Dan Wechsler

Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work' video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.

Ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash laden landscape and an impenetrable lake. A prequel to When the Waves Are Gone.

Ewald moved to Rumania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken. And Ewald is forced to confront a truth he has long suppressed. Sparta is the brother film to Rimini, and the conclusion of Ulrich Seidl's diptych about the inescapability of the past and the pain of finding yourself.

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

An art thief becomes trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry. Imprisoned with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.

Antonina Miliukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.

Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a terrible mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. He went through the war, but will he survive the peace?

Um cruzeiro para os super-ricos afunda, deixando os sobreviventes, incluindo um casal de celebridades, presos em uma ilha.

Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed. His sister, the only survivor, is slowly rotting away herself. Davud is troubled by his memories as a soldier, as he confronts the only true question: is surviving the same as living?

A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.

Theo, a 27-year-old young man with Down’s syndrome, lives with his father in an isolated house in the middle of a forest. They live in harmony with nature and animals, but one day the father goes away, leaving his son alone with his visions… Theo then begins his odyssey in which he reinvents himself, opens up to the world, experiences freedom, and tries to discover the nature of things and of beings.

Em uma região montanhosa do México repleta de papoulas, três garotas se refugiam na amizade para lidar com as provações de um cartel de drogas.

Com a cidade sofrendo de uma epidemia de gripe, Petrov e sua família lutam por mais um dia em um país onde o passado nunca é passado e o presente é um sonho impetuoso de violência e ternura movido a álcool. Gripado e febril, Petrov é arrastado por seu amigo Igor em uma longa caminhada, em que realidade e fantasia se misturam, nessa narrativa delirante e lacônica pela Rússia pós-soviética. Baseado no romance Petrovs in and Around the Flu, de Alexey Salnikov.

Emi, uma professora, vê sua carreira e reputação ameaçadas depois que uma fita de sexo pessoal vazou na Internet. Forçada a encontrar os pais exigindo sua demissão, Emi se recusa a ceder à pressão deles. Radu Jude (Aferim!) Oferece uma mistura incendiária de forma não convencional, humor irreverente e comentários mordazes sobre hipocrisia e preconceito em nossas sociedades.

Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can't give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother's search for her missing son.

Um político, uma jovem condessa e um general e sua esposa se reúnem na mansão do proprietário de terras Nikolai no Natal. Eles jantam e discutem temas como progresso e moralidade. À medida que o debate fica mais intenso, as diferenças culturais se tornam cada vez mais aparentes.

What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to keep the printed word alive. D.W. Young’s elegant and entertaining documentary, executive produced by Parker Posey, is a lively tour of New York’s book world, past and present, from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars; to the Strand and Argosy book stores, still standing against all odds; to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The film features a litany of special guests, including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, and a community of dedicated book dealers who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and the everlasting importance of what’s inside.

Por meio de 56 vinhetas, Echo retrata a Islândia moderna na época de Natal. Em campo aberto, uma fazenda está em chamas. Numa escola, um coro canta músicas de Natal. Num museu, uma mulher discute com o ex. Próximos ou distantes, esses personagens estão em conflito com seu passado e presente.

Brasil, 2027. Uma mulher profundamente religiosa usa sua posição em um cartório para evitar o divórcio entre casais em dificuldades. Enquanto espera por um sinal de reconhecimento pelos seus esforços, ela se vê confrontada com uma crise no seu próprio casamento que a aproxima ainda mais de Deus.

We enter a living painting: actors demonstrating to the cries of “They don’t represent us!”, the rallying slogan of the anti-austerity movement in the Puerta del Sol square, who in 2011 shared their desire to create an original space of direct democracy. Like Irene Muñoz Martín. In this personal essay, she returns to this experience that has not yet found its “expression”: a canonical image that she attempts to capture, in vain.

Sabina Cervoni, member of Exit, provides assistance to whoever chooses to take its own life legally.

Um advogado arrogante vê sua vida perfeita desmoronar quando um detetive particular chega na sua pacata cidade para investigar um desaparecimento. Implacável, o detetive quer provar que nada é o que parece ser, e descobre segredos surpreendentes.

No início da produção em massa de marijuana na Colômbia, um período que coincide com as origens do narcotráfico naquele país, uma família de indígenas se vê envolvida em uma guerra pelo controle de um negócio perigoso que acaba por destruir as suas vidas e a sua cultura.

Em uma cidade nevada e industrial no sul da Argentina, Paula, uma garota de 23 anos de Buenos Aires, começa uma intensa caça ao trabalho com o único propósito de economizar dinheiro.

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

Um adolescente desaparecido retorna depois de oito anos, quando todos já o davam por morto, e se incorpora à vida familiar marcada pelo mistério de seu desaparecimento. Pouco a pouco surge a dúvida se realmente é a criança desaparecida ou um impostor.

​Alejandra é uma jovem mãe que, ao lado de seu marido Angel, cria seus dois filhos em uma pequena cidade. Seu irmão Fabian trabalha como enfermeiro no hospital local. Suas vidas provincianas são abaladas com a chegada da misteriosa Verônica, uma mulher sexy que põe em cheque os valores familiares, a hipocrisia, a homofobia e o machismo que até então regiam a moral local. Verônica convence a todos que em uma mata próxima, dentro de uma cabana isolada, habita algo que não é deste mundo e que servirá de resposta para todos os problemas. Leão de Prata de melhor direção, Veneza 2016.​

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.

Two film students document the fate of an ex-prisoner from Guantanamo who is granted asylum in Switzerland.

Marina, Sofía e Violeta são três irmãs adolescentes que acabam de sofrer a perda da avó que as criou. Cada uma viverá o luto à sua maneira em uma casa habitada por muitas lembranças, responsabilidades e tensões.

Confundido com um islâmico perigoso, Saadi - um cara normal, que acontece de ser um imigrante árabe ilegal - estabelece no dia mais perigoso de sua vida.

In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.