CIFF 2018
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1. A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
TV-MA | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime
1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso
Votes: 10,972
2. Vision (I) (2018)
109 min | Drama
Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Masatoshi Nagase, Takanori Iwata, Minami
Votes: 856
3. Smuggling Hendrix (2018)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Yiannis, a faded musician who is about to leave Cyprus for a better life abroad, sees his plans turned upside down when his dog crosses the Buffer Zone that separates the "Greek South" from the "Turkish North". Can he smuggle him back in?
Director: Marios Piperides | Stars: Adam Bousdoukos, Fatih Al, Vicky Papadopoulou, Özgür Karadeniz
Votes: 1,206
4. When You No Longer Love Me (2018)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An Argentinian girl returns to her natal town on Basque Country to discover who killed her father.
Director: Igor Legarreta | Stars: Florencia Torrente, Miki Esparbé, Eduardo Blanco, Joaquín Climent
Votes: 268
5. Night Comes On (2018)
TV-MA | 86 min | Drama
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
Director: Jordana Spiro | Stars: Jill Rene, Nastashia Fuller, John Earl Jelks, Dominique Fishback
Votes: 1,088
6. When the Trees Fall (2018)
88 min | Drama
The story of a five year old little rebellious girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds ... See full summary »
Director: Marysia Nikitiuk | Stars: Anastasiya Pustovit, Sofia Halaimova, Maksym Samchyk, Mariia Svizhynska
Votes: 718
7. 53 Wars (2018)
82 min | Drama, Romance
Anna, whose husband Witek is an acclaimed 1990s war correspondent, keeps waiting for him to return safely from each war he reports from. But soon she gets overwhelmed by fear and anxiety.
Director: Ewa Bukowska | Stars: Magdalena Poplawska, Michal Zurawski, Kinga Preis, Krzysztof Stroinski
Votes: 215
8. Panic Attack (2017)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Director: Pawel Maslona | Stars: Artur Zmijewski, Dorota Segda, Nicolas Bro, Magdalena Poplawska
Votes: 1,627
9. The Harvesters (2018)
TV-MA | 102 min | Drama
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is ... See full summary »
Director: Etienne Kallos | Stars: Brent Vermeulen, Alex van Dyk, Juliana Venter, Morné Visser
Votes: 963
10. Climax (I) (2018)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Music
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile
Votes: 79,301 | Gross: $0.80M
11. Eva + Candela (2018)
89 min | Drama
Eva and Candela face the end of their relationship. They met and fell in love but what brought them together would separate them. Their professional dreams would become their end.
Director: Ruth Caudeli | Stars: Alejandra Lara, Silvia Santamaría, Roberto Cano, Kristina Lilley
Votes: 218
12. A Family Tour (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama
A filmmaker who has been living in exile in Hong Kong visits a festival in Taipei to present a film has been banned in Mainland China.
Director: Liang Ying | Stars: Nai An, Joe Cheung, Zhe Gong, Chih-Ju Lin
Votes: 431
13. With the wind (I) (2018)
88 min | Drama
Pauline, a young farmer, raises her animals far from the modern world. When Samuel arrives to install a wind turbine on the farm, her values and her love for Alex are put to the test.
Director: Bettina Oberli | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Pierre Deladonchamps, Nuno Lopes, Anastasia Shevtsova
Votes: 505
14. Rojo (2018)
109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
Director: Benjamín Naishtat | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi
Votes: 2,776 | Gross: $0.08M
15. Orange Days (2018)
98 min | Drama
When Aban - tough, self-sufficient, and the only woman contractor in the orange fields of northern Iran - beats out the male competition for a big job, the operation seems to get off to a rocky start. But Aban won't let go without a fight.
Director: Arash Lahooti | Stars: Hediyeh Tehrani, Ali Mosaffa, Mehran Ahmadi, Alireza Ostadi
Votes: 442
16. The Movie of My Life (2017)
113 min | Drama
Young Tony decides to return to his hometown. There, he discovers his father has returned to France claiming to miss his friends and country of origin. Tony ends up becoming a teacher, and finds himself amid conflicts and inexperience.
Director: Selton Mello | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Selton Mello, Johnny Massaro, Bruna Linzmeyer
Votes: 2,055
17. Cápsulas (2011)
103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
FONSI is an apparently privileged 12 year old boy. As we get to know his dysfunctional family, his world begins to crumble in a matter of hours. Due to a series of unexpected events, each ... See full summary »
Director: Verónica Riedel | Stars: Sofía Arévalo, Giacomo Buonafina, Carolina Cuervo, Sebastián Gereda
Votes: 32
18. What Will People Say (2017)
106 min | Drama
The story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
Director: Iram Haq | Stars: Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Ekavali Khanna, Rohit Saraf
Votes: 5,941 | Gross: $0.04M
19. A Dog's Will (2000)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Follows the lives of 2 poor Brazilians and their schemes to get money and the consequences of their actions.
Director: Guel Arraes | Stars: Matheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Rogério Cardoso, Denise Fraga
Votes: 16,865
20. Human, Space, Time and Human (2018)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
People from all sorts of backgrounds set sail on a warship. They get drunk on alcohol, drugs and sex. Later, everyone grows tired and falls asleep, then the ship enters an unknown space enveloped in fog.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Mina Fujii, Jang Keun-suk, Ahn Sung-ki, Lee Sung-jae
Votes: 1,078
21. Hattrick (2018)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
Four friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.
