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.
A French woman (Isabelle Hupert) in South Korea faces financial struggles and becomes a French teacher for two women. She finds solace by lying down on rocks and relying on rice liquor for comfort. The latest work by Korean master Hong Sangsoo.
Forty-year-old Cai has lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During one of her daughter’s basketball matches, she accidently injures an elderly woman. This trivial event becomes a catalyst for a life spinning out of control, as past events resurface while she moves into an unknown future.
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.
Elias (13) feels attracted to his new neighbor Alexander (14). Soon he realizes that he's truly in love for the first time. The interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers. Confused by his burgeoning feelings, Elias tries to sort out his inner chaos to prove that he is worth Alexander’s heart.
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.
Switzerland, 1939. Lubo is a nomad who is called up to the Swiss army to defend the country’s borders. Shortly afterwards, he finds out that his wife has died while attempting to stop the gendarmes from taking away their three small children. Lubo knows that he won’t rest until his children return.
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.
Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other's sides. Training at the motocross track is their way to beat boredom. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo's secret.
In the near future where Artificial Intelligence reigns supreme, human emotions have become a threat. To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis, her great love. But she is overcome by fear, and a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.
Emma loves Sammy who loves Cyril who loves him too. What could have been a romantic love triangle at the end of the last century, will be disrupted by the upcoming of AIDS. Expecting the worse, the destiny of each character takes an unexpected turn.
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.
The Opal Coast, northern France. In a quiet and picturesque fishing village, something finally happens: a special baby is born. A child so unique and peculiar that it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. Winner of the 2024 Berlinale Jury Prize.
A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.
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.
Elliott Labrant is advised by her future self not to fall in love. She is sure she can follow her own advice. That is, until she meets the boy her older self-warned her about.
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.
When Nina finds out that her son Lars has been injured in an accident at school, some troubling thoughts are awakened. Was Lars only a witness to a gruesome crime? Or did he actually participate in it? When a winter storm cuts the last connection to the mainland, a dangerous confrontation ensues.
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.
As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to the boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late-night drink turns into a bloody affair.
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.
The true story of Maria Leiko ̶ a famous actress who late in her career must decide between fame and love for her grandchild, between her ideals or the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
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.
Hamid is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer, whom he must confront. In this manhunt thriller inspired by true events, the past and present collide, exploring themes of justice and redemption.
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.
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city in order to reclaim what’s rightfully hers.