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<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Angel</h6><p>A young mother (played brilliantly by Maria Bonnevie) struggles with a history of drug abuse in this exquisitely rendered and deeply
compassionate piece, the first fiction film from one of Norway’s m <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/angel '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Applause</h6><p>Paprika Steen delivers a tour-de-force performance in this devastating drama about an alcoholic actress trying to put her life back
together.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Bare Essence of Life</h6><p>An unheard-of romance, it is the story of the explosive, reckless love of an eccentric young farmer and a nursery teacher from Tokyo who is unable to overcome the trauma of losing her boyfriend in a c <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/bareessenceoflife '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Beautiful Kate</h6><p>In order to make peace with his combative, dying father, a writer must return to his childhood home and confront long suppressed memories of the mysterious deaths of his brother and twin sister.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Crab Trap</h6><p>Treading a fine line between documentary and fiction, Crab Trap is a meditative look at daily life in a remote village on the Pacific coast of
Colombia that explores the nuances of social and racial <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/crabtrap '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Day God Walked Away</h6><p>Offering a new take on the Rwandan genocide, cinematographer van Leeuw directs his debut as the first-person experience of one woman as the horror descends.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Day Will Come</h6><p>Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her nowadult
daughter Alice to a vineyard in the Alsace where she is liv <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/daywillcome '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Disappearance of Alice Creed</h6><p>Two ex-cons kidnap a woman, but the tables turn and turn again in this tight, smart tale. This film is a terrific little thriller starring Eddie
Marsan, Martin Compston and Gemma Arterton.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Eamon</h6><p>A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioural problems, his selfish mother
Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Every Day is a Holiday</h6><p></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Five Hours from Paris</h6><p>In a suburb of Tel Aviv, an Israeli cab driver who longs to fly, and a Russian music teacher who is soon to board a plane, find out that romance is only a cab ride away.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Gigante</h6><p>Security guard Jara falls in love as he supervises staff through the closed-circuit cameras at a supermarket. First voyeur, then guardian
angel, he protects and pursues the cleaning woman who has unk <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/gigante '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Happiest Girl in the World</h6><p>Family conflict produces comedy in this story of a young girl who wins a car in a lottery and her scheming parents who insist on selling it.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Kelin</h6><p>A love story among the ragged steppes of ancient Kazakhstan is told in beautiful and poetic images, as a young love struggles to survive in the face of uncontrollable external factors.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Last Ride</h6><p>A desperate father and his 10 year old son flee into the wilderness of the desert and the human heart, battling the elements, the past and each other.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Mall Girls</h6><p>When a 14-year-old girl arrives at a new high school, she is typecast as an outsider from the sticks. Survival means working things out
with a clique of girls who troll the local malls and score the <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/mallgirls '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Man Beyond the Bridge</h6><p>A lonely man finds a companion in a mad woman in a dense forest in the Western Ghats of India. When she becomes pregnant, a conflict
arises between a society that refuses to take responsibility for o <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/manbeyondthebridge '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>My Dog Tulip</h6><p>Christopher Plummer, Lunn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini voice this vividly animated, touching tale of friendship between an elderly bachelor and his German shepherd.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>My Tehran for Sale</h6><p>Shot ‘underground’ on location in Tehran, the film tells the story of modern day Iranian youth struggling for cultural freedom.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Northless</h6><p>Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There Between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his fe <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/northless '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Pivellina</h6><p>A small abandoned girl is sheltered by a circus woman in this tale of courage, loss and togetherness.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Saint Louis Blues</h6><p>In this sparkling and surprising Senegalese musical, Dyana Gaye turns a shared taxi ride from Dakar to Saint Louis into a confection that could have been made by Jacques Demy. (This film will be scree <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/saintlouisblues '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Samson & Delilah</h6><p>Teenagers Samson and Delilah live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. Their outsider status draws
them closer together and they come to depend on each other when tra <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/samsonanddelilah '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Shirley Adams</h6><p>Intimate, precise portrait of a “coloured” mother in Cape Town, South Africa whose son is disabled in a neighborhood shooting.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Should I Really Do It?</h6><p>The concepts of real life and fiction, documentary and drama, are explored in this real-life feature which follows the unbelievable life of Petra, a German woman living in Turkey.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Soga</h6><p>A gritty and gripping drama about political intrigue, love, death and the power of memory, set in the Dominican Republic.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Toad's Oil</h6><p>The story of Takuro Yazawa, a Day-trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow find a way to <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/toadsoil '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Together</h6><p>The tragic death of a mother disintegrates her family, which cannot cope with the loss.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Unloved</h6><p>Morton shifts from actor to director in this stark, intimate portrait of a young British girl thrown from an abusive family into the hands of government care.</p></div>

Discovery

The Angel - Margreth Olin
Applause - Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Bare Essence of Life - Satoko Yokohama
Beautiful Kate - Rachel Ward
A Brand New Life - Ounie Lecomte
Crab Trap - Oscar Ruiz Navia
The Day God Walked Away - Philippe van Leeuw
The Day Will Come - Susanne Schneider |
The Disappearance of Alice Creed - J Blakeson
Eamon - Margaret Corkery
Every Day is a Holiday - Dima El-Horr
Five Hours from Paris - Leon Prudovsky
Gigante - Adrián Biniez
The Happiest Girl in the World - Radu Jude
Kelin - Ermek Tursunov
Last Ride - Glendyn Ivin
Mall Girls - Katarzyna Roslaniec
The Man Beyond the Bridge - Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
My Dog Tulip - Paul Fierlinger | Sandra Fierlinger
My Tehran for Sale - Granaz Moussavi
Northless - Rigoberto Perezcano
La Pivellina - Tizza Covi | Rainer Frimmel
Saint Louis Blues - Dyana Gaye
Samson & Delilah - Warwick Thornton
Shirley Adams - Oliver Hermanus
Should I Really Do It? - Ismail Necmi
La Soga - Josh Crook
Toad's Oil - Koji Yakusho
Together - Matias Armand Jordal
The Unloved - Samantha Morton

Discovery offers a unique window on contemporary international cinema. A showcase for new and emerging filmmakers, Discovery is your introduction to gifted and innovative directors who are certain to become household names.