A restaurant becomes a nightmarish stage where male bodies morph into pigs—a transformation that embodies the dehumanization experienced by the victim. The familiar veers into the abject, the visual and auditory saturation replicating the traumatic invasion.
Florence Lacombe-Soucy
Kevin Tremblay
A restaurant becomes a nightmarish stage where male bodies morph into pigs—a transformation that embodies the dehumanization experienced by the victim. The familiar veers into the abject, the visual and auditory saturation replicating the traumatic invasion.
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
เด็มบากลับเข้าเรือนจำ และขณะพยายามทิ้งโลกอาชญากรรมไว้เบื้องหลังเพื่อเริ่มต้นชีวิตใหม่กับครอบครัว น้องชายคนเล็กกลับถลำตัวเข้าสู่เส้นทางอันเลวร้ายที่ตัวเขาเคยเดิน
Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.
A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.