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3 BEAUTIESBy Carlos Caridad Montero
Awards & Festivals:
Best Feature award at Venezuelan FF in New York!
Genre: Comedy
Perla is a mother with three children: Carolina, Estefania and Salvador. She is obsessed with turning one of her daughters a beauty queen and fulfill her own childhood dream. But her desire and obsession encourage the competition among her daughters since childhood. While Salvador, the only son, is always looking for a place in the affections of his mother, who is always focused on her "two princesses". Years later the unlimited efforts to achieve Perla's dream will be transformed into a nightmare for both of her daughters.
Diana Peñalver: Perla, Josette Vidal: Estefania, Fabiola Arace: Carolina
A FOLD IN MY BLANKETBy Zaza Rusadze
Awards & Festivals:
Berlin IFF (Panorama Opening Film)
Best Feature at Queer Lisboa!
The first feature film of the Georgian film maker Zaza Rusadze will have its Georgian Premiere in Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF)!
Genre: Drama
Dmitrij returns after studying abroad to his provincial hometown. He divides his time between his dull job at the local court of justice and his hobby: rock climbing. Dmitrij's daily routine is interrupted when he starts to flee into his fantasy world and meets his new friend Andrej…
Dmitrij: Tornike Bziava, Andrej: Tornike Gogrichiani, Alexander: Avtandil Makharadze
ABSOLUTIONBy Petri Kotwica
Awards & Festivals:
Best Film (Grand Prix), Best Actress (Laura Birn), Young European Jury Prize and Critics Award @ Police Liège FF!
Belgian Premiere in Competition @ Police Liège FF!
In Competition @ Pune Int'l Film Festival!
World Premiere @ Helsinki Int'l Film Festival!
International Premiere in Competition @ Warsaw Int'l...
Genre: Drama
Highlight: From the Director of "Black Ice" (Berlinale Competition 2008). Starring Laura Birn ("A Walk Among the Tombstones" by Scott Frank, Won Berlinale EFP Shooting Star)
When Lauri's wife, Kiia, goes into premature labour of his so expected kid, they run down a dark country road to reach, as fast as they can, the hospital. An abrupt stop. Did they hit something? Lauri wants to move quick and save his family. In the hospital, Kiia befriends Hanna, a woman whose husband is in coma, victim of a hit-and-run driver. When the truth finally dawns, will it be too late to forgive?
Laura Birn, Mari Rantasila, Eero Aho
ACESBy Alfonso Zarauza
Awards & Festivals:
Jury Award at Brussels Film Festival!
Best script, Best Cinematography and Best Music at Cine Ceará Festival!
Winner of Best Film, Best Script and Best Director awards at Premios Mestre Mateo del Audiovisual Gallego!
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Starring Lola Dueñas known for her roles in several Pedro Almodovar's films and in Alejandro Amenabar's Oscar-winning "The Sea Inside". And Luis Tosar known for the spanish films "Cell 211", "Sleep Tight" or "Even The Rain".
Neneta lives without responsibilities or plans in a motor home on the coast of Spain. When her partner, 'Wolf', disappears without explanation she decides to go back to her hometown in Galicia. All are difficulties, coming back to her mother, finding a job. Until she gets an offer to be a construction worker. With courage and sense of humor she overcomes the hard work and being a woman in a man world. She grows stronger and independent as her group is beginning to be known as 'The Aces' for their ability to be the fastest workers around. She starts dating an old friend, get along with her mother and stabilize her life. But 'Wolf' comes back and she must confront the decision to run with...
Lola Dueñas: Neneta, Luis Tosar. Lobo, Ledicia Sola: Nina
AIRE LIBREBy Anahí Berneri
Awards & Festivals:
World Premiere at Main Competition in San Sebastian IFF
International Premiere at World Contemporary Cinema in Toronto IFF!
Genre: Drama
Highlight: The director of "A Year Without Love" (Teddy Award at Berlin), "Encarnación", (Innovation Award in Toronto Film Festival). Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia (Wild Tales).
Manuel (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and Lucia (Celeste Cid) are married and decide to build a house outside the city. They settle in Lucia's mother house but Manuel finds an excuse to flee and take refuge in his parents' home. Although they don't want to admit it, they begin to live separated and distance themselves emotionally. Building a place to reconnect to each other seems difficult while the unspoken rupture begins to affect the one person they both want to protect: their son.
Leonardo Sbaraglia: Manuel, Celeste Cid: Lucía, Fabiana Cantilo: Lucía's mother
ALMA DE SANT PEREBy Jarmo Lampela
Genre: Drama
Alma is a young ambitious woman working in her own small company in Barcelona. She is happy in life but constantly dreams of a bigger project that she could work on together with her friends. A project that would bring in their first million. The opportunity finally arises and they buy an old building with a plan to renovate it into luxury apartments. But how to get rid of old tenants without hurting their feelings and without losing your own morals? Furthermore, how to survive from a free fall when you lose all you have? "Alma de Sant Pere" is a film about dreams, friendships and human values.
Carla de Otero, Raul Llopart, Arántzazu Ruíz
ATLANTIDABy INES MARÍA BARRIONUEVO
Awards & Festivals:
In Competition at Rio Gay Film Festival!
Russian Premiere at Moscow Int'l Film Festival!
In competition for Best First Feature at Berlinale 2014!
World Premiere at the Berlinale 2014, in the GENERATION section!
Special Mention for Best Feature Film at Queer Lisboa!
Genre: Coming of Age, LGBT
Argentina 1987. It is a hot summer day and a long awaited storm is slowly approaching town. Lucia and her sister Elena are alone. Elena's friends are fighting the heat at the local swimming pool where gossip is the major sport. Elena joins Ignacio, a doctor that twice her age. Lucia, meanwhile, meets Ana, a friend of his sister and together go to the outskirts. The two sisters live an afternoon of initiation. Lucia and Elena are left to their own desires. A desire that begins and ends in that stormy afternoon, and nothing will be the same for them.
Melisa Romero: Lucia, Florencia Decall: Elena, Sol Zavala: Ana
AUTUMNBy Özcan Alper
Awards & Festivals:
Locarno IFF (Art & Essai CICAE Prize)
Adana FF (Best Film & Special Jury Award)
Sarajevo IFF
MedFF Rome (Special Mention)
Festival on Wheels (Silver Goose & Best Film)
Film Festival Rotterdam
Götheborg IFF
Sofia IFF
Trento Film Festival (Golden Gentian Award)
Vancouver International...
Genre: Drama
Ten Years after being sentenced to jail as a 22-year-old university student, Yusuf returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region. Welcomed only by his elderly mother, the only person he sees regularly is his childhood friend Mikail. Going with Mikail to a tavern, Yusuf meets Eka, a beautiful Georgian hooker. Neither timing nor circumstances are right for these two people from different worlds to be together. For all that, love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness. With the 1990s as a backdrop, the film at once documents and criticizes a slice of recent history, exposing the irony, ruthlessness and reality of the period.
Onur Saylak, Megi Koboladze, R. Gulefer Yenigul
BABY STEPSBy Barney Cheng
Awards & Festivals:
Audience Award for best narrative feature @ Out at the Movies!
Jury Award at Outflix FF!
Opening Film at Love & Pride FF (Singapore)!
Indian Premiere @ Chennai Int'l Film Festival!
Philippines Premiere @ Pink Film Festival!
North American Premiere at Frameline, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film...
Genre: LGBT, Drama
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Danny and his boyfriend Tate long to have a baby. When Danny's mother, Ma, finds out about his plans she is horrified by the idea to hire a surrogate that would carry her first awaited grandchild.
Danny and his boyfriend Tate long to have a baby. When Danny's mother (Ma) finds out about his plans, she is horrified by the idea of hiring a surrogate to carry her first awaited grandchild. Ma tries to stop Danny. However when she understands that he is determined, she starts to control every aspect of the process. The foursome (Danny, Tate, Ma and the surrogate) must travel thousands of miles to Bangkok for the embryo transfer. The emotionally exhausting journey inevitably pulls Danny and Ma apart, as she still has unresolved issues about Danny being gay and the non-traditional family that they are starting.
Ah-Leh Gua: Ma, Barney Cheng: Danny, Michael Adam Hamilton: Tate
BEAT DOWNBy Deanne Foley
Genre: Comedy, Family
Fran White is sweet eighteen years old and a real firecracker. More than anything, Fran dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. Her single-father Whitey is a former-pro (known as White Lightning in the ring) with broken dreams of his own and is dead set against Fran wrestling. Fran is determined though and when Whitey's old rival Dark Thunder comes to town, she runs away to join his tour. For her first time she meets her mother, a sexy ex-wrestler. Whitey is devastated and while he tries to get his daughter and his wife back, Fran wrestles for her dreams...
Robb Wells , Marthe Bernard , Tony Nappo
BEATRIZ'S WARBy Bety Reis & Luigi Acquisto
Awards & Festivals:
Best Film at International Film Festival of India!
Gold Award for Features - Cinema and Judges' Choice Award for 2013 for director of photography, Valeriu Campan in Australia
Genre: Drama
Log Line:
The first feature film from one of the world's newest nations.
East Timor's historic first feature film, A Guerra da Beatriz, is the haunting, passionate story of one woman's conviction to remain true to the man she loves and the country for which she fought. It is a bold reworking of the 16th century French 'Martin Guerre' story. In this adaptation the original story is transposed to Portuguese Timor during the Indonesian occupation of the small nation. Sixteen years after Beatriz's husband disappears during a brutal massacre by occupying Indonesian forces she is troubled by his mysterious return: is he the young man she'd lost or is he an impostor?
Beatriz: Irim Tolentino, Teresa: Augusta Soares, Tomas: Jose Da Costa
BEAUTIFUL CRAZYBy Chi Yuarn Lee
Awards & Festivals:
Mannheim-Heidelberg (Special Mention Award)
Tokyo (Wind of Asia Award)
Taipei (In Competition)
Hong Kong GLBT
Torino GLBT a.o
Genre: Romance, Drama
Before they could figure out what was happening, Xiao-Bu finds herself in a cat fight with Angel over a cigarette, Amy sleeps with Xiao-Bu's boxer boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao-Bu. What could be worse? All three girls fall in love, feel hurt, forget and have experiences that are as random as 17 year-old Xiao-Bu's coin toss which decides her future relationship with Angel.
Angel - Angel Yao, Xiao - Bu Amiya Lee, Amy - Chien-Hui Liao
BEHOLD THE LAMBBy John McIlduff
Awards & Festivals:
Karlovy Vary
Festival du nouveau cinema Montreal
Dinard (In Competition)
Arras (BEST DIRECTOR AWARD)
Thessaloniki (BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD)
Genre: Drama
In an attempt to save the neck of his junkie son Joe, Eddie agrees to do a mysterious pick up with the help of Joe's girlfriend Liz. The two head off across mid Ulster and eventually find themselves in possession of a lamb. En-route they fumble their way through a series of comic, tragic and disturbing adventures; Liz, struggling with her own drug addiction, crippling sensitivity and desire to connect with her disabled son who lives with foster parents. Eddie, an overweight and depressed ex accountant does his best to assume the role of a drug trafficker but his constant cradling of the lamb and love of bird watching doesn't do a lot for his tough guy image. In between moments of...
