16:00 111201 - Hellion

1h 34' Solaris Kino

Hard-drinking Texas single dad Hollis (Aaron Paul) struggles to raise his two boys, including rebellious teenager Jacob (Josh Wiggins). Seething with anger, Jacob finds release in the high-risk, white-knuckle world of motocross—but his increasingly reckless behavior threatens to spin out of control.

2014, USA, 1h 34'

16:00 111601 - Mission: Sputnik

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Mission Sputnik” is the adventurous story about the “real” happenings of Nov 9, 1989 in Germany, the day the wall came down. For ten-year-old Frederike, Oct 89 gets off to a disastrous start: her beloved Uncle Mike (27) is leaving the GDR. Inspired by her big idol Captain Kirk, Frederike and her friends Jonathan (10) and Fabian (10) construct a teleporting device to “beam” herself to West Berlin to bring back her uncle Mike. But the experiment dramatically fails. Instead of beaming Uncle...

2013, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, 1h 30'

16:30 111701 - Behavior

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

Eleven-year-old Chala lives alone with his mother and takes care of fighting dogs for a living. He feels a close connection to his sixth grade teacher Carmela who, after falling ill, is replaced by a new teacher who imposes a strict disciplinary regime in class. She sends Chala to a reeducation school, a decision Carmela vehemently opposes. The bond between teacher and student grows stronger as they confront a system determined to impose a rather orthodox method of teaching

2014, Cuba, 1h 48'

16:45 111501 - Nude Area

1h 15' Coca-Cola Plaza

Love doesn’t unfold like a story. Only the first and the last chapter are known. Love starts from Love and ends in Letting go. In between there is tenderness and cruelty, waiting and fulfillment, ecstasy and disappointment. If love is a discourse, these are her figures of speech. "Nude Area" presents an adolescent love between two girls, one Dutch, another one Moslem. Childish cruelty is mixed with full-blown sensuality. Dreams and life reflect and complete each other. The end is...

2014, Poland, Netherlands, 1h 15'

17:00 111101 - The Inbetweeners 2

1h 36' Solaris Kino

Will, Jay, Neil and Simon head Down Under in this raunchy sequel to the record-breaking comedy. Last time we met the Rudge Park posse, they were causing chaos in Malia, Crete. Nearly a year on, Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Simon (Joe Thomas) have gone their separate ways. Jay is staying with his uncle in Australia. Neil has actually managed to get a job. And Simon and Will are at different universities, but life isn't panning out as they'd hoped. So...

2014, UK, 1h 36'

17:00 111801 - Test

1h 36' Coca-Cola Plaza

They live in the steppe. A father and a daughter. Nothing may disturb the eternal order. Tomorrow always comes. And every morning the father goes away to work. And she stays alone. To wait for her father. And to feel. Two men are in love with her. She loves everyone. Her love cannot be divided. One day, the decision comes by itself. It comes from where the sun lives.

2014, Russia, 1h 36'

17:00 111901 - Halfway

1h 56' Artis

Involved in a bitter divorce Stephen moves into a splendid house he managed to buy at a bargain. But his peace and quiet are soon disturbed when he finds Theo standing in his living room, soaked to the skin, claiming to be the rightful resident of the house and demanding Stephen to move out. Unwilling to yield, Stephen finds himself in the midst of a turf war and the harassments between both men soon get out of hand. Then Stephen discovers that Theo used to be the...

2014, Belgium, 1h 56'

17:00 111402 - Love is Strange

1h 34' Coca-Cola Plaza

After 39 years together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when news of their marriage reaches the Catholic school where George works, he is fired from his longtime job, and the couple can no longer afford their New York City apartment. As a temporary solution, George moves in with the two gay cops next door, while Ben moves to Brooklyn to live with his nephew, Eliot; Eliot’s wife, Kate; and their...

2014, USA, France, 1h 34'

17:00 111301 - I'm Not Angry!

1h 50' Solaris Kino

Navid, an Iranian Kurd living in Tehran, meets Setareh during the protests that erupt following the 2009 elections. They continue their political activism at their university until one day Navid is thrown out. To cap it all, Setareh’s father tells him to stay away from his daughter; if Navid really loves her, so the argument goes, he will not ruin her future by continuing to woo her as a penniless man. Navid pleads for a period of grace in which he can find work and a place...

2014, Iran, 1h 50'

17:00 112201 - Tokyo Fiancée

1h 40' Sõprus

Her head filled with dreams, Amélie, 20, goes back to Japan, where she spent her childhood. To earn a living, she decides to give privates classes in French and meets Rinri, her first and only student, a young Japanese man with whom she soon has an intimate relationship. Between surprises, happy times and the pitfalls of a culture shock that is both poetic and amusing, she discovers a side of Japan she had never seen before... “Writer-director Liberski applies a...

2014, Belgium, France, Canada, 1h 40'

17:15 112001 - August Winds

1h 17' Artis

Shirley, a gorgeous young woman, has left the big city to live in the countryside and take care of her elderly grandmother. The life with her boyfriend Jeison slides slowly in the small seaside town. One day, a corpse washes ashore. The film is set in a beautiful fishing village in Brazil’s north eastern state of Alagoas, exceptionally depicted through well-composed images. The strong sense of place and the stunning cinematography gather with the touching performance of the main couple...

2014, Brazil, 1h 17'

18:00 111602 - 52 Tuesdays

1h 49' Coca-Cola Plaza

16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week – only on Tuesdays – these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.

2013, Australia, 1h 49'

18:00 111202 - The Art of Flight 3D

1h 20' Solaris Kino

A new breed of action sports film comes to life as Red Bull Media House, in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema, present "The Art of FLIGHT," a Curt Morgan film. Equal parts action and adventure mix with the inevitable drama encountered along the way. Two years in the making, "The Art of FLIGHT" gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside...

2011, USA, 1h 20'

18:00 112801 - City of Ruins

0h 5' Nordea Kontserdimaja

Before the official opening screening will be shown short film “City of Ruins” (dir: Damian Nenow) which is simulation of the flight of a Liberator plane over the destroyed Warsaw of 1945.

2010, Poland, 0h 5'

18:15 112802 - Warsaw 44

1h 55' Nordea Kontserdimaja

Summer 1944. Warsaw, Poland, is occupied by the Nazis. After the death of his father, Stefan works at a chocolate factory to support his mother and brother. Humiliated by the Nazis every day, Stefan wants to join the anti-Nazi resistance but he can’t because he promised her mother not to engage in any military activity. At last, he plans a revolt with his friends, while also falling in love with a girl. “Warsaw 44” is based on an actual revolt that happened on August 1, 1944 in...

2014, Poland, 1h 55'

18:30 The State - Mafia Pact

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

What do we mean when we talk about “The State-Mafia Pact”? About the concessions given on behalf of the State to the Mafia in exchange for an end to bloodshed? Who exactly is culpable for the assassination of Falcone and Borsellino? What do we know about the endless coexistence of Mafia and Politics? Between the Mafia and the Catholic Church? Between the Mafia and the Police? Or is there more? A group of actors bring to life the most relevant episodes of the sequence of events known as...

