Cinematic Era: 2023 Vintage

After a media storm that turns her life upside down, a famous Hamburg lawyer takes on the defense of a young musician accused of infanticide.

David, an aspiring meteorologist, follows his late father's footsteps in the Swedish military. After stumbling upon what's left of his father's work, David sets off to a desert island in the Barents Sea - the one place which may hold the truth about his father's passing. Confronted by strange lights in the dark, eerie radio disturbances, and a hidden cave, David begins to question whether or not he's really alone on the island. Suddenly, a female voice calls out over the otherwise silent radio - a stranger trying to reach David. Little does he know, his search for truth is about to descend into a much larger conspiracy.

A 14-year-old girl's life turns upside down when she finds herself pregnant after being sexually abused. With the support of her family, she begins a battle in court for the right to abortion.

Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.

The eternal desire of a man to love a real and unique Woman paints different images in the imagination of screenwriter Ivan Gerasimov. From time to time he meets with the women of his dreams - a romantic young lady, a relaxed prostitute, a mysterious lady with a veil and - his wife - Ivan ceases to understand which of these women is reality, and which is only a figment of his imagination. In search of answers, he finds himself in the mystical station cafe Gendelyk. Thanks to the "accidental" meeting with Bartender and Sputnik, various emotional memories from life emerge in his memory: first love, funny oddities, moments of incredible happiness and unbearable suffering. These memories help Ivan understand himself and become free.

The Miracle, a place where the sun always shines, with endless opportunities to relax and food in abundance. It’s late already when Irma checks in at the resort. As she explores the area the next morning, she quickly comes to realise that everything there is designed to facilitate families. Irma fully immerses herself in the world of the all-inclusive resort. But how do you relate to a place that constantly confronts you with the things you don’t have?

Anna is 13, on the keyboard of the piano she should learn to play are her tricks stolen from her mother. Her meeting with Peppino and Mariuolo will make her to take the step that separates childhood from the future.

In 1889, Gustave Eiffel decides to attempt the impossible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris: to build the tallest tower in the world. Before this project, this pioneer and visionary had created more than 300 metal structures around the world.

Yukio Fujiki is a 91 years old prominent conservative figure in Yokohama, who organizes the distribution of the port and is well-connected with the people of the local political and business world. However, in 2019, Fujiki voiced his opposition to the administration's attempts to bring casinos to Yokohama and embarked on the last fight of his life to protect his own city from the expansion of the gambling industry.

Ashley sees strange things and receives a mysterious message that leads her to enter another world of both wonder and horror. She must find her way through a series of quadrants, battle her inner demons, and transform into who she is destined to become.

When no one care about native fruit anymore. Make all the god worried about this magic plant. “GOD of DURIAN” can’t just pass an eye and doing nothing. He trowed crystal ball to the human land and hopefully that who ever have that crystal ball will not disappoint him. Many years later… “Kan Yao” teenage boy who want to be a basketball player. But with abnormal symptoms make his hand has a thorns grow out sometime and he can’t control that. With encouragement from his childhood lover “SOM” make him fight for what he want. When “God of Durian” know, God promises to help Kan Yao control that thorns from his hand. Kan Yao so exiting about that. He ask “MHON” his high school basketball couch to help him get a team and train him for the match. Will he win the tournament? Or that thorns from his hand will make him in trouble again.

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered people for four days of learning and working in the forest. The observational film follows along as participants in the festival plant hundreds of fig, pawpaw, and persimmon saplings, give away fruit trees to neighbors of the forest, graft edible pears onto invasive trees, learn to mix herbal medicines, and restore an area of forest that had been recently disturbed by illegal demolition work.

A memoir celebrating yesteryears of cinema and how silver screen has evolved over the years, this documentary is ode to cinema by the audience, for the audience.

The two-hour special features once-in-a-lifetime collaborations, surprise appearances, music royalty from the star-studded two-day concert event celebrating Willie Nelson's milestone 90th Birthday (recorded live before a sold-out crowd at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California).

An ardent musical, emotional and sociological vindication of Mákina music, from its roots in the eclectic and avant-garde Valencian scene to its emergence in the 90's in Catalonia.

From laws on propaganda and extremism to forced "treatment for orientation"! Are we truly at this point in history? This is a collection of dramatic stories from people who have endured so-called conversion therapy. Pilgrimages to Iran, psychiatric hospitals, soul-saving Orthodox monasteries, prisons in the Caucasus, and even sessions of exorcising a jinn... The imagination of those convinced that sexual orientation can be "corrected" knows no bounds. But what are the consequences of this conviction, and how effective is corrective medicine?

Set in the 7th century, Kodhi, an young hot-blooded warrior from the Einar clan, believes that his birth is destined to free his fellows from the nomadic life that they lead and goes on an impossible mission, to revolt against and defeat the Pandiyan king Ranadheeran.

After his father passes away, Salah returns from America to receive his inheritance, and seeks to sell the property that includes a football club, which lands him in many unexpected situations.

A woman goes from dreams deeply to sunken worlds.

Tilda Swinton recites a poem by Claes Oldenburg.

Revealing the shocking rise and fall of Paolo Macchiarini, the superstar celebrity surgeon who ascended to global fame after performing the world's first synthetic organ transplant, only to be exposed as an international con man whose web of lies extends decades, ensnared many including those in his personal life and left a trail of devastated patients grappling with a nightmare.

Ana, a young filipina filmmaker, shoots a re-enactment of a fight she once had with her mother - a fight brought on by mutual refusals to communicate. Echoing the cultural pressure from her mother to work beyond her natural limits, Ana rewrites every single insult into a chance for forgiveness. As the story of her film diverges further and further from the memory of what happened, she questions whether her creative additions amount to yet another repression of the truth.