Liz: Aoife Duffin , Eddie: Nigel O'Neill, Joe: Michael Mason
BLACK FIELDBy Vardis Marinakis
Awards & Festivals:
Sevilla (Silver Girandillo Award and Best Actress)
Hellenic Film Academy Award (Best Cinematography and Sets)
Mumbai (Special Jury Award for Technical Excellence))
Cinema Tous Ecrans (Youth Jury Award)
InsideOut Toronto (Best Film)
Karlovy Vary
Palm Springs (New Voices/New...
Genre: Epic, Drama
BLACK FIELD is set in 1654, when Greece was under Ottoman Empire occupation. A Janissary (a Greek warrior recruited by force at a small age from his Christian family to serve at the Turkish army) arrives heavily wounded at a remote Christian female monastery. He is nursed by Anthi, a young Greek nun who has taken an oath of silence. They fall in love against all odds. But Anthi is tormented by a dark secret soon to be revealed: she is, in fact, a boy who grew up as a girl hidden in the monastery, in order to avoid being captured and becoming a Janissary.
The two lovers escape to the nearby forest, in search of freedom from society's constraints and lose themselves in a dreamlike reality...
Anthi: Sofia Georgovassili, Jannisary: Christos Passalis, Abbess: Despoina Bebedeli
BLESSED EVENTSBy Isabelle Stever
Awards & Festivals:
Torino Film Festival 2010
Hof Intl. Film Festival 2010
BFI London Film Festival 2010
Toronto Intl. Film Festival 2010
Genre: Drama
New Year's Eve, Simone decides to go out alone. The next morning, she wakes up in a strange car, next to a strange man. Few weeks later, she discovers she's pregnant. By coincidence, she runs into the stranger again – the handsome Hannes – and is surprised to find out that, contrary to her expectations, he's actually happy about the pregnancy and wants to live with her. Could this be the face of happiness?
While Hannes works in a hospital at a palliative care station, nursing to the dying with extraordinary tenderness, Simone renovates their shared, little home. An attractive neighbor fuels Simone's jealousy. The larger Simone's belly grows and the more extensively Hannes' integrity...
Simone: Annika Kuhl, Hannes: Stefan Rudolf, Herbert: Arno Frisch
BLOWFISHBy Chi Yuarn Lee
Awards & Festivals:
Taipei (In Competition)
Warsaw (In Competition)
Geneva Cinema Tous Ecrans (FIPRESCI and TITRA FILM AWARDS)
Sao Paulo
Genre: Romance
Xiao-Zhun's world is like the elevator she operates in a department store: static, polite, low-key. When she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, the shy girl decides to find a better home for her pet blowfish. A lonely baseball coach purchases the blowfish at an internet auction. He is waiting in his trashed home for his wife, who left him. When Xiao-Zhun takes the Blowfish across town to his house, they make passionate love in the surreal blue light of his aquarium. She stays with him, but their love staggers like a blowfish… until one day, the Coach finally wants to learn this girl's real name.
Xiao-Zhun: Vicci Pan , Coach: Kang Jen Wu , Goldy: Yi Ching Lu
BLUE AND NOT SO PINKBy Miguel Ferrari
Awards & Festivals:
Audience Award at Skip City Film Festival!
Best Male Feature at Amsterdam LGBT Film Festival!
Goya Award for Best Foreign Film!
Best Director at Andalesgai!
Audience award "Goldene Perle" for best feature film at Perlen Film Festival!
Genre: LGBT, Feel-Good Drama
Diego is a guy like any other one. He has a regular family and his friends don't have anything special. But there is something that makes him different. He has a heterosexual son. One father, one son. Both of them will need to fix their differences. Everything depends on how you look at it.
Guillermo García: Diego , Ignacio Montes: Armando , Hilda Abrahamz: Delirio
BREADCRUMBSBy Manane Rodríguez
Highlight: Diego Romero. Filmography: " A esmorga" 2014, "Stop the Pounding", 2013, Festival de Cannes
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When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live tranquilly as mother and grandmother.
BREADCRUMBS tells the story of Liliana, a Uruguayan woman who belongs to a generation of people who risked their lives to change their country and their society longing to turn it into a new society, more free and fair, but whose wishes were truncated when a military dictatorship was established.
Liliana was persecuted by those who oppressed the most elementary liberties and she had to face years of prison and exile. He also had to endure being separated from her son –who was hardly three years old when she was arrested- whose paternal authority was exclusively given to the father of the child. Currently, in spite of all the difficulties, Liliana is still doing her best to mend the relationship with her son.
BREADCRUMBS will narrate the present and the past of Liliana. It will show us...
BROKEN GLASS PARKBy Bettina Blümner
Awards & Festivals:
Best Film at the Bolzano Cinema Days
International Premiere at Buster Copenhagen IFF (Denmark)
Genre: Coming of Age, Drama
Teenage Sascha has two dreams: to write a novel about her dead mother and to take revenge on her stepfather who brutally murdered her. When she meets the newspaper editor Volker, he invites her to come to his and his son's place. A subtle love triangle enrols which helps Sascha to find her personal way of growing up.
Jasna Fritzi Bauer: Sascha Neimann, Ulrich Noethen: Volker Trebur, Vladimir Burlakov: Peter
BUZZARDBy Joel Potrykus
Awards & Festivals:
In competition - Filmmakers of the Present (Locarno IFF)
Special Mention from the Independent Juries and Prices at Locarno Film Festival!
BEST FEATURE at Lausanne Underground Film Festival!
Fipresci Prize at Ljubljana Film Festival!
Selected in "Bright Future" section at Rotterdam Int'l Film Festival!
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Highlight: The director, Joel Potrykus, won Best Emerging director and Special Mention for Best First Feature at Locarno 2012 for his film "Ape". BUZZARD, his second feature, will play in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at Locarno 2014.
Marty is a bored temp at a mortgage office, out to get what he feels he deserves in life. He is a small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting growing paranoia forces him to hide out in his co-worker's basement for a week. Marty's anxiety is mixed with juvenile basement parties that eventually trigger him to flee to Detroit and spend his nights either at a derelict motel, or a place of luxury, depending on what's in his pocket at the time. Marty's misdirected paranoia reaches a nihilistic state. He is now quite literally a man willing to draw blood from those he sees as the bloodsuckers.
Joshua Burge: Marty Jackitansky, Joel Potrykus: Derek
CHAIKABy Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Awards & Festivals:
IN COMPETITION for "NEW DIRECTORS" at San Sebastian Film Festival
Chaika' Wins Top Honor at Japan's Skip City Festival
Genre: Love-Story
Chaika is a love story between a prostitute and a loser sailor, rebuilt between two seasons: the eternal winter of Siberia and the summer in the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan. Young Tursyn comes back home to face what remains of his family: an old nomad about to die and a shipwrecked father. Both of them will bring back the vague memories that Tursyn has of his mother. Chaika is the adventure of joining those memories that life left scattered in the most hidden paramo, almost in the end of the world.
Ahysa: Salome Demuria , Asylbek: Giorgi Gabunia , Tursyn boy: Aytuar Issayev
CIUDAD DELIRIOBy Chus Gutiérrez
Awards & Festivals:
Cartagena International Film Festival (Opening Film)
Best Director at Latin Beat Film Festival in Tokyo!
Closing Film at Chicago Latino Film Festival!
Audience Award at San Diego Latino Film Festival!
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Highlight: A salsa musical romance with more than 200 professional dancers including world champions, choreographies by Blanca Li (choreographer of Beyonce, JP Gaultier and Prada Advertisings, Almodovar's films, etc) and 3000 extras.
Javier, a shy Spanish doctor in a business trip, meets Angie, a beautiful Colombian dancer and owner of a Salsa school. Returning to Madrid, Javier does not feel right with his life and encouraged by his best friend comes back to Colombia to settle there for a while. Angie is working with her talented young dancers to make an audition to be part of DELIRIO: the most famous salsa show in the world. Javier and Angie will meet again, and live an impossible romance between two cultures, full of obstacles and misunderstandings, immersed in the world of salsa dancers in the town where dancing is the goal, the dream and life.
Carolina Ramirez: Angie, Julián Villagrán: Javier, Jorge Herrera: Vaso De Leche
CLOUDY SUNDAYBy Manoussos Manoussakis
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Based on the book "Ouzeri Tsitsanis" by George Skarbadonis which is inspired by real events.
"Cloudy Sunday" unfolds the forbidden love story between a Jewish girl and a Christian boy during the German occupation in Thessaloniki in 1942. The racist laws have been implemented and the only place to escape the hatred and inhumanity is a small club, where Vasilis Tsitsanis fills the hearts and minds of people with the beautiful rebetika folk music. Despite the resistance, the persistent hunt for the Jews gradually spreads and suddenly simple choices become life-changing decisions. Based on the book "Ouzeri Tsitsanis" by George Skarbadonis.
Christina Hilla Fameli, Haris Fragoulis, Andreas Konstantinou
CYANIDEBy Séverine Cornamusaz
Genre: Feel-Good, Family
Thirteen-year-old Achille waits full of hope for his father to be released from prison. A father whom he has never known and whom he has always imagined in his fantasy. His dream of a life as a real family is put to the test: on the one hand, by his mother who is tired of waiting and, on another by his inadequate father who has lost all sense of responsibility after so many years in jail.
Roy Dupuis: Joe , Sabine Timoteo: Pénélope , Alexandre Etzlinger: Achille
DOLORESBy Michael Rösel
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Highlight: Based on the graphic novel "Dolores" by Anne Baltus, Francçois Schuiten, Benoît Peeters. Published by Casterman (c) Casterman 1990
Georg Letterer is an introvert modeler, who builds detail-obsessed prototypes. He receives an order from a famous Hollywood Actress Dolores Moor to make a model of her extravagant Villa. This is the opportunity for Georg to escape from suburban dreariness and the perfidious psychological terror of his brother. He tirelessly works on the detailed model and simultaneously falls for the unattainable Dolores. One day Georg discovers an unusual power: he is able to influence the physical reality of the villa through the prototype he is building. With his own interests in mind, Georg becomes a calculating puppeteer who holds the threads of life of everyone around him, just to win Dolores for himself. The film is based on a 70-page Belgian comic book "Dolores" by François Schuiten & Benoit...
Udo Schenk: Georg Letterer, Franziska Petri: Dolores Moor, Mona Petri: Simone
DUALBy Nejc Gazvoda
Awards & Festivals:
In competition for the Maguey Awards in Guadalajara IFF!
In competition in the section "Central and Eastern European" at Cleveland International Film Festival!
Will represent Slovenia at the 17th European Union Film Festival in Chicago (7th March to 3rd April). Eligible for the Best Film Audience...
Genre: LGBT, Romance
Log Line:
Two languages. Two people in love. One secret.
