LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB (2009)
Original Title:Postia pappi Jaakob
Country : Finland
Category : Drama
Director : Klaus Härö
Principle Cast :Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiainen, Jukka Keinonen, Esko Roine
Awards : 2009 – Nordic Film Days, Lübeck, Germany Interfilm Church Prize
Audience Award
2009 – International Film festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany
Main Award
2009 – 33rd Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
The Golden Pyramid for the Best Film
The Prize for the Best Screenwriter (Klaus Härö)
2009 – Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
Jury Prize for the Best Director
2010 – Santa Barbara International Film Festival, USA
The Best International Film Award
2010 – Festival du Cinéma Nordique, Rouen, France
Best Actress Award (Kaarina Hazard)
Best Actor Award (Heikki Nousiainen)
Audience Award
2010 – 33rd Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden
Nordic Film Music Prize (composer Dan Strömbäck)
Length : 75 Min
Remarks:
Leila, a life sentence prisoner has just been pardoned. When she is released from prison, she is offered a job at a parsonage where she moves against her will. Leila is used to taking care only of herself, so trouble ensues when she is made to help a blind priest with answering letters, something she considers a waste of time. Leila has already decided to leave when the letters suddenly stop coming. Two completely different lives are intertwined, and the roles of the helper and the helped are turned upside down

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2008)
Original Title: La fille du RER
Country : France
Category : Drama
Director : André Téchiné
Principle Cast : Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Ronit Elkabetz, Mathieu Demy, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Awards :
Length : 105 min
Remarks:
Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer whom she knew in her youth. Jeanne and Bleistein's worlds are light years apart. However, they'll be set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story of the day.

THE KILLER OF MONTMARTRE (2007)
Original Title:Le Tueur de Montmartre
Country : France
Category : Animation
Director : Borislav Sajtinac
Principle Cast :
Awards :
Length : 50 min
Remarks:
François, a failed painter dedicated his time between to a ferocious hatred for his tyrannical mother, the search for inspiration and a pointless job. His only companion is a large knifer. His mother will be its first victim, the first murder in his career as a serial killer. While out walking, he has a strange encounter with Death. In several face-to-face exchanges with this unlikely correspondent, he discovers a unique character. But following a game, Death suffers a fatal fall. François returns to his life but are things back to normal?

LISBON STORY (1994)
Original Title:
Country : Germany
Category :
Director : Wim Wenders
Principle Cast :Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Teresa Salgueiro, Manuel de Oliveira, Vasco Sequeira, Ricardo Colares
Awards :
Length : 105 min
Remarks:
The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent black & white movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives in Lisbon weeks later, Monroe has disappeared but has left the unfinished film behind. Winter decides to stay, because he is fascinated by the city and the Portuguese singer Teresa, and he starts to record the sound for the film. At the same time Monroe cruises through the city with a camcorder and tries to catch unseen pictures. Later they meet and Winter convinces Monroe to finish the film.

THE PRANK (2009)
Original Title:Tréfa
Country : Hungary
Category : Drama
Director : Péter Gárdos
Principle Cast : TAMÁS LENGYEL, LÓRÁND VÁTA
Awards : 2009 – BUDAPEST HUNGARIAN FILM WEEK
Best Director: Péter Gárdos
2009 – OURENSE INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Special Mention
Length : 94 Min
Remarks:
It is 1912. In a small town's parish school run by priests the pupils are overcome by a strangely overwhelming rowdiness, leading them to come up with outrageous pranks. The school welcomes a new teacher, Father Weigl, who is aghast at his colleagues' liberal approach to the excessively bad behaviour of the teenage pupils. Father Zoltán, the former master, pays less and less attention to the events taking place right around him. His younger brother, deafened in a boxing match, was on his way to Boston for surgery at Father Zoltan's urging. The brother was aboard the Titanic, which collided with an iceberg. The official report on the injured and casualties is yet to be released.

THE DAYS OF DESIRE (2009)
Original Title:A vágyakozás napjai
Country : Hungary
Category : Drama
Director : JÓZSEF PACSKOVSZKY
Principle Cast :CATHERINE WILKENING, ORSOLYA SCHEFCSIK, ZSOLT LÁSZLÓ, ÁKOS OROSZ
Awards : 2010 – BUDAPEST HUNGARIAN FILM WEEK
Best Screenplay: József Pacskovszky, Best Sound: János Kőporossy
2010 – WIESBADEN GOEAST FILM FESTIVAL
Best Director
Length : 104 Min
Remarks:
Anna, a mute teenager, takes a job as housekeeper to a wealthy but unhappy couple, who quickly install her as the heart of their fractured household. All three glimpse the possibility of redemption – but when Anna falls in love, the idyll is threatened, and tensions invade. Can the sins of the past be made good? Is there anything like an innocent lie? Shot in black and white, this is a compelling, mysterious character study.

THE HERETIC (2005)
Original Title:Maestro Deglierrori, Il
Country : Italy
Category : Feature
Director : Pietro Maria Benfatti
Principle Cast :Tobias Moretti, Remo Girone, Robert Stadlober, Lino Capolicchio, Melanie Berton, Gianni Musy, Luigi Maria Burruano, Ernesto Mahieux
Awards :
Length : 105 min
Remarks:
The Heretic is a story of the life of Cecco d'Ascoli, who lived between the end of the 1200s and the beginning of the following century. A man of science, teacher of medicine at the Bologna University, he was forced to stop teaching in 1325 after he held lectures on the ‘commento alla Sfera del Sacrobosco'. Accused of heresy by the Inquisition, he was condemned to death in 1327.

DRAFT DODGERS (2009)
Original Title:Refractaire
Country : Luxembourg
Category : Historical drama
Director : Nicolas Steil
Principle Cast : Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Thierry van Werveke, Marianne Basler, Swann Arlaud, Carlo Brandt
Awards :
Length : 100 Min
Remarks:
François is 21 years old and lives in Luxembourg which was just been annexed by Nazi Germany. His father, who has collaborated with the Nazi regime, forces him to attend a German university. François decides to commit his first act of disobedience, however, and leaves the institution that teaches racial hatred. But now he faces a fateful decision: should he allow himself to be impressed into the army in order to fight the Allies on the Russian front, or should he hide as a deserter in a mine, where he will spend long months in the cold and damp without light or sun?

STORM BOUND (2007)
Original Title:De Scheepsjongens Van Bontekoe
Country : Netherlands
Category : Family fun
Director : Steven de Jong
Principle Cast :Pim Wessels, Martijn Hendrickx, Billy Zomerdijk, Reena Giasi, PeterTuinman, Thomas Acda Bart Slegers, Cees Geel Mads Wittermans, Bas Keijzer,Chris Zegers ,Jack Wouterse ,Sanneke Bos
Awards :
Length : 135 Min
Remarks:
14 year old Hajo has always dreamed of life in the high seas. The fact that his father, a respected sailor, was killed on a ship does nothing to lessen his desire to leave land behind, and seek adventure beyond the shores. So when Captain Bontekoe shows up in town, recruiting for his next exciting voyage to Java, Hajo knows he has no time to lose. His mother tries her best to talk him out of it, but even she can see the sea is in her son's blood, the same as it was in her husband's. What follows, as Hajo climbs on board Bontekoe's ship along with faithful friends, Padde and Rolf, is a high octane hurricane of thrills and adventure.

VENICE (2010)
Original Title:Wenecja
Country : Poland
Category : Fantasy
Director : Jan Jakub Kolski
Principle Cast :Marcin Walewski, Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Magdalena Cielecka, Julia Kijowska, Agnieszka Grochowska, Teresa Budzisz – Krzyżanowska, Michał Kwieciński
Awards :
Length : 110 Min
Remarks:
Eleven-year-old Marek loves Venice. He knows the names of all the squares and streets of Venice by heart, but he has never actually seen his beloved city in person. Which is about to change. This summer his dream will come true; he will finally visit Venice… But this summer happens to be the summer of 1939. War with Germany looms and Marek’s father enters the army. Instead of St. Mark’s Square, Marek ends up with his mother in a large villa of Aunt Veronica. But down in the flooded cellar of the mansion, Marek still has dreams. If he can’t go to Venice, Venice will come to him…

ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL (2009)
Original Title:Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
Country : Portugal
Category : Comedy drama
Director : Manoel de Oliveira
Principle Cast :Ricardo trepa, Catarina Wallenstein, Díogo Dória, Júlia Buísel,
Leonor Silveira, Filipe Vargas, Miguel Seabra, Rogério Samora.
Awards :
Length : 64 min
Remarks:
Portuguese elder statesman Manoel de Oliveira has been making films since 1931. The 101 year old’s latest is a comic miniature on the perils of old-fashioned courtship. Delivered as an irate remembrance from the seat of a train, the story describes the lengths to which pretty boy Marcário goes to woo the sultry maiden who throws him come-hither looks from a window opposite his office. Devoting himself to winning her, in the face of obstacles financial, familial, and practical, he finally achieves his goal, only to discover an unexpected "singularity" of his fiancée’s character.

HO HO HO (2009)
Original Title:Ho Ho Ho
Country : Romania
Category : Family comedy
Director : Jesus del Cerro
Principle Cast :Stefan Banica Jr, Bogdan Iancu, Pavel Bartos, Alina Chivulescu, Valentin Teodosiu, Ion Sapdaru, Alex Margineanu, Raluca Aprodu, Laura Cosoi
Awards :
Length : 101 Min
Remarks:
Horatiu, an 8-year-old boy who still believes in Santa, is taken by his mother to the mall as a Christmas gift. A day that should have been nothing more than ordinary turns into a boisterous adventure when the kid gets lost. He meets Ion, a small-time crook disguised as Santa Claus, who is rude and doesn’t really like kids. However, the boy has no doubt that he is the real Santa and follows him around, causing all sorts of trouble, both amusing and dangerous. By the end, the cynical Santa grows fond of the kid, and Horatiu learns that miracles do happen.

POKER (2010)
Original Title:Poker
Country : Romania
Category : Comedy
Director : Sergiu Nicolaescu
Principle Cast :Horatiu Malaele, Vladimir Gaitan, Valentin Teodosiu and Jean Constantin.
Awards :
Length : 112 Min
Remarks:
Four boys start neglecting school to meet in a hidden location and play poker. As time goes by, their poker game becomes more serious, while at the same time bringing them closer as friends. Now that they are grown-ups, Claudiu, Titel, Horia and Marcel are known as the resourceful politician, the surgeon who knows people, the adventurous gangster and the millionaire architect. Behind their normal day-to-day activities the men hide serious, money-making businesses. Their last “match” reveals that each of the four friends has a secret plan the others don’t know about and soon their traditional poker game turns into a ridiculous bluff.

THESIS (1996)
Original Title:Tesis
Country : Spain
Category : Thriller
Director : Alejandro Amenábar

Principle Cast : Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga, Miguel Picazo, Nieves Herranz, Rosa Campillo
Awards :
Length : 125 min
Remarks:
Ángela is a film student at the Madrid's University Complutense. Searching for research material for her thesis on audio-visual violence, she befriends Chema, a fellow student and introvert with an encyclopaedic collection of violent and pornographic films. After Ángela's professor dies while watching a film she steals the videotape, discovering that it is a snuff film featuring a girl whom she and Chema recognize as another student at the university. Investigating the origins of the tape, they are drawn into the operations of a chilling snuff ring.

UNDER THE STARS ( 2007)
Original Title:Bajo las estrellas
Country : Spain
Category : Drama
Director : Félix Viscarret
Principle Cast :Alberto San Juan, Julián Villagrán, Violeta Rodríguez, Emma Suárez, Amparo Valle
Awards :
Length : 108 min
Remarks:
The film features the selfish, opportunistic Benito, a professional trumpet player barely surviving in Madrid, who returns to his home in Navarre when he learns that his father is dying. Benito reconnects with his younger brother, Lalo who is emotionally needy. Benito also develops a surprising bond with Ainara, the young daughter of his brother's girlfriend, Nines. Later a family tragedy provokes the suicide of Lalo. Benito chooses to abandon his music career in the big city and insists that Nines and Ainara move in with him.

HEAVEN'S HEART (2008)
Original Title:Himlens Hjärta
Country : Sweden
Category : Drama
Director : Simon Staho
Principle Cast : Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Endre, Maria Lundqvist
Awards :
Length : 95 Min
Remarks:
Lars and Susanna have been married for twenty years. They love each other dearly and together they have created a secure, happy life with well-paid jobs, a large house, two cars and a daughter who is about to move away from home. Life has turned out just as happily and comfortably for Susanna’s best friend Ann and her husband Ulf, who will also shortly be celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. One evening when the two couples are having dinner together, Susanna tells the others about an adulterous colleague. The story provokes strong reactions that cause a dramatic showdown among the two couples – and turns their lives and marriages upside down.