Things I've Seen at Film Festivals
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- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdBruno GanzPål Sverre HagenAfter his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.
- DirectorPernille Fischer ChristensenStarsMikael PersbrandtTrine DyrholmBirgitte Hjort SørensenWorld-famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob, based in Los Angeles, is a very successful man who have burned many bridges. He lives and breathes music and very little else. When Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album with his regular producer Molly Moe, his grown-up daughter Julie shows up with his 11-year-old grandson Noa, whom he has never met. Much against his will, Thomas is soon forced to look after Noa. Against all odd, the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. Then disaster strikes, forcing Thomas to realize, that he now must make a life-changing choice.
- DirectorKamen KalevStarsChristo ChristovOvanes TorosianSaadet AksoyThrough Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.Bulgarian
- DirectorKonstantin BojanovStarsAngela NedyalkovOvanes TorosianMartin BrambachTwo troubled teens hitchhike across Bulgaria.Bulgarian
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsJuliette BinocheKristen StewartChloë Grace MoretzA film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
- DirectorFelix HerngrenStarsRobert GustafssonIwar WiklanderDavid WibergAfter living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.Filmfest DC 2015
- DirectorCédric JimenezStarsJean DujardinGilles LelloucheCéline SalletteA French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.Filmfest DC 2015
- DirectorIvano De MatteoStarsAlessandro GassmannGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioTensions between two brothers and their families escalate when a video of two teenagers, possibly son of one brother and daughter of the other, beating a homeless woman to death, shows up.Filmfest DC 2015
- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsFrançois CluzetOmar SyAnne Le NyAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
- DirectorRené SampaioStarsFabrício BoliveiraIsis ValverdeFelipe AbibJoão do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.Brazilian Filmfest
- DirectorPeter LuisiStarsFabian KrügerIrene BrüggerBeat SchlatterOne fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand. Day after day the sand increases and soon his time literally starts running short. Finally he is left no choice but to ask Sandra for help, who runs a small coffee shop under his apartment. Although Benno hates her with a passion, he started having dreams of her every night. What could Sandra and the dreams have to do with the sand?
- DirectorJuan Andrés Arango GarciaStarsLuis Carlos GuevaraJamés SolísAndrés MurilloTomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country's Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the difficulties of growing up in a city of exclusion and racism. When Jairo, his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas plunges into the streets of the city. His search becomes an initiatory journey that compels him to face his past and to leave aside the influence of his brothers in order to find his own identity. Through this journey, Tomas reveals a unique perspective of a vibrant and unstable city that, like Tomas, stands on the threshold between what once was and what might be.
- DirectorTorben BechOtto RosingStarsLars RosingAngunnguaq LarsenJulie BerthelsenA love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsDaniel FanegoRomina RicciAtilio PozzobónPablo, an over-the-hill novelist, is haunted by the characters from his books, who are angry that he won't continue to write their lives.
- DirectorYasemin SamdereliStarsVedat ErincinFahri YardimLilay HuserThe story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilos SamolovHristina PopovicA homophobic Serbian gangster is forced to make a deal with wedding planner gay activist, to assemble a team which will protect the upcoming Pride Parade in Belgrade, and in exchange his fiancée can get her dream wedding.
- DirectorStephen BrownStarsCiarán HindsSinéad CusackJoe GallagherThe story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
- DirectorMaya VitkovaStarsIrmena ChichikovaDaria VitkovaKalina VitkovaUnwanted by her mother, Viktoria is being born with no umbilical cord and doesn't need Boryana until the hardships of life bind them together.Bulgarian. Filmfest DC 2014
- DirectorMariana ChenilloStarsFernando LujánEnrique ArreolaAri BrickmanThis story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
- DirectorOla SimonssonJohannes Stjärne NilssonStarsBengt BraskeredSanna PerssonMagnus BörjesonA tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.Filmfest DC
- DirectorPawel SalaStarsEwa SkibinskaMateusz KosciukiewiczFilip GarbaczPolice arrest two brothers, Artur and Martin, at their aunt's provincial motel and escort them to jail in the capital. Unfolding in flashback, the film seeks out the motives for the crime they have committed. How did such irrational evil germinate in boys from a good family? Mother Teresa loves her two sons and sympathizes with her husband Hubert, a professional soldier traumatized by his experiences in Iraq. She helps music student Eva who lives with them and cares for their autistic daughter Jadza, and she is kindhearted to stray cats as well, allowing them to fill up their large apartment. Twenty-two-year-old Artur, fascinated by psychotronics, falls prey to the illusion of his own extraordinariness. He has his younger brother Martin completely under his control and their mother suspects nothing. His sense of superiority is confirmed by his father's growing impotence, and he scorns the man for investing his retirement bonus foolishly. But the sons' motives don't reflect the seriousness of their actions.
- DirectorSharon MaymonErez TadmorStarsItzik CohenIrit KaplanDvir BenedekA comedy about a 'coming out' of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsJuliette BinocheWilliam ShimellJean-Claude CarrièreIn Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTilda SwintonFlavio ParentiEdoardo GabbrielliniEmma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
- DirectorTomislav MrsicStarsSasa AnocicZivko AnocicMatija AntolicEight outsiders are trying to create a theater play while breaking every rule of theater craft.EU Film Showcase