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World Cinema Documentary Competition

All About the Money

A son of one of Americas wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in but has now come to despise. Its the starting point of an astonishing journey.

Jan 25, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 7:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 6:15 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Big Girls Don’t Cry

Over one transformative summer in rural New Zealand in 2006, 14-year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity, and the internet as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by.

Jan 24, 2:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 9:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 7:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 9:15 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Birds of War

The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.

Jan 24, 6:15 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 31, 12:30 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Closure

After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.

Jan 23, 11:30 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 1:50 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 9:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Everybody To Kenmure Street

In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotlands most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

Jan 22, 6:15 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 23, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 9:40 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 30, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 5:30 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Extra Geography

In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.

Jan 23, 5:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 1:10 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Feb 1, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Filipiñana

Tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that what began as an innocent infatuation is actually rooted in a sinister shared history.

Jan 23, 2:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 7:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 1:50 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Hanging by a Wire

A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable cars wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.

Jan 22, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 23, 8:50 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 12:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 2:45 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με)

11-year-old Iris learns her estranged father, Aris, is back in town for his own father’s funeral. Determined to know him, Iris tracks him down to a dilapidated shipyard, where he’s been keeping to himself. What begins as a stubborn attempt to reconnect slowly unfolds into a fragile bond.

Jan 26, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 27, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 9:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 3:45 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

How to Divorce During the War

In Vilnius in 2022, Marija has a revelation that she wants to divorce her husband, Vytas, right before Russia invades Ukraine. Forced to confront their crumbling relationship, they navigate the process of divorce as it collides with the ongoing war.

Jan 26, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 27, 11:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 30, 6:30 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

The Huntress (La Cazadora)

In the border city of Juárez, Mexico, where violence against women is perpetrated with impunity, an unlikely defender emerges with a desperate call for change. Inspired by true events.

Jan 22, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 23, 4:40 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 8:50 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 9:00 A.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Kikuyu Land

As a Nairobi journalist probes a land battle entangling the local government and a powerful multinational corporation, covered wounds are revealed and family secrets are exposed.

Jan 25, 12:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 9:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 6:30 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

LADY

In the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos, a fiercely independent young cab driver meets a band of radiantly reckless sex workers whose sisterhood pulls her into danger and joy, setting her on a journey toward her own transformation.

Jan 22, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 23, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 6:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Levitating (Para Perasuk)

In a town where pleasure equals being possessed by spiritual beings, Bayu aspires to be the shaman of a trance party so he can fundraise enough money to prevent an impending eviction.

Jan 24, 11:45 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 4:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 8:50 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

One In A Million

Filmed over 10 years, one girls epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.

Jan 23, 2:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 4:40 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 4:40 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Sentient

An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified.

Jan 26, 5:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 27, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 2:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 2:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 11:00 A.M. MSTin-person

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