YESTERDAY

DescriptionDescription South Africa's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film, comes from the director of SARAFINA! and CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY, and is also the first Zulu-language film ever released internationally. Winner of the Human Rights Film Award at the 2004 Venice International Festival, YESTERDAY is a moving story of a young mother named...

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATTAQUE DE NERVIOS)

DescriptionDescription The wildly hysterical international box office hit, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN introduces us to Pepa (Carmen Maura) who has just been jilted by an answering machine. The love of her life, Ivan (Fernando Guillen), has ended their relationship and she is heartbroken, but misery does love company. Her girlfriend, Candela,...

THE WOODSMAN

DescriptionDescription A tiny hand gesture, a flick of the eye or a minute tremble serves as a window into a world of internal conflict in this stunning performance by Kevin Bacon, one of the finest in his highly esteemed career. In this harrowing and transcendent debut feature, director Nicole Kassell has the talents of a...

VOODOO, MOUNTED BY THE GODS

DescriptionDescription Mahounon's father was a Voodoo High Priest in Benin who lived nearly a century, before passing his unwritten knowledge of sacrifice and stones to his son. Although Mahounon is still decades younger, his connection to the Other World advises him he must swiftly find his successor as his own lifespan is limited. Alter the...

WET FUR

DescriptionDescription In WET FUR, Elizabeth returns home to put the family cot to sleep and discovers her mother's plans for on elaborate feline funeral.

WOMAN BELOW THE ICE (DIE EISBADERIN)

DescriptionDescription In WOMAN BELOW THE ICE, a lonely, homeless woman finds a pair of ice skates on a cold winter night.

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANCAILLES)

DescriptionDescription From the director and star of AMELIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT takes place in France near the end of World War I-in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power...

VETOOL

DescriptionDescription In VETOOL, an American Gulf War veteran-turned-artist resists an attempt by a Kuwait-born Indian film student to understand how art can heal the wounds of war.

TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE

DescriptionDescription Acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler is renowned for his genius and groundbreaking work. Winner of two Academy Awards®, his care is filled with classic films-WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. He also wrote, produced and directed the brilliant MEDIUM COOL, a...

TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT

DescriptionDescription Director Taika Waititi captures a magical moment in a bar parking lot somewhere in Aotearoa in TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT.

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