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Trench
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE In Venice, an art historian realizes that her brilliant mind will not be enough to solve the mystery surrounding a stranger’s disappearance. In addition to regaining the use of her intuition, she will need the help of an array of colorful characters from her community. Stay after the screening to chat with...
Behind the Mountains
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE After spending four years in jail for vandalizing his place of work, Rafik has only one plan, take his son to the mountains and show him his amazing discovery. Countries of production: Tunisia, Belgium, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Qatar Orizzonti Official Selection – Venice International Film Festival – 2023
Vermiglio
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico), who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi). Vermiglio portrays the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Yet, through Lucia’s perspective, Vermiglio feels distinct and novel. Official selection – Golden Globes – 2025Grand Jury Prize – Venice Film Festival – 2024
Paradise is Burning
In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura, Mira and Steffi get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But when social services call a meeting, Laura has to find someone to impersonate their mom, or the girls will be taken into foster care and separated. Laura keeps the threat a secret, so as not to worry her younger sisters. But as the moment of truth draws closer, new tensions arise, forcing the three sisters to negotiate the fine line between the euphoria of total freedom and the harsh realities of growing up. Best Director, Best Screenplay – Venice Film festival – 2023
Aïcha
Aya, in her late twenties, still lives with her parents in southern Tunisia and feels trapped in a life without prospects. One day, the minivan in which she commutes daily between her town and the hotel where she works crashes. As the sole survivor of the accident, she realizes it could be her chance to start a new life. She flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon compromised when she becomes the main witness to a police blunder. Official selection – Venice International Film Festival – 2024 Countries of production: Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Parthenope
The life of Parthenope, from her birth in the 1950s to the present day. A feminine epic devoid of heroism but filled with freedom, love, and an unbreakable bond with Naples. True loves, unspoken passions, and fleeting affairs that bring both pain and the will to start again. A perfect summer in Capri, where youth revels in its carefree days despite a horizon with no clear future. Around Parthenope, the Neapolitans observed, loved, disillusioned, yet full of life are followed through their melancholic wanderings, tragic ironies, and moments of despair. Life can be long, memorable, or ordinary. As time passes, it offers the full spectrum of emotions. And there, always present yet elusive, is the enigmatic city of Naples bewitching, enchanting, screaming, laughing, and sometimes hurting. Official Selection – Cannes Film Festival – 2024
The Return
After 20 years of absence, Ulysses washes ashore on the coast of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left for the Trojan War. His beloved wife, Penelope, is now a prisoner in her own home, relentlessly harassed by numerous ambitious suitors pressuring...
Sicilian Letters
CANADIAN PREMIERE Sicily, early 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service “persuades” him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to...
Wishing on a Star
QUEBEC PREMIERE Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky. Whether it’s Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, during these birthday journeys, the protagonists will go...
L’enlèvement
In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive...