44th São Paulo International Film Festival
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- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsBaran RasoulofZhila ShahiMahtab ServatiThe four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
- DirectorMário BarrosoStarsMaria de MedeirosMarcello UrgegheJoão Pedro MamedeIn 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural, and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a chauffeur 26 years her junior.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- DirectorRodrigo ReyesStarsEduardo San JuanUpon the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish Conquest, a ghostly Conquistador arrives in modern Mexico. As he journeys toward the capital city, he remembers events from his past while encountering the testimonies of real people, the survivors of contemporary violence. History and the present begin to merge, giving nightmarish reflection on the enduring legacy of colonialism in our world today.
- DirectorRodrigo Ruiz PattersonStarsAdrián RossiSophie Alexander-KatzFabián CorresLife for a solitary teenager is altered when his mother brings home her new boyfriend to live with them.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsHiromi NagasakuArata IuraAju MakitaA woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
- DirectorPascal PlanteStarsKaterine SavardAriane MainvilleHilary CaldwellNadia, an Olympic swimmer in her twenties, faces the challenges of her imminent retirement.
- DirectorSevgi HirschhäuserStarsNuman ÇakirBurak AydinEmine AnilSince the death of his parents, the teenage Burak has lived with his uncle Cemil and grandmother in a remote Turkish village. The small family unit has been trying to make a living by selling fruits. While the religious Cemil is satisfied to live his life in poverty, Burak struggles to leave for the city and attend university.
- DirectorMagnus von HornStarsMagdalena KolesnikJulian SwiezewskiAleksandra KoniecznaThree days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zajac, a social media celebrity surrounded by loyal employees and admirers, who is really looking for true intimacy.
- DirectorJoão Nuno PintoStarsJoão Nunes MonteiroJoão LagartoFilipe DuarteA Portugese soldier gets lost in the African jungle, in 1917
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsAli NasirianJavad EzatiTannaz Tabatabaei12-year-old Ali and his three friends, together they work hard to survive and support their families. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground.
- DirectorGregory MonroStarsStanley KubrickMichel CimentMalcolm McDowellA rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of unearthed interview recordings from the master himself.
- DirectorHeather YoungStarsAndria EdwardsShan MacDonaldWhen an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.
- DirectorXing YouStarsLudi LinLu HuangLingchen JiSummer, 1996. In a small community in South West China, an 8-year-old tries to capture the thief responsible for stealing his grandma's bike and enters the moral quandary for the first time.
- DirectorMatthew RankinStarsDan BeirneSarianne CormierCatherine St-LaurentDetermined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsGoran BogdanBoris IsakovicNada SarginA Serbian man fights to regain custody of his children.
- DirectorArthur FranckStarsOlliver HawkLaila HakasaloValto KäkeläLife story of Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, aka. Olliver Hawk.
- DirectorDani RosenbergStarsMarek RozenbaumRoni KubanNatan RosenbergA father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father's illness threatens to cut their quest short.
- DirectorGeorgis GrigorakisStarsVangelis MourikisArgyris PandazarasSofia KokkaliA father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
- DirectorTiago GuedesStarsAlbano JerónimoSandra FaleiroAna Vilela da CostaThe chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus.
- DirectorAndrew WakefieldStarsMary HollandBrian HookerRobert F. Kennedy Jr.A dramatic forensic examination of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its consequences.
- DirectorLemohang Jeremiah MoseseStarsMary TwalaJerry MofokengMakhaola NdebeleWhen her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsNanding JosefBart GuingonaDon Melvin BoongalingA look at how much human beings are like animals.
- DirectorBraden KingStarsPhilip EttingerTess HarperArchie LewisAdaptation of Carter Sickels' 2012 novel.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeAnong HoungheuangsyKang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
- DirectorHilal BaydarovStarsOrkhan IskandarliRana AsgarovaHuseyn Nasirov'In Between Dying' is the love story of Davud, a young man trying to find his "real" family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it's in the place he has always lived. But it is too late.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeDounia SichovSimon McBurneyAn exploration into the language of dreams.
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsAgathe BoschUgo BroussotFrédéric Schulz-RichardA landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.
- DirectorJanis RafailidouStarsPenelope TsilikaDimitris LalosMichele ValleyIn a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- DirectorKislayStarsTrimala AdhikariHarish KhannaMohini SharmaMrs. Sharma is the wife of a respected, small-time government employee in Allahabad. When her husband dies, she is expected to move in with her son and grandchildren. But the woman wants to live by herself.