2014, Italy, 1h 48'

18:30 111502 - Güeros

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

It is 1999 in Mexico City. Sombra and Santos live in a strange limbo since the UNAM strike broke out. Strikers against the strike stick at home: no school, no money, just devising strange ways for killing time. In the other side of the country, a water bomb thrown from a high block explodes in a baby stroller. Result: the out-of-control teenager Tomas is sent to the city, to visit his older brother Sombra. Tomas discovers that his hero, Epigmenio Cruz, a legendary rock singer of the 60’s,...

2014, Mexico, 1h 48'

18:45 111702 - Four Corners

1h 54' Coca-Cola Plaza

Four lives will change forever as the destinies of a reformed prison ‘general,’ a local cop, a charismatic gang leader and a surgeon back from London intersect with a young boy’s coming of age in in a tale of family lost and family regained in the unknown world of South Africa’s Cape Flats.

2013, South Africa, 1h 54'

19:00 111401 - Trash

sold out 1h 53' Coca-Cola Plaza

Stephen Daldry (perhaps best known for “Billy Elliot”) directs and Richard Curtis scripts in this intriguing blend of Hollywood genre and foreign art-house. Running the gamut of influences – from “City of God” (whose director, Fernando Meirelles, is involved via his company 02 Filmes) to “Slumdog Millionaire” – the film is a surprising and refreshing piece of work. The film begins with corrupt Rip police killing a man in order to get their hand on his wallet that contains important...

2014, UK, 1h 53'

19:00 112202 - Paris of the North

1h 38' Sõprus

Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.

2014, Iceland, France, Denmark, 1h 38'

19:00 112002 - The Judgement

1h 48' Artis

The story takes place nowadays, in a small and poor village in Bulgaria, which is located close to the border with Turkey and Greece. Mityo (45) lives with his son Vasko (18). The relations between the two of them are strained after the recent death of Fanka – Mityo’s wife and mother of Vasko. The situation is getting even worse – the dairy, where Mityo has worked for 15 years, went bankrupt. He remains unemployed and he can’t cover the payments on the loan, which...

2014, Bulgaria, 1h 48'

19:00 111102 - It Follows

1h 37' Solaris Kino

For 19-year-­old Jay (Maika Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind. With a riveting central performance from Monroe and a strikingly ominous electronic score by...

2014, USA, 1h 37'

19:15 111902 - The Green Prince

1h 39' Artis

“If somebody raped his mother, that’s very shameful. But if you collaborated with Israel, that’s much more shameful.” The young Mosab once believed the words and actions of his father Scheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the founders of the radical Islamist organisation Hamas, a group that still terrorises Israel today. His family and many Palestinians now consider Mosab an evil traitor. As a teenager sitting in an Israeli prison after being sentenced for unauthorised possession of a gun, Mosab...

2014, Germany, UK, USA, Israel, 1h 39'

19:15 111802 - Monsoon

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

We know the veteran filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson for winning the notable People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival, for his previous documentary “Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie” in 2010, but also for his long career in television and feature films. In his newest documentary, capturing this, what is called the soul of India, Sturla has created a stunning meditation of the heaviest rains on planet Earth – the “Monsoon”. In India, Monsoon, is the taker and the...

2014, Canada, 1h 48'

19:15 111302 - Tales

1h 28' Solaris Kino

Arthouse melodrama “Tales” (Ghesseha) sees experienced Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad mining characters from her previous films to create a mosaic of downtrodden lives in contemporary Teheran. It’s refreshing to see themes such as domestic abuse, drug addiction and workers’ rights being aired so openly and honestly in an Iranian film. But although characters from different narrative strands meet and overlap, and though you don’t need to be familiar with the director’s oeuvre to...

2014, Iran, 1h 28'

19:45 111203 - Starred Up

1h 46' Solaris Kino

Scottish director David Mackenzie has made a career of creating complex and slightly surreal films with the likes of “Young Adam”, “Hallam Foe” and (his Hollywood debut) “Spread” all under his belt. But his latest film is perhaps his most uncompromising and grittily realistic work to date. Eric is a young offender moved to an adult jail (which is known as being ‘Starred Up’). His violent nature brings him into conflict with both the prison authorities and the various factions of...

2013, UK, 1h 46'

20:15 111603 - Letter to the King

1h 15' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Letter to the King” portrays five persons' meeting with Norway outside the refugee camp. They are given permission to leave the snowy no mans land and travel to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. But we soon realise that all of them have a purpose with this trip. All five will be confronted by their destinies as they discover happiness, suffer humiliation, find love and seek revenge. The five stories are bound together by a letter, written by eighty-three year...

2014, Norway, Iraq, 1h 15'

21:00 111303 - At Home

1h 43' Solaris Kino

Up in a spacious house on the hills of Marathon. A beautiful view of the Aegean Sea. This is where Nadja lives. Along with Stefanos, Evi and their daughter Iris. The four of them are close. They are family. Or so it seems. This is also where Nadja works. She is cleaning, cooking, nursing. Nadja is the familyʼs housemaid. She has been with them since the child spoke her first word. She has been there for Evi when she lost her second child. But in the wake of the countryʼs...

2014, Germany, Greece, 1h 43'

21:00 112203 - Jodorowsky's Dune

1h 30' Sõprus

Legendary Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky wanted to make a film about one of the most known sci-fi novels out there, the 1965 epic “Dune” by Frank Herbert. That, what is the world’s best selling science fiction novel, was years in preparation to become one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made. Jodorowsky would gather “spiritual warriors” around him and thus discovered the great artists like Dan O’Bannon, Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger and French graphic artist Jean “Moebius” Girard....

2013, USA, 1h 30'

21:00 111703 - Visitors

1h 27' Coca-Cola Plaza

Thirty years after “Koyaanisqatsi”, Godfrey Reggio – with the support of Philip Glass and Jon Kane – once again leapfrogs over earth-bound filmmakers and creates another stunning, wordless portrait of modern life. Presented by Steven Soderbergh in Black and White digital 4K projection, “Visitors” reveals humanity’s trancelike relationship with technology, which, when commandeered by extreme emotional states, produces massive effects far beyond the human species. The film is visceral,...

2013, USA, 1h 27'

21:15 112003 - Field of Dogs

1h 36' Artis

Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. These are the visions of Adam, a poet who had lost his beloved in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane being torn apart in mysterious circumstances along with the nations elite. Adam gives up his job as professor of...

2014, Poland, 1h 36'

21:15 111103 - Boyhood

2h 45' Solaris Kino

Not just a coming-of-age movie, but the definitive coming-of-age movie, Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making “Boyhood” follows the travails of a young Texas boy and his family. Filmed sequentially in pieces every year from 2002–2013, the film observes its young actors Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater mature through the years, from wide-eyed children to awkward adolescents. “Boyhood” begins as Mason (Coltrane) and his older sister Samantha (Linklater) are in primary school,...

2013, USA, 2h 45'

21:30 111403 - Turist (Force majeure)

sold out 2h 0' Coca-Cola Plaza

A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life… The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark...

2014, Sweden, France, Denmark, Norway, 2h 0'

21:30 111803 - Blind Massage

1h 54' Coca-Cola Plaza

One director, part of the Chinese new wave cinema, Ye Lou, almost like a mission, brings stories and characters to the screen that can be easily considered a part of the outcast. So it is also in his latest film “Blind Massage” where the main characters are blind masseuses and the heart of the film is a small oasis in the middle of busy Nanjing – the Sha Zhong Massage Center. The blind friends (Wang Zhihua) and Sha (Qin Hao) partner together running this center, where all the workers...

