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The Hours(en)

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

The Celebration(da)

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams(bs)

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Harold and Maude(en)

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

Italian for Beginners(da)

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

The Secret Life of Words(en)

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

One Step(ja)

When Tadashi sees a girl from his school stood alone on the beach, he becomes determined to find out why.

Four(en)

A father and husband going through the fourth stage of grief confronts his wife in hopes of getting their family back together.

JANE(en)

Jae-in ("JANE"), a counselor for an anti-suicide hotline, is smitten with Jon-young, a man she befriended on Facebook. But there are parallels between him and a clinically depressed man who calls her hotline.

Parallelen(de)

Some time ago Chrissi was the victim of a brutal rape. Since then, she has been vegetating at home and no one, neither friends nor doctors, can find access to her and her feelings. She spends her days apathetically and even her brother, who has come to visit from New Zealand, cannot bring her out of her apathy. Then Chrissi finally meets someone in the park, a shepherd dog, who understands her suffering...

Off the Map(en)

An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

Happiness(en)

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

House of Sand and Fog(en)

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.

Princesses(es)

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.

Charlie Bartlett(en)

Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.

Absit(en)

A lonely priest must find a way to connect with an irreverent teenager after the boy confesses his plans to commit suicide.

Dolores Claiborne(en)

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Magpies(en)

A depressed man, dressed as a gorilla, performs a stand-up comedy set.

Proyecciones del Limbo(es)

Little Women(en)

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.