Festival films

Alfredo, the son of a landowner, and Olmo, the illegitimate grandson of a farmer, grow up together. In childhood, Alfredo accepts Olmo both as a friend and as an enemy, admiring but also fearing him. Olmo doesn’t reject Alfredo’s company, but neither does he seek it out, obeying a fledgling class instinct. When they grow up, the two friends grow apart... Through the life of Alfredo and Olmo, the film unfolds the history of Italy, from 1900, the year that the protagonists were born, to the end of WWII.

Manchester, 1976. Inspired by a Sex Pistols gig, Tony Wilson, a presenter for local independent television company Granada, and cohort Alan Erasmus start their own nightclub to provide a platform for new local bands. Later,Wilson establishes his own record label, Factory Records. Wilson’s first major signing, Joy Division (later reincarnated as New Order), are a critical success. Wilson then signs the Happy Mondays. What ensues is a blackly comic tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda.

Behiye is angry. In spite of her intelligence and education she feels trapped inside her own life. She is a young girl who constantly shouts but is not heard. She does not accept the role given to her in the outskirts of Istanbul. Giving in to her fate is not for Behiye. She rebels. She is so fragile. She needs a guiding light like everyone. Behiye needs a light more than anyone perhaps. Handan is the exact opposite of Behiye. She is like light: dazzling and happy. She is her mother’s sweetheart; a fairy who will embrace her loved ones and give them unconditional love and warmth forever. Maybe she’s a little selfish, but she’s just a kid, and so she is always forgiven. Handan cannot be real.The real one is the Handan inside this soft exterior. When Behiye meets Handan, Handan’s light says “let’s run away, get out of here” to her. Behiye is the little fish dazzled by the light of torch fishermen in the dark waters. How can she know that behind the light lies the fisherman’s net?

A dark tale of greed and its results. Cover the kids’ eyes for this one. It contains the holy trinity of pulp fiction –murder, drug use and sex. Not necessarily in that order

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain.Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform centre, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding. Together with his best friend Richi, Tano plans to enjoy his 48-hour pass to the limit, doing all the things he is normally prohibited from doing. He gets drunk, takes drugs, steals, has sex, and hangs out with his buddies. He feels free and exerts that freedom with all the force and audacity of a teenager. By the end of his 48- hour pass, Tano has also witnessed the collapse of all the things he takes for granted in his life: the neighbourhood, his family, friends and loved ones –everything is somehow different for him. More than just two days of freedom, Tano’s leave turns out to be a journey into maturity.

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall London’s Brixton Academy.They are in bed at nights end.Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to the nine live-concert songs of the story’s title. At the end the romance wanes, Matt attends concerts alone, and Lisa returns to her home in the US.

Sunwoo is no ordinary hotel manager. Quick-thinking and efficient, he’ s also the right hand man of underworld boss Kang. But tough guy Kang has a weakness: his young girlfriend Heesoo. Suspecting she’s unfaithful,je alous Kang orders obedient Sunwoo to take care of the problem. But when Sunwoo finds Heesoo with another man,he is unable to kill them without knowing . wKahnyg is furious and swiftly sends his gang members after Sunwoo,plunging him into a living hell. With nerves of steel, Sunwoo battles the gang alone. With each kill, he takes one step closer to Kang.

A man dressed in a tuxedo is sitting at a dining-room table, listening to a football match between Olympiakos and Panathinaikos on the radio. He’s waiting for a woman who, shortly after her arrival, leaves. The man “walks” his index and middle fingers back and forth on the table, to the sound of the US Marines march. He then commits suicide with a plastic gun

August 1945. Japan surrenders and, after 51 years of occupation, Taiwan reverts back to Chinese dominion. The film is an epic story which paints a post-war portrait of Taiwan through the life of the Lin family. This family, in its day one of the most important the small town where they live, is going through a bad spell because of the misfortunes suffered by its four sons. The eldest son is murdered, the second son is missing in action after being recruited by the Japanese, the third was branded a collaborator, was imprisoned, and has now come home suffering mental problems, while the fourth was rendered deaf and mute after a childhood accident...

Adam and Paul have been inseparable friends ever since they were young. Now that they have grown up, their friendship has the additional bond of their addiction to heroin.At one time, there were three of them. But Matthew died a month ago.There was even a memorial service. Unfortunately,Adam and Paul weren’t aware of any church service.They were far too busy getting hold of their gear. And that’s exactly what they’re up to on this particular day. All day long they loiter about the streets in search of somebody or other from whom they can cadge some cash; or perhaps a friendly drug-dealer who’ll give them a hit for some job or other.The only difference to all the other days is that, today, their luck has finally run out. Today, clearly, they no longer possess any credit – or any friends...

