Julia is the ultimate evil stepmother, beautiful and devious. She dupes her noble born step daughter Nora into a journey that ends with her being kidnapped and sold to Julia’s beautiful cousin Anthea. Nora finds her privileged life of nobility over as she wakes up to the nightmare of slave tears of Rome.
Director : Lloyd A. Simandl
Portraits of artists of young men.
Director : James Benning
John Strong short film
Director : John Strong
Behind the success of Hariton Pushwagner we find a dramatic story about a son of a wealthy family who became homeless, only to end up as a celebrated artist. Pushwagner himself says, “It’s not true but it’s a good story”. Against this backdrop, the film reflects on what the reality of Pushwagner is, both as an artist and a human being.
Director : August B. Hanssen|Even BenestadA group of children spend their vacations in Eiravella, a town between the rural and the urban. They play with Duarte, a painter and former professor of plastic, who suddenly disappears without a trace. The children discover a picture in which Duarte appears, and then they begin to reveal the mystery of their disappearance.
Director : Carlos Amil
A young Aboriginal man heads north in search of a girl, but discovers much more than he ever expected.
Director : Nicholas Cleary
Simen (Johan Tinus Lindgren) is strongly influenced by his feelings, and unable to get over the death of his mother four years ago. When one day he learns that his father Vidar (Kim Prisoner) will die of cancer unless he gets an operation abroad which cost 200,000 dollars, he becomes afraid of being orphaned. How will he be able to raise so much money in a few days? After he witnesses a robbery by Ove (Erik Skold), he decides to try and blackmail him for the money he needs for his dad’s operation. Since Simen is an amateur at blackmailing people for money, he does everything wrong. Suddenly he finds himself bound in Ove’s car. Now it’s Ove’s turn to push Simen’s family for ransom.
Director : Marius Sørvik
Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification. Featuring explicit and detailed exchanges between the censor and film-makers, ‘Dear Censor’ casts a wry eye over some of the most infamous cases in the history of the board. From the now seemingly innocuous Rebel Without a Cause, the first ‘naturist’ films and the infamous works of Ken Russell, and up to Rambo III, this frank and surprisingly warm documentary demonstrates how a body created by the industry to safeguard standards and reflect shifts in public opinion has also worked unexpectedly closely with the film-makers themselves to ensure that their work was able reach an audience.
Director : Matt Pelly
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Director : Oren Moverman|Scott Peterson|William Paul Clark
The chilling story of a middle class man whose desperate weathering of the current economic crisis ends with the arrival one night of a debt collector with an offer that surely cannot be turned down.
Director : Cristian Solimeno
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