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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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Jobless
Daniel is a 32 years old guy who has lost the job. After initial anger,he does everything to find another job,but with no results. Francesca,his girlfriend,tries in every way to help him,but time passes inexorable and Daniel has to face choices that could damage his relationship. helped by some particular entities.... |
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IMAGO
A lonely girl, desperate to win her old high school friends back, invites them over to play the mysterious game "imago". She gets more than she bargained for when the game takes a toll on their world and ultimately hers, forcing her to undo the mayhem she has created. |
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Emma
17 year old Emma and Jayson are brought together through two different medical diagnoses, which leads to a discovery of love, happiness and the importance of letting go. "Emma", the film, was the final undergraduate thesis project of ten young media professionals. The film partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation Canada and, to date, has raised $6,500.00 for the organization. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/151059703 |
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Republic of Dreams
Sophia Ravel wants to be something in life but is thwarted by her father and sister. Trying to overcome her self doubts, an off-the wall New-Age therapist helps Sophia enter the puzzling world of her dreams. Here she is confronted with fearful challenges at the stake of losing everything. |
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Dirty Beautiful
David is a young, struggling writer very alone in the world. Kat is a lost soul recently left homeless by her ex. Both survive on the fringe of life. So when Kat storms into David’s life and throws out the crazy idea that they become an instant couple, David impulsively agrees and moves her into his tiny apartment. |
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The Unexpected
"The Unexpected", is a family fiction, drama about a teenage girl named “Samantha Burkmore” and her difficult and uncertain journey to adulthood. |
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Utopia, An Adult's FairyTale
Once upon a time, Achilles, an average, hard-working man, loses his job and is forced to face the reality of the world in which he lives. He sees the corruption that has overtaken his city, the greed of those who run it, and the pain and poverty that has fallen upon the innocent ... until one day he meets a strange little man who offers to show him a way to change his world. In desperation, Achilles accepts the little stranger's invitation, and begins an odd journey, with the help of a few friends, to send a message to The Boss that they have had ... enough! |
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Women collection
Eight women of different ages. Love and loneliness. Fear. The vestures that we all wear. This movie makes you realize that when we choose to live a “half-life”, we begin to rot. Women depicted in “Woman Collection” are subjects of a strange experiment. |
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EKAJ
“Think Kids meets Midnight cowboy” Ekaj is a love story between two drifters, the naive teenage Ekaj and the sarcastic hustler Mecca. On the background, we can see Harlem, Washington Heights, The Bronx, L.E.S. and Brooklyn. They go around the entire city sharing their dreams, cut off from society, discarded by life. The core of the movie is Ekaj, a runaway who thinks he will become the lover of a rich man and be taken care of for life. He finds his dreams shattered, although he makes some money as a prostitute, he finds he is disposable, replaceable and lacking what it takes to survive in the city. Mecca is a hilarious, foul mouthed character that has multiple problems of his own. We get a glimpse that Mecca has AIDS, he is high all day and still manages to be sane and sharp. When Ekaj finds himself used and discarded, Mecca shows him how to endure and not lose hope. As the film progresses Mecca becomes ill, at the same time we see Ekaj becoming stronger and less vulnerable. Their mutual loneliness leads to genuine friendship. |
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She Kills
“Sadie’s life is destroyed when a vicious gang called ‘The Touchers’ targets her for their sadistic fantasies after witnessing her sexy but innocent naked frolicking in a nearby field. On her wedding night, they attack her and her husband Edwin, brutalizing both of them. But during the attack, the virgin bride discovers a dangerous secret about her body—she is cursed with the legendary ‘Fire Crotch,’ a condition where Satan has laid claim to her vagina. After visiting her fortune-teller friend Casparella, a space exorcism is attempted on her meat flaps, but it only ends up unlocking secret hidden powers inside her. Her hatchet wound becomes lethal, her most deadly weapon in her thirst for revenge against The Touchers and her fight against lustful men everywhere!” |
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Read Me
Clark Kemper, a 38-year-old high school drop out, never learned how to read words due to dyslexia, but he can read people. He developed this skill over a lifetime of navigating a world he can’t understand, and he uses his sixth sense largely to protect himself. Clark lives his life as a passive spectator. As a boy, he watched his mother walk out on him and his father. Now, content with the status quo, he works as a dishwasher by day and putters around in solitude at night. When he meets Rachel, a struggling actress with her own unsettling past, he’s forced to confront the ugly truth that life is passing him by. Can he overcome the one obstacle from which his intuition can’t guard him? |
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Lost in Laos
When Coen gets a disturbing call from a clinic in Bangkok informing him that his brother David is seriously ill, he finds himself unable to contact him. Nobody knows where David is until Coen receives a video message from him traveling trough Asia. Many more will follow and Coen notices the video messages getting stranger by the day until they stop being sent altogether. David has gone missing and after a month of uncertainty and nightmares, Coen decides to follow the footsteps of his brother to find out what happened to him. |
