Scroll down to read the synopsis of each movie.May 5, Thursday 8:00pm – The Third (Poland)
May 6, Friday 6:00pm – A Breath of Heaven ( Austria)
8:00pm – Une Chaine pour deux (Belgium)
May 7, Saturday6:00pm – Pearls and Rascals (Finland)
8:00pm – The Miracle According to Salome (Portugal)
May 8, Sunday6:00pm – Go for Sugar (Germany)
8:00pm – Eden (Ireland)
May 9, Monday 8:00pm – Viva L’Italia! (Italy)
May 10, Tuesday 6:00pm – Bride Flight (Netherlands)
8:00pm – By the Pricking of My Thumb (France)
May 11, Wednesday6:00pm – Filantropica (Romania)
8:00pm – Alatriste (Spain)
May 12, Thursday6:00pm – One Eye Red (Sweden)
8:00pm – Will You Marry Us (Switzerland)
May 13, Friday6:00pm – Change of Address (France)
8:00pm – The First Beautiful Thing (Italy)
May 14, Saturday6:00pm – The Final Days (Germany)
8:00pm – Sonny Boy (Netherlands)
May 15, Sunday6:00pm – Solitude@Net (Poland)
8:00pm – Celda 211 (Spain)
SynopsisAUSTRIA A Breath of HeavenErna von Gaderthurn, a 41-year old attractive woman, decides to begin a new life after her father passes away. She turns her back on the restrictive influence of her domineering mother, whose pride in her noble rank she finds insufferable, and leaves her parents’ castle in South Tyrol to take on the position of a school teacher in Blons, a hamlet in the Alps of Vorarlberg.
BELGIUM Une chaine pour deuxVictor Granville, owner of a bikes factory which bears his name, learns that he is seriously ill and hands over his SME to the New Deal Group, a large company mainly active in communication and media. Corinne, a junior official of New Deal, has been appointed at the head of Granville in order to restructure the company and close down one of the two production lines. To choose fairly the team that will keep its job, she sets a competition between the lines: the one that will produce more bikes shall be maintained and the other one shall be sacked. The two heads of the lines swear to avoid cheap shots in order to preserve their friendship, but is it possible? (Comedy)
FINLANDPearls and RascalsWhen their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her dysfunctional mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren’t so helplessly shy... (Comedy)
FRANCEBy the Pricking of My ThumbsPrudence and Belisaire are what can be called eccentric couple. Discreetly snobs and openly selfish, they cross existence by avoiding boredom and routine. Belisaire is both a colonel in the military secret service and a past master at...ironing! And Prudence, not very inclined to be the model mother, prefers playing the amateur detective. Unsurprisingly, when several pensioners in an old people’s home start dying mysteriously, Prudence is only too happy to leave daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren behind in her beautiful home to follow the trail of adventure. (Comedy and Suspense)
FRANCEChange of AddressDavid is a shy, awkward musician, who has just moved to Paris. He’s looking for an orchestra to work with, and a place to live. After meeting ditzy blonde Anne in the street, he’s soon sharing her flat – and, occasionally, her bed, despite her professed attraction to another guy. But then he begins giving music lessons to Julia, the beautiful, taciturn daughter of a rich woman, and before long he’s smitten. (Comedy)
GERMANYGo for SugarTo the funeral of his mother, the broke gambler Jaeckie Zucker is visited by his orthodox brother Samuel Zuckermann and his family. Between the funeral services Jaeckie secretly contests in a billiard competition to pay his dues with the price money. (Feature Film)
GERMANYThe Final DaysFebruary 1943: In the course of putting down stacks of leaflets against the NS-Dictatorship, young Sophie Scholl together with her brother Hans get arrested at Munich University. Following daylong interrogations the People’s Court of Justice sentences them to death through execution. (Feature Film)
IRELANDEdenEden is the screen adaptation of Eugene O’Brien’s internationally acclaimed play. In a modern middleclass town in Ireland, Billy and Brenda Farrell reflect on their lives together on the eve of their tenth wedding anniversary. Brenda is determined to ignite the passion between them, while Billy becomes increasing obsessed with an attractive younger woman. (Drama)
