David Herdies

A group of former Christians Fundamentalists come together during a retreat in San Francisco to deal with what they’ve gone through, both as active in a restrictive congregation but also as defectors of a congregation that gave them meaning in life.

The intense thriller follows two homeless siblings who turn to the criminal world to survive. Their new life lives take a radical turn when the goods they are meant to transport turn out to be two young girls.

싱글맘 암파로는 공장에서 야간 근무를 마치고 귀가하자 10대 아들 엘리아스가 징병되어 국경 분쟁 지역으로 보내질 위기에 처한 사실을 알게 된다. 내일이면 사선으로 떠날 아들을 지키기 위해 암파로는 (스페인어 '암파로'는 '보호'를 뜻한다) 부정부패로 점철된 체제에 도전장을 내민다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)

2011년 3월 11일에 역사상 가장 큰 지진이 일본을 강타했다. 30분 후 검은 쓰나미가 해안을 덮쳐 차와 집, 사람들을 바닷속으로 내몰았다. 영화를 통해 우리는 잃어버린 아내를 찾으려 100번도 넘게 다이빙하는 남자, 실종된 남편에게 아직도 편지를 쓰는 사치코, 쓰나미의 트라우마에서 벗어나지 못한 사토코를 만난다. 이들은 바다 건너 하와이 카호올라웨섬에서 쓰나미의 잔재를 청소하기 위해 모인 자원봉사자들과 연결된다.​

Lars, Eino and Thomas are fighting for a better future for themselves and their friends in Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. A youth film about hope, dreams and the right to be yourself in turbulent times.

When a Swedish teen rapper finds a rabid fanbase via the internet, international superstar Yung Lean is born. But as his fame grows, darkness settles in, blurring the line between reality and his own vivid imagination.

Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.

트랜스니스트라는 옛 소련의 유산으로 만들어진 자치공화국이다. UN의 기준에선 몰도바의 일부이지만 러시아, 몰도바, 트랜스니스트라 3자가 공동위원회를 구성해 독자적 정부를 만들었다. 이런 정치적 배경과 트랜스니스트라라는 제목만 놓고 국제정치 문제를 다룬 영화처럼 보이지만 전혀 그렇지 않다. 트랜스니스트라는 이런 환경에 살고 있는 10대의 아름다운 모습을 그린 서정적 다큐멘터리다. 영화는 우선 소녀 타냐와 그녀를 좋아하는 소년들의 아름다운 한 때에 초점을 맞춘다.

Enock is six years old when he is taken to a Confucian Buddhist orphanage and given the Chinese name Alu. He becomes extremely skilled in acrobatics. Suddenly he must make a choice to reunite with the culture of Africa or to sign up for five years in order to study in Taiwan.

The change in Giorgi’s life could not be more radical. The city, art, his regular, middle-class existence and his marriage to Ana are all behind him. Now he is alone. Giorgi goes into isolation on a small barren island in a simple hut by the sea. In an inhospitable environment, surrounded only by a handful of strangers, between chicken farming and duck hunting, he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life. But his wounds are deep, and the shadows of his happy past repeatedly catch up with him.

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classmates become their port of safety, joy and sisterhood, all while they are going through the life changing transition into becoming adults in a country boiling with political changes. In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. The young girls at a mechanics school in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou are right in the middle of a crucial point in life when their dreams, hopes and courage are confronted with opinions, fears and society’s expectations of what a woman should be. Using interesting narrative solutions, Theresa Traore Dahlberg depicts their last school years and at the same time succeeds in showing the country’s violent past and present. This is a feature-film debut and coming-of-age film with much warmth, laughs, heartbreak and depth.

During a swimming lesson a mother starts to feel uneasy about the coach's relation to one of the kids, but she has no proof. She faces a dilemma; to make an accusation of the worst kind, or to ignore a child who is possibly getting abused.

A single mother in rural India has to pay a heavy price to repay her debts.

A deserted, snow-covered landscape. An unknown place and time. An anonymous, timeless man slides into a devastated industrial building. He is enclosed by ruins and rust, witnesses of time. He advances among shadows and debris, following a ritual as precise as it is cryptic. Polyphony of materials. The past resonates at every step. Echoes of a presence. A solitary figure fluctuates on an abyss.

