Film Festivals 2020
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- DirectorAndrea SegreStarsElena AlmansiMaurizio CalligaroGigi DivariStuck in his hometown, Venice, during the pandemic, director Andrea Segre turns the camera on the frozen city, while reminiscing about his father, a scientist and chemist, and the past.
- DirectorAhmad BahramiStarsAli BagheriMahdie NassajFarrokh NematiLotfollah is a brick factory supervisor, acting as go-between for the workers and the boss. The boss wants to talk to the them about the shutdown of the factory. All matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar, the woman he loves, unharmed.
- DirectorIsmael El IrakiStarsKhansa BatmaAhmed HammoudSaid BeyIn hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. An unspoken trauma is their common history; rock n' roll their mutual saviour. Larsen's snakeskin-covered guitar and Rajae's liquid gold voice could be heaven, if only everything from his drug-induced visions to her music-buff pimp didn't get in the way. The only hope for their blooming romance is to skip this ferocious town. Is there a way out of this crazy Moroccan underworld with its menagerie of sadistic cops, venomous snakes, metal concerts and shotgun-wielding modern-day Calamity Janes? For these punk Romeo and Juliet, maybe the answer lies in a song - the one they've been writing and dreaming together : Zanka Contact
- DirectorArab NasserTarzan NasserStarsSalim DawHiam AbbassMaisa Abd ElhadiGaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
- DirectorMassimo D'AnolfiMartina ParentiThe story of the relationship between cinema and war, one that has lasted for over a century, from the time of their first encounter, way back in 1911, on the occasion of the Italian invasion of Libya, to our own day.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsNatalya TsvetkovaFilipp AvdeevYan TsapnikMany years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natasha returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.
- DirectorFlavia MastrellaAntonio RezzaStarsAntonio RezzaFrancesco ArtibaniMaurizio CataniaA hit man goes against traditions in this provocative, experimental work.
- DirectorPedro CollantesStarsMacarena GarcíaNacho SánchezIngrid García JonssonNoemí is a young actress who returns home after 6 years in New York for an audition that could change her career. During the first 24 hours back in Madrid, she has a series of encounters that teach her how to cherish the seasons of life.
- DirectorBraden KingStarsPhilip EttingerTess HarperArchie LewisAdaptation of Carter Sickels' 2012 novel.
- DirectorPilar PalomeroStarsAndrea FandosNatalia de MolinaZoé ArnaoCelia, an 11-year-old girl, studies at a convent school and lives with her mum, a 30-year-old widow. The arrival of a new classmate hurls Celia into adolescence.
- DirectorCathy BradyStarsNora-Jane NooneNika McGuiganKate DickieThe story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother's past, but they uncover secrets and resentments which have been deeply buried and now threaten to overwhelm them.
- DirectorJoão Paulo Miranda MariaStarsAntonio PitangaAna Flavia CavalcantiSam LouwyckCristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was "alive".
- DirectorYoon Dan-biStarsChoi Jung-unHeung-ju YangHyeon-yeong ParkTwo kids are moving to their grandfather's house, but everything is going to change when the aunt moves there too.
- DirectorKaveh MazaheriStarsSoosan ParvarMahdokht MolaeiSoroush SaeidiAkram and Azar two sister lie about the disappearance of their brother by telling everyone he has fled to Germany. In time this "lie" takes a life of its own and leads everyone to dark and mysterious places.
- DirectorArie EsiriChuko EsiriStarsJude AkuwudikeKemi Lala AkindojuKelechi UdegbeIn Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families.
- DirectorAlessandro GrandeStarsGinevra FrancesconiBarbara GiordanoCarmelo GiordanoRegina, a 15-year-old girl who lost her mother years earlier, dreams of becoming a singer. Her father, Luigi, her only family at that point, firmly believes in his daughter's talent and supports her unceasingly. After all, Luigi had given up his own musical career to be near his daughter. Their relationship seems rock-solid, indissoluble, until one day an unexpected event changes their lives..
- DirectorBeniamino CatenaStarsMarta GastiniMarcelo AlonsoPaolo PierobonThe life of an Italian 9 year old girl and of a Chilean man working in the Atakama desert bond together in a unpredictable and mysterious way known to time and space only.
- CreatorIsabel PeñaRodrigo SorogoyenStarsVicky LuengoRaúl ArévaloÁlex GarcíaA fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
- DirectorYoni GoldsteinMeredith ZielkeA Machine to Live In is a hybrid documentary linking the cosmic power structures of the state to the mystical architecture of cults and utopian cities in the remote hinterlands of Brazil.
- DirectorOlympe de G.StarsBrigitte LahaieAlexandra CismondiPhilippe SivyA 69-year-old woman who refuses to age in a society that doesn't take care of elderly people. She decides to plan for her death, including devoting the last year of her life to her last meal, last walk, and the last time she will have sex.
- DirectorGero von BoehmStarsHelmut NewtonSigourney WeaverGrace JonesThe trailblazing late photographer Helmut Newton had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.
- DirectorCecilia ManginiPaolo PisanelliStarsStéphane BatutCamille GendreauCecilia ManginiDuring the period that goes from 1945 to 1965, the filmmakers Lino Del Fra and Cecilia Mangini lived for three months in the Northern Vietnam during the USA war, in order to produce a documentary about the Vietnamese people. Now, two boxes full of 6x6 format photographic negative, forgotten inside an old closet for more than fifty years, have been found. The discovery has created a chamber movie that tells the story of a war, of a fading memory, and of a fight against time passing.
- DirectorMartín SappiaA life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. His works had no scripts and only existed in the fugacity of the moment. Jorge Bonino was an unclassifiable artist. He triumphed in all of Europe without a translator, he only used an invented language that everyone understood. An imaginary friend mapped the traces his body left in space through stories about a possible life.
- DirectorToni D'AngeloStarsMarco BocciBarbara BouchetAlessio BoniWhen 100 million euros disappear in a telematic fraud, and the prime suspect is Fernando Piazza's client, his name is set to be dangerously compromising. Especially if the frauded company is the 'ndrangheta mafia.
- DirectorGlenn BaritStarsIanna TaguinodLeomar BaloranJulian NaragDifferent students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.
- DirectorFrancesco LagiStarsAnna BellatoFrancesco ColellaSilvia D'AmicoThree siblings meet after a long time in their family house few days before Christmas because their mother wants to tell them one more thing before she dies. A young woman joins them by chance, she's a stranger but looks strangely familiar. Old spirits have been trapped in that house and in the siblings' hearts for a too long time.
- DirectorPablo MaquedaStarsWerner HerzogPablo MaquedaIn 1974 Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, an act of faith to prevent the death of his mentor Lotte Eisner. In 2020, a young filmmaker walks following Herzog's footprints in an act of love to one of the best filmmakers of our time. A journey through villages, nature, loneliness and cold, looking for the meaning of filmmaking. Including fragments of the book "Of Walking in Ice" by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog narrated by himself exclusively for the film.
- DirectorDiane Sara BouzgarrouThomas JenkoeStarsBrian RitchieIn Appalachian Kentucky, the uncertainty created by the loss of the coal industry inspires Brian Ritchie's poetry.
- DirectorLouis HendersonOlivier MarboeufStarsMackenson BijouDieuvela CherestalJames DesirisReflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture, follows a collective's process of translating Édouard Glissant's play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole.
- DirectorFernanda ValadezStarsMercedes HernándezDavid IllescasJuan Jesús VarelaA mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.