A romantic buddy movie about the meaning of relationships, the importance of friendship and having the courage to pursue the one you love. A 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
Casting: Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne StrahovskiPeter Helliar, Megan Gale
Directed by: Daina Reid
Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to her native region of Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place on her own, restlessly testing the boundaries of the unfamiliar city. Marta’s only source of socialization is the local church, where she attends a series of catechism classes in preparation for her upcoming confirmation. A gritty exploration of a realistic coming-of-age tale that tackles questions of faith in impoverished southern Italy.
Cast: Yile Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Pasqualina Scuncia, Anita Caprioli, Renato Carpentieri
Directed by: Alice Rohrwacher
Bettina and Marcus is a passionate couple living in a canteen in the middle of a plain field dotted by never-ending rows of poles. Marcus, trying to create his own company, has become an electrician. Bored Bettina manages the workers’ canteen and longs for a better life. Their nine-year-old daughter Tessa avoids school whenever possible and wanders through the industrial area, looking for various things to entertain herself. The casual way of life changes its pattern when Marcus hires a Hungarian engineer to work in the company. A tragic accident shatters the fragile harmony.
Cast: Lisbeth Gruwez, Sam Louwyck, Kimke Desart, Zoltan Miklos Hajdu
Directed by: Caroline Strubbe
Marian, a middle-aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbour in an act of common voyeurism she becomes fascinated by him. Faced with the fragility of these newfound emotions, Marian surrenders to her human needs...
Cast: Bien de Moor, Lars Eidinger, Annemarie Prins, Sophie van Winden
Directed by: Urszula Antoniak
Azam returns to his native village to visit his friend Ali and his wife. At night, the three of them depart on a boat trip to an uninhabited island. Slowly adjusting to the rhythm of the waves, Azam yields to a flashback of memories, hoping they would help to explain the lonesome void he has been unable to fill with the career of a successful singer in the city. Between the voyage and visions of past the spectator is also entertained by mythical and humoresque stories that bear an indirect link to the main character’s life.
Cast: Nam Ron, Azman Hassan, Mislina Mustaffa
Directed by: Tan Chui Mui
Charlotte is a tender human being, having found her life’s fulfillment in a way that is strange enough to be hidden. She is married, has a son, and works in a hospital. When Charlotte’s husband Max finds out his wife’s secret passion, their marriage is put to a test, and she is sacked from the work at the hospital. Wishing to save their relationship and to flee from the ghosts of the past, Charlotte and Max embark on a exotically saturated voyage to India.
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo, Rvan Brodie
Directed by: Nanouk Leopold
A simple story told on the backdrop of Thai post-rock soundtrack – a tale of ambivalent feelings between an embittered disabled man and his caretaker. Ake is paralyzed from the waist down following an accident. Pun is his male nurse, who, despite Ake’s resistance, continues to take care of him with candid affection. The mellow and meditative film, taking unexpected visual turns, will be a delight to those who love films with a satisfying aftertaste longing quite a while after leaving the cinema.
Cast: Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk, Arkaney Cherkham, Paramej Noieam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Scriptwriter: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Two-time Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award(R) winner Mel Gibson in THE BEAVER - an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.
Casting: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Cherry Jones
Directed by: Jodie Foster
"You will go to sleep. You will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed."
Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens with her when she is asleep.
Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
Directed by: Julia Leigh
It's a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
Cast: Kate Hudson, Peter Dinklage, Lucy Punch, Whoopi Goldberg
Directed by: Nicole Kassell
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders. They track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call “The Killing Fields”. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them, but always remaining one step ahead.
Cast: Sam Worthington; Jeffrey Dean Morgan; Jessica Chastain
Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann
Story takes place in the 1880’s in England when many upper class women are being sent to the doctor because they are depressed. To ease these patients’ stress, doctor has developed a form of therapy that involves the careful manual stimula¬tion of a certain female body part. All these women needed is to have an orgasm and it was doctor's duty to satisfy rich women whose husbands couldn’t.“Intimate massage” cure was shockingly effective and when doctor's Mortimer (Hugh Dancy) forwardthinking friend Edmund (Rupert Everett) unveiled the plans for his new electric-powered feather duster, Mortimer came up with a compelling idea… The result?
Well, it was the beginning of the revolution for women.