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ApachesFive teens in ritzy, touristy Corsica spend a night partying in an unoccupied villa, leaving in the morning with two antique rifles. When the owner returns and tells the local mob boss about the theft, it kicks off a disastrous an...
World Cinema
Arne′s LegacyArne’s Legacy tells the story of 16 year old Arne, whose father killed his entire family. Arne survives by accident. After staying with his grandmother for a time, he comes to live with his father’s best friend Harald and his fami...
Wide Angle
At the Last Stop Called Ghost ChimneyTo spend more time with the bus driver she has always liked, on the last day of school, a girl rides to the last stop called Ghost Chimney. Depending on the angle, it is looked as one chimney or four chimneys. The girl and the bus...
Wide Angle
AtalakuIn November 2011, the Democratic Republic of the Congo held its second presidential election in approximately 50 years since the first presidential election held in the 1960s. This film is a documentary that follows the process fr...
A Window on Asian Cinema
BackwaterThough based on the 146th Akutagawa Prize winning novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is also in line with the Aoyama Shinji’s previous works in the sense that it deals with irresistible fate. The parents of teenage Toma are separat...
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Bad HairNine-year-old Junior is living with his mother in the slums of Venezuela. He hates his curly hair and tries to get it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. He craves his mother’s love, but when he c...
Special Programs in Focus
BalkonDuring an operation, a surgeon, Aydar, recognizes his patient as a childhood friend by a tattoo on the man’s hand. It inspires memories of Alma-Aty of 1960s - a time of how he survived with his sister after Stalin’s regime, when h...
World Cinema
BastardsNight rain is drizzling on the streets of Paris. A man’s corpse is shown, then the camera focuses on a young, naked woman walking. With blood streaming down her legs, she is immediately hospitalized, and her furious uncle dashes o...
A Window on Asian Cinema
BendsThis debut feature by Flora Lau, a rising female filmmaker of Hong Kong, was invited to the 66th Cannes Film Festival for Un Certain Regard. Two cities, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, are the backdrop for the film. The daily lives of Mrs...
World Cinema
Big Bad WolvesA series of brutal and shocking murders are taking place. The unidentified murderer is accustomed to molesting little girls and chopping off their heads when finishes his monstrous acts. He discards the bodies where the police can...