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The Fool and The Shelter
August Winds (Ventos De Agosto)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2014; Director: Gabriel Mascaro; Writer: Gabriel Mascaro; Stars: Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos)
A teenager finds adventure when she leaves the city to look after her grandmother.
Alive (Ha-Na)
(Year: 2014; Director: Park Jung-Bum ; Writer: Park Jung-Bum ; Stars: Park Jung-Bum, Lee Seung-Yeon, Park Myoung-Hoon)
A man struggles to support his family through winter.
A Blast
(Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas; Writer: Youla Boudali, Syllas Tzoumerkas; Stars: Aggeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini, Themis Bazaka, Giorgos Biniaris, Efthymis Papadimitriou, Eleni Karagiorgi, Christoph Berlet, Haris Attonis, Nikolas Piperas, Manoussos Gakilazos, Alkis Zoupas, Marso Fili, Konstadinos Voudouris, Vassia Bakakou)
Black comedy drama sees a woman tries to win back control of her life.
Cure: The Life Of Another
(Country: Switzerland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2014; Director: Andrea Staka; Writer: Andrea Staka, Marie Kreutzer, Thomas Imbach; Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Marija Skaricic, Leon Lucev, Lucija Radulovic, Franjo Dijak, Sylvie Marinkovic, Maja Zeco)
Dubrovnik in 1993, after the war. 14-year-old Linda has gone to a secluded beach with her new girlfriend Eta. She comes back alone but wearing Eta’s clothes...
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey (Fidelio, L'odyssée d'Alice, Fidelio: Alice's Journey)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Lucie Borleteau; Writer: Lucie Borleteau, Clara Bourreau; Stars: Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud, Anders Danielsen Lie, Pascal Tagnati, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Nathanael Maïni, Bogdan Zamfir, Corneliu Dragomirescu, Manuel Ramirez, Thomas Scimeca, Jan Priva, Luc Catania)
Alice replaces a recently deceased mechanic onboard Fidelio, an old freighter, and sets off on a voyage of self-discovery.
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey and August Winds
The Fool (Durak)
(Country: Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Yuriy Bykov; Writer: Yuriy Bykov; Stars: Natalya Surkova, Kirill Polukhin, Boris Nevzorov, Darya Moroz, Artem Bystrov)
A smalltown plumber takes on corrupt bureaucracy.
From What Is Before (Mula Sa Kung Ano Ang Noon)
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2014; Director: Lav Diaz; Writer: Lav Diaz; Stars: Perry Dizon, Roeder, Hazel Orencio, Karenina Haniel, Reynan Abcede, Mailes Kanapi, Ian Lomongo, Joel Saracho, Evelyn Vargas, Noel Sto. Domingo, Teng Mangansakan, Ching Valdes-Aran, Bambi Beltran, Dea Formacil, Kristian Chua)
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio.
Gyeongju
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2014; Director: Zhang Lu; Writer: Zhang Lu; Stars: Park Hae-il, Shin Min-a, Yoon Jin-seo)
A trip to the funeral of a friend, sparks an odyssey for a professor.
Horse Money (Cavalo Dinheiro)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2014; Director: Pedro Costa)
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
The Iron Ministry
(Country: China, US; Year: 2014; Director: J P Sniadecki)
A portrait of China, experienced through its vast and expanding railway.
The Iron Ministry and Listen Up Philip
Listen Up Philip
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Alex Ross Perry; Writer: Alex Ross Perry; Stars: Krysten Ritter, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Schwartzman, Jonathan Pryce, Dree Hemingway, Joséphine de La Baume, Kate Lyn Sheil, Jennifer Kim, Daniel London, Joanne Tucker, Lee Wilkof, Rob Yang, Keith Poulson, Francis Benhamou, Miriam Weisbecker)
An angry writer and his relationships.
Perfidia
(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Bonifacio Angius; Stars: Stefano Deffenu, Mario Olivieri, Noemi Medas, Alessandro Gazale, Andrea Carboni, Domenico Montixi)
After his wife dies, Peppino finds himself faced with the problem of his son Angelo who, despite being 35 years old, still lives at home, without a job or a steady girlfriend.
The Princess of France (La Princesa de francia)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2014; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: Julián Larquier Tellarini, Agustina Muñoz, Alessio Rigo de Righi, María Villar, Romina Paula, Laura Paredes, Elisa Carricajo, Gabi Saidón, Pablo Sigal, Julián Tello, Juan Chacón )
A year after his father’s death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theater company: a radio-play of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.
La Sapienza
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Eugène Green; Writer: Eugène Green; Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio, Arianna Nastro, Hervé Compagne, Sabine Ponte, Gilles Tonnelé, Nathalie Chazeau, Irene Fittabile, Michele Franco, Jon Firman, Mario Bois, Clément Cogitore, Maria Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach)
A couple whose relationship is in crisis strike up a friendship with two teenagers.
The Shelter (L'Abri)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2014; Director: Fernand Melgar)
Documentary about winter in a emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne.
The Princess of France and Two Shots Fired
Two Shots Fired (Dos Disparos, Two Gunshots)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2014; Director: Martín Rejtman; Writer: Martín Rejtman)
After a teenager shoots himself and survives, those around him must live with the consequences.
White Nights On The Pier (Nuits blanches sur la jetée)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Paul Vecchiali; Stars: Astrid Adverbe, Pascal Cervo, Geneviève Montaigu, Paul Vecchiali )
A man on a year’s sabbatical in a port town goes out for a walk every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life.
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