
A Bright Future
Clever, curious and young, lucky Elisa has been selected for work placement in the North. While everything she’s heard about the North seems idyllic, the trouble is that the few people who do go there don’t ever come back.
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Clever, curious and young, lucky Elisa has been selected for work placement in the North. While everything she’s heard about the North seems idyllic, the trouble is that the few people who do go there don’t ever come back.

Two prisoners managed to escape, an then a slaughter of cops and criminals began when they are persecuted by a powerful mobster. Detective Gerard must suspend his vacation and take out of prison the accomplice of these two subjects, better known as the "White Spirit",in order to stop them before the death toll increases and find out why two minor criminals have caused such an uproar.

Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.

This film takes place in Paris and Geneva in the 1530s and 1550s. Kálvin János and Szervét Mihály are school mates in Paris. The university students celebrate the victory of the Reformation with Kálvin's "Institution", written under a pseudonym.

The appearance of a girl on a bright sunny day gently changes the life of a young man.

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Taiwan, 1980s. A hot summer day, watermelon juice, and celluloid dreams fuel 15-year-old Ming's sexual awakening.

Thirty-something Mehdi is a safecracker. He and his mates are just trying to get by, but robbery isn’t paying like it used to. Day to day Mehdi tries to be a good son to his mother, and a good father to his 1-year-old son to win back his ex, Sarah.


A British Picture follows Walter, an eccentric foreigner adrift in London with his pet skull Galathea, hopelessly in love with his landlady Charlotte. Part travelogue, part experimental satire of English cinema clichés, the film frames the city as a canvas where images break free of their restraints.

It begins with a chaotic rush of teen hormones when white middle-class teenager Leah gets together with Benji who is black and poor. Leah begins taping Benji and posting these videos of his life revealing his intriguing mix of charisma and shyness – but when this proves boring to audiences, the two of them embark down a path that becomes increasingly violent, ominous and eventually spirals out of control.

Jin Song Rim strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village.

Mannequinn doll maker Artin and lightman Remzi are neighbours. Remzi's beautiful daughter Gülizar, who Artin is pretty fond of, gets offered a commercial gig that drastically changes her life, and effects her relationship with the family.

Max Walker is a suicidal man who selects an aspiring young filmmaker to record the end of his life. On the agenda for his last day on Earth: telling off his old boss, confessing some of his deepest secrets, and maybe even finding redemption.

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results.

A man vents about his unraveling life to his best friend, unaware that the truth of their conversation extends far beyond his own perspective.

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

A Bronx Tale: One Man Show is an autobiographical piece that tells the story of Chazz Palminteri’s childhood in the Bronx during the 1960s. The narrative centers on a young boy named Calogero who witnesses a murder and is subsequently taken under the wing of a local mob boss named Sonny. The story explores themes of loyalty, family, and the crossroads between a life of crime and a more traditional path. Palminteri portrays eighteen different characters, all performed by Palminteri himself.

Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the real Brooklyn. Al and Gabriela become friendly but the relationship is strained when he discovers her true goal is to expose Parente's criminal activities. When Al sees the evidence Gabriela has uncovered, which implicates Parente in the death of many locals (including Al's own father), he seeks revenge in a dangerous confrontation with his boss.

15-year-old Tom is going to spend another calm summer with his parents and younger sister at their summer house. But by fate, another family comes to spend some time with them, with their 17-year-old son Félix. In the unforgettable summer, Félix will introduce Tom to new things...

In this coming of age drama, 10 year old Max evades the harsh realities of the world around him by escaping to his hidden oasis in the woods with his older brother Jack.

After the untimely death of his older sister and her husband, a struggling young architect suddenly becomes a "single parent" for his nieces and nephews. When the opportunity for a better life arises, he must choose between his love life, career, or his family.

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings because he plays go, or a Japanese version of chess, with his boss. The wife and sister are unhappy about this. The man's co-worker advises him to stop the late evenings out with the boss, but the man cares less. His sister works at a foreign firm and speaks English. When a man who had earlier visited her workplace returns and asks her out for dinner, she rejects him by lying about a husband. He had made impolite comments about her in English during his earlier visit not realizing she understands him.

In a custody trial, a guilt-ridden teenager must confront his past mistakes to prove his love for his sister and fight to keep his family together.