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Women’s Work: Nancy (Amsterdam Premiere)

Working class Nancy cares for her ailing mother, while nursing fantasies of a better life. An aspiring fiction writer, she spins elaborate online hoaxes, hoping to reinvent herself. When she makes contact with Leo and Ellen, a distraught couple looking for their daughter, who was kidnapped 30 years ago, Nancy wonders if her own search is over. Christina's Choe's fascinating character study follows Nancy's fraught journey from the social margins into the loving arms of a family longing to be made whole.

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Giallo & Gelato: A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin

Wealthy, but repressed socialite Carol becomes fixated on her hedonistic neighbor Julia, who throws wild, drug and sex-fueled parties. When Julia ends up dead, Carol becomes the prime suspect, sending her spiraling into madness. Lucio Fulci's psychedelic shocker combines erotically charged dream sequences and eye-popping hallucinations with moments of shocking gore.

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Giallo & Gelato: The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

Mrs. Wardh is “not the boring wife” of the American ambassador in Austria. Upon her return to Vienna, she is overwhelmed by memories of the kinky and toxic relationship with her ex-boyfriend Jean who is trying to get in touch with her. While she looks for safety in a new affair with playboy George, Jean’s presence remains oppressive and makes the news of a serial killer in town even more sinister. 

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