THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS (L’ÉTRANGE COULEUR DES LARMES DE TON CORPS)

DescriptionBiosDescription From the directors of AMER and the “O is for Orgasm” segment of THE ABC’S OF DEATH (AFI FEST 2012) comes this gorgeous and lurid homage to masters of classic Italian Giallo horror. Dan returns home to his Art Nouveau apartment building to find that his wife is missing. The police are no help,...

THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (DAS MERKWÜRDIGE KÄTZCHEN)

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription On the day of a large family gathering, a Berlin flat is bustling with activity. The mother has a full plate: the two older children are home for dinner, and the youngest screams at kitchen appliances. Add the neighbor fixing the washing machine, the napping grandfather, the extended family, a dog and the eponymous...

SOCIAL BUTTERFLY

DescriptionDescription In the south of France, a 30-year-old American woman wanders into a teenage party. Nobody seems to know what she's doing there.

SKIN

DescriptionDescription A child taxidermist and loner resorts to drastic measures when an entrancing girl finds his work beautiful.

A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Filmmakers Ben Russell and Ben Rivers team up for the first time to create this triptych of stories revolving around a silent protagonist. The first section centers on a man who lives in a commune, sharing food, responsibility and intimacy with a group of utopian-minded colleagues. The second section follows the same protagonist as...

THE SELFISH GIANT

DescriptionBiosDescription Inspired by the children she met in Bradford in northern England when researching her previous acclaimed documentary, THE ARBOR, Clio Barnard creates a moving tale that combines fairytale with contemporary reality. Arbor is a feisty menace who rejects his meds and roams the streets with his mellow best friend, Swifty. After a fight at...

SHADOW OF A CLOUD (O UMBRA DE NOR)

DescriptionDescription On a sweltering summer day in Bucharest, a priest is called to a dying woman's side to say a final prayer.

SAVING MR. BANKS

DescriptionBiosDescription When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make an adaptation of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins, he made them a promise he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. Inspired by true events, this stirring and comical movie shows how Walt (Tom Hanks) goes up against an uncompromising writer (Emma Thompson)...

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY

DescriptionBiosDescription Ben Stiller directs and stars in THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, James Thurber's classic story of a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job, along with that of his co-worker and object of his unrequited love (Kristen Wiig),...

THE SACRAMENT

DescriptionBiosDescription Patrick is a photographer whose once drug-addicted sister, Caroline, is a member of an isolated sober-living community in Mississippi. Patrick discovers that the program is closer to a communal-living collective and that there is a strange and charismatic leader of the group, known only as “Father.” When his sister leaves the country to start...

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