Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon's imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games...
A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child's strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.
Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Montserrat Carulla, Mabel Rivera
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
For photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor), his new assignment - a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo - was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car.
Shaken by the accident and by the girl's disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues. Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city.
Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs - eerily evocative of a human form - that have materialized on an entire day's work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane's concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben's photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die…
Cast: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, James Kyson Lee, John Hensley
Directed by Masayuki Ochiai
In STREET KINGS, a police thriller directed by David Ayer, Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews). Academy® Award winner Forest Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlow's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie). Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Chris Evans) to track Washington's killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Their determination pays off when the two Detectives track down Washington's murderers and confront them in an attempt to bring them to justice.
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whittaker, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedris the Entertainer
Directed by David Ayer
Sixteen-year-old Poppy (Emma Roberts, Nancy Drew) is a self-obsessed, incorrigible brat who lives a pampered life in her L.A. world. Though she’s handed credit cards with unlimited balances and surrounded by countless hangers on, Poppy can’t escape the mounting frustration she feels with her family situation. And she makes sure that everyone knows it.
After an over-the-top prank pushes her father (Aidan Quinn) one step too far, Poppy is shipped off to an English boarding school. Finding herself in a foreign world of early curfews, stern matrons and mandatory lacrosse, the American princess has finally met her match: a school of British girls who won’t tolerate her spoiled ways.
Under the watchful eye of the school’s headmistress (Natasha Richardson) and surrounded by a new circle of friends, Poppy begrudgingly realizes her bad-girl behavior will only get her so far. But just because she must grow into a fine young lady doesn’t mean this Wild Child won’t be spending every waking hour shaking up a very proper system…
Starring: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson and Aidan Quinn
Directed by: Nick Moore
The spring has come to the Third Reich. Love and spy passion rule the Germans. Russian superagent 008 Shura Osechkin has infiltrated into secret police by the name of Olaf Schurenberg and sabotages the Reich from within. Everybody knows the war is almost over, except crazy fanatic Hitler and ever suspicious Muller. Schurenberg is eager to return home, but he has one more mission to accomplish…
Cast: Pavel Derevyanko, Anna Semenovich, Kseniya Sobchak, Timati, Youri Stoyanov, Youri Galtsev, Mikhail Galustyan,
Directed by Marius Vaisberg
A novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Mashkov, Chulpan Khamatova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Directed by Karen Oganesyan
Script: Oleg Malovichko, Sergey Yudakov
Zhao and Liu used to work and drink together until Liu passed away. In order to fulfill a promise given to his friend, Zhao makes a thousand mile journey on the dusty roads of China to bring Liu's body home to his family. With a dead body on his shoulders, the elderly man meets a variety of people who tries to help him.
Cast: Zhao Benshan, Hong Qiwen, Song Dandan
Directed by Yang Zhang
Scriptwriter: Zhang Yang, Wang Yao
Producer: Wouter Barendrecht
This is an Arabic tale about ancient religious hatred which takes place in Copenhagen. The hatred is rooted in a period of 1400 years of bloodshed between two branches of Islam– Shiites and Sunnites. It is a story about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about responsibility and choice.
Cast: Dar Salim, Khalid Al-Subeihi, Munir Shargawi
Directed by Omar Shargawi
Scriptwriter: Omar Shargawi, Mogens Rukov
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager
Erlendur is a police inspector whose life is problematic: he lives in loneliness, does not give in to his workmate's mocking provocations, tries to free his daughter from drugs, and has committed himself to solving a 30 year-old case. The ascetic sequences reveal both inconceivable crimes and human weaknesses.
Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur
Scriptwriter: Baltasar Kormakur
Producer: Kim Magnusson
Leo and Ale are brother and sister bound to each other with invisible ties since childhood. Accidentally Leo learns that his sister's fiancé is going to make her a special gift – a house in Sicily which is the same villa that the brother and sister once had to leave after a family tragedy.
Cast: Alessio Boni, Valeria Solarino, Emir Kusturica
Directed by Roberto Ando
Scriptwriter: Roberto Ando
Producer: Roberto Ando
The group of smiling people has been sent to Geirr by his girlfriend Ingvild, who sees positive thinking as the only solution to their complicated relations. Geirr is not so easily persuaded, and soon he finds out that the group members are as miserable as he is.
Cast: Fridtjov Saheim, Kjersti Holmen, Henrik Mestad
Directed by Bard Breien
Scriptwriter: Bard Breien
Producer: Dag Alveberg
Sid, son of a famous gangster, is hiding in the mountains from a furious Hong Kong gang leader. Here he meets a Zen drummer commune, and the encounter changes his life. By learning the art of playing Zen drums, Sid learns to understand himself and his tyrannical father as well.
Cast: Jaycee Chan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Josie Ho
Directed by Kenneth Bi
Scriptwriter: Kenneth Bi
Producer: Peggy Chiao