Butterflies

Sundance
Grand Prix Winner
Rotterdam IFF
Voices

Butterflies

A Film by Tolga Karaçelik

2018 - Turkey - Drama/Comedy - 2.35 - 117 min.

with Tolga Tekin , Bartu Küçükçağlayan & Tuğçe Altuğ

Language: Turkish
Produced by Tolga Karaçelik , Diloy Gülün & Metin Anter

Cemal, Kenan, and Suzi are siblings who have grown apart since leaving Hasanlar, the tiny village where they grew up, and going their separate ways. When an unexpected call from their estranged father demands they return to the village immediately, Cemal, the eldest, is tasked with reuniting the family and convincing his brother and sister to take a road trip back to the places and memories they have been working so hard to forget. As they try to piece their dysfunctional family back together and confront their shared past, they’ll have to contend with each other’s peculiarities and get to know one another all over again, even as the strangest elements of all await them in the village.

Sundance
Grand Prix Winner
Rotterdam IFF
Voices

More Films

And Tomorrow the Entire World

A film by Julia von Heinz

2020 - Germany - Drama - 2.39

When Luisa leaves her wealthy parents to study law, her best friend introduces her to a rag-tag collective of Antifa activists drawn together by their will to fight for the cause and a disdain of conventions. In their mission to halt the continued rise of neo-Nazis across Germany, the group quickly comes to a crossroad: Does combatting hate justify violence? As Luisa struggles to understand whether her actions are motivated by personal allegiances or political convictions, she and the group must decide what to do when the ideological fight against fascism becomes concrete.

Talking about the Weather

A film by Annika Pinske

2022 - Germany - Drama - 2.39:1 - 90 min.

Clara made it: she has got away from her native provincial East Germany, now living a bohemian life in Berlin, teaching philosophy while finishing her Ph. D. Between an affair with one of her students and her testy friendship with her thesis advisor Margot, she barely has time to see her 15-year-old daughter, who mostly lives with her ex. But when Clara visits her mother for a weekend, she finds herself confronted with her ideal of an unfettered, self-determined life. How high is the price she must pay for it?

Longwave

A film by Lionel Baier

2013 - France/Portugal/Switzerland - Comedy/Drama - DCP - 2.35 - 85 min.

April 1974. A group of Swiss radio journalists is reluctantly sent to Portugal to report on the impact of Swiss aid to the country. During their investigations they slowly start to realize that a full-scale revolution is under way.