Cinematic Era: 2021 Vintage

A deranged ex-con seeks revenge after his screenplay has been stolen.

Through a static or perpetually moving camera, voiceovers, a black screen, or silent or talkative images, life, death, change—in a word, transformation—are constantly present. Ganga Narayana means, in Sanskrit, ‘moving waters of the Ganges’.

One day, a 17-year-old boy finds a "cup phone" pointing toward the unknown and ends up forming a relationship with a mysterious girl.

Anton is, or rather was, a famous theater actor, but cruel life began to put treacherous obstacles in his way. For example, a chair or a hole, which you idiots should try to overcome after fourteen beers. When the theater director fires him and his wife wants him out of the apartment, Anton takes fate into his own hands. And he starts drinking even more.

We have all dreamed of going where no man has gone before but that time is here and now. We are on the very edge of a new era in humanity. Within our lifetime, mankind will not only be journeying to other planets, we will be inhabiting them. Our ultra-high technology robots are even now walking upon the surface of Mars, sending back information and preparing the ground for our arrival. This is not science fiction, we are living the future now.

A low-class law student struggles against his destiny: failure. He has to study for an exam, and since he can't concentrate, he goes to the Cósmico bar with the idea of having coffee and focusing. After witnessing the breakup of the waitress with her boyfriend, the girl and the student are left alone at the bar.

Ami is an art student who lives with her ex-army grandpa. Contrary to Ami who’s trying to be mature, her grandpa goes into his second childhood because of progressive dementia. Eventually, their feelings meet in the middle.

The story revolves around seven-year-old Londri Mingolo's flight from the Congo to Germany and his problems settling into German society.

The life of the Schouten family revolves around tulips and top sport. Together they run a large international tulip company and children Irene and Simon skate at world top level. When mother Jolanda unexpectedly needs a lot of care and attention due to a brain haemorrhage, everything changes. How does the family relate to each other, skating and the company in this new situation?

In an elite college, Sarah invites a diverse group of female students to restart a powerful men’s club from centuries ago. Inspired to change the world, everyone signs up, only to discover the original members are joining them for dinner.

The routine of a sanitary-focused recluse is disrupted once a couple moves in across the street.

Benjamin lives his best life alone in his parents' 1970s-style home. This all changes when an astronaut appears in his backyard, and he receives a call instructing him to kill his new guest.

As we emerge from a global pandemic that has turned our world upside down, David Olusoga explores the hidden history of the nurses, doctors and health workers who, for more than 70 years, have been coming to Britain from overseas to serve in the NHS. Without them the NHS would have been in danger of collapse - not least during the current COVID crisis - but from the very start the story of this beloved British institution has been intertwined with one of the most divisive social and political issue of the age, immigration. The people who came to this country to work in the NHS have found themselves fighting battles they neither sought nor expected.

The film tells a series of hilarious romantic stories about the workplace collision between a cold-faced demon boss, He Zhizhou (Chen Ziyu), and a social animal girl, Shen Xi (Tan Yanyan), whose destinies are subtly changed by a chance encounter and assisted by their best friend, Doudou (Jin Jing)

A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.

In Petersburg during perestroika there are two people, Alya and Nika. She is a little funny Petersburg intellectual; he is a French architect. They cannot live without each other, but they cannot together, either in the ancient Lyon castle, or in her communal apartment inhabited by colorful neighbors. Next to Alya is her childhood friend - Mitya, whose love she does not notice. He uses Ali's ridiculous mistake and Niki's jealousy to separate them for years.

A week left before the Asteroid Sadness hit the earth, Jae-gui holds funeral for his dead wife Min-hee. Their daughter Seong-a refuses to take part, saying it’s no use doing a funeral before the apocalypse. However, Jae-gui roams around to find a mortician, funeral clothes and fruits for the funeral. The daughter tries to stop Jae-gui and some men raids the hall. Against all odds, Jae-gui carries on with the funeral and the hidden truth is revealed at the last moment. Min-hee and Jae-gui faces each other without secrets. With a smile in his face, Jae-gui thinks about feelings.

Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their married life. He is an intelligent constantly humiliated by the state, he also makes his own moonshine after work and silently envies his prosperous brother in law. She is the leader of the "Solidarity" union at work, with the need for freedom and a dream to get out of Poland. The real adventure for the family starts when they manage to get their dream orange Fiat 126p. Ela and Tadek discover their appetite for trading and trips abroad, and the growing Marta will fall in love for the first time.

Reese is a con artist from Manila who dreams of living like royalty. An opportunity arrives in the form of Princess Ulap, a runaway princess from the mysterious kingdom of Oro, who looks exactly like her. Switching places in exchange for gold, Reese flies to Ulap's kingdom where she meets Caleb, a young and determined reporter who is doing a documentary on the island of Oro. The road to happily ever after becomes bumpy when the man in search for truth begins to fall in love with the fake princess.

Daniel, a German teenager, is sent to a juvenile offender community in Greece, to serve his sentence. There, in an abandoned village of Evros river region, near the border with Turkey, he experiences never-felt-before emotions and is called to solve difficult dilemmas... His final decision will surprise everyone.

Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started torturing them. And they were raped them more than once and after the rape everyone was killed by cutting their throats.

The biggest boxing fight of 1960 takes an unexpected turn with the help of a powerful twin connection.

The dramatic story of the last king of Romania, King Mihai. A king who defied Hitler at a turning point in World War II, only to be dethroned and exiled from his homeland by Stalin-imposed communists. Documentary made in 2021, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of King Mihai!

Emkan is a 17-year-old teenager who has not seen his father for many years and his mother works late night in a factory. He has a small recording camera and he decides to make a film to give a twist to his routine life, however, he is not very proficient. He tries his best to achieve his goal…

When guests are stranded in a remote hotel during a windstorm, they find themselves at the mercy of an unknown killer determined to murder every last soul.

The story takes place at the time of the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, when Csákberény came under the terror of the imperial soldiers. Two priests from the village are arrested overnight for reading the Hungarian Declaration of Independence. Although the Austrian soldiers enjoy their power, they are unable to identify with the repression. The purpose of the trial of a military imprisonment court is to obtain a confession, to prove that a violation of sovereignty has been committed.

On a night out in Copenhagen, Louie has a mental breakdown and wakes up in a psychiatric ward. It's not the first time he has lost control but now his girlfriend Ville can't take it anymore.

Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close-by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for a monetised hospitality, picks fruits, herds sheep: anything that keep his foreign body busy. Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley the Nigerian don’t seem to have much in common. Except for the feeling of being thrown into the world, to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others.

Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm of worries and sorrow?

Thangamuthu, a farmer, loves his cattle the most, and leads a happy life with his wife Rasathi. But, an unfortunate incident turns their lives upside down.

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.

Dame Merry Berry knows a thing or two about cooking up a festive feast, and this year she is sharing her cooking skills with three novice cooks, cousins James, Jack and Leah, who want to throw a spectacular surprise feast for their respective mums and bring together their whole family for the first time in two years.

Through a series of vignettes, the often inexplicable behaviors of contemporary humans are observed and commented upon by a droll narrator. No matter how outlandish or senseless the action, one thing is certain: "It's Always Something."

“Pusha Pressa Phanda” is a dissection of freedom. Taking place in one day, the film follows street youth Mandisa as she struggles to obtain medication and sanitary pads for her sister who is under her care. Faced with numerous obstacles along the way, Mandisa represents the struggle inherently facing women in their relentless pursuit for survival.

Two friends Mike and Kwesi take a journey to Ghana to seek pastures new. While en-route to complete a lucrative land deal, they encounter an array of issues.

A portrait of the Panahi family's matriarch as the pandemic makes it more difficult for intergenerational connection.

