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Original Title: Mielensäpahoittajan rakkaustarina
Directed by: Mika Kaurismäki
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Heikki Kinnunen, Jaana Saarinen, Iikka Forss, Ville Tiihonen, Silu Seppälä, Ona Huczkowski, Pertti Sveholm
Written by: Sami Keski-Vähälä
Produced by: Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Hanna Virolainen
Production Company: Solar Films Inc.
Release year: 2024
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Duration: 97 min
Synopsis:
While shopping for groceries, the old man is pulled out of his grumpiness by an irresistibly attractive scent - a mixture of chainsaw oil, pine bark and sawdust. The scent belongs to the free spirit of Saimi. Drawn to her, The Grump is struggling to believe that, in his heart, he could ever feel like a young boy again. He can’t help but admit that he enjoys Saimi’s company. The words, gaze and touch of another person awaken long-lost feelings and shed light on the loneliness of a long-term widower.
His sons are skeptical, even jealous of their father, and don’t trust Saimi’s intentions. Who knows, maybe she’s after his inheritance? Family meetings, misunderstandings, swimming in the moonlight and sleepless nights show that the power of love can pierce through even the oldest of flannel shirts.
ELLIS PARK
Directed by: Justin Kurzel (The Order, True History of the Kelly Gang, Nitram, The Snowtown Murders)
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Warren Ellis, Justin Kurzel
Written by: Justin Kurzel and Nick Fenton
Produced by: Nick Batzias, Charlotte Wheaton
Production Company: GoodThing Productions
Financed by: Screen Australia, VicScreen, MIFF Premiere Fund and McCorkell Brown Projects
Country: Australia
Language: English
Status: Completed
Duration: 105 min
Synopsis:
A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.
This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both a deeply personal insight into one artist’s life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when working together.
“Justin Kurzel’s film about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician, and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic”
“Hats off to editor Nick Fenton for crafting wonderfully intuitive rhythms.”
Luke Buckmaster - The Guardian
★★★★
”a vital, heartbreaking story”
”It's a profoundly moving film of an artist looking at another and uncovering the person behind the act”
Joonatan Itkonen - Toisto.net
★★★★★
DREAMERS
Written & Directed by: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor (Screen International Star of Tomorrow, BAFTA Breakthrough)
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ronke Adékoluejo (Alex Rider, Chevalier, Rain Dogs), Ann Akinjirin (I May Destroy You, Moon Knight), Diana Yekinni and Aiysha Hart.
Produced by: Emily Morgan
Production Company: Quiddity Films (I Am Not a Witch, Supernova)
Financed by: BBC Film, Newen Connect, Finite Films and OnSight
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Status: Post-Production
Delivery: Q3/Q4 2024
Synopsis:
Dreamers is a love story set in the most unlikely of places, a removal centre. We follow Isio, who is caught working without papers, trapped inside Hatchworth, where she learns that finding love, friendship and freedom sometimes means doing the wrong things. It is a story about one woman's epic journey to finding herself and her power guided by love.
KONTRA
Directed by: Jonas Risvig
Cast: Andrea Ølbye Hjejle, Anna Lehrmann, Safina Coster-Waldau
Written by: Jonas Risvig
Produced by: Jasmine Hermann Naghizadeh
Production Company: Nimbus
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Duration: 101 min
Synopsis:
The extrovert, yet slightly naive FANNY (18) has just relocated to a new high school and is struggling to navigate the social hierarchy where status and likeability seems to be measured only by cute outfits, going to the right parties, and having enough followers. Fanny desperately tries to find acceptance but after a humiliating night, she decides to join forces with LILJA (18), the class’s unapproachable, yet confident outsider. The encounter with Lilja turns Fanny’s world upside down, marking the beginning of a whirlwind friendship journey between the two.
With a defiant attitude and without looking back, the girls venture out of their high school microcosm and embarks on a fast-paced journey. But climbing the social ladder requires sacrifices, and the girls struggle to not lose themselves in the process.
PUNCHING THE WORLD
Directed by: Constanze Klaue
Cast: Anton Franke, Camille Loup Moltzen, Anja Schneider
Written by: Constanze Klaue
Produced by: Gabriele Simon, Martin Heisler, Alexaner Wadouh, Roxana Richters
Production Company: Flare Film & Chromosom Film
Country: Germany
Language: German
Status: Post-Production
Synopsis:
“Punching the world” is the adaptation of the highly acclaimed novel by Lukas Rietzschel.
