A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”

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　　21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city's nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand - and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma's only hope to survive is a last forged ID - with his own name on it.

　　Hardship and beauty lie cheek by jowl in Rosa’s home in the wilds of Calabria. When she becomes aware of her family’s involvement in the mafia, she has to decide how far she is willing to go in order to break out of the ’Ndrangheta.

　　Every little detail is captured on the grain (and in 4K) in a film where the diverse wildlife around a single oak tree plays out like a daily drama of life and death. An audience favourite, and a huge nature experience.
　　An oak tree is not just a tree. It is an ecosystem in itself, and a home to many different life forms at once. Featuring squirrels, herons, ants, deer and badgers, the French audience favourite ‘Heart of Oak’ unfolds the wonderful natural kingdom where everything is interconnected, from the roots to the crown. Starring an ancient oak tree – and with a camera that captures even the smallest detail – a daily drama of life and death unfolds as animals struggle for food, shelter and survival through the seasons. Shot in 4K, ‘Heart of Oak’ is a serious contender for the great nature experience of the year at the cinema. And by the way, the nearest oak tree is within cycling distance if you want to go and see for yourself after the film.

　　Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside. Directorial star of Spanish film Jonas Trueba (The August Virgin, KVIFF 2019) is a master of soulful cinematic miniatures which don’t require long hours to convey profound, existential feelings infused with enchanting melancholy and gentle humour.

　　《天字第二號》是一部現代愛情諜報作品，結合了疫情期間因隔離產生對檢疫結果的恐慌與想像，以及導演張英的經典台語電影《天字第一號》元素；至於拍攝手法上，參考了近年美國電影《人肉搜索》或日本電視電影《雙重預約》運用的遠端拍攝與多重螢幕，用獨特的敘事方式，讓觀眾一窺疫情下專有的影像風格。

　　德里的空气浑浊而具毒性，常令麻鹰从空中下坠，撞向建筑物而受伤。Nadeem 与 Saud 是一对穆斯林兄弟，两人在狭小的地下室内为麻鹰疗伤。两人首次发现麻鹰受伤时，将牠带往鸟类医院，可是院方却拒绝为“非素食”鸟类治疗。两人因接受健美训练而有一点解剖学知识，于是用来治疗麻 鹰，并治好了超过 20,000 只麻鹰。
　　印度近年一面倒倾向宗教多数主义。去年政府推出的国籍法，侵犯 1.82 亿穆斯林的权利。抗议声音席卷全国。两兄弟一面照料麻鹰，但又想参加抗议活动，为此颇感犹疑。街头抗议进行两个月后，突然变血腥暴行。暴民在德里杀了 50 多人，大多是穆斯林。两兄弟晚上在四邻巡逻，担心暴民前来生事。这个人类与麻鹰的故事，讲出世上最危险的城市不为人知的生活面貌。

　　青年导演拉旦乙亥的《寻人》获得第六届86358贾家庄短片周最佳影片。

　　从海洋到陆地，地球的每个角落都充满垃圾。《它从未在此》是一部关于垃圾的电影，它展示了我们的家园深受垃圾的危害，这些垃圾随着人类足迹甚至去到了地球上最偏远的地方。

　　After his son witnesses a brutal murder by a notorious crime boss, a deaf Indonesian gangster is thrust into the fight of his life when he takes on his dangerous former allies, including a sociopath assassin, in order to protect his child.