Director: Stefan Arsenijevic,
Nadejda Koseva, Mait Laas,
Kornél Mundruczó, Cristian
Mungiu, Jasmila Zbanic
Producer: Hanno Höfer, Damir Ibrahimovich, Christine Kiauk, Stefan Kitanov, Miroslav Mogorovich , Arvo Nuut, Viktória Petrányi , Herbert Schwering
Script: Stefan Arsenijevic,
Georgi Gospodinov, Nadejna
Koseva, Mait Laas, Kornél
Mundruczó, Victoria Petranyi,
Cristian Mungiu, Jasmila Zbanic
Cinematography: Christine A. Maier, Raivo Möllits, Oleg Mutu
Edition: Vanda Arányi, Guido Krajewski, Kersti Miilen, Niki Mossböck, Ksenija Orozovi, Raul Skopecz
Music: Marko Govorcin
Cast: Anna Broquet, Dan
Burghelea, Ines Cule, Krassimir Dokov, Milena Dravic, Kroot Juurak, Radivoj Knezevic, Katariina Lauk, Mait Malmsten, Milica Mihajlovic, Dunja Obradovich,
Valentin Popescu, Nikola Simic, Fedja Stojanovic, Orsolya Tóth, Zsolt Trill, Ana Ularu, Lii Unt, Joel Volkov, Svetla Yancheva, Ivan Yurukov

It’s time for the post-Communist generation from central and east
Europe –brought up in the middle of wars and chaos, and surrounded
by fragile democracies- to play a leading role in the world. In “Lost
and Found” six young filmmakers from that region present their personal visions about the concept of “generation”, and the differences
that sometimes separate them from their parents.

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Director: Inés Rabadán
Producer: Denis Delcampe
Script: Ines Rabadán,
Laurent Brandnbourger
Cinematography: Sabine Lancelin
Edition: Yann Dedet
Music: Marie-Eve Ronveaux
Cast: Emmanuel Salinger,
Emmanuel Salinger, Ilona Del Marie, Nathalie Richard, Claude Perron, Saskia Mukter, Bruno Putzulu, Fréderic Dussenne, Manuela Sanchez.

A black comedy about the clash of classes. Carl and his friends try to
buy Belhorizon, a luxury hotel, with the idea of turning it in to a hunt
lodge. On arrival he discovers Belhorizon is a sprawling, eccentrically
laid-out dump run by an immigrant Spanish couple. He begins a peculiar courtship with their daughter Esme, who dreams of escaping.
The arrival of a group of his friends does little to ease the dreamlike
tension caused by the non sense situation. A wimp to the “Discrete
charm of bourgeoisie”.

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Director: Fatih Akin
Producer: Sandra Harzer-Kux, Cristian Kux, Fatih Akin, Andreas Thiel, Klaus Maeck
Script: Fatih Akin
Cinematography: Hervé Dieu
Edition: Andrew Bird
Cast: Alexander Hacke,
Baba Zula, Orient Expressions, Duman, Replikas, Erkin Koray, Ceza, Istambul Style Breakers,
Mercan Dede, Selim Sesler,
Brenna MacCrimmon, Siyasiyabend, Aynur, Orhan Gencebay, Müzewen Senar, Sezen Aksu.

This documentary is about everyday life in Istanbul, the Turkish
metropolis, and its musical and cultural aspect. With this film, the
author and director, Fatih Akin presents to an international audience
the diverse and the extraordinary of the creativity expressions of music in the heart of Istanbul.

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Director: Lars von Trier
Producer: Vibeke Windoløv
Script: Lars von Trier
Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Edition: Molly Malene
Stensgaard, Bodil Kjærhauge
Music: Joachim Holbek
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard,
Isaach De Bankolé, Danny
Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michäel Abiteboul, Lauren Bacall, Jean- Marc Barr, Geoffrey Bateman, Virgile Bramly, Dona Croll, Jeremy Davies, Udo Kier, Chloë
Sevigny.

After a turbulent time spent in Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan
heads out, along with her father, to Manderlay, a small plantation
where Grace finds a group of people living in the same conditions as
seventy years ago, before the slavery abolition.
Grace feels that it is her duty to compensate the slaves for the injustices they had beard from white people.
Once Manderley is set free, Grace decides to stay there until the first
harvest. Her father, as much as he doesn’t want to leave her he does,
not before telling her, that he won’t be there to pick up the pieces
when the nice plan to redeem Manderley, falls apart.