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Victoria falls in love with a girl with whom they cross paths. Judith finds something unique in her and they decide to create a relationship, although Victoria fears the conflict that will arise at home and its consequences.

A young woman finds herself at a crossroads as she spends an intimate weekend with a stranger she falls for on her bachelorette night.

The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then under Eva Rydberg. But 2023 was Eva's last summer in charge of the theatre and the end of this era is celebrated by this documentary.

Pregnant high school student Mira (17) agreed with Serpil (36) and Ayaz (40) to give her baby up for adoption. Mira comes to the family to spend the last days of her pregnancy. Since the couple Ayaz and Serpil lie to the people around them that Serpil is pregnant, the whole process is carried out secretly. But events develop that they did not plan, and now the three of them are left alone with a deep secret that they have to keep inside.

'Barely Breathing' is a dark comedy about Sai, who is guilted into moving in with his father and stepmother after an embarrassing autoerotic asphyxiation (AEA) accident. In order to get his dad off his back, Sai begins "hanging" with an AEA support group filled with lovable misfits - but humor can only hide so much. As Sai begins to get comfortable, the distance between him and his father grows deeper, forcing the family to cope with the loss of Sai's mother ten years prior.

We strive with unwavering determination to establish our foothold in this city, even amidst life’s adversities. We persevere, never uttering the word surrender. We may be supervisors, sons, fathers, husbands, but in order to excel in each role, we gather our emotions and steadfastly march forward, undeterred.

Qianqian feels that her father does everything for fame and reputation. Unexpectedly, her father suddenly dies of a heart attack. During the funeral, Qianqian travels back to before her father's death. She gets a new possibility to understand her father.

Shark filmmakers hunt for "Air Jaws" in New Zealands hidden "launch pad".

While the sport of boxing requires sacrifice, discipline, concentration, and determination for Manny Pacquiao, it was survival.

A young inexperienced postman receives letters from a mysterious woman.

Louis C.K.'s 10th stand-up special filmed in Hollywood at the Dolby Theatre.

10-year-old Ellie is fascinated by nature and birds, she spends her time reading about them. One day, a few miles from school, she goes onto a little island on the Loire River to take a bird book back to the library. It's an island full of birds.

A porn addict's life falls apart.

The lawyer Pio has the personality of an earthworm. The priest assigns him, as a driver, the rather prejudiced Amedeo, rough manners and unlikely clothes. The second will wake up the first.

A 25 years old young man Luthando Kalusha Ndalumba trying to fight for justice after his father’s death and rescuing his people from the oppressor who is his brother, Simba.

Ceramic dildos intended to go beyond cis-normative sex toys; the forbidden love of Josefa and Maria during the Inquisition; a singing narrator… Such are the elements that make up Dildotectonics. A masterful blend of time and place, this film gives free rein to a search for pleasure that is free from all normative constraints.

Bonnie, recovered from youth trauma during Hungry Ghost Festival, begins experiencing her uncle’s mysterious appearance, unannounced after closing business. Returning to her hometown, she realized her uncle has died and missed the last chance to be with him. After arguing with her father, attempt to leave the town has failed by Covid-19 lock down. Stranded in her family’s old coffee shop, she found out it’s haunted by her relatives returning for the Hungry Ghost Festival.

This film is an intimate and moving cinematic record of Shohei Ohtani's journey to MLB stardom. A faithful portrait of his talent development and battle with injuries, and his unique mindset to become a superstar ballplayer breaking all the barriers of race, language, discipline, and culture.

A group of friends have to clean up the house after a party sooner than expected; the problem is that Ulises, the host, is hungover and dead asleep.

Words of poetry spell certain death when a young woman grows increasingly distraught after a string of unusual murders take place.

She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her life during a vibrant time that kindles a yearning and provokes until today. The story of a woman’s meteoric fate and a great dream. An irrepressible desire for freedom in all its beauty and destructive force - and a stirring friendship and love.

Narrated by actor and Cubs fan Bob Odenkirk, the documentary explores the history of the ballpark and the unique aspects that make Wrigley Field the most unique setting in professional sports.

Two women meet for a first date. But unbeknownst to one of them, the other is a time traveler.

It's 1969. The American's have not landed on the moon yet and in Northern Ireland, political tensions are mounting. Noah, an idealistic inventor, has a unique yet naïve idea. He believes it will unite the country's battling factions in a shared dream of progress, putting an end to the growing violence. His plan is to convince politicians, money men, religious figureheads and paramilitaries to help him get Northern Ireland to the moon.

From the music of UK composer Nainita Desai, Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza crafts a story about a widowed mother who tries to reconcile two brothers feuding over a piece of disputed land in Mindanao. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

Zeki is a freerunner whose life is turned upside down when his father, the widower Mahir, decides to move from Rotterdam to Istanbul. While Mahir goes out to work, Zeki has to spend the summer holidays inside the posh gated community where they live. Escaping over the wall, Zeki befriends Kemal and other street kids, who are pickpockets. Trying to belong, he conceals how he lives in the gated community. As Kemal and Zeki get closer by the day, Kemal's best friend becomes jealous…

The Boston Pops performs Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert, prepared by the original creators Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty especially for the Pops. Based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime weaves together the stories of three intersecting groups in the U.S. in the early 20th century: Eastern European immigrants, the African American community in Harlem, and an upper-class white family. Together, they confront history's timeless tensions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair.

At the end of times a dysfunctional family takes a retreat into the woods to rekindle their bonds, only to discover a dark truth that lies within.