2014, China, France, 1h 54'

21:45 111903 - The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

1h 45' Artis

T. S. Spivet (Kyle Catlett) lives with his parents, sister Gracie and brother Layton in a remote ranch in Montana. A little boy with a gift and a passion for science, he invents the machine of perpetual movement, which earns him the highly prestigious Baird Award from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. After leaving a note to his family, he sets out alone to pick up the award, crossing the United States on a freight train. But no one in Washington ever imagined that the lucky winner...

2013, France, Canada, 1h 45'

22:00 111204 - Wild Tales

sold out 2h 2' Solaris Kino

Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world where we live is the reason why many people suffer from stress or depression. Some explode. This is a film about them. The heroes of “Wild Takes”, vulnerable to an abruptly changing and therefore unpredictable reality, give in to the undeniable pleasure of losing control. Behind this enigmatic synopsis hides one of the craziest and most politically incorrect comedies that you have ever seen. The film is organized in five different...

2014, Argentina, Spain, 2h 2'

22:00 111604 - Magical Girl

2h 7' Coca-Cola Plaza

Alice dreams of the dress in the Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Luis, her father, will do anything he can to make his ailing daughter’s dream come true. By chance, he meets Barbara, a pretty girl with a psychological disorder and some ‘special’ tendencies. Damián, Barbara’s old teacher that just leaves the prison, will try to help her. This complex and precise plot is just one of the elements that Carlos Vermut uses to catch the audience in an intricate spider net. A clean and...

2014, Spain, 2h 7'

12:00 121301 - Lola on the Pea

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Good things come to those who wait. Lola lives with her mom Loretta on a houseboat. Since her father vanished into thin air a year ago, she has become introverted and lives in her own little dream world. She has vowed not to cut her hair or wash the spot on her neck where her dad last kissed her until he gets back. She doesn't really get along with her classmates at school, and her only real friend is the crazy old captain Solmsen. One day, however, while hanging out at her favorite spot...

2014, Germany, 1h 30'

12:00 121701 - Jill and Joy

1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

When the two best friends, Jill and Joy find a huge amount of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday they decide to buy a house from mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It is a real dream house, measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Jill and Joy start to live the summer of their dreams, which is full of adventure and surprises but without any parents. Anything can happen and strange things occur as reality and fantasy magically...

2014, Finland, 1h 20'

12:30 121201 - A Christmoose Story

1h 21' Solaris Kino

When his father cannot make it home Max is convinced that Christmas will be extremely boring this year. But then Mr. Moose crashes through his roof and he is not so sure anymore. This is a giant talking Moose with a big mouth, a warm hearth and a tendency for drama. He claims he was on a test-run with Santa Claus, lost control over the sleigh and crashed, injuring his leg. And now he has to find Santa Claus, otherwise nobody will receive their Christmas gifts. Is Max able to get Mr. Moose...

2013, Netherlands, 1h 21'

13:45 121702 - The Incredible Machine

1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

Nine-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his outdated house robot T.I.M. When his father trades his robot in for a newer version Tibor manages to save his friend from dismantlement and undertakes an epic journey to the only person who can repair T.I.M: the mythical robot maker Hector Sammler. But on this voyage through an unknown world T.I.M. slowly but surely falls apart and the question arises if they will ever find Hector Sammler if he even exists at all...

2014, Netherlands, Denmark, 1h 20'

14:00 121302 - Songs for Alexis

1h 15' Solaris Kino

Songs for Alexis is a classic coming of age love story about two passionate teenagers stuck in American suburbia. 18-year-old Ryan is a talented musician and transgender, and began his transition from girl to boy 4 years earlier. He is wildly in love with the beautiful and enigmatic 16-year-old Alexis, but her parents' disapproval of Ryan forces her to choose between her family and an unsafe future with the man she loves.

2014, USA, Denmark, 1h 15'

14:00 121901 - White Shadow

1h 57' Artis

Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in magic potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch doctor inspired murders occurred. As a local saying goes: “Albinos do not die, they just disappear.” This is the story of Alias, an albino boy on the run. After his father’s murder, his mother sends him to the city. His uncle Kosmos, a truck driver, takes care of him. Alias learns fast in the city,...

2013, Tanzania, Germany, Italy, 1h 57'

14:15 121202 - Beyond Beyond

1h 18' Solaris Kino

Johan and his father have lived at sea for as long as Johan can remember. Or at least since he was three and his mother disappeared. Johan likes the ship. It has a greenhouse where they grow carrots, and it has fishing nets. Johan is good at diving and at mechanics, and helps his father repair the ship. One day when Johan’s father goes for provisions and Johan is left alone on the boat, he receives a distress call on the radio with a clue about his mother’s whereabouts...

2014, Sweden, Denmark, 1h 18'

14:30 121601 - Rhubarb

1h 10' Coca-Cola Plaza

Winnie and Siem (12) meet when their parents, Rik and Tosca, fall in love at the playground of their school. They quickly form a ‘patchwork family’. Siem is pretty used to this already as his father, Rik, has been through two marriages already. Siem and Winnie get on really well together and are looking forward to the upcoming wedding between their parents. But when irritations and bickering start to take over between Rik and Tosca, the kids' faith in a new happy family takes its first...

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

15:00 122201 - '71

1h 39' Sõprus

A tense and exciting action-drama about a young British soldier caught out of his depth on the mean streets of Belfast in Northern Ireland in the early years of the Troubles, the impressively mounted "’71" is a remarkably assured feature debut for Yann Demange. In England in 1971 new recruit Gary Hook and his fellow squaddies find themselves sent to Northern Ireland. The city is divided between Protestant Loyalist area and the Catholic Nationalist areas. When the soldiers find themselves...

2014, UK, 1h 39'

15:00 121801 - The Postman's White Nights

sold out 1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Separated from the outside world with only a boat to connect their remote village to the mainland, the inhabitants of Kenozero Lake live the way their ancestors did for centuries gone by: the community is small, everyone knows each other and they produce only those things which are necessary for survival. The village Postman (Aleksey Tryaptisyn) is their sole connection to the outside world, relying on his motorboat to bridge the two civilizations. But when his boat’s motor is stolen...

2014, Russia, 1h 30'

15:30 121303 - Violet

1h 25' Solaris Kino

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends from the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it. The looks of his close ones and his inability to answer their questions gradually isolate Jesse and the growing grief prevents him from finding comfort.

2014, Belgium, Netherlands, 1h 25'

15:30 121703 - Behavior

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

Eleven-year-old Chala lives alone with his mother and takes care of fighting dogs for a living. He feels a close connection to his sixth grade teacher Carmela who, after falling ill, is replaced by a new teacher who imposes a strict disciplinary regime in class. She sends Chala to a reeducation school, a decision Carmela vehemently opposes. The bond between teacher and student grows stronger as they confront a system determined to impose a rather orthodox method of teaching

2014, Cuba, 1h 48'

15:30 122001 - Tsili

1h 24' Artis

World War II. Tsili, a young Jewish woman, is hiding in the forest South of Czernowicz. Her entire family was deported to the camps. Hiding in the war zone, she builds a nest for herself. Escaping the savagery of the valley, she finds refuge in the nature. One day, Marek discovers her nest. He addresses her in Yiddish and finds out that she belongs to his people. Marek settles in the nest with Tsili. One day he will go down to the village to look for food. He will never...

