Happy New Life (2007)

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.

Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid landscape of post-Communist Macedonia.

Unfinished Stories employs a structure familiar to Western indie cinema by following a set of seemingly random but interlocking episodes. Debut director Pourya Azarbayjani presents the tales of several women who spend much of the film alone on the streets of Tehran after dark – a particularly fraught place for unescorted women in a Muslim nation. The film's three primary stories each represents a different point in the cycles of courtship and childbirth. One young woman hopes to elope with her unseen fiance, but faces insurmountable problems when he doesn't show up. An older, married woman seeks to buy a pregnancy test, the results of which could dictate her marriage's fate. A new mother at a hospital resorts to drastic measures when a financial problem arises. (c) http://clatl.com/atlanta/iranian-film-today/Content?oid=1275194

Raquel, a young radio announcer, is deeply in love with Tomás, an Olympic runner. The day she finds a house where they can live together, he collapses during training and is taken to the hospital.

A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport...

A young woman finds herself onto a desolate beach and tries to find out the how and why of her immediate life. Along with a lost memory, to further complicate her situation a man who she discovers washed up on the same beach attacks her. Fighting to stay alive she goes on the run from the stranger and desperately tries to piece her memory back together. Criss-crossing through the savage coastline and a claustrophobic London setting she finds her answers in an unrelenting world where spies, betrayal and obsession are the daily currency and identity is as shifting as the tides.

A teenager searches for meaningful connections with others while trying to build a steady relationship with her transsexual father and a stepdad who posts everything about their family online.

In Rio de Janeiro, over many days, the director Maria Ramos witnesses and films the judgment of several teenagers accused of stealing, trafficking and murdering. Underage youths are protected by the Brazilian laws and their faces can not be exposed; therefore, they are replaced by teenagers from poor communities.

상원, 승준, 민욱은 고교시절 절친 3인방이었으나, 졸업 후 1년이 지난 지금은 좀 소원한 사이다. 상원만 대학에 가고, 승준은 재수생, 민욱은 군인이 되어 처지가 너무 달라져버렸기 때문이다. 그러던 연말 어느 날, 승준과 상원은 집안형편 때문에 자원입대한 친구 민욱을 만나러 강원도 철원으로 떠난다. 우여곡절 끝에 부대에 도착하지만, 승준은 면회시간이 다가오자 자꾸 상원의 눈치만 살핀다. 승준은 민욱의 여자친구 ‘에스더’가 부탁한 이별편지를 민욱에게 전해줘야 했던 것. 결국 둘은 에스더의 편지를 숨기고, 친구 민욱을 위해 몸과 마음과 돈을 바쳐 1박 2일을 헌신하기로 결심한다. 그러나 세상물정 모르는 스무 살 세 친구들 앞에 묘령의 한 여자가 나타나고, 잠자고 있던 그들의 본능이 꿈틀대기 시작하는데…

Faro is a real goddess of a real tribe (the Bamana) in the West African country of Mali. In a landlocked country like Mali, covered in part by the Sahara Desert, water is a resource that can never be taken for granted. The Bamana village in Faro: Goddess of the Waters not only sits on a riverbank, but also depends for much of its food on fish from the river. Faro is the dominant character in this film, the unseen force for which all action takes place. (c) Ferdy on Films [Marilyn Ferdinand]

A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my death,” which reveal a dark history for her family to discover.

A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.

Jakub and Vladimir, two brothers in their late teens, join in the Cossack army to flee poverty. Elias and Roman, two other brothers, on their own as well, steal horses to survive... When fate brings them together, the encounter proves lethal. Vladimir gets killed. Jakub now burning with anger, is obsessed with revenge. A wild track begins, no one will be left unharmed...

Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover

어릴 적 떠나간 엄마를 만나러 가는 길, 은수는 사고로 정신을 잃는다. 깊은 밤, 숲에서 눈을 뜬 그의 앞에 돌연 나타난 소녀. 은수는 홀리듯 그녀를 따라 세 아이가 살고 있는 ‘즐거운 아이들의 집’으로 향한다. 그림책에서 빠져 나온 듯한 집은 장난감과 과자로 가득찬 아이들의 천국. 하지만 전화는 불통이고 숲은 아무리 헤매어도 출구를 찾을 수 없다. 바깥 왕래가 없는데도 늘 풍성한 식탁, 다락에서 흘러 나오는 기이한 울음소리, 아이들이 알려준 대로 가 봐도 미로처럼 제자리로 돌아오는 숲. 설명할 수 없는 일들 속에 은수는 아이들에게 비밀이 있음을 감지한다. 아이들을 무서워하던 엄마, 아빠는 설상가상 메모 한 장 남긴 채 사라지고, 아이들은 석연찮은 변명만 늘어놓는다. 며칠 후, 마치 아이들의 계획인양 또 다른 길 잃은 어른들이 아이들의 집을 찾아오고, 은수의 불안과 의구심은 더욱 깊어만 간다.

Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.

Thirty year-old Azul looses her husband and son in a violent car crash. She is the sole survivor of the tragedy. Burnded and broken, she escapes from the city, and seeks refuge in a small hut on a deserted beach, in an attempt to rebuild herself and to forget. But it's impossible. She can't swallow anything. In her weakness, she starts seeing mirages, and begins to sink slowly into dementia. Her sister tries to rescue her, but in vain. A wandering dog follows her about, her last travel companion... Her encounter with a fisherman suddendly triggers a flicker of hope. Azul wants to believe in a miracle : to replace one child with another, one life with another...

Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?

14-year-old Honggui is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. She is not wanted by them, nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. Years pass. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call.

A thirtysomething son struggles with his parents and with love.