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Every year, International Panorama offers up a curated selection of the most curious and outstanding cinema that the world has to offer. Featuring a breathtaking diversity of film, handpicked from the world’s top festivals and beyond, these are the definitive voices of cinema today.

	ANOTHER EARTH (USA, 92 min) "Sundance can boast of another discovery... science fiction at its best." - Hollywood Reporter On the night that a duplicate Earth is discovered in our solar system, astrophysics student Rhoda drives into an oncoming car, killing a mother and child and leaving the father in a coma. When she's released from prison, Rhoda goes to find the father, determined to do penance and, perhaps, to escape her past in the parallel world floating above. More >
	ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN SHORTS (104 min) With Jean-Luc Godard and Aleksandr Sokurov citing him as a major influence, the work of Artavazd Pelechian is becoming recognised as being of central importance to the history of filmmaking. This screening showcases his 'contrapuntal montage' approach that redefined the boundaries of cinema. We (1969) traces the resonances of the 1915 Armenian genocide in late 1960s Soviet society. More >
	AT ELLEN'S AGE (Germany, 95 min) Eat, pray, whatever. Idling through her forties, Ellen's life is about to hit the brakes. Losing her job, partner and mind all in the same week, she embarks on a bizarre anti-journey of self-discovery that finds her wandering through endless hotel-room corridors, living in squalor with self-righteous animal activists and, later, performing nude street theatre. More >
	BEAUTY (South Africa/France, 99 min) Winner of the Queer Palm award at Cannes. The first Afrikaans-language film to ever be screened at Cannes, Beauty tells the story of François, a middle-aged man whose well ordered existence comes unravelled. A chance encounter with Christian, the son of a long lost friend, ignites infatuation and lust within the unhappily married François, plunging him into a confusion of self-loathing, tinged with a desperation for happiness. More >
	BEGINNERS (USA, 105 min) "A tender, funny-sad journey into the messiness that is love." - Hollywood Reporter At 75 years old, Hal (Christopher Plummer) is only recently out of the closet, dying of cancer, and determined to finally be faithful to himself. Sad-eyed Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is his son, confused by but encouraging of his father's decision. As his father embraces the contours of a new life, Oliver confronts the legacy of his emotionally stifled childhood. More >
	BLACK VENUS (France, 159 min) An unforgettable telling of the short, horrific life of Saartjie Baartman, the so-called 'Hottentot Venus'. Taken to Europe from South Africa in the early 19th century, the 'Hottentot Venus' became a freak-show attraction in London and Paris and an object of deep prurient curiosity. Fascinating to scientists and lechers alike due to her supposedly enormous genitalia, Baartman lived a tormented existence, forced by her owners to strip and perform for the gawking crowds. More >
	CEDAR RAPIDS (USA, 87 min) “A wistful, equally tender and raunchy comedy of self-discovery… the jokes sing as well as zing.” – New York Times Tim Lippe (The Hangover’s Ed Helms) is a naive 34-year-old insurance salesman who has never moved out of the family home. But his life begins to open up after he’s unexpectedly delegated to go to the company’s annual insurance convention. Finding himself for the first time in a proper city, surrounded by hard-drinking insurance folk and the myriad temptations of convention life, Tim starts to make a difficult, albeit hilarious, break with his past. More >
	CIRCUMSTANCE (USA/Iran, 105 min) "An amazingly accomplished and complex first feature from Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz." - Hollywood Reporter Two 16-year-old best friends, Atafeh and Shireen, coming of age under the repressive theocracy of Iran, are struggling to deal with their burgeoning desire for one another. In the wake of the growing fanaticism of Atafeh's older brother, Mehran, their fledgling relationship will come to threaten the bonds of their family, and their lives. More >
	CURLING (Canada, 92 min) "Denis Côté has long since staked out his territory as Canada's most adventurous auteur." - Eye Weekly Winning the Best Director prize at Locarno, Curling is an offbeat and eccentric comedy with distinctly morbid leanings. More >
	THE DEBT (UK/USA, 114 min) Some evils can only be repaid in kind. 1966, East Berlin. Three Mossad agents, Rachel (Helen Mirren), David (Sam Worthington) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) succeed in a daring mission to capture Dr Vogel, one of the Holocaust’s most vile war criminals, an operation that saw the three agents lionised as national heroes. But 31 years later, cracks have begun to appear in the official story of the mission, and Rachel finds herself drawn back into active service, as everything she thought she knew is thrown into question. More >
