Drama about a young Palestinian who discovers she is pregant shortly after being jailed by Israel.
(Country: Occupied Palestinian Territory, France, Jordan, Lebanon; Year: 2015; Director: Mai Masri; Writer: Mai Masri; Stars: Yussuf Abu-Warda, Raida Adon, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Haifa Al-Agha, Hana Chamoun, Khitam Edelbi, Nour Chamoun, Laura Hawa, Hanan Dawwas, George Khleifi, Nadira Omran, Ahmed El-Omari, Anaheed Fayyad, Eman Hayel, Annemarie Jacir)
European premiere
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
(Bang Gang (une histoire d'amour moderne))
A group of 16-year-olds engage in a summer of sex.
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Eva Husson; Writer: Eva Husson; Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Daisy Broom, Marilyn Lima, Fred Hotier, Lorenzo Lefèbvre)
The Here After
After having served time for murdering his girlfriend, John discovers that the real pain he needs to experience has not yet begun.
(Country: France, Poland, Sweden; Year: 2015; Director: Magnus von Horn; Writer: Magnus von Horn; Stars: Mats Blomgren, Ulrik Munther, Loa Ek)
Krisha
When Krisha returns for a holiday gathering, the only things standing in her way are family, dogs and turkey.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Trey Edward Shults; Writer: Trey Edward Shults; Stars: Olivia Grace Applegate, Bryan Casserly, Alex Dobrenko, Chris Doubek, Billie Fairchild, Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Victoria Fairchild, Atheena Frizzell, Augustine Frizzell, Chase Joliet, Rose Nelson, Bill Wise)
Light Years
Rose reckons a family is like a constellation – all connected, hanging up there, in the infinite. Rose's family long to reconnect.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Esther Campbell; Writer: Esther Campbell, Paul Welsh; Stars: James Stuckey)
Young Paula lives and works for middle-class family caring for their children. Her life takes an unexpected turn on discovering that she's pregnant by a young man who refuses to accept his fatherhood.
In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean; Writer: Martin Butler, John Collee, Bentley Dean)
Eggers draws fully on the iconography of the period, the muted greys and greens of the landscape captured by cinematographer Jarin Blaschkee broken only by repeated flashes of cardinal red, bringing with it the suggestion of cardinal sin.
A family of New England settlers find their faith tested when their son disappears... possibly snatched by something evil in the woods.
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2015; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Robert Eggers; Stars: Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, Ellie Grainger)
