Sundance 2012:
YOUNG AND WILD received the World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Dramatic!
NEWS
OF SNAILS AND MEN
Directed by Tudor GIURGIU
IN POST PRODUCTION
1994. Small town of Muscel, Romania. The state-owned car factory has just gone bankrupt and will be privatised in a week. The buyer is a French company who announces to the workers that they will convert the plant into a snail cannery.
George, the union leader, has a crazy idea: why not convince the workers to sell their sperm to a newly-opened Bucharest sperm bank and then buy the plant and save all their jobs. George receives help from Manuela, the director’s ambitious secretary, who lets him know about the secret agreement between the Romanian management and the French: after the transaction is concluded, all the workers will be fired and factory’s assets will be sold. George’s colleagues follow him and decide to go for his crazy plan.
BACHELORETTE
Directed by Leslye HEADLAND
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL / OUT OF COMPETITION
Three cynical best friends since high school, Regan, Gena and Katie, are outraged to learn their chubby but sweet friend Becky is going to be the first of the gang to get married. Gena and Katie are still single, Regan has been pressuring her boyfriend of four years, Frank, to propose. When Becky asks neurotic Regan to help plan the wedding and be the Maid of honour, she is furious. Six months later, the day before the wedding, resentfull Regan is bossing around staff and guests, while Katie and Gena are ready to party. Everything starts going wrong. While they try to drown their sorrows at the bar, they run into Gena’s high school sweetheart Clyde. They still have feelings for each other. Then, during rehearsal dinner, things start going awry when Gena drunkenly gives a toast mentioning Becky’s high school bulimia. When Katie forgets to cancel a stripper she hired for the bachelorette party, the bride ends up furious and tells the 3 friends not to come to the wedding ceremony unless they are sober and behave like adults. Nevertheless, the girls decide to make the most of the night and they get on a wild ride down the road to this matrimony.
FAREWELL MY QUEEN
Directed by Benoit JACQUOT
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / IN COMPETITION / Opening Film
July 1789. At the dawn of the French Revolution, as turmoil brews in Paris, Versailles carries on, careless and unworried, as if isolated from the rest of the world. Sidonie Laborde, the Queen’s young reader, carefree and entirely devoted, takes full advantage of the intimate moments…
HYSTERIA
Directed by Tanya WEXLER
OFFICIAL SELECTION IN TORONTO World Premiere
… See what all the buzzz is about
TERRAFERMA
Directed By Emanuele CRIALESE
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE / VENICE COMPETITION World Premiere
TORONTO OFFICIAL SELECTION (SP) North American Premiere
A story which is suspended between myth and reality told with the gentle yet powerful language of fairytales. It is not a film about immigration, it is a film about ordinary people, about all those searching for a Terraferma.
PAINLESS
Directed by Juan Carlos MEDINA
IN POST PRODUCTION
Spain, 1931. Somewhere in the Pyrénées near the French border, children were born with an unknown disease. They are insensitive to physical pain and grow up with a deranged perception of human values and the world around them. These children are aggressive and violent, going as far as to even hurt themselves. They are an uncontrollable danger, not only for themselves but for everybody around them as well.
NEW KIDS NITRO
Directed by Steffen HAARS & Flip VAN DER KUIL
COMING SOON
MORE SPECTACULAR, MORE RUDE, MORE FUNNY !
«After New Kids Turbo’s record breaking success in the Netherlands and Germany and it’s unqualified success at Fantastic Fest 2011, what more could the New Kids ask for? A sequel of course!
It features the New Kids battling a rival town full of idiots, drag racing, zombies, and really bad hair.
The film is the sequel to New Kids Turbo and directed by the creators and protagonists Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil.»
YOUNG AND WILD (Jove...
Directed by Marialy RIVAS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL / WORLD CINEMA SCREENWRITING AWARD, DRAMATIC
BERLIN – GENERATION
Daniela is a 17 year old girl, raised in the bosom of a very strict Evangelic family. Rebel by nature she will try to follow the « right path » after being unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents.
A.C.A.B (All Cops Ar...
Directed by Stefano SOLLIMA Inspiredby the book ACAB by Carlo BONINI Synopsis The film is inspired by the book ACAB by Carlo Bonini – published in Italy by Giulio Einaudi Editore – which tells a true story. ACAB stands for « All Cops Are Bastards », a slogan first used in England [...]
28 HOTEL ROOMS
Directed by Matt ROSS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012 / NEXT
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments—some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate—we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.
The film adeptly illustrates how seemingly inconsequential moments and actions can often mean more than we suspect.
BLACK ROCK
Directed by Katie ASELTON (The Freebie)
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012 / MIDNIGHT SCREENING
A trio of childhood friends reunite for a camping trip on a woodsy getaway off the coast of Maine. Sarah, the group’s peacekeeper, tricks Abby and Lou into spending time together after a tricky romantic mishap drove a wedge between them. Bad blood appears to subside, but its relevance dissolves in the face of a much larger problem: when the group runs into a war veteran they know from high school, a nighttime hangout session turns sour and the women of «black rock» have to confront something far more dangerous-and heavily armed- than their feelings.
