Hide Your Smiling Faces

A film by Daniel Patrick Carbone

An atmospheric exploration of life and death in rural America, as seen through the distorted lens of youth.

SYNOPSIS
Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two brothers as they abruptly come of age through the experience of a friend's mysterious death. The event ripples under the surface of their town, unsettling the brothers and their friends in a way that they can't fully understand. Once familiar interactions begin to take on a macabre tone in light of the tragic accident, leading Eric, 14, and Tommy, 9, to retreat into their wild surroundings.

DCP / HD • 2013 • USA • 80min • Color • Drama

Exposed

A film by Beth B

Exposed profiles eight female and male artists who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos.

EXPOSED profiles eight female and male artists who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos.

DCP / HD • 2013 • USA • 80min • Color • Documentary

Cold Bloom

A film by Atsushi Funahashi

Shiori, a young woman, faces a her beloved husband accidental death,while the industrial town she lives in barely recovered from the 3.11 tsunami.

Shiori, a young woman, faces her beloved husband accidental death, while the industrial town she lives in barely recovered from the 3.11 tsunami. At first, suspicious about Takumi, her husband's coworker, she forgives him and starts moving on.

DCP / HD • 2013 • Japan • 119min • Color • Drama

Morning Star

A film by Sophie Blondy

When Iggy Pop meets Denis Lavant

SYNOPSIS
Set in the dunes near the North sea, a small circus company is suffering from a serious lack of audience for their shows. The most to be worried of is the two love triangle among the troupe leading the desperate ones to call on magic and spells. Angele (Natacha Regnier), the diaphanous ballerina, her clown lover Elliot (Denis Lavant) and the circus ringmaster (Tcheky Karyo), full of cruelty and disturbed by fits of schizophrenia on one side, and Zohra (Béatrice Dalle) in love with Elliot, haunted by an uncanny conscience (Iggy pop).

DCP / HD • 2013 • France • 100min • Color • Drama

People Out There

A film by Aik Karapetian

The Beauty and the Thief

SYNOPSIS

Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker are involved in several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting the « golden youth » beauty Sabina, he looks for a fresh start in downtown circles, but only finds contempt. His hopes for love, compassion and opportunity are dashed by the even more ruthless rules of the bourgeois, and he comes to realize that the only one he can count on is himself.

DCP / HD • 2013 • Latvia • 90min • Color • Drama

Arrows of the Thunder Dragon

A film by Greg Sneddon

The First Bhutanese film ever made in a modern western point of view

SYNOPSIS
Set in the 1970s, the story follows brother & sister Kuenphen and Jamyang learning traditional archery from their old strict warrior grandfather. Kuenphen has opportunities to further his interests while sister Jamyang must stay home to weave, cook and get married; a fate the young woman is not willing to accept without a fight. Filmed entirely on location in the breathtaking Himalaya mountains, the actors are made up of local highland village people among with are featuring current members of the famous Bhutanese Olympic women's archery team.

DCP / HD • 2013 • Bhutan/Australia • 91min • Color • Drama

Five Dances

A film by Alan Brown

On stage with bodies mixing
in some sensual performances

SYNOPSIS

The classic tale of finding success and romance in the big city is given a contemporary spin in Alan's Brown new film, FIVE DANCES. Collaborating with internationally renowned choreographer Jonah Bokaer, Brown fashioned a story about Chip (Ryan Steele), an 18 year-old scholarship student from Kansas.

DCP / HD • 2012 • USA • 85min • Color • Drama

Acrid

A film by Kiarash Asadizadeh

Distributing look at the iranian society

SYNOPSIS

Acrid depicts the inner feelings of different couples suffering from discordances to infidelity. We travel from one character to another, young lovers or married ones, that turn out to be all linked, creating a close circle between them where trust is at stake.

DCP / HD • 2013 • Iran • 94min • Color • Drama

Elena

A film by Petra Costa

"Elena is one of the most moving, heartrending cinmatic experiences I'v ever had. Of unusual beauty, it's a film we keep turning to for a long time. It's a must see."
Walter Salles

SYNOPSIS
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse.

35MM / DCP / HD • 2012 • Brazil • 80min • Color / B&W • Documentary

Sons of the wind

A film by Bruno Le Jean

On the footsteps of Django Reinhardt

SYNOPSIS
They are Angelo Debarre, Moreno, Ninine Garcia and Tchavolo Schmitt. They are guitarists. They are gypsies. They play and perpetuate the music of Django Reinhardt. They have also a certain sense of humor, of friendship and a personal way to live their life standing. Penetrating in tiptoe in their camps, their caravans or their apartments, we discover between notes and words, a community that preserves an authentic and particular way of life, a taste for difference, where in spite of difficulties, the important thing is the pleasure of playing guitar.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France • 96min • Color • Documentary

Jo's Neighborhood

A film by Alain Minier

Starring Olivier Marchal from 36 & a Gang Story

SYNOPSIS
After 15 years in prison, Jo returns to his former neighborhood - Menilmontant, a collection of high rise estates on the gritty outskirts of Paris. What used to be his patch, has completely changed; new gangs and new codes now rule this place. Jo finds it difficult to settle back into life on the outside, especially when he discovers that the woman he used to love is the mother of a 14 year old boy. Ultimately Jo must come to terms with his shady past and the endless settling of scores.

DCP / HD • 2013 • France • 92min • Color • Drama

My Father and the Men in Black

A film by Jonathan Holiff

Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. Don't miss the true stories behind the hit movie "Walk the line"!

SYNOPSIS
MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK is the unauthorized look at Johnny Cash in the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of his manager, the late Saul Holiff. But this is no ordinary music documentary. Shot on film, this one-of-a-kind movie directed by Saul's son, Jonathan Holiff, is driven by Johnny's and Saul's own voices. After his father's suicide in 2005, Jonathan discovered a storage locker full of never-before-published material on Johnny Cash--including 60 hours of audio diaries and telephone calls recorded in the '60 and '70s.

DCP / HD • 2013 • Canada • 90min • Color / B&W • Documentary

Silent Ones

A film by Ricky Rijneke

A Surreal trip on the fragile edge of life and death

SYNOPSIS
The young Eastern European woman Csilla and her little brother Isti are travelling together without a clear destination, looking for a better life. One day Csilla wakes up inside a crashed car, in the middle of nowhere, not knowing where her brother Isti is. He is vanished without a trace. Upset and alone, without saying a word. Csilla leaves aboard a cargo ship heading to Western Europe. At sea Gábor, a self-proclaimed business man who convinced her to work for him on the ship, turns out to be a brute and a drunk.

DCP / HD • 2013 • Netherlands / Hungary • 97min • Color • Drama

All of us Guinea-Pigs now?

A film by Jean-Paul Jaud

The most complete consumer study ever done on laboratory rats regarding a Monsanto GMO

SYNOPSIS
From 2009 to 2011, under a total secrecy, Professor Séralini and the *CRIIGEN led an experience on a *GMO and the herbicide Roundup. The conclusions are appalling... After Chernobyl's disaster, the invisible radioactivity reappeared in March 2011 with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. GMO's, NUCLEAR POWER: we use and accept those technologies without medical or environmental independent tests. Are we all of us guinea-pigs now?

DCP / HD • 2012 • France • 118min • Color • Documentary

The Children's Republic

A film by Flora Gomes

SYNOPSIS
In a small spot in Africa, hard to find on a map, men are ruled by a political and economic system that they pick by random draw. Bribery, looting are common law that exhaust people. One day, they decide to run away from their country, scared by the wars they triggered themselves, sickened by the disasters they set off but, above all, leaving their children behind. They will have to take over it, trying to succeed where the adults failed by creating "The Children's Republic", a stable and prosperous organization.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France / Portugal • 75min • Color • Drama

Zabana!

A film by Saïd Ould-Khelifa

The genesis of the "Battle of Algiers"

SYNOPSIS

February 15, 1956.The French government approves use of the guillotine for Algerian nationalists who have been sentenced to death. François Mitterrand is minister of justice. June 19, 1956. Ahmed Zabana, thirty year-old is executed at dawn in Algiers, making him the first person to be guillotined in the Algerian War. The blade catches twice before finally decapitating him on the third attempt. Six months later, the "Battle of Algiers" begins.

35MM / DCP / HD • 2012 • Algeria • 107min • Color • Drama

The Girl from Nowhere

A film by Jean-Claude Brisseau

A testament film

SYNOPSIS

Michel, a retired math teacher, lives alone since his wife died. He spends his time writing an essay about human illusions. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel's life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France • 91min • Color • Drama

Artificial Paradises

A film by Marcos Prado

The first film by
the producer of Elite Squad

SYNOPSIS

Artificial Paradises tells the love story of Nando and Erika, two young people in their early 20s, who meet and miss one another over the years. Having as background the universe of mega raves and electronic music festivals, the film portrays the maturation of its protagonists from their experiences with family and friends.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • Brazil • 96min • Color • Drama

Bad Hair Friday

A film by Andres Kõpper and Arun Tamm

The bad. The worse. And the pretty. And the ugly and the stupid and the really clueless.

