Nomade in Niemandsland
Nomade in Niemandsland takes you into the eventful life of Caribbean artist Felix de Rooy. De Rooy, queer and ‘of color’ is considered a pioneer. The first in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who since the seventies has freely told with his art what it means to be queer and Caribbean.
Mountains
Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) and his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier), a Haitian couple living in Miami´s Little Haiti, struggle with economic precarity and feeling like outsiders in their rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. Their son Junior (Chris Renois), who was born in the US and always replies in English when his parents speak to him in Creole, nonetheless mines his Haitian background for material for a stand-up comedy routine that he keeps secret from his overbearing father.
Modelo 77
Spain, Barcelona, 1977. A country and a city in transition after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. A new social order emerges, leading to far-reaching attacks on prevailing conventions. The established order does not accept this without a fight.
The Miracle Club
A couple of elderly ladies sign up for a talent show at the local church and end up winning a pilgrimage to Lourdes. They have been longing to escape, even for a moment, from their dreary lives and husbands. When a friend from their past, now living in America, suddenly appears and joins them on the trip, a lot of unfinished business comes up.
Mi tía Gilma
In Caracas 13-year-old Isabel (Maryale) takes care of her aunt Gilma (Diana Peñalever), who was admitted to hospital after being brutally beaten by her partner, a high-ranking military official. As the days pass and Gilma´s surgery is constantly pushed back, the young girl is faced with a series of increasingly difficult decisions to try and save Gilma´s life.
Memento Mori
A decapitated corpse is found in a river in rural Colombia, assumed to be a victim of conflict, and is quickly buried anonymously. But Animero (César Badillo) deems the corpse “chosen” and ventures to find the head and reunite it with the body. His journey takes him deep into dark terrain, spiritually and physically.
Je verrai toujours vos visages
In France, there is a form of restorative justice that offers victims and perpetrators of offences to engage in mediated dialogue, supervised by professionals. Although the movie is a work of fiction, the experience is very realistic for the viewer. Two storylines complement and reinforce each other. The general part deals with the group sessions and within them the special confrontation between the victim Chloë and her half brother who raped her.
Io Capitano
A poetic, unsentimental movie about survival, ignorance, and loss. The fate of two 16-year-old boys, Seydou and Moussa, who decide to leave Dakar, Senegal, is heartbreaking. They experience hell on earth as they face the horrors of detention centers in Libya and the dangers of the sea.
Inshallah a Boy
This first Jordanian movie to screen at Cannes, is a passionate story about the country´s legal and social barriers to single motherhood. The movie establishes a world of dominant masculinity through details such as the freedom to use one´s own cell phone. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, played by actress Mouna Hawa, must fight for her share of the inheritance.
I Can´t Be Moe; Alice van Romondt
A documentary about Alice van Romondt, the woman who has been a driving force behind the cultural and artistic scene in Aruba for years. Artists of all kinds and creeds have come to her for help and guidance on all fronts.