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- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsAtli Óskar FjalarssonIlva HolmesGísli Örn GarðarssonA 16-year old Icelandic boy's first kiss with another boy gives him "jitters"--feelings he can't deny. This is a well-written film that captures the confusion and excitement of being a teenager, with an attractive ensemble cast. The film follows the lives of several teens and the challenges they face, in particular with their parents/guardians.
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsThora Bjorg HelgaIngvar SigurdssonHalldóra GeirharðsdóttirA girl is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in the dark music of Black Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.
- DirectorNiall HeeryStarsJames NesbittMaisie WilliamsDavid WilmotAn offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
- DirectorNiall HeeryStarsJames NesbittMaisie WilliamsDavid WilmotAn offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
- DirectorBrendan MuldowneyStarsPollyanna McIntoshAmanda RyanRobert de HoogAn isolated and death-fixated young man tries to make sense of the world, and his existence, in the only way he knows how - by getting closer to death.
- DirectorDiederik Van RooijenStarsFedja van HuêtMatteo van der GrijnDerek de LintUpon learning she has an autistic brother she is convinced is unjustly behind bars for a brutal murder, a lawyer sets out to prove her sibling's innocence - only to uncover even more life-changing secrets in the process.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsAndreea BosneagVioleta Haret-PopaVasile MuraruDelia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.
- DirectorColette BothofStarsCarice van HoutenDragan BakemaMohammed ChaaraTwo passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings..
- DirectorGuido PietersStarsDanny de MunkWilleke van AmmelrooyHerman van VeenA poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsNelly FrijdaHuub StapelRené van 't HofA rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanRijk de GooyerViviane de MuynckFrits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsSylvia HoeksRenata LitvinovaDieter HallervordenThe Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
- DirectorDan ChisuStarsAdrian TitieniIonut VisanAnca FlorescuA story about the illusion of getting rich in Romania. In a country where stories of striking it rich are everywhere, anyone thinks such a thing is not only possible, but it's easily achievable. The storyline follows two destinies: one is of a young couple, Marius and Cosmina. Marius wrote an imaginary name on a lottery promotion ticket just to drag Cosmina. And the draw makes him the winner. The other is of two adults. Because of their lack of knowledge when it comes to modern technology, they get fooled by e-mail spam, fall for a false online lottery and lose their last savings. The stories meet at the end, when they lose all hope and refuse their only chance of getting rich. Finally we realize that the illusion of becoming rich puts ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
- DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsGeorge PistereanuAda CondeescuIon BesoiuA young man seduces poor girls in order to pass them to a prostitution ring.
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsMimi BranescuMirela OprisorMaria PopistasuPaul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsMircea DiaconuGheorghe DinicaMara NicolescuOvidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsMaia MorgensternRazvan VasilescuVictor RebengiucA description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
- DirectorMark PenneyStarsKaryn DwyerJefferson BrownGloria SladeAmy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?
- DirectorMark PenneyStarsMark PenneyAnthony FureyJulianna RibeiroRandom Snippets of people going through their daily routines, the eternal story.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsSophie RoisSebastian SchipperDevid StriesowA Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaRinko KikuchiKiko MizuharaToru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsSylvia PoortaAnneke BlokMonic HendrickxZus & Zo shows what three sisters are willing to do to stop their would-be sister-in-law from coming into possession of Paraíso, their beloved family summer home on the Portuguese coast.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRaymond J. BarryMichèle BernierThe first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases.
- DirectorPierre-Paul RendersStarsBenoît VerhaertAylin YayMagali PinglautIn the near future, a man confined to his apartment for eight years by agoraphobia and fear of human contact is prescribed remote sex therapy.
- DirectorMichiel ten HornStarsVivian DierickxJacqueline BlomTon KasThe members of a dysfunctional family begin to reinvent themselves thanks to the exchange student who moves in with them.