Contrasting visions of world cinema
NORTH MACEDONIA, Belgium, Slovenia, France | 100 minutes | 2019
Shtip, January 19. Once a year, male swimmers compete to get their hands on a cross thrown in the water by a priest. But this year, Petrunya manages to snag the coveted object, to the shock and horror of her community and the religious authorities. The Macedonian filmmaker thumbs her nose at the patriarchy in this denunciation of gender inequality and the stranglehold of the clergy featuring a mould-breaking heroine: a 32-year-old intellectual living with her parents. A social and political critique blending comedy and drama, Mitevska’s third feature enthusiastically celebrates an invigorating power grab that feels overdue.CANADIAN PREMIEREThe film will be screened in its original version with french subtitles on October 12th and with english subtitles on October 16thIn collaboration with the Festival de films féministes de Montréal ."... this isn’t just an engaging tale of one woman challenging the male-dominated church and state, but a movie making a smart, impassioned statement against widely accepted subjugation in many forms." Screendaily
Guild Film Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlin Film Festival
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Two couples work together in a factory, and each have an only son born on the same day. The two boys grow up as best friends, but a tragic event shatters...
Feature film, Fiction
CHINA | 180 minutes | 2019
After being turned down for a job in the American porn industry, a penniless young woman decides to head home to Russia on foot. Her seemingly crazy...
AUSTRIA | 128 minutes | 2019
While filming Human, Anastasia Mikovia and Yann Arthus-Bertrand recorded footage of women around the world. That is where Woman began – an ambitious film...
Feature film, Documentary
FRANCE | 104 minutes | 2019
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