Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.

Length and Rating—101 mins / NC16

Panel—COVID-19 and Navigating its Demands of Change

In this bold new experimental documentary, four artists talk about suicide: the role the recurring thought has played in their life and art, the struggle to understand and overcome the impulse, and the ongoing confrontation with a form of stigma that renders the very concept of suicide as a kind of pariah. With a frankness that is both bracing and illuminating, Steve Sanguedolce’s four subjects in LAND OF NOT KNOWING tell stories about considering suicide and the filmmaker responds with a striking visual scheme that presents something rarely attempted in the engagement with this most misunderstood of conditions: a sense of first person understanding. – Geoff Pevere

Length and Rating—71 mins / NC16

Panel—Suicide: Can Talk or Not?

Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he’s managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.

Length and Rating—102 mins / NC16

Panel—Mental Health At The Workplace

No angel, a young man’s life changes when he takes an elderly stranger’s spare room and soon finds himself caring for her as she develops dementia. What follows is a poignant and heart-warming story.

Length and Rating—112 mins / NC16

Panel—Building A Dementia-Inclusive Society

Odette is 8 years old, she likes to paint and laugh. Of course, she trusts adults, why would she be afraid of her parent’s friend? Why would she refuse to play “little tickles” with him? Odette doesn’t say anything, no one would believe her. To be understood, she dances. Odette is now thirty-something. Funny, intense and completely wild. A very promising dancer, but still broken by her lost childhood. Finding the perfect balance between her life and her dances, the horror and the comedy, Odette leads us through her story with her laugh, her supreme elegance and sublime protection. She will fight for her moral reconstruction, reconciliation and, above all, resilience.

Length and Rating—103 mins / M18

Panel—The Shadow of Childhood Trauma

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.

Length and Rating—123 mins / PG13

Panel—COVID-19: A Pandemic of Inequality?

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal.

Length and Rating—95 mins / PG13

Panel—How Eating Disorder Affects an Individual and Their Family

Wen Guang (Kyo Chen) is a young man who is autistic, he cannot focus and struggles to socialize with other people. His younger brother (Ernest Chong) wants him to look for a job so they can share their burden.

Length and Rating—88 mins / NC16

Panel—Caregiving For Persons With Special Needs

Teenager Nicolas Sheff seems to have it all with good grades and being an actor, artist, athlete and editor of the school newspaper. When Nic’s addiction to meth threatens to destroy him, his father does whatever he can to save his son and family.

Length and Rating—120 mins / M18

Panel—Addiction Recovery: A Journey Beyond The Individual