Duska is the imaginative story of Bob, who has the best part of his life behind him. He is addicted to film, has visited several festivals as a film critic and is now working on his own screenplay. His muse and inspiration is the attractive, young and unattainable cashier from the movie theatre across the street. But when Bob's desire for the girl finally becomes reality and she ends up at his house, a man named Duska suddenly appears at his door. The timing couldn't be worse. Bob had met this friendly loser once at a Russian film festival, and in a reckless mood had invited him to come and visit if he was in the neighbourhood. That was the worst thing he could have done; Duska is not about to leave Bob alone, resulting in an original tragicomedy full of surprising twists.
Cast: Sergejs Makoveckis, Žens Bervucs, Silvija Huksa
Directed by Joss Stelings
Small town Kandalaksha, the year 1953. The town’s fool Petya likes to pretend that he is a real militiaman serving and guarding, furthermore – that he is the real inspector of the traffic police. He has a formal baldric and militiaman’s cap, and in his real holster there is a gun – it makes no odds that it is in fact made out of wood. Nobody wants to talk him out of this harmless encroachment for the power. Even the cars of the chief constructor and the superior engineer stop at “inspector Petya” signal. He was honored with the attention of the first beauty of the town, the wife of the colonel of GB Boguslavsky, who is the chief of several local reformatory camps. And then came the fatal march of 1953. Stalin died. And a con has just escaped from the local reformatory camp. Together with alarmed soldiers and guards Petya starts out for chasing, because he just couldn’t imagine how an event like this could possibly pass without him…
- Grand-prix of the IFF in Moscow, 2009.
Cast: Egor Pavlov, Alexander Korshunov, Roman Madianov, Svetlana Timofeeva, Evgeny Redko, Svetlana Ulybina
Directed by Nikolai Dostal
Script: Mikhail Kuraev
Producer: Fiodor Popov
Lyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maxim, who have to decide what to do. She is DJ on very popular radio station Piter FM, he is very promising architect. They have their own lifes, but one day…
Many people believe that there is life after death. Doctor Tirsa is a man of practical and sceptical mind, he never used to believe in such a nonsense as life after death. Until he found himself to be in a desert with the same people as he is. Who did neither belong to the world of living, nor dead. All that happened because of some accidentaly throwen bowling ball. That makes realize Viktor Palich Tirsa, that life which he used to live before wasn't so bad, actually, and he has reasons to come back.
Cast: Andrey Krasko, Gosha Kutsenko, Nelly Uvarova, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alyona Bondarchuk, Elena Yakovleva
Directed by Karen Oganesyan
A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe
Directed by Lars fon Trier
Script: Lars fon Trier
Producer: Meta Loise Foldager
A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah, Amporn Pankratok
Directed by Fabrice Du Welz
In 2001, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), having served his time for securities fraud, money laundering and racketeering, steps outside the gates of a Federal Correctional Facility a changed man. No longer the king of Wall Street, Gekko is unshaven, his hair unkempt. No one is there to meet him, not even his daughter Winnie.
In 2008 Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a smart young proprietary trader, is making millions at the venerable Keller Zabel Investments, run by Louis Zabel (Frank Langella), Jake’s mentor.
A wave of rumors that Keller Zabel is stuck with billions in toxic debt causes the company’s stock price to suddenly nose-dive, and Louis Zabel is forced to fight for his company’s life at a meeting of the Federal Reserve. When the government refuses a bail-out, Bretton James (Josh Brolin), a partner at the powerful investment bank, Churchill Schwartz, arranges a takeover of Keller Zabel for a fraction of its worth.
Now deeply in debt himself, his employment at risk, and suffering the loss of his mentor, Jake attends a lecture at Fordham University given by Gordon Gekko, who is promoting his new book, Is Greed Good?
Unbeknownst to his girlfriend Winnie, Jake seeks out Gekko and offers to help facilitate a rapprochement with his daughter, while Gekko offers Jake information as to why Louis Zabel was betrayed by his fellow bankers. An alliance is thus formed in order for Jake to avenge Keller Zabel’s fall, and to help Gekko rebuild a relationship with Winnie. But has Gekko truly shed his reptilian skin?
Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon, Eli Wallach, Charlie Sheen, Vanessa Ferlito
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Produced by: Alex Young
Writter: Allan Loeb
The epic dilogy by Nikita Mikhalkov tells the life story of Col. Sergey Kotov who was unjustly declared an „enemy of the state” during 1930’s. According to the documents he had been executed but miraculously has survived the execution and now serves as a private in a penal battalion. In 1943 Stalin orders Arsentyev to find Kotov. During his investigation he discovers what had happened to Kotov during the first years of WWII.
In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.
Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as "the basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own....
Employing pulp and propaganda in equal measure, Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS weaves together infamous, oppressed, real and larger-than-life stories of WWII.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Daniel Bruhl, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Based on the legendary, hard-hitting interactive video game, "Max Payne" tells the story of a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max (Wahlberg) is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Chris O'Donnell, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Mila Kunis, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco
Directed by: John Moore
Scriptwriter: Beau Thorne
Producer: Scott Faye
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" is 20th Century Fox's contemporary reinvention of its 1951 classic. Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor's appearance, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) and her young stepson get caught up in his mission - and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described "friend to the Earth."
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Scriptwriter: David Scarpa
Producer: Paul Harris Boardman
The supernatural thriller is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the always-complicated relationship between Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder's pursuits.
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Xzibit
Directed by: Chris Carter
Scriptwriter: Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter
Producer: Brent O'Connor