How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. This seminal 90s teen comedy puts a spin on a Shakespeare classic. Sparks fly between two misfits played by Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.
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Claire Denis finds beauty in surprising places, and one of the best films of the 21st century is a masterful example of this.
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First love is always a whirlwind, but when you fall for a schizophrenic beauty on the lam, it’s a tornado. Until the wind changes.
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A wonderful film adventure for the whole family takes place in the astonishing unspoilt nature of Lapland.
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A seasoned politician seeks new ideas with the help of a young philosophy scholar in this clever and quirky French dramedy providing food for thought.
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Kenneth Branagh’s film is a true labour of love, an intimate portrait of William Shakespeare. Returning to his family in Stratford after his years of triumph in London, the aging poet faces the ghosts of his past.
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Vincent Lacoste is irresistible in Mikhaël Hers' tender, airy study of a young Parisian learning to care for his orphaned niece.
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The most anticipated music documentary of the year offers an oceanic swell of euphoria and joy as 29-year-old Aretha Franklin sings her heart out in a legendary LA concert.
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Cannes applauded at this Georgian gem of a film about the youngsters, who refuse to leave their culture to the bigots, but own and redefine it themselves.
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The relationship between two friends living prolonged youth is put to the test when one of them gets involved in a relationship and begins showing signs of growing up.
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Animated short films for kids.
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A selection of short animations gems from around Europe.
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To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene invites us to recognise the magnitude of what we have done and to understand what we can do if we take action.
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The playfulness and anarchist mischief coursing throughout Susanne Heinrich's indie treat puts contemporary womanhood under the microscope.
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One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland Aurora, a party animal, meets Iranian Darian. He needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close.
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A love story of two women, a prison for three women. A power game with a no-win situation. Based on a novel by award winning author Sofi Oksanen.
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A shape-shifting story that mixes aspects of folkloric drama, sci-fi, political satire, action and thriller. This film is sneaky, full of surprises, and often laced with humour.
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The British Short Film and British Short Animation categories at the EE British Academy Film Awards celebrate innovative and experimental short fiction and non-fiction films and animation. The screening is free of charge and is made possible by the British Council.
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Traditions and tourists clash in Cornish director Mark Jenkin’s astonishing analogue black and white film, shot with a 16 mm Bolex cine-camera.
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Beats is a timeless piece of cult cinema and a glorious monochrome tale of frail friendship in the midst of a turning point in rave culture.
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A gentle portrait introduces the soft side of Sven Marquardt, a man that the world knows as Europe’s toughest bouncer working on the door of the infamous techno club Berghain.
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A wannabe musician puts on a papier-mache head and makes English avant-garde history with his performance.
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Docufiction about two brothers struggling to combine work and family life in the Southern Spain is touching and bruising in its authenticity.
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Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha cooks up an efficient drama about a rock fan’s yearning to become a writer.
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Blind Spot is a heartbreaking story about a family tragedy, masterfully told in one single, grippingly intense camera shot.
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Tracing decades of history this documentary celebrates the core values that jazz embodies – freedom of expression, equality and dialogue – values that are just as relevant today as they were when the Blue Note Records label was founded in 1939.
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John Singleton's brilliant first film follows the lives of three young men living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.
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A poetic comedy without the need for dialogue, and it is precisely this element that further serves to captivate its audience.
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Salvador Simo made a brilliant choice in using such expressionistic medium as animation to examine how surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel bent reality in the making of Land Without Bread.
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The first feminist film in German is related to work of such icons as Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman and Věra Chytilová. Its music and mise-en-scène oozes the swinging 60s.
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A terrific documentary presents a haunted Yves Saint-Laurent preparing his last collection under the strict command of his partner, Pierre Bergé.
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Created and directed by Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) this amazing anime film takes us on a breathtaking underwater adventure.
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As the director Mads Brügger uncovers a critical secret that could send shockwaves around the world, we realize that sometimes absurdity and irony are the emboldening ingredients needed to confront what’s truly sinister.
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A triumph at Sundance, David Crosby's story is universally inspiring, bearing an emotional impact that transcends the rock documentary genre. Only Crowe and Eaton could have composed a cinematic portrait so intimate and unforgettable.