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Golgotha
A parable exploring the anxiety and narcissism of parenthood, refracted through the prism of Adam and Sarah; the first man, and the mother of the sacrificial son. |
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A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
A Universal Language, documents the exciting and hilarious once in a life time journey of six Canadian comedians, among them Canadian comedy icon Mark Breslin, as they explore comedy, identity and history throughout the Holy Land and use the weapons of comedy to try and bring laughter to the Middle East. |
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Karie (Black)
Karie means Black. While there are tonal variations in culture across the southern multicultural, multi-religious Indian state called Kerala, one thing that remains unchanged is the caste system. Caste is the dangerous villain that creates irreparable damage to the social fabric and ostracizes individuals based on their skin tone. Karie explores the intricacies and power equations in the grim caste system in the form of the dialects and subtle language nuances influenced by caste. The film travels through the village with two men whose mission is to conduct a ritual on behalf of their coll |
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The spirit chaser
Dylan bought a videocamera to record the last week in Italy with his girlfriend Elena. During a poker game his friend Mike looses a lot of money and a spirit chaser. Tony, the winner, will replay money and Mike's spirit chaser in a bet: stay 24 hours in the wood where 30 years before a terrible murder happened, and record everything with Dylan's camera. Nobody k |
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Dark Vale
A young couple Tom and Leah go away for the weekend to a little cottage. Things go from good to bad at the cottage, so they leave and drive through a place called the Vale. As they enter deeper into the Vale things are not quite what they seem, they discover they are being stalked by an evil spirit and as they try to leave the vale they seem to end up back in the vale. |
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Four Wise Monkeys
People often create fantasies and genuinely believe in them. Is that bad? Louise has left Shawn and he is heartbroken. Now he is at the stage of finding out why, reviewing their time together with the help of his family. Will he be surprised? |
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A DIFFERENT SET OF CARDS
A secluded warehouse, a money transfer, a poker table and 4 players who meet each other at that place. The fade shuffle the cards and Ben Borkman is playing the game of his life. The other players are a Bad-Ass, an anxious baldy and an femme fatale. The chards change by each round and so the four player’s characters. All Players are involved in the same game. Based on one and the same situation the 4 players act the dealer’s part, the accomplice’s part, the cop part and the part of thef unknown. The film basically covers the question ´How does an identical initial position develops itself when the characters (who act a part) change? |
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Happy those who cry
Juan is a boy from a wealthy family who doesn’t seem to find his way in life. This annoys Ricardo, his father, who can’t stand watching his son waste his time partying with friends. Tired of his father’s reproaches, Juan wants to move out of his parents’ house but doesn’t have the money to provide for himself. |
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Bahati
BAHATI (means Good luck) the story is about the family of a widow woman who is facing a lot of difficulties after her husband died and leave her with two children. Her husband's family they have their traditions so they are forcing her to be inherited by Her husband's brother, and if she does not agree she must leave the house and children. |
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Natasha
A quiet young man comes to a university and meets a girl, Natasha, who slowly becomes his fixation and his life begins revolving around her. As the two fall in love, he finds himself plagued by horrific dreams that he cannot understand and terrifying premonitions that threaten to consume him as their relationship disintegrates around him, pushing him further and further to psychological collapse. WATCH NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAY2zsp0_wY |
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Gufors
Three aspiring ufologists set up a zany UFO shop (Global Unidentified Flying Object Research & Services) and unwittingly ignite the biggest UFO encounter since Roswell. |
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A Woman
Gabriela returns to her home town after a long trip. She meets with an old friend, Javier, who routes her to Felipe, Gabriela's past lover. Felipe now lives with his son and his new girlfriend. Gabriela has come back determined to get what she wants. |
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Reinforced concrete
Lorenzo is a musician who moves to the city to start over. There, he meets Eugenia and falls in love. One day, she is kidnapped by a sinister man who is wants the money he is owed. Lorenzo will try to rescue her no matter how hostile the obstacles. |
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REFUGIOS
Sick family relationships, three lovers separated by an ocean and a forbidden pregnancy. The destruction of a daily life puzzle that conceals an incest for 30 years between the Spanish countryside and the great Latin American metropolis. |
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CULPABLES
In a contentious divorce, Cristina little daughter you must choose to keep your mamq although that would suppose go losing contact with his father struggling not to lose |
UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
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Ad approved by Los Angeles CineFest
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