Piccola patria

Alessandro Rossetto : 2013
Small Homeland

Two young girls, a hot, stifling summer, the desire to run away from a small provincial town. Luisa is full of life, uninhibited, unconventional. Renata is dark, angry and in need of love. The lives of the two young women is a tale of blackmail, of a love betrayed, of violence. Luisa uses Bilal, her Albanian boyfriend, Renata uses Luisa's body to orchestrate her revenge. Both want to leave the small community that raised them, amongst local festivals and nationalist rallies, exhausted families and new generations of migrants targeted by those still feeling threatened. Luisa, Renata and Bilal will run the risk of losing themselves, of losing a precious part of themselves, of losing the people they love, of losing their life. The film premiered at La Biennale di Venezia 2013, and received its international premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

Les revenants

Fabrice Gobert & Frédéric Mermoud : 2012
The Returned

The residents of a small French alpine town, dominated by a huge dam, come to terms with a series of mysterious and unbelievable events. A seemingly random collection of people, of different ages and backgrounds, find themselves in a state of confusion as they attempt to return to their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, they have not aged and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Buried secrets begin to emerge as they grapple with this sinister new reality, struggling to reintegrate with their families and past lovers. Determined to reclaim their lives, they slowly come to realise that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. Their return augers torment for their community when a series of gruesome murders bears a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. Compelling and beautifully shot, this slow-burning, minimalist drama mini-series is a highly original and unsettling mixture of the real and surreal.

Norte, the End of History

Lav Diaz : 2013
Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan

A man is wrongly jailed for murder whilst the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him. The story begins with a chat in a bar about ideology and the 21st century, the absolute freedom of the individual and responsibility, capitalism and Karl Marx. Frustrated because so many corrupt politicians and crooks get off scot-free in the Philippines, the down-and-out law student Fabian tries to make a point. As he sinks deeper and deeper into an immoral and violent universe, the innocent Joaquin is thrown in jail and his wife and children try to keep their heads above water on the fringes of the coastal town of Laoag. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2013.

Marea baja

Paulo Pécora : 2013
Low Tide

Fleeing through the jungle near the border between Argentina and Uruguay, a stranger knocks on the door of a secluded house in the Paraná Delta that is inhabited by two women. Carrying with him only guns and money, he is obviously on the run and feels that someone is breathing down his neck. Right now he is surrounded by the constraints of his own vulnerability, and by nature, revealing itself as a considerably disquieting element which ultimately consumes everything in its path. The women provide a short time of care and rest, but his surroundings give him no peace of mind. An ambigious triangle drama arises and when his persecutors eventually catch up with the man, the final reckoning can commence. A noir thriller with a dark and dense atmosphere, its austere minimalism deepening the inner tension. The film received its international premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013.

A House in Berlin

Cynthia Beatt : 2014

Stella unexpectedly inherits an old house in Berlin from her Jewish great-uncle. Due to the dramatic history of this building, which has gone through various changes throughout the 20th century, she will have to fight for the right to claim ownership of her inheritance. Willing to do this, she embarks on a personal journey into the past that turns out to be more complex and ambiguous than she ever could have expected. A conceptual quest full of suspense, depicting a person who gets a chance to find her 'secret homeland' as well as rediscover herself. Cynthia Beatt's feature, a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, challenges our 'common knowledge' about the genealogy of contemporary Europe. Her film premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

The Hope Factory

Natalia Meschaninova : 2014
Kombinat Nadezhda

Due to its vast industrial areas and enormous industrial output, the city of Norilsk has become one of the most polluted places in the world. However, despite the persistent ecological crisis, the severe northern climate and harsh living conditions, life goes on there in its own extreme, as well as routine, way. But the will to live that such an existence fosters is actually the will, or rather the dream, to escape, especially for a young generation. The desperate, hardly possible dream that moves and traps its adherents, turning against them. A dramatic coming-of-age story about two girls – two rivals who pursue the same goal of leaving their homeland but who take different steps to reach it, testing the blurring boundaries of morality and transgression. Natalia Meschaninova's first feature, a docu-style, emotionally-driven drama, premiered in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

I'm the Same, I'm an Other

Caroline Strubbe : 2013

Szabolcs, a thirty-year-old Hungarian, is travelling by car through Western Europe. His young companion, nine-year-old Tess, sits in the back. They share a secret and tragic past and their interactions are riddled with tension. As they make their way to a harbour, we slowly come to realise that they are on the run from something, travelling as refugees. Deep in the hull of a passenger ferry, Szabolcs does his best to hide Tess's presence. A discovery thrusts their relationship into a completely different realm. After disembarking from the ferry, they settle into their hiding place, a cottage on the English coast where they are forced to examine their tragic past. There they grow closer as Szabolcs becomes a father figure to the obsessive-compulsive Tess. A sensitive and beautifully filmed road movie full of telling silences and subtle gestures, its atmospheric blue-grey images an expression of the emotional life of the traumatised characters. Caroline Strubbe's uniquely crafted second feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2013.

