Thursday, November 29, 2012

Kauwboy (2012)

Kauwboy (2012)
Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Director: Boudewijn Koole
Starring: Rick Lens, Loek Peters, Cahit Ölmez, Susan Radder, Ricky Koole
Language: Dutch
Duration: 81 min.
Rating: 7.4
Summary:
A lively 10-year-old with a difficult home life marked by a volatile father and an absent mother, finds solace in an unexpected friendship with an abandoned baby jackdaw.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Sneakers (2012)

Sneakers • Кецове (2011)
Sneakers • Кецове (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director: Ivan Vladimirov, Valeri Yordanov
Starring: Ivo Arakov, Phillip Avramov, Ivan Barnev, Vasil Draganov, Ina Nikolova, Valeri Yordanov
Language: Bulgarian, Turkish, English
Duration: 111 min.
Rating: 6.0
Summary:
Six young people escape their dreary lives in the city for an adventure filled summer on the beach.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
Language: English
Duration: 93 min.
Rating: 7.2
Summary:
A six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood, in a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Laurence Anyways (2012)

Laurence Anyways (2012)
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Best New Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri
Language: French
Duration: 168 min.
Rating: 8.4
Summary:
In the 1990s, a man tries to hold on to his relationship with his fiancée after telling her that he wants to become a woman.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Best New Film
Genre: Horror, Psychological Thriller
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappellaro, Cosimo Fusco
Language: English, Italian
Duration: 94 min.
Rating: 8.3
Summary:
A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.

Monday, November 19, 2012

The Hunt (2012)

The Hunt • Jagten (2012)
The Hunt • Jagten (2012)
Best New Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Alexandra Rapaport
Language: Danish
Duration: 106 min.
Rating: 8.3
Summary:
An innocent man's life is shattered by a small lie.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Leviathan (2012)

Leviathan (2012)
Leviathan (2012)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
Language: English
Duration: 87 min.
Rating: 8.0 
Summary:
A collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine in the North Atlantic.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Twilight Portrait (2011)

Twilight Portrait • портрет в сумерках (2011)
Twilight Portrait • портрет в сумерках (2011)
Genre: Drama
Director: Angelina Nikonova
Starring: Olga Dykhovichnaya, Sergei Borisov, Sergei Golyudov, Roman Merinov, Vsevolod Voronov
Language: Russian
Duration: 105 min.
Rating: 7.9
Summary:
A searing look at contemporary Russian society through the eyes of a privileged but disillusioned social worker.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Camion (2012)

Camion (2012)
Camion (2012)
Genre: Drama
Director: Rafaël Ouellet
Starring: Julien Poulin, Patrice Dubois, Maude Giguère, Jacob Tierney, Stéphane Breton
Language: French, English
Duration: 94 min.
Rating: 7.9
Summary:
Following his involvement in a tragic highway accident, a career truck driver spirals into depression.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Come as You Are (2011)

Come as You Are • Hasta la Vista! (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Starring: Gilles De Schryver, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Tom Audenaert, Isabelle de Hertogh
Language: Dutch, French, Spanish
Duration: 108 min.
Rating: 7.6
Summary:
Three young disabled men from Belgium go on a road trip to lose their virginity in a Spanish brothel.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Stories We Tell (2012)

Stories We Tell (2012)
Stories We Tell (2012)
Best New Film
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Rebecca Jenkins, Alex Hatz, Peter Evans
Language: English
Duration: 108 min.
Rating: 8.2
Summary:
In an effort to fully understand a long-held family secret, Polley interviews every member of her family to reconstruct the events of the past.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Neighbouring Sounds (2012)

Neighbouring Sounds • O som ao redor (2012)
Neighbouring Sounds • O som ao redor (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Starring: Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Language: Portuguese, English, Mandarin
Duration: 131 min.
Rating: 7.7
Summary:
Life in a middle-class neighborhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Key of Life (2012)

Key of Life • 鍵泥棒のメソッド (2012)
Key of Life • 鍵泥棒のメソッド (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kenji Uchida
Starring: Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryoko Hirosue
Language: Japanese
Duration: 128 min.
Rating: 8.2
Summary:
The identities of a struggling actor and an expert hit man get mixed up with hilarious results.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Tabu (2012)

Tabu (2012)
Tabu (2012)
Best New Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Teresa Madruga, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Laura Soveral, Isabel Cardoso
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 118 min.
Rating: 8.4
Summary:
An unique tale centered on an elderly Portuguese woman in the present day, and her younger self in colonial Africa, fifty years ago.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Rust and Bone (2012)

Rust and Bone • De rouille et d'os (2012)
Rust and Bone • De rouille et d'os (2012)
Best New Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts
Language: French
Duration: 120 min.
Rating: 8.1
Summary:
The remarkable love story between a prize fighter and a crippled orca trainer.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Sister (2012)

Sister • L'enfant d'en haut (2012)
Sister • L'enfant d'en haut (2012)
Genre: Drama
Director: Ursula Meier
Starring: Kacey Mottet Klein, Léa Seydoux
Language: French, English
Duration: 97 min.
Rating: 7.6
Summary:
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a young boy who supports his older sister by stealing from wealthy guests.