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Counting and Koza
Androids Dream (Sueñan los androides)
(Country: Germany, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Ion De Sosa; Writer: Ion de Sosa, Jorge Gil Munarriz, Chema García Ibarra; Stars: Manolo Marín, Moisés Richart, Marta Bassols, Coque Sánchez, Margot Sánchez, Óscar de la Huerga, César Velasco, Begoña Alarcón, Eva Swoboda, Begoña Jiménez Velasco, Pilar López Cepeda, Harold Delgado, Ahmed Rizwan, Hermina Ruiz, Antonia del Río)
Benidorm, 2052.
Counting
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jem Cohen)
Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film.
Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (Exotica, Erotica Inc)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Evangelia Kranioti; Writer: Evangelia Kranioti)
“Sailors are like terrorists. They arrive in ports with a bomb called love and throw it,” says former prostitute Sandy, protagonist of this documentary.
Fish Tail (Rabo De Peixe)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2015; Director: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel)
a portrait of a fishing community on the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe.
The Forbidden Room
(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson; Writer: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk, John Ashbery, Kim Morgan; Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Udo Kier, Gregory Hlady, Mathieu Amalric, Noel Burton, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Ahmarani, Caroline Dhavernas, Jacques Nolot, Slimane Dazi, Maria de Medeiros, Charlotte Rampling, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon)
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Portrait Of The Artist and The Forbidden Room
The Gulls (Chaiki)
(Country: Russia; Year: 2015; Director: Ella Manzheeva; Stars: Evgeniy Sangadzhiev)
A woman struggles with life in a loveless marriage.
H.
(Country: US, Argentina; Year: 2014; Director: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia; Writer: Rania Attieh, Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Daniel Garcia; Stars: Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Dayan, Will Janowitz, Julian Gamble, Roger Robinson, Roseann Cane, Kristopher Kling, Don Rittner, Jacob Devik, Nicole Emmons, Paul Hickert, Terrance Kimball, Jay Potter, Nicholas Turner, Dannielle Rose)
Two women, each named Helen, find their lives spinning out of control after a meteor allegedly explodes over their city of Troy, New York.
K
(Country: China; Year: 2015; Director: Erdenibulag Darhad, Emyr ap Richard; Writer: Emyr ap Richard, based on The Castle by Franz Kafka; Stars: Bayin, Jula, Yirgui, Zandaraa, Altanochir, Urinshaa, Borgil, Baatar Sregüleng, Oyunsang, Jüdengowa, Jinba, Ayur, Erdenibulag Darhad, As, Habura)
A land surveyor finds himself trapped in administrative chaos in a remote frontier village in a modern-day adaptation of Kafka's The Castle.
Koza (Goat)
(Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Ivan Ostrochovsky; Stars: Peter Balaz, Zvonko Lakcevic, Jan Franek,Stanislava Bongilajova, Nikola Bongilajova, Tatiana Piussi)
A boxer comes out of retirement to help his girlfriend pay for an abortion.
The Money Complex (El complejo de dinero, Der Geldcomplex)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Juan Rodrigáñez; Writer: Eloy Enciso, Eduard Mont de Palol, Juan Rodrigáñez; Stars: Lola Rubio, Gianfranco Poddighe, Rafael Lamata, Eduard Mont de Palol, Jorge Dutor, Katrin Memmer, Pablo Herranz, Juan Rodrigáñez, Cecilia Molano, Julia de Castro, Miguel Rodrigáñez)
A man and his friends arrive at his family's villa to announce his wedding plans.
Androids Dream and Queen Of Earth
Portrait Of The Artist
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Antoine Barraud; Writer: Antoine Barraud; Stars: Bertrand Bonello, Jeanne Balibar, Géraldine Pailhas, Joana Preiss, Pascal Greggory, Valérie Dréville, Nicolas Maury, Barbet Schroeder, Sigrid Bouaziz, Nathalie Boutefeu, Marta Hoskins, Nâzim Boudjenah, Catherine Libert, Charlotte Rampling, Isild Le Besco)
A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the film of his next movie.
Queen Of Earth
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alex Ross Perry; Writer: Alex Ross Perry; Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, Keith Poulson)
Following her father's suicide and breaking up with her boyfriend, Catherine seeks refuge with her friend Virginia, but the young woman's shaky grasp on reality strains their relationship to breaking point.
The Valley (Al-Wadi)
(Country: Lebanon, Germany, France, Qatar; Year: 2014; Director: Ghassan Salhab; Writer: Ghassan Salhab; Stars: Carol Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Mounzer Baalbaki, Carlos Chahine, Ahmad Ghossein, Aouni Kawas, Yumna Marwan, Rodrigue Sleiman)
An unknown man survives a car accident in the middle of the Bekaa Valley with just a few scratches and the loss of his memory.
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