Main Cast:
Alexeï Guskov (Andreï Filipov)
Dmitry Nazarov (Sacha Grossman)
Mélanie Laurent (Anne-Marie Jacquet)
François Berleand (Olivier Morne Duplessis)
Miou Miou (Guylène de La Rivière)
Valeri Barinov (Ivan Gavrilov)
Anna Kamenkova Pavlova (Irina Filipovna)
Lionel Abelanski (Jean-Paul Carrère)
Alexander Komissarov (Victor Vikitch)
Ramzy (owner of the ‘Trou Normand’)

LE CONCERT

Andreï Filipov was a prodigy – the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner. During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players, – ‘Zionists and enemies of the people’ – including his best friend Sacha Grossman. Andreï sank into booze and depression.
The director of the Bolshoi, an old apparatchik, has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon”, but he’s mocking him, humiliating him sadistically. For him, Andreï’s a has-been, and he’s doing him a big favour by keeping him on as a cleaner. Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a last-minute replacement for the indisposed San Francisco Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: he’ll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, removal men, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects…

They’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi.
They’ll defy destiny and take their revenge!
Will they make it?

Main Cast:
Nebojša Glogovac (Boro)
Nataša Janjić (Jasna)

DONKEY

It is 1995. The summer when the war operation “Storm” will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka, goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn’t speak at all to his father Paško, whom he blames for his mother’s death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the year-long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father, and in all this a considerable role will be played by a donkey.

Main Cast:
Lorenzo Balducci (Lorenzo da Ponte)
Lino Guanciale (Mozart)
Emilia Verginelli (Anneta)
Ketevan Kemoklídze (Adriana Ferrarse / Donna Elvira)

I, DON GIOVANNI

Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte is leading a very cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna. Supported by his friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the king’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival’s ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist. But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.

Main Cast:
Andreas Lust (Johann Rettenberger)
Franziska Weisz (Erika)
Markus Schleinzer (parole officer)

THE ROBBER

Based on the true story of “Pump-gun Ronnie” which Martin Prinz used as source material for his eponymous novel, THE ROBBER tells the story of Johann Rettenberger (Andreas Lust), a restless misfit who is driven by an inexplicable desire to stay in motion. Motivated by the pure beauty of the criminal campaigns he executes, he is both cool and calculated whilst also fast and resourceful in the frenzied intensity of his criminal exploits. Rettenberger’s emotional indifference to rehabilitation is shattered the moment Erika (Franziska Weisz) steps back into his life during a chance meeting at the job centre. She offers him refuge and a place to stay, however the dark secrets he hides from her and his probation officer soon overwhelm him. Misguided in his dual search for love and freedom, the authorities finally begin to close in on the robber. Moved by an over-powering inner energy he attempts to flee the largest deployment of police forces in Austria’s modern history, but will his wit and athleticism give him the opportunity for one last escape? THE ROBBER is a thriller about reckless bank robberies, heart-pounding marathons, ill-fated love and dramatic escapes.

Main Cast:
Lambert Wilson (Christian)
Michael Lonsdale (Luc)
Olivier Rabourdin (Christophe)
Philippe Laudenbach (Célestin)
Jacques Herlin (Amédée)
Loïc Pichon (Jean-Pierre)
Xavier Maly (Michel)
Jean-Marie Frin (Paul)

OF GODS AND MEN

A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.
When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay… come what may.
This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.

Main Cast:
Ricardo Darín (Benjamín Espósito)
Soledad Villamil (Irene Menéndez Hastings)
Pablo Rago (Ricardo Morales
Javier Godino (Isidoro Gómez)
Guillermo Francella (Sandoval)

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

For 25 years, a murder case has remained indelibly etched on Benjamin Esposito’s mind. Now retired, he decides to go back over that story and take another look at a past full of love, death and friendship. But those memories, once released and replayed a thousand times over, will change his view of that past. And rewrite his future.

Main Cast:
Ivan Barnev (the cameraman)
Kasiel Noah Asher (Diana)
Krasimir Dokov (Angelov)
Gergana Pletnyova (Angelov’s assistant)

VOICE OVER

The end of the 70s of the XX century. A director of photography and his wife are separated by the Iron Curtain – she fled with their sick son to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that the kid can only be cured of his sickness in Germany. He can’t do without working his favourite job. The DOP is shooting a movie with the best film director in Bulgaria, member of the Communist party elite… Yet, the DOP lives a life torn between his work and responsibility to his family.
The State Security Services suspect the DOP in espionage - his wife lives in West Berlin and he is close to high-ranking Communists. The phone calls with his wife are being taped. His letters are being read. His close relations to the people in power make him even more a target of suspicion. Time by time the Secret Services freeze the relationship between husband and wife. Their love transforms into alienation and hatred.
When the people having protected the DOP fall from power he loses everything that he’s ever loved – his family, his work and his meaning of life: Being a cinematographer. He is a wreck.
Thirty years later the DOP’s answer to his fate is a film - he shoots the story of his own life. The story of a man who lost his son…
The Secret Services agent who reported on him years ago, today is the director of his movie…
(Based on a true story)

Main Cast:
Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei Gulybin)
Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel Danilov)

HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER

A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere.

Main Cast:
Jakob Cedergren (Nick)
Peter Plaugborg (Nick’s brother)
Patricia Schimann (Sofie)
Morten Rose (Ivan)
Gustav Fischer Kjærulff (Martin)

SUBMARINO

Not yet out of elementary school, Nick and his younger brother have already been hardened by poverty, abuse and alcohol. But these two tough boys still find joy in their newborn baby brother. They gladly make up for the shortcomings of their neglectful alcoholic mother and give the infant the loving care which all children deserve. Although shortlived, this glimmer of hope will haunt them well into adulthood… Moody and anguished, 30-something Nick lives alone in a gloomy tenement shelter. He turns to lifting weights and strong beer to hold back painful memories and loneliness. He finds some comfort with faded beauty Sofie and mentally unstable Ivan, his ex-girlfriend’s brother. Nick has still not come to terms with Ana breaking up with him two years ago, an event which made him erupt into random violence and put him in prison. Nick’s inability to reach out and reconnect with his estranged brother only makes him angrier… Nick’s brother could lose custody of his six-year-old son Martin any day now. Being a responsible father is even tougher for a heroin addict. Although he has convinced himself that he turned to dealing drugs for his son’s benefit, the risky endeavor results in a painful separation from little Martin… Nick and his brother have spent their lives trying to love, trying to forget, trying to understand. The brothers will soon get their chance to reconnect and to finally realize that they’re not to blame for everything.

Main Cast:
Elio Germano (Claudio)
Raoul Bova (Piero)
Isabella Ragonese (Elena)
Luca Zingaretti (Ari)
Stefania Montorsi (Loredana)
Giorgio Colangeli (Porcari)
Alina Madalina Berzunteanu (Gabriela)
Marius Ignat (Andrei)
Awa Ly (Celeste)
Emiliano Campagnola (Vittorio)

OUR LIFE

Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against the injustice that fell upon him. Love and support from his friends and family as well as the laughter of his children will help him to triumph against the odds.