Filmfestival Würzburg 2018
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- DirectorRamona S. DiazTaking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it's absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.
- DirectorBill WattersonStarsMeera Rohit KumbhaniNick ThuneAdam BuschDave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsAmi TomiteMariko TsutsuiFujikoJapan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
- DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsHaydar AbdulamirHuda AbdulamirBennet De BrabandereAs Sara stands on the cusp of committing an unthinkable act, an unforeseen and awkward encounter gives her the opportunity to witness the potential consequences of her destructive action. But is this a second chance or an admission of guilt?
- DirectorJustin ChonStarsSimone BakerJustin ChonCurtiss Cook Jr.Two Korean-American brothers run a shoe store in L.A. county. Their friend, black eleven-year-old Kamilla, drops in and helps. On this day, the Rodney King verdict ignites the 1992 L.A. riots.
- DirectorThomas VincentStarsThierry LhermitteGéraldine PailhasPierre CurziFollowing a rare accident, Paul Sneijder opened his eyes to the reality of his life as a "senior manager" in Montreal: his work no longer interested him, his wife annoyed him and deceived him, his two sons despised him ... How can we continue to live under these conditions? Starting with a change of profession: dog walker for example! Will his relatives accept this change that will turn him into a free man?
- DirectorAndrea SegreStarsPaolo PierobonGiuseppe BattistonFabrizio FerracaneCorrado, a policeman for the European task force in charge of immigration control, is on a field assignment in Libya. During a night patrol in the desert, he meets Swada, a young Somaliwoman who left her war-ravaged country.
- DirectorRayhana ObermeyerStarsHiam AbbassFadila BelkeblaNadia KaciFatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for Fatima in particular. Already, while walking to her place of work, she is the distant witness of a terrorist attack. At the hammam, Fatima should feel better, but the atmosphere proves electric in her small enclosed world, she has great difficulty in maintaining order. All the more as Meriem, a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl comes to take shelter at the hammam. And as irate brother, Mohamed, is after her to cleanse his honor in blood.
- DirectorMouly SuryaStarsMarsha TimothyEgy FedlyTumpal TampubolonMarlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
- DirectorTimo GroßpietschChristian von BrockhausenStarsMaze ExlerMichael BorwitzkyOle FriesWe Were Kings is a documentary about the legendary German grunge band Union Youth. 15 years ago they made it from the province to L.A., and then failed in the most brutal way. Now attempting a comeback as the band "Pictures" with some new members, they face their demons in order to make music once again. A gripping musical drama about drug addiction, responsibility and the power of friendship.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
- DirectorHuân VuStarsPaul DorschJürgen HeimüllerIngo HeiseA boy, looking for his missing father, travels to Germany and uncovers a haunting legacy that a meteorite left behind in the area. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Color Out of Space."
- DirectorJan SpeckenbachStarsJohanna WokalekHans-Jochen WagnerMartin LeutgebA mother goes away, leaving her husband and their two children in limbo. She is driven by a force she cannot ignore: freedom.
- DirectorHelmut KöppingMichael OstrowskiStarsMichael OstrowskiPia HierzeggerGerald VotavaAn heiress of her uncle's Hotel building tries to reopen the Hotel with the help of two friends with whom she performs in a rock&roll band. Neither does she know that a man working as a gardener robbed the local bank nor did she know her uncle was nearly bancrupt for owing money to the very same bank. So would it work out to pay the debts to the bank by stealing the stolen money....?
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
- DirectorIvette LöckerDirector: "Just as I thought that I could finally put my feelings for my parents and my origins to rest, my father decided to leave me his crumbling farmhouse. This stone inheritance is supposed to tie me again to the place where I grew up. It is supposed to bring me closer to my parents again. I have trouble breathing as I realise that my journey to understand my family has only just started."
- DirectorMichael SchmittStarsMaria AlferDavid BergerBrigitte DistlerCatholic Religion teachers who are openly gay are punished with the revocation of their 'Missio Canonica', the legal authorization to teach Catholic Religion in high schools.
- DirectorAlessandro AronadioStarsDaniele ParisiSilvia D'AmicoRocco PapaleoThis tragicomedy begins when a man wakes up with a low ringing sound in his ears and discovers a cryptic note on his fridge "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car."
- DirectorJon HaukelandStarsHachimNoahTim15 year old Noah from Oslo is arrested and charged on four accounts of robbery of other children. He is moved away from his childhood friends to Bærum to start anew. The film follows three of 19 accused of these robberies in Oslo 2013.
