Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020
These are the films I watched (at home) from The Cheltenham International Film Festival which ran from 8-14 June and could be a model for online festivals of the future.
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- DirectorKatharine O'BrienStarsJuno TempleSimon PeggRebecca HazlewoodWhen an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of our mental health care system.
- DirectorBartosz KruhlikStarsMarek BraunMarcin HycnarMarcin ZarzecznyThree men, one place and one event that will change the life of each one of them.
- DirectorSimon BirdStarsMonica DolanEarl CaveElliot Speller-GillottA teenager spends his summer listening to heavy metal music and trying to get along with his librarian mum.
- DirectorMahnaz MohammadiStarsRaha KhodayariMahan NasiriReza BehbudiA widow who works tirelessly at a failing factory in sanctions-gripped Iran receives a marriage proposal that could mean financial security, but could also tear her family apart.
- DirectorDelphine LehericeyStarsLuc BruchezLaetitia CastaThibaut EvrardGus spends his vacation reading comic books, helping his father who has invested his entire savings in a modern battery henhouse, and running free with Mado.
- DirectorSophie DeraspeStarsNahéma RicciRachida OussaadaNour BelkhiriaA modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.
- DirectorMiroslav TerzicStarsSnezana BogdanovicJovana StojiljkovicMarko BacovicAna is convinced that she and other Serbian women had their newborn babies stolen, to be given up for illegal adoption for money. Her obsession to find the truth will risk her relationship with her husband and her daughter.
- DirectorStephan KomandarevStarsIvan BarnevAssen BlatechkiOvanes TorosianThree police patrol-vehicles, six policemen, city of Sofia in the night, between 9th and 10th of November 2019.
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsThomas GioriaFantine HarduinBenoît PoelvoordeLove and mental illness know no bounds.
- DirectorVanessa JoppStarsAlexander FehlingClaudia EisingerGina HenkelEmmi Rothner only wanted to cancel a newspaper subscription, but because she makes a typo in the address bar, the e-mail ends up in the mailbox of Leo Leike. It is the beginning of a long online exchange.
- DirectorEva CoolsStarsAnna Franziska JägerJeff AendenboomRoy AernoutsCleo is trying to pick her life back up after a devastating car crash which kills her parents. She is raised with her brother by their grandmother and meets an older guy in a night club who seems to understand the struggle she is in.
- DirectorTristan AurouetThomas BidegainMarc FitoussiStarsBlanche GardinMaxence TualElsa ZylbersteinIn a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in love, SELFIE tells the comic and wild destinies of Homo Numericus on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
- DirectorDavide Del DeganStarsClaudio CastrogiovanniDomenico CentamoreVincenzo NemolatoCalogero is in the witness protection program after having witnessed a mafia murder in Sicily. With a new identity, he is sent to Sauris. However, he soon finds out the killer he had reported started a new life there too.
- DirectorAndreas HorvathStarsPatrycja PlanikAn emigrant in New York decides to walk back to her home in Russia.
- DirectorKarl MarkovicsStarsHeinz TrixnerBorhanulddin Hassan ZadehKonstanze DutziA grumpy old man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog, and as the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, their day takes an unexpected turn.
- DirectorRubika ShahStarsRed SaundersRoger HuddleKate WebbRock Against Racism was formed in 1976, prompted by Eric Clapton. It blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.