Falcons

Original title: 
Fálkar
Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
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 >>

Cold Light

Original title: 
Kaldaljós
Director: Hilmar Oddsson
Country: 
Iceland, Norway, UK, Germany
Year: 
2004
A 40-year-old is hiding in a self-made prison of mundane life. The film opens as he finally becomes resolved to dare gaze at and come to terms with someone's totally different life. 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 >>

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 >>

When A Man Comes Home

Original title: 
En mand kommer hjem
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Country: 
Denmark/Sweden
Year: 
2007
From the director of Festen, a tender offbeat comedy on the complexities of love and family. 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Let's Make Money

Original title: 
Let's Make Money
Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
Country: 
Austria
Year: 
2008
After ‘‘We Feed the World’’, the spectacular documentary about our foodstuffs, the film-maker Erwin Wagenhofer presents us with a new, shocking documentary. ‘‘Let’s Make MONEY’’ follows the tracks of our money through the worldwide finance system. more >>

Mark Of An Angel

Original title: 
L'empreinte de l'ange
Director: Safy Nebbou
Country: 
France
Year: 
2008
From the producer of Harry He’s Here to Help and The Page Turner comes a gripping new psychological thriller. more >>

Voyage aux Pyrénées

Original title: 
Voyage aux Pyrénées
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Country: 
France
Year: 
2008
A madcap comedy about a famous actress who gets more than she bargains for when she goes on a secret vacation in the mountains trying to cure her nymphomania. more >>

White Night Wedding

Original title: 
Brúðguminn
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Country: 
Iceland
Year: 
2008
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. 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 >>

Better Things

Original title: 
Better Things
Director: Duane Hopkins
Country: 
UK
Year: 
2008
A new voice in British cinema, Duane Hopkins’ powerful debut delivers a sharp insight into the lives of British youth. more >>

Dead In 3 Days 2

Original title: 
In 3 Tagen bist du tot II
Director: Andreas Prochaska
Country: 
Austria
Year: 
2008
In the summer after Nina’s graduation, her life changed forever. Her best friends became victims of a psychopath, herself and her best friend Mona just barely escaping death. 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 >>

Wrong Rosary

Original title: 
Uzak ihtimal
Director: Mahmut Fazil Coskun
Country: 
Turkey
Year: 
2009
The young muezzin Musa visits Istanbul for the first time in his life when he is assigned to a mosque in Galata, Istanbul. Musa is lodged in to an apartment provided for him. His next door neighbors are Sister Anna and Clara who is taking care of her. An excitement and at the same time, a warm kind of sensation is emerged through the encounter of Clara, whose life is stuck between home and church and Musa, who comes to Istanbul to start a new life.more >>