New Releases in World Cinema

Cold in July

World Cinema
On a sweltering Texas summer night in 1989, husband and father Richard Dane (Dexter's Michael C. Hall) awakens to the sound of a burglar breaking into his home. In a panic, he shoots the intruder dead—but this nightmare is only just beginning. Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when the burglar's ex-con father, Ben (Sam Shepard), rolls into town; hell-bent on revenge. However, not all is as it seems. Misled by the cops and desperate for answers, Richard embarks on an increasingly berserk, bloodstained quest to discover what really happened that night. The plot twists pile up faster than the body count in this blistering mystery of vengeance and vice, directed by Jim Mickle (Stake Land, We Are What We Are) with scene-stealing performances from Sam Shepard and Don Johnson as a pair of Texan badasses. Based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale.

Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All

Documentary
Long before punk rock inflicted its puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were in a van brewing a potent mix of pop, angst, love and coffee and influencing a generation to come. FILMAGE: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL follows drummer and square-peg Bill Stevenson as he pushes himself and a rotating door of band-mates to “achieve ALL,” his relentless concept of “going for greatness, the utmost possible” despite any and all setbacks. Shortly after proving themselves to the burgeoning Los Angeles hardcore scene, guitarist Frank Navetta sets fire to his gear and disappears, bassist Tony Lombardo rejects life on the road in favor of a suburban home, and iconic nerd frontman Milo Aukerman goes to college to become a scientist. Stevenson, however, remains. Unfazed and hellbent on his quest, he charges ahead three decades, dragging along a new crop of tireless cohorts to zigzag the globe and serve up countless caffeinated love songs against impossible—and life threatening—odds. Interviews with the band and contemporaries such as Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), Mark Hoppus (Blink-182), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) and many more reveal the untold tale of one of the most overachieving and influential bands in punk, serving as a reminder to always “go for greatness," because sometimes you're gonna get it.

Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania

World Cinema
Kavya Pratap Singh, a chirpy, yet feisty girl from Ambala, decides to make a trip to Delhi for her wedding shopping. She meets a young, carefree Delhi lad, Humpty Sharma. Humpty's father is the owner of a campus bookstore, where Humpty and his two best friends, Shonty and Poplu, have grown up together. Kavya is unattainable for Humpty initially, which makes her even more endearing to him. Determined Humpty, with help from his two best friends, finds out all about her and eventually they start growing closer to each other. Kavya's trip ends and she heads back to Ambala. She knows that her father, the very strict, yet loving Mr. Singh, would never accept her love for Humpty. To get his love, Humpty, along with his two friends, heads to Ambala. That's the beginning of a journey for him that he wouldn't have imagined undertaking even in the wildest of his dreams. Humpty, against all odds, decides to convince Kavya's family to agree to his alliance with her.

Tasting Menu

Comedy
One of the greatest restaurants in the world is closing, and an eclectic mix of international patrons have arrived in beautiful Catalonia for the final dinner service in this witty and delicious ensemble comedy. Tasting Menu, centered on culinary delights, is a crowd-pleasing combination of relationships, feuds, and broken dreams that are mended through the simple act of “breaking bread” and the universal appreciation of great food.

Firestorm

A storm is heading toward the city of Hong Kong, threatening the lives of everyone in its path. As citizens scramble for cover, a crew of seasoned criminals stage a series of armored car heists in broad daylight, showing no mercy to anyone who gets in their way. Hardboiled police inspector Cao Nam (Andy Lau) has had enough. He vows to take back his city, but quickly learns that regular police tactics are no match for the thieves’ unmerciful brutality. The more Nam pursues them, the more unhinged he becomes - and the savage confrontation brewing in the streets may leave an aftermath even more horrifying than the devastating effects of nature itself.

The Dead and the Damned 2

Horror
From the Director of "The Dead and the Damned" comes a high octane sequel in a savage land where zombies roam freely - Lieutenant Colonel Sawyer is armed with machine guns, body armor and courage. He is on a mission to give his family a burial at sea. To reach the coast, he must enter a quarantined infected zone and fight through hordes of bloodthirsty zombies. There he encounters a group of survivors including a young woman who is a target of both the male survivors and the ravenous zombies. To protect the last non-infected humans and complete his mission, Colonel Sawyer must face the Dead, the Damned and the Darkness.

Fandry

World Cinema
A mesmeric force pulls Jabya onto the other side. The rarest of rare Black Sparrow he is told, is the cure to his problem. The hypnotic spell of the sparrow makes him wander relentlessly. Completely away from the magical world of Jabya, exists the callous reality of his parents who are working at the most oppressed level of the Indian Class Structure and assume him to do the same work which they have done all their life. The protagonist Jabya has to now struggle between his quest to find the magical sparrow and his parents' expectations. Will Jabya be successful in his pursuit of the Black Sparrow? Will the magnetic power surpass the class differences between Jabya and Shalu created by centuries of customs? Will Jabya break the fences and pass onto the other side?

How to Use Guys with Secret Tips

World Cinema
This feel-good sleeper hit follows Bo-na, a dorky girl lacking social skills, self-confidence or any shred of fashion sense. Tired of being shunned at work in favor of her prettier yet incompetent counterparts, she discovers a secret video manual called "How to Use Men." By following the wacky tactics in this self-help masterpiece, she soon catches many suitors.

