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- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsAtli Óskar FjalarssonIlva HolmesGísli Örn GarðarssonA 16-year old Icelandic boy's first kiss with another boy gives him "jitters"--feelings he can't deny. This is a well-written film that captures the confusion and excitement of being a teenager, with an attractive ensemble cast. The film follows the lives of several teens and the challenges they face, in particular with their parents/guardians.
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsThora Bjorg HelgaIngvar SigurdssonHalldóra GeirharðsdóttirA girl is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in the dark music of Black Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.
- DirectorNiall HeeryStarsJames NesbittMaisie WilliamsDavid WilmotAn offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
- DirectorNiall HeeryStarsJames NesbittMaisie WilliamsDavid WilmotAn offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
- DirectorBrendan MuldowneyStarsPollyanna McIntoshAmanda RyanRobert de HoogAn isolated and death-fixated young man tries to make sense of the world, and his existence, in the only way he knows how - by getting closer to death.
- DirectorDiederik Van RooijenStarsMatteo van der GrijnMonique van de VenDerek de LintUpon learning she has an autistic brother she is convinced is unjustly behind bars for a brutal murder, a lawyer sets out to prove her sibling's innocence - only to uncover even more life-changing secrets in the process.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsAndreea BosneagVioleta Haret-PopaVasile MuraruDelia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.
- DirectorColette BothofStarsCarice van HoutenDragan BakemaMohammed ChaaraTwo passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings..
- DirectorGuido PietersStarsDanny de MunkWilleke van AmmelrooyHerman van VeenA poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsNelly FrijdaHuub StapelRené van 't HofA rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanRijk de GooyerViviane de MuynckFrits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsSylvia HoeksRenata LitvinovaDieter HallervordenThe Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
- DirectorDan ChisuStarsAdrian TitieniIonut VisanAnca FlorescuA story about the illusion of getting rich in Romania. In a country where stories of striking it rich are everywhere, anyone thinks such a thing is not only possible, but it's easily achievable. The storyline follows two destinies: one is of a young couple, Marius and Cosmina. Marius wrote an imaginary name on a lottery promotion ticket just to drag Cosmina. And the draw makes him the winner. The other is of two adults. Because of their lack of knowledge when it comes to modern technology, they get fooled by e-mail spam, fall for a false online lottery and lose their last savings. The stories meet at the end, when they lose all hope and refuse their only chance of getting rich. Finally we realize that the illusion of becoming rich puts ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
- DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsGeorge PistereanuAda CondeescuIon BesoiuA young man seduces poor girls in order to pass them to a prostitution ring.
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsMimi BranescuMirela OprisorMaria PopistasuPaul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsMircea DiaconuGheorghe DinicaMara NicolescuOvidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsMaia MorgensternRazvan VasilescuVictor RebengiucA description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
- DirectorMark PenneyStarsKaryn DwyerJefferson BrownGloria SladeAmy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?
- DirectorMark PenneyStarsMark PenneyAnthony FureyJulianna RibeiroRandom Snippets of people going through their daily routines, the eternal story.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsSophie RoisSebastian SchipperDevid StriesowA Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaRinko KikuchiKiko MizuharaToru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsSylvia PoortaAnneke BlokMonic HendrickxZus & Zo shows what three sisters are willing to do to stop their would-be sister-in-law from coming into possession of Paraíso, their beloved family summer home on the Portuguese coast.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRaymond J. BarryMichèle BernierThe first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases.
- DirectorPierre-Paul RendersStarsBenoît VerhaertAylin YayMagali PinglautIn the near future, a man confined to his apartment for eight years by agoraphobia and fear of human contact is prescribed remote sex therapy.
- DirectorMichiel ten HornStarsVivian DierickxJacqueline BlomTon KasThe members of a dysfunctional family begin to reinvent themselves thanks to the exchange student who moves in with them.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJack PlotnickTodd GiebenhainEric JudorDolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.
- DirectorJorge Ramírez SuárezStarsKristyan FerrerIngeborg SchönerAdriana BarrazaRamon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend's aunt.
- DirectorMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiStarsHryhoriy FesenkoYana NovikovaRosa BabiyA deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.
- DirectorMichael Rob CostineMark GasterBrian O'NeillStarsBrian GleesonGemma-Leah DevereuxStephen MullanFollowing a bad breakup, relationship councilor Cormac Kavanagh starts sleeping with his clients in a misguided attempt to reignite their passions.
