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$65

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$250

Online Pass: $100

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The Land of Short Sentences
Meter i sekundet

When Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) gets a teaching post in Jutland, he accepts. But all signs suggest that this is hardest felt by his girlfriend Marie (Sofie Torp), who finds her life in Copenhagen hard to give up. Does the town of Velling have any use for a writer who can’t drive, and whose social life doesn’t revolve around a family? And is this relationship really worth the complete uprooting of what she knows? Torp, who also starred in _Hygge!_, the Danish title from last year’s EUFF, is the centre of the film, playing a woman who feels like every culture-clash joke and relationship conflict could be an incremental step in a plot to ruin her life, unless—through an advice column—she finds a way to carve out a comfortable niche in her picturesque and strange new home.

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The Land in the Shadows
D’Land am Schiet

The tautly constructed, very impressive debut film from writer-director Lukas Grevis, In the Land of the Shadows tells the powerful, timely story of growing xenophobia in a village in Luxembourg. Concerned about the international crisis in migration and displacement, idealistic Jos and his girlfriend Sara want to create a centre for refugees. As their plans become more concrete, the community becomes anxious. When the mascot of the village, a wild dog, is mysteriously killed, Jos becomes the prime suspect. Misinformation, lies, rumours and fear soon begin to turn the village against Jos and his family. Political and regional opportunists take on this chance to use the sentiments in their favour, and what started as an humanist gesture of compassion suddenly is thrust into the shadowy realms of mistrust and intolerance. Gripping.

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CIAO CIAO

When old friends Charlotte and Jessica run into each other in the street, they are thrilled to catch up on each other’s lives and to set up a dinner party with their husbands. Unfortunately, once the dinner begins, the two men have less in common, with wealthy alpha male Victor sharing his provocative theories and boasting about expensive clothes to Sam, who bristles at his host’s pomposity and wishes to leave as soon as possible. At first, small inconveniences like a lost phone and a blocked car keep the foursome reluctantly together, but as they discover deeper hidden connections in their pasts, things quickly begin to unravel. What seemed like a harmless dinner party soon becomes an intense (and quite funny) evening as social graces crumble into chaos.

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BRANDO WITH A GLASS EYE 

If Antonis Tsonis’s debut is any indication, the Weird Wave is experiencing a second wind. The first Greek-language film in Slamdance’s narrative competition, _Brando with a Glass Eye_ takes the country’s proclivity for cinematic strangeness into bold, uncharted territories with this metatextual tale of a wannabe actor (Yiannis Niarros) who resorts to crime to finance a trip to New York’s famed Acting Studio. When a bystander is shot during a botched heist job, the Brando-obsessive goes Method and befriends the victim in an increasingly unhinged bid for personal salvation. Steeped in the influence of New Hollywood cinema, Tsonis’s confident, curious debut is a mise en abyme about the movies and the art (and artifice) of performance.

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On Falling

In this quietly affecting drama, a young woman tries to hold onto stability while facing the pressures of insecure work and life on the margins. As Aurora (Joana Santos) drifts between jobs and living arrangements, she struggles to maintain her sense of dignity while everything around her feels temporary and uncertain. Portuguese director Laura Carreira places her debut feature in Scotland and brings a keen eye to the small details of daily survival: the routines, the silences, and the fragile relationships that form along the way. _On Falling_ is a subtle and moving portrait of resilience in the face of precarity.

Best Director: San Sebastián International Film Festival 2024
Best First Feature: BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Whites Wash at Ninety

Despite her young age, a woman faces a lifetime’s worth of personal upheaval in _Whites Wash at Ninety_. Based on Bronja Žakelj’s Kresnik Award-winning autobiographical novel, this film from Marko Naberšnik (_Slovenia, Australia, and Tomorrow the World_, EUFF 2018) explores how history leaves its mark on individual lives. Not only does Bronja (Lea Čok Rajčič) experience the death of family members and her own personal illness, she does so at a time when historical change, including the fall of the USSR, is making life speed by. Moving between humour, tenderness, and regret, Naberšnik’s film is both a family saga and a reflection on the time we feel is taken away from us by forces beyond our control.

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Even Pigs Go to Heaven
Nosila je rubac črleni

A zany musical comedy about the dramas of villagers and their pigs in the Zagorje hills, narrated by Jesus Christ himself! At the outset of the Croatian War in 1991, plucky Anka (Nataša Dorčić) is privy to numerous secrets and scandals in her town. When her beloved sow Bebe expresses a desire to mate for the first time, Anka plays matchmaker with a strapping Serbian boar. But with local men enlisting for the Croatian cause, what will her neighbours say? The third feature from Goran Dukić (_Wristcutters: A Love Story_) imagines the Croatian landscape with cheery saturated colours and meticulous production design, all infused with good-natured humour and plenty of local flavour.)