From Tehran to Heaven

Abolfazl Saffary : 2013
Az Tehran ta behesht

Ghazal and her husband Farhad, who works in a laboratory, have been having their disagreements lately. She tells him she is pregnant, but instead of welcoming the news, he observes that it is a sin to bring a child into this world. When Ghazal comes home after having an ultrasound scan, she finds that her apartment has been ransacked and Farhad has disappeared. There is a note on the fridge with a cryptic message that he has left for a place called Heaven. Ghazal is abducted and threatened. Her abductors want to know where Farhad is hiding. Strange things are happening. She discovers that Farhad's lab had been conducting dangerous experiments and that he absconded with the results. Having survived rape and physical abuse, she knows she has to find her husband as quickly as possible. In a nightmarish pursuit from a surreal Tehran deep into the desert, and imprisoned in what seems to be a feverish dream, Ghazal not only tries to survive herself – the life of her unborn child is also at risk in this dystopian society. Abolfazl Saffary's feature, an apocalyptic vision of Iran, premiered at Montréal World Film Festival 2013.

Whispers Behind the Wall

Grzegorz Muskała : 2013
Die Frau hinter der Wand

Martin leaves his protective parents' home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. Finding accommodation proves a real challenge, so he lives in his car, whilst pretending to his parents that everything is fine. He is really pleased when he gets an offer of a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Once Martin has moved in, he begins to find clues about the previous tenant and his relationship to the female landlord, Simone. As Martin's obsession with her life grows, he quickly falls for his mysterious neighbour, who lives just next door behind a thin wall. Hoping to find trust and intimacy, he loses himself in the house's disturbing world of sex and violence. Deep in the walls, Martin discovers the true horror of his first love. Grzegorz Muskała's dark psychological thriller premiered at Oldenburg International Film Festival 2013.

Tots volem el millor per a ella

Mar Coll : 2013
We all want what's best for her

One year after suffering a horrible traffic accident, Geni is ready to resume her life – or at least that's what her family wants to see. The truth is that despite trying to please everyone, Geni feels unable to live up to expectations: her life before the accident no longer interests her. Why resume it then? The confusion that this creates causes her behaviour to become increasingly more erratic and leads to a single idea that begins to grow within her: escape. Geni's natural inability to fully conform to convention, not because of ideology but because of incomprehension, places her above those who expect something else from her. Paradoxically, her erratic behaviour is what ends up questioning the values and ways of the world around her. Mar Coll's second feature was winner of the Best Actress award at Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2013.

Something Must Break

Ester Martin Bergsmark : 2014
Nånting måste gå sönder

A love story set in Stockholm during the summer, when the androgynous Sebastian meets Andreas and they begin a passionate affair. Sebastian is gay, dresses as a woman and often seeks danger in his sexual adventures with strangers. When things nearly go wrong in a public toilet, there is Andreas – a guardian angel in a scruffy leather jacket. Even though Andreas isn't gay, the attraction between them turns out to be more powerful than any labels. But Andreas finds it difficult to be in a relationship with another guy, and while they are talking about escaping everyday life together, he begins to have strong feelings for a young woman. An intimate and emotional picture of people looking for who they can be and are allowed to be. Ester Martin Bergsmark's first fiction feature premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014, where it won the Hivos Tiger Award.

Edén

Elise DuRant : 2014
Eden

A young woman returns to Mexico to investigate why her late father abandoned the country and took her as a 9-year-old child from the home she loved. In Alma's eyes, this was an exceptional, magical time, which ended abruptly when she was forced to flee the country in a big hurry. But why? She remembers many beautiful, but also confusing moments that still exert a stifling influence on her current life. Attempting to unravel the puzzle of the past spent with her open-minded father until society cruelly expelled them, she returns to the locations of her childhood observations and fears. Memories and identity slowly converge. When she discovers a family secret the town has kept buried, she begins to see her elusive father in a way she had not known before, giving her the key to regain a sense of belonging she thought was lost. Elise DuRant's sensitive and personal drama, her feature directorial debut, premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

