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THE STORY – Beirut, Lebanon. Suzanne gets to know Osmane after saving him from a racist attack. Osmane is Sudanese, young, undocumented and searching for a better future. Suzanne is a middle-class widow with Palestinian roots, a mother of two adult...

THE STORY – Behind the walls of a young offender institution, Troy (Tut Nyuot) is thrust into a brutal world of gangs, loyalty and violence. From the moment he arrives, he is tested. Paired with a volatile cellmate, Troy is forced...

THE STORY – Brazil, 1884. Tita, Muanda, Lena and Francisca, handmaidens to four pupils at a countryside boarding school, dream of freedom just to make it through the day. When an ill-advised romance puts Lena’s life in danger, their dreams of...

THE STORY – In Nigeria, a group of teenagers have founded the collective: The Critics. With the most basic resources but an abundance of cinephile passion, they conjure handmade sci-fi spectacles: their own village becomes the set, the green screen is...

THE STORY – Downeast Maine is a narrow stretch of rugged coastline chiselled between the forest and the sea. Here, boys are shaped by the brutal winters, by their harvesting of the ocean’s bounty, and by the rigid codes of their...

THE STORY – Sixteen-year-old Ilay aimlessly drifts through the outskirts of Berlin. His mother, Maria, lies on her deathbed, cared for by Ana, a Mexican palliative nurse. Refusing to accept his mother’s impending death, Ilay retreats further into himself, increasingly shutting...

THE STORY – The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A once-thriving film studio faces bankruptcy. The enormous compound, with structures ranging from the Great Sphinx of Giza to the Forbidden City, is now completely covered in snow...