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Drowning Dry
Seses

Bareisa’s often startling family drama, rendered in a fragmented narrative (reminiscent of Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter), is a powerful, affecting tale of two families whose summer holiday goes awry. Ernesta and her husband Lukas head to a lakeside country home with their son, accompanied by Ernesta’s sister, Juste, and her husband and daughter. We soon learn that both marriages are facing challenges and that this country holiday is not as idyllic as it first appears. When a sudden accident happens at the lake, their worlds changes utterly, but can they recover? Moving back and forth in time, Bareisa’s film is an intense, surprising examination of relationship, family, and how trauma is both experienced and processed. Unforgettable.

Winner, Best Director and Best Ensemble Performance at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival

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Talented writer-director Sonja Presenc’s third feature, Family Therapy is a sharp, satirical, and trenchant examination of a complacent, rather crass Slovenian nouveau riche family. Happily ensconced in their luxurious glass home, their seemingly orderly and predictable lives are disrupted by the arrival of a young stranger. The stranger’s presence soon reveals how thin the veneer of order is as the family begins to splinter into dysfunction as Olivia’s overprotectiveness, Aleksandar’s escapist tendencies, and Agata’s secrecy are unmasked. A sly, humorous reworking of the Pier Paolo Pasolini 1968 classic, Teorema, Prosenc combines dark comedy with her distinctive cinematic style in this incisive critique of contemporary society.

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Three Kilometers to the End of the World
Trei kilometri pâna la capatul lumii

In a small fishing village along the Danube Delta, a teenager’s secret relationship is discovered, setting off a chain of events that will shake his family and community to the core. Adi and his parents, caught between protecting their son and confronting the violence of their neighbours, find themselves at odds with each other as old prejudices come to the surface. Shot with striking naturalism by Silviu Stavilã (_Stuff and Dough_), this film by Emanuel Pârvu (_Mikado_, EUFF 2023) is an intense and intimate portrait of family bonds tested under pressure. Winner of the Queer Palme at Cannes, _Three Kilometres Until the End of the World_ is both deeply moving and unforgettable.

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Réveillon
A máme, čo sme chceli

A family gathers in a small apartment to celebrate the coming of 1993, and with it Slovakia’s independence. The mood is light and laughter fills the room. But as the night wears on, tensions and long-hidden grievances begin to surface. What starts as playful banter gradually spirals into heated arguments, accusations, and revelations that no one expected to hear. By the time midnight strikes, the Varchal family will never be the same again. Michal Kunes Kováč’s sharply observed chamber drama offers both biting humour and emotional depth as it examines the fragile bonds that hold people together.

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Memory Lane
De terugreis

Jaap and Maartje have been together almost five decades. Irascible old Jaap is not very interested in doing much, but Maartje, despite her occasional confusion, is still keen to embrace everything life has to offer. When the couple receives a letter from an old friend, Maartje manages to convince her reluctant husband to visit him in Southern Europe. After many years, the pair get into their old car to go on a journey through a completely changed Europe – bickering all the way, but also stirring up old loving memories. During this journey, Jaap slowly recognizes that his beloved Maartje is showing increasing signs of dementia. Realizing that everything is about to change, they rediscover just what it is they love about each other. A beautiful, tender, and very funny love story, _Memory Lane_ was the Dutch submission to the Academy Award for International Feature last year.

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Making Of

This entry by Cédric Kahn (The Goldman Case, Wild Life, EUFF 2015) in the film-about-filmmaking genre is a high-energy comedy about the snares of industry work, starting with the compromises and hypocrisies of international co-production financing! Simon is making a film about a worker’s strike. When his film’s production partners turn out to not hold for the length of the shoot, the crew considers taking a page out of the fiction they’re enacting to solve the real-world indignity they’re being subject to—can Simon truly disagree with their tactical response? Denis Podalydès, last seen in a starring role as a Philip Roth stand-in for Arnaud Desplechin’s _Deception_, plays the stressed-out director, while cinematographer Patrick Ghiringhelli (_The Night of the 12_) captures the metafictional madness.

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Wedlock
СВАТБА

TBA

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8 Views of Lake Biwa
Biwa järve 8 nägu

The winner of prizes for direction, acting, cinematography, and four other technical prizes at this year’s Estonian Film and Television Awards, Marko Raat’s fourth film takes its premise and title from an unusual transposition. In traditional Japanese painting, the Views tradition of serial woodblock paintings includes eight views of Omi, as well as the more widely-known 36 Views by Hokusai. Raat’s film unfolds episodically on Lake Peipus, and each variation presents a tale of star-crossed lovers, all forced to forge a new relationship where the trajectory, from the start, appears to be defined by fate. The chapters unfold in a highly artificial, anachronistic, and ritualistic manner. Theatre actor Tiina Tauraite’s role as Õnne, a teacher who meets a fisherman whose secrets are withheld for a decade, is a particular standout.

