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- DirectorOlmo OmerzuStarsTomás MrvíkJan Frantisek UherEliska KrenkováTwo mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu's road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlexandrov Red Army EnsembleTwist-Twist ErkinharjuBen GranfeltA 57 minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman".
- DirectorSonja KrönerStarsKatja BrennerJonathan BährPeter ClösBernd drives with his family to his grandmother's summer house, who has recently died. But the anticipated countryside holiday happiness is spoiled from the beginning.
- DirectorSonja OrtizStarsSonia OrtizCarolina Niño de GuzmanCristhian EsquivelThrough the mystical world of the Andes, we follow Valya, who after spending a year in jail for a crime she didn't commit, wanders around the streets of the ancient Incan city of Cusco. The shadows of the past soon overwhelm her, but life in prison transformed Valya into a determined fighter for the love she has for Paz, a young Peruvian woman from Cuzco, who during Valya's incarceration felt compelled into a fictitious marriage of convenience to calm the punishing waters swirling around the presence of the supposed demon Valya in Paz' ultraconservative family. Only Andean magic can help the two lovers. But the path the Apus, the Andean Mountain spirits layout is drastic....
- DirectorLars Feldballe PetersenJacob AndersenStarsAhmed Dualeh"The President from the North" is the positive integration story from Denmark of immigrant Ahmed, who after 50 years in Denmark had become so Danish that he wanted go give the best he had learned back to his motherland Jubaland in Somalia. With a suitcase full of ideas and the dream of making a difference, Ahmed returns to Somalia. But nothing goes as he expected and back home in Denmark his wife Zahra and daughter Idil becomes more and more impatient.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
- DirectorDarko StanteStarsMatej ZemljicTimon SturbejGasper MarkunAfter being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Zeljko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
- DirectorAnnika BergStarsEja Penelope RoepstorffSine Brinkgaard OlsenSara MorlingA highly stylized collage-like portrait of a group of teenage girls bonded entirely over social media. With dashes of the look of early chat rooms and crafted collaboratively with the cast of non-actors, this is the girl-gang film that melds documentary, fiction, punk and web aesthetics.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsValerio MastandreaGiuseppe BattistonHadas YaronEnrico Giusti works to help agencies getting out of bad management situations. The sudden death of two entrepreneurs leaves their young children in charge of the family business. This will be a huge challenge for Enrico.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsMiriam JakobThorbjörn BjörnssonMaren EggertA young German couple find their relationship tested after his mother suffers an accident. Thirty years later, a middle-aged actress splits with her anthropologist husband. Soon, these two couples' paths cross in unexpected ways.
- DirectorHannes HolmStarsHanna AlströmJonas KarlssonAdam PålssonThe life of Swedish pop star Ted Gärdestad.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenKari VäänänenElina SaloThe recession hits a couple in Helsinki.
- DirectorFerenc TörökStarsGábor KaralyosErzsi PápaiEszter Balla1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsTony PeersSteve HuisonDavid TennantA British writer pursues a young actress to Hollywood and needs all the help he can get to win her love.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääKari VäänänenSakke JärvenpääSiberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of fame.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAndré WilmsBlondin MiguelJean-Pierre DarroussinWhen an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
- DirectorStephan StrekerStarsLina El ArabiSébastien HoubaniBabak KarimiZahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSherwan HajiSakari KuosmanenKaija PakarinenA poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
- DirectorDetlev BuckStarsAlbrecht SchuchBaldanpurev SambuuAgi Ariunsaichan Dawaachu"Die Vermessung der Welt" follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early-19th-century Germany.
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsElsie de BrauwPierre BokmaRifka LodeizenAfter 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääEvelyne DidiAndré WilmsThree struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.
- DirectorHéloïse PelloquetStarsClémence BoisnardMattis DurandImane LaurenceMattis, almost 15, works on a fishing boat during the summer. There, he discovers a whole new world. Soon it will be time for him and his friends to leave their childhood island, and go to high school on the continent.
- DirectorMiia TervoStarsMimosa WillamoAmir EscandariElá YildirimAurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.
- DirectorIvona JukaStarsHelena BeljanLana BaricNatasa DorcicThree daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.
- DirectorRobert BaharAlmudena CarracedoStarsMaría MartínFrancisco FrancoAdolf HitlerThe Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking 'Argentine Lawsuit' and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy. Seven years in the making, The Silence of Others is the second documentary feature by Emmy-winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.). It is being Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMargi ClarkeKenneth ColleyHenri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?