- DirectorNajwa NajjarStarsMouna HawaFiras NassarLamis AmmarTwo married young couple are going through steps to get divorced when the husband finds out secrets about his past
- DirectorSusanna NicchiarelliStarsRomola GaraiPatrick KennedyJohn Gordon SinclairBright and passionate, Eleanor links feminism and socialism. Partaking in workers' battles, she fights for women's rights and against child labor. Meeting Edward Aveling in 1883, her life is overtaken by a tragic love affair
- DirectorBettina OberliStarsAgnieszka GrochowskaMarthe KellerAndré JungWanda, a Polish woman, takes care of 70-year-old Joseph in his family villa on the lake. She is always there for him and also helps his wife Elsa. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her family.
- DirectorThomas ClayStarsMaxine PeakeCharles DanceFreddie FoxFanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMercedes MoránMaría ValverdeMarcelo AlonsoThree friends are part of an opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
- DirectorJenni KivistöJussi RastasStarsErnestoJuan Manuel SantosPachoThe peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government throws the country into chaos. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the 'wrong' thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle?
- DirectorJoão Paulo Miranda MariaStarsAntonio PitangaAna Flavia CavalcantiSam LouwyckCristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was "alive".
- DirectorMarcelo BrennandStarsThomas AquinoJosé DumontRodrigo GarcíaCurral is a political drama set in the rural Brazilian city of Gravatá. During the mayoral elections, the population is divided between the Blue and Red parties, two political oligarchies fighting each other for power. A recent severe drought means water is the main bargaining chip when it comes to securing a majority of people's votes. Chico Caixa is a former city employee. He lost his job trying to take water supplies to a poor neighborhood which had been abandoned for political reasons. Caixa is invited by a childhood partner, Joel, to work on his councilor campaign. Joel presents himself as a new alternative to the older candidates, who have been in power for decades. But as the campaign progresses, Chico Caixa soon realizes that breaking apart from the established political game is not always as easy as it may seem.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteStarsKelly DepeaultCaroline NéronNormand D'AmourA coming of age story set against the backdrop of a rural Québec town and grunge music's rise.
- DirectorMelanie WaeldeStarsKatrin BeckmannMichelangelo FortuzziUlrike HübschmannFive young people in provincial Germany. They run into each other and away from each other. They kiss and they fight. It's their last winter together before they leave school, after that it's stay or go. A feature film debut of enormous intensity.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyIlya PermyakovStarsVladimir AzhippoDmitry KaledinOlga ShkabarnyaA secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and people, aiming at creating an "ideal human being". A KGB general and his aides prefer to turn a blind eye to the erotic adventures of the director and scandalous debaucheries of distinguished scientists and their mad and cruel research methods. Until once, under the guise of test subjects, a radical youth group arrives to the Institute. They are given a severe task: to eradicate the dissolute behaviors of intelligentsia and - if needs be - to destroy and to erase the fragile world of the Institute.
- DirectorLouise ArchambaultStarsAndrée LachapelleGilbert SicotteRémy GirardThree elderly hermits live in the woods. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women - A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsArvydas DapsysMarius Povilas Elijas MartynenkoAlina Zaliukaite-RamanauskieneA historical drama set in Lithuania in 1948, "Au Crépuscule" focuses on Ounté, a 19-year old boy who experiences passion and violence after joining a group of partisans resisting the Soviet occupation.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsHuifang DuanLiang HongYu HuaFilmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
- DirectorAdrian CioflâncãRadu JudeStarsCatalin AnchidinLarisa CrunteanuThis is a documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: in the city of Iasi, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10.000 Jews were killed - first by bullets, than by asphyxiation in freight trains. The film, which is an attempt to use the montage of archive materials in order to offer a deep and special view of History, has two parts: The first part of the film could be titled "the encyclopaedia of the dead": photographs of the people who were eventually killed by the Romanian army and by civilians are accompanied by voices who recite the documents related to their fate in the massacre: witness accounts, testimonies from the post-war trials, interviews with survivors, private diaries etc. The second part, shorter, represents a montage of the remaining photographs of the actual massacre (taken mostly by the German soldiers who were in town). Why a montage film with photographs and texts related to the Jassy pogrom of 1941? Because, as Georges Didi-Huberman shows, "Montage will precisely be one of the fundamental responses to this problem of the construction of historicity. As it has no simple orientation, montage evades theologies, montage escapes theologies, makes visible the remainders, the anachronisms, the encounters of contradictory temporalities that affect every object, every event, every person, every gesture. Thus, the historian gives up telling "a story", but, by doing so, he succeeds in showing that history cannot go without all the complexities of time, all the layers of archaeology, all the dottings of the destiny."
- DirectorVesela KazakovaMina MilevaStarsIrina AtanasovaAngel GenovOrlin AsenovSouth-East London, in the multicultural neighborhood of Peckham, in a municipal building. A Bulgarian family goes into serious conflict with their neighbors due to abandoned cat.