The director's uncompromising approach and rigour pulls us along at least until the half way point when the pace begins to falter and its lack of obvious intentions starts to grate.
The Devil moves into a suburban street and turns the lives of its inhabitants upside-down.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Alex van Warmerdam; Writer: Alex van Warmerdam; Stars: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval)
A father searches Manila for his son who has disappeared.
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2012; Director: Ian Loreños; Writer: Ian Loreños; Stars: Jericho Rosales, Bugoy Cariño, Leo Martinez, Smokey Manaloto, John Manalo, Nanette Inventor, Jeremiah Rosales, Carmen Soo, Marti San Juan)
Romance blossoms between a carpet-cleaner salesman and a cake-maker.
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2013; Director: Can Kilcioglu; Writer: Can Kilcioglu; Stars: Serdar Orçin, Tülin Özen, Sarp Aydinoglu, Ipek Bilgin, Vedat Erincin, Sait Genay, Pinar Gok)
International premiere
Circles
Five people are affected by a tragic heroic act. Twenty years later, all of them will confront the past through their own crises. Will they overcome guilt, frustration and their urge for revenge? Will they do the right thing, at all costs?
(Country: Serbia, Germany, France, Croatia, Slovenia; Year: 2013; Director: Srdan Golubovic; Writer: Srdjan Koljevic, Melina Pota Koljevic; Stars: Aleksandar Bercek, Leon Lucev, Nebojsa Glogovac, Hristina Popovic, Nikola Rakocevic, Vuk Kostic)
I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.
Jesse Eisenberg finds his world turned upside down by the arrival of a confident and ambitious doppelganger.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Ayoade; Writer: Richard Ayoade, Avi Korine; Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Moriarty, Gemma Chan, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Yasmin Paige, Nathalie Cox, Phyllis Somerville, Tony Rohr, Joanna Finata, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jon Korkes)
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The Hour Of The Lynx
(I lodjurets timma, I lossens time)
Psychological thriller about a priest, a researcher and a disturbed young man.
(Country: Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen; Writer: Jonas T Bengtsson, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Tobias Lindholm, based on the novel by Per Olov Enquist; Stars: Søren Malling, Sofie Gråbøl, Signe Egholm Olsen, Lia Boysen, Börje Ahlstedt, Frederik Christian Johansen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Julie Carlsen, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, Donald Högberg, Henrik Birch, Barbro Enberg, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Rasmus Elton, Susan Olsen)
East European premiere
I'm The Same, I'm Another
The story of a man and a child in mourning on a road trip through Europe.
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2013; Director: Hardi Volmer; Writer: Peep Pedmanson, Hardi Volmer; Stars: Sultan Aka, Ita Ever, Toompere Jr. jr Hendrik, Peeter Jakobi, Guido Kangur, Anu Lamp, Ain Mäeots, Peeter Oja, Tõnu Oja, Maria Soomets, Toomas Suuman, Sandra Uusberg, Marika Vaarik, Priit Võigemast, Aarne Üksküla)
Estonian premiere
The Old Man
(Shal)
Story of a shepherd, loosely based on Hemingway's Old Man And The Sea.
An actor in revolutionary Russia takes on his toughest role to date - that of playing his doppelganger.
(Country: Belarus, Russia, Finland, Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy; Writer: Pavel Finn, Konstantin Lopushanskiy; Stars: Maria Järvenhelmi, Leonid Mozgovoy, Anastasiya Sheveleva, Maksim Sukhanov, Dmitriy Sutyrin)
International premiere
Stray Dogs
Story of a family living on the margins of Taipei.
(Country: France, Taiwan; Year: 2013; Director: Ming-liang Tsai; Writer: Peng Fei Song, Ming-liang Tsai, Chen Yu Tung; Stars: Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi Cheng Lee, Yi Chieh Lee, Yi Ching Lu)
A Thousand Times Good Night
(Tusen ganger god natt)
Semi-autobiographical story of a photojournalist forced to choose between family and her career.
(Country: Norway, Ireland, Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Erik Poppe; Writer: Erik Poppe, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, Kirsten Sheridan; Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Eve Macklin, Larry Mullen Jr., Chloë Annett, Lauryn Canny, Denise McCormack, Mads Ousdal, Carl Shaaban, Anna Leah Thorseth Poppe, Stephen Mullan, Larry Mullen, Bush Moukarzel)
European premiere
Trap Street
(Shuiyin Jie)
A romance is abruptly derailed by a boy’s disappearance.
We Are The Best! is a rebel yell of positivism - with exclamation mark - that brings a fuzzy warmth to all the wintry Stockholm locations.
Coming of age tale about three teenage girls in Stockholm forming a punk band.
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Lukas Moodysson; Writer: Lukas Moodysson, from the graphic novel by Coco Moodysson; Stars: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne)
