Life's Poison(2011)

Due West(fr)

Mathilde, aged 9, enjoys her last day of summer holidays at the seaside with her group of friends. Her father falsely interprets one of their games.

Attention(fi)

A middle-aged man and a teenager with everything to lose. These two strangers in very different situations meet unexpectedly and end up saving each other. Or do they?

I Have to Run(de)

A gay artist flees the repressive laws and war in Russia to go to Berlin, leaving his boyfriend behind. Meanwhile, life in Berlin turns out to be less inclusive he had expected.

Turnaround(fi)

A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.

Libre(fr)

I Have Sinned(sv)

Pablo confesses a crime to Anders, who has a hidden agenda.

You Haunt Me(en)

Ben Howardson, a grieving middle-aged man, grapples with the loss of his accomplished concert pianist mother, Eileen Howardson. Her absence has left an indelible void in his life. Ben returns to his childhood home to pack up Eileen’s belongings. Upon entering, he encounters an unsettling sensation. What awaits him within those walls is an extraordinary event that will transform his life. Ben will confront his painful past, his paralyzed present, and his uncertain, yet hopeful future.

Rest Stop.(en)

It's 1975, and John Dykstra, a lowly college professor, with not much confidence but a semi-successful author, is on his way home from his monthly meet up group with fellow authors, when he decides to pull off to the nearest rest stop. What he encounters there is an unnerving domestic assault, that will force him to embrace his alter ego, Rick Hardin, the hitman in his novels, and finally decide what kind of man he wants to be.

ABC Book(pl)

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

In Hands Reach(en)

A young girl returns home to an empty apartment. She gets invited on a date but she has to finish her chores first. This would be very easy for her, but her addiction makes it a struggle.

Lust(no)

A sister and a brother and the fear of fornication.

The Voyage(sv)

The year is 1941 in Sweden and Astrid seeks independence by trying to become a train conductor. On the train she meets an older passenger Dora, which she feels attracted to. Astrid also faces a more dark and hostile world on board as she discovers that the staff has put in system to reject unwanted passengers such as Romans and Jews.

Maniacs(sv)

A girl goes to visit her sister who has been impossible to reach since being released from a psychiatric ward. When she arrives, things are much worse than she could have imagined. But to her surprise, her sister claims that she has never been happier since she turned her back on the outside world.

Attraction(es)

A woman who claims independence and freedom finds herself involved in a situation that is beyond her control.

Fog(es)

Is Fer a different child or is he a child like any other in a strange world? On the way home, Fer and her father experience strange events.

Champ de bosses(fr)

Camille falls on the nose. A stupid fall, apparently benign, but Camille feels her nose moving, growing, inside. The fear of looking like Fabio and his big adolescent body, his grandmother deformed by the disease, the pigs of the old man, seized her. Fear of losing shape.

Placer(es)

Seven friends gather, like every year, in a mountain cottage in the mountains. This year is different, it will be their last year as twenty-somethings before turning thirty. Everyone seems to have matured but the discovery of a porn movie will make them discover how sexual fantasies can change everything.

42 One Dream Rush(en)

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.

Little Weakness(fr)

While his wife is pregnant, Marc enters into a strange relationship with a young Polish man who is willing to do anything.