Extraordinary feature films from more than 50 countries, these films truly represent a global perspective of the cinematic world.
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The 3 Little Pigs
They huff and they puff and they tell all over the comatose body of their beloved mother. In his directorial debut, Patrick Huard shows remarkable assurance in this story about three sex-obsessed brothers and their heated consideration of the pros and cons of infidelity. Inventive, bawdy …
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Alexandra
Not many grandmothers willingly walk into a war zone. Alexandra Nikolaevna, played by legendary opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, visits her grandson Denis whom she hasn’t seen for seven years. She hazards officials to find him at an army outpost in Chechnya. Shot on location and directed by leading …
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All Will Be Well
To save his ailing mother, Pavel decides make a pilgrimage of faith by jogging all the way to the Santuary of Jasna Góra, where an especially powerful Madonna is reputed to cure the sick. Aided only by his alcoholic PE coach, he really will need a miracle. …
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The Art of Negative Thinking
A darkly comic burlesque about a therapy group for disabled persons trying to persuade a recently paralyzed and suicidal young man to join, with surprising results. He quickly learns that, behind all the forced smiles, none of the members are really dealing with their issues—a revelation he …
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August
The innocence, optimism and electric anticipation of the rise of e-commerce is brilliantly captured through the story of an aggressive dot-com entrepreneur struggling to keep his head above water as the bottom falls out of the market. A sophisticated and razor-sharp film with spot-on performances by …
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Bad Habits
The first feature film from Simón Bross, Bad Habits skewers one Mexican family who has a whole buffet of eating disorders. A delicious tale of faith, love, vanity, and leaky pipes, this engaging debut was inspired by the true story of a 17th century Mexican nun. …
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Ballast
Ballast is a stark but lyrical portrait of three people whose lives are brought together when suicide shatters the stasis of a small Mississippi Delta town. First-time director Lance Hammer exposes their pain and patient endurance through gritty realism and an organically produced cast. Winner of …
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Before I Forget
Pierre, a former gigolo turned author, reacts to an old friend’s death by getting high and breaking out the drag … anything to deflect his life-long fear of boredom in this deliciously caustic comedy-drama where no one grows old gracefully, least of all Pierre. …
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Before the Rains
Acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan employs the verdant landscape of his native Kerala as the backdrop for his English Language directorial debut. A graceful period drama set in 1937 India where personal freedom clashes with British colonialism. …
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Ben X
Nic Balthazar’s startling debut feature began as a novel that he was commissioned to write in a bid to increase literacy among Belgian kids. The book was a bestseller, spawned a hit play, and is now a prize-winning film. Ben (newcomer Greg Timmermans) is different. Mildly autistic, he lives in his …
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Blind Mountain
Young, educated Xuemei finds herself in a living nightmare. Sold off to a brutal husband for an amount she cannot possibly repay in a community that affords no sympathy to her plight, she is in desperate need of an escape route. …
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Blood Brothers
Dazzling gangster movie, set against the glamorous vice den of 1930s Shanghai. Three small town boys inveigle their way into the service of the notorious gang boss Hong but find themselves at odds in a tale of unbridled greed, unrequited love and fraternal betrayal. …
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Boy A
A former juvenile offender released from prison after 14 years reenters society with the help of his counselor. Newcomer Andrew Garfield gives a stunning performance as the hesitant 24-year-old who must catch up with his peers while keeping his past a secret. Winner, Special Jury Prize, 2008 Berlin …
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Breakfast With Scot
Sam and Ed are a buttoned-down gay couple trying to keep their relationship hidden while working in the sports industry. When Ed’s flamboyant 11-year-old nephew, Scot becomes their responsibility, the free-spirited youth unwittingly teaches them all a lesson about self-acceptance. …
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Brick Lane
From Monica Ali’s award-winning, controversial novel, this startling film transforms the text into rich, seductive images layered onto a refreshingly accessible plot. Nazneen is a Bangladeshi woman living in 2001 London. Estranged from her teenage daughter and pseudo-intellectual husband, she falls …
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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is the first feature from Hana Makhmalbaf, at 18, the youngest member of master director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s filmmaking family. Set in Afghanistan, this story of a little girl trying to get to school is a devastating study of the effects of warfare on young child …
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California Dreamin' (Endless)
In 1999, a NATO train transporting military equipment is stopped in a small Romanian village for traveling without official papers. The local stationmaster is a gangster with ideas about enrichment, but the villagers aren’t so eager for an American intervention. With a far-ranging scope Nemescu …
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Captain Abu Raed
The first independent film from Jordan, and the first Jordanian feature in 50 years, Captain Abu Raed is the story of a lonely airport janitor who neighborhood kids mistake for a pilot. When they insist on hearing tales of his world travels, friendships are made that gradually …
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Cherry Blossoms - Hanami
Winner of multiple prizes at the Bavarian Film Awards, including best film, this elegant ode to discovery is full of unexpected twists. It is also a surprisingly deep tale reminiscent of Ozu’s Tokyo Story following a grieving widower’s journey to Japan and a new understanding of both his late …
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The Children of Huang Shi
Set in the midst of war-torn China in the 1930s, a young English journalist teams up with an Australian nurse and a leader of a Chinese partisan group to rescue 60 orphaned children. The extraordinary epic journey takes them along the ancient Silk Road, across hundreds of miles of snow-covered …
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Choke
Sex-addict and medical school dropout Victor Mancini pays his mother’s medical bills with an indigestible scam-–he fakes choking on his food in expensive restaurants and cons his rescuers for money. His compulsive-masturbator best friend add to this light-hearted, filthy-minded farce loaded with …
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Christopher Columbus, the Enigma
A romanticized fictional account set on both sides of the Atlantic of a 50-year quest into the origins of Christopher Columbus. Accurately described by the century-old de Oliveira as “neither scientific, nor historical, nor truly biographical in nature, but a form of romanticized fiction,” the film …
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Continental, a Film Without Guns
A businessman takes a bus to a distant forest and vanishes. A hotel clerk leaves cryptic telephone messages to herself. An insurance salesman fights loneliness and sexual frustration. Everybody's lost in this black comedy about alienation and loneliness. …
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Days and Clouds
Elsa’s middle-class lifestyle is threatened when husband Michele reveals he’s been out of work for months. The altered circumstances begin to bite, causing a schism in the marriage. This absorbing drama about commitment is from the director of Bread and Tulips. …
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The Drummer
To save his life, a brash gangster’s son is sent into hiding after he insults a mob boss. While there, he encounters a reclusive Zen drumming troupe that allows him to join and then sends him on a journey to enlightenment. A remarkable genre redux, this gorgeous new feature is a banquet for …
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Elite Squad
Fresh from its Golden Bear win at Berlin, and one of Brazil's most controversial films, Elite Squad is a searing look at the corruption of the special police force in the volatile slums of Rio. As one cop desperately tries to get out, two naive recruits see if they have what it takes to get i …
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Encarnación
In spite of the rest of her family’s scorn for their aging actress Ernie, 15-year-old Ana finds her aunt a source of inspiration, while coming to learn that the road to personal freedom Ernie has taken might be a hard road to follow. …
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Erik Nietzsche The Early Years
Written and narrated by Lars von Trier, this semi-autobiographical creation pays profane tribute to his nation's film industry … and to frustrated film students worldwide. Editor-turned-director Thuesen hasn't made a happy film, but in depicting the transformation of a “friendly person" into an …
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The Fall
Convalescing in the hospital, Alexandria meets the bedridden Roy Walker. The two befriend each other and Roy begins to spin a fantastic tale of five men seeking revenge against the evil General Odious. With a lush, vibrant canvas, director Tarsem crafts an ambitious epic of high adventure and human …
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Fantastic Parasuicides
A student flunks her exam and throws herself off a roof; a failed cop heads for a beach to end it all; a lonely man dreams up a novel way to “celebrate” his 70th birthday. Three new talents from South Korea deliver imaginative, entertaining spins on the common theme of suicide. …
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Female Agents
A high-octane French blockbuster action pick with an all-star international cast. During World War II, a tenacious quintet of female commandos parachute into Nazi occupied France on a perilous mission to conceal plans for the D-Day invasion. The agents: a partisan, a prostitute, an explosives expert …
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Foster Child
When experienced foster-mother Thelma gets word that her latest charge, beloved 3-year-old John-John, is about to be adopted by a wealthy American family, every moment becomes precious before the drama of the hand-over. …
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Four Women
A searing and thought-provoking drama revolving around four elemental female characters in the south Indian state of Kerala: The Prostitute, The Virgin, The Housewife, and The Spinster. Each endures a socially defined role not of her own choosing. …
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Frozen River
Two women—one recently left with two sons to raise, the other a widow on the Mohawk reservation straddling the U.S. and Canadian borders—need money fast. They become unlikely, uneasy, and even unwilling partners in a perilous and illegal enterprise. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Drama at the …
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Garden Party
Taking inspiration from the eponymous song, Garden Party follows a quintet of characters—young ingénue April, charming singer-songwriter Sammy, pothead Nathan, obsessive Todd, and devious real estate agent Sally St. Clair—as they negotiate through life’s hopes and hardships in this …
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The Girl by the Lake
The “Norwegian Queen of Crime,” Karin Fossum’s award-winning novel Don't Look Back is adapted to modern Italy in Andrea Molaioli’s debut feature. An idyllic town is shocked by the murder of young and beautiful girl. Inspector Giovanni Sanzio is called in from the capital, but the victim …
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A Girl Cut in Two
Perky, popular TV weather reporter Gabrielle finds herself caught up with two super-wealthy lovers and faced with a dilemma: is she dealing with two Prince Charmings or just a couple of toads? Skewering social paradigms, Chabrol follows the convoluted twists of this battle of old money versus new …
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Girl Sparks
When schoolgirl Saeko’s cross-dressing, disciplinarian dad looks like he’s losing his factory to bankruptcy, she decides to bury her negative feelings for him, roll up her sleeves and help him out in this surprising, absurdist comedy. Mixing teenage angst with surreal fantasy, Ishii transforms osten …
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Go With Peace Jamil
A young Arab man, Jamil, is caught in the midst of a vicious cycle of revenge inside Copenhagen's Muslim community. After his mother and best friend are murdered, and his son is kidnapped, it seems all hope of peace is lost. …
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Heartbeat Detector
Corporate psychologist Simon (Mathieu Amalric) is challenged to determine whether or not his firm’s revered CEO is losing his mind. He uncovers a chilling series of questions that lead him through a labyrinth of money, history, and power as he dives unexpectedly into the company’s role in World War …
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Hidden Face
Expertly acted by a first-rate cast, actor-director Campan’s fourth feature explores the toll even the smallest of secrets can take on the strongest relationships. To judge by appearances, pianist and woodworker François and artist Isabelle enjoy a happy union, but four weekends with …
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The Home Song Stories
Starring the magnificent Joan Chen and submitted as Australia’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film, The Home Song Stories charts the lives of a young family valiantly trying to hold itself together despite the complicated world around it. An epic tale of beauty, sadness, and childhood lost, …
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Huddersfield
Igor is getting married in England but goes back to Belgrade for a reunion with his pals. Rasa lives with his alcoholic father, teaches teenagers, and has a radio show. Doole works for a chocolate company and eats too much chocolate. In various states of disrepair, the three friends come together …
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Idiots and Angels
In Bill Plympton’s newest animated feature film, a morally ambiguous man spends his days at a dead-end job and his nights in an unfriendly dive bar. And then, one morning, a pair of wings begins to sprout from his shoulders. Filled with Plympton’s trademark weirdness and visual …
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Island Etude
College student Ming takes off on his bike for a seven-day trip to circle the island of Taiwan, relying on his wits and the kindness of strangers along the way. A lyrical film composed of random encounters and small moments, Island Etude captures that romantic period in life when one is free …
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It's Hard to Be Nice
Srdan Vuletiç's second feature following the prize-winning Summer in the Golden Valley is an engaging, urban fairy tale about a man who wants to change his life and take charge of his destiny. This sparkly written tale comes full circle with the sights of the capital city offering a historical count …
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Jar City
The nasty homicide of slobbish loner Holberg is linked to a decades old case and hard-bitten detective Erlender’s private life starts to impact his work as he finds himself facing questions about genetics, ethics, and parental responsibility. A moody, absorbing crime drama adapted from Arnaldur Indr …
