A synesthetic experience that, between the story of a couple who broke up and a phone call to Fedex asking if they would transport people, meditates on what are the best methods of getting closer to those you love.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
Diana Lin (Lu Jian in The Farewell by Lulu Wang) is the protagonist of a dinner that is, at the same time, an unpleasant business meeting and an awkward family reunion. The latter is between the daughter who went to live in America and her father, mother (Lin) and brother.
A virtual journey through the dreams and desires of a group of queer teenagers from New York, a Generation Z that sees the world with different eyes and with hope for the future. A movie that illustrates the importance, and the power, of finding a community.
An extremely personal documentary in which Firouzeh Khosrovani intimately reveals the life and marriage of her parents, people who couldn’t be at more opposite poles regarding secularism and religious Islamic ideology. A story told through archival images, letters and conversations, in a radiography that goes beyond the particular to also illustrate conflicts at the heart of Iranian society.
The players of the Japanese women’s volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo were known as “The Witches of the Orient”. Even today, they maintain a record of 258 consecutive victories. Now in their seventies, they are reunited on a walk down memory lane, which includes an anime sequence and a playful look, full of pop culture references.
On the outskirts of Madrid, the land of La Cañada Real has been sold and the residents, who have built their houses from scratch, are forced to relocate. The Gabarre-Mendoza family prepares and tries to deal, each in its own way, with the transition, but fear and bureaucracy will not be easy to overcome.
With three generations living under the same roof, and in the claustrophobia of a small village in Kosovo, Venera is a teenager with little privacy or space to live her life and explore her emotions. The discreet camera work brings intimacy to a story where growing up means making choices.
From mountaineers to miners, and now ignorant, jobless hillbillies. This is how Brian Ritchie describes a generation of Appalachian people, embracing the stereotypes that are imputed to them, but also revealing a type of life in the mountains with a poetic charge difficult to catalog.
Shiva is a weeklong period of mourning for the Jewish religion and also an opportunity to honor those who have passed away as well as their family. This acerbic comedy puts a young Jewish woman in the thankless position of having to face the most claustrophobic shiva possible, where she finds herself confronted with an ex-girlfriend, a secret sugar daddy and multiple snooping relatives.
Koberidze’s camera brings poetry to the most everyday gestures, in an ode to love, football and cinema. In this film in the form of a modern folktale, two people fall in love in a classic meet cute moment, but find themselves cursed, condemned to not recognize each other.
A raw documentary about Delphine, a young Cameroonian woman who is carrying a suffering that has sprouted horns. Rosine Mbakam’s camera keeps its eye on Delphine, without looking away or illustrating what she expresses. Cameroonian-born and Belgium-based, Mbakam and her cinema, which has focused on the migrant experience, explore themes such as the weight and dominance of patriarchal societies over African women and the Western culture’s sexual, colonial exploitation.
Bariloche is a mecca in Patagonia, Argentina, for those who want to ski. But the gaze of the film is interested in contrasting tourists and Argentines, happy for the chance to take advantage of the white slopes, and the indigenous population that works so that others can enjoy the winter sport. There is an implicit exclusion and the film inhabits this dichotomy.
Ephraim Asili continues to explore the African diaspora, as well as his place and role in it. This marks his feature film debut with a meta-textual film, centered on a community of black artists and activists, in West Philadelphia, who want to create a collective. At the same time, it interweaves a remembrance of the MOVE liberation movement, bombed by the Philadelphia police in 1985.
Washing clothes, playing an instrument. Simple everyday gestures that are interrupted by the libidinous behavior of a washing machine.
Two minutes of a sidereal trip, in which colorful aliens of enigmatic origins (do they come from space or from the deepest ocean?) simply have fun together.
With one foot in the United States and the other in Kashmir, the film draws a line between the Kashmir-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, interviews with the director’s father and a letter to the leader of the Communist Party, Prabhakar Sanzgiri – also a relative.
C just wants to find a being with whom he can feel the tenderness of closeness and intimacy. In successive stages, C discovers the ups and downs of finding what he wants and then losing it. Between solitude and companionable touch.
With a theatrical staging, this film gives voice to 13 women who express – through facts, myths, opinions, humor – their views regarding the conditions that surround childbirth in French hospitals and the treatment of women in such a vulnerable moment.