- DirectorNitesh AnjaanStarsMette HolmWhen Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami's debut novel Kaze no uta o kike, Hear the Wind Sing, a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred. More than twenty years ago, Mette read a novel by Haruki Murakami, who had yet to reach literary stardom. Back then, she had no idea how the Japanese author's imagined worlds would steadily shape and transform her own. Since then Mette Holm has spent thousands of hours translating Murakami's puzzling and widely discussed stories to his Danish readers. Stories that continuously spellbind and challenge millions of devoted readers all over the planet. As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami's solitary, daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur.
- DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsKate VernonMarshall WilliamsJenna WarrenA young man searches for his father after he disappears while working on a highly classified project for the United States government that involves extraterrestrials.
- DirectorFabio MolloStarsLuca MarinelliIsabella RagoneseAnna FerruzzoPaolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsOleg AfanasyevAlexandra RyabichkinaJarikTHE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsPhilippe TlokinskiJulie EngelbrechtBradley JamesFilm about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
- DirectorAndreas DalsgaardStarsSøren Haslund-ChristensenMichael Haslund-ChristensenMarianne Haslund-ChristensenMichael looks, with his father, for the truth about his paternal grandfather Henning Haslund, who was a spy, an arms smuggler and explorer at the turn of the last century, in the great international expedition to north-western China.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsEsben SmedKatrine Greis-RosenthalBenjamin KitterA gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMalin BuskaSarah GadonMichael NyqvistTHE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
- DirectorGilles de MaistreStarsAlain DucasseMassimo BotturaLaurent FabiusWith 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse creates restaurants for our times, builds schools and pushes the boundaries of his profession. This public, yet secretive man agreed to be followed for 2 years, thereby revealing his evolving universe.
- DirectorMaria LafiStarsSamuel AkinolaKostas AntalopoulosSpiros BallesterosA random explosion connects three stories of strangers seeking a way to survive on the edge of legality.
- DirectorEdoardo De AngelisStarsPina TurcoMassimiliano RossiMarina ConfaloneThe story of a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an area outside Naples known for being the most lawless area in Italy.
- DirectorSimon FarmakasStarsTim AhernKonstadinos AlkiviadisAthos AntoniouAn isolated Cypriot village goes into tragicomic overload when a flying object crash-lands in a potato field inside the adjacent UN-controlled buffer zone. A young farmer unwisely digs it out setting off a chain of incredible events.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSakari KuosmanenKati OutinenAndré WilmsA farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsPirkka-Pekka PeteliusEsko SalminenKati OutinenPlayboy Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, a paper baron in today's Finland.
- DirectorBirgitte StærmoseStarsDanica CurcicGustaf SkarsgårdUlrich Thomsen"Darling" is the moving love story of a dancer on the rollercoaster ride of her life, a drama about the rise and fall of a modern woman as she summons the courage to face her greatest trial.
- DirectorAntoine RussbachStarsOlivier GourmetAdèle BochatayLouka MinnellaFrank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he's on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he's managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.
- DirectorCosimo GomezStarsClaudio SantamariaMarco D'AmoreSara SerraioccoA group of wild, physically disabled gangsters has a plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong when each of them reveals they all had their own personal agenda.
- DirectorMeritxell ColellStarsMónica GarcíaConcha CanalAna FernándezMónica, a 47-year old dancer, receives a call from Spain: her father is terminally ill. After 20 years, Mónica must return to the remote village where she was born. When she arrives, her father has already passed away and her mother decides to sell the family home asking Mónica to stay to help her. Winter comes. The perpetual silence, the extreme cold and the difficulty of living with her mother are proving tough for Mónica, who takes refuge in what she knows best: dance. 'Facing the Wind' tells the story of a family unable to communicate. It is indeed a thoughtful and loving portrait of a traditional rural lifestyle, which is beginning to disappear. It's a story about distances. But most of all, 'Facing the Wind' is an inner journey to learn again how to live and love better.
- DirectorJonas ElmerStarsAlexander MagnússonRasmus BjergStinne HenriksenWilliam lives with his uncle Nils. His father is dead and his mother is mentally unstable. Nils retired early and spends his day buying and selling stuff at a favourable price. Nils owes some gangsters money and they want their debt paid back.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsDiane DassignyPiera Degli EspostiDominique FrotElderly Louise gets stranded at a seaside resort after missing the last train. Determined to stay, she faces challenging weather conditions. Will she survive?
- DirectorGuillermo QuinteroStarsJulio BetancurCristian CastroGuillermo QuinteroHomo Botanicus explores the romantic world of scientists through the working relationship between botanist Julio Betancur and his disciple Cristian Castro, as they traverse the Colombian tropical forests. This is an anachronistic journey through plants mysteries and their legacy in the world.
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsBarbara SukowaTómas LemarquisAenne SchwarzBefore Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.
- DirectorRichard BillinghamStarsPatrick RomerRichard AshtonJustin SalingerPhotographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsNebojsa GlogovacDejan AcimovicKsenija MarinkovicA gay Croatian professor confronts his own xenophobia after agreeing to help his Serbian neighbor prepare for a citizenship exam, while the neighbor's wife cares for the professor's elderly homophobic invalid father.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveSimon SearsVic Carmen SonneA brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJanne HyytiäinenMaria JärvenhelmiMaria HeiskanenIn Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsTimo EränköKari HeiskanenAsmo HurulaAn exodus to a better life in Eira.
- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsMaj-Doris RimpiOlle SarriÁnne Biret SombyA reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
- DirectorGerminal RoauxStarsKidist SiyumBruno GanzPatrick d'AssumçaoFortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since arriving in Lampedusa, Italy. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic hospice at an altitude of over 2000 meters. While they wait for their fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna meets Kabir, a 26-year-old African refugee, and falls desperately in love. Their relationship develops in secret, till the day Kabir disappears.
- DirectorJelle de JongeStarsJandino AsporaatSergio IJsselLiliana de VriesRobertico is forced to pay 200.000 gulden in damages due to a dodgy dealing. He pretends to be a business man to obtain an investment from the rich Ken Maduro. Until he falls in love with Ken's daughter.
- DirectorNicole Nielsen HoranyiStarsEsben DalgaardHans Jørgen KaptainAmanda KastrupAmanda has found the perfect man online - he's kind, funny and the heir to one of the richest families in Denmark. She lets him into her home and life, but is he really who he says he is?
- DirectorGyörgy KristófStarsSándor TerhesÉva BandorJudit BárdosOUT is an odyssey about a 50-year-old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After losing his lifelong job in a power plant of a small Slovak village, Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into an accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to pursue his dream of catching a big sea fish.
- DirectorPeter GrönlundStarsSebastian LjungbladJoakim SällquistCornelia AnderssonGoliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 17-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is changing.
- DirectorGuido HendrikxStarsValentijn DhaenensIn a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifarious Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.
- DirectorMaria BlomStarsJulius Jimenez HugosonFrida HallgrenJohan PeterssonA little monkey with a big secret.
- DirectorRainer SimonStarsJan Josef LiefersMonika LennartzGötz SchubertIn 1802, Alexandre De Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland stayed in Ecuador to study the topography of the country. Their goal is to climb the Chimborazo volcano, reaching 6,267 meters and considered at the time as the highest peak in the world.
- DirectorEmil Næsby HansenStarsIsabel De Oleza FrederiksenSkjold RambowFirst Love. First Break up. A Story About Letting Go
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsPeter PragerUwe ZerbeEberhard KirchbergFour young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians, and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines.
- DirectorPetter LennstrandStarsMira ForsellAdam LundgrenGustav FunckPottan is going to a riding camp, but ends up at a recycling center where she is taken care of by the strange staff. One day Pottan finds out that the staff are building a space rocket.
- DirectorGabriela PichlerStarsZahraa AldoujailiYara AliadotterFredrik DahlA sleepy Swedish province hopes to lure a discount store chain by hiring a pompous commercial director to document their town's worthiness, but two bright, brash high school girls from immigrant families use their cellphones and selfie sticks to tell the real story.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenMatti PellonpääKirsi TykkyläinenLugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking?
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanElina KnihtiläKati OutinenA sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMarcello GonçalvesZé Paulo BeckerRonaldo Monteiro de SouzaA musical documentary and tribute about "choro", an older style of playing that forms the foundation of all Brazilian composition, including samba and bossa nova.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenRoberta ManfrediJean-Pierre CastaldiFinlander Alex works as a taxi-driver in Berlin and is married to an Italian. One night, two men get into his taxi with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by gangsters whose money was stolen. They get killed in a shoot-out and Alex must get rid of their bodies.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorPernille Fischer ChristensenStarsAlba AugustMaria BonnevieTrine DyrholmBiopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
- DirectorEva SpreitzhoferStarsCaroline PetersSimon SchwarzEmily CoxWanda's world has been turned upside down when her teenage daughter Nina suddenly turns up in a hijab. Nina has secretly converted to Islam.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterHomo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääKati OutinenSakari KuosmanenAn episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsAndrea ArcangeliPaola CalliariMatilde GioliA teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.
- DirectorOlof SpaakStarsKarin Franz KörlofSimon J. BergerEmil AlgpeusEric and Elin meet as adults and reminisce about when they met for the first time. Their parents were addicts but for a couple of months they lived together as a family. This time together still defines who they are and what they became.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsNuno LopesMariana NunesDavid SemedoAn unemployed boxer turned collection agency employee deals with the deplorable methods they have to use when collecting bad debts.