Days and Nights

Drama
Inspired by Chekhov's The Seagull and set in rural New England in the 1980s, Days and Nights stars Allison Janney as Elizabeth, a movie star who brings her paramour Peter (first-time director Christian Camargo) to her lakeside estate to visit her family on Memorial Day weekend. Their eccentric, off-the-wall household includes her ailing brother (William Hurt), her artist son (Ben Whishaw), his ethereal muse (Juliet Rylance), the family doctor (Jean Reno), the estate's custodian (Russell Means), the careless caretaker (Michael Nyqvist) and his wife (Cherry Jones), their temperamental daughter (Katie Holmes) and her long suffering ornithologist husband (Mark Rylance)--the keeper of the sacred land where a bald eagle attempts to raise its young. During the weekend a disastrous turn of events leads the family from dysfunction to heartbreak and, ultimately, salvation.

Ignasi M.

Documentary
Even though Ignasi M., a renowned museum expert, is going through a tough time, he has a very amusing way of talking about it. During the good times everything went very well for him, but then his company went bankrupt during the recession. He tried to save it by mortgaging his house, which he is on the verge of losing to the bank. He is HIV positive and gay and is taking part in a clinical trial, while trying to get through the bad times and to get back his daily routine and enjoy each moment of his life to the fullest.

Kaptara

World Cinema
A dark power has risen out of the Aegean. Altering the wondrous technologies of their ancient race, the island nation of Kaptara has grown warlike. Their vast armada of bronze ships sweep all who oppose them into the sea, leaving nothing but destruction and despair in their wake. The once proud city of Athens stood alone in open defiance and was brought to its knees. Now, year in and year out, the dwindling population must pay a terrible price. Each Spring, fourteen young men and women are chosen by lot and sent to Kaptara as a sacrifice to a ravenous Kaptari god - The Earthshaker. Theseus, son of the king, chooses to take his place among the offering. Armed only with his father’s sword, the young warrior plots revenge against those who would destroy his people. But a shadowy secret lies hidden beneath the soil of Kaptara. A curse placed upon the royal house of Minos has instead been hailed as a god, and as they wander the dark, ever-changing halls of the Labyrinth, it is this bloodthirsty abomination that hunts the Athenians: neither fully man, nor beast, nor god, but all three in one. The Minotaur. The curse of mighty Kaptara. And the seed of its doom.

A Coffee in Berlin

World Cinema
Niko is having a tough morning. He’s broken up with his girlfriend, been cut off from his monthly allowance, and was just declared “emotionally unstable” by a court-appointed psychologist. If only he could find a decent cup of coffee. Painting an eventful day-in-the-life of a twenty-something law school dropout, A Coffee In Berlin follows Niko as he drifts through a series of absurd, funny and, ultimately, life-changing encounters with the people and city around him. Photographed in timeless black and white and enriched by a snappy jazz soundtrack, Jan Ole Gerster’s vibrant and charming debut, which swept the German Film Awards in 2013, is a slacker comedy with a poignant center, and a love-letter to the city of Berlin and Generation Y.

Last Hijack

Documentary
A true tale of survival in Somalia told from the pirate’s perspective. Combining animation with documentary storytelling, Last Hijack takes an innovative hybrid approach to explore how one successful Somali pirate, Mohamed, came to live such a brutal and dangerous existence. Animated re-enactments explore the memories, dreams, and fears from a rarely seen point of view in this original non-fiction narrative.

Bird People

Drama
In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer (The Good Wife star Josh Charles) abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. As fate draws him and a young French maid (Anais Demoustier) together, an audacious second-act surprise suddenly transforms C̩sar Award-winning director Pascale Ferran's (Lady Chatterley) dark-tinged fairy-tale into something altogether richer, more beguiling, and utterly astonishing.

Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia

Documentary
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, this is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism. Commentary by those who knew him best—including filmmaker/nephew Burr Steers and the late Christopher Hitchens—blends with footage from Vidal's legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time. This is Gore Vidal's last word and testimony.

My Little Bride

Comedy
Korea's sweetheart - Moon Geun-young - stars as a high school studen who tries to continue her normal social and school life, even though she is stucked in an arranged marriage to an twenty-something womanizer to appease her grandfather's pact with his longtime war buddy.

Deep Powder

Drama
Privileged and reckless boarding school senior, Natasha, is tapped by her secret society to make its annual drug run to Ecuador. She in turn chooses a working-class local boy as her partner in crime, launching a journey with devastating outcomes for everyone involved. Inspired by true events from the early '80s, Deep Powder is an intense and sexy drama that speaks to the character that is revealed when you find yourself trapped.

Jal (Water)

World Cinema
Jal is officially selected for 18th BUSAN international Film Festival and Indian Panorama's IFFI 2013. The movie has won the National Award for Best Visual effect (2014). It is a story of young, willful BAKKA who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character. It is a high-octane, action-drama with a shocking climax.

Guess How Much I Love You: Autumn's Here

World Cinema
Inspired by the best-selling books, this charming series follows the adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare and his father, Big Nutbrown Hare. Autumn is here and it's time for a change. In these seven fun-filled episodes, Little Nutbrown Hare goes about exploring all the wonders and magic that the change of seasons brings to the meadow as Summer turns to Fall.

Joint Security Area

Drama
From the visionary director of Oldboy, Park Chan-wook, directs a twisty murder mystery set in the most dangerous border in the world - the DMZ which separates North and South Korea - where a young North Korean soldier (Shin Ha-kyun) is shot and killed. Lee Soo-hyeok (Lee Byung-hun), a South Korean soldier, is considered the prime suspect in the murder investigation.

