Like Crazy by Drake Doremus
7 Sins Forgiven by Vishal Bhardwaj
En gång i Phuket by Staffan Lindberg
My Worst Nightmare by Anne Fontaine
Hysteria by Tanya Wexler
Romeos by Sabine Bernadi
Matchmaking Mayor by Erika Hníková
Spotlight: Love Stories
This year we highlight a wide range of films about how love affects our lives, choices and actions. The subject, and the feeling is universal, but have completely different conditions depending on where in the world and the life you have. Love stories can contain so much more than pink clouds and happy endings, it often means just as much tragedy, sadness and unpredictability. It is a subject worth taking seriously. This is what we want to show in this year's spotlight.
7 Sins Forgiven
by Vishal Bhardwaj
Vishal Bhardwaj has directed the life journey of Susanna with time travelling effects similar to those in »The Curious Case of Benjamin Button« and comical cuts like »Amelie from Montmartre«. At…
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Once Upon a Time in Phuket
by Staffan Lindberg
As a career coach, Sven helps people set their lives straight on a daily basis. Unfortunately Sven’s life has become a little too straight lately. When Sven’s former classmate—the adventurous…
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Hysteria
by Tanya Wexler
During the 19th century women with a tendency to cause trouble were diagnosed with “Hysteria”. A common treatment was to evoke a hysterical paroxysm—letting a doctor manually simulate the…
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Like Crazy
by Drake Doremus
Being in love during college is much like being stranded on an island, but unlike Robinson Crouse a lovebird never wants to return home. In Jacob and Anna’s case however, home is not where the…
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Matchmaking Mayor
by Erika Hníková
During a time period of three years, director Erika Hníková documented life in the village of Zemplinska Hamre, located in Slovakia. That is where she found mayor Jozef Gajdos. He thinks he has…
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My Worst Nightmare
by Anne Fontaine
From the outside Agathe, François and their son Adrien represents the perfect, painfully normal, bourgeois family. Agathe and François’ relationship is emotionally indifferent and their routines…
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Romeos
by Sabine Bernadi
»Romeos« is the exceptional story about Lukas, who was born a girl, but at the age of twenty experiences male puberty by undergoing testosterone therapy.Looking like a boy but having not turned…
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