An airplane technical problem makes plane from Denmark heading to Greece lands at a Slovene airport. All passengers are being taken to a hotel in Ljubljana. Among then, Iben (25), a quiet young Danish girl. She meets Tina (25), who drives a shuttle as a summer job. Iben asks Tina to take her for a midnight drive around the town... They grow closer, at a different time in their life: one is hiding a big secret and the other is simply trying to find her place in the world.
Nina Rakovec - Tina, Mia Jexen - Iben, Jure Henigman - Matic
EDDIE REYNOLDS AND THE IRON ANGELSBy Gustavo Moheno
Genre: Comedy
U2's Bono wants to cover a song of an almost forgotten Mexican Rockband that has been dissolved for more than 30 years. The band reunites seeking for fame and fortune, but old and new rivalries between Eddie, the vocalist, and Santos, the guitarist, break out, confounding the illusion that old wounds have been healed. When Bono cancels the deal, Eddie convinces the other band members to stay together and play once more, like in the old times. Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels is a comedy about friendship, debauchery, second chances and about dreams that can come true… even 30 years later!
Damián Alcázar, Arturo Rios, Jorge Zarate
ELEPHANT HEARTBy Züli Aladag
Genre: Drama
It is not easy for Marco Stemper. Together with his family he lives in a suburban colony of high-rise flats near Duisburg, his father is alcoholic, with his excesses he tyrannizes mother and sister. Marco only finds respect in boxing, his great passion. The 19 year old teen is the most talented amateur boxer in his club. His deficit: Marko has not got technique, he simply trashes down his rivals in the ring. Fortunately he has Bülent, his best friend. He coaches nearly every day with him. Together they dream of a career as box professionals.
One day Gerd Hermsbach, a locale demi-monde celebrity, offers him a pro-career. Marko sees his chance to flee from the family's misery and to be independent. Torn between the pressure of Hermsbach and his shattered family, Marco is in danger to...
EPITAPHBy Yulene Olaizola and Rubén Imaz
Awards & Festivals:
Swiss Premiere in competition at Basel Bildrausch!
TVUNAM award @ FICUNAM
French Premiere in Competition @ Cinelatino Toulouse!
North American Premiere in Main Competition @ FICUNAM
World Premiere in Competition at Tallinn Black Nights!
Genre: Historical Fiction
In 1519, before arriving into the Aztec capital Mexico-Tenochtitlan, three Spanish Conquistadors march to the summit of the great Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, of 5400 meters high. It is an arduous walk; they face the strength of nature and the fear of the unknown, but their mission is of great importance for the interests of the Hernán Cortés army.
Xabier Coronado as DIEGO DE ORDAZ, Martín Román as GONZALO, Carlos Triviño as PEDRO
Producer: Rubén Imaz, Yulene Olaizola and Pablo Zimbrón
FAMILY COMMITMENTSBy Hanno Olderdissen
Awards & Festivals:
International Premiere @ Boston LGBT Film Festival!
Genre: LGBT, Comedy
To get married is easy, but will things still go smoothly when it involves a homophobic Arab father, a pseudo-orthodox Jewish mother and an unexpected pregnancy? David and Khaled need to set a lot of things straight before they can say the vows and live happily ever after.
Max von Pufendorf – DAVID, Omar El-Saeidi – KHALED, Maren Kroymann – LEA
FAREWELL TO THE MOONBy Dick Tuinder
Awards & Festivals:
Best Image Awards and PRIME TV Prize of Best Film in Brussels Film Festival!
International Premiere, in competition at Brussels Film Festival!
World Premiere and in main competition at Rotterdam IFF 2014!
In Competition at Cabourg Film Festival!
Genre: Comedy
It's the hot summer of 1972. On the 9th floor of a tower block in a small town, the sixties finally kick in: a new resident, an artist moves in. Duch's dad moves in with her. Soon everything will change for this 12 year old boy. Meanwhile he focuses on his passions: the manned missions to the moon and his beautiful, Valium addicted neighbor. Inevitably, their lives will collide and none will ever be the same.
Ward Jansen: Duch, Marcel Hensema: Bob, Lotte Proot: Piet
FINNISH TANGOBy Buket Alakus
Awards & Festivals:
Film Festival Emden Norderney
"Festival des Deutschen Films" in Ludwigshafen
Berlin & Beyond
Cinequest Film Festival
Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival
Open Film Festival "Golden Brig"
Genre: Comedy
FINNISH TANGO is a comedy that tells the story of someone, who moved out into the world to find an easy time all the while learning to become a human being. Alex is a passionate but unsuccessful musician. He is not a nice guy. After he steels a fully loaded tourbus of a death metal band with two of his band-colleagues, it comes to a momentous accident. Tommy, the drummer, dies and Alex is thrown over with Steini, the guitarist. While searching for a job, he finds out about a theater-group with handicapped people who are looking for another actor to play in their staging of "The Three Musketeers". He meets weird, open and lovable people, who welcome him warmly in their midst. He manages to...
Alex: Christoph Bach, Lotte: Mira Bartuschek, Rudolph: Fabian Busch
FLOCKINGBy Beata Gårdeler
Awards & Festivals:
Best Original Music (Lisa Homqvist) @ Aubagne Film Festival!
French Premiere in Competition @ Aubagne Film Festival!
Best Female Supporting Role (Eva Melander), Best Cinematography & Best Music @ Guldbaggen Awards!
Premiered in over 25 countries!
World Premiere @ Berlin Int'l Film Festival!
Winner of the...
Genre: Thriller, Drama
A small Swedish community which seems idyllic on the surface. But when 14 years-old Jennifer claims to have been raped by classmate Alexander, everything changes. The rumor rapidly spreads throughout the community. And more and more people are convinced that Jennifer is lying. This is the beginning of a stirred up lynch chase in which an entire community turns against a young girl and her family. A brutal collective where evidence and decisions of court mean nothing and where grown up people lay down their own rules and laws. Nothing is going too far. The only thing that matters is sticking with the flock.
Fatime Azemi: Jennifer, John Risto: Alexander, Eva Melander: Susanne
FLYING HOMEBy Dominique Deruddere
Genre: Romance, Drama
Highlight: Starring Jamie Dornan (protagonist of "Fifty Shades of Grey", which will be released in 2015)
Colin (Jamie Dornan), an ambitious American investment banker, has a new challenge. A rich Arab Sheikh is a passionate pigeon fancier, who has been trying to buy a champion pigeon from Flanders without success. In an attempt to gain the sheikh's trust and business, Colin goes to Flanders, and sets up a scheme to get the pigeon. But when he meets the stubborn owner, and his beautiful granddaughter Isabelle, he realizes that his assignment will be more difficult than he had hoped and will learn that there's more to life than big business.
Jamie Dornan: Colin Montgomery, Charlotte De Bruyne: Isabelle Pauwels, Jan Decleir: Jos Pauwels
Gangs of Tooting BroadwayBy Dev Shanmugam
Genre: Action, Crime
24 hours before the Tamil protests outside the Houses of Parliament, Arun returns home from a long absence to stop his younger brother Ruthi from participating in a criminal act that could ruin his life. Whilst the Tamil society is voicing their pain against the Genocide in Sri Lanka, Arun, who has Tamil roots himself, meets his old flame Kate and his friendship with gang leader Karuna threatens to suck him back into a violent world he left behind.
A fast paced crime drama that highlights a rarely seen gang culture of Sri Lankan Tamil Gangs – whose infamy to Scotland Yard is such that they have their own task force dedicated to stopping them…
Arun Villavaraja: Nav Sidhu , Kate Fellows: Elizabeth Henstridge , Ruthi Villavaraja: Kabelan Verlkumar
GARBAGE PRINCEBy Raimo O Niemi
Genre: Youth, Love-Story
Jed's life is perfect, almost too perfect. Successful parents, lots of friends and success at school promise him a rosy future. However...Jed decides to leave it all behind. Without a plan, he gets on a train and ends up in a small, dead-end town in Finland.
Jed rambles around looking for a job. His only friend is a stray dog named Jesse James. Together they bump into Veera, an eccentric widow who takes care of a cranky group of outsiders. When autumn and cold weather arrive, Jed and Jesse get a new home in her house on a hill.
Money runs out and reality bites but Jed does not give up. Finally he finds a job as a garbage truck driver's assistant with a curmudgeon who's been bitten by the ballroom dancing bug. Jed starts to become rooted in the city even if he doesn't want to.
Jed: Jon-Jon Geitel, Lulu: Pihla Maalismaa!, Saastamoinen: Heikki Silvennoinen
GET MARRIED IF YOU CANBy Marco Polo Constandse
Awards & Festivals:
Nominated for Best Female Revelation at the 2015 Mexican Diosas de Plata!
Genre: Comedy
Highlight: Box Office hit in Mexico! - Third highest-grossing film of all time – Starring Martha Higadera (Street Kings, Amar te duele), Luis Gerardo Méndez (Cantinflas) and Michel Brown (Pasión de Gavilanes – TV)
Ana is obsessed with her big dream wedding. Daniela is focused on her career, no time for marriage. When Ana finds out her fiancé is cheating on her, and Daniela falls in love with her best friend, they discover that the only true path to marriage is love.
Martha Higareda: Ana Paula , Miri Higareda: Daniela , Luis Gerardo Méndez: Gustavo
GOLD DIGGERBy Ville Jankeri
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Marja is a fashion blogger, trying very hard to live up to the lifestyle she has envisioned for herself. In reality, she is broke and does not make any money with her blog. By chance, Marja meets Olavi, an heir to a large fortune. Olavi tries hard not to appear rich: he works at a warehouse pretending to be normal and independent, which he clearly isn't. Gold Digger is a story about a girl, who doesn't know how to be poor and about a boy, who doesn't know how to be rich.
Minka Kuustonen, Olavi Uusivirta, Satu Silvo
GUARANÍBy Luis Zorraquín
Awards & Festivals:
Signis Prize and Balance de Bronce Prize @ Pantalla Pinamar!
US Premiere in Competition @ Santa Barbara Film Festival!
Youth Jury Award for Best First Feature @ FILMAR en América Latina!
Swiss Premiere @ Filmar en America Latina!
Polish Premiere @ Ale Kino!
World Premiere in First Feature Competition at...
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Youth Jury Award for Best First Feature @ FILMAR en América Latina! Winner of the European Vision Award at Ventana Sur (Work in Progress)
Atilio lives with his granddaughter Iara. His great desire is to have a grandson to transmit the Guarani culture. When he discovers that Iara's mother, Helena, is pregnant, he decides to go to a long journey and cross borders, with the aim to convince Helena to give birth in the Guarani land... The long journey will make Atilio and Iara understand the real meaning of traditions and family bonds.
Atilio: Emilio Barreto, Iara: Jazmin Bogarín,
Producer: Saula Benavente & Esteban Lucangioli
HANDS OF A MOTHERBy Florian Eichinger
Genre: Drama
At a family reunion, Markus remembers for the first time something dreadful about his childhood: moments of sex education with his mother that just might have gone too far. As the memories, more and more invasive, eventually threaten to destroy his marriage, Markus needs to confront his family, his mother and most of all himself, to overcome the shadows of the past.
