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High school is the setting for this freewheeling comedic twist on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 19th-century novel The Scarlet Letter. Ambitious student Olive (Emma Stone) decides to boost her popularity by pretending to be the school slut. As the school's swirling rumor mill increases both her notoriety and her finances, Olive enjoys her newfound status but eventually must decide which is more important: popularity or self-esteem.

Jarring, disturbing, and thoroughly disorienting, Der Nachtmahr is a psychophantasmagoric coming-of-age story about a teenage girl thrust into an unnaturally symbiotic relationship. (tiff.net)

Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father (imdb)

Hitman fails to kill one of his targets. He protects her and takes young man who saved his life as his apprentice. Together they run away from another assassin and his angry boss.

A web of deceit and mystery surrounds the chancery trial of Jarndyce and Jarndyce that draws a large group of disparate individuals together. But are they more closely related than they think? And what's the connection between the Jarndyce case and the orphan Esther Summerson?

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion. (imdb)

Expanded from a one-character play by Evelyne de la Chenelière's, set in a Montreal elementary school, this beautifully crafted character study speaks of loss and death, innocence and guilt, imposture and honesty, in an eloquent and complex, yet simple and fluid manner. (tiff.net)

An epic portrait of late sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children.

The second short in the Russian Winnie the Pooh trilogy. Here Pooh goes for a snack at Rabbit's and get's stuck in the door.

Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly?