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Available until June 6
Almost five centuries after Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire, a fictionalized conquistador retraces the Spanish army’s route to Mexico City. Through the haunting true stories he encounters, the ghosts of Mexico’s brutal colonial past reverberate.
| Runtime: | 88 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Mexico | | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Director(s): | Rodrigo Reyes | Producer(s): | Andrew Houchens | | Inti Cordera | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Holmgren | | Carter Logan | Co-Producer(s): | David Felix Sutcliffe | Associate Producer(s): | Sam Schild | Consulting Producer(s): | Gunter Hanfgarn | | Su Kim | | David Felix Sutcliffe | Editor(s): | Andrea Chignoli | | Daniel Chávez Ontiveros | Writer(s): | Rodrigo Reyes | | Lorena Padilla | | Alicia Valencia | Cinematography: | Alejandro Mejía | Composer: | Pablo Mondragón | Sound: | Ricardo Arteaga |
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Breaking the Silence
Available until June 24
An Indigenous woman leaves her Emberá Chamí community for Bogotá as she grapples with her experience of female genital mutilation. Joining forces with a new friend, they return to engage with other Indigenous women about the tradition and enact change.
| Runtime: | 83 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Bolivia | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Embera | | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Persister | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Women & Women's Stories | | Director(s): | Priscila Padilla | Producer(s): | Laura Coronado Delgado | Executive Producer(s): | Gustavo Pazmin | | Priscila Padilla | Editor(s): | Ximena Franco | | Priscila Padilla | Writer(s): | Priscila Padilla | Cinematography: | Viviana Gomez | | Yvette Paz | Composer: | Sol Okarina | Sound: | Vladimir Diaz |
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City So Real
Available until June 24
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Steve James’s fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election. All four episodes will be shown.
| Runtime: | 240 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Punjabi | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Deep Dive | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | Director(s): | Steve James | Producer(s): | Zak Piper | | Steve James | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Skoll | | Diane Weyermann | | Alex Kotlowitz | | Gordon Quinn | | Betsy Steinberg | | Jolene Pinder | Editor(s): | David E. Simpson | | Steve James | Cinematography: | Jackson James | | Steve James | Composer: | Will Miller and Resavoir |
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A Colombian Family
Available until June 24
Set against the backdrop of Colombia’s fraught peace treaty meant to end 50 years of violence, an estranged mother and daughter seek reconciliation—but where? Do they fight for a better country together, or leave as a family for Cuba?
| Runtime: | 80 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Denmark | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | International Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Latin America | | War & Conflict | | Director(s): | Tanja Wol Sørensen | Producer(s): | Rikke Tambo Andersen | Executive Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | Editor(s): | Claudio Hughes | Cinematography: | Maggie Olkuska | Composer: | Sophia Maj | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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Día de la Madre
Available until June 24
As night becomes day, a feisty group of youths make a decidedly unconventional ruckus that is sure to go down in the history books for the tired and shocked people at the receiving end of their exuberance.
| Runtime: | 6 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | Ontario Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | | English | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Ashley Brandon | | Dennis Höhne | Producer(s): | Nevo Shinaar | Editor(s): | Ashley Brandon | Cinematography: | Ashley Brandon | | Dennis Höhne | Sound: | Ashley Brandon |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: The Forum
Available until June 24
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the most powerful leaders and thinkers on the planet gather, astonishing conversations unfold between the likes of Al Gore, Jair Bolsonaro and Greta Thunberg during an event with so much at stake.
| Runtime: | 92 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Germany | | Switzerland | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | German | | English | | Swiss German | | French | | Spanish | | Indonesian | | Chinese | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Politics & Political Intrigue | Website: | https://theforum-film.de/en/ | | Director(s): | Marcus Vetter | Producer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Georg Tschurtschenthaler | | Caroline Schaper | Executive Producer(s): | Julie Goldman | | Chris Clements | Editor(s): | Marcus Vetter | | André Nier | | Ana R. Fernandes | | Michele Gentile | Writer(s): | Christian Beetz | | Georg Tschurtschenthaler | Cinematography: | Georg Zengerling | Composer: | Marcel Vaid |
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Green Blood
Available until June 24
Furthering investigations launched by local reporters for which they faced threats, imprisonment and even death, 40 international journalists join forces to blow open large-scale crimes committed by mining behemoths, including Canada’s own Barrick, in India, Guatemala and Tanzania.