The comedy Adam’s Apples is a modern religious fable about belief and the struggle between Good and Evil.Adam, a neo-Nazi, is sent on community service to a vicarage. Here, the minister Ivan gives Adam the task of baking an apple pie with the apples from the tree growing in front of the church. Meanwhile birds, worms and lightning attack the apples. Ivan believes it is the Devil testing them. Adam believes it is God, because perhaps Evil doesn’t exist at all.

The film tells the story of a magical night in Athens. A man has a dream about a strange robbery. When he returns home, he finds that all his belongings have been stolen in an equally strange manner. The man calls the police and an experienced cop tries to solve the case with rather unorthodox methods. But as the night drags on, the mystery gradually appears to spread throughout the city. Strange incidents lead the film’s heroes on a journey that appears to escape reality and meet the world of the dream

A solitary young man, who spends his days cooped up in his dark bedroom, watching people in the neighbouring apartment blocks through his telescope, becomes fixated with a married woman that lives across the way from him. A strange relationship begins to evolve between them, consisting of telephone calls and exchanged looks, up until the moment when the woman decides to take the drastic step and, from an object of contemplation, to become an active subject and to invade the space of her observer

In 1926, as she begins to experience marital problems with her stern colonel husband, the famous mystery writer Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days.The police and the public look everywhere for her until, finally, an American journalist tracks her down at a spa, where she is staying under a false name, preparing an intricate plan of revenge against her husband’s mistress.

They grew up together. They fell in love. But everybody pressured them to separate. Omer was Turkish-Cypriot and Muslim. Rhodou was Greek-Cypriot and Christian. In Cyprus of political conflicts and fanaticism there is no room for the desires of ordinary people if these desires oppose the general trend. A film which brings together the traditional culture of Cyprus, the light of Homer and Greek tragedy

A watchman and his deputy live in an abandoned lineman’s cabin. Far from the world, the days are all the same. Only the railway man comes to bring them the newspaper. One night, a stranger has a car accident not far from the cabin, on the beach. From then on, things are changed forever...

After a long absence, famous pianist Zetterstrom returns from New York to his native Copenhagen on the occasion of a gala concert. A perfectionist by nature, he has one major personal flaw; he has lost the memory of his past. But when he is contacted by a messenger from a mysterious off-limits “zone” in the middle of the city, he connects with what lies behind him, what made him run away: his love for the captivating Andrea. He hopes for the past to come back to him but the “zone” does not sell dreams. It will merely lead him to a remembrance of things past.

All the Invisible Children is composed of seven different segmentsrealised eight directors, representing seven different nations or regions of the world.The directors were asked to focus on the plight of children who are in some way "invisible" - marginalized, oppressed, exploited, below the media radar. The net profits of the film will go to the "All the Invisible Children" fund set up by UNICEF and the World Food Programme.

Three university graduates who have still to be appointed in the public sector, are knocking about, doing different jobs that having nothing to do with their specialisation. They will cause a funny and strange incident, which, for some, will remain a secret until the end, but which will get them motivated and put them on the right track, having a positive effect not only on our three protagonists but also on some of the people close to them

The lives of Julio and Tenoch are ruled by their hormones, their friendship, and their headlong rush into adulthood. At a family celebration, they meet Luisa, the 28-year-old wife of Tenoch’s cousin. In an attempt to seduce her, they fabricate a plan about a road trip to an imaginary beach paradise called Heaven’s Mouth.To their surprise, Luisa calls them soon after and asks them to come along for the ride. On the road, a subtle competition for her affections is ignited between the boys and unspoken jealousies turn into a battle that exposes the fragility of their friendship...

Zeynep’s days are spent working as a hotel housekeeper. Her nights are hellish due to her father’s inappropriate behavior. The only person with whom she can build a relationship is Mustafa, a young man who works at the same hotel and who is interested in Zeynep.Though she never responds to the interest expressed by this young man who is younger than she, she does not put him off either. Zeynep is trying to escape from the vicious circle in which she finds herself. In another part of the city, Selçuk, a sound technician, is struggling with the guilt he feels over the recent death of his wife.The suitcase that contains Selçuk’s wife’s clothes will change Zeynep’s fate in a most unexpected manner.