Tragedy strikes when the Zayyad family loses its patriarch under mysterious circumstances, leaving the surviving members to fend for themselves within a judgmental community in Southern Lebanon.
Zayn Alexandre
as Rami
Hala Basma Safieddine
as Alia
Pascale Seigneurie
as Noura
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)
People of different ages and corporalities live an approach with their body in search of the exploration of their sexuality, moving away from the constructions and social taboos.
A gigantic investment project brings assistant Frank Schröder back to his home, the border triangle. Torn between appropriation, small-mindedness and rivalries, his plan for a major collaboration threatens to fail. But Schröder does not give up and manages to turn things around. But then his boss wants to go wolf hunting.
It's the run up to prom night for Leila and her friends in the Garw Valley. With money tight, and the pressures of the cost of living weighing heavy on her shoulders, will it stop Leila's celebration?
Having recently moved to the village of Ynysybwl, 12-year-old Ricky Runnerbean is challenged by the territorial Bwl Boys gang, and his courage is put to the test.
Philippe Croizon, a 26-year-old metal worker at Fonderies du Poitou, had no idea that his life would be turned upside down on March 5, 1994. On that day, the young father received three 20,000 V shocks while trying to dismantle the TV antenna hanging from the chimney of his house in Saint-Rémy-sur-Creuse. After two months in a coma, he woke up with all four limbs amputated. Thus began what he calls his "second life", which has enabled him to overcome his disability, meet his partner, Suzanna Sabino, and achieve some incredible sporting feats, including a swim across the English Channel in less than 24 hours.
Sebastian's (16) sheltered small-town life changes suddenly when his family takes in 15-year-old Kolja, supposedly the son of his father's recently deceased girlfriend. In addition to his little sister, another teenager now lives with them. Although the two boys are strangers to each other at first, they begin to open up to each other more and more and discover that they are biological brothers. The relationship of trust with his parents breaks down and when Sebastian and Kolja become closer than they expected, Sebastian's life is suddenly turned upside down, as he has found not only a soul mate in his new brother, but also a real, first love. Overwhelmed by their feelings, the two hide their relationship, but when the secret, incestuous relationship is discovered, the family breaks out of the social structure of the small town and comes into conflict with societal norms. Everything that follows is a rollercoaster of emotions.
Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.
When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police.
When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Being scolded while playing, three children plot small revenge on an old lady. A decision they regret later.
A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and considers revealing her gayness to her mother.
A young man recently released from prison attempts to rebuild his life after the death of his mother.
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
11-year-old Ena meets a young fisherman in a port. He gives her an eel and they arrange to meet the following Sunday on the other side of the lake. She has to be there.
This coming of age story follows a naive young girl who dreams of leaving her trailer park to reunite with her estranged father in Los Angeles, while her older sister grapples with protecting her from their bleak reality.
Jin-Hua and Jin-Tien are twin sisters. Quiet and shy Jin-tien is an animal trainer at an aquarium. When her sister suddenly goes missing, Jin-tien must stand for her in a magic show. While inside the box, she is confronted with the childhood Jin-tien, Jin-hua and their mother. A very lyrical film about memories of loved ones.
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
