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Who Killed Jill Dando?
A documentary that focuses on the mysterious death of British television presenter Jill Dando, who was shot outside her West London home in 1999. But why was she targeted? And who was responsible for her death?
Micki
Sixteen-year-old Micki never met her parents. Raised by her ex-gangster grandfather Pops and crazy Uncle Sal, she develops a scheme to set her family up for life. A simple robbery, a violent loan shark, and a ticking clock. What could go wrong?
Victoria’s Secret World Tour 2023
The Victoria's Secret World Tour 2023 event itself is set to debut Sept. 26, 2023 on Amazon Prime Video.
Prophets of the Mind #1: The Only Living Telepath
A mysterious and famous Prophet presents his daily program on TV. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a mystical and enigmatic figure pursues him.
Beauty Within
This abstract film is driven by colors, imagery of flowers, voice overs, and portrait shots of the characters. Skylar and Arbor meet in a beautiful garden, reflecting the radiant energy of the characters. There is a voice over of Arbor reading a letter to Skylar that describes how they met, their friendship turning romantic, and Arbor’s self discovery of their gender. As the letter is being read, they are seen meeting at the same spot, slowly getting closer. There is beauty and growth around them with blooming flowers and sunny weather. Skylar keeps going back, hoping Arbor will show up. Arbor’s voice over ends, saying, “I am sorry I never showed up, I had to find myself first.” Skylar finds the written letter from Arbor in their meeting spot, which is the voiceover that is happening throughout the film. She reads the letter, but the last few lines she reads out loud, “But when I am ready, I want to grow with you in the garden forever.”
Afterparty
Casey and Blake are two freelance 'cleaners' who are hired by burglars to remove any trace of a robbery from a house. They enter discreetly when no one is home, and repair anything abandoned in a mess. However, one this particular run-of-the-mill job, the duo catch a stroke of bad and bloody luck.
O Tesouro Perdido
A group of historians and a businessman split up in search of a treasure hidden around 1842 in the south of Brazil.
Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too!
When the Justice League goes missing and villains overrun Metropolis, there’s only one team that can solve this mystery: Scooby-Doo and the gang! But wait, there’s a new dog in town – Krypto – Superman’s Superdog with Super Powers. Mystery Inc. will need all the help it can get when phantoms menace the Justice League’s headquarters. And has Lex Luthor finally gone straight? Or is he in cahoots with The Joker and Harley Quinn? The DC Super-Villains may have clashed with Superman before, but now they’re facing something new: a gang of meddling kids!
Little Hakka Season 1
Follow Little Hakka as she deploys her magic "Hakka Hat" to battle the evil forces intent on destroying nature in this beautifully animated adventure for children.
The Floating Man
This intimate documentary unpacks Michael V. Smith's journey as a self-described sissy with a body he found humiliating as he developed his art to become a radical drag performer and genderqueer artist. A unique blend of DIY documentary, road trip, performance art, and videopoem, this amusing self-portrait sources Smith's provocative art practice to examine a lifetime of untrue stories about his body. One featured project includes Smith on a road trip on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, searching for famed Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, while dressed as Peanut the Clown.
A Bet with the Matchmaker
A relationship columnist on the brink of losing her job takes a bet with a self proclaimed match maker who guarantees to find her perfect match.
The Guardian
An honest cop is made to battle back when the corruption in his department threatens his family
Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team
When an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent, Ace Sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly-formed Global Response & Intelligence Team – or G.R.I.T. – led by Colonel Stone must travel across the world to Malta, infiltrate the cult, and take out its leader to free Lady Death and stop the global threat.
The River Runs On
THE RIVER RUNS ON follows conservationists throughout southern Appalachia as they struggle to manage two of the most important national forests in America - the Pisgah and Nantahala. The film revolves around the Pisgah-Nantahala Forest Plan, a plan the US Forest Service is finalizing that will dictate how these two national forests are managed for the next twenty years. The result is a meditation on our relationship to nature, our role in managing lands and what it may mean for the future.
