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Keep The Lights On

A film by Ira Sachs

2012 - USA - Drama

The story chronicles an emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in New York City through love, friendship, and addiction. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but soon find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity while being true to himself.

Sofia's Last Ambulance

A film by Ilian Metev

2012 - Bulgaria/Croatia/Germany - Documentary

Sofia, Bulgaria. In a city where only 13 ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, three paramedics face Kafkaesque situations. Struggling against an avalanche of absurdities in a crumbling medical system, they do what they do best: save lives.

Beyond The Walls

A film by David Lambert

2012 - Belgium/Canada/France - Drama

Paulo, a young pianist living an ambivalent life with Anka, meets Ilir, a loner bass player.
It’s love at first sight and they start living on love alone.
The day Paulo promises to love him for life, Ilir leaves town for a concert, and never comes back…

More Than Honey

A film by Markus Imhoof

2012 - Germany/Austria/Switzerland - Documentary

Einstein once said: "If bees ever die out, mankind will have only four years left to live."
In the past five years, billions of honeybees simply vanished for reasons still obscure. If the bees keep dying, it will have drastic effects for humans as well: more than one third of our food production depends on pollination by honeybees and their life and death are linked to ours.

A 2M euro budget documentary by Oscar nominated director Markus Imhoof and by the creators of LET'S MAKE MONEY & WE FEED THE WORLD.

The Last Time I Saw Macao

A film by João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata

2012 - France/Portugal - Drama

Thirty years later I'm on my way to Macao where I haven't been since I was a child. I got an e-mail, in Lisbon, from Candy, a friend I hadn't heard from in ages. She told me that she had been involved yet again with the wrong men and asked me to go to Macao where "strange and scary things" were happening. Tired, after a long flight, I'm approaching Macao aboard the jetfoil which will take me back to the happiest time in my life.

Blackbird

A film by Jason Buxton

2012 - Canada - Drama

A rebellious teenager, falsely accused of planning a school massacre, must survive a harrowing conflict
with a prison gang leader while he attempts to prove his innocence to the community and those close to
him.

Becoming Traviata

A film by Philippe Béziat

2012 - France - Documentary

How can motion come to light on the opera set ? Does it come from singing, action or music?
How can someone become the incarnation of Verdi’s masterpiece?
Following world famous French soprano Natalie Dessay from the first repetitions until the premiere
under the direction of Jean-Francois Sivadier, we meet a very special woman, a piece of art, a myth:
LA TRAVIATA.

Dom

A film by Oleg Pogodin

2012 - Russia - Drama/Action

In a large house in the middle of the steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a family gathering. When suddenly the eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 year absence, unspoken family conflicts come to light. Nobody suspects that Victor is escaping his dark past and that killers are looking for his hiding place.

Vic + Flo Saw A Bear

A film by Denis Côté

2013 - Canada - Drama

Victoria, an ex-convict in her sixties, wants to start new life in a remote sugar shack. Under the supervision of Guillaume, a young, sympathetic parole officer, she tries to get her life back on track along with Florence, her former cellmate with whom she shared years of
intimacy in prison. Stalked by ghosts of the past, their new life together is unexpectedly jeopardized.

Floating Skyscrapers

A film by Tomasz Wasilewski

2013 - Poland - Drama

The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.

La Jaula De Oro

A film by Diego Quemada-Díez

2013 - Mexico/Spain - Drama

Three teenagers from the slums of Guatemala travel to the US in search of a better life. On their journey through Mexico they meet Chauk, an Indian from Chiapas who doesn't speak Spanish. Travelling together in cargo trains, walking on the railroad tracks, they soon have to face a harsh reality.

Longwave

A film by Lionel Baier

2013 - France/Portugal/Switzerland - Comedy/Drama

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.

Roxanne

A film by Vali Hotea

2013 - Romania/Hungary - Drama

Twenty years after the Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy in his late 30s, finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he might be the father of a son he didn’t know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi gets caught up in a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the lives of the ones close to him.

Walesa. Man Of Hope

A film by Andrzej Wajda

2013 - Poland - Drama

The New Europe has its beginnings in Gdansk! “Wałęsa. Man of Hope” is a story of a contemporary hero – Lech Wałęsa.

Blind Dates

A film by Levan Koguashvili

2013 - Georgia - Comedy/Drama

Sandro, a single high school teacher in his forties, still lives with his parents. Together with his childhood friend Iva they spend their leisure time dating women online. While these rendez-vous usually end up without any results, everything changes when Sandro meets the married Manana who quickly conquers his heart. Everything goes well until her husband gets out of jail.

The Passion Of Michelangelo

A film by Esteban Larrain

2013 - Chile/France/Argentina - Drama

Chile, 1983. The first street protests pose a dangerous threat to Pinochet’s military government. The regime responds through a secret operation in order to divert public opinion. They pick a 14-yearold street child called Miguel Angel, who swears he can see and talk to the Virgin Mary herself, and they turn him into a pop prophet. His tormented face is reproduced in all the media, and in just a few weeks hundreds of thousands of people make a pilgrimage to Peñablanca, the village where he lives, to participate in ceremonies where prophecies, stigmata, levitations and miracles of all kinds are part of the usual routine.
During the period of the hoax, Miguel Angel goes through a deep transformation. From being a fragile and shy kid, he becomes a clever and capricious teenager who uses his
“divine gift” to manipulate his environment to his advantage. When the church investigates and finally resolves to ban the cult of the Virgin of Peñablanca, the government leaves the boy to his fate. Even if he tries hard to keep his seat of honor, Miguel Angel cannot avoid suffering a biblical fall: he is humiliated, abandoned and banished.

