In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
In this wildly celebrated two-part work, made originally for British TV, two Moldavian girls, attracted by life and work in London, are unwillingly drawn into the sex industry as they are illegally trafficking across Europe. They travel first to Serbia, then Bosnia, and finally Italy where, on route, Elena is separated from her sister when she is used as a decor and thrown over the side of the boat in the Adriatic Sea.
Daniel Appleton, an investigator and researched with “Speak for Freedom” travels Eastern Europe to uncover the trafficking routes, and encounters the plight of the girls.
When Marie, an introverted young athlete, collapses and is forced to rest, she decides to move in with her new boyfriend in his flat in Left Bank. Their passionate relationship seems to be really helping her, until she discovers that the previous tenant of the flat mysteriously disappeared. Marie begins to doubt whether she can really trust her boyfriend. Life in Left Bank, once envisaged as a dream town, starts to become an alienating nightmare. Slowly, she loses grip on reality.
In this psychological thriller, 4 mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle. Direct from the festival circuit, this film is available exclusively on IFC Festival Direct.
In 1983 a baby boy is brutally taken from his mother, Marisa, by the local drug lord. Ten years later, a boy witnesses his mother’s savage murder and is forced to live on the streets. When Marisa mistakes the boy for her own lost son, the two damaged souls develop a touching relationship—until a fateful decision leads to tragedy. Barreto’s gift for visually compelling storytelling generates great psychological suspense and emotional impact in this fictionalized story based on an actual 2001 bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro.
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