2024 MFF

A satire about Cuban machismo, middle-school drama, and environmental messaging through connected vignettes: a frustrated Miami science teacher forces apathetic students to pick up litter in detention, the drama those students actually care about, and an overworked Cuban father who challenges the teacher.

The Delaney family seems happy, but Joy disappears, forcing her husband and four adult children to reassess their family history.

André Masson, an auctioneer at the famous Scottie’s auction house, receives a letter one day stating that a painting by Egon Schiele has been discovered in Mulhouse at the home of a young worker. Very skeptical, he makes the trip and has to face the truth: the painting is authentic, a masterpiece gone missing since 1939, confiscated by the Nazis. André sees this discovery as the pinnacle of his career, but also the beginning of a struggle that could jeopardize it. Fortunately, he will be assisted by his ex-wife and colleague Bertina, and by his eccentric intern Aurore.

An single woman who, after getting pregnant from a one-night stand, leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

Ricardo returns to Caracas after a year in New York.nDuring a reunion trip with his friends along the beautiful coasts of Venezuela, he feels a strong pain that will transform his life and that of his family forever.

Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.

A people-pleasing young woman is involuntarily estranged from her narcissistic father and unexpectedly befriends a childless man with the same name as her father on the internet.

Ann is a yoga teacher struggling to achieve inner peace despite the fact her family is driving her crazy and her dating life is miserable.

Emma is a young conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene. DAYS OF HAPPINESS chronicles her complex relationship with her father and agent Patrick, who has maintained a devious hold on her since childhood. Thenpossibility of an important position with a prestigious orchestra only raises the stakes for Emma. She will have to give way to her true emotions and make choices, both for her music and for herself, if she is to navigate herncareer and her romantic relationship with Naëlle, a newly separated cellist and mother of a young boy.

In 1996 Punjab, India, Canadian-born Indian girl Jassi falls in love with Mithu, a rickshaw driver who is beneath her social status. Their attraction is pure and unconditional, but is it strong enough to fight the dictates imposed by Jassi’s family and Punjabi society?nFrom visionary director Tarsem Singh comes a modern-day Romeo and Juliet inspired by true events and told in a punjabi folk style.

Tristan, a frustrated writer, agrees, under mysterious circumstances, to fulfill his brother’s last wish: he has to drive the frozen body of his brother Simon across Spain, to bury him at their childhood house.

En La Caliente tells the story of how reguetón has become the megaphone of an emerging Cuba against the official discourse.

An erstwhile late-night comedy writer Max Brandel blows up his successful career — and marriage — to become a somewhat less successful stand-up comic.

George Dureau: New Orleans Artist explores the life and career of one of the city’s icons, painter and photographer George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014). George Dureau: New Orleans Artist tells the story of a New Orleans that no longer exists.

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.

Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.

Billie, a widowed gravesite caretaker, mehear

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill.

Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.

César and Teresa are a happy couple until one night she sleeps with Coque Malla, César’s great idol since his adolescence. Teresa confesses it to César, repentant, but he doesn’t know how to react. Is being unfaithful with your erotic myth excusable?

An Oscar shortlisted immersive documentary and profound sensory experience from filmmaker Sam Green featuring original music by JD Samson.

Tackling the modern-day opioid epidemic, Junction tells three interconnected stories of a CEO of a pharmaceutical corporation, a doctor, and an addict, exploring the ways in which they’re all deeply affected by – and play a part in – the crisis in America.

The viral video of a Christian pop group made up of several sisters has an enormous effect on the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delirium.

In La Suprema, a town erased from the maps, where there’s not even electricity, Laureana, a young Afro-Colombian, dreams of being a boxer. When she finds out that her uncle will be boxing for the world title and the event will be broadcast live on television, she and the community come together against all odds to watch the fight.

London-born San Francisco-based drag queen Lady Camden is catapulted into the spotlight when she becomes a contestant on season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. As she struggles to manage the demands of her newfound fame, she must come to terms with a traumatic childhood in Camden that drove her to seek joy, fantasy, and escape through the performing arts.

Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. During their time together they made 43 films including acclaimed period drama Howards End (1992) and critically acclaimed drama A Room With A View (1985).

Miami Now is a captivating documentary series that delves deep into the vibrant tapestry of Miami’s people, culture, and ongoing efforts towards a sustainable future.

Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world’s prettiest photographer, had anhuge influence on 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy, or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic…till now.. Featuring Dita Von Teese, Bruce Weber, and Larry King’s last film appearance, Naked Ambition is a rediscovery of a brilliant and talented forgotten artist.

Milagros survives selling peanut cones on the street and spends her days listening to radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain nine-year-old best friends go to school and dream of emigrating to the U.S. to become Baseball players.

A star studded actor visits a bizarre spa to process his failing marriage and how nobody recognizes him.

A dark folktale about twin siblings who suspect their father is hiding secrets to their deceased mother’s connection with the supernatural.

Six stories, different characters who walk through the streets of Mexico City, pursued by intermittent rain and absorbed in daily despair. However, each one faces an unforeseen moment, a strange, luminous or absurd event that reveals who they are. After those unusual moments, they plunge back into the confusion of the days.

A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial.

Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom.

Upon meeting again the priest who abused him as a child, Roberto struggles with the feelings of aversion, lust, and affection that the priest arouses in him.

Three teenagers attract public outcry after they post a video identifying the assailant who attacked one of them.

A talented gymnast, she excels at the sport of rooftopping, or climbing the world’s highest buildings without safety harnesses, but Angela isn’t accepted by her male climbing peers. As she begins to one-up the boys with her bravery and creativity, she gets the attention of Russia’s top rooftopper Vanya. The two form a team and expand the phenomena to a new genre they call "skywalking," creating artistic photography of acrobatic stunts on the edges of skyscrapers. Their art goes viral, they get sponsored to travel with their new brand, eventually fall in love, and social media explodes. But when Covid halts travel and Russia invades Ukraine, Angela and Vanya lose their sponsors and followers, stirring trust issues in their partnership. In the hopes of saving their careers and their relationship, they risk never seeing their families again and leave Russia to conquer their greatest quest yet, the second-highest building in the world.

After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family’s survival.

A journey through the beloved world of children’s picture books, led by three contemporary stars of the new "golden age" of kids’ lit, using, archival access, untapped insights, and stop-motion paper animation to explore timely new work.

When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.

When her only daughter goes off to university, an empty nest mother gets stuck taking care of her daughter’s heart-broken ex-boyfriend, who she can’t stand.

Tell Them You Love Me explores the extraordinary story of Anna Stubblefield, an esteemed university professor who becomes embroiled in a controversial affair with Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal man with cerebral palsy. Anna says she unlocked Derrick’s mind from his disabled body by teaching him to communicate using a keyboard with a method known as assisted communication. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial that would challenge our perceptions of disability and the nature of consent.

As a decade of dominance in Florida high school basketball is established by a public high school in Little Havana and its diverse coaching staff and their young, impoverished students, an unwarranted article in the local newspaper initiates a statewide investigation into alleged recruiting violations leading to life-changing punishments for all.

Akino is a trainee concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store, an unusual department store that caters exclusively to animals. Under the watchful eyes of the floor manager and senior concierges, Akino runs around to fulfill the wishes of customers with a myriad of needs and problems in her pursuit to become a full-fledged concierge.

The Contestant tells the story of Tomoaki Hamatsu, better known as Nasubi (なすび, "Eggplant"), who starred in one of the world’s first reality TV shows in Japan.

After an accident, 14-year-old Ana has a metal plate in her arm. Unexpectedly, during the winter holidays, the plate begins to receive peculiar messages conveyed in Morse code.

Yoga teachers Gustavo and Vanesa split up. Vanesa keeps the apartment and leaves the studio they shared; Gustavo is left to find a new home and appease his meddling mother. Due to the accumulated stress, Gustavo injures his knee and replaces yoga with rehabilitation and the gym. His life becomes a world of students and ex-students – one of which injures her head. Step by step he finds his way back to the practice.

1971, Francoist Spain. In the Galician countryside María assists women in childbirth. After an attempt to help a young woman in trouble, she suddenly has to hide from the authorities, leave everything behind and flee the country.

Suellen, a Brazilian toll booth attendant and mother, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. In doing so, she realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally for a so-called noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

Three couples are summoned by their psychologist for group therapy which pushes them to wash increasingly dirty linen in public.

17-year-old Vera divides her days between volleyball, school, and a secret hobby: she rents out an empty apartment to teenagers looking for a place to have sex.

What’s Next? chronicles one year in the life of Dr. Howard Tucker, the world’s oldest practicing doctor, who at 100-years-old, must grapple with aging for the first time.

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy.