Opening film
LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT
Jaco Van Dormael
Invite onlyFRANCE, Belgium, Luxembourg | 110 minutes | 2015
Closing feature
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Invite onlyQUéBEC/CANADA | 119 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
600 MILES
Gabriel Ripstein
O.V.
Spanish
In his early 20s and the owner of a snazzy SUV, handsome Arnulfo considers the world his playground. Thearms trade he plies at his uncle’s behest...
MEXICO, United States | 85 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
A NIGHT AND A HALF
Itamar Lapid
O.V.
Hebrew
A couple in a bedroom in the early morning. Between trips, he talks, they talk, their bodies brush against each other and then move away and graze again....
ISRAEL | 16 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN
Jennifer Reeder
O.V.
English
Countdown to prom night is actually a countdown to irrevocable change for three girls. Two of the girls are falling in love with each other and the third...
UNITED STATES | 33 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
BODY
Malgorzata Szumowska
O.V.
Polish
Janusz (Janusz Gajos), a forensic pathologist in Poland, is accustomed to the gruesome sights he often sees at crime scenes. He isn’t easily shocked, but...
POLAND | 90 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
LES BRIGANDS DE L'HÔTEL BLEU
Olivier Godin
O.V.
French
Mike will make a phone call. Lise will answer. Tonight, through a romantic ode to the cinema of Wakamatsu and the breasts of a mature woman, a tender and...
CANADA | 16 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
BUNKER
Sandro Aguilar
O.V.
- Without dialogue
A young girl spending time with her swinger parent in a campground meets an emotionally unstable man and becomes fascinated by his special powers. He falls...
PORTUGAL | 30 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
CAVALIER SEUL
Mathilde Delaunay
O.V.
French
“A different Wild West. How to explain it? Especially when you have no horse.” Two free-spirited, indomitable young women in the middle of nowhere amid...
FRANCE | 20 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
EL CLUB
Pablo Larraín
O.V.
Spanish
A nun, four priests and a greyhound, in an isolated house in La Boca, a small town on the Chilean coast. The priests are doing a penitence, the nun looks...
CHILE | 98 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
DAVID
Jan Tešitel
O.V.
Czech
David lives with his parents in Ústí nad Labem, a small Czech town. Increasingly aware of his mild intellectual handicap, he decides one night, without...
CZECH REPUBLIC | 80 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
LES DEUX AMIS
Louis Garrel
O.V.
French
Mona, an attractive young woman with a secret that lends her an air of mystery, works at a sandwich shop in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris....
FRANCE | 100 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
DRIVING LESSON
André Santos, Marco Leão
O.V.
Portuguese
While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it’s not too late to...
PORTUGAL | 17 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
LES DÉMONS
Philippe Lesage
O.V.
French
Félix just turned 9. A loner by nature, he keeps to himself and ponders the answers to life’s questions. His home life is tense and he’s terrified...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 115 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
Ciro Guerra
O.V.
Spanish
In 1909, Karamakate, a reclusive shaman living in Amazonia, meets Theodor, a very ill white ethnographer who convinces him to venture together into the...
COLOMBIA, Venezuela, Argentina | 125 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
ENDORPHINE
André Turpin
O.V.
French
There’s Simone, a disturbed teen who copes as best she can with her mother’s murder. There’s also Simone, in her twenties, who copes with her panic...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 84 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
FERDINAND KNAPP
Andrea Baldini
O.V.
French
Ferdinand Knapp is the pre-eminent actor of French theatre, revered by all. In preparing for a new play, the lines between his character’s malevolent...
FRANCE, Italy | 15 minutes | 2014
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
FICTITIOUS FORCE
Philip Widmann
O.V.
Bengali
“These things don’t happen by force,” says Observer A. “Or by one’s will,” adds Observer B. Fictitious Force is a discussion about the...
GERMANY | 15 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
FIRE, THE
Juan Schnitman
O.V.
Spanish
In only 24 hours, Lucia and Marcelo will be moving into their dream home. Since they’re due to sign the next day, the couple has to hide the $100,000...
ARGENTINA | 95 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
GOD LOVES THE FIGHTER
Damian Marcano
O.V.
English
Young Charlie is struggling to survive in the mean streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad. After exhausting the last of his resources, one night he must...
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | 104 minutes | 2014
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
IF THE WORLD GOES WRONG
Rafael Macazaga
O.V.
Spanish
In a time when people cannot die, a nun is on the verge of transferring her guilt to an innocent kid.
MEXICO | 21 minutes | 2014
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
IXCANUL
Jayro Bustamante
O.V.
Spanish
Maria, 17, lives in a Guatemalan village at the foot of Pacaya, an active volcano. She is Mayan, a member of the Kaqchikel community. Her life is...
GUATEMALA, France | 91 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
KEPLER
George Drivas
O.V.
Georgian
Kepler is a newly discov- ered planet. According to scientists, its soil, atmosphere and size are similar to Earth’s, which makes it potentially...
GREECE, Georgia | 15 minutes | 2014
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
KOZA
Ivan Ostrochovsky´
O.V.
Slovak
After representing his native Slovakia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Peter “Koza” Baláž had no choice but to hang up his boxing gloves. Like many...
SLOVAKIA, Czech Republic | 75 minutes | 2015
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
LAMA?
Nadav Lapid
O.V.
Hebrew
A 40-year-old director, Yoav, is asked by the editor of Cahiers du Cinéma to write about a cinematic image. Yoav thinks back to his time as a combat...
ISRAEL | 6 minutes | 2014
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
MYRNA THE MONSTER
Ian Samuels
O.V.
English
A heartbroken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into young adult life in Los Angeles like any other 20-something.
UNITED STATES | 14 minutes | 2015