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Boléro

Paris, the Roaring Twenties. Iconoclastic and acclaimed Russian choreographer Ida Rubinstein chooses Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. She wants something bold, something sensual. Well-known and established, Ravel nonetheless finds himself unable to write anything. Reliving his life’s memories, facing his old loves and personal failures, the composer will eventually give birth to his greatest composition ever, ‘Bolero.’ Bolero is a sumptuous biographical drama of the troubled composer of one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. “Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel.” Jessica Kiang, Variety.

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We Treat Women Too Well
Tratamos demasiado bien a las mujeres

Adapted from Raymond Queneau’s provocative novel, this dark comedy transposes the Oulipo author’s mix of political and sexual warfare from Ireland’s Easter Rising to the end of the Spanish Civil War. The action is set over a single day in a remote post office, and pits a disorganized battalion of resistance fighters against the epitome of the Francoist regime in the wedding dress-adorned Remedios (Carmen Machi). Director Clara Bilbao captures the novel’s satirical edge with bold style, balancing biting humour with social critique. _We Treat Women Too Well_ is daring, entertaining, and unafraid to challenge assumptions, while shining a light on Spain’s long tradition of irony and satire.

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Dreamtown

A rock star that never was is at the heart of Steven McKenna’s lived-in character study, which draws inspiration from the orbit of the director’s musician father, a member of the Dublin band Shaine whose minor-hit “Dreamtown” affords the film its title. Leather-clad barfly Mickey Richards (Anthony Murphy) is an over-the-hill rocker still clinging to his younger self and bygone brushes with near-fame. His adult son Alan (Cian Hyland), meanwhile, has staked out his own career in music, a point of tension in the already tarnished relationship between the two. Desperate for connection but unwilling to cede his dreams to the next generation, Mickey must face up to his failures—as a musician, as a father—if he wants to keep Alan in his life.

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Peacock
Pfau—Bin ich echt?

How can we be ourselves when our lives demand constant performances for others? This biting social commentary follows “rent-a-friend” Matthias (_All Quiet on the Western Front_’s Albrecht Schuch) as he expertly occupies the roles demanded by his clients, whether they be of a present father, cultured boyfriend, or accomplished son. When his girlfriend dumps him for being too inauthentic, Matthias goes on an increasingly absurd journey of self discovery. Inspired by the same real-life agencies as the buzzy Brendan Fraser feature _Rental Family_, Wenger’s debut takes a decidedly more satirical approach in the vein of Ruben Östlund or _Toni Erdmann_.

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Maria’s Silence
Marijas Klusums

Renowned writer-director Davis Simanis (whose Exiled and The Year Before the War have played at previous EUFFs) here offers a powerful historical drama shot in luminous black and white. Based on the true story of Maria Leiko, a famous actress who becomes both a witness to and victim of Stalin’s brutal regime. In 1937, the then former silent film star travels to Russia after learning of the birth of her granddaughter. Discovering the tragic circumstances of her birth, she is persuaded by KGB agents to stay, abandoning her film career to join the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow. Increasingly aware that she is being manipulated by the Soviet government during its ruthless purges of political enemies, she must choose between family and career, and between her artistic ideals and the barbaric politics of Stalinism.

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Join us for a pre-screening reception hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia.

The Summer Book

Novelist, painter, and children’s book writer and illustrator Tove Jansson could hardly have predicted the sub-industry that has sprung up around her work, encompassing major exhibitions, biographical treatments, and now an international co-production of a book she wrote as a personal, intimate, and even reclusive correspondence in contrast to her national popularity. Charlie McDowell, the American director of high-concept films like _The One I Love_ and _Windfall_, earned the approval of Jansson’s niece Sophia to helm the project. Glenn Close plays the sage and inquisitive grandmother, full of flinty appreciation for nature’s wisdom, to the film’s version of Sophia, a child who’s given the space to grow over a Nordic island summer. Anders Danielsen Lie (_Bergman Island_, _The Worst Person in the World_) rounds out the cast as Sophia’s father.

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Join us for a pre-screening snack hosted by the Embassy of Romania.

Omen
Augure

A tour de force of magical realism from Belgian-Congolese rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji Tshiani, _Omen_ uses enigmatic storytelling and stunning imagery to tell the story of a Congolese man’s traumatic homecoming. Koffi (Marc Zinga) travels back to Kinshasa to introduce his family to his pregnant European girlfriend, only to be faced with the same accusations of witchcraft that spurred his exile in the first place. Baloji’s mesmerising debut is replete with intersecting stories and shifting meanings that evoke heartbreak and horror in equal measure. Baloji collaborated with Elke Hoste on the Central African-inspired costume design, which was featured in an exhibition at the MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp.

