Main cast:
Nerea Camacho (Camino)
Carme Elias (Gloria)
Mariano Venancio (José)
Manuela Vellés (Nuria)

CAMINO

Inspired by real events, CAMINO is the emotional adventure of an extraordinary eleven-year-old who is faced simultaneously with two completely new situations in her life: falling in love and dying. Above all else, CAMINO is a radiant light that shines through every gloomy obstacle in her path, denying every attempt to shroud in darkness her desire to live, to love and to feel the full depth of her happiness.

www.caminolapelicula.com

Main cast:
Penélope Cruz (Lena)
Lluís Homar (Mateo/Harry)
Blanca Portillo (Judit)
José Luis Gómez (Ernesto Martel Sr.)
Rubén Ochandiano (Ernesto Martel Jr./Ray X)
Tamar Novas (Diego)

BROKEN EMBRACES

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he didn’t lose only his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.

This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.

In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide.

Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self-induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco.

One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and he tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he’ll fall asleep.

The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour fou”, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.

www.losabrazosrotos.com

Main cast:
Jose Luís García Pérez (Martín)
Farah Hamed (Leila)
Adam Bounouacha (Said)
Antonio de la Torre (Antonio)

RETURN TO HANSALA

That morning, some corpses are washed ashore. A small boat has sunk leaving twelve corpses on the sand and who knows how many more at sea. MARTÍN a man about forty owns a funeral home in Algeciras. He manages a newly set-up business and faces numerous financial and legal difficulties.
One of the deceased immigrants was a brother of LEILA, a Moroccan girl who lives in Spain for five years. She feels guilty for having given him the money to pay this trip. Now it(he,she) will try to return the corpse of her brother to the natal village to give him grave.
The relationship between these two characters, helps them to find a human side in one another which they had forgotten existed. They are two human beings wrapped in the million shells they have built for self-protection.
SAID a youngster from the village of just about 16 guides them around the area to show the victims’ clothes. One day SAID disappears. He has left on a small boat for Spain and this “paradise” everyone wants to find.

Main cast:
Jakob Cedergren (Robert)
Lene Maria Christensen (Ingelise)
Kim Bodnia (Jørgen)

TERRIBLY HAPPY

Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren), a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.

But Robert has a hard time understanding the locals and their uncivilized approach to law and order. In a town where everyone knows everyone, people like to take care of things themselves.

Robert is approached by the irresistible and mysterious Ingelise (Lene Maria Christensen) who convinces him to help her get away from her abusive husband, Jørgen (Kim Bodnia). Robert’s involvement results in a direct confrontation with Jørgen who also happens to be a prominent and intimidating town figurehead.

In order to get things done, Robert succumbs to the unwritten rules of this frontier marshland making use of the uncivilized norms and practices he previously found so difficult to understand. Meanwhile, all hope of returning to Copenhagen seems to sink deeper and deeper into the marshes of Southern Jutland and a state “terrible happiness” emerges.

Terribly Happy is a dramatic and grotesque fable about abandoning one’s morals in order to achieve security and belonging.

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Main cast:
Yolande Moreau (Séraphine)
Ulrich Tukur (Wilhelm Uhde)
Anne Bennent (Anne-Marie)
Geneviève Mnich (Mme Duphot)
Nico Rogner (Helmut)

SERAPHINE

1912. Séraphine Louis, 42, lives in Senlis, a small town fifty kilometers outside Paris. She earns a living doing household chores and cleaning. In her spare time, Séraphine paints, on anything that comes to hand (plates, furniture, small wooden panels). She works as a maid for Madame Duphot, who rents an apartment to a German art critic and dealer, Wilhelm Uhde, an enthusiastic advocate of modern and “primitive” artists. At a dinner party given by Madame Duphot, Wilhelm comes across a small painting that Séraphine brought over a few days previously. Mesmerized, he snaps it up and insists that Séraphine show him the rest of her work. He buys it all and encourages her to continue developing her talent.

The Great War breaks out. Uhde is forced to flee France and abandon Séraphine. During the fighting, through famine, poverty and harsh winters, Séraphine never stops painting.

1927. Back in France, Wilhelm Uhde now lives in Chantilly, not far from Senlis, with his sister, Anne-Marie, and his companion, Helmut. At Anne-Marie’s insistence, he visits an exhibition of amateur painters in Senlis, where, at the far end of one of the rooms, he glimpses huge, shimmering, mystical canvases. Wilhelm immediately recognizes Séraphine’s style. Overcome with emotion, he decides to take the elderly woman under his wing once more.

In the next few years, Séraphine paints her most inspired works and sells many of them but gradually loses her reason. Interned in an asylum, she passes away in 1942.

www.seraphine-lefilm.com

Main cast:
Trine Dyrholm (Lotte)
Finn Nielsen (Father)
Lorna Brown (Lily)

LITTLE SOLDIER

After yet another mission abroad, the young soldier Lotte returns home, completely disillusioned with life. Lotte’s unreliable father offers her a job as a chauffeur for his Nigerian girlfriend, the escort girl Lily. Both Lotte and Lily carry invisible scars and are reluctant at first, but a friendship slowly emerges between the two women, and things take an unexpected turn.

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Main cast:
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Ida Dalser)
Filippo Timi (Benito Mussolini)
Michela Cescon (Rachele Guidi)
Fausto Russo Alesi (Riccardo Paicher)
Piergiorgio Bellocchio (Pietro Fedele)

VINCERE

When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of L’Avanti! and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, anti-monarchical, socially emancipated future. Ida already had a fleeting encounter with him in Trento and remained thunderstruck.

Ida truly believes in him and his ideas. In order to finance Il Popolo d’Italia, a newspaper he has founded and the nucleus of the forthcoming Fascist Party, Ida sells everything she has.

When the First World War erupts, Benito Mussolini enrols in the Army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he is tended to by Rachele whom he has just married.

Ida lashes out at her rival furiously, demanding her rights as Mussolini’s true wife and the mother of his first-born son. She is led away by force.

For more than eleven years, she is locked away in an insane asylum (and her son in an institute) where she is put under physical restraint and tortured, never to see her son again. But Ida will not give up without a fight…

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Main cast:
Moritz Bleibtreu (Andreas Baader)
Martina Gedeck (Ulrike Meinhoff)
Johanna Wokalek (Gudrun Ensslin)
Niels Bruno Schmidt (Jan Carl Raspe)
Jan Josef Liefers (Peter Homann)
Nadja Uhl (Brigitte Mohnhaupt)

THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX

June 1967. Prominent left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) is shocked by reports of a violent demonstration in Berlin, during which a student is shot dead by a policeman. When Meinhof realises that her husband is having an affair and her marriage has disintegrated, she takes her two children and moves to Berlin. Here she becomes actively involved in the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist student movement. Increasingly though, she feels that by merely reporting about events she will never bring about actual change. As a result, she is impressed by the resolve of Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) who, together with her boyfriend Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), set fire to a department store in order to protest against the Vietnam War. After Baader’s arrest, Meinhof helps to free him from prison, which means she must cut all ties with her previous and even leave her children behind. Together with Baader and Ensslin, she founds the “Red Army Faction” (RAF). Their intention is to spearhead an armed resistance fight against the political status quo in Germany.

After military training at an El Fatah camp in Jordan, the group robs banks and carries out a number of violent and deadly attacks. The death toll starts rising and with it the hysteria of the press. The head of the Federal German Police Force Horst Herold (Bruno Ganz) builds up an enormous police apparatus. In 1972 he manages to capture Baader, Ensslin and Meinhof as well as other RAF members.

Only in captivity, the RAF leadership develops actual political power. More and more people support their cause and the RAF enlists a number of new recruits including Petra Schelm (Alexandra Maria Lara) and the new leader figure Brigitte Mohnhaupt (Nadja Uhl). Through hunger strikes and further attacks, the RAF increases the pressure on the government, thus rocking the very foundations of German democracy. But while Meinhof, Baader and Ensslin have turned into radical icons, inside the group the tensions are rising. In May 1976, Meinhof commits suicide inside her prison cell.

The violent confrontation between the German state and the RAF spirals out of control in the autumn of 1977. Six weeks after the kidnapping of a prominent industrialist, a plane with 86 German tourists on board is hijacked. Herold’s frenzied search for the industrialist remains fruitless, but the plane is eventually freed by a German anti-terrorist squad. The morning after the liberation of the tourists, Ensslin, Baader and another RAF member are found dead in their cells. As an act of revenge, the industrialist is executed by the RAF.

www.bmk.film.de

Main cast:
Tahar Rahim (Malik El Djebena)
Niels Arestrup (César Luciani)
Abdel Bencherif (Ryad)
Reda Kateb (Jordi le gitan)
Hichem Yacoubi (Reyeb)

A PROPHET

Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given
a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans…

www.whynotproductions.fr

Main cast:
Steve Evets (Eric Bishop)
Eric Cantona (Himself)
John Henshaw (Meatballs)
Stephanie Bishop (Lily)

LOOKING FOR ERIC

Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers…

His wife has gone, his stepsons are out of control and the house was chaotic even before a cement mixer appeared in the front garden. Life is crazy enough, but it is Eric’s own secret that is driving him to the brink. How can he face up to Lily, the woman of his dreams that he once loved and walked out on many years ago? Despite the comical efforts and misplaced goodwill of his mates, Eric continues to sink.

In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to help a lost postman find his way, so Eric turns to his hero: footballing genius, philosopher and poster boy, Eric Cantona.

As a certain Frenchman says “He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.”

www.lookingforericmovie.co.uk