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New Directors New Films with GOODNIGHT MOMMY and PARABELLUM

 
The 44th New York spring meeting for exciting discoveries from around the world hosts GOOD NIGHT MOMMY by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala and Lukas Valenta Rinner’s PARABELLUM for its North American premiere


GOODNIGHT MOMMY
directed by Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala (Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion)
International sales: Films Distribution

In the heat of the summer. An isolated house in the countryside between woods and corn fields.Ten-year-old twins wait for their mother. When she comes back, her head wrapped in bandages after plastic surgery, nothing is as it was before. Stern and distant now, she shuts the family off from the outside world. Starting to doubt that this woman is actually their mother, the boys are determined to find the truth by any means.

with: Susanne Wuest, Elias und Lukas Schwarz


PARABELLUM
directed by Lukas Valenta Rinner (Nabis Filmgroup)

Hernán arrives with a group of strangers at an isolated house in the Delta of Tigre, a labyrinth of small islands surrounded by streams and rivers. Amongst housewives, professionals and elderly tennis instructor, they undergo a training regime, apparently in preparation for the end of the world.

with: Pablo Seijo, Marin Shanly, Eva Bianco