Director: Lina Mannheimer Country: Sweden Languages: Swedish, English Year: 2019 Duration: 93 minutes
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Director Lina Maria Mannheimer places a personal ad in a dating app. Two millennials from Stockholm allow her to capture their online lives. After Naomi faced issues with installing her webcam, Edwin decides to help which gives start to quite a dynamic love story. 'Mating' is an honest exploration of modern relationships in the digital era.
Holy Father
Director: Andrei Dăscălescu Country: Romania Languages: Romanian, English, Italian Year: 2020 Duration: 85 minutes
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Filmmaker Andrei and his girlfriend Paula find out that they are about to become parents. In an attempt to figure out how to become a father he's never had, Andrei needs to make amends with his own dad, now a monk on Mount Athos. Andrei is determined to solve the mystery of why his father left the family. Will these two be able to understand each other?
Œconomia
Director: Carmen Losmann Country: Germany Languages: German, English Year: 2020 Duration: 89 min
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A detailed study of the most subtle mechanisms of the capitalist system. Filmmaker Carmen Lozmann attempts to understand why the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing in parallel with recent decades' economic growth. She turns to representatives of the financial sector to unravel this complex issue. But do they have answers?
Still Into You
Director: Anu Kuivalainen Country: Finland Language: Finnish Year: 2020 Duration: 70 min
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How do our relationships change as we get older? Director Anu Kuivalainen explores this issue in her tender and surprisingly honest film about love, aging, intimacy and loss. Five older couples give us a glimpse of what lies ahead for many of us.
Stray
Director: Elizabeth Lo Countries: Turkey, USA, Hong Kong Language: Turkish Year: 2020 Duration: 72 min
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Through the eyes of three dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, 'Stray' tells what it is like to live without a roof over your head. Every day these furry characters - Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal - look for food and shelter. Curious dogs lead us through noisy streets and abandoned houses as their eyes become windows into the corners of Turkish society.
Taming the Garden
Director: Salome Jashi Countries: Georgia, Switzerland, Germany Language: Georgian Year: 2021 Duration: 86 min
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The film portrays huge, beautiful trees as they are being transported from the Georgian coast to the private garden of the former Prime Minister of the country, a feat which requires enormous resources and efforts to perform. As they float melancholy across the Black Sea, the trees are leaving their 100-year-old past behind.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021.
That Which Does Not Kill
Director: Alexe Poukine Countries: Belgium, France Language: French Year: 2019 Duration: 85 min
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Ada is 19 years old. It all happens so fast. He is her acquaintance so she doesn't defend herself. Ada's story is at the center of the film and it gets mixed with the experiences of actors and actresses who read Ada's essay. Director Alexe Poukine finds a delicate way to portray consequences of rape: the pain, the attempts to understand what happened and to move on.
This is a bizarre, complicated, yet such a commonplace story.
The Men's Room
Directors: Jo Vemund Svendsen, Petter Sommer Country: Norway Language: Norwegian, English Year: 2018 Duration: 74 min
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Every Tuesday 25 middle-aged men distract themselves from everyday life and leave their wife and kids at home to sing dirty rock songs in a choir. The film is about friendship, brotherhood, love for music and the value of life.
The Mole Agent
Director: Maite Alberdi Countries: Chile, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, the USA Language: Spanish Year: 2020 Duration: 84 min
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Chilean detective hires 83-year-old Sergio to work as a spy in a nursing home because his client suspects the nursing home employees of mistreating her mother. Intriguing, honest and humorous, this film reminds you that it's never too late to embark on new adventures.
The film was nominated for an Oscar-2021 in the category "Best Documentary".
This Train I Ride
Director: Arno Bitschy Countries: France, Finland Language: English Year: 2019 Duration: 77 min
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Ivy, Karen and Christina drop the comfort of everyday life and hop freight trains around the United States, alone. Amid the grinding and screeching of the metal beast, the director becomes each of the women's only traveling companion. Their trajectories cross and echo each other: a desire to live, a spiritual quest, eternal rebellion.