OSCAR 2012:
TERRAFERMA by Emanuele CRIALESE, OMAR KILLED ME by Roschdy ZEM and LA CASA MUDA are respectively the Italian, Moroccan and Uruguayan submissions for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Based on the best seller novel «Meu Pé de Laranja Lima» by José Mauro de Vasconcelos (published by Editora Melhoramentos Ltda)
Directed by Andres BAIZ A universal story based on the transformation of human relationships into destructive forces.
Playoff is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel’s legendary basketball coach.
Is life always sweeter on the other side of the bed?
With unprecedented access, filmmaker R.J. Cutler’s takes the viewer inside the world of Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.
A five episode film which has been created and developed by young favela residents from Rio de Janeiro.
In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
Mad with grief, a young man kidnaps a brilliant female surgeon he holds responsible for his young wife’s death.
In front of an audience of 21 million television viewers, an assault by the GIGN brings the hostage crisis to an end.
OSCAR 2012:
TERRAFERMA by Emanuele CRIALESE, OMAR KILLED ME by Roschdy ZEM and LA CASA MUDA are respectively the Italian, Moroccan and Uruguayan submissions for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
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.
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.
Directed by Benoît 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…
Directed by Tanya WEXLER
OFFICIAL SELECTION IN TORONTO World Premiere
… See what all the buzzz is about
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.
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.
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.»
Directed by Marialy RIVAS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL / WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION
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.
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 [...]