SYNOPSIS

At an ever-accelerating pace, this thriller / dark comedy tells the story of 8 very different groups whose paths cross in the space of 24 hours. We meet a wide range of characters - from spoiled rich brats to real bottom-feeding criminal scum, and everyone in-between. In the best traditions of Commedia dell'arte, the characters each have easily recognizable roles - although there are a few twists to throw the audience off and keep things fresh.

DCP / HD • 2012 • Estonia • 100min • Color • Black Comedy / Crime Thriller

Clip

A film by Maja Miloš

A controversial portray of contemporary teen generation along the same lines as Larry Clark's Kids

SYNOPSIS

Jasna is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens, leading a crude life of the postwar generation in Serbia. With a terminally ill father and dispirited mother, she is disillusioned and angry with everyone and everything, including herself. Having a huge crush on a boy from school, she goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying, constantly filming with her mobile phone.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • Serbia • 102min • Color • Drama

Tey

A film by Alain Gomis

What's the last meaningful thing to do when you have 24 hours left to live?

SYNOPSIS

This is a place where Death still sometimes warns that it is coming. It happens the day before, like a certitude that descends upon the bodies and minds of the one who has been chosen, and the people close to him. No doubting it, no fighting it. Today will be Satché's last day.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France / Senegal • 86min • Color • Drama

Gulf Stream Under The Iceberg

A film by Yevgeny Pashkevich

An erotic fairy tale of the myth of Lilith, based on ancient Oriental legends, the Talmud and the medieval books of Cabala.

SYNOPSIS

This film is a philosophical parable based on novels of French writer Anatole France. It tells about the demonic mission of Lilith, Adam's first wife, striding through time and space. About the people who met her on their way, about life and death, about love, hatred and madness. Film events occur in the XVII, XIX and XXth centuries...

35mm • 2011 • Latvian / Russia • 125min • Color • Sexy Drama

Water

A film by 7 Directors

A feature film born out of a unique Israeli/Palestinian cooperation

SYNOPSIS

The project WATER is a cinematic co-operation created within the Department of Film and Television at Tel-Aviv University. In 2012, a small group of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers directed a feature film with total artistic freedom, exploring a strongly unifying subject : WATER.
WATER is a poetic and pastoral subject, but one that is also very political as well as violent in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

35mm / HD • 2012 • Israel / Palestine • 120min • Color • Drama

AS IF WE WERE CATCHING A COBRA

A film by Hala Alabdalla

Cartoonists words and emotions build a documentary witnessing Syrians and Egyptians struggle for a democratic country and a free future.

SYNOPSIS

During the two years of the production of the film – from the beginning of the summer of 2010 to that of 2012 – major upheavals occurred in the Middle East, especially in the two countries the film focuses on, Egypt and Syria. It was hardly surprising that a film on the freedom of expression and its repression in these countries should be drawn into the wake of the turbulent events of the revolutions under way there.

DCP / HD • 2012 • Syria • 120min • Color • Documentary

This ain't California

A film by Marten Persiel

A Punk fairytale

SYNOPSIS

A hymn to the subversive power of vitality, this fast-paced documentary takes us on a trip through the strange unknown world of the 'Rollbrettfahrer' as skateboarders were known in the GDR, a country where besides those loyal to the regime, there was also an avowed political resistance.

HD • 2012 • Germany • 90min • Color / Black&White • Documentary

213, the Gang Project

A film by Robert E. Bal

True Stories about Life and Death in L.A.

SYNOPSIS

213 THE GANG PROJECT is a powerful, moving and highly stylized feature length documentary that dramatically captures the highs and horrors of Los Angeles' infamous Gang culture -- Black, White and Brown -- behind prison bars and in the streets of L.A but also follows gang members' wives.

HD • 2012 • USA • 75min • Color • Documentary

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

A film by Bob Hercules

A ballet
(R)evolution

SYNOPSIS

Mavericks of American Dance tells the story of this groundbreaking cultural treasure, known as the first truly American dance company. Narrated by Tony and Emmy Award winner Mandy Patinkin and directed by Bob Hercules (Bill T. Jones-A Good Man), the film documents how The Joffrey Ballet revolutionized American ballet by daringly combining modern dance with traditional ballet technique, combining art with social statement, and setting ballets to pop and rock music scores.

