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Friday 20 June

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11:30 MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD 112'
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MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD

Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Becoming a mother upends her familiar routine, forcing her to balance family expectations with career demands. The film offers an intimate look at her journey through the emotional shifts of motherhood, testing her resilience and redefining her identity.

17:30 TIGER'S POND 87'
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TIGER'S POND

An idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths when Pathi ends up pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Prabhu, who is set in his mind to be part of the village council, works to cover up the incident lest it stand in the way of his campaign.

With the precision of a meticulously planned thriller and a claustrophobic atmosphere, Natesh Hedge reflects on violence and power, corruption, and politics in an apparently peaceful community in southern India
* Movie presented by its director.

20:00 UN FUTURO DE CINE: MARÍA ROMANILLOS 94'
UFdC

UN FUTURO DE CINE: MARÍA ROMANILLOS

On the occasion of the Futuro de Cine award to maría Romanillos two of her last films will be screened and will take place the award ceremony with the actress.

22:30 FWENDS 92'
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FWENDS

Two old friends reconnect over a weekend. Their conversations flow naturally. Trivial matters and deep emotions intertwine as they address the ups and downs of their lives with honesty and a sense of humor.

Two friends and the city of Melbourne as a space to explore that combination of expectations and uncertainties that occurs during your twenties. Sophie Sommerville directs with agile pacing and smart dialogue a fresh dramedy about the hopes of life when you’ve just entered adulthood.
* Movie presented by its director.

Saturday 21 June

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11:30 BOY IN THE POOL 89'
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BOY IN THE POOL

Woo-ju meets Seok-young when he saves her from drowning. Their friendship will be tested when Woo-ju makes a momentous decision and walks away to follow his dream.

Intimate and tender, Boy in the Pool depicts the arrival of first love in all its fullness and bittersweetness. A simple story, built around its teenage protagonists, based on those small emotions that the camera unravels with the pool as the setting for their awakening to the world.

17:30 ANNA'S LIFE 108'
SoM

ANNA'S LIFE

Anna is a young single moonlighter mother who, on day, decides to migrate to the USA looking for a better life for her and her autistic son. She risks everything, sells her house and tries to find an american visa to get ahead a new and unknown country.

20:00 FWENDS 92'
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FWENDS

Two old friends reconnect over a weekend. Their conversations flow naturally. Trivial matters and deep emotions intertwine as they address the ups and downs of their lives with honesty and a sense of humor.

Two friends and the city of Melbourne as a space to explore that combination of expectations and uncertainties that occurs during your twenties. Sophie Sommerville directs with agile pacing and smart dialogue a fresh dramedy about the hopes of life when you’ve just entered adulthood.
* Movie presented by its director.

22:30 THAT SUMMER IN PARIS 77'
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THAT SUMMER IN PARIS

France, August 2024. The Olympic Games are in full swing. Blandine arrives in Paris to meet up with her half-sister and to get to know her niece, while she tours a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.

With the Paris Olympics as a backdrop, Valentine Cadic builds an unusual summer adventure in which her protagonist, lost in the big city, must face her doubts and desires to rediscover herself.

Sunday 22 June

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17:30 BUNNYLOVR 86'
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BUNNYLOVR

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Katarina Zhu portrays, through claustrophobic planning, the anxiety of a hyperconnected generation whose emotional bonds reveal a fragility and frustration traceable to family breakdown and the difficulty of facing the transition to adulthood.

20:00 BAD GIRL 115'
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BAD GIRL

Ramya, a young Brahmin, is on her way to adulthood with one goal in mind: to find the ideal man while facing her traditional and strict parents, the imposed morals, and her chaotic adolescent mind.

Varsha Barath directs an energetic coming-of-age comedy that tells the struggle of its protagonist, Ramya, between the desires and longings typical of the end of adolescence and the strict morals and traditions that serve as the social framework in India.

22:30 THAT SUMMER IN PARIS 77'
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THAT SUMMER IN PARIS

France, August 2024. The Olympic Games are in full swing. Blandine arrives in Paris to meet up with her half-sister and to get to know her niece, while she tours a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.

With the Paris Olympics as a backdrop, Valentine Cadic builds an unusual summer adventure in which her protagonist, lost in the big city, must face her doubts and desires to rediscover herself.

