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I Saw the TV Glow and Kyuka Before Summer's End
The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich; Writer: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich; Stars: Zita Hanrot, Motell Gyn Foster, Josué Gutierrez, Reese Antoinette, Melisa Lopez)
Biopic about the Martinican writer and activist.
The Hyperboreans
(Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León; Writer: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Alejandra Moffat; Stars: Antonia Giesen, Francisco Visceral Rivera)
Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.
I Saw the TV Glow
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Justice Smith, Michael C. Maronna, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Amber Benson, Danny Tamberelli, Conner O'Malley, Danielle Deadwyler, Emma Portner, Helena Howard, Will Fitz, Ben Heineman, Ian Foreman, Timothy Griffin Allan, Michael Twaine, Michelle Santiago)
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show - a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Kyuka Before Summer's End
(Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Kostis Charamountanis; Writer: Kostis Charamountanis; Stars: Simeon Tsakiris, Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Elsa Lekakou, Elena Topalidou, Stathis Apostolou)
A dad and his twin kids go on a boat holiday filled with unexpected encounters.
Sugar Island
(Country: Spain, Dominican Republic; Year: 2024; Director: Johanne Gomez Terrero; Writer: María Abenia, Johanne Gomez Terrero; Stars: Francis Cruz, Ruth Emeterio, Juan Maria Almonte, Yelidá Díaz, Génesis Piñeyro, Diogenes Medina)
An unwanted pregnancy, triggers the journey into adulthood for
Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a
community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Universal Language
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Matthew Rankin; Writer: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin; Stars: Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Sobhan Javadi, Saba Vahedyousefi, Rojina Esmaeili)
Multilayered film that interweaves a story about a group of people trying to get frozen money out of the ice, a tale of a tour guide and a man who quits his job to visit his mother.
Xoftex
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Noaz Deshe; Writer: Noaz Deshe, Babak Jalali, James Masson; Stars: Abdulrahman Diab, Osama Hafiry, Jalal Albaroudi, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Amal Omran, Muhammad Al Rashi, Ramadan Hamoud, Lujain Mustafa, Mohammad Dibo, Yasin El Harrouk, Hazem Saleh, Hussein Eliraqui, Mohammad Eliraqui, Eva Ariane Heise, Jonas Martens)
Xoftex is a Greek refugee camp, where Syrian and Palestinian asylum seekers anxiously wait for news of their refugee status. To pass the time between interviews with the immigration office, Nasser and his friends film satirical sketches and make preparations for a zombie horror flick.
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