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- DirectorSam KadiStarsKhaled NabawyAgnes BrucknerRizwan ManjiAn Arab immigrant wins the American green card lottery, arriving in New York City on September 10, 2001.
- DirectorDamon MaulucciKeir PolitzStarsLawrence Michael LevineBen FineRobert LongstreetSully fights to hold on to his family when a toxic friend resurfaces. In this gritty thriller, Sully, former frontman of a once prominent punk band, anxiously trudges toward a new world in order to remain in his young son's daily life when ex-bandmate, Mick, catches him mid-stride with a promise to make good on an old debt. In one hellish night that stretches till dawn, Sully chases Mick through the recesses of Philadelphia.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsSerban PavluSofia NicolaescuGabriel SpahiuMarius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
- DirectorDavid F. MorganStarsCora BeneshJillian FedermanRichard KeithBetween her best friend moving to Brooklyn, pressure to find employment from her pop (Daniel Baldwin), and juggling romances with an aging rocker boyfriend and a yuppie fling - Cloey is reluctantly plucked from her party girl reality to deal with her own set of common people dilemmas and accomplishments. Scattered with cameos from musicians like Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), live performances by Glass Candy and Starfucker and a soundtrack featuring all local bands, 'City Baby' documents the youth utopia of Portland Oregon, revolving through the lives of a few sexy, style-conscious kids surviving extreme love affairs and complicated friendships.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonStefán Hallur StefánssonJoi JohannssonBased on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
- DirectorPéter BergendyStarsJános KulkaZsolt NagyPéter Scherer1957, Budapest. A young defense officer's loyalty is tested by his mentor in a highly deceptive spy game.
- DirectorBrad BernsteinStarsTomi UngererMaurice SendakJules FeifferFar Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a historical palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, this HD documentary film offers a feature-length retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, pondering the complexities and contradictions of a man who, armed with an acerbic wit, an accusing finger and a razor sharp pencil, gave visual representation to the revolutionary voices during one of the most tantalizing and dramatic periods in American history. Far Out Isn't Far Enough explores the circumstances of his meteoric rise and fall on American soil, but also delves into Ungerer's formative years leading up to, and prolific years since, his time in America.
- DirectorShôhei ShiozakiStarsTachi KiriharaKappa KunikidaKana MikuraA Brazilian immigrant boy in Japan finds a strangely glowing blue Goldfish that turns out to be the spirit of a Chinese Princess who came to Japan long long ago. He and his friend Hanako have to take on the local Mayor and the Yakuza to save the fish and the town in a spectacular magical ending. This film blends the real problems of Brazilian immigrant children in Japan with a fantasy story set in the heart of Japanese Goldfish farming in a heartwarming comedic fantasy.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenAnnika WedderkoppA teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsIvan TrojanSebastian KochSona NorisováIn the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
- DirectorDale FabrigarStarsAlev AydinNatalie DistlerMelora WaltersThe romantic misadventures of a schizophrenic bachelor.
- DirectorRob GrantStarsMike KovacGraham WardleScott WallisTwo friends try executing their 'get-rich-quick' plan by kidnapping their boss's daughter, but when the plan falls apart, they must scramble to fix the situation and repair their friendship.
- DirectorPeter MonsaertStarsWim WillaertAnemone ValckeMourade ZeguendiAfter seven years in prison, Rudy has set himself two clear objectives: get back to work as a washing machine repairman, and - more importantly - become reconciled with the family he had left behind. But despite the help and support of Denise, a retired hairdresser, and his prison friend Rachid, a taxi driver his plans fail. His wife categorically forbids him to see his teenage daughter, Vicky. Upon learning from Patrick that she works part-time in a sex-cam chat, he registers in it under Rachid's name and begins to communicate with her. However, the past reminds of itself again, and he has to make the most difficult decision in his life.
- DirectorJan-Ole GersterStarsTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerJustus von DohnányiAn aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
- DirectorJames GennStarsNoah ReidMelanie LeishmanMeghan HeffernAfter two years hiding out in his grandfather's retirement residence, Stock Burton is forced back into his small town where he must come to terms with the troubled past that led to his early retirement.
- DirectorAaron J. WiederspahnStarsJake BarakatLaina BarakatDakota BenedettoRaised by a single mother in a rural New Hampshire town, 18-year-old Dawn Cowley sets out to find the father she has never known and discovers the devastating secret that had torn her family apart.
- DirectorArild AndresenStarsVebjørn EngerKristoffer JonerCecilie A. MosliJarle Klepp gets a message that forces his mind back to something he'd rather forgotten - his childhood with his father in Stavanger. When "Orheim" was his surname.
- DirectorSuju VijayanStarsRoss PartridgeNavi RawatPiyush MishraTHE PLAYBACK SINGER tells the story of an aimless, would-be, jungle-gym architect who finds his existence disrupted - and his marriage upended - when his prickly, Indian, B-movie playback singer father-in-law comes to visit and overstays his welcome.
- DirectorMarek NajbrtStarsPavel LiskaTomás MatonohaJosef PolásekTomás Matonoha, Pavel Liska, Josef Polásek and Marek Daniel met during their studies at JAMU (Janacek's Academy of Performing Arts) and created a creative foursome bound together with close friendship. As time went by, it turned out that despite all four of them are rather successful, they are struggling for life and encountering existential problems and doubts. In their forties, they decide to "travel back in time" and shoot a film about their youth, vanished energy, lost illusions and long gone naivety. Unexpectedly, a story about friendship, crisis and absurdity in the life of an actor, balancing between reality and illusions, is created.
- DirectorShigekazu ShibamotoStarsBunngyou DannTomoko HatoriMinoru TeruyaTeru, the world's most useless detective, meets with a mysterious young girl called Kurara, who has an extraordinary talent for getting involved in accidents and incidents. Not to mention, her ex-boyfriend has implanted a bomb in her stomach... When Kurara leaves her bracelet behind, Teru thoughtlessly puts it on. Suddenly, Teru hears a wedding march play, to warn him of an impending explosion. Turns out the bracelet was a pair bomb to go with the bomb in Kurara's stomach. When the song plays, it's 1 minute until the bomb explodes. If Kurara and Teru stay apart from each other for any longer than 30 minutes, both bombs will explode.
- DirectorWayne BlairStarsChris O'DowdDeborah MailmanJessica MauboyIn 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.
- DirectorJeremy O'KeefeStarsJessalyn GilsigKelly SchumannKim YarbroughWhen Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorTodd BurrowsChristopher FolinoStarsChase WilliamsonAshley BellClancy BrownA masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation's most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks' life and reputation in ruins.
- DirectorMetod PevecStarsUros FürstJana ZupancicPia ZemljicTwo couples in present day Ljubljana enroll in a dance school for tango, and in the process learn a great deal more - about life, about love, about themselves.
- DirectorNyima CartierStarsDavid BirkinOlivia RossPaul BandeyA young writer has his book stolen by his mentor.
- DirectorRob KuhnsStarsGeorge A. RomeroFred RogersH. Rap BrownA documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead (1968).