Foreign Language Film Submissions 2020

Dear Comrades! is based on a true story that took place in June of 1962 in Novocherkassk. The rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk went on strike after the communist government raised food prices.

Vlado Mladinic is a divorced father who tries to see his nine-year-old daughter on her birthday. Because his ex-wife will not permit this, he forces his way into her classroom – with a hunting rifle and a birthday cake.

In the drama I’m No Longer Here (Ya no estoy aqui), writer and director Fernando Frias delves into the complex arena of human identity and how our cultural surroundings can shape who we can become. Our protagonist is 17-year-old Ulises (Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño) and his journey in the film begins as he crosses the Mexican/U.

Natasha (Natalya Paylenko) travels to Moscow on the 17th anniversary of the terrorist attack in the Dubrovka Theatre, in which more than 170 hostages and a number of Chechen terrorists were killed. She wants to organize a memorial evening, but not before reuniting with her daughter Galya (Kseniya Zueva).

Set in the late Summer of 2011, over six months after the Jasmine Revolution and the fall of Ben Ali, A Son centers on an upper-class young Tunisian family, who are blessed with a perfect life. The husband, Fares, is CEO of a sales business, the wife, Meriem, is an HR manager for a big company in the Middle East, and their son, Aziz, is a bright 11-year-old kid.

When a boy is killed in a village in Kazakhstan, the investigating detective, Bekzat (played by Daniyar Alshinov), is told to wrap up the case as fast as he can. His lazy superior officer is a coward who orders him to kill a supposed suspect that local police officers have conveniently found for him.

The setting is Mumbai, India and as the old, wise lady in the film states: “There is a reason why Indian classical music is considered an eternal quest. Through this music we are shown the path to the divine.

A funny and quick-paced sex comedy (79 minutes) about modern love the way it might happen to bored couples in Valencia, where the film was shot. The film is directed by Juanjo Moscardó and Suso Imbernón, based on a screenplay by María Mínguez, María Laura Gargarella and Moscardó himself.

Much like the mystical island the film shares its name with Atlantis is a feat of cinema that is hard to come by. The story takes place in 2025, one year after the end of the devastating war in eastern Ukraine.

Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio), an eccentric and nonconformist theater director who is already going through a bad period in his personal life, receives the news of his mother´s death. A short while ago, his mother (Magüi Mira) had informed him that when she died, she wished to be buried at sea, on the shores of her hometown, Altea.