| Runtime: | 208 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | France | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | French | | English | | Spanish | | Tamoul | | Hindi | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Deep Dive | Film Subjects: | Africa | | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Intrigue | | Ecology & the Environment | | Journalism & the Media | | Latin America | | South & Central Asia | | Director(s): | Jules Giraudat | | Arthur Bouvart | | Alexis Marant | Producer(s): | Laurent Richard | | Aurélie Meimon | Executive Producer(s): | Alex Winter | | Noor Sadar | Editor(s): | Mathieu Goasguen | | Matthieu Lère | Writer(s): | Jules Giraudat | | Arthur Bouvart | | Alexis Marant | Cinematography: | Raoul Seigneur | | Arthur Bouvart | | Jules Giraudat | | Ram Pateriya | | Christophe Barreyre | | Julien Mauranne | Composer: | Clément Tery |
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Influence
Available until June 24
Fake news, weaponized communication and political interference take centre stage in this story of spin, all charted through the rise and collapse of notorious British public relations and reputation management firm Bell Pottinger.
| Runtime: | 106 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | | South Africa | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Spanish | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Special Presentations | Film Subjects: | Capitalism & Big Business | | Crime & Intrigue | | Journalism & the Media | | Politics & Political Intrigue | Website: | https://www.influence.film/ | | Director(s): | Richard Poplak | | Diana Neille | Producer(s): | Bob Moore | | Neil Brandt | Executive Producer(s): | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Daniel Cross | | Thandi Davids | Editor(s): | Ryan Mullins | Writer(s): | Richard Poplak | | Diana Neille | Cinematography: | Glauco Bermudez | | Mark Ó Fearghaíl | Composer: | Florencia Di Concilio | Sound: | Benoît Dame | | Catherine Van Der Donckt |
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Landfall
Available until June 24
How will Puerto Rico reinvent itself after the devastations of Hurricane Maria and a multi-billion-dollar debt crisis? Intimate encounters with afflicted locals and opportunistic newcomers offer a sharp-eyed analysis of disaster capitalism and a stirring portrait of resistance.
| Runtime: | 91 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | | English | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Director(s): | Cecilia Aldarondo | Producer(s): | Ines Hofmann Kanna | | Cecilia Aldarondo | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | | Laura Poitras | | Justine Nagan | | Chris White | | Sally Jo Fifer | | Sandy Viquez Pedlow | Editor(s): | Terra Long | Cinematography: | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | Composer: | Angelica Negron |
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The Last Archer
Available until June 24
In this intimate portrait of Alberto Manrique, one of the Canary Islands’ most innovative artists, the director—Manrique’s granddaughter—returns home to restore his memory, part of which he lost some years before, and discovers his work’s true magical power to heal.
| Runtime: | 75 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Spain | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | Personal Histories | | Western Europe | | Director(s): | Dácil Manrique de Lara | Producer(s): | Ana Sánchez-Gijón | | Dácil Manrique de Lara | Executive Producer(s): | Ana Sánchez-Gijón | Editor(s): | Nacho Ruiz Capillas | | Dácil Manrique de Lara | Writer(s): | Dacil Manrique de Lara | | Isabelle Dierckx | Cinematography: | Juan A. Castaño (AEC) | | Dácil Manrique de Lara | Composer: | Christian Johansen | | Hector R. Perdomo | Sound: | Christian Johansen | | Elodium |
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt
Available until June 24
When her drug-addicted brother’s calls for money stop, his sister races from Estonia to Colombia to desperately seek him out on the rough streets of Bogotá. But as each rumoured sighting breeds new panic, is she chasing hope or a ghost?
| Runtime: | 82 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Estonia | | Colombia | | Sweden | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Estonian | | English | | Spanish | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | Website: | https://nakedcinema.eu/A-Loss-of-Something-Ever-Felt | | Director(s): | Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz | Producer(s): | Liis Nimik | | Davood Mousavi | | Marcela Lizcano | Editor(s): | Hendrik Mägar | Writer(s): | Liis Nimik | | Carlos Eduarlo Lesmes Lopez | Cinematography: | Aivo Rannik | | Giulia Ducci | | Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz | | Davood Mousavi | Composer: | Ann Reimann | Sound: | Gabriel Solis |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
Available until June 24
Controversy erupts when the American art market is flooded with a slew of fake paintings valued in the millions. As the truth unravels and consequences mount, a reputed New York dealer unwittingly finds herself at the centre of an elaborate con.
| Runtime: | 96 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Canada | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Chinese | | Spanish | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | America | | Art & Architecture | | Crime & Intrigue | | Director(s): | Barry Avrich | Producer(s): | Barry Avrich | | Caitlin Cheddie | Executive Producer(s): | Jay Hennick | | Barry Avrich | Editor(s): | Tiffany Beaudin | Writer(s): | Barry Avrich | Cinematography: | Ken Ng | Composer: | Michael Perlmutter | Sound: | Richard Spence-Thomas |
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Mother-Child
Available until June 11
At a public hospital in Argentina—where abortion is still mostly illegal—vulnerable teenage girls confide in caring professionals, revealing the weightiness of their decisions and the fragility of their dreams.