HD • 2012 • USA • 82min • Color • Documentary

Sons of the wind

A film by Bruno Le Jean

On the footsteps of
Django Reinhardt

SYNOPSIS

They are Angelo Debarre, Moreno, Ninine Garcia and Tchavolo Schmitt.
They are guitarists. They are gypsies.
They play and perpetuate the music of Django Reinhardt. They have also a certain sense of humor, of friendship and a personal way to live their life standing.

HD • 2012 • France • 96min • Color • Documentary

3

A film by Pablo Stoll Ward

1 Daughter + 1 Mother + 1 Father
But after 10 years of separation

SYNOPSIS

For Rodolfo, life at home feels empty and cold, as if he doesn't belong there. Meanwhile, his first wife Graciela and their teenage daughter, Ana, are going through defining moments in their lives. Subtly, Rodolfo will try to slip back into the place he once had next to them and walked away from ten years ago.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • Uruguay / Argentina / Germany • 115min • Color • Familiar Comedy

Approved for Adoption

A film by Jung and Laurent Boileau

European on the head's side,
Asian on the tail's side

SYNOPSIS

Approved for Adoption is a very original animation film for an original topic. The characters were developed and created in 3D, the landscapes and decorations are in 2D and the drawings are originally made by Jung. The film deals with adoption issues with tenderness and humor.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • France / Belgium • 75min • Color • Animation film

Naked Harbour

A film by Aku Louhimies

A symphony structure
of cruel love stories

SYNOPSIS

Naked Harbour is a film about Finnish love : it follows several parallel stories of characters facing something irreversible, on a one grey and cold winter week, in a quest to find love and acceptance. In a world where societies expectations are high, and the pressures of everyday life create a shroud of secrecy.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • Finland • 123min • Color • Drama

Being Venice

A film by Miro Bilbrough

When you make love,
how many people are in the room?

SYNOPSIS

Venice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts a brief & idyllic affair with her best friend. To her chagrin, her ex-hippy dad, camped on her sofa for a week, ignores it all, like a stranger in her life.

DCP / HD • 2012 • Australia • 89min • Color • Drama

The Parade

A film by Srdjan Dragojevic

When the Magnificients 7 come back to defend a Gay Pride Parade in a whimsical Comedy

SYNOPSIS

The film tells the story of former war hero and petty criminal Limun who is hired by a group of Belgrade LGBT activists to protect their planned gay pride in the Serbian capital after threats from neo-Nazi groups.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • Serbian / Croatian / Slovenian / Macedonian / Montenegrin • 116min • Color • Comedy

Calm at sea

A film by Volker Schlöndorff

This authentic story recounts the events which led up to the early death of the 17-year-old French resistant, Guy Môquet

SYNOPSIS

Volker Schlöndorff comes back with a drama film dealing with the « Hostage Question" paying a moving tribute to the French citizens who were shot dead during the Occupation.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France / Germany • 90min • Color • Drama

Beast Paradise

A film by Estelle Larrivaz

The fight of a battered woman
to get her children back

SYNOPSIS

Dominique is a domineering and possessive father who runs a pet store with his sister: Pet Paradise. When his already abusive relationship with his wife Cathy spins out of control, he flees with their children Clarisse and Ferdinand.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2012 • France • 104min • Color • Drama

Noor

A film by Ç̧agla Zenzirci and Guillaume Giovanetti

An arousing quest of love

SYNOPSIS

Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France / Pakistan • 79min • Color • Drama

Sexual Chronicles of a french family

A film by Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold

Bodies and souls bare
in stolen moments of time

SYNOPSIS

The daily life of a today's family is suddenly shaken when the youngest child, Romain, is caught masturbating and filming himself with his mobile phone in his biology class at school. From then, sex that used to be a family taboo will become the main interest and we get into the intimacy of each of them, discovering the sex life of the parents, the children aged from 18 to 22 but also the grand father's sex life.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France • 82min • Color • Comedy

Bergman & Magnani: The War of volcanoes

A film by Francesco Patierno

The story of the biggest jet-set
love scandal of all times

SYNOPSIS

The War of the Volcanoes is a documentary entirely based on the rich footage depicting the intense and dramatic love story between the world's most famous actress (Ingrid Bergman), the most appreciated director by Hollywood of his time (Roberto Rossellini) and Italy's most beloved actress (Anna Magnani).

DCP / HD • 2012 • Italy • 52min • Color / B&W • Documentary

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

A film by Ian Ayres

One of Hollywood's last silver
screen icons

SYNOPSIS

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom explores the man's rebellious demeanor, his struggle as a Jew in Hollywood, his difficult childhood, the brief love affair with Marilyn Monroe and his failed marriages to actresses Janet Leigh and Christine Kaufman.

