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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TALE OF TALES
Inspired by the celebrated fairytales by Giambattista Basile, Matteo Garrone’s TALE OF TALES is an epic vision of cinema.
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis (Salma Hayek) who forfeits the life of her husband (John C. Reilly), to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of the... -
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
God exists !
He lives in Brussels.He’s a real bastard, odious with his wife and daughter.
We know a lot about his son, but very little about his daughter.
Her name is Ea and she’s ten years old.
One day, she revolts against her father, hacks his computer and leaks to the entire world their in... -
THE GOOD LIFE
Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need to survive. For centuries, they’ve hunted in the mountains, foraged for fruit and reared hens, sheep and cattle.
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THE HERE AFTER
When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to start his life afresh. However in the local community, his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven. John’s presence brings out the worst in everyone around him and a lynch-mob atmosphere slowly takes shape...
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THE HIGH SUN
The High Sun shines a light on three love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighboring Balkan villages with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred. It is a film about the fragility – and intensity – of forbidden love.
In the first story, set in 1991, a romantic attraction is forc...
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THE LOOK OF SILENCE
The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing. Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The...
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THE RUNNER
5 years ago the boss closed the company and fired 300 workers. The first day that he goes out to run he meets one of them.
Direction: José Luis Montesinos
Script: José Luis Montesinos, Iakes Blesa
Production: Arturo Méndiz, José María Torres, Arturo Méndiz
Cinematography: Marc Zumbach
Editin...
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THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE
17 year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show, nearby her parent’s lakeside villa, she meets Auste, a local girl of her age, who unlike Sangaile, lives her life to the full with creati...
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THE TRANSLATOR
Yusuf, a Syrian refugee boy who lives in an exile in a remote Turkish border town is chosen for his newfound power but he has to experience how to use it, at the cost of his innocence.
Direction: Emre Kayiş
Script: Emre Kayiş
Production: Oytun Kal, Ginette Harrold
Cinematography: Nick Cooke
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THEY HAVE ESCAPED
In a twist on boy-meets-girl, the gritty and dreamy drama THEY HAVE ESCAPED is set at a juvenile detention centre, where the boy, a stuttering introvert, has come to serve his mandatory civil service, and the girl, an attractive extrovert, is in custody. With boundless energy, she’s the kind of g...
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THIS PLACE WE CALL OUR HOME
A documentary film from Ukraine, summer 14.
In this film war is an atmosphere, rather than journalistic facts. Through music we visit all layers of society. In the form of a poem we show how it feels when your country is in an invincible conflict.
Two friends on the floor
proud pine trees and... -
THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING
In a traditional village in Kosovo, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by her inner conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by ...
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TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
Toto and his Sisters is an astonishing family story set in Romania. During their mother’s imprisonment for dealing drugs, Toto passionately learns street dancing, reading and writing, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childh...
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VICTORIA
On a night out in Berlin, Victoria meets four young local guys – after joining their group, she becomes their driver when they rob a bank. Finally, as dawn breaks, everyone meets their destiny.
Direction: Sebastian Schipper
Script: Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike F. Schulz
Prod...
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VIRGIN MOUNTAIN
Fúsi, a timid man in his mid-forties, is yet to find the courage to fully enter and embrace the adult world; to lift his wings and leave his nest. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key.
When a vibrant woman about his own age and an eight-year old girl unexpectedly enter his l... -
WASHINGTONIA
Washingtonia starts when the giraffes heart can no longer be heard.
Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because i... -
WEDNESDAY 04:45
Stelios is the owner of a Jazz Club in Athens. A few years ago, through the help of his former associate Vassos, Stelios received a business loan from the Romanian in order to renovate his club. In 2010, the recession finds Stelios on the brink of bankruptcy unable to repay the loan. The Romanian...
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WHO AM I – NO SYSTEM IS SAFE
BENJAMIN (TOM SCHILLING) is a nobody, an outsider. This changes when he meets the charismatic MAX (ELYAS M‘BAREK). The two of them couldn‘t be more different, but they share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max‘s friends, impulsive STEPHAN (WOTAN WILKE MÖHRING) and paranoid PAUL (ANTOI...
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YOU CARRY ME
Dora is a neglected girl who dreams about becoming a football manager. Suddenly, her outlaw father reappears in her life, and she develops an unexpectedly close relationship with him. Dora shows an exceptional prowess in order to keep him in her life, regardless of the temptations which both are ...
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YOUTH
Springtime. Fred and Mick, two old friends now approaching eighty, are on vacation together in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps.
Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working.
The two friends know that their time is quickly running out, and they ...