Sections Edition 2020

DRAMA
POLAND · 2019
LANGUAGES: POLISH
COLOR · 115 MIN. 

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. His criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary and after his release he is sent to work at a carpenter's workshop in a small town. However, having no intention to give up his dream, Daniel dresses up as a priest and accidentally gets to minister the local parish. The arrival of the young and charismatic preacher is a chance for the community to get over a recent tragedy.

DRAMA, FAMILY
GERMANY, SWITZERLAND · 2019
LANGUAGES: GERMAN
COLOR · 119 MIN.

Berlin in the 1930s. Anna is a 9-year-old girl who lives happily just like any other child of her age. However, Hitler's imminent rise to power is about to change everything for the girl and her Jewish family. Her father, a well-known journalist whose political ideals have made him a target for Nazi persecution, decides the best thing is to leave the country. Anna and her family flee to Switzerland. The girl has to leave behind a lot of beloved things, such as her pink bunny rabbit.

DOCUMENTARY
GERMANY, FRANCE, UNITED STATES · 2019
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 93 MIN.

Filmmaker Alla Kovgan assembles the last generation of Cunningham dancers to present landmark works from Merce Cunningham's repertoire. Taking an inventive approach with locations, the film places dancers in evocative backdrops such as a tunnel, a high-rise rooftop, and a forest. These current-day performances are interlaced with archival footage of Cunningham speaking and moving. We also hear illuminating interviews with John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and members of the original Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

HISTORY, DRAMA, BIOPIC
FRANCE · 2020
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 108 MIN

May 1940. France is dealing with the military and political collapse caused by the German invasion. While Pétain is willing to surrender and negotiate with Hitler, general De Gaulle wants to keep on fighting. This objective will risk many French families' lives, including De Gaulle's. His wife Yvonne, alone with their three children, finds herself on the road of the exodus.

DRAMA, BIOPIC
AUSTRALIA · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 116 MIN.

1966. Helen Reddy arrives in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket. Helen had been told she had won a recording contract, but the record company promptly dashes her hopes by telling her it has enough female stars and suggests she has fun before returning home to Australia. Helen decides to stay in New York anyway and pursue a singing career, struggling to make ends meet and provide for her daughter. There she befriends rock journalist Lillian Roxon, who becomes her confident and inspires her to write the iconic song “I Am Woman”, a new anthem for feminism that inspires a generation of women to fight for change. She also meets Jeff Wald, a talent manager who becomes her agent and husband. Jeff helps her get to the top, but he also suffers from a drug addiction, which turns their relationship toxic. Caught in the treadmill of fame and dependent on Jeff to manage her professional life, Helen has to find the strength to take control of her own career and keep pursuing her dreams.

THRILLER, BIOPIC
AUSTRALIA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE · 2019
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 124 MIN. 

The life of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly in the 1870's, based on the novel by Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. The story breaks the myth of the famous icon to reveal the essence behind Kelly's life, from his first years until the moment before his death. After losing his father, young Ned does everything that is on his hands to assure her mother's survival. In a land devastated by poverty and hunger, this is not an easy job to do.

DRAMA, BIOPIC
UNITED KINGDOM, HUNGARY · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 109 MIN.

From the 1870s to the modern era, a journey through Marie Curie’s enduring legacies – her passionate relationships, scientific breakthroughs, and the consequences that followed for her and for the world. After meeting fellow scientist Pierre Curie, the pair go on to marry and change the face of science forever by their discovery of radioactivity. The genius of the Curies’ world-changing discoveries and the ensuing Nobel Prize propels the devoted couple into the international limelight.

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN · 2019
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 109 MIN.

Lluna was eight years old in 1993, when Barcelona's mayor, Pasqual Maragall, settled in her home to familiarize himself with Roquetes, a neighborhood located in the Nou Barris district. Twenty-five years later, she starts an investigation through the memories of those days that takes her to discover a unique politician, essential for understanding the evolution of the city and the present of the country. Talking with family, acquaintances and politicians, Lluna builds both an intimate and universal portrait of Pasqual Maragall.

DRAMA, ADVENTURES, FANTASY
ITALY · 2019
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 120 MIN.

