FRANCE

Director and Screenwriter: Bruno Dumont
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay
Country: France/Germany/Italy/Belgium, 2021
Duration: 133’

France is a famous journalist who has few moral scruples in the name of professional success. Even at home, she behaves no less cynically and selfishly. But after a minor car accident involving a delivery man, her life is turned upside down.

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Director: Joachim Trier
Screenwriters: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Cast: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum
Country: Norway/France/Sweden/Denmark, 2021
Duration: 127’

Divided into chapters, the film tells the sentimental education of Julie, a free, unpredictable and contradictory woman facing the issues of her generation, long torn between two men: Aksel, a successful graphic novelist, and Eivind, a stranger she meets at a party who will upend her plans for the future.

PETITE MAMAN

Director: Céline Sciamma
Screenwriter: Céline Sciamma
Cast: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse.
Country: France, 2021
Duration: 72’

Nelly is eight years old and has just lost her beloved grandmother. While her parents clean out her grandmother’s house, Nelly wanders through the rooms and explores the surrounding woods where her mother, Marion, used to play and built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day, Marion suddenly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl her own age in the woods. She is building a treehouse and her name is Marion…

QUO VADIS, AIDA?

Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Screenwriter: Jasmila Zbanic
Cast: Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Isaković
Country: Bosnia, 2020
Duration: 103’

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is an interpreter working for the United Nations in the town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army occupies the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens seeking refuge in the UN camp. As someone privy to negotiations, Aida has access to crucial information that makes her role essential. What lies ahead for her family and her people? Salvation or death? What actions must she take?

MY SALINGER YEAR

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Screenwriter: Philippe Falardeau
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley, Douglas Booth
Country: Canada/Ireland, 2020
Duration: 101’

New York, 1990s. Joanna, an aspiring poet, is hire