Mostra De Valencia 2018

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The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and Pity
Alps (Country: Greece; Year: 2011; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou; Stars: Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed)
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos.
Baton (Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Albert Moya; Writer: Efthymis Filippou; Stars: Dylan Moran, Sean Nicholas Savage, Peter O. Simon Kumickas, Leonit Tapolov, Dylan Moran, Sean Nicholas Savage, Peter O. Simon Kumickas, Leonit Tapolov)
A group of youths who live trapped in an imposing building as part of a secret society, begin to receive increasingly surreal orders.
Chevalier (Country: Greece; Year: 2015; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari; Stars: Sakis Rouvas, Vangelis Mourikis, Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos)
Six men on a boat try to judge who is best.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (Country: Greece; Year: 2009; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou)
Three siblings cut off from society spend their lives trapped in their family’s home.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Raffey Cassidy, Bill Camp, Barry Keoghan, Anita Farmer Bergman, Sunny Suljic, Denise Dal Vera, Megan Chelf Fisher, Lea Hutton Beasmore, Rachael Mcadams, Michelle Poole, Nathaniel Sizemore, Jerry Pope)
A teenage boy tries to integrate a surgeon into his broken family but his motives become increasingly sinister.
Dogtooth Dogtooth
Dogtooth and Chevalier
L (Country: Greece; Year: 2012; Director: Babis Makridis; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Babis Makridis; Stars: Aris Servetalis, Makis Papadimitriou, Lefteris Mathaios, Nota Tserniafski, Stavros Raptis)
A man who lives in his car gets caught up in the undeclared war between motorcycle riders and car drivers.
The Lobster (Country: Greece, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, France; Year: 2015; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: fthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Colin Farrell, Léa Seydoux, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly, Olivia Coleman)
In a dystopian near future, single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days or are transformed into animals and released into the woods.
Pity (Country: Greece, Poland; Year: 2018; Director: Babis Makridis; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Babis Makridis; Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Nota Tserniafski, Makis Papadimitriou, Georgina Chryskioti, Evdoxia Androulidaki)
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.
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