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A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ultimately captivated, he watches his son's growth from mid-teens to mid-thirties as the son pursues his life-long love, Isabelle. The two constants through these snippets are his pursuit of Isabelle and the imagined voice of his father, telling him that he is worthless and unwanted. It is not until the story reaches its conclusion, that the old man discovers the surprising truth about his son and himself.

Sotiris is a financial editor at a local newspaper, living a mundane life, until he locks eyes with the gorgeous Olga at a Russian expat Christmas party. Unable to get her out his head, he starts looking for the girl of his dreams, only to find himself immersed in a dark and dangerous world, where the difference between illusion and reality will soon be made abundantly clear.With Zenia Kaplan as the proverbial femme fatale, Savvas Karydas explores the twin concepts of escape/dream and dead-end/deceit. From this unique perspective, Illusion could easily be perceived as a film noir. At the same time, it’s a film about contemporary credit crunch societies and their effect on relationships and attitudes, imposing a new moral order where love and friendship are tested, redefined and demystified.

A wizard is concealing a secret from his partner. Although their love seems to flourish, this hidden secret prevents their relationship from progressing. Will their relationship remain this way forever?

Eight very different people meet one night and a bar and leave all restraints behind them, that society put on them...

A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.

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A group of schoolchildren playing in an idyllic natural landscape are visited by a mysterious magician who entertains them with his transformations. But he soon proves sinister as he begins to transform the landscape into a grim, unsmiling metropolis.

Dice is a sex worker, one night she realizes the guy she's been paid to be with is trouble, so she must quickly make herself a weapon to defend herself.

Hollywood Boulevard as the location of an emotional shotdown.

There is a conspiracy to implicate a wealthy young lady in a suicide case. She soon realizes there is a mole within her inner circle.

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.

A man finds a mysterious book on his doorstep and upon opening it gets into a whirlpool of bizarre events.

A delicious dinner, a stage, a magic show - what can go wrong? When Lisa accompanies the nice magician home after the show, she has to learn that some tricks are better not to be questioned.

Sumi is making a plastic lampshade using discarded plastic spoons. She encounters three illusions as she reminisces about old thoughts and her past lover. ILLUSION addresses the relationship between the eternal and the temporal, experimenting with century-old poetry, digitally preserved museum open-sources, and the latest in 3D software and artificial intelligence.

While a little girl listens to her mother's tales, a fantasy vision of heaven arises in her mind's eye as the first image. In the second image, a man sits down at a lavishly set table to then eat a simple soup in his own kitchen. The third image evokes a feeling of threat through recordings of airplanes, a mass panic and burial grounds.

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A film by Ahmed Zir

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

Ash and his friends must stop a greedy media mogul from using the shape-shifting Zoroark to capture the time-travelling Celebi.

Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician.

The original Four Horsemen reunite with a new generation of illusionists to take on powerful diamond heiress Veronika Vanderberg, who leads a criminal empire built on money laundering and trafficking. The new and old magicians must overcome their differences to work together on their most ambitious heist yet.

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

Janet Flanders is a small-town, unsophisticated young woman who is seduced by the fantasy of romantic love; she believes that someday her prince will come to sweep her away. Then she meets handsome Brett Becker; she believes she's found the man of her dreams -- little suspecting he is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite. Deep into her illusion that Brett loves her, she moves to Chicago to be closer to him, deluge him with calls and love notes, tells her family about her boyfriend Brett, and buys an engagement ring. Her obsession with him leads her from intrigue and eventually to murder.

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

Hapless Agnes repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated a century later. As she experiences romantic misfortune spanning various eras, Agnes aims to avoid repeat mistakes and finally break the cycle.

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano. When an evil immortal named Kane kills the old wizard, the resulting battle leaves him buried in an underground cave. When Kane resurfaces in the 20th century to create havoc, it's up to McLeod to stop him.

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Retired gambling legend Ken returns to Macau, only to be drawn back into action when his daughter becomes entangled in a global mafia scheme. Using his unmatched skills, he must stop a dangerous plot and protect his loved ones.

When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.

Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12.

A boy travels through the world of M.C. Escher.

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

A cop tries to stop a scientist's experiments to turn students into cyborg-mercenaries.

A bounty hunter protects his dead brother's wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth.

A doctor (Linda Hoffman) helps a policeman (Michael Paré) get revenge on those who killed his family long ago.

Thirty SuicideGirls from the United States, Canada, Italy, France, Portugal, The UK, and South Africa spend a magical week in a converted windmill in the English Countryside.

A shocking vision of bloody horror from the mean streets of Milwaukee Wisconsin!

Even though Nelli's parents have the perfect career and man planned for her, she dreams of becoming a singer. In a studio, she meets a young hip hop artist Sune and asks him to help her make a demo tape.

In Dependence is a documentary film about a middle aged couple trying to balance their lives in the riptide of alcoholism and co-dependency.

Mo navigates rush hour traffic to dodge an unwanted call. When she meets Vicky by the side of the street with her broken motorbike, a visceral chance encounter unfolds between the two young queer women on the loud streets of Saigon.

Jaan Tooming's adaptation of the novel by A.H. Tammsaare.

The artist's creative moments and everyday life. Another serigraph - "Võrumaa IX" will be completed within one month.

A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.

An evil spirit seeking vengeance returns to plague the town that wronged her sister. Based on a chilling urban legend.

After finding a strange package, Sucipto and his family suspect a terrible curse is responsible for a string of misfortunes taking over their lives.

Troubles from the past resurfaces as a disowned son receives a distress call from his sister forcing him to decide on the fate of their ill mother through a phone call.

This is an official entry for the TobaccOFF Now! Film Festival, and a part of the 51st Metro Manila Film Festival program. Mira is a young girl who idolizes her older brother and believes his breath creates magic that make flowers bloom.

Set in the Japanese Colonial Era, the film "OTOME: The Filipina's Resistance is about a boy who went back in year 1943. A young man who works hard and is really passionate for his study. One day, consumed in his thoughts, he almost saw death but things turned out differently. As he went back to the time of prosper and peace, it is also the time when the Japanese colonizers governed the Philippine cultivation. Apparently, he met a fem named Nieves and the members of comfort women in Japanese period, LILA PILIPINA.