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- DirectorMaija HirvonenStarsApollo Service DogAida AJohanna Vuori-KarviaAida, a child on the autism spectrum, decides to fix the society's structures that hinder her studies with the help of her caregiver mother, Johanna. The determined child challenges the existing norms to advance acceptance and equality. Political influencing takes time and energy. Can the daughter-mother-duo change the society that only offers sympathy?
- DirectorJeanie FinlayStarsAubrey GordonMichael HobbesThe rise of Aubrey Gordon, from anonymous blogger to best selling author. Her aim? A paradigm shift in the way that we view fatness. A film about fat, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies
- DirectorEma Ryan YamazakiFollows students and their teachers for one year at a public school in Tokyo to unveil how they interact and shape one another.
- DirectorHrysa TzelepiIn an apartment in the center of Thessaloniki, Maria and her mother Vaya live together, struggling with the ravages of time and the loss of memory. Vaya's immersion in dementia turns their relationship into a daily ritual of care. A difficult daily life the two women face with humor and tenderness.
- DirectorAdrián SilvestreStarsAdrián SilvestreThe microcosm of family is a space where, as demonstrated time after time, the most unique, bizarre, unexpected stories can fit in. In May Your Will Be Done such a story includes filmmaker Adrián Silvestre's family story - adding a bunch of layers to its dynamic, despite none of them striving for sensationalism or emotional voyeurism. In the film's heart is Ricardo, a former bon-viveur pushing the boundaries of recklessness. After having suffered two strokes, and ending up ill and half-blind, he is now seeking euthanasia. However, before he dies, he wants to reconcile with his two sons because throughout the years he allowed their relationship to fade. Adrian decides to help him achieve it, capturing in the meantime the journey of different people towards a common place, and speaking emotionally yet humorously, and lightly yet profoundly about mistakes and forgiveness, the passing of the times, choices and their impact, as well as the unseen ties that bind together a family.
- DirectorStéphanie BarbeyLuc PeterYoung undocumented people in the USA are called Dreamers. Carlos is one of them.
- DirectorCatriona GallagherDaphne was a torso ending in leaves is a playful and witty ode to a star of classical mythology: Daphne. Here, the beautiful nymph, who was metamorphosed into a tree to escape a stalking God, is celebrated as a heroine and master of her destiny. But this cinematic gem, shot on 16mm is above all a rich filmic experience, in which images and sound are meticulously intertwined to immerse the spectator in a universe of myth and legend.
- DirectorAlisa KovalenkoSimon Lereng WilmontThe portrait of a strong 13-year-old gymnast from Ukraine taken at the beginning of the war. She discusses her love for the sport, her cherished family and friends, and the difficulties of leaving one's own country.
- DirectorLesia Diak11-year-old Olesia's new life in Belgium as she waits for her father's nightly call from back home in Ukraine.
- DirectorVania TurnerStarsSofia BekatorouAmalia ProvelengiouThe Olympian who pioneered Greece's MeToo movement inspires a younger athlete to break her own silence. In a milestone trial, Sofia stands with Amalia, who is seeking justice for the abuse she endured by her coach when she was a child.
- DirectorSævar GuðmundssonKreshnik JonuziStarsZach DokaKlaudia MollaAngela PukriFacing the aftermath of deportation, a family tries to reunite while the youngest son and daughter endure the emotional journey to adjust in a place they've never known as home.
- DirectorJeanne NouchiGeorge VarsimashviliSurvivors of the Abkhaz-Georgian war find themselves under pressure to leave the disused luxury hotel where they have lived for more than 30 years.
- DirectorDaniel RoherStarsAlexei NavalnyYulia NavalnayaChristo GrozevFollows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
- DirectorNeo SoraStarsRyuichi SakamotoRyuichi Sakamoto's last performance, a concert film featuring just him and his piano playing for the last time before passing away.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsLabros BatalasPeter BenosIoannis KlironomosA former tech executive gathers a team of software developers in the basement of an undisclosed location. They set out to build a digital advertising fraud operation. Within 12 weeks, they defraud a large number of high-profile advertisers, including the Trump campaign and a series of pro-Biden organizations during the 2020 US Presidential election. As the operation unfolds, we follow interviews about digital advertising, the Google-Facebook duopoly, and the known and lesser-known victims of ad fraud, like Uber and street vendor Nomfundo from South Africa. We also get to address the impact of ad fraud on the internet economy and our societies - and ask: is ad tech destroying democracy?
