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Funan and Obey
Alegría, Tristeza
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Ibon Cormenzana; Writer: Ibon Cormenzana, Jordi Vallejo; Stars: Roberto Álamo, Manuela Vellés, Claudia Placer, Pedro Casablanc, Carlos Bardem, Maggie Civantos, Andrés Gertrúdix, Miguel Herrán, Javier Perdiguero, Rocío Muñoz-Cobo, Carlos Olalla, Miriam Martín, Patxi Freytez, Roberto Álamo, Manuela Vellés)
A fireman struggles to reconnect with his family after suffering mental problems due to a traumatic experience at work.
Between Two Waters (Entre Dos Aguas)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Isaki Lacuesta; Writer: Fran Araújo, Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta; Stars: Israel Gómez Romero, Francisco José Gómez Romero, Israel Gómez Romero, Francisco José Gómez Romero)
Isra and Cheíto are two Roma brothers: Isra was sent to prison for drug dealing and Cheíto signed up for the Marines. When Isra is released from prison and Cheíto returns from a long mission, they return to San Fernando. Their reunion brings memories of their father’s violent death when they were children.
Dying To Tell (Morir Para Cantar)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Hernán Zin; Writer: Hernán Zin; Stars: Hernán Zin)
Examining the psychological toll war reporting takes on journalists.
El Desentierro
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Nacho Ruipérez; Writer: Mario Fernandez Alonso, Nacho Ruipérez; Stars: Michel Noher, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Jan Cornet, Jelena Jovanova, Nesrin Cavadzade, Ana Torrent, Arben Bajraktaraj, Florin Opritescu, Francesc Garrido, Sanghmitra Hitaishi, Raúl Prieto, Juanma Mallen, Bianca Kovacs, Jordi Rebellón, Valeria Schoneveld)
Contemporary western sees a man who returns home for his father's funeral begin to examine the old man's past.
Fauves
(Country: Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France; Year: 2017; Director: Robin Erard; Writer: Pilar Anguita-MacKay, Robin Erard, Joanne Giger; Stars: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Jonathan Zaccaï, Bérénice Baôo, Michel Voïta, Fanny Blanchard, Cédric Djédjé, Hadrien Friob, Romain Gelin, Denis Jousselin, David Pion, Isaline Prévost, Hervé Sogne, Sabine Timoteo, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Jonathan Zaccaï)
Oskar, 17, dreams of running away to Zimbabwe. While he gathers the money, the rivalry with his adoptive father escalates wildly.
The Happy Prince and Jellyfish
Float Like A Butterfly
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2018; Director: Carmel Winters; Writer: Carmel Winters; Stars: Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins, Hilda Fay, John Gerard Healy, Jamie Kierans, Amelie Metcalfe, Aidan O'Hare, Lalor Roddy, Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins, Hilda Fay, John Gerard Healy, Jamie Kierans)
A teenage girl has to fight for the right to fight in Seventies Ireland.
Funan
(Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Denis Do; Writer: Denis Do, Magali Pouzol, Elise Trinh; Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Louis Garrel, Bérénice Bejo, Louis Garrel)
Animation about a young mother sent to a Khmer Rouge forced labour camp, who is separated from her son and has to fight to survive and not lose hope.
The Happy Prince
(Country: Germany, Belgium, UK, Italy; Year: 2018; Director: Rupert Everett; Writer: Rupert Everett; Stars: Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Ronald Pickup, Béatrice Dalle, Julian Wadham, Joshua McGuire, John Standing, Daniel Weyman, André Penvern, Edwin Thomas, Tom Colley)
The last days of Oscar Wilde.
I Diari Di Angela - Noi Due Cineasti
(Year: 2018; Director: Yervant Gianikian)
A film that delves into the diaries, water colours and home movies from the archive of Angela Ricci Lucchi after her death in February 2018.
Jellyfish
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: James Gardner; Writer: James Gardner, Simon Lord; Stars: Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Tomos Eames, Angus Barnett, Frankie Boyle, Helen Kennedy, Cyril Nri, Mark Sangster, Victoria Alcock, Ria Zmitrowicz, Meredith Ryder, Lauran Taylor-Griffin, Jay Sajjid, Henry Lile, Connor Mills)
A teenager tries to find an outlet for the anger generated by her chaotic home life.
Old Boys and Two For Joy
Lemonade
(Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Ioana Uricaru; Writer: Ioana Uricaru; Stars: Mălina Manovici, Steve Bacic, Dylan Scott Smith, Milan Hurduc, Ruxandra Maniu)
Mara, a nurse from Romania, and her new husband and her son are waiting for her Green Card. But the naturalisation process proves to be difficult.
Notes For A Heist Film (Apuntes Para Una Pelicula De Atracos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: León Siminiani)
Elías is a film director who dreamed of making a heist movie. During the summer of 2013 he reads a news story about the arrest of 'The Vallecas Robin Hood', the leader of 'the sewers gang'. He then feels that he has found the opportunity to make his dream come true. He sends a letter to the prison where he is serving his sentence. Against all odds, Elías receives a reply three weeks later. Robin Hood agrees for him to come and visit him in prison.
