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1977. Sixteen-year-old Mario lives in a small village in Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland. While society around him is shifting in many ways, he experiences his first awkward sentimental approaches, has trouble in school, and constantly clashes with a father who doesn’t seem to get him. When he is sent off to the mountains to work as a farmer for the summer, some unexpected encounters will teach him a lot about life, love, and most importantly about himself.

Through improvised scenes, archival footage, interviews, and texts, this film traces the life of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973)—from her childhood during the war in Carinthia, to her rise to stardom in Group 47, to her final days in Rome. It is marked by Bachmann’s difficult relationships with Paul Celan, Hans Werner Henze, and Max Frisch, as well as her lifelong struggle to develop her own, radical language. In reenacted scenes of everyday life in Rome, Sandra Hüller portrays the author.

The director of a nursing home in Paris is burning out as she fights to ensure humane care in the face of resistance from management and staff. On the verge of breaking down, she meets a Japanese theater director battling cancer, with whom she soon forms a deep friendship. Together, the two women transform the nursing home into a place of resistance against a system that neglects humanity.

Former elite soldier Cole Reed is framed for the murder of his billionaire employer. In his efforts to find the real culprits, Reed ends up aboard a cargo ship. There, he uncovers a conspiracy.

Nino and Yasmina are born in Lebanon on the same day, in the same hospital, just one minute apart, while the civil war rages outside. Close friends as children, they lose touch when Yasmina moves away and don’t meet again until twenty years later. It’s love at second sight—but their visions of life and a future together couldn’t be more different, as their personal experiences and the country’s political turmoil have left their mark.

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.