World Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 104min

Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest feature a scene in which students in a classroom are watching Roger Vadim′s film, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959). The theme of the film and the novel on which it is based is deception: Characters are,...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

World Cinema

• Belgium/France/Costa Rica
• 2022
• 100min

Eva (Daniela Marin Navarro), a sixteen-year-old girl, is confused as her parents divorce. She lives with her mother, a little sister, and a cat, but her heart often clings onto her father, Martin (Reinaldo Amien Gutierrez). She ...

• Best Director Award, Best Actress Award, Best Actor Award at Locarno International Film Festival

World Cinema

• Switzerland/France/Belgium
• 2022
• 103min

Vivaldi’s music flows, vases fly, a record shatters, and scores flutter. An angry woman slaps another, who falls on the piano as she tries to run away. This four-minute slow-motion sequence shot by Agnes Godard provides one of ...

• Berlin International Film Festival Competition

World Cinema

• Belgium/France
• 2022
• 88min

Emmanuelle Nicot’s defiant debut film focuses on posing a provocative question rather than providing an answer. Dalva, a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her father, dresses and wears makeup like a grown woman. She is too yo...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

World Cinema

• United States
• 2022
• 106min

Raymond & Ray follows half-brothers Raymond and Ray, who have lived in the shadow of a terrible father. Somehow, they still each have a sense of humor, and his funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves. There’s anger,...

• Toronto International Film Festival Gala Presentations

World Cinema

• Brazil/France
• 2022
• 100min

Simone is training to work as a public defender for women who are victims of domestic violence. However, as dusk falls she turns into an online porn star to work her way through law school, and ventures into the dangerous world...

• Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival

World Cinema

• Ireland
• 2022
• 95min

Set in 1981, this film tells the story of a young girl, Cait, who is sent away for the summer from her dysfunctional family to live with "her mother′s people". These are Sean and Eibhlin Cinnsealach; a middle-aged couple she has...

• Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Feature Film at Berlin International Film Festival

World Cinema

• United States/Italy
• 2022
• 114min

Monica is the intimate and moving portrait of a woman living in Los Angeles who returns to her small Ohio hometown for the first time in over twenty years to care for her dying mother, Eugenia. While staying in her childhood ho...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 76min

Quentin Dupieux’s extraordinary seems boundless. How would you react to a magical tunnel in the basement of your new house? The low-key setting of this film suggests that it will be a gloomy comedy?highly unusual for Dupieux. A...

• Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale Special

World Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 114min

On the night of October 12, 2016, twenty-one-year-old Clara Royer was doused in gasoline and burned alive. Who might have done such a barbaric thing? Yohan and the police begin their investigations around Clara′s friends and fa...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere