Suppose one day you wake up and you’re on your own. Literally, absolutely on your own. As if by magic. Or as if somebody were granting you a wish you’d made someday in the past. Everybody had disappeared. Wait, I’m not complaining, it’s got its charm. By the way, my name is Dolores and one day, I was on my own. This film was scripted, directed, produced, performed in its entirety by two people: Rocío R and Bastian A, independent filmmakers located in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish.
Ferdi is ugly. And he desperately wants a girlfriend but he can’t because: ugly. One day however he meets Jona and Jona is blind. For the first time in his life, there is hope. What Ferdi doesn’t know is that Jona isn’t really blind. She’s just pretending. After she ran away from home to drop out of school she needed a place to stay and began to play blind to live with her Cousine Cecile in the home for the blind. Should Ferdi find out, he will most likely kill himself.
The world has ended due to wars, lack of food and resources. People have turned on each other in an effort to hoard whatever food is left. Some have turned to cannibalism. On top of that, a new, unknown virus is ravaging the planet. Clean, drinkable water has run out. Violence is running rampant through this new wasteland. Claire, a lone girl treks the new, dangerous wasteland in search of food and clean water. Clinging on to the last of her supplies, she has to fight hordes of killers after her at every turn.
A paralyzed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino domestic worker who has put her dream on hold and came to the city to earn a living. These two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons, and as they learn more about each other, they also learn more about themselves. Together, they learn about how to face the different seasons of life.
Hollywood actor Johnny Marco, nested in his luxury hotel of choice, is a stimulated man. Drinking, parties and women keep a creeping boredom under wraps in between jobs. He is the occasional father of a bright girl, Cleo, who may be spoiled but doesn’t act it. When Cleo’s mother drops her off and leaves town, Johnny brings her along for the ride, but can he fit an 11-year-old girl into his privileged lifestyle?
Claes Bang (THE SQUARE) stars as Joseph Piller in this captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII – an all but forgotten true story – about a soldier investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren, played by Guy Pearce (LA CONFIDENTIAL), who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite mounting evidence, Piller becomes increasingly convinced of Han’s innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past. The film also features Vicky Krieps (PHANTOM THREAD).
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera is providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
A failed romance between a meter maid and a fanny pack designer gets a second chance when life in the strange village of Los Angeles becomes too much to bear alone. But can a relationship already proven to be a mistake work the second time around?
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements – and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt – before their time runs out.