“My mind is like someone emptied the junk drawer onto a trampoline.” From post-it notes to keys, pens, rubber bands, & receipts, the unorganized chaos of a junk drawer is the perfect representation of what goes on in the mind of someone with ADHD. In this profoundly personal mixed media experience inside the ADHD mind, Neurodivergent follows the filmmaker’s journey as she discovers her ADHD diagnosis during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. When she turns the camera on herself and her family to process what this diagnosis means, she also discovers why so many women with ADHD are undiagnosed and the dire consequences on their lives.

Roshan, the middle-aged man who loves acting, can't take his house and decides to play his role on the eve of the collapse of everything.

Police investigators of cases involving two or more prefectures.

Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.

The life and music of composer and activist Jeong Yul-Seong.

RPM music is a small shop in the centre of Newcastle selling vinyl records. Founded by former students, the shop has become a place for people with love of music to come, browse, chat and share their stories. These are some of them.

Eva is a young artist who smokes, drinks, occasionally takes drugs, parties and finds no creative inspiration. She also has a strange love affair with her mentor, her best friend is moving to Berlin, her pay check is three months late and above all so is her period. She realizes she needs to change her lifestyle and turns to a web browser for help. Bitch is a film about a period in life where you simply get stuck and do not know how to move on.

When a nuclear bomb detonates in the heart of Stockholm during class, four high school students are thrown into a shattered world. Trapped in the ruins of their school, they must put their differences aside and navigate the chaos of a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

A professional origamist hits a creative block in her work and becomes dangerously desperate to bring life back to her art.

After years of trying to start a family, Robert and Lauren Anderson are excited to be pregnant. They share the news with Robert's sister Grace who runs a small clinic with her husband Clint. Despite Grace's reassurances and motherly example, Lauren fears she can't maintain her athletic boutique and adequately raise a family. Modest success buoys her hopes, until the storms of life converge.

Sam Green's intimate portrait of Annea Lockwood shares with us a glimpse into the enthralling world of sound that she has been exploring and creating for many years. It is a touching and personal story of imagination and love.

Cookie manufacturer Bertram Dinkler with his old-fashioned know-it-all attitude triggers an unexpected fighting spirit not in the teenagers, but in single mother Stefanie Eckhoff. Stefanie challenges Bertram. She wants him to do a sports badge and try to do better than her. Right from the first training session, the rivals realize that they may have gone a little too far. Fortunately, their stubbornness helps both of them to unleash unexpected energy.

Dwindle is a film based on the story of Sogo and Buta, two friends who hijack a car and venture into cabbing and how their lives take a drastic turn when their path runs into assassins who have just kidnapped the state governor.

To find his long-lost mom, Ryo, a half-Thai-half Japanese, comes to Ayutthaya. During that he falls in love with Saisoi, but she is bought to be a slave wife of a lord. Not only the high royal rank he has, but also the magic. Ryo has learnt about magic for a while, he forms a group with friends to set Saisoi free from being a slave. However, his magic is not as strong as the magic of the lord. Ryo comes back again and never gives up helping the girl he loves and finds a chance to meet his mom.

These plays, all written by Tony and Pulitzer-winning playwright and Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts, share at least one thread: a world off-kilter. These gripping pieces create the opening landscape of this season and will mark a bridge between where we have been and where we are going.

Dog days of summer in a Kurdish city in Turkey, two unruly bright twins from a poor neighborhood are distracted by their daily routine and school duties, having an only goal in life: to dive into a proper swimming pool, one in particular, in the luxury site on their way to school. Between them and their dream, a boundary wall and behind it the stubborn and irreproachable watchmen who​‘​s​ everyday their laughing stock. They will start their little own class warfare.

A babysitter's phone sex is interrupted when she notices something unusual on the baby monitor.

In the neon-drenched near future, our anthropomorphic feline heroine Meow meets sleazy film producer Alan, who intends to have her at any cost. But his sadistic plans go bloodily awry...

In this warm-hearted puppet animation documentary, we get to know the filmmaker’s 54-year-old mother Maija through her phone calls. We see how she copes with the difficult things in her life, like alcoholism and autism, demanding family members, and various absurd situations that seem to follow her.