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RIGOR MORTIS [Geung Si]
Directed by Juno Mak
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Hong Kong / 2013 / 101’ / Cantonese / Action, Horror, Drama
Official Selection: Venice Days; Midnight Madness, Toronto
Cast: Chin Siu-Ho, Kara Wai, Nina Paw, Antony "Friend" Chan, Lo Hoi Pang, Richard Ng, Chung Fat
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Synopsis:
In this eerie and chilling, contemporary, action/special effects laden homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980’s, writer-director-producer, Juno Mak makes his feature directorial debut. Co-produced by J-Horror icon Takashi Shimizu, and reuniting some of the original cast members of the classic Mr. Vampire series, RIGOR MORTIS is set in a creepy and moody Hong Kong public housing tower whose occupants we soon discover, run the gamut from the living to the dead, to the undead, along with ghosts, vampires and zombies.
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BORGMAN
Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
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The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark / 2013 / 113’ / Dutch / Drama
Official Selection: Vanguard, Toronto; Competition, Cannes 2013
Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
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Synopsis:
Borgman’s arrival in the tree-lined avenues of an exclusive residential area is the beginning of a series of unsettling events around the carefully constructed facade of a wealthy couple, their three children and their nanny.
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FINAL RECIPE
Directed by Gina Kim
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South Korea / 2013 / English / Drama
Official Selection: opening Culinary Zinema: Film and Gastronomy, San Sebastian
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Henry Lau, Chin Han
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Synopsis:
Once a famous chef, Hao’s Chinese restaurant is now an unpopular destination. He despises the fact that people nowadays do not respect traditional dishes and he has become a bitter old man. Hao’s only hope is that his grandson Mark enters a prestigious university, but Mark’s dream is to follow his grandfather’s footsteps and become a chef.
Hao’s restaurant is on the verge of bankruptcy and he finally collapses. In order to save the restaurant, Mark enters a TV cooking contest in Shanghai, called Final Recipe. He competes against talented young chefs from around the region and freely shows off ravishing cooking skills that he has accumulated from his grandfather over the years. Meanwhile, contest producer Julia (Michelle Yeoh) hopes that her husband and world-renowned chef David (Chin Han) enters the contest and rediscovers his love for cooking. As Mark wins round after round and gains attention, Julia slowly realizes that Mark and her husband David shares a secret that they don’t yet know.
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DRIVING BACK FROM DUBBO
Directed by Sue Brooks
Australia / English / Coming of Age
Status: Pre-production
Cast: Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh
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Synopsis:
Cassie,
a free spirited fifteen year old, runs away with her best friend. Her parents
Denise and Dan enlist the help of an aging private detective to find their
daughter. But life is unraveling faster than anyone can put it back together. A
wry drama about lies, secrets, grief and love.
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HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
USA / English / Romance, Sci-Fi, Music
Status: Pre-production
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Synopsis:
Based on a science
fiction short story by Neil Gaiman, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES is about a
couple of British 1970s wannabe punk rocker teenage boys, Enn and Vic, who
head to a party to meet girls, only to find that the girls there are much different
than they could have ever imagined.
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KISS THE WATER
Directed by Eric Steel
USA / 2013 / 80’ / English / Documentary
Status: Completed
Official Selection: Tribeca, Edinburgh,
Woods Hole Cape Cod
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Synopsis:
In
northern Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold
into elaborate fishing flies -- at once miniature works of art and absolutely
lethal. With breathtaking cinematography and expressive, hand painted
animation, KISS THE WATER adheres to and escapes from traditional documentary
form, spinning the facts and fictions of one woman's life into a stunning film
about craft, devotion, love, and its illusions.
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LOVE IS STRANGE
Directed by Ira Sachs
USA / 2014 / English / Queer Drama
Status: In production
Cast: John
Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei
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Synopsis:
After
28 years together, Ben and Jorge tie the knot in a City Hall wedding in lower Manhattan. On the return
from their honeymoon, Ben gets fired from his longtime job. Suddenly, with no
real savings to count on, the couple finds that they can’t afford the rent on their small Chelsea apartment and married life is absolutely not what they expected it to be.
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NED RIFLE
Directed by Hal Hartley
USA / English / Drama
Status: Pre-production
Cast: Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, Thomas Jay Ryan,
James Urbaniak
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Synopsis:
Henry and Fay's son, Ned, sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome, sexy, and hilarious Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family. A funny, sad, and sexy adventure, Ned Rifle is an intellectually stimulating and compassionate satire.
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SUNSET SONG
Directed by Terence
Davies
UK / English / Epic
Drama
Status: Pre-production
Based on the original
novel by: Lewis Grassic Gibson
Cast: Peter Mullan, Agyness
Deyn
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Synopsis:
Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie suddenly finds herself running the farm and raising her siblings after her mother’s death and her father’s incapacity. But when love comes to Chris she must send her man
off to the Great War and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever
by the onset of technology and war.
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