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Sharp and observative Israeli film about father and his teenage daughter trying to cope with grief and loss – and each other...
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Director Daniel Scheinert, the man who brought you Daniel Radcliffe’s flatulent corpse in Swiss Army Man (HIFF 2016), serves up a hilarious version of redneck hell in his dramatic comedy.
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The new madcap comedy by Quentin Dupiex (Rubber, HIFF 2010) features a sinister deerskin jacket commanding its middle-aged owner to more and more extreme acts.
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The new film from Gabriel Mascaron (Neon Bull, HIFF 2016) is a quasi-sci-fi tale about religion and the state.
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An intimate documentary about the exceptional creation process of alternative rock superstar PJ Harvey’s latest album.
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Matteo Garrone’s terrific revenge thriller stars Marcello Fonte, who was awarded the best actor in Cannes for his skillful portrayal that switches subtly from sad loner to desperado.
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The new film by J-P Valkeapää tells a darkly humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain of being.
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Meet the Warring Milli Vanilli of Italo Disco! A new documentary crashes us into one of the craziest music stories you've never heard.
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A young couple on their vacation far away from other people struggle with unspoken words, frustration, love and power.
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The screening is a selection of video works the Pro Finlandia awarded photographer and video artist Elina Brotherus (b. 1972) made for her Carte Blanche PMU award exhibition “Règle du jeu” in Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2017.
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Film Foundation, the screening features five films made possible by the Foundation's short film initiatives.
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Mikael Syrjälä's fresh debut breathes and sways skillfully in the fragile scenery of youth.
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Joanna Hogg's fascinating new drama proves she is the forefront of new British cinema.
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The line between the good and the bad blurs when laid off workers kidnap their boss in this grimy take on the effects of the market economy.
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Catherine Deneuve stars in André Téchiné’s new film as a grandmother trying to save her grandson from an extremist movement in the French countryside.
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Fatei is an old man, who has a family marine farm on an uninhabited island on the edge of Russia. The only real reward for his struggles lies within the struggle itself.
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Lesbians, brown girls, fat bodies... Welcome to a feminist utopia!
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Award-winning short films and audience favourites from festivals around the world.
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Short films directed by the Swedish filmmaker Victor Lindgren.
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Enormous trees fall like dancers and burn like matches, when disturbed in a Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner that oozes with images of nature.
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One of the most talked-about films in Cannes and SXSW this year was this remarkable documentary by 26-year-old Waad al-Kateab, who captured the bombings of Aleppo for her daughter Sama.
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Death lingers on the endless rice fields of Cambodia, while a family is desperately trying to find their son under the atrocious Khmer Rouge regime.
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The Norwegian Film School founded in 1997 is Norway's national film school. The screening features a selection of 2018 graduation films that have been screened in various film festivals around the world.
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Denis Côté’s unsettling look at a small-town tragedy offers a thought-provoking study of how we cope when our loved ones are taken away.
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Well-behaved women seldom make history, and Petrunya is no exception. Teona Strugar Mitevska's fierce film captures a day of Macedonian life drenched in the patriarchy, tradition and outdated codes of conduct.
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This enchanting festival hit looks at the infamous area of Brussels from the knee-high point of view of a child.
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Imagine if Lucian Freud and Mike Leigh got together to make a serial-killer movie, and then Quentin Tarantino turned up to play some vinyl to accompany the scenes of rape and murder, and you basically have Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove.
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In the tradition of Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) and Ken Loach (Sweet Sixteen), Goliath hits hard, and its cast of authentic and deeply moving characters will leave viewers shattered.
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The anguish of a Finnish man is flying to another reality.
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Musician-activist Inna Modja documents the efforts to build the great green wall of forests throughout the African continent: can the expansion of Sahara be stopped?
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Ranked as one of the worst films of 1997, Harmony Korine's first feature film is sticky, yucky and absolutely stunning – if you dare to let go and just enjoy the ride.
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Christopher Lee and blood-drinking, virgin-sacrificing minions planning to end humankind? More like a smart documentary that enlightens the viewer while it also turns out to be hilarious and highly entertaining.