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Juju Factory
Juju Factory is a story about a writer and his editor, both Africans, living in Belgium. Mr. Kongo Congo is writing a book about Matonge Village, an African neighborhood in Brussels. Delving way too deep for his editor’s comfort, he must try to keep his head above disasters and finish his book. …
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Katyn
Poland's master filmmaker Andrzej Wajda vividly and movingly dramatizes one of the last major World War II crimes to be acknowledged–the mass execution of Poland's military and intellectual elite. For 50 years, the story has been taboo after a cover-up in which the occupying Soviet forces tried to c …
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King of Ping Pong
Hulking 16-year-old Rille hasn’t got a lot going for him. Plump and sullen, he is bested at every turn by his cute younger brother, Erik, and is going absolutely nowhere in the girlfriend realm. But put a ping pong paddle in his hand, and Rille is a king in this gentle coming-of-age comedy about gro …
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La France
When Camille (Sylvie Testud) receives a terse letter from her husband who insists that she forget him, she disguises herself as a man and heads for the front lines of World War I. Winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo award for Best Feature Film, Serge Bozon’s La France is energetic and fu …
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The Last Mistress
Catherine Breillat’s smartly crafted adaptation of the eponymous 19th-century novel tells the story of a young aristocrat, his virtuous new bride, and his intoxicating former mistress. The result is a sumptuous costume (and occasionally uncostumed) chamber piece that is erotic, funny, cruel, and sup …
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Late Bloomers
What if Victoria’s secret is that she’s 80-years-old? In this charming comedy, a small village gets its panties in a twist when an elderly widow opens a lingerie boutique. The most successful film in Swiss history serves as a refreshing reminder that life definitely does not end at retirement age. …
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Let the Right One In
Twelve-year-old bullied misfit Oskar finds his destiny in the oddball new girl next door as a plague of ritual murders breaks out in their quiet Stockholm suburb in this genre-busting fantasy-romance-horror from an artist with no time for boundaries. …
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Letting Go of God
When two Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, they have no idea what they’re getting into. With one seemingly simple question about God, they unwittingly precipitate a soul search of cosmic proportions. The result is a friendly, funny, intelligent chronicle of one lifelong …
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A Lost Man
A sexually narcissistic French photographer roaming the Middle East connects with a reticent Arab who hides a bloody past. One seeks to hide while the other seeks to expose. During their journey together, both find they are lost in more ways than one. …
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Love and Honor
(Coming to SIFF Cinema July 11–17) With Love and Honor, veteran director Yôji Yamada brings his samurai trilogy, which includes The Twilight Samurai and The Hidden Blade, to a stunningly graceful conclusion. A lower-level samurai, Shinnojo serves as poison taster for the shogun but dr …
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Love and Other Crimes
Sick of her wretched tower block and no prospects in life or love, Anica decides to rob her racketeer boyfriend’s safe, leave the country and never, ever come back. As she makes a farewell tour of her nearest and dearest, an unexpected confession throws a wrench into the wheels of her plans in the …
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Mad Detective
Forced into early retirement for his psychic (or are they psychotic) methods, Inspector Bun lives in seclusion with his wife. When a missing police officer’s gun is used in a number of recent robberies and murders, Inspector Ho seeks Bun’s guidance in Johnnie To’s blackly comedic neo-noir. …
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Magnus
Magnus, played by Estonian pop star Kristjian Kasearu, lives in angst. His parents have never been there for him. His mother runs a modeling agency and his father is a pornographer. Realizing that Magnus is going downhill, his father makes a last ditch effort to help, but Magnus must find his own wa …
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Máncora
A road movie, love story, spiritual odyssey and intoxicating tale of forbidden desire. With his romantic, educational and familial lives all nearing implosion, self-absorbed 21-year-old student Santi casts his responsibilities aside and plans a trip to the Peruvian beach town of Màncora. Moments …
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A Man's Job
An unlikely career as a male prostitute opens up for Juha when he is laid off from the job he needed to support three young children and a depressed wife. He soon finds himself enmeshed in a web of lies that grows increasingly hard to maintain. …
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Michou d'Auber
Set in France during the Algerian war, Michou D’Auber is the story of a boy put into foster care when his Algerian-born father can no longer care for him. Michou’s transformative effect on his foster parents and their rural village is a portrait in miniature of the country’s larger struggle t …