	ELENA (Russia, 109 min) "A wise and impeccably controlled drama that finds Russian helmer Andrey Zvyagintsev in outstanding form." - Variety Elena dotes on her selfish, wealthy husband Vladimir and lives a lonely life surrounded by luxury in a sterile, ultra-modern penthouse. But when the aging Vladimir informs Elena that he is altering his will to leave his money to his spoiled, boozy daughter from a previous marriage, she makes a decision to speed Vladimir's journey to the grave before the will can be changed. More >
	ESSENTIAL KILLING (Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary, 85 min) "Intriguing and disturbing, made with tremendous confidence and conviction." - Guardian Vincent Gallo stars as an unnamed Taliban soldier, captured and flown to a mysterious eastern European country for interrogation. A quirk of fate sees him escape, but he grows increasingly desperate as his former captors pursue him through vast, snowbound forests, and cold and hunger push him ever closer to delirium and inhuman acts. More >
	FAMILIAR GROUND (Canada, 88 min) "Bleak, wry and darkly comic... an impressive command of tone keeps things grounded right until a delicious finale." - Variety Filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur (Continental, a Film Without Guns) mixes gentle humour with absurd circumstance and traces of sci-fi in Familiar Ground, a dark trip into the extraordinary everyday. More >
	FOOTNOTE (Israel, 103 min) "A smart, well written and deftly executed confrontation between a father and son who may be more alike than they would choose to believe." - Screen International Comedy meets bitter family drama in Joseph Cedar's (Beaufort, MIFF 2007) Footnote, a high-spirited skewering of academic pomposity, Jewish neuroses and the enduring rivalry between father and son. More >
	THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy, 109 min) Winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin film festival. Having debuted with Colombia-based cocaine drama Maria Full of Grace (MIFF 2004), American filmmaker Joshua Marston turns his attention to the sometimes bloody battle between tradition and progress in contemporary Albania. More >
	THE FUTURE (USA/Germany, 91 min) "Brandishes poetic insights and imaginative flights." - Hollywood Reporter Miranda July's highly anticipated new film occupies the same playful and offbeat universe as her acclaimed debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (MIFF 2005). More >
	THE GIANTS (Belgium/France/Luxembourg, 84 min) "A joyous heartwarmer with an endearing Mark Twain meets Ken Loach vibe." - Screen International Two teenage brothers and their tag-along friend navigate a summer by themselves in an abandoned country cottage. As they scavenge for food, hunt for pot and pursue harebrained schemes to make money, they find their bravado repeatedly punctured by the rigours of an adult world they cannot comprehend. More >
	GOOD BYE (Iran, 100 min) "A suspenseful and moving portrait of modern censorship." - indieWIRE Arrested just before completion and finished in clandestine circumstances, Good Bye is Mohammad Rasoulof's searing indictment of the plight of women in contemporary Iran. More >
	GREY MATTER (Rwanda/Australia, 104 min) The first full-length feature film made in Rwanda by a Rwandan filmmaker. With this groundbreaking debut feature, writer-director Kivu Ruhorahoza presents a multi-layered film within a film, where art mimics reality and, more disturbingly, reality begins to mimic art. More >
	THE GUARD (Ireland, 96 min) "Scabrous, profane, violent, verbally adroit and often hilarious." - Hollywood Reporter The buddy cop genre gets an Irish reworking in The Guard, the gleefully chaotic debut feature from writer-director John Michael McDonagh. More >
	HERE (USA/Armenia, 120 min) "Packs an unexpectedly powerful emotional punch. It's the road-trip romance reinvented, remapped." - Village Voice Will Shepard (Ben Foster, The Messenger, MIFF 2010) is a cartographer travelling through Armenia, investigating the accuracy, or 'truth', of the ground as mapped by satellites above. Meeting Gadarine (Lubna Azabel, Paradise Now, MIFF 2005), a photographer returning to her country of birth to explore her attachment to it, he falls in love and the two begin their own journey into different kinds of unexplored terrain. More >
	INNOCENT SATURDAY (Germany/Russia/Ukraine, 99 min) "(An) often mesmerising tableau of a dance of death." - Screen International Saturday April 26th, 1986. In the 36 hours following the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, Communist party member and white-collar worker Valery Kabysh has seen the panic of his superiors, and has learnt the fate of his town before anyone else. More >