Old and lonesome carpenter Gepetto carves a wooden puppet when something magical occurs: the puppet starts to speak, walk, run and eat just like any other child. Geppetto names it Pinocchio and raises him like a son. However, Pinocchio finds it hard to be good. He easily lets himself be led astray and always ends up in disgrace. His faithful friend the Fairy will try to make him see that his dream of becoming a real child won't come true unless he changes his way of being. A new live-action interpretation of the classic tale which goes back to the roots of Pinocchio's story.

DRAMA
FRANCE · 2019
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 89 MIN. 

Aurora is getting ready to celebrate her 70th birthday with her four sons and daughters, who have gathered for the occasion in their nice family home. Everyone seems to be enjoying such a special event, but they all wish they had a different life. Jean-Pierre, the eldest son, has become the head of the family after their father's death; Juliette is pregnant with her first child at the age of 40 and she stills holds aspirations to become a writer; Margaux is the radical artist in the family; and Mathieu, 30, lives anxious to seduce beautiful Sarah.

DRAMA, ROMANCE
UNITED KINGDOM · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 100 MIN.

Grace and Edward have been married for 29 years. They live a quiet life in the seaside town of Seaford, on the South Coast of England, in a home cluttered with years of accumulated books and artifacts. At his father’s request, their son Jamie agrees to come back from London to visit them for the weekend. At his arrival, Edward informs him that he plans to leave Grace for another woman, that same day. A husband, a wife, and a son are forced to face hard truths, and out of those truths to fashion new lives.

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2019
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOR · 52 MIN

16 March 1975. 9.30 AM. Two unique football teams face each other in Parma's Citadel park. Pier Paolo Pasolini leads his crew of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom and Bernardo Bertolucci stands up with his Novecento. Few miles away from each other, both directors are shooting films that will mark the History of Italian Cinema and actress Laura Betti has convinced them to play the match, with a trophey for the winner. Featuring footage from that day and interviews to some testimonies, this documentary recalls a match that has become legendary over time.

DOCUMENTARY
USA · 2019
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 99 MIN

A lively, behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. These antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson. Their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle, and they also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history.

DRAMA, HISTORY
UNITED KINGDOM, POLAND, UKRAINE · 2019
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, WELSH
COLOR · 141 MIN. 

1933. After gaining prestige for being the first foreigner to interview Hitler, the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones is ready to do the same with Stalin. However, when he arrives in Moscow he rans into another journalist, Ada Brooks, who leads him into a much more dangerous investigation: the alleged famine that is decimating Ukraine. Jones will risk his life to inform the world about what lies behind the communist utopia.

COMEDY, DRAMA
ITALY, SPAIN · 2019
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 101 MIN.

Jack always wanted a little brother, and when Gio is born, he believes his parents when they tell him that Gio is a superhero with amazing powers. As he grows up, however, Jack realizes that his brother actually has Down syndrome, a condition that Jack decides to keep secret in high school. When the truth comes out, Jack learns that his brother's energy, vitality, and unique perspective can indeed change the world—just like a superhero.

DRAMA
AUSTRIA · 2019
LANGUAGES: GERMANY, SPANISH
COLOR · 94 MIN.

The Viennese Irene is a strong and self-confident woman who lives on Ibiza with her 18-year-old daughter Lena. The close relationship between mother and daughter is shaken when Irene's ex-partner Paul returns to the island together with his son Robert. His world career as a composer and musician is in danger. He will soon be on trial for having severely mistreated Irene. He tries to manipulate Irene with every means at his disposal in order to withdraw the charges. When he almost succeeds, Lena and Robert turn up against Paul. The conflict is inevitable. In the midst of the apparent idyll of a Mediterranean island, this film tells the story of a trauma from the different perspectives of those involved. A psycho-thriller about the effects, repression and coming to terms with family violence, but also about the longing for love and the indomitable power of rebellion.

COMEDY, DRAMA
FRANCE · 2019
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 88 MIN.

After spending several years in Paris, Selma returns home to Tunis with the improbable mission of setting up a psychotherapy practice on the roof of the building she lives in. Her family and neighbors are less than enthusiastic about the idea, but surprisingly the demand for her services quickly outstrips her ability to meet it.

DRAMA, COMEDY
AUSTRALIA · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 120 MIN.

When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. But as Milla's first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit -her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbour- how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life.

