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
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
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
Jason Statham (The Mechanic, The Expendables) heads the cast of BLITZ as the tough, uncompromising and un-PC detective “Brant”, who is teamed with unlikely partner “Sgt Porter Nash” played by Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum) to investigate a series of police murders.
Casting: Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen, Zawe Ashton, David Morrissey, Richard Riddell
Directed by: Elliott Lester
It is said that humans can only access about 20 percent of their brain. Can you imagine what could you do if you could access all of it? Just one tablet and you become a perfect version of yourself. What would you do? Seek glory, power? How far would you go?
Eddie Morra is a writer who lives in New York City and who is working on his new book for more than 6 months, but hasn’t written a single sentence yet. Eddie is dumped by his girlfriend Lindy and when he starts to believe that he has zero future, he meets an old friend who introduces Eddie to NZT drug, claiming it has the ability for humans to access 100% of the brain's power. Tablet a day and Eddie becomes limitless. He becomes more intellectual, more attractive. He can learn any language in a matter of hours, he finishes book in 4 days, earns millions of dollars on stock market in just 10 days.
Casting: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Griel
Directed by: Neil Burger
When the two-metre-tall handsome Jew Simon looks upon his wife Basia and their six children, just as red-haired as him, his eyes sparkle with happiness. Listening to Solomon’s Song of Songs, his oldest son asks: “Father, how do you pay for love, if not with money?”And his father replies: ”With your life, son.”
This film is about love, pure... and tragic, because it takes place in the summer of 1941, when butcher Simon’s family arrives in the small village of Poltava, Ukraine, fleeing from German-occupied Poland...
Cast: Yossi Pollak, Margarita Vishnyakova, Borislav Brondukov, etc.
Directed by Vladimir Savelyev
Scriptwriter: Vladimir Savelyev
Producer: Roman Korenblit
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Casting: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
On a water-skiing outing, a girl drives a speedboat and pulls a young man, when a crash occurs. After waking up from a coma, the man embarks on a mysterious travel – an odyssey where intuition and telepathy accelerates the journey in time. Dharma Guns revisits the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice fighting with the tyranny of Time-God. At a time when the industrial death of cinema seems to have been rationally, technically and economically organized, a cinema of poetry and fantastical adventure – intentionally created in a B-movie style – is possible.
Cast: Guy McKnight, Elvire, Lionel Tua, Diogo Doria
Directed by: F.J. Ossang
A former actor is fascinated by an idea. He meets with a scientist, a speech therapist and a juggler and convinces them to stage Endgame by Samuel Beckett. An incurable disease – multiple sclerosis, unites them all. Although their bodies become weaker day after day, Beckett’s play about four people trapped in a world that is about to collapse gives them so much emotional fulfilment that no matter what happens to them physically they will continue to perform…
Directed by Līga Gaisa
Scriptwriter: Krista Vāvere, Līga Gaisa
Producer: Mistrus Media
Oliver works as an air traffic controller at Bratislava airport. He is of Czech origin, and while he has worked in Slovakia for many years, he has never managed to assimilate. He leads a lone existence in a large housing community where he has a view into the windows of other tenants. Oliver's attention is mainly focused on a young family who live opposite him. The family embodies the happiness which has always eluded him. Soon, however, his feelings of admiration turn to envy and desire as Oliver becomes intent on procuring a contented life for himself, even if it means breaking the law.
Cast: Ivan Trojan, Jana Hlavacova, Kristína Turhanová, Dagmar Bruckmeyer
Directed by: Peter Kristúfek