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10 Kilos
Inspired by a best selling true story by Sharon Yitzhaki. Sharon Yitzhaki traveled to Bolivia with a guy she barely knew. She was indicted in an attempt to smuggle 10 kilos of cocaine out of the country and sentenced to serve her time at one of the cruelest women’s prisons in the world. She quickly became a media sensation in Bolivia, had an affair with the head of La Paz’s drug cartel, established a "family" in prison, ran the cartel business in prison to protect her family, became addicted to cocaine and quit to save the loved ones in her life, and used a loophole in the law to smuggle herself and her family to Brazil, from there back to Tel Aviv. Then wrote a detailed, bestselling autobiography. All this before her 28th birthday.
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A Bear in the Woods
A hungry bear tests the relationship of two campers.
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A Body Called Life
A self-isolated young human known as "James" delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past. “A Body Called Life” is a film made in collaboration with James, with a screenplay adapted from the verbatim Instagram posts of James, starring James as James, and featuring a charming score by Dan Deacon.
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A Border Between Us
When a Bangladeshi man moves across the world to be with his partner in the UK, they discover the unforeseen costs of following your heart. In “A Border Between Us”, Director Riad Arfin explores his personal experience of being in an interracial relationship and trying to settle in a culture very different from his own. Between visa rules and cultural norms, is it possible to find a place to call home that works for them both?
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A Brutal, Beautiful Life
In the vast, rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains and high desert, ranching women, their dogs, horses, and cattle, share powerful connections that reveal nature’s quiet ways. This is a story about tiny moments of understanding and connection, unseen by most, appreciated by few. These moments are rich with meaning and speak to connecting with nature in a way that honors intuition and experience.
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A Call from the Wild
Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean’s edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature’s strength and vulnerability.
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A Good Wolf
"A Good Wolf" examines a 40-year conflict over a single tract of land adjacent to Denali National Park — a volatile struggle between state and federal authorities, fur trappers and wildlife advocates, and competing human interests on public lands. Armed with thorough data, biologists and activists bring a new proposal to state authorities, hoping to regain protections for wolves near the park boundary.
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A Guest In My Country
An immigrant Ubër driver takes an upscale couple across town, and the drama that unfolds among them reveals truths they all would have preferred stayed hidden.
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A Move
Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she's also hoping for a bigger move beyond just a new apartment.
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A New Kind of Wilderness
On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. Maria and Nik, along with their four children are self-sufficient. They practice home-schooling and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. However, when tragedy strikes the family, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society. The film beautifully captures an intimate soulful portrait of love, life and growing up, and invites reflection on our own life choices.
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A Photographic Memory
"A Photographic Memory" is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter’s attempt to piece together a portrait of her mother, an avant-garde journalist and a woman she never knew. Uncovering the vast archive Sheila Turner Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Davidson, Lisette Model, and others, the film explores memory, legacy, and stories left untold. Director/Subject Rachel Elizabeth Seed weaves together personal and photo-historical media to tell a universal story about facing mortality and loss, the search for identity, construction of memory and the restoration of a legacy.
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A Swim Lesson
"A Swim Lesson" is an ode to an everyday hero: Bill Marsh, a swim teacher who helps children manage their fears and discover their own power when submerged in an overwhelming unknown. He has taught thousands of kids and worked together with their parents and families to instill confidence and safety in their lives. Directed by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, the film is a prime example of one’s dedication to teach and inspire a new generation.
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After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
Deep in a forest by the Baltic Sea, a group of Ukrainian families come together to start the healing process with the help of golden retrievers and palamino horses at an animal therapy retreat. In the safety of the forest, the children’s memories of being illegally deported to Russia and their families’ struggles to rescue them are unraveled with the help of skilled and sensitive counsellors. The joy and humor the children discover during their time in the forest make it easy to forget that their stories are the reason the International Criminal Court recently issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Nearly 20,000 abducted children remain in Russian institutions.
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Amal
Brussels teacher Amal encourages students' passion for reading and freedom of expression, despite risks. Her daring approach leaves a mark on pupils and families.