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Momma's Man
Thirty-something Mikey visits his parents in New York and inexplicably finds himself unable to return to his wife and infant in California. Entrenched in the adolescent sanctuary of his parental home, he is forced to choose between his life then and his life now. Filled with wry humor and an …
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Mongol
Encompassing shifting tribal alliances, a love story for the ages, and a sworn friendship transformed into enmity, Mongol traces the formative years of legendary warrior Genghis Khan. This historical epic set in Central Asia boasts breathtaking landscapes, dazzling cinematography, bloody battles, an …
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Newcastle
Revolving around Jesse, a 17-year-old surfer who treads the line between success and self-destruction, Newcastle saturates the senses with magnificent surfing footage and absorbs viewers in the fresh loves and personal tragedies of Jesse and his mates. Dan Castle crafts an impressive feature …
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One Hundred Nails
In his last narrative film, the Italian maestro Olmi tells the controversial story of a professor who mutilates a priceless collection of books and then runs away to an idyllic village on the Po River. An examination of the means by which personal faith flourishes in spite of written dogma, the film …
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On the Wings of Dreams
When a pair of uneducated villagers find a wad of foreign currency in some second-hand clothing, they begin to dream about what the fortune might bring them, but soon greed and deception begin to damage their relationship. …
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Opium - Diary of a Madwoman
A drug-addicted doctor (Ulrich Thomsen) infiltrates a women’s asylum in a remorseless plan to acquire the morphine he craves. He is drawn to one of his patients (Kristi Stubø), a compulsive diarist who believes the devil owns her soul and who in turn draws them both into a forbidden affair of lust a …
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Perfect Match...
In this opposites attract romantic comedy Helene’s a successful writer living in a trendy Paris neighborhood. Valentin’s an out-of-work loner squatting in his uncle’s apartment next door. But all bets are off when Helene’s young son starts spending all his time next door. Perfect Match... is …
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Phoebe in Wonderland
Elle Fanning stars as a smart, creative little girl trying to find her place in the world while dealing with behavioral issues that seem to have a life of their own. When the frustrations of reality become too great, she seeks refuge through Alice’s looking glass and into her own wonderland. …
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Ploy
In the early hours of a Bangkok morning, Wit’s innocent encounter with a nubile 19-year-old girl inflames paranoia in his wife, while lack of sleep at this odd time of day further blurs the boundaries of what is dreamed and what really happened in this perceptive and witty drama of marital disintegr …
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The Pope's Toilet
The shabby Uruguayan border town of Melo is counting on Pope John Paul II’s 1988 visit to bring some material salvation along with the spiritual variety. Smalltime smuggler Beto hatches what he thinks will be an easy scheme to build a private washroom for the festivities but soon everyone is praying …
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PVC-1
Shot in one, 85-minute continuous take, PVC-1 is inspired by the true story of a rural Colombian mother who turns into a human time-bomb after criminals secure an explosive made of PVC piping to her neck. An independent, audacious debut that highlights an oft-unheard piece in the problem of t …
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Ramchand Pakistani
Inspired by a real-life incident, Ramchand Pakistani examines the emotional turmoil of a 7-year-old Hindu boy and his father after they inadvertently cross into India and are jailed. This triggers a nightmare of misinformation on both sides of the border that lasts for years. …
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Salawati
Twelve-year-old Singaporean-Malay girl Salawati recently witnessed the death of her older brother. In the aftermath of his death, a group of loutish Indian couriers and a troubled Chinese family become possible suspects in the crime as the boy’s death raises questions of faith and forgiveness in …
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Saturn in Opposition
When a Roman man’s strapping young lover inexplicably falls into a coma, a modern day group of poly-sexual friends find themselves pushed to the edge of truth in this dark comedy. Ozpetek packs in an interlaced variety of stories accessible for all orientations but also includes a timely tie-in to t …
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Savage Grace
The scandalous true crime story of Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune and his social-climbing wife Barbara that culminated in a murder that rocked society on both sides of the Atlantic. Buoyed by stunning European locations and propelled by a ferociously daring performance by Mo …
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Shall We Kiss?
Wry, observant and touching, Shall We Kiss? is a very contemporary meditation on the wages of infidelity. When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance and he offers her a ride, it turns into a pleasant dinner with clearly romantic overtones. But when Gabriel attempts a goodnight kiss Emilie …
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Sleep Dealer
In this ambitious and topical sci-fi film set in the near future, a youngster from a remote Mexican village relocates to Tijuana where he gets a job working “virtually” by having a set of nodes implanted in his upper body. …
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The Song of Sparrows
Karim’s life with his family in a village west of Tehran is turned upside down when a particulary ornery ostrich escapes his care at work and he is subsequently fired from his job. Beautifully crafted, often sentimental and sometimes humorous this story set among his society’s underprivileged …
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Son of a Lion
A delicate and real portrait of a father-and-son relationship from first-time director Benjamin Gilmour set in the tribal region of Northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border. Eleven-year-old Niaz dreams of studying at school but his stern father wants him to continue in the family business of making …
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Sparrow
A loose and jazzy widescreen triumph with a touch of Cary Grant and Stanley Donen. A small gang of pickpockets are each approached by a gorgeous woman, who beguiles, attracts, foils, and frustrates each one in turn, seducing them through intrigue and arousal to get the gang to commit a crime for her …
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Still Life
Director Jia Zhang-ke’s empathetic portrait of those left behind by a modernizing society is a breathtakingly poetic hybrid of documentary and fiction. Like the recent Up the Yangtze, China’s Three Gorges hydro project is the backdrop for Still Life. …
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Still Orangutans
This expansive adaptation of a Brazilian novel unfolds seamlessly over the course of one very hot day, which makes the fact that the entire feature was shot in one take all the more impressive. An extensive crew carried the story from city markets to apartment buildings, often by using public transp …
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Strangers
Montagues and Capulets, meet Eyal and Rana. When an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman fall in love during the 2006 World Cup finals in Berlin, star-crossed complications ensue. Strangers offers an intelligent and complex treatment of the relationship between politics and personalities, and …
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Summer Heat
Radiant Dutch actress, and SIFF favorite Monique van de Ven (Turkish Delight, Keetje Tippel, The Assault) makes a stunning directorial debut with this provocative love story-thriller about a young photographer and a mysterious young woman he becomes obsessed with while on assign …
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TBS (Nothing to Lose)
In this chilling thriller a convicted mass murderer escapes, kidnaps a young girl, and holds her hostage as he travels about attempting to prove his innocence. Taut tension strong enough to give you white knuckles and a sinking feeling in your stomach. …
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Teddy Bear
A romantic comedy about the complex relationships of a trio of married couples, Teddy Bear is a Czech take on marriage and infidelity from Jan Hrebejk, director of Cozy Dens and Divided We Fall. …
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Timecrimes
While enjoying a quiet weekend in the country with his wife Clara, Hector spies a naked, unconscious woman in the neighboring woods. When he investigates, he’s attacked by a grotesquely bandaged figure. Pursued through the forest, Hector stumbles into a neighboring mansion, where he finds the strang …
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Time to Die
Feisty Aniela (91-year-old Szaflarska) and her clever canine Phila are sandwiched between a rundown music club and a nouveau-riche couple in a McMansion who are in cahoots with Aniela's cold-hearted son to acquire her property. No pushover, Aniela stays one step ahead of the game despite having both …
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Transsiberian
