36th Göteborg International Film Festival
Göteborg International Film Festival 25 Jan - 4 Feb 2013, complete list
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- DirectorFredrik EdfeldtStarsJakob CedergrenClara Christiansson DrakeMaria HeiskanenThe police are pursuing a man wanted for murder. If the man is arrested his daughter will be placed in foster care. To stay free they escape into the wilderness. Faro refers to a Portuguese city that the father once visited.
- DirectorMichael NoerStarsGustav Dyekjær GieseOscar Dyekjær GieseLene Maria Christensen18-year-old Caspar wants to reach the top, no matter what. He carries out small-time break-ins for Jamal, before moving on to work for big player Björn. All goes well, until Jamal's gang decide they want revenge. What starts with pushing and shoving soon escalates into armed conflict. This is a big test for Caspar: is he ruthless enough for this battle? And will he drag his younger brother into it?
- DirectorDag Johan HaugerudStarsAndrine SætherJan Gunnar RøiseLaila GoodyWhat happens to us when people stop acting like they're supposed to? A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a relative. I Belong is a warm and nuanced film about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another. About how people who act on integrity and feelings are seen as troublesome in a society where the ideal is to behave rationally. A playful tragedy-comedy about how what seems like something of little importance to one person, can seem like a grand disaster to another.
- DirectorSara JohnsenStarsMaria BonnevieInga Berger SchouTea SandangerAs kids, Janne befriends William. After years abroad, William returns to Norway and contacts her. She spends the summer with him. She's found half dead next to two dead men in the woods. What happened?
- DirectorJose L CruzAku LouhimiesAdrian ManzanoStarsJessica GrabowskyEero AhoPirkka-Pekka PeteliusSingle mother name Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her news life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli come back from abroad, it open a window into her past that Pike want to put behind her.
- DirectorHisham ZamanStarsAbdullah TaherSuzan IlirBahar OzenA sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonStefán Hallur StefánssonJoi JohannssonBased on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
- DirectorTobias LindholmStarsPilou AsbækSøren MallingDar SalimThe crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.
- DirectorLinda Västrik"In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together...." That is how one of the creation stories of the Akka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life. The film follows their unique community life as it unfolds over many years. We experience the practice of their spirituality in the most difficult situations. Their religion is playful and highly creative in dealing with deeply serious matters of life and death, and may be the oldest human religion practiced on earth today.
- DirectorStefan JarlStarsPeter AnderssonThommy BerggrenJacob BurrellA cry from the revolutionary wilderness. Drowsy and beautiful about the solidarity that disappeared.
- DirectorMaryam EbrahimiNima SarvestaniThis documentary takes viewers inside one of the worlds most restricted environments - an afghan women's' prison. Through the prisoners own stories we explore how moral crimes are used to control women in Afghanistan.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsGoli Mohammed AliHusein AliKhalid FaquiriIn 2009 the Norwegian government introduced new rules to enforce immigration. One was the rule for preliminary stay for sole minors under 18. Who's responsible for them?
- DirectorMia EngbergStarsOlivier DesautelDirector Mia Engberg received a call from a man from the past, who tells her he spent several years in prison. She remembers Paris, a motorcycle, a cat, memories and things that got lost in the way.
- DirectorMika RonkainenStarsAnna JärvinenHeikki KiviahoHarri MantyA son and a father go on a road trip that turns into a musical journey into the emotional memory and the history of Finnish immigration in Sweden; of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism, and family secrets.
- DirectorNagieb KhajaNagieb Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin and he believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. Nagieb a man with a mission. A few years ago Nagieb traveled to Afghanistan in order to refine the simplistic media image of the country, but he ended up as a prisoner of the Taliban and barely escaped. On the next trip, Nagieb brought 30 mobile cameras and asked Afghan civilians to film themselves. For the first time, we are invited into life in the forbidden zone with all the joys and sorrows, victories and defeats associated with living in the shadow of war.
- DirectorCamilla MagidShida is the new kid in class in a private boarding school in Tanzania. He is shy, he has no self-esteem, he does not speak one word of English - the primary language in the school, and he suffers from albinism. Like most children with albinism in the country Shida was taken away from his parents to be protected from the witchcraft related killings. The film follows Shida during his first year at the new school where the rules are strict and tolerance low. He is trying his best to meet the demands. The school is a chance of an education and to escape a life on the bottom of society. With the help from his new friend Allan he is struggling to become better in school and to be accepted by the teachers and pupils.
- DirectorPelin EsmerStarsOlgun SimsekNilay ErdönmezLaçin CeylanA man and a woman seeking refuge from the world: Nihat at a remote forest fire tower, Seher in her room at a rural bus station. When their lives collide, each now has to fight their battle of conscience before the other.
- DirectorGeorg MaasJudith KaufmannStarsJuliane KöhlerLiv UllmannSven NordinAs the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsWaad MohammedReem AbdullahAbdullrahman Al GohaniAn enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
- DirectorEliza HittmanStarsGina PiersantiNyck CautionGiovanna SalimeniLila wants to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy who will "sleep with anyone" and tries to insert herself into his world, putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.
- DirectorNawapol ThamrongrattanaritTer Nawapol ThamrongrattanaritStarsVajrasthira KoramitWanlop RungkumjadPuangpaka AksornsawangA young location scout meets the art director of her project in a day they will keep in their memories for a while, each for their own reasons.
- DirectorFernando GuzzoniStarsAlejandro GoicAmparo NogueraAlfredo CastroDog Flesh deals with a complex period in the life of Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man who is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsHadas YaronYiftach KleinIrit ShelegWhen the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.
- DirectorHervé LasgouttesStarsSwann ArlaudAnne MarivinNina MeurisseFirst-time filmmaker Hervé Lasgouttes puts an aimless young man to the test in a crime-tinged romance set on the stormy Brittany coast.
- DirectorJohan LundhStarsJosephine BornebuschBjörn GranathClaes LjungmarkHer parents dead, Tuva discovers that she is adopted, and she and her daughter begin trying to find their hidden roots. This leads back to the small town where she grew up, but it seems people are desperately trying to hide something...