Festival Calendar

A childless young ultraorthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and faith. 

Edina, a female bodybuilder, is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer, Adam: to win the world championship. The expensive steroids and supplements force Edina to take a side gig as an escort. New ways of desire make her see the difference between her dreams and her true self. 

Ten years after AMERICAN DUST, French filmmaker, Arnaud des Pallières brought AMERICAN JOURNAL to this year's Berlin Festival. The new film continues the colorful and historic style of his previous work as a cinematic essay - an interwoven tapestry of various private and anonymous archival material and intertitles reflecting thoughtful speculation and extraordinary poetry.

Eliu, a country boy, is incarcerated in an experimental institution for young offenders, deep in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same center bringing with him the past that Eliu is trying to escape.

A thrilling documentary portrait of famed composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Using the maestro’s own voice and incredible visual language, the film follows Leonard Bernstein’s intimate, complicated, heartbreaking, and passionate life story with the ultimate goal of trying to inspire us viewers to create change today’s society.

At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond.  In order to stop zoo’s privatization process, they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, and fake its escape. They set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control.

Sanghyeon struggles with debt. Dongsu works at a Baby Box facility – an organization that provides temporary shelter for infants. One rainy night, they steal one of the babies left in the Baby Box, and attempt sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives are watching, and they quietly track them down to capture crucial evidence.