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- DirectorPiotr PawlusTomasz WolskiBombed-out streets, destroyed Russian tanks, evening meals in an Underground repurposed into a shelter. Image by image, the directors push beyond easily reproducible images of war to enter the reality the country has experienced since February 24, 2022.
- DirectorSepideh FarsiStarsMina KavaniHamidreza DjavdanParviz SayyadAfter an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. Fourteen-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is searching for his missing brother - and for an escape route out of the besieged city.
- DirectorAyse PolatStarsKatja BürkleAhmet VarliÇagla YurgaA German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
- DirectorGiacomo AbbruzzeseStarsMorr NdiayeWahab OladitiSalem KisitaAfter a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
- StarsHai-QingChen ZhangDong BaoshiA taxi driver's murder case from many years back is unearthed.
- DirectorRoman LiubyiStarsAnastasiia AnykevychBridget FiskeSofiya GakhAn investigation into the circumstances surrounding the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsNanoka HaraHokuto MatsumuraEri FukatsuA modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
- DirectorStephen VuilleminStarsNaomi ChristieAngela ClerkinFreida SiddallA young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. A stranger with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: "Why?"
- DirectorNoel KeserwanyMichelle KeserwanyStarsNoel KeserwanyMasa ZaherAsma and Sarah, two women originally from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant in the city of Lyon in France. Both bear the weight of a home they were forced to leave behind. Initially wary of each other, they gradually discover a common thread that binds them - one that dates back to when the Silk Road connected Lyon to their home countries. In the midst of forced migrations, can we move past our animosity to find solace in each other?
- DirectorNatalie Cubides-BradyStarsAerynne EastwoodIn 1952, London was engulfed in the Great Smog. As a result of industrialisation, a leaden fog settled over the entire city. The archive images from this period become letters from a desolate future.
- DirectorKantarama GahigiriStarsCheryl IshejaTechnology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyYevhen TitarenkoOn February 24, 2022, Yevhen, together with his friends, volunteered to join the first aid squad on the front line. They provided life-saving support and evacuation of the wounded. This film reveals the experiences of these young men for six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love, and, most importantly, faith in victory.
- DirectorJian LiuStarsZijian DongDongyu ZhouXu ChangchuSet in China in the 1990s, takes a look at youth featuring a group of art students.
- DirectorChristoph HochhäuslerStarsTimocin ZieglerThea EhreMichael SiderisFollows an undercover investigator infiltrating the world of a trans woman who has links to a major drug dealer and with whom he was in love under her former identity.
- DirectorCeline SongStarsGreta LeeTeo YooJohn MagaroNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
- DirectorNenad Cicin-SainStarsChristiane AmanpourBill ClintonMuhamed SacirbeyBesieged Sarajevans find hope in underground art and music. U2 supports them amid crisis. Culminates in post-war unification concert.
- DirectorRebecca MillerStarsPeter DinklageAnne HathawayMarisa TomeiA composer who suffers writer's block rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand.
- DirectorAaron KaufmanSean PennStarsVolodymyr ZelenskyyAndrii YermakSteven PiferFollows the events happening in Ukraine and the truth about Russia's invasion of the country.
- DirectorBrandon CronenbergStarsAlexander SkarsgårdMia GothCleopatra ColemanJames and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
- DirectorDanny PhilippouMichael PhilippouStarsAri McCarthyHamish PhillipsKit Erhart-BruceWhen a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
- StarsEili HarboeFredrik Stenberg Ditlev-SimonsenIngrid GiæverWhen a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? A pitch-black, keenly observed satire about an all-too-near future.
- StarsAlexander KarimCécile de FranceLeonie BeneschEcological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth.
- DirectorNadia ParfanStarsDiana BergOlena TigerMaksym VolynetsKyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this film captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.
- DirectorAnthony LapiaStarsLouise ChevillotteMajd MastouraNatalia WiszniewskaA club in Paris. Driving techno beats sweep everyone away. People dance, consume and talk. Félicie meets Saïd and takes him to her place for an afterparty. On the cusp between night and day, different lives and views collide.
- DirectorPatric ChihaStarsAnaïs DemoustierTom MercierBéatrice DalleFor 25 years, in an enormous nightclub, a man and a woman watch and wait for an unknown event. From 1979 to 2004, we follow the evolution of disco to techno music, the story of a love, the story of an obsession.
- DirectorVasilis KatsoupisStarsWillem DafoeGene BervoetsEliza StuyckNemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and ingenuity to survive.
- DirectorTonya NoyabrovaStarsKaryna KhymchukMaksim MikhaylichenkoNatalia LazebnikovaKira is living her life with the teenage confidence that the world revolves around her. Born and raised in the late Soviet Ukraine, she sees her life predictable and clear. But it doesn't last long.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsRégis LarocheAnnkristMarie LoustalotA retired army man lives in the Temple Woods housing project outside Paris, where his young neighbor belongs to a local gang about to rob the convoy of an Arab prince.
- DirectorKilian Armando FriedrichTizian Stromp ZargariStarsJérome BienmontVincent JouetMarie-Lore WalterFollows the lives of French workers who clean nuclear reactors. They are highly exposed to radiation and travel from one nuclear power plant to another in caravans, risking their health in the name of the future.
- DirectorRay AshleyMorris EngelRuth OrkinStarsRichard BrewsterWinifred CushingJay WilliamsA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsLevy Rico ArcosRiad ChemaliRafael Luis Klein-HeßlingThe four Friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between Drugs, Gangs, Rap, Violence and Boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain Plan.