DIRECTOR: Tim Blake Nelson
Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. Before Bill can flee, he’s implicated in a murder, and his life has become completely unraveled, suggesting that no rational philosophy can protect us from life’s twists and dangers.
With Edward Norton in the role of each twin, LEAVES OF GRASS will be a fast-paced comic film that contrasts two distinct approaches to life: one in which vigilant self-control renders experience as predictable as possible and another where instinct and impetuousness embrace life as irrational, unpredictable, and very dangerous.
DIRECTOR: Grant Heslov
Based on the book by the Guardian columnist Jon Ronson, “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is set in Iraq and centers on Bob Wilton (McGregor), a desperate reporter who stumbles upon the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (Clooney), who claims to be a former secret U.S. military psychic soldier who was re¬activated post-9/11.
“Goats” chronicles the two men’s travels through Iraq and offers glimpses into the supposedly real secret Army unit tasked with creating soldiers with paranormal powers.
Bridges will play Bill Django, the founder of the psychic soldier program and Lyn’s mentor. Spacey will play Larry Hooper, a former psychic soldier who is running a prison camp in Iraq.
CAST: Bin Won, Hye-ja Kim
DIRECTOR: Joon-ho Bong
A unique noir thriller that digs into the secrecy surrounding a terrible murder and the mystery of a mother’s primal love for her son. The films of director Bong Joon-ho regularly, and brilliantly, break with convention, thanks to an imagination that is not confined to the accepted parameters of humour, suspense or horror – Mother is no exception.
CAST: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, Michael Peña
DIRECTOR: Werner Herzog
Inspired by true events, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, is a story of ancient myth and modern madness. Brad Macallam, an aspiring actor performing in a Greek tragedy, commits the crime he is to enact in the play by killing his mother. The mystery unfolds in a series of flashbacks displaying the psychological destruction of the killer set off by an ill-fated white-water kayaking trip in a distant land.
CAST: Manuela Velasco, Javier Botet, Nico Baixas, Jonathan Mellor, Oscar Zafra
DIRECTOR: Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
15 minutes have passed since the batteries in the TV camera ran out. 15 minutes have passed since the last images for the “While You Sleep” programme were recorded inside the infected building.
Outside: a curious crowd gathers behind the area cordoned off by the Special Forces. TV news crews are putting on the pressure to find out what the hell’s going on…
