59th Thessaloniki IFF | Out of Competition - Open Horizons
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- DirectorSiew Hua YeoStarsPeter YuXiaoyi LiuYue GuoA lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
- DirectorDominga SotomayorStarsDemian HernándezAntar MachadoMagdalena TótoroDuring the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three teenagers face their first loves and fears.
- DirectorCamille Vidal-NaquetStarsFélix MaritaudFarid-Eric BernardNicolas DiblaLeo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here - longing for love. He doesn't know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
- DirectorAdina PintilieStarsLaura BensonTómas LemarquisChristian BayerleinTogether, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.
- DirectorMarkus SchleinzerStarsMakita SambaAlba RohrwacherLarisa FaberIn early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman.
- DirectorFederico VeirojStarsGonzalo DelgadoOlivia Molinaro EijoJeannette SauksteliskisA portrait of fatherhood in crisis, and the strength of a child.
- DirectorArantxa EchevarríaStarsZaira RomeroRosy RodríguezMoreno BorjaTwo young women come into conflict with the conservatism of their Romani community in Madrid when they fall in love.
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsEva MelanderEero MilonoffJörgen ThorssonA customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
- DirectorHagar Ben-AsherStarsJune CarrylMaya Lynne RobinsonJoy NashA group of women on death row face their final moments.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsViktor ZhustiXhevdet FerriNdriçim XhepaIn 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway prison in order to bring an important dissident back to the capital.
- DirectorAna KatzStarsMercedes MoránGustavo GarzónManuela Martínez MoránA recently separated Argentinian couple, along with their two teenage children, go on a family vacation to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
- DirectorGabriel AbrantesDaniel SchmidtStarsCarloto CottaCleo TavaresAnabela MoreiraA fallen soccer superstar vows to adopt a refugee child, while becoming the naive unwitting centerpiece in in a bizarre plot to Make Portugal Great Again.
- DirectorA.J. EdwardsStarsTye SheridanImogen PootsCaleb Landry JonesFresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.
- DirectorÁrpád BogdánStarsMilán CsordásAnna Marie CsehEniko Anna IllesiThe three stories within Genesis are rooted in the biblical notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her child is saved from the fate that she was forced to endure; a Roma boy's family are killed, and the perfect world of his childhood is destroyed. All three stories are based on real events that took place in Hungary: the Roma murders. The three protagonists are one way or another affected by these events, which change their lives fundamentally.
- DirectorSudabeh MortezaiStarsJoy AlphonsusMariam SanusiAngela EkelemeJoy, a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking, is instructed by her exploiter Madame to supervise Precious, a teenage girl who is not ready to accept her fate.
- DirectorBen WheatleyStarsNeil MaskellSura DohnkeMarvin MaskellColin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsAnna SlyuDenis VlasenkoDaniil SteklovYoung Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsRoman BilykIrina StarshenbaumTeo YooA love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.
- DirectorCarlos VermutStarsNajwa NimriEva LlorachCarme EliasWhen Lila, a celebrated but fame-weary and amnesiac singer forgets how to perform, super-fan Violeta steps in to teach Lila how to be Lila once again.
- DirectorAlejandro FadelStarsVíctor LópezEsteban BigliardiTania CascianiA rural police officer investigates a strange case in which a woman is found headless. The main suspect puts the blame on a legendary monster.
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsSamantha MugatsiaNeville MisatiNice Githinji"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
- DirectorVincent MarietteStarsLily-Rose DeppLaurent LafitteAloïse SauvageIt's summertime, and somewhere in the Dordogne, young people disappear and the wildest rumors circulate, such as a prowling feline. Laura seeks to elucidate the mystery and meets Paul, a stranger writer who attracts her as much as he frightens her. As they get closer, Laura's spurned former lover disappears.
- DirectorÁlvaro BrechnerStarsAntonio de la TorreChino DarínAlfonso Tort1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
- DirectorSameh ZoabiStarsKais NashifLubna AzabalYaniv BitonSalam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
- DirectorRomain GavrasStarsKarim LeklouIsabelle AdjaniVincent CasselA small-time dealer dreams of another life but can't afford it. To escape, he must accept one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.
- DirectorMikhaël HersStarsVincent LacosteIsaure MultrierStacy MartinAfter his sister is brutally killed, David finds himself in charge of his 7 year old niece, Amanda.
- DirectorTuva NovotnyStarsPia TjeltaAnders BaasmoPer FrischBLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
- DirectorDarya ZhukStarsAlina NasibullinaIvan MulinYura BorisovIn 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.
- DirectorKasper Rune LarsenStarsFrederikke Dahl HansenJonas Lindegaard JacobsenJacob SkyggebjergNorge, 22, is your typical slacker kid. He aimlessly wanders suburban blocks with a beer, a joint, and his only friend Myre. The two kids dream of moving to the big city and starting a music career. But everything changes when 16-year-old Josephine turns up claiming to be pregnant with his child.
- DirectorTarik AktasStarsSerkan AydinBaris BilgiÖmer BoraStep by step, Hay goes down an inevitable and spiritual path where he confronts the relationship between human and nature, the unity of matter and the living.
- DirectorBo HuStarsYu ZhangYuchang PengUvin WangFour people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
- DirectorMaría AlchéStarsMercedes MoránLaura López MoyanoFederico SackMarcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.
- DirectorSimon JaquemetStarsJudith HofmannNaomi ScheiberChristian KaiserRuth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions are threatened.
- DirectorAlejandra Márquez AbellaStarsIlse SalasFlavio MedinaCassandra CiangherottiA well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
- DirectorLi ChengStarsEnrique SalanicManolo HerreraAna Cecilia MotaJosé lives with his mother in Guatemala. It's a tough life in one of the most violent and religious countries. When he meets Luis, he's thrust into new-found passion and pain.
- DirectorShireen SenoStarsJana AgoncilloAngge SantosSid LuceroEight year-old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can "translate" the thoughts and feelings of nervous people.
- DirectorCrystal MoselleStarsRachelle VinbergDede LovelaceNina MoranA teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.
- DirectorChristina KallasStarsKevin KaneChristian CoulsonFrancis BenhamouThe story takes place in a high school where things spiral out of control when a terrible accident involving a science experiment injures a kid for life.
- DirectorDean KapsalisStarsAzura SkyeBryce PinkhamAshley BellA woman with a seemingly ideal life battles insomnia.
- DirectorMats GrorudStarsBellamine AbdelmalekDarina Al JoundiSaïd AmadisA young girl living in a Palestinian refugee camp learns about her family's history through stories told by three previous generations of refugees.
- DirectorSantiago CaicedoStarsMaría Cecilia SánchezMartina ToroAlejandra BorreroPaola is born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest, her mother is a "psychic" and her sisters are not what their parents expected. She is a young Latin American woman struggling for her independence in a hard context full of stereotypes and appearances not being able to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world this girl learns to live while she lives as she witnesses a series of small crises that shape her personality.
- DirectorRene EllerStarsAimé ClaeysTijmen GovaertsPauline CasteleynEight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.
- DirectorThomas LiltiStarsVincent LacosteWilliam LebghilMichel LerousseauFriendship sparks between newcomer Benjamin and held-back Antoine during the first year of medical school.
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsAndranic ManetDiane RouxelJenna ThiamEtienne comes to Paris from Lyon to study cinema, meets many new friends and falls under the thrall of the mysterious Mathias.
- DirectorKeith BehrmanStarsJosh WigginsDarren MannTaylor HicksonTwo popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
- DirectorAly MuritibaStarsGiovanni de LorenziTifanny DopkeEnrique DiazTati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cell phones, and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story, turns to an end.