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All the films of the festival, from A to Z

Just the Two of Us

Dir.: Valérie Donzelli
| 105 minutes

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and together they relocate. Away from her family and her twin sister, Blanche begins a new life. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man

The Kid with a Bike

Dir.: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
| 87 minutes

Cyril, soon to be twelve, has only one thing in mind: to find his father who temporarily put him in a children's home. By chance, he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her during the weekends. But Cyril doesn't see the love Samantha feels for him, a love which he desperately needs to calm his rage.

The Kiev Trial

Dir.: Sergei Loznitsa
| 106 minutes

The Kiev Trial took place in January 1946 and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. Using unique, previously unseen, archival footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses.

And the King Said, What A Fantastic Machine

Dir.: Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
| 88 minutes

The camera is a fantastic machine. Filmmakers Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck (TEN METER TOWER, JOBS FOR ALL!) turn their cameras directly on society once again, this time to explore, explain, and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has come to change our human behavior.

 

La Chimera

Dir.: Alice Rohrwacher
| 130 minutes

A young British archeologist becomes involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts. This new film by Alice Rohrwacher (HAPPY AS LAZZARO, THE WONDERS) premiered at the Cannes Official Competition to critical acclaim.

Animation

Land of Limpopo

Dir.: Gur Bentwich
| 21 minutes

A way overdue reconciliation between an enraged and confused young man and his father, a retired general and destined-to-be alcoholic, who is crashing on his son's balcony during the Gulf War.

Last Summer

Dir.: Catherine Breillat
| 104 minutes

Anne, a brilliant lawyer, lives in perfect harmony with her husband Pierre and their six and eight-year-old daughters. One day, Theo, 17, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, moves in with them. Anne is troubled by Theo and gradually engages in a passionate relationship with him, putting her career and family life in danger.

 

The Long Farewell

Dir.: Kira Muratova
| 97 minutes

Young Sacha dreams of escaping from the stifling grip of his mother whose husband has left. Sacha plans to join his father, an archaeologist working in the Caucasus. Kira Muratova’s film was made in 1971, but it was put on a shelf and was only released to the screens in 1987 during the period of Perestroika.

The Longest Goodbye

Dir.: Ido Mizrahy
| 87 minutes

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist is tasked with protecting these daring explorers. This new documentary by Ido Mizrahy premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.

 

Lorna's Silence

Dir.: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
| 105 minutes

Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. To do so, she has had to become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster. Fabio has set up a false marriage between Lorna and Claudy allowing Lorna to obtain her Belgian citizenship. She must now marry a Russian Mafioso who's ready to pay hard cash to get his hands on those vital Belgian identity papers. Fabio intends to kill Claudy to speed up the second marriage. But will Lorna remain silent?

 

Lost Country

Dir.: Vladimir Perišić
| 108 minutes

Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosević regime, 15-year-old Stefan has to endure the hardest revolution of all. He must confront his beloved mother - a spokesperson and accomplice of the corrupt government that his friends are rising against

The Lost Souls of Syria

Dir.: Stephane Malterre, Garance Le Caisne
| 99 minutes

In 2013, a Syrian official fled the country with 27,000 photos of corpses tortured to death in Syria’s prisons since 2011. One year later, the photos of the Caesar Report revealed the horror of the crimes of Bashar Al-Assad's regime to the world

Marguerite's Theorem

Dir.: Anna Novion
| 112 minutes

A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university, the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes the certainty in her planned-out life and she decides to quit everything and start afresh.

 

Mars Express

Dir.: Jérémie Périn
| 88 minutes

Aline Ruby, an obstinate private detective, and Carlos Rivera, an android replica of his deceased partner, throw themselves into a race against time across Mars. They must find Jon Chow, a simple cybernetics student, before he is caught and is killed.

Max My Love

Dir.: Nagisa Ôshima
| 98 minutes

Margaret, the wife of a British diplomat in Paris, is keeping a secret. She’s having an affair—with a chimpanzee. After her husband catches the two of them in flagrante delicto, he proposes that Max the chimp come live with them. One of Nagisa Ôshima’s later works, starring Charlotte Rampling and Anthony Higgins.

Merkel

Dir.: Eva Weber
| 94 minutes

Driven by extensive archival material and incisive interviews, MERKEL tells the astonishing story of how a triple political outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became Germany’s first female chancellor and the de facto leader of the free world.

Motherland

Dir.: Dylan Joseph
| 9 minutes

Moments from reality in a militaristic society.

Music

Dir.: Angela Schanelec
| 108 minutes

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated following a tragic accident. She seems to seek out his presence, cares for him, and connects with him through the language of music.

My Daughter. My Love

Dir.: Eitan Green
| 94 minutes

Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.