WFA 2019 Film Guide

In search of an undetectable poison, Sangstrom, a seemingly ordinary man, seeks out a sagacious druggist at his eerie apothecary. The canny druggist requires him to prove his merit, igniting a cat-and-mouse game that winds up with Sangstrom getting more than he bargained for. Based on the similarly titled 1961 short story by Fredric Brown.

A young Yemeni basketball lover is too shy to join a game in his new home of New York City - until a friendly local shows him how it's done.

A grieving widower copes with doing laundry for the first time and faces life’s universal mystery ... a missing sock.

The girl spins her cotton on a hill every day; one day the wind blows and causes an apple fall from the tree. The girl takes the apple and bites it. She finds a worm inside it and feels pity for it and puts it on a spinning wheel to keep it safe. The worm starts to spin the cotton with a magic dance ...

King George Island is located on the edge of the coldest continent on earth. The island is the gateway to Antarctica. At its southwestern tip, research stations of different nations that could not be more different are situated in the overwhelming landscape. Conflicting political attitudes and culture clashes battle it out in a sharply reduced space. But in Antarctica, you can only survive together - a very special challenge in one of the most hostile areas of our earth. In the Antarctic summer, international researchers come to the Island and elicit their secrets from the untouched nature and the local animals. In winter, only a few remain in the stations. Largely self-sufficient, they master day-long blizzards and relentless cold in this small community.

The Vault is a post-apocalyptic/Sci-Fi series about a ragtag group of survivors living in an underground military base known as the Vault. Buried five miles beneath the earth, this state-of-the-art facility is humanity's only remaining home. The group is lead by Evelyn Pierce, a no-nonsense strategic and calculative Commander in the Canadian Armed Forces. No one leaves the Vault without her say so, and only for surveying and scavenging missions. The world everyone knew is gone – in its place, an Earth where nuclear winter, radiation, eternal cold and darkness remain. Outside the Vault, nothing can grow and nothing can survive.

Nowadays, there are more victims of sorcery-related accusations and violence in just one country than there were in the whole of medieval Europe. In September 2017, Dominika Kulczyk undertook a difficult journey to one of the least studied and explored parts of the world - to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. She documented the issue of sorcery-related violence, found the survivors, and met the perpetrators. Papua New Guinea sees new victims of sorcery-related violence on a daily basis. Every week brings more of the so called "witch killings" - where, as a result of ancient beliefs and rituals - children, women, and men are tortured and killed.

When an older man meets a young woman in a beautiful garden, we come to understand the fragility of memory and the power of love.

A girl hiding in Japan from her monstrous step-father is abducted into the wilderness by a real Monster. She has four nights to make it back to Tokyo and conquer all her demons.

Inspired by real-life stories of elderly couples caught up in the social services system, Together is a powerful drama about an elderly couple who get separated into different care homes against their will. After 60 years of marriage, Rosemary and Philip Twain are happily sharing their golden years taking care of one another. When Rosemary is taken to hospital for a routine procedure, their perfect retirement starts to unravel. Philip is admitted to a care home and even when his wife is returned to the marital home, he is not allowed to join her. Frustrated by the system, they take their lives in to their own hands and fight back. They will do anything to be TOGETHER.

Hopeless romantic Paul travels across the world for his perfect Christmas vacation in Tokyo with his dream girl, Sachiko. However tragedy strikes and Sachiko disappears. Paul decides to make the best out of his trip with Sachiko's cynical room mate Aki and their odd friendship helps them regain their dignity in big city Tokyo.

When a little nightingale wonders to herself why the sun must go down at night, she embarks upon a journey where she meets creatures who can make flowers from sky, weave wind into clouds, and turn rain into song.

Promising young Detective, Ryan Barnes, arrives home on his anniversary to find his wife has been in a devastating car accident. Six months later his wife is in a coma; Barnes ,unable to accept her condition, throws himself into a new murder investigation that soon develops into a hunt for a serial killer. After discovering the victims suffered from degenerative diseases, Barnes and veteran DCI John Faulkner enlist the help of mental health specialist Dr. Joanne Hill. As the investigation deepens and it becomes apparent there are parallels between his own wife and the victims, he is forced to question his own moral beliefs as he desperately searches for the killer.

A wedding goes awry and the morning after, friends and foes need to piece together the puzzle of the night before. In search of answers, a groom needs to pursue the love of his life, a bride has to untangle herself from the past and a waitress tries to escape the present.

Ten characters each experience a crossroads in their lives on a seemingly ordinary afternoon in an art gallery. Yellow is the first in a series of seven films, one for each colour of the rainbow, each with a recurring theme of human connection and expression through the arts.

The subject of a scientific experiment dies ... but death does not last. Each time, he starts again as if lost in a video game. By a philosophical reflection on his actions, he will try to reach the end of the road.

Using dark comedy, You Look Great is an unflinching, intimate look into our addictions, obsessions, and self-consciousness. Our narrative follows Peter -- an average guy struggling with his weight -- over the course of 24 hours, offering a realistic insight into a strangely unrepresented story: that of a man fighting to hide his unhealthy relationship with his body. From home, to work, to simply walking down the street, we watch as Peter battles an all-consuming illness, one bent on isolating him from every part of his waking life.