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POLAND | 109 minutes | 2018
A bus full of young adults stops on a lonely road. They’re off to work in what appears to be a strange hotel. But is that really where they’re going? Whatever the case, it becomes all too clear that work is not, in fact, very good for you at all. The hellish passage of a group of young people through an elusive, spectral world where nothing is as it seems makes for one very disquieting chiller. Proof that genre cinema is today reinventing itself with panache in Poland and that director Jagoda Szelc is one of its rising stars.CANADIAN PREMIEREIn collaboration with FTA." ... a powerful visual poem, a fascinatingly misanthropic excavation of socialisation and group mentality." The Movie Waffler"Stunning ... a wonderfully mordant, meta reflection on the creative process and the end of studies to which the film itself is the monument." Pop Matters"...provides menace and rewards patience." Screen Anarchy« ... une atmosphère étrange et suffocante digne des meilleurs films d’horreur. ... l’expérience cinématographique globale est exquise. » Panorama-Cinema
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MONUMENT / 2018 - fictionWIE?A. JASNY DZIE?. / TOWER. A BRIGHT DAY. / 2017 - fictionSPACER / A SHORT WALK / 2015 - short documentaryTAKI PEJZA? / SUCH A LANDSCAPE / 2013 - short fictionPUNKT WYJ?CIA / EXIT POINT / 2012 - short documentaryAPOSIOPESIS / 2011 - short fictionI NIGDY NIE WRACA? / WITH NO RETURN / 2011 - short fictionKICHOT / 2011 - short documentary
After a car crash, James Ballard discovers he has a fetish rooted in crumpled cars and bodies. The dented sides of cars become the womb for disturbing,...
Feature film, Fiction
ONTARIO, CANADA | 100 minutes | 1996
A surprise hit and audience award winner at the latest Slamdance Festival, and recently shown at the TIFF’s Midnight Madness, The Vast of Night is THE...
UNITED STATES | 90 minutes | 2019
In Japan, hell is a bar. A no man’s land that Kanako falls into, literally. Now forced to work for a cook with some rather complicated criminal habits...
JAPAN | 117 minutes | 2019
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