2014, Israel, Russia, Italy, 1h 24'

16:00 121203 - Danny's Doomsday

1h 28' Solaris Kino

Due to climate change a new race of flesh eating predators arise, who invade and eat everything living on earth. In a residential neighbourhood in a Danish suburb nightmare like scenes are being experienced first hand through the eyes of two teenage brothers, who can't stand each other, but are now suddenly forced to barricade themselves in the basement together, to avoid getting eaten. From one day to another, without parents and without electricity, food, water and contact to other...

2014, Denmark, 1h 28'

16:00 121602 - Wild Swans

1h 26' Coca-Cola Plaza

1987, Estonia, 1h 26'

16:15 121902 - A Second Chance

1h 45' Artis

“A Second Chance” is a chilling, yet affecting drama about real people forced into incredible circumstances; a film that confronts our core notions about right and wrong, and those of us who think they can tell the difference; a film that forces us to ask: who are we to think we are better than anyone else? Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), a promising young detective, has a lot on his plate. At home, he and his wife, Anne (Maria Bonnevie), struggle with their new-born son, who spends...

2014, Denmark, 1h 45'

17:00 121101 - The Spectacular Now

1h 35' Solaris Kino

Based on the beloved book by Tim Tharp, THE SPECTACULAR NOW is the story of Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) – high school senior, effortless charmer, and self-proclaiemd “life of the party” – and of how he unexpectedly falls in love with the “nice girl” Aimee Fineky (Shailene Woodley). While Aimee dreams of the future, Sutter lives in the now. And yet somehow, they’re drawn together. What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and...

2013, USA, 1h 35'

17:00 122202 - White God

1h 59' Sõprus

A cautionary tale between a superior species and its disgraced inferior... Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. 13-year-old Lili fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the streets. Hagen and his pretty master search desperately for each other until Lili loses faith. Struggling to survive, homeless Hagen realizes that not everyone is a dog's...

2014, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, 1h 59'

17:00 121401 - Goodbye to Language

1h 10' Coca-Cola Plaza

“The idea is simple. A married woman and an unattached man meet. They make love, they argue, fists fly. A dog wanders between the city and the countryside. The seasons pass. The man and the woman meet again. The dog is between them. The other is in the one. One is in the other. And these are the three characters. The ex-husband breaks it all up. A second film begins. The same as the first. And yet not. From the human race we move to metaphor. This ends in barking. And the crying of...

2014, France, 1h 10'

17:00 121802 - Mr Turner

sold out 2h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

In his portrait of the visionary British painter Turner, Mike Leigh offers a film as successful in its tiny details as it is in its epic amplitude: Mr. Turner works at once as a warts-and-all portrait of the painter and his circle, and as a large-scale evocation of Victorian England. Built around Timothy Spall’s superb lead, “Mr. Turner” is hugely entertaining, deeply moving and will be especially tickling for anyone with a taste for sometimes grandiloquent, sometimes juicily profane...

2014, UK, 2h 30'

17:15 122002 - A Few Cubic Meters of Love

sold out 1h 30' Artis

Somewhere in the outskirts of Tehran a small factory illegally employs Afghan asylum seekers, who live with their families in old containers or modest shacks in nearby shanty towns. Saber, a young Iranian worker, secretly meets Marona, daughter of Abdolsalam, an Afghan worker. A love story unfolds, the conclusion of which no-one can foretell. ““A Few Cubic Metres of Love” is my first full-length film which was made with my brother Navid. The film is based on a tragic story which...

2014, Iran, Afghanistan, 1h 30'

17:30 121304 - Number 55

1h 30' Solaris Kino

In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armoured vehicle. Soon, they are ambushed, the vehicle gets destroyed and they are forced to hide in a nearby house. Their resistance to the rebel Serbs, Yugoslav Army and Serbian Special Forces lasts for 24 hours, while their fellow combatants are trying to get them out. The story is inspired by true events.

2014, Croatia, 1h 30'

17:45 121704 - God Loves Uganda

1h 23' Coca-Cola Plaza

All the disturbing news that started leaking to the world media somewhere around 2009 culminated in one of the most horrifying ones from Uganda, when the most outspoken gay rights advocate David Kato was beaten to death with a hammer. Until today, the government of Uganda has done their upmost to win over the minds of people to be not only anty-gay but to legalize a death-penalty to all homosexuals. One of the facts is that the gospel of peace spread by American Evangelical groups in...

2013, USA, 1h 23'

18:00 121204 - Galore

1h 43' Solaris Kino

At 17, love is as big as life is immense. It’s a sweltering summer before the final year of school and Billie and Laura share every secret except for Billie’s biggest secret – she’s crazy in love and sleeping with Laura’s boyfriend Danny. When Billie’s social worker mum takes in Isaac, a troubled teenager looking to get his life straight, the delicate balance of the three friends’ lives is disrupted. As bushfires threaten the edge of their suburbs and they immerse themselves in the swirl...

2013, Australia, 1h 43'

18:15 121603 - On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

When On Any Sunday premiered in 1971, it wasn’t just any movie. Directed by Bruce Brown – who also helmed surfing classic The Endless Summer – this insider look at motorcycle racing reached a wide audience that was fascinated by the heartfelt stories of real-life riders, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Four decades later, On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter shows that the passion for riding motorcycles is as strong as ever.Bruce’s son, acclaimed filmmaker Dana...

2014, USA, 1h 30'

18:30 121903 - Beloved Sisters

2h 20' Artis

This is a love story from the end of the 18th century, the era of romanticism and great changes in society. The central characters of the film are Friedrich Schiller and the von Lengefelds sisters. In 1788, Schiller is already known as a young author with revolutionary ideas, although he has not yet reached the peak of his fame. Schiller spends his summer in Rudolstadt, with an impoverished noble family, the von Lengefelds. He met the youngest daughter of the family, Charlotte, earlier in...

2014, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, 2h 20'

18:45 121402 - A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

sold out 1h 41' Coca-Cola Plaza

The final part of Swedish auteur Roy Andersson’s “Living” trilogy is a magnificently droll, compassionate, melancholic reflection on the absurd human comedy. Cast in the director’s by now familiar fixed-camera style, with a washed-out colour palette that runs the gamut of beiges, greys and pale greens and blues, the film presents 39 meticulously composed tableaux vivants that range from simply observed moments of life to elaborate dreamlike fantasies with dozens of extras in period dress....

2014, Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, 1h 41'

19:00 121102 - What We Do in the Shadows

sold out 1h 26' Solaris Kino

Flatmates Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern society; from paying rent and sticking to the housework roster to trying to get invited in to nightclubs, they’re just like anyone else – except they’re immortal and must feast on human blood. When their 8000 year-old flatmate Petyr, turns 20-something human hipster Nick, into a vampire, the guys must teach him the ropes and guide him through his new found eternal life. And in return they are...

