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Minuscule - Valley Of The Lost Ants and Cutie And The Boxer
20 Feet From Stardom (Twenty Feet From Stardom)
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Morgan Neville; Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Carole Childs, Mick Jagger, Claudia Linnear, Mable John, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Judith Hill)
Backing singers tell their stories.
Alexander:The Ultimate Cut
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Oliver Stone; Writer: Oliver Stone; Stars: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Plummer, Gary Stretch, Connor Paolo, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tim Pigott-Smith, Raz Degan)
The life of ruler Alexander III of Macedon. This time it's longer.
Cutie And The Boxer
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Zachary Heinzerling; Stars: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara)
Two fiercely creative artists continue to spar after 40 years spent head over heels in love.
Cutting Grass (Zela Trovke)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Asier Altuna)
Short documentary about a "Moritat", an ancient Slovakian song telling the tale of a crime.
Family Tour
(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Liliana Torres; Writer: Liliana Torres; Stars: Núria Gago, Noé Blancafort)
The director's experiences of returning from abroad. Her mother forces Lili to visit her relatives on a family tour of the abandoned landscape of her childhood as she explores her own frustrations and limits of tolerance with the faults we all inherit.
New World and 20 Feet From Stardom
Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)
(Country: Kazakhstan, Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Emir Baigazin; Writer: Emir Baigazin; Stars: Timur Aidarbekov)
A brutally bullied teenager struggles to avoid getting drawn into a cycle of violence.
Hotzanak, For Your Own safety
(Year: 2013; Director: Izibene Oñederra)
Animated short film looks at the effects of control on personal identity thanks to a metaphor on how an individual can turn into a criminal.
I'm Still (Kachkaniraqmi) (Sigo Siende (Kachkaniraqmi))
(Country: Peru, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Javier Corcuera)
In his new documentary, Javier Corcuera shows us characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly musical but rather a reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find itself and create its own identity: Peru.
The King Of Canfranc (El rey de canfranc)
(Director: Manuel Priede González, Jose Antonio Blanco)
A documentary centring on the bizarre figure of Albert le Lay, a spy with the French resistance who hid behind the normal appearance of a French customs agent at the Canfranc railway station, strategic passing place for goods travelling between Spain and Germany.
Minuscule - Valley Of The Lost Ants (Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Helene Giraud, Thomas Szabo; Writer: Thomas Szabo, Helene Giraud)
In a peaceful little clearing, the remains of a picnic hastily abandoned spark warfare between two tribes of ants.
The King Of Canfranc and Prologue to The Great Desaparecido
New World (Sin-Se-Gae)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Park Hoon-jung; Writer: Park Hoon-jung; Stars: Choi Il-hwa, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jeong-min)
After the untimely death of Korea’s biggest crime syndicate chairman, power struggle between top lieutenants begins.
Norte, The End Of History (Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan)
(Country: Phillipines; Year: 2013; Director: Lav Diaz)
The commission of a crime changes three lives forever.
Oliver Stone's Untold History Of The United States
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Oliver Stone)
The famous director's take on the complete US history of the 20th Century.
Prologue to The Great Desaparecido (Prologo sa ang dakilang Desaparecido)
(Year: 2013; Director: Lav Diaz)
World premiere of a prologue to Lav Diaz’s most important upcoming feature film, The Great Desaparecido, which questions Truth and History around Philippine Revolution and Independence.
Rabbit Woman (Mujer conejo)
(Country: Spain, Argentina, Venezuela; Year: 2012; Director: Verónica Chen; Writer: Verónica Chen; Stars: Haien Qiu)
Ana, a beautiful young woman of Chinese origin who works as a municipal inspector in Buenos Aires, accidentally becomes involved in the local Chinese mafia. When they threaten her she flees to Argentina's Pampas region, which has been invaded by mutant carnivorous bunnies.
Harmony Lessons and Violet
Serrat And Sabina: Two For The road (Serrat y Sabina: El símbolo y el cuate)
(Year: 2012; Director: Francesc Relea )
A documentary tour of Latin America with two like-thinking artists. Joan Manuel Serrat is an icon for an entire generation. Joaquín Sabina is el cuate, the affectionate Mexican word loosely translating as 'brother'.
Traffic Department (Drogówka)
(Director: Wojtek Smarzowski; Stars: Bart?omiej Topa, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Julia Kijowska, Eryk Lubos, Robert Wabich, Marcin Dorociski, Jacek Braciak)
Murder shakes things up in a police department with a laissez-faire attitude to bribery.
Violet
(Country: US, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Luiso Berdejo)
A love story that kicks off in Santa Monica (California) when Álex finds an old Polaroid photograph of a girl he falls madly in love with, setting out to find her, despite having no clues as to who she is or when the picture was taken.
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