Dr. Slice and Dice: Genius of Beauty

Comedy
A wacky European cosmetic surgeon, infamous for his unique creations of beauty, is pursued to India, by a pair of obsessed malpractice detectives. Featuring a truly International cast and a brilliantly unique musical score, the Genius of Beauty is an outrageous brand of humor and multiracial flavoring.

Starring Adam West

Documentary
This documentary follows Hollywood survivor and family man, Adam West, who became a household name in1966 as Batman. Starring Adam West tells the uplifting story of his determination and dedication that have made him an enduring Hollywood legacy.

The Last of the Unjust

Documentary
Three decades after his cinematic milestone, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann once again reorients our understanding of the Holocaust. The Last of the Unjust centers on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Jewish elder of Theresienstadt (the so-called "model" ghetto), a figure despised by many of the ghetto's surviving inhabitants. Intercut with footage of Lanzmann himself revisiting specific sites in Vienna and the Czech Republic, the brilliant Murmelstein—sometimes excitedly but more often calmly—explains his actions and precisely defines his paradoxical role in history.

Delivery

Documentary
This comedy follows a soon-to-be father as he documents the fear and hilarity of attempting a stand-up comedy career before having his first child, but quickly discovers that his story is a heartwarming one of love, loss, hope, and regret.

Here Comes The Night

Comedy
When two estranged friends are reunited at a funeral, they embark on a night in
Los Angeles. In an attempt to discover the city, they discover themselves.

All This Mayhem

Documentary
All This Mayhem is the real-life story of the bond between brothers, Tas and Ben Pappas, and how their rise in the world of professional skateboarding led to their fall into a world of self-destruction.

God's Pocket

Drama
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christina Hendricks star in this deliciously twisted comedy about life and death on the mean streets of Philadelphia. Also stars John Turturro.

Falcon Rising

World Cinema
Michael Jai White (Spawn) stars in this action adventure as John "Falcon" Chapman, an ex-marine anti-hero plagued with a terrible secret consuming him with guilt. On the self-destructive edge, he learns his sister Cindy (Laila Ali) has been brutally beaten in the slums or “favelas” of Brazil and travels there to hunt down her attackers. In the process he discovers an underground world of drugs, prostitution, and police corruption ruled by the Japanese mafia and protected by the powerful Hirimoto (Masashi Odate, The Last Samurai). With incredible fight sequences and edge of your seat action, Falcon Rising is an in your face thrill-ride introducing America’s newest action hero.

Bhoothnath Returns

World Cinema
Bhoothnath Returns takes Bhoothnath's story forward. As he returns to 'Bhoot World' he is greeted with taunts and condemnation from other ghosts for bringing disrepute to the ghost-community for getting bullied by a kid on Earth. Post the humiliation, Bhoothnath decides to redeem himself and come back to scare a bunch of kids. Bhoothnath's search for kids brings him to Akhrot, a slum kid who is also the only person who can see him. Together they agree to help each other and their friendship sees them get involved in a cause that is bigger than they had ever imagined. To move ahead they will need to take on one of the country's most powerful and corrupt politician Bhau. The Lok Sabha elections are nearing and Bhau's victory is a mere formality, or is it? In a world, where a common man is afraid of politics, will a common man's ghost overcome his fear to stand up for what's right and fight against injustice? Bhoothnath Returns is an entertaining tale of good against evil, weak against powerful, past against future.

The Pact 2

Horror
The stunning sequel to new horror classic The Pact ups the ante on terror. When a series of brutal murders lead authorities to believe the Judas killer is back, Annie, (Caity Lotz The Machine), returns home for the final showdown. Also starring Camilla Luddington.

Dead Within

Horror
Boarded up in a remote cabin, a couple trying to outlast a mysterious pandemic must decide if the greater threat is outside or within.

From the Rough

Sports
The remarkable true story of how one woman changed the world of sports forever. When Catana Starks (Academy-Award Nominee Taraji P. Henson) became the first African-American woman to coach an all-men's team at the collegiate level she expected it to be tough but she had no idea just how challenging it would be. With no scholarships to offer and only one US student willing to join the team, she reached out across the globe to assemble a ragtag group of golfers including a clean cut kid from Australia, a wanna-be rapper from Korea and a street kid from London (Tom Felton). With sheer grit, determination and some unusual training tactics she guided this culture club of misfits to an all-time record championship season. Along the way she taught them no matter how rough the start, with the right aim and drive, anyone can triumph against overwhelming odds.

Kelly & Cal

Comedy
Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly (a fantastic Juliette Lewis), is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn't yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal (Jonny Weston in a breakthrough performance) is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.

A Slasher House

Horror
Trapped with the world’s most notorious serial killers, Red finds herself caught in a deadly game with no escape as one by one the 'inmates' are released to stalk her as their prey.

La Ultima Muerte

World Cinema
In this intense psychological thriller, Dr. Alexanderson (Álvaro Guerrero) finds a wounded and unconscious man (Kuno Becker) by his remote cabin. When the man awakens with amnesia, the doctor sets out to determine the stranger's identity, inadvertently entering a dangerous web of conspiracy and setting them both on the run.

