Manasanamaha
A young man muses on the nature of love, recounting three relationships from his past. The girls in his life resemble three different seasons, namely Chaitra (Spring), Varsha (Monsoon) & Seeta (Winter).
Directed by Deepak Reddy (India)
Los Angeles premiere
Heartstruck
Four interconnected people go out on the town looking for love. By the end of the night they realize what they were looking for may not have been what they really wanted.
Directed by Ian Thomas Kent (USA)
California premiere
The Big Red Bastard
A grizzled cop must bring to justice a deadly and mysterious menace who has left his city in ruins and his life in chaos.
Directed by Thomas Horvath (USA)
World premiere
L’Escale
Three lives come together at a gas station. A bag of money and a biro disrupts each of their hopes and dreams.
Directed by Pieter De Cnudde (Belgium)
North America premiere
Bad Assistant
Emilee Rank has spent last years working for actor and Hollywood nightmare Parker St. Garrett. After decades of bit parts in B-movies, Parker finally lands a leading role in a successful super hero film franchise. But the good news is quickly eclipsed when he and Emilee discover Parker’s best friend dead of an overdose in Parker’s guest room.
Directed by Kyle Cogan (USA)
Champion
Marian, an old bicycle champion working in a junkyard tries to find love through the internet, but finding love is not as easy as he would have hoped.
Directed by Grzegorz Porzeziński (Poland)