22:30 THE WOUND 88'
SoM

THE WOUND

Every year, Xolani, a lonesome worker, takes part with other men in his community in a xhosa initiatic ritual. Kwanda, a young boy from Johannesburg, who is under Xolani's care, gets bullied by his companions because of his posh origins and his sensitivity. When Kwanda discovers Xolani's big secret, the life of the two men will radically change.

Monday 23 June

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11:30 BAD GIRL 115'
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BAD GIRL

Ramya, a young Brahmin, is on her way to adulthood with one goal in mind: to find the ideal man while facing her traditional and strict parents, the imposed morals, and her chaotic adolescent mind.

Varsha Barath directs an energetic coming-of-age comedy that tells the struggle of its protagonist, Ramya, between the desires and longings typical of the end of adolescence and the strict morals and traditions that serve as the social framework in India.

17:00 MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL 142'
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MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL

From Toronto to Oslo, we follow the journey of a young academic: Audrey Benac. Audrey undertakes a quest towards one forgotten woman — the acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another: her mother.

Sofia Bohdanovic delivers a film with a glacial aesthetic, unsettling rhythm, and mysterious breath. It’s a portrait of an obsession with music as an emotional landscape and a psychological study of a character marked by a difficult relationship with her mother and a total devotion to that ghostly music she has made her object of study.
* Movie presented by its director.

20:00 LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. CARICATURANA + AFERIM! 117'
MoV

LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. CARICATURANA + AFERIM!

Caricaturana (2021, 9'): Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamed of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire, a popular French character who personifies the unscrupulous swindler, as depicted in the 101 lithographs of Honoré Daumier's Caricaturana series.

Aferim! (2015, 108'): Early 19th century. Costandin, a local policeman, is hired by a boyar to track down Carfin, a gipsy slave who ran away from his property. Costandin begins pursuing the fugitive, thus beginning a black-and-white road movie about Roma slavery in 19th-century Romania.

Radu Jude will visit Valencia to receive the Luna de València award, which acknowledges his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his work.

22:30 LIGHT AS FEATHERS 108'
SoM

LIGHT AS FEATHERS

16 years old Eryk lives with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother in a small Polish village. He keeps a very intimate relationship with his ravager and manipulative mother. The consequences of that bond arise when Eryk falls in love with his neighbour Klaudia.

Tuesday 24 June

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11:30 MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL 142'
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MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL

From Toronto to Oslo, we follow the journey of a young academic: Audrey Benac. Audrey undertakes a quest towards one forgotten woman — the acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another: her mother.

Sofia Bohdanovic delivers a film with a glacial aesthetic, unsettling rhythm, and mysterious breath. It’s a portrait of an obsession with music as an emotional landscape and a psychological study of a character marked by a difficult relationship with her mother and a total devotion to that ghostly music she has made her object of study.
* Movie presented by its director.

17:30 THE BOTANIST 96'
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THE BOTANIST

In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it becomes a delicate dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.

With an aesthetic that combines meticulousness and an approach that plays with the poetry of intimacy, The Botanist explores, from the children’s perspective, the changes and transformations—both rural and urban—that shake contemporary China.

20:00 CURT CREIXENT: INVITED FESTIVAL D’A FILM FESTIVAL BARCELONA
CC

CURT CREIXENT: INVITED FESTIVAL D’A FILM FESTIVAL BARCELONA

Below is the list of short films selected by Curt Creixent as part of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona program.

The D’A Film Festival Barcelona is an event dedicated to auteur and independent cinema, presenting the best of contemporary film every year across several venues in the city

22:30 HONEYMOON 84'
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HONEYMOON

February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they are waken up by the explossions.They fail to leave the town on time and the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection.  

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reflected from the most intimate perspective. Zhanna Orzina makes her feature film debut with a movie in which the personal and the historical intertwine through the lives of newlyweds trapped in their apartment while, outside, the war shatters their reality.

Wednesday 25 June

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11:30 HONEYMOON 84'
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HONEYMOON

February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they are waken up by the explossions.They fail to leave the town on time and the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection.  

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reflected from the most intimate perspective. Zhanna Orzina makes her feature film debut with a movie in which the personal and the historical intertwine through the lives of newlyweds trapped in their apartment while, outside, the war shatters their reality.

17:30 CURT CREIXENT: SHORT FILMS FROM THE RUA ESCURA COOPERATIVE 60'
CC

CURT CREIXENT: SHORT FILMS FROM THE RUA ESCURA COOPERATIVE

Below is the list of short films selected by Curt Creixent as part of the Rua Escura program.

Each year, Rua Escura stands out for presenting unique proposals that explore new ways of narrating and experiencing contemporary cinema, establishing itself as a benchmark for auteur and independent film in Portugal.

20:00 LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN 106'
MoV

LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN

Radu Jude will visit Valencia to receive the Luna de València award, which acknowledges his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his work. On the 25th, he will be at La Filmoteca to present Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, the film that won the Golden Bear at the 71st Berlin Film Festival, held in 2021.

A high school teacher must cope with rejection and attacks from those around her when a pornographic video starred by her is leaked online. Divided into three episodes, the film includes a self-contained middle section that serves as a dictionary of concepts interpreted from a corrosive outside perspective.

22:30 BOY IN THE POOL 89'
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BOY IN THE POOL

Woo-ju meets Seok-young when he saves her from drowning. Their friendship will be tested when Woo-ju makes a momentous decision and walks away to follow his dream.

Intimate and tender, Boy in the Pool depicts the arrival of first love in all its fullness and bittersweetness. A simple story, built around its teenage protagonists, based on those small emotions that the camera unravels with the pool as the setting for their awakening to the world.

Thursday 26 June

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11:30 BUNNYLOVR 86'
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BUNNYLOVR

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Katarina Zhu portrays, through claustrophobic planning, the anxiety of a hyperconnected generation whose emotional bonds reveal a fragility and frustration traceable to family breakdown and the difficulty of facing the transition to adulthood.

17:00 LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS 140'
MoV

LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS

Radu Jude will be visiting Valencia to collect the Luna de València Award, which recognizes his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his films. On the 26th, he will be at La Filmoteca to present I Do Not Care If We Go Down History as Barbarians, movie that won, among others, the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 56th Gijón International Film Festival, held in 2018.

"I don't care if we go down history as barbarians".  These words, spoken by the Council of Ministers in the summer of 1941, launched ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Mariana, a young artist, attempts to reconstruct the anti-Semitic Odessa massacre of 1941. As she develops her spectacular project, she is forced to confront and overcome all the objections that arise, both from the authorities and from the residents she hires as extras.

20:15 MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD 112'
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MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD

Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Becoming a mother upends her familiar routine, forcing her to balance family expectations with career demands. The film offers an intimate look at her journey through the emotional shifts of motherhood, testing her resilience and redefining her identity.

22:30 BROTHER'S KEEPER 85'
SoM

BROTHER'S KEEPER

Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a strict and rigid bureaucratic system.

Friday 27 June

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11:30 TIGER'S POND 87'
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TIGER'S POND

An idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths when Pathi ends up pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Prabhu, who is set in his mind to be part of the village council, works to cover up the incident lest it stand in the way of his campaign.

With the precision of a meticulously planned thriller and a claustrophobic atmosphere, Natesh Hedge reflects on violence and power, corruption, and politics in an apparently peaceful community in southern India
* Movie presented by its director.

17:00 LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD 163'
MoV

LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD

Radu Jude will be visiting Valencia to collect the Luna de València Award, which recognizes his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his films.

An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around Bucharest to film the casting call for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. One of the interviewees says something that sparks a scandal, and she has to reinvent the whole story.

20:00 THE TUBE WITH A HAT 25'
SoM

THE TUBE WITH A HAT

Very early in the morning, Marian, a 7-year-old boy from a small Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city to fix their old TV set. The father and son begin carrying the TV set there, hoping they will find Bichescu, a specialist, who will fix their problem.

22:30 REHANA 107'
SoM

REHANA

Rehana, an assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault in which she knows both the victim and the perpetrator. Rehana will try everything she can to have this abuse recognized by the faculty just as she receives a complaint from the school about her six-year-old daughter's unusual behavior.

Saturday 28 June

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