Festival Calendar

Film historian Alexander Horwath suspects that actor Henry Fonda’s view as the “conscience of the USA” doesn’t paint the full picture. It is the more convoluted paths of Fonda’s biography and how he played roles and embodied attitudes that truly interest Horwath.

Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer working for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the fresco of a generation.

Adi is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship ensues.

High school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realization that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. She has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab. The tensions of a polarized society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men. A story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

Berlin, 1942. While Hilde finds her place in the resistance group, she falls in love with Hans. When the Gestapo arrest members of the group in the autumn, Hilda is taken to prison but develops unexpected strength, giving birth to her son and keeping the memory of her beloved husband alive.

Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.

Nineteen-year-old Liane lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone,” she watches reality TV as her opportunity to be loved. Fate smiles upon her when she auditions for Miracle Island.

This is the story of a woman named Chiara. She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, who one summer when her own life is in turmoil, tells herself that she would prefer to live her father’s life.

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape from prison and together kidnap their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.