World Cinema

• France/Italy/Georgia
• 2024
• 134min

Dea Kulumbegashvili is a star of Georgian cinema and a director who makes desperately needed women’s films in the current era. Her debut film, Beginning (2020), features a woman who suffers physical harm, and the director demonstr...

• Venice Special Jury Prize

World Cinema

• Israel/Italy
• 2024
• 82min

The third feature film by director Dani Rosenberg, who was invited to the International Competition section of the 2023 Locarno Film Festival with his second feature The Vanishing Soldier. Dar, a 16-year-old Israeli girl, returns ...

• Venice Orizzonti

World Cinema

• United States
• 2024
• 115min

Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s moving, gently comic collaboration is about the power of live theater in making sense of our offstage dramas and personal narratives. Ghostlight centers on Dan, a melancholic middle-aged constr...

• Sundance Premieres

World Cinema

• Switzerland
• 2024
• 118min

The third feature film by Ramon Zurcher, who is recognized as Switzerland’s representative next-generation director, and the final film in his animal trilogy exploring human togetherness. A middle-aged couple, Karen and Markus, li...

• Locarno International Competition

World Cinema

• France
• 2024
• 145min

The latest work from comedy writer duo the Boukherma brothers, is a poignant drama. After writing their own screenplays, the duo has adapted a coming-of-age film from the novel by Nicolas Mathieu, who won the Goncourt Prize. Despi...

• Venice Best Young Actor or Actress

World Cinema

• Italy/Switzerland
• 2024
• 106min

Actor and singer Margherita Vicario dedicates her film to “all the female composers who were written out of history.” Set in a convent in Venice, Italy, in 1800, the story follows Teresa, a musically gifted girl who discovers a ra...

• Berlin Competition

World Cinema

• Ireland/United Kingdom
• 2024
• 105min

It is said that there are more people learning Irish on the language learning app Duolingo than native Irish speakers. Some of these endangered Irish speakers reside in British-governed Northern Ireland. Kneecap depicts the story ...

• Sundance NEXT Audience Award

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2024
• 182min

The protagonist of Dying, a Berlin Film Festival award-winning screenplay, says: “Not everyone has the talent to be happy.” Matthias Glasner’s characters choose pain and unhappiness over lukewarm love or the pursuit of happiness. ...

• Berlin Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

World Cinema

• United States/Poland
• 2024
• 90min

A Real Pain follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) who reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when old tensions between the odd couple...

• Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition

World Cinema

• Norway/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany
• 2024
• 117min

In a quiet elementary school classroom on the brink of summer vacation, a teacher and parents gather. A single mother reacts with disbelief upon hearing the news that her six-year-old son has done ‘something terrible’ to his class...

• Cannes Camera d′Or