| Runtime: | 65 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Argentina | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | Website: | http://www.kinorebelde.com/dist_mother_en.html | | Director(s): | Andrea Testa | Producer(s): | Francisco Márquez | | Luciana Piantanida | | Andrea Perner | Editor(s): | Lorena Moriconi | Writer(s): | Andrea Testa | | Francisco Márquez | Cinematography: | Gustavo Schiaffino | Sound: | Abel Tortorelli |
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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Available until June 24
In Venezuela, corruption, pollution and political decay take their toll as the small fishing village of Congo Mirador is literally sinking from sedimentation. Confronting the crisis, two local women clash over the upcoming election, eyeing different paths forward.
| Runtime: | 99 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Venezuela | | UK | | Brazil | | Austria | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | To Conserve & Protect | Film Subjects: | Ecology & the Environment | | Latin America | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Rural Live & Agriculture | | Women & Women's Stories | | Director(s): | Anabel Rodríguez Ríos | Producer(s): | Sepp Brudermann | Executive Producer(s): | Claudia Lepage | Editor(s): | Sepp Brudermann | Cinematography: | John Márquez | Composer: | Nascuy Linares | Sound: | Daniel Turini |
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Playback
Available until June 24
In the conservative city of Córdoba, Grupo Kalas, a chosen family of transgender women and drag queens combine performance and protest onstage at club La Piaff. This unknown history from the 1980s manipulates time and space using VHS tracking and re-enactments to produce alternate endings for those who died of AIDS.
| Runtime: | 14 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Argentina | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | http://www.kinorebelde.com/kino2020/playback/ | | Director(s): | Agustina Comedi | Producer(s): | Magalí Mérida | Editor(s): | Valeria Racioppi | Writer(s): | Agustina Comedi | Cinematography: | Magalí Mérida | Sound: | Guido Deniro |
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Sanmao. The Desert Bride
Available until June 24
Chinese writer Sanmao has inspired generations of young women through her conviction to fearlessly pursue a life as an artist and independent woman. Poetically told, this biography captures her extraordinary life, full of adventure, loves and losses.
| Runtime: | 86 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Spain | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | | Chinese | | English | | Russian | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | East Asia | | Women & Women's Stories | | Director(s): | Ana Pérez de la Fuente | | Marta Arribas | Producer(s): | Edmon Roch | | Patricia Takata | Executive Producer(s): | Edmon Roch | Editor(s): | Clara Martínez Malagelada | Writer(s): | Ana Pérez de la Fuente | | Marta Arribas | Composer: | Marc Timón | Sound: | Gabriel Gutiérrez |
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Sex Assistant
Available until June 24
Daniela and Andrés, a Venezuelan couple with physical disabilities, engage an artist to assist them in taking their sexual relationship beyond the boundaries of their wheelchairs. An erotic autobiography that is part advocacy and part voyeurism, Sex Assistant overcomes obstacles and prejudices by sharing a sensual, empowering and romantic scene rarely seen.
| Runtime: | 22 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Venezuela | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://www.facebook.com/SexAssistFilm | | Director(s): | Andrés González Majul | Producer(s): | Andrés González Majul | | Daniela Berlet | | Marcel Rasquin | | Joe Torres | | Juan Antonio Díaz | | Alain Gómez Reglá | Editor(s): | Dester Linares | | Andrés González Majul | Writer(s): | Andrés González Majul | | Marcel Rasquin | | Daniela Berlet | Cinematography: | Andrés González Majul | | Marcel Rasquin | Composer: | Francisco Mejía | | Leo Aldrey | | Luis Daniel González | | Alain Gómez Reglá | | Andrés González Majul | Sound: | Pararrayos Studios |
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The Song of the Butterflies
Available until June 24
Finding himself stumped for artistic inspiration, an Indigenous painter travels from Lima to his ancestral land in Amazonia, absorbing his family’s stories and finding the strength to confront the painful past of a people nearly extinguished.
