At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategise to get their lives back on track.
Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik shows a fine ear for family dynamics as well as a joyously off-the-wall sense of humour that ensures even though we've taken similar movie road trips in the past, this one feels fresh.
Three estranged siblings travel back to their home village after a call from their father.
The cinematography of Dead Pigs is consistently picturesque, even during the most melancholic moments.
An ambitious pig farmer, sentimental salon owner, struggling busboy, and a wealthy young woman become intertwined during the social modernisation of Shanghai.
Yannis Drakopoulos is on fine form in the central role and there are some great supporting performances.
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Only one month left until the premiere of The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from focused on the preparations for this new production, Robertina lives in a state of continuous anxiety that turns her privileged life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape.
Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story becomes an end.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2018; Director: Aly Muritiba; Writer: Aly Muritiba, Jessica Candal; Stars: Giovanni De Lorenzi, Tifanny Dopke, Enrique Diaz, Clarissa Kiste, Duda Azevedo, Pedro Inoue)
World premiere
Time Share
(Tiempo Compartido)
Two haunted family men join forces in a destructive crusade to rescue their families from a tropical paradise, after becoming convinced that an American timeshare conglomerate has a sinister plan to take their loved ones away.
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Sebastian Hofmann; Writer: Julio Chavezmontes, Sebastian Hofmann; Stars: RJ Mitte, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Miguel Rodarte, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Andrés Almeida, Montserrat Marañon, Pablo Guisa Koestinger)
World premiere
Un Traductor
(A Translator)
A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.
The performances are powerful and Idris Elba's ability to recreate the feel of the times is impressive.
Gang wars in Kingston in the Seventies are imported into Hackney in the Eighties affecting the life of a Jamaican boy who seeks vengeance for the murder of his brother
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Idris Elba; Writer: Brock Norman Brock, Martin Stellman, based on the novel by Victor Headley; Stars: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Creary, Mark Rhino Smith, Calvin Demba, Naomi Ackie, Frazer James, Akim Gazi, Jumayn Hunter)