Director: Ramtin Lavafipour | Stars: Amir Jadidi, Parinaz Izadyar, Saber Abar, Mahoor Alvand
Votes: 829
22. Wij (2018)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
Eight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.
Director: Rene Eller | Stars: Aimé Claeys, Tijmen Govaerts, Pauline Casteleyn, Maxime Jacobs
Votes: 3,385
23. Averno (2018)
87 min | Adventure
Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle lost in the Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face.
Director: Marcos Loayza | Stars: Paolo Vargas, Luigi Antezana, Alejandro Marañon, Fred Nunez
Votes: 149
24. Blue My Mind (2017)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
Director: Lisa Brühlmann | Stars: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller, Georg Scharegg
Votes: 3,441
25. El-Asliyyin (2017)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and ... See full summary »
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Maged El-Kidwani, Menna Shalabi, Khaled El-Sawi, Kinda Alloush
Votes: 3,029
26. The Heiresses (2018)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama
Marcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
Director: Marcelo Martinessi | Stars: Norma Codas, Margarita Irun, Ana Brun, Yvera
Votes: 3,281 | Gross: $0.08M
27. Dressage (2018)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
Golsa, a 16 year old girl from suburb of Tehran, who is motivated primarily by boredom rather than greed, robs a corner shop with her friends. But while sharing the booty they are ... See full summary »
Director: Pooya Badkoobeh | Stars: Negar Moghaddam, Yasna Mirtahmasb, Ali Mosaffa, Shabnam Moghadami
Votes: 429
28. The Man with the Magic Box (2017)
103 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A janitor in Warsaw stumbles upon a time-traveling device in his apartment and gets stuck in the past while the woman he's been seeing looks for him.
Director: Bodo Kox | Stars: Olga Boladz, Piotr Polak, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Helena Norowicz
Votes: 720
29. Sofia (2018)
85 min | Drama
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy, she finds herself illegally giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide ... See full summary »
Director: Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi | Stars: Maha Alemi, Lubna Azabal, Sarah Perles, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Votes: 887
30. Amin (2018)
91 min | Drama
NIne years ago, Amin came from Senegal to work in France, leaving his wife Aisha and their three children behind. In France, there is nothing but work for him, no friends but the people he lives with at his workers' home.
Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Moustapha Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Mareme N'Diaye, Noureddine Benallouche
Votes: 325
31. Winter Flies (2018)
85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu's road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the ... See full summary »
Director: Olmo Omerzu | Stars: Tomás Mrvík, Jan Frantisek Uher, Eliska Krenková, Zdenek Mucha
Votes: 487
32. Here (2018)
82 min | Drama
A life of three generational men in a family.
Director: Hadi Mohaghegh | Stars: Mahyar Abravan, Mohammad Azarakhsh, Hamdollah Azizi
Votes: 38
33. The Little Match Girl (2017)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama
Andersen's "Little Match Girl", Bresson's donkey, the relationship between a German guerrilla and an Argentine pianist, and Helmut Lachenmann trying to stage an opera with the orchestra of ... See full summary »
Director: Alejo Moguillansky | Stars: María Villar, Walter Jakob, Margarita Fernández, Helmut Lachenmann
Votes: 217
34. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,846 | Gross: $0.82M
35. Crackerjack (2002)
92 min | Comedy, Sport
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club and prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Moloney | Stars: Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan
Votes: 3,148
36. Entranced Earth (1967)
111 min | Drama
In the fictional Latin American country Eldorado, a poet tries to effect political change by influencing powerful men.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, José Lewgoy, Glauce Rocha
Votes: 3,578
37. Axing (2018)
91 min | Drama
The story of an addicted woman Mahsa who thinks that her girl is dead but when finds out that she is alive and lives by her father (Mahsa's ex-husband) decides to take her back. This put her to face her ex-husband and his new wife.
Director: Behrouz Shoaybi | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Sara Bahrami, Amin Hayayee, Jamshid Hashempur
Votes: 935
38. Malcolm (1986)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
A socially awkward and mechanically gifted man becomes involved in a quirky and unconventional crime.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Lindy Davies, Chris Haywood
Votes: 2,840 | Gross: $0.54M
39. Tazzeka (2017)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.
Director: Jean-Philippe Gaud | Stars: Madi Belem, Ouidad Elma, Olivier Sitruk, Abbes Zahmani
Votes: 145
40. One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017)
150 min | Drama
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
Director: Daniel Sandu | Stars: Stefan Iancu, Vlad Ivanov, Toto Dumitrescu, Cristian Bota
Votes: 3,673
41. Killing Jesus (2017)
TV-MA | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.
Director: Laura Mora Ortega | Stars: Natasha Jaramillo, Giovanny Rodríguez, Carmenza Cossio, Camilo Escobar
Votes: 1,121
42. Yomeddine (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
Director: Abu Bakr Shawky | Stars: Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah, Adel Abdulsalam
Votes: 1,885 | Gross: $0.01M
43. Dogman (2018)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi
Votes: 29,737 | Gross: $0.15M
44. Pity (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Director: Babis Makridis | Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Makis Papadimitriou, Nota Tserniafski
Votes: 3,625
45. Claire Darling (2018)
94 min | Drama
In Verderonne, a small village in the Oise, it's the first day of summer and Claire Darling wakes up convinced to live her last day - She then decides to empty her house and brade ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Bertuccelli | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Alice Taglioni, Chiara Mastroianni, Colomba Giovanni
Votes: 1,145
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