Depois da chuva

Cláudio Marques & Marília Hughes : 2013
After the Rain

1984, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It all starts with a feeling that anything is possible. After twenty years of dictatorship, the population goes out on to the streets to demand presidential elections. The emerging political process has given them a new sense of freedom, although critics say both candidates are too close to the old military regime. Caio, a free-thinking teenager, is struggling against authority both at home and at school. The year will be a very special one for him and his fellow anarchists; especially for him, since he's just met Fernanda, his first love. It's a transitional year for the young: a time of learning and growing up. But life isn't always good, and fate has surprises in store, for both the country and for Caio. The film screened in the Marché du Film event at Festival de Cannes 2013 and received its international premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

Lilting

Hong Khaou : 2014

The sudden death of a young London man named Kai leaves his headstrong Chinese-Cambodian mother, Junn, and his lover, Richard, each in a personal and profound state of grief. Feeling a strong sense of responsibility toward Kai's only family member, Richard reaches out to Junn, who has been biding time in an assisted-living home. Though Junn speaks little English, her dislike of Richard is plain, and she meets him with stony resistance. Since they share no common language, Richard hires a translator to facilitate communication, and the two improbable relatives attempt to reach across a chasm of misunderstanding through their memories of Kai. Moving between the real and imaginary to express the unspeakable loss that both characters experience, Hong Khaou's intimate feature debut premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2014, where it won the World Cinema Cinematography Award.

Innocents

Wong Chen-hsi : 2012

Ah Huat leads a harsh life and studies at a very strict school where they still use outmoded forms of punishment. He is misunderstood by his teacher and is constantly humiliated and punished. His father is an alcoholic and he must care for his sister, who has Down's syndrome. Syafiqah, a girl going through her parents' divorce, goes to live with her grandfather for a while. The children become classmates and start to bond. Misunderstood and bullied, the two outcasts sneak off into the jungles and monsoon canals behind their school to carve out a private world of fantasy and freedom. But as they hatch a plan to escape from Singapore in search of a better life, the monsoon rains intensify and a vow of secrecy forces Syafiqah to embark on a quest for independence well beyond her years. Wong Chen-hsi's feature directorial debut, an exquisite and atmospheric depiction of the worlds shared by children, premiered in competition in the Alice nella Città section at Rome Film Festival 2012.

The Bow

Kim Ki-duk : 2005
Hwal

On an old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore, a sixty-year-old man has raised a young girl since she was just a baby. Living a sheltered life, they earn a living by bringing local fisherman to fish from their boat and spend their time performing divination ceremonies. The girl is now approaching her seventeenth birthday, the age at which she has agreed to marry her companion. They live happily together until the day a teenage student comes to the boat and the girl's life is thrown into chaos. She is immediately attracted to him and when the young man discovers that she was abducted at the age of six and knows nothing of the world, he returns to the vessel to take the girl back to her parents. Kim Ki-duk's captivating and beautifully shot feature was winner of the Audience Award at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2005.

Scherbenpark

Bettina Blümner : 2013
Broken Glass Park

Sascha is a 17-year-old girl living in Stuttgart. She carries with her the trauma of losing her mother, murdered at home by her stepfather. She tries to overcome the shock by putting her emotions down on paper. She dreams of writing a book about her mother and taking revenge on her stepfather. One day quite by coincidence, she meets Volker, another former partner of her mother who offers her help. He invites her to his home where he lives with his teenage son. There she experiences many moments that are completely new to her and a subtle love triangle begins to take shape, helping Sascha find a way to mature. Bettina Blümner's first feature premiered at Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2013.

Backwater

Shinji Aoyama : 2013
Tomogui

Toma is seventeen and lives by the river in Shimonoseki with his father, Madoka and Kotoko, his father's mistress. He sometimes visits his mother, Jinko, who resides on the other side of the bridge, making a living by cleaning fish. He is a witness to his father's shady activities and constant sexual abuse of Kotoko, and is shocked when he recognises some similarities he reluctantly shares with his father. These become even more evident when the young man cannot control his violent impulses towards Chigusa, with whom he has just started a relationship. Toma suddenly turns violent and Chigusa leaves him. When a typhoon approaches and floods the town, Kotoko, now pregnant, is able to escape from Toma's father. Enraged, the latter goes on a frantic search for his mistress. This will set in motion a search full of unexpected encounters. The film premiered in competition at Locarno Film Festival 2013.

Valley of Saints

Musa Syeed : 2012

Widely considered to be the crown jewel of Kashmir, Dal Lake is a sprawling aquatic community where erupting political violence often distracts from the natural beauty. Gulzar, a young, working-class boatman, plans to skip town with his best friend Afzal in search of a better life, but a week-long military curfew derails their departure. Forced to wait it out, Gulzar and Afzal discover they're not alone: a young woman named Asifa is also trapped on the lake, but by choice. She's researching the lake's ecosystem and takes on Gulzar as her guide. As they navigate the floating landscape, an unlikely relationship blossoms between the two. With the end of the conflict looming, Gulzar has to choose between a new life or a new love. Shot during the military curfew of 2010, the film weaves together documentary and fiction, ancient myths and contemporary issues, and the beauty and danger of Kashmir to tell a story of finding one's path home in a changing world. Musa Syeed's first narrative feature won the World Cinema Audience Award when it premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012.

War Story

Mark Jackson : 2014

After being held captive in Libya, Lee, a traumatised American war photographer, retreats to a small town in Sicily to face the aftermath of her experiences alone. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking, and disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her inner demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young Tunisian woman in need, and this passionate new purpose begins the breakthrough in her own healing process. Mark Jackson's second feature premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2014, with its European premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

52 Tuesdays

Sophie Hyde : 2013

Sixteen-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. During this time, Billie will live at her father's house. Billie and her mother have always been extremely close, so the two make an agreement they will meet every Tuesday during their year apart. As her mother transitions and becomes less emotionally available, Billie covertly explores her own identity and sexuality with two older schoolmates, testing the limits of her own power, desire, and independence. Shot over the course of a year, once a week, every week – only on Tuesdays – these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation. Sophie Hyde's feature directorial debut premiered at Adelaide Film Festival 2013. The film was winner of the World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival 2014.

Liar's Dice

Geetu Mohandas : 2014

From the small mountain village of Chitkul in Himachal Pradesh, bordering China, to the industrial land of big dreams, Delhi city, a young mother, Kamala and her 3-year-old daughter, Manya, embark on a journey leaving their native land in search of her missing husband. It has been five months since Kamala has heard from Harud, a construction worker at a dangerous and potentially corrupt urban work site. Along the way, they encounter the mysterious Nawazuddin, a free-spirited army deserter, who realising the perils of the journey ahead for them, decides to accompany them to their destination. A travel story and slow-burning thriller set against the alarming backdrop of the socio-political conditions of India where millions of labourers go missing and are considered just a number in government records. Actress Geetu Mohandas's feature directorial debut premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2014, with its European premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

The Disobedient

Mina Đukić : 2014
Neposlusni

As children, Leni and Lazar were best friends. Leni is forced to spend summer in their small provincial home town working in her parents' pharmacy. When Lazar returns from three years of extensive travels abroad for his father's funeral, Leni yearns to reconnect with her childhood soul mate but still feels the sting of their years of estrangement. Nevertheless, hoping to escape the doldrums of adult life, she embarks with Lazar on an impromptu bicycle trip across a gorgeous, sunbaked countryside. As they revel in raucous bouts of disobedience, Leni must decide if their shared language of misbehaviour is a bond upon which she can build a life. Mina Đukić's feature debut premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2014, with its European premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

A Pact

Denis Dercourt : 2013
Zum Geburtstag

The forgery was anything but professional, and the reaction not at all what he expected. On the hillside, by the lake, many years ago in former East Germany, Paul, 16, tricked Georg into giving up his girlfriend Anna to him with a forged love letter. No raised voices, no accusations, no gallant fighting over the pretty damsel. Just one condition from Georg: that Paul has to give him Anna back, the "same Anna," in due time, when Georg sees fit. Also on the hillside, by the lake, on that same day, were two other youths; a boy and a girl whose lives were about to be transformed by a mean, petty deceit. Many years have passed, and Paul is a successful investment-firm employee. Anna, who married Paul years ago, is a professor. Their two teenage children, a girl and boy, are their pride and joy. But then Georg re-enters their lives, first as Paul's boss, then as a family friend, along with his wife Yvonne – the girl from the hillside. Strange things then begin to happen. Compromising photos, a professional setback for Paul, the uncomfortable feeling that Georg might have worked for the Stasi – and what Paul fears the most: Georg wants Anna back.

Blind

Eskil Vogt : 2014

Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home – a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is supposed to be at work. At the same time, her lonely neighbour who has grown tired of even the most extreme pornography, shifts his attention to a woman across the street. Ingrid knows about this, but her real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed emotions soon prevail. Eskil Vogt's first solo feature takes us into the mind of a woman who has lost her sight but is doing whatever she can to hold on to her reality. The film was winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award when it premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2014.

