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.
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The Cathedral
Ricky D'Ambrose
Based on director Ricky D'Ambrose's personal childhood memories, the fictional The Cathedral observes the growth of its protagonist and the gradual cracks in his family in an un-American way.
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Falcon Lake (13+)
Charlotte Le Bon
Part summer idyll about first love, part ghostly youth film, the directorial debut of Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon is an equally sweet and unheimlich story about the emotional growing pains of young adolescents.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (다섯 번째 흉추)
Park Sye-young
Possibly the strangest film of Film Fest Gent 2022, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra follows the journey of a mattress fungus in search of love ... This sparkling, restless and unexpectedly wholesome debut is guaranteed to grow a cult following.
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A Human Position
Anders Emblem
In a society where happiness suddenly becomes precarious, a young woman searches for her purpose as a journalist and her place as a human being. Apparent simplicity graces this Norwegian summer portrait.
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Joyland
Saim Sadiq
The first Pakistani film ever to be screened in the Official Selection of Cannes, Saim Sadiq's debut Joyland is about a man who falls in love with a trans woman.
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Knor (6+) (Oink)
Mascha Halberstad
Mascha Halberstad's first stop-motion feature – the first ever from the Netherlands – contains as much charm as silicone poo, and puts an innocent piglet in the midst of a sausage competition. After Babe, Piglet and Gunda ... Meet Oink.
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Next Sohee (다음 소희)
July Jung
Next Sohee is a powerful indictment of exploitation in Korean workplaces, where numbers matter more than people. July Jung's sophomore feature is a haunting but empathetic plea for change.
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Piaffe
Ann Oren
Piaffe is the liberating story of a complex sexuality. A sensual mix of Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy with a touch of 'bio-eroticism'. Queer, kinky and fascinating.
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The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin)
Colm Bairéad
For his debut The Quiet Girl, Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad moulds a short story by Caire Keegan into a tender coming-of-age film.
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Roomies 1 - Kartonnen Dozen
Kato De Boeck, Flo Van Deuren
Roomies 2 - Flipper
Kato De Boeck, Flo Van Deuren
Roomies 3 - Glitterkop
Kato De Boeck, Flo Van Deuren
Roomies 4 - St. Jozef
Kato De Boeck, Flo Van Deuren
Roomies 5 - Les Filles
Kato De Boeck, Flo Van DeurenS
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.
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War Pony
Gina Gammell, Riley Keough
In their Cannes award-winning directorial debut War Pony, Gina Gammell and Riley Keough take an honest and tender look at the hard lives of two young Native Americans.