Programme edition 2022
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? (热带往事)
Shipei Wen
The offender of a hit-and-run crime tries to learn and deal with the consequences in Chinese crime thriller Are You Lonesome Tonight?, a promising debut about guilt and penance, a heavy conscience and faltering memory.
B
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning)
Mia Hansen-Løve
In her eighth feature, Mia Hansen-Løve directs star Léa Seydoux towards a very sensitive portrait of a young mother and widow who begins a passionate relationship with an old friend while trying to cope with her father who has a neurodegenerative disease.
Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino
Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell star as sweet and tender young cannibal lovers in this finger-lickin-good 80s set road movie from Luca Guadagnino.
Boy from Heaven (ولد من الجنة)
Tarik Saleh
John le Carré is never far away in this political thriller about a venerable Islamic institution in Cairo where a young student loses his innocence with the snap of a finger. Boy from Heaven won the award for Best Screenplay in Cannes.
C
Corsage
Marie Kreutzer
Marie Kreutzer frees Empress Elisabeth of Austria literally and figuratively from her historical straightjacket in Corsage, which shows the oppressive life of an older Sisi.
D
Drii Winter (A Piece of Sky)
Michael Koch
In Drii Winter, Michael Koch swaps the metropolitan misery from his lauded debut Marija for an idyllic romance in the mountains. Or so it seems anyway.
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Klondike (Клондайк)
Maryna Er Gorbach
The impact of war on ordinary civilians is powerfully portrayed in Klondike, a look at life in Donbass in 2014, following the seizure of power by Russian-backed insurgents.
P
Pacifiction
Albert Serra
Albert Serra may be a provocateur, but in Pacifiction he enchants us all with a majestically mysterious film about a slick politician on a French Polynesian island.
S
Saint Omer
Alice Diop
Documentary filmmaker Alice Diop makes her fiction debut with Saint Omer. By far the most exciting courtroom drama in years.
Based on short stories by Murakami, this delightfully surreal animated film by composer-filmmaker Pierre Földes manages to perfectly capture the author's existentialism and humour.
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Tengo sueños eléctricos (I Have Electric Dreams)
Valentina Maurel
Director-screenwirter Valentina Maurel makes her debut with the feverish Tengo sueños eléctricos, in which a daughter and father can only cry out their fierce love for each other. The film won the prizes for best actor, actress and direction at the film festival of Locarno.
To the North (Spre Nord)
Mihai Mincan
A haunting thriller about stowaways hoping to find heaven in the United States but ending up in hell along the way. To the North pulls you to the edge of your seat.
Trenque Lauquen
Laura Citarella
One of Argentina's most intriguing filmmakers, Laura Citarella, enchants the viewer in her pageturner of a film that features a wandering female Sherlock Holmes.