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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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...
Feature film, Fiction
AUSTRIA | 128 minutes | 2019
Toichi, a kindly and helpful old man, earns a modest living by ferrying the villagers back and forth across the water. His life flows placidly by until the...
JAPAN | 137 minutes | 2019
Since he was a kid, Merab has been dance partners with Mary. His world is turned upside-down when the charismatic Irakli shows up and quickly becomes a...
SWEDEN, GEORGIA, FRANCE | 105 minutes | 2019
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