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With his daring debut feature, ´All The Colours of the World Are Between Black and White´, Nigerian director Babatunde Apalowo manages to create an organic tale of forbidden love where a gaze speaks louder than words.
Rotterdam 2023 Review: ´Tage´
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Peter Schreiner´s video-diary style documentary is an astonishing ode to life in the face of mortality.
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With Blue Jean, director Georgia Oakley presents an authentic portrayal of a lesbian community in Thatcher´s Britain.
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A House in Jerusalem sheds light on the experiences of thousands of people who have had to flee their homes during and after the invasion of Palestine.
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Natalya Meshchaninova´s My Little Nighttime Secret is the brave autobiographical retelling of a girl´s need for escapism from her abusive household.
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VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
A young woman returns to the shelter she had lived in for fourteen years, to make a confession about her experiences in the underworld. This unleashes a great media spectacle around the dark activities some prominent figures engage in. However, in this socio-political drama, nothing is quite what it seems.
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Embuscade Films
Director Miryam Charles confronts a traumatic situation in this dreamlike retelling of past, present and future.
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Hucheng No.7 Films Ltd.
Chinese writer-director Li Ruijun presents a romance about two lost souls finding their purpose together in a film that’s destined to become a modern classic.
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LLC METRAFILMS
Convenience Store presents a bleak look at the difficult lives of Kazakh and Uzbek immigrants who are forced to perform illegal labor in Russia.
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Playtime
Two years after premiering his documentary ‘Irradiated’, Rithy Panh is back in Berlin to present another work that reflects on human atrocities and is bound to be just as divisive.
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