- DirectorIan FitzgibbonStarsDylan MoranMark DohertyKeith AllenA broke, jobless actor and a broke, jobless screenwriter set out to make a movie and then find that life starts imitating art.
- DirectorJean-Paul CiveyracStarsJehnny BethAurélien WiikMorgane HainauxAfter the death of Renaud, her boyfriend, Armelle can't possibly take him out of her mind. Her sister advises her to see a medium, in whose house she meets a boy who strangely looks like Renaud...
- DirectorAlbertina CarriStarsCristina BanegasDaniel FanegoLucas EscarizA domineering mother with a seemingly perfect family in Argentina, is unaware of a taboo relationship happening between her youngest twin children.
- DirectorChristophe BlancMercedes CecchettoStarsMercedes CecchettoLaura LocatelliSarah ZidhaneVoluptuous and bored, rebellious 16-year-old Sabine is interested in sex and clubbing, and not much else. But when she leaves home to move to Paris, she finds herself plunged into a world harsher than she ever imagined, a minefield of exploitation that will test her courage.
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsIsabelle HuppertVincent MartinezVincent LindonFashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.
- DirectorSoopum SohnStarsSong Hye-kyoArno FrischAthena CurreyA Korean emigrant's superstitiously suspicious past starts to catch up with her as her obsession with her married American neighbors begins to twist out of control and off the deep end.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsDenise Aron-SchropferBruno SlagmulderLucia SanchezA man groggily awakes from an apparently wild New Year's Eve party to find both slumbering partyers and unexpected activity.
- DirectorIris JanssenStarsDaniela WutteGuido BroscheitChristoph JacobiWhen a married woman discovers her husband's addiction to visiting brothels, she decides to start visiting them herself and is quickly swept up into a secret life filled with new sexual discoveries.
- DirectorHa LeeStarsMoon So-riJi Jin-heePark Won-sangThe story of a beautiful teacher's love affair with five men.
- DirectorCheyenne CarronStarsSwann ArlaudAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyJacques AlbaretJane desperately tries to awaken her faith in God. In her room, isolated with her lover from the rest of the world, she becomes overwhelmed with an uncontrolled flow of souvenirs, dreams and fantasies.
- DirectorGregg ArakiStarsKathleen RobertsonJohnathon SchaechMatt KeeslarVeronica, 22, meets a writer and a drummer hunk at a club on Halloween. Why choose when she can have both? 3some? But then a third man comes along.
- DirectorTomasz WasilewskiStarsMateusz BanasiukMarta NieradkiewiczBartosz GelnerThe story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.
- DirectorAndrzej JakimowskiStarsDamian UlEwelina WalendziakTomasz SaprykSix-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices. Tricks and coincidences bring his father back but things go wrong and Stefek tries a very risky trick...
- DirectorPiotr TrzaskalskiStarsHenryk GolebiewskiJacek BraciakJacek LenartowiczThe film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the city areas. Edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child.
- DirectorMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsJulia JentschPeter GantzlerMaciej StuhrA successful artist, married to a famous composer, must suddenly deal with a number of crises, from the death of the family dog to the illness of her father and absence of her husband.
- DirectorNino JacussoStarsAlana AspinallMarty AspinallDelilah DickThe coming-of-age story about a Canadian First Nations girl who triumphs over obstacles in her young life. Her new teacher discovers her extraordinary gifts as a violinist. When Shana goes on a spiritual journey, she befriends a wild wolf who guides her and she reconnects with her ancestors, including her mother. Finally, she is able to make peace with her mother's death and, absorbed by nature and the spiritual world, Shana finds a unique way of musical expression, which will allow her to have a career as a violinist. Filmed with the People of the Creeks, the Lower Nicola Indian Band near Merritt, BC. The entire cast is local and first time film performers. The Swiss director Nino Jacusso who spent seven months with them calls them 'real actors' as they are the real people. A moving, magical, and yet authentic inter-cultural motion picture.
- DirectorBoudewijn KooleStarsRick LensLoek PetersCahit ÖlmezA young boy and his father have a difficult relationship, but are trying to reach each other. They need a catalyst to make that happen.
- DirectorJulie GavrasStarsNina Kervel-BeyJulie DepardieuStefano AccorsiA 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.