2021 D’A Film Festival
Movies from the 2021 D'A film festival, ranked.
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- DirectorEmmanuel MouretStarsCamélia JordanaNiels SchneiderVincent MacaigneWaiting for her boyfriend to join her on a country vacation, three months pregnant Daphne bonds with his cousin Maxime, and their shared intimacy brings them closer together into a full fledged love affair.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- DirectorAleem KhanStarsJoanna ScanlanNathalie RichardTalid ArissSet in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.
- DirectorSuzanne LindonStarsSuzanne LindonArnaud ValoisFrédéric PierrotA 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
- DirectorRodrigo FiallegaStarsIazua LariosAndrés AlmeidaMartijn KuiperMartijn lives on the outskirts of the city after his son was murdered. Estranged from his wife and diagnosed with a terminal disease, he discovers that his son's murderer will be released from jail, setting him on the trail of revenge.
- DirectorSol Berruezo Pichon-RivièreStarsAgustina MilsteinChloé CherchykCamila ZolezziA veil of sadness lies over the oppressively hot summer days. Cleo dives into daydreams with her cousins, the girls share secret signs and rituals. Flowing gently, in impressionistic images, the empty space that the death of Cleo's sister has left in the family is poetically encircled.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeDounia SichovSimon McBurneyAn exploration into the language of dreams.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyJekaterina OertelStarsNatalia BerezhnayaOlga ShkabarnyaVladimir AzhippoNatasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.
- DirectorJuan SchnitmanStarsJuan BarberiniNatalia TenaBella CameroFernando works in an oil tanker that connects two major Argentinian cities. He has a young girlfriend in one and a married lover in the other. As they both become pregnant, his life starts to disintegrate into obsession and violence.
- DirectorÁgnes KocsisStarsLana BaricDaan StuyvenLóránt Bocskor-SallóÉva is allergic to all kinds of chemical substances, air pollution, radio waves and electronic fields. She needs to live in total isolation and can have no contact with her environment. The slightest mistake may cause her death. Her only relations are with her brother and the doctors continuously experimenting on her. One day a psychiatrist comes to investigate if her illness is real or exists only in Éva's mind. Will love be enough to save her?
- DirectorFon CortizoStarsAreta BoladoOlga CameselleNoelia CastroSet on the seaside and inhabited by a young worker at the fish market, a quiet ship, and an improv band that looks for sounds of the past to reveal forgotten tales.
- DirectorAlejandro Guzmán AlvarezStarsFernando BonillaRaúl BrionesJosé Concepción MacíasA deceitful and unemployed 40-year-old man returns to the house of his mother, who has recently passed away, to spend time with his alcoholic father and with a strange monster that oozes skin pieces, employed as fabric on the family's tailor shop business.
- DirectorClaire OakleyStarsMolly WindsorJoseph QuinnStefanie MartiniOn a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into a mysterious obsession when she suspects her boyfriend has cheated on her.
- DirectorMarta Sousa RibeiroStarsSimon LangloisMariana AchegaRita MartinsInterspersed with North American images of homeless teens, the images shot between 2015 and 2019 show a child of separated parents grappling with a prickly sister and school exams he has not prepared for.
- DirectorDaria WoszekStarsGrazyna MisiorowskaHelena SujeckaSylwester PiechuraMary is just some lonely, small town grocery store worker, living a life free from sin. Struggling with menopause, she visits her doctor, who prescribes a course of hormone replacement therapy. On the eve of her 50th birthday, Mary's life begins to take a totally unexpected turn: it is freaking magical. As she starts to feel things differently, she begins to live more extravagantly. On top of this, her young, vivacious niece keeps showing up at her doorstep and affects Mary's sexual awakening. But there's something much darker bubbling beneath the surface. Meanwhile, a holy presence in Mary's home appears to silently judge her, which deepens the hero's uncertainty. This religious anxiety threatens to suppress her newfound lust for life. Mary must act if she is to keep the wickedness at bay.