Christian Petzold braids desire, artistic insecurity and the looming threat of climate change in his smouldering comedy of manners set over the course of a hot summer holiday on a Baltic coastline beset with forest fires.
Festival Programme
Films — by Genre
- Action
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- Artists
- Award-winners
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- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Crime
- Education
- Environment
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- Films about Films
- Finding Home
- Historical
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- Love Stories
- Media and the Internet
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- Travel
- WTF?
- War Zones
- Writers and Theatre
Travel
![Àma Gloria](/assets/resized/sm/upload/ww/b8/c2/mk/HERO_amagloriaphotogramme-4096x2160-retoucheetalo-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f7251783a9)
Àma Gloria
The special bond between a little French girl and her African nanny is tested during a last summer.
![Chocolat](/assets/resized/sm/upload/2r/wq/4s/eh/CHOCOLAT%20Hero-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=6ebc9b2388)
Chocolat
A complex, languorous tale of violence and desire drawing on French auteur Claire Denis’ own childhood growing up in colonial French Africa.
![EO](/assets/resized/sm/upload/ol/8n/93/wo/EO-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=a178184cd1)
EO
Hi-han
Strap in for an unforgettable, visionary trip, an Oscar-nominated journey that stunned Cannes with its cinematic flair. Your hosts? An octogenarian Polish auteur – and a donkey.
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La Chimera
Set in 80s Tuscany Alice Rohrwacher’s enchanting new film stars The Crown’s Josh O’Connor as a lovelorn Englishman who teams with an eccentric gang of grave-robbers to plunder ancient Etruscan artefacts.
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Omen
Augure
An invigorating tale of alleged witchcraft seeped in magical realism, director Baloji tackles grief and guilt as a Congolese man returns home in this Kinshasa set mind-bender.
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Pacifiction
Tourment sur les îles
Art cinema maverick Albert Serra takes us on an unsettling tour of the French Polynesian tropics with his latest anti-epic, a tale of political paranoia set to a backdrop of disquieting picture postcard sunsets.
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The Settlers
Los colonos
Set in on the remote frontier in early 20th-century Chile, first-time filmmaker Felipe Gálvez’s exhilarating and provocative revisionist Western takes a sidelong glance at Chile’s dark colonial past.
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The Survival of Kindness
Australian maverick Rolf de Heer’s new post-apocalyptic meditation reveals the full spectrum of humanity: from the shadows of discriminatory violence to sparks of redeeming kindness, all told through the journey of one lone traveller, “BlackWoman".