.Yl 2012 - 487

Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country's Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the difficulties of growing up in a city if exclusion and racism. When Jairo, his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas plunges in the streets of the city. His search becomes an initiatory journey that compels him to face his past and to leave aside the influence of his is brothers in order to find his own identity. Through this journey, Tomas reveals a unique perspective of a vibrant and unstable city that, like Tomas, stands on the threshold between what once was and what might be.

A mentally unstable 30-something widow Angelina Jones, works as a fame-struck, low level Hollywood gossip news reporter. Hell bent on finding a father figure for her gay teenage son Joe, Angelina frequents Miss Lolly's Speed Dating Club where she meets an outrageous cast of characters. Angelina's delusional hopes of making a better life for herself and her son gets blindsided by the sudden reappearance of her foul-mouthed, married-to-the-mob mother.

Ramiro is a journalist that after being on a car accident, develops phobia to speed. Suspended from his job, a mysterious publisher commissioned him to write the unauthorized biography of Ana Patricia Jones Ahumada, a Chilean rock legend. The investigation leads them to start a relationship, until one day she dies in a car accident. Devastated, Ramiro meets a woman of identical features and try to reconstruct it the image of his beloved, but is this a coincidence? Free adaptation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

A musical twist on the hammer murder scene in Ben Wheatley's Kill List, made for the Film4 Scene Stealers competition.

Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She has dedicated her life to saving the Asian elephant and founded a special camp, The Elephant Nature Park to protect them. We follow this winner of Time Magazine’s “Asian Hero of the Year” Award in her work. Lek is on a mission to save the Asian elephant in her native Thailand. This film looks at the plight of the Asian elephant, as it goes from being a widely used domestic animal, to becoming a burden on modernizing communities. With experts predicting its extinction within four decades, Lek’s work is needed now more than ever and she has gathered a large group of supporters and volunteers in her quest for a better future for the Asian elephant. This moving film demonstrates Lek’s natural understanding of and rapport with these huge animals and will stir the viewers emotions as it highlights the often desperate state some elephants are kept in.

The Bad Superhero is a short comedy about the world's worst superhero.

Lena Dunham directed short film.

Two single fathers and their sons deal with the respective tragedies and losses in their lives.

What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA - all three billion chemical letters of it - read, stored, and available for analysis. Cracking Your Genetic Code reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution. Meet a cancer patient who appears to have cheated death and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily because scientists have been able to pinpoint and neutralize the genetic abnormalities underlying their conditions. But what are the moral dilemmas raised by this new technology? Will it help or hurt us to know the diseases that may lie in our future? What if such information falls into the hands of insurance companies, employers, or prospective mates? One thing is for certain: the new era of personalized, gene-based medicine is relevant to everyone, and soon you will be choosing whether to join the ranks of the DNA generation.

Esperanza Spalding’s visual album for her fourth studio album Radio Music Society.

A documentary about the career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International Studios. (An early version of this film, only 20 minutes in length, was screened in 2012.)

An aging Japanese bike gangster mentors a crop of halfhearted pledges threatened by police pressure. In doing so, he confronts his tough guy past and dwindling options for the future.

A marriage counselor reels from his own marital woes when the struggle to start a family with his eager wife puts their marriage on shaky ground.

The 7th installment of the omnibus horror series that visualizes the horror thread that has become a hot topic on 2ch. Includes 5 episodes: "Lullaby", "Hasshaku-sama", "I killed my mother", "Please look for this person", and "My sister has returned to her parents' house after a long absence".

A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mixes documentary and fiction to pay homage to the artists of the contemporary Brazilian theater, who come together in the city of São Paulo every year to celebrate the coming of the spring. The fictional storyline shows the shooting of the documentary which is directed by a foreigner director and his Brazilian second-rate crew. They join forces to make a successful film based on the event.