2017 Films

2017 Films

The 30th European Film Awards, celebrated - as every second year - in Berlin, saw a big Swedish success with THE SQUARE (Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark) taking home six of the awards: European Film as well as Comedy, Director and Screenwriter for Ruben Östlund, Actor for Claes Bang and Production Designer for Josefin Åsberg.

European Actress went to the Hungarian actress Alexandra Borbély in ON BODY AND SOUL by Ildikó Enyedi while LADY MACBETH by British director William Oldroyd won European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI. LOVING VINCENT (Poland, UK) by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman won European Animated Feature Film and COMMUNION (Poland) by Anna Zamecka won European Documentary.

Other awards went to LOVELESS (Michail Krichman, Cinematograper and Evgueni & Sacha Galperine, Composers), 120 BEATS PER MINUTE (Robin Campillo, Editor), SPOOR (Katarzyna Lewińska, Costume Designer) and A MONSTER CALLS (Oriol Tarragó, Sound Designer).

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2017 Films
  • INDIVISIBLE

    Daisy and Viola are siamese twin sisters on the verge of turning 18 living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and thanks to their performances at weddings, communions and baptisms, they get the livelihood for the whole family. Kept isolated from the rest of the world...

  • INFORMATION SKIES

    Information Skies is a post-truth essay in which live action and animation shape a new cinematic aesthetic. The film follows a young couple who believe to be living a perilous and heroic life. When the haunting of traumatic loss exposes their fantasy as fake, they immerse themselves further into ...

  • INSYRIATED

    A family trapped inside its own home somewhere in Syria today. The try to go on living day after day. Their apartment has become a sort of blockhaus. Every day's moto is to hold on for one more day.

    Direction: Philippe Van Leeuw

    Script: Philippe Van Leeuw

    Production: Guillaume Malandrin, Serge...

  • IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT

    In early autumn of ’89 the Powileits, an East-German family, celebrate the 90th birthday of patriarch Wilhelm who is a former resistance fighter, returned expatriate and incorrigible Stalinist. His wife Charlotte is hosting the festivities where neighbors, acquaintances and dignitaries show up, d...

  • ISTANBUL RED

    Orhan Şahin, a writer-editor who has spent years living overseas, returns to Istanbul after being asked to work on the first book by well-known director Deniz Soysal. Deniz lives in a waterside mansion on the Bosphorus with his parents, who are well into their twilight years. When Deniz mysteriou...

  • KARENINA & I

    Norwegian actress GØRILD MAUSETH is challenged by the almost impossible task of playing ANNA KARENINA in a language she never spoke and in the author's home country. She embarks on a journey to learn Russian and discover the real reasons why Tolstoy (LIAM NEESON) wrote the novel. What Gørild does...

  • KING OF THE BELGIANS

    The King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk sing...

  • LA CHANA

    With depth, humor and pathos, La Chana celebrates the charisma and flair of a self-taught Gypsy flamenco dancer who in the 1960s-80s rose to international stardom and then suddenly vanished from the public eye at the height of her career. Peter Sellers saw her dance as a young woman and asked he...

  • LAYLA M.

    Layla is an 18-year old girl, born and raised in Amsterdam. Layla is smart, witty and stubborn – and of Moroccan background. In the times of constant terrorist threat, she struggles with the increasing suspicion towards girls with headscarves and boys with beards that she witnesses every day. Whi...

  • LIBERA NOS

    Exorcism is still a fact of contemporary life. Every year, more and more people claim that their illnesses are caused by demonic possession.
    Father Cataldo is a veteran, one of the most sought-after exorcists in Sicily. Every Tuesday, many believers follow his mass of liberation, searching for a ...

  • LOVE

    LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light. This pulsing planet makes the inhabitants become one with each o...

  • LOVELESS

    Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, a...

  • LOVING VINCENT

    The world’s first feature-length painted animation. The life and controversial death of Vincent van Gogh is told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them, featuring over 120 of van Gogh’s greatest paintings.

    Direction: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman

    Script: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh W...

  • MY GRANDMOTHER FANNY KAPLAN

    1917, the Crimea. A blind woman Fanny Kaplan (Katerina Molchanova) is pardoned after serving ten years for terrorism at a hard labour camp and goes to a rest home in Yevpatoria. There, Fanny meets a doctor Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy). He is incidentally the brother of Vladimi...

  • NOTHINGWOOD

    About a hundred kilometers away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the process.
    He has brought with him his regular troupe of actors, each more eccentric and out of control ...

  • ON BODY AND SOUL

    What if one day you met someone who, at night, dreams the same dream you do. Try and imagine... Would you be thrilled? Would you be scared? Would find it funny? Or rather intrusive? Or, perhaps, romantic? But what if you are not the romantic type at all? If you shudder at the thought of esoteric ...

  • PARADISE

    PARADISE tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war.
    Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Resistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a surprise raid. As her punis...

  • REQUIEM FOR MRS. J.

    Mrs J., a former administrative clerk, decides to complete
    all her tasks: she washes a sink full of dishes, goes to the
    store, and digs up an old family pistol. It is her late husband’s
    pistol. She is determined to kill herself with the gun on the
    anniversary of her husband’s death in a week’s ti...

  • RETURN TO MONTAUK

    Max Zorn (Stellan Skarsgård) arrives in New York to promote his last novel. He will stay a few days to do some readings and publicity. The woman (Susanne Wolff) he lives with in Berlin has been in town a few months already to do an internship at the publishing house. Her name is Clara and she is ...

  • SAMI BLOOD

    Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

    Direction: Aman...

  • SCHOOL LIFE

    In the verdant village of Kells, Ireland, there's an antidote to the dark times we live in—a worn and weathered boarding school with a special magic. At the heart of the school is a bemused elderly couple, John and Amanda Leyden, who have taught with equal parts seriousness and silliness for more...

  • SON OF SOFIA

    Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark sid...

  • SPOOR

    WINNER EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2017

    Duszejko, an eccentric retired construction engineer, an astrologist and a vegetarian lives in a small mountain village on the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved dogs disappear. They cannot be found anywhere. A few months later on a snowy night Duszejk...

  • STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE

    The years of exile in the life of Stefan Zweig, one of the most read German-language writers of his time, between Buenos Aires, New York and Brazil. As a Jewish intellectual, Zweig struggles to find the right stance towards the events in Nazi Germany, while searching for a home in the new world.
    ...