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- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.AS OF NOW, MY FAVORITE OF TIFF 14. A RUSSIAN BEAUTY WITH PHILLIP GLASS SCORE THAT WAS SUCH A PLEASURE TO WATCH AND LISTEN. THE CORRUPT CITY HIERACHY WERE VILLAINOUS AND VICTORIUS TO THE END. THIS IS THE FIRST DIRECTORIAL EFFORT SINCE HIS THE RETURN IN 2003. THE WINNER OF CANNES 2014 BEST SCREENPLAY. Andrey Zvyagintsev's magnum opus, Leviathan, premiered at this year's Cannes to unanimous acclaim, winning the Best Screenplay award and establishing him as a true master of cinema. With the film's magisterial opening — the coastal landscape of the Barents Sea, set to the clarion call of Philip Glass's symphonic score — Zvyagintsev sets the stage for a story in which human intrigues are indistinguishable from forces of nature.
- DirectorGabe PolskyStarsViacheslav FetisovVladislav TretiakScotty BowmanThe story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.FASCINATING SPORTS DOCUMENTARY ON RUSSIAN HOCKEY PLAYERS MELDING INTO THE NHL. THIS WOULD BE ENJOYED BY ALL EVEN IF NOT SPORTS ENTHUSIASTS. I WAS MESMERIZED BY THE HISTORICAL INFORMATION PRESENTED SHOWING THE SUCCESS ENJOYED BY THE HOCKEY STARS IN THE USA AFTER THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE.
A smash hit at this year’s Cannes, director Gabe Polsky’s exhilarating documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Soviet hockey in the 1980s.
During the Cold War, battles between East and West played out in sports as much as international politics. Stalin and his successors saw their athletes as ambassadors of ideology. Red Army reveals one of the most colourful chapters of this history, focusing on the Soviet hockey team and its rivalries with Canada and the USA. At the centre of the story is Slava Fetisov, one of the greatest players to experience the highs and lows of Soviet hockey prior to the USSR's collapse. He stood up to a powerful system and paved the way for Russian players to change their circumstances. As Soviet communism gave way to global capitalism, the lure of NHL money unravelled the legendary team known as the Red Army. - DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou KikiA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.A FILM OF IMMEDIACY FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA MALI/MAURITANIA IN SPITE OF ITS MAGNIFICENT BEAUTY REVEALS THE SENSELESS BRUTALITY OF THE FUNDAMENTALISTS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD. DAILY NEWS TODAY GIVES THE FILM CURRENT RELEVANCE.
Following the recent jihadist takeover of northern Mali, a proud cattle herder comes into fateful conflict with the fundamentalist rulers of the provincial capital, in this luminous, lyrical and poetic drama from the great African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako. A gazelle strides across the desert, under the sound of a car's rumbling engine; seconds later, bullets cut the animal down in its tracks. The opening sequence of Abderrahmane Sissako's magisterial Timbuktu — which premiered to acclaim at this year's Cannes — encapsulates the essential truth of violent extremism: to destroy grace and beauty, not only with impunity but with an ironclad self-righteousness. Set during the early days of the 2012 fundamentalist takeover of northern Mali and inspired by real people and real events, Timbuktu is a searing drama about the everyday woes and resistance of ordinary people in a city overrun by extremist foreign fighters. - DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsMarion CotillardFabrizio RongioneCatherine SaléeLiège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.THE BELGIUM DARDENNES BROTHERS AGAIN PROBES THE CHALLENGES OF THE WORKING CLASS PEOPLE THAT REFLECTS THE WORLD WIDE PROBLEMS OF INCOME INEQUALITY AND THE WORKERS BEING MISTREATED BY UPPER MANAGEMENT. THIS IS SO CONTEMPORARY IN ITS DEPICTION OF UNFAIRNESS. A YOUNG MOTHER WHO DESPARATELY NEEDS HER JOB, MUST CONVINCE HER FELLOW WORKERS TO VOTE AGAINST HER BEING FIRED GIVING UP THEIR 1000 EURO BONUS IF SHE IS FIRED.
The Dardenne brothers deliver again. Never afraid to tackle difficult subject matter, this time around the celebrated Belgian filmmakers take on the European economic crisis. Two Days, One Night tells the story of Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a working-class mother who loses her job, but who has a fighting chance — and one weekend — to get it back. Almost immediately after returning to her factory job following a mental health leave, Sandra is laid off because her fellow line workers voted to receive a bonus rather than to keep her as the seventeenth person on the team. When she learns that their team leader persuaded them to vote against her under false pretenses, Sandra convinces the plant manager to hold a second, secret vote - DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsJohannes KuhnkeLisa Loven KongsliClara WettergrenA family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.A WORD OF MOUTH SENSATION AT 2014 CANNES. AN ACT OF COWARDICE IMPULSIVE DECISION BY A YOUNG FATHER COMPROMISES HIS MARITAL RELATIONSHIP AND CREATES AN INTERNAL GUILT THAT NEARLY DESTROYS HIM. IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AS I DO, THEN THIS FILM BELONGS TO YOU.
One of the most daring and audacious filmmakers to emerge in the last decade, Ruben Östlund hit a new peak with Force Majeure, a critical hit at this year's Cannes. As in his previous films Involuntary and Play, with his latest Östlund turns a keenly analytic eye on those principles we supposedly live by, and explores what happens when the codes of conduct enforcing those principles are abruptly stripped away.
On a family skiing vacation in the French Alps, Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) are enjoying lunch with their two children when their meal is suddenly interrupted by thunderous booms emanating from the mountain above them. The complacent Tomas initially dismisses the possibility of danger — but when it appears that there may be an avalanche, he grabs his cellphone and bolts, leaving his wife and children to fend for themselves. The remainder of the film monitors the fallout from this fateful incident, as husband and wife hotly debate what actually occurred, and what Tomas's proper response should have been — a battle that eventually threatens not just Tomas and Ebba's relationship, but those of the people around them. - DirectorBent HamerStarsAne Dahl TorpLaurent StockerHildegun RiiseWhen Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale.IF YOU HAVE A TASTE FOR DROLL ICELANDIC/NORWEGIAN HUMOUR, THEN THIS IS YOUR FILM. BRENT HAMER OF KITCHEN STORIES BRINGS US ANOTHER COMEDY THAT WILL NOT BRING MOST PEOPLE TO LAUGHTER. A FILM FILLED WITH "HUHS" BUT SO TYPICAL OF FILMS FROM THIS PART OF THE WORLD. SKIP IT IF YOU CANNOT APPRECIATE SUBTLE HUMOUR. BASICALLY THE FILM EXPLORES THE ACCURACY OF WEIGHTS......IS THIS TRULY REAL?
Full of Hamer's trademark offbeat humour, 1001 Grams sharply critiques those dichotomies — rural versus urban, precision versus poetry, science versus mysticism, romance versus logic — that Marie routinely accepts. As she explores her new possibilities, the film seems to unfurl magically, beautifully, the way the first real day of summer seems to spill over with promise and renewal. Recently divorced, Marie devotes her life to measurements, spending her days inspecting ski slopes while studiously avoiding her ex. The pride of the institute where she works is a perfect kilogram weight, a model for all measurements in the country, which Marie is supposed to take to a big conference in France. It's her first time going, and the first time her father, a fellow scientist and a legend in their field, will not be attending. - DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsLola DueñasLaurent LucasHéléna NoguerraFervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.THIS IS THE THIRD VERSION OF THIS FILM NOIR STORY AND ENJOYED BY ME IMMENSELEY. THE LIGHTING, SHADOWS AND INTENSITY ARE CAPTURED PERFECTLY IN THE BEST TRADITIONS OF THIS GENRE. Inspired by the true-crime story of Lonely Hearts Killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez — whose murderous exploits were previously brought to the screen in Leonard Kastle's cult 1969 film The Honeymoon Killers and Arturo Ripstein's 1996 Deep Crimson — the new film from Fabrice Du Welz (whose debut feature Calvaire played in Midnight Madness in 2004) paints a beautiful, disturbing, and, at times, shockingly violent picture of demented and devoted love. Encouraged by a friend to start dating, single mom Gloria (Lola Dueñas) reluctantly meets Michel (Laurent Lucas, who starred in Calvaire) for a drink. Immediately attracted to him, she refuses to accept the soon plainly evident fact that he is a con man who seduces and robs lonely older women like herself. Refusing to let Michel go, Gloria joins him in his work of grifting unsuspecting lonely hearts, and the two prove to be a perfect team — until Gloria's jealousy starts getting in the way of Michel's wooing.
- DirectorMaxime GirouxStarsMartin DubreuilHadas YaronLuzer TwerskyIn Félix and Meira, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES OF TIFF 2014 BECAUSE OF THE INSIGHTFUL JOURNEY INTO ORTHODOX JEWRY. METICULOUSLY CRAFTED WITH WONDERFUL PERFORMANCES FROM RELATIVELY UNKNOWN ACTORS. THERE IS AN EXCELLENT DIRECTOR AT WORK HERE. IF I WERE PROGRAMMING A JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL THIS WOULD BE MY NUMBER ONE SELECTION FROM THIS YEARS CROP.
In Félix et Meira, an unusual romance blooms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighbourhood but vastly different worlds. Maxime Giroux's latest feature is a sensitive study of tradition, religion, and desire in present-day Montreal.
Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish wife and mother living in Montreal's Mile End district. Discontented with her marriage and life, she rebels secretly against her faith by listening to soul music and taking birth control pills. Secular francophone Félix (Martin Dubreuil) is an odd loner living nearby, grieving over the recent death of his estranged father. Intrigued by Meira, Félix hopes her religious devotion will provide insight into his loss. Though she rebuffs him at first, they begin to meet in secret; a mutual affection soon arises, and she acquires a taste for life outside the strictures of her faith. As Meira's desire for change becomes harder for her to hide, and her husband becomes more suspicious, the tension between them builds. Ultimately Meira must choose: leave her community to be with Félix, or stay. - DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsIsaach De BankoléRazvan VasilescuOrsolya Török-IllyésAn African football player committed a crime and has to escape. He finds refuge on a farm deep in the Hungarian flatland. Soon he realizes that the farm is a modern slave camp where he is forced to fight for his freedom and his life.A NEW GENRE IS EMERGING AND I WOULD TITLE IT "GYPSY COWBOY" COMING FROM HUNGARY, TURKEY, ROMANIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES. THERE IS AN AMAZING DREAMLIKE TYPICALLY GYPSY-LIKE REVERIE TO THESE FILMS. I FIND THEM DELIGHTFUL. THE MALE PROTAGONIST, Isaach De Bankolé, IS A GENUINE FIND AND I PREDICT WILL BECOME A MAJOR USA STAR BUT WITH A DIFFERENT NAME. I HATED TO SEE THIS FILM END.
Directed by Szabolcs Hajdu, Mirage follows Isaach De Bankolé's mysterious, nameless character as he arrives at a country farm and subsequently begins to stir up trouble. There's ultimately something oddly hypnotic about Mirage, as filmmaker Hajdu has infused the proceedings with a deliberate and visually sumptuous feel that's heightened by the mystery surrounding the central character's very existence (ie who is he? what's he up to? where's he going? etc, etc). - DirectorDanis TanovicStarsEmraan HashmiGeetanjali ThapaDanny HustonAyan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.THIS ONE GETS A 10/10 FOR ITS EXPOSURE OF THE INSENSITIVITY OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY. BOTTOM LINE IS ALL THAT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM NO MATTER WHO THEY HURT.
Multinationals' activities in the developing world come under harsh scrutiny in Danis Tanovic's hard-hitting new drama Tigers. No stranger to controversy, the Academy Award-winning director is unafraid to stick his nose into contentious subject matter. Here, he explores Pakistan's fascination with Western drugs, basing his film on a true story — its real-life protagonist lives in Toronto — involving a corporation aggressively trying to increase its market share through the sale of baby formula to new mothers. - DirectorRobert KennerStarsFrederick SingerNaomi OreskesJamy Ian SwissA documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.THIS FILM TO ME REVEALS HOW GREED AND FINANCIAL GAIN TRUMP TRUTH AND FAIRNESS. AS A PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST AND THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING SO OVERWHELMING THAT IT IS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION HOW INTELLIGENT PEOPLE STILL BUY INTO THE REDICULOUS SPIN CREATED BY THE DENIERS. "I'm not a scientist, but I play one on TV," says Marc Morano, a man frequently cited as a specialist on climate change. Merchants of Doubt explores the shadowy world of purported experts who stake claims contrary to scientific consensus. Their efforts have spread confusion and delayed action over cigarettes and toxic chemicals. Now their main battleground is denying the man-made causes of climate change. Director Robert Kenner previously investigated how corporations affect what we eat in his breakthrough documentary Food, Inc. Here he reveals how corporations affect what we think. He traces the birth of the doubt industry to the 1950s, when tobacco companies began fighting the perception that cigarettes are harmful. Those efforts succeeded for decades, and have been replicated as a model for climate-change denial. A vast majority of legitimate scientists warn that we can't afford to delay action any longer. So what drives the merchants of doubt: is it money, ideology, or both? Kenner profiles key climate skeptics, uncovering their credentials and motivations. He shows how they navigate the media, think tanks, and government circles. He interviews scientists such as James Hansen, who raised a prominent alarm about global warming in the 1980s only to see his work attacked. "Most scientists are not good communicators," Hansen concedes.
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsAgata KuleszaAgata TrzebuchowskaDawid OgrodnikA novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.A successful American director returns to Poland to bring us a drama on an infant Jewish girl raised in a convent to save her from the Nazis who as an adult learns of her heritage. Acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) returns to his homeland for this moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. In this spare, stark, and oh-so-beautifully directed film, Pawel Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Few subjects are as controversial and as emotional as what passed between Polish Catholics and Jews during the Second World War. Pawlikowski, who created his reputation in England with films like Last Resort and My Summer of Love, has made what is surely one of the most powerful and affecting films of the year.
- DirectorPhilippe MuylStarsBaotian LiXiaoran LiHao QinThe story of an elderly man and his granddaughter who walk together through China with a bird in a cage.A SWEET POIGNANT FILM WITH MANY LIFE LESSONS. BASICALLY THE STORY OF A GRANDFATHER AND AN ANNOYING GRANDDAUGHTER AND A BIRD IN A CAGE WALKING THROUGH CHINA. THE CHINA SCENERY CINEMATOGRAPHY IS MAGNIFICENT. It’s a pleasant road movie, but only captivates because of the great images of Beijing and rural China. If this were shot in France with an arrogant Parisian kid going to a village in the Auvergne, it would never have gotten a theatrical release. It wouldn’t even attract viewers on television. But maybe the Chinese would watch it. Different cultures always intrigue more. The two main actors are great to watch, even though the kid’s character is extremely annoying for the first half hour of the movie. There are some beautiful shots and the filmed road trip (leaving the ultramodern metropolis to the charming rural villages) makes you want to book a trip to China and backpack around on your own. Some references to the globalisation of data and technology (iPhone, Skype, Wii) make the movie accessible
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.THE RECOGNITION OF THE EXCELLENCE IN CUBAN CINEMA IS OVERLOOKED. OFTEN WITH HEARTWARMING NARRATIVE, FIRST RATE ACTING, BEAUTIFUL CINEMATOGRAPHY ALL DONE ON MINISCULE BUDGETS BUT WITH METICULOUS CRAFTMANSHIP, THIS FILM SHOULD BE SEEN, BUT WILL BE NOT EVEN BE A FILM FESTIVAL OFFERING.
A breakout hit in Cuba, Ernesto Daranas's Behavior has galvanized audiences with its willingness to tackle taboo topics and reveal the less picturesque realities of life on the island. In this sensitive portrayal of the friendship between a young boy and a woman more than five decades his senior, Daranas exposes how internal bureaucracy, dogma and poverty are eroding Cuba's oft-envied education system. - DirectorKristina GrozevaPetar ValchanovStarsMargita GoshevaIvan BarnevIvan SavovIn a small Bulgarian town Nadezhda, a young teacher, is looking for the robber in her class so she can teach him a lesson about right and wrong. But when she gets in debt to loan sharks, can she find the right way out herself?FROM BULGARIA COMES A WONDERFUL DARDENNES BROTHERS LIKE DRAMA ABOUT A REAL DESPERATE PERSON WITH REAL PROBLEMS GOES THROUGH TO BALANCE HER LIFE. THE FILM IS LOADED WITH OMG'S AND YOU WILL BE WORN OUT AT THE END. this debut fiction feature from directing duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov doggedly follows its heroine as she tries anything to save her family's home from getting gobbled up by the bank. But even as she redoubles her efforts — exhausting her options, and soliciting assistance from shadier and shadier characters — none of her travails bear financial fruit
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDandara de MoraisGeová Manoel Dos SantosMaria Salvino Dos SantosThe August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.THIS AUDIO VISUAL POEM IS A BEAUTIFUL ACHIEVEMENT WILL PLEASE VERY FEW OF MY READERS, BUT TO ME THIS IS WHAT MAKES FESTIVALS SO WORTH WHILE. MINIMAL ENTERTAINMENT VALUE TO THE AVERAGE MOVIE ATTENDEE, BUT A JOY TO THOSE APPRECIATE THE EXCELLENCE IN FILMAKING.
Gabriel Mascaro’s narrative film debut quietly observes the young inhabitants of a small coastal village in Brazil. Shirley and Jeison work on a plantation, where they find time to sneak away and make love among the coconuts. The couple spend their free time at sea, where Jeison dives for octopus and Shirley sunbathes and listens to rock music. When Jeison makes a surprise discovery in the water, the two are forced to confront the realities of life and death in their village. Primarily a documentary filmmaker, Mascaro (who here serves as director, screenwriter, cinematographer and even supporting actor) takes a dynamic and intimate approach to narrative filmmaking, resulting in a poetic and beautifully lensed meditation on life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea. —Jenn Murphy - DirectorAlonso RuizpalaciosStarsTenoch HuertaSebastián AguirreIlse SalasTomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.
- DirectorFranco LolliStarsBrayan SantamariàCarlos Fernando PérezAlejandra BorreroEric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping their heads above water and building a relationship with his son. Maria Isabel, the woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the child under her wing.
- DirectorMipo OhStarsGô AyanoChizuru IkewakiMasaki SudaTwo troubled souls living on the fringes of a port town fall in love, but their trials are far from over.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsIlyas SalmanMariam ButurishviliIrakli SamushiaThe river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsTuncay AkdemirSelim BulutSabahettin DAGThis is the story of two women on opposite ends of a life-time, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloStarsJohannes BrotherusJari VirmanAnneli KarppinenA fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsLaura Peterson-AardamTarmo SongMirt Preegel"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"
- DirectorTomislav MrsicStarsSasa AnocicZivko AnocicMatija AntolicEight outsiders are trying to create a theater play while breaking every rule of theater craft.
- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsNoor Agha AhmadiMahdi EbadiHasiba EbrahimiA romance blooms between a young Iranian man working in a factory in Tehran and the daughter of an Afghan worker.
- DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDarío GrandinettiMaría MarullMónica VillaSix short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
- DirectorJane MagnussonHynek PallasStarsTomas AlfredsonWoody AllenWes AndersonA group of filmmakers visit Ingmar Bergman's house on the remote Swedish island of Faro to discuss his legacy.
- DirectorKornél MundruczóStarsZsófia PsottaSándor ZsótérLili HorvátThirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.
- DirectorTudor Cristian JurgiuStarsVictor RebengiucSerban PavluLaurentiu LazarWhen a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother's death and father's plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsSallie HarmsenMarwan KenzariBarry AtsmaA young assistant DA puts a serial killing nurse behind bars, only to discover evidence that may prove her innocence.
- DirectorLucie BorleteauStarsAriane LabedMelvil PoupaudAnders Danielsen LieThirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMatilde GioliValeria Bruni TedeschiThe destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
- DirectorAndreas ProchaskaStarsSam RileyTobias MorettiPaula BeerThrough a hidden path, a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.
- DirectorJuly JungStarsBae DoonaKim Sae-ronSong Sae-byeokA young police officer is sent to work in a small village and takes in a teenager to protect her from her abusive stepfather.
- DirectorIsa QosjaStarsIrena CahaniLuan JahaDonat QosjaIn a traditional village where life is gradually being rebuilt, schoolteacher Lushe is driven by her conscience to give an interview to an international journalist. During the interview, Lushe admits that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian soldiers. When the men from the village find out that it was Lushe who spoke to the journalist, they start a hate campaign against her and her little boy.
- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsHera HilmarÞorsteinn BachmannThorvaldur KristjanssonA Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdBruno GanzPål Sverre HagenAfter his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.
- DirectorYann DemangeStarsJack O'ConnellSam ReidSean HarrisIn 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsHannah HerzsprungFlorian StetterHenriette ConfuriusThe 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsPenelope TsilikaSofia KokkaliAneza PapadopoulouAn epic tale of lost love and a beautiful story of the love between sisters, set in the Greek island of Andros at the beginning of the 20th century.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaMaged El-KidwaniHouria FarghallyDecor is about "choices" we make in life. Can one major choice haunt us to the extent of wishing to imagine or live our alternate options of such choice? Decor is an incredible journey down that rabbit hole.
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsEmir HadzihafizbegovicJasna ZalicaHrvoje VladisavljevicAfter their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.
- DirectorVirág ZomboráczStarsMárton KristófZsolt AngerEszter CsákányiA heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the otherworld, something happens that they could never achieve in their common life: they finally understand each other.
- DirectorGrzegorz JaroszukStarsBartlomiej TopaPiotr ZurawskiTomasz SchuchardtA group of misfits from a carpet shop have a chance to change their lives with the help of two marketing experts - an ex-kebab shop worker and an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine.