Locarno Film Festival 2013

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Coast Of Death Coast Of Death
Coast Of Death and The Dirties
The Amazing Cat Fish (Los Insólitos peces gato) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Claudia Sainte-Luce; Writer: Claudia Sainte-Luce; Stars: Lisa Owen, Ximena Ayala, Sonia Franco, Wendy Guillén, Andrea Baeza, Alejandro Ramírez-Muñoz)
Two women form a bond in hospital.
Chameleon (Country: Azerbaijan, France, Russia ; Year: 2013; Director: Elvin Adigozel, Ru Hasanov ; Writer: Elvin Adigozel, Ru Hasanov ; Stars: Farid Bahramov, Emin Seyfulla, Elvin Adigozel), Trailer
After his parents die, a young man sells their house before emigrating.
Coast Of Death (Costa da Morte) (Country: Spain; Year: 2013; Director: Lois Patiño)
Documentary about an area of Galicia considered to be the end of the world by the Romans.
The Dirties (Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Matthew Johnson; Writer: Josh Boles, Matthew Johnson, Matthew Miller, Evan Morgan; Stars: Matthew Johnson, Owen Williams, Krista Madison, Brandon Wickens, Jay McCarrol, Josh Boles, Shailene Garnett, Alen Delain, Paul Daniel Ayotte)
Two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school. One of them isn't joking.
Distant (Yuan fang) (Country: China; Year: 2013; Director: Zhengfan Yang; Writer: Zhengfan Yang)
Single-take contemplation of the difference between time and space.
Forty Years From Yesterday (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck; Writer: Robert Machoian, Robert Machoian, Robert Machoian; Stars: Matt Valdez, Bruce Graham, Bruce Graham, Chelsea Word, Suzette Graham, Rebekah Mott, Robert Eddington, Elizabeth Overton, Wyatt Eddington)
The grief of a family after a man loses his wife of 40 years.
Harmony (l'Harmonie) (Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Blaise Harrison; Writer: Blaise Harrison)
Documentary about a marching band in a small French town.
Mouton (Sheep) (Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Gilles Deroo, Marianne Pistone; Writer: Gilles Deroo, Marianne Pistone; Stars: David Merabet, Michael Mormentyn, Cindy Dumont, Benjamin Cordier, Emmanuel Legrand)
Story of the friends of a man who was murdered.
Roxanne (Country: Romania; Year: 2013; Director: Valentin Hotea; Writer: Valentin Hotea, Ileana Muntean; Stars: Diana Dumbrava, Serban Pavlu)
Twenty years after the Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but somewhat immature man in his late thirties, finds out from his secret police file that he might be the father of a son he never knew about. He begins his own investigation.
Le Sens De l'Humour (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Marilyne Canto; Writer: Maud Ameline, Marilyne Canto; Stars: Marilyne Canto, Antoine Chappey, Samson Dajczman)
A widowed single mum struggles to forge a new romance.
The Special Need (Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Carlo Zoratti; Writer: Cosimo Bizzarri, Carlo Zoratti)
Friends of an autistic man seeking a soul mate take him on a road trip.
The Stone (Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Se-rae Cho; Stars: Hyunseung (Dong-in) Cho, Roi-ha Kim, Won-sang Park )
A gang boss hires a young man to tutor him in the game of Go.
The Ugly One (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Eric Baudelaire; Writer: Masao Adachi, Eric Baudelaire, Laure Vermeersch; Stars: Juliette Navis, Saleh Mohamed Daoud, Hassan Mrad, Rodney El Haddad, Fadi Abi Samra, Manal Khader, Rabih Mroue, Masao Adachi)
On a beach in Beirut, Lili and Michel meet… or maybe they are coming together again. An unlikely couple caught between two different eras, between a future and a past that seem possibly interchangeable, they are trying to establish what is an ambiguous memory: that of a terrorist act, an explosion and the loss of a child, Elena.
The Unity Of All Things (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Alexander Carver, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Alexander Carver, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Celia Au, Andrea Chen, Jennifer Kim, Haruka Hashimoto, Teresa Hui)
Science fiction satire.
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