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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.

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

Hollywood Boulevard as the location of an emotional shotdown.

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.

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.

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...

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A film by Ahmed Zir

dance movie

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.

Emma and Sandra, bound by loss and love, find solace and passion in each other while haunted by the illusions of their past. As reality and fantasy blur, they navigate guilt, desire, and the echoes of their late spouses. How long can they live in a world of make-believe?

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.

In a Mumbai theater, a producer, his son, and two intruders clash during one night over hidden treasure. As they search for gold, deception grows, secrets emerge, and past wounds resurface.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles upon a mysterious cinema that unveils his suppressed longings and leads him on a journey of self-discovery through his enigmatic reflection.

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.

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.

The film tells the story of a man who witnesses a major drug ring. Kemal is a middle-class employee at a company. One night, Kemal's car breaks down on his way home, so he leaves it where it is. That night, a murder is committed by a major drug ring at the spot where he left his car. Kemal did not witness the murder. However, Commissioner Murat tells him that the network can be dismantled thanks to his testimony. Nevertheless, the network has already killed everyone who has testified against them. Kemal agrees to testify. However, the network has already taken action to silence him.

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.

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.

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.