Rent-a-Cat (2012)

Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never understand … I have made a film out of your absence.

Cuando una adolescente dice que es víctima de una red secreta llamada The Sisterhood of Night, una tranquila ciudad suburbana se convierte en el telón de fondo de un juicio de brujas moderno en Salem.

Mulvey's readings of the myth of Oedipus and the sphinx are layered atop 360º panning shots of various locales; the protagonist appears in elliptically-edited sequences.

En su cuadragésimo cumpleaños, Anna, directora de cine, vuelve a redactar su inmutable lista de propósitos: perder diez kilos, conseguir una novia y dirigir una película. Este año, Anna planea cumplir (al menos) dos de sus propósitos de un sólo tiro, pues comienza a escribir un 'remake' lésbico de '¿Quién teme a Virginia Woolf?', ideado para ganarse el afecto de su protagonista, Katia. Junto a Anna y su enamorada, se suman el elenco sus dos mejores amigas, Penélope y Chloe. Por desgracia, el plan no resulta del todo bien, cuando sus egos comienzan a chocar y comienzan a acostarse entre ellas. ¿Volverá Anna a cumplir otro año sin lograr ninguno de sus propósitos? (FILMAFFINITY)

In rural Japan, a mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year.

En Israel, durante tres días previos al Shabbat. Viviane está a punto de abandonar a Eliahu, su marido. Sus hermanos en cambio le intentan convencer que su puesto está al lado de su esposo y sus hijos.

Jenny is hit in the head by a soccer ball. When she comes to, the clock has turned back exactly 32 years! It is June 21, 1974, the year of the football World Cup, one day before the football match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. Jenny experiences two turbulent days at the side of her future parents - in both parts of Germany.

Tres sorprendentes amigos, un perro perdiguero, un cachorro de Bulldog y una gata del Himalaya, se ven separados de la familia con la que viven. Habiéndose quedado al cuidado de una amiga de la familia, los tres compañeros, ahora desamparados, emprenden un increíble viaje de vuelta a casa a través de la naturaleza virgen. Los tres amigos han de reunir todo su valor y confiar plenamente en sus compañeros con el fin de sobrevivir a feroces animales y la dureza del entorno.

Kat Ellis (Messing), una soltera de Nueva York, tiene ante sí una celebración poco "agradable" en Londres: la inminente boda de su hermana con su ex-novio como padrino de la ceremonia. Temerosa de presentarse sin pareja en el evento, decide contratar los servicios de un apuesto acompañante masculino (Mulroney) y presentarle como su novio.

23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.

Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.

Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.

Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help him find his son. Roman happens to go to the same school as Rose, and she finds him attractive. After an unexpectedly wonderful experience with Roman, she falls desperately in love with him.

Una niña de raza mixta, hija de un aristócrata fuera del matrimonio es educada por la familia de su padre. La realeza mostrará una nula disposición a incluir a la niña en la familia debido a su color de piel, es una niña de color, lo que la impedirá ser aceptada en su infancia por su nueva familia. Poco a poco comienza a crecer adaptándose a las circunstancias y a las desavenencias del exterior. Todo cambia en el momento en que la joven criolla se enamora de otro hombre de la realeza, lo que provocará varios conflictos familiares debido de nuevo a su condición étnica.

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political manipulation by ancient Roman society led to Caesar’s dictatorship. - British Film Institute

Santos Palace is a coffee shop in Belgium. There, a waitress serves a strange client. Their eyes meet, minutes pass and we seem to witness a love story that hasn’t began or may have already started, with its potential jealousies and passions, or which may never happen at all; another type of romance. The feeling of seeing or being seen, the rhythmical editing, the use of cinemascope to make objects and spaces appear as abstract forms, the predominance of detailed shots: these are all obsessions, forms and audiovisual ideas that explode in this surprising film.