Lucia(2013)

Lucia(2013)

Director: Pawan Kumar
Country: India
Runtime: 135 min






From the director of smash hit Lifeu Ishtene, Pawan Kumar, comes Lucia, heralding a new direction for Kannada cinema, being the industry's first crowd funded film. An usher at a decrepit cinema suffers from insomnia. His life changes when he starts getting weird and wonderful dreams but with a caveat. Set in the teeming young metropolis that is Bangalore, the film is a turbulent ride where the lines between dreams and reality are blurred to delirious effect.

The Patience Stone (2012)

The Patience Stone (2012)

Director: Atiq Rahimi
Country: Afghanistan
Runtime: 102 min

Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. Not only is he abandoned by his companions of the Jihad, but also by his brothers. One day, the woman decides to tell the truth to him about her feelings about their relationship to her silent husband. She talks about her childhood, her suffering, her frustrations, her loneliness, her dreams, her desires... She says things she could never have done before, even though they have been married for the past 10 years. Therefore, this paralyzed man unconsciously becomes syngue sabour, a magic stone which, according to Persian mythology, when placed in front of a person shields her from unhappiness, suffering, pains and miseries. In this wait for her husband to come back to life, the woman struggles to survive and live. She finds refuge in her aunt's place, who is...

8-Ball (2013)

8-Ball (2013)

Director: Aku Louhimies
Country: Finland 
Runtime: 107 min


Pike has just been released from the penitentiary, and is now a mother of a beautiful baby girl. Leaving behind her torn youth, she now marches towards the great unknown - to her future. Only one thing is certain: she can afford no more mistakes.

Pike's ex-lover, Lalli, shows up ruining her plans for a clean start. The passion that once bound the two lovers together is still there.

Lalli is not the only man interested in Pike's destiny; crime inspector Elias has decided to find out how Pike is doing after her release. Or maybe he's in love? Elias is partnered up with another police officer, Olli, who is recuperating from a severe occupational accident, and trying to get on his feet after a breakup with the mother of his child.

While Pike is looking to forget her past, Olli is scrambling to find his way back to the way things were. But in life there's no turning back - what lies ahead, must be faced.

Gloria(2013)

Gloria(2013)

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Country: Chile
Runtime: 110 min










A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.

Oh Boy (2012)

 Oh Boy (2012)

Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Country: Germany
Runtime: 83 min



The tragicomedy “Oh Boy!” is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place. Black and white, tragic and funny, Oh Boy! is a winning debut from director Jan Ole Gerster and was released on November 1, 2012 in German cinemas. It stars Tom Schilling in the lead whose character Niko’s thought are for example as follows: “Do you know that feeling, that people around you seem to you to be strange? And the longer you think about it the clearer it becomes that not the people, but you yourself are the problem?”

Fair Sex (2012)

Fair Sex (2012)

Director: Martin Laroche
Country: Canada
Runtime: 89 min




Sophie underwent genital mutilation in Africa at the age of four and then immigrated to Quebec. Twenty  years later, having graduated with a degree in film, she gets a summer job in a travelling amusement park. When her boss finds out about her film background, he asks her to make a short video about his company.

Sophie gets caught up in the game with her camera, filming everything – even things that have nothing to do with her work. She films her friends, and also herself, and gradually she sees that she is creating something else -- that she is making a film about her own life and about the secret that she has kept since her childhood.

La Sirga(2012)

La Sirga(2012)

Director: William Vega
Country: Colombia
Runtime: 88 min





Alicia is helpless. Fleeing the armed violence that has claimed the lives of those dearest to her, she ends up in La Sirga, at the guesthouse of Oscar, the only family she has left. Here, on the shores of a great lake in the Andes, she tries to rebuild her life. But this place, where she feels safe, is not spared by the fighting. The return of Freddy, the son that Oscar has been awaiting for years, his enigmatic intentions and his possible link with the warring factions bring La Sirga what Alicia fears the most.

The Secret Society of Fine Arts (2012)

The Secret Society of Fine Arts (2012)

Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Country: Denmark
Duration : 1h 15mn




A group of underground artists blow up Berlin's zoological museum and declare it "a work of art". Their goal is to set beauty free. The unrelenting passion fascinates actress Eva Kovacs, who joins the group. But how do you draw the line between art and terror?

The Secret Society of Fine Arts is unparalleled in Danish cinema. Anders Rønnow Klarlund eliminates the medium's most vital element - moving images - and tells his story through 3D processed still photos. The intention is to make us sharpen our senses.

It's inspired by Chris Marker's French still photo film La jetée, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Country: UK
Runtime: 136 min









The sequel to The Pervert's Guide to Cinema sees the reunion of brilliant philosopher Slavoj Zizek with filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, now using their inventive interpretation of moving pictures to examine ideology - the collective fantasies that shape our beliefs and practices.

Stories We Tell (2012)

Stories We Tell (2012)

Director: Sarah Polley
Country: Canada
Runtime: 108 min 

In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the ...