Andreas Döhler, Jessica Schwarz, Katrin Pollitt
HANNA'S JOURNEYBy Julia von Heinz
Awards & Festivals:
In competition in the section "ReelWomenDirect at Cleveland International Film Festival!
In competition at the European Film Market for the German Film Award aka LOLA!
US Premiere in Berlin & Beyond IFF
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Hanna goes to Israel in order to push her career by working with disabled people. Itay, the israeli social worker picks on Hanna with Holocaust jokes and cynical comments on German history, whilst obviously flirting with her. She initially reacts with rejection, but after a while she becomes interested in her family's history, and also in Itay…
Hanna: Karoline Schuch, Itay: Doron Amit, Maja: Lore Richter
HAWAIIBy Marco Berger
Awards & Festivals:
BAFICI (Argentine Competition)
Spanish Premiere at LesGaiCineMad (31/10-11/11) , in competition for Audience and Jury Awards!
Genre: LGBT, Drama
Martin seeks for a temporary job at Eugenio's house. When they recognize to be childhood friends, Eugenio offers him work for the summer. A power and desire game starts and their relationship grows beyond their friendship.
Manuel Vignau, Mateo Chiarino, Luz Palazón
HEMELBy Sacha Polak
Awards & Festivals:
Berlin International Film Festival (1st Feature Competition) FIPRESCI
IN COMPETITION at Mostra Sao Paulo.
IN COMPETITION at Molodist Kyiv Int. Film Festival.
IN COMPETITION at Copenhagen Film Festival (CPH PIX) .
IN COMPETITION at Buenos Aires Film Festival (BAFICI)
WINNER of the "FIPRESCI (International...
Genre: Erotic-Drama
Hemel has lived closely with her father Gijs since the death of her mother. Gijs has an endless string of women attached to him, but Hemel feels that none of them is a threat to their exclusive relationship.
This changes when Gijs falls in love with the young auctioneer Sophie. Meanwhile Hemel fights a guerrilla war with every man in town, looking for the difference between sex and love.
Hemel: Hannah Hoekstra, Gijs: Hans Dagelet, Sophie: Rifka Lodeizen
HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUDBy David Verbeek
Awards & Festivals:
Rotterdam (Nominated for The Big Screen Award)
International Premiere in Karlovy Vary - In Forum Independent Competition
In competition at Chicago International Film Festival
International Premiere in Karlovy Vary - In Forum Independent Competition
Genre: Drama
When the mother of Liling becomes blind, her daughter is lured back to the small island where she came from. By means of language she tries to connect her mother with the world again. Also in the big city, where she has a strange friendship with an older artist, she becomes more aware of the value of her imagination. This increases the attraction for the inexplicable. Lilling is drawn into mystery.
Lu Huang , Yi Ching Lu , Pong Fong Wu
HUMANPERSONSBy Frank Spano
Genre: Thriller
Log Line:
A criminal named Nando returns to his native Latin America after 30 years, with just one thing in mind—taking an organ from a human victim and smuggling it back to the United States. On this trip, Nando relives memories of his own violent past, which makes him think twice about redeeming his future.
Nando is an immigrant who lived in Rapid City, South Dakota, 30 years ago. A successful criminal career has won him the respect of his organization, and they have assigned him a delicate job: obtain a human liver for a high-profile client. Nando is a lonely man, with a past which will begin to haunt him from deep inside. After failing to snatch a liver from a girl in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Nando realizes that this mistake can cause him real trouble. So he decides to go to Medellin, Colombia where he was born. He only has 7 days to obtain a liver and bring it back to the United States;
otherwise he will be eliminated by his own organization.
While back in Medellin he relives his memories of being a homeless kid with his street siblings, Walter and Antonia, and the sacrifices he made...
Marlon Moreno, Beto Benites, Roberto Birindelli
I WAS THEREBy Jorge Valdés-Iga
Genre: Drama
Gus Johnson (James A. Lee) is a New York City firefighter who barely survived the collapse of the world trade center towers on 9/11 and instantly became a hero. However, survivor's guilt haunted Gus and he turned into a self loathing alcoholic, which drew away his wife and son (Sebastián Zurita). Years later, Samuel Lyons (Carl Ford), a photographer who crossed paths with Gus on 9/11 confronts Gus with a compromising photo he took that morning and blackmails him into telling the truth to his family, forcing him into a journey of self discovery and acceptance.
James A. Lee: Gus Johnson, Carl Ford: Samuel Lyons, Sebastián Zurita: Frankie Johnson
I'M NOT A REBELBy Sergio Sánchez
Genre: Dark Comedy
Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy.
Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by the secret police six months ago. Armed with a gun, which he doesn´t know how to use, and helped by his two friends as allies, Mitch will face the most bloodthirsty General and force him to release the love of his life.
Luis Arrieta , Edgar Vivar, Enoc Leaño
IMPLOSIONBy Sören Voigt
Genre: Drama
Seventeen-year-old Thomas and his father Niels spend their summer holidays at the Spanish coast. But their father and son time out takes a turn when a boat with African refugees sinks close to their hotel. One of them is 20-year-old Djamile. On a motorbike tour Thomas runs into Djamile and quickly decides to hide her from the Spanish authorities and the smugglers who brought her to Europe. When Niels and Angelica, Thomas' teacher and his father's love affair, learn about Thomas' secret the situation is getting even more explosive. Niels does not support his son's plans at all. Naive but passionate Thomas struggles to find a way to save Djamile. Deeper and deeper, he explores an unknown world of desperation, hope, greed, violence, betrayal, sorrow and... love.
Sven Gielnik: Thomas, Eye Haidara: Djamile, Carolina Clemente: Angélica
IN FRONT OF OTHERSBy Oskar Jonasson
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Hubert is a shy and introvert graphic designer who is not successful in approaching women. When he falls in love with Hanna, who is recovering from difficult breakup, he tries to impress her by mimicking his best friend, the perfect womanizer. It breaks the ice with Hanna, but the impersonations get out of hand, with unforeseen consequences.
Snorri Engilbertsson , Hafdis Helga Helgadottir , Hilmir Snaer Gudnason
INTERNET JUNKIEBy Alexander Katzowicz
Awards & Festivals:
North American Premiere @ Chicago Latino FF!
World Premiere @ Festival de Cine Inusual Buenos Aires!
International Premiere @ Hof Film Festival!
Official Selection @ Cine Global Dominicano Film Festival!
Special Screenings @ Haifa and Tel Aviv!
Genre: Dark Comedy, Erotic
Highlight: From the producer of "Amores Perros". Starring Antonio Birabent (Wild Tango), Angela Molina (That Obscure Object of Desire; The Things of Love) and special appearance of Arturo Ripstein (Director of No One Writes to the Colonel, The Queen of the Night)
Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and tenderness. They project themselves as superheroes, with infinity of friends and hypersex. They live asphyxiated in front of their machines, unable to live with the people that surround them, exasperated for finding a pinch of love in the fantasy of the net. Outside the virtual world, they do not exist.
Antonio Birabent: Coronel, Nicolás Baksht: Martín, Ángela Molina: Beatríz
JACKIEBy Antoinette Beumer
Awards & Festivals:
Shanghai Int'l Film Festival - Panorama
Winner of the Golden Arena Award for Best Film at the 60th Pula International Film Festival
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Sofie and Daan (33) are fraternal twins, but that is all they have in common - except for their two fathers, who raised them. One day, their biological mother Jackie calls from a hospital in the U.S. with a complicated fractured leg needing their help. The sisters travel to the U.S. and are disappointed by reality: Jackie is a stern woman who doesn't seems to have any interest in her daughters. Nevertheless, they embark on a trip across the desert of New Mexico to get Jackie to the rehabilitation centre. On the road in Jackie's old and shabby RV, this becomes an adventurous and life-changing journey filled with confrontations, challenges and surprises...
Jackie: Holly Hunter , Sofie: Carice van Houten , Daan: Jelka van Houten
JORDANBy Stuart Hynson Culpepper
Genre: Suspense, Thriller
Five-year-old Jordan rides peacefully in the back seat of her mother's car during a cross-country road trip - until they swerve to avoid a deer on a dark mountain road -- and the small girl is faced with a series of challenges that change her life forever.
Their car plunges into a deep ravine, and Jordan's mother is trapped in the wreckage. Miraculously emerging with only minor injuries, Jordan promises to bring help, making a harrowing journey through the dark forest, where she is forced to confront dangers both wild and human.
Jordan finally manages to reach a small New Mexico town and find its Native American Sheriff, Gil Lujan. But Lujan's search for Jordan's missing mother leads to emptiness…as if there never was an accident.
Finally, Lujan receives word that Jordan's mother...
Gil Lujan: Gregory Zaragoza, Natalia: Liezl Carstens, Jordan: Isabel Kate Culpepper
JULIET AND ALFA ROMEOBy Blaz Zavrsnik
Awards & Festivals:
International Premiere @ Belgrade Int'l Film Festival!
Genre: Romance, Comedy
An attractive high school student's world is turned upside down when a seemingly harmless oath, he made to be faithful, turns out to be a roller coaster of death, love and magic spells. The solution is right around the corner but his deep belief in the incantation's existence prevents him from making the right choice.
Dario Nozic Serini: Tilen, Jan Gerl Korenc: Zeljko, Katja Skofic: Tina
Producer: Ales Pavlin & Andrej Stritof
JUST CHARLIEBy Rebekah Fortune
Genre: Drama
Log Line:
An inspiring and heartwarming story of a fun-loving teenager Charlie, who decides to unveil a well-guarded secret that takes him on a road paved with obstacles, prejudices and confusion.
Football is Charlie's joy. When he has the ball at his feet, he can make magic happen - a gift that many teenage boys only dream of. Now the opportunity for Charlie to play professionally has come along. It looks like Charlie will be able to succeed where his father could not.
But Charlie has a secret, a secret locked in his heart. Now, with his future seemingly mapped out, the secret cannot stay hidden any longer. Charlie's decision to reveal the truth tears his once united family apart and puts his friends in turmoil. No-one is quite sure of themselves or each other anymore and the road back to harmony is paved with obstacles, prejudices and confusion.
Harry Gilby, Scot Williams, Patricia Potter
KADA KIEN SU KARMABy Leon Serment
Awards & Festivals:
Guadalajara Film Festival
Genre: Drama
Eva tries to rebuild her life after her husband, Joaquin, abandons her for a sexy younger woman. When an accident leaves Joaquin needing constant care, Eva takes him into her home and debates whether to punish or forgive him for his past cruelty.
Eva: Blanca Guerra, Joaquin: José Alonso, Jazmin: Rocio Verdejo
KIDBy Fien Troch
Awards & Festivals:
Magritte Award for Best Flemish Film in Coproduction!
Nominated for the Belgian Magritte du Cinéma! Best Belgian co-production Best Scenario Best Male Newcomer for Bent Simons
Winner of "Best film" and "Best musical creation" (to Senjan Jansen) in Festival International du Film d'Aubagne!
Genre: Drama
Kid, a little boy, lives whit his mother and his slightly older brother Billy on a farm outside a small town. Since their father abandoned them a few years previously, they have had to fend for themselves, and their finances are in ruins. Then fate strikes. The two little boys have to move with their uncle and aunt. Kid misses his mother more than ever, and wants to be with her again.
Kid: Bent Simons, Billy: Maarten Meeusen, Mother: Gabriele Carizzo
La TirisiaBy Jorge Pérez Solano
Awards & Festivals:
German Premiere at Osnabrück FF!
"Sony D-Cinema Award" for Best Director at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (Japan)!
In Competition at Skip City Film Festival!
Karlovy Vary 2014 (Main Competition)
Guadalajara International Film Festival (Best Actor – Gustavo Sánchez Parra)
Golden Alexander (Best...
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Starring Gustavo Sanchez Parra ("Amores Perros", "The Legend of Zorro", etc.)
Cheba (Adriana Paz) and Ángeles Miguel (Gabriela Cartol) got pregnant from the same man, Silvestre (Gustavo Sánchez Parra). He was Cheba's lover while her husband was working abroad. He is also Ángeles's stepfather. Now Cheba's husband is back. On another hand, Ángeles's mother doesn't want her daughter to keep the baby. The two women need to decide what to do with their new born children.
They have to confront their own needs and desires. "La Tirisia" portraits the life of two women – and their friends -- in an isolated village, where they all live trapped, forgotten and sick with Tirisia, an illness of the soul.
Gustavo Sánchez Parra: Silvestre, Adriana Paz: Cheba, Noé Hernández: Canelita
LIFE IN ONE DAYBy Mark de Cloe
Awards & Festivals:
Rome Film Fest
Monterrey Intl. Film Festival(Best Cinematography)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
In a world where a human life lasts only one day, and so everything only happens once, Benny and Gini lose their hearts to one another and feel one day is not enough.
There is one way out: they can flee to hell – a world where you can get drunk, stay in love, have sex and stay together for the rest of your life.
Benny and Gini want to take this chance and commit a murder. For this terrible act they're sentenced to death. But during the execution something goes wrong and the two lovers do not arrive in hell at the same time. Now they desperately have to search for each other in this new world of repetition.
Benny: Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Gini: Loïs Dols de Jong, Scant: Tygo Gernandt
LILET NEVER HAPPENEDBy Jacco Groen
Awards & Festivals:
Jury Award for Best Feature Film at Sidney World Cinema Festival!
IN COMPETITION at Warsaw Film Festival.
Winner of "UNG Film Award" in Kristiansand Int. Film Festival
Russian Premiere in Moscow Int'l Film Festival - Minor Dutch Artists
Winner of the "Golden Castle" and the ASPI prize in Castellinaria FF...
Genre: Drama
A character driven story about a 13 year old Philippine-American girl struggling to survive in the streets of Manila. Social worker, Claire, tries to save her but this hard headed girl thinks she can take her life in her own hands.
The film is based on interviews with Lilet, a little girl, who became Manila's most famous street child.
Lilet: Sandy Talag, Claire: Johanna ter Steege, John: John Arcilla
LITTLE WINGBy Selma Vilhunen
Genre: Road Movie, Coming of Age, Drama
Highlight: First feature of the Oscar nominated director Selma Vilhunen and by the Golden Globe nominated producers of "The Fencer".
Varpu is a 12-year-old girl who doesn't know who her father is. The relationship between her and her mother, Siru, is good and warm, but there's one flaw: Siru doesn't treat Varpu as a child, but as her equal. For this reason, Varpu hasn't had a normal childhood. One day, when mother and daughter have a fight, Varpu steals a car and drives across the country to Oulu, in northern Finland, to find her father. The encounter with her father triggers something in Varpu and Siru's life; it helps them realize what their real roles are.
Linnea Skog: Varpu, Paula Vesala: Siru, Lauri Maijala
LIVE FOR MEBy Chema de la Peña
Genre: Drama
Highlight: A story by Chema de la Peña and the award winning, Enrique Urbizu (No rest for the wicked, Best movie, Best Direction and Best screenplay, Goya Awards 2012). Starred by Cecilia Roth, Goya Award 1997 for Best Actress in Martín (hache), Goya Award 1999 for Best Actress in All about my mother. Sin Sentido Films' last movie, Get Married if you can, starring by Martha Higareda, became the third highest grossing film in Mexican cinema history.
One night, after receiving the urgent notification of a deceased man caused by a traffic accident, three people get the same call: the chance to finally obtain the long wanted kidney transplant they all have been waiting for.
They are Ana (32) upper class; Valentina (27) humble origins; and El Chayo (65) a patriarch and preacher of an evangelical church. The test shows that the kidney is more suitable for Chayo. This chance encounter is only the beginning of the bounds that will emerge between these three characters and Mariluz (55) Ana's mother who, disenchanted with her marriage with Alvaro (58) and obsessed with the lost of youth, falls in love with Chayo's eldest son, Gavilán (29).
While Ana and Valentina's friendship becomes unbreakable, Mariluz's love story with Gavilan becomes...
Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Martha Higareda, Tiaré Scanda
LOW LIGHTSBy Ignas Miškinis
Awards & Festivals:
Won "Best Film" and Dainius Gavenonis (as Tadas) "Best Actor" at the "Silver Crane cinema and television film awards 2009".
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (in competition)
Warsaw International Film Festival (in competition)
Hamburg IFF
Karlovy Vary IFF (in competition)
Warsaw IFF (in...
Genre: Road Movie, Drama
TADAS (30) is a yuppie. Yet with a wife, good job, a nice flat in a modern block and a new sedan, his life is completely joyless. He has no friends, does not care much for his career anymore and his wife is having an affair. Tadas is too weak to change anything and is stuck in a groove.
One ordinary workday, by chance, Tadas meets his former classmate. LINAS seems to be a self-confident womanizer, an "expert" of some indeterminate field, a free-living soul doing whatever he wants. Seeking to lighten up Tadas' dull life, Linas offers to take him "night driving".
Nighttime. The guys drive in Tadas' car around the emptying city. They take only two litres of pertol in a gas station just...
Tadas: Dainius Gavenonis, Laura: Julia Maria Köhler, Linas: Jonas Antanélis
LUK'S LUCKBy Ayse Polat
Awards & Festivals:
Hof Intl. Film Festival (Young German Cinema Award)
Genre: Comedy
An emigrated Turkish family in Germany wins together the jackpot of the lottery. While the parents immediately want to buy a hotel in Cappadocia to fulfill their dreams of returning home to Turkey, both of the two grown up sons, born in Germany, have completely different plans or none.
Particularly the youngest son, Haluk called Luk, has no clue what to do with his part of the fortune. Tacitly his parents assume that he will contribute to the acquisition of the dazzling hotel in Cappadocia. Instead of that Luk, having never concluded anything serious in his life yet, starts impulsively to reflect himself, his life and his future, resulting in the heavy futility of a variety of his plans...
Luk: René Vaziri, Gül: Aylin Tezel , Luk's mother: Sumru Yavrucuk
LUNABy Dave McKean
Awards & Festivals:
Asian Premiere in the Official Selection at Shanghai IFF!
World Premiere at Vanguard section in Toronto Film Festival
Luna won the Best British Feature in Raindance!
US Premiere in San Francisco Int'l Film Festival!
Australian Premiere in Gold Coast Film Festival!
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Highlight: The director Dave McKean is a celebrated illustrator of graphic novels and concept artist for films such as "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". He produced the image that launched the Sony PlayStation; and has worked with Michael Sheen (The Gospel of Us), Lars von Trier and the Jim Henson Company (MirrorMask).
After losing their baby, Grant and Christine visit an old friend with a new partner in his isolated and idyllic seaside house. Over a long weekend, secrets are revealed and the life of the dead child is lived out in a series of fantastical dreams that become an opportunity for spiritual healing.
Dervla Kirwan: Christine, Ben Daniels: Grant, Stephanie Leonidas: Fraya
MALU ON A BICYCLEBy Flávio Ramos Tambellini
Awards & Festivals:
Rio de Janeiro Intl. Film Festival 2010 (in comptetition)
Paulinia Film Festival Brazil (Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress)
Goiania Film Festival Brazil (Best Sound)
Genre: Romance
Luiz Mario, a São Paulo night-club impresario and a classic bon vivant, is an avid collector of love affairs. He is surrounded by all types of women, with whom he has torrid flings, but he is never able to emotionally involve himself. Until one day, while passing by Rio de Janeiro, he falls head-over-heels for beautiful Malu, who practically runs him over on her bike while riding down the beach bike path. The couple's fervent romance is abruptly thrown into disarray when an enigmatic love letter is discovered. From then on, the story between the two lovers is turned upside-down. Luiz Mario is consumed by jealousy and his emotions slowly seep into his relationship, destroying everything. Has...
Luiz: Marcelo Serrado, Malu: Fernanda de Freitas, Sueli: Marjorie Estiano
MARINABy Stijn Coninx
Awards & Festivals:
Prix de la Jeunesse at Cabourg Film Festival!
Bernhard Wicki Award (main Prize) at the IFF Emden-Norderney!
Best Film and Critic Awards at the Festival del Cinema Indipendente di Foggia.
Will represent Belgium at the 17th European Union Film Festival in Chicago (7th March to 3rd April). Eligible for the Best...
Genre: Feel-Good Drama, Romance
Italy, 1948. Young Rocco is growing up in Calabria, until one day his father Salvatore decides to leave to Belgium, where he strives to earn a lot of money by working in coal mines. Very soon he sends for his family. Rocco becomes a migrant overnight, with all the consequences this entails. Rocco wants to be like other youngsters, become someone and have a purpose in life. Against his father's wish and better judgment he seeks an escape through music and love. The amazing story is based on the childhood memories of the Italian-Belgian singer, Rocco Granata.
Official film website: http://www.marinafilm.be/
Matteo Simoni: Rocco Granata, Evelien Bosmans: La Ragazza, Luigi Lo Cascio: Salvatore Granata
MATTERHORNBy Diederik Ebbinge
Awards & Festivals:
Best Film at Napoli Film Festival!
Grand Prix at Skip City Film Festival!
Grand Prix (Main Prize) at Cabourg Film Festival!
Winner of the "Audience Award" in Rotterdam!
World Premiere in Rotterdam!
Winner of Russian Guild of Film Critics: Main Award
Winner of Russian Film Club Federation: Best Film...
Genre: Comedy
Fred is 54 year old and lives alone. He rides around in the local bus, virtuously attending church and eating his green beans, meat and potatoes at 6 o'clock on the dot every day. One day, Theo wander into the life of Fred and turns his well organized lift upside down. With the special talent of the stranger Theo, Fred starts to set out into the big, wide world. Will he fulfill his dream.
