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
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
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
Finally, Erik Nietzsche knows for sure– the art of film-making is his true calling. However, the dream of the young director– to shoot a film with falling tree leaves as the protagonist– is threatened from the very first minute he enters film school. Erik courageously faces the sharks of the Danish film industry.
Cast: Jonatan Spang, David Dencik
Directed by Jacob Thuesen
Scriptwriter: Lars fon Trier
Producer: Karen Bentzon
Vladimir Vakanin story. War in Chechnya. Skilled sergeant Rubahin and funster rifleman Vovka set out for help. Their comrade-in-arms sticked in minefield. Rubahin capture young, handsome chechen. Prisoner became guide and take warriors away from minefield. Chechen take his captors by secret footpaths. About these trails know only local inhabitants. On the way prisoner of war try to escape, Vovka is wounded by sniper, threesome tread near chechen village they find russian warrior and try to rescue him...
Wonders will never cease! After all they suffer together threesome became closer. They leave behind fact that they actually are antagonists...
Cast: Viacheslav Krikunov, Piotr Logachev, Iraklij Mshalaya, Iulia Peresild
Directed by Aleksey Uchitel
Scriptwriter: Vladimir Makanin and Tomofey Dekin
Producer: Aleksey Uchitel