SIFF 2023 selection
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- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsMarin GrigoreJudith StateMacrina BarladeanuA non-judgmental analysis of the driving forces of human behavior when confronted with the unknown, of the way we perceive the other and on how we relate to an unsettling future.
- DirectorSpiros JacovidesStarsEleni KokkidouJulio KatsisNegros Tou MoriaWhile filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with her other, disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs. Even if this means discovering who her son really is.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsOndrej VetchýKrystof HádekTara FitzgeraldThe friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsBibiana BeglauRichard KropfMartin WuttkeThe riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
- DirectorAsif RustamovStarsNatavan AbbasliElshen EsgerovGurban IsmailovWhen a father is unexpectedly released from prison after serving ten years for killing his wife, his son wants to find out why he did it.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsBorce NacevVesna StanojevskaSabina AjrulaThe son of a reputable physician struggles to live up to other people's expectations of him, until one day he is confronted by people who appear to die time and again.
- DirectorDito TsintsadzeStarsDevid StriesowCamilla BorghesaniVakho ChachanidzeThe life of a taxi driver is to not judge or get involved. It's to go where he's told to go, for a price. One day, Thomas gets a group of odd passengers with a fighting dog. They have money, and they have places to be. How far will he go?
- DirectorJan SverákStarsAnna GeislerováRadek PastrnákFilip RencTwo guys bought a car and travelled through the country until they met a lonely girl on the road. So they begin to travel together having so much fun. And there is another guy who has a better car and who is looking for the girl because he is her lover, he is her first one. What is going on inside of this girl? Nobody knows, until the end.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsJoseph FiennesDavid WenhamAdrian LesterA New York thief, a tough-as-nails hundred-year-old woman, two brothers from the Wild West, a Macedonian revolutionary and a beautiful pregnant woman, all cross paths in a tale that spans two continents and three centuries.
- DirectorCharlotte WellsStarsPaul MescalFrankie CorioCelia Rowlson-HallSophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...
- DirectorSam MendesStarsOlivia ColmanMicheal WardColin FirthA drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsSelahattin PasaliEkin KoçErol BabaogluEmre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.
- CreatorMarco BellocchioGiovanni BianconiStefano BisesStarsFabrizio GifuniMargherita BuyToni ServilloThe 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie DequenneThe intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.
- DirectorNader SaeivarStarsVahid MobasseriShahin Kazem NezhadFahime JahaniAyaz is an ordinary man who wishes for his own home. His brother-in-law left Iran for a long time due to his anti-government activities, but the news of his possible return reaches Ayaz. Concerned that he might have to leave home if his brother-in-law returns, Ayaz tells a small lie-that the secret police have searched their home. He hopes that the lie about the secret police keeping an eye on their home would convince his brother-in-law to give up on returning home. The problem, however, begins with the appearance of real secret police. Ayaz's lie becomes an excuse for the real secret police to track down his brother-in-law, and Ayaz finds himself in a situation where he is forced to report his neighbors and family.
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsRicardo DarínGina MastronicolaFrancisco BertínA team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsPetr FormanEdita BrychtaZdenek SverákIn this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Double will pull life energy from him. So there's a mysterious Death-serial. Many persons die in front of their TV set and nobody knows why. Olda, the main character, is one of the persons, that get more and more weak. He is near death, till Fisarek, the natural healer appears.He teaches Olda how he can resist this magic force and how he can fight it.
- DirectorTodd FieldStarsCate BlanchettNoémie MerlantNina HossSet in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsZdenek SverákDaniela KolárováPavel LandovskýA comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.