Wojciech Smarzowski is one of those Polish directors who’s popular both among the critics and with the audience, even though his films are far from being considered crowd-pleasers. In his upcoming project Good House, Smarzowski, who also penned the script
Lives are at stake, and tough decisions must be made under extreme pressure in Eirik Svensson’s riveting thriller that strikes a deep emotional chord and opens this year’s festival. Safe House is based on a true story that took place at a Doctors Without
Spring 1989. High up in the Indian Himalayas, where even the birds fly low to avoid getting lost in the clouds, the soft-spoken Dev owns a sprawling estate of several orchards and lives in a colonial-style house with his family. He spends a lot of his tim
“Pike River” focuses on the true story of Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse, two women whose friendship empowered them to fight for justice after the Pike River Mine tragedy in 2010, which took the lives of 29 men underground.
A committed couple finds their life slipping away, not because they’ve done anything in particular, but because their history is unwriting itself. Sort of.
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence. As his investigations kept him back to the night of
