2014 Films
While most nominations for the European Film Awards 2014 had gone to LEVIATHAN by Andrey Zvyagintsev, the big winner was the film IDA (Poland, Denmark) which won European Film, Director for Pawel Pawlikowski, Screenwriter for Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and Cinematographer for Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski, as well as the People's Choice Award.
European Discovery 2014 - Prix FIPRESCI went to Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for THE TRIBE (Ukraine), Short Film 2014 went to the German-Croatian co-production THE CHICKEN by Una Gunjak, European Documentary 2014 to MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE (Germany, Austria) by Marc Bauder. Timothy Spall received the award European Actor for his role in MR. TURNER, his French colleague Marion Cotillard European Actress for TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT.
Further awards went to LOCKE (Justine Wright, Editor), THE DARK VALLEY (Claus-Rudolf Amler, Production Designer and Natascha Curtius-Noss, Costume Designer), UNDER THE SKIN (Mica Levi, Composer), and STARRED UP (Joakim Sundström, Sound Designer).
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10,000 KM
10.000 KM
SpainOne couple, one year apart and two distant cities: Los Angeles and Barcelona. Love is Alexandra and Sergio's only weapon and their computers their only tools to fight the 10,000 kilometres that stand in the way of their future together.
Direction: Carlos Marques-Marcet
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ALIENATION
A man (Christos Stergioglou) driving an old-fashioned car is crossing the border. He is Greek and has passed his fifties. He is coming to Bulgaria to buy a child. Jorgos has prepared a secret compartment in the boot of the car masked as a gas tank so that he could smuggle the child. The baby is n...
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AMOUR FOU
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the de...
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A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE CHRISTMAS LOG
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organization of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and can...
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BEAUTIFUL YOUTH
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today’s Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they’d like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some money, they decide to shoot an amateur porno film. The b...
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BLIND DATES
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 quic...
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BRIDES
Nutsa lives with her two small children in a suburbs of Tblissi, Georgia. With her partner Goga, they would be today a regular family if he hasn’t been arrested. Between the wedding in prison and monthly visits, a routine sets in, he inside of prison, she outside. Will they be able to overcome th...
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CALVARY
Calvary is a blackly comic drama about a good priest tormented by his community.
Father James is the flipside to The Guard’s Sergeant Gerry Boyle. A good man intent on making the world a better place, he is continually shocked and saddened by the spiteful and confrontational inhabitants of his s...
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CONCRETE NIGHT
Concrete Night is a dream-like odyssey through beautiful Helsinki over the course of one night. The protagonist of the film is a 14-year-old boy named Simo who is still searching for a sense of self and the ability to protect himself from his surroundings. He lacks his own identity. Simo and his ...
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DAILY BREAD
Jonathan loves chocolate. so he steals the last remaining chocolate in the jar. when his stepmother caches him and his brothers ostracize him, he decides to run away.
Direction: Idan Hubel
Script: Idan Hubel
Production: Kobi Azran, Kobi Azran
Cinematography: David Stagmeister
Editing: Idan H...
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DINOLA
In the harsh mountainous countryside of Svaneti (Georgia). Happiness is brief and the love of life of the Dina dies. Tradition says she must marry to the first man who offers his hand and leave her child..
Direction: Mariam Khatchvani
Script: Mariam Khatchvani
Production: Vladimer Katcharav...
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DREAMLAND
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through h...
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EMERGENCY CALLS
Being human is a fragile and fleeting opportunity to experience life and the universe around us. In the face of overwhelming darkness all we can do is to rely on and find solace in one another.
This film is based on authentic emergency calls and radio traffic.
Direction: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekk...
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FAIR PLAY
Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1980, young and talented sprinter Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As a part of the preparation she is placed in a secret "medical programme" where they begin dopeing her with anabolic steroids...
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FORCE MAJEURE
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing and spend some precious time with each other. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directi...
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FRANK
FRANK is an offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the enigmatic Frank - a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head.
Direction: LENNY ABRAHAMSON
Script: JON RONSON, PETER STRAUGHAN
Production: ED ...
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GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE
A married woman and a single man meet.
They love, they argue.
A dog strays between town and country.
Seasons pass.
A second film begins…Direction: Jean-Luc Godard
Script: Jean-Luc GODARD
Production: Brahim Chioua,
Cinematography: Fabrice ARAGNO
Editing: Jean-Luc GODARD
Costume Design: Aude...
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HOME FROM HOME – CHRONICLE OF A VISION
In the mid 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Europeans emigrated to faraway South America. It was a desperate bid to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Their motto was: “Any fate is better than death”. Edgar Reitz’ new film DIE ANDERE HEIMAT is a domestic drama and ...
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HUMAN CAPITAL
During a cold winter night, a cyclist is hit by a SUV and then abandoned to agonize in the frozen snow. The mysterious episode, on which the police will investigate, connects the events of the members of two families: the petty-bourgeois family of Ossola and the one rich and venerated of Bernasch...
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IDA
Poland/Denmark
Poland, 1962. Anna is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother’s sister Wanda.
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IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE
In Order of Disappearance is an action comedy. Nils drives a snow blower and lives a carefree life in a remote winter paradise. His sons sudden death puts him in the middle of a drug war between Norwegian mafia and the Serbians. In this world he is a beginner armed with heavy machinery and beginn...
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JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE
For many families in the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles, an idyllic, peaceful middle-class existence is just a facade. What lies beneath is the unseen domestic turmoil: teens addicted to drugs, breaking the law and engaging in violent outbursts—and parents at their wits end. Interventionists, l...
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KERTU. LOVE IS BLIND
Kertu is kept at close reign living at home with her parents. In the village, where she silently delivers the mail, word is out that she is a simpleton.
Villu, the local handyman, wins Kertu’s heart, even though everyone knows him to be a shameless womanizer and hopeless drunk. She had never exp...
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LIFE IN A FISHBOWL
VONARSTRÆTI
Iceland, Czech Republic, Finland, SwedenLIFE IN A FISHBOWLN portrays three intertwined stories that take place in Reykjavik in 2006 when the whole society was overrun by greed and corruption. It was a time when everyone seemed able to do anything they desired and nobody wanted to ge...