2015 Films
Like every second year, the 2015 European Film Awards took place in Berlin. The big winner was YOUTH (Italy, France, UK, Switzerland) which won Film, Director for Paolo Sorrentino and Actor for Michael Caine.
European Documentary went to Asif Kapadia for AMY (UK), European Short Film to Jure Pavlovic for PICNIC (Croatia),
European Animated Feature Film 2015 to Tomm Moore from Ireland for SONG OF THE SEA (Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg) and EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2015 – Prix FIPRESCI to Deniz Gamze Ergüven for MUSTANG (France, Germany, Turkey). Roy Andersson received the award European Comedy 2015 for A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (Sweden, France, Germany, Norway) and Charlotte Rampling European Actress for her role in 45 YEARS.
European Screenwriter 2015 went to Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou from Greece for THE LOBSTER which also won European Costume Designer for Sarah Blenkinsop.
Further awards went to GOODNIGHT MOMMY (Martin Gschlacht, Cinematographer), BODY (Jacek Drosio, Editor), THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (Sylvie Olivé, Production Designer), THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (Cat's Eyes, Composers) and ARABIAN NIGHTS (Miguel Martins and Vasco Pimentel, Sound Designers).
The People's Choice Award went to MARSHLAND by Alberto Rodríguez.
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45 YEARS
There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s forty-fifth wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is ...
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ABOVE AND BELOW
Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty, heated Californian nowhere land, to beyond the stratospher...
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ADAMA
12-year-old Adama lives in a remote West African village. Beyond the cliffs lies the World of Wind, where the Nassaras reign.
One night his older brother, Samba, disappears.
Defying the village elders, Adama decides to set off in search of him.
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AFERIM!
In 19th century Romania, Costandin, a policeman of the time and his son travel through the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave.
Direction: Radu Jude
Script: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
Production: Ada Solomon, Rossitsa Valkanova, Ovidiu Sandor, Ada Solomon, Jiri Konecny
Cinematography...
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AFTERTHOUGHT
Haifa on a sunny day. Moshe is a crumbling man walking up the Carmel Mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse? Uri walks down the mountain to board a ship and leave behind all the things he loves and despises. His sense of belonging is losing ground. He is likely to miss ...
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ALL THINGS ABLAZE
This film is not about the revolution that changed Ukraine this winter. Not exactly. It rather shows a universal pattern of particular kind of uprisings – those ones that end with bloodshed. At first, the noble endeavor for freedom collides with the dark force of repressive rulers. Then eventuall...
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A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE
Like modern times' Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humor and tragedy that is in us, life’s ...
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ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME III, THE ENCHANTED ONE
In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tons. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to m...
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ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME II, THE DESOLATE ONE
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletran...
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ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME I, THE RESTLESS ONE
In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. In certain places, forests burn into the night despite the falling ...
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A SYRIAN LOVE STORY
Comrades and lovers Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. When McAllister first meets their family in 2009, Raghda is back in prison leaving Amer to look after their 4 boys alone; but as the ‘Arab Spring’ sweeps the region, the family’s fate shifts irrevocably. Filmed over 5 y...
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BABAI
Ten-year-old Nori and his father Gezim earn their living by selling cigarettes in pre-war Kosovo of the 90s. Gezim will hear nothing of Nori's mother. He is an expert at escaping the past and now he wants to flee Kosovo, without Nori. But the boy tries everything in his means to prevent his dad f...
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BLACK SOULS
In a place where blood ties and vendetta still hold sway, this tale of a Calabrian criminal family unfolds. The story starts in Holland and takes us to Milan, before finally arriving in Calabria among the peaks of Aspromonte where it all began, and where it will all end.
ANIME NERE is the story o... -
BODY
Poland, nowadays.
The intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, his anorexic daughter and her therapist who claims she can communicate with the dead loved ones.
Three radically different approaches to the body and soul.Direction: Małgorzata Szumowska
Script: Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał En...
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BOXING FOR FREEDOM
Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer in Afghanistan, but she must deal with her country’s traditions, fear and her own fate in order to be a free woman. Sadaf and her sister Shabnam joined the newly created women’s boxing team at the age of 13, when they returned to their country after being ref...
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BRANCUSI FROM ETERNITY
3 stories, 3 characters in 3 time periods make up the story of “Brancusi from Eternity". Each character tells the tale about the talent, the personality and work of one of the world’s greatest artists, Constantin Brancusi.
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CORN ISLAND
The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny ...
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CORRECTIONS CLASS
Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a...
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DANCING WITH MARIA
Maria Fux is a 90 years old Argentinian dancer. In her studio in the heart of Buenos Aires she is still dancing, teaching and conserving the elegance and the energy of a young performer.
She accepts all kinds of people in her classes forming integrated groups of dancers. She gives everybody the p... -
DEMOCRATS
Over the course of more than three years director Camilla Nielsson has been up close in the inner circles of politics in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. With the process of creating Zimbabwe's new constitution as the film's narrative backbone, DEMOCRATS tells the unique story of the political elite in ...
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DISSONANCE
A genius musician lives a lonely life in a surreal, floating world. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert hall, but there is nobody to listen. One day his animated world collapses and he must face reality. He only has one wish: to share his music with his daughter, but her mother doe...
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DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS
Dora is 18 and bursting with curiosity. Her mother Kristin has recently taken Dora off her sedating medication. The learning disabled young woman throws herself into all that life has to offer – this includes an infatuation with a man. To Kristin's horror the two have a spontaneous sexual encount...
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ELECTROBOY
Electroboy tells the breathtaking true life story of a young man who leaves his claustrophobic Swiss surroundings for the wide world in search of fame and recognition. In a series of success stories he reinvents himself time and again, changing settings and careers like other people change their ...
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E.T.E.R.N.I.T
Italy, during the year 2015, Ali, a tunisian immigrant working in asbestos removal receives the Visa which will allows his wife and daughter to join him. To get ready to welcome his family, he must do a radical choice.
Direction: Giovanni Aloi
Script: Nicolo Galbiati
Production: Zangro Zangro,...