Horizons Venezia 2023
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- DirectorMariana ArriagaSantiago ArriagaStarsJulio BrachoManolo CardonaJulio Cesar CedilloTwo teen brothers and their newly-met stepsister take a road trip to the Mexico-U.S. border in a tense revenge journey to track down the man responsible for the accident that caused their father's death.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraWalid BouchhiouaSamer BisharatA man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
- DirectorNehir TunaStarsDoga KarakasCan Bartu AslanOzan ÇelikTwelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it's a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, "Yurt"s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the "perfect son" but it isn't easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet's family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders' good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet's father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father's expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShuriMirai MoriyamaOuga TsukaoIn the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
- DirectorEnrico Maria ArtaleStarsEdoardo PesceMargarita Rosa de FranciscoMaria del RosarioA mother-son love story, a vivid tragedy that immerses its heroes in the ever-shifting shades of their deepest states of mind.
- DirectorGoran StolevskiStarsSamson SelimMia MustafiDzada SelimDespite never aspiring to be a mother, Dita finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend's two daughters. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together.
- DirectorFidel DevkotaStarsB. BishowkarmaAnju DeujaBipin KarkiA pick-up truck driver leaves Kathmandu airport for a two-day drive with a delivery to a remote mountain village. On the high road, a solitary figure slowly makes his way, wheeling a small red suitcase toward the same village.
- DirectorZar Amir EbrahimiGuy NattivStarsArienne MandiZar Amir EbrahimiJaime Ray NewmanIranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran's first gold medal. Midway through the competition, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose. With her own and her family's freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.
- DirectorCéline RouzetStarsMathias Legout HammondÉlodie BouchezJean-Charles ClichetThe Feral family plan to look normal and friendly as they move into a new neighborhood. Their son, Philemon gets closer to his new neighbor, Camila and his thirst for blood grows thus his difference becomes impossible to hide.
- DirectorMika GustafsonStarsBianca DelbravoDilvin AsaadSafira MossbergThree sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
- DirectorRobert LorenzStarsKerry CondonDesmond EastwoodConor MacNeillA disillusioned hitman comes out of retirement for one last job when an IRA bomber on the run from the law arrives in his sleepy Irish village.
- DirectorJack HustonStarsRon PerlmanSteve BuscemiMichael PittFollows a once renowned boxer as he takes a redemptive journey through his past and present, on the day of his first fight since he left prison.
- DirectorRobert KolodnyStarsJames MadioRuby WolfKeir GilchristSet in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.
- DirectorAnna BuryachkovaStarsZachary ShadrinArthur AliievAlina ChebanSet in Kyiv in the late 1990s, "Forever-Forever" is an unsettling portrait of the young and rebellious as they navigate love, explore their sexuality, and play cruel games, which never have a winner.
- DirectorLuàna BajramiStarsElsa MalaAlbina KrasniqiDon ShalaZoé and Volta set off from their isolated home village to attend university in Pristina. In the midst of social and political unrest, the two women discover a country in turmoil, searching for its identity on the brink of independence.
- DirectorSimone MassiStarsMarco BalianiAscanio CelestiniMimmo CuticchioA no-place where history has demanded and taken everything it wanted. In return for this history, we received stories, those handed down by word or lost.
- DirectorNara NormandeTiãoStarsMaya de VicqEduarda SamaraMaeve JinkingsIn the summer of 1996, Tamara enjoys the last few weeks in the village where she lives on the coast of Alagoas before going to Brasília. Over the summer, however, Tamara meets and gets attracted to a mysterious girl nicknamed "Heartless".
- DirectorAlain ParroniStarsEnrico BassettiZackary DelmasFederica ValentiniAlex, Brenda and Kevin, post-millennials from Rome's countryside - living that phase of life when being in the world is something difficult to deal with - are striving against the everyday life in order to give a sense to their existences. They are trying to be noticed and remembered along time.
- DirectorLkhagvadulam Purev-OchirStarsTergel Bold-ErdeneNomin-Erdene AriunbyambaAnu-Ujin TsermaaZe, a 17-year-old, studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. When Ze encounters Maralaa, his senses are awakened and another reality seems possible.
- DirectorGábor ReiszStarsAdonyi-Walsh GáspárIstván ZnamenákAndrás RusznákAbel is a high school student struggling to focus on his final exams, while being hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka.
- DirectorBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsTony AburtoMicah BunchNichole DukesFollows 5 teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure: to make it to a place they've never been -the Pacific coast, 500 miles away. Their plan, in full: "F**k it."
- DirectorAnaïs TellenneStarsRaphaël ThiéryEmmanuelle DevosMarie-Christine OrryWith his one-eyed eye, his imposing build and his almost sixty years of age, Raphael knows that he scares people. He lives with his mother in a pavilion located on the vast estate of the manor of which he is the guardian. Since the owners died, he leads a quiet existence. Everything changes the night when the heiress, Garance, returns to the family home.
- DirectorOlmo SchnabelStarsDario Yazbek BernalJack IrvGerry BednobFollows the affair between the impulsive Alejandro and the college-age pet store employee Jack, exploring the underbelly of New York and a romance that sends them down a rabbit hole of vice.
- DirectorMicaela RamazzottiStarsMicaela RamazzottiAnna GalienaFlorence GuérinThe tale of a shattered family, of selfish and controlling parents, of a double-headed monster that eats away at the children's hopes of freedom.