Engaging with the world
RUSSIA , Lithuania , Ireland , France | 95 minutes | 2018
As he does in his first two features – the searing Corrections Class (2013) and the intriguing Zoology (2016) – young Russian indie helmer Ivan I. Tverdovsky pits an outsider against the system. This time it’s Denis, a teen with a rare congenital immunity to pain… which his mother and her gang of apparatchiks are only too eager to exploit. A dark tale with thriller overtones that’s a scathing indictment of toxic parenting and selfish greed. CANADIAN PREMIERE
Special Jury Mention - Karlovy Vary Film Festival
No biography
2018 Jumpman, feature2016 Zoology, feature2014 Corrections Class, feature2013 Space Dog, documentary2012 Pianism, documentary2009 As If Waiting for a Bus, documentary
Left to his own devices after his mother’s sudden death, Socrates now has to find his own way on the mean streets of São Paulo, struggling to survive as...
Feature film , Drama
BRAZIL | 95 minutes | 2018
For his latest feature, the Palestinian filmmaker goes backstage at a TV soap. Salam, his thirty-something Palestinian hero, has to go through an Israeli...
LUXEMBOURG , France , Belgium , Israel | 95 minutes | 2018
Peeling back the layers of the journalistic psyche, this fascinating project veers from interviews to archival footage, photography and animated sequences...
Feature film , Animation
POLAND , Spain , Germany , Hungary | 95 minutes | 2018
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