	INTIMATE GRAMMAR (Israel, 110 min) Israel, 1965. As his country grows up without him, an uncertain boy teeters on the edge of manhood and tragedy. At 13 years old, Aharon (Roee Elsberg) doesn't want to grow up. Small for his age, berated at home and lost in an Israel itself only just beginning to find its feet, the prospect of his approaching bar mitzvah fills him with an abiding existential dread. With his family collapsing around him and the girl he loves gradually being drawn to his more adult best friend, Gideon, the endless infractions of this stifling existence drive Aharon toward a final, irrevocable act. More >
	JANE EYRE (M) (UK, 120 min) Charlotte Brontë's famous tale gets a fresh makeover, with a winning performance from Australia's Mia Wasikowska (The Kids Are All Right, MIFF 2010) as the tenacious Jane. Having been adapted for film and TV almost 30 times over the last century, Jane Eyre now finds a new voice with this astute retelling of the Brontë classic from filmmaker Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe). More >
	JEAN GENTIL (Dominican Republic/Mexico/Germany, 85 min) "Documentary-like in its attention to detail and shot in impeccably composed images... traces the slow voyage into oblivion of a talented immigrant looking for his place in a world that thinks it doesn't need him." - Variety Filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas follow up their award-winning debut Cochochi (2007) with this quasidocumentary about Jean - a dignified, well-educated Haitian man reduced to a shadow of his former self after relocating to neighbouring Dominican Republic. More >
	JESS + MOSS (USA, 82 min) The preciousness of youth and all of its disasters. Jess, 18, and Moss, 12, spend a lazy summer together on a derelict farm in rural Kentucky. With their families strangely absent, the pair occupy their time exploring, playing, bickering, sharing secrets and trying to understand how they've come to be alone. More >
	THE KID WITH A BIKE (M) (Belgium/France/Italy, 87 min) The celebrated Dardenne brothers (Lorna's Silence, MIFF 2010) took the Grand Prix at Cannes (shared with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) this year with this gripping cinematic tale of youthful innocence betrayed. Critically acclaimed Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, winners of two previous Palmes d'Or for Rosetta and The Child, are known for writing and directing uncompromising, socially aware dramas: spare, haunting stories about working-class lives in industrial Belgium. More >
	LE HAVRE (France/Germany/Finland, 93 min) "A continual pleasure, seamlessly blending morose and merry notes with a deftness that's up there with Kaurismäki's best comic work." - Variety In his second French-language film, Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki (Lights in the Dusk, MIFF 2007) once again taps into a vein of tender, optimistic comedy. More >
	LITTLEROCK (USA, 83 min) "A small gem of miscommunication and hopefulness." - Filmmaker Magazine Brother and sister Rintaro and Atsuko have travelled from Japan to America, and their broken-down rental car has stranded them in the archetypal small town of Littlerock, California. They fall in with the instantly smitten Cory, whose straightforward life revolves around smoking, drinking and hanging out with a group of similarly minded misfits. More >
	LIVING ON LOVE ALONE (France, 89 min) "Drama, outlaw romance and social critique make this a compelling statement from one of French cinema's vital new voices." - London Film Festival Julie (Anaïs Demoustier) is a young, disillusioned arts graduate. Living in a tiny Parisian apartment, she's not really coping with either the realities of the job market or the absurdities of the corporate world. When she meets Ben, an attractive and mysterious actor, he seems to offer her a chance to break free from the cycle of dead end work and empty sexual encounters. More >
	MAJORITY (Turkey, 102 min) Winner of Best First Feature at the Venice Film Festival. Twenty-one years old and still living under the brutish dominion of his father, perpetual screw-up Mertkan makes decisions or, more generally, doesn't, based on the path of least resistance. When Mertkan meets a Kurdish waitress, he's offered relief from his soul-sucking routine, but complacency and the racist suspicions of his father threaten to destroy his newfound happiness. More >
	MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (USA, 101 min) "Olsen gives a magnificently ambiguous performance... and Durkin knows precisely how much information to reveal and how much to leave frighteningly implicit." - The A.V. Club A beautiful, emotionally shattered young woman named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) makes a dawn escape from a cult compound in the Catskill mountains, fleeing to the luxurious home of her married sister and attempts to put her life back together. But with her past spilling into the present, escape from Patrick (John Hawkes), the demented cult leader, might not be so easy. More >
