A novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Mashkov, Chulpan Khamatova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Directed by Karen Oganesyan
Script: Oleg Malovichko, Sergey Yudakov
Zhao and Liu used to work and drink together until Liu passed away. In order to fulfill a promise given to his friend, Zhao makes a thousand mile journey on the dusty roads of China to bring Liu's body home to his family. With a dead body on his shoulders, the elderly man meets a variety of people who tries to help him.
Cast: Zhao Benshan, Hong Qiwen, Song Dandan
Directed by Yang Zhang
Scriptwriter: Zhang Yang, Wang Yao
Producer: Wouter Barendrecht
This is an Arabic tale about ancient religious hatred which takes place in Copenhagen. The hatred is rooted in a period of 1400 years of bloodshed between two branches of Islam– Shiites and Sunnites. It is a story about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about responsibility and choice.
Cast: Dar Salim, Khalid Al-Subeihi, Munir Shargawi
Directed by Omar Shargawi
Scriptwriter: Omar Shargawi, Mogens Rukov
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager
Erlendur is a police inspector whose life is problematic: he lives in loneliness, does not give in to his workmate's mocking provocations, tries to free his daughter from drugs, and has committed himself to solving a 30 year-old case. The ascetic sequences reveal both inconceivable crimes and human weaknesses.
Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur
Scriptwriter: Baltasar Kormakur
Producer: Kim Magnusson
Leo and Ale are brother and sister bound to each other with invisible ties since childhood. Accidentally Leo learns that his sister's fiancé is going to make her a special gift – a house in Sicily which is the same villa that the brother and sister once had to leave after a family tragedy.
Cast: Alessio Boni, Valeria Solarino, Emir Kusturica
Directed by Roberto Ando
Scriptwriter: Roberto Ando
Producer: Roberto Ando
The group of smiling people has been sent to Geirr by his girlfriend Ingvild, who sees positive thinking as the only solution to their complicated relations. Geirr is not so easily persuaded, and soon he finds out that the group members are as miserable as he is.
Cast: Fridtjov Saheim, Kjersti Holmen, Henrik Mestad
Directed by Bard Breien
Scriptwriter: Bard Breien
Producer: Dag Alveberg
Sid, son of a famous gangster, is hiding in the mountains from a furious Hong Kong gang leader. Here he meets a Zen drummer commune, and the encounter changes his life. By learning the art of playing Zen drums, Sid learns to understand himself and his tyrannical father as well.
Cast: Jaycee Chan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Josie Ho
Directed by Kenneth Bi
Scriptwriter: Kenneth Bi
Producer: Peggy Chiao
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
Vladimir Vakanin story. War in Chechnya. Skilled sergeant Rubahin and funster rifleman Vovka set out for help. Their comrade-in-arms sticked in minefield. Rubahin capture young, handsome chechen. Prisoner became guide and take warriors away from minefield. Chechen take his captors by secret footpaths. About these trails know only local inhabitants. On the way prisoner of war try to escape, Vovka is wounded by sniper, threesome tread near chechen village they find russian warrior and try to rescue him...
Wonders will never cease! After all they suffer together threesome became closer. They leave behind fact that they actually are antagonists...
Cast: Viacheslav Krikunov, Piotr Logachev, Iraklij Mshalaya, Iulia Peresild
Directed by Aleksey Uchitel
Scriptwriter: Vladimir Makanin and Tomofey Dekin
Producer: Aleksey Uchitel
Mirta, an old woman from the countryside, wins a car in a lottery and suddenly has to play host to a houseful of scarcely-seen relatives. Her nephew Ēriks, his wife Dagnija and son Uģis, and her former daughter-in-law Olita, husband Viktors and daughter Lāsma would all like to get the car, and each tries to influence Mirta. But before dying, she remembers her old admirer Pigalu Prīdis.
In 1995, during the festivities marking 100 years of cinema, Limousine the Colour of St. John's Night was recognized as the best Latvian film of all time.
Cast: Lilita Bērziņa, Uldis Dumpis, Olga Dreģe, Gundars Āboliņš, Baiba Indriksone, Boļeslavs Ružs, Diāna Zande, Līga Liepiņa, Romualds Ancāns, Ēvalds Valters
Directed by Jānis Streičs
Scriptwriter: Māra Svīre
Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) thinks he is God's gift at his high school. He plays a prank on a fellow high school student, Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) who, unbeknown to him is a witch. Kendra teaches him a lesson by putting a curse on him making him as beastly on the outside as he is on the inside. He has one year to find someone to fall in love with him or stay like that forever.
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen
Directed by: Daniel Barnz