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Halston captures the epic sweep of the life and times of legendary designer Roy Halston Frowick, the man who wanted to “dress all of America.”
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This extraordinary film spans 10 years and two continents as it observes the complicated loyalties that bind humans together.
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Hellhole follows lives of three different kind of Bryssel-dwellers. In Bas Devos' vision EU capital becomes a nest of urban alienation and a symbol of the failure of the European dream.
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Elisabeth Moss goes to punk rock hell and back as a troubled riot grrrl frontwoman in Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell.
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Terrence Malick returned to Cannes with this extraordinarily beautiful and wrenching portrait of faith in crisis.
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A crew of death-row prisoners on a one-way mission to a distant galaxy are forced to contemplate the meaning of life, death and the universe in Claire Denis’ first English-language film.
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Sundance winner Honeyland is a tough and tender portrait of the delicate balance between humankind and nature, a glimpse at a fast disappearing way of life, and an unforgettable testament to one extraordinary woman’s resilience.
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A discreet drama film about a Korean poet who senses his final hour approaching. Some caprices still yet to come.
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A spicy satire about a family breaking apart – and what happens, when honesty disappears.
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Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu turn the tables and steal the show as pole-dancing gold diggers in Lorene Scafaria’s rip-roaring retelling of a real-life strip club heist. A full-force performance from J-Lo genuinely deserving of awards consideration.
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An intense yet composed French movie nails the beauty, destructiveness, and social consequences of so called love, and turns into an unforgettable experience.
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A sanguine dress attacks its owners in Peter Strickland’s frighteningly funny shopping hellhole, which pays tribute to Suspiria and other 70’s horror classics.
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Awarded at the Un Certain Regard in Cannes this tropical melodrama located in the 1950s Rio de Janeiro tells the story of sisters set apart by secrets and lies.
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Animation about young cousins who rise up against a greedy businessman. They're lucky enough to have a pack of talking dogs by their side!
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Eye-popping costumes, extravagant set design, high energy choreography, and original music come together to form an otherworldly spectacle that could only spring from the mind of Jean-Paul Gaultier.
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Unlikely agents battle weird manifestations of computer viruses in an international love letter to exotic action movies of the VHS age.
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The documentary about the famous Israeli gay porn star Jonathan Agassi is a whiplash for fantasies.
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A story of singer-songwriter Juice Leskinen, a love professional. Juice felt deeply and extremely sensitively, but wounded many people, including himself.
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François Ozon's new film builds an amazing heart-on-sleeve engagement with its characters' messy, unfinished feelings – not to mention Ozon's canny knack for playing on French star personae.
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Lone Scherfig's new star-studded drama circles a group of people whose lives become entangled through little moments of kindness and generosity.
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Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls Royce on a musical road trip across America.
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A missing teenage girl shakes up a small town in Jennifer Reeder’s teen noir coming-of-age thriller taking place in rural Illinois.
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Swedish rapper and R'n'B singer Leslie Tay is searching for the right tones for his debut album and also a new vulnerability in himself after a tough childhood.
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The violently divided society of Victor Hugo’s novel persists in Ladj Ly’s scintillating, Cannes-awarded feature debut, which follows a police investigation into a riot in a Montfermeil banlieu.
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Life Online screening points out how social media and Internet affect our everyday lives.
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Robert Eggers follows his New England ghost story The Witch with a superbly sulphurous maritime two-hander that channels the word and spirit of Herman Melville.
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”Elevated horror film” nominated for Palm d’Or transforms dose of laboratory-made pollen into overdose of paranoia.
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The holy city of Lourdes is a sanctuary for the broken that offers a safe community for the lonely hearts.
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Set against luminous winter landscapes, Finnish-based Bulgarian director Tonislav Hristov's documentary depicts Veera's attempts to use live action role-playing to cope with trauma.
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Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy was distelled from investigating the development and violence of Swedish radical right for nearly three decades.
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Finland, 1920’s. The charismatic preacher Maria Åkerblom (Pihla Viitala, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, 2013) leads her devout followers to Helsinki, among them an adoring teenager Salome.
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A poem of a documentary about the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.
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Student works and Oscar nominees. Short Film Masterpieces from Andrea Arnold, Ninja Thyberg, J-P Valkeapää, Taika Waititi and Ruben Östlund. All films are subtitled or spoken in English except The Fall by J-P Valkeapää (only Finnish dialogue).
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A love story predicated on difficulty, rendering the central relationship equal parts platonic and romantic is a work of force and fierce emotion.
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Actor Jonah Hill’s (Superbad, Moneyball...) feature film debut is a coming-of-age story of a teenage kid joining skateboarding gang in mid 90’s Los Angeles.
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Shot entirely on three mobile phones, Midnight Traveler offers eye-opening insta-glimpses from the journey of the documentarist Hassan Fazili and his family as they flee from the Taliban. What happens to those lost in an endless escape?
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Stanley Nelson's documentary tells the story of Miles Davis as the groundbreaking artist who led jazz towards new, unknown territories.
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The Sundance and Berlinale favourite examines the chaos and fog of war from the unique perspective of irrational and often surreal environment where anything can happen – even peace.
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Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum shine in an unnerving road movie depicting American mental health care in the 1950s.
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Agnieszka Holland’s gripping period biopic honours Welsh journalist Gareth Jones’ muck-raking reporting on the 1930s Holodomor genocide-famine. A film that needs to be seen.
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An uncensored self-portrait of Finnish country musician Pekka Myllykoski of Freud Marx Engels & Jung follows the dark downward spiral from mainstream success to his last drunken days.
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Love & Anarchy Shorts – National Competition: Screening 1
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Love & Anarchy Shorts – National Competition: Screening 2
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Love & Anarchy Shorts – National Competition: Screening 3
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Love & Anarchy Shorts – National Competition: Screening 4
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Love & Anarchy Shorts – National Competition: Screening 5
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The screening features the winner short films and audience favourites of the National Competition 2019.
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A story about three people chasing life and each other.
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Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck returns with a film inspired by the life of the German artist Gerhard Richter, aimed at an audience born after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Writer-director Jennifer Kent follows up her acclaimed 2014 horror flick The Babadook (HIFF 2014) with another story of a female going through an intense psychological and physical experience.
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Night Visions International Film Festival is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia focusing on - but not limited to - fantasy, horror, science fiction and action cinema. The festival is arranged twice a year in Helsinki, with the next edition taking place from November 20 to November 24, 2019.
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Nina Wu pays a high price for stardom after it tangles her into a spider web of sexual abuse that messes with her sanity in the psychological thriller by Midi Z.
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"An intelligently constructed, richly textured, and provocative exploration of human behaviour, sexual attraction, and violence.” - Acquarello, Strictly Film School
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Stories about vaginas, fake orgasms and gender norms.
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Swedish and Norwegian short films about many-sided human relations.
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Who gets to talk and whose opinions matter? Stories about sorrow, guilt and parenthood.
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Latvian drama based on real events is a bleak depiction of a migrant worker in distress in Belgium.
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A French farce with hints of darker tones and a splash of fantasy has a chanson splattered soundtrack. It all cooks up to be as light as a soufflé.
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In a close-up documentary film, the Norwegian pop-sensation is working on her new album. The record label is expecting radio hits, but Aurora wants to create art that is true to her.
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An intelligent, modern film noir and creative doc about how women claim their freedom in a cemetery named Sad Hill, known as the final scene of Sergio Leone’s iconic spaghetti western film.
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One-Off Incident short films are part of a film sensation made by fifteen filmmakers, artists, researchers and social activists collectively. The films reveal the hidden way power is exercised on women in both private life and in society.
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A couple freshly in love has to face the worst in themselves and each other, when a spontaneous idea of having a child turns into a long and painful process.
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Onneli and Anneli receive a task from their neighbors Tingelstiina and Tangelstiina: they are to take care of the neighbors’ forgetful brother Vekotiitus, who is also an Inventor.
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Comedy and tragedy go hand-in-hand amid this absurdist power struggle set in a remand penitentiary from talented Danish helmer Frederikke Aspöck.
