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<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Air Doll</h6><p>This compelling tale of a blow-up doll that becomes a real person and abandons her status of mere sex object comes to life with the superb performance of Korean actress Bae Doo-na.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Antichrist</h6><p>This is a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing and graphic nightmare vision about gender relations from one of the most important and influential directors of the last 30 years. The film is a break from <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/antichrist '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Carmel</h6><p>History in the Middle East is a complex mix of the present and the past. Then, there is also the personal and Gitaï is uniquely placed to reflect on his own past as a soldier and as the father of a yo <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/carmel '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Donation</h6><p>Dr. Rainville, an aging country doctor with a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne
Dion, an emergency room doctor from Montreal, agrees to go to <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/donation '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl</h6><p>Famed filmmaker Oliveira, who celebrates his 101st birthday this year, tells the tale of Macario's obsession with the enticing blond he spies from his window. Little does he know that she will end up <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/eccentricitiesofablo '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Herbes folles</h6><p>From modernist master Alain Resnais comes a romantic adventure based around the simple act of losing a wallet.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Honeymoons</h6><p>Two young married couples take off and travel abroad to the promised lands of better opportunities, but hope collapses when their expectations disappear into thin air and their dreams turn into nightm <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/honeymoons '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Hotel Atlantico</h6><p>Enigmatic and perturbing, Suzana Amaral’s Hotel Atlântico takes us on a mysterious journey through Brazil’s southern landscapes. The film follows an unnamed actor as he wanders into new experiences, l <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/hotelatlantico '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Melody for a Street Organ</h6><p>Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Refuge</h6><p>The French master returns with this unsettling tale of a rich, beautiful young woman who finds herself pregnant after her boyfriend dies of an overdose. Retreating to a seaside home, she is joined by <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/refuge '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Vincere</h6><p>This fictionalized portrait of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini concentrates on his youthful years before he rose to power in Italy. It uncovers the details of his first marriage and the child he had <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/vincere '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Vision</h6><p>One of the major auteurs to emerge from the New German Cinema, Margarethe von Trotta returns to the Festival with Vision, a study of the remarkable Hildegard von Bingen, the Benedictine nun who emerge <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/vision '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>White Material</h6><p>A family of French expatriates living in an African country where they own a coffee plantation find that their livelihood is threatened by the outbreak of civil war. They struggle to keep their lives <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/whitematerial '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>White Ribbon</h6><p>In Protestant Northern Germany on the eve of World War I, strange incidents begin to occur in a village community and increasingly take the form of a ritual of punishment. This latest work from Michae <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/whiteribbon '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Window</h6><p>When Bimal decides to give something back to his alma mater, he chooses to replace the broken window of his favourite classroom. Plans to pay for this gesture go awry and he cannot bear to tell his fi <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/window '>more ...</A></p></div>

Masters

Air Doll - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Antichrist - Lars von Trier
Carmel - Amos Gitaï
La Donation - Bernard Émond
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl - Manoel de Oliveira
Les Herbes folles - Alain Resnais
Honeymoons - Goran Paskaljevic
Hotel Atlantico - Suzana Amaral
Melody for a Street Organ - Kira Muratova
Le Refuge - François Ozon
Vincere - Marco Bellocchio
Vision - Margarethe von Trotta
White Material - Claire Denis
The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke
Window - Buddhadeb Dasgupta

The Masters programme exhibits new works by the world's most established and renowned filmmakers. You know them, you love them and you can’t wait to see what they’ll come up with next!

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