	MELANCHOLIA (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany, 130 min) "A mesmerizing, visually gorgeous and often-moving alloy of family drama." - Telegraph From Danish agitator Lars von Trier (Antichrist, MIFF 2009) comes a compelling family drama, set against the backdrop of imminent apocalypse. Melancholia explores the relationship between two sisters, the depressed Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and the seemingly more balanced Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), as a planet named Melancholia hurtles toward Earth, promising extinction for the entire planet. More >
	THE MILL AND THE CROSS (Poland/Sweden, 96 min) An extraordinary film project that takes us inside the story of a remarkable painting. Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel's 1564 masterpiece The Procession to Calvary is an immense work of art that draws together the events of Christ's crucifixion with that of Flanders' sacking by Spanish forces. Controversial and bold, it made a grand, brutally realistic statement about a world-changing event. More >
	NATURAL SELECTION (USA, 90 min) "It is hard not to love this film. A pitchperfect satire of marriage and morality, a perversely satisfying romance... and, above all, the best sort of comedy." - New York Magazine When childless, devout Christian Abe suffers a stroke while making a 'donation' at a sperm bank, his long-suffering wife Linda (Rachael Harris) discovers that Abe has been a weekly sperm bank regular for more than 20 years. Distraught, Linda tracks down Abe's previously unknown son Raymond, a drug-addled, foul-mouthed Florida prison escapee, who agrees to travel with Linda back to Texas - although unbeknownst to her he has the police hot on his tail. More >
	NEDS (UK/France/Italy, 124 min) Some people need to be taught a lesson. In the urban wastelands of 1970s Glasgow, 12-year-old John McGill is an outlier. Quiet, studious and uncommonly intelligent, he exists in contrast to his alcoholic, abusive father, gang leader brother and repressed, ineffectual mother. But as he enters high school and the unwanted adolescence that comes with it, the grim realities of his working class background begin to press ever more violently against his childhood ambition. More >
	OLD CATS (Chile/USA, 88 min) "Sebastián Silva has emerged as one of cinema's greatest young talents." - indieWIRE The follow-up to Silva's Sundance prize winner The Maid (MIFF 2009), Old Cats cracks open the toxic dynamics of a mother/daughter relationship to both comic and tragic effect. More >
	OUR IDIOT BROTHER (USA, 95 min) Every family has an idiot. An endearing performance from Paul Rudd supercharges this comedy about well-meaning man-child Ned Rochlin, whose blundering optimism sets him on a collision course with his family. More >
	OUTSIDE SATAN (France, 109 min) "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure" - Variety On France's windswept Côte d'Opale, The Guy, toting a rifle, roams the desolate landscape. He is accompanied by a goth-styled waif, The Girl. Together, these strange travelling companions lurch between shocking violence and lifesaving miracles. More >
	PLAY (Sweden/France/Denmark, 118 min) A behavioural and psychological drama, based on true accounts of a racially charged street scam in Sweden. Over the course of a tense afternoon, five kids of African descent playfully toy with three well-heeled white teens. Using complex intimidation, racial preconceptions, vague threats and menacing head games, they lure the white boys to an isolated no-man's-land where they propose a perverse competition that will relieve their victims of everything they value. More >
	POST MORTEM (Chile, 98 min) "A radioactive atmosphere of pure, nauseous evil." - Guardian Fans of filmmaker Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero (MIFF 2009) will appreciate his even more unnerving follow-up, set against the backdrop of Chile's murderous 1973 military coup. More >
	ROUTE IRISH (UK/France/Belgium/Italy/Spain, 109 min) "Insightful and explosive, so torn from today's headlines it leaves newsprint on your hands." - Empire Former soldiers and lifelong friends, Fergus and Frankie, have been growing rich doing private security work in the simmering quagmire of post-war Iraq. But when Frankie is killed in mysterious circumstances, Fergus finds himself investigating a vast web of corruption, where the blood of the Iraqi people is making some people very, very rich. More >
