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- DirectorFedor BondarchukStarsArtur SmolyaninovAleksey ChadovKonstantin KryukovA group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsGiacomo RizzoLaura ChiattiGigi AngelilloGeremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
- DirectorKim Rossi StuartStarsAlessandro MoraceKim Rossi StuartBarbora BobulovaA young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
- DirectorFien TrochStarsIna GeertsJohanna ter SteegeJohan LeysenA village outside Brussels in rocked by the hit-and-run killing of a child.
- DirectorÁrni Ólafur ÁsgeirssonStarsRóbert ArnfinnssonÞorsteinn BachmannAaron BrinkA father finds out that his son is not actually his.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsCillian MurphyMorgan JonesEva BirthistleIn the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsSilvio OrlandoMargherita BuyJasmine TrincaA skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsJesper ChristensenPernilla AugustBeate BilleA college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
- DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsZoltán Miklós HajduKyle ShewfeltGheorghe DinicaHaving suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsEvgeniy ProninDanila KozlovskiyDmitriy VladimirovGarpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.
- DirectorStéphane BrizéStarsPatrick ChesnaisAnne ConsignyGeorges WilsonThe (love) life of a man fed up with his work and life routine changes when he enlists into a tango dancing course.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVenturaVanda DuarteBeatriz DuarteWith the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsToni GojanovicSergej TrifunovicEmir HadzihafizbegovicA small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...
- DirectorVardit BiluDalia HagerStarsSmadar SayarNaama SchendarDanny GevaRebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to a patrol in Jerusalem as part of their compulsory military service. Their job is to stop Palestinian passersby, to ask for their identity cards, and to write down their details on special forms. You don't move from this place, don't sit down, don't smoke, don't eat, don't talk on your cell phones, says their commander, leaving them alone on the street with their patrol forms. What will they do now? This is the story of two 18-year-old girls who are busy with their own worlds--falling in love, break-ups, and the volatile relationship between the two--in an attempt to ignore the political reality in a city that slowly makes its way into their lives. As women, this film is our own way of soul searching, about our army service and the occupation
- DirectorFeliks FalkStarsAndrzej ChyraMalgorzata KozuchowskaKinga PreisLucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
- DirectorDavid LammersStarsRaymond ThiryDai CarterMike MeijerA drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsAneliya GarbovaIvan BarnevPavel PaskalevA tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
- DirectorLaya YourgouStarsAlexis GeorgoulisEugenia KaplanLena KitsopoulouAn engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian girl, hired to help an old woman.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsZbigniew ZapasiewiczNikita MikhalkovJerzy StuhrWiktor, Polish ambassador to Uruguay, comes back home to attend his wife's funeral and face his old Russian friend, suspected of having an affair with Wiktor's deceased spouse.
- DirectorXavier BeauvoisStarsNathalie BayeJalil LespertRoschdy ZemA rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyMatthew MacfadyenBrenda BlethynSparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsCandela PeñaMicaela NevárezMariana CorderoFriendship and love in the world of prostitution in Madrid.
- DirectorAnders MorgenthalerStarsThure LindhardtStine Fischer ChristensenJens ArentzenDue to his sister's death, the 32 year old August returns and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as the famous porn-star The Princess, is dead after years of drug abuse. She leaves behind her 5-year old daughter Mia, whom August feels obliged to take care of. Weighed down by grief and guilt he decides to revenge the dead of Christina - and takes Mia on a mission to destroy all existing pornographic material featuring The Princess. The mission escalates into a brutal and violent rout, where August is desperately trying to protect the only precious thing in his life, Mia, why he is forced to make a fatal decision.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartAnna MouglalisPierfrancesco FavinoSet in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
- DirectorManuel HuergaStarsDaniel BrühlTristán UlloaLeonardo SbaragliaA profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
- DirectorStefan KrohmerStarsMartina GedeckRobert SeeligerPeter DavorAt 40, Miriam radiates serene beauty and tranquility, a confidence and self-assurance as vast as the sea close to her summer home. There are no taboos in the polished, urbane life she shares with her partner André and their 15-year-old son Nils; there is understanding and tolerance. If Nils invites his 12-year-old girlfriend Livia to spend the holidays with them, fine. But when the brazenly sensual Livia begins flirting with an older man, Bill, Miriam feels it is her responsibility to stop the questionable relationship. But as she does so, it is she herself who falls for the shy and charmingly insecure Bill. Miriam forges ahead, seducing him, seeing him secretly. But it is Livia that Bill loves, not Miriam. And suddenly the vast horizons of her life vanish in a fog of jealousy and rejection - emotions that prove to be far less controllable than she thought...
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsInka FriedrichNadja UhlAndreas SchmidtA tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don't lose their humor and spend many nights together on Nike's balcony, drinking and chatting. However, Nike gets to know the trucker Ronald one day...
- DirectorAntonin SvobodaStarsGeorg FriedrichBirgit MinichmayrGerti DrasslA compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life.
- DirectorBohdan SlámaStarsTatiana DykováPavel LiskaAnna GeislerováThree young adults in Most sort out feelings and responsibilities: Monika's boyfriend has left for the States, her mother wants her to join him there, and if the invitation does come, what should she do? Toník is a nice guy, his love for Moni is unrequited. He's trying to rebuild his family's crumbling house; a nearby factory has made an offer to buy the land. With Moni, he watches out for the two young sons of Dasha, their friend who's in a hopeless long-term affair with a married man: Dasha is at once unstable, unrealistic, neglectful of her boys, and cruel to those who help. For whom is this something like happiness?
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsSarah PolleyTim RobbinsSverre Anker OusdalA hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.
- DirectorFredi M. MurerStarsFabrizio BorsaniBruno GanzTeo GheorghiuA twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsImad CreidiAntoinette TurkElias GergiA Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.