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Woods

October 2015 •English

A struggling writer believes a secret from his past has come back to haunt him. Paranoia and guilt take over as he tries to figure out who or what has been plaguing him with increasingly violent attacks.

The Distance Between Us

October 2016 •Korean

Seonduk Arts High school sets a “moral distance rule”, forbidding physical contact between boys and girls. The school recommends Byeonchan and Seohyun, who have been meeting for 700 days, to transfer to another school because of this rule.

The Conquest of Faro

January 2005 •Portuguese

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark a conversation on the city’s history, unfolding the tales of King Afonso III, who betrays his wife, and of a Moorish woman, who betrays her father.

Strange Loop

December 2012 •German

Mysterious murders on the border. Always the same crime scene. The perpetrator lurks on a hill, protected by tall grass. He hunts families. But on this day things are different. A child survives. Traumatized. Months later, an attempt is made to return the child to the crime scene as part of confrontation therapy and the story takes its course.

Apocalypse Toto

October 2019 •Spanish

Toto, a worker in Catalonia, analyzes the violence spiral experienced in Barcelona in October 2019.

Ci vuole del tempo

December 2024 •Italian

Fifteen Love

March 2022 •Spanish

Alexandra has been playing tennis for as long as she can remember. After years of training under the instructions of her father, Julio (a retired tennis player who intends to relive his victories through his daughter), she has become one of the most promising junior tennis players in the Spanish circuit. During one of the most important tournaments of the 1978 season, the increasing pressure from her father will exert on and off the court will begin to affect her mental health. With the arrival of adolescence and the questions it brings, Alex will realize that, perhaps, this is not her destiny.

Keep Quiet

June 2012 •Korean

At the library, Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in an unguarded moment, while the person is out. A woman asks Sung-mo to run away with the phone.

Allergy

June 2014 •Korean

A girl's day with an unexpected experience due to allergies.

Fallen Art

September 2004 •

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

Cardinal Wolsey

January 1912 •English

King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the tenets of the Church and consent to his divorce from the Queen. The cardinal absolutely refuses to do anything so inimical to his office, as representative of the Holy See. Angered King Henry induces the Archbishop of Canterbury to call a special council through which he divorces himself from Queen Catherine. In punishment for his refusal to accede to the king's wishes, the cardinal is exiled to Leicester Abbey where he dies three days afterward, conscious that he had sustained the sacredness of his office, a martyr to his faith and of service to his king.

To Be A Good One

August 2008 •German

After a fight with her mother, six year old Clara decides to run off to be with her father. But she falls asleep on the way on the bus and somehow ends up with the Wagner family. When Julia Wagner discovers bruises on Clara's body, she feels compelled to act.

W-A-L-K

January 2015 •English

During a lazy Montreal summer day, preteen Clara decides to master the art of walking in high-heel shoes. It would probably be an easier undertaking if she didn't have to take the dog, Eddie, along for the ride.

Beauville

January 1995 •English

Tragicomedy about a man who hears he has got one more week to live and who brings his two water turtles to the sea to set them free.

Berncastel

January 1995 •Dutch

A woman tells a story told in a poem about her life messing around with a lot of men.

L'apprentisage du péché

January 1997 •French

A child is confronted to the first questions about procreation, in a world wanting to awaken him to sexuality.

Always Summer

January 1998 •Dutch

Twelve-year-old Wim has feelings of guilt about his father's death, which cause him to get emotionally confused. Eventually, Wim loses control completely.

La vie en rose

June 1997 •French

Childhood friends Isa and Florence reunite unexpectedly as adults

Mother

Invalid date •Arabic

Wanting a better life for herself and her child, Amani decides to flee Lebanon. Her journey unravels impossible choices and sacrifices only a Mother can make.

Herman the Gangster

January 1995 •English

Short gangster film based on a novella by Belgian writer Hugo Claus.