Film Festivals 2023
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1. Wadjda (2012)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Votes: 21,473 | Gross: $1.35M
2. Tel Aviv on Fire (2018)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Salam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
Director: Sameh Zoabi | Stars: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha
Votes: 2,581 | Gross: $0.45M
3. Area Boy (2023)
19 min | Short, Drama
Area Boy tells a poignant tale of one boy's attempt to cut off a part of himself in the wake of his baptism.
Director: Iggy London | Stars: Mensah Bediako, Joshua Cameron, Malcolm Kamulete, Merhawait Michael
Votes: 23
4. Bogotá Story (2023)
15 min | Short, Drama
In 1992, as Colombia faces an era of drug violence, car bombs, and daily power outages, a young mother in Bogotá receives an internship opportunity in New York and eventually must choose between her family and her dreams.
Director: Esteban Pedraza | Stars: Catalina Rey, Víctor Tarazona
Votes: 27
5. Dive (III) (2023)
13 min | Short, Drama
To escape the outside world and reconnect with one another, two youngsters travel to a remote beach. A tale about friendship and perhaps love, but most of all about life, its difficulties, and bravery.
Director: Aldo Iuliano | Stars: Danylo Kamenskyi, Veronika Lukyanenko
Votes: 41
6. Et si le soleil plongeait dans l'océan des nues (2023)
20 min | Short, Drama
Security agent Raed must stop pedestrians from entering the waterfront while it is being built. But as the building stifles the horizon more and more, he encounters strange things - just dreams or manifestations of his desires?
Director: Wissam Charaf | Stars: Raed Yassin, Rodrigue Sleiman, Said Serhan, Hala Dabaji
Votes: 43
7. In the Shadow of the Cypress (2023)
20 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.
Directors: Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani | Star: Zahra Moosavi
Votes: 100
8. Donovan's Reef (1963)
Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden
Votes: 9,835
9. North to Alaska (1960)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian
Votes: 8,486
10. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,368
11. Hondo (1953)
PG | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate
Votes: 12,411
12. The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani
Votes: 5,968
13. Afire (2023)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs
Votes: 7,215
14. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 137,648
15. Close Your Eyes (2023)
169 min | Drama
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Votes: 2,728
16. Deserts (2023)
125 min | Drama
Petty crooks Mehdi and Hamid travel through remote areas of Morocco to recover loans for their agency from villagers. Their usual day takes a turn when they meet a highwayman.
Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi | Stars: Fehd Benchemsi, Abdelhadi Talbi, Rabii Benjhaile, Hajar Graigaa
Votes: 100
17. The Delinquents (2023)
Unrated | 189 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.
Director: Rodrigo Moreno | Stars: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán De Silva
Votes: 2,833
18. Yannick (2023)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne
Votes: 4,259
19. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
179 min | Drama
A man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
Director: Thien An Pham | Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Votes: 1,077
20. Here (I) (2023)
82 min | Drama
Set in Brussels, the film revolves around a potential love story between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese doctorate student of moss, who cross paths just before the former is about to move back home.
Director: Bas Devos | Stars: Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong, Teodor Corban
Votes: 460
21. La Palisiada (2023)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
Director: Philip Sotnychenko | Stars: Andrii Zhurba, Novruz Hikmet, Valeria Oleinikova, Oleksandr Parkhomenko
Votes: 315
22. Soleils Atikamekw (2023)
103 min | Drama
Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white Quebeckers, survived unscathed. The official version: drinking binge gone wrong. Until now, the crime has remained unsolved.
Director: Chloé Leriche | Star: Jacques Newashish
Votes: 23
23. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
163 min | Comedy
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrsan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazar
Votes: 1,261
24. Chicken for Linda! (2023)
73 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
A loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. She sets off to make a chicken with peppers, even though she doesn't know how to cook.
Directors: Sébastien Laudenbach, Chiara Malta | Stars: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Estéban
Votes: 359
25. Non riattaccare (2023)
90 min | Drama
Director: Manfredi Lucibello | Stars: Barbara Ronchi, Claudio Santamaria, Piergiorgio Savarese, Guglielmo Favilla
26. Kalak (2023)
120 min | Drama
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, ... See full summary »
Director: Isabella Eklöf | Stars: Emil Johnsen, Asta Kamma August, Maka Abelsen, Leif Bosold
Votes: 212
27. Arturo a los 30 (2023)
92 min | Comedy
It follows Arturo, whose penchant for indiscretions is impossible to overlook.
Director: Martín Shanly | Stars: Martita Alchourrón, Miel Bargman, Francisco Bertín, Julieta Caputo
Votes: 119
28. Camping du lac (2023)
70 min | Drama
After Éléonore's automobile breaks down, she rents a bungalow on a campsite with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, a mythical beast resides. She moves from one mobile home to another, allowing fantasy to encroach on her space.
Director: Éléonore Saintagnan | Stars: Éléonore Saintagnan, Rosemary Standley, Wayne Standley, Anna Turluche
Votes: 37
29. Grace (2023)
119 min | Drama
In Russia, an introverted father and his teenage daughter live on the road in a van that contains their entire life, including the equipment for a travelling cinema: the source of their meager income.
Director: Ilya Povolotsky | Stars: Maria Lukyanova, Gela Chitava, Daro Akimidze, Koba Akimidze
Votes: 139
30. Indagine su una storia d'amore (2023)
100 min | Comedy
Paolo and Lucia have loved each other for years, but now their relationship is in crisis. Could participation in a television program be the solution to their problems?
Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Stars: Alessio Vassallo, Barbara Giordano, Antonio Pandolfo, Claudia Potenza
31. A Difficult Year (2023)
120 min | Comedy
Two swindlers, deep in debt, infiltrate a group of climate activists when they are attracted to the free food and drinks they are offered.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Merlant, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 1,727
32. Mad Love (1969)
252 min | Drama, Romance
During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can't find a way to leave their personal problems at ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop, Michèle Moretti
Votes: 808
33. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 81,735
34. Io Capitano (2023)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo, Hichem Yacoubi
Votes: 9,951
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