My Festivals 2024

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

A Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they struggle and learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.

Amber, a happiness agent, travels the Bhutanese Himalayas surveying people"s happiness. On his remote mountain journey, he searches for fulfillment.

When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themselves in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.

Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.

Doc and Zoe are two hapless kidnappers tasked with what appears to be a simple abduction for hire, only to find out that it"s anything but and end up in the middle of a political conspiracy.

A group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City"s Staten Island challenges one of the world"s largest companies in a unionization battle.

The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation"s demands.

Liane, 19, lives with her mother and sister in Fréjus in the south of France. Consumed by aspirations of beauty and stardom, she auditions for a reality show called "Miracle Island."

A documentary on transidentity in Israel, in which several transgender people talk about their life. The title refers to an urban legend about a young trans woman who reportedly fled Gaza for Tel Aviv.

Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca, to gain recognition and ensure a better future for her son.

Set in a small remote Saudi Arabian village in the 90s, when artistic expression was banned, NORAH is a story about the arrival of a new teacher, formerly an artist, into the tiny community where he meets a young woman named Norah.

Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects.

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

A boy and his mother don"t have a shadow. To have shadow, they eat other people"s shadows. one day boy decides to get a shadow alone.

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.

An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories find a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran.

Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love-affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters, Miriam"s sheltered existence is cracked open.

Follows a group of people fueled by a profound desire for change; in order to turn their back to society they leave everything behind and set their futures on the harsh landscape of the Galapagos.

Follows Korean independence activists who launched a daring attack in Harbin against the Japanese to gain their country"s independence.

A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King"s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.

Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.

Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

Follows a washed-up musician who jumps at the chance to capitalize on his long-lost son"s stardom for his own renaissance, but learns that fatherhood is much more than stardom.