ITALYThe First Beautiful ThingGorgeous Anna Nigiotti was named Miss Mamma of Livorno’s most famous bath house in 1971, and her son Bruno never got over the embarrassment. Burning all the bridges to his past, Bruno leaves home to make a living far away. But now that Bruno’s mother is terminally ill, his sister Valeria convinces him he needs to come home to Livorno where the sight of his mother asleep in her hospice bed triggers bittersweet memories. (Comedy)
ITALYViva L’Itlalia!The film takes place in 1860 at the climax of the Italian period called Risorgimento (resurgence). It follows famed revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi as he liberates southern Italy from the Bourbon monarchy. With his Neorealistic skills, the director, Roberto Rossellini, excellently captures the action on the streets of Garibaldi’s army fighting the Bourbons to fulfil the first unification of Italy which will be later proclaimed on 17 March 1861. (Comedy)
NETHERLANDSBride FlightBased on a true story, Bride Flight is the story of the last great air race in 1953, which carried 26 young Dutch brides-to-be on their way to join their fiancés already settled in New Zealand. Bride Flight tells the story of three young brides Ada, Marjorie and Esther and untied, ambitious Frank. Full of hope and expectation they begin their new life. (Drama)
NETHERLANDSSonny BoySonny Boy tells the story of Waldemar, a 19-year old student from Suriname, and Rika, a 40-year old married Dutch woman with four children. They meet in the 1920s and fall in love. Not long after this, Rika gets pregnant and this causes a scandal with far reaching consequences. (Drama)
POLANDThe ThirdPowel and Ewa spend their dreamed and long-planned vacation on a boat. Ewa, an attractive, intelligent and charming woman is bored with her life filled only with work. Vacation on the boat is supposed to warm the relationship between Ewa and Pawel. Unfortunately Pawel has to go back to work while Ewa meets a passionate older man. (Drama)
POLANDSolitude@NetEwa lives in Poland, Jakub in Germany. Her world is a TV newsroom, his a science lab and lecture hall. They have met once before on passing trains in Berlin ZOO Station, but neither of them remembers this encounter. They accidentally meet again and from this moment on they start meeting on the net and become closer and closer with each other. Eventually they decide to meet in person. He makes a journey from New Orleans, she takes off from Warsaw. This time their tracks cross in Paris...but fate likes to play a hand too. (Romance)
PORTUGALThe Miracle According to SalomeIn 1917, Portugal is in a time of intense political and social turmoil. High-class Lisbon prostitute Salome makes her way to high-society after marrying Sertorio, a wealthy banker. But when she meets Gabriel, an idealistic journalist, she falls in love with him and leaves her husband. Her past will tragically fall upon her and her lover, as she becomes involuntarily involved in the events surrounding the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima. (Hisotorical)
ROMANIAPhilantropiqueOvidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to make money. (Comedy)
SPAINAlatristeDiego Alatriste is not a victorious soul, but he is a man of honour and courage. As a captain in the Spanish Army in the 17th century, he emerges as a hero in his country’s imperial wars. In his personal life, he is passionately in love with the beautiful Maria de Castro, a famous stage actress. To keep a promise he made to his dying father, Alatriste watches over the young Inigo de Balboa and steers him clear off a military career that he himself has chosen. (Action)
SPAINCelda 211Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife Elena at home. His destiny is forever changed by this fateful decision, as during his tour of the prison, an accident occurs that knocks him unconscious. (Action / Drama)
SWEDENOne Eye RedHalim has seen through the integration plan – a secret conspiracy that tries to turn all immigrants into Swedes. Unfortunately he has seen through his father, who has fallen victim to the integration plan. But Halim has his own plan; he is going to be Sweden’s mightiest sultan of the mind and save his father from forgetting his Arabic roots. (Comedy)
SWITZERLANDWill You Marry UsRahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn’t believed in the so-called “love of her life” in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what it felt like to be in love. And that leads to even more problems, because Rahel is already married. And Ben would like to get married: by Rahel. (Romantic Comedy)
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