Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves(2006)

The Birthday(pl)

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

Domino(en)

A woman director is making a film about Billie Holiday. She wants to learn from her how to "feel" again, how to love again.

Crystal Lake(en)

Crystal Lake is about a group of young girls who take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the reclaimed ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists, which presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence.

Heart and Guts(pt)

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.

Agata's Friends(ca)

Agatha has just started University, but she still sees her old school friends, sharing parties, private secrets, trips, jokes and debates. A private world full of memories that she will now have to measure against her new college friends and the changes that she’s begun to discover in herself. The film Agatha’s Friends is the portrait of a group of 20-year-old girls during their first year at University as seen through Agatha’s eyes. From their lives in Barcelona to a trip up the coast to the Costa Brava, where Agatha will feel how the world she built with her childhood friends Carla, Ari and Mar, has begun to change.

Defocusin(ru)

A former research assistant Pasha is trying to invent defocusin at home. The substance that will render public persons' image to be out of focus in unwanted pictures. For about half a year Pasha has been testing the substance prototypes on his wife...

Diary of an African Nun(en)

An African nun is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythmic, beckoning drums of her village.

Eine wie diese(de)

A Country Called Home(en)

Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her estranged alcoholic father has died, her world is disrupted and she begins a journey that takes her to a small town in Texas. While dealing with the logistical arrangements of her father’s death Ellie has to confront what happens when the structures and safety nets we build for ourselves come undone.

Audition(en)

Experienced male actors are called to an audition. During the screen test, they realise that the female director is looking for something they are unwilling to expose. A humorous and masterful depiction of power structures and male defense mechanisms.

The Girl in the Book(en)

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

The Vote(en)

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.

Beeba Boys(en)

Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys do anything to be seen and to be feared in a white world.

In a Perfect World(en)

A documentary springing from the directors own relationship with her son who lacks a consistent relationship with his father.

Wimp(da)

For his 11th birthday, Felix' mother gives him money that he can spend however he wants. More than anything else in the world, Felix wants the soccer ball with the autograph of Cristiano Ronaldo. But the older boys tell him that turning 11 means that you will have to lose your virginity and that local girl Sisse is the right girl to help him - if he can pay.

Broken Lines(en)

After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.

Blinded by the Light(en)

In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.

Aya(en)

Aya, a young Japanese war bride, arrives in a small Australian town during the 1950s. She and her husband, Frank, are very much in love. Yet somehow Aya still feels more comfortable with the Japanese-speaking Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Aya finds work in a Japanese restaurant and has a short affair with an Australian-Japanese businessman. With her marriage falling apart, Aya leaves Frank.

Concussion(en)

After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.

Cold Water of the Sea(en)

On New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.