by Lara St.John

produced by Patrick Hamm

Spearheaded by violinist Lara St. John, Dear Lara opens with her own experience of being raped at the age of 14 at the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, which she made public in 2019. The film goes on to present the parallel stories of many others, as Lara speaks at length with other survivors from around the world. It sheds light on horrific occurrences at institutions like Chetham’s School in northern England, the Amsterdam Conservatory, North Carolina School of the Arts, Toronto’s Royal Conservatory, and L.A.’s elite Colburn School, as well as stories from musicians at major orchestras. The project unearths a pattern of severe misogyny and male entitlement afflicting children and women at every stage of their musical and personal lives. And in every case, the men have benefited from the complicity of the institutions they work for.

by Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson

produced by Heather Millard, Þórður Jónsson

Synopsis

A documentary following Iceland’s first professional bird photographer, Jóhann Óli Hilmarsson, a unique visionary who has dedicated his life to birds and nature conservation.

https://mubi.com/en/fi/films/birdlife

by Hogir Hirori

produced by Antonio Russo Merenda, Hogir Hirori

An intimate, low-key coming-of-age story about love amidst the rhythmic drums,
rituals and trance-like dances of the dervishes.

by Kesang Tseten

Lama Tsultrim, in his late 70s, is a lama of the pre-Buddhist Bon religion from a tiny village in Nepal Himalaya. He is awaiting his son’s return, to take over ritual duties that he, as a Bon Lama, must perform for Bon and Buddhist patrons in the mountain region of Mustang.  The lama has been waiting for 21 years.

By Suzanne Rae

Produced by Ilja Roomans

Suzanne Raes’ film follows the Impey family through a major transition: rifling through the contents of their childhood home in preparation to sell it, with their own children watching on. Between the clutter and the boxes, the siblings find themselves haunted by the memories of their late parents: a dragon-obsessed father and an exacting mother, and the esoteric collections of objects they left behind. Working through her award-winning documentary collective, Docmakers, filmmaker Raes (0.03 Seconde, Two Men, Close to Vermeer) carves out a disarmingly tender rumination on parent-child relationships. Giving equal weight to each sibling, balancing the light and shade of the physical and emotional spaces of their lives, Where Dragons Live also features some dazzling visuals in the way it presents this personal history.

By Peter Kerkes

Women looking for love, confused teenagers, entrepreneurs on the verge of a crisis: these are the customers who ask Luciana to be prescribed a birthday trip.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/wishing-on-a-star-trailer-astrologer-documentary-1235041001/