PIFF 2023

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.

After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.

What makes life meaningful: success or love? This dilemma is faced by Joachim, a fulfilled man approaching the end of his life, and a young mathematical genius, David. This film is a return to the central themes of the director's work. The answers he gives this time are perverse and not obvious.

Isabel is in the middle of divorce proceedings. She moves into an old mansion once owned by her family. When the sister of Isabel's co-worker Marta disappears without a trace, police chief Roberta starts investigating the case. Roberta's son is also involved in drug trafficking, which drives the concerned detective to despair. Marta also makes her living working for a local drug gang without the police chief's knowledge. The three women's path to redemption is overshadowed by tragedy and violence.

A widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life to Seoul and finds more than she had bargained for.

From two-time Palme d'Or-winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Tori and Lokita is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.

An intimate video of two 17-year-olds shot in a classroom on the college campus gets leaked on the internet leading to irreparable damages in the lives of every stakeholder.

Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning even though he has been estranged from her for years. Their reunion will be more explosive than this diplomatic trip.

Minsk, August 2020 Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of protests of the civilian population. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people become victims of police brutality - The film was shot in one shot without editing cuts.

A young court bailiff's first eviction case turns into a nightmare because of a desperate old lady who is willing to sacrifice everything to keep her home.

In 2013 a crowd of enraged women take to the streets after a string of severe sexual assaults occur in Tahrir Square on the second anniversary of the revolution in Cairo.

A girl has set an adventure trek in Sahyadri forest of Maharashtra. Due to technical issue during paragliding, lands in a dense forest. All alone, she takes a walk to get out of there, but stumbles upon a ruined and deserted fort. She feels relieved to meet a boy there. Teenagers, they engage each other in interesting conversation and get assimilated into the nature, until they come across a village. Giraki (Twirl) is a journey of getting away from civilization and landing back into it.

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.

Narcosis is about a young family that is hit by a family tragedy and has to deal with it in its own unique way.

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

In January 1920, Paul Deschanel, a French politician little-known to the general public, unexpectedly won the presidential election against Georges Clemenceau, leader of the Council of Ministers. Deschanel (Le Président) was an eccentric person and a political idealist who wanted to transform his country. Clemenceau (Le Tigre) was considered to have led France to victory during WW1.

Faced with a rapidly aging population, a Japanese government in the near future rolls out an unsettling agenda.

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

How the life of the people in the rural areas gets burnt due to drought, the relations get heated like the soil heated in summer. If there is moisture in the soil, there is also sweetness in man. Since it has not rained for two consecutive years, the people of the village are looking for a way to live, but that way is not permanent, people start moving to the city. They start living on the banks of the river. Livelihood of village people depends on agriculture and agriculture is totally dependent on water and dry run agriculture is totally dependent on rain. Water is life as well as if there is no water then life is impossible. The professor of the village is working to give courage to the people in such a situation during the drought. And he helps as much as he can. Between the pain of his wife and the pain of the village, the professor heals himself and heals the village.

When a fairground sets up outside her window, 15-year-old Benedetta meets Amanda who defies gender norms - and not just that. Fascinated, the two grow closer. A coming-of-age film about friendship and the experience of empowerment.

Abhilash Sasidharan receives a summons warrant by the court for a long pending case. Desperate to find out the truth, he finds the real issue where a small conflict snowballed into a bigger one that changes the lives of everyone involved.

A portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy's future.