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Paris, 13th District

Dir.: Jacques Audiard
| 104 minutes

Palme D'Or winner Jacques Audiard (RUST AND BONE, DHEEPAN) returns with an adaptation of KILLING AND DYING, the graphic novel by Adrian Tomine, a modern tale of love and friendship, co-written with Léa Mysius and Céline Sciamma and filmed in a sumptuous black and white.

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Dir.: Reouth Keren
| 11 minutes

The video was created as a response to the rise of COVID-19 worldwide, and the emergence of lockdown policies. It portrays one’s failure of escaping the hold of the social structure, in an era of surveillance capitalism. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2021

Petrov's Flu

Dir.: Kirill Serebrennikov
| 145 minutes

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality. The latest film by Kirill Serebrennikov (LETO), which premiered at the Cannes Official Competition.

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Dir.: Nine Antico
| 86 minutes

Sophie, 26, just found out she landed that job with a famous Parisian publisher. Her dream? Not exactly: she would rather see her own graphic work printed…. When she tells her boyfriend Jean that she is pregnant, everything explodes. They break up and she must return to waiting tables like her friend Julia, an aspiring actress. 

Public Storage

Dir.: Elizabeth Levin
| 11 minutes

The film investigates three generations of women in search of their identity within the context of their shared family history. Beginning with a confidential adoption in 1927, the film traces key traumas that each woman encountered. The narrative is built upon bureaucratic documents and personal letters set against the backdrop of eighty years of family photographs mixed with paintings and stills taken by the artist, inspired by these images. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2021

Razzouk Tattoo

Dir.: Orit Ofir Ronell
| 68 minutes

Wassim Razzouk, the sole heir of 500-year lineage of Coptic Christians tattoo artists from Jerusalem, sets out to complete his collection of ancient wooden stencils before they are lost forever. during his journey he discovers that his family is hiding not only stencils, but haunting secrets.

The Reason Why

Dir.: Julie Shles
| 95 minutes

Suleiman El-Abid was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the rape and murder of Hanit Kikos, based on his confession alone. A few days after reenacting the crime he retracted his confession and has been claiming innocence ever since. Did he receive a fair trial or did the justice systems incriminate him to whitewash their own failures?

The Return: Life After Isis

Dir.: Alba Sotorra Clua
| 89 minutes

We enter the Roj prison camp in Syria, which holds families of ISIS fighters. Among them, British recruit Shamima Begum, who fled London when she was 15, and Hoda Muthana, from the USA, who allegedly incited her followers on Twitter. Universally reviled by the media, they now tell their stories for the very first time.

Rifkin’s Festival

Dir.: Woody Allen
| 91 minutes

An American couple attend the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught in the magic of the Festival, Spain’s beauty and charm, and the fantasy of the movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, while he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman.

The Rossellinis

Dir.: Alessandro Rossellini
| 90 minutes

Roberto Rossellini, Italian neorealism’s legendary film director, was the head of a large family now dispersed across the globe. Alessandro Rossellini, the eldest grandson, brings his family together in a witty portrayal of their bittersweet lives, dominated by the master’s charismatic and forceful presence. 

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The Royal Game

Dir.: Philipp Stölzl
| 90 minutes

1938. While Nazi troops march into Vienna, Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA but is arrested by the Gestapo. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on a course to overcome his mental suffering.

Runaway Train

Dir.: Andrei Konchalovsky
| 111 minutes

Manny (Jon Voight) is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck (Eric Roberts), makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train, they head for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves speeding towards certain disaster. Presented together with Barfly Prior to the screening, a panel discussion with Quentin Tarantino

Ruso

Dir.: Eti Tsicko
| 18 minutes

Ruso, a migrant worker from Georgia, begins another cleaning shift at the University. She keeps her head down, does her job as required, and passes the shift on phone calls with her son. Usually no one notices her. Not today. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 2

Shabbat

Dir.: Tal Comay
| 10 minutes

When Aya misses the last bus out of Jerusalem, she realizes she is stuck for the weekend. She settles into a mundane routine of binge watching, until a call from a classmate transforms the blah into something different. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 4

Shake Your Cares Away

Dir.: Tom Shoval
| 98 minutes

Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma, a young widow bears a restless urge to help people in need. Her unconventional methods of philanthropy will take her on a journey of self-discovery.

Should the Wind Drop

Dir.: Nora Martirosyan
| 100 minutes

Alain is an international auditor who arrives at the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus to green light its eventual reopening. Through Edgar, a local boy running a make-shift business in the airport, Alain will risk everything to facilitate the opening of this isolated territory.

Solaris

Dir.: Andrei Tarkovsky
| 165 minutes

SOLARIS is based on a novel by renowned Polish writer Stanisław Lem, the subject of a tribute at this year’s JFF. The film follows a group of Cosmonauts sent to explore a strange planet made of liquid gas that has leaked into our solar system. A newly restored print. 

The Souvenir Part II

Dir.: Joanna Hogg
| 106 minutes

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught feelings in the making of her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. 

Speer Goes to Hollywood

Dir.: Vanessa Lapa
| 97 minutes

The implausible second career of Albert Speer: How did a man in charge of 12 million slaves become “the good Nazi”? A cautionary tale about his 1971 attempt to whitewash his past with a Hollywood adaptation of his memoir, "Inside the Third Reich.” 

Story of a Love Affair

Dir.: Michelangelo Antonioni
| 98 minutes

Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature film is a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishingly formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that would later make him legendary in films like IL GRIDO, L'AVVENTURA, and BLOW-UP.