the flower she left me

Scotch Tension(en)

A sweeping small town romance exploring the grit of craft, the heart of family, and the pains of love, told over the span of several years.

Emotional Labour Club(sv)

Iris is on the verge of a burn out because she is forced to take all emotional and practical responsibility in her relationship with Leo. A mystical support group leader introduces her to a questionable method that could equalize her relationship. To follow through the method is harder than Iris expected.

Food Time(en)

A film about the beauty of the everyday; it's the way a movie from a bygone era feels like it was made just for you, how portable music can compose the score to your life step by step, and just how tasty a gas station hot dog or movie theatre popcorn can be.

Expecting(es)

A teen girl with a bright future buys some pills from a woman on a park bench. She has fun with her boyfriend while her parents are out of town. Now she’s pregnant and since abortion is illegal in Chile she takes the black-market pills meant to induce an abortion safely at home. The history of her relationship with her boyfriend slowly unfolds until it becomes an intense life-or-death moment that will forever change everyone involved.

Maybe Tomorrow(en)

A work-obsessed woman striving for a better life briefly finds peace with her carefree partner before tragedy strikes.

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid(en)

Bret, 19, yearns to leave his Connecticut hometown and head off to college. He figures summer will be fun with his buddies but as the days progress, the situations he finds himself in spiral out of control. He has run-ins with the police, problems with his girlfriend involving another girl, and a revenge attack he never should have involved himself in.

Groter dan je bent(nl)

SABRINA(es)

After being invited to an interview for young gender violence victims, Sabrina narrates her own dark past with her obsessive ex boyfriend, while every hidden tear comes back to the surface.

Till We Meet Again(ja)

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...

Dyosmos(el)

A lonely spearmint unsuccessfully tries to connect with others. The plant gets picked up by a person going through a rough patch, isolating himself and dwelling οn the past.

Permission(en)

Anna and Will, were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment.

Red Rocket(en)

After hitting rock bottom in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown in Texas to stay with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as tensions begin to ease, he becomes infatuated with a young doughnut shop worker named Strawberry.

Winter's Child(fr)

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.

Under My Skin(en)

Denny, a free spirit and artist falls for Ryan, a straight laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender their love is tested.

The Love Stories of Liv S.(fr)

Liv Sandor, 38, following an argument with her boyfriend, sets off to wander the city, observing passers-by and reminiscing about her past loves. In all her relationships, there was always a turning point, when things started going downhill. On the streets of Zurich Liv faces her fears, joys and demons. In her third feature film, Swiss director Anna Luif tells the tragi-comical trajectory of an independent woman who learns to love on life’s emotional rollercoaster. A rhythmic, colourful, collage-like journey into the mind and soul of modern women.

In Corpore(en)

Four couples deal with love and lust, commitment and infidelity, and the pressures of relationship expectations. Filmed in Melbourne, Berlin, Malta, and New York, In Corpore tackles the consequences faced when one chooses to either suppress or give into the inner desires of body and soul.

Closure(en)

All paths inevitably end, whether we want them to or not. This is a tale about one particular path, followed by two particular people, but this is not a tale about romance, this is simply a film about beginnings and endings. Daniel and Eve are a young couple in crisis. The film follows their relationship in reverse from the end to the beginning, starting with a break up. Daniel - a level-headed, well-meaning slacker caught between his desire to make something of himself,and his student inclinations to have fun. Upon meeting Eve at a party, Daniel finds her attractive precisely because she possesses the traits he does not. As their various differences bring them together, they are forced to acknowledge their faults, many of which are reflected in the other.

Kelly + Victor(en)

When Kelly meets Victor on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub, the attraction is instant. After wandering through the night they find themselves at her flat, making love with a passion and urgency that neither had experienced before. Both Kelly and Victor are struggling to get by as best they can, while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; she is escaping a brutish former lover, while he is being dragged into a world of drugs. It's when they make love that their darker instincts take over.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Lizenz zum Seitensprung(de)

Oscar and Elle have been married for 25 years and, in the eyes of their daughter Lexie, they have the perfect marriage. But appearances are deceiving Oscar and Elle have lost the desire of the past. It will be his friend Oscar who will propose a solution that will revive their relationship: allow themselves a betrayal without affecting the feelings they have for each other.

Disconnect(en)

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.