Festival Calendar

Amin Nawabi, a 36-year-old high-achieving academic, grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself. Retold through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Nawabi tells the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

Ultra-Orthodox women are forbidden to run for Israeli parliament. One woman is determined to change this historic ban. Fighting against her own community with her friends, brings a huge personal price, but Esty Shushan won't stop until she achieves equal rights for 600,000 women.

Nora is not sure how she is going to survive another summer at her family's coastal mansion in Spain. Her grandmother is unwell and her little sister is such a baby…. Hopefully Libertad will show up: She’s from Colombia and she knows how to handle boys. But she is also the maid's daughter. 

Edson Oda’s feature film debut follows Will, a reclusive man who conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born. He soon faces a challenge in the form of free-spirited Emma, a candidate unlike the others who forces him to reckon with his own tumultuous past.

Rory (Jude Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker, persuades his American wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), and their children, to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s horses and plans to build a stable. Soon, the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, and the couple is forced to face the unwelcome truths lying beneath the surface of their marriage.

The Guerrasio family gathers to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s eldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister, Chiara. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are in top form. However, everything changes the following day when the father disappears.

A young man who believes he has caused a fatal accident develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a policeman tries to resolve the investigation that will change his life forever.