Headshots

Drama
Marianne, a thirty-something photographer, begins to look at things anew after discovering that she is pregnant. Then things go haywire when a model dies after a photo shoot. A hidden world of darkness and disorder, mistrust and lies breaks into the open. Told as a web of interlocking anecdotes, Headshots tells the course from fragile love to betrayal, from complicity to self-annihilation, and back through twists that are comical, poignant, and ridiculous in a Berlin you have never seen before.

The Empty Hours

World Cinema
On the desolated coast of Veracruz, 17 year-old Sebastián takes over running his uncle's small and cozy rent-by-the hour motel. There he meets Miranda, a regular customer who comes to the motel to meet a lover who always keeps her waiting. As Sebastián and Miranda get to know each other, an ambiguous game of seduction begins between them.

Baby Blues

Horror
A new home brings a fresh start for Hao (Raymond Lam) and Tian Qing (Janelle Sing), a happily married couple who soon discover she's pregnant with twin boys. But when a difficult delivery leaves the couple with only one son alive, Tian is consumed with grief and postpartum depression. These "Baby Blues" weave an obsessive attachment to a baby doll, presumably abandoned by the previous owner. Before long, mysterious accidents grow into violent episodes that threaten the entire family - and one neighbor's warnings about a curse on their home becomes terrifyingly real...

Paris-Manhattan

World Cinema
Idealistic pharmacist Alice (the adorable Alice Taglioni - The Valet; Sky Fighters) is totally obsessed with the movies of Woody Allen. She continually quotes lines from his films, engages in imaginary conversations, and even prescribes her customers his classic works to help alleviate their ailments; it's a little wonder she's still single in her thirties! Alice's increasingly concerned Jewish parents hope to cure her fixation by setting her up with a handsome French gentleman (Patrick Bruel - Change of Plans; A Secret), but even he quickly realizes that he's no match for the man of her dreams...

Ragnarok

Same Day as Theaters. An archaeologist with an obsession for the strange becomes fixated on a Viking funeral ship with a mysterious inscription. When a link between this relic and an equally puzzling cave of bones is discovered, he embarks on an adventure, journeying to the abandoned “No Mans Land” in Norway’s North. His academic pursuits quickly turn into a fight for survival when a powerful and long-dormant evil lurking in the depths of the cave awakes. The expedition inadvertently stumbles upon the horror at the heart of the Norse apocalypse myth Ragnarok, and time is against them to save themselves and the world from the monster they have brought out of the depths…

A Good Lawyer's Wife

Drama
Nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice, Im Sang-soo (The Housemaid) directs this sexually charged drama about a good lawyer but unfaithful husband and his young-at-heart but frustrated wife. Soon she opts to start an affair with an awkward teenage neighbor. Along with their precocious adopted son, and dysfunctional in-laws, they pose a reflection on the state of family in modern Korea.

InRealLife

Documentary
Looking at both Silicon Valley and at the lives of British children, InRealLife explores how the internet shapes the way children interact with the world. The film reveals the generational gap caused by the internet's development.

Treachery

Drama
Henry (Michael Biehn) and his son, Nathan (Matthew Ziff), are forced to spend time together during the weekend of a friend’s wedding. We see very early that their relationship is strained and their time with each other is uncomfortable, but when a storm moves in and the road washes out, secrets are revealed and the situation heads toward peril. When Henry learns that Nathan plans to quit school and ask his girlfriend, Cecilia (Sarah Butler), to marry him, he expresses disapproval. Nathan isn't surprised, his dad has never approved of his relationship. We soon learn that Henry's apprehension is based on something far more sinister than fatherly concern. Henry slept with Cecilia during a one night affair. He put the incident behind him, but Cecilia has other ideas and tells Henry that he's the one she wants to be with, and that she plans to end her relationship with Nathan so that the two of them can be together. Henry tries to humor her, in hopes of holding things together through the weekend, but then his girlfriend, Vanessa (Caitlin Keats), tells him a secret, she's figured out that Cecilia is pregnant and Henry is now worried that the baby is his. Nathan is happy when he learns that Cecilia is having a baby, but the guilt proves too much for Cecilia and she confesses that, "There was another guy." Henry has to think quick on his feet as Nathan and Vanessa start putting pieces of the puzzle together, all while Cecilia is trying to convince him to leave his girlfriend and start a happy new life together with her and the new baby - which may or may not be his.

Last Weekend

Comedy
Patricia Clarkson powers this humorous drama about Celia, an aging matriarch who wants everyone to gather one last time at the family's gorgeous Lake Tahoe manor and reminisce before she puts it on the market. However, her sons are too preoccupied with their own busy lives and struggling relationships for any nostalgia, and the dream of a splendid Labor Day weekend dies quickly in a whirlwind of contention, crisis and family dysfunction. Set in the infamous Hurricane Bay house of George Stevens' 1951 melodrama A Place In The Sun, where Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift once caused fireworks, Last Weekend gracefully captures the soulful transformation in Celia as she is forced to let go of her fantasy and attend to the harsh reality brought on by a sudden emergency.

La Bare

Documentary
Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike) steps behind the camera for LA BARE, a documentary film that goes behind the curtain, behind the stage and behind the magic of the world’s most popular male strip club – La Bare Dallas. Featuring a unique ensemble of the club’s most popular dancers, LA BARE takes a provocative look into their rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and offers a front row seat to their lives, loves, laughs and losses.