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Beyond the Blue Border
Jenseits der blauen Grenze

Based on a novel by athlete-turned-author Dorit Linke, writer-director Sarah Neumann’s feature debut is a gripping, youth-centred historical drama set during the final bulwark of

authoritarianism in 1989 East Germany. That summer, twentysomething Hanna (Lena Urzendowsky, _From Hilde, with Love_), a gifted swimmer with Olympic ambitions, elects to abandon her podium dreams when best friend Andreas (Willi Geitmann) is targeted by the secret police for transgressions against the state. Their path to freedom? A treacherous, open-water swim across 50-kilometres of the Baltic Sea, with only a rope tethering them together. Neumann’s film was a multiple-prize winner at Saarbrücken’s Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, which celebrates emerging talent in German-language cinema.

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I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Véletlenül írtam egy könyvet

Hungarian writer-director Nóra Lakos, whose previous feature _Cream_ played EUFF 2021, returns to the festival with a whimsical coming-of-age film about a young writer navigating girlhood and personal loss. Twelve-year-old Nina (Villõ Demeter) is a storyteller. Under the mentorship of a bohemian novelist next door, she starts to translate her life into prose—the nuisances of a little brother, the pains of growing up, the giddiness of first love. Gradually her writing leads to questions about her family and unresolved emotions around her mother’s death long ago. Using flourishes of animation to articulate Nina’s effervescent imagination, _I Accidentally Wrote a Book_ celebrates the magic of creativity to heal and help discover oneself.

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Hammarskjold

Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedish diplomat who became Secretary-General of the United Nations, dedicated his life to peace and international cooperation. In this sweeping biographical drama, director Per Fly follows Hammarskjöld’s journey from his rise in international politics to his untimely death in a mysterious plane crash in 1961. Along the way, the film portrays the challenges he faced in balancing ideals with the harsh realities of Cold War geopolitics. Anchored by Mikael Persbrandt’s compelling performance in the title role, _Hammarskjöld_ is a richly detailed portrait of a man whose vision for global peace remains strikingly relevant today.

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Casanova’s Return
Il ritorno di Casanova

Hugely successful, critically acclaimed filmmaker Leo Bernadi (played with endearing world weary charm by the excellent Toni Servillo) is approaching the end of his career but refuses to accept his slow decline. Strangely, the film he just finished shooting is inspired by a novel about the legendary ladies’ man, Casanova, a character Leo realizes is eerily similar to himself. Leo’s Casanova has lost his powers of attraction over women, plus he’s broke and simply wants to go back home to Venice. While traveling home, however, this aging Casanova meets a beautiful woman named Marcoline. She reawakens his desire, but his attempts at seduction are now fraught with new, unfamiliar risks. In this entertaining “art imitates life” tale, it is not lost on Leo why he decided to tell this story at such a pivotal moment of his life. But will his destiny as an old man match that of Casanova’s?

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This screening is a fundraiser. Proceeds from this screening will benefit the Ukraine Harmony Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about Ukraine both in Canada and globally.

2000 Meters to Andriivka
2000 метрів до Андріївки

On the frontline of the war in Ukraine, a small group of soldiers holds their ground in a devastated village. Their mission is simple but perilous: to survive against overwhelming forces while waiting for reinforcements that may never come. As the hours drag on, camaraderie, fear, and fragile hope intertwine in the face of constant danger. Directed by Pulitzer Prize–winner Mstyslav Chernov, who also made the Oscar-winning _20 Days in Mariupol_, this gripping documentary captures the immediacy of life under fire with both authenticity and humanity. _2000 Meters to Andriivka_ is cinema once urgent, intimate, and indelible.

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Breached
Wyrwa

This stylish thriller revolves around Maciek, a man whose life unravels following a car accident that claims the life of his wife, Janina. Although it appears Janina may have taken her own life, Maciek is baffled by the accident's location near Mrągowo, especially when she had told him she was heading to Kraków for business. As doubt gnaws at him, Maciek urgently embarks on a relentless, sometimes dangerous quest for answers. His investigation leads him to an actor, Wojnar, who he begins to believe may have been involved romantically with Janina. As the layers of mystery unfold, Maciek faces unsettling revelations, questioning how well he actually knew the woman he loved. Based on a bestselling novel by Wojciech Chmielarz, the film features assured, kinetic direction by Bartosz Konopka, whose brilliant thriller Fear of Falling played at the EUFF in 2012.

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