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A haunting meditation on the aftermath of modern warfare, Lessons of Darkness is set amidst the blazing oil fields of Kuwait at the end of the first Gulf War. Herzog reimagines the scene using a science-fiction scenario crafted from a mix of his inimitable voiceover narrations, passages of classical music, and stunning aerial footage of this otherworldly setting.

Paving the way for an entirely new type of non-fiction filmmaking, Leviathan is set entirely on board a fishing vessel off the coast of New England, and captures the brutality of sea life in refreshing, breathtaking fashion. Cameras are seemingly everywhere, capturing every minute detail from every possible vantage point, creating less of a narrative than a total immersive experience.

MINNESOTA-Made Director Kevin Schreck Attending
Feature Documentary. Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, acclaimed and visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) toiled on his epic masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler, for nearly three decades – only to have it torn from his hands.

Director Desmond Bell Attending!

This latest humanist drama from Eran Riklis, director of The Lemon Tree, centers on a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut. The pair forms an unlikely alliance as they make their way across the war-torn country to the Israeli border in 1982. Orphaned Fahed longs to fulfill his father’s dream of planting an olive tree at their ancestral home inside Israel while pilot Yoni is fleeing for his life.

Successful businessman Harry Papadopoulos loses all his money and assets in the worst financial crash in London’s history—that is everything except an abandoned fish and chips shop that he co-owns with his burnout brother Spyros. With nothing else to lose, and with a lot of convincing from his family, Harry reluctantly agrees to re-open the same shop that kick-started his career. This unpretentious crowd-pleaser delivers spectacularly on its promise of pure cinematic joy.

Told through the eyes of the femme fatale, here played by the beautiful Charlotte Rampling, director Barnaby Southcombe’s new film noir is at once an unconventional and archetypal approach to the classic genre. When Anna (Rampling) blacks out and forgets the events of a grisly murder, Chief Inspector Bernie Reid (Gabriel Byrne) keeps both a professional and romantic eye on her.

British Independent Film Awards, this intriguing drama follows a shy 11-year-old named Skunk who witnesses her neighbor, Mr. Oswald, brutally attack her mentally unstable friend, Rick. Things worsen for Skunk as Mike is sent to a psychiatric ward and Mr. Oswald’s daughters harass her more and more. Starring Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises, Inception), Oscar-nominated Tim Roth, and Rory Kinnear (Skyfall).

Septuagenarians Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave costar for the first time in this touching crowd-pleaser, a sentimental comedy in the vein of Calendar Girls and The Full Monty.

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From the directors of the World War II resistance epic Max Manus — which became Norway’s biggest hit at the domestic box office and one of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s most highly cherished films — the stirring epic Kon-Tiki recounts one of the great real-life adventures of the twentieth century.