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.
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Come To Daddy
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.
Deerskin
The opening of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2019
Georges, 44 years old, and his jacket, 100% deerskin, have a plan.
All This Victory
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.
An Irrepressible Woman
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.
Get In
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.
Selfie
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!
Watch List
A DEEPLY MOVING THRILLER SET AGAINST THE DRUG WARS AND EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES
In the summer of 2016 in Manila, newly elected Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte launches an anti-drug campaign called Operation Tokhang. Local officials and law enforcement go door-to- door and invite Maria and Arturo, suspected drug users, to surrender and add their names to the “drug watch list.”
Soon after, Arturo is found dead in the streets under mysterious circumstances. Maria is left to fend for their three children in a virtual police state. As she delves into Manila’s dark underworld of cops, criminals and drugs to find answers, she realizes the truth is never black and white, and that she must confront her own darkness to keep her family safe.
Wipe Out
THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN FROM THE PROJECTS READY TO DO ANYTHING TO BECOME A PRO SURFER
Samir lives in the projects of a second zone city in France. he is bored, rebellious, and on the verge to become a small-time criminal. Until his dad brutally dies and he has to become a plumber to be the breadwinner
for his family. But accompanying his younger sister to the public library, he stumbles upon a surfing magazine and has a revelation: he too shall ride the waves professionally one day. The hiccup ? he doesn’t even know how to swim. Enters, an ex-bodybuilding champion and local loser who will takes him under his wing and decides to help. Samir then leaves for the French surfing beaches, decided to make his dreams come true.
Knives And Skin
A tender, feminist teen noir that redefines the highschool movie.
In rural Illinois, a young girl’s disappearance traumatizes the small town residents, as secrets are revealed, destroying some relationships and strengthening others. Three girls, Charlotte, Laurel and Joanna, form a bond in the aftermath of the tragedy. Sophomore year in the racially diverse com- munity turns strange when a succession of traumas accelerates each charac- ter’s coming-of-age and mysteries emerge from every complication.
Their girlhood is a place of transcendence but also transgression in a movie that embraces its own style, reminiscent of such beloved teen classics like American Graffiti, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, Mean Girls and Brick that form part of its rich cultural DNA.
Knives And Skin is Jennifer’s second feature. Her first feature, Signature Move, world-premiered at SXSW and played in over 140 festivals around the world receiving the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding American Narrative Feature at L.A. Outfest in 2017 as well as best director at FilmOut San Diego. Reeder’s short work in the past ten years has been seen at a number of the major festivals around the world, including Berlin, Sundance, Rotterdam, London, SXSW, the Venice Biennale.