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4 QUARTERS
Ashley Mckenzie

An overworked student becomes entangled in a thorny problem while trying to maintain a caring friendship with a young drug addict. 

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A BELLFLOWER
KYUN SOON JOO

The reminiscences of a man who regrets his past transgressions and pines for his true love. She is more resilient, however, having long since chosen to...

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A CORNER OF HEAVEN
Miaoyan Zhang

Children share a world of dirt paths, quarries, factories, waste heaps and ruins. Beyond the eyesores, enduring insults and blows, theirs is a meagre,...

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A SCHOOLGIRL'S DIARY
Jang In-Hak

An example of more contemporary North Korean cinema, A Schoolgirl’s Diary is also the very first film from the hidden kingdom to have been...

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ALWAYS TIRED
Jochen Kuhn

Brief notes on tiredness.

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BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN
Jennifer Reeder

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...

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CHAMP DES POSSIBLES
Cristina Picchi

A contemporary city symphony where floating memories blend with urban sounds and natural elements, where tales of loss and love are mirrored by the...

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CHELEM
Charles Grenier

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CHIENNE DE VIE
Hélène Choquette

For some, life on the street is an end in itself; for others, it is the end. Serving as a bulwark against the solitude in which they flounder, even within...

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DAVID
Jan Tešitel

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...

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LES DÉMONS
Philippe Lesage

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...

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Raphael Ouellet

Five faces of opression.

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FICTITIOUS FORCE
Philip Widmann

“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...

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HIGH RISE
Ben Wheatley

Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston, who played Loki, brother of Thor in The Avengers) moves into a generic, soulless concrete high rise, where he hopes to...

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IN THE SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
Sam Kuhn

A young man drawn silently towards the siren call of oblivion. A river of cinematic images and sounds flowing into an ocean. A yawning abyss. A woman. The...

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INSIDE THE CELL
Nicolas Boukhrief

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERESam is a journalist who takes advantage of his Muslim background to infiltrate fundamentalist circles on the outskirts of Paris. He...

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JAFAR PANAHI'S TAXI
Jafar Panahi

What can little 10-year-old Hana, a suspended lawyer named Nasrin on her way to visit a hunger striker, a DVD salesman on the run, a teacher, a man hurt in...

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KOZA
Ivan Ostrochovsky´

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...

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LAMA?
Nadav Lapid

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...

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LA LOI DU MARCHÉ
Stéphane Brizé

At 51, Thierry Taugourdeau is unemployed after being laid of by a profitable company. For 20 months, he has bounced between pointless on-the-job training...

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LOU, LA VIE!
John Blouin

Footsteps in a rock-strewn desert. A woman lies bedridden and suffering at the twilight of her existence. A birth... In just a few shots, life and death...

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NINTH FLOOR
Mina Shum

February, 1969. Two years after Expo 67 and its sixty-plus national pavilions, public figures were taking turns declaring that Quebec was a fine example of...

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PARIA
Omar Elhamy

The day Marc-André, a fisherman from a small town in New Brunswick is forced to concede defeat.

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THE REFLECTION OF POWER
Mihai Grecu

In the world’s most secretive capital, a crowd is attending a show when a disaster threatens to destroy the city... A spectacular CGI reflection on...