Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”…
Johnston: Tie: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / After Hours by Martin Scorsese. Leading up...
Michelangelo Frammartino, the helmer of one of the best films coming out of Cannes this year in Le quattro volte, will be making his animation feature film debut (perhaps in the watercolored CGI 3D form) taking his own biographical story of what it was like to live during the Riflusso years...
La Mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye) - Diego Lerman. Winner of the Sundance/NHK Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes' Atelier de la Cinefondation, this is set in 1982's Buenos Aires, close to the end of the military dictatorship and focuses on the tensions between teachers and students. Picco - Philip Koch. German debut from Koch is actually based on true events, PICCO is the first picture to shed light on the every-day life of youth prison inmates in Germany and shows in a gripping and merciless way that the contemporary judiciary system is by no means able to properly re-educate these lost youths...