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The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears and When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism
Backwater (Tomogui)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Shinji Aoyama; Writer: Haruhiko Arai, based on the book by Shin'ya Tanaka.; Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Masaki Suda, Yukiko Shinohara, Misaki Kinoshita)
Black Board (Tableau Noir)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Yves Yersin)
El Mudo
(Country: Peru/France/Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Daniel Vega, Diego Vega; Stars: Fernando Bacilio, Lidia Rodríguez, Juan Luis Maldonado, Augussto Varillas, José Luis Gómez, Norka Ramírez, Ernesto Ráez)
Exhibition
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Joanna Hogg; Writer: Joanna Hogg; Stars: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston)
Examination of the relationship between a middle-aged couple who are planning a move.
Feuchtgebiete
(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: David Wnendt; Writer: Claus Falkenberg, David Wnendt; Stars: Carla Juri, Peri Baumeister, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse, Edgar Selge, Harry Baer )
What Now? Remind Me and Mary, Queen Of Scots
Gare Du Nord
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Claire Simon; Writer: Shirel Amitay, Olivier Lorelle; Stars: Nicole Garcia, Reda Kateb, François Damiens, Monia Chokri)
Lovers (Une Autre Vie, Another Life)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Emmanuel Mouret; Writer: Emmanuel Mouret; Stars: Joey Starr, Virginie Ledoyen, Jasmine Trinca )
An exhausted women tries to rebuild her life but finds obstacles intentionally placed in the way of her happiness.
Mary, Queen Of Scots
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Thomas Imbach; Writer: Thomas Imbach, based on the book by Stefan Zweig.; Stars: Camille Rutherford, Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard, Ian Hanmore)
A biopic of the ill-fated Scottish monarch.
Our Sunhi (U Ri Sunhi)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Yu-mi Jeong, Seon-gyun Lee, Ji-won Ye)
Pays Barbare
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi)
Lovers and Exhibition
Real (Riaru: Kanzen Naru kubinagaryû No Hi)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on the book by Rokurô Inui.; Stars: Takeru Satô, Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Horibe, Kyôko Koizumi)
When his lover attempts suicide and falls into a coma, the man who has adored her since childhood enters her mind in an attempt to solve the mystery behind it and save her.
Sangue
(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Pippo Delbono; Stars: Pippo Delbono, Margherita Delbono, Giovanni Senzani, Anna Fenzi, Bobò, Coro)
Sentimental Education (Educação Sentimental)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2013; Director: Júlio Bressane; Stars: Josie Antello, Bernardo Marinho, Débora Olivieri )
Short Term 12
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Destin Cretton; Writer: Destin Cretton; Stars: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia Du Veaux, Keith Stanfield, Frantz Turner, Diana Maria Riva, Harold Cannon, Silvia Curiel, Melora Walters, Bran'dee Allen)
Story of a counsellor at a foster care centre.
The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears (L’étrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears)
(Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2013; Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Writer: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda, Sam Louwyck, Anna D’annunzio, Manon Beuchot)
A woman's disappearance forms the central mystery in this visually stylish neo-giallo.
Tonnerre and Short Term 12
Story Of My Death (Historia De La Meva Mort)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2013; Director: Albert Serra; Stars: Vincenc Altaio Morral, Lluis Massanellas Serrat, Clara Visa, Noelia Rodenas, Jordi Pau Costa)
A Time in Quchi (Shu Jia Zuo Ye)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2013; Director: Tso chi Chang; Stars: Liang-Yu Yang, Yun-Loong Kuan, Ya-Ruo Lin, Yung-Heng Yen, Shaoyi Jiang, Han-Yi Yao, Chi-Han Chen)
Tonnerre
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Guillaume Brac; Writer: Guillaume Brac, Hélène Ruault; Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez)
A musician enters into an amour fou with a younger woman who is on the rebound.
What Now? Remind Me (E Agora?)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: Joaquim Pinto; Stars: Joaquim Pinto)
The director muses on 20 years of life with HIV.
When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism (Când Se Lasa Seara Peste Bucuresti Sau Metabolism)
(Country: Romania, France; Year: 2013; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Bogdan Dumitrache, Diana Avramut, Mihaela Sirbu, Alexandru Papadopol )
A director and his leading actress converse off set about the difficulty of capturing reality.
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