RESTLESS CITY

DescriptionDescription Director Andrew Dosunmu gives us a fresh take on New York City hustling through the eyes of recent immigrants for whom there are no illusions about the American Dream. His main character, Diibril, is on aspiring musician from Senegal who ekes out a living selling CDs to West African immigrants on the streets of...

THE RUNAWAY (LA HUIDA)

DescriptionDescription Chewing gum. A dog leash. An Australia-shaped stain on the wall. A bent traffic light. Each has its own story; together they create a new plot.

RAMPART

DescriptionContactDescription Academy Award-nominated writer/ director Oren Moverman (THE MESSENGER) and James Ellroy ("LA Confidential ") team up to create a hard-boiled crime drama layered with grit , loathing and disgrace. Woody Harrelson gives a ferocious performance as Dave Brown, an LA cop trapped in a vicious cycle of corruption. For Brown, there is no way...

PROTOPARTICLES (PROTOPARTÍCULAS)

DescriptionDescription The experiment was a success: protomatter exists.

PLAY

DescriptionContactDescription Director Ruben Ostlund returns to AFI FEST (where his remarkably assured second film INVOLUNTARY appeared in 2008) with a fascinating and troubling look at race, ethics and group psychology . Based on actual events in Goteborg, Sweden, PLAY follows a group of black kids who manipulate another group of white and Asian teenagers with...

PIONEER

DescriptionDescription A father tells his little boy the most epic bedtime story ever.

PINA

DescriptionDescription In 2009, legendary Germon choreographer Pino Bausch began to collaborate with Wim Wenders on this documentary film, but when she died suddenly that summer, Wenders was faced with the challenge of completing his portrait without its subject. And yet, despite her absence, he masterfully captures the art and life of Pina Bausch in this...

OSLO, AUGUST 31 (OSLO, 31. AUGUST)

DescriptionDescription Caught in a downward spiral of his own creation, recovering addict Anders - with two weeks left in rehab - uses a day pass to return to Oslo, a city haunted by memory and regret. He drifts through the city streets, finding himself outside the bubble of nostalgia, unable to reconnect with the person...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU’DA)

DescriptionContactDescription A suspect has confessed to murder All that remains is for him to take the police to the victim's body. This journey begins a long odyssey across the rolling countryside as it becomes clear that the confessed killer can't remember where he left the dead body. As we watch the detectives unravel this seemingly...

ONCE IT STARTED IT COULD NOT END OTHERWISE

DescriptionDescription Animated images from 1974 high school yearbooks uncover a dark and secret history.

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