouses long-suppressed feelings in Halim, something that does not go unnoticed by his wife Mina.
Boy From Heaven
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Tarik Saleh; Writer: Tarik Saleh; Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mehdi Dehbi, Mohammad Bakri, Makram Khoury, Yunus Albayrak, Sherwan Haji, Mouloud Ayad, Amr Mosad, Youssef Salama Zeki, Ayman Fathy)
When a grand imam dies, a ruthless battle begins to be his successor.
Cinema Sabaya
(Country: Israel; Year: 2022; Director: Orit Fouks Rotem; Writer: Orit Fouks Rotem)
Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.
Saint Omer and Decision To Leave
Close
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France; Year: 2022; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens, Igor van Dessel, Marc Weiss, Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele)
Two best friends find their bond upset by schoolmates.
Corsage
(Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Kreutzer; Writer: Marie Kreutzer; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Colin Morgan, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner , Aaron Friesz, Ivana Urban, Raphael von Bargen, Alexander Pschill, Regina Fritsch, Raphael Nicholas)
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
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Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Empress Elisabeth of Austria with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Luchino Visconti, Finnegan Oldfield’s Louis Le Prince and the biographies of Sisi
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
Darkling (Mrak)
(Country: Serbia, Denmark, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Dusan Milic; Writer: Dusan Milic; Stars: Danica Curcic, Darren Pettie, Slavko Stimac, Nikola Kent)
A letter from a girl from Kosovo, dedicated to her missing father, read at the United Nations, in which she publicly addresses the difficult life of Serbs, especially Serb children in the enclaves.
Decision To Leave
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Seo-kyeong Jeong; Stars: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-Pyo, Lee Jung-Hyun, Park Yong-woo)
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
EO
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Jerzy Skolimowski; Writer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Tomasz Organek)
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
All Quiet On The Western Front and Victim
Eternal Spring
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jason Loftus)
Following the hijacking of a TV station and police raids in Changchun City, comic book illustrator, Daxiong, a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening violent repression, but his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, who is living in Seoul, South Korea.
The Happiest Man In The World
(Country: Republic of North Macedonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Year: 2022; Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska; Writer: Teona Strugar Mitevska, Elma Tataragic; Stars: Irma Alimanovic, Izudin Bajrovic, Vedrana Bozinovic, Jelena Kordic, Ana Kostovska, Nikolina Kujaca, Ksenija Marinkovic, Labina Mitevska, Mona Muratovic, Adnan Omerovic, Kemal Rizvanovic, Sinisa Vidovic)
Asja is a 40-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo. She meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness.
Holy Spider (Ankabut-e moqaddas)
(Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami; Stars: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour, Sara Fazilat, Alice Rahimi, M. Ali Nazarian, Sima Seyed, Firouz Ageli, Farhad Faghih Habibi)
A journalist tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering sex workers.
Il Boemo
(Country: Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia; Year: 2022; Director: Petr Václav; Writer: Petr Václav; Stars: Vojtech Dyk, Karel Roden, Lino Musella, Barbara Ronchi, Lenka Vlasáková, Martina Babisova, Salvatore Langella, Lana Vlady, Zdenek Godla, Cristiano Donati, Diego Pagotto, Philippe Jaroussky, Philip Amadeus Hahn, Emöke Baráth, Raffaella Milanesi)
Biopic of composer Josef Mysliveček.
Joyland
(Country: Pakistan; Year: 2022; Director: Saim Sadiq; Writer: Saim Sadiq; Stars: Sana Jafri, Ali Junejo)
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Joyland and Alcarràs
Kalev
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2022; Director: Ove Musting; Writer: Martin Algus, Ove Musting, Mehis Pihla; Stars: Mait Malmsten, Reimo Sagor, Priit Võigemast, Mihkel Kuusk, Ott Kartau, Veiko Porkanen, Kristjan Sarv, Siim Maaten, Arturs Putnins, Howard Frier, Jonathan Peterson, Rauno Polman, Mathias Leedo, Andris Keiss, Jekabs Reinis)
In summer 1990, the Estonian basketball has to decide whether to take part in the USSR’s championship against a backdrop of the move for independence.
