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Save Your Legs! and Material
Aiyyaa
(Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Sachin Kundalkar; Writer: Sachin Kundalkar; Stars: Rani Rani Mukherjee, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Nirmiti Sawant)
An eccentric young woman catches the scent of a handsom man and becomes determined to romance him.
Celeste And Jesse Forever
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Lee Toland Krieger; Writer: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack; Stars: Emma Roberts, Rashida Jones, Elijah Wood, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen, Andy Samberg, Chris D'Elia, Chris Messina, Sarah Wright, Rafi Gavron, Janel Parrish, Joel Michaely, Will McCormack, Matthew Del Negro, Jason Antoon)
Two best friends struggle to come to terms with sharing the perfect divorce.
Death Of A Man In The Balkans
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2012; Director: Miroslav Momčilović; Writer: Miroslav Momčilović; Stars: Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Radoslav Milenković, Bojan Žirović)
A composer commits suicide, first setting up a camera to capture the incompetence of the officials who investigate his death.
Everybody In Our Family (Toata lumea din familia noastra)
(Country: Romania / Netherlands; Year: 2012; Director: Radu Jude; Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Mihaela Sîrbu)
A divorcee who insists on taking his sick daughter on holiday finds the situation spinning rapidly out of control.
Le Grand Soir
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern; Writer: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern; Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine)
A furniture salesman finds escape from his miserable life when his brother re-introduces him to punk.
Sightseers and Celeste And Jesse Forever
Grassroots
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal; Writer: Stephen Gyllenhaal, Justin Rhodes, based on the book by Phil Campbell ; Stars: Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Lauren Ambrose, Cobie Smulders, Tom Arnold, Todd Stashwick, Emily Bergl, DC Pierson, Christopher McDonald, Cedric the Entertainer)
A jaded journalist helps his friend stand for the local city council.
Happy New Year, Grandma!
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Telmo Esnal; Writer: Telmo Esnal, Asier Altuna; Stars: Montserrat Carulla, Kontxu Odriozola, Nagore Aranburu)
An elderly woman devises a plan to prevent herself from being put in a retirement home.
In Another Country
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Hong Sangsoo; Writer: Hong Sangsoo; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yu Junsang, Jung Yumi)
Three French women called Anne visit a boring South Korean seaside resort, with sex on their minds.
Key Of Life
(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Kenji Uchida; Stars: Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryoko Hirosue)
A failed actor looking a for a new life steals the identity of an accident victim only to find himself hunted by the mob. Meanwhile, the accident victim unexpectedly recovers and finds he is as actor.
Love Story
(Country: New Zealand, US; Year: 2011; Director: Florian Habicht; Writer: Florian Habicht, Peter O’Donoghue; Stars: Florian Habicht)
Finding himself besotted with a beautiful stranger, a film director hunts her down and casts her opposite him in a story he hasn't finished writing yet.
Material
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2012; Director: Craig Freimond; Writer: Ronnie Apteker, Rosalind Butler, Craig Freimond, Riaad Moosa, Robbie Thorpe; Stars: Riaad Moosa, Vincent Ebrahim, Joey Yusuf Rasdien, Denise Newman, Krijay Govender, Zakeeya Patel, Carishma Basday, Royston Stoffels, Quanita Adams, Afzal Khan, Mel Miller, Nik Rabinowitz, Osman Ali, Rabin Harduth, Mark Bennett)
A fabric business owner dreams of his son taking over from him one day, but his son has embarked on a secret career as a stand-up comedian.
Save Your Legs!
(Country: Australia, India; Year: 2012; Director: Boyd Hicklin; Writer: Brendan Cowell; Stars: Steve Curry, Brendan Cowell, Damon Gameau, Brenton Thwaites, David Lyons)
A feeble amateur cricket team blags its way into international competition.
Short Stories
(Country: Russia; Year: 2012; Director: Mikhail Segal; Writer: Mikhail Segal; Stars: Andrei Merzlikin, Igor Ugolnikov, Tamara Mironova)
Four satirical short stories commenting on modern Russia.
Sightseers
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Alice Jump; Stars: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover)
A young couple on a caravan holiday find themselves going on a killing spree.
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