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With a thought-provoking concept brought to humorous life by a pair of well-matched leads - Maren Eggert as winner of the Silver Bear for Best Acting Performance - “I'm Your Man” is an AI rom-com whose intelligence is anything but artificial.

The screening of the movie will be followed by a discussion with Nicolas Steil, director, and Henri Roanne Rosenblatt, author.

The film will be followed by a discussion moderated by…

Winner of the European Documentary Award, the European Animation Award and the European University Award at the 34th European Film Festival, shortlisted to represent Denmark at the Oscars 2022!

"A curiously oblique film that builds almost imperceptibly, Lav Diaz’s five-hour “Batang West Side” — at once deadly serious and howlingly absurd — is a masterpiece." - Variety

A Bone-Dry, Bitingly Absurdist Story of a Woman, a Chicken and the Subversion of Egyptian Patriarchy

"The film provides an almost meditative viewing experience. The long, uncut shots slowly draw the viewer into a story with an enormous emotional impact."

"Seemingly stepping away from the bluntly combative political screed and satire of his last few films, “Genus Pan” finds preeminent Filipino auteur Lav Diaz in a more broadly philosophical mood." - Variety

"Ten-hour running time, radically slow pace and hyperminimalist mise en scene will excite international cinephiles at the most daring fests and showcases." - Variety

"Filipino auteur Lav Diaz explores the beginning of the end of his home country's traditional values in his most overtly political film yet" - The Hollywood Reporter

“There’s often a tendency that when coincidences appear within a story, storytelling almost tends to fail. But Rohmer taught me, in fact, with his films that coincidence also allows you to add risk to storytelling. I think those kinds of risks allow for emotion—and for something moving to happen as well.” Hamaguchi for Slant Magazine

"There’s often a tendency that when coincidences appear within a story, storytelling almost tends to fail. But Rohmer taught me, in fact, with his films that coincidence also allows you to add risk to storytelling. I think those kinds of risks allow for emotion—and for something moving to happen as well." Hamaguchi for Slant Magazine

Special screening proposed by EFAD – European Film Agency Directors…

Closing film of the festival.

"A bombed-out Ukraine of the near future takes first steps toward postwar recovery in Valentyn Vasyanovych's strikingly austere Venice prize winner." Variety

A kaleidoscopic family film blending documentary and auto-fiction, This Little Father Obsession sees the complexity of Lebanese society confronted with the personal aspirations of an individual, and the weight of patriarchal tradition with the desire for emancipation.