Chile, 1893. Under the employ of José Menéndez (Alfredo Castro), Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley), Bill (Benjamin Westfall), and Segundo (Camilo Arancibia) travel through the wilderness to mark out the wealthy businessman’s land. Their job takes them deep into the country where the Onas people live, and acting on their orders, MacLennan and Bill do not…
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The Delinquents
Morán (Daniel Elías) has grown weary working every day at the bank and is still some twenty years away from retirement. One afternoon, the opportunity presents itself, and Morán steals $625,000 from the safe; enough money for him and an accomplice to retire early on. He meets with Román (Esteban Bigliardi), one of his colleagues,…
Fallen Leaves
Ansa (Alma Pöysti) is a lonely grocery store worker who is let go from her job when she allows someone to take some of the expired merchandise home with them instead of throwing it out. Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) is a laborer who struggles to hold a job given his alcoholism. The two meet by chance…
Passages
At the wrap party of Tomas’ (Franz Rogowski) latest film, his partner, Martin (Ben Whishaw), elects to leave early. Alone at the bar, Tomas begins flirting with Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and eventually, the two go home together. In the morning, Tomas returns to Martin, confesses his infidelity, and in a panic begins to pack his…
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…
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…
Pacifiction
With the arrival of marines at Tahiti, a rumor springs to life that locals have spotted a military submarine not far from the coast, heralding the return of French nuclear missile testing in their waters. The rumors are unavoidable to De Roller (Benoît Magimel), the High Commissioner, who walks the fine line of a playboy…
Winter Boy
Lucas’ (Paul Kircher) world is turned upside down after the sudden death of his father (Christophe Honoré) in a car accident. After the funeral, he goes to live with his older brother Quinten (Vincent Lacoste) in Paris for a few weeks before starting up a new school closer to home to help support his mother,…
The Box
Hatzín Leyva (Hatzín Navarrete) is a boy barely in his teens and has to travel alone to Mexico City to retrieve the remains of his father who died in a manufacturing accident. On his way back to his grandmother’s house, he sees a man, Mario Enderle (Hernán Mendoza) who bears an uncanny resemblance to the…
