2001-2010

For forty years, Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place. One day, whilst preparing a burial service, he’s taken ill. Might he too be mortal ?Read More »

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Foreigners Out! Schlingensief’s Container documents an experiment which provoked national political hysteria.

In the summer of 2000, the German performance artist Christoph Schlingensief placed 12 genuine refugees in a container, inside a wire cage of the steps of the Vienna Opera House. He then set up a website and invited Viennese to log on and vote one out each day, Big Brother style, for deportation. 800,000 Austrians did so.Read More »

Terror hits new heights in this “brilliant, vicious little piece of work” (twitchfilm.net) set in a remote mountain wilderness. After a man traveling alone has a steamy encounter with a beautiful stranger, the pair join up and take a detour through the hills. But they are suddenly forced to abandon their cars when an unseen sniper puts them in his crossfire. Without understanding why they are being targeted, the strangers must survive their ruthless pursuers and their harsh surroundings. King of the Hill is a frighteningly realistic thriller that “builds steadily towards a crackerjack finale” (Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter).Read More »

23 year-old Zoë ought to be wild and free but she’s already got four kids. WASP takes place on a day when Zoë is broke and her kids are hungry. When Dave, an old flame, swings by with the offer of brief release she lies about being a mum and leaves her kids outside the pub. Nearby, late summer wasps are hunting for food around an old rubbish bin.

Wasp was Andrea Arnold’s third short, which won over 30 international festival awards and the Oscar for Best Short Film in 2005. Her first feature film, Red Road, premiered in competition at Cannes winning the Jury Prize in 2006.Read More »

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Adapted from a work by Paul Bowles and co-written by Andre Techine, this film — directed by Benoit Graffin) — is about the complicated relationship between a young up-and-comer and a silver-haired lothario. Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown caf by the beach.Read More »

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Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who’s loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who’s distracted by her mother’s debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura’s ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.Read More »

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Bored with her predictable middle class life, 20-something Camille decides to do something impulsive, like fall in love with the next man who comes her way. The lucky individual turns out to be Costa, a young delinquent who already has a young daughter, whom he neglects. Camille follows Costa to his home and the young man soon succumbs to her charms. Costa’s friend Cyril, a cop, also finds Camille irresistible, but he wonders if her naivety is genuine or a merely ploy to get what she wants…Read More »

Saku and Ässä: two guys spend careless life. One day Ässä meet woman named Anna and boys careless lifestyle is in danger.Read More »

Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.Read More »