Katalin’s husband of 30 years leaves her for a new girlfriend, a 28-year-old student of his. Her crisis is received with indifference by friends and family alike: daughter, Zsofi, is completely preoccupied with her pregnancy, and her teenage son Zoli cares only about himself. Read more
A coming-of-age story about an isolated 10-year-old boy with ‘sensitive skin’ who lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Brand Fincher is traumatized when his son, Milo, is born with a rare genetic disease, causing excessive growth of hair all over his face and body. Read more
Love Eternal is a product of the Irish/Luxembourg co-production treaty established during the 2011 Galway Film Festival. Based on the esoteric book ‘Loving the Dead’ by Kei Oishi, the film tells the story of 26-year-old Ian (Robert de Hoog) who is left isolated when his overbearing mother dies. Read more
Set in post-colonial India, the story of Sikh logger Umber Singh (played by Irrfan Khan) who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing and must battle to rebuild both his and his family’s life and his relationship with his son. Read more
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, the film centres on the title figure, polygraphist Layla Fourie, who is offered a job in a company specialising in lie-detection and security in a small town. Read more
Based on a novel by Belarusian author Vassily Bykov, In the Fog explores the agonising ethical choices facing citizens of Nazi-occupied Belarus in 1942 Read more
General Villegas, in the northeastern corner of Buenos Aires province, is a quiet farming town. Two cousins in their thirties who moved to the capital years before reunite on a drive to the town to attend their grandfather’s funeral.
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Post tenebras lux (the title translates literally as ‘Light After Darkness’), is a semi-autobiographical film about a rural family in Mexico exploring emotions, memories, dreams, fears and the reality of the director’s current life. Read more
Félix, Sofía, Arturo, Niki and Isabel wander around in a forest. They seem to be on holiday, but something is not quite right. Read more
A minimalist documentary from Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky which compares four pairs of locations on exact opposite points of the globe. Haven’t we all wondered at some point what was happening just at this moment beneath our very feet at the other side of the planet? Read more
The story of young windsurfer Taha (played by Fettah Ahllmara) who has befriended many of the European windsurfers that visit his tiny fishing village on the Moroccan Atlantic coast to enjoy the high winds and perfect waves. Read more
Spanning the 1950s to the present day, The Girl and Death tells the timeless story of the ultimate love affair between Nicolai and the courtesan Elise which is compromised by materialism, wealth and death. Read more
Fifteen-year-old Meis lives in the back of beyond and dreams of escaping her mundane life, but all that happens is the passing of the time and waiting for the next car to crash into the front of the house. Read more
Thomas’s wife Marie left him one year before and has stayed on in the marital home, sleeping in the bed they shared for 14 years. On first impressions, given his new girlfriend it would seem that Thomas has moved on But in reality he is still obsessed with Marie and the life they shared. Read more
Based on the award-winning novel by Gerbrand Bakke, the film centres on the dysfunctional relationship between farmer’s son Helmer (played by Jeroen Willems) and his elderly father (Henri Garcin) who live in the rural north of Holland. Read more
Rosa arrives in Tokyo to work with the famous Master Kon, Japan’s best fish chef. Because of the language barrier, Rosa grows increasingly isolated behind the heaps of glistening fish on the worktable waiting to be cleaned. Read more
Nine-year-old Kiek is full of energy and adores her father who works as a doctor with the Red Cross in war zones. Read more
An adaptation of one of Benelux’s most famous children’s novels and one of the most popular Dutch films of the year, Cool Kids Don’t Cry is based on the personal experiences of novelist and co-screenwriter Jacques Vriens when he was a teacher at a primary school. Grade eight student Akkie has only two concerns: going to high school with her best friends and winning the soccer championship. Read more
Alfie has no idea what is happening to him when, on the night of his seventh birthday, he is transformed into a white, fluffy animal: a little werewolf.