AUNT LUISA

DescriptionDescription AUNT LUISA is an old woman who thinks she hears Guy Lombardo and his band serenading her at home.

ANGST (DER ALTE AFFE ANGST)

DescriptionDescription Falling in love is the easy part. Staying in love is the bigger challenge for two people in this tense drama from writer/director Oskar Roehler (NO PLACE TO GO). Playwright Robert Hennicke) and physician Marie (Marie Baeumer) have come to a crossroads in their 10-year relationship. Robert is not able to keep up his...

AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON (PANJ E ASR)

DescriptionDescription The third film from 23-year-old director Samira Mokhmalbaf (THE APPLE, BLACKBOARDS) is set in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Nogreh wants to be her country' s first female p resident, but first she has to find a way to attend school. Nogreh's father is a devoutly religious man who wants his two...

AN ALMOST ORDINARY STORY (SKORO SASVIM OBICNA PRICA)

DescriptionDescription Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, girl wonders why they're together. In what maybe the first Serbian romantic comedy, two age-old questions are addressed: how to sustain a long-term relationship and how to, survive your best friend's advice. Belgrade 20-somethings Vlada and Irena repeatedly meet by chance leading to a night of passion and...

AMERICAN MADE

DescriptionDescription AMERICAN MADE is the story of an Indian American family stranded on the side of a desert road who are faced with issues of tradition, faith and conformity.

AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER

DescriptionDescription "This is the most personal and most disturbing film I have made. I knew Aileen over the course of twelve years, and the barbaric nature of her death had a profound effect on me ... It was one film I didn't choose to make; I came to it as a witness and ended up...

ADAM & EVA

DescriptionDescription Paul Harather's exquisitely charming ADAM & EVA is a comic, disarming and accomplished dissection of the quintessential fairytale ending. Fireman Adam saved the beautiful Eva from a fire four years earl married her-a fairy tale come true. But instead of living happily ever after, Adam is bored with Eva's predictability. Eva, in turn, is...

AFTERLIFE

DescriptionDescription Winner of the Audience Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, few films capture our universal yearning Jar connection as simply and effectively as Alison Peebles' heartfelt and beautifully crafted AFTERLIFE. Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd), on ambitious journalist is working on a story about a doctor suspected of assisting terminally ill patients with suicide. He...

XX/XY

DescriptionDescription Don't let the simple title fool you. Writer/director Austin Chick has fashioned a rich, involving drama about the sheer messiness of being in love, told in two parts held together by Mark Ruffalo's thoroughly natural and commanding performance. Part One chronicles a year in the salad days of Coles, an irrepressibly charming, hopelessly immature...

THE WISER SEX

DescriptionDescription THE WISER SEX is a virtually unknown Claudette Colbert film produced in the pre-Code era. Colbert has a lively double role as a woman of independence, who pretends to be a gold-digger to save her boyfriend, played by Melvyn Douglas, from a trumped-up murder charge. Colbert makes friends with the culprit, and, with the...

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