WE’RE LEAVING

DescriptionDescription Rusty has to find a new place to live with his wife and teenage American alligator, Chopper

WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT (KYSS MIG)

DescriptionDescription In WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT, writer/director Alexandro-Therese Keining offers a subtle, sensual romantic drama about how love appears in the most unexpected ways, and at the most unexpected times. Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and her fiance Tim set off on a trip to attend the engagement party of her father Lasse, who she has not...

THE VOYAGERS

DescriptionDescription In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager l and Voyager 2 on an epic journey to travel to the end of the universe.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

DescriptionDescription Director Lynne Ramsay (RATCATCHER, MORVERN CALLAR) steps behind the camera for the first time in nine years to tell the fragmented story of a woman living a waking nightmare, coming to terms with the reality that her son was a high school spree killer. Tilda Swinton gives a remarkable performance as Eva, a reluctant...

TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE (MOURIR AUPRÈS DE TOI)

DescriptionDescription When a Parisian bookseller's books come to life, Dracula's girlfriend Mina and Macbeth's skeleton fall in love.

THE TURIN HORSE

DescriptionDescription Inspired by the account of Friedrich Nietzsche's mental breakdown at the sight of a horse being whipped , Hungarian master Bela Tarr's new work - which he claims will be his lost - is on apocalyptic vision. Tarr's film begins immediately after Nietzsche's breakdown (in fact, he is never seen) Instead, ii imagines the...

UNMANNED

DescriptionDescription UNMANNED explores the new face of remote controlled warfare through the story of a young drone pilot.

THIS IS NOT A FILM (IN FILM NIST)

DescriptionDescription "If one could tell a film, why would one make a film?" In 2006, Jafar Panahi was able to attend AFI FEST and shore his film OFFSIDE with our audience. At this year's festival, Panahi's absence is strongly felt. Forbidden by the Iranian government from leaving the country, threatened with imprisonment and , most...

THREE AND A HALF (SEH-O-NIM)

DescriptionDescription THREE AND A HALF is the story of Honieh, Homo and Bonofsheh, three Iranian convicts who, while on temporary leave from prison, hatch a scheme to escape the country by crossing the northern border Telling jokes and pulling pranks on each other, the young women may appear playful on the surface, but their risky...

THIEF

DescriptionDescription An Iraqi goat herder's childhood memories return to haunt him when a mysterious stronger arrives at his isolated hut. Winner of the top prize in narrative filmmaking at the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards and top prize at the 32nd College Television Awards.

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