Putty Hill (2010)

Um fã ávido por rock'n'roll consegue um trabalho na revista americana Rolling Stone, para acompanhar a banda Stillwater em sua primeira excursão pelos Estados Unidos. Porém, quanto mais ele vai se envolvendo com a banda, mais vai perdendo a objetividade de seu trabalho e logo estará fazendo parte do cenário rock dos anos 70.

Em 1932 Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) nasce em Albany, uma pequena e pobre cidade do estado da Georgia. Ray fica cego aos 7 anos, logo após testemunhar a morte acidental de seu irmão mais novo. Inspirado por uma dedicada mãe independente, que insiste que ele deve fazer seu próprio caminho no mundo, Ray encontrou seu dom em um teclado de piano. Fazendo um circuito através do sudeste, ele ganha reputação. Sua fama explode mundialmente quando, pioneiramente, incorpora o gospel , country e jazz, gerando um estilo inimitável. Ao revolucionar o modo como as pessoas apreciam música, ele simultaneamente luta conta a segregação racial em casas noturnas que o lançaram como artista. Mas sua vida não está marcada só por conquistas, pois sua vida pessoal e profissional é afetada ao se tornar um viciado em heroína.

Uma chamada urgente puxa um estudante de Direito de Yale de volta para sua cidade natal em Ohio, onde ele reflete sobre três gerações de história da família e seu próprio futuro. Baseado no livro de memórias best-seller de J.D. Vance.

Um diretor de cassino com um passado comprometedor. Uma prostituta de alta classe, que dominava a todos, menos ao seu cafetão. E um gângster, que tomava conta do diretor do cassino e passa gradativamente, a seguir os passos dela, criando um painel de Las Vegas dos anos 70, quando a Máfia controlava o jogo, até o gradual surgimento das grandes corporações, que ficaram no lugar das quadrilhas e transformaram a cidade em uma Disneylandia.

Llewyn Davis é um cantor e compositor que sonha em viver da sua música. Com o violão nas costas, ele migra de um lugar para o outro na Nova York dos anos 60, sempre vivendo de favor na casa de amigos e outros artistas. Talentoso, mas sem se preocupar muito com o futuro, ele incomoda a amiga Jean Berkey, que vive uma relação com outro músico, Jim. Nem um pouco confiável, Davis se depara com a oportunidade de viajar na companhia de um consagrado e desagradável artista, Roland, mas nem tudo vai acabar bem nesta nova jornada.

Ainda adolescente, Amy Winehouse já demonstrava para a família o talento vocal que possuía. Aos 18 anos ela já fazia shows na Inglaterra e, com o tempo, passou a ganhar fama. O sucesso do álbum "Back to Black" a tornou uma celebridade mundial, mas também fez com que seus problemas com álcool e drogas aumentassem exponencialmente.

O vampiro Conde Drácula vem à Inglaterra atrás de quem ele acredita ser sua antiga paixão, de quando ainda era um mortal.

Em um café de Manhattan, o processador de texto Paul Hackett se reúne e fala de literatura com Marcy. Mais tarde naquela noite, Paul pega um táxi para o apartamento de Marcy no centro da cidade. Sua nota de 20 dólares voa para fora da janela durante a corrida anunciando a noite inesperada que ele terá. Ele não pode pagar pela corrida e encontra-se em uma série de situações embaraçosas e com risco de morte.

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.

Um rapaz cansado das baladas de Los Angeles, dos amigos auto-destrutivos e do namorado viciado, busca direção para sua existência. Ele busca a si mesmo em pessoas erradas e lugares errados. Trevor (Bent Gosski), em uma das tentativas de salvar o namorado, Darell, de mais overdose de seu namorado, está a ponto "jogar a toalha", mas um golpe do destino vem a calhar. No hospital, acompanhando o namorado, Trevor reencontra Ephram. Ele é um médico sensível, quente, amoroso e parece preencher totalmente os seus requisitos de um príncipe encantado. Trevor termina com Darrel e planeja sua nova vida com o novo namorado. Mas a insistência dos velhos amigos e as chantagens sentimentais ameaçam o novo rumo do rapaz. Será que é muito tarde para mudar?

Robert, aluno numa das melhores escolas norte-americanas, filma por acidente a morte de duas colegas. As suas vidas tornam-se o assunto de um projeto audiovisual concebido pela direção da escola para acelerar o luto coletivo. Mas este projeto cria uma atmosfera de paranoia e mal-estar entre os alunos e os professores.

Estranhas mortes levam agente do FBI e seu parceiro a descoberta inusitada: um alienígena de 2 metros de altura injeta heroína em suas vítimas e depois usa um método especial para retirar a substância de seus corpos.

Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter massage parlor. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn't understand but that is irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michaels' life will never be the same again.

