Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomon) follow the sound of gunshots one night leading them to a small rural town. In the morning, they find what they were after; Uriel, a young man who is bloated and covered in boils, grown ill from carrying the reincarnation of evil itself. Working with Ruiz (Luis Ziembrowski),…
Tag: International Cinema
El Conde
On December 10, 2006, Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) died at the age of 91; 33 years after his violent assertion to the presidency of Chile and 25 years after his regime lost the plebiscite vote ushering in the end of his rule. But what if he did not die and instead went into hiding? Not…
Rotting in the Sun
Sebastián (Sebastián Silva) is stuck in a creative rut in between projects and feeling hopeless, he makes jokes with his friend and landlord Mateo (Mateo Riestra) about taking dog poison. He is urged to go to a nearby gay, nude beach to relax, but he ends up rescuing a drowning swimmer caught in the rip…
The Eight Mountains
Pietro (Lupo Barbiero) joins his mother, Francesca (Elena Lietti), in Grana, a small town in the Italian Alps, as he does every summer. His father, Giovani (Filippo Timi), joins when he can but otherwise spends most of his time at work. Pietro becomes fast friends with Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), the only other boy in the…
The Blue Caftan
Halim (Saleh Bakri) is a master tailor who runs a traditional caftan store in Salé, Morocco with his wife, Mina (Lubna Azabal). Business is strong, even with the rise of machine-sewn garments, there is still a large demand for the custom, hand-sewn work of Halim. To keep from falling behind on orders, they hire Youssef…
Alcarràs
Three generations of Solé have worked at a prosperous peach orchard, but when the landowner dies and the land passes to his son, the gentlemen’s agreement made between Rogelio Solé (Josep Abad) and the recently deceased head of the Pinyol family is dissolved. Quimet Solé (Jordi Pujol Dolcet) and his son Roger (Albert Bosch) are…
Holy Spider
In the early 2000s, a killer had been stalking sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. After each kill, he would phone the newspaper to report where the body was buried. As his victim count increases, journalist Arezoo Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) is sent to report on the murders, but as she grows…
R.M.N.
Young Rudi (Mark Edward Blenyesi) has fallen silent after witnessing something terrifying in the woods on his way home from school. His father, Matthias (Marin Grigore), returns to the small Romanian village, but tensions are high between his estranged wife, Ana (Macrina Barladeanu), and his mistress, Csilla (Judith State). Csilla finds herself in a fraught…
Godland
The Icelandic winter proves formattable terrain for Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a young Danish priest, sent by the church to establish a house of worship for its followers on the Southeastern coast of the island country in the late 19th century. The journey is an arduous one, made harder due to a feud fueled by…
The Marquee Topic 