The Other Laurens
Gabriel Laurens, fifty years old, is a «private investigator». When his fifteen-year-old niece Jade comes into his life and asks him to investigate her father’s death, the detective is confronted with memories he thought were buried forever. Confronted with the ghosts of his past, Gabriel Laurens finds himself caught up in a strange investigation involving pretense, fantasy and drug trafficking.
Bula
A woman working in a laundry shop uses her clients' clothes to satisfy her sexual fantasies. When she meets a hot police officer, she wants to have him no matter what it takes.
Love Without Wings: an Adoption Fairytale
Join two kings on a magical adventure as they set out on their quest to become parents, in search of the little prince or princess who will finally make their royal family complete. With a shooting star as their guide, the kings journey across the land and deep into an enchanted forest. High in the treetops they meet a beautiful fairy who had wished on the same star, hoping to find the perfect parents for a very special baby that was growing in her belly. Will the fairy and the kings each have their wish come true?
The Successor
Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father's funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart.
The Naked Eye
A young boy decides one day after feeling he has no meaning to become a detective (like the ones he sees in classic films). And tries to find the mystery of the lost toy.
Time Addicts
In debt to their volatile drug dealer, best friends, Denise and Johnny, agree to a sketchy job to pay off their last hit. After breaking into a decrepit stash house to steal a bag of mysterious drugs, escape proves more troublesome, as the pair find themselves trapped inside with a madman. With no way out and not one to miss an opportunity, Johnny smokes the new drug and promptly travels into the past, triggering alarming new events in the future. Separated through time, Denise is left alone to confront her past, their dealer’s real identity, and her very own existence.
The All Golden
In veteran Fantastic Fest filmmaker Nate Wilson’s kaleidoscopic and labyrinthine deconstructionist satire, a laid-up polyamorous bicycle courier discovers that her older, scholarly boyfriend has been keeping a sinister secret in his closet.
Over Roze Gesproken
Four elderly LGBTQ+ individuals come together in a bright pink space. In this space, which is as much a living room as it is an archive, they share their life stories with each other. The short film is a hopeful, imaginative documentary about reclaiming spaces where the identity of older LGBTQ+ individuals is not accepted. It gives an insight into the LGBTQ+ history of Rotterdam through the stories of four elderly people: lesbian activist Nell Broekhuizen, trans man Jos Niesing and married couple Tonny van Dijk, a heterosexual woman, and Arie van Dijk, a gay man. Although the stories of the four main characters seem very different at first glance, they clearly have one thing in common. Nell, Jos, Tonny and Arie have all had to search for a space in which they could be themselves. All four have had to transform traditional norms around family, faith and marriage to find space for their identity.
A Helping Hand
An anxious teen hopes to scam some money from her estranged father, but their imperfect relationship reaches a breaking point when he arrives but doesn't look at all like she remembered.
High Fun
Plagued by depression and loneliness, a desperate young man seeks the one vice that may at least numb or distract him for a while. The Indian film High Fun (commonly known as 'Party and Play' or 'Chemsex' in the west) is a queer-themed horror film about living with your demons.
While You're Still You
After 50 years in theatre, film and television, Carme Elias is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Together with Claudia Pinto, a director and friend, they decide to record her last conscious voyage. The characters played by Carme accompany this difficult period, while the borders between fiction and reality disappear. Mientras seas tú / While You're Still You is a constant game of mirrors, a pact of love and friendship. A "living" film which will continue to shoot while it screens at the festival, as a powerful invitation to grab the present.
Their Voice
Growing up in the Mormon church, Kristyn Michele was told that their voice was a gift from God and that they should share it with the world. But when a friend from church discovered Kristyn in a same-sex relationship and reported them, they were publicly kicked out of the church and their relationship to music fractured. It wasn't until years later that they recognized themselves as non-binary and began to transition.
The Memory Of Cinema: A film about Fernando Méndez-Leite
Fernando Méndez-Leite is one of the fundamental people in the History of Spanish Cinema, spanning more than fifty years of culture. His life and memory contain not only the narration of our cinematography, but also of the culture, politics and social changes that have accompanied it. The writing of his memoires and a novel with obvious autobiographical overtones is the moment chosen in this documentary to join him in looking at his biography from his impressive memory.