Philipp and Tobias grow up in the province of Saxony. Their childhood is marked by a lack of prospects in an otherwise vast landscape. Years later, when their hometown is to take in refugees, the situation escalates. While one brother withdraws into himself, the other seeks an outlet for his rage. And finds it.
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QUEENS
Original Title: Reinas
Directed by: Klaudia Reynicke
Genres: Drama
Cast: Abril Gjurinovic, Luana Vega, Gonzalo Molina, Jimena Lindo, Susi Sánchez
Written by: Klaudia Reynicke, Diego Vega
Produced by: Britta Rindelaub, Thomas Reichlin, Daniel Vega, Diego Vega, Valérie Delpierre
Production Company: Alva Film (Switzerland)
Co-Production Companies: Maretazo Cine (Peru), Inicia Films (Spain)
Production year: 2023
Release year: 2024
Country: Switzerland, Peru, Spain
Language: Spanish
Subtitled Versions: English
Duration: 104 min
Synopsis:
Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and their mother Elena are about to leave. They are apprehensive about saying goodbye to a country, to family and friends, but above all to Carlos, a father and ex-husband who has all but disappeared from their lives. In the midst of Peru's social and political chaos, this announced departure will give rise to contradictory feelings, reviving old regrets and generating new illusions. Facing the uncertainty of their future head on, their frustrations and fears are mixed with excitement and expectation, as the family faces the difficult truth about the losses this departure implies. REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation, in the spirit of the 90s.
"A Sundance world premiere should provide an ideal launch pad for this accessible, tenderly observed heartwarmer"
"a touching account of the ties that bind and the challenges of change"
"Reynicke's light handling of these delicate emotions is what makes Reinas so endearing"
Allan Hunter - Screendaily
"Director Klaudia Reynicke combines grounded wonder and realism for a cleverly written family story embedded into a larger historical context".
Carlos Aguilar - Variety
"In Reinas, Reynicke offers a quietly sad portrait of an unexpected effort to make a family feel whole."
"Klaudia Reynicke’s compact feature Reinas deals in intimate moments with an understated charm."
Lovia Gyarkye - The Hollywood Reporter
"This masterfully directed third feature by Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke catapults us back to Lima in the early Nineties"
"an intimate and dazzling film. which depicts the memories of the director back when she was a child"
"the real protagonist of this story is the warmth characterising the family's ties.
Giorgia Del Don - Cineuropa
“…a charming film, a marvel of simplicity, made profound by the director’s subtle cinematic dexterity.”
“a memento of a time and place, a space where imagination thrives, no matter the reality.” “
“In Reinas, Reynicke displays the subtlety of a master as she crafts a profound experience using deceptively simple means.”
Barbara Goslawski - That Shelf
UNMOORED
Synopsis:
Maria is a successful Swedish TV presenter whose life is turned upside down by shocking accusations made against her husband. To avoid the media attention, they head south on sabbatical. However, an unexpected confrontation triggers a desperate chain of events. Alone, Maria flees to the solitude of the English moors, but her new idyll soon turns to paranoia. As her guilt grows, she is forced to examine the depths of her own self-deception in this psychological suspense drama.
Directed by: Caroline Ingvarsson
Genres: Psychological Thriller
Cast: Mirja Turestedt (Millennium, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (Margrete - Queen of the North, Borgen, A Royal Affair), Kris Hitchen (Sorry We Missed You)
Written by: Michèle Marshall, adapted from the novel The Living and the Dead in Winsford by Håkan Nesser (winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and the Rosenkrantz Prize for Best Crime Novel of the Year)
Produced by: Naomi Despres, Michèle Marshall, Mariusz Włordarski
Production Company: Desmar PTE Ltd.
Production year: 2023
Release year: 2023
Country: UK, Poland, Sweden
Language: Swedish, English, Polish
Subtitled Versions: English
Duration: 93 min
“…echoes of page-turner adaptations like Girl On The Train and Woman In The Window in this story’s twisting perspectives, and overall it is a package that should attract attention following its London Film Festival debut”
Screendaily
“Unmoored is a stellar debut feature from Caroline Ingvarsson…”
Film Carnage
BROTHERS
Directed by: Tomas Masin
Genres: Fast-Paced Drama
Cast: Oskar Hes, Jan Nebdal, Stefan Konarske
Written by: Marek Epstein
Produced by: Petr Bilek, Benny Drechsel, Zuzana Mistrikova
Production Companies: Film Brigade, Rohfilm Productions, PubRes
Release Year: 2023
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Language: Czech
Duration: 135 min
Synopsis:
Based on a true story.
