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Simon Of The Mountain and Toxic
All Shall Be Well
(Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2024; Director: Ray Yeung; Writer: Ray Yeung; Stars: Patra Au, Lin-Lin Li, Tai-Bo, So-Ying Hui, Chung-Hang Leung, Fish Liew, Rachel Leung, Lai Chai Ming, Li Lai Ha, Luna Shaw, Gia Yu Yuk Wah, Bonde Sham, Hon-Fai Ho, Michael Khan, Miles Sible)
Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over 30 years.
All That We Love
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Yen Tan; Writer: Yen Tan, Clay Liford; Stars: Margaret Cho, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kenneth Choi, Alice Lee, Atsuko Okatsuka, Missi Pyle, Devon Bostick)
A woman finds herself at a crossroads following the death of her family dog, and experiences a mid-life awakening.
And Their Children After Them (Leurs Enfants Après Eux)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma; Writer: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma, Nicolas Mathieu; Stars: Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Memmi)
In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.
Anywhere Anytime
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Milad Tangshir; Writer: Giaime Alonge, Daniele Gaglianone, Milad Tangshir; Stars: Ibrahima Sambou, Moussa Dicko Diango, Max Liotta, Success Edemakhiota)
An undocumented migrant in Italy finds himself on the brink after the bike he uses as a delivery rider is stolen.
Baby
(Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Marcelo Caetano; Writer: Marcelo Caetano, Gabriel Domingues; Stars: João Pedro Mariano, Ricardo Teodoro, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Bruna Linzmeyer, Luiz Bertazzo)
After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion, oscillating between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity.
Souleymane's Story and My Favourite Cake
The Balconettes
(Year: 2024; Director: Noémie Merlant; Writer: Noémie Merlant; Stars: Souheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant, Sanda Codreanu)
Three women get stuck in a Marseille apartment during a heatwave.
Blue Sun Palace
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Constance Tsang; Writer: Constance Tsang; Stars: Ke-Xi Wu, Kang-sheng Lee, Haipeng Xu)
A sudden loss catalyses an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.
Bring Them Down
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Andrews; Writer: Chris Andrews, Jonathan Hourigan; Stars: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Aaron Heffernan, Susan Lynch, Conor MacNeill, Adam Behan, Diarmuid de Faoite, Gail Fitzpatrick, Youssef Quinn, Grace Daly, Tom Leavey, Martin Gilligan)
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tyler Taormina; Writer: Eric Berger, Tyler Taormina; Stars: Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Maria Dizzia, Sawyer Spielberg, Ben Shenkman, Francesca Scorsese, Gregg Turkington, Lev Cameron, Gregory Falatek, Courtney Warner, Caveh Zahedi, Matilda Fleming, Leo Chan, Laura Wernette, Julianna Wohlrab)
A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
Dog On Trial (Le Proces Du Chien)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Laetitia Dosch; Writer: Anne-Sophie Bailly, Laetitia Dosch; Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Anabela Moreira, Anne Dorval, François Damiens, Pierre Deladonchamps, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Christian Dustour)
A young lawyer tries to save a dog from capital punishment.
Sasquatch Sunset and Misericordia
Every You Every Me (Alle Die Du Bist)
(Country: Germany, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Fetter Nathansky; Writer: Michael Fetter Nathansky; Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Carlo Ljubek, Youness Aabbaz, Sara Fazilat, Naila Schuberth, Peter Brachschoss, David Hürten, Moritz Klaus, Sascha Mahlberg, Jule Nebel-Linnenbaum, Dagmar Sachse, Sammy Schrein, Frank Stüdgens, Nadja Zwanziger)
Drama about falling in and out of love.
Ghostlight
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson; Writer: Kelly O'Sullivan; Stars: Dolly De Leon, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, David Bianco)
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Ghost Cat Anzu (Bakeneko Anzu-Chan)
(Country: Japan, France; Year: 2024; Director: Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Takashi Imashiro; Stars: Mirai Moriyama, Noa Gotô)
When a youngster is left at her grandad's house in the countryside, the old man asks his ghost cat to look after her.
Girls Will Be Girls
(Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Shuchi Talati; Writer: Shuchi Talati; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Jitin Gulati, Kesav Binoy Kiron, Preeti Panigrahi)
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Handling The Undead (Håndtering Av Udøde)
(Country: Sweden, Norway, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Thea Hvistendahl; Writer: Thea Hvistendahl, John Ajvide Lindqvist; Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bahar Pars, Bente Børsum, Olga Damani, Jan Hrynkiewicz, Inesa Dauksta, Kian Hansen)
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back.