Obey
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Jamie Jones; Writer: Jamie Jones; Stars: Marcus Rutherford, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michael Quartey, Sam Gittins, T'Nia Miller, James Atwell, Taurean Steele, Jasmine Jobson, Joshua Blisset, Daniel Akilimali, Christine Taetz, Wil Coban, Aaron-Russell Andrews, Dymond Allen, Tezlym Senior-Sakutu)
In the midst of the 2011 London riots, Leon grapples with the stark reality of his life and his relationship with his alcoholic mother while falling in love for the first time.
Old Boys
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Toby MacDonald; Writer: Luke Ponte, Freddy Syborn; Stars: Nathen Solly, Giles Malcolm, Nicholas Agnew, Will Christopherson, Pauline Etienne, Joshua Frater-Loughlin, David Gordon-Dixon, Jonah Hauer-King, Alex Lawther, Jason Lines, Martyn Mayger, Joshua McGuire, Archie Merry, Denis Ménochet, Sam Redland)
Reworking of Cyrano De Bergerac set in an English all-boys boarding school
Oscuro Y Lucientes
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Samuel Alarcón; Writer: Samuel Alarcón)
Documentary concerning the exhumation of Goya for repatriation... when it was discovered that his head had been stolen
The Silence Of Others and Some Time After
The Party's Over (La Fete Est Finie)
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Marie Garel-Weiss; Writer: Marie Garel-Weiss, Salvatore Lista; Stars: Zita Hanrot, Clémence Boisnard, Marie Denarnaud, Christine Citti, Pascal Rénéric, Michel Muller, Inès Fehner, Noémie Rosset, Arnaud Azoulay, Pauline Lloret Besson, Philippe Berodot, Vincent Berger, Ferdinand Berville, Oscar Copp, Thomas Guené)
A relationship with the potential to heal and disrupt is formed by two girls on the day they arrive at a rehab centre.
The Silence Of Others
(Country: US, Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo; Writer: Ricardo Acosta, Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo, Kim Roberts; Stars: María Martín, José María Galante, Carlos Slepoy, Ana Messuti, Maria Servini, Felisa Echegoyen, María Ángeles Martín, María de las Mercedes Bueno, Ascensión Mendieta, María Martín, José María Galante, Carlos Slepoy, Ana Messuti, Maria Servini, Felisa Echegoyen)
The struggle against the amnesty law in Spain for those who committed atrocities under the rule of General Franco.
Si Vamos 28 Volvemos 28
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Jonas Trueba)
A film that sprang from the project Quién lo impide, in which we accompany a high school class that is making its particular end of year journey.
Solo Somos
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Jonás Trueba)
Another part of the project Quién lo impide, in which a group of adolescents consider their own representation.
Some Time After (Tiempo Despues)
(Country: Spain, Portugal; Year: 2018; Director: José Luis Cuerda; Writer: José Luis Cuerda; Stars: Blanca Suárez, Miguel Herrán, Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Carlos Areces, Nerea Camacho, Berto Romero, Secun de la Rosa, Manolo Solo, Gabino Diego, Arturo Valls, Javier Bódalo, María Ballesteros, Miguel Rellán, Joaquín Reyes)
In 9177, give or take a thousand years (there's no point in being finicky about these details) the whole world, and, according to some authors, the universe too, has been reduced to a single Representative Building and squalid suburbs inhabited by all of the out-of-work and hungry in the cosmos.
The Trouble With You and Lemonade
Todos Los Caminos
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Paola García Costas; Writer: Paola García Costas; Stars: Dani Rovira, Clara Lago, Francisco Santiago, Marina Maldonado, Martina Santiago, Daniela Santiago, Germán Torres, Martin Giacchetta, Juanjo Gallego, Manuel Jerez, Paco Aranda, Dani Rovira, Clara Lago, Francisco Santiago, Marina Maldonado)
Documentary about Rett’s Syndrome, follows a father's bicycle journey from Barcelona to Rome.
The Trouble With You (En Liberté!)
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Pierre Salvadori; Writer: Benjamin Charbit, Benoît Graffin, Pierre Salvadori; Stars: Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Audrey Tautou, Vincent Elbaz, Damien Bonnard, Hocine Choutri, Christophe Tek, Octave Bossuet, Norbert Ferrer, Emmy Stevenin, Martin Pautard, Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Audrey Tautou, Vincent Elbaz)
A widow finds her life thrown into turmoil when she comes to realise that her police chief spouse wasn't quite the hero she thought.
Two For Joy
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Tom Beard; Writer: Tom Beard; Stars: Billie Piper, Samantha Morton, Grace Hogg-Robinson, Emilia Jones, Daniel Mays, Bella Ramsey, David Elliot, Ibinabo Jack, Badger Skelton, Dana Haqjoo, Eva Fontaine, Adam Young, Seychella, Billie Piper, Samantha Morton)
A family struggling with bereavement try to find solace on a caravan holiday.
Wallay
(Country: France, Burkina Faso; Year: 2017; Director: Berni Goldblat; Stars: Makan Nathan Diarra, Ibrahim Koma, Hamadoun Kassogué, Mounira Kankolé, Joséphine Kaboré)
A French teenager verging on delinquency is sent to his father's hometown of Burkina Faso.
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