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Competing at Sundance in January 2009, Dos Santos' second feature film after his debut Glue is a visually striking, bittersweet story of love, loss, identity, sex and friendship set in cosmopolitan East London. Twenty-year-old naïve Spanish Axl comes to London to find his father who had abandoned him as a child. But instead, he finds there an underground squat, or communal dwelling, filled with an assortment of colourful, multi-cultural, free spirited characters... (iiksv.org)

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance. (imdb)

On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Nikolai, his wife Lilya and their teenage son Romka. The family is haunted by a local corrupted mayor , who is trying to take away the land, a house and a small auto repair shop from Nikolai. To save their homes Nikolai calls his old Army friend in Moscow, who has now become an authoritative attorney. Together they decide to fight back and collect dirt on the mayor. (imdb)

"The Straight Story" chronicles a trip made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis., in 1994 while riding a lawn mower. The man undertook his strange journey to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged, 75-year-old brother Lyle. (imdb)

This science fiction film examines a society in which a chip is placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. (Lions Gate Films)

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape. (imdb)

A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment... (imdb)

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business... (imdb)

A drama about the eternal struggle between power and weakness, between temptation and surrender, between good and limitless evil.

The movie consists of 3 short movies, each about Shurik - a nerdy student... (imdb)