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Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.

A teacher falls victim to a phone scam that robs her of her life savings, then realizes that there is no way to get the money back. The tables then turn as cash begins rolling in as she transforms into a scammer herself.

The river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.

Mara, a Romanian nurse, has married one of her patients. She is waiting for US citizenship and is being blackmailed for an alleged sham marriage. She is on her own. Her husband does not help her.

A father's love for his gifted daughter puts him at odds with the prejudiced townsfolk in this visually stunning tale with supernatural elements.

A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.

A European couple's vacation abruptly ends when they're kidnapped in Mexico. A working-class Mexican family is compelled to imprison them, leading to an unexpected cultural clash.

After being deposed in coup, the president of a newly independent country flees to mountains with a group of supporters sure that he will regain the power to lead his people.

14-year-old Tomek falls in love with Marta. Being poor he seeks ways of earning money so as to please her. He approaches a man who was seeking people for work. Not realizing the man is a pimp, Tomek has no idea of what awaits him.

In the far north, Sedna and Nanook dream of bringing back their family together. After Sedna's death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago.

A man's decapitated body is buried unnamed in Puerto Berrio. His dismembered corpse frightens locals. At the funeral, a stranger writes "chosen" on the coffin, sealing a pact to retrieve the missing head and restore the man's dignity.

In 1989 Vandam was used to be called a national hero. Today, he is almost unknown, a loser like many others. His fight for the woman he loves is a fight for his dignity, and it will be his downfall.

A bee-keeper initiates fight against the society of consumption for saving the bees.

A Documentary about the resettlement of the people from the swimming villages in the Halong Bay, Vietnam; seen through the perspective of a little family.

East Berlin, 1989. With only confusing information provided by adults, Marko tries to understand why it's such a big deal that some wall has fallen down.

On Easter 2015, the year a million refugees arrived in Germany, arsonists attacked a refugee block in a quiet village in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Overnight, Tröglitz's burnt-out roof became the international icon of a new wave of xenophobic violence in the country. For 17 months, up to the state election in March 2016 and its aftermath, the Canadian director discovered the "silent majority" of the people who live there, and their own century-old migrant culture. Poetic, moving, humorous, and critical.

Uta is a blind street musician. She walks through the deepest valleys but does not lose her belief in humanity and the ability to be happy, to love and hope. Uta is a heroine of our time.

A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and a thousand-year-old custom. Tom, Sebastian and Paul are three children from very different families. They live in a small village in 'Mansfelder Land', an area where the demise of mining has left its scars. Despite the changing times, the villagers have retained an archaic custom over the centuries. Just once a year, the younger ones are able to triumph over their elders, and this is the first hint at the changing of generations: springtime drives out the winter, and thus the young drive out the old. That's the way it's always been, and how it will always be - and once a year, this old magic returns to the hearts of the villagers.

The film tells the story of three friends and their long years of drug addiction in a small village of East Germany.

This moving documentary is about a father (Heinz Reichwald) and son Fred who dedicate their lives to repairing things. They work in a junkyard where they have restored countless ancient broken machines: tractors, cranes, excavators, airplanes and even ships ships. Their lives offer new dignity to the concept of work for work's sake.