JUST ANIMALS

Original Title: Eläinoikeusjuttu
Directed by: Saila Kivelä, Vesa Kuosmanen
Genres: Documentary
Produced by: Elli Toivoniemi, Juha Löppönen, Venla Hellstedt
Production Company: Tuffi Films
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Duration: 80 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP, ProRes

Synopsis: More than ten years ago Saila confessed openly that she was part of the activist group that secretly filmed hundreds of animal farms. Saila’s sister Mai has chosen a different path, politics, and Saila fears her biggest activist idol might become a part of the machinery they have been fighting against together. Saila spent three years of her youth in a legal battle where the prosecutor sought her a jail sentence and the farmers wanted extreme compensation. The leading activist, Kristo, saw Saila as the next hope for the movement. However, Saila does not know how to prove and convince people of the suffering of animals anymore. She needs to save herself and find out what kind of an activist and a person she is.

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SHELTER

Original Title: Foscadh
Directed by: Seán Breathnach
Genres: Psychological Drama
Cast: Dónall Ó Héalai, Fionnuala Flaherty, Cillian Ó Gairbhí, Macdara Ó Fátharta, Diarmuid de Faoite
Written by: Séan Breathnach
Produced by: Paddy Hayes
Production Company: Magamedia
Production year: 2021
Release year: 2021
Country: Ireland
Language: Irish
Duration: 93 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: Set in the wild mountains of Connemara, Shelter tells the story of naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of 28. When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of romance, trust and vengeance for the first time…

The ensuing drama is a taut and absorbing late coming-of-age tale from the North-western fringes of Europe.

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OTAR’S DEATH

Directed by: Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze
Genres: Suspense
Cast: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Iva Kimeridze, Eka Chavleishvili, Achi Makalatia
Written by: Elmar Imanov, Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze
Produced by: Eva Blondiau
Production Company: Maisis Peri
Production year: 2021
Release year: 2021
Country: Georgia, Germany, Lithuania
Language: Georgian
Duration: 105 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: Keti (36) and her son Nika (16) find themselves in trouble when Nika hits an old man with the car. The victim`s family promises to refrain from pressing charges for a monetary price. Time is running out as Keti tries to raise the large amount to prevent her son Nika from going to prison. An unexpected twist gives the drama a tragicomical air.

WINNER OF THE FEDEORA AWARD - KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021

GEARED UP

Directed by: Tobias Leo Nordquist
Original Title: Vitt Skräp
Genres: Gangster Thriller
Cast: Ola Rapace, Ida Engvoll, Peter Viitanen, Erik Bolin, Donald Högberg, Dakota Trancher Williams
Written by: Anton Hagwall, Andreas Doyle, Joel Forssell
Produced by: Mikael Cross (Head Producer), Eiffel Mattsson
Production Company: Mikael Cross Films
Production year: 2021
Release year: 2021
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Duration: 107 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP

Synopsis:

In the search for reconciliation with his past, Sami (played by Ola Rapace) ends up in a small town where he meets Kim (Ida Engvoll). They both meet the local gangster The Old Man (Donald Högberg) who runs a seemingly sophisticated methamphetamine empire together with his two sons Conny (Peter Viitanen) and Kenneth (Erik Bolin). 
At first, everything is peace and joy, but when drugs start circulating in the town without Gubben's permission, attention is drawn to the newcomer Sami, who realizes that he is in a dangerous situation. To stay alive, he must quickly make a plan.

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ROSE: A LOVE STORY

Directed by: Jennifer Sheridan
Genres: Horror
Cast: Matt Stokoe, Sophie Rundle, Olive Gray
Written by: Matt Stokoe
Produced by: April Kelley, Sara Huxley, Matt Stokoe, Sophie Rundle, Robert Taylor
Production Company: Mini Productions
Production year: 2020
Release year: 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Duration: 86 min
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: Rose: A Love Story is the story of a young couple living alone in the woods, who must contend with a life-altering illness that manifests itself in a violent and terrifying way. Rose’s disease is a vampiric, parasitic thirst for blood. As her hunger grows, all humanity seems to give way to a feral violence that harms both her and those around her. Their loving relationship strains under the burden of Rose’s illness, and it is only a matter of time until the secluded life that they have built is upended entirely.

Nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) - Raindance Discovery Award

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BUBBLE

Directed by: Aleksi Salmenperä
Genres: Drama
Produced by: Minna Haapkylä
Production Company: Rabbit Films
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Duration: TBC
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP, ProRes

Synopsis: The story of 16-year old small town girl Evelina, whose world collapses when she finds out her mother is having an affair with a woman. Like all teens, Eveliina thinks liberally, and wants her own freedom of thought and action - but that thinking does not really extend to her own parents. She tries to stop her mother’s affair at all cost and get her parents to fall in love again, with both dramatic and comedic consequences.

PUNCH

Directed by: Welby Ings
Genres: Drama
Written by: Welby Ings
Cast: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes
Produced by: Robin Murphy, Catherine Fitzgerald
Production Company: Robin Murphy Productions
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: New Zealand
Language: English

Synopsis:

Jim is a seventeen-year-old boxer in a small town. He is a golden boy, preparing for a fight that will elevate him to an early professional status. All bets are on his climb to success. But his father Stan is a demanding coach and a notorious alcoholic. In the town Stan is treated like a joke but he has given everything to see his son gain professional status and escape the brutality of his small world. As Jim begins to rethink why he is fighting his life tangles with Whetu, a razor-tongued, gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach. With his dog Moimoi he cobbles together a fragile glamour and dreams of leaving town to become a musician. As Jim stumbles towards discovering what it really is to be a gay man, he is forced to see that strength has little to do with heroism.

Australia / New Zealand Distribution: Vendetta Films

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THE GRUMP: IN SEARCH OF AN ESCORT

Directed by: Mika Kaurismäki
Genres: Comedy
Written by: Daniela Hakulinen and Tuomas Kyrö
Cast: Heikki Kinnunen, Kari Väänänen, Silu Seppälä, Ilkka Forss, Mari Perankoski, Ville Tiihonen, Tiina Lymi
Produced by: Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Hanna Virolainen, Raoul Reinert
Production Company: Solar Films (Finland), Aspekt Telefilm (Germany)
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland, Germany
Language: Finnish, English, German

Synopsis:
The Grump’s everyday life in the deepest of Finland rolls forward according to old routines. He’s busy working on his farm, but memories of his big brother Tarmo are bothering him. Tarmo moved to Germany decades ago, and the brothers haven’t been in touch, even though they were best friends when they were children. 

One day the Grump crashes his beloved Escort, and the car is taken to the junkyard. But the Grump is particular when it comes to cars; any old car won’t do. The nearest 1972 Escort is found in Germany. The Grump withdraws a suitcase full of money at the local bank and heads to Germany.

The third film in the highly successful “Grump” movies which have garnered over 800,000 admissions in Finland.

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IN EVERY DREAM HOME

Directed by: Louis Melville
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Written by: Louis Melville
Cast: Dominique Jackson, Gaite Jansen, David Arquette, Louisa Krause
Produced by: Louis Melville, Charlotte Wontner
Production Company: Last Bullet Films
Co-Production Company: Rose Pictures
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: UK, USA
Language: English

Synopsis:
IN EVERY DREAM HOME is the story of a once famous Transwoman called Bastet who now lives out her life in a small New York State

coastal town which is closed up for winter. Bastet's life takes a turn she never envisaged when she opens her home to a young woman who pretends to be something she is not, but who is the real liar? Bastet, the fading transwoman star of Andy Warhol’s Factory, or Aggie, the young woman who comes to stay? Who, if any of them, will live to see the spring? Lies, Love, Drugs and Gender Fluidity all make up the heady cocktail that is IN EVERY DREAM HOME.

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