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‘COKE and Bull’
Director: Cao Baoping
A motorcycle taxi driver was murdered in a small town in southeastern China and his motorcycle had been stolen.
Lao’er Song, an honest man who runs a garage in the town, has come under suspicion because he once argued with the victim. Since the police can’t find any new clue for the case and Lao’er wants to prove himself innocent, he starts to chase the truth himself ...
‘Flowers of Evil’
Director: Antti Jokinen
In summer 2015 in the suburb of eastern Helsinki, mostly inhabited by immigrants, a riot breaks out after a Finnish father is hospitalized as a result of police brutality. The film starts with the events leading to the riots and is seen from the point of view of two youngsters: Juno, 26, and Sipe, 14, and their family.
‘Forest, 4am’
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
It’s 4am in a forest. Forst lives in the woods, in a shelter he built himself, together with a three-legged dog. Thirteen-year-old Jadzia shows up outside Forst’s shelter. The man doesn’t want any company but she is stubborn and has no intention to leave. Days go by and Jadzia learns to live in the forest with Forst. She gets along with him surprisingly well and in turn notices some changes in him ...
‘Hanna’s Sleeping Dogs’
Director: Andreas Gruber
The heroine is a Jewish girl named Johanna who grows up in Wels in the late 1960s disguised as a good Catholic girl by her parents. In the small town, no one wants to wake the “schlafenden hunde” (sleeping dogs) of the past. But the young girl no longer wants to hide her identity.
‘Haze’
Director: Ralston Jover
It showcases four street children called “batang hamog” who got hooked in two consecutive and unexpected events in their daily routine of crime and survival in the busy streets. One of them, Jinky, the only girl in the group, suddenly disappears in the hands of a kidnapper, a taxi driver they victimize with haphazard thievery.
‘The Projects’
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Hinako moved to a three-room apartment in the housing project called danchi with her husband Seiji six months ago. They had managed a third-generation herbal medicine store at a street corner until the unexpected death of their beloved son in an accident. They sold the combined house and store and moved to the housing project.
‘Mr Church’
Director: Bruce Beresford
In 1965, 10-year-old Charlotte “Charlie” Brody lives with her single mother Marie Brody, 40, in a small beat-up apartment. Henry Church, 40, unexpectedly knocks on their door one morning. He was hired by her deceased lover to take care of Charlie and Marie for six months while Marie battles breast cancer. However, six months turned into six years and Mr Church continues to take care of Charlie and Marie ...
‘Hear the Silence’
Director: Ed Ehrenberg
This is the story of the men and women at the time of the German attack on Russia in 1941.
‘De Lan’
Director: Liu Jie
With father’s missing, Wong succeeds his father as a loan officer. On his first trip to the village, a place under a snow mountain, a Tibetan girl, De Lan, fascinates him. The initially strange relationship between the two begins to get closer ...
‘In Embryo’
Director: Ulrich Thomsen
It is a love story between two people driven by their desperate desire for companionship and intimacy. But the more Sean tries to hold on to Lilly and the illusion of starting over, the more he introduces chaos into their crumbling lives.
‘Salt and Fire’
Director: Werner Herzog
It tells the story of a female scientist who travels together with some colleagues to Uyuni in Bolivia to do research.
‘Soul on a String’
Director: Zhang Yang
This film tells the experience of a tramp who has injured to the livings and rises again to finish a mission that he should take the Dzi bead to the holy land in the mysterious Tibetan area.
‘See You in Texas’
Director: Vito Palmieri
Silvia is passionate about reining, an equestrian discipline for which she trains very hard. When the opportunity comes to go perfect her skills in Texas, she doesn’t know what to do: leave and drop everything behind or stay?
‘Sound and Fury’
Director: Houman Seyedi
Khosro, a pop singer, lives a hectic life with his wife Tina and their son Moez. His life is further complicated when he begins an affair with a female fan.
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