Category: Raindance 2021

Written and directed by Michal Krzywicki, and co-written by Dagmara Brodziak, who both lead the film’s cast, in the near future, the indifferent activist announces that he will commit suicide at midnight on New Year’s Eve in protest against the reigning slavery in Poland. His plan is questioned when he finds an abandoned slave girl in the garbage and decides to help her regain her freedom. Also starring: Marek Kalita, Philippe Tlonkinski, Mateusz Trzmiel, Marek Dyjak, Zbigniew Dabrowski and Olga Milaszewska.

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Directed by Michaela Pavlátová and written by Ivan Arsenyev and Yaël Giovanna Lévy, when Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband’s violent grip. Voiced by: Eliska Balzerová, Hynek Cermák, Berenika Kohoutová, Daniela Kolárová, Miroslav Krobot, Maryam Malikzada, Shahid Maqsoodi, Shamla Maqsoodi and Mohammad Aref Safai.

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Written and directed by Karin Heberlein, Sami, Joe and Leyla are ready. Ready for a truly epic summer after finishing school and ready to get out and grab their slice of life, but they may not be prepared for what’s to come. Starring: Anja Gada, Rabea Lüthi, Jana Sekulovska, Astrit Alihajdaraj and Karim Daoud.

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Written and directed by Stelios Kammitsis, a former Greek diving champion and an eccentric German student take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria. Starring: Vasilis Magouliotis, Anton Weil and Stella Fyrogeni.

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Written and directed by Tracey Deer and co-written by Meredith Vuchnich, based on true events, chronicling the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec. Starring: Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Rainbow Dickerson, Joel Montgrand, Paulina Alexis, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Jay Cardinal Villeneuve.

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