Competition

France, Belgium, 2021
Regi: Mia Hansen-Løve

In this intimate drama that is also in large parts romance, Mia Hansen-Løve muses on creativity, a couple's life and love. Shot on the beautiful Fårö island where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, this sunny film is both dazzling and heartbreaking. 

Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Monaco, 2021
Regi: Levan Koguashvili

Retired Georgian wrestling champion Kakhi travels all the way to New York to help his son out of a situation involving debt. Day by day, he is confronted with the troubled life of his son. One day, the kind and loving father comes up with a risky solution.

France, 2021
Regi: Hafsia Herzi

For her second feature film, Hafsia Herzi has created an incandescent portrait of a courageous mother living in the projects of Marseille. Raw, funny and warm, this gem of a movie reflects some of the dreams and challenges of contemporary French society. 

Brazil, 2021
Regi: Anita Rocha da Silveira

A gang of masked women walk through the streets of Brazil at night to punish other women in the name of religion. They do their best to preserve beauty and purity in their area, until a collective outburst appears imminent.  

Romania, Czech Republic, 2021
Regi: Bogdan George Apetri

The young nun Cristina sneaks out of her monastery to attend to an urgent matter. Her journey takes her all around town, trying to find a police officer she has met before. Unable to find him, she gets caught in the car of a dangerous sex offender.

Germany, 2021
Regi: Maria Speth

This German documentary about the somewhat untraditional teacher Dieter Bachmann is completely without fuss or frills. And yet you become so entrenched in the lives of his ragtag bunch of students, that you almost forget you are watching a film. You become a part of this lesson of life. 

China, 2021
Regi: Yimou Zhang

Legendary Chinese director Zhang Yimou is back with a sensitive drama set during the Cultural Revolution in China. A desperate man meets an orphan girl, while the local cinema manager has one priority only: the show must go on.

Spain, 2021
Regi: Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar is back with a gripping tale of two mothers who simultaneously give birth to their baby daughters. With elegant elements of the thriller genre and finely tuned melodrama, this is classic Almodóvar, but also with some new and surprising links to the Spanish Civil War.

USA, 2021
Regi: Sean Baker

A has-been porn star returns to his hometown, trying to make ends meet by exploiting everyone in his way. Director Sean Baker (The Florida Project) gives us a humanistic, funny and direct portrait of an outsider - who no one really wants to see back in town.

United Kingdom, 2021
Regi: Joanna Hogg

Based on a real story experienced by director Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir part II depicts the process of Julie's grieving and creative flourishing. The young film student's graduation project becomes the artistic channel to solve her unclear love story with a manipulative drug addict.

France, Belgium, 2021
Regi: Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre

Palme d’Or winner Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color) shines as a young airline stewardess who tries to juggle work and a turbulent and aimless lifestyle, on a journey through Europe and the search for herself.