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Original title (SR): Диџеј Ахмет (Didžej Ahmet, DJ Ahmet)

15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1400743

Original title (IT): Diciannove (Nineteen)

Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1118770-diciannove

Original title (IT): Diamanti

Diamonds is a film set at the same time in 2024 and 1974. It is a memory about the glorious Sartoria Canova, a tailor shop that specialized in costumes for film and theatre, run by two sisters, Alberta and Gabriella, one tough and severe, the other emotional and tormented. Opposite characters that have to manage an important commission: the preparation of the costumes for a colossal set in the 1700s, designed by an insecure costume designer, Bianca. The struggles of individuals is what counts for these women, confronting and defeating their own demons—domestic violence, the shadow of depression, the longings and regrets—with only the support of their warm community and by recognizing the founding value of a union that transcends the canonical/imposed boundaries of “family.”

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1299046-diamanti

Original title (ES): Sorda (Deaf)

Angela's deafness raises concerns during her pregnancy regarding connecting with her daughter. Post-delivery, partner Héctor supports her as she learns to mother in a society lacking adequate accommodations for the hearing-impaired.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1303613-sorda

Picking up fresh on the heels of their disappointing competition loss, Mina and Markus turn their luck around when they win the chance of a lifetime—starring roles in a music video (with real-life folk singer Frida Ånnevik) filming on location in Los Angeles! The glitz and the glamour of Tinseltown belies the pressure of success when Mina is torn between a big break movie audition and honoring her commitment to her dance crew. Amidst the angst of making her dreams come true, Mina must also confront her parents’ marriage in crisis. With charming performances and a script that captures the hilarity and grief of being a teenager, this family-friendly comedy has something for audiences young and old to enjoy.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1453538-dancing-queen-i-hollywood

Original title (HE): קרוב אלי (Krov ali, Close to Me)

After Eden’s brother dies suddenly, she discovers that he had a secret girlfriend. As the two women get to know one another, they embark on an intense and intimate relationship of their own.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1290377

After his wife’s sudden passing, Lucky (William Catlett) finds himself a single father to nine-year-old Mason (Jeremiah Daniels). Not yet able to comprehend what has happened to his mother, Lucky watches in frustration as Mason goes on as if nothing’s changed, spending his days watching baseball on TV and drawing in his coloring book. Determined not to let his pain hurt his relationship with his son, Lucky pushes through his grief and makes it his mission to take Mason to his first baseball game. Father and son set out on an odyssey through Atlanta to make it to the stadium by sundown, come hell or high water. Cinematographer Nikolaus Summerer masterfully uses a tight aspect ratio and gorgeous black and white cinematography to create a striking sense of intimacy, equal parts captivating, uncomfortable, and heartwarming. In a dazzling performance far beyond his years, newcomer Daniels proves that disabled actors do belong on screen and deserve to tell their own stories. With this tender love letter to his native Atlanta, Black fatherhood, and radical compassion, debut feature director David Fortune announces himself as a fresh, eloquent voice that’s here to stay.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1276013-color-book

Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, challenging audiences with uncomfortable truths when her pursuit of coexistence starts sounding absurd.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1400791-coexistence-my-ass

Ryōsuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1244244-cloud

Original title (LT): Sesės (Sisters)

Sisters Ernesta and Justė, along with their husbands Lukas and Tomas, gather at their parents’ summer house. It’s been a while since they’ve all been together and the children are delighted to be spending the last warm days by the lake. But an intense weekend soon unravels, thrusting both families into a radically altered reality where time is limited and emotional issues must be solved amidst growing heartache.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1315138-seses

Visionary chef Hidekazu Tojo grapples with his life's struggle to make himself and his culinary creations palatable to a Western audience. He embarks on a journey of identity intertwined with the mythical presence of Daruma, a legendary monk from Japanese folklore - shaping a narrative that transcends borders, realities, and flavours.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1353206-the-chef-the-daruma

An exploration of the legacy of Tobe Hooper's classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1318933-chain-reactions

In this feel-good doc expanded from a 2019 short, filmmaker Jonathan Napolitano snuggles up with Bruce and Terry Jenkins, an aging Floridian couple who've decided to spend their last days running a retirement home for senior and aging cats.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1469151-cat-town-usa

Original title (ZH): 植物学家 (Zhíwù xué jiā, Botanist)

In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin, who finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it deepens into a delicate, dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1268919

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1274751-blue-sun-palace

Original title (ES): Oro amargo (Bitter Gold)

Set in the extinct world of artisan mining in North Chile, this neo western centers the struggles and empowerment of a young woman, fighting to keep the family business against patriarchal structures and the law of the jungle.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1358791-oro-amargo

In this compassionate yet disturbing documentary, director Lawrence Côté-Collins inspects the life of former filmmaking friend Billy Poulin, now in prison for murder, through his own stockpile of video footage and deconstructs the effects of untreated schizophrenia.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1276265-billy

When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside tenderness, humor, and tenacity.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1329860-between-goodbyes

Don Hardy's (PICK OF THE LITTER, MFF18) latest goes behind the BAR 5-Day course—the world's premiere educational program on distilled spirits and mixology. Two parts competition, one part the camraderie of teachers and learners served over ice with a dash of spiritous history, this film will whet your interest in and appreciation for what goes into serving a great drink well

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1465595-bar

Original title (FR): Le Tableau volé (The Stolen Painting)

André Masson (Alex Lutz), specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1076555-le-tableau-vole

Ani DiFranco was an unmistakable talent that shook the ‘90s alternative music scene. In this vulnerable look at her life today, she struggles to balance artistry with the demands of family

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1276214-1-800-on-her-own

Rebecca cleans houses to make ends meet, but her true passion is recording her clients without their knowledge. Eavesdropping on their private moments, she compiles a library of fights, family meetings, confessions and hookups - an array of emotions to taste-test, rewind and revisit as she likes. When she encounters Martin, a self-secluded man who harbors violent fantasies, Rebecca creeps down from her voyeuristic listening post. Helpless to resist, she engages with him in a visceral but contactless transaction - as grave as life and death but just within earshot.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1463307-interaction

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1136987-c-est-pas-moi

Claire Lewis (Annalise Basso), a blind woman, is overly cautious with her six-year-old daughter Briar. When Briar goes missing on Christmas day Claire faces her worst nightmare and sets out in darkness to find her.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19356084/

Original title (FR): Jane Austen a gâché ma vie (Jane Austen Ruined My Life)

In Laura Piani’s charming and witty debut, an aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1082424-jane-austen-a-gache-ma-vie