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Exam Hell: Broken and Murderous(ja)

Keisuke Miyahara oversleeps on the day of his entrance exam for Tokyo University. To postpone the exam starting time, Keisuke Miyahara sends an email to the school warning of a bomb. His plan works and he is able to take his exam and passes. On the day of his entrance ceremony, a man named Hiroshi Tanaka appears in front of Keisuke Miyahara and threatens him.

In the Shadow of Death(lv)

A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises.

Our Consul in Havana(pt)

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.

The Selfish Giant(en)

A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.

Karel Hynek Mácha(cs)

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

Mstitel(cs)

Kaspar Len returns home after three years in the army. He vainly searches for the mason Kryštof’s family where he had lived before he left. All he finds out is that Kryštof’s daughter Márynka, who was in his thoughts all those years, is now working in the local brothel. He goes to visit her and Márynka tells him of the misfortunes which befell her family.

Pataakha(hi)

In a dusty Rajasthan village, two sisters, Badki and Chhutki, are constantly at each other's throats over trivial matters. Their father, a widower, struggles to keep them from tearing each other apart. Their meddling neighbour, Dipper, enjoys stirring up trouble between them. But when marriage takes them to different worlds, they discover how much they need each other.

Hanalei Bay(ja)

A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her son’s death anniversary. One day, she meets two young Japanese surfers who tell her about a young Japanese surfer with one leg.

Brist(sv)

A short about a conductor and his small-change cash.

Ľahučký dych(sk)

The Tale of Jean Valjean(ja)

In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mother he once protected, and aligning himself with a band of student revolutionaries.

The Third Wife(vi)

Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.

The Five Forty-Eight(en)

An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life.

Dialogy pro klarinet, cimbál a bicí(cs)

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein(fr)

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's quest for the secret of life. Since then, the Creature became a pop culture icon, overshadowing the novel and Doctor Frankenstein himself.

White Hunger(fi)

Set in 1867, the year of the great famine in Finland. A farmer’s wife sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children towards St. Petersburg.

Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español(es)

A brief account of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the end of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

Sons of the Mountains(cs)

Ballad-Singer(cs)

The Road of Writing(sq)

Todri, a patriotic teacher, returns in his homeland to bring the Albanian letters.