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The Wonder and Cork
Cork (Suro)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Mikel Gurrea; Writer: Mikel Gurrea, Francisco Kosterlitz; Stars: Vicky Luengo, Pol López, Ilyass El Ouahdani)
Helena and Ivan decide to make a new life for themselves among cork trees, but their different points of view on how to live on the land surface, challenging their future as a couple.
Forever (Resten Af Livet)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Frelle Petersen; Writer: Frelle Petersen; Stars: Jette Søndergaard, Mette Munk Plum, Ole Sørensen, Eskil Tonnesen, Ole Caspersen, Benny Bøtchiær Thomsen, Lasse Lorenzen)
A family struggle to come to terms with the death of an adult son.
Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Marco Martins; Writer: Ricardo Adolfo, Marco Martins; Stars: Nuno Lopes, Kris Hitchen, Beatriz Batarda, Peter Caulfield, Achilles Fuzier, Hugo Bentes, Celia Williams, Rita Cabaço, Romeu Runa)
Film based on the true stories of Portuguese migrants who travel to Great Yarmouth, pre-Brexit, to work in turkey factories.
A Hundred Flowers (Hyakka)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Genki Kawamura; Writer: Genki Kawamura, Hirase Kentaro; Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Masaki Suda, Mieko Harada, Masatoshi Nagase)
A son grapples with his feelings of hurt about an episode from the past as his mother succumbs to dementia.
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.
Il Boemo and Winter Boy
The Kings Of The World (Los Reyos Del Mundo)
(Country: Colombia, Luxembourg, France, Mexico, Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Mora Ortega; Writer: Maria Camila Arias, Laura Mora Ortega)
Five street kids set out on a journey to the promised land.
Marlowe
(Country: US, Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Neil Jordan; Writer: William Monahan, John Banville, Raymond Chandler; Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Alan Cumming, Jessica Lange, Danny Huston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian Hart, François Arnaud, Daniela Melchior, Colm Meaney, Darrell D'Silva, Patrick Muldoon, Kim DeLonghi, Stella Stocker, Mitchell Mullen)
Closing night film. Out of competition
The gumshoe is tasked with finding the former lover of a beautiful heiress.
La Maternal
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Pilar Palomero; Writer: Pilar Palomero; Stars: Rubén Martínez, Ángela Cervantes, Olga Hueso, Pepe Lorente, Neus Pàmies, Carla Quílez, Gal·la Sabaté, Jordan Dumes)
Drama about a teenager who becomes unexpectedly pregnant and is sent to a centre to live with other expectant youngsters.
Offworld (Apagon)
(Country: US; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen , Raúl Arévalo , Isa Campo , Alberto Rodríguez , Isaki Lacuesta)
Out of competition
A solar storm hits the Earth, causing a widespread blackout. In this new reality, five stories unfold, focusing on characters who struggle to adapt to a world without electricity, telecommunications or means of transport, where they are forced to face up to their most primal needs, instincts and fears.
Pornomelancholia (Pornomelancolía)
(Country: Argentina, France, Brazil, Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Manuel Abramovich; Writer: Manuel Abramovich, Fernando Krapp; Stars: Lalo Santos)
Factory worker Lilo is a sex influencer, unbeknown to his family.
La Maternal and Forever
Prison 77 (Modelo 77)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Alberto Rodríguez; Writer: Rafael Cobos, Alberto Rodríguez; Stars: Iñigo Aranburu, Javier Beltrán, Carlos Bernardino, Polo Camino, José Gabriel Campos, Jesús Carroza, Víctor Castilla, Víctor Castillo, Iñigo de la Iglesia, Javier Gutiérrez, Miguel Herrán, Javier Lago, Alfonso Lara, Daniel Mantero, Ana Cecilia Mendes)
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant awaiting trial for embezzlement, joins forces with his cellmate and a collective fighting for the rights of ordinary prisoners.
Opening night film. Out of competition
The Rite Of Spring (La Consagracion de la Primavera)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Fernando Franco; Writer: Bego Arostegui, Fernando Franco; Stars: Telmo Irureta, Valèria Sorolla, Emma Suárez)
Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and confidently enter a new phase.
Runner
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Marian Mathias; Stars: Jonathan Erickson Eisley)
After the sudden death of her father, Haas meets Will. Runner is the story of two young strangers finding each other across the vast American landscape.
Sparta
(Country: Austria, Germany, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl; Stars: Georg Friedrich)
A man in his 40s leaves his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken.
The Substitute (El Suplente)
(Country: Argentina, Italy, France, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Diego Lerman; Writer: Diego Lerman, María Meira, Luciana De Mello; Stars: Juan Minujín, Alfredo Castro, Bárbara Lennie, Rita Cortese, María Merlino)
A professor tries to help a student who is being hounded by drug traffickers.
Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures and The Kings Of The World
Tax Me If You Can (La (Tres) Grande Evasion)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Yannick Kergoat)
Welcome to the world of capital flight! The key to amassing a huge fortune? Find accomplices, know how to hide and take advantage of every loophole in the system. Investigative doc.
Walk Up
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Kwon Haehyo, Lee Hyeyoung, Mi-so Park)
A middle-aged film director and the daughter he hasn't seen in years visit a building owned by an interior designer... but something unusual happens during the tour.
Wild Flowers (Girasoles Silvestres)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Jaime Rosales; Writer: Bárbara Díez, Jaime Rosales; Stars: Anna Castillo, Oriol Pla, Quim Àvila, Lluís Marquès, Carolina Yuste, Manolo Solo)
A mum falls in love with a troubled young man but begins to question their relationship.
Winter Boy (La Lyceen)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Christophe Honoré; Writer: Christophe Honoré; Stars: Paul Kircher, Vincent Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Christophe Honoré, Xavier Giannoli, Wilfried Capet, Jean-Philippe Salerio, Isabelle Thevenoux)
Set over the course of one winter, a 17-year-old high school student struggles with grief.
The Wonder
(Country: US, UK, Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Writer: Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue, Sebastián Lelio; Stars: Florence Pugh, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Elaine Cassidy, Tom Burke, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Algar, Toby Jones)
The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
The Substitute and Prison 77
The Yellow Ceiling (El Sostre Groc)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Isabel Coixet; Stars: Vanessa Springora, Violeta Porta, Aida Flix, Albert Llimós, Goretti Narcís, Miriam Fuentes, Marta Pachón, Núria Juanico)
Special Screening
In 2018, a group of nine women filed a complaint against two of their teachers at Lleida’s Theatre School for sexual abuse carried out between 2001 and 2008. Although the statute of limitations had passed, unexpectedly, all was not lost.
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