For two decades, the Enache family — nine kids and their parents — lived in a shack in the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world, with lakes and hundreds of species of animals and rare plants. When the authoriti...

Behind closed doors, a human tragedy plays out.

A universal theme, a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power.

The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, imposing on Greece the dictatorship of austerity with utter disregard for humanity and compassion.

A claustrophobic trap wit...

"Would you like me to tell you about my life?"
Editor Helga Pato is approached with this disconcerting question during a train journey. Her seatmate turns out to be Ángel Sanagustín, a psychiatrist who is specialised in personality disorders.
During the trip, Ángel tells her the sordid and deliri...

He calls himself „Catman“. Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. As he is yearning to become a father, he decides to fertilise his beloved cat Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad. ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK is a melodrama that portrays an unc...

AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT is a warm, engaging and often humerous celebration of an anti-trend, namely the comeback of 'analogue' in our increasingly digital lives. It follows its likeable anti-hero – a Viennese biologist who happens to be the world's leading (and only) expert on spider eye muscles – ...

There’s a theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teacher...

Eastern Ukraine, in the nearest future. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Sergey, a former soldier suffering from PTSD, is having trouble adapting to his new reality: a life in pieces, a land in ruins. When the smelter he works at finally shuts down, he finds an unexpected way to cope, jo...

London, just before Christmas: The strong-willed architect Amal – on the run from her ex-husband – works at Café Abu Nawas, which belongs to a Kurdish activist and is a popular meeting place for Iraqis in exile.

Her friends, the poet Taufiq and the IT specialist Muhanad, come by almost every da...

As Francis gets washed up on the shores of Southern Europe, he swears an oath to God: From now on he wants to be a new, a better, a decent man. Soon after Francis finds himself in Berlin, where he realises how hard it is to be righteous when you are an illegal refugee in Germany – without papers,...

The film revolves around the divorce of a 30-something couple, Salma, a Palestinian from Nazareth from her husband, Tamer, the son of a famous intellectual revolutionary killed in Beirut. Salma and Tamer have been married for the past five years and live in the Palestinian Territories.

The firs...

Sixteen-year-old Arturs enlists to fight in World War I, dreaming about becoming a hero, but after surviving the brutalities of trench warfare and the loss of his family, he wonders if his efforts in battle were futile and if hope is only to be found in re-building a family and a home as Latvia i...

This heart-warming tale presents a pivotal moment for Britain: the housing crisis, gentrification, Brexit and a Bulgarian migrant family fighting their increasingly xenophobic working-class neighbours in a London council estate. An apparently owner-less cat which has had enough of the heated atmo...

Alice hasn’t seen her two children in months. After a recent and difficult divorce, her ex-husband keeps them from seeing her, awaiting the final custody verdict in Northern Sweden.
When her son calls her in the middle of the night weeping helplessly, Alice takes action. She travels on the nigh...

In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists star...

CORPUS CHRISTI is the story of 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a youth detention centre. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival h...

Iceland, Christmas time. As everyone prepares for the holidays, a peculiar atmosphere falls upon the country revealing emotions of both excitement and concern. In the middle of the countryside, an abandoned farm is burning. In a school, a children’s choir is singing Christmas carols. In a slaught...

ÉDEN
Hungary, Romania, Belgium

Éva is allergic to all kinds of chemical substances, air pollution, radio waves and electronic fields. She needs to live in total isolation and can have no contact with her environment. The slightest mistake may cause her death. Her only relations are with her brot...

This is the story of a talented artist called Rainer Werner Fassbinder who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and the longing for respect and love of the outsiders. To achieve this goal the amateur pushes himself into a theatre collective, takes it over...

A small town in Serbia. Nikola, day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Despit...

ZÁRÓJELENTÉS
Hungary

A reputable cardiologist is sent unexpectedly into retirement. He feels at a loss without his work. However, when returning to his home village to celebrate his mother’s 90th birthday, he learns that the village has been without a doctor for over a year and decides to take o...

A full moon night. Hamza, a police inspector, takes his wife to the maternity ward. Her water broke and the doctor orders an urgent delivery. Hamza is worried but he has to leave her – he wasn't able to get the night off. At the police station it seems like the folk tales of the full moon's power...

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

Direction: Adrien Mérigeau

Script: Adrien Mérigeau, Nicolas Pleskof

Production: Amaury Ovise

Co-Production: Jean-Christophe Reymond

Cinematography: Adrien Mérigeau

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Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious ...

Toni, the son of an emigrant Italian mother, deported back to Italy from Switzerland where he had a difficult childhood and adolescence, lived for years in a shack by the river without ever succumbing to loneliness, the cold or hunger.
Meeting the sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati was his chance...