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Malu
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February 29, 2024
A blistering performance by Yara de Novaes, volatile and poignant all at once, is the magnetic centerpiece of Brazilian filmmaker Pedro Freire’s passionate and intensely moving feature debut about a free-spirited actress constantly at odds with the world and herself.
Meezan
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February 29, 2024
Filmmaker Shahab Mihandoust’s portrait of the fishing industry in Iran’s Khuzestan province—home to Abadan, the first oil company-town in the Middle East and a site of mass destruction and migration during the Iran-Iraq War—is at once an immersive process film about labor and a rich, sensorial account of a former combat zone reorganized by decades of industrialization.
Of Living Without Illusion
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February 29, 2024
Merit navigates a rapidly deteriorating relationship with her girlfriend Eva while rehearsing a play with her ex-husband in Katharina Lüdin’s penetrating feature debut, which interrogates love and art with a singular expressiveness, embodying the mercurial nature of romantic relationships in all their contradictory facets—hope and despair, joy and cruelty.
Omen
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February 29, 2024
When Koffi (Marc Zinga) and his white Belgian fiancée Alice (Lucie Debay) embark on a family reconciliation trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the kinetic chaos of their return voyage sets the stage for a visceral reimmersion tale.
Otro Sol
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February 29, 2024
In Francisco RodrĂguez Teare’s form-defying feature debut, the maybe-true tale of thief Alberto Candia, who stole priceless ancient artifacts from a cathedral in Cádiz, Spain, provides the unstable center of an absorbing inquiry into mythmaking.
The Rim
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Told in elliptical fashion and moving to a surreal rhythm all its own, director Alberto Gracia’s grimy and dazzlingly dissonant vision takes place in the port city of Ferrol, where Damian, unkempt and barely scraping by, becomes the inexplicable victim of mistaken identity.
ND/NF 2024 Shorts Program I
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
This program of short films features Rachel Gutgarts’s Via Dolorosa (France), Shuli Huang’s Goodbye First Love (U.S.), Inês Teixeira’s Shimmering Bodies (Portugal), Aliha Thalien’s Nos Îles (France), and Fatima Kaci’s The Voice of Others (France).
The Permanent Picture
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Catalan writer-director Laura Ferrés’s alternately tender, clever, and mysterious debut feature mixes realism with melodrama in the story of a fiftysomething casting director who unwittingly befriends the woman who gave birth to and abandoned her as a teenager.
ND/NF 2024 Shorts Program II
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
This program of short films features Lei Lei's Break no. 1 & Break no. 2, Juliana Zuluaga Montoya's The night of the minotaur, Sebastian Molina Ruiz's Kill ’Em All, Lou Fauroux's The Porn Selector, and Cameron Worden's Digital Devil Saga.
Grace
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February 29, 2024
A father and daughter duo traverse the backroads of rural Russia in a rusted, rambling van in Ilya Povolotsky’s debut fiction feature. Clandestine DVD sales, fleeting sexual encounters, and checkpoint-avoiding detours signal the outlaw lifestyle these two share as they slowly, inevitably drift apart.