- DirectorSilje Evensmo JacobsenIn the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.
- DirectorCamilla MagidThree students on the precipice between childhood and adulthood are studying at Østerskov Boarding School, one of the most unique schools in the world; here, classes are conducted through role-playing games, and the students are taught to come to terms with the trauma and their fluid selves through masquerades and metamorphosis. For two school years, the film follows the girls and their highly emotional adventure through puberty, self-discovery, and maturity, illuminating with a sharp, intimate, humorous as well as poignant gaze, the chaos, the anguish, and the inexpressible joy of the first years of one's youth. Fighting Demons with Dragons is an homage to uniqueness and the off-kilter situation in which we all find ourselves, while the students' insightful commentary on notions such as normalcy and mental illness are formulated with disarming simplicity and striking in their aptness, in a film that speaks to everyone who has ever felt odd at some point or another in their lives - in other words, to everyone.
- DirectorNicole AlexandropoulouWhat does spirit mean? And how interested are scientists in building an artificial consciousness? We present the reflection of the Orthodox religion on the world of AI, the debate and controversies it raises, and the attempt to answer the most basic questions triggered by this technological development of AI.
- DirectorNikolas PottakisStarsLabros FisfisLambros Fisfis was planning to become the first Greek comedian to perform in a big stadium. Then hit the pandemic and he now has to perform in front of literally no audience. This is a story of persistence, overcoming the obstacles, struggle into the unknown and hope of maintaining the best in life, some company and a few good laughs.
- DirectorThanasis KafetzisDimitris ZahosStarsEleni DimopoulouLoxandra LoukasLoxandra, a girl with Down syndrome, is invited to participate in the new production at the main stage of the National Theatre of Greece. Her mother decides to accept the invitation for her daughter's own good. Loxandra will fight hard to meet the demands of the new reality. Will she make it?
- DirectorCara MonesCaroline SuhStarsMichael Ian BlackCara BuckleyLouis C.K.An examination of Louis C.K., who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017. They explore his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behavior.
- DirectorAlexis BloomSvetlana ZillStarsAnita PallenbergVolker SchlöndorffMetka KosakThis intimate documentary reveals the story of a fierce rock 'n' roller, actress, muse and mother who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanA 93-year-old director embeds inside a French restaurant that's held three Michelin stars for more than 50 years.
- DirectorLidia DudaAsia, Marek and their children created a paradise in the oldest forest of Europe, far away from the problems of today's world. One day, their lives are put to a severe test in the face of the growing humanitarian crisis on the EU border.
- DirectorAne-Martha Tamnes HansgårdA self-reflexive meta-documentary, DIAGNONSENSE begins with filmmaker Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgard who was diagnosed with multiple mental disorders over a fifteen-year period, and prescribed a staggering number of psychotropic medications. Ten years ago, she embarked on the first of many attempts to make a film about living with a mental disorder, but each effort was cut short due to new diagnoses, new medications, and new side effects. Now, having weaned herself off the drugs, and obtaining a critical distance from her diagnoses, she is ready to tell her story and to challenge the very need for psychological labeling.
- DirectorKalliopi LegakiStarsMaria KatsikadakouHow can a woman who experiences pain have the strength to provoke and fight for her place in society? Maria Cyber, a member of the LGBTQI+ community, succeeds in that, through her everyday fight for the right to diversity.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldRuhi HamidThe riveting, heroic story of young orphaned girls whose music school was closed after the Taliban took over Afghanistan as they escape to Portugal to try and rebuild their fractured lives and begin to play music again.
- DirectorMari Monrad VistvenTodd talks to his sister Stella about his worries and the fear of leaving kindergarten to start school. But Stella is too little to understand his complicated words. In Todd's eyes she seems carefree, but she soon misses him when he is not in kindergarten anymore. She wants to understand what he is talking about.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsQueen Máxima of the NetherlandsKing Willem-AlexanderMelanie HyamsThe past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.