COMEDY, ADVENTURES, DRAMA
USA · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 97 MIN

Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from the nursing home where he lives to chase his life-dream of becoming a professional wrestler. Through an unlikely succession of circumstances he gets to meet Tyler, a good-hearted outlaw on the run, who becomes his friend and trainer. Eleanor, a kind nurse who has a story of her own, also joins their adventure. All together they go through an exciting journey that will change their lives.

COMEDY
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 101 MIN.

Eva writes a list of things that she always wanted to do but never dared to, convinced by her new friend Carmen, to do them together. Eva's best friend Mar, who has just gone single, also makes her own list and joins them on a journey through the Southern Spanish coast and Morocco. Altogether they start an adventure that will bond them forever.

COMEDY, DRAMA
FRANCE· 2020
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 100 MIN.

Anne Walberg is a celebrity in the perfume world. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible talent to companies of all kinds. She lives as a diva, selfish, well-tempered, and doesn't need anybody. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who dares facing her. This is probably why she does not fire him.

COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 112 MIN.

The film centers on a group of women in England whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with the men's absences, they form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement. Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.

DRAMA
SPAIN, GREECE · 2019
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 105 MIN.

Faced with life-changing news, Maria, a fifty-five-year-old Spanish woman from Bilbao, chooses to take a trip to Greece with her closest girlfriends against the advice of her son and doctors. There, she unexpectedly finds love and what seemed like a brief escape from reality turns into a luminous story of a woman, who dares to live for the moment on her own terms.

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 60 MIN. 

Among the 23 grandchildren who descend from the Vallvé Cordomí marriage, almost none had the chance to meet their peculiar grandfather, Andreu Vallvé i Ventosa, who died prematurely. That's why they start an investigation about his life and soon realize the importance of their grandmother's part on it. Together they undertake a big familiar project, creating a documentary that shows the mark that this marriage's creativity and symbiosis has left in their surroundings.

DRAMA
SPAIN · 2019
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 80 MIN. 

After his father's death, Otto, a young man without expectations in life, tries to fit the respected place that's expected of him. He joins his best friend to end a pack of wild hounds that haunt the outskirts of the village. But meeting a girl that plans to escape the town will change his life's vision forever. What is there beyond what's unknown to me? Is this what I really want? A one-way journey towards maturity.

DRAMA, HISTORY
SOUTH KOREA · 2017
LANGUAGES: KOREAN, ENGLISH, GERMAN
COLOR · 137 MIN.

May 1980. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob comes across an offer too good to be true. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju, he'll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won - enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter and sets off along the highway. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South Korea.

DRAMA, WAR
SOUTH KOREA · 2014
IDIOMA: KOREAN
COLOR · 126 MIN.

As a child, Deok-Su had to say goodbye to his father during a North Korean refugee evacuation amidst the Korean War. His last words to his father were a promise that he would always protect the family. As he matures, that vow leads him to the coal mines of 1960’s Germany, and even into the jungle of the Vietnam War.

DRAMA, THRILLER
SOUTH KOREA · 2018
LANGUAGE: KOREAN
COLOR · 140 MIN.

Seoul,1993. A former military officer is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials based in Beijing, with the ultimate goal of acquiring information on the North's nuclear program. After becoming close to Myong-un Ri, a key power broker, Black Venus succeeds beyond his wildest dreams of gaining the trust of North Korea's leadership. But political machinations on both sides of the border threaten to derail his accomplishments.

DRAMA, THRILLER
SOUTH KOREA · 1960
LANGUAGE: KOREAN
BLACK AND WHITE · 108 MIN.

A piano teacher hires a housemaid to help his pregnant wife with the housework. What seems a solution soon leads into trouble due to the attraction the maid feels towards her boss.

ACTION, THRILLER
SOUTH KOREA · 2019
LANGUAGE: KOREAN
COLOR · 130 MIN.

A girl is found with her extremities amputated. Han-su and Min-tae, two detectives with a long rivalry, begin to investigate the case. Apparently, it is easily solved when Han-su detains the presumable suspect, but it soon turns into a mystery when Min-tae raises suspicion about the recently arrested. Meanwhile, Han-su finds someone who insists on knowing the real culprit. Besides, this curious character kills a drug dealer in front of him and talks him into a secret pact. Soon, the time comes for Han-su to make a decision.

