Sections Edition 2017

Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died in Nagasaki. However, upon returning home she is visited by his son apparition.

Maud Lewis dreams about an independent life, far away from her overprotective family where she can develop her painting skills. She starts working as an assistant for sullen Everett  Lewis, who surprisingly falls in love with her.

The film follows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France.

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.

The Zookeeper's Wife tells the story of the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.

48 hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.

A stunning documentary about thirteen-year-old Aisholpan, who trains to be the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle huntress.

Maurice and Joseph are two Jewish brothers living in the occupied France during II World War. The German Army is a menace for the whole family, so their parents decide the kids have to flee to the free zone, where his older brother lives. 

In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with this man.

The last Andrzej Wajda tells the story of the charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, an artist who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

Catrin Cole is hired to give a “female touch” to the script of war propaganda films. Her natural talent is noticed by film producer Buckley. They will work together to make a movie that can reach hearts.

Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

A trip to the depths of Argentina. Roasting is a meal and a ritual. It is primitive and contemporary, wild and refined, an art and a science. The asado with greater originality the essential features of national identity.

Juliette has a wedding planning agency. But she does not believe in relationships, prefering to have one affair after another. Tonight is Mathias. But what she does not know is that Mathias has a girlfriend: Alexia, a perfect girl and childhood enemy of Juliette.

Checco is 38 years old, has a guaranteed job as a public servant in an Italian small town, a girlfriend and living with his parents. When a new reformist government vows to cut down on bureaucracy, Checco is forced to accept worsening conditions.

Aurore, separated from her husband, has just lost her job and been told that she is going to be a grandmother. When she accidentally runs into the great love of her youth, she puts her foot down and refuses to be relegated to the scrap yard. What if now was the time to start over?

Three estranged friends reunite and reluctantly reform a rock band that in their youth was about to be famous, but never succeeded. They have a double challengue now: be the band they always wanted to be and solve the messes of their lifes.

An unknown actress falls in love with a famous actor. After getting married, she realizes she has fell in love with a character her future husband plays and not with the real person.

In Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head ...

A young English musician travels to Burning Man festival, a unique event in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get back the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.

England, 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 

The unemployed Duval is contacted by a mysterious organization to transcribe intercepted calls. He accepts the job with no suspicions, since it restores stability to his life, but it will soon result in political shenanigans of all kinds.

Victor is a thief expert with blowtorch who joins a dangerous Eastern European gang, that needs a new member for a bank assault.  after the death of one of them. His work: to drill the strongroom. 

In a magical faraway land, in a picturesque little village nestled among green meadows and rolling hills, lives a flock of carefree sheep. But their pastoral and stress-free life is interrupted when a pack of wolves sets up camp in the nearby ravine.

A stranded little cat tries to find a way to back home.

Taking in his 89 years of life, this film is a journey through the intense life of the artist Michelangelo, starting in the painting and printing studios in Europe and continuing through the great chapels and museums in Florence, Roma and the Vatican.

Taking over from Renoir and Monet, the american impressionism movement takes its own path over 40 years. A path that tells so much about North America as a nation as well as about its art as driving force. 

Madame Louise is a frivolous French aristocrat who needs to pay some debts, so she decides to sell in secret the her diamond earrings, a wedding gift from her husband, what causes a series of conflicts as they change hands repeatedly.

Lyon, 1943. In the occupied World War II France, lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the German army and condemned to death. The captured French Resistance fighter during engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.

1919. Montparnasse, Paris bohemian neighbourhood, is full of artists that hope to sucess, among them,, Modigliani, a poor painter who, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. 

A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death and war, setting a relationship of solidarity and support between them.