Secret Things
Self-taught director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s erotic drama of two women out to use their sexuality against men is in the vein of Baise-Moi or The Company Of Men only verging on hilarious pornography. Pure mindless fantasy with a quaint traditional sense of eroticism.

Kicking & Screaming
Will Ferrell is not very funny in this not very funny American comedy featuring Ferrell as a bullied adult who ends up coaching a children’s soccer team in competition with his sports champion father (Robert Duvall). Ferrell’s physicality cannot save what should have been a funny satire on the killer-competitive spirit in every aspect of American sports.

Errance
French writer/director Damien Odoul’s take on a marriage, beginning in the 60s and 70s, stars Benoît Magimel, brilliant in the role of a veteran of the Algerian war with Laetitia Casta portraying his wife. A deep look at the mechanisms of a brutal relationship and how they hold together despite the odds.

Pleasant Days
A tangled mesh of relationships make anything but pleasant days in this simple if messy drama lead by a collection of unsympathetic, interacting characters: an ex-con, his sister, a foster child, its mother, the ex-con’s boss. Tamás Polgár and Orsi Tóth star in a beautifully shot, multi-award-winning Hungarian film by director Kornél Mundruczó.

James’s Journey To Jerusalem
Director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s lovingly crafted and crafty parable tells of a young African Christian’s less-than-ideal pilgrimage to Israel. Salim Daw co-stars as the crooked businessman who tries to coax James (the innocent beautifully played by Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe, pictured above) off the straight and narrow – as in fact everyone seems to be, even the minister who tries to wrest money from him.