MAX

MAX

Directed by Stéphanie MURAT (Victoire)

POST PRODUCTION

Max is an urban romantic comedy, the story of a 6 years old little girl who never got to know her mum and who lives together with her childish father Toni, who loves her above everything. His goal is to spoil Max no matter what it takes but without using too much effort. Everyday he tells her how great life is despite their marginality, and he almost gets to believe it. Max does the same by plunging him permanently into the eternel world of childhood.Everything changes the day Max meets hooker Rose and she decides to make a special christmas gift to her father… and herself: a woman for Christmas eve. So that “she can take care of him” because “he needs it”. By doing so the little girl also gets a feminine presence around that she badly needs in their harsh environment. For the first time in her life Rose feels that she means something to somebody. She needs this little girl and her love badly.Toni sees the arrival of this woman in their lives as an intruder at first but he slowly realizes that it makes his daughter feel good and he starts having feelings for her too.Will these characters, broken and deceived by life, be able to start a new life with one another?

MAY IN THE SUMMER

MAY IN THE SUMMER

Directed by Cherien DABIS (Amreeka)

SHOOTING: SUMMER 2012

A dramatic comedy set in Jordan where ancient tradition, burgeoning modernity and Western imitation collide, MAY IN THE SUMMER follows the secrets, lies and loves of three Arab American sisters and their strong-willed, single mom.

PEDDLERS

PEDDLERS

Directed by Vasan BALA

Synopsis

PEDDLERS follows the intersecting lives of three social outcasts in Mumbai, leading eventually to love and its destruction. The first is aNarcotics Control Bureau officer who is forced to live a lie due to intimacy issues arising from physical problems. Determined to be seen as a playboy in spite of his condition, he is in love with his married neighbor but a relationship seems impossible and this leads to an explosion of frustration…
The second is a terminally ill Bangladeshi immigrant who has come to Mumbai to work as a “mule” (human carrier) to make enough money to pay for medical treatment and take care of her child back home. For her too, the question of love arises, but will she give in or betray it? Whatever it takes to survive …
The last is a young boy whose mistaken notions of rebellion and freedom have driven him from the comforts of his upper middle-class home into Mumbai’s dark and dangerous underbelly. An innocent, he drifts without purpose until he meets the woman – frail, lost, mysterious yet beautiful. She’s not his type at all, he’s sure of that, but he can’t let her go …

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR – GOW

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR – GOW

Directed by Anurag KASHYAP (Dev D, Gulaal)

Synopsis

GOW, a film in two parts, tells a story of vengeance between two families that spans more than 60 years. It begins towards the end of colonial rule in India. Shahid Khan loots British trains, impersonating his rival, the legendary Sultana Daku. He becomes an outcast, and starts working at Ramadhir Singh’s colliery, only to set in motion a revenge battle that passes from generation to generation. Shahid’s son, the philandering Sardar Khan, vows to regain father’s honor, becoming the most feared man in Wasseypur. In contemporary times, the weed-addicted grandson, Faizal Khan, wakes up to this vengeance that his family has inherited. Staying true to its real-life roots, the film explores its revenge saga through the socio-political dynamic of erstwhile Bihar, North India, amongst the coal mining and scrap trade mafia of Wasseypur, a place obsessed with mainstream ‘Bollywood’ cinema.

BLACK ROCK

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.

28 HOTEL ROOMS

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.

A.C.A.B (All Cops Are Bastards)

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 [...]

YOUNG AND WILD (Joven y Alocada)

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.

NEW KIDS NITRO

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.»

PAINLESS

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.

TERRAFERMA

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.

HYSTERIA

HYSTERIA

Directed by Tanya WEXLER

OFFICIAL SELECTION IN TORONTO World Premiere

… See what all the buzzz is about

OMAR KILLED ME

OMAR KILLED ME

Directed by Roschdy ZEM

OFFICIAL SELECTION IN TORONTO World Premiere

A thriller that takes as its backdrop of the most sensational news stories of the 90s.

AMONG US

AMONG US

Directed by Marco VAN GEFFEN

OFFICIAL SELECTION TORONTO

Among Us is about Ewa, a Polish au-pair, who falls into a spiral of doubt and isolation, when she believes to know the rapist in the Dutch town where she lives.

