1970s, Amsterdam. Karo, a ten-year-old girl with a jet-black hair, lives in a hippie commune with her parents. Her father is a charismatic idealist who believes in life with no boundaries and restrictions, whereas her mother would much rather prefer faithfulness and private space for her own work. The moment a young woman enters the family life, Karo is a witness to changes in her parents’ relationships, as well as experiences the aggressive attitude of the authorities directed at the commune. However, the girl’s life is not short of lightness and joy as everyday life in the squat is cheerful and beautiful.
Cast: Anna Franziska Jaeger, Déborah François, Matthias Schoenaerts, Maria Kraakman
Directed by: Dorothee van den Bergh
Every morning, François, a bailiff, bids goodbye to his wife and begins the unpleasant task of evictions. However this morning, September 11th, the usual course of events is upset when, having arrived at one of the apartments, he coincidentally falls hostage to its tenants. In a wink of an eye the neighbourhood is surrounded by the usual crowd – François wife, a committed negotiator, police, snipers, and reporters. Little by little the local residents become annoyed by the irritating presence of the mob, and the captors realize there is a rather strange but possibly one chance to escape.
Cast: Hippolyte Girardot, Mohamed Fellag, Aymen Saïdi, Michel Vuillermoz
Directed by: Angelo Cianci
A young Dutch woman wanders through the rainy Irish landscape, as if forming a conspirational partnership with the austere nature. However, the duo is interrupted by the third – a man in his prime, leading a lonely existence on a beautiful island, ostensibly driven by his stubbornness. They make a deal: she will work for him only for a share of food, he will not ask any questions. Only work, nothing personal. However, as time goes by, both are stirred by natural curiosity, shattering the monotony of the everyday routine. Who will be the first to break the promise to keep the relationship free of anything personal?
Cast: Lote Verbeek, Stephen Rea
Directed by: Urszula Antoniak
Oliver works as an air traffic controller at Bratislava airport. He is of Czech origin, and while he has worked in Slovakia for many years, he has never managed to assimilate. He leads a lone existence in a large housing community where he has a view into the windows of other tenants. Oliver's attention is mainly focused on a young family who live opposite him. The family embodies the happiness which has always eluded him. Soon, however, his feelings of admiration turn to envy and desire as Oliver becomes intent on procuring a contented life for himself, even if it means breaking the law.
Cast: Ivan Trojan, Jana Hlavacova, Kristína Turhanová, Dagmar Bruckmeyer
Directed by: Peter Kristúfek
Werner Herzog’s 3D masterpiece, exclusively shot inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, vividly captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. Always keen to explore the everlasting struggle between the forces of nature and humankind, Herzog’s appetite for controversy and pushing the boundaries here is as large as ever.
Cast: Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Azam returns to his native village to visit his friend Ali and his wife. At night, the three of them depart on a boat trip to an uninhabited island. Slowly adjusting to the rhythm of the waves, Azam yields to a flashback of memories, hoping they would help to explain the lonesome void he has been unable to fill with the career of a successful singer in the city. Between the voyage and visions of past the spectator is also entertained by mythical and humoresque stories that bear an indirect link to the main character’s life.
Cast: Nam Ron, Azman Hassan, Mislina Mustaffa
Directed by: Tan Chui Mui
Blood Into Wine is a documentary focusing on multi-platinum musician Maynard James Keenan and his winemaking mentor Eric Glomski as they toil against the naysayers and elements in their quest to make exquisite varieties of wine in the hostile deserts of Arizona. The ostensibly unlikely farmer Keenan, the lead singer of famous rock bands, moved to Arizona in 1995 and has since produced high quality wines through his labels Caduceus, Merkin, and AZ Stronghold. Also featuring appearances form supermodel and actress Mila Jovovich, the film is an inspiring and humorous look at a truly enthusiastic spirit of winemaking.
Cast: Maynard James Keenan, Eric Glomski, Milla Jovovich, Tim Heidecker
Directed by: Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke
Charlotte is a tender human being, having found her life’s fulfillment in a way that is strange enough to be hidden. She is married, has a son, and works in a hospital. When Charlotte’s husband Max finds out his wife’s secret passion, their marriage is put to a test, and she is sacked from the work at the hospital. Wishing to save their relationship and to flee from the ghosts of the past, Charlotte and Max embark on a exotically saturated voyage to India.
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo, Rvan Brodie
Directed by: Nanouk Leopold
Nae, living in a small village in eastern Romania, receives a telegram from France announcing the death of his long lost uncle Luca. Nae and his mother embark on a journey to fulfil Luca’s last wish - to be buried in the cemetery of his Romanian hometown. At the house of the deceased, they meet a shaman, Luca’s friend Ata, who tells them that Luca’s fortune has been lost and the only thing left is an unusual coffin. Since the Romanian tradition requires the soul to retrace its life’s steps during the forty days of mourning, Luca’s soul chooses to inhabit Nae in order to return to its last resting place.
Cast: Adriana Trandafir, Áron Dimény, Elena Popa, Joseph Otteno
Directed by: Cornel Gheorghita
He fought in Afghanistan and went missing in action there. 21 years later he returns to Estonia to attend his father’s funeral. Estranged from the Western society and converted to Islam, his only bond to life there is the memory of his daughter, Angel, whose crying he believes he once, long ago, heard on the telephone. Ever since he has been writing letters to her into his dog-eared notebook. The town that used to be his home and where he begins to look for his daughter and his wife now feels like a ghostly and alien place. Slender young women dictate its life and rhythm, yet something has gone hopelessly astray in their lives. When the man whom they thought for years to be dead arrives, the women see him as someone who could resolve their troubles.
Cast: Tõnu Oja, Tiina Tauraite, Ragne Pekarev, Mirtel Pohla, Katariina Lauk
Directed by Sulev Keedus
Scriptwriter: Sulev Keedus
The short film compilation has been created by eight young and talented Ukrainian directors, showing the capital Kiev in a way unknown to the most of the outsiders – with the fresh view of the young. Witty, ordinary and less ordinary stories, simple and complicated tales about the life in the city, characterized by a style similar to the earlier Paris, I Love You and New York, I Love You. Several generations are featured in the course of eight films - from a puppy love to nostalgic feelings of the older generation. For most of the Lovers in Kiev directors these are debut films and a great chance to show them on the big screen.
Directed by Ada Rogovtseva, Dasha Astafeva, Grigoriy Kalinin, Artem Semakin, Alexandr Yatsenko, Ivan Dorn, Ilya Isaev
Don Alfonso, a victim of an extortion scheme, fearfully flees his home, accompanied only by his marimba. When he loses his job as a musician due to a dwindling interest in marimba music, he decides to take drastic measures and begins to fuse traditional marimba music with heavy metal. Together with his godson Chiquilin, a street-wise kid hooked on sniffing glue, and Blacko, a medical doctor and ex-Satan-worshiper turned fundamentalist-Orthodox-Jew-born-again Christian, the trio comes together as Marimbas del Infierno, playing a new style of music never imagined nor heard before.
Lomās: Alfonso Tunche, Roberto González Arévalo, Víctor Hugo Monterroso
Režisors: Julio Hernández Cordón
Scenārists: Julio Hernández Cordón