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- The 'Sky's the Limit' is the story of an 11 year-old boy, Sam, who has difficulties at school and conflicts due to miscommunication between him and his mother. He would like to become a circus performer, but nobody can understand him except his friend at school. Will Sam be able to pursue his passion?
- When a family of three (plus one rabbit) loses their social housing due to the father lying about being confined to a wheelchair, they are forced to move out and end up living in a cardboard box on top of a high-rise. Desperate to keep the family together and with a baby on the way, Steingrimur, the head of the family, comes up with a devious plan involving his pregnant wife and six other men. But nothing ever goes according to the plan.
- In the sequel to the surprise hit Üvegtigris (2001), we witness the 6 losers again as they run amok around the roadside buffet, which again fails to make their dreams come true, but which serves as the basis and end station of numerous funny adventures.
- According to a 2003 national happiness and overall life satisfaction study by Eurobarometer, Estonians were among the last within 27 European Union member states preceding only Bulgaria and Romania. With last seven years the percentage of happy people in Estonia has drastically increased. It is being talked about in public media, it is being widely popularised through happiness polls in shopping centres and we have a one of the kind Bank of Happiness. However, upon returning home after several years abroad, artist Minna Hint, senses that this so called gross national happiness is not reflected in her friends of whom many are deeply depressed. Is happiness predetermined by the DNA or is it also accessible to everybody?
- 1999–TV EpisodeVerbotene Liebe (1995) Star Andreas Stenschke surprises a 15-year old startled fan as he comes onto the studio stage. The young girl, who on the show had been talking with Andreas on the phone because he said he unfortunately couldn't come to the studio because he was too busy working, now gets to fulfill her great wish and dream to meet him personally in front of the cameras.
- After he meets mentor Clinton Mckenzie, Miloud must face his demons if he is to learn 'what be a man'. But are the demons real - or do they exist inside of him? A girl shall guide him next, on his road of trials, through worlds, heaven and the void.
- 'Ueberflieger - the art of ski jumping' tells the story of a whole season of ski jumping from the perspective of the top athletes Gregor Schlierenzauer, Thomas Morgenstern and Janne Ahonen. The insider's view shows a very different and so far unknown picture of the sport of ski jumping.
- What would you do if you could not afford death?
- Natalie's life is up in the air. The 13-year-old girl and her little brother Bern are separated from their mother and feel imprisoned by the new everyday life of the foster home. Waiting for contact to their sick mother a subtle drama slowly evolves about guilt, dependency and absolution between sister and brother. But soon Natalie is fed up with the responsibility and starts to search for change in her life.
- Anna and Enrico are two young lovers that want to escape together but need to solve their economic problems first. Enrico receives a wealthy offer from a mysterious but he refuses this offer thinking his friend Paolo will lend him some money. Tragedy appears in a dark roman night to discover the true meaning of love, friendship and revenge.
- When the beautiful Sable Simmons shows up in gun-for-hire Rupert McEntire's office, what ought to be just one more normal work day turns out to be an unexpected and dangerous journey of self-discovery. Enemies turn into allies while McEntire makes his way through the underground world of crime, searching for the answer that would solve the unusual case Sable Simmons hired him for: to put an end to the longing.
- During the last picture show a young couple is meeting and an old couple is saying goodbye, at all before the light switch off and the doors close, and to come the silent into the cinema. 'The Last Session' pays homage to cinema, to enjoy films on the big screen, and the end of 35mm film format.
- Dragonfly is the story of a couple that wants to get away. They want to spend time together in peace. They want to put something behind them. There is no such place. Someone will always find you. Someday someone will be at your door. Dragonfly is the story of people who collide, after a long time in separate lanes. Dragonfly is a modern chamber play, a triangle drama and a suspense story. A portrait of love and loyalty.
- Buster is a seriously-demanding, frantic child who forces his family to seek treatment and a cure for his manic behavior. During treatment conducted by a naturopath, the father is taken deeper behind his son's motivations, uncovering what seems to be a crucial problem in modern society. One in four children in America is treated with tranquilizing medicine, and in Europe leading doctors and child psychiatrists are calling out to bring attention to this increasing problem. How do we deal with frantic children?
