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Sexual Chronicles Of A French Family and Life Without Principle
7 Days In Havana (7 dias en La Habana)
(Country: France, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabío, Laurent Cantet; Writer: Laurent Cantet, Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Julio Medem, Santiago Mitre, Gaspar Noé, Leonardo Padura, Elia Suleiman, Pablo Trapero; Stars: Daniel Brühl, Vladimir Cruz, Josh Hutcheson, Mirta Ibarra, Emir Kusturica, Jorge Perugorria, Elia Suleiman)
Seven short films show unseen sides to Havana through the eyes of locals and visitors.
Bestiaire
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2012; Director: Denis Côté; Writer: Denis Côté)
Documentary meditation on man's relationship with animals.
Demain?
(Country: France, Portugal; Year: 2011; Director: Christine Laurent; Writer: Christine Laurent, Georges Peltier; Stars: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Marc Ruchmann, Teresa Madruga, Adriano Luz, Beatriz Batarda, Diogo Dória, Vladimir Léon, Luís Miguel Cintra, Sofia Marques, Vladimir Consigny, Lolita Chammah, João Grosso, Bruno Nogueira, Carloto Cotta, Ricardo Aibéo)
The short, passionate life of Uruguyan poet Delmira Agustini is stylishly evoked in this film by Christine Laurent, longtime script collaborator of Jacques Rivette.
Dragon (Wu xia)
(Country: China; Year: 2011; Director: Peter Chan; Writer: Joyce Chan, Oi Wah Lam; Stars: Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Tang, Yu Wang, Kara Hui, Wu Jiang, Kang Yu, Kenji Tanigaki, Jia-Min Li, Wei Zheng, Xiaoran Li, Zun-Kui Chen, Qing-Hua Cun, Shou-Wei Cun, Shou-Ze Cun)
A qi expert detective is suspicious when a seemingly ordinary paper maker fights off notorious bandits.
God Bless America
(Country: USA; Year: 2011; Director: Bobcat Goldthwait; Writer: Bobcat Goldthwait; Stars: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Melinda Page Hamilton, Rich McDonald, Guerrin Gardner, Kellie Ramdhanie, Andrea Harper, David Mendenhall, Juliana Acosta, Steve Agee, Iris Almario, Aris Alvarado, Carson Aune, Ellen Baker)
The anti-Ikiru. Terminal cancer patient tries to rid the world of as many morons as possible before he goes.
The Rest Of The World and Home For The Weekend
Him, Here After (Ini Avan)
(Country: Sri Lanka; Year: 2012; Director: Asoka Handagama)
Tamil rebel soldier is shunned after returning home.
Home For The Weekend (Was bleibt)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Hans-Christian Schmid; Writer: Bernd Lange; Stars: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stötzner)
A family reunion becomes difficult as secrets are revealed and frustrations expressed.
Isn't Anyone Alive? (Ikiteru mono inai no ka)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2011; Director: Gakuryu Ishii; Writer: Shirô Maeda, Shirô Maeda; Stars: Eri Aoki, Kôta Fudauchi, Keisuke Hasebe, Tatsuya Hasome, Asato Iida, Ami Ikenaga, Seiko Iwaidô, Hiroaki Morooka, Jun Murakami, Tateto Serizawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Hakka Shiraishi, Shôta Sometani, Chizuko Sugiura, Yumika Tajima)
Multiple unexplained deaths inspire absurd comedy.
Life Without Principle (Dyut meng gam)
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2011; Director: Johnnie To; Writer: Ka-kit Cheung, Nai-Hoi Yau, Tin-Shing Yip; Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Ken Lo, Richie Ren, Stephanie Che, Denise Ho, Myolie Wu, Patricia Tang, Hoi-Pang Lo, Hang Shuen So)
To narrates the intertwining fates of three people desperate to get their hands on money fast, all set around a robbery haul.
Rent-A-Cat (Rentaneko)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Naoko Ogigami; Writer: Naoko Ogigami; Stars: Mikako Ichikawa, Reiko Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi, Maho Yamada, Kei Tanaka)
A young woman rents out cats to lonely people.
God Bless America and ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
The Rest Of The World (Le Reste Du Monde)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Damien Odoul; Writer: Tom Frank, Damien Odoul; Stars: Aurélie Mestres, Marie-Eve Nadeau, Judith Morisseau, Emmanuelle Béart, Mathieu Amalric, Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, Andrée Darmon, Damien Odoul, Marianne Costa, Catherine Klein, Jamie Young, Michel Archimbaud)
A grieving woman finds no comfort in turning to her family, whose members all have their own dark secrets.
Sexual Chronicles Of A French Family (Chroniques sexuelles d'une famille d'aujourd'hui)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr; Writer: Lucy Allwood, Pascal Arnold; Stars: Mathias Melloul, Valérie Maës, Stephan Hersoen, Leïla Denio, Nathan Duval, Yan Brian, Adeline Rebeillard, Grégory Annoni, Laetitia Favart, Benjamin Houot, Maïlys Amrous, Pierre Perrier, Faustine Dubois, Stéphane Clerc, Philippe Duquesne)
Three generations of a French family and their sex lives.
¡Vivan las Antipodas!
(Country: Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile; Year: 2011; Director: Victor Kossakovsky)
A documentary looking at four pairs of countries exactly opposite one another: Argentina and China; Spain and New Zealand; Hawaii and Botswana; and Russia and Chile.
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