Marja-Leena Junker

Marja-Leena Junker

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Marja-Leena Junker

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Wolfkin
Adrienne
Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin's aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father's estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature. When she realizes that Martin could become like them, Elaine is forced into a desperate fight for her son's future.
Skin Walker
Grand-Mother
Regine (Amber Anderson) es una mujer muy frágil psicológicamente que se esconde en la ciudad, lejos de la oscura zona rural en la que pasó su traumática infancia. Lucha por construir la familia que nunca tuvo y por superar su pasado, pero por encima de todo, de dejar atrás el desastroso nacimiento de su hermano Isaac, que se saldó con la muerte del bebé y con una madre que perdió la cordura. Por desgracia, la ciudad es hostil y estresante, con sus propias amenazas. Una abusiva relación con el psiquiatra que trata a su madre pone al límite su vida hasta que un día un trágico acontecimiento sacude por completo su estabilidad mental: el brutal asesinato de su abuela. Esto plantea una nueva y dolorosa pregunta: ¿está su hermano vivo y planea vengarse de la familia que una vez le dio la espalda?
Barrage
Babette
After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her protégée to herself. One day, Catherine cannot take it anymore. She kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North. Begins an unsettling journey into the puzzling world of motherly love, only to find out that sometimes the true opponent is yourself.
X on a Map
Female supervisor
In a time when every continent that can be discovered has been discovered, Paul works as a cartographer who dreams of distant places. That is until he crosses Ana who folds maps for the same company. During a secret meeting he eventually discovers his own private America that cannot be found on any map of the world.
Deepfrozen
Zelma
Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Daydreams, contact ads, the firemen's brassband, the weekly visits at his shrink and his buddy Lars' cynical remarks about air guitar and vinyl-records are the highlights of Ronnie's life. Already, as a kid, he suffered from being under the pressure of his power- and manhood-fixed mother. Ronnie's feelings are as deep-frozen as his goods. Until the day, a wonderful being - one of the female kind - strands in the village. The local priest hires the young girl, a groupie with the name of Zoya, as housekeeper and within days, Zoya turns the whole manship of the village mad and horny. Also Ronnie falls for Zoya and, well yes, lucky for once, marries her. However, since the presence of Zoya, strange things have happened in the village. Everybody who tries to search in Zoya's unkown past dies, disappears. Slowly that well-known fear sneaks into Ronnie's body: men's fear of women.
W
A young man can't quite commit to his sex-hungry girlfriend. Then he meets a mysterious lady (lady?) in a local bar. Will she find out? And will she care?
The Unemployment Club
Jackel
In Differdange, in the South of Luxembourg, six unemployed men decide to create the "Dole Club", whose rules forbid its members to work, even in the very unlikely event that they are offered a job. Geronimo, Théid, Frunnes, Sonny Boy, Abbes and Petz all agree to abide by the strict regulations of the club. In accordance with them, they manage to survive. But they can do it only on petty theft and other swindles, which is bound to end badly...
La sombra del vampiro
Innkeeper's Wife
Año 1921. F.W. Murnau está rodando Nosferatu en la Europa del Este. El director está decidido a hacer la película más auténtica jamás vista. Para este fin Murnau ha contratado a un vampiro auténtico, Max Schreck como protagonista. Explica el peculiar comportamiento de Schreck diciendo a su equipo que es el no va más de la nueva generación: el actor con método, formado por el mismísimo Stanislavsky. Si Schreck realiza la actuación que Murnau busca tan desesperadamente y controla hasta el final de la producción sus necesidades más indecorosas, el premio de Schreck será el sabroso cuello de la estrella de la película, Greta.
Wedding Night - End of the Song
Catherine's mother
For most people, a wedding signifies a hopeful beginning, but then, Catherine and Christian aren't most people. She is a spoiled rich girl with an insatiable desire for the low and degraded side of life. Christian is without any resources, inner or outer, and caters to Catherine's every whim, even when she sends him out in the middle of their wedding reception to score some heroin for her. Their wedding is the starting point for their relentless downward spiral into the most brutally senseless lives imaginable, in this stylishly filmed exploration of the dark netherworld of the human spirit.