DCP / HD • 2012 • France • 96&55min • Color / B&W • Documentary

Night 1

A film by Anne Emond

What happens after
a "1" night stand?

SYNOPSIS

Anne Émond's dazzling debut feature is a bold and intimate study of a one-night stand. Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking, When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an unexpected turn.

35mm / DCP / HD • 2011 • Canada • 91min • Color • Drama

Mourning

A film by Morteza Farshbaf

There is nothing to hide
when silence talks

SYNOPSIS

A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...

DCP / HD • 2011 • Iran • 85min • Color • Drama

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Hide Your Smiling Faces

A film by Daniel Patrick Carbone

An atmospheric exploration of life and death in rural America, as seen through the distorted lens of youth.

Exposed

A film by Beth B

Exposed profiles eight female and male artists who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos.

Cold Bloom

A film by Atsushi Funahashi

Shiori, a young woman, faces a her beloved husband accidental death,while the industrial town she lives in barely recovered from the 3.11 tsunami.

Morning Star

A film by Sophie Blondy

When Iggy Pop meets Denis Lavant

People Out There

A film by Aik Karapetian

The Beauty and the Thief

Arrows of the Thunder Dragon

A film by Greg Sneddon

The First Bhutanese film ever made in a modern western point of view

Five Dances

A film by Alan Brown

On stage with bodies mixingin some sensual performances

Acrid

A film by Kiarash Asadizadeh

Distributing look at the iranian society

Elena

A film by Petra Costa

"Elena is one of the most moving, heartrending cinmatic experiences I'v ever had. Of unusual beauty, it's a film we keep turning to for a long time. It's a must see."Walter Salles

Sons of the wind

A film by Bruno Le Jean

On the footsteps of Django Reinhardt

Jo's Neighborhood

A film by Alain Minier

Starring Olivier Marchal from 36 & a Gang Story

My Father and the Men in Black

A film by Jonathan Holiff

Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. Don't miss the true stories behind the hit movie "Walk the line"!

Silent Ones

A film by Ricky Rijneke

A Surreal trip on the fragile edge of life and death

All of us Guinea-Pigs now?

A film by Jean-Paul Jaud

The most complete consumer study ever done on laboratory rats regarding a Monsanto GMO

The Children's Republic

A film by Flora Gomes

Zabana!

A film by Saïd Ould-Khelifa

The genesis of the "Battle of Algiers"

The Girl from Nowhere

A film by Jean-Claude Brisseau

A testament film

Artificial Paradises

A film by Marcos Prado

The first film bythe producer of Elite Squad

Bad Hair Friday

A film by Andres Kõpper and Arun Tamm

The bad. The worse. And the pretty. And the ugly and the stupid and the really clueless.

Clip

A film by Maja Miloš

A controversial portray of contemporary teen generation along the same lines as Larry Clark's Kids

Tey

A film by Alain Gomis

What's the last meaningful thing to do when you have 24 hours left to live?

Gulf Stream Under The Iceberg

A film by Yevgeny Pashkevich

An erotic fairy tale of the myth of Lilith, based on ancient Oriental legends, the Talmud and the medieval books of Cabala.

Water

A film by 7 Directors

A feature film born out of a unique Israeli/Palestinian cooperation

AS IF WE WERE CATCHING A COBRA

A film by Hala Alabdalla

Cartoonists words and emotions build a documentary witnessing Syrians and Egyptians struggle for a democratic country and a free future.

This ain't California

A film by Marten Persiel

A Punk fairytale

213, the Gang Project

A film by Robert E. Bal

True Stories about Life and Death in L.A.

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

A film by Bob Hercules

On stage with bodies mixing
in some sensual performances

"Elena is one of the most moving, heartrending cinmatic experiences I'v ever had. Of unusual beauty, it's a film we keep turning to for a long time. It's a must see."
Walter Salles

The first film by
the producer of Elite Squad

A ballet
(R)evolution

On the footsteps of
Django Reinhardt

1 Daughter + 1 Mother + 1 Father
But after 10 years of separation

European on the head's side,
Asian on the tail's side

A symphony structure
of cruel love stories

When you make love,
how many people are in the room?

The fight of a battered woman
to get her children back

Bodies and souls bare
in stolen moments of time

The story of the biggest jet-set
love scandal of all times

One of Hollywood's last silver
screen icons

What happens after
a "1" night stand?

There is nothing to hide
when silence talks

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