Movies of 2022

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

In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.

After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation. He builds a robot.

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

Cecilia travels to her father's farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her long-deceased mother whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.

In the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.

A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.

As three young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland, they move between dreams, reality, friendship, and relationships, and try to make sense of everything.

Edina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.

A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life.

The search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.

As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

A selection of animated shorts nominated for awards, including "Robin Robin", "Affairs of the Art", "Bestia", "Boxballet", and "The Windshield Wiper".

2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films Live Action: Ala Kachuu - Take and Run (Maria Brendle), The Dress (Tadeusz Lysiak), The Long Goodbye (Aneil Karia), On My Mind (Martin Strange-Hansen), Please Hold (KD Davila).

A bride escapes from her wedding. Takes a taxi and tries to run away from her current artifical life. The taxi driver is not on duty that day, but takes her everywhere she wants. The bride tries to go back to the past, tries to change decisions she have made years before. The taxi driver tries to show her that the way out can only be the way ahead, not the way she left. Of course they have adventures, have excellent dialogues, they make us laugh and sometimes cry. A good mirror for the 30-40s generation and not only in Hungary.

Three Arab women living in modern day Jordan must put their differences aside and work together.

Marie, early thirties, gets a wedding proposal from her boyfriend Julian. Overwhelmed, she goes for the honest way: She has to think about it. On the countryside, she tries to clear her mind but is confronted by "thought-people", beings that all seem to have a clear understanding of what's best for Marie. Soon, they don't only question Marie's proposed wedding, but her whole life itself: an army of "thought-journalists" bring up existential and trivial questions alike, Marie's esoteric ex-boyfriend climbs down a tree and wants her to meditate with him, her mother getting started on sex - everybody wants something, but what does she actually want?

A village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other. One day, Eliko is found hanged. His granddaughter Moe comes to organize his funeral. She is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko’s hidden love life.

In Toronto, lively music, complex textiles, and vibrant colors paint an improbable love story when Badi and Sharon, two young students from divided Persian communities, accidentally fall in love.

A humanitarian mission arrives in Transylvania, offering goods to locals. Maria and Dan, despite conflicts, find themselves assisting a disoriented local.

In a moment of ordinary madness, three girlfriends decide to shoot a burqa music video.