In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.Read More »

A distinguished drama and considered an important entry in French cinema’s new naturalism from one of the ’80s most promising French filmmakers, this drama presents a shocking but humanistic look at the tragic lives of impoverished children living in the Paris projects. Bruno is a teenaged boy who has just moved into a high-rise project with his hard-working mother.Read More »

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Amálka is six years old. She loves her cat, her parents, and her grandparents. It’s summer and all the little girl wants is for the day to go as it should. But something is different today.Read More »

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A Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.Read More »

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Comedy: After French yuppie Arthur Vlaminck has graduated at the National School of Administration he joins the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. Vlaminck’s ambitious new colleagues try to bully him around while his superior Claude Maupas acts on the other hand rather phlegmatic. Somewhat surprisingly Vlaminck’s career gains momentum.Read More »

A complicated love affair between a publisher and a writer. Despite their strong physical attraction, the lovers can only continue to fascinate each other with emotionally exhausting power games. An encounter between the publisher and the younger sister of the writer threatens to derail the impetuous relationship.Read More »

In a small village in south-eastern Spain a popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each flood where a storm threatens to cause the river in the village that runs through it to overflow again.

6 wins, 17 nominations.Read More »

Kerstin floats stoically across the Mecklenburg Lake District in her red GDR kayak. She glides aimlessly across the water for days on end, between tourism and dreariness, endeavouring to remain alone. The many rivers and lakes are familiar to her. But where does Kerstin come from? What is she fleeing from? Who is chasing her? The uniformity of this journey is broken when Alima appears, who finally asks the paddling loner the right questions.Read More »

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In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting – the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.Read More »