A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life… The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba’s marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.)
16-year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious deaths happen and Marie can feel something strange happening to her body.)
In searching for clients, a taxi driver meets a man returning from working in Spain. During the ride to the client’s home, we find out that the taxi driver is interested also in leaving his country and going to work abroad. But after he sees the cold reunion of his client’s family he has some second thoughts.
In a journey between Viseu and Lisboa, Jorge Silva Melo rebuilds for the actor Pedro Gil his relationship with Álvaro Lapa, the interviews he filmed with the artist, the years he passed watching the growth of one of the most peculiar works in the Portuguese art scene. And the question: what is literature? A long journey of initiation, reviewing all the pictorial and literary work and ending with Álvaro Lapa’s declaration: Available, available is youth. Even if it is incapable, destructive. But it’s available.
“What’s your job, daddy?”. HPG (Hervé Pierre-Gustave), porno film director and actor, tries to answer his kids the best way he can: with a new film.)
“Veil” is an animated sensual and sensorial experience on desire and our perspective over bodies. )
Three young men from Western Europe arrive in Romania with a humanitarian aid transport. The inhabitants of a little Romanian mountain village are already waiting.
The story of a group of individuals coming from different realities, who reveal their personal aspirations and pathways through a common instrument ‚ the Ads newspaper. To register the encounters made possible by the ads in order to reveal the interest, they raise and the needs they create.
Ana and Ricardo just moved in to a new house located in a private estate. Ana relaxes, Ricardo places the books on the shelves, Sofia, the housekeeper does the cleaning. Outside, the neighbors play golf.
“Your Heart At Random” speaks of another kind of child: a grown man that speaks his heart out to strangers.)
“White Chimney” looks for the remains of a past life (during World War II) in a famous hotel and forest in Finland.)
“Yes We Love” builds a comical portrait on love and hate of four generations in Norway. )
Emir Kusturica’s second feature film about the history of Jugoslavia a father who went away, for political reasons, on “a business trip”.)
In Singapore, censorship is fairly strict. So when the film maker filmed an erect penis, he knew he could never screen it at home. And he might go to jail.
Tavi, a man in his late thirties, discovers that Alexandra, his 4 years old daughter, is not calling him Dad anymore.
Karcsi, a Roma-boy from a small hungarian village, died of pulmonary embolism in spring 2006, briefly before his 10th birthday. His school mates and friends remember him and tell his story. Memory and imagination blend into a sensitive and colourful narration about their dead friend. The adult world is far away and present at the same time. Karcsi stays invisible throughout the film, but his presence is drawn in each sentence and gesture of the boys.
“Yen Yen” plays on the experience that water and land have in human perspective.)
The 6th edition of a punk rock festival in Tomasevac, Serbia, might not be the greatest idea to success as a music promoter. But Zivan’s determination, despite missing bands and no audience, will try to prove otherwise.)
