2023 San Diego International Film Festival

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school"s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

An ordinary family man finds his life turned upside down when strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.

A Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.

Explores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memories

The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.

When a woman estranged from her husband meets with him as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they read through the 36 Questions To Fall in Love and she discovers that their love might not be enough to keep them together.

In a remote fjord in 1940"s Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.

During a routine pickup, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver is taken hostage at gunpoint by three recently escaped Orange County convicts.

An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert efforts to control the most vital resource on the planet.

Haunted by torturous childhood memories, Nate Williams finds himself engulfed in darkness. When his drama teacher, Mr. Deen bails him out of jail and takes him in, Nate must confront his past before it leads to his own destruction.

The untold story of the other boss of Chicago, the King of Policy Kings, a man who held too much power and wealth during segregation.

A young, broke couple kidnap a sleazy politician who decides he can spin the story to his own advantage.

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.

In the midst of setting up for a mysterious party, a woman tries to stop her flighty younger sister from making a devastating choice.

A graduating high schooler navigates a world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7.

A young girl growing up in a Shanghainese gambling den, must protect her friend and survive the violent world of petty gangsters by relying only on her wits.

Leah, a Korean adoptee raised in America, returns to Korea to search for her birth mother. Leah is met with secrecy from the adoption agency as well as her own family but remains relentless on her solo journey, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.

An Afghan journalist embarks on a journey to find out who murdered her family 30 years ago, only to uncover hundreds of civilians killed in a secretive American-backed program.

On any given night, tens of thousands of fishermen in China"s distant-water squid fleet perform an industrial ballet thousands of miles out on the high seas. With unprecedented access to the extremely remote fishing grounds, SQUID FLEET is a poetic exploration of the motivations of the fishermen, the brutality of systemic labor abuses in the Chinese fishing industry, and the destruction wrought by the commodification of people and nature in our globalized world. It is based on two years of rigorous investigative journalism from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of The Outlaw Ocean Project.

KINGDOME explores the remarkable journey of Terry "Huncho" Cooper and his legendary Harlem basketball tournament.

After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it"s possessed or if she"s losing her mind.

When a sound guy"s attempt to capture "room tone" is constantly thwarted by the noisy antics of his coworkers, he takes extreme measures to achieve silence.

Trundle is a goblin who sweats a borscht so delicious it has made Mr. Murray"s deli world famous, so Murray keeps Trundle in his basement. When Trundle hears that a Regular wants to meet the chef, he hatches a plan to work the counter.