A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel.
Cast: Maksim Konolov, Andrei Mezlikin, Mariya Mashkova, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Sergei Garmash
Director: Anders Banke
They saw each other once. On the wedding. Their eyes met. This is it. This, what they never knew, this, what they can't understand, realize, happened. Now they can't live, breath without each other. As if powerful river stream, strong cosmic magnet with irresistible power tempts, attracts, pulls them to each other. They don't belong to themselves, family and friends no more. She lived with her husband. He was older, she is still young and pretty. They have little daughter and angry dog. Did they have love?
And somewhere he lived with a burnt, like a steppe grass, mop of flaxen hair and penetrating blue as sky in the south eyes. "What to do now? - I don't know." He knows. Husband. He is not angry or silly. He is such as he is. He is just living. What to do, when dog bitted off the daughter's finger? To cut off finger, to kill the dog. What to do, when wife is leaving home? To burn the house. What to do, when she is leaving for someone else? He also knows…
Cast: Poļina Agurejeva, Mihails Okuņevs, Maksims Ušakovs
Directed by Ivans Viripajevs
Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster movie from director Lars von Trier.
Casting: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Set in 1933, the plot picks up where Dogville (previous film by Lars von Trier) ended, with Grace and her father (Willem Dafoe replacing James Caan) heading south. Reaching Alabama, they discover slavery still thrives at the Manderlay cotton plantation. Appalled, Grace decides to stay on, free the black residents and teach them about democracy. But replacing the old system isn't so simple, and Grace's good intentions eventually reap hellish consequences.
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Jeremy Davies, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny
Directed by Lars von Trier
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
Finally, Erik Nietzsche knows for sure– the art of film-making is his true calling. However, the dream of the young director– to shoot a film with falling tree leaves as the protagonist– is threatened from the very first minute he enters film school. Erik courageously faces the sharks of the Danish film industry.
Cast: Jonatan Spang, David Dencik
Directed by Jacob Thuesen
Scriptwriter: Lars fon Trier
Producer: Karen Bentzon
The film revolves around the life and mind of world-renowned musician José González. Using video diary, surveillance camera, concert footage, tour documentation and animation, directors Mikel Cee Karlsson and Fredrik Egerstrand give form to something as elusive as the creative process of one of Sweden’s finest – and most secretive – musicians. The film was shot over a three year period on location in Sweden, Japan, Singapore, United States, South Africa, England, Chile and Argentina.
Cast: José González, Erik Bodin, Don Alsterberg
Directed by: Fredrik Egerstrand, Mikel Cee Karlsson
At day, they are down-to-earth employees: wholesale meat buyers, ticket collectors, teachers, and representatives of other serious occupations. They are at an age when the twenties’ dream of becoming a rock star has come to an end. So their option is to resort to their potential of self-irony and... join the male synchronized swimming team. After all, it comes a bit close to being in a rock-band. The men are positive they have founded a unique troupe – the only all-male synchronized swim team in the world when they are forced to realize groups like this exist almost everywhere in the world – Japan, Ukraine, Netherlands, France, and elsewhere. Besides, the discipline’s first championship is drawing near.
Directed by: Dylan Williams
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon.
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson
Directed by: David Fincher
Script: Steven Zaillian
Producer: Scott Rudin
Sebbe is fifteen and lives with his mother Eva in an apartment that is much too small, so it is inevitable that there is friction from time to time. Eva delivers newspapers, but she prefers drinking beer after work. Things aren’t much better at school where Sebbe is the victim of rough-house bullying. The only place where Sebbe can hide and do what he will is the scrap yard. It is the place where his inventor’s talent is revealed: in his hands pieces of scrap metal come together to form incredible contraptions. The boy can even make things explode…
Cast: Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Eva Melander, Kenny Wåhlbrink, Emil Kadeby, Adrian Ringman, Leo Salomon Ringart
Directed by: Babak Najafi
A Royal Affair is a gripping tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of freedom for the people, but above all it is the story of a passionate and forbidden romance that changed an entire nation.
DIANA takes audiences into the private realm of one the world’s most iconic and inescapably public women — Diana the Princess of Wales — in the last two years of her meteoric life.
Detailing the final years of Princess Diana's (Naomi Watts) life before her death in Paris in 1997. The movie centers on her relationship with British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews). Their 18-month relationship ended mere weeks before the accident that caused her death.
Nymphomaniac is a wild, poetic drama about a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe, over the next eight chapters, recounts the lustful story of her highly erotic life. Seligman reads a lot of books, from which he has acquired various general knowledge. He connects the stories told with what he has read about.
The story is divided in two volumes and eight chapters, Volume I follows Young Joe as portrayed by Stacy Martin, while the older Joe in Seligman's apartment is played by Gainsbourg, and Volume II follows Joe as portrayed by Charlotte Gainsbourg.