The Ascent

The Ascent 2011

1

Jovan has just graduated from literature and struggles to finish his first novel. He decides to go to his friend's country estate in order to dedicate himself to writing in peace. At the estate, which is situated in obscured mountain's landscape, live farmers - one very strange family which doesn't have contact with civilization. They are illiterate, they live in unclearly defined sexual relations and they are devoted to nature. Zeko, head of the family, is sadist authority whose word, will and unique world-view can't be challenged by family members. Jovan slowly gets used to life with them, and decides to stay with them a little longer. But, it's not on him to decide how much longer.

2011

Bahadur: The Accidental Brave

Bahadur: The Accidental Brave 2011

1

Far West Nepal, where maximum labour migration to Bombay happens, is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro epidemic. This documentary is an in depth look into the brave Nepalese migrants’ life in a social, economic and political context.

2011

Seven Years of Winter

Seven Years of Winter 2011

1

Seven-year-old Andrej scavenges the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl for discarded documents to trade on the black market.

2011

Vengayam

Vengayam 2011

1

A sub-inspector (Alexander) falls in love with a chirpy villager (Pavina). Meanwhile, fake godmen go missing in the village and he is asked to solve the case. What does a group of children have to do with this mystery?

2011

Utt Pataang

Utt Pataang 2011

5.00

Mumbai-based Ramvilas Sharma has just broken-up with Sanjana Mahadik, a former bar dancer, with whom he had a six month relationship. His private-detective friend, Nandan Pandey, attempts to counsel him over this break-up, and even encourages him to meet other women. Ramvilas does meet with a homeless woman, Koel Datta, befriends her, and even brings her to spend the night in his flat but will be interrupted when Sanjana will come to take her belongings back and will leave a bag full of cash. Everyone will find their respective lives turned upside when they will be 'interrogated' by a suave French-speaking crook, Lucky Sardana, after the bag goes missing.

2011

Utanför

Utanför 2011

1

Cecilia dances inside a forest. She moves in front of a film crew who direct her movements.

2011

Hard Rock Calling 2011

Hard Rock Calling 2011 2011

8.00

Tracklist: 01. Bon Jovi - It s My Life 02. Bon Jovi - Blaze Of Glory 03. Ray Davies - All Day And All Of The Night 04. Rod Stewart - Baby Jane 05. Train - Ramble On 06. Train - Hey Soul Sister 07. Rumer - Take Me As I Am 08. Lissie - Little Lovin 09. Stevie Nicks - Gold Dust Woman 10. Stevie Nicks - Secret Love 11. Stevie Nicks - Landslide 12. Adam Ant - Ant Music 13. Vintage Trouble - Blues Hand Me Down 14. The Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot 15. The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale 16. The Killers - Moon River 17. The Killers - Mr. Brightside 18. The Killers - Human 19. The Killers - When You Were Young 20. Bon Jovi - Always 21. Bon Jovi - Livin On A Prayer 22. Rod Stewart with Stevie Nicks - Young Turks 23. Rod Stewart with Ronnie Wood - Stay With Me 24. Rod Stewart - Sailing

2011

Baby Back Costa Rica

Baby Back Costa Rica 2011

10.00

Three teenage girls are heading home in their Mini Cooper S. They discuss their boyfriends, their boyfriend's mothers, their boyfriend's mother's cars, and Judaism.

2011

In the Name of the Daughter

In the Name of the Daughter 2011

7.77

En el Nombre de la Hija tells the story of a nine-year old girl whose name is in dispute. Manuela has been named alter her socialist-atheist father, but her catholic-conservative grandmother insists she should carry the name the first daughters of the family have carried for generations: Dolores. The story takes place in a Valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, during the summer of 1976. Manuela and her little brother, Camilo, are spending vacations with their cousins and grandparents at the family's farmhouse. Eager to defend her father's ideas, Manuela confronts her cousins and grandparents, but an unexpected encounter leads her to confront herself instead. Hidden in the family's abandoned library, schizophrenic uncle Felipe is devoted to setting words free from the constraints of dogmas. His wisdom sets Manuela free from her own dogmas and forever changes her relationship with words, including her own name.

2011

Frog/Robot

Frog/Robot 2011

8.00

An off-kilter comedy about a girl who thinks more than she says, and a boy that says more than he thinks.

2011

Onion

Onion 2011

6.00

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

2011

My Name is Bruce

My Name is Bruce 2011

1

An unemployed man wanders the streets of Santiago de Chile in the 80s (Pinochet's Chile), looking for a chance to be a hero. In an old cinema in the center of the city, it may has his opportunity. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

2011

Hard Bargaining: Museums Face Claims for Return of Artefacts

Hard Bargaining: Museums Face Claims for Return of Artefacts 2011

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Four French museums, the Louvre, the Quai Branly, the French National Library, and the Rouen Museum, are faced with pressing demands for the return of works of art. The number of demands is multiplying. They come from all over the world, and in particular from Egypt, Mali and New Zealand. The question of returning works of art to their countries of origin is increasingly making news. Take for example the emotions aroused by President Sarkozy’s decision, on the 12th November 2010, to return 297 royal manuscripts to South Korea. The ensuing row involved diametrically opposed points of view. Was it a violation of the principle of inalienability of France’s national collections or was it a just reparation for the victims of colonization? The rich countries’ great museums and the countries of origin have completely different visions of the issue. The museums defend the idea of a universal museum whose works belong to the whole of humanity.

2011

Block

Block 2011

7.00

A young actress living in Brooklyn discovers how profoundly her hostile environment has affected her.

2011

Loafer

Loafer 2011

1

Sanju is an orphan who works as a pizza delivery boy to earn his living. However, his life takes a major twist when he falls for the daughter of a politician.

2011

Hopfensommer

Hopfensommer 2011

4.00

Farmer Josef is down because of a heart attack. Who will bring in the harvest now? His wife asks his son for help. Karl, who once left the farm in a quarrel, rushes over and once again gets into a quarrel with his father - and into the confusion of love... A cliché brew of a Heimatfilm that is quite palatable, has a top cast and was filmed in an interesting region.

2011

Fire

Fire 2011

1.00

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

2011