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In Her Place and The Last Showgirl
Afternoons Of Solitude (Tardes de soledad)
(Country: France, Portugal, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Albert Serra; Stars: Pablo Aguado, Andrés Roca Rey)
The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.
Bound In Heaven
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Xin Huo; Writer: Yu Pan; Stars: Ni Ni, You Zhou, Fan Liao)
This film narrates the poignant tale of a terminally ill man and a woman caught in violence, weaving through their fugitive journey after an unforeseen incident.
Conclave
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Edward Berger; Writer: Robert Harris, Peter Straughan; Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Brían F. O'Byrne, Merab Ninidze, Sergio Castellitto, Jacek Koman, Carlos Diehz, Joseph Mydell, Rony Kramer, Loris Loddi, Thomas Loibl, Jeremy Withrow)
Drama surrounding the election of a new Pope.
The End
(Country: Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Italy, UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Joshua Oppenheimer; Writer: Rasmus Heisterberg, Joshua Oppenheimer; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, George MacKay, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James, Bronagh Gallagher, Danielle Ryan)
After the sudden arrival of a stranger, Girl, threatens Mother and Father's family’s luxurious compound deep underground, Son begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
Glimmers (Los Destellos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Pilar Palomero; Writer: Pilar Palomero, Eider Rodriguez; Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Patricia López Arnaiz, Julián López, Marina Guerola)
Isabel’s life turns on its head the day her daughter Madalen asks her to make regular visits to the ailing Ramón, the husband she left 15 years previously.
The End and I Am Nevanka
Hard Truths
(Country: UK, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bryony Miller, Michele Austin, Llewella Gideon, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Elliot Edusah, Tiwa Lade, Ani Nelson, Felicita Ramundo)
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
In Her Place (El Lugar De La Otra)
(Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Maite Alberdi; Writer: Maite Alberdi, Inés Bortagaray, Paloma Salas, Alia Trabucco Zerán; Stars: Elisa Zulueta, Francisca Lewin, Pablo Macaya)
Chile, 1955. When the popular writer María Carolina Geel kills her lover, the case captivates court secretary Mercedes, who begins to question her life.
I, Addict (Yo, Adicto)
(Director: Elena Trapé, Javier Giner; Writer: Alba Carballal, Aitor Gabilondo, Jorge Gil Munarriz; Stars: Omar Ayuso, Victoria Luengo, Marina Salas, Nora Navas, Oriol Pla, Ramón Barea, Catalina Sopelana, Bernabé Fernández, Itziar Lazkano, Guillem Balart, Anis Doroftei, Blanca Star Olivera, Alba Ribó, Karl-el Santos, Jorge Clemente)
Out of competition
The story of an audiovisual professional who, at the age of 30 decides of his own free will to enter a rehab centre. Six-episode mini-series.
I Am Nevanka (Soy Nevanka)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Icíar Bollaín; Writer: Icíar Bollaín, Isa Campo, based on the book by Nevenka Fernández, Juan José Millás; Stars: Ricardo Gómez, Mireia Oriol, Carlos Serrano, Urko Olazabal, Miguel Garcés, Lucía Veiga, Pepo Suevos, David Blanka, Font García, Mercedes del Castillo, Luis Moreno, Javier Gálego)
In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, the Finance Councillor of Ponferrada Town Council, is relentlessly hounded by the mayor, a man used to getting his way both politically and personally. Nevenka decides to report him, knowing that it will cost her dearly. Based on true events.
Last Breath
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Costa-Gavras; Writer: Costa-Gavras, Régis Debray, Claude Grange; Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Hiam Abbass, Ángela Molina, Karin Viard, Kad Merad, Denis Podalydès, Agathe Bonitzer, Jade Phan-Gia, Marilyne Canto, Maria McClurg, Virginie Sibalo, Namory Bakayoko)
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death.
Conclave and Hard Truths
The Last Showgirl
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Gia Coppola; Writer: Kate Gersten; Stars: Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman, Patrick Hilgart, John Clofine, Jesse Phillips, David Avne, Sean Patrick Bryan)
A seasoned showgirl must plan for her future when her show closes abruptly after a 30-year run.
Lumiere! The Adventure Continues (Lumière!, l'aventure continue)
(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Thierry Frémaux)
Out of competition
The sequel to Lumière! The Adventure Begins reveals another hundred restored Lumière films.
