Official Competition

Humberto Suárez (José Luis Gómez), an aging benefactor, wants to leave behind a legacy, something that will live on long after he has passed.  He wants to produce the greatest movie ever.  To do so, he enlists the prolific director, Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz), whose unique style has garnered her many prestigious awards from the…

Lost Illusions

Landing in Paris with dreams of publishing his poems and hardly a cent in his pocket, Lucien (Benjamin Voisin) meets Etienne (Vincent Lacoste) who works in a publishing house of a small newspaper.  Lucien enters the world of journalism and discovers all the riches that can be had by people in power looking to buy…

The Long Walk

A boy (Por Silatsa) discovers a young woman (Noutnapha Soydara) laying in the weeds after a motorbike accident that would take her life.  Afraid, he does not report the body and the woman is unable to be cremated so her spirit is bound to walk the earth.  Fifty years later, the woman still visits the…

Mad God

On a mission to go behind enemy lines to detonate a bomb, an assassin is sent into an apocalyptic and torturous hellscape in a diving bell-like craft.  As the journey comes closer to completion, the horrors witnessed grow greater, but ultimately, the assassin is captured, and the mission is cut short.  His master, not to…

Elvis

He was the king of Rock and Roll.  Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) rose to the top of the charts throughout the 1950s until to his death in 1977.  Orchestrating his rise, and some say forming the star’s demise, too, is Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), an entertainment manager who lays claim to discovering Elvis in…

The Phantom of the Open

In 1976, Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance) made history by scoring the worst round of golf in The British Open.  Shattering the legacy of decorum held by the Association and refusing to forfeit the game gracefully, Maurice finished the course and became a pariah in golfing circles across the United Kingdom.  Never one to give up,…

The Black Phone

In 1978, a small Denver community was being terrorized by a serial kidnapper stalking and abducting their children.  “The Grabber” (Ethan Hawke), as he is referred to in the news, captures Finney (Mason Thames), but the boy will not go down without a fight.  In his cell, Finney receives calls from a mysterious black phone…

Spiderhead

Jeff (Miles Teller) is a young man with a reckless and tragic past that led to his conviction.  Offered a spot in an experimental drug test, he accepts, and in return is allowed to live with relative freedom across the facility.  The tests are led by Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth), a free-wheeling and eccentric scientist…

Wildhood

When Link (Phillip Lewitski) discovers that his father (Joel Thomas Hynes) had been hiding letters to him from his mother (Savonna Spracklin) who Link was led to believe was dead, Link flees from the abusive household with his younger brother, Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony), to find their mom.  On their journey, they are picked up by…