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Mounia Meddour's debut has a female director, depicts powerful young women refusing to bow down to fundamentalism, and is bursting with energy and likable femme-centric figures.
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Ritesh Batra's (The Lunchbox, 2013) new film is a romantic drama about a street photographer and young student who meet in the busy streets of Mumbai.
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Located in the chilling outskirts of wintery Finland, Time Out is a tragicomedy about a father, a son, bullies – and us Finns.
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Another gripping Roberto Saviano adaptation, from the Gomorrah writer’s latest book, Claudio Giovannesi’s film is an authentic account of Naples’ Littler Caesars.
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The category is… An intimate and groundbreaking love story set in the New York ballroom community, an underground LGBTQ+ subculture.
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Céline Sciamma is an artist at the height of her powers. Her fourth film is an enigmatic story of love and desire between two women in 18th century Brittany, a cerebral and sensual study of art and the transformative power of the female gaze.
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The screening presents five different “anthroposceneries” from practical ecologies to post-human sketches.
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A pared-down, intimate, even sensual portrait of black love and life on the streets of a slowly vanishing Harlem.
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Mai aka Pony is about to start school in the fall, but all she'd love to do is to be a pony. Fortunately she meets Pigeonboy, a bird-like boy, who loves commercials and buns and hates the letter r.
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The Danish drama peels back the veneer of an ultra-civilized Scandinavian lifestyle to take a dark look at some very out-of-bounds behavior.
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With great sensitivity and respectful distance, filmmaker Carl Javér depicts the shared overcoming of trauma and the awakening of new hope in his Guldbagge-awarded documentary.
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In Estonian Kaur Kokk's debute feature film murky history and grim misery of humans entwine into breathtakingly beautiful desperation.
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Every frame of this animation is overwhelming: all its characters look like they have strolled out of Picasso's dreamworld.
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Bernard Rose’s eye-pleasing samurai flick is enjoyable entertainment inspired by a real-life event.
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Two siblings are struggling to communicate on a wintery road trip in Estonia.
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Berlin-based feminist, blogger and sex worker Eva Collé defies the boundaries of privacy and identity in Pia Hellenthal’s diligent, dashing documentary.
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Kim Longinotto’s carefully structured portrait of the fearless photojournalist Letizia Battaglia introduces, who's been capturing indelible images of the brutal atrocities of life under the Mafia in Sicily. Battaglia has the curiosity and ageless spirit of Agnès Varda.
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The screening of short documentaries sheds light on the dark side of the ice cream business in Ireland and the privileged life of the French Ambassador's wife in Burkina Faso.
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Short Matters! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the nominated short films to audiences across Europe and beyond. The programme featuring the European Short Film Nominees 2018 is a manifold panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking. The films are screened in three sets.
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Short Matters! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the nominated short films to audiences across Europe and beyond. The programme featuring the European Short Film Nominees 2018 is a manifold panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking. The films are screened in three sets.
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Short Matters! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the nominated short films to audiences across Europe and beyond. The programme featuring the European Short Film Nominees 2018 is a manifold panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking. The films are screened in three sets.
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Jim Marshall might be known as the photographer of rock stars, but his artistic legacy includes an impressive amount of documentary shots from the 1960s.
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Justine Triet's elegant comedy-drama tells the story of a psychotherapist who in order to cure her writer’s block steals a patient's story.
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18-year-old Camille finds her place with New York based, all-female skate collective.
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Extremists go strong in Denmark in 2025. The film asks tricky moral questions while entertaining with high-speed action and thrilling suspence.
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A gem of a film, shot with powdery perfection, Joanna Hogg’s multilayered memoir of self discovery, artistic dreams, class privilege and the pains of first love solidifies her place at the forefront of new British cinema.
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Miroslav Terzić's second feature is an accomplished psychological drama with strong thriller elements, an intriguing premise and a clear execution.
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One of many beauties of The Swallows of Kabul is that it portrays every central character as a complex human being capable of change. The film threads an undying hope for the future through every shade of its tragedy and sacrifice.