Brad Anderson’s new movie Transsiberian ensnares an American missionary couple in a frosty web of murder, romance, drug smuggling, and intrigue aboard the longest train ride in the world. As much a psychological puzzle piece as artful suspense, Transsiberian transports us into a …
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Triangle
Three giants of Hong Kong crime cinema—Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, and Johnnie To—join forces to create Triangle. Longtime friends Bo-Sam, Fai, and Mok contend with criminal hoods, a corrupt cop, and an unfaithful wife in their quest to unearth a treasure buried beneath the Hong Kong legislative bu …
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Under the Bombs
In this thriller (shot ten days after the actual 2006 Israeli bombing in Lebanon), a woman hires a dubious taxi driver who is daring enough to drive her into the bombed out area of southern Lebanon and help find her missing son. …
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Unfinished Sky
In this retelling of The Polish Bride, an Australian farmer named John reluctantly takes in a battered refugee who staggers onto his land. As they learn to understand each other, John begins to uncover the dark secrets behind Taheema’s injuries. Part social commentary, part thriller, part …
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The Unknown Woman
A Ukrainian émigré ingratiates herself into a wealthy family, bonding especially with the 4-year-old daughter but all the while, she is haunted by brutal flashbacks of her hellish existence as a prostitute. As elegantly suspenseful as Hitchcock, this harrowing indictment of sexual exploitation truly …
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Vexille
The team behind “Appleseed” trump themselves with exhilarating action sequences and frequently astonishing imagery. Vexille takes place later this century, decades after Japan closed itself off to the rest of the world. Vexille and her squad of special agents infiltrate Japan‘s borders and are shock …
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Villa Jasmin
A compelling double love story about a French-Tunisian Jewish family. Henry returns to La Goulette, port of Tunisia, with his wife, in search of his family roots. The film explores his parent's history from the 1920s, and the impact of the Vichy Government under German Occupation in the 1940s. …
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The Wackness
The streets of New York are pulsing in the summer of 1994 with hip-hop and wafting with marijuana, and Luke Shapiro is spending his last summer before college selling dope, trading it with his shrink (Kingsley) for therapy, and crushing on his stepdaughter in this quirky, bittersweet coming-of-age …
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The Wave
When a popular German high school teacher finds himself teaching autocracy as part of the school’s project week, he’s less than enthusiastic, as are his students who grumble, “The Nazis sucked. We get it.” Struck by the teenagers’ complacency and unwitting arrogance, he devises an unorthodox experim …
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
A tragicomic pas de deux of frustration, misunderstanding and perpetual grievance. Adapted from poet-novelist Blake Morrison’s memoir with pitch-perfect precision Jim Broadbent demonstrates his consummate skill as a charming father with a monstrous side, but it’s the haunted, anguished tenderness of …
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Wonderful Town
Bangkok architect Ton is sent to supervise a reconstruction project in a small town devastated by the 2004 tsunami and falls for the manager of the boarding house where he lodges. This sparks the anger of her surly brother who resents her new chance of happiness. …
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XXY
Lucía Puenzo’s accomplished debut, explores the painful search for gender identity of Alex, a hermaphrodite, as she enters adolescence and is pressured by her parents to “choose.” When a surgeon is invite to their home Alex strikes up a friendship with his son Alvaro and it soon emerges that they …
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Young People Fucking
Played out in six chapters—Prelude, Foreplay, Sex, Interlude, Orgasm, and Afterglow—Young People Fucking follows four couples and one threesome as they attempt to enjoy a night of sexual delights only to find that nothing ever goes according to plan (no matter how “impossibly hot” you are). …
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