Klondike
(Country: Ukraine, Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Maryna Er Gorbach; Writer: Maryna Er Gorbach; Stars: Evgeniy Efremov, Oleg Shcherbina, Oksana Cherkashyna, Oleg Shevchuk, Artur Aramyan)
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia - Ukraine during the start of war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after, they find themselves at the center of an air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
The Last Film Show
(Country: India, US, France; Year: 2021; Director: Pan Nalin; Writer: Pan Nalin; Stars: Bhavin Rabari, Vikas Bata, Richa Meena, Bhavesh Shrimali, Dipen Raval, Rahul Koli)
A nine-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a summer watching movies from the projection booth.
Mars One (Marte Um)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Gabriel Martins; Writer: Gabriel Martins; Stars: Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Souza, Cícero Lucas)
In Brazil, a lower-middle-class Black family of four tries to keep their spirits up and their dreams going in the months that follow the election of a right-wing president, a man who represents everything they are not.
Mediterranean Fever
(Country: Germany, France, Cyprus; Year: 2022; Director: Maha Haj; Writer: Maha Haj; Stars: Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, Anat Hadid, Samir Elias, Cynthia Saleem, Shaden Kanboura, Salam Husari)
Drama charts the unlikely bond between two very different Arab family men living in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
Klondike and Under The Fig Trees
Nostalgia
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Mario Martone; Writer: Mario Martone, Ippolita Di Majo, based on the novel by Ermanno Rea; Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Sofia Essaïdi, Tommaso Ragno, Daniela Ioia, Salvatore Striano, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Di Leva, Nello Mascia, Artem, Emanuele Palumbo, Virginia Apicella)
A man returns home after 40 years away.
The Quiet Girl
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Colm Bairéad; Writer: Colm Bairéad; Stars: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh)
A neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.
Return To Seoul
(Country: Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Davy Chou)
A Frenchwoman adopted as a child returns to Korea to try to track down her birth parents.
Saint Omer
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Diop; Writer: Alice Diop, Marie N'Diaye; Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit)
A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Under The Fig Trees
(Country: Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar; Year: 2021; Director: Erige Sehiri; Writer: Peggy Hamann, Ghalya Lacroix, Erige Sehiri; Stars: Fedi Ben Achour, Firas Amri, Ameni Fdhili, Feten Fdhili, Fide Fdhili, Gaith Mendassi, Abdelhak Mrabti, Leila Ouhebi, Hneya Ben Elhedi Sbahi, Samar Sifi)
Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.
Corsage and Argentina, 1985
Utama
(Country: Bolivia, Uruguay, France; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi; Writer: Alejandro Loayza Grisi; Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque)
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. When an uncommon long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and his wife Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the environment and time itself.
Victim (Obet)
(Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Michal Blasko; Writer: Jakub Medvecký; Stars: Elizaveta Maximová, Alena Mihulová, Vita Smachelyuk, Igor Chmela, Gleb Kuchuk, Viktor)
A Ukranian immigrant faces racism as she seeks justice.
War Sailor (Krigsseileren)
(Country: Norway, Germany, Malta; Year: 2022; Director: Gunnar Vikene; Writer: Gunnar Vikene; Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ine Marie Wilmann, Henrikke Lund Olsen)
The sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War Two breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.
You Won't Be Alone
(Country: UK, Serbia, Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Goran Stolevski; Writer: Goran Stolevski; Stars: Alice Englert, Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Sara Klimoska, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, Arta Dobroshi, Verica Nedeska, Irena Ristic, Predrag Vasic, Nikola Ristanovski, Kamka Tocinovski, Daniel Kovacevic, Djordje Misina, Djordje Zivadinovic Grgur)
A remote mountain village is under threat from a bloodthirsty witch named Marie, whose spirit is capable of entering the bodies of murder victims and slain animals. One day the witch leaves her mark on the newborn Nevena, and the girl’s fate is sealed forever…
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