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Dos Estaciones and The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future
Brian And Charles
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jim Archer; Writer: David Earl, Chris Hayward; Stars: David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie, Lynn Hunter, Lowri Izzard, Mari Izzard, Cara Chase, Nicholas Asbury, Sunil Patel, Vivienne Soan, Nina Sosanya, Rishi Nair, Morgan Adler, Carys Ryan)
A story of friendship, love, and letting go. And a 7ft tall robot that eats cabbages. A comedy shot in documentary format.
The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future
(Country: Germany, France, US, Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Francisca Alegria; Writer: Francisca Alegria, Manuela Infante; Stars: Leonor Varela, Mía Maestro, Alfredo Castro, Luis Dubó, Marcial Tagle, Laura Del Rio Rios, Enzo Ferrada Rosati)
Cecilia and her children travel to her ageing father’s dairy farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her mother, a woman dead for many years, whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.
Dos Estaciones
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Pablo González; Writer: Ilana Coleman, Ana Isabel Fernández, Juan Pablo González; Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Teresa Sánchez, Tatín Vera, Rafaela Fuentes)
In the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.
Gentle
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: László Csuja, Anna Nemes; Writer: László Csuja, Anna Nemes; Stars: Eszter Csonka, György Turós, Csaba Krisztik, Éva Kerekes, János Papp, Gábor Ferenczi, Máté Vörös, Ferenc Gerlóczy, Viktória Szorcsik, Balázs Czukor, Csaba Gerner, Katalin Lõrincz, László Valiszka, Anna Nemes, Andrea Waskovics)
Edina, a female bodybuilder, is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with Adam, her partner and trainer: to win the world championship. The odd love she finds on her way there makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.
Girls Girls Girls (Girls, Girls, Girls, Girl Picture)
(Country: Finland; Year: 2022; Director: Alli Haapasalo; Writer: Ilona Ahti, Daniela Hakulinen; Stars: Oona Airola, Mikko Kauppila, Elias Westerberg, Linnea Leino, Henrikki Haavisto, Fathi Ahmed, Jantsu Puumalainen, Oksana Lommi, Aamu Milonoff, Cécile Orblin, Yasmin Najjar, Amos Brotherus, Pablo Ounaskari, Pietu Wikström, Eleonoora Kauhanen)
Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth-moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
Mars One and Klondike
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.
Leonor Will Never Die
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Martika Ramirez Escobar; Writer: Martika Ramirez Escobar; Stars: Sheila Francisco, Rocky Salumbides, Bong Cabrera, Anthony Falcon)
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
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.
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.
You Won’t Be Alone
(Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Goran Stolevski; Writer: Goran Stolevski; Stars: Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca, Félix Maritaud, Kamka Tocinovski, Carloto Cotta, Arta Dobroshi, Sara Klimoska, Irena Ristic, Verica Nedeska, Daniel Kovacevic, Leontina Bainovic, Predrag Vasic, Djordje Misina, Danilo Savic)
In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep-seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.
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