2014, New Zealand, 1h 26'

19:15 122003 - The Tree

1h 30' Artis

One story, three angles. In three chapters, the film’s plot is told through the eyes of two brothers and their mother Milena as we witness a tragic situation which befalls the family as the result of an accident. The two sons, adolescent Alek and his younger sibling Veli, are unable to leave their house, the only place where they feel safe. After a period of time, however, their refuge becomes a prison for the boys. Debut director and screenwriter Sonja Prosenc...

2014, Slovenia, 1h 30'

19:30 122203 - Hard To Be God

2h 50' Sõprus

A group of research scientists has been sent to the planet Arkanar living under an oppressed regime in a period equivalent to the Earth’s Middle Ages. The local population is suffering from a ban issued on anyone who knows how to read and write. The scientists must refrain from influencing political and historical events on Arkanar. They must work incognito, and they must remain neutral. Don Rumata, recognized by the locals as a sort of futuristic god, tries to save the local...

2013, Russia, 2h 50'

19:30 121705 - Self Made

1h 31' Coca-Cola Plaza

Michal is a renowned Jerusalem artist. One morning, her bed breaks, she falls off and consequently loses her memory. She orders a new bed and discovers that a screw is missing. She complains to the furniture factory, leading to the dismissal of Nadine, a young Palestinian woman, who works packing screws in plastic bags. This event is a point of no return for both women until their fates cross again at a border checkpoint. A soldier’s mistake sends Michal to Nadine’s refugee camp and Nadine...

2014, Israel, 1h 31'

19:30 121305 - The Way Out

1h 42' Solaris Kino

Young Romany Žaneta lives in a prefab housing block with her partner David, their daughter, and Žaneta’s younger sister. Her mother died years ago and her destitute father is unlikely to find another job after ten years without work. The young couple hope to find employment themselves, but their options are limited, as are the intellectual horizons of the personnel at the local authorities. Without resorting to idealisation or gratuitous sensationalism, the film examines issues of social...

2014, Czech Republic, France, 1h 42'

20:00 121803 - Red Amnesia

1h 50' Coca-Cola Plaza

Veteran Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai, whos name should be already known to PÖFF fans (“11 Flowers”, “Shangai Dreams” etc), is back with his new film “Red Amnesia” that like the title suggests, depicts an idea of a selective memory, but in a very interesting manner. Combining elements of strong political context, mystery and thriller in a slow paced way to build up a very powerful picture of China today, this film becomes a wonderful must see. The central character of the story is a...

2014, China, 1h 50'

20:15 121205 - Futuro Beach

1h 46' Solaris Kino

“Praia do Futuro” is the fifth feature film for Karim Ainouz, who, born in Brazil and living in Berlin for years now, has brought a visually stunning story to us, expectedly on his on personal experiences, that premiered at this year’s Berlinale. The movie, divided into chapters, is a story of a lifeguard Donato (beautiful Wagner Moura) who works in Futuro Beach. One day two men, Konrand (Clemens Schick) and his friend, who go out for a causal swim end up being caught by a suprising...

2014, Brazil, 1h 46'

20:15 121604 - Dancing Arabs

1h 45' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Dancing Arabs” tells the story of Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy from the town of Tira whose parents send to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity – trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him. Feeling foreign and alienated, Eyad realizes that in order to be accepted as an equal, in order to allay people’s suspicions, in order to work, to love, and,...

2014, Israel, 1h 45'

21:00 121403 - The New Girlfriend

sold out 1h 47' Coca-Cola Plaza

François Ozon should not be a name unknown to the Estonian audiences and this time he is back in the Black Nights Film Festival special program with a skillfully triangulated story about a woman who learns that the husband of her deceased best friend is harbouring a most unusual secret. Best friends Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) and Laura (Isild Le Besco) are utterly inseperable. As little girls, they carve their names to the wood and change blood to swear an oath for their friendship. After...

2014, France, 1h 47'

21:00 121103 - Nightcrawler

1h 57' Solaris Kino

The more terrible the images, the better the deal. When darkness falls over the streets of Los Angeles, ‘nightcrawler’ Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins hunting: Car accidents, burglaries, assaults – Lou never misses an opportunity to capture scandalous pictures on his video camera. The buyer of his videos is the TV producer Nina (Rene Russo), who has played this game for some time and is thrilled by Lou’s talent. Driven by the desperate urge for success – and seemingly immune to moral...

2014, USA, 1h 57'

21:15 122004 - Fish & Cat

2h 14' Artis

A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kiteflying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant. The cooks are looking for some meat to cook and there’s no one around other than the young students. The film is based on a true story about a restaurant that served minced human flesh for food and is shot in a single take. ““Fish & Cat” is a film about time. It’s about...

2013, Iran, 2h 14'

21:30 121706 - The Treatment

2h 7' Coca-Cola Plaza

Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns...

2014, Belgium, 2h 7'

21:45 121306 - To Kill a Man

1h 22' Solaris Kino

Jorge is a quiet, hardworking family man, whose neighbourhood has become a bit dangerous. One day, he gets mugged by Kalule, a street thug. Jorge’s teenage son tries to confront Kalule, getting himself shot. Even though his son is near to death, the bully is sentenced to only two years in jail. When Kalule is released from prison the nightmare starts over, terrorizing the whole family, fear and humiliating anguish. Finding the police useless, Jorge decides to take justice into his own...

2014, Chile, France, 1h 22'

21:45 121904 - A Wolf at the Door

1h 40' Artis

Set in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, “A Wolf at the Door” is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia (Fabíula Nascimento) discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband Bernardo (Milhem Cortaz) to the station for questioning. There Bernardo confesses his extra-marital affair with the beautiful young Rosa (Leandra Leal), whom detectives believe to be involved in the...

2013, Brazil, 1h 40'

22:15 121804 - The Reaper

1h 40' Coca-Cola Plaza

This film is about Ivo (60), a farm labourer who works for an agri-business conglomerate in rural Croatia. Many years ago, he was convicted of rape and although he served his sentence, the legacy of his crime still lingers. Three loosely interlinked stories, taking place over a single night and dealing with Ivo in different ways, gradually give us a stark, but compassionate picture of Ivo’s life, and of a rural community which is overshadowed by the aftermath of the...

2014, Croatia, Slovenia, 1h 40'

22:30 121206 - Alleluia

1h 35' Solaris Kino

Via a dating portal, Gloria makes contact with Michel. For her it’s love at first sight. But feelings aren’t part of Michel's world: he’s a gold-digger preying on women wanting to get married. Gloria invests everything in a future life at the side of the man with whom she has fallen in love so deeply she’s prepared to give up her own identity. As his fake sister, she joins him as he raids the hearts and houses of single women. With each coup, Gloria’s murderous jealousy grows, until...

2014, Belgium, France, 1h 35'

22:30 121605 - Black Coal, Thin Ice

1h 46' Coca-Cola Plaza

In 1999 a gruesome killing and mutilation takes place in a small town in northern China. A worker from a coal plant has been murdered, and the severed parts of his body are found in various locations across the province, hundreds of kilometers apart. The police investigation soon uncovers multiple suspects, but the attempt to bring them in for questioning takes a heavy toll; two police officers are killed and one is wounded. The officer that was wounded, Zhang Zili, is forced to retire...