SILENT HOUSE

SILENT HOUSE

Directed by Chris KENTIS & Laura LAU
OPEN WATER

Sarah, along with her uncle and father, prepare their long-time family summer home, recently violated by squatters, for sale. But broken windows and cracks in the plaster are the least of their problems when they discover they are not alone and there’s more than just mold concealed behind the walls. Over the course of 85 harrowing minutes, their idyllic isolated retreat is transformed into a site of horror as the family’s past returns to taunt then terrorize them, exposing a hidden and distorted history.

FAREWELL MY QUEEN

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…

BACHELORETTE

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.

OF SNAILS AND MEN

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.

MY SWEET ORANGE TREE

MY SWEET ORANGE TREE

Directed by Marcos BERNSTEIN

Zezé Vasconcelos is the 7-year-old son of factory workers and fourth in a family of five children. Their family is simple and poorly educated, but Zezé is different: he’s sensitive, precocious, and is a talented young storyteller. And he’s trouble! Nothing gives him more pleasure than transforming his neighbourhood into a setting for his mischief. Although his sister Glória knows he has a good soul, Zezé has no allies and is mercilessly subjected to beatings. Things worsen when his dad loses his job. The family stops talking, his mum is exhausted from her extra shifts and food becomes scarce. His frustrated dad spanks him more and more. Zezé’s only way out is to get into even more trouble! Zezé uses his huge imagination as a defence against all this violence. He chats with a bird that lives inside his chest and takes his little brother on walks through a pretend zoo in their backyard. But he finds his dearest source of refuge in a simple yet beautiful imaginary construction: a talking Sweet Orange Tree, a small sapling he calls «Minguinho» («Buddy»). With Minguinho, Zezé celebrates the good, suffers through the bad and shares the secrets behind his trickery.

BUNKER (LA CARA OCULTA)

BUNKER (LA CARA OCUL...

Directed by Andres BAIZ
Satanas

Bogota, Colombia. A house built just after WWII lies nested in the mountains on one of the highest capitals in the world. A striking observant mirror in the main bedroom hides an engineering masterpiece: a small room disconnected from the world. The house was just rented by young cosmopolitan Spanish couple Adrian & Belen. Her suspicions of infidelity will drive her to test his love for her. A small decision that will inadvertently unlock a voyage into the deepest meaning of possession and the mechanisms of jealousy. A universal story based on the transformation of human relationships into destructive forces. The « Bunker » serves as a metaphor for the imprisonment and isolation caused by fatal jealousy and sick love…

SKINNY DIP

SKINNY DIP

FROM THE MIND OF VISIONARY DIRECTOR FRANKIE LATINA, COMES A GROUNDBREAKING NEW FILM ABOUT THE BIRTH OF A VIGILANTE THE LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.

PLAYOFF

PLAYOFF

Directed by Eran RIKLIS

Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller who became a national hero when he won the European Championship with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the late Seventies. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he accepted against all odds the job of turning the totally hopeless West German national team into Olympic contenders. This despite the public outrage in Israel, and despite his mother regarding his actions as an act of betrayal. Max always maintains that Germany – where he was born before the war and where his father was taken away by the Gestapo – means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren’t as simple as Max pretends them to be. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman, Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max develops a complicated relationship with the two while he succeeds in reinventing the German team despite resistance from the players. When he discovers new facts about old family secrets he realizes that his whole life has been based on betrayal and lies, and that one cannot run away forever from one’s own past and demons. Finally confronting the past, he becomes a symbol of his own personal victory.

HUT IN THE WOODS

HUT IN THE WOODS

Directed by Hans WEINGARTNER

After his release from psychiatry, MARTIN is spit out by society: branded as mentally ill, he ends up on the streets. The young Ukrainian boy VIKTOR counts as a nuisance to everyone and is set to go to an orphanage after the death of his mother. After finding each other, however, they escape…

SIDEWAY (ITINERAIRE BIS)

SIDEWAY (ITINERAIRE ...

Directed by Jean-Luc PERREARD

Jean is a 35-year old man who still lives at home with his mother in a small Corsican town. He works as a chef in the family-owned restaurant. To his despair, his future is already mapped out: he will take over the family restaurant. However, one day, Nora, a very strong-headed young woman is on a racing yacht and is pushed overboard. She swims to shore, as Jean looks on. Adventure is knocking on the door. A rollercoaster of a night begins: a car journey with a very unpredictable but very attractive woman, who will take him far, far away from home…