The Man Who Loved UFOs (El Hombre Que Amaba Los Platos Voladores)
(Year: 2024; Director: Diego Lerman; Writer: Adrián Biniez, Diego Lerman; Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Guillermo Pfening, Daniel Aráoz, Norman Briski, Osmar Núñez, Eva Bianco, Mónica Ayos, Sergio Prina, María Merlino, Agustín Rittano, Renata Lerman)
1986. Journalist José de Zer and Chango, his cameraman, set out for La Candelaria (Córdoba) on receiving an unusual proposal from two shady characters. Arriving in the village, there’s nothing much to see, only a scorched field surrounded by hills. What happened next was the work of a genius in the art of exaggeration with a hidden talent: the ability to create the best known audiovisual recording on the existence of alien presence in the history of Argentinian television.
Modi, Three Days On The Wings Of Madness
(Country: UK, Hungary, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Johnny Depp; Writer: Jerzy Kromolowski, Dennis McIntyre, Mary Olson-Kromolowski; Stars: Al Pacino, Stephen Graham, Bruno Gouery, Sally Phillips, Riccardo Scamarcio, Eva-Jane Willis, Antonia Desplat, Luisa Ranieri, Ryan McParland, Matthew Wolf, Kat Fairaway, Aaron Feder, Anabelle Daisy Grundberg, Jamie Wilson, Floriane Andersen)
Out of competition
A 72-hour whirlwind in the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
On Falling
(Country: UK, Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Laura Carreira; Writer: Laura Carreira; Stars: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Neil Leiper, Ola Forman, Deborah Arnott, Katharine K.K. Kennedy, Piotr Sikora, Robert Rutonic, Ross Ian-Martin, Daniel McGuire, Helen Robinson)
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
When Fall Is Coming and Querer
Querer
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; Writer: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Eduard Sola; Stars: Miguel Bernardeau, Loreto Mauleón, Pedro Casablanc, Iván Pellicer, Nagore Aranburu, Miguel Garcés, Elena Sáenz, Iñaki Balboa, Adrián Santos)
Out of competition
Mini-series. After 30 years of marriage and two children, Miren leaves the family home and reports her husband for continued rape.
The Red Virgin (La Virgen Roja)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Paula Ortiz; Writer: Clara Roquet, Eduard Sola; Stars: Najwa Nimri, Patrick Criado, Aixa Villagrán, Alba Planas, Pep Ambròs, Jorge Usón, Jon Viar, Pepe Viyuela, Claudia Roset, Pablo Vázquez, Fernando Delgado-Hierro, Juan Codina)
Out of competition
Hildegart is conceived and raised by her mother Aurora to become the woman of the future, turning her into one of the most brilliant minds of Thirties Spain as well as a reference on female sexuality. At the age of 18, Hildegart meets Abel Vilella, who will help her to explore a new emotional world and extricate herself from the grip of the maternal nest.
Serpent's Path (Hebi No Michi)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1998; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi; Stars: Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi, Shirô Shimomoto, Kaei Okina, Kaoru Sunada, Takumi Tanji, Kana Satô, Satoshi Morihiro, Ayami Oda, Mizuho Tanaka, Kazutaka Niyama, Yoshitaka Kowashi, Hideo Usui, Takeshi Ôshima)
In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter while Sayoko, a Japanese female doctor, assists him in his quest for revenge.
The Wailing (El Llanto)
(Country: Spain, France, Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Pedro Martín-Calero; Writer: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña; Stars: Ester Expósito, Mathilde Ollivier, Àlex Monner, Tomás del Estal, Sonia Almarcha, José Luis Ferrer, Malena Villa, Claudia Roset, Lautaro Bettoni, Pierre Marquille, Miguel Belaustegui, Lía Lois)
Something’s stalking Andrea, but nobody, not even herself, can actually see it. Twenty years ago, 10,000 kilometres away, the same presence terrorised Marie. Camila was the only person capable of understanding what was happening to her, but nobody believed them. On taking a stand against that oppressive threat, all three women hear the same horrific sound. Wailing.
We Live In Time
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: John Crowley; Writer: Nick Payne; Stars: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield)
Out of competition
Almut and Tobias are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives.
Last Breath and The Wailing
When Fall Is Coming (Quand vient l'automne)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Josiane Balasko, Hélène Vincent, Ludivine Sagnier, Sophie Guillemin, Vincent Colombe, Pierre Lottin, Marie-Laurence Tartas)
Michelle, a model grandmother, is enjoying peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her best friend Marie-Claude. On All Saints' Day, her daughter Valérie arrives to drop off her grandson Lucas for the school holiday week. But nothing will go to plan.
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