The Other Side of Horror

The fearsome child of modern festivals, Xavier Dolan returns with an explosive domino of revelations and family passions. French cinema all-star cast and a well deserved Cannes award. — After 12 years of absence, a writer returns home to make an important announcement to his family. A quiet afternoon is destroyed by confrontations and feuds, triggered by feelings of loneliness and doubt. The family members' attempts for reconciliation fail due to their inability to listen and love. — Grand Prize of the Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Best Director | César Awards | 2017 Award Best Actor (Gaspard Ulliel) | César Awards | 2017

Another brilliant example of Bong Joon Ho's fascinatingly unclassified cinema, which masterly combines the genres of crime thriller, film noir, family drama and social satire to compose one of the most unconventional stories of maternal love ever screened. — One day a young girl is found dead in an abandoned building and a 27-year-old man is accused of her murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force that closes his case too quickly inspire his mother to act on her own—to act as Mother in its purest form. Summoning all her maternal instincts and trusting no one, she sets out to find a killer and prove her son’s innocence. — Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2009

A sweet embrace to an unknown world, the one that every young person must discover when coming out of their shell. A supernatural growth of the need for emancipation in one of the most beautiful European films of recent times. — A shy young girl leaves her religious parents behind, in a small west coast town in Norway, in order to study at one of Oslo's universities. One day, while she is in the university library, she experiences an intense and unexpected seizure, which resembles those caused by epilepsy. Equally unexpected is the attraction she feels for a beautiful fellow student, which seems to respond to the magnetic presence of the lonely, strange provincial girl.

Lars von Trier was let back into Cannes after a seven-year ban and brought chaos with him, as a hundred people walked out of the premiere while the rest applauded for several minutes. Matt Dillon plays a serial killer looking back on twelve years of his work, and both reactions make sense. — Jack wants to be an architect, and in late-1970s Washington State he has just killed for the first time. Twelve years and many bodies later, he walks a man called Verge through the whole story, one victim and one incident at a time, explaining what went through his mind at each. What he wants is for Verge to see it all as art. — Best Feature Film | Black Sea Film Festival | 2019 Jury Award of Recognition | Black Sea Film Festival | 2019 Best Director | Black Sea Film Festival | 2019 Best Cinematography | Black Sea Film Festival | 2019 Best Editing | Black Sea Film Festival | 2019 Best Actor (Matt Dillon) | Black Sea Film Festival | 2019 Nominated for Best Feature | Hamburg Film Festival | 2018

Back when everyone wanted Lynch to finally explain “Twin Peaks”, he answered with a prequel that only multiplies the questions, following Laura Palmer through the last seven days of her life. The film some fans first dismissed is now one many would follow into the Black Lodge. — David Lynch’s prequel to his own cult series begins in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The FBI agent sent there to investigate the murder of a young woman, Teresa Banks, finds nothing and then vanishes himself. A year later, in nearby Twin Peaks, homecoming queen Laura Palmer has two boyfriends, a secret and seven days left to live. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1992

One of the most unsettling psychological thrillers of recent years, a descent into the subconscious, the shadowy underside of our obsession with true crime, and the most horrifying corners of the online abyss. — Kelly-Ann is a model obsessed with the case of a serial killer, as the line between reality and her macabre fantasies begins to dissolve. Drawn deeper into the darkest reaches of the dark web, she embarks on a dangerous quest to uncover the missing video of a young girl’s murder - one who bears an eerily disturbing resemblance to Kelly-Ann herself. — Official Selection | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | 2023

Kristoffer Borgli (“The Drama”) earned his ticket to Hollywood with this venomous but deeply tender satire of a generation and its culture. A young woman in Oslo who wants only to be looked at takes a withdrawn Russian drug that wrecks her skin, and the make-up took seven hours a day. — Signe envies her boyfriend Thomas, whose art made from stolen designer furniture is suddenly being taken seriously in Oslo, because she wants that attention for herself. Then she hears about a Russian anti-anxiety drug that was pulled from the market for disfiguring the people who took it. She orders it online, and the attention starts to come. — Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2022