- DirectorTamer El SaidStarsKhalid AbdallaLaila SamyHanan YoussefA documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.
- DirectorTony GatlifStarsDaphné PatakiaSimon AbkarianMaryne CayonA Greek girl meets a French woman in Constantinople.
- DirectorNils-Erik EkblomStarsMikko KauppilaValtteri LehtinenSanna MajuriScrewed (orig. Pihalla) is a Finnish drama film about two 17-year-olds, Miku and Elias, who find themselves, and each other, during a summer in the Finnish countryside and discover that love is not as easy as it seems.
- DirectorEric GravelStarsIndia HairJulie DepardieuYolande MoreauAglaé has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts to go to India to hold on to her job...
- DirectorBoudewijn KooleStarsRifka LodeizenElsie de BrauwEva GaretAn ill Dutch woman visits her family in Norway in hopes of reconnecting with her estranged mother.
- DirectorHenry RinconStarsFederico LópezValentina CifuentesHéctor GarcíaHero Steps is a heartrending drama about triumph in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity. If little Eduardo can follow his dreams, then surely there's hope for all of us.
- DirectorHardi VolmerStarsÜllar SaaremäeViktor SukhorukovAndrus VaarikKeskküla organizes the so called school of Lenins where the training of Lenin's doubles begins.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsEzra GoddenFrancisco RabalRaquel MeroñoA boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
- DirectorAlankrita ShrivastavaStarsAahana KumraRatna Pathak ShahKonkona Sen SharmaIn order to be independent and break free from the conservative society, four women sets on a journey to discover freedom and happiness.
- DirectorKatja WikStarsEleazar BlomgrenIza BoëthiusLove CarlssonWith equal parts of humor and seriousness, we follow three relationships and three women.
- DirectorRuth MaderStarsFritz KarlKatharina LorenzFlorian TeichtmeisterLife Guidance, the eponymous agency supports people in leading an optimal life. When Alexander lets the wrong thing slip out one day, Life Guidance arrives on the scene immediately.
- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsNoée AbitaLaure CalamyJuan Cano13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsNik XhelilajGüler ÖktenLevent ÖzdilekZer is a young man's journey into his roots, an exploration of a song originated in a village removed from history.
- DirectorKaterina SuvorovaSet on the arid seabed of the former Aral Sea, the documentary film "Sea Tomorrow" takes us on a journey into the world after the apocalypse.
- DirectorOfir Raul GraizerStarsTim KalkhofSarah AdlerRoi MillerA German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
- DirectorGuillaume SenezStarsKacey Mottet KleinGalatéa BellugiCatherine SaléeThe story of two teenagers that are about to have a baby. After deciding they will keep the baby, they have to deal with their parents and also with their everyday life.
- DirectorZaradasht AhmedStarsAbu FallahHans HusumMudhafar"Nowhere to Hide" follows a man - the medic and father Nori Sharif - through 5 years of dramatic change in the war-torn Diyala-province; one of the most dangerous provinces in the middle of Iraq. From the time of the American retreat to the fall of Nori's home town, we follow him filming stories of survivors. In a world trapped between ISIS and the different Iraqi Militias, his integrity and humanitarian vision is the only thing that drives him to continue against all odds. Even when, as last man standing, he is forced to turn the camera towards himself. We are given a unique insight into one of the worlds most dangerous and inaccessible areas - the "triangle of death" in central Iraq. We get to know and hear the stories of the people who live there; survivors of this 'new war" that has become the norm - where the enemy is invisible, and there is nowhere to hide.
- DirectorKornél MundruczóStarsMerab NinidzeZsombor JégerGyörgy CserhalmiAryan is a Syrian refugee trying to make his way into Hungary from Serbia, along with his father and many other wretched souls. They are all caught, and find themselves in a web of cynicism and corruption.
- DirectorKohki HaseiStarsDon Gordon BellJomar BisuyoRaymond CamachoAbandoned in the shabby urban slums of Manila, the 11-year-old street urchin, Blanka, struggles for survival in a cruel world to succeed in her ultimate goal: to create the best family money can buy.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoIrina GorbachevaNikolay ShrayberA paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
- DirectorRojda SekersözStarsAdel AhmadEvin AhmadStina AlmquistMirja must find her place after serving jail time. When she gets a job as a hotel cleaner she starts living a double life. She's torn between her sick mother and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsFunda EryigitEcem UzunMehmet KurtulusTwo Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
- DirectorSydney SibiliaStarsEdoardo LeoValerio ApreaStefano FresiThe return of the team of researchers who, to delete their problems with law, decide to help police to find new smart drugs.