Steel Cold Winter

Choi Jin-seong : 2013
So-nyeo

High school student Yoon-soo's trivial remark was turned into a vicious rumour which led to his friend's suicide. Being unable to bear the guilt, he attempts suicide and his family moves to a rural village to help him recover. Once there he is attracted to a mysterious girl named Hae-won, whom the entire village alienates. The girl lives alone with her mentally ill father and enjoys skating alone on the lake at night. Villagers and classmates spread rumours about the girl, but Yoon-soo doesn't care. As if seeing himself in her, he offers her kindness and sympathy, and she slowly opens up to him. Then one day, her father disappears and the boy becomes witness to suspicious activity. Soon, Yoon-soo is also consumed by brutal rumours surrounding the girl. The mysterious village covered in snow is a place where curiosity and suspicion lead to misunderstanding and tragedy. Can the boy handle Hae-won's secrets? Choi Jin-seong's feature debut, a romantic mystery thriller, premiered in competition at Busan International Film Festival 2013.

The Tree and the Swing

Maria Douza : 2013
To dentro kai i kounia

Eleni Karapanos, professor of cardiology in London, has been estranged from her father for over fifteen years, ever since defying his wishes she left Greece to relocate to England. Kyriakos who had been a refugee child in Serbia after the war has never forgiven her for leaving her country. One day, Eleni's husband Harris loses his job in a big corporation and is posted to China indefinitely. The prospect of a new uprooting prompts Eleni to make a 'return' trip to her homeland. Before embarking upon a distant journey, Eleni wants to bridge the distance between her and her father, but also give her daughter Anna a 'home' if she ever needs it. On a deeper level though what she really needs is to find a way back home herself. On the pretext of responding to one of her father's calls she takes Anna and comes to Greece, for the Easter holiday. But when she reaches home nothing she finds is as she expects. A Serbian woman, Nina, is living with Kyriakos, looking after his big estate. Kyriakos has been harbouring a few secrets of his own. The film premiered at Montréal World Film Festival 2013.

Viktoria

Maya Vitkova : 2014

In 1979, ten years before the collapse of Communism in Europe, Boryana is determined not to give birth to a child in Communist Bulgaria. The only thing Boryana longs for is to escape to the West. But despite her attempt to protect herself from unwanted pregnancy, her baby survives. Unwanted, Viktoria is born with no umbilical cord to connect her to her mother and is declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Viktoria becomes a symbol of Communist Bulgaria. While growing up, she dominates her environment and is at subconscious war with her mother – the one who didn't want her. But on 10 November, 1989, when the political situation collapses, turning Viktoria's life upside down, the hardships of the new time bind her and her mother together. Told in three parts and spanning several decades, a mother-daughter story also working as a wry, philosophical fable with broad historical scope. Maya Vitkova's feature directorial debut premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2014, with its European premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.

The Enemy Within

Yorgos Tsemberopoulos : 2013
O ehthros mou

Kostas Stasinos, 48, the owner of a garden supply store, lives an ordinary life with his wife Rania, his 17-year-old son Andreas, a high school senior, and his 14-year-old daughter Luisa. A progressive thinker and an unapologetic idealist since his student years, he has passed on his values to his children. But when his house is ransacked by a gang of masked hoodlums, who gag him and his family and rape his daughter before taking off with money, valuables and the family's car, their peace and happiness are destroyed, introducing violence into their everyday lives. As fear becomes the new order of the day, will his family find the strength to heal their wounds and move on? The drama focuses on the loss of balance, dignity and humanity in contemporary Greece. The film premiered at Athens International Film Festival 2013.

La jaula de oro

Diego Quemada-Díez : 2013
The Golden Dream

Three teenagers from Guatemala – tough guy Juan, Sara, who cuts her hair and binds her breasts in order to pass as a boy, and Samuel, the smallest and most easily swayed of the trio – travel towards the US border in search of a better life. On their journey through Mexico, they meet Chauk, a Tzotzil Indian from Chiapas who doesn't speak Spanish. Sara's blossoming attraction to the boy leads to anger and bitterness, but as the group faces life-and-death challenges from bandits and corrupt law enforcement, they learn crucial life lessons about friendship and loyalty. The journey they are making is long, expensive and full of danger. Travelling together in cargo trains, walking on the railroad tracks, they have to face a harsh reality. With its gritty, near-documentary realism, it is a story about the excitement and horror that many young Central American migrants regularly face. Diego Quemada-Díez's feature debut was winner of the Prix Un Certain Talent in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2013.

Les salauds

Claire Denis : 2013
Bastards

Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate – her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, and her daughter Justine is spiralling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte's mistress, Raphaëlle, lives with his son. What Marco hadn't foreseen are Sandra's shameful, secret manoeuvres – and his love for Raphaëlle which could ruin everything. A dark, moody and atmospheric thriller dealing with issues of sexual exploitation within family relationships and the victim's complicity in their victimisation. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2013.