Children

Original title: 
Börn
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Country: 
Iceland
Year: 
2006
The lives of an underworld thug, a single mum with four kids and a schizophrenic entwine in a powerful symphony of redemption and revenge. more >>

Cold Light

Original title: 
Kaldaljós
Director: Hilmar Oddsson
Country: 
Iceland, Norway, UK, Germany
Year: 
2004
Grímur is a happy kid, his parents love him and he enjoys his lighthearted childhood. His passion is drawing and painting. Nobody senses that he unknowledgeable has the gift to foretell the future through his drawings. more >>

Falcons

Original title: 
Fálkar
Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Country: 
Iceland
Year: 
2002
Simon, who has taken too many punches from this world and has done too much time in U.S. prisons, returns to his ancestral homeland, Iceland, resigned to do himself in. more >>

Jerichow

Original title: 
Jerichow
Director: Christian Petzold
Country: 
Germany
Year: 
2008
Off the beaten path of life, three people stumble into a fateful encounter. Thomas, young and strong, has been dishonorably discharged from the army. Ali, an affable Turkish businessman, has seen some hard times but now his primary concern is making sure the employees of his snack-bars don't cheat on him. more >>

Madeinusa

Original title: 
Madeinusa
Director: Claudia Llosa Llosa
Country: 
Spain, Peru
Year: 
2006
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterised by its religious fervour. more >>

MEDIA Spot: European Cinema – Made for You!

Original title: 
European Cinema – Made for You!
Director: David Incorvaia
Year: 
2009
European films reflect our cultural diversity, our reality and our dreams. This is why the EU funds and supports European audiovisual production and distribution through the MEDIA programme. more >>

Parents

Original title: 
Foreldrar
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Country: 
Iceland
Year: 
2007
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. more >>

Rhapsody in White

Original title: 
Rapsodiya v byalo
Director: Tedi Moskov
Country: 
Bulgaria
Year: 
2002
This is the story of a woman, but not entirely a woman. Not entirely, because she is comically chubby. more >>

The Quiet Storm

Original title: 
Veðramót
Director: Guðný Halldórsdóttir
Country: 
Iceland
Year: 
2007
Quiet Storm is a feature film based on the director’s own experience back in the 1970s. A young girl breaks away from her petit bourgeois home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, more >>

The Seagull's Laughter

Original title: 
Mávahlátur
Director: Ágúst Guðmundsson
Country: 
Iceland, Germany, UK
Year: 
2001
Who is Freya? A Viking heroine? A fairy queen? A murderess? The goddess of love? more >>

The Unpolished

Original title: 
Die Unerzogenen
Director: Pia Marais Marais
Country: 
Germany
Year: 
2007
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. more >>

Which Way Today

Original title: 
A dnes nakade
Director: Rangel Vulchanov
Country: 
Bulgaria
Year: 
2007
Twenty-six young boys and girls set on a professional carrier in theatre are faced with an invisible selection committee. more >>

Wrong Rosary

Original title: 
Uzak ihtimal
Director: Mahmut Fazil Coskun
Country: 
Turkey
Year: 
2009
The young muslim Musa moves to Istanbul to be a muezzin. The community provides him a flat in an apartment house. He meets his neighbor, the young catholic nurse Clara. more >>

Yella

Original title: 
Yella
Director: Christian Petzold
Country: 
Germany
Year: 
2007
Yella has decided to leave her small town for a promising job and new life, leaving behind her failed marriage and broken dreams. After a humiliating professional setback, the winds change for pretty Yella when young executive Philipp takes a chance on her as his assistant. more >>