2013, China, Hong Kong, 1h 46'

12:00 131301 - Pim and Pom: The Big Adventure

sold out 1h 10' Solaris Kino

The two cats Pim and Pom are best friends who live together with "The Lady". When, one day, the lady's nieces Tracey and Stacey come to visit, they take the cats to the park for a picnic. However, the nieces want to keep the cats for themselves and have come up with a secret plan to kidnap them. Pim and Pom manage to escape their clutches but then they get lost and end up trying to survive on the streets. There, they meet a bunch of alley cats who really put their friendship to the test....

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

12:00 131701 - Muutoksii

1h 28' Coca-Cola Plaza

Living in the Herttoniemi suburb in Eastern Helsinki, 12-year-olds Antti and Muhis have been best friends since kindergarten. Even with the underlying racism and anti-Somali sentiments that plague the community, the boys’ friendship has never been challenged, despite Muhis’ Somali background. That is until one night, when the boys find themselves in the middle of an unexpected confrontation that ends in a local drunk and racist being pushed off a cliff. Antti and Muhis must now hold onto...

2014, Finland, 1h 28'

12:30 131201 - The Legend of Longwood

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Mickey Miller is a 12-year-old girl from New York whose great love is horses. She has little enthusiasm for her mother’s plan to take Mickey and her little brother to start a new life in a run-down mill she has inherited in Longwood, an Irish village at the end of the world. Mickey’s presence in Longwood coincides with the return of the Black Knight, a legendary ruler who found no peace after his baby daughter was taken from him, and whose appearances always mean that something evil is...

2014, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, 1h 30'

13:30 131302 - Jill and Joy

1h 20' Solaris Kino

When the two best friends, Jill and Joy find a huge amount of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday they decide to buy a house from mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It is a real dream house, measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Jill and Joy start to live the summer of their dreams, which is full of adventure and surprises but without any parents. Anything can happen and strange things occur as reality and fantasy magically...

2014, Finland, 1h 20'

14:00 131702 - Kick It

1h 42' Coca-Cola Plaza

Anja loves soccer more than anything, so when she begins training for the school's annual soccer tournament, her excitement is contagious. However, her classmate Jonas doesn't think girls should play a "boy's game," and he makes things difficult for her both on and off the field. When Anja is diagnosed with leukemia, she is determined to get better in time to play in the big game — but when it begins to look as if her illness will keep her sidelined, it's Jonas who hatches a special plan.

2014, Norway, 1h 42'

14:00 131901 - Corn Island

1h 40' Artis

The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny island: small clusters of no man’s land. The islands are havens for wildlife but occasionally also for man. “Told almost without dialogue, the film relies on the faces of Ilyas Salman and Mariam...

2014, Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Hungary, 1h 40'

14:30 131601 - Lola on the Pea

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Good things come to those who wait. Lola lives with her mom Loretta on a houseboat. Since her father vanished into thin air a year ago, she has become introverted and lives in her own little dream world. She has vowed not to cut her hair or wash the spot on her neck where her dad last kissed her until he gets back. She doesn't really get along with her classmates at school, and her only real friend is the crazy old captain Solmsen. One day, however, while hanging out at her favorite spot...

2014, Germany, 1h 30'

14:30 131202 - Belle and Sebastian

1h 44' Solaris Kino

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian (an adorable Félix Bossuet) is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep. At the same time, the Germans have arrived in the peaceful village looking for resistance members who are helping Jewish refugees escape into Switzerland. Through danger and adventure, Belle and...

2013, France, 1h 44'

14:30 132001 - Life Itself

1h 55' Artis

Veteran documentary maker Steve James turns his attention to beloved film critic Roger Ebert who succumbed to cancer in 2013. Yet this more than an examination of a life lived. It also reflects on the nature of death and how those left behind are left to cope. Cineastes will certainly enjoy the overview of Ebert’s career as it explores his beginnings in writing to championing a myriad of movies including works by the likes of Martin Scorsese. Scorsese speaks glowingly of Ebert and...

2014, USA, 1h 55'

15:00 131801 - Theeb

1h 40' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Theeb” tells the story of one boy’s journey to adulthood after the death of his father. When Theeb (Jacir Eid) finds his Bedouin tribal life is interrupted with the arrival of a British Army Officer on a mysterious mission, Theeb’s older brother Hussein agrees to escort him on a treacherous journey across the Arabian Desert. An ambush occurs and Theeb, although just a young boy, comes to quickly understand that if he is to survive he must live up to the attributes of the wolf of which he...

2014, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, UK, 1h 40'

15:00 132201 - Still The Water

1h 59' Sõprus

On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko will attempt to help him understand this mysterious discovery. Together, Kaito and Kyoko will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

2014, Japan, Spain, France, 1h 59'

15:15 131303 - Zombie: The Resurrection of Tim Zom

1h 10' Solaris Kino

Tim Zom, born and raised in the South of Rotterdam, steps out of a dark past and stands at the point of becoming an international professional skateboarder. His career takes him from the cold Dutch reality into the American Dream, with big companies like Nike & Monster Energy supporting him. ZOMBIE is a film about a unique and surprising character who through talent and personality, against all odds and hardships, grew out to become a hero.

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

16:00 131703 - Corrections Class

sold out 1h 38' Coca-Cola Plaza

After years spent studying at home, disabled Lena is keen to get back to school. The attitude of the teachers in charge of the special needs class, however, soon fills her with cruel disenchantment. Debut director Ivan Tverdovsky avoids embellishment to unfold an entirely credible drama portraying the unequal struggle of the individual in the face of institutional torpor, human prejudice and a society that tries to trip up people who are different.

2014, Russia, Germany, 1h 38'

16:30 131203 - Days of My Youth

1h 5' Solaris Kino

A new film that examines every skier’s lifelong affinity for the sport. Filmed over two years using state of the art techniques and technologies, this movie offers a unique glimpse into the journey of self-discovery that every skier experiences. MSP Films, along with an intimate cast of skiing’s modern day superstars, have looked through the lens in a new way to capture moments that redefine what is possible on skis.

2014, USA, 1h 5'

16:30 131602 - Lucky Devils

1h 36' Coca-Cola Plaza

From the streets to the circus – a magical spectacle. In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its director Larissa have decided to give some of those children a chance to leave all that behind them. “Lucky Devils” takes us on a journey from the Russian slums to the big top’s lights and the joys of a tour to Switzerland, following the half-orphan Danja, who discovers the pleasure of playing and performing, the street...

2013, Switzerland, Russia, 1h 36'

16:30 131902 - Refugiado

1h 35' Artis

After escaping the clutches of her abusive husband Fabian, Laura and her seven-year-old son Matias venture through Buenos Aires shelters, factories, and flophouses seeking refuge. With Fabian on their tail, the duo’s perilous journey alternates between safety and terror. Veteran director Diego Lerman, working in a mode of delicate realism, sensitively limns the social and emotional plight of a mother and child upended by harrowing domestic circumstances.

2014, France, Argentina, Colombia, Poland, Germany, 1h 35'

17:00 131101 - God Help the Girl

1h 51' Solaris Kino

From writer/director Stuart Murdoch (lead singer of beloved indie pop group Belle & Sebastian) comes the most delightfully different musical of the year. Eve (Emily Browning) is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass (Hannah Murray) and fastidious James (Olly Alexander), and together they decide there's only one thing to do: form a pop group.

