AMOUR
Directed by : Michael HANEKE
Country: FRANCE, GERMANY, AUSTRIA
Year: 2012
Duration: 127.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers.
Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family.
One day, Anne has an attack.
The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
CREDITS
Michael HANEKE - Director
Michael HANEKE - Screenplay
Darius KHONDJI - Cinematography
Jean-Vincent PUZOS - Set Designer
Nadine MUSE - Film Editor
Monika WILLI - Film Editor
Jean-Pierre LAFORCE - Sound
Guillaume SCIAMA - Sound
ACTORS
Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT - Georges
Emmanuelle RIVA - Anne
Isabelle HUPPERT - Eva
Alexandre THARAUD - Alexandre
BAAD EL MAWKEAA (AFTER THE BATTLE)
Directed by : Yousry NASRALLAH
Country: EGYPT, FRANCE
Year: 2012
Duration: 122.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Mahmoud was one of the horsemen coerced by lowly henchmen for Mubarak's regime into carrying out attacks on protesters in Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011.
He has since lost his job. Humiliated and ostracized, he lives near the Pyramids with his wife and sons.
His family is on the brink of despair when he meets Reem, a secular Egyptian divorcee who works in advertising. She is a fervent revolutionary who lives in a wealthy Cairo neighbourhood. Theirs is the encounter of two people, but also of two different worlds.
CREDITS
Yousry NASRALLAH - Director
Yousry NASRALLAH - Screenplay
Omar SHAMA - Screenplay
Samir BAHSAN - Cinematography
Mohammed ATTEYA - Set Designer
Tamer KARAWAN - Music
Mona RABI' - Film Editor
Ibrahim DESSOUKY - Sound
ACTORS
Mena SHALABY - Reem
Bassem SAMRA - Mahmoud
Nahed EL SEBAÏ - Fatma
Salah ABDALLAH - Haj Abdallah
COSMOPOLIS
Directed by : David CRONENBERG
Country: FRANCE, CANADA
Year: 2012
Duration: 108.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close end. Eric Packer, a high finance golden boy, dives into a white limousine. While a visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan, Eric Packer has one obsession: getting a haircut at his barber’s at the other end of the city. As the day goes by, chaos sets in, and he watches helplessly as his empire collapses. Also he is sure that someone is going to assassinate him. When? Where? He is about to live the most decisive 24 hours of his life.
CREDITS
David CRONENBERG - Director
David CRONENBERG - Screenplay
Peter SUSCHITZKY - Cinematography
Arv GREYWAL - Set Designer
Howard SHORE - Music
Ronald SANDERS - Film Editor
ACTORS
Robert PATTINSON - Eric Packer
Sarah GADON - Elise Shifrin
Paul GIAMATTI - Benno Levin
Juliette BINOCHE - Didi Fancher
Mathieu AMALRIC - André Petrescu
Samantha MORTON - Vija Kinski
DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY)
Directed by : HONG Sangsoo
Country: KOREA (South)
Year: 2012
Duration: 89.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
A young film student and her mother run away seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves:
Three women named Anne appear, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. The first Anne is a successful film director. The second Anne is a married woman secretly in an affair with a Korean man. The third Anne is a divorcée whose husband left her for a Korean woman.
A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can always be seen wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner’s daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.
CREDITS
HONG Sangsoo - Director
HONG Sangsoo - Screenplay
JEE Yunejeong - Cinematography
PARK Hongyeol - Cinematography
JEONG Yongjin - Music
HAHM Sungwon - Film Editor
KIM Mir - Sound
ACTORS
Isabelle HUPPERT - Anne
YU Junsang - Lifeguard
JUNG Yumi - Wonju
DE ROUILLE ET D'OS (RUST AND BONE)
Directed by : Jacques AUDIARD
Country: FRANCE, BELGIUM
Year: 2012
Duration: 120.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Ali suddenly finds himself in charge of Sam, his 5 years old son that he barely knows. Penniless and without friends, he leaves the north of France to seek shelter at his sister’s in Antibes. Even though she and her husband do not have much money, they make a room for them in their garage and take care of Sam.
Ali finds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub. After diffusing a fight one evening, he meets Stephanie a beautiful, self-confident woman. He takes her home and leaves her his number. But she is a princess and he is a poor fellow.
Stephanie is a killer whale trainer at the local Marineland. After a terrible accident one day, Ali gets an unexpected phone call from Stephanie.
When he sees her again she is crammed into a wheelchair. She has lost both her legs and her dreams.
Ali will share genuine moments with her, without pity, and help her to live again...
CREDITS
Jacques AUDIARD - Director
Jacques AUDIARD - Screenplay
Thomas BIDEGAIN - Screenplay
Craig DAVIDSON - Based on "De rouille et d'os" by
Stéphane FONTAINE - Cinematography
Michel BARTHELEMY - Set Designer
Alexandre DESPLAT - Music
Juliette WELFLING - Film Editor
Brigitte TAILLANDIER - Sound
ACTORS
Marion COTILLARD - Stéphanie
Matthias SCHOENAERTS - Ali
Armand VERDURE - Sam
Céline SALLETTE - Louise
Corinne MASIERO - Anna
Bouli LANNERS - Martial
Jean-Michel CORREIA - Richard
DO-NUI MAT (THE TASTE OF MONEY)
Directed by : IM Sang-Soo
Country: KOREA (South)
Year: 2012
Duration: 114.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Young-jak who is a private secretary of madam Baek, the center power of Korean conglomerate, deals with immoral private issues of her wealthy family.
