A TENSE THRILLER IN THE VEIN OF PRISONERS
After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father- and- son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.
Dive into the darkness with 5 chapters summoning ghouls, aliens, djiinns, undead and killing puppets.
When Abby returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls after her mother dies, she be- comes obsessed with a fragmented memory from her childhood — a kidnapping she believes she was witness to. She is reunited with her estranged younger sister, Laure, and they attempt to settle their mother’s estate involving the sale of the family motel, but Abby’s compulsive desire to reconcile her past grows increasingly out of control.
A F*CKED UP FUNNY EXPLORATION DEFYING GENRE AND EXPECTATION AT EVERY HAIRPIN TURN.
When Norval receives an unexpected letter from his estranged father requesting a visit, he catches a bus up to his dad’s secluded waterfront home. Before long, though, he notices something is off and instead of a family reunion, he finds himself in waking nightmare. After years behind the scenes producing genre fare like The ABCs Of Death and The Greasy Strangler, Kiwi filmmaker Ant Timpson makes his directorial debut with a twisty genre-bender that’s as unclassifiable as it is entertaining.
The opening of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2019
Georges, 44 years old, and his jacket, 100% deerskin, have a plan.
FOUR STRANGERS STUCK IN A ROOM. NO WAY OUT. A NAIL-BITER OVER THE ISRAEL-LEBANON CONFLICT.
During the 2006 Israeli Attack on Lebanon, Marwan, 30 years old, gets stuck in a house with four villagers. Above them, on the first floor, a group of Israeli soldiers.
THE PORTRAIT OF A FIERCE AND ROMANTIC WOMAN DURING WWII
1940. Jeanne « Janot » Reichenbach leaves her husband and child to save the man she always loved : Leon Blum, the famous French political figure. She will travel across Europe and sacrifice her freedom to marry him in the Buchenwald camp.
Willy and Tony, two losers, have a genius idea: steal a cop dog who can smell and find drugs. But things go quickly awry when they have to partner with a crazy dirty cop and when they steal a huge load of cannabis from the biggest dealer around.
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS
Paul Diallo, a history teacher, lives a quiet life with his wife and kid. During summertime, he lends their house to their nanny and her husband. When they return, the locks have been changed and the new occupants maintain they are now in their home. With no one around to help, Paul gets closer to Mickey, a shady character with a penchant for all things extreme and illegal. Soon the once anti-violent teacher reaches the point of no return.
FIVE INTERCONNECTED STORIES EXPLORE THE EXTREMITIES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Algorithms, Technophobics, Dating App addicts, Vloggers, cloud security breach… each one of us can relate to the wired madness happening on screen. In five subversive and hilarious Black Mirror-like tales, Selfie takes on our digital shortcomings and shows how the new 2.0 era is driving all of us nuts!
