Nowe Horyzonty / American Film Festival 2020
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- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorIsamu HirabayashiStarsMariko TsutsuiKeisuke HoribeKaori TakeshitaNitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters'lives.
- DirectorTadeusz LysiakStarsAnna DzieduszyckaDorota PomykalaSzymon Piotr WarszawskiA woman with limited hopes toils in a rundown motel in rural Poland, as a maid. Will the repeated visits of an interesting man, a truck driver, change the loneliness of her situation?
- DirectorMarcin SauterStarsAdam WoronowiczKarolina GruszkaPiotr NawrockiIt's good like that - Nikodem whispers to his son. They've wound up at the world's end, in the harsh, deserted landscape of Spitsbergen. A town inhabited only by seagulls. They roam the tundra, the snowy wilderness, along frost-warped rails. Is it the real world? Or their recollections? Or their imaginations? Fragments of their memories accompany their strange, aimless wanderings.
- DirectorJolanta Bankowska"Story" is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes, where virtual world sinks to reality.
- DirectorIzabela PlucinskaStarsPasquale D'IncaJ. David Hinze
- DirectorAntonio GaldamezStarsBartlomiej TopaDaniel NamiotkoAgnieszka GlinskaDead body found in a seaside city in Warsaw. Delman's place of residence. He quickly realizes that he is connecting to the secretariat with the victim. No one should know, so Delman himself secretly starts considering an investigation. All the trails lead to the seaside settlement of Noamia. What will Delman find there? The solution to the puzzle? Redemption?
- DirectorPiotr MilczarekA lack of collective accountability begins to bear a heavy burden for one set of shoulders. A corporate tragicomedy.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorKlaudia FolgaStarsZuzanna OstrowskaSandra KorzeniakTomasz HaladajThe story moves us back to Hania's childhood. Girl especially recalls the figure of her mother, who was always dragging her into her problems. Hania tries to escape the sense of guilt by closing her eyes. She tries to disappear.
- DirectorDamian KocurStarsRozalia MierzickaKazimierz WierzbickiKobas LaksaRozalia is an actress. A professional opportunity makes it essential for her and her seven-year-old son, Kazik, to move from Warsaw to the small city of Walbrzych in south-east Poland. The new city means a long-term contract of employment for her in the local theatre and a new school for Kazik. As they settle in, Rozalia begins to strike up a friendship with Kazik's new teacher, Kazik. However, problems start cropping up at the school. Unexpected events in Rozalia's life become intertwined with her onstage role.
- DirectorEmma SeligmanStarsRachel SennottDanny DeferrariFred MelamedAt a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy and ex girlfriend.
- DirectorPhilippe LacôteStarsBakary KonéSteve TientcheuJean Cyrille DigbeuA young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsJessica LouthanderTatiana DelaunayAnders HellströmRoy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.
- DirectorSandra WollnerStarsLena WatsonDominik WartaIngrid BurkhardElli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
- DirectorJakub RadejStarsStanislaw LinowskiZuzanna ZielinskaTomasz SchuchardtPoland, 1982, the politically heated days of communist martial law. Two coal miner brothers react differently to the oppressive police state. While Tadek prefers to retreat into neutrality, Janek chooses active engagement in the democratic underground. When Janek asks Tadek to store some anti-government leaflets on the second anniversary of Solidarity's 1980 strikes, he triggers a spiral of events that will have everyone's allegiances and characters severely tested.
- DirectorBridget MoloneyStarsClaire CoffeeMark WebberPhoebe SinclairAn existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks.
- DirectorShange ZhangStarsSage RyanChristian WeissmannDarrel GuilbeauA teenager comes to terms with his place in the world when he learns of his mother's immoral past the day before his grandfather's funeral.
- DirectorMatthew PucciniStarsManny DunnMorgan SullivanSean Patrick HigginsMarco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.
- DirectorJessie KahnweilerStarsXan ChurchwellLuka JonesJessie KahnweilerA girl meets guy and falls head over heels, but a shocking discovery forces her to question everything. A dark comedy about falling in love with the one person you're supposed to hate.
- DirectorErica TremblayStarsJulian BallentyneLily GladstoneJamie LoyThe lives of a Native woman and nine-year-old boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.
- DirectorCameron Bruce NelsonStarsMadeline BurtonIsabel LaskerWalker HareA Mennonite woman reverts to a secret language when her best friend begins the rites of marriage.
- DirectorSophie KargmanStarsJustice SmithGraham Patrick MartinArmie HammerA leisurely day belies its uninvited end as Jay and Alex, best friends and roommates, challenge one another on their opinions of sexuality.
- DirectorMorgan KrantzStarsBlair McKenzieAmy RutherfordA high-powered businesswoman meets a high-rise window-washer for an erotic rendezvous on opposite sides of her skyscraper window.
- DirectorAycil YeltanStarsJoe BlausteinAycil YeltanJacob R. YoungA homeless, hearing impaired Gala and her journey finding a life purpose through art.