Die Welle (The Wave) is a 2008 German film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. The film shows the story of High school teacher Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel), who… Continue Reading
The Dreamers is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay is by Gilbert Adair, based on his own novel The Holy Innocents. An international co-production by companies from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy, the film… Continue Reading
Gegen die Wand (Head-On in the english version) is a 2004 German-Turkish drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın. A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story.… Continue Reading
10 Timer til Paradis (Teddy Bear) is a 2012 Danish film starring Kim Kold as a Danish bodybuilder who travels to Thailand to find love. The film was directed by Mads Matthiesen and written by Matthiesen and Martin Zandvliet. Teddy… Continue Reading
This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indian culture,… Continue Reading
The Broken Circle Breakdown is a 2012 Belgian drama film directed by Felix Van Groeningen.The film is set in Ghent, Belgium, where Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop… Continue Reading
Shame is a 2011 British drama film cowritten and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. It was coproduced by Film4 and See-Saw Films. The film’s explicit sexual scenes regarding sexual addiction resulted in it being rated… Continue Reading
Import/Export is an Austrian film by the director Ulrich Seidl from 2007. It was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix – Golden Apricot reward at the Yerevan International Film Festival.… Continue Reading
Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley) is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann and it was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenalle (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee).… Continue Reading
Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers) is an intense exploration of the trials and tribulations a same sex couple encounters in their desire to become loving parents. Katja and Isabella are happily married and feel the time is right to have a… Continue Reading
De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone) is a 2012 French-Belgian romantic drama directed by Jacques Audiard, starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection of the same name. It tells the story of an unemployed 25-year-old man who falls… Continue Reading
“Kriegerin” (Combat girls) is a teen drama that follows two suburban girls from different backgrounds, becoming entangled in the Neo-Nazi youth movement. It is a 2011 German film written and directed by David Wnendt and it had its international premiere at the Sao… Continue Reading
“Detachment” is a chronicle of one month in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Barthes’ method of imparting vital knowledge to his temporary students is interrupted… Continue Reading
“Fish Tank” is a 2009 British drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. The film won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the 2010 BAFTA for Best british film The film is a portrait of an angry, isolated 15-year-old… Continue Reading
Paradies: Liebe (Paradise: love) is a 2012 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It tells the story of a 50-year-old woman who travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. The project is an Austrian production with co-producers in Germany and France. It… Continue Reading
The sensation of the Cannes Film Festival 2013 and the most controversial film of the year, Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle) made cinema history as the first film ever awarded the Palme d’Or to both its director and its… Continue Reading
Mads Mikkelsen (NBC’s Hannibal, A ROYAL AFFAIR, CASINO ROYALE) won the Best Actor Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his penetrating portrayal of Lucas in Jagten (The hunt), a former school teacher who has been forced to start… Continue Reading
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party… One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit,… Continue Reading