2014, UK, 1h 51'

17:00 132002 - Viktoria

2h 35' Artis

At the end of 70’s, in Bulgaria and Boryana, a woman is fed up with the regime that reigns in her homeland, she dreams of Italy. An unexpected surprise arrives to burst her bubble: she becomes a mother, giving birth to Viktoria. Her daughter is born without umbilical cord and no belly button. Viktoria is suddenly proclaimed “The baby of the future” and becomes a symbol for communist Bulgaria. Viktoria is a star of the regime with a direct line to the Communist party leader. She is...

2014, Bulgaria, Romania, 2h 35'

17:00 131304 - Titli

2h 5' Solaris Kino

Titli wants to fly far from the influence of his criminal family. The youngest of three brothers wants no part in their shady dealings, but nobody in his family particularly cares what he wants. Titli plans to gain his independence by applying for the concession of a new car park. When Titli is forced by his brothers to marry the beautiful Neelu – a union neither of them want – his plan seems to have failed. However, as Titli and Neelu become better acquainted, they become aware that they...

2014, India, 2h 5'

17:00 131401 - The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

1h 45' Coca-Cola Plaza

T. S. Spivet (Kyle Catlett) lives with his parents, sister Gracie and brother Layton in a remote ranch in Montana. A little boy with a gift and a passion for science, he invents the machine of perpetual movement, which earns him the highly prestigious Baird Award from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. After leaving a note to his family, he sets out alone to pick up the award, crossing the United States on a freight train. But no one in Washington ever imagined that the lucky winner...

2013, France, Canada, 1h 45'

17:00 131802 - Salvation Army

1h 24' Coca-Cola Plaza

Young Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia has directed his first feature film, a version of his autobiographical novel “Salvation Army,” into the same titled picture that premiered in Venice this year, telling a story of young Arab gay-man lost in the relationships of family, his own desires and the sexual power play of money. Abdellah (Said Mrini) 15, lives with his parents, two brothers and five sisters in Casablanca. His father has one bedroom, his older brother another and rest is shared...

2013, France, Morocco, Switzerland, 1h 24'

17:30 132202 - Goodnight Mommy

1h 39' Sõprus

Lukas and Elias (played by brothers Lukas and Elias Schwarz) are in the midst of a vigorous game of tag. The homemade animal mask worn by one of the boys sets up the disturbing recurring motif of hidden faces, especially as the mother (Susanne Wuest), is revealed, recovering from recent cosmetic surgery. With her face puffy and grotesque under a swath of bandages, the mother requires absolute peace and quiet in order to recuperate, yet the boys stuck in the big house in the middle of...

2014, Austria, 1h 39'

18:00 131204 - X+Y

1h 51' Solaris Kino

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

2014, UK, 1h 51'

18:00 131704 - Big Animal

1h 13' Coca-Cola Plaza

Mr Sawicki, a bank employee and respectable member of a small-town community, spies a camel on the street one day, left there perhaps by a circus that has just left town. Mr. Sawicki takes charge of the animal and his wife begin taking care of it. But the situation becomes problematic for both his fellow citizens and the local authorities.

2000, Poland, 1h 13'

18:30 131603 - Fight Church

1h 24' Coca-Cola Plaza

FIGHT CHURCH is a feature documentary about the confluence of Christianity and Mixed Martial Arts. The film follows several pastors and fighters in a quest to reconcile their faith with a sport that some consider violent and barbaric. Faith is tried and questions are raised. Can you really love your neighbor as yourself and then punch him in the face?

2014, USA, 1h 24'

19:00 131803 - Name Me

1h 33' Coca-Cola Plaza

Two 17-year-old Moscowite girls, Olya and Sasha, are going to the Crimea to meet Olya’s father Sergey. Sergey has lived in a small seaside village his whole life and he has never seen his only daughter. When Olya finds herself at the threshold of her father’s house, she gets scared of meeting him. Olya asks Sasha to trade places with her. So Sasha introduces herself as Olya and pretends to be Sergey’s daughter while Olya claims to be her best friend. At first girls have their fun. Little...

2014, Russia, 1h 33'

19:00 131903 - Phoenix

1h 38' Artis

SCREENI TEKST:   Calling to mind both Hitchcock and Reed, “Phoenix” is an intimately-staged story of identity and loss in which Christian Petzold compels the viewer into a suspension of disbelief which is fully rewarded with a powerful finale. The story starts as Lene (Nina Kunzendorf) brings the shattered Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) for surgery on her disfigured face. As the sole surviving member of her entire family, Nelly finds that she is unexpectedly rich. And as the bandages...

2014, Germany, 1h 38'

19:15 131102 - Kid Cannabis

1h 50' Solaris Kino

KID CANNABIS is the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border. But his pursuit of the high life - complete with girls, guns, and vicious rival drug lords - may leave this ex-pizza boy in way over his head.

2014, USA, 1h 50'

19:15 131402 - Birdman

sold out 1h 59' Coca-Cola Plaza

A magnificent and enthralling film that fits into no easy genre bracket, “Birdman” is a technical tour de force, a beautifully performed and smartly scripted black comedy that will leave its audience keen to head back for more, perhaps just to work out how Alejandro González Iñárritu staged some of the film’s more striking moments. Plus it finally offers the talented Michael Keaton a role that really shows off his range and charisma and one that should see him in contention when it comes...

2014, USA, 1h 59'

19:30 131305 - These Are The Rules

1h 18' Solaris Kino

Ivo is a bus driver. His wife Maja stays at home. They live an ordinary life in a suburb of Zagreb. One night their teenage son Tomica is beaten up by boys his age. He ends up in hospital and has to undergo surgery. The parents are on their own because the police doesen’t want to help. The next few days make the parents realize that their world of false security has collapsed. They decide to re-examine their lives and question everything they always believed in.

2014, Croatia, France, Serbia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), 1h 18'

20:00 132203 - 20 000 Days on Earth

1h 37' Sõprus

The debut feature of artist filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, this take on the rock documentary straddles the line between fiction and reality as it examines in the life of rock icon Nick Cave as works on his 2013 album Push the Sky Away. Set during a (fictionalised) 24 hour period in the life of the lead singer of the Bad Seeds, the film sees Cave reflect on his work, the nature of art and the religious nature of musical performance. There are snippets of live performances, Cave...

2014, UK, 1h 37'

20:00 131705 - The Treatment

2h 7' Coca-Cola Plaza

Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns...

2014, Belgium, 2h 7'

20:30 131604 - The World of Kanako

1h 58' Coca-Cola Plaza

A dream house in the high-rise, a lovingly obedient housewife and a beauty queen daughter is the dream of every Japanese salaryman … and of rouse for a middle-aged private detective Fujikawa as well. But the dream is shattered to shards as hallucination brought on by yet another drinking spree of brute Fujikawa, who’s not only fired from his police job, but also divorced due to beating up his wife’s lover. Suffering from suddens bouts of rage and and violence the detective is suddenly...

2014, Japan, 1h 58'

20:30 131205 - Black Souls

1h 43' Solaris Kino

Francesco Munzi has made a name for himself in Italy as a director to watch in Italy since the release of his debut, “Saimir” (2004). This tough, dark Calabrian Mafia tale confirms his promise thanks to some fine performances by an under-the-radar cast and the director’s sure control of tone and pace. We see a major drug deal go down in a Dutch port city, and follow the Italian brokers as they drive back to their powerbase of Milan – with street-smart Luigi (Leonardi) persuading his...

