2016 Films
At the 29th European Film Awards, celebrated in Wroclaw (Poland), Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen received the European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI for THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi won European Documentary for FIRE AT SEA and Claude Barras from Switzerland European Animated Feature Film for MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI.
Big winner of the 2016 European Film Awards was TONI ERDMANN which took home European Film, Director and Screenwriter for Maren Ade, Actress for Sandra Hüller and Actor for Peter Simonischek.
Further awards went to LAND OF MINE (Camilla Hjelm Knudsen, Cinematograper, Stefanie Bieker, Costume Designer, and Barbara Kreuzer, Hair & Make-up Artist), THE COMMUNE (Janus Billeskov Jansen, Editor), SUFFRAGETTE (Alice Normington, Production Designer), THE STUDENT (Ilya Demutsky, Composer) and 11 MINUTES (Radoslaw Ochnio, Sound Designer).
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I'M NOT FROM HERE
An 88-year-old Basque native, Josebe, lives in a nursing home in Chile. She’s obsessed with finding out where the rest of the elder people she lives with comes from. Everyone tells her that they are Chilean, not Spanish as she is. Josebe insists on thinking about her youth in the Basque Country. ...
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IN THE DISTANCE
It's calm and peaceful above the clouds. But chaos lurks in the distance and each night, it draws closer.
Direction: Florian Grolig
Script: Florian Grolig
Production: Florian Grolig, Florian Grolig
Editing: Florian Grolig
Animation: Julian Vavrovsky
Sound: Tobias Boehm, Christian Wittmoser
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I, OLGA HEPNAROVA
Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a cold-hearted family who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only twenty-two years old.
The fi...
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KILLS ON WHEELS
TISZTA SZÍVVEL
HungaryDriven by despair and fear of becoming useless, a 20-year-old boy, his friend, and an ex-fireman, offer their services to the mafia.
But things are not what they seem.
The boundaries between reality and fiction blur and the story becomes a whirling kaleidoscope showing us ... -
KÖPEK
An ordinary day in the megacity: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues on the streets. Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and on this day, they risk everything that satisfies their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delic...
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LIEBMANN
Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside in an attempt to leave his former life in Germany behind. He soon gets a job and starts dating Sébastien. But the strange energy of a near-by artist's residency and an unexpected visitor from Germany make him realise that he cannot escape his memorie...
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LIKE CRAZY
Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. They are both patients at the Villa Biondi, a progressive but secure psych...
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LIMBO
The leopard shall lie down with the goat.
The wolves shall live with the lambs.
And the young boy will lead them.
12+1 kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore …Direction: Konstantina Kotzamani
Script: Konstantina Kotzamani
Production: Ron Dyens, Maria Drandaki, Ron Dyens, Maria Drandaki...
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LOOK WHO´S BACK
Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of wasteland in Berlin. Having failed to find his bunker, he takes up temporary residence in a newspaper kiosk. There he is discovered by some TV producers, who take him to be a Hitler impersonator of rare method-acting genius. Soon he becomes the star of their sa...
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LOST IN MUNICH
Sir P, a 90-year-old talking grey parrot that once belonged to Edouard Daladier, finds himself in Prague at the invitation of the French Cultural Institute as a living relic of the time of the Munich Agreement. The Czech side organises a rather absurd press conference at which the “gentleman” doe...
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MALLORY
Life hasn’t been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She wants to turn her back on her dark past and help those she knows best – people on the fringes of society. In her latest long-term documentary, Helena...
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MAMMAL
The compelling story of a woman who has lost her son and develops an unorthodox relationship with a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Direction: Rebecca Daly
Script: Rebecca Daly
Prod...
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MIMOSAS
A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh trough the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain pass, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Ahmed and Said, two rogues travelling with the caravan, p...
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MR. GAGA
This documentary chronicles the life and work of modern dance choreographer Ohad Naharin, offering a glimpse into the artistic genius' creative process.
Filmmaker Tomer Heymann, who has known Ohad Naharin for more than 20 years, spent eight of those making this documentary. In the process, he int... -
MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
"Zucchini" is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy – although his unique story is surprisingly universal: After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. Zucchini strug...
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ONE OF US
One night Julian and his pal Marko break into the supermarket full of promising products encouraged by their wish to break out of suburban boredom. A moment of childish freedom which ends abruptly in a harsh grown-up reality. Inspired by true events.
Direction: Stephan Richter
Script: Stephan R...
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ON THE OTHER SIDE
Vesna is a middle-aged woman who works as a visiting nurse in Zagreb. Twenty years ago, she lived in Sisak, a small Croatian industrial town she was forced to leave during the war, when a violent incident almost destroyed the life of her family. In the capital, she managed to hide her identity an...
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PERFECT STRANGERS
During the course of a dinner, which has gathered together a group of friends, at a certain point the hostess, Eva, says that she is convinced that many couples would separate if their respective spouses looked at the contents of their respective cell phones. And so begins a sort of game, and eve...
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PSICONAUTAS, THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
Birdboy and Dinky are two teenagers who have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world, Dinky by setting out on a dangerous journey with the hope that Birdboy will accompany her.
Direction: Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero
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RAUF
RAUF is the story of searching under the shade of a war and tough nature conditions , at the age of 11, Rauf finds himself in a big platonic love, in an effort to delight the girl whom he love in a world which loses the colour even in the daylight. Pink is the hue of our story, loves that are dr...
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ROOM
Both highly suspenseful and deeply emotional, ROOM is a unique and touching exploration of the boundless love between a mother and her child. After 5-year-old Jack and his Ma escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery: the outsi...
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SHOOTING STAR
Lilly is a divorced mother of two – Martin, who has recently come of age, and little Alexandra. One cold winter evening Martin picks Alexandra up from kindergarten. In the dark streets of the neighbourhood they become a part of a tragic accident that can hardly be forgotten or erased. Lilly and h...
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S IS FOR STANLEY – 30 YEARS AT THE WHEEL FOR STANLEY KUBRICK
S IS FOR STANLEY is the story of Emilio D'Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick's personal driver. A friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and brought together two apparently opposite people who found their ideal journey companion far away from thei...
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SMALL TALK
Welcome to the Dvergsnes family! In this short film we follow the Dvergsnes family from Kristiansand, Norway, through three events that took place during the fall and winter of 2014.
Direction: Even Hafnor, Lisa Brooke Hansen
Script: Even Hafnor
Production: Jon Michael Puntervold, Jon Michael ...