Flow and Ebb(2024)

Open Water(en)

Nikki is no professional athlete. Still, she swims the English channel to raise money for a good cause.

Pennies(en)

The story of Charlotte Brown,a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove, she does. With a menacing figure on the other end of the phone and a time limit of two hours,she must raise enough money to ensure that she sees the smiling face of her child again. Charlotte's customers are her only hope. The clock is ticking as we see the desperate young mother dealing with one eccentric customer after the next, displaying her charming vulnerability and inspiring strength through all the chaos. With her feet firmly planted on the ground, Charlotte maintains her focus and attempts to beat the clock and save the day.

HOME(es)

Using images from my childhood and phone calls from key people in my life, we explore my particular sense of what is home to me. The home is not a place but a sensation produced by many more common factors that characterize our generation.

Fien & Teun: Circus op de boerderij(nl)

Celebrate the best surprise party ever with Fien, Teun and all their animal friends in their brand new cinema film! Once again full of cheerful – well-known and new – songs.

C-Trend(it)

Ｒ134／湘南の約束(ja)

Last Call(en)

Last Call follows a suicidal alcoholic on the anniversary of his son’s death. When he attempts to call a crisis hotline, a misdial connects him with a single mother working as the night janitor at a local community college.

Pig Face(en)

On Piggy Bank Road, notorious serial murderer, the Pig-Headed Man, is in search of a new bungalow mate and has set his beady little sunken-in-his-head eyes on potential suitors. But what if they're vegan? Will his murderous appetite allow for this discrepancy?

Extinguished Flames(hu)

1790, the county of Szerém. József Hajnóczy, a democrat and a reformer is deprived of his position as vice-steward of the county because he is not born a nobleman.

The Lonesome Mouse(en)

Jerry crashes a vase onto Tom's head, which gets Mammy to throw Tom out. Jerry at first revels in his freedom, but soon tires of this, and, under a flag of truce, hatches a plan with Tom.

Credo - This Is What We Do(en)

This Is What We Do is the first DVD of British Credo, currently one of the finest neo-prog bands. This DVD-box of a live concert in Poland also includes two CD’s with the same track list. The band consisting of singer Mark Colton, guitarist Tim Birrell, keyboardist Mike Varty (Shadowland, Janison Edge), bass player Jim Murdock and drummer Martin Meads, gave an excellent performance in Teatre Slaski, Katowice in October 2008. I enjoyed every minute of this fine performance, especially after visiting their excellent show in De Pul, Uden (The Netherlands). Tim Birrell’s guitar solos are very pointed and melodic, but also the rest of the band is at its best.

One Hysterical Night(en)

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.

Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror(en)

Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror is a television documentary film that premiered on the Canadian cable network Space on February 25, 2009. The hour-long documentary examines the experiences, motivations and impact of the increasing number of women engaged in horror fiction, with producers Donna Davies and Kimberlee McTaggart of Canada's Sorcery Films interviewing actresses, film directors, writers, critics and academics. The documentary was filmed in Toronto, Canada; and in Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York in the US.

XMAS(en)

A young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against an evil maniac with an unlikely motive.

Peach Melba(en)

Two unusual people make contact in German at a London coffee house.

JIA YI(zh)

The documentary, “JIAYI”, adopts a particular position from where it objectively and non-discriminatingly uncovers a real world of these left-behind kids in rural area in China, which overthrows the social stereotyping towards this special group existing in the remote and underdeveloped regions.

Varasudu(te)

Vinay (Nagarjuna) studies in college where Keerthi (Nagma) enters as a new student. Vamsi (Srikanth) is also a student in the same college. His character has negative shades. The first half of the movie revolves mostly around the love story of the hero and heroine. Dharma Teja (Krishna) happens to rescue the hero from the villains (Srikanth's father and his friend), but hero hates Dharma Teja. Interval arrives disclosing the fact that Dharma Teja is the father of Vinay.

You Can't Curry Love(en)

A handsome Indian guy from London visits India for the first time, falls for a local guy, meets a transgender 'hijra', and discovers a country he only thought he knew.

Half of Me(en)

A young gay, neurotic and ex-religious art student goes into a spin with the surprise visit of an eccentric childhood friend.

The Reunion(en)

A rich kid returns to his hometown only to find his childhood best friend in deep trouble.

13 m²(fr)

Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way.Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an armored vehicle, full of cash. But everything goes wrong and they're forced into hiding,in a 13 square meters bunker. There, they will have to test their friendship, their motivations, as every move outside triggers even more, paranoia.

California Split(en)

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.

The Chaos Class Failed the Class(tr)

A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.

Scarecrow(en)

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Love Hurts(fr)

Sam is a shy, mysterious and inconspicuous teenage girl, who falls in love with Troy, leader of an ultraviolent teenage gang, who does not feel physical pain, nor knows what love is. Together, against everyone and everything, they will face a series of obstacles trying to separate them, meanwhile figuring out what love and pain are. Debuting at Curtas, French filmmaker Elsa Rysto presents a love story mediated by ultraviolence, in a modern variation on the classic story of Bonnie and Clyde – or of the more contemporary Mickey and Mallory from “Natural Born Killers”. “Love Hurts” is a simple yet sensitive narrative about the so-called growing pains.

Cola, Candy, Chocolate(de)

After a nasty argument with her boyfriend Carl, young Gaby spontaneously accepts her girlfriend invitation to join her on a vacation to Manila. Her plans to forget about Carl succeed very rapidly as she meets Dr. Andreas Witzig, a young scholar who plans to marry his fiancee on the island. During the following days, Gaby tries her best to convince the man of her dreams to change his mind.

Chasing Ghosts(en)

Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in the spotlight while also learning how to once again start living life to its fullest.

2 Harihar Nagar(ml)

The films chronicle the story of four very close friends Mahadevan, Govindan Kutty, Appukuttan, and Thomas Kutty.

Otto - The Movie(de)

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

125 Years Memory(ja)

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.

Wendy and Lucy(en)

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

The Tree of Life(en)

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

A Love Song for Bobby Long(en)

A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.

Film Club(en)

A pretentious cinephile has achieved his dream of starting a film club. Joined by two typical village idiots, whose main concerns are black and white movies and if free food will be provided, attempt to hijack the club for their own.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(en)

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

Summer(de)

The Dreamlife of Angels(fr)

Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.

When Marnie Was There(ja)

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.