Kool Shen

An extraordinary collaboration between two legends of French cinema, Catherine Breillat's brutally candid autobiographical drama stars Isabelle Huppert as a stroke-afflicted filmmaker manipulated by a notorious con man. (tiff.net)

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them. (letterboxd.com)

A team of former bank robbers have arrived in Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now merchants, they live happily ever after. Until the day the devil appears: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison for the robbery, comes to get his share of the cake. The only problem is, there's no cake left. And the devil is hungry.