ANIMATION, HORROR
SOUTH KOREA · 2016
LANGUAGE: KOREAN
COLOR · 92 MIN.

After sunset, Seoul Station becomes the home of the beggars. Tonight, one of them shows the strangest symptoms. Meanwhile, Hye-sun, a runaway teenager, breaks up with her boyfriend. She leaves the shabby inn where they were staying near the station and witnesses people being attacked. She runs for shelter in the station only to find a horde of homeless turned into zombies. Her father and boyfriend will have to find her amidst the chaos.

DOCUMENTARY
UNITED KINGDOM · 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 102 MIN.

Leonardo da Vinci's peerless paintings and drawings are the focus of Leonardo, The Works, as Exhibition On Screen presents every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen. Key works include The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Lady with an Ermine, Ginevra de’ Benci, Madonna Litta, Virgin of the Rocks, and more than a dozen others. Shot on various locations around the world, this film also looks afresh at Leonardo’s life –his inventiveness, his sculptural skills, his military foresight– through the prism of his art.

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2019
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOR · 95 MIN. 

Featuring the largest collection of paintings in the world, the Hermitage has been a meeting place for foreign artists, architects and intellectuals creating connections through art and culture over its two and a half centuries of history. The Great Beauty star Tony Servillo leads us on a sumptuous and immersive exploration of cultural bridges between the past and the present, featuring some of the world's best and most legendary art in glorious high definition on the big screen.

DOCUMENTARY
UNITED KINGDOM · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 80 MIN.

For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is bringing together Lucian Freud’s self-portraits. Spanning nearly seven decades, the exhibition will display more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency, giving a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1998
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 112 MIN

The final instalment in Éric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. Magali is a middle-aged widow and wine-grower living in the Rhone valley. After her children leave home, she feels lonely and pines for a new man in her life, but doubts whether she will ever find someone. However, her friend Isabelle puts a lonely hearts ad in a newspaper and manages to get a response.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1996
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 113 MIN

The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. Young graduate Gaspard takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. There, he hopes to meet Lena, his sort-of-girlfriend and the woman he thinks he is in love with. However, he soon strikes up a friendship with Margot, a sweet waiter who is also working in town.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1992
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 114 MIN

The second film in Éric Rohmer's Four Sesions series. Felicie and Charles have an intense summer holiday romance, but lose contact due to a simple mistake. Five years later, Felicie is living in wintertime Paris with her mother and Elise, her daughter born after that short relationship. Now, she negotiates the serious attentions of two men: a hairdresser and an intelectual bookseller. However, she is unable to commit herself to neither of them because she's still hoping to reunite with her true, old love.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1990
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 108 MIN

First instalmment of Rohmer's Tale of Four Seasons series. Parisian philosophy teacher Jeanne is temporarily without a place to stay as her cousin occupies her own home. A young pianist, Natasha, offers the use of her house and she accepts her invitation. After the two become friends, it is apparent there is a rivalry between Natasha and her father Igor's girlfriend, Eve.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1986
LANGUAGES: FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN
COLOR · 99 MIN

The 5th of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Abandoned by the friend she was supposed to be holidaying with, Delphine has to make other plans for her summer vacation. Should she go to the beach, travel to Ireland, or stay in hot and humid Paris through August? The problem is, she just can't make up her mind... Until one day she accidentally meets someone who seems to be totally made for her.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1983
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 95 MIN

The 3rd of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Pauline is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion, who has recently divorced his husband. Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades while vacationing at the beach. It gradually develops that Marion is the one least capable of handling herself, while Pauline grows in maturity from her summertime experiences.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1970
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 105 MIN

The 5th of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy. There, he meets Aurora, and old friend who talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura. Jerome takes the dare until he meets and falls for Claire, Laura's half-sister, and develops a strong desire to caress her knee.

DRAMA, COMEDY, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 1969
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
BLACK AND WHITE · 110 MIN

Third entry in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series. Jean-Louis, a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. Vidal, an old school friend, invites him to visit the recently divorced Maud and he ends up staying the night, having philosophical discussions in her bedroom. The evening with Maud will make a change in Jean-Louis's life.