Em 1981, Jean-Michel Basquiat passou de um desconhecido pintor de graffiti de 19 anos, que vivia nas ruas de Nova Iorque, a um dos artistas mais controversos e famosos do mundo, pelas mãos de Andy Warhol. As suas exposições tornaram-se o acontecimento artístico da temporada e os seus quadros foram adquiridos pelos maiores coleccionadores e museus. Em Andy Wharol, Basquiat encontra alguém que também está ali não pelo sucesso ou dinheiro, mas pela cumplicidade com a arte. A amizade de ambos é interrompida pela morte de Warhol.

Ao tentar ajudar o amigo gângster Reese, Walker é baleado e deixado para morrer por ele e por sua própria esposa, de quem Reese era amante. Para se vingar, Walker se infiltra no centro de uma poderosa organização criminosa.

Ao estilo Frankenstein, Herbert West é um estudante de medicina que desenvolveu um reagente capaz de reanimar criaturas mortas. Ao lado de seu colega de quarto, Dan Cain, West precisa de corpos frescos para continuar suas experiências mórbida. Porém, seu professor, doutor Carl Hill, tem planos de conseguir os créditos da descoberta só para ele... Isso se conseguir manter a cabeça sobre o corpo até o final do filme.

Alex (Ewan McGregor), David (Christopher Eccleston) e Juliet (Kerry Fox), que dividem um apartamento, concordam em permitir que Hugo (Keith Allen), um desconhecido, vá morar com eles, mas logo ele aparece morto, vítima de overdose. Entre seus pertences existe uma mala cheia de dinheiro, que faz com que a vida deles seja alterada de forma brutal.

O filme conta a história de um adolescente, Nathan, de 13 anos. Após a morte de sua mãe por overdose, Nathan pega a estrada em busca do pai que ele não conheceu, em busca de um imprevisível futuro que pode ser mudado com a resolução de questões sobre o seu passado. Neste trajeto Nathan começa a entender sobre sexualidade.

Em 1977, a banda de rock Strange Fruit brilhava nos palcos e festivais. Pouco depois, o grupo se desfaz no meio de brigas e confusões. Vinte anos depois, o ex-tecladista (Rea), totalmente falido, procura a antiga empresária (Aubrey) com uma idéia maluca : reunir de novo a banda no lendário festival ao ar livre de Wisbech.

Quatro amigos se reúnem anualmente para comemorar sua amizade. Este ano eles inesperadamente são forçados a enfrentar uma promessa esquecida que eles fizeram há 25 anos. Enquanto examinam as escolhas que fizeram, eles percebem que o que disseram que fariam com suas vidas e o que eles fizeram é inteiramente diferente.

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life.

The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…

The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

“My best friend, Anna, asked me if I would mind taking her fifteen-year-old son Itvan to Berlin with me. I accepted immediately.” An elegant, refined man in his forties sets off with Itvan on a long, enjoyable journey, his Winter Journey. They cross snowbound Germany by car. As the man drives the boy through cities and countryside, Itvan discovers the past and the vast job of reunification now underway. Poetry and culture are also part of the journey, which is accompanied by classical German music. When their paths cross with the man's former lovers or the journey provides unexpected encounters, Itvan also gets to know more about the man's own life. When they finally arrive in Berlin, their ways must part. Itvan watches the man leave, taking the melancholy of his existence with him. However their journey together has created an unbreakable tie between the two men. Itvan will never be the same again.

An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.

A group of boys, roughly seven to eleven years of age, go skinny-dipping in a river near their small Mexican town one afternoon and there find themselves the butt of an old vagabond's practical joke, the man stealing all their clothes from them. Humiliated about having to walk home in the buff, the tykes decide to get even, declare war. Yet, as the generations battle it out, a mutual respect develops, the depth of which is evident once the man has a heart attack during one of his romps with the kids. Will the boys' older pal recuperate so that they can engage in one final battle.

If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.

Matthew is a boy who just left school. He is handsome and athletic and believes himself to be gay. He retains a friendship with only one school friend, Phil, who has stuck by Matthew despite hostile reactions from his peers. As their relationship grows more intense, Phil's girlfriend Sharon and his classmates become vindictive and aggressive. The two friends find themselves ostracized by both friends and family and decide to run away.

Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay, a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject, his own life is affected when he unravels his subject's hidden life and secret love.

Perhaps the most ebullient “musical” you’ll see this year, Marc-Henri Wajnberg’s singular documentary/fiction hybrid follows a group of street children in the Congolese capital.

In the Lesotho highlands, a 15-year-old boy tends his family's flock of sheep alone through the winter. His younger brother might have to quit the village school to help him. And two girls attempt to maintain their unique friendship when one of them goes off to attend a better school and the other stays in the village. Over the span of two years the film accompanies four teenagers in an isolated mountain village on their path to adulthood - a path between individuation and tradition.

Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can metaphorically fly away from it all.

The story takes place in the summer of 1995 outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, during the rise of Neo-Nazi violence that was sweeping across the country. The film "John Hron" is the true story about a teenager, his friends and family. John is caught up in defense of a student being bullied in school. As the conflict with the bully escalates it soon causes strain between John and his friends.

15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing there Moritz pulled out of the vicious circle, and finds love with new friends...

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.