- The Miklósis have started over with a clean slate, but their harmony is merely an illusion. Attila and Janka cannot forgive each other. Márk begins following in his godfather's footsteps again. There is an unexpected upshot to Mira's trial.
- Feó one day discovers that his late father was a martial arts legend. His father, Leo, had come a long way in developing a new style of fighting, based on ballet movements and positions, when he was killed by his arch-enemy, Frankódragó. Leo's apprentices support Feo in discovering the ballet gene and avenging his father's murder.
- A group of merry Stockholmers gather round every wednesday to produce "the only relevant talk show of today". Guests include a guy called "Jeansprofessorn" and notables such as Ola Lindholm, Hannah Widell & Jonna Berg and "Snubbelkungen from Hard Rock". The iraqi reporter Adel is always funny with his lists and segments.
- Documentary tells the own story of the director and his mother, also a story of an operation which was organized in Ulucanlar Prison in 1999. Director was seriously injured and 10 prisoners died in the operation. Many years after releasing from prison, the director learns that Ulucanlar Prison in which he stayed for four years is closed and opened to the public as a cultural center. While visiting the prison, a journey to his own experiences begins. Shared stories of director and his mother, who waited in front of Prison for days when his son was a prisoner, meet again in the cold corridor of Ulucanlar Prison. He and his mother start to travel into the past in Prison which is an important point of country's political and cultural history.
- After several years of absence, Linda is returning home to attend her father's funeral on the distant island of Ödeö. The closed community holds tightly to its past, maintaining its own outlook on life. Regardless of Linda's efforts to keep her distance, Ödeö has a habit of getting under her skin.
- Dååd investigate a string of children who have disappeared from an orphanage.
- As the Shinshodan Series starts up, the Oza is taken aback by Akira's seemingly easy rise to the pros. Instead of playing a simple exhibition match against the young prodigy, he's going to challenge Akira with everything he's got. Since he's never seen Akira play anyone other than himself, Hikaru can't wait to see this match, if only he can finish up his own match first!
- Six guys wacky guys, who worked together at a summer beach bar job, come across a letter from dream girl Eriko. The letter isn't addressed to anyone in particular, but asks if the recipient would meet her at the beach bar on Christmas Eve. Each of the men believe they are the one Eriko wants to meet and a heated battle between the lovelorn men begins. A seventh man, attorney Sekiguichi, then appears and also enters the competition!
- Setsuko, a 55-year-old single 'office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, 'Lucy,' by her unconventional young English instructor. 'Lucy' awakens desires that Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains: herself.
- Remake of "Oscar y Carlos" (1974). The same actors play the same roles and do the same thing, only eight years later and in color. Both still keep wanting to do movies and pick up girl. They telephone Nastassia Kinski and convince her to work in their short, but they have no money at all. So they shoot with and empty camera, with no film.
- Paula deals with a man who enters worried because he does not stop hearing the voice of his wife giving him orders. According to him, she died one year ago after suffering an aggressive treatment against the disease that she was suffering, and now she orders him to kill a doctor. Javier is going to make a party for inaugurate his new house and Leonor, who hasn't been invited and didn't know that Javier had left his parents's house, knows about it for Rusti and feels disgusted. Both want to be together again but don't recognize it. Elisa thinks that Santiago has forgot her wedding anniversary, but it's in a mistake. She remembers a lot Cecilia and is depressed after her death. Mario and Vilches compete for the place of chief of the unit of short stay.
- Five friends, a piano-player, an actor, a critic, a doctor and a banker meet again for a twentieth school anniversary in the countryside mansion of the piano player. But the sudden arrival of an attractive woman upsets their peaceful plans.
- A school year ahead, 40 special-needs teenagers, their teachers and one challenge: to produce an opera on their own. For seven months, this venture will help them cope with everyday life situations and prepare to be as self-sufficient as possible in the future. With Arts & Crafts as alibis, a lesson in effort, friendship, overcoming difficulties, imagination -even love- for the rest of the world.