	THE SALT OF LIFE (Italy, 90 min) "Getting under the skin of a certain Mediterranean male psyche in a way that is both funny, poignant, life-enhancing, and much cheaper than a return ticket to Italy." - Screen International Retired Gianni lives a quiet life in a comfortable Roman apartment, running errands for his wife and fielding incessant calls from his mother. All is calm until his friend Alphonso points out that Gianni is the only man without a mistress - even the decrepit old guy at the local bar has a lover! Appalled, Gianni decides he must do something, and so begins his bittersweet search for a paramour. More >
	A SEPARATION (Iran, 123 min) Sweeping the Berlinale awards with wins for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress, A Separation is one of most engrossing films of the year. A middle-class Iranian couple, already in the midst of an unpleasant separation, find themselves drawn into a web of half-truths and manipulation after the husband hires a lower-class caretaker for his Alzheimer's-stricken, elderly father. More >
	THE SILENCE OF JOAN (France, 92 min) "A very 21st-century Jeanne d'Arc: a manic-depressive victim of history whose story is only one strand in a crisscrossing skein." - Variety Filmmaker Philippe Ramos takes a fresh approach to the Joan of Arc narrative, as he conjures a hitherto untold story of her ransoming by the British to the French. More >
	SILENT SOULS (Russia, 75 min) "Lyrical and mysterious... takes the viewer on a voyage into the human soul." - Hollywood Reporter Silent Souls follows Aist, a professional photographer and writer, and his boss Miron, as they travel through Russia on a mission to cremate Miron's beloved wife. As two descendants of the Merja people, an old tribe which has long been assimilated, their trip is a final pilgrimage to send the woman into the afterlife in accordance with the traditions of their people. More >
	SUBMARINE (UK, 97 min) A delightfully offbeat coming-of-age tale, flecked with shades of Rushmore, Submarine is a charming debut from UK comedy stalwart Richard Ayoade (The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd). Fifteen-year-old Oliver is a tortured literary genius - or so he believes. With his father (Noah Taylor) depressed, and his mother (Sally Hawkins) reigniting an affair with a past lover (Paddy Considine), Oliver takes it upon himself to reunite his fractured family - and to impress his true love, an eczema-suffering pyromaniac, along the way. More >
	SURVIVING LIFE (Czech Republic, 105 min) "Dazzling visual invention from a master animator... an unmissable pleasure." - Hollywood Reporter After a five-year absence following the death of his wife, Eva, surrealist Jan Švankmajer (Lunacy, MIFF 2006) ventures into biographical territory with this so-called 'psychoanalytical comedy'. More >
	TAKE SHELTER (USA, 120 min) "A masterfully controlled piece of work on every level... impeccable craftsmanship and breathtaking imagery." - Hollywood Reporter A psychological thriller and a disturbing portrait of paranoia and madness, Take Shelter is the devastating sophomore effort from writer-director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, MIFF 2007). More >
	TERRI (USA, 105 min) "With a sensitive eye and an even more perceptive heart, Azazel Jacobs brings new life to the outsider's ordeal." - New York Times The perfect embodiment of teenage loserdom, Terri drifts through life alone, mercilessly teased by his peers and ignored by his jaded teachers. It is not until the vice principal, Mr Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly) sees something of himself in Terri and befriends him that things start to look up for the awkward, overweight teenager. More >
	THREE (Germany, 120 min) "Good-looking, inventively plotted, littered with post-modern themes, perfectly cast and in tune with the times." - Screen International From his fast and furious debut, Run Lola Run, to the haunting Perfume and the big budget The International, director Tom Tykwer now turns his talents to this stylish, comedic exploration of the complexities of modern relationships. More >
	TILVA ROSH (Serbia, 99 min) "[A] desolate portrait of misguided youth on the brink of maturity, desperately trying to find a sense and purpose in life." - Screen International A few years back, first-time filmmaker Nikola Ležaić stumbled across a home-made documentary consisting of Jackass-inspired stunts made by Stefan, Toda and their skate team. He started hanging out with the guys and wrote a script based on the clips he saw in their film, stories they told him and his own memories of being a teen - then turned it into a feature film with Stefan, Toda and co. playing themselves. More >
	TINY FURNITURE (USA, 98 min) A twenty-something graduate returns home to New York to face the toughest question of all: what now? Living out of her mother's New York apartment, 22-year-old Aura has a useless film theory degree, a mind-numbing job as a restaurant hostess and no real idea of what to do with her life. Bouncing between parties, art shows and romantic prospects, Aura isn't sure what she's waiting for - but she's knows it's not this. More >
