2014 Films

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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2014 Films
  • LITTLE BLOCK OF CEMENT WITH DISHEVELLED HAIR CONTAINING THE SEA

    A dog and a mare embark upon a voyage together. With every step they take, the differences between them become inevitably clearer, and yet the profound mutual knowledge they develop over time shows the potential to suddenly produce a luminous moment between the two.

    Direction: Jorge López Navarr...

  • MACONDO

    Ramasan has a lot of responsibility for an 11-year-old. In traditional Chechen society, he is now considered the man of the house in charge of his mother and two younger sisters. His world is now centered in Macondo, a tough ethnic neighborhood in the industrial suburbs of Vienna.

    Ramasan speaks...

  • MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE

    WINNER EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2014

    Investment bankers are the real Masters of the Universe, not politicians, armies or even countries. In economic powerhouse Germany, a top banker gives a disturbing insider’s account of his emotions, motivations and predictions. Revealing a parallel universe of ex...

  • OF HORSES AND MEN

    A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become intertwined with enormous consequences. The fortunes of people in the countryside as seen through the eyes of horses.

    Direction: Benedikt Erlingson

    Script: Benedikt Erlingsson

    Production: Fr...

  • OF MEN AND WAR

    Anger consumes a dozen combat vets long after their return from the front. The warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds are stuck out on the battlefield. Like figures from a Greek tragedy, all have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. Ghosts and e...

  • PAPUSZA

    True story of Papusza - the first Roma woman who put her poems into writing and published them, and therefore confronted the traditional female image in the gypsy community. The film follows Papusza’s life from birth to old age: arranged marriage as a small girl, her life in a gypsy tabor before,...

  • PRIDE

    LOGLINE
    A man of habit confronts a world in transition in his own kitchen.

    SYNOPSIS
    Manol -- a retired general, a loving grandfather -- is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs, which he has upheld in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices...

  • SACRO GRA

    After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the narco-assassin, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road –the Grande Raccordo Anulare, ...

  • SHIPWRECK

    On three October 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. More than 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and vividly remembers the nightmarish experience. Meanwhile, chaos breaks loose at ...

  • STILL GOT LIVES_

    Marco and Lisa are in love. Online, they fight side by side against dreadful monsters. However, Lisa refuses to meet Marco in real life. When one day she stops showing up for the game, Marco decides to go searching for her. He finds a new world. And learns real dread.

    Direction: Jan-Gerrit Seyle...

  • STILL LIFE

    Meticulous and organised to the point of obsession, John May (Eddie Marsan) is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to s...

  • STRATOS

    age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this.
    A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a fa...

  • SUMMER 2014

    ‘Lato 2014’ (Summer 2014) – animated movie, which depicts pessimistic view of human’s fate. Universal tale of world possessed by evil. The same piece of land in shown multiple times in different scenes. At the beginning there is a bloody battle of swords, axes and spears. Then follows plagues and...

  • TAPROBANA

    In this short comedy, Luís Vaz de Camões, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem Os Lusíadas. He travel...

  • THAT LOVELY GIRL

    Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties.
    They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter.

    Direction: Keren Yedaya

    Script: Keren Yedaya

    Production: Mar...

  • THE ART OF HAPPINESS

    Under a leaden sky, among the apocalyptic presages of a Naples at the height of its degradation, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives news which overwhelms him. Nothing can ever be as it was.
    Now Sergio looks at himself in the mirror and what he sees is a forty-year-old man, who has turned his back on...

  • THE CHICKEN

    WINNER EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2014

    As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. While trying to bring back the missing...

  • THE CHIMERA OF M.

    Entering the already unfamiliar virtual space of a stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and distinctly unreliable protagonist, so evasive that he and his motives can hardly be identified. Arriving by train at a town where he had once lived, he moves...

  • THE CHIMERA OF M. (3D - ANAGLYPH)

    As the film "The Chimera of M." was conceived for and is only presented in its 3D format, there is no 2D version.
    The here available anaglyph version (the preview version with inferior spatial and colour representation) requires certain glasses and hardware:
    glasses: red- blue
    device: any 2D ...

  • THE CHIMERA OF M. (3D - SIDE-BY-SIDE)

    As the film "The Chimera of M." was conceived for and is only presented in its 3D format, there is no 2D version.
    The here available side-by-side version (the original colour space and 3D technology used) requires certain glasses and hardware:
    glasses: active shutter or polarisation glasses
    devi...

  • THE LAMB

    As eastern anatolian village tradition requires, 27 year old medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her five year old son mert’s circumcision feast. Poor but determined, medine puts the family to work cutting branches to earn something towards the price of the sheep they need. Ismail, medine’s un...

  • THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN THE SUMMER

    Growing-up and loving in the Mafia-ridden city of Palermo. A story that spans 20 years seen through the eyes of a child, Arturo, who is brought-up in a fascinating and terrible city, where none the less there is still place for passion and laughter.
    The Mafia Only Kills in Summer is a love story ...

  • THE MISSING SCARF

    George Takei narrates this multi-award-winning fable about a wise squirrel on an increasingly existential quest to find its scarf.

    Direction: Eoin Duffy

    Script: Eoin Duffy

    Production: Jamie Hogan, Eoin Duffy

    Cinematography: Eoin Duffy

    Editing: Eoin Duffy

    Production Design: Eoin Duffy

    Anima...

  • THE TRIBE

    A deaf mute teenager enters a specialized boarding school where, to survive, he becomes part of a wild organization – the tribe.

    His love for one of the concubines will unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the Tribe’s hierarchy.

    Direction: MYROSLAV SLABOSHPYTSKIY

    Script...