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Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
Producer: Günter Rohrbach
Script: Johannes W. Betz
Cinematography: Martin Langer
Edition: Eva Schnare
Music: Niki Reiser
Cast: Nina Hoss, Jacky
Ido, Katja Flint, Antonio Prester,
Janek Rieke

“The White Massai”, tells the story of Carola, a Swiss tourist who finds the love of her life, Mombassa, a Massai Lemalian warrior. He earned her love with a dance and a few words in English. After send her ex-boyfriend back home, Carola decides to give up the life she has had in Switzerland to travel a thousand miles searching for her warrior. Once at his land, she will have to live with his lover’s tribe and to cope with their rules.

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Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Producer: Jürgen Haase
Script: Eberhard Görner,
Andreas Pflüger
Cinematography: Tomas Erhart
Edition: Peter R. Adam
Music: Alfred Schnittke
Cast: Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Bibiana Beglau, Hilmar Thate, Germain Wagner,
Jean-Paul Raths, Ivan Jirik, Karel Hromádka, Miroslav Sichmann, Adolf Filip.

In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration
camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer gets a nine days leave to return to his home town for his mother’s funeral. Along this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt tries to persuade Henry, to convince the local bishop to give-up resisting to the Germans and write a letter to the Vatican in the name of the Catholic Church of Luxemburg convincing the Pope to support the Nazi regime.

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Director: Jason Reitman
Producer: David O. Sacks
Script: Jason Reitman
Cinematography: James Whitaker
Edition: Dana E.
Glauberman
Music: Rolfe Kent
Cast: Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, David Koechner, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, J.K. Simmons, Robert
Duvall

“Thank you for Smoking” is a brutally satirical look to the “culture of
spin” that we experience nowdays. Nick Naylor, a spoke man for Big
Tobacco, earns his living by defending the rights of the smokers and
of the cigar-makers in the present neo-puritan culture. Nick undertakes
an aggressive public relations’ campaign on TV programs to contradict the dangers of smoking and hires a Hollywood agent to promote smoking in movies. This draws the attention of a reporter from an influential newspaper Washington. Finally Nick will face a death threat that perhaps will make him change his mind.

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Director: Malte Ludin
Producer: Iva Svarcová
Cinematography: Franz Lustig
Edition: Iva Svarcová,
Malte Ludin
Music: Werner Pirchner, Hakim Ludin

At 28, Hanns Elard Ludin controlled some 300 000 storm troopers. Eight years later, in 1941, Hitler appointed him “ambassador” to Slovakia.
After the war he was hanged, found guilty of conducting a central role in the exterminating of Slovakia’s Jewish population. Ludin’s youngest son, Malte, born in 1942, barely knew him. As filmmaker and writer he decided to confront his family with this taboo subject of the past. Although the truth about the father’s role in the war has been known, his widow, children and children’s children argue with Maltes inquieries as if the story were a secret that cannot be aired.

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Director: Colin Nutley
Producer: Judith Hackett,
Maritha Norstedt, Colin Nutley, Melvyn Singer
Script: Colin Nutley
Cinematography: Jens Fischer
Edition: Perry Schaffer
Music: Per Andréasson
Cast: Helena Bergström,
Lorcan Cranitch, Lindsay Duncan, Tim Dutton, Rolf Lassgård, Natasha Little, Elizabeth Spriggs, Peter Vaughan, Rollo Weeks, Eileen Atkins, Marc Pickering,
Simon Day, Bohdan Poraj,
John Joe Regan, James Hawkins

Jack is an 8-year-old boy, who by the end of WWII is sent to the English country to live with his grandmother. Once there, he finds out
that his mother had died in an accident. Eight years later, a Swedish
woman arrives to town and everybody gets surprised by her similarity
with the boy’s mother. When the real woman’s identity is clearedup,
chaos takes over the boy’s home and all the lies said start to
crumble.

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Director: Simon Rumley
Producer: Nick O’Hagan
GuiónScript: Simon Rumley
Cinematography: Milton Kam
Edition: Benjamin
Putland
Music: Richard Chester
Cast: Sarah Ball, Leo Bill,
Neil Conrich, Kate Fahy, Roger Lloyd-Pack

A family inhabits a giant mansion which has seen better times. The father must look after his sick wife, who cannot leave her bed unaided, and control his son, apparently schizophrenic, like a sevenyear- old trapped in the body of a man.
Rumley opens his narrative as a more or less conventional family drama, but he immediately takes it to furiously expressionist zone.
The Living and the Dead is, in fact, a horror film in which everyday facts of life such as illness, mental decline or old age substitute supernatural elements.

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Director: Rogier Kappers
Producer: Joost Verhey
Script: Rogier Kappers
Cinematography: Adri Schrover
Edition: Jos Driessen
Cast: Meter Kennedy,
Alan Lomas, Peggi Seeger

In the rock ‘n’ roll world Lomax was known by to have discovered RB’
musicians, such as Muddy Waters, when they were still working as
cotton pickers. But, above all, this corpulent and blond man was the
major compiler of country music of the twentieth century. Dutch
Rogier Kappiers begins this documentary with a serious objection:
Lomax has suffered a stroke that affected his memory and no longer
can be interviewed. The producer embarks then in a trip through
United States and Europe, where Lomax explains its métier and images
of its last days, composing a fresh, moving and nostalgic route.

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Director: Darko Lungulov
Producer: Darko Lungulov
Edition: Darko Lungulov
Cast: Dusan Zivanovic,
Ljiljana Zivanovic, Vlada Zivanovic.

In april of 1999 single mother Ljilja, with her two sons, Vlada and
Dusan, ironically flees the US led NATO bombing of Belgrado, Yugoslavia to New York City. The film “Escape” follows the first four years of their new “American life”. Then, only two and a half years after
the US-NATO bombing, the family experiencies yet another bombing-
New York, September 11 th. On that day, mother Ljilja nearly escapes
from the 80 th floor of the second tower of the World Trade Center.
“Escape” is multi-layered story about exile, survival, family, growing up, love and war

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Director: Christoph
Hochhäusler
Producer: Bettina Brokemper
Script: Christoph
Hochhäusler
Cinematography: Bernhard Keller
Edition: Stefan Stabenow
Music: Benedikt Wolfgang
Schieffer
Cast: Constantin von
Jascheroff, Manfred Zapatka, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Nora von Waldstätten, Devid Striesow,
Florian Panzner, Thomas
Dannemann, Laura Tonke, Dennis Prinz, Martin Kiefer.

Armin is 18 years old boy and who is in conflict about what to do with his life, since he has graduated. This the story of a young man who plays with his identity by living a life which isn’t his, and confessing to things he hasn’t done.
For, although Armin longs to escape the oppressive care of his parents, to have his own experiences and to find out who he is, he remains trapped in the world of the suburbs where everything is set so cozily.

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Director: Giuseppe Piccioni
Producer: Darko Lungulov
Script: Giuseppe Piccioni, Linda Ferri, Rosella Gualtiero
Cinematography: Arnaldo Catinari
Edition: Simona Paggi
Music: Michele Fedrigotti
Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio,
Sandra Ceccarelli, Galatea Ranzi

Laura and Stefano are actors who were chosen for the leading roles in a film. When the shooting starts, the actor, known as a reserved and self-controlled person, starts to give in to the intense attraction that he feels towards Laura. Day after day, the young couple recites love words to each other and, despite their own feelings, they progressively fall in love. As actors, they start to hide in the intimately duality of the movie script, and of their real life. This way they find a way to say the unspeakable and to declare to each other the mystery of their new feelings.

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Director: Jacob Thuesen
Producer: Thomas Heinesen
Script: Kim Fusz Aakeson
Cinematography: Sebastian Benkov
Edition: Per K.Kirkegaard
Music: Nicolaj Egelund
Cast: Troels Lyby, Sofie
Grábol, Kirstine Rosenkrands Mikkelsen, Louise Mieritz, Soren Malling.

Henrik, Nina, and their 14-year-old daughter Stine are a regular and
even happy family. When Stine accuses her father of having sexually
abused her when she was younger, everything changes.
After Henrik’s arrest, the relationship with his wife turns invisible, his friends disappear and he ends up alone in jail. Although pressure is huge for the couple, when the investigation ends and he is absolved,
Henrik picks up the relationship with his wife. But this time things with young Stine wouldn’t be so simple.

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Director: Wayne Kramer
Producer: Sean Furst, Michael A. Pierce
Script: Wayne Kramer,
Frank Hannah
Cinematography: James Whitaker
Edition: Arthur Coburn
Music: Mark Isham
Cast: William H. Macy,
Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello,
Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino, Estella Warren, Arthur J. Nascarella, Joey Fatone,
Ellen Greene.

