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The Elite and Home Care
The Ardennes (D'Ardennes)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2015; Director: Robin Pront; Writer: Jeroen Perceval, Robin Pront; Stars: Jan Bijvoet, Veerle Baetens, Eric Godon)
When a troubled man emerges from prison, the brother he kept quiet to protect tries to help him, but both have changed a lot.
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Bang Gang (une histoire d'amour moderne))
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Eva Husson; Writer: Eva Husson; Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Daisy Broom, Marilyn Lima, Fred Hotier, Lorenzo Lefèbvre)
A group of 16-year-olds engage in a summer of sex.
Bridgend
(Country: US, UK, Denmark; Year: 2015; Director: Jeppe Rønde; Writer: Peter Asmussen, Peter Asmussen, Torben Bech, Torben Bech, Jeppe Rønde, Jeppe Rønde; Stars: Scott Arthur, Adam Byard, Elinor Crawley, Natasha Denby, Josh Green, Ceri Mears, Hannah Murray, Josh Oconnor, Patricia Potter, Adrian Rawlins, Aled Llyr Thomas, Steven Waddington)
As a policeman investigates a spate of suicides, his daughter is drawn into the youth culture from which they have emerged.
The Daughter
(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Simon Stone; Writer: Simon Stone; Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Anna Torv, Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider, Sara West, Nicholas Hope, Kate Box, Ewen Leslie, Odessa Young, Robert Menzies, Steve Rodgers, Richard Sutherland, Wilson Moore, Eden Falk)
A man discovers a family secret.
The Elite (Eliten)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2015; Director: Thomas Daneskov; Writer: Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Thomas Daneskov; Stars: Nikolaj Bæk, Ali Sivandi, Thomas Persson)
A privileged young man invites his friends to his parents' lakeside mansion where the party doesn't stop, but what is the price of excess?
Bridgend and Weepah Way For Now
Evolution
(Country: Belgium, Spain, France; Year: 2015; Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic; Writer: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Alanté Kavaïté; Stars: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Nissim Renard)
On a remote island inhabited solely by women and young boys, Nicolas and the other boys are subjected to mysterious and sinister medical treatments.
From Afar (Desde allá)
(Country: Venezuela; Year: 2015; Director: Lorenzo Vigas; Writer: Guillermo Arriaga, Lorenzo Vigas, Lorenzo Vigas, Lorenzo Vigas; Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo, Jorge Luis Bosque, Greymer Acosta, Auffer Camacho, Ivan Peña, Joretsis Ibarra, Yeimar Peralta, Scarlett Jaimes, Ernesto Campos, Marcos Moreno, Armando Volcanes, Jesús Las Rosas)
Armando, aged 50, looks for young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house with him. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets Elder, aged 17, leader of a small band of thugs...
Goodnight Mommy (Ich Seh, Ich Seh)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz; Writer: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz; Stars: Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz)
Twin boys suspect that their mum, who has just undergone reconstructive facial surgery, is an imposter and set out to discover the truth.
The Grief Of Others
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Patrick Wang; Stars: Rachel Dratch, Mike Faist, Sonya Harum)
A pregnant daughter from a previous marriage arrives in her father's already strained new family, looking for help.
Home Care (Domácí péce)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Slávek Horák; Writer: Slávek Horák; Stars: Zuzana Krónerová, Alena Mihulová, Bolek Polívka, Tatiana Vilhelmová)
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta is forced to react.
Goodnight Mommy and Land And Shade
James White
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Josh Mond; Writer: Josh Mond; Stars: Chris Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Makenzie Leigh, David Call)
A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behaviour in the face of momentous family challenges.
Labyrinth Of Lies (Im Labyrinth Des Schweigens)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Giulio Ricciarelli; Writer: Elisabeth Bartel, Giulio Ricciarelli, Amelie Syberberg; Stars: Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederike Becht)
An idealistic attorney in post-war Germany faces public hostility as he tries to prosecute former members of the SS.
Land And Shade (La Tierra Y La Sombra)
(Country: Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: César Augusto Acevedo; Writer: César Augusto Acevedo; Stars: José Felipe Cárdenas, Haimer Leal, Edison Raigosa, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto)
A man returns home after a 17 year absence because his only son is gravely sick.
Mustang
(Country: Turkey, France, Qatar, Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Deniz Gamze Erguven; Writer: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour; Stars: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Elit Iscan, Tugba Sunguroglu, Ilayda Akdogan, Nihal G. Koldas, Ayberk Pekcan, Bahar Kerimoglu, Burak Yigit, Erol Afsin, Suzanne Marrot, Serife Kara, Aynur Komecoglu, Serpil Reis, Rukiye Sariahmet)
Coming of age story about five Turkish girls.
Rattle The Cage (Zinzana)
(Country: United Arab Emirates, Jordan; Year: 2015; Director: Majid Al Ansari; Writer: Majid Alansari, Nidal Morra, Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye, Rami Yasin; Stars: Ali Suliman, Ahd, Saleh Bakri, Eyad Hourani, Ali Al-Jabri, Mansoor Alfeeli, Yasa, Omar Abdulhamid, Abdalla Bu Abed)
A former alcoholic wakes up in a jail cell with no ID and finds himself at the mercy of a homicidal killer masquerading as a sheriff.
Mustang and These Daughters Of Mine
Suburra
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2015; Director: Stefano Sollima; Writer: Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Carlo Bonini ; Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola)
A careless politician struggles to stay out of the grip of a ruthless crime lord who knows a little too much about him for comfort.
These Daughters Of Mine (Moje Córki Krowy)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Kinga Debska; Writer: Kinga Debska; Stars: Agata Kulesza, Gabriela Muskala, Marian Dziedziel)
Two very different sisters are forced to cooperate when their father becomes ill.
Traders
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2015; Director: Rachael Moriarty, Peter Murphy; Stars: Killian Scott, John Bradley, Nika McGuigan)
People who want to die because of their bleak financial situations arrange to meet and fight to the death, with the winner taking the loser's life savings.
Weepah Way For Now
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Stephen Ringer; Writer: Stephen Ringer; Stars: Aly Michalka, AJ Michalka, Mimi Rogers, Saoirse Ronan)
Two sisters face life's ups and downs as they prepare for their latest music tour.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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