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All the films of the festival, from A to Z

Divinity

Dir.: Eddie Alcazar
| 88 minutes

Set in an otherworldly human existence, two mysterious brothers abduct a mogul with the help of a seductive woman during their quest toward immortality.

Earth Mama

Dir.: Savanah Leaf
| 97 minutes

Gia is a young mother fighting for her children. Her son and daughter are in foster care, and now her unborn child could also be taken away. She embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family in this singular debut feature from filmmaker Savanah Leaf.

The Echo

Dir.: Tatiana Huezo
| 102 minutes

In the remote village of El Eco, children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness, and love with each act, word, and silence of their parents. Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the 2023 Berlinale.

Eureka

Dir.: Lisandro Alonso
| 146 minutes

Alaina is tired of being a police officer in the Pine Ridge Reservation and decides to stop answering her radio. Her niece Sadie spends a long night waiting for her, to no avail. Hurt, she decides to begin her journey with the help of her grandfather: She will fly through space and time to South America, she will stop watching old black and white westerns, and everything will change once she hears the dreams of other people, those who live in the forest.

Fancy Dance

Dir.: Erica Tremblay
| 90 minutes

Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping her family intact.

Femme

Dir.: Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
| 99 minutes

FEMME follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after the event, he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.

Live Action

Full of Light

Dir.: Rona Segal
| 12 minutes

Ravit is indecisive. Pathologically indecisive. Over the course of one humiliating afternoon, she tries her best to change.

The Future

Dir.: Noam Kaplan
| 80 minutes

Dr. Nurit Bloch is a world-renowned profiler. She is recruited by the Israeli Security Service to profile a young Palestinian woman named Yaffa from a village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, who assassinated the Israeli Minister of Space and Tourism.

GIADO – Holocaust in the Desert

Dir.: Golan Rise, Sharon Yaish
| 55 minutes

For seven decades, Yosef Dadush concealed a private diary, securely locked away in a closet at his home. Now, he grants us the precious opportunity to peer into the harrowing existence endured by the inmates of Giado - a concentration camp situated in the heart of the Libyan Desert.

GODARD BY GODARD

Dir.: Florence Platarets
| 60 minutes

GODARD BY GODARD is an archival portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly pursues his research, in a truly inexhaustible diversity of inspiration

Golda

Dir.: Guy Nattiv
| 100 minutes

Helen Mirren stars as Golda Meir in this impressive production by Academy-Award winner Guy Nattiv (SKIN), focusing on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Prime Minister Meir, also known as the Iron Lady of Israel, faced during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

A Haunted Home

Dir.: Lisa Peretz, Robby Elmaliah
| 55 minutes

We return to one of Israel's bloodiest forgotten incidents ꟷ the April 11, 1974, massacre on Yehuda Halevi Street in Kiryat Shmona in which 16 tenants were slaughtered by terrorists.

He Who Says No

Dir.: Tamar Nissim
| 11 minutes

A child sets out on an expedition to find a cure for the plague. Will he sacrifice himself when he does not withstand the mission? Brecht's play, performed by IDF's disabled veterans, loaded on a local level about the meaning of the refusal.

Hello Dankness

Dir.: Soda Jerk
| 70 minutes

Comprised entirely of hundreds of film samples, HELLO DANKNESS is a political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021, and the mythologies and lore that took root around it.

Heroic

Dir.: David Zonana
| 88 minutes

Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier.

How the Lake Became a River

Dir.: Sevan Smolnik
| 13 minutes

After years of separation and silence, a young man visits his mother and speaks to her for the first time about the indelible mark left on him by her and his drug-addicted father.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Dir.: Daniel Goldhaber
| 104 minutes

In this taut and timely thriller, a crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline. Part heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis, the film is inspired by Andreas Malm’s book of the same title.

 

How to Have Sex

Dir.: Molly Manning Walker
| 98 minutes

In her vibrant feature debut, Molly Maning Walker casts a witty, nuanced, and ultimately devastating look at three British teenage girls on a rite-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the recent Cannes Film Festival.

 

Documentary

I See You

Dir.: Adam Weingrod
| 19 minutes

After 25 years of blindness, Dan gets a chance to see his wife and children for the very first time. It may also be his last.

If Only I Could Hibernate

Dir.: Zoljargal Purevdash
| 98 minutes

Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a physics competition and get a scholarship. His illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, leaving him and his siblings alone in the middle of winter.

In Water

Dir.: Hong Sang-soo
| 61 minutes

A young actor decides to give up acting and make a short film. The small crew arrives on rocky, windswept Jeju Island. In search of an idea, the young actor explores the surroundings, waits for the right light to emerge, and watches the horizon from the coast. 

Infinity Pool

Dir.: Brandon Cronenberg
| 117 minutes

James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Dir.: Pham Thien An
| 178 minutes

After his sister-in-law dies in an accident, Thien is bestowed the task of delivering her body back to their hometown. On this journey he is joined by his nephew, who miraculously survived the crash. Amid the mystical landscapes of rural Vietnam, Thien begins a search for his older brother who vanished years ago.

JFK

JFK

Dir.: Oliver Stone
| 188 minutes

Combining staged segments and archival materials, Oliver Stone’s acclaimed film presents the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. When the attorney starts to doubt the conventional thinking on the murder, he faces government resistance.