A Long And Happy Life

A film by Boris Khlebnikov

2013 - Russia - Drama

A young farmer named Sasha stands at the beginning of a new, happy life. He is about to sell his farm to the state and move with his girlfriend to the city. But when the deal is closed, the other villagers rise up in protest to save the farm - the village’s only means of survival. Sasha finds himself caught up in a fight which is not his, entangled in a web of passion, pride, and irreversible actions.

Joy Of Man's Desiring

A film by Denis Côté

2014 - Canada - Documentary

An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest and state of repose whose quality defies definition.

Two Step

A film by Alex R. Johnson

2014 - USA - Thriller

Austin, Texas. After the death of his grandmother, college student Jame finds consolation in the company of Dot, a Country Music dancer. While settling Grams' affairs, James discovers she has been the victim of the "grandparent scam" in which someone posing as James has been stealing her thousands of dollars. But before James can go looking for the culprit, he shows up at the front door, desperate for money.

Next To Her

A film by Asaf Korman

2014 - Israel - Drama

Chelli is raising her mentally disabled sister Gabby all by herself. When the social worker discovers she leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, Chelli is forced to place her in a day-care center and the void left by her sister's absence makes room for a man in her life. That man, Zohar, tears another crack in the symbiotic relationship of the two sisters.

Monument To Michael Jackson

A film by Darko Lungulov

2014 - Serbia - Comedy/Drama

In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is removed from the Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town's mayor has his own plans.

Patchwork Family

A film by Pascal Rabaté

2014 - France - Comedy/Drama

Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.

Short Skin

A film by Duccio Chiarini

2014 - Italy - Comedy/Drama

It’s summer and everybody seems to talk only about sex. Edoardo is insecure and awkward with girls: he never told anybody even his best friend Arturo that since birth his foreskin is too narrow preventing him from having sex. But when you are 17, love is in the air: Edoardo will have to find his way.

Life In A Fishbowl

A film by Baldvin Z

2014 - Iceland - Drama

Reykjavik. After a tragedy, Writer Móri drinks himself into oblivion on a twenty-year binge. Eik, a young single mom moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. Young father and good husband, Sölvi, is recruited into the snake pit of the Icelandic international banking. Soon fate will make them meet.

Ping Pong Summer

A film by Michael Tully

2014 - USA - Comedy

1985. Rad Miracle is a shy, 13-year-old kid obsessed with two things: ping-pong and music. During his family's annual summer vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, Rad makes a new best friend, experiences his first real crush, becomes the target of rich, racist local bullies and finds an unexpected mentor in his outcast next-door neighbor...

Halfway

A film by Geoffrey Enthoven

2014 - Belgium - Comedy

Involved in a bitter divorce Stephen moves into a new house. Soon his quiet is disturbed by Theo who is standing in his living room claiming to be the rightful resident of the house and asking him to move out. Unwilling to yield, Stephen finds himself in the midst of a turf war and discovers that Theo used to be the owner of the house. But he died two years ago...

Difret

A film by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

2014 - Ethiopia - Drama

Meaza Ashenafi is a young lawyer who operates under the government's radar helping women and children in Ethiopia until one young girl's legal case exposes everything, threatening not only her career but her survival.

The Way He Looks

A film by Daniel Ribeiro

2014 - Brazil - Romantic Comedy

Leonardo is a teenager trying to be more independent from his parents. Together with his best friend Giovana, they dream to travel abroad as well to experience their first kiss. When Gab, a new classmate arrives, new feelings blossom among them, making them question their plans, no matter Leonardo is blind.

Macondo

A film by Sudabeh Mortezai

2014 - Austria - Drama

Ramasan, an 11-year-old boy from Chechnya, grows up in Macondo, a refugee settlement on the outskirts of Vienna. Living alone with his mother and two little sisters, Ramasan takes over the role of the father assuming the responsibility for his small family.

A German Youth

A film by Jean-Gabriel Périot

2015 - France/Switzerland/Germany - Documentary

In the late 1960s, the postwar generation, in direct conflict with their fathers, was trying to find its place. From this soon radicalized seething youth emerged in 1970 The Red Army Faction, a German revolutionary terrorist group founded notably by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. Based on archive footage, the film aims to question viewers on the significance of this revolutionary movement during its time, as well as its resonance for today’s society.

Chasuke's Journey

A film by SABU

2015 - Japan - Drama/Fantasy

In Heaven, scribes are busy writing scenarios for all of mankind, dictating everyone’s upcoming destiny. Celestial tea server Chasuke never misses a chance to catch up on some of the latest chapters, especially those about Yuri, for whom he has a secret crush. But when he discovers that the writers accidentally kill her off, he decides to break the rules and go down to Earth to save her. But nothing goes according to plan, since nothing has been prewritten for him…

One Floor Below

A film by Radu Muntean

2015 - Romania - Drama

After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.

Embrace Of The Serpent

A film by Ciro Guerra

2015 - Colombia - Adventure/Drama

A tale of the first encounter, approach, betrayal and life-transcending friendship between an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two explorers that become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of ancestral knowledge.