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"The Last Fiction" is the first animated feature film made entirely in Iran. This contemporary looking crowd-favorite film played in countless film festivals and received multiple awards.
Based on classic 1000-year old Persian literature, "The Book of Kings," - this epic animated film follows the young hero Afaridoun, who is destined to save the kingdom's people from the darkness. King Zahak, who made a pact to seize the throne, is now haunted by his evil deeds, and his nightmares. Afaridoun must conquer his own inner demons before he can battle Zahak's dark forces and restore peace to the kingdom...
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Length: 100 mins.
Language: English
Presented through our partnership with FilmFest Distribution and the Los Angeles Animated Film Festival
Based on classic 1000-year old Persian literature, "The Book of Kings," - this epic animated film follows the young hero Afaridoun, who is destined to save the kingdom's people from the darkness. King Zahak, who made a pact to seize the throne, is now haunted by his evil deeds, and his nightmares. Afaridoun must conquer his own inner demons before he can battle Zahak's dark forces and restore peace to the kingdom...
Film IMDB PAGE
See everywhere this film is available HERE
Length: 100 mins.
Language: English
Presented through our partnership with FilmFest Distribution and the Los Angeles Animated Film Festival
1960s London. Crime is at the highest level on record. Extortion, robbery and murder are rife through the capital. Everyone knows the gangsters responsible, but no one will go on the record. Detective Nipper Read is tasked with the mission of bringing the city back to the rule of law. As he faces bent cops, political backstabbing, and terrified witnesses, he becomes increasingly obsessed with breaking the code of silence. The true story of the price paid by the man who caught the Kray twins.
This in-your-face dark drama follows Dina, a young girl from a small town in Israel who cleans toilets for a living. She falls in love with a man and moves with him to the big city. Little does she know that he’s a pimp who recruits girls for the sex industry.
With its beautiful cinematography and extremely difficult human situations, this unsettling arthouse gem of a film exposes the nitty-gritty ugly side of Tel Aviv, and the sex and drug trade that infests its streets. Hebrew with English hardcoded subtitles.
The Fusion Generation is a multicultural romantic comedy about a doting mother desperately seeking a bride for her eldest son -- but the woman he falls for has no time for the institution! This wild action-romance is seen through the eyes of Jag, known to his friends as J.D. , who agrees to get married to get his mother off his back. While engaged to Neetu, Jag steps deep into a crazy series of mishaps, including losing his job, running afoul of a small-time gang of thugs, and falling hard for Teejay, a wealthy pioneer daughter of an Indo-Canadian Lumber Mogul.
A young couple embarks on what should be a fun road trip for lovers. However, their idyllic journey takes an unforeseen turn when they find themselves ensnared in the clutches of an inexplicable terror that stalks their every move. What begins as a whimsical escapade soon descends into a nightmare as they are relentlessly pursued by a malevolent entity, its presence casting a dark shadow over their once carefree excursion.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest Christian site, is shared by six denominations fighting each other for every inch. Two Muslim families, guardians of the entrance key to the church, argue who is the true key custodian. Johnny, an Israeli police officer in charge, is trying to preserve the ancient, fragile Status Quo.
Running Time: 72 mins
Release year: 2020
Language: Hebrew/English with English subtitles
Directed by: Anat Tel
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In this dark and disturbing independent film, a quiet little mid-west town is rocked by an unforeseen occurrence. Twenty years after, Cemetery Town is again disrupted by a series of killings. The town's caretaker, Cliff is in the center of the chaos. When Cliff decides to care for a Brain eating creature , he soon realizes mankind and the unknown creatures from other worlds should not merge.
Emma and her family are unhappy after moving to her house; one day she went to the attic and found someone who looked like her and began haunting her.
A month after Emma Callan (Elisabeth Moss) and her family move into their seemingly picture-perfect Victorian home, Emma starts to have ghastly visions of a girl who appears to be her insidiously evil doppelganger. Since no one else has seen this entity, Emma is faced with two terrifying prospects: Either she's going insane or she's actually being haunted by a malevolent spirit; a spirit determined to destroy anyone who dares delve into the dark mysteries of The Attic. This is an intense supernatural horror/thriller from the director of Pet Sematary!
An Israeli documentarian delves into the relationship between the life of the controversial author and the work, specifically the way Bellow borrowed real people from his past as the inspiration for characters in his stories.
During the 2020 lockdown, it's not the pandemic that poses the greatest danger in the five bizarre stories that make up this edgy, humorous, and utterly bonkers Italian horror anthology, which gleefully includes serial killers, cannibal sex workers, and environmentalist witches.
On September 6th, 2003, four cousins - Rhea, Connor, Alan and Steve - head out on a road trip before Steve's posting to the Iraq War. While taking in the sights, filming, and squabbling along the way, they meet a mysterious hitchhiker who claims to have his own military past. The events following this ill-fated meeting were found on a damaged camera, depicting the brutal murder of the cousins at the hands of the hitcher.
A decomposing cleric showcases three short films of terror and mutilation. A man, woman, and her pregnant daughter are escaping a countryside teeming with zombies until their van breaks down and they must survive on foot in a visceral homage to golden age Italian zombie films; another man is sliced to death by a woman in a hotel room, and one year later, another man named Janus seeks a room at the same inn and suffers a night of torment, with only traces of a woman left at daybreak -- whom he then meets at a nearby cemetery. In the final tale, a series of texts interrupt a jogger, who finds a murdered woman -- after being questioned by the police, he returns home where bizarre events have already started to unfold.
When three girls head out for a relaxing weekend in the woods, their plans are ruined by a crazed killer set to pick them off. What their attacker doesn't know is that they've survived this kind of thing before... and this time they're ready for a fight, and blood is going to be spilled, because these girls are done with running from their demons!
Striving for the Present - Part A is an experimental film that combines a fictional character in a documentary setting. The film revolves around an old homeless man who has given up all normal aspirations (Shelter, family, work) and spends his days wandering the streets endlessly. The random encounters with real characters that stumble upon his way allow the viewer to observe reality with a fresh outlook that combines critique and compassion for the world we live in.
The Story of Adi Khavous, a musician and extraordinary artist who chose a vagabond lifestyle. Adi left home in Israel and now lives in Canada as a solitary immigrant and rock 'n' roll singer. The film depicts five years of Adi's journey and presents an alternative, off-beat way of life. In his lonesome life, Adi holds on to one dream: to break through as a musician. This 5 years journey provides a glimpse into the extreme life of a unique artist.
This Hebrew language arthouse doc was a huge hit on the festival circuit, scooping up multiple awards and winning tons of praise.