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Is it possible to update one’s identity? Where could the best possible nationalism be found? Nadav Lapid’s fragmentary masterpiece doesn’t give answers to the questions and won the Golden Bear in Berlinale.
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Child protection services are running out of means to help an aggressive 9-year-old girl in this vibrant German drama that won the Silver Bear at Berlinale.
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In the urban jungle of Kinshasa underground visual artists, musicians and performers create amazing art using recycled objects and their own bodies to express their anger, but also their dreams for change.
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The screening puts Sámi filmmakers, stories and actors front and centre.
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Construction worker finds his life turned upside down after becoming a single parent for a newborn.
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In this family drama set in the Turkish countryside, a father attempts to provide a better life for his three daughters, who dream of returning to the city.
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Imagine Harmony Korine’s Gummo overlaid with Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo and edited by 1970s Jean-Luc Godard and you have this exciting, radical punk film about eight Danish teenage girls.
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A beautifully paced tragicomedy is filmed around the unrequited love experienced by three lonely individuals living in the Iranian capital. "Tehran: City of Love" presents the charms and challenges of this bustling metropolis.
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Three modern day vagabonds seek serenity in the trains, somewhere in the outskirts of United States.
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Film and TV School FAMU in Prague is the fifth oldest film school in the world. The screening of six short films features their productions from 2015-2019.
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China-born Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma deals with a Sichuan Opera troupe and its manager's struggle when her theater is threatened with demolition.
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The T in LGBTQ+! The screening puts trans and non-binary filmmakers and actors front and centre.
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A religious father and husband falls in love with a man. The grounds of soul, family and community shake as painful decisions are made.
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An elderly art dealer about to retire spots an old painting at an auction. He suspects it is worth much more than the starting price and decides to make one last deal in order to earn proper pension money.
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This stunning anime is in many ways the quintessential Hayao Miyazaki film. Its success encouraged him to found Studio Ghibli together with Isao Takahata.
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Some films just have it all: Stanley Donen as the director, Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney as the leads, beautiful colours, perfect photography... and an honest story of a married couple in and out of love.
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Family might not be the worst but it definitely is the hardest. Director's Filipino stepmother is living in Sweden, pressured for money by her sons back home who believe she lives in luxury. In reality Yolanda is struggling between two worlds.
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As pretty as can be, bathed in the beautiful northern light, the film irritates like a rash, with the town it depicts remaining perfect only if you avoid screwing with its rules.
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A charming and playful consideration of her career.
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Terrence Malick's lyrical vision defies simple appraisal, but it's undeniably touched by brilliance.
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Basil Dearden’s gay-blackmail drama helped to change the law on homosexuality in the UK. Praised for its groundbreaking candour and a first-class performance by Dirk Bogarde.
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A warm-hearted and extraordinarily funny documentary on cultural clash between hippies from Berlin and Polish farmers.
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A beautifully crafted documentary channels the timeless headiness of Pauline Kael, arguably the greatest film critic who ever lived.
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A fascinating film about a very controversial and corrupt hate figure and his association with Donald Trump. An illuminating portrait explains how USA ended up to where it is today.
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A widowed police chief finds out about his deceased wife’s affair in this applauded psychological revenge story by one of Iceland’s most interesting directors, Hlynur Palmason (Winter Brothers, HIFF 2017).
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Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig's first English-language film is a life-affirming story about two Scottish brothers, love, and death.
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Flashbacks, a frenetic pace and striking set pieces combine to make this near-abstract crime movie an exhilarating experience.
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Far away from the city. Stories about life in remote areas.
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Jessie Buckley draws a startling picture of a single mum who wants to be a Nashville country star.
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Kudos to Bruce Robinson for creating a uniquely British comedy, simultaneously anarchic and literate; one of the funniest movies about love and squalor ever made!
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Documentary celebrates Fred Rogers, a role model for a generation of American children.
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Anna Odell's metafilm blurs the line between fiction and reality and asks the fundamental #metoo-question: what is the director justified to do in the name of art?
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Short films about the upsides and downsides of being young.
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Highly personal biopic of Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, who ended up on top of the ballet world involuntarily.
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