In his third feature film WATERDROP Albanian director Robert Budina explores the painful experience of a mother facing the consequences of her own participation and complicity in a corrupt system. Embedded in a suspenseful thriller asks the very profound question: How much are you willing to sacrifice for justice? → more

Strange things are happening in the forest! Owl has disappeared, mischievous Rats are terrorising the neighbourhood, and a lake is overflowing towards the home of our forest friends... → more

Three years after the synthetic drug case roundup in Korea, Monster Cop Ma Seok-do (Don Lee) and Metro Investigations are busy chasing down criminals... → more

Up to 30 European co-productions will compete on the EWIP stage and enter the race for the numerous awards... → more

BONES AND NAMES portrays a group of people searching for their place in different ways... → more

On a rainy evening, a fortune telling master (LAM Ka Tung) tries to help a prostitute avert certain death, but fate has plans of its own... → more

This story is about coming of age and encountering the cruel reality. And it is about childhood that continues despite war... → more

Juliane's mother is only 64 years old. She is seriously ill and lives in a nursing home. Now she wants to die and stops eating and drinking... → more

Stojan (Goran Navojec) is as dull and simple as he is kindhearted. When a freak accident while changing a light bulb puts a glowing halo above his head, he quickly becomes the new attraction around town...  → more

The filmmakers first meet Stefan in 2015, in the therapy ward of Brandenburg Prison. Their first impression is of a polite, shy man. A warder tells them Stefan is an ice- cold woman-killer...  → more

Navigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates – a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth...  → more

In early 20th century, Liborio, a peasant, disappears in a hurricane and returns as a prophet. He says he’s been given a mission...  → more

Davud is a misunderstood, restless young man in search of his ‘true’ family, those whom he feels certain will bring love and therefore meaning to his life...  → more

Berlin, 2018. Maryam lives an independent life as a divorced mother of three girls. A coincidental encounter with Jibril, who is serving time in prison and whom she barely knows, makes her aware of what she's been missing in her life...  → more

While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American...  → more

Nora (40) walks out on her husband and two children without a word of explanation. She is driven by an irresistible force...  → more

A man elected by his people to become the head of a newly independent country, gets ousted by a coup d´état shortly after...  → more

Nero is running in the desert. He is trying to escape. He is running from the U.S. border patrol. He is captured. Nero is a 19-year-old deported Mexican...  → more

After the party in Karsten’s apartment, everybody leaves except Anna. Admiringly, Karsten approaches this mysterious woman...  → more

Teacher Antek Liebmann leaves his life in Germany behind and rents a place in summery northern France...  → more

After the loss of his wife Ana, the forensic photographer Fernando becomes a quiet and introspective man, who raises his son Daniel by himself...  → more

Olga, Katya and Andrey live in Moscow. Like all the provincials they arrived in the capital looking for happiness. They are school friends...  → more

Peter "Koza" Baláž is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner Miša live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet...  → more

In the final stages of WWII, the occupying Japanese army in the Philippines is rapidly losing ground, facing local resistance combined with an American offensive...  → more

The film is about people and basements and what people do in their basements in their free time. The film is about obsessions. The film is about brass-band music and opera arias, about expensive furniture and cheap male jokes...  → more

Like modern times’ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies.  → more

Nils (Stellan Skarsgård) drives a snow blower and has a carefree life in snow covered Norway, until his son’s death suddenly puts him in the middle of a drug war between the Norwegian mafia and Serbian criminals.  → more

SOMOS MARI PEPA (We Are Mari Pepa) tells the story of Alex, a 16-year-old teenager living with his grandma, who has various plans to occupy himself during the summer: write a new song with his rock band “Mari Pepa“, find a job and have his first sexual experience.  → more

Juvenal and Margô work for the subway in Belo Horizonte. Juvenal is a train conductor and Margô works as a station controller. Apart from sharing the same workplace, the only thing that they have in common is the fact that they are both deeply solitary individuals, each seeking out their own way of dealing with the hard challenge of establishing socially meaningful relationships in a vast metropolis.  → more

Agnes, a teacher from the German province Hesse, comes to Berlin to identify a dead girl. The police suspect she is Agnes’ fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia, who has run away from home. But she is not. Agnes decides to stay in Berlin, driven by the hope of finding her daughter.  → more

CASTANHA tells the story of João, a 52-year-old actor who lives with his 72-year-old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his night job as a cross-dresser in small gay bars and the roles he portrays in modest plays, movies and TV shows.  → more

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now police commissioner in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Irak.  → more

PARADISE: HOPE tells the story of 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother Teresa travels to Kenia and her aunt Anna Maria uses her vacation to convert people in Austria to Christianity, Melanie spends her holiday in a diet camp for overweight teenagers in the Austrian countryside.  → more

FATHER'S GARDEN is an attempt at a personal revision of the past. I had always felt like a stranger in my own family until I noticed - not without disquiet - how similar we are in actual fact.  → more

Together with his mother Tarek (11) has to flee from Palestine to Jordan. Having been separated from his beloved father in the chaos of war, Tarek has difficulties adjusting to life in a refugee camp between thousands of tents and prefab houses.  → more

What could be worse than being 14 and on vacation with your father? Taking your children on vacation during seemingly endless rain. Since his divorce, Alberto spends little time with his children Lucía and Federico.  → more

In “PARADISE: FAITH” Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to carry the cross. For Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue.  → more

Abandoned in the zoo by her father when she was a little girl, Lana grew up surrounded by animals, boundaries and the sounds of a subdued wilderness. Raised by animal trainers, the zoo is the only world she knows.  → more