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belmonte

federico veiroj (Uruguay - Mexico - Spain)

Cast: Gonzalo Delgado, Olivia Molinaro Eijo, Tomás Wahrmann

Belmonte, interested in portraying the human being, their folds, their disproportion, is soon to put on a painting exhibition at the Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo, but he is more occupied with thoughts of the changes underway in his family: his ex-wife is pregnant by another man, and he realises that his daughter, Celeste, will spend less time with him when her little brother is born. Belmonte needs the bearings of being with his daughter, preparing her lunch, taking her to school and, above all, of starting to share with her his interior world without concealing his concerns, even if they are those of an adult.

Coincoin et les z'inhumains / Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

Bruno Dumont (France)

Cast: Alane Delhaye, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Lucy Caron

Quinquin is now a grown-up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Côte D'Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange magma is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very weirdly. Our two heroes, Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier, investigate these alien attacks. The Extra-Human invasion has begun.

DA XIANG XI DI ER ZUO / An Elephant Sitting Still

Hu BO (China)

Cast: Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yuwen, Liu Congxi

Four tragic destinies linked by a school accident: Bu, to protect a friend, pushes the school bully, Shuai, down the stairs; Ling, Bu’s classmate, wants to escape from her mother and her routine after being seduced by her teacher; Shuai’s older brother, Cheng, feels responsible for his best friend’s suicide and yearns to take revenge on Bu for his younger brother’s accident; and, finally, Mr. Wang, an enthusiastic pensioner who doesn’t want his son to put him into a home. The only way out for the protagonists seems to be to run away to the town of Manzhouli, where there is a sitting elephant that simply ignores the world. They only have 24 hours to solve their lives before the train starts moving...

Las hijas del fuego (The daughters of fire)

Albertina Carri (Argentina)

Cast: Disturbia Rocío, Mijal Katzowicz, Violeta Valiente, Rana Rzonscinsky, Canela M., Ivanna Colonna Olsen, Mar Morales, Carla Morales Ríos, Cristina Banegas, Érica Rivas

Three women meet by chance at the end of the world and set out on a polyamorous journey which will change them to the extent of returning them to their native city as different people. Subjects who suffer from the established order, from the irreversible nature of passion and from the Utopian approach of a single love, they are caught up in the search for new kinds of relationships, far from possession and pain as the unavoidable finality of love and obeying none of the rules. That’s how they become The Daughters of Fire: a band dedicated to accompanying other women in the search for their own erotica, for the way each one wants to be in a world ignorant of the voluptuousness of detachment.

Le livre d'image / The Image Book

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland - France)

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A tale in five chapters, like the five fingers on a hand.

Trote (Trot)

Xacio Baño (Spain - Lithuania)

Cast: María Vázquez, Celso Bugallo, Diego Anido, Tamara Canosa

Daughter. Sister. Carme lives in a mountain village in Galicia with her sick mother and her father Ramón, with whom she hardly speaks. She works in a bakery and feels the need to escape from this oppressive atmosphere, but circumstances always stop her from breaking free. From trotting. From running. Trote takes place during the weekend of the celebrated “Rapa das Bestas,” a symbol of the age-old struggle between man and horse. The village prepares for the celebration. Luis, Carme’s older brother, comes home for a few days with his wife María. Trote is the struggle between man and horse, between reason and instinct.

3 ROKH / Three Faces

JAFAR PANAHI (Iran)

Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei

Famous actress Behnaz Jafari can’t help but respond to the cry for help from a provincial girl whose family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran Conservatory. Behnaz decides to abandon a film shooting and turns to moviemaker Jafar Panahi to solve the mystery behind the young girl’s problems. They travel by car to the rural northwest of the country, where they meet the charming inhabitants of the budding actress’s mountain village. But the visitors soon discover that tradition is just as powerful as hospitality...
 

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El Ángel

Luis Ortega (Argentina - Spain)

Cast: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Mercedes Morán, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani, Cecilia Roth

Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling manifested itself: to be a thief. When he meets Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discoveries, love and crime. Killing is just a random offshoot of the violence, which continues to escalate until Carlitos is finally apprehended. Because of his angelic appearance, the press dubs Carlitos 'The Angel of Death'. Showered with attention because of his beauty, he becomes an overnight celebrity. Altogether, he is believed to have committed over forty thefts and eleven homicides. Today, after more than forty-five years in jail, Carlos Robledo Puch is the longest- serving prisoner in the history of Argentina.

Leto / Summer

Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia - France)

Cast: Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Filipp Avdeev

Leningrad, one summer in the early 1980s: the city’s rock scene is at its height. Vktor Stoï, a young musician who grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, T-Rex and David Bowie is trying to make a name for himself. The meeting with his idol Mike and his wife, the beautiful Natacha, will change his destiny. Together they will build a legend that will take them to eternity.  

Netemo Sametemo / Asako I & II

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)

Cast: Masahiro Higashide, Erika Karata, Koji Seto, Rio Yamashita, Sairi Itoh, Daichi Watanabe, Koji Nakamoto, Misako Tanaka

One day Asako's first love suddenly disappears. Two years later, she meets his perfect double.

Un día más con vida / Another Day of Life

RAÚL DE LA FUENTE, DAMIAN NENOW (Spain - Poland)

Cast: Carlota, Comande Farrusco

Kapuscinski is a Polish journalist, idealist and friend of lost causes. In 1975 he travels to Angola, last battlefield of the Cold War, a place where the wrong greeting can cost you your life. The African country and the people he meets on his adventure, such as the charismatic guerrilla fighter Carlota, will change him forever. The suicide journey to the heart of darkness turn the journalist into an author.

Zimna wojna / Cold War

Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland - France - UK)

Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc

Set against the background of the Cold War, a passionate love story between two people of different origins and temperaments who are fatally mismatched, and yet fatefully condemned to be together. Taking place in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, Cold War presents an impossible love story in impossible times.