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An Afternoon with Diane Baker
Grease director Randal Kleiser returns to this year's festival with his good friend actress Diane Baker. They will discuss her half-century career with clips from such films as “Diary of Anne Frank”, “Marnie”, and “Silence of the Lambs”, plus anecdotes about working with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock, Maxmillian Schell, Anthony Hopkins, Melvyn Douglas and more.
Diane Baker's distinguished career as an actress and producer of film and television spans over 50 years. First cast in director George Stevens Sr.'s film “The Diary of Anne Frank” (1959), her career quickly took off at Twentieth Century-Fox where her credits include “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1959), “The Best of Everything” (1959), “Tess of the Storm Country” (1960), “Nine Hours to Rama” (1963) and “Stolen Hours” with Susan Hayward (1963).
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Anwar
"Anwar" is a personal sci-fi story about a mother who chose to live forever and a son who longs for heaven. We see Anwar age from 8 to 18 to 80, while Mona remains eternal throughout, until he has a final moment of doubt, and she has a final moment of hope. Starring Kerry Bishé ("Argo", "Halt & Catch Fire") and Jay Abdo (Herzog's "Queen of the Desert").
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Anxiety Club
"Anxiety Club" provides an intimate and humorous look at anxiety through the eyes and minds of some of the most brilliant comedians working today.
Tiffany Jenkins, Joe List, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Baron Vaughn and Eva Victor offer candid reflections on their relationship with anxiety through exclusive interviews, standup performances, sketch videos, therapy and everyday life.
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? In "Apocalypse in the Tropics", Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip that faith leaders hold over politics in Brazil. Costa gains extraordinary access to the country's top political leaders, including President Lula, and former President Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil's most famous televangelist: a larger-than-life pastor who seems to play puppet master to the latter. As the film unveils the key role the evangelical movement has played in Brazil's recent political turmoil, it also reveals the apocalyptic theology that drives its chief protagonists. As in her Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy", Costa documents a time of profound confusion and despair with lucidity and a poetic eye. Weaving past and present, she immerses us in the contradictory realities of a young democracy that is hanging on by a thread, and in doing so holds up a mirror to the rest of the world.
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Appalheads
Decades after leaving Appalachia, a daughter returns to eastern Kentucky to excavate her father’s remarkable filmmaking legacy — as the founder of Appalshop — and examine the pull home still has on her.
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April in France
April, a 5-year-old English girl, moves to Paris just before the first lockdown. She feels miserable, isolated in her Parisian flat and desperately wants to go back to London. However, when the restrictions ease, her father drives her to Labastide d'Armagnac, a small medieval village in the South-West of France where her great-grandfather bequeathed them his house. April is not much happier at first in the deserted village but slowly discovers it. She visits the cemetery where she thinks people are just asleep. On her great-grandfather's grave she brings flowers, talks to him and strongly believes that he might eventually come back to be with her. She will make several wishes for this purpose, in church and also in the Pyrenees mountains, waiting for a falling star, as she has seen in Pinocchio. In the meantime, she meets some of her great-grandfather's friends. With them she will open to the world,
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Are you There?
A woman begins to heal her broken life after listening to the calls on a telephone answering machine left behind by the previous, unknown tenant.
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As the Tide Comes In
With beautiful cinematography and intimate story-telling, told with a humorous human touch, the film follows the 27 residents on a tiny Danish island who are used to severe weather and flooding. Climate Change now poses a serious existential threat to the tiny island. However, its last farmer Gregers, whose family has lived there for 8 generations, hasn’t given up in the face of the impending catastrophe. He refuses to build a new life elsewhere and instead hopes to find a wife to manage the farm with him. "As the Tide Comes In" is as poetic and heartwarming as it is urgent and significant. A visually stunning work of cinema that presents the reality of climate change and depopulation as it is happening now, right in the heart of Europe.
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Au revoir Belmondo
When Julien, a young, shy Frenchman, meets Patricia, a lonely, American exchange student, only one thing stands in their way — his strange obsession with Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Auction
André Masson, an auctioneer at Scottie’s, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a common worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns a painting by Egon Schiele. André’s first reaction is to believe that it can only be a fake. He decides to make the trip to Mulhouse anyway and against all odds, the painting turns out to be a masterpiece gone missing in 1939. This could undoubtedly be the turning point of his career, but after a brief investigation, he realizes that he has in his hands a looted work of art.
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