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116 Results
Feature Film Competition

Love Letters

Alice Douard|Comedy
Queer
Family
Céline (Ella Rumpf), a non-biological parent, fights for recognition of her status as a mother.
Feature Film Competition

Retreat

Ted Evans|Thriller
Family
When Eva arrives in a supposedly idyllic deaf community, their facade begins to crumble.
Gala Premieres

Nuremberg

James Vanderbilt|Drama
Book Adaptation
History
Politics
+1
Douglas Kelly (Rami Malek) encounters Hitler's right-hand man in the process of assessing the sanity of Nazi prisoners.
Gala Premieres

Ballad of a Small Player

Edward Berger|Drama
Around the World
Book Adaptation
Ecomomy
Under the vibrant neon lights of Macau's casinos, a gambler tries to escape his past.
Documentary Competition

Unanimal

Sally Jacobson, Tuva Björk|Documentaire
Animals
Nature
Arts & Culture
Takes a witty look at the complex and often absurd relationship between humans and animals.
Feature Film Competition

A Year of School

Laura Samani|Comedy
When Fred joins a class full of boys as the only girl, she really shakes up the group dynamics.
Gala Premieres

Jay Kelly

Noah Baumbach|Comedy
Feel Good
Arts & Culture
Family
A movie star (George Clooney) travels through Europe in search of reconciliation, his legacy and his own self.
Gala Premieres

The Secret Agent

Kleber Mendonça Filho|Thriller
Around the World
History
Politics
+1
Marcelo (Wagner Moura) flees to Recife, where he realizes that the military regime's violence extends farther than he thought.
ZFF for Kids

Momo

Christian Ditter|Kids
Family
Technology
Social justice
When a powerful corporation starts stealing time, it’s on Momo and Master Hora to save the world.
ZFF for Kids

Kangaroo

Kate Woods|Kids
Animals
Book Adaptation
Family
+1
After Chris Masterman hits a young kangaroo with his car, Charlie helps him care for the animal and rescue others.
Gala Premieres

Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos|Comedy
Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his accomplice kidnap a CEO (Emma Stone) whom they believe to be an alien.
Gala Premieres

After the Hunt

Luca Guadagnino|Drama
Feminism
Arts & Culture
Politics
A professor is on the verge of being promoted, when a secret from her past threatens to come to light.
Documentary Competition

Fighter

Sunniva Sundby, Mari Bakke Riise|Documentaire
Health
Sport
Family
After an accident, MMA fighter GK finds the courage to face life again and realizes there’s more to it than just his body.
Documentary Competition

Singing Wings

Hemen Khaledi|Documentaire
Around the World
Family
Nature
+1
Kandijeh encounters an injured stork in her Kurdish village. She wants to heal it before its flock moves on.
Gala Premieres

Splitsville

Michael Angelo Covino|Comedy
Feel Good
Love & Eroticism
When Ashley asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey seeks support from his friends Julie and Paul.
Gala Premieres

Father, Mother, Sister, Brother

Jim Jarmusch|Comedy
Family
Estranged siblings must confront unresolved tensions and their parents’ emotional distance.
Signatures

Predators

David Osit|Documentaire
Law & Order
Pop Culture
Takes a riveting look at society’s perception of crime and its enduring fascination with true crime.
Signatures

The Love That Remains

Hlynur Pálmason|Drama
A year in the life of a family unfolds after the parents separate, interweaving everyday life and daydream-like visions.
Gala Premieres

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Olivier Assayas|Thriller
Politics
History
Law & Order
The engrossing story of a PR consultant who worked alongside the ambitious Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) in Russia in the 1990s.
Gala Premieres

Rental Family

HIKARI null|Comedy
Family
Around the World
An unemployed actor takes on an unusual job for a Japanese «rental family agency.»
Documentary Competition

Life After Siham

Namir Abdel Messeeh|Documentaire
Family
History
A heart-warming and light-hearted family portrait focuses on the passage of time and the healing power of cinema.
Border Lines

Lowland Kids

Sandra Winther|Documentaire
Family
Nature
Politics
+1
With stunning imagery, LOWLAND KIDS portrays the lives of climate refugees in the southern United States.
Gala Premieres

The Life of Wishes

Erik Schmitt|Drama
Book Adaptation
Family
After receiving three wishes from a mysterious stranger, Felix realizes that everything has its price.
Gala Premieres

Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro|Horror
Book Adaptation
Family
Technology
Reinterprets Mary Shelley's classic, as only a master of the monstrous could have made.
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