Jealousy

Drama
Louis Garrel (THE DREAMERS) stars in this deeply poignant drama directed by none other than his father, major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel. After separating from his wife, Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia (Anna Mougladis) as they struggle with fidelity and the temptation to give up their art for an easier life. Shot with Garrel's celebrated attention to faces, bodies, and the intricacies of the human heart, JEALOUSY is an enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal.

John Day

World Cinema
John Day is a bank manager of Royal Citizen Co-operative Bank and lives with his wife Maria Day. The couple has recently lost their only daughter in a forest fire accident while she was on a trip with her boyfriend. Maria is always depressed and never opens up with anyone. One day when John is away for office work, a courier-boy enters the house and takes Maria as a captive. He then calls up John informing him about his wife is a hostage and tells him that a man will visit him at his bank and John has to do his work. It is shown that actually it was a planned bank heist where the visitor gagged John opened up the cash locker and fled, meanwhile the kidnapper hammered Maria causing her a serious brain damage and she got admitted to the hospital in a state of coma. Will John be able to crack the investigation? Will he find the true culprit? Watch the movie John Day to know more.

Triad

Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads, only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.

Lost Paradise

Independent
Set in the idyllic countryside in Southern France, Lucy (Pauline Etienne), a teenager, lives an isolated life with her father Hugo (Olivier Rabourdin). The two share a close relationship until her warward mother returns unexpectedly. Angered by her leaving him and his daughter, Hugo incarcerates her. Meanwhile, Lucy is exploring her sensuality with a young neighboring farmer, who gets up caught in the chaos of Lucy's highly dysfunctional family.

April Snow

Drama
After finding out that their spouses were in an affair, In-su and Seo-young, bonded by their sense of betrayal and disappointment, slowly enter a secret affair of their own. Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin stars in this twisted love story that helped push along the cultural phenomenom of Korean Wave across globe.

Believe In The Moment

World Cinema
Three couples are all high school students & close friends. None of the couples have strong convictions about their relationship so they decide to exchange partners for 24 hours. What can go wrong?

Borgman

Comedy
An darkly humorous fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places.

Cam2Cam

Horror
In this dark and haunting thriller, five Bangkok tourists have gone missing after making online contact with an unknown party. Newly-arrived Allie Westbrook (Tammin Sursok) meets a pair of ex-pats, Michael and Marit, who perform on a provocative interactive website. The dark menace beneath Michael's easy charm and the strange magnetism of the group's leader, Marit, drive Allie to the brink of madness. In a city where foreigners come to re-invent themselves, Allie learns, too late, that nothing is what it seems.

Bewitching Attraction

Comedy
This is the not-so-simple story of a promiscuous professor and her love affairs with five men. Eun-sook has all the male professors wrapped around her finger - but when a popular comic artist Suk-gyu joins the environmental awareness group that she belongs to, he attracts the jealously of Mr. Yoo, a group member who fears that he would steal Eun-sook from him, even though Eun-sook does not return his intense love. What is not known to the rest is that Eun-sook and Suk-gyu attended the same junior high school where they share a secretive tragic history. Back then, Eun-sook was the girlfriend of Suk-gyu's older brother and the three rebellious teenagers indulged in sex promiscuously. Eun-sook worries that her past may be revealed when Mr. Yoo starts snooping around Eun-sook and Suk-gyu's past. Will their secret be kept and will they be together again?

Tiny Times 2.0

Drama
The hit sequel to the glamorous cultural phenomenom that is Tiny Time 1.0 picks up where the girls left off - now older and fiercer, the heat is turned up as casual flings and infidelities threaten their friendship. When perennial fumbling girl-next-door Lin Xiao, the calculated heiress Lily, the dreamy painter-designer Nan Xiang and the crude crown Ruby graduate from university, their lives are severely tested by betrayals and family tragedies, as Lin Xiao and Lily struggle to establish different careers in the world of high-fashion.

Hypnotized

World Cinema
Marketed in Korea largely on the steamy erotic tension between its two leads, Hypnotized is a psychological affair about Jin-su, a failed novelist who attempts suicide after learning of her husband's affair. She is committed to an institution where she meets her therapist, who becomes obsessed with his patient and resorts to hypnosis to fulfill his sexual desires.

The Isle

Drama
Shocking viewers at the Venice Film Festival, The Isle is the haunting yet gruesome masterpiece by controversial director Kim Ki-duk. In a remote fishing ground where people go to forget their deepest problems, a mysteriously silent woman acts as groundkeeper, supplier of food and beverage, and sometimes offers her own body to the lonely fishermen. One day, an ex-cop who is on the run for the murder of his lover arrives at the isle looking for a place to hide. Soon the odd couple starts to develop an unusually intimate relationship.

Tiny Times 1.0

Drama
Based on the best-selling book series "Tiny Times," a young adult series channeling both "Sex and the City" and "Gossip Girl." This cultural phenomenom depicts the friendship among four young girls as they fumble through relationships and friendships while balancing to keep up in the ultra-competitve fashion world of Shanghai, where one misstep turns into jealousy and misunderstanding.

Happy End

Drama
Sex, lies and betrayal unhinge the marriage between a successful career woman and her recently unemployed husband. Choi Min-sik (Oldboy & Lucy) stars across Jeon Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine) as the jealous, emasculated husband whose alpha wife carries a passionate love affair with her ex-lover.

Manakamana

Documentary
From the producers of LEVIATHAN, comes a stunning new journey, an exhilarating documentary that takes place entirely in the sky. High above Nepal's lush, mountainous landscape, a cable car carries pilgrims, villagers and the occasional American tourist to an ancient Hindu temple. Filmed entirely inside cable cars, MANAKAMANA captures the conversations of its passengers and emerges with a rich, vibrant view of Nepal.

