Groeningen completely sells us the world of the bar, his immersive tracking and handheld camera leading us into the melee where coke and hedonism are served straight up and the music pounds to be let into your bloodstream.
Two brothers find their hedonistic bar business heading for trouble.
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2016; Director: Felix van Groeningen; Writer: Arne Sierens, Felix van Groeningen; Stars: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter, Dominique Van Malder, Ben Benaouisse, Boris Van Severen, Sara De Bosschere, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos, Jean-Michel Balthazar, Bo De Bosschere, Sam Louwyck, Anjana Dierckx, Hannes Reckelbus, Silvanous Saow)
Alberto, who suffers from an illness that binds him into a body that doesn’t obey him, lives with his loving mum, who dedicates her life to him. His sickness impedes him from achieving his greatest dream of knowing the sea, despite one being located just across the street.
(Country: Colombia; Year: 2016; Director: Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo; Writer: Manolo Cruz)
The direction and writing may show signs of first-time work but Karanovic's fearless performance is one of an actress right on the top of her game that smooths over the cracks in plausibility and holds you hard in its gaze.
A woman begins to question her life after she is diagnosed with cancer.
(Country: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia; Year: 2016; Director: Mirjana Karanovic; Writer: Stevan Filipovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Darko Lungulov; Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Boris Isakovic, Hristina Popovic, Jasna Djuricic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Marko Nikolic, Bojan Navojec, Vlado Kerosevic)
Four tragic yet comic interconnected stories come together in this film, which follows devout Muslim men and women as they try to manage their love lives and desires without breaking any of their religion’s rules.
(Country: Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates ; Year: 2016; Director: Assad Fouladkar; Writer: Assad Fouladkar; Stars: Darine Hamze, Rodrigue Sleiman, Zeinab Khadra, Hussein Mokadem, Mirna Moukarzel, Ali Sammoury)
At the midway point, the screenplay begins to flap about all over the place but Smoczynska's firm, high-energy directing - including an extras-laden shopping centre extravaganza - doesn't stop to let you consider them for too long.
A pair of mermaid sisters run into trouble when one of them falls for a human.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska; Writer: Robert Bolesto; Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Jakub Gierszal, Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka, Zygmunt Malanowicz)
Running away from a bar without paying the bill is just the first adventure for Liz (mother to newborn Nicanor) and Rosa (supposed mother to newborn Clarisa). This budding friendship between nursing mothers starts with the promise of liberation but soon ends up being a dangerous business.
(Country: Argentina, Uruguay; Year: 2015; Director: Ana Katz; Writer: Inés Bortagaray, Ana Katz; Stars: Julieta Zylberberg, Andrés Milicich, Mirella Pascual, Tomás Newkirk, Ana Katz, Manuela García Dudiuk, Elías Langsam, Daniel Hendler, Marina Belinco, Mariano Sayavedra, Marcos Montes, Bruno Gallo, Inés Saavedra, Malena Figo, Maricel Álvarez)
World premiere
Much Ado About Nothing
An upper-class kid gets in trouble with the one percent.
(Country: Chile; Year: 2016; Director: Alejandro Fernández; Writer: Alejandro Fernández, Jerónimo Rodríguez; Stars: Agustín Silva, Alejandro Goic, Luis Gnecco, Paulina García, Daniel Alcaino, Augusto Schuster.)
World premiere
Pleasure. Love
The two stories of a young man and a young woman experiencing passionate love for the first time.
(Country: China; Year: 2015; Director: Yao Huang ; Writer: Yao Huang ; Stars: Nan Yu, Daizhen Ying, Xiaodong Guo, Yi Sun )
