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Keep The Lights On and Laurence Anyways
Amour
(Country: France, Germany, Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert)
An elderly couple deal with the ravages of old age.
Atomic Age (L'âge atomique)
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Héléna Klotz; Writer: Héléna Klotz; Stars: Eliott Paquet, Dominik Wojcik)
Atomic Age invites us to take a closer look at objects and people during a pleasure-seeking journey into Parisian night life for Victor and Rainer which ends in abandonment and disillusionment in a remote forest at dawn.
Broken
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rufus Norris; Writer: Mark O’Rowe; Stars: Eloise Laurence, Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, George Sergeant, Denis Lawson, Clare Burt)
A young girl’s life changes when she witnesses a brutal attack.
Crazy Eyes
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Sherman; Writer: Adam Sherman, Rachel Hardisty, Dave Reeves; Stars: Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima, Tania Raymonde)
Alcohol is the third party in a troubled love triangle.
Epilogue (Hayuta Ve Berl)
(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Amir Manor; Writer: Amir Manor; Stars: Yosef Carmon, Rivka Gur)
An elderly couple struggle to find hope in a world whose values they no longer recognise.
Like Someone In Love and Gimme The Loot
A Few Hours Of Spring
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Stéphane Brizé; Writer: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner)
An ex-con struggles to cope with his mother's failing health.
Four
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Joshua Sanchez; Writer: Joshua Sanchez; Stars: Wendell Pierce, Emory Cohen, Aja Naomi King, EJ Bonilla)
Secret affairs test the boundaries of race and sexuality issues one hot summer's night.
Gimme The Loot
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Leon; Writer: Adam Leon; Stars: Tysheeb Hickson, Zoë Lescaze, Joshua Rivera, Tashiana R. Washington), Official Site
A pair of graffiti artists attempt to pull off a daring tagging mission
The Great Kilapy
(Country: Portugal, Brazil, Angola; Year: 2012; Director: Zézé Gamboa; Writer: Luís Carlos Patraquim, Luís Alvarães; Stars: Lázaro Ramos, João Lagarto, Pedro Hossi)
The adventures of a young man keen to enjoy the Bohemian lifestyle promised by the Sixties but forced to contend with secret police.
Keep The Lights On
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson, Souleymane Sy Savane, Paprika Steen), Official Site
An autobiographically inspired story of a passionate long-term relationship between two men driven by addiction and secrets but bound by love and hopefulness.
Sister and Robot And Frank
Like Someone In Love
(Country: France, Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Writer: Abbas Kiarostami; Stars: Ryo Kase, Rin Takanashi, Denden, Tadashi Okuno, Ryota Nakanishi)
A drama centered on the relationship of a young woman and old man in Tokyo.
Laurence Anyways
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2012; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri)
A teacher and aspiring writer in Nineties Montreal tells his girlfriend he wants to live as a woman.
Love In The Grave (Láska V Hrobě)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2011; Director: David Vondráček)
A documentary about the lives of a homeless couple who take refuge in a graveyard.
Love, Marilyn
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Liz Garbus; Stars: Marilyn Monroe)
A documentary about Marilyn Monroe.
Memories Look At Me (Ji yi wang zhe wo)
(Country: China; Year: 2012; Director: Fang Song; Stars: Fang Song)
Song Fang’s remarkable first feature, in which she travels
from Beijing to Nanjing for a visit with her family, perfectly captures the
rhythms of brief sojourns home
A Few Hours Of Spring and Amour
My German Friend (El Amigo Alemán)
(Country: Germany, Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Jeanine Meerapfel; Writer: Jeanine Meerapfel; Stars: Celeste Cid, Max Riemelt, Benjamin Sadler)
German immigrants in Argentina struggle with the legacy of Nazism.
Romance Joe (Lo-maen-seu Jo)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2011; Director: Kwang-kuk Lee; Stars: Young-Pil Kim, Dong Mi Shin, Chai-eu Lee, David Lee)
A waitress helps a man with writer's block.
Robot And Frank
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jake Schreier; Writer: Christopher D Ford; Stars: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong, Katherine Waterston, Bonnie Bentley, Joshua Ormond, Dario Barosso, Rachael Ma, Dana Morgan, Hunter Reid, Jesse Newman)
A curmudgeonly OAP's kids install a robot as his caretaker.
Sister (L'enfant d'En Haut)
(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2012; Director: Ursula Meier; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Gillian Anderson, Martin Compston, Johan Libéreau, Jean-François Stévenin, Kacey Mottet Klein, Yann Trégouët, Magne-Håvard Brekke), Official Site
A snapshot of life for a 12-year-old, who steals from the rich at a local ski resort to support him and his sister.
Starlet
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch; Stars: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve)
A young misfit befriends a cantankerous woman four times her age.
Tango Libre
(Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg; Year: 2012; Director: Frédéric Fonteyne; Writer: Anne Paulicevich, Philippe Blasband; Stars: François Damiens, Sergi Lopez, Anne Paulicevich)
A prison guard gets away from it all by taking tango lessons but discovers that the dance partner he's falling for is married to a violent criminal in his charge.
Teddy Bear
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2011; Director: Mads Matthiesen; Writer: Mads Matthiesen, Martin Zandvliet; Stars: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, David Winters, Allan Mogensen)
Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.
Villegas
(Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France; Year: 2012; Director: Gonzalo Tobal; Writer: Gonzalo Tobal; Stars: Esteban Lamothe, Esteban Bigliardi, Lucía Cavallotti)
Chalk and cheese cousins driving to a remote village for their grandfather's funeral prompt one another to rethink life.
What Is Love
(Country: Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Ruth Mader)
Five documentary miniatures show different models for dealing with life, for shaping life and love.
With You, Without You (Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka)
(Country: Sri Lanka, India; Year: 2012; Director: Prasanna Vithanage; Writer: Prasanna Vithanage; Stars: Anjali Patil, Shyam Fernando, Wasantha Moragoda)
Doomed love develops between a traumatised Tamil refugee and a Buddhist pawnbroker with a terrible secret.
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