Madre tells the story of 16-year old Andrea who leaves a poor neighbourhood in Colombian Medellin to take part in the casting for a porno movie.

Ghost Rockets centers on human desire to explore and explain the unknown. The film weaves together an ambitious UFO investigation with a personal story that gives a rare insight into the hearts and minds of a UFO-investigator. Every year, the organization UFO‐Sweden receives numerous reports about inexplicable occurrences ‐ usually dismissed as having to do with the moon, airplanes, satellites or mental instability on the part of the witness. Sometimes, though, they get a report that they are unable to explain, one of them being the story of the ghost rocket.

감독 카린 에크베리의 부모님은 38년간 결혼생활을 지속했으나 각방을 쓴지 벌써 15년째다. 어느 날 갑자기 어머니가 이혼을 원한다. 살던 집은 팔려고 내놓는다. 카린과 부모님은 각자의 짐을 싸기 위해 주말마다 만나게 되고, 카린은 이들을 카메라에 담기로 한다. 이미 오래 전에 헤어졌어야 할 지도 모를 두 사람 사이의 이혼이란 어떤 것일까? 이혼 후에는 어떤 새로운 삶이 시작될까? 부다페스트 국제다큐영화제 인비지블 카메라 어워드 수상 [제4회 스웨덴 영화제]

An episodic documentary about the sexual violence against children and the people fighting to stop it.

An episodic documentary about the sexual violence against children and the people fighting to stop it.

Zanyar Adami looks down at Bagdad from an airplane heading to Sweden. His mother is still down there at the airport. His father isn’t even there to wave goodbye. At the time, Zanyar is only five years old. 23 years later Zanyar, soon to be a father, sits in his kitchen in a suburb of Stockholm. His father, Taher, sits in front of him. Any day now, Zanyar will become a father himself and he knows that he can’t wait anymore. He has to confront his father with the question he has been afraid to ask all his life: How could Taher leave him in the midst of a war and then send him to Sweden all by himself?

Zanyar Adami looks down at Bagdad from an airplane heading to Sweden. His mother is still down there at the airport. His father isn’t even there to wave goodbye. At the time, Zanyar is only five years old. 23 years later Zanyar, soon to be a father, sits in his kitchen in a suburb of Stockholm. His father, Taher, sits in front of him. Any day now, Zanyar will become a father himself and he knows that he can’t wait anymore. He has to confront his father with the question he has been afraid to ask all his life: How could Taher leave him in the midst of a war and then send him to Sweden all by himself?

Zanyar Adami looks down at Bagdad from an airplane heading to Sweden. His mother is still down there at the airport. His father isn’t even there to wave goodbye. At the time, Zanyar is only five years old. 23 years later Zanyar, soon to be a father, sits in his kitchen in a suburb of Stockholm. His father, Taher, sits in front of him. Any day now, Zanyar will become a father himself and he knows that he can’t wait anymore. He has to confront his father with the question he has been afraid to ask all his life: How could Taher leave him in the midst of a war and then send him to Sweden all by himself?

Zanyar Adami looks down at Bagdad from an airplane heading to Sweden. His mother is still down there at the airport. His father isn’t even there to wave goodbye. At the time, Zanyar is only five years old. 23 years later Zanyar, soon to be a father, sits in his kitchen in a suburb of Stockholm. His father, Taher, sits in front of him. Any day now, Zanyar will become a father himself and he knows that he can’t wait anymore. He has to confront his father with the question he has been afraid to ask all his life: How could Taher leave him in the midst of a war and then send him to Sweden all by himself?

“Madame Luna” chronicles the true story of an Eritrean refugee girl, washed ashore in Libya, who becomes one of the most notorious of human trafickers with deep ties to the Italian Mafia.

In an increasingly technocratic world, war has never been so abstracted. Opening on Robert Oppenheimer’s immortal quoting of Hindu scripture following the first nuclear test bombings (those that would lead to the horrors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945), BELLUM – THE DAEMON OF WAR ​moves forward to tell a story of war in the present day.