	TOMBOY (France, 82 min) Winner of Best Queer Film at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. After relocating to a new neighbourhood, ten-year-old Laure decides to trade on her androgynous looks to pose as a boy. While initially revelling in her new identity, things get complicated when a local girl named Lisa becomes desperately infatuated with the boy she thinks is 'Michael'. More >
	TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER (Poland/Japan, 118 min) Acclaimed Polish writer-director Dorota Kędzierzawska (Time to Die, MIFF 2008) presents a quiet, humble film about the indignities of childhood and the persistence of hope. Petya, Vasya and Lyapa are alone in the world. Homeless and orphaned, they drift across the wintry Russian landscape like wraiths, listlessly scavenging their way from city to city. Dreaming of a better life, they head toward the border with Poland, convinced that on the other side they'll finally find something to call home. More >
	TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (Romania, 99 min) "A further example of Romanian virtuosity." - Village Voice After ten years of marriage, Paul juggles the easy familiarity of his wife and child with the playful passions of his mistress. But a chance meeting in a waiting room brings the three parties together and pushes Paul to make the uncomfortable decision he has been avoiding. More >
	THE TURIN HORSE (Hungary, 146 min) "It's a shame to think of this heroically uncompromising director shutting up shop, but if he does, The Turin Horse is a magnificent farewell." - Screen International On 3 January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse in the Italian city of Turin. Moved to pity, the philosopher famously threw his arms around the animal's neck, refusing to move. Nietzsche's subsequent story has been told by history; this is the equine's tale. More >
	TYRANNOSAUR (UK, 91 min) "An intense exploration of the corrosive effects of human violence." - Hollywood Reporter A drunk and washed-up excuse for a man, Joseph (Peter Mullan, director of Neds, MIFF 2011) vents his anger on whoever or whatever is unlucky enough to get in his way: a group of friends at the pub, the window of a post office, even his long-suffering and ever-loyal dog. But when he unleashes his frustrations on Christian charity store worker Hannah, he finds an unlikely friend in someone accustomed to abuse and thick-skinned enough to look past it. More >
	A USEFUL LIFE (Uruguay, 67 min) "Wholly succeeds as an infectious look at one soldier of cinema losing his battle, but living to fight another day." - indieWIRE A Useful Life chronicles the demise of a small independent cinema in Montevideo, Uruguay, through the mournful eyes of middle-aged film programmer Jorge. Facing the imminent closure of his beloved cinémathèque, Jorge emerges from his bewildered, hermit-like existence to pursue a romantic vision. Assuming the role of protagonist in the film of his own life - set to lavish musical accompaniment - Jorge undertakes a wholesale transformation staged through his love of the cinema. More >
	WASTED YOUTH (Greece, 99 min) "Energetic and exciting... a fascinating portrait of 'wasted youth' of all ages." - Screen International In a modern Athens ravaged by the exploding financial crisis, teenager Haris is just happy that his school is closed. He spends his time skateboarding around the capital in search of girls, booze and trouble. Meanwhile, middle-aged policeman Vasilis, struggling to provide for his family, prepares for a night shift that will see him tragically collide with the blindly defiant Haris. More >
	WIN WIN (M) (USA, 109 min) "Possesses a sharp wit and a generous spirit... a master class in offbeat comic brilliance." - New York Times Paul Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, a middle-aged lawyer-cum-high school wrestling coach struggling to succeed at either task, whose fraught existence is provided some relief when he manipulates a senile client into giving him control of his finances. When the man's teenage grandson shows up and proves to be an exceptional wrestler, it seems as if all Mike's problems are fading away - but it isn't long before the fallout from his transgressions begin to catch up with him. More >
	YOU ARE HERE (Canada, 78 min) "[You Are Here] offers a series of episodes that slide over one another like a palimpsest... That tingle in your frontal lobe means that it's working." - Cinema Scope When a reclusive woman (the late Tracy Wright) discovers a mysterious recording, she begins unpicking an impossibly complex mystery. After discovering a man who cannot inhabit the same body for more than a few seconds, a crowd of people called Allan being forced to move around the city by office drones, and an experimenter who has constructed a working model of the human mind, she begins to realise that the physical evidence she has gathered may itself be trying to outsmart her. More >