Eternal Damn Nation

Horror
A mysterious man arrives in a small town where a series of grisly, ritualistic murders have recently occurred. After saving the life of a young woman, he informs her that she is being targeted by supernatural creatures, and that he's come to protect her.

Knuckle Jack

World Cinema
Jack has never left his small Catskill town. Shadowed by a childhood tragedy, he limps through his days in a lonely haze of drugs, booze and bitterness. At night he paints pictures of dark highways-- different versions of the same nightmarish stark scene-- which he then plants inside the wealthy weekenders' homes he robs in between disability checks. He's not stealing; just "trading art for things they don't need."
When Jack is summoned by his mother, the estranged son is surprised when his 8 year old niece Frankie opens the door. Frankie's mother is battling cancer, and Jack begrudgingly takes on the task of caring for the quiet girl. "Don't fuck anything up," he says to her as they head home.
Not one to let a little girl cramp his style, Jack carries on business-as-usual, drinking, painting and thieving. Soon Frankie catches on to his mysterious house visits and wants in on the action. Looks like larceny runs in the family.
These two banged-up, lonesome souls-- one broken, the other braving a new kind of dark-- burn through the thick Catskill summer. Jack needs his weed; Frankie needs her mom; but before long they need each other. Along the way we meet colorful locals-- dealers, sellers, good-time girls.... all of them, like Jack and Frankie, just hoping to make a buck, make a date, make it to tomorrow.
KNUCKLE JACK is a portrait of what we've lost and how we get by. There's an art to survival: A life like Jack's, canvassed in black and washed in despair, paints by its own cruel numbers. But sometimes a tiny crack (or an 8 year-old girl) lets in a sliver of light, and a whole new picture is revealed.

The Power of Kangwon Province

Independent
Cannes-winning director, Hong Sang-soo's sophomore effort take his signature naturalistic look into fleeting romance, following a sensitive girl distressed by her recent break-up and a vacationing professor looking for the services of a prostitute, as they ride the same train and visit the same sights in the tranquil mountains of the Kangwon Province in South Korea.

A Night In Nude: Salvation

Drama
Cult director Takashi Ishii (Flower and Snake, Gonin) puts his signature touch on this perverse detective story, where a hardboiled private investigator finds himself lured into a strange world filled with violence and sex when he takes on an odd job to retrieve a lost Rolex for his mysterious employer.

Sledge

Horror
Sledge hits you from the beginning with humor and originality. Opening with Assly's True American Horror television program, the action kicks off instantly with skull crushing deaths from the killer, Adam Lynch. Adam believes he is in a movie and video game that he has created in his head.

At The Devil's Door

Horror
From The Producer of THE STRANGERS and the writer/director of THE PACT comes AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR starring Naya Rivera, Ashley Rickards and Catalina Sandino Moreno. When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web — and has sinister plans for both of them.

Coldwater

World Cinema
Brad Lunders is a teenager forcefully abducted from his home in the middle of the night by his mother’s consent to a harsh wilderness reform facility. There is no contact with the outside world and the retired war colonel in charge prides himself on breaking an inmate’s spirit in order to correct delinquent behavior. As we learn of the tragic events that led to Brad’s arrival, unforeseen circumstances threaten to tear the already eroding reform facility apart, forcing Brad to confront not only his fellow inmates and the personnel in charge, but finally his own sense of what is right and what is wrong

Chloe

Drama
Highly controversial and previously unavailable in North America, Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard sizzles as the young and naive high school student Chloe. Her desire for a new and exciting life leads her to a charming stranger in the streets of Paris. In turn, he takes her down a dark path of prostitution and violence.

Jake Squared

Comedy
Jake Klein, 50, sets out to make a movie. He hires an actor to play himself and throws a big party. His idea is to shoot the heck out of it and see what he gets. But, everything spins out of control as different, unexpected people show up. Old loves are there. New loves are there. His dead father, his mother when she was young, his kids, his ex-wife. Even his younger selves, Jake at 40, Jake at 30 and Jake at 17, are there, too! And every one of them has tons of advice on how to fix his screwed up life. Jake's head reels as he staggers through what's either a mystical experience, a nervous breakdown... or both!

Dancing in Jaffa

Documentary
Pierre Dulaine, an internationally renowned ballroom dancer, fulfills a life-long dream when he takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa. Over a ten-week period, Pierre teaches 10-year-old Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli children to dance and compete together. Dancing in Jaffa explores the complex stories of three different children, who are forced to confront issues of identity, segregation and racial prejudice as they dance with their enemy. The classroom becomes a microcosm of the Middle East's struggle to work together harmoniously while still caught in the politics of the region and race. With the guidance of Pierre, the children learn to dance together and trust one another. Dancing In Jaffa offers an up-close-and-personal perspective of how the future might unfold if the art of movement and dance could triumph over the politics of history and geography.

Love 911

Drama
Kang-il is a rescue firefighter whose wife died while he was helping someone else in an accident. Struggling with guilt for being unable to save his wife, Kang-il frantically jumps into dangers to rescue others. Mi-soo, a doctor at a general hospital, makes a misdiagnosis and gets sued by the patient's husband when the patient ends up slipping into a critical condition. In danger of losing her medical license, Mi-soo's lawyer advises her to convince Kang-il to testify against the patient's husband for an assault that occurred while the husband was in grief. She sets out to win Kang-il over by "dating him."

