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Woman At War and Under The Tree
Beast
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Pearce; Writer: Michael Pearce; Stars: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle, Emily Taaffe, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Hattie Gotobed, Shannon Tarbet, Olwen Fouere, Tim Woodward)
A teenager finds herself torn between the control of her family and an outsider who is suspected of murder.
Border
(Country: Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf, based on a story by John Ajvide Lindqvist; Stars: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom, Jörgen Thorsson)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, their relationship forces her to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Diamantino (Tristes Monroes)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2017; Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Joana Barrios, Abílio Bejinha, Chico Chapas)
Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.
Girl
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Nele Hardiman, Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter)
A teenage trans girl dreams of becoming a ballerina.
The House That Jack Built
(Country: Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Lars von Trier; Writer: Lars von Trier; Stars: Riley Keough, Jeremy Davies, Uma Thurman, Matt Dillon, Ed Speleers, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Bruno Ganz, Sofie Gråbøl, David Bailie, Ji-tae Yu, Osy Ikhile, Marijana Jankovic, Christian Arnold, Jerker Fahlström, Robert G. Slade)
A serial killer's life story is told through the murders that defined him.
Styx and Beast
Michael Inside
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2017; Director: Frank Berry; Writer: Frank Berry; Stars: Dafhyd Flynn, Lalor Roddy, Moe Dunford)
A teenager living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to three months in prison.
Scary Mother
(Country: Georgia, Estonia; Year: 2017; Director: Ana Urushadze; Writer: Ana Urushadze; Stars: Nato Murvanidze, Dimitri Tatishvili, Ramaz Ioseliani, Avtandil Makharadze, Anastasia Chanturaia, Lasha Gabunia, Darejan Kharshiladze, Lili Khuriti, Nana Khuriti, Luka Nachkebia, Nato Murvanidze, Dimitri Tatishvili, Ramaz Ioseliani, Avtandil Makharadze, Anastasia Chanturaia)
Manana, a 50-year-old Tbilisi mother abandons her duties as a wife and mother to pursue an obsessive and hermetic life of writing poetry.
Styx
(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Wolfgang Fischer; Writer: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel; Stars: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Anika Menger, Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Anika Menger)
A storm in the middle of the ocean, a boat full of refugees that is about to sink and a woman all by herself...
Summer (Leto)
(Country: Russia; Year: 2018; Director: Kiril Serebrennikov; Writer: Lily Idov, Mikhail Idov; Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Teo Yoo, Roman Bilyk)
Love blossoms in Russia's underground alternative rock scene.
Under The Tree
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2017; Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson; Writer: Huldar Breiðfjörð, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson; Stars: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Selma Björnsdóttir, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir)
A spat between neighbours over a garden tree spirals out of control.
Michael Inside and Girl
Woman At War (Kona Fer í Stríð)
(Country: France, Iceland, Ukraine; Year: 2018; Director: Benedikt Erlingsson; Writer: Ólafur Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson; Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson)
A middle-aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her small town, but everything changes when a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.
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