| Runtime: | 65 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Peru | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | | Munuka | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Artscapes | Film Subjects: | Art & Architecture | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | Website: | http://www.thesongofthebutterflies.pe | | Director(s): | Núria Frigola Torrent | Producer(s): | Rolando Toledo Vega | | Núria Frigola Torrent | | Chela de Ferrari | Executive Producer(s): | Rolando Toledo | Editor(s): | Nicolé Hurtado Céspedes | Cinematography: | Nicolás Landa Tami | Composer: | Karin Zielinski | Sound: | Raúl Astete |
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Stateless
Available until June 24
After the Dominican Republic Supreme Court strips citizenship from anyone with Haitian parentage—retroactive to 1929—200,000 people are rendered stateless due to anti-Black racism. In response, a young attorney ignites a grassroots campaign, relentlessly fighting to protect citizenship rights for all.
| Runtime: | 95 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | USA | | Canada | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | | Creole | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Director(s): | Michèle Stephenson | Producer(s): | Jennifer Holness | | Michèle Stephenson | | Lea Marin | Executive Producer(s): | Anita Lee | | Joe Brewster | | Sudz Sutherland | Editor(s): | Sophie Farkas-Bolla | Writer(s): | Michèle Stephenson | Cinematography: | Jaime Guerra | | Nadia Hallgren | | Naiti Gámez | | Tito Rodriguez | | Alfredo Alcántara | | Pedro Arnau Bros Santana | Composer: | Ben Fox |
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Things We Dare Not Do
Available until June 24
From one of Mexico’s rising cinematographers comes this story of 16-year-old Ñoño, who, living amid cartel violence and models of toxic machismo, seeks the courage to tell his family he wants to live life as a woman.
| Runtime: | 71 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | Mexico | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Families & Family Relationships | | Gender & Sexuality | | Latin America | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Director(s): | Bruno Santamaría Razo | Producer(s): | Abril López Carrillo | Executive Producer(s): | Charlotte Cook | Editor(s): | Andrea Rabasa | Writer(s): | Bruno Santamaría Razo | Cinematography: | Bruno Santamaría Razo | Composer: | Tomás Barreiro | Sound: | Zita Erffa | | Andrea Rabasa | | Javier Umpierrez |
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Unforgivable
Available until June 24
A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in an isolation cell in El Salvador. But in prison, Geovanny is not just guilty of crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay. A story of harrowing horror and homophobia, this unforgettable film stands alone as an example of extremes.
| Runtime: | 35 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | El Salvador | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | Spanish | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | | Director(s): | Marlén Viñayo | Producer(s): | Marlén Viñayo | | Carlos Martínez | Executive Producer(s): | José Luis Sanz | Editor(s): | Andrea Bilbao | Writer(s): | Carlos Martínez | | Marlén Viñayo | Cinematography: | Neil Brandvold | Additional Cinematography: | Víctor Peña | | Patrick Tómbola | | Marlén Viñayo | Composer: | Omnion | Sound: | Eduardo Cáceres |
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Welcome Strangers
Available until June 24
At 6:00 p.m. every evening, Sarah Jackson and a group of dedicated volunteers collect asylum seekers from an ICE detention centre in Aurora, Colorado. For these anxious newcomers, the invitation of a warm bed, food and clothing is a welcome sojourn on the way to their next destination.
| Runtime: | 21 | Copyright: | 2020 | Country Listing: | USA | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Cameroonian PidgEnglish | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | Shorts | Website: | https://welcomestrangersfilm.com | | Director(s): | Dia Sokol Savage | Producer(s): | Garret Savage | Executive Producer(s): | Morgan J. Freeman | Editor(s): | Chelsea Jackson | Cinematography: | Matthias Grunsky | Composer: | Mark A. Crawford | Sound: | Michael Kranicke | | Matthew Polis |
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Wood
Available until June 6
A crack team of spies infiltrate a global syndicate operating in remote Russian forests, Chinese factories and Romanian mills to expose illegal timber trading. Hidden cameras capture the pace of human greed and natural destruction in this white-knuckle enviro-thriller.
| Runtime: | 95 | Copyright: | 2019 | Country Listing: | Austria | | Germany | | Romania | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | Festival Year: | 2020 | Language: | English | | Romanian | | German | | Spanish | | Russian | | Chinese | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Director(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | | Ebba Sinzinger | | Thomas Tielsch | | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Adrian Sitaru | Executive Producer(s): | Vincent Lucassen | Editor(s): | Andrea Wagner | | Roland Sto¨ttinger | Writer(s): | Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan | | Michaela Kirst | | Ebba Sinzinger | Cinematography: | Lukas Gnaiger | | Jakub Bejnarowicz | | Jo¨rg Burger | | Attila Boa | | Jerzy Palacz | Sound: | Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson | | Claus Benischke | | Nora Czamler | | Andreas Pils | | Peter Rösner | | Simon Bastian |
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