Finding Vivian Maier

Documentary
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.

Love Hotel

Documentary
"Love Hotel" gives a provocative peek inside Osaka’s “Angel Love Hotel,” exposing the unseen side of Osaka’s harshly conservative society where the sexual fantasies of some find a home in underground clubs.

Neighboring Sounds

Crime
On a quiet city block in the coastal city of Recife, ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons, a recent spate of petty crime has rattled the nerves of the well-to-do residents. When a mysterious security firm is brought in to watch over the neighborhood, it sparks the fears and anxieties of a divided society still haunted by its past.

Step Up to the Plate

Documentary
French chef Michel Bras, one of the most influential chefs in the world, has decided to hand over his renowned 3-Michelin-Star restaurant to his son Sebastien. Filmed in the gorgeous Aubrac region in the South of France, home to the Bras family for generations, Step Up ToThe Plate offers a rare glimpse into the Bras' culinary process while capturing one of the most closely watched transitions in the world of haute cuisine.

The Maid's Room

Drama
Available Same Day as Theaters. A live-in maid begins to suspect her wealthy employers’ son has committed a terrible crime in this haunting psychological thriller that explores the relationships among power, wealth, and fear.

Bicycling With Moliere

Comedy
From the director of the hit comedy, THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR comes BICYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE - a warm, funny, literate comedy starring renowned French actors, Fabrice Luchini and Lambert Wilson. Gauthier (Wilson) is a handsome and famous soap opera star in Paris; Serge (Luchini) is a serious stage actor who has renounced his profession to live on an idyllic island off the French coast. When Gauthier visits Serge to convince him to join him in a production of Molière's The Misanthrope, a battle of wits ensues over who will play the lead role of Alceste. Between rehearsals, the two bike along the windswept beaches, rival for the affections of a beautiful Italian divorcée and offer advice to an aspiring porn actress. As tensions mount, Gauthier begins to wonder if Serge is really considering leaving his island paradise for the stage or if he's just toying with him.

Miss Lovely

Drama
Set in the sex-fueled 1980s Bollywood underground, “Miss Lovely” follows two brothers as they make their way through a sordid world of sex parties, police corruption and crime, telling a devastating story of doomed love and betrayal.

Iron Pussy

Independent
A spy from Thailand enters Busan disguised as a woman for a undercover mission. What he does not anticipate is that he would fall in love with an unidentified Korean man.

The Damned

Horror
The wicked horror-thriller THE DAMNED follows American David Reynolds (Peter Facinelli), widowed from his Colombian-born wife, who flies to Bogota with his new fiancée (Sophia Myles) to retrieve his rebellious teenage daughter Jill (Nathalia Ramos). En route to the city of Medellin, a car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown isolated inn. When they discover the old innkeeper has locked a young girl in the basement, they are determined to set her free. But no good deed goes unpunished, as they unwittingly unleash a centuries-old evil that will stop at nothing to destroy all in its path. THE DAMNED takes the traditional haunted house film and turns it on its head, taking audiences on a wild and terrifying ride they're not soon to forget.

The Amazing Catfish

World Cinema
THE AMAZING CATFISH is a heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.

Mars & Avril

World Cinema
Based on an acclaimed graphic novel, Mars & Avril is set in Montreal of the future, at the dawn of the first human landing on Mars, and tells the story of a musician who becomes obsessed with his muse.

So Young

Drama
A critically lauded surprise box-office hit, Vicki Zhao's (Shaolin Soccer, Painted Skin) directorial debut after 15 years of acting is a daring and unapologetic ode to youth set in the socially-conservative '90s. Boasting a cast of A-listers (Mark Chao, Han Geng) and newcomers (Yang Zishan, Jiang Shuying), this collegiate romance follows the headstrong Zheng Wei, as she navigates through campus life, sisterhood and heartbreaks in a repressive society.

His Concern

Short Films
A man is attracted by the women sitting across from him on a train ride. He then gets off the train after her, even though its not his stop and is able to get her phone number. A few days later the man plans to meet the woman for the second time. Will she be his soulmate?

The Bullet Vanishes

Gripping, visually stunning and full of twists - The Bullet Vanishes follows an eccentric detective as he teams up with an expert gunman to solve the mysterious case of the "Phantom Bullet" - where the body count piles up and the bullets are never found.

Singh Saab the Great

Singh Sahab The Great is a story about a common man, who takes pride in his honesty. He leads a simple life and believes in honestly and true values. The film narrates the story of Singh Saab (Sunny Deo), an honest collector, who believes in carrying out his duties diligently. However, the crooked and shady Bhoodev (Prakash Raj) falsely implicates him in a case of bribery and gets him imprisoned. Even though Singh Saab is seething with anger, he decides to settle scores with Bhoodev differently, by bringing about change instead of revenge (Badla nahin Badlaav). The ground is set for a confrontation between the honest and corrupt forces. (CBFC U/A DIL/2/235/2013-MUM)

I'm Here

Short Films
The wife (Cha Soo-yeon) awaits for her husband (Kim Kang-woo), while hiding, to give him a surprise. He always worries about coming home late and leaving her alone, but doesn't know that his wife worries over him. Because he is the one who will soon be left alone...

On My Way

Drama
Now in her early sixties, former beauty queen Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) finds herself jilted by her lover and left alone to deal with the financial problems facing her family's restaurant. What begins as a quick drive to clear her head turns into a full-fledged road trip. Along the way there are chance meetings, an ex-Miss France gala, renewed ties with her estranged daughter and grandson, and possibly, at the end of the road, love.

Come Back To Me

World Cinema
Sarah (Katie Walder) & Josh McLaren (Matt Passmore) are a young married couple living in suburban Las Vegas. After a car accident, Sarah decides life is short and she and her husband should start a family and begin to live every moment of their lives to the fullest. But shortly after, she begins to suffer a series of disturbing memory lapses and frequent blackouts that seem to be increasing in intensity. Not sure what is happening and feeling as if she is losing her mind, Sarah finds out she is pregnant and subsequently, to her shock, that her husband is sterile. As her marriage and world begin to fall apart, she makes a desperate attempt to find the truth by planting a hidden camera in her home. What she discovers is both horrific and life altering and involves a dark secret about her neighbor Dale (Nathan Keyes) that is even more far-reaching than anyone could imagine. Based on the terrifying horror novel The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White.

Red Lines

Documentary
This harrowing documentary chronicles the journey of two activists on a mission to save Syria – one that means smuggling aid into warzones, brokering their own weapons’ deals, and striving to create enclaves of civil, democratic society in their homeland.

My Lucky Star

Comedy
In the hit sequel to Sophie's Revenge, Zhang Ziyi (Crouching TIger, Hidden Dragon, The Grandmasters) reprises her role as lovelorn Sophie, now stuck in a dull job as a travel agent in Beijing. While daydreaming her life away with her best friends Lily and Lucy, she wins an all-expenses paid trip to a luxurious hotel in Singapore, where she runs into David (pop star Wang Leehom), the living embodiment of her dream man, who turns out to be an American spy. Now she is caught in the middle of an international diamond heist!

Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story

Documentary
Featuring interviews with publisher Larry Flynt, employees, models, editors, and attorneys, "Back Issues" chronicles the personalities and pictures of Hustler Magazine, the most offensive publication of all time. The definitive documentary on the legendary magazine, this eye-opening film explores how Flynt's fledgling pages went from the nightclubs of Ohio to the glitz and glam of Hollywood, and how the Hustler brand is adapting to pornography in the 21st century.

Affluenza

Drama
Available Same Day as Theaters. An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008. Starring Ben Rosenfield ,Nicola Peltz, and Gregg Sulkin.

The Gospel of Us

Drama
Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, Underworld) stars as Jesus of Nazareth in this contemporary re-telling of the Passion taking inspiration from one of the defining narratives of our times. The production takes in the small Welsh town of Port Talbot, with its townsfolk as the cast, crew and heroes.

Skanks

Documentary
This subversive documentary chronicles a group of amateur actors who bond while producing an original drag musical in religion- and football-obsessed small-town Alabama.

About the Pink Sky

Independent
Screened at Sundance, this serene coming-of-age story follows a cynical Japanese high-school girl as she learns the joy of lending an helping hand in the quieter parts of life.

The Forbidden Girl

Horror
Toby, a troubled young man who lost his girlfriend in a tragic accident begins to put his life back together again. After spending years in a psychiatric institute, he takes a job as a tutor for a beautiful woman, Laura, who lives in her aunt's lonely mansion. But Toby's memories and this strange new environment quickly devolve into something supernatural when he decides that his student is possessed. Creepy and unexplainable occurrences drive him from the house but the seemingly innocent young woman draws him back with a powerful, seductive temptation. At the height of his ecstasy, Toby realizes that there is a paranormal connection between the women of the house and it may be too late to save himself from eternal slavery in a hellish underworld.

A Secret History: The Making of America

Documentary
Discover the Illuminati and other Secret Societies of the ruling elite who have been orchestrating the way we live our daily lives for centuries. Is America truly the land of the free or just a series of events orchestrated by a grand architect? Learn the Occult origins of the greatest nation on earth.

In My End is My Beginning

Drama
Jung-ha (Uhm Jung-hwa) is left alone and heartbroken after her husband Jae-in (Hwang Jung-min) dies in a car accident. Her grief sharpens when she learns that he had been cheating on her with her friend Na-ru (Kim Hyo-jin). As a novelist, Jae-in had been looking for new stimulation to rouse him from his boring routine, and the secrecy and risk of his affair with Na-ru inspired his work. After Jae-in's funeral, Na-ru goes to Jung-ha, begging for forgiveness, saying that she will do anything if only Jung-ha will let her stay at her house. Jung-ha refuses at first, but eventually they begin living together. The strange co-habitation arrangement between Jung-ha and Na-ru and its complicated web of love, hate, lust, and guilt, develops into a lesbian relationship, leading to a new way of life.

The Face of Love

Drama
Five years after the death of her beloved husband Garrett (Ed Harris), Nikki (Annette Bening) meets a man who seems his exact duplicate. Not only does this stranger possess the same deeply lined face and startling blue eyes, he also shares Garrett's kindness, humor, and passion for art. And yet he is a stranger. Romance blossoms between Nikki and this alluring doppelgänger, but she can't bring herself to tell him the truth about what drew her to him. So she hides her photos and prevents him from meeting friends and family. Still, she can't resist taking him to all the old haunts. It isn't a question of if the truth will come out, but when. Arie Posin directs this emotionally thorny drama about how we cope with loss, live in the moment and ultimately move forward.