2015

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Are you willing to succeed at all costs? Winner of the Golden Zenith Award at the Montreal World Film Festival, director Christian Diaz Pardo's debut film features the prolific Harold Torres (Sin Nombre) and the charismatic Carlos Bardem (Javier's older brother, Cell 211). Gonzalez (Torres), a young man living an anonymous, solitary life in the bustling Mexico City, is desperate to pay off his looming debts and make a name for himself.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Christian Diaz Pardo
Cinematography:
Juan Pablo Ramirez Ibanez
Cast:
Harold Torres, Carlos Bardem, Olga Segura
Editor:
Leon Felipe Gonzalez
Producer:
Laura Pino, Harold Torres
Language:
Spanish
Genre:
Thriller
Music:
Galo Duran

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Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) stars in director Anne Fontaine’s (Coco Before Chanel) charming reimagining of Gustave Flaubert’s classic Madame Bovary. Martin Joubert flees Paris for the idyllic Normandy countryside to take over the family bakery. Village life isn't quite the expected peaceful living when young British couple, Gemma (Arterton) and Charles Bovery, move in across the street. Martin, a devotee of Flaubert's work, notes the couple's curious, uncanny resemblance, both in name and behavior, to the characters of his much-beloved novel.

Season:
2015
Director:
Anne Fontaine
Cinematography:
Christophe Beaucarne
Cast:
Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider
Editor:
Annette Dutertre
Producer:
Matthieu Tarot, Philippe Carcassonne
Genre:
Romance
Music:
Bruno Coulais

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The (you have to) do it yourself generation. Four recession-era hopefuls spend their days waiting for something to give while resisting giving out anymore of themselves. Promised a life after higher education with a job and a nice apartment, a writer/blogger finds herself rooming with an amateur porn actress and no future prospects.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Greg W. Locke
Cinematography:
Greg W. Locke
Cast:
Kelly Sebastian, Julianna Pitt, Tyler Evan Rowe, Oliver Fetter, Julia Kelly
Editor:
Greg W. Locke, Kelly Sebastian
Producer:
Andrew Litton, Greg W. Locke, Kelly Sebastian
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Jon Keller

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"She took her hair from the drain and left me." Now what? "She said I was immature. I don't know what mature is." Poor Aron. With no job, no prospects, and now no girlfriend, he's completely at loose ends.

Season:
2015
Director:
Gabor Reisz
Cinematography:
Gabor Reisz
Cast:
Aron Ferenczik, Katalin Takacs, Zsolt Kovacs, Zalan Makranczi, Erika Kapronczai
Editor:
Zsofia Talas
Producer:
Julia Berkes, Miklos Bosnyak
Language:
Hungarian
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Loci Csorba, Gabor Reisz

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Putting a funny face on immigration woes.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Rucha Humnabadkar
Cinematography:
Tristan Nyby
Cast:
Ali Fazal, Melanie Kannokada, Omi Vaidya, Amitosh Nagpal, Rajit Kapur, Samrat Chakrabarti
Editor:
Abhijit Deshpande
Producer:
Vineet Sinha, CC Chainey, Rucha Humnabadkar, Rishi S. Bhilawadikar
Language:
English, Hindi
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Peter Scartabello

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"For it to be a crime, there has to be a personal motive." Two Parisian high school students have murdered a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter. They had no motive, other than to prove they could do it. Pierre wrestles with his conscience and is haunted by the crime, while Damien, a golden boy with a psychopathic bent, constructs his justifications and gleefully flirts with discovery. Zoe, a young woman who saw them leave the scene of the crime, is strangely attracted to the erotic power of the event and drawn into their web of danger and deceit.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Raphael Neal
Cinematography:
Nicolaos Zafiriou
Cast:
Martin Loizillon, Pierre Moure, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Philippe Laudenbach, Pascal Cervo, Julie Judd, Marie Bunel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Francoise Lebrun, Judith Henry
Editor:
Anna Brunstein
Producer:
Jean-Philippe Rouxel, Raphael Neal
Language:
French
Genre:
Thriller
Music:
Camille

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“Made in China” is not just a label. To survive in a receding business, Lin Dalin, director of a toy factory in Shenzen, desperately accepts an order from an American conglomerate with almost no profit margin. Cutting corners on worker safety, far behind with employees' wages, and exposed by an undercover journalist, Lin's actions bring the enterprise closer and closer to the brink of ruin.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Wei Zhang
Cinematography:
Lutz Reitemeier
Cast:
Anlian Yao, Yan Tang, Ju Zhao, Jingyi Huang, Xueqin Gong, Mengjie Yun
Editor:
Karl Riedl, Yixiang Wu
Producer:
Min Zhang
Language:
Mandarin
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Howie Bernstein

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Sex, love, and drama in the heady world of Elsewhere, NY. A single encounter that was thought of as best left behind takes an unexpected turn in the present in this fresh, authentic, and intimate story about a love triangle in New York. On her first night in the city, Jen meets Todd; she spends the night with him, only to discover he has already departed the morning after. Two years on, Todd reappears and disrupts the life Jen has created with her new boyfriend, Ethan.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Jeffrey P. Nesker
Cinematography:
Jeffrey P. Nesker
Cast:
Fiona Graham, Andrew Ruth, Andrew Leland Rogers, Gillian Leigh Visco
Editor:
Jeffrey P. Nesker
Producer:
Jeffrey P. Nesker, Tom Wilton
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Jason Thomson, Simon Poole

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One night can change it all. Set in Ecuador during a time of unrest, three young boys are at a crossroads as they face adulthood. Pablo, Andres, and Juan are always there for each other even when their own families disappoint them. Along comes Carolina, a free and daring girl who puts Juan and Pablo against each other testing the depth of their friendship. As they struggle to repair the holes in their bond, their youthful sense for adventure takes over. A night of joyriding turns turns into one of tragedy forcing Pablo to flee the country.

Season:
2015
Director:
Anahi Hoeneisen, Daniel Andrade
Cinematography:
Daniel Andrade
Cast:
Michael Noher, Nicolas Andrade, Stefano Bajak, Francisco Perez, Daniela Roepke, Jessica Barahona, Andres Alvarez, Fernanda Ponce
Editor:
Javier Andrade, Andres Tambornino
Producer:
Arturo Yepez, Jose Salvia, Dirk Manthey
Executive Producer:
Miguel Salazar, Anahi Hoeneisen, Pepe Salvia, Laura Tablon, Osvaldo Baez
Language:
Spanish
Genre:
Drama

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His lens captured the world of motion - but couldn’t help him control his life. In the second half of the 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge, the father of motion pictures, embarks on an obsessive project to record on film "the motion of life" in all of its abundance. His epic quest is eclipsed only by the depth of his jealousy over his beautiful, young wife Flora. As the project progresses, his paranoia over her fidelity consumes him, until questions arise about his son's paternity, causing him to erupt.

Season:
2015
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Kyle Rideout
Cinematography:
Tony Mirza
Cast:
Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Jodi Balfour, Torrance Coombs, Jonathon Young, William C. Vaughan, Charlie Carrick, Kett Turton
Editor:
Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Producer:
Josh Epstein
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Andrew Penner, Anna Atkinson
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