Pooja, Sir and Mexico 86
Happyend
(Country: Japan, US; Year: 2024; Director: Neo Sora; Writer: Neo Sora; Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Ayumu Nakajima, Shirô Sano, Yukito Hidaka, Hayato Kurihara, Shina Peng, Kilala Inori, Arazi, Yûta Hayashi, Pushim)
Best friends Yuta and Kou are on the brink of graduating from high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake casts a shadow over daily life.
The Hungarian Dressmaker (Ema A Smrtihlav)
(Country: Slovak Republic, Czech Republic; Year: 2024; Director: Iveta Grófová; Writer: Peter Krištúfek and Iveta Grófová, based on the book by Peter Krištúfek; Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Nico Klimek, Milan Ondrík, Alexander E Fennon)
Rising nationalist sentiment in the Slovak Republic in the 1940s leads a widowed dressmaker to lose her job. Male attention makes it harder for her to cope while hiding a young Jewish boy.
Loveable (Elskling)
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Lilja Ingolfsdottir; Writer: Lilja Ingolfsdottir; Stars: Helga Guren, Oddgeir Thune, Heidi Gjermundsen Broch, Marte Solem)
Facing divorce, a woman reevaluates her life.
Memoir Of A Snail
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Adam Elliot; Writer: Adam Eliot; Stars: Voiced by, Sarah Snook, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tony Armstrong, Dominique Pinon, Eric Bana, Nick Cave)
A woman recalls the series of unfortunate events that have made up her life so far.
Mexico 86
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: César Díaz; Writer: César Díaz; Stars: Bérénice Béjo, Matheo Labbé, Leonardo Ortizgris, Julieta Egurrola)
A woman tries to juggle being a revolutionary with motherhood.
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point and Girls Will Be Girls
Misericordia
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Alain Guiraudie; Writer: Alain Guiraudie; Stars: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, David Ayala, Jacques Develay, Sébastien Faglain, Salomé Lopes)
A stranger’s appearance exposes the weird behaviour and the secret desires of a village's residents.
Most People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren más personas)
(Country: Argentina, Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2024; Director: Iair Said; Stars: Antonia Zegers, Iair Said, Rita Cortese)
A young man returns to Buenos Aires only to discover his mum is about to turn off the life support of his father, who has been in a persitent vegetative state for two years.
My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)
(Country: Iran, France, Sweden, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha; Writer: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha; Stars: Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi)
A 70-year-old decides to break her solitary routine and revitalise her love life.
The New Year That Never Came
(Country: Romania; Year: 2024; Director: Bogdan Muresanu; Writer: Bogdan Muresanu; Stars: Adrian Vancica, Nicoleta Hâncu, Emilia Dobrin, Iulian Postelnicu, Manuela Harabor, Victoria Raileanu, Razvan Vasilescu, Mihai Calin, Gabriel Spahiu, Ioana Flora, Elvira Deatcu, Nicodim Ungureanu, Vlad Ionut Popescu, Andrei Miercure, Marian Râlea)
Six seemingly disconnected lives intersect in unexpected ways as Romania stands on the brink of resolution.
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
(Country: UK, Zambia, Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Rungano Nyoni; Writer: Rungano Nyoni)
Comedy family drama.
The Sparrow In The Chimney and Three Days Of Fish
Pooja, Sir
(Country: Nepal, United States, Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Deepak Rauniyar; Writer: Deepak Rauniyar, David Barker, Asha Magrati; Stars: Asha Magrati, Nikita Chandak, Dayahang Rai, Aarti Mandal, Reecha Sharma, Bijay Baral, Ghanashyam Mishra, Gaumaya Gurung, Pashupati Rai, Niraj Shrestha, Parmeshwor Kumar Jha)
When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, compelling her to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman.
Queens Of Drama (Les Reines du drame)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Alexis Langlois; Writer: Carlotta Coco, Thomas Colineau, Alexis Langlois; Stars: Asia Argento, Alma Jodorowsky, Thomas Poitevin, Bilal Hassani, Louiza Aura, Raya Martigny, Jean-Biche, Drag Couenne, Nana Benamer, Dustin Muchuvitz, Julia Fiquet, Gio Ventura, Elodie Barthels)
2055. Steevyshady, an overly botoxed Youtuber tells their idol’s mad destiny: we follow pop diva singer Mimi Madamour from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a downfall brought about by her love story with punk icon Billie Kohler. For half a century these drama queens have sung their passion and their rage high upon a stage.
Santosh
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Sandhya Suri; Writer: Sandhya Suri; Stars: Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Bishnoi)
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Sasquatch Sunset
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner; Writer: David Zellner; Stars: Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek)
A year in the life of a singular family.
