XENIA by Panos Koutras
Greece / France / Belgium 100% Synthetic and Wrong Men / MPM Film / Entre Chien et Loup World Sales by Pyramide Films Synopsis After the death of their mother, Dany, 16, leaves Crete to join his older brother, Odysseas, who lives in Athens. Born from an Albanian mother and a Greek father they never […]
Dzma-Brother
By Teona Mghvdeladze Grenade and Thierry Grenade France / Georgia MPM Film / Cinetech / Millimeter Film Synopsis Tbilissi, early 1990’s. A few families living in the old part of town must each in their own way confront the changes taking place in their city. Maia witnesses her eldest son, Giorgi, slipping away from her while […]
NN by Héctor Galvez Campos
Peru / Colombia / Germany / France Piedra Alada Producciones / Séptima Films / Autentika Films / MPM Film Synopsis In the backyard of an old military base a team of forensic anthropologists are exhuming the rests of eight people disappeared twenty years ago. During the excavation the group is surprised by a new finding: a […]
BOX by Florin Serban
Romania / France / Germany Fantascope / MPM Film / Augenschein Filmproduktion Synopsis Box is a story of two people who meet at a crossroad. Two different destinies, two different lives, face to face in a game of sweat, blood and tears. Anghel (19) is a young boxer who dreams to conquer the world; Cristina […]
EJERCICIOS DE MEMORIA by Paz Encina
Argentina / Paraguay / Germany / France Constanza Sanz Palacios Films / El Silencio Cine / Autentika Films / MPM Film Synopsis Remembering is recognizing that something is no longer ours. This documentary is the story of people who need to remember a specific ‘last moment’, to remember everything. Agustín Goiburú was the most important […]
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
By Jasmila Zbanic Bosnia / Qatar / Germany Deblokada / Doha Film Institute / The Post Republic Synopsis Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to visit Bosnia during her summer holidays. Her guidebook leads her to Visegrad, a gorgeous small town on the border of Serbia. After a night of insomnia in a « romantic » hotel, she […]
ZAMA by Lucrecia Martel
Argentina / Brazil / France / Spain Synopsis Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him transfer to a better location. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him […]
TARR Béla, I used to be a filmmaker
By Jean-Marc Lamoure France MPM Film Synopsis Between December 2008 and June 2010, Béla Tarr and his wife and co-director Agnes Hranitzky reunited with their trusted collaborators to shoot their final movie, The Turin Horse. Three men and a horse surrounded by a desolate landscape; a rigorous film, with sparse dialogues, where nature prevails over […]
Workers
By José Luis Valle Mexico / Germany Imcine-Foprocine / Zensky Cine / CUEC / José Luis Valle / Autentika Films Synopsis After a whole life of work at Tijuana, Rafael and Lidia are victims of injustice against their rights and dignity: Rafael learns that due to a paperwork mistake, he will not be entitled to his […]