- Ólafur gets many guests and talks about what's happening in Iceland. Politics and daily life are the subject and there is always something new going on.
- Island & Flight poetically explores the universe of contemporary travel by air. The film looks at the world of aviation to capture the emotional feeling of being suspended 35 000 ft in the air, between a distant past and an uncertain future. The movie is a visual and narrative collage of personal testimonials filmed in and out of 16 airports around the world. Seated by a window seat, the viewer is taken on a emotive journey on-board this giant island in flight.
- 20219h 53mTV EpisodePeriod: 1962-1984. The second episode discusses the films associated with the so-called Icelandic film spring, from the beginning and up to the mid-1980s. This is the period when regular production of Icelandic films began, and can be described as a creative explosion. Most of the films were very enthusiastically received by the public. The lead-up to this period is also described and how it led to the establishment of the Icelandic Film Fund in 1978, which laid the foundation for the continuous production of Icelandic films.
- 20219h 53mTV EpisodePeriod: 2011-2019. In the second decade of the century, the works of Icelandic directors attracted more attention on the international stage than ever before. These films are discussed and a group of foreign film experts are interviewed about the success of Icelandic films on the international stage. Sigurjón Sighvatsson's career as a producer in the United States is also discussed, and Baltasar Kormákur discusses both his Hollywood films and the films he made in Iceland during the decade. Finally, the current situation and future prospects are reviewed.
- In Architecture of Home we visit four different flats in former Union blocks in Reykjavik and learn about the relationship between the apartments and the inhabitants through their common everyday life. We follow how the inhabitants have ensconced in their small, but functionally designed flats, comfortably sheltered from the chaotic excess outside, characterizing Icelandic society before the financial crises. By focusing on details in the everyday life the film reveals what we always have in front of our eyes but never pay attention to. If you look close enough, the most ordinary things can become extraordinary.
- A ten-part documentary series on the history of Icelandic cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century up to and including 2019. Each episode covers a specific period, where films of that time are discussed and selected clips screened. The films' content, focus, approach and the circumstances in which they were made are reviewed. More than 140 interviewees appear in the series - directors, producers, screenwriters, actors and other filmmakers as well as numerous Icelandic and international film experts.
- The film, set in today's Budapest, is a romantic dramedy about the lies of relationships and creation, in which the world of advertising, book publishing and social media collide with the accidental meeting of the two protagonists. As the burnt-out advertiser and the esoteric success author come into ever closer contact with each other, they become entangled in a web of their own emotions and well-constructed lies.
- Being and Becoming explore the choice not to school ones children, to trust them and to let them learn freely what they are passionate about. Through four countries, the US, Germany (where it's illegal not to go to school), France and the UK, the film is a truth quest about the natural desire to learn.
- Enrique keeps Alma in his home while everybody is looking for the baby and her parents are desperate. Finally, Mónica, Raúl, and Diego find the baby in a rubbish container, and soon Enrique's secret is revealed. Héctor is very happy with Susana's first ultrasound scan and shows it to everybody. Aimé tells Maca that Javier is the best person to occupy his place, but it seems that the pediatrician is not sure about it. She has another option, Héctor, and Aimé doesn't like the fact that Maca ignores his opinion. Sofía asks Maca for a change because she isn't learning anything with Lola. Rai's sister is still interested in Raúl and thinks that the SAMUR's doctor is playing around with Jesús, so they have an argument.
- Made from odds and ends (flesh, fabric, paper, blood, saliva, paint, electrons and a handful of algorithms), this composition explores the unpredictability of movement, the texture of words, the color of sound and the rhythm of code. This is a primitive, almost childlike experiment with abstraction, substance and language.
- At the point where the peace process has reached yet another dead-end, Eyal Sivan tries to go beyond the idea of "the two-state solution". Through the use of editing, Sivan creates an encounter between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. Twenty parallel interviews on the theme of a common state. One talks, the other listens.
- Noel is a writer who was always been in love with the same woman, Inma, but he never said it to her. Now, Noel write his latest book, where he writes all the feelings about Inma, a book she will read. A book that they will speak the next day.
