Human Interest/Society

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  A Holy Family

  Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88min

  After 24 years of absence, director Elvis A-Liang Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. A HOLY FAMILY is an intimate journey of home-coming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking. Read More

   
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  Outside

  Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark | 2022 | 79min

  The 7-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at 18 into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter. Read More

   
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  Eat Your Catfish

  United States, Spain, Turkey | 2021 | 74min

  Kathryn's ALS has left her paralyzed and her family's relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter's wedding. With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand & Senem Tüzen probes the breakdown of a family's bonds and of a woman's will to live. Read More

   

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  Stand Up My Beauty

  Switzerland, Germany | 2021 | 110min

  Nardos is a young singer from Addis Ababa who wants to fulfill herself as an artist, undeterred by everyday problems and strict tradition. Director Heidi Specogna tells the story of the conception of her first own, original song, through the stylistic means of a documentary musical. Read More

   
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  Brotherhood

  Czech Republic, Italy | 2021 | 97 / 54min

  BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner is an intimate coming of age story following three young brothers in Bosnia, growing up under the shadow of their father’s influence, who must each decide: which man do you want to be? Read More

   
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  Bellum - The Daemon of War

  Sweden, Denmark | 2021 | 58/88min

  A triptych of stories by David Herdies and Georg Götmark about the ways in which Western nations choose to cope with war, write the narratives of war, the different ways they find to profit from it, and how they film it. Read More

   

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  The Bubble

  Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93min

  THE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More

   
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  Les Enfants terribles

  France, Turkey, Germany | 2021 | 52/93min

  Set in a close-Arab community, in a village situated in the south of Turkey, this film by Ahmet Necdet Cupur unfolds a familial story, where children must face their imposed fate and pressure from the community, to emancipate and follow aspirations. Read More

   
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  Anamnesis

  Germany | 2021 | 111min

  How do you picture a man who has murdered? A film by Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe about the story of Stefan S. and the limits of our imagination. Read More