Ton Kas, René van 't Hof, Porgy Franssen
MEMORYBy Matthias Luthardt
Awards & Festivals:
Hofer Filmtage
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
Festival des Deutschen Films Ludwigshafen
Molodist International Film Festival
Mumbai Film Festival
Denver Film Festival
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Helene, mother of two, will not be discouraged. Everyone tells her that her husband Robert, who has been missing since a maritime disaster, is dead. But his body was never found. And Helene is certain that Robert is still alive and will return. And sure enough, one day there he is, right in front of her at a concert. A tightrope walk between reality and illusion begins for Helene.
Helen: Franziska Petri, Torben / Robert: Pasquale Aleardi, Matthias: Harry Blank
MESH (WALKING)By Shiar Abdi
Awards & Festivals:
Istanbul (In Competition)
Pusan (In Competition)
Antalya Golden Orange (BEST ACTOR & ACTRESS, MUSIC and ART DIRECTION AWARDS)
Genre: Drama
Xelilo, a disturbed man, lives in an abandoned store and walks endlessly through the streets of a Kurdish village in the south east of Turkey. He is curiously being noticed by Cengo, a 12-year old boy, living more or less happily under poor conditions with his friends and family, selling chewing gum for a living. Cautiously they become friends and Cengo leads him to the meeting point under the German bridge, where the children live through carefree moments.
When the Turkish military takes power in 1980, a curfew is imposed on the city. The life of Xelilo and the other Kurds is endangered. Who are the winners and losers in this conflict?
Xelîlo: Selamo, Cengo: Abdullah Ado, Yıldız: Nujîyan Kılgı
MOOSBy Job Gosschalk
Genre: Romantic Comedy
It is Hanukkah evening and everything is the way it has always been for Moos. Except one thing: her long time childhood friend, Sam, has arrived as a surprise guest from Israel. With Sam back, Moos realises her life has been on hold and she needs to follow her own dreams. To everyone's surprise, she auditions for the academy of performing arts. Despite the encouragement from the handsome singing teacher Chris, Moos quickly learns that not everybody is as receptive to her talents and she might need an option B. Meanwhile, Sam starts to realize his feelings for Moos may not have faded over the years.
Jip Smit, Daniel Cornelissen, Michiel Romeijn
MY BROTHER'S KEEPERBy MAXIMILIAN LEO
Awards & Festivals:
In competition for Best First Feature at Berlinale 2014!
World Premiere at the Berlinale 2014, in PERSPEKTIVE DEUTSCHES KINO
BERLINALE (Perspektive Deutsches Kino - Opening Film)
Genre: Drama
Gregor's life is running as perfectly as he had planned, until his brother disappears. Gregor keeps his brother's disappearance as a secret. First because he thinks too little of it, then because he starts thinking too much about it.
Sebastian Zimmler: Gregor, Nadja Bobyleva: Jule, Robert Finster: Pietschi
NO THANK YOUBy Samuli Valkama
Genre: Comedy
Highlight: "NO THANK YOU" is based in a bestseller published by Otava, the print run of the novel now exceeds 110,000 and the film is a Box Office hit in Finland!
Heli's husband is not in the mood. After many years of marriage a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy for him. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli turns to increasingly direct action - in vain.
Then she meets the attractive Jarno, a stunning young man who, unlike her husband, prefers to play with her instead of computer games. Soon Heli and Jarno are having a heated up affair in which she will discover what she wants, and what she doesn't want in life.
Anu Sinisalo: Heli Valkonen, Ville Virtanen: Matti Valkonen, Kai Vaine: Jarno
NORDLANDBy Ingo J. Biermann
Genre: LGBT, Romance
Eleni is abruptly left alone by her girlfriend Kaia during a trip to Norway. In order to find her lost love, she embarks on an emotional journey far beyond the beautiful Arctic Circle. When Eleni meets another woman, she finally becomes attentive to her own perceptions and desires.
Odine Johne: Eleni, Maren Hoff: Kaia, Nora G. Svalheim: Toril
ONE FOR THE ROADBy Jack Zagha Kababie
Awards & Festivals:
Chinese Premiere in the Official Selection at Shanghai IFF!
Guadalajara Intl. Film festival
Audience Award at SEMINCI Valladolid FF!
Genre: Road Movie, Comedy
Three eighty-year-old men embark in a road trip in order to fulfil the dying wish of a lifelong friend. In spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age, they find themselves involved in a series of comical misadventures and meet a cast of colourful characters. Their journey alters their sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80!
José Carlos Ruiz: Emiliano, Luis Bayardo: Agustin, Eduardo Manzano: Benito
PATTY'S CATCHUPBy Tina von Traben
Genre: Family
The struggle of Patty's family's little Imbiss versus uncle Walther's chain of fastfood restaurants, fighting to guard the secret her family inherited: the best ever German sausage sauce! Smart and ambitious, teenage Patty finally realizes that the recipe to her own happiness is to use her talent to support her family. Who will win the competition to get the popular spot in the soccer stadium? A "Heimat" film about pride, betrayal and family ties.
Patty: Luise Risch, Lilo: Tabea Willemsen, Selma: Marlene Risch
PERFECT OBEDIENCEBy Luis Urquiza Mondragón
Awards & Festivals:
Indian Premiere in Competition @ Pune Int'l Film Festival!
Luis Urquiza Mondragón won the Best Director Debut Award @ Camerimage!
Polish Premiere in First Feature Competition @ Camerimage!
Grand Prix Des Amériques (Best Film) at Montreal World Film Festival!
Best Director and Best Actor at Cine Ceará...
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Based on a true story! The scandal related to the priest Marcial Maciel, the Head of "Legion of Christ" (Los Legionarios de Cristo)
Julian, a 13-year-old seminarian will endure a hard spiritual journey to reach Perfect Obedience. The order's founding father, captivated by his fragility and innocence, will take him to live together with him in his private home for a year. In that time Julian will wander the most intense and contradictory phase of his life while his mentor guides him to complete psychological and physical surrender.
Juan Manuel Bernal: Angel de la Cruz, Sebastian Aguirre: Sacramento Santos, Juan Ignacio Aranda: Padre Galaviz
ROMEOSBy Sabine Bernardi
Awards & Festivals:
Berlinale (In Competition)
Rainbow Honolulu (BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD)
Oslo Gay & Lesbian Skeive Filmer (QUEER YOUTH AWARD)
Queer Lisboa (In Competition)
Mix Copenhagen
Taipei Golden Horse
Chéries-Chéris (GRAND PRIX)etc.
Genre: Love-Story
20-years-old Lukas is right in the midst of male puberty - medically triggered – for he was in fact born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he enters big-city life but even upon arrival encounters a major screw up: recruited for his community service he is the only male quartered in the female nurses' residential hall. What would be a dream for any other boy is acute, everyday stress for Lukas: being transgender means always finding yourself trapped in the wrong social compartment.
Fortunately his best friend Ine sticks by him and sweeps him into the scene of homosexuals in Cologne, where she is very well integrated. Here Lukas experiences his first real flirt – with the cheeky,...
Lukas: Rick Okon, Fabio: Maximilian Befort, Ine: Liv Lisa Fries
SNEAKERSBy Valeri Yordanov & Ivan Vladimirov
Awards & Festivals:
Karlovy Vary (In Competition)
Moscow (Special Mention Award)
IN COMPETITION the for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the European Film Awards 2012.
Genre: Drama
In the beginning of summer six young people escape from their failures – in their families, love, money, ambitions, meeting with those that are different. They escape from the City, taken over by those that are different. Each one of them escapes East of Hell... to the point farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and pristine beach.
The clean beach brings them together and reopens the prospective of hope to them all. But is such an escape at all possible?
Ina Nikolova , Ivan Barnev , Ivo Arakov
SOMETHING IN THE WAYBy Teddy Soeriaatmadja
Genre: Drama
Ahmad (27) is a strong devoted Muslim who drives a cab during the night shift and practice his religion during the day. During his time driving a cab ,he often encounters strangers in his cab on a day to day basis . Ahmad is like the many of the lonely souls living in Jakarta struggling for survival and also send money back home for his parents in the village. What people don't know about Ahmad , is that beneath the simple and humble man , Ahmad is obsessed with sex. Ahmad is a compulsive masturbator . Scattered around in his living room is his collection of hardcore porno. This character within him is due to the fact that he was brought up in a very hardline religious background which makes it very difficult for him to interact with women.
Santi (25) is a woman who lives...
Reza Rahadian, Ratu Felisha, Verdi Solaiman
STOLEN DREAMSBy Sandra Werneck
Awards & Festivals:
Rio de Janeiro (Audience Award, Best Actress Award)
Montreal World FF
Vancouver IFF
Ghent IFF
Cinema Tout Ecrans IFF (Intl. competition)
Genre: Drama
With poetic sensibility, Stolen Dreams tells the story of three adolescents who live in a peripheral neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Dysfunctional families, early pregnancy and lack of money are daily realities. They end up turning to prostitution as a solution. Even under such circumstances, they have a great sense of humor as they make decisions and try to enjoy life as it is: a new boyfriend, a funk party or a dreamed of mp3 player.
Jessica (Nanda Costa) divides her time between taking care of her grandfather Horacio (Nelson Xavier) and her daughter Britney, whose father is Andresson (Silvio Guindane), an evangelical devotee. Daiane (Amanda Diniz) is always trying to win the affection...
Jessica: Nanda Costa, Daiane: Amanda Diniz, Sabrina: Kika Farias
STUDENTBy Darezhan Omirbayev
Awards & Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection Un Certain Regard
IN COMPETITION for "UN CERTAIN REGARD" at Cannes Film Festival
Shanghai Int'l Film Festival - Panorama
Genre: Drama
A student of Philosophy suffers from lack of money and loneliness. He decides to kill the owner of a shop and has to learn the influence of conscience. When he falls in love with a girl he has to take responsibility for his actions. The script is based on Dostoevsky's novel "Crime And Punishment".
The Student: Nurlan Baitasov, Saniya: Maya Serikbayeva, The Poet: Edige Bolysbayev
SUM OF HISTORIESBy Lukas Bossuyt
Awards & Festivals:
German Premiere in Competition at Emden-Norderney IFF!
Asian Premiere in "Global Vision" section @ Hong Kong IFF!
World Premiere in competition @ Montreal FF!
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama
The brilliant scientist Viktor lives a happy life with Lena, despite a tragic accident that occurred during their youth. When he makes a groundbreaking discovery that can change the course of their lives, he will learn that manipulating the time comes with certain risks. What would you do if you could change the past?
Matteo Simoni: Tom, Koen de Graeve: Viktor, Karina Smulders: Lena
TALIONBy Martín Tuta
Awards & Festivals:
Nueva Vision Award for Best Latin American Film @ Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival
US Premiere in Competition @ Santa Barbara Film Festival!
World Premiere @ Santiago Int'l Film Festival!
International Premiere @ Cine Global Dominicano Film Festival!
Genre: Thriller
Mirubin, the enigmatic masked, stands up against the inefficient justice. He dares to put up against the government, punishing pedophiles. It is a personal war. Does it make Mirubin a criminal?
The journalist Amira is determined to uncover the truth behind the mask. The search leads her to doubt whether she is on the right side or not.
Viviana Rodríguez as: Amira Rodriguez , Tiago Correa as: Eduardo Lopez , Ramon González as: Carlos Fuenzalida
THE BIG EVERYTHINGBy Nicolas Bazz
Genre: Sci-Fi
An ex-convict flies four scientists to a black hole, 50 light years away from earth. An accident propels them 10.000 light years away from their home, their lives, their culture…
Jauris Casanova - Niels, Hélène Seuzaret - Ariane, Benjamin Boyer - Sam
THE BRIBE OF HEAVENBy Lisandro Duque Naranjo
Genre: Dark Comedy
In a small Catholic village, the community stands against the local priest when the latter refuses to offer a funeral mass for a suicide victim. In reprisal, the priest denies the sacraments to the entire town, until the family of the deceased remove the body from the catholic graveyard.
Germán Jaramillo, Guillermo García, Willderman García
THE DINNERBy Menno Meyjes
Awards & Festivals:
European Film Premiere in Göteborg International Film Festival, with attendance of director Menno Meyes.
World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Genre: Psychological Drama, Thriller
Serge knows something, otherwise he would not have made reservations in this fancy restaurant. Babette knows something too, otherwise she wouldn't be crying. Hopefully they won't tell Claire, because she doesn't know anything.
And Paul… Paul knows everything.
The brothers Serge (Daan Schuurmans) a politician whose in the running to become president, and Paul Lohman (Jacob Derwig), a dismissed history teacher, now housekeeping, are taking their wives Babette and Claire out to dinner. They talk about everyday casualties, but at the same time there is an obvious tension. They all avoid the subject they actually should be talking about: their children. They did something terrible that can...
Jacob Derwig: Paul, Thekla Reuten: Claire, Daan Schuurmans: Serge
THE DREAM CHILDRENBy ROBERT CHUTER
Awards & Festivals:
World Premiere in Melbourne Queer Film Festival!
International Premiere in Miami LGBT Film Festival!
Italian Premiere in Torino LGBT Film Festival!
Genre: LGBT, Drama
Log Line:
Alex is willing to become a father. Steven, his partner, has to confront his insecurities and fear of change after a lifetime smothered by superficiality.
Alex is willing to become a father. Steven, his partner, has to confront his insecurities and fear of change after a lifetime smothered by superficiality. However what could be just an internal crisis became a legal problem when they are unable to adopt. Eager to become parents they decide to turn to the black market, adopting a child from a desperate woman who will threaten to destroy everything they love.
Graeme Squires: Steve Evans, Nicholas Gunn: Alex Thomson, Jessikah Brown: Nerine
THE DUEL OF WINEBy Nicolas Carreras
Awards & Festivals:
World Premiere @ Montreal FF!
European Premiere @ Valladolid FF!
Genre: Comedy
The famous Sommelier Charlie Arturaola fell from grace after a momentary loss of his taste during the shooting of a movie. The image of "a Sommelier without palate" destroyed his career. After a few years, Charlie becomes a taxi driver, but he never gave up of dreaming to get his reward back. When Charlie accidently gets to know the newcomer Italian sommelier, he will come with a crazy plan to try to get back into the wine world!
Charlie Arturaola: Charlie Arturaola , Lino Pujia: Lino Pujia, Pandora Anwyl: Pandora Anwyl
THE EDUCATIONBy Dirk Lütter
Awards & Festivals:
Berlin Intl. Film Festival (DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE PRIZE)
Montreal (In Competition)
Genre: Drama
THE EDUCATION is a film about Jan, a young man, usually reserved, shy and unambitious. He is in his last year of training at the "Veblo AG", a medium sized company and there's no guarantee for a job at the end of his training. Jan's mother, a staunch union organiser at the company, can't stop management from hiring more and more temp workers and so Jan is left in charge of his own luck.
Stuck in an underperforming department, Jan does everything he can to please his boss Tobias and when Tobias asks Jan to help him solve the department's problems, Jan agrees. At the same time Jenny, another co-worker, catches Jan's eye and young love blooms. Their romance, however, is stifled by...
Jan: Joseph K. Bundschuh, Jenny: Anke Retzlaff, Tobias: Stefan Rudolf
THE FACILITATORBy Víctor Arregui
Genre: Social, Drama
Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.
María Gracia Omegna, Francisco Febres Cordero, Juan Carlos Terán
THE FIREFLYBy Ana María Hermida
Genre: Romance, Drama
"The Firefly" tells the story of Lucia, a married woman who, after the sudden death of her estranged brother Andrés, goes through an emotional crisis. At the funeral, Lucia cannot bear to see him being buried and escapes to Andrés' apartment. There she meets Mariana, Andrés fiancée, who has been using the apartment as a hideout since the wedding day. Slowly the two women begin to help each other mourn their loss and grow to love one another. After going on a road trip together, Lucia realizes she no longer wants to be married and decides, once and for all, to follow her dreams next to Mariana, the love of her life.
Carolina Guerra – Lucía, Olga Segura – Mariana, Manuel José Cháves – Andrés
The Last MatchBy Antonio Hens
Awards & Festivals:
Best Feature Film at Amsterdam LGBT Film Festival!
World Premiere in Frameline San Francisco LGBT Int'l Film Festival - In Competition
Will participate to the London LGBT FF. Selected as the gala screening for Accenture (festival's main sponsor)!
World Premiere in Frameline San Francisco LGBT Int'l Film...
Genre: Drama
Two Cuban boys on the edge of marginality fight to lead a life together. But it's hard for both: one has to work as a shark beating father-in-law debtors. The other prostitutes himself in the streets to fulfill his family's duties...
In an island where baseball was the king, soccer seems to be the only way to escape…
Yosvani: Milton García, Reinier: Reinier Díaz, Silvano: Luís Alberto García
THE MODERNSBy Mauro Sarser, Marcela Matta
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Highlight: Music by Carlos Gardel and Francisco Fattoruso
Clara, divorced with two children, wants to secure her relationship with Fausto, an immature, pretentious and grumpy intellectual. Paula, a spoiled young woman, wants to have a baby with Martin, who works in advertising but also has artistic aspirations. These two couples are facing the disjunctive of choosing between fatherhood, professional achievement and sexual freedom. The Moderns treats these issues from a critical perspective, questioning how the values of contemporary world are governed.
Noelia Campo, Mauro Sarser, Federico Guerra
THE MUD WOMANBy Sergio Castro San Martín
Awards & Festivals:
In Competition @ Huelva Spain!
Egyptian Premiere @ Cairo!
Swiss Premiere @ Filmar en America Latina!
UK Premiere at BFI!
North America Premiere (Focus on the World Section)
Asian Premiere at Jagran Film Festival!
Irish Premiere at Galway Film Festival!
In Competition at Jerusalem Int'l Film...
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Starring Catalina Saavedra (Best actress award for "The Maid" at Sundance Film Festival)
Maria lives with her daughter Teresa only a few kilometers from the border between Chile and Argentina. Ten years have passed since the last time Maria worked as a seasonal worker. This season, she decided to do this job again in order to save enough money and go to live with her brother in the capital. Not knowing that she will face her unresolved past.
At her arrival she realizes that the contractor in charge is Raul, who is the father of her daughter and was the reason she decided to never come back again.
Catalina Saavedra: María, Paola Lattus: Violeta, Daniel Antivilo: Raúl
THE NOMI SONGBy Andrew Horn
He came from outer Space to save the human race.
Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of 1980's most profoundly bizarre appearances. He was a cult figure in the New Wave Underground scene who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences. He was a performer with a "look" so strong, that his first audiences went wild before he even opened his mouth. On the verge of international fame as a singer, he instead became one of the first prominent artists to die of AIDS. But the reaction Klaus Nomi provoked was so strong, that he is still unforgettable, even 20 years after his death.
Nomi constructed his own myth out of elements so completely "wrong", yet so deliberate, that it all seemed oddly possible. He was an alien amongst the outcasts, a tortured...
THE PARADISE SUITEBy Joost van Ginkel
Awards & Festivals:
Special Mention Award for Anjela Nedyalkova for her outstanding performance @ Sofia International Film Festival!
Latin American Premiere in "Panorama Internacional" section @ FICG Guadalajara
US Premiere in Competition @ Palm Springs Film Festival!
Jury Prize for the best actor (Isaka Sawadogo) and Ecumenical...
Genre: Drama
For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her trip to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite of what she hoped for. Her gruelling captivity makes the angel-like African Yaya fight for her freedom; a dangerous fight in which he loses everything but his beloved faith. The Serbian war criminal Ivica, who has just become a father, is painfully confronted with the fact that crimes will never go unpunished. Bosnian Seka has nothing left to live for but her vengeance but as it turns out, it's that same vengeance that brings love back in her life. And when the Swedish piano-wonderboy Lukas runs away from his new temporary home, his father Stig finally realises that their passion for music hurts...
Anjela Nedyalkova: Jenya, Boris Isaković: Ivica, Erik Adelöw: Lukas
THE SNAKE BROTHERSBy Jan Prušinovský
Awards & Festivals:
Eight Czech Lion Awards including Best Film, Best Director & Best Actor in a Leading Role!
Nominated for 12 Czech Lions! (amongst others: Best Film, Best Director & Best Actor)
World Premiere in Competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival!
Won Best Actor Award (Kryštof Hádek) at Karlovy Vary...
Genre: Drama
The brothers Viper and Cobra are unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Viper, unemployed and lonely, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his junkie and troublemaker brother. Until one day he decides to teach him a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that without control will turn into a nightmare.
Matěj Hádek: Viper, Kryštof Hádek: Cobra, Jan Hájek: Tomáš
Producer: Ondřej Zima, Jan Prušinovský
THE STONING OF SAINT STEPHENBy Pere Vilà Barceló
Awards & Festivals:
WINNER of the "FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Film Award" at Seminci Valladolid.
WINNER of the Feature Film Competition at International Festival of Film Producers REGIOFUN.
IN COMPETITION at Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
German Premiere in München Int'l Film Festival - International...
Genre: Drama
Étienne is an old man living alone in a cramped apartment full of stuff. He won't get rid of it all and he would never think of moving out, even though the flat doesn't belong to him. He refuses to talk to the social worker, his neighbours or to the owner of the flat believing that the souls of his dead wife and daughter are still present within its walls.
The symptoms betrayed by the main character in the film are in no way unusual in the modern world. In the spirit of contemporary Catalan cinema, the filmmaker aims for stringency, even to the point of abstraction.
Étienne: Lou Castel , Jeanne (the daughter): Marie Payen , Étienne's brother: Luis Rego
THE TEQUILA EFFECTBy León Serment
Awards & Festivals:
São Paulo (in competition)
Guadalajara (in competition)
Genre: Drama
Jose Fierro is an ambitious young stockbroker, who yields to the temptation of the apparent Mexican economic boom in the 90th, which will lead to national disaster. He becomes involved in illicit financial dealings and encounters the forces of political and economic power, while his wife Analuisa is tempted by an adulterous erotic liaison. In a story of love and corruption "El Efecto Tequila" shows those who make us believe that credit cards are blank checks. He has to fight for his fate, his beautiful wife, his daughter and his father. All his life seems to crack like México's financial market, which shows that a mistake can change our lives forever.
