DRAMA
DOGTOOTH, 2009
ΚυνÏŒδοντας
Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece
A controlling, manipulative father (Christos Stergioglou) locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound. The children are bored to tears in spite of distractions like Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), an employee of their father's who makes regular visits to sexually service the son (Hristos Passalis). Increasingly curious about the outside world, the older daughter (Aggeliki Papoulia) hatches a plan to escape.
1h 37 min
THE HUNT, 2012
Jagten
Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark
A kindergarten teacher's (Mads Mikkelsen) world collapses around him after one of his students (Annika Wedderkopp), who has a crush on him, implies that he committed a lewd act in front of her.
1h 56 min
THE GOLDEN DREAM, 2012
La Jaula de Oro
Teenage Guatemalan emigrants journey to the United States, the glittering land of opportunity.
1h 50 min
OF GODS AND MEN, 2010
Des hommes et Des Dieux
An order of Trappist monks whose members include Christian (Lambert Wilson) and Luc (Michael Lonsdale) live among the Muslim population in a quiet corner of Algeria. As the country is plunged into civil war in the mid-1990s, the men of God must decide whether to stay among the impoverished residents who have been their neighbors, or flee the encroaching fundamentalist terrorists. The situation that unfolds, based on actual events, has tragic consequences.
2 hr 00 min
OMAR, 2013
عمر
Arrested after the death of an Israeli soldier, a Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) agrees to work as an informant, but his true motives and alliances remain hidden.