Sebastian
(Country: UK, Finland, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Mikko Makela; Writer: Mikko Makela; Stars: Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Leanne Best, Dylan Brady, Charlotte Harwood, Fleur Keith, Akbar Kurtha, Marcus Macleod, Laurent Maria, Pedro Minas, Matthias Moret, David Nellist)
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
Santosh and Handling The Undead
Simon Of The Mountain (Simon de la montaña)
(Country: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay; Year: 2024; Director: Federico Luis; Writer: Tomas Murphy, Federico Luis, Agustín Toscano; Stars: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuen Pedre, Kiara Supini)
Simon is 21 years old. He introduces himself as a mover's helper. He claims not to know how to cook or clean the bathroom, but he does know how to make a bed. Recently, he seems to have become a different person…
Souleymane's Story (L’Histoire de Souleymane, The Story of Souleymane)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Boris Lojkine; Writer: Boris Lojkine, Delphine Agut; Stars: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow
Emmanuel Yovanie, Younoussa Diallo)
Two days in the life of a bike delivery guy who is trying to get asylum.
The Sparrow In The Chimney (Der Spatz Im Kamin)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2024; Director: Ramon Zürcher; Writer: Ramon Zürcher; Stars: Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Luise Heyer, Andreas Döhler, Lea Zoe Voss, Milian Zerzawy, Ilja Bultmann, Paula Schindler, Luana Greco)
A family gathering is triggering for everyone.
The Strangers' Case
(Country: Jordan; Year: 2024; Director: Brandt Andersen; Writer: Brandt Andersen; Stars: Omar Sy, Jason Beghe, Angeliki Papoulia, Yasmine Al Massri, Saleh Bakri, Yahya Mahayni, Baeyen Hoffman, Yumna Marwan, Ziad Bakri, Jay Abdo, Vicky Papadopoulou, Constantine Markoulakis, Thanos Tokakis, Ayman Samman, Grigoria Metheniti)
Tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo. This triggers a chain reaction of events involving five different families in four different countries.
Super Happy Forever
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kohei Igarashi)
It's summertime. Sano, whose wife Nagi died recently, is staying at a seaside hotel in Atami with Miyata, his best friend. Overcome by grief and nostalgia for the place, strangely, he starts looking for a red cap that Nagi had once misplaced. Five years earlier. Nagi, a young photographer on a sightseeing trip to the same hotel, meets Sano. As the days go by, they grow closer and fall in love. Before leaving, Sano gives her a red cap.
Memoir Of A Snail and Dog On Trial
Swimming Home
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2024; Director: Justin Anderson; Writer: Justin Anderson, Deborah Levy; Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott, Ariane Labed, Nadine Labaki, Freya Hannan-Mills, Tzef Montana, Michalis Goumas)
The presence of a mysterious houseguest exposes subtle fractures in the marriage between a poet and a war correspondent.
Three Days Of Fish
(Country: Netherlands, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Peter Hoogendoorn; Writer: Peter Hoogendoorn; Stars: Ton Kas, Guido Pollemans, Neide dos Santos Silva, Adison dos Reis, Line Pillet, Julian Lima Mendes, Malaysia Petronilia, Anniek Pheifer, Tim Schmidt, Jeremy Luciana, Erik van Wegen, Roman van der Werff, Margo de Geest, Theo Wesselo, Peter Bolhuis)
Gerrie returns to The Netherlands for his annual health check-up, reuniting with his adult son, Dick, who longs to make the most of their brief time together.
Toxic
(Country: Lithuania; Year: 2024; Director: Saulė Bliuvaitė; Writer: Saulė Bliuvaitė; Stars: Vesta Matulytė, Eglė Gabrėnaitė, Ieva Rupeikaitė, Giedrius Savickas)
Two teenage girls, eager to escape from the bleakness of their industrial town, form an unexpected bond at a local modelling school that pushes their bodies to the limit.
Triumph
(Country: Bulgaria, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov; Writer: Kristina Grozeva, Decho Taralezhkov, Petar Valchanov; Stars: Maria Bakalova, Margita Gosheva, Julian Vergov)
Satire about a top-secret military operation to recruit psychics to find an alien object.
Who By Fire (Comme le Feu)
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2024; Director: Philippe Lesage; Writer: Philippe Lesage; Stars: Noah Parker, Arieh Worthalter, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Paul Ahmarani, Antoine Marchand-Gagnon, Sophie Desmarais, Guillaume Laurin, Carlo Harrietha, Irène Jacob, Laurent Lucas)
Seventeen-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max’s family to stay with them at the wilderness lodge of film director Blake Cadieux.
Queens Of Drama and Every You Every Me
The Wolves Always Come At Night
(Country: Australia, Mongolia, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Gabrielle Brady; Writer: Gabrielle Brady, Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg; Stars: Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg)
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