José Fierro: Eduardo Victoria, Ana Luisa: Karla Souza, Diego: José María Torres
THE VERDICTBy Jan Verheyen
Awards & Festivals:
In competition at Chicago International Film Festival!
World Premiere and Best Director Award at Montreal World Film Festival!
Genre: Courtroom, Thriller
When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc Segers will do everything in his power to stop it from happening. He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him down.
Koen De Bouw: Luc Segers, Johan Leysen: Lawyer De Cock, Veerle Baetens: Lawyer Teugels
THE WOLF'S GAMEBy Thomas Korthals Altes
Awards & Festivals:
Asian Premiere @ Pune Int'l Film Festival!
November 2nd, 2004, just before 9 a.m. At the headquarters of the General Intelligence and Security Service in The Hague. Hell breaks lose when first news comes in. In Amsterdam, the film director Theo van Gogh has been murdered. A bit later, comes the suspect's name: Mohammed Bouyeri. This last revelation ignites a hectic atmosphere at the Security Service: his name is all too familiar. And he is not the only one!
Susan Visser: Ellen Maas, Johan Leysen: Sybrand van Hulst, Pierre Bokma: Joris Demmink
THREE KIDSBy Jonas d'Adesky
Awards & Festivals:
Best Caribbean Film by an International Filmmaker Award at Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival!
Genre: Drama
Vitaleme, Pierre and Mikenson are twelve years old and live in a home in Port-au-Prince. They are friends and do everything together. Vitaleme is haunted by his memories as a child servant and obsessed by the idea of freedom. He tries to convince his two friends to leave the home and live as they will.
When the town is struck by an earthquake, all three of them find themselves on the street. They try to find somewhere to live, and in various ways get by on petty crime. They play football to fill up their free time. Little by little they build a new life for themselves. Now that he is free, Vitaleme is no longer haunted by his past, until he finds himself separated form his two friends by...
Vitaleme: Jules Vitaleme, Mickenson: Sima Mickenson, Pierre: Pierre Jean Mary
TRAVELLERBy Benjamin D Johns
Genre: Drama, Crime
Owen Mc Bride, a young half Gypsy, sits on the fence between both Gypsy world and the Gorgi, a non Gypsy world. He lives in a no-man's land between the two societies and tries to keep his distance from both. But both worlds encroach and threaten Owen when he becomes involved in a doomed robbery…
Billy Cook – Owen , David Essex – Blackberry, Lois Winstone - Litzy
TWO WOMENBy Vera Glagoleva
Awards & Festivals:
Best Screenplay and Best Cinematographer at Jasmine Film Festival (Iran)!
Asian Premiere in Official Selection @ Shanghai Int'l Film Festival!
UK Premiere @ Chichester Film Festival!
Vietnam Premiere @ Hanoi Film Festival!
Indian Premiere @ Jagran Int'l Film Festival!
Iran Premiere @ Jasmine Film...
Genre: Drama
Highlight: Starring Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter, The English Patient) and Sylvie Testud (La Vie en Rose, Lourdes). Based on the Ivan Turgenev's classic play A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY.
Natalya is married to Arkadi, a rich landowner older than her. Bored with life, she welcomes the attention of Mikhail (Ralph Fiennes) that attempts to develop into a love affair. However the arrival of the tutor of her son, the attractive Aleksei, shakes her feelings and, even if she fights against it, Natalya falls in love with the youngster. And so does her teenage step-daughter Vera. Misunderstandings arise when Arkadi begins to have suspicions, and their apparent devoted life will turn into a complex web of unreturned love, guilt, lust and jealousy.
Ralph Fiennes: Mikhail Rakitin, Sylvie Testud: Elizaveta Bogdanovna, Anna Astrakhanceva: Natalia Petrovna
UNCONDITIONALBy Bryn Higgins
Awards & Festivals:
IN COMPETITON for "Special Screening" at Slamdance Film Festival
Munich a.o
IN COMPETITION at Munich Film Festival.
Genre: LGBT, Thriller, Drama
Teenage twins Kristen and Owen are misfits in the real world, bored of caring for their mum and fantasising about murdering her. Then along comes Liam: tough, charming, full velocity, genuinely cool. Kristen fancies him with the intensity of someone in a fairytale. But Liam takes Owen out drinking – and the depth of Liam's mis-wired obsessions soon emerge. Liam offers unconditional love to Owen…on one condition: not to be dressed like a man!
Harry McEntire: Owen, Madeleine Clark: Kristen, Christian Cooke: Liam
UP TO THE WORLDBy Alessandro Lunardelli
Genre: LGBT, Feel-Good Drama
Davide and Loris are brothers and live in a very small village in the north of Italy. While Davide is eighteen years old and gay, Loris is almost thirty and don't know anything about his brother's sexuality. Loris and Davide go to Barcelona to watch the match of "Inter". In Spain, Davide falls in love with Andy, an Ecology Activist from Chile. Andy invites Davide to go with him to Santiago and the boy follows him. Far from the provincialism of his city, things don't go as Davide imagined...
Luca Marinelli: Loris, Filippo Scicchitano: Davide, Barbora Bobulova: Giulia
VILLA TRANQUILABy Jesús Mora
Awards & Festivals:
Málaga Film Festival
La Chimenea de Villaverde Festival
Espoo Film Festival
Genre: Drama
A man traveling from Spain to VILLA TRANQUILA (Buenos Aires) to visit his father is forced to experience life from an altogether different perspective after becoming stranded in a strange land where survival is an everyday struggle. Not realizing that his father has recently passed away, Ion Bengoa arrives in VILLA TRANQUILA for a brief visit only to have his backpack, passport, and return plane ticket stolen. Now set adrift in an unfamiliar environment with no knowledge of his surroundings and no prospects for returning home, the troubled young man soon strikes up a friendship with a welcoming local family that teaches him just how difficult life can be when one is forced to live by the...
Ion: Pablo Rivero, Raúl: Raúl Medina, María: María Barrios
YOU ARE MY SUNDAYBy Milind Dhaimade
Genre: Romantic Comedy
In the maddening congestion of Mumbai five young men living disparate lives, share a common goal: to play football at Juhu Beach every Sunday. While each one has their reason to look forward to the Sunday morning, there's no doubt it's a high point of their week. One Sunday, as a result of the actions of a senile old stranger who joins their game, a ban is issued on playing games at Juhu Beach. The group now has to look for a new place to play in the crowded city of Mumbai.
More than just football, the film is about each of their lives and how each one deals with their own physical and emotional space.
Barun Sobti, Shahana Goswami, Avinash Tiwary


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Samsung's Pivot From Dried Fish to Smartphones
In April Samsung overtook Apple and Nokia in the first three months of the year to become the world's largest smartphone vendor. This ended Nokia's amazing 14-year run as the largest maker of all phone handsets by volume.
This is all very impressive for the former South Korean dried fish and noodle business started in 1938. It was only in the late 1960s they entered into the electronics industry. So how exactly does a small Korean food company evolve into one of the world's largest electronics companies?
Reading through the company's history on Wikipedia and their own corporate website, the following points stand out:
+ Established by son of a wealthy landowning family, Byung-Chull Lee
+ Dropped out of University
+ Used inheritance to open a unsuccessful rice mill
+ Established a trucking business
+ Business grew into food wholesaling and noodle manufacturer
+ Prospered post World War 2 (end of Japanese Rule)
+ Forced to relocate/pivot due to Korean War – stared a sugar refinery business
+ Diversified into insurance, securities, and retail
+ Founder strong believer in industrialization and domestic economies
+ A joint investment in the group of companies ended due to differences in management style
+ Samsung enter the electronics industry, producing black-and-white television sets
+ During the 70's they enter the telecommunication hard industry
By the 90's they had extensive investment in a variety of businesses becoming the leading manufacturer in many fields, including chip sets, display panels and even engines. Not a bad history of events for a company that is only 74 years old!
Reading through articles on the company, the breadth of products and services is outstanding. It is questionable whether such diversity and pivoting would still work today? Whatever the case, Samsung has the experience to compete with the best in the world – smartphones or dried fish…
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I keep it simple for work. I tend to stray away from trends and shop classic pieces for my professional life. I do a lot of my work-shopping online on discounted website like ideeli.com. They always have great collections of designers (Calvin Klein, Ellen Tracy, etc) with good quality at my price range. I also visit stores like Loehmann's and Banana Republic for nice, quality work clothes on a budget. I still get bright, girly colors, but the cut is usually very simple like the dress above.
My makeup for work is also generally very simple. I don't really wear makeup to work unless I have a meeting with an outsider or I'm going to an event. I carry a travel-sized makeup kit in my purse should anything arise. In the summer, I wear tinted moisturizer as my base, a thin line on my lids, and soft lipstick. My makeup outside of work is very different, I love gold, and blue gel liners on the eyes and bright lipstick, which I'm sure you've noticed.
Last week, my colleague randomly invited me to a work event- a cruise around Manhattan with open bar, hors d'oeuvres and buffet-style dining. He knew I was the only person who would accept the offer at the very last minute. Everyone knows I never say "no" to free events, especially those with open bars. Of course I learned I was his last option in the office, but that still didn't stop me from going. I was setting my dignity aside for that one. All joking aside, I had a great time networking and connecting with other people in my industry. There's something about watching the Manhattan skyline while drinking a cocktail that never gets old to me. Every single time it catches my breath. I love this beautiful city.
Check out those sweet pictures I took below.
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Long-time reader but the glow in your skin just made me had to comment…wow!
Thank you! I think it's the warm weather.I'm sad to see it almost go. Thanks for stopping by!
Gorgeous views of the city and sky. Lovely feminine office wear. Please share a video on how you achieved the look – elegant make up and hair too. Thanks for sharing…. PS – I'm like you – never saying no to a free invite. Be grateful for the opportunity to meet new people, experience some thing new and still get free nibbles and drinks. Priceless.
Thank you for the feedback. I have been really lazy with making videos, maybe I should continue. I actually really love office wear. I never get a headache when I get ready for work.
Those are some fantastic pictures!! you look great as always!
Thank you Sabirah! Glad you stopped by.


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Grace Herrs Lucier Phelps, 93, died Nov. 1, 2013, in Kingman. She was born in Welch, Okla. on June 12, 1920, to George Alvin and Sarah Taylor Dorsey. In 1938, the family moved to southern California, where she met and married Elmer Herrs. She and Elmer retired to Kingman in 1980. Elmer passed away in 1983. They were married 42 years.
After a year and a half, she married Elder Lucier. They were married six years when he died in 1990. In 1993, she married Hale Phelps. They were married 13 years when he passed away in 2007.
During her working years, she was employed as a bookkeeper and did miscellaneous office work. She enjoyed music and reading.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Alice Coen; brothers, Alvin and George Jr.; Elmer Herrs, Elder Lucier and Hale Phelps. She is survived by nieces, Bobbi Atwater (Dennis) of Colorado and Carol Mccallister (Jim) of Nevada.
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