- After the baby's birth, Vilches must fulfill his obligations as a father and at the same time direct the service of Urgencias. The situation is difficult for him and he finally asks Dávila to find a substitute for him. Meanwhile, the executives of a construction company have been invited to an amateur bullfight. Two of them, Elvira and Sergio, discuss with their chief to be done by one since it would suppose an ascent. While she speaks heatedly with her superior, her opponent chooses to demonstrate his value jumping to the turn and doing a few passes. Suddenly, the chief starts suffocating, and to the surprise of all, Sergio gets confused and is attacked by the heifer. Héctor comes to work with his daughter Daniela, since he couldn't find anyone to look after her; her head hurts, and within a few hours she has a high fever, and Maca and Héctor can't figure out what's wrong. This misadventure will provides an opportunity to get Héctor and Gabriela face-to-face. Javier tries to recover his relation with Laura, but she proves to be reticent, since she is sure that Javier will not leave his wife. After supporting a chat with one of the patients, Laura will start clarifying her ideas.
- Juggling at being both Gisele by night and Antoine by day, Louise is forced to trust a new person with her secret. While also wanting to uncover the killers of her father's friend, she is also compelled to find the killer of a young model.
- One morning, while a Japanese city is devastated by an earthquake, Julie learns that the Canadian Shield, a geological region over which her village lies, is one of the safest places on earth to live. There are days when all the elements gather to tell us a message.
- When Jerome returns to Paris, he's got only one thing on his mind: to see Charlie. Wandering the streets of Montmartre, he reflects on their intense friendship and discovers more than he was expecting. Thanks to a dynamic story structure, the film unwinds as a story of secrets, manipulation and conflicts of interest. Egoist was shot in Paris in the summer of 2013 with a small, international team and a reduced budget, but with great amounts of creativity and perseverance.
- The true story of the most successful slave uprising in world history comes to the screen as filmmaker Nolan Walker explores the Haitian Revolution, the movement some historians site as the flashpoint for universal human rights.
- Two old retired fishermen, Siffi and Hjalti and their last boat trips(last ones?) in Hofsos, in the north of Iceland. One dealing with an advanced diabetes sickness, which is very tiring and sorrowful, the other struggling to accept his old age and thus abandoning his strong fisherman's personality that accompanied him since his youth.
- Encounter with Kandjoura Coulbaly, costume designer in Bamako (Mali).
- Nicolas, 12-years-old, is perfectly fond of his mother, Lorraine, who adopted him at his birth. Piano, tennis, chess, he has a ministerial schedule, and he is a happy child, for whom everything goes well until the day when - he discovers that Marcello, his beloved piano teacher, is in love with his mother. And Marcello is not a man like any other. Marcello is blind. Sharing his mother with a man is already very difficult, impossible. But to share it with a disabled person, that seems to him humiliating, devaluing, and unacceptable. He decides to drive back this intruder by all means. And all means this can go very far.
- Ana is 6 years old. His sister Katina, seriously ill is hospitalized. To preserve Ana, her mother sends her to spend a week in the country with her grandparents. It's vacation time, games with his girlfriend Coralie. Ana forget his sister. She wants to forget ...
- The sisters Lia, 6, and Rita, 9, and their friend Brenda, who has lost all her front teeth, are the only little girls left in the Albergheria neighborhood and claim their right to be little. This area in the old center of Palermo is in the midst of urban renewal and is full of rubble and open work sites. Cetti, Mariuccia and Rosi, teenagers already, talk about the rivalry between neighborhoods, about the small gangs and about the habits of violence.
- Margaux Dufourmentel and Arnaud Biaujaud spent a year traveling the length and breadth of Australia interviewing ecological activists and groups. Through the film, they share their impressions of the lives, struggle and convictions of the eco-activists they met, without ever appearing on the screen or commenting. As it works out, the different players are interconnected by word and deed and although not always in agreement, they join forces to build a vision of a realistic world, where everyone would feel responsible for and vitally concerned with the future of our planet.