Bernie is an unlucky and looser man that is hired by the owner of and old fashioned casino in Las Vegas to cool down the tables where people are winning. When Bernie shows up besides a gambler that is winning, his only presence shoots down the gambler’s luck.
At the casino, Bernie meets a beautiful waitress; they fall in love and
the situation changes, now everybody wins when Bernie shows up at the tables. Love has changed everything. The furious casino owner will do the impossible to destroy the romance.

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Director: Michael Haneke
Producer: Veit Heiduschka
Script: Michael Haneke
Cinematography: Christian Berger
Edition: Michael Hudecek,
Nadine Muse
Music: Ralph Rieckermann
Cast: Juliette Binoche,
Daniel Auteuil, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Lester Makedonsky.

George is a journalist who starts receiving packages containing videos of himself and his family -shot secretly from the street- with disturbing and strange draws in it.
As the videos get more personal he starts to think that the sender is somebody that knows him for some time He feels that his family and he are being threatened. Because the threat it is not explicit the police refuse to help.

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Director: Santiago Tabernero
Producer: Loris Omedes, Gaizka Urresti, Luis Angel Ramírez
Script: Santiago Tabernero
Cinematography: José Luis Alcaine
Edition: José Salcedo
Music: Matthew Herbert
Cast: Junio Valverde, Silvia
Abascal, Joan Dalmau, MiguelÁngel Silvestre, Ana Wagener, Carmen Machi, Andrés Lima, Nadia de Santiago, Natalia Abascal,
Maru Valdivielso, Adolfo
Fernández.

1975. The first color TV arrives to a crumbling, black and white Spain.
The spring emerges in autumn in the island’s neighborhood, where a 14- year- old boy called Fede undertakes with great difficulty the adventure of life. A story of initiation and first adventures, ogre’s and
princess tales, a choral portrait of life in the neighborhood, a black
fable full of secrets and mysteries of a long trip...

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Director: Dani Levy
Producer: Manuela Stehr
Script: Holger Franke,
Daniel Levy
Cinematography: Sebastian Benkov
Edition: Elena Bromund
Music: Niki Reiser
Cast: Henry Hübchen,
Hannelore Elsner, Udo Samuel, Golda Tencer, Steffen Groth, Anja Franke, Sebastian Blomberg, Elena Uhlig.

The Zuckermann’s are a family which members had been separated
for over 40 years from West Germany, in two hostile fields, Frankfurt/
Main and Berlin. They would have been still living in peace by their own, but Mama Zuckerman passes away. In her will she left everything to her children Jakob and Samuel, only if they work out their differences. But during the preparations for the funeral Jakob plays a snooker-cup for paying his debts with the money of the victory, and many other things mixes up.

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Director: José González Morandi, Eva Serrats Luyts
Script: José González
Morandi, Eva Serrats Luyts
Cinematography: José González Morandi
Edition: Nestor Domenèch,
José González Morandi, Eva Serrats Luyts
Music: Raúl Lucea

Almost a bonzo film, Troll is in essence one of the most immediate,
adrenalin-pumping films that recent Spanish cinema has been able
(or wise enough) to offer, with an absolute protagonist who overplays
herself, overflowing the screen, which (literally) exhibits her wounds and defects in such a way as to scare away the greener cinemagoers,
that lies as well as lectures from her hallucinated lucidity.

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Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Producer: Edouard Mauriat Script: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Cinematography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Edition: Tina Baz Le Gall
Music: Scrambled Eggs, Soap Kills
Cast: Ziad Saad, Julia Kassar, Alexandra Kahwagi

En la Guerra Civil del Líbano murieron más de 100.000 civiles y desaparecieron unos 170.000, entre estos últimos el marido de Claudia (Julia Kassar) y padre de Malek (Ziad Saad). Hoy es el día en que oficialmente será declarado muerto, y ellos una viuda y un huérfano. Pero aunque lo diga un papel, él sigue teniendo su ropa en el armario y en la cama su lado sigue vacío. Claudia ha pasado todo ese tiempo de espera forzosa volcada en su hijo, vigilante, controladora, sobreprotectora. Malek tiene lastres propios: una ex novia a la que nunca olvidó y a la que acecha por un Beirut reconstruido y sus crisis de narcolepsia, responsables de que el tiempo se le escape.

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