He reports to madam Baek that her husband, Mr. Yoon is having an affair with a Filipino nanny, Eva. Madam Baek is now despaired, then greedily seducing Young-jak for her sexual desire.
On the other hand, he begins to feel conflicted by madam Baek’s daughter, the only family member who approaches him with the true heart.
Lost between his morality and shortcut to successful life, he has to make the biggest decision he’s ever made to choose whom he will hang on to, in order to survive in this harsh world.
CREDITS
IM Sang-Soo - Director
IM Sang-Soo - Screenplay
KIM Woo-Hyung - Cinematography
KIM June - Set Designer
KIM Young-Hee - Set Designer
KIM Hong-Jip - Music
LEE Eun-Soo - Film Editor
ACTORS
KIM Kang-Woo - Youngjak, le secrétaire privé
BAEK Yoon-Sik - Kyungsun, le père
YOUN Yuh-Jung - Keumok, la mère
KIM Hyo-Jin - Nami, la fille
Maui TAYLOR - Eva, la bonne
ON Ju-Wan - Chul, le fils
DUPA DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS)
Directed by : Cristian MUNGIU
Country: ROMANIA, FRANCE, BELGIUM
Year: 2012
Duration: 150.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita - the only person in the world she loves and was loved by - back to her. But Voichita has found God - and God is the hardest lover of all to be jealous of.
CREDITS
Cristian MUNGIU - Director
Cristian MUNGIU - Screenplay
Oleg MUTU - Cinematography
Calin PAPURA - Set Designer
Mihaela POENARU - Set Designer
Mircea OLTEANU - Film Editor
Cristian TARNOVETCHI - Sound
ACTORS
Cosmina STRATAN - Voichita
Cristina FLUTUR - Alina
Valeriu ANDRIUTA - Prêtre
Dana TAPALAGA - Mère Supérieure
HOLY MOTORS
Directed by : Leos CARAX
Country: FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2012
Duration: 115.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man...
He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part - but where are the cameras?
Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and around Paris. He’s like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit.
In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives.
But where is his true home, his family, his rest?
CREDITS
Leos CARAX - Director
Leos CARAX - Screenplay
Caroline CHAMPETIER - Cinematography
Florian SANSON - Set Designer
Neil HANNON - Music
Nelly QUETTIER - Film Editor
Erwan KERZANET - Sound
JAGTEN (THE HUNT)
Directed by : Thomas VINTERBERG
Country: DENMARK
Year: 2012
Duration: 111.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a passing remark. A random lie. And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like an invisible virus. The shock and mistrust gets out of hand, and the small community suddenly finds itself in a collective state of hysteria, while Lucas fights a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
CREDITS
Thomas VINTERBERG - Director
Tobias LINDHOLM - Screenplay
Thomas VINTERBERG - Screenplay
Charlotte BRUUS CHRISTENSEN - Cinematography
Torben STIG NIELSEN - Set Designer
Nikolaj EGELUND - Music
Janus BILLESKOV JANSEN - Film Editor
Anne ØSTERUD - Film Editor
Kristian SELIN EIDNES ANDERSEN - Sound
ACTORS
Mads MIKKELSEN - Lucas
Thomas Bo LARSEN - Theo
Annika WEDDERKOPP - Klara
Lasse FOGELSTRØM - Marcus
Susse WOLD - Grethe
KILLING THEM SOFTLY
Directed by : Andrew DOMINIK
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 104.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
When their poker game is knocked off by petty thieves, the Mob calls in their best enforcer, Jackie Cogan, to make things right. Under the eye of a mysterious driver, Jackie must track down and punish those responsible for the heist. His assignment is complicated by those he comes up against along the way - an aging, drunken hit man, some bumbling local gangsters, and the ladies’ man who ran the ill-fated game.
CREDITS
Andrew DOMINIK - Director
Andrew DOMINIK - Screenplay
Greig FRASER - Cinematography
Patricia NORRIS - Set Designer
Curtiss CLAYTON - Film Editor
Kirk FRANCIS - Sound
ACTORS
Brad PITT - Jackie
Scoot MCNAIRY - Frankie
Ben MENDELSOHN - Russell
James GANDOLFINI - Mickey
Richard JENKINS - Driver
Vincent CURATOLA - Johnny Amato
Ray LIOTTA - Markie Trattman
LAWLESS
Directed by: John HILLCOAT
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 115.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant’s family in his novel "The Wettest County In The World", the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation’s most notorious crime wave.
CREDITS
John HILLCOAT - Director
Nick CAVE - Screenplay
Benoit DELHOMME - Cinematography
Chris KENNEDY - Set Designer
Nick CAVE - Music
Warren ELLIS - Music
Dylan TICHENOR - Film Editor
Lisa PINERO - Sound
ACTORS
Shia LABEOUF - Jack
Tom HARDY - Forrest
Jason CLARKE - Howard
Guy PEARCE - Charley Rakes
Jessica CHASTAIN - Maggie
Mia WASIKOWSKA - Bertha
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Directed by : Abbas KIAROSTAMI
Country: FRANCE, JAPAN
Year: 2012
Duration: 109.00 minutes
SYNOPSIS
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
CREDITS
Abbas KIAROSTAMI - Director
Abbas KIAROSTAMI - Screenplay
Katsumi YANAGIJIMA - Cinematography
Bahman KIAROSTAMI - Film Editor
Mohamadreza DELPAK - Sound
Nobuyuki KIKUCHI - Sound
ACTORS
Tadashi OKUNO
Rin TAKANASHI
Ryo KASE
