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<p>A scandalous video triggers a crisis for a couple working in a factory, unleashing unexpected conflicts in their personal and professional lives.</p>
<p>As she does every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacation begins in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.</p>
<p>Among the fig trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find—and flee— deeper connections.</p>
<p>Reel No 21 comes as an additional reflection on a collection of twenty films in 16mm format, safeguarded in Tokyo by the movement of Japanese solidarity with Palestine. It is an undelivered love letter, written by a Japanese activist, that was lost on its way to a Palestinian filmmaker. Fragments of the letter are found thoughout the collection and compiled into an imagined structure that reveals itself over the course of the film. The film as catalogue, the film as time machine, the film as archive: these themes Reel No 21 deals with have the feel of a montage essay; at the same time, the act of restoring these films exposes the motives, aspirations and disappearances of a generation and its struggles— not only in Japan but also around the world. It is a film essay that explores questions of transnational solidarity by gazing at 16 mm films that have been collected and projected by a Japanese solidarity group</p>
<p>In Kigali, Rwanda, a struggling masseuse is devastated by the death of her teenage son while a woman contemplates becoming an organ donor to save her father. Meanwhile, a small-time thief drags his son into his increasingly violent schemes.</p>
<p>The Asojá the bird-god-woman of Ayoreo culture, who can transmute her spirit—flies, bringing with her memories of the past, present and future. She was a tiger; she was a plant; she was a jaguar: today, she is Eami, a five-year-old girl whose name means forest and world. She has lost her own kind a people displaced from their shrinking forest home. They have become coñone an Ayoreo word that translates as “insensate,” the term they use to refer to those outside their culture. In a trance, Eami hears the voices of her grandparents and is joined by a lizard, who guides her. He knows she must leave the forest. She must leave everything behind, so she will not die there.</p>
<p>On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, De Roller, the High Commissioner of the Republic—a French government official—is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role sees him navigating both high-end, establishment locales, as well as shadier venues where he mingles with the locals especially since a persistent rumour has surfaced: a submarine has been sighted, and its ghostly presence could herald the return of the nuclear testing halted by France in the 1990s.</p>
<p>Léa tells the story of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas as it echoes through the walls of Colmeia, the women’s prison of Brasilia: “In 2019, I got involved with my sister Chitara in this crazy scheme she was caught up in. She had bought some land in a favela—oil pipes ran right under it, so she built this huge structure, tapped the oil, and started refining it right there and was making a lot of money. She set up a deal with the motoboys, so they would buy gas from her. She also had a stand at the market where she would sell it. Chitara also got mixed up in politics. She made history.”</p>
<p>Hayat, an expert sailor, navigates in the Arctic Sea, far from humanity and from her family’s past in France. When her younger sister Leila gives birth to Inaya, a baby girl, however, their worlds are turned upside down. We witness their journey, guided by the pole star, to overcome their family’s fate.</p>
<p>January 2019. Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first journey to Algeria. Accompanied by the memory of Iracema—his late mother—and his camera, Aïnouz gives a detailed account of his journey to his father’s homeland, from the sea crossing, through his arrival in the Atlas Mountains in the northern region of Kabylia, to his return, interweaving past, present, and future.</p>
<p>An epic tale of rare emotional power, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a young man as gifted as he is brilliant, destined for an extraordinary fate that is far beyond him. If he is to preserve the future of his family and his people, he must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe—the only one capable of providing the world’s most precious resource, which is capable of increasing humanity’s power tenfold. As evil forces vie for control of the planet, only those who overcome their fear will survive.</p>
<p>Helped by the Princess of Aleppo, and with a few nigella seeds tucked in the palm of her hand, six-year-old Dounia leaves the city of Aleppo and travels towards a new world.</p>
<p>At the summit of the highest mountains on Earth lives a plant that radiates eternal light: the Himalayan flower. Yuku goes in search of it to give it to her grandmother, who has announced that she will soon follow the blind mole into the depths of the earth. Yuku has a long journey ahead, strewn with obstacles— including the rats that live under the castle, the meadow of voracious crows, an enchanted forest where it is easy to get lost—and, worst of all, the bridge of fear that is guarded by the wolf! With her ukulele and her songs, Yuku will make many new friends who will be precious to her as she embarks on the adventure of life.</p>
<p>Young nurse Asli begins a new assignment at a remote village during a long winter. The roads are blocked due to heavy snowfall and there's a rumor that bears have risen early and killed some animals. One cold night, a man from town goes missing and Asli finds herself in the middle of a mystery.</p>