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COLOMBIANOS
Fernando's life in Stockholm seems to be going nowhere. He is struggling with substance abuse and his despairing mother, Olga, wants him to go and spend time with his older brother Pablo in Colombia. Pablo has a plan on how to get Fernando clean in six months, but is Fernando ready to make a change ? The painful effects of codependency take their toll as the once-enthusiastic Pablo gradually loses faith in his mission.
Director: Tora
Mårtens
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VODKA FACTORY
Working at the assembly line, bringing up children alone, dreaming of happiness - women's lives in the Russian provinces. But Valentina wants more, whatever the price..... an insightful drama.
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
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BOMBAY X-RAY
A carrier in Bombay and his exhaust fume corroded lungs. A terse and laconic glimpse of the deep social rifts in the second-biggest city on earth.
Director: Ryszard Solarz
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Time Out of Place.
Sometimes time stands perfectly still, holding its breath. Time out of place is a film about these moments, elusive yet eternal. Sara stands on a balcony looking down at the city summer night. Everything that happens on the street seems to mirror her situation. It's a film about the moment you decide to break up. Everything that you once believed in still echoes inside of you, but you've already moved on.
Director: Ylva Forner
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Beauty Refugee.
"Thirty of my family members and relatives have been operated on at least once by my brother, a plastic surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Having grown up as a "work-in-progress" where the "material", myself , was constantly questioned, as an adult I had to ask my family: why ?".
Director: Claudia Lisboa
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Hjärtrud.
This is a film about the one great passion. The great passion that could have been something, but passed away, vanished. The story is absurd, yet rooted in much we can recognise.
Director: Eva Brise
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The Smoking Room.
The Smoking Room is a documentary about Finland and Finnish people at the beginning of the 21st century, viewed through different smoking rooms throughout the country. The people sitting in the smoking rooms, their life situations and stories, reflect life as a citizen in present day Finland. The film is a collage about the reality of five different smoking rooms, visiting a hospital, a factory, a train, a public transport company, and a home for war veterans. The film is a still of the present day.
Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen
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Paradise.
"A marriage that survives wallpapering can survive anything" - according to a Northern Swedish proverb . Hans and Kerstin Stralström a couple who are both eighty-three years old, put their 60-year long marriage on the rocks when they set out to wallpaper their cottage together in Pojkjärvi outside Kiruna in the north of Sweden. A seemingly harmless project sets off a number of incidents that lead to a showdown the two spouses Stralström have been avoiding during their whole time together. A romantic docu-comedy and the third part of the trilogy about the Kiruna Tango couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström.
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
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Iranian Kidney Bargain Sale. A film about the organ trade that takes place in various clinics around Iran. Every ten minutes, a young person wishing to sell their kidney reports to the reception of one of the official kidney referral agencies.
Director: Nima Sarvestani
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Best Friends. The film follows Olesia and Natasha, two thirteen years old girls from the city of Krasnoyarsk, in the heart of Siberia. They are classmates but most of all "best friends". They are really done for each other. But when their school organize a sort of local Fame Factory, the strong friendship between Olesia and Natasha is put under threat. Will it survive?
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
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Leda's Longing - A Swan Film. One day, Leda has had enough. She decides to leave the countryside and the forest to travel to Stockholm, the city of her dreams. A film about intrigue, food, love and longing to find your way through life. Finding your place. It is about those who wear a snow-white plumage and have long, proud necks. It is about the swans in Stockholm.
Director: Karin Wegsjö
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Forgotten is a film about two young women Ania and Gosia from the former PGRs areas - the gigantic labour camps that were set up for farmers during the communist heyday in Poland. After the change of the political system the camps have been left in poverty and penury. Ania and Gosia decide to travel to Warsaw in search for a better life. Here they are confronted with situations which put their convictions, values and religious beliefs to the test.
Director: Agnieszka Lukasiak |
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My American Family. Gaetano Merenda and his son Antonio travel to America to attend a family reunion and discover that it wasn't distance which split the family for 100 years ago but an unsuccesful bank robber.
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski |
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Stockholm -75. The story of a former RAF terrorist. In 1975 Commando Holger Meins occupies the West German Embassy in Stockholm. It ends in defeat for the occupants, four dead and a blown-up Embassy. Karl-Heinz Dellwo is then 23 years old. In 1995 he is released from prison. Today he has a new life but he will always be haunted by his violent past.
Director: David Aronowitsch |
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Jerusalem - My love. A film about Jerusalem's uncompromising nature of faith. The director's quest for faith becomes the 'little story' that mirrors Jerusalem's 'big story' - a story about loss, repression and love.
Director: Jeppe Rønde |
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WAR. The film is an examination of human behaviour under the extreme conditions of war, not only the atrocities we perform and the price we have to pay for these atrocities, but also the hope that lies in the compassion shown under the most difficult conditions imaginable.
Director: Jens Loftager |
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Angels of Brooklyn. Three Puerto Rican girls aged 18 to 20 who live in the projects around Bushwick Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn, one of the most deprived areas of New York. They dream of finding a way out of the hopelessness of their surroundings. Their stories are told with great respect and affection through little everyday events. With its lingering camera, calm rhythm and lyrical jazzy music track Angels of Brooklyn creates a contemplative space around the girls and their chaotic lives.
Directors: Martin Zandvliet & Camilla Hjelm Knudsen |
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Latina/Littoria: A Portrait of a Provincial City. Latina was the model city built by Mussolini seventy km south of Rome; today the city, after 50 years of Christian Democratic governments ended in a big corruption scandal, is run by a mayor with a simple program "I am a fascist!". The film follows the heated arguments and debates around the new city development plan. A sort of "commedia all'italiana" set in today's Italy.
Director: Gianfranco Pannone |
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