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• Italy
• 2022
• 134min

Gianni Amelio, whose film work has reliably investigated modern Italian society, focuses this time on the 1960s. He remembers the barbaric reality of the time when he began his career and when Italian films hit their peak. Author ...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

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• France/Chile
• 2022
• 83min

My Imaginary Country opens with cheers of the people for Salvador Allende, but the coup d′etat they support eventually shatters the dreams they had of changes for the better. In October 2019, Chile exploded again. As in The Battle...

• Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings

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• Iran
• 2022
• 107min

Jafar Panahi is a renowned Iranian filmmaker who won the Cannes Golden Camera Award with The White Balloon (1995), the Venice Golden Lion with The Circle (2000), and the Berlin Silver Bear with Offside (2006). However, in 2010, he...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

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• Italy/France
• 2022
• 86min

As if he celebrates his fifty years of career, Dario Argento returns to the giallo film, the genre that made him an international celebrity. On a bright summer day in Rome, Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli) is chased by a man. She loses h...

• Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale Special

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• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 104min

Rafael, a son of a wealthy family, gets into a car accident while returning home after shopping to prepare for a feast. Frightened, he tries to cover up the case. The victim dies, leaving his poor family empty handed while the inv...

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• Canada/Greece/France/United Kingdom
• 2022
• 108min

The film takes a deep dive into the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis that alters their biolog...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

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• Mexico
• 2022
• 164min

Bardo is the Tibetan term for the intermediate state between death and rebirth that lasts for forty-nine days. Acclaimed journalist and documentarist Silverio Gama returns to Mexico after he “ran away from censorship” more than tw...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

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• Italy/United States
• 2022
• 130min

Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name, continues his exploration of various forms of love in Bones and All, a road movie about two wounded teenagers traveling across the United States in the 1980s. When her father ...

• Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice Film Festival

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• Philippines/France/Portugal/Denmark
• 2022
• 188min

Hermes, a capable police officer solves cold cases, feels a sense of professional ambivalence about his role in the war on drugs. Several times a day, he sees the bodies of so-called ‘drug offenders’ who have been killed on the st...

• Venice Film Festival Out of Competition

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• France
• 2022
• 111min

The family members in the film, from grandparents to grandsons, call each other with their first names and give the impression that they each have strong self-identities. Especially two siblings, the eldest daughter Alice who is a...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition