Opening feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Barry Jenkins
UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
ALL GOOD
Eva Trobisch
O.V.
German | st English
Like its main character, a rape victim whose instinctive attempts to repress the trauma only create more problems, this brilliant first feature by German...
GERMANY | 93 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL
Hu Bo
O.V.
Mandarin | st English
A classroom scuffle gone sideways changes the destiny of four protagonists who, longing for escape, become obsessed with the northern Chinese city of...
CHINA | 230 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Aquaparque
Ana Moreira
O.V.
Portuguese | st English
In the graffited ruins of an old aquatic park, a girl and a boy find shelter to grieve from their loss of hopes and dreams.
PORTUGAL | 16 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego
O.V.
Spanish | st English
Two friends in windy, arid northern Colombian in the 1960s launch a brisk trade selling marijuana. Business booms, ushering in tension and violence between...
COLOMBIA, Mexico, Denmark, France | 125 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Cracks
Nitzan Rozen
O.V.
Hebrew | st English
While waiting for her first child to be born, Lali uncovers a secret that her husband Adam is keeping from her.
ISRAEL | 20 minutes | 2017
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Exit
Claire Edmondson
O.V.
English
This film captures a single day in the life of a woman confronting the consequences of an irreversible decision.
UNITED STATES, Canada | 15 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
FUNAN
Denis Do
O.V.
French | st English
Cambodia, 1975. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge invade Phnom Penh, forcing millions out of the capital and into work camps across the countryside. In the...
FRANCE, Belgium, Luxembourg | 87 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
O.V.
Kazakh | st English
To save her family after the death of her father, Saltanat, pretty and well-read, must leave the idyllic countryside of her girlhood and head to the city...
KAZAKHSTAN | 100 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
GENÈSE
Philippe Lesage
O.V.
French | st English
Boarding-school student Guillaume finds himself painfully attracted to his best friend. Meanwhile, after her boyfriend casually mentions how unlikely it is...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 129 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
THE GUILTY
Gustav Möller
O.V.
Danish | st English
In fine Hitchcockian (North by Northwest) fashion, Danish newcomer Gustav Möller serves up a breathtaking thriller based on a screenplay crafted with...
DENMARK | 85 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Grbavica
Manel Raga Raga
O.V.
Bosnian | st English
A ball is spinning around, stuck in the river that goes through the Grbavica neighborhood, in Sarajevo.
PORTUGAL, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 20 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
THE HEIRESSES
Marcelo Martinessi
O.V.
Spanish | st English
Chela and Chiquita, both from wealthy families, have been together for over 30 years. When they fall on financial hard times, their relationship suffers...
PARAGUAY, Germany, Brazil, Uruguay | 95 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
HOLIDAY
Isabella Eklof
O.V.
Danish | st English
Sascha meets up with her boyfriend, powerful crime boss Michael, on the picture-perfect Turkish Riviera for a holiday. Though she revels in the shallow...
DENMARK, Netherlands, Sweden | 93 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year
Jacqueline Lentzou
O.V.
German | st English
Sofia has a dream: while walking in the desert, she learns that she is sick. She does not care. Has she lost her heart?
GREECE | 26 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
O Homem Eterno
Luís Costa
O.V.
Portuguese | st English
Over two decades Bernardino Fernandes filmed hundreds of hours. This ends an old process, transforming his urge of cinema into a film about his life.
PORTUGAL | 15 minutes | 2017
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Juck
Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira
O.V.
Swedish | st English
The film depicts an all female dance group pushing the boundaries of how we see the female body. They provoke, inspire and break norms.
SWEDEN | 18 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Kado
Aditya Ahmad
O.V.
Indonesian | st English
Isfi can wear her comfortable pants among her guy friends but has to wear the hijab to be accepted at Nita's house.
INDONESIA | 16 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Kolory Listopada
Tanmay Chowdhary
O.V.
Polish | st English
A contemporary portrait of the relationship between two young women in the month of November in Poland.
POLAND, India, United States | 11 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
LEMONADE
Ioana Uricaru
O.V.
English / romanian | st French or english
Mara, a caregiver, left her native Romania in search of a better life in the U.S. After wedding one of her patients, she now attempts to repatriate her...
QUEBEC, Romania, Germany, Sweden | 88 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Leoforos Patision
Thanasis Neofotistos
O.V.
English | st English
Yanni's mum fights to balance the most important roles of her life, whilst walking in the most controversial area of central Athens, Patision Avenue.
GREECE | 13 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Magic Alps
Marco Scotuzzi, Andrea Brusa
O.V.
Italian | st English
An Afghan refugee arriving in Italy to seek asylum brings the immigration system to a grinding halt when he includes his goat in the application.
ITALY | 15 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy
Andrew Stephen Lee
O.V.
English | st English
A man buys a child to pretend to be his son in order to impress the patriarch of the family.
PHILIPPINES, United States | 21 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Ninfe
Isabella Torre
O.V.
- Without dialogue
The past comes back to haunt in a secluded italian community that is rocked by the sudden appearance of three ancient mythological creatures: the sensual...
ITALY | 12 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Nursery Rhymes
Tom Noakes
O.V.
English
Why is a Metalhead singing Old MacDonald on the side of a rural highway?
AUSTRALIA | 6 minutes | 2018