The Year is 1953 and the Masin family is persecuted for its bourgeoisie ancestry under communist ruled Czechoslovakia. Stripped of their assets, brothers Radek and Josef believe, like their father, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, that the only way to fight oppression is with guns in their hands.
The brothers, with their three friends, form an underground boy army that is responsible for a series of violent acts leading to an investigation by State Security Captain Koller, which results in the Masin Brothers becoming the most wanted men in the country. They attempt to emigrate to West Berlin to join the US Army and help liberate Czechoslovakia from the communists, but Captain Koller has not given up and mobilises a military operation, the size of which has not been seen since World War II, resulting in one of the largest manhunts in modern history.
THE ROOSTER
Directed by: Mark Leonard Winter
Genres: Suspense, Drama
Cast: Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent, Clickbait, Below)
Written by: Mark Leonard Winter
Produced by: Geraldine Hakewill, MahVeen Shahraki
Production Company: Don’t Crow! Pty Ltd, Thousand Mile Productions Pty Ltd
Co-Producers: David Kelly
Release year: 2024
Country: Australia
Language: English
Duration: 101 min
Co-Financed by the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund
Synopsis:
Dan, an introverted police officer in a small country town, begins to unravel after he fails to follow police protocol when dealing with an incident involving his childhood friend Steve. The next day Steve’s body is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. Unfit to work and haunted by guilt, Dan spirals. When his pet rooster is killed by a fox, Dan lets go of the fragile tether he has on his sanity and retreats to camp out in the forest where Steve was found. After a chance encounter with an eccentric hermit living amongst the trees, Dan suspects that this man may have been the last person to see Steve alive. As Dan seeks answers, an unusual bond forms between the two men over games of table tennis. But all is not as it seems when Dan discovers that the hermit may have been responsible for a terrible act of violence.
“Weaving has rarely, perhaps never, been better.”
The Age - Karl Quinn
“The Rooster stands tall as a true original. You won’t leave the cinema untouched”
“The Rooster is a cinematic masterpiece that defies categorisation, with a cast that delivers career-defining performances that are as impressive as they are memorable. Mark Leonard Winter’s directorial debut is a daring, imaginative triumph that challenges norms, tickles funny bones, and leaves an indelible mark on the landscape of modern Australian cinema.”
NovaStream - Alasdair Leith
“Both Raei and Weaving are magnificent”
“The Rooster crows loud at daybreak, announcing an exciting new filmmaking talent.”
Screen Hub - Stephen A Russell
“Mark Leonard Winter’s visionary storytelling proves that he is not just a talented actor, but a genuine filmmaker.”
Cinema Australia - Matthew Eeles
DELIRIUM
Directed by: Arró Stefánsson
Genre: Horror
Cast: Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Heiddis Chadwick Hlynsdottir, Kristbjörg Kjeld (Driving Mum), Jóhann Sigurdsson (The Minister)
Written by: Arró Stefánsson
Produced by: Arnar Benjamín Kristjánsson, Arró Stefánsson, Claudia Grevsmühl, Stefán Lárus Stefánsson, Gu∂rún Bryndis Har∂ardóttir
Production Company: Delirium Films, Fenrir Films & 1801 Film Productions
Co-Producers: Freyr Árnason, Kári Steinarsson, Kristín Ósk Sævarsdóttir, Ottó Gunnarsson
Release year: 2023
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Status: Completed
Duration: 83 min
Synopsis:
A young father is haunted by an evil force that threatens to tear his life apart after he finds a mysterious box inside his rental apartment where the previous guest killed himself.
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ORENDA
Directed by: Pirjo Honkasalo
Cast: Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves), Pirkko Saisio, Juhan Ulfsak, Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Written by: Pirkko Saisio
Produced by: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
Production Company: Bufo
Co-Production Companies: All Film (Estonia), Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
Release year: 2025
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitled Versions: English
Status: Post-Production
Synopsis:
Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive its power. Exploring the themes of guilt and grace, the destinies of two women intertwine into a tense emotional thriller set on a remote island. The new film by highly established director Pirjo Honkasalo stars a recent Golden Globe nominee Alma Pöysti and Pirkko Saisio.
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