Discovery

Magazine

A young intern faces intoxicating power dynamics at a prestigious New York City literary magazine.

• AAlexandra PechmanDirector
• AnnaSophia Robb
• Jake Lacy
• Daniel Zolghadri
• Iris Apatow
• Lukita Maxwell

Purgatory

In the early 1980s, 13-year-old Beatrice Gravel's comfortable world—family, school, and church—fractures when her mother moves out to 'self actualize', leaving Beatrice and her younger sister Chloe with their devastated father. As Beatrice doubles down on a plan to 'fix' her family, she barrels through bullies, friendship blowups, a make-out party, and a kleptomaniac babysitter—forcing her to decide who she wants to be when she can’t get what she wants.

• Lindsay LanzillottaDirector
• J.K. Simmons
• John Reynolds
• Abby Elliott
• Mary Walsh
• Julianne Arrieta

Seventeen

Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three young, queer, Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

• JJustin DucharmeDirector
• Kaniehtiio Horn
• Ray G. Thunderchild
• Mathias Retamal
• Renae Morriseau
• Shannon Baker

Ancestors

1988. Dreams, memories and history collide as a young man searches for his missing friend.

• DDavid TurpinDirector
• Rupert Everett
• Christina Hendricks
• Éanna Hardwicke
• Jack Wolfe
• Jessica Reynolds

I Am Mario

Mario is a trans taxi driver who gets pregnant. He has the possibility of fulfilling his desire to become a father, but this confronts him with his expectations regarding his masculinity. Before exposing himself to a "macho" and prejudice-filled society, he must face himself.

• Sharon KleinbergDirector
• Hector Kotsifakis
• Fermín Martínez
• Mayra Batalla
• Kristyan Ferrer
• Mercedes Hernández

Salvation

A tenacious aspiring guru must go to extreme measures to pay off the debts he’s accrued from trying, and failing, to set up an online life-coaching business in a post-industrial Scottish town. Exploring the world of male influencer culture and how it might be affecting the young men who come into its orbit, SALVATION blends mounting tension, dark comedy and a forensic focus on its protagonist to explore the very modern story of a delusional life coach spiralling out of control.

• TTom NicollDirector
• Kim Allan
• Rian Gordon
• Kathleen McDermott
• Conor McCarron
• Ronan Doyle

A Common Story

Erika and Mauro live in the province, living a simple life made up of reassuring habits and small gestures. When their daughter Irene leaves to study abroad, the house empties, and the balance on which the couple has built their existence seems to be shaken.

• Anna FogliettaDirector
• Alba Rohrwacher
• Guido Caprino
• Elio De Capitani
• CCaterina Casini

Strong Son

A former South Asian bodybuilder moves back in with his aging father to become his primary caregiver, forcing him to balance the physical strength that once defined him with the mental and emotional challenges of caring for the man who raised him.

• IIan BawaDirector
• Erik Athavale
• Onalee Ames
• QQuinn Greene
• Yuvraj Dhesi
• Michaela Kurimsky

Memories of a Forest

• KKatharina RablDirector
• Linde Prelog
• Lukas Walcher
• Dominik Warta
• JJohanna Orsini-Rosenberg
• MMarie-Therese Futterknecht

Stuffed

Araminta, a brooding taxidermist whose secret ambition is to stuff a human specimen, meets Bernie, a lonely man so afraid of being forgotten that he volunteers himself, their pact unexpectedly evolves into a haunting romance.

• TTheo RhysDirector
• Harry Melling
• Jodie Comer

The Fortunate Isles

In the arid Canary Islands of the 15th century, Fátima is enslaved by a decadent marquis who controls the island’s only source of fresh water. When rebellion erupts and the well runs dry, she ventures into the barren landscape in search of water — and a chance of survival for the entire community.

• Helena Girón
• SSamuel DelgadoDirectors
• Grégoire Colin
• Lou Castel

Head to Head

Bahar is an acclaimed Iranian director, having made numerous films selected in international festivals. So when she casts actors and asks them to wear women’s outfits for her latest film, they agree in the hope of an international career — or even a visa to leave the country. But wearing skirts and headscarves under the heat is harder than they expected … as is the hit to their pride.

• Ghasideh GolmakaniDirector
• Ebrahim Azizi
• Lily Farhadpour
• EElaheh Farazmand
• Saeed Naderi
• BBahador Bastanhagh

Voices

When a rising soul duo overdose just hours before their big break, a desperate bellhop and his closest friends seize the chance of a lifetime, only to discover that the price of fame is blood.

• DDeanté GrayDirector
• Ezekiel Ajeigbe
• FFrancis C. Edemobi
• JJamal R. Averett
• Raèl Ba
• AAntoine Gardner

Nosotros

Romero, a 23-year-old Indigenous man who used to drive a three-wheeled mototaxi (TucTuc) in his rural town, flees local gang extortion and migrates to Guatemala City. He finds a job as a security guard at a commercial center, where he falls in love with a trans woman who runs a local business. Together, they build an emotional sanctuary, but their bond is quickly threatened by the deep-seated prejudice and hostility of his coworkers.

• JJoaquín RuanoDirector
• LLola Vásquez
• JJozef Coxaj

Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and The Burdens of Excess

The story draws from the experiences of several kayayei, who carry 55-kilogram bales of imported secondhand clothing around Kantamanto, Accra’s principal secondhand clothing market.

• CChristine Boateng
• HHajara Musah ChambasDirectors