Locarno 15.08.2024

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

In 1998, two girls sent a letter to the first-ever women's newspaper in Iran. While they waited to get published, they considered making an impossible film.

Indigenous Tsotsil women - shepherds and wool weavers - tend their sheep while honoring their land's memory. The encounter with the filmmaker reveals a longing to acknowledge different ways of inhabiting the same territory.

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

'His Parents' tells the story of a couple whose child became a serial killer, sentenced for 87 murders. Can they still love their son in the face of this unforgivable guilt? Can parents ever truly stop loving their child?

Fida grows up in war 1980s Beirut, hearing her grandmother's stories of the "red hell". Desensitized, she questions life's worth amid conflict, confronting militants through miniatures, juxtaposing her childlike perspective with theirs.

This film explores love's complexities through a Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds.

13-year-old Melrick's summer with grandma Nicole unearths her late drummer son Lucas's story. Amid family grief and a friend's revenge, Melrick finds his own path to forgiveness.

Four rejected asylum seekers relive their reasons for fleeing their home countries and question the core of the asylum process itself.

A man seeks primitive living in forest, but Hurricane Maria hits his island, forcing him and others to truly experience uncivilized survival.

Léo, a young engineer, returns to his homeland to sell his late father's homeland to a rare-earth metal drilling company.

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Estelle flees domestic violence to rejoin her mother prior to a family reunion. Together, they share emotions and memories.

When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

Mysterious Nicky navigates roads, her car propelling her toward an inscrutable mission. Meals, rifle discoveries, and chance meetings leave the puzzle unsolved.

On a volcanic isle, Nana stays while others leave. Her ill mother Nia left after Nana's birth. Sent to the volcano's base for fever treatment, Nana encounters a dream-reality world. Years later, teenager Nana reunites with returning Nia.

A group of eleven women organize a soccer team, as a manifesto against sexism.

In September 2022, Beatrice Dalle travels to Italy. At the root of this journey is the wish to follow in the footsteps of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the love of her life.

A young woman contending with profound rejection due to her looks.

In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.

It's been years since Akin has been in and out of the hospital. He's relentless, angry, and shell-shocked from being stuck in the system. As he loses touch with his true self, his mind shifts into another reality.

A refugee torn from her Middle Eastern home, Myriam resettles in the Midwest, documenting her early experiences in this new land through a poignant letter addressed to her grandmother she was forced to leave.

Three missing people return to a remote town in Tunisia, where the local police inspector, Fathi, tries to unravel the mystery with the help of her friend Amine. Then a second inspector arrives from the capital.

An intimate series of moments takes place in a community of zoos and animal rescue centers across Argentina.