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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SONG OF SONGS
1905. A Jewish Shtetl. Shimek and Buzya are two 10-year-olds. Of course, she is a princess and he is a prince. They live in the same yard, in neighboring palaces. What Buzya really means to him, Shimek begins to understand only years later when, far away from home, he receives the news that Buzya...
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STRANGE HEAVEN
The story of heaven turning into hell: Basia and Marek are a young couple of immigrants in Sweden. One innocent lie triggers an avalanche. The daughter is being placed with a foster family by social services. The daughter’s love for her mother is put to the test. Both parents must face the power ...
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THE ARDENNES
The brothers Dave and Kenneth are reunited on Kenneth’s release after four years in prison following a failed home jacking. While Kenneth is anxious to dive headfirst into the drug-centred existence that ensnared him in the first place, both Dave and Kenneth’s erstwhile girlfriend Sylvie have ado...
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THE COMMUNE
Erik and Anna are an academic couple with a dream. Together with their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik’s huge villa in the upmarket district of Copenhagen. With the family in the center of the story, we are invited into the dream of a real commune; we participate in the house meetin...
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THE EVENT
In August 1991 a failed coup d’état attempt (known as putsch), led by a group of hardcore communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over the Kremlin.
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THE FULLNESS OF TIME (ROMANCE)
Seated on the edge of the gaping rift, she waited so long, too long for the mountain to give back her lover, prisoner of the ice.
Direction: Manon Coubia
Script: Manon Coubia
Production: Nicolas Rincon Gille, Nicolas Rincon Gille
Cinematography: Nicolas Rincon Gille
Editing: Manon Coubia
So...
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THE GOODBYE
Rosana, a Bolivian maid, has worked for Angela, the elder matriarch of the Vidal family for the last ten years. On the day of the funeral of her beloved Angela, Rosana is not allowed to grieve with the rest of the family. On the contrary: she is forced to work. THE GOODBYE is an intimate story ab...
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THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI
Everything is set for Olli Mäki to become the first ever Finn to be the world champion in featherweight boxing. His manager Elis Ask – a former boxer himself – has prepared everything for them to reach fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But he has a problem – he ...
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THE LURE
Two mermaid sisters swim from the sea into a Warsaw nightclub in what could be the 80s. They are wild, beautiful and sexy, and hungry for life. While becoming stars practically overnight, one of them falls in love with a handsome young bass player. This will question their sisterly bonds to the ...
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THE OLIVE TREE
Alma, 20, works in a chicken farm by the village of Canet, in the province of Castellon, on the East coast of Spain. She has a profound connection with her dearly beloved grandfather despite the fact that he has stopped talking years ago. But when he begins to refuse food too, Alma becomes obses...
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THE PARADISE SUITE
THE PARADISE SUITE is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite of what she had hoped for. Her gruelling captivity for...
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THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER
Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, Jewish himself, has been trying to take crimes f...
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THE STUDENT
Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions.
- Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis?
- Does sex education have a place in school?
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THE UNKNOWN GIRL
One evening, after closing her practice for the day, Jenny, a young doctor, hears the doorbell ring but doesn’t answer it. The next day, the police inform her that an unidentified young woman has been found dead close by.
Direction: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Script: Jean-Pierre Dardenn...
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THE WALL
Hongkong. A multitude of concrete skyscrapers without personality. Inside, cramped studios where the anonymous live among themselves. Until the day when bachelor Chung decides to hang up a picture ...
Direction: Samuel Lampaert
Script: Samuel Lampaert
Production: Nicolas George, Nicolas George...
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THIRST
In the struggle of daily existence, the thirst for love may be greater than that for life itself.
A couple and their teen-aged son eke out a living on a hilltop, doing the laundry for local hotels, despite the intermittent water supply. Their simple life is overturned by the arrival of a father-a... -
UNITED STATES OF LOVE
Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires.
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WE ALL LOVE THE SEA SHORE
A group of men is waiting at the fringes of a coastal woodland for the journey to Europe. They get trapped in a temporal threshold. A film is shot there with the men playing themselves. The landscape changes and where they are is no longer their motherland. There are no beautiful beaches, the wat...
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WEDDING DOLL
WEDDING DOLL follows a young talented woman, Hagit, who dreams of love, marriage and freedom from the strict guidance of her mother, an overprotective divorcee. Hagit strikes up a relationship with her boss' son at the toilet paper factory where she works. While hiding the blossoming romance from...
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WE'LL BE ALRIGHT
In Siberia, Russia, Alexander Kuznetsov follows Yulia & Katia who went from an orphanage to a neuropsychiatric institution. Deprived of freedom, work and family, they had no say in it and getting those fundamental rights back is a long and painful bureaucratic process. WE'LL BE ALRIGHT is their ...