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“His name is Abdullah”, the doctor in the hospital tells the mother whose son just had a psychotic episode. For the first time in his life, Abdullah feels that he is regarded as an autonomous individual. A film about prejudices, narrated by Abdullah himself.
Children constantly amaze us: their boundless curiosity, imagination and original logical conclusions. This immediacy doesn’t stop at taboos. People don’t talk much about death, but children know about it. Everyone can die. Even their parents. Even they themselves.
In Iran, private households are limited to painfully slow connections, while service providers are forced to filter the web, making thousands of websites inaccessible. Iran’s new Cyber Crimes Law is vague and unreasonable and is being used to inflict harsh punishments on computer users. Some Iranians however use technologies to break free of the “halal” net. An animated infographic about the Iranian Internet.
“If studdering would be alowed, I would studder loud and proud.” The film is a portrait of a personality caught between fiction and reality. Emil reflects the gaps in his speech which represent the discrepancy between his thoughts and the external world.
Children from a city that is sacred to many people talk about God and faith. The city is Jerusalem and the children come from all strata of Israeli society. In the focus of different concepts of god, quite a variety of ideologies emerge from the mouths of innocent children.
The five protagonists talk about their experiences with death, recounting what it taught them about life. But hearing it all from the mouths of a spider or a dog is rather unusual …
Grandfather
Kathrin Hürlimann
Her grandfather is an arsonist who set fire to his workplace in 1969 in protest and then turned himself in ...
Grandfather
Her grandfather is an arsonist who set fire to his workplace in 1969 in protest and then turned himself in. The filmmaker searches his biography for motives for this act.
Green Fingers
Elsa Duhamel
Jeanine and Alain live in the north of France. Both come from Algeria and sometimes miss ...
Jeanine and Alain live in the north of France. Both come from Algeria and sometimes miss their home. That’s why they planted their own Mediterranean garden which they enjoy cultivating very much.
I Love Hooligans
Jan-Dirk Bouw
In this film we enter the world of a homosexual football hooligan. Football is what he lives for, and his sexual orientation ...
In this film we enter the world of a homosexual football hooligan. Football is what he lives for, and his sexual orientation and love life have been relegated to the margin. It is a well-kept secret. As a hooligan, his club is everything to him. So at the end of the day, he has but one dream: “To die in the arms of my loved one.”
Childhood is an unbroken series of new challenges, which makes parental comfort and encouragement all the more important. But what if one’s father is absent for years or forever, because he is in prison? An insightful film about growing up in a difficult family situation.
Credits
Claes Lundin
Claes Lundin, David Sandberg
David Sandberg
David Sandberg
David Sandberg
Jessica is a transsexual who is working as a prostitute in the red-light district of Bangkok. She is faced with the toughest choice of her life. To follow her boyfriend abroad and start a new life, or to stay in Bangkok and keep supporting her mother. Whatever choice Jessica makes it will determine her future.
While Mary and Jia Tsu are rehearsing the play “The Vagina Monologues”, which is about Asian women who were forced to become prostitutes for the armed forces in the 1930s and 40s, the two women discuss their intense feeling of grief and anger in order to be able to perform the play in the end.
Mein Leben als Kosmonaut
Imagination and reality merge to create a confusing but dangerously wonderful world for Oliver. It would be so easy for him to yield to his illusions again. But Oliver keeps fighting and is happy about every normal day. An animated documentary about a young schizophrenic from Tallinn.
With appropriate pomp and protocol Mrs. Panda Tian Tian and Mr. Panda Yang Guang, better known as Sweetie and Sunshine, move into their new residence. The two pandas, a present from China, are to produce offspring for the Edinburgh Zoo. But it takes two to form a relationship. Will Sweetie be able to woo Sunshine’s heart?
Sharaf is 17 years old and one of thousands of refugees who arrive in Gran Canaria by boat every year. He was lucky to survive the dangerous journey. Now he tells his sad story while he and his little brother are waiting in a detention centre.
The question here is not “to be or not to be”, but “to have or not to be” – if you are obsessed with shoes like our young Finnish heroine. For – a word to the uninitiated – a shoe is not a shoe. High heels, platform soles, sandals, flip flops, strappy pumps, ankle boots: magnificent pairs for specific moods and situations. And colour plays a role, too.