2014, Italy, 1h 43'

20:30 132003 - Ne me quitte pas

1h 47' Artis

“Ne Me Quitte Pas” is a tragicomic ode to failure. Set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude, sense of humor and carving for alcohol. They have agreed that suicide is the best way out if worse comes to worst. In that case, they have chosen the perfect spot to do so: under Bob’s tree of life. Bob is a retired cowboy who loves his freedom and forest, while Marcel is trying to hold on to the family he is about to...

2013, Netherlands, Belgium, 1h 47'

21:15 131804 - The Last Floor

1h 24' Coca-Cola Plaza

Adam Derczynski is a Polish Army captain, a good husband and father. He lives by his conservative, traditional values, and with his whole family attends every Sunday Mass. When discharged and transferred to a different military unit, he becomes convinced that it’s the result of him discovering a major fraud or even an anti-Polish-conspiracy amongst the high level military officials. Lead by his fears of outside threats and an obligation to protect his family, Derczynski barricades them all...

2013, Poland, 1h 24'

21:15 131904 - Saturday Night Chills

1h 29' Artis

Mark, Jeff and John seem to be stuck in their failed lives. Mark is working for his family’s hardware store in Chinatown, Manila. John is a call-center agent in Makati. Jeff is a womanizing bum. Aimless and bored with their everyday lives, the three often spend their weekend nights hanging out in brothels and bars. One night, the friends bump into Brian, a former class loser who is now a big-time businessman. They find out about the secret of Brian’s success: odds betting.

2014, Philippines, 1h 29'

21:15 131306 - Letter to the King

1h 15' Solaris Kino

“Letter to the King” portrays five persons' meeting with Norway outside the refugee camp. They are given permission to leave the snowy no mans land and travel to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. But we soon realise that all of them have a purpose with this trip. All five will be confronted by their destinies as they discover happiness, suffer humiliation, find love and seek revenge. The five stories are bound together by a letter, written by eighty-three year...

2014, Norway, Iraq, 1h 15'

21:30 131103 - The Trip to Italy

sold out 1h 48' Solaris Kino

After they visited the rolling hills, beautiful countryside and exquisite restaurants of Yorkshire in “The Trip”, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their unlikely partnership in Michael Winterbottom’s follow-up “The Trip to Italy”. As the title suggest, the duo now find themselves in Italy and are ostensibly there to visit five restaurants and write a piece for a national newspaper. This is a very playful film on many levels. On one hand it gives scope for Coogan and Brydon’s...

2014, UK, 1h 48'

21:45 131403 - Escobar: Paradise Lost

2h 0' Coca-Cola Plaza

An American surfer (Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games) meets the girl of his dreams – but gets a brutal (sur)reality check when he meets her uncle, Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Benicio del Toro). More than twenty years after his death in 1993, Pablo Escobar's impact on Colombia is still impossible to measure. His cocaine trafficking empire made him one of the wealthiest criminals in history, and he was responsible for the deaths of thousands. Yet the Robin Hood-like persona he...

2014, France, Spain, Belgium, 2h 0'

16:00 141601 - The Incredible Machine

1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

Nine-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his outdated house robot T.I.M. When his father trades his robot in for a newer version Tibor manages to save his friend from dismantlement and undertakes an epic journey to the only person who can repair T.I.M: the mythical robot maker Hector Sammler. But on this voyage through an unknown world T.I.M. slowly but surely falls apart and the question arises if they will ever find Hector Sammler if he even exists at all...

2014, Netherlands, Denmark, 1h 20'

16:00 141201 - The Inbetweeners 2

1h 36' Solaris Kino

Will, Jay, Neil and Simon head Down Under in this raunchy sequel to the record-breaking comedy. Last time we met the Rudge Park posse, they were causing chaos in Malia, Crete. Nearly a year on, Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Simon (Joe Thomas) have gone their separate ways. Jay is staying with his uncle in Australia. Neil has actually managed to get a job. And Simon and Will are at different universities, but life isn't panning out as they'd hoped. So...

2014, UK, 1h 36'

16:30 141701 - Nobody Owns Me

1h 35' Coca-Cola Plaza

After her parents' sudden divorce, Lisa lives with her alcoholic father. Their relationship grows stronger and they share a conviction: all people are of equal value. As Lisa grows older she is torn between shame and loyalty. One day she is forced to choose - leave her father or go under herself. Nobody Owns Me is a deeply touching declaration of unconditional lova. And a promise to pick up the fight for what is right

2013, Sweden, 1h 35'

17:00 141101 - Palo Alto

1h 40' Solaris Kino

Shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts) is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer). Emily (Zoe Levin), meanwhile, offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path — including both Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), a live wire without filters or boundaries. As one high school party bleeds into the next — and April and Teddy struggle to admit their mutual affection —...

2013, USA, 1h 40'

17:00 142001 - Nude Area

1h 15' Artis

Love doesn’t unfold like a story. Only the first and the last chapter are known. Love starts from Love and ends in Letting go. In between there is tenderness and cruelty, waiting and fulfillment, ecstasy and disappointment. If love is a discourse, these are her figures of speech. "Nude Area" presents an adolescent love between two girls, one Dutch, another one Moslem. Childish cruelty is mixed with full-blown sensuality. Dreams and life reflect and complete each other. The end is...

2014, Poland, Netherlands, 1h 15'

17:00 141301 - The Judgement

1h 48' Solaris Kino

The story takes place nowadays, in a small and poor village in Bulgaria, which is located close to the border with Turkey and Greece. Mityo (45) lives with his son Vasko (18). The relations between the two of them are strained after the recent death of Fanka – Mityo’s wife and mother of Vasko. The situation is getting even worse – the dairy, where Mityo has worked for 15 years, went bankrupt. He remains unemployed and he can’t cover the payments on the loan, which...

2014, Bulgaria, 1h 48'

17:00 141501 - No One's Child

1h 43' Coca-Cola Plaza

In the spring of 1988 a wild boy is found deep in the Bosnian Mountains living amongst wolves. He is given the name of Haris and sent to orphanage in Belgrade to be taken care of by Ilke. He becomes inseparable from little Zika, who protects him from the bullies, and slowly starts pronouncing first words. It’s just the beginning of a long inner journey for the boy. Suddenly the History beats hard and the wild boy should take his first own decisions. Shot in a naturalistic, almost...

2014, Serbia, 1h 43'

17:00 141401 - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

sold out 1h 54' Coca-Cola Plaza

Take a wily centenarian, stolen money, angry skinheads, an elephant, and circus costumes, and you have the ingredients of a rollicking, slapstick cross-country road trip. Oh, and did we mention explosions? The titular old man is also a dynamite expert. The result from actor-turned-director Felix Herngren is one of 2013’s highest-grossing comedies in Sweden. Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, this anarchic film follows the journey of Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson), who...

2013, Sweden, 1h 54'

17:15 141801 - Star

2h 8' Coca-Cola Plaza

A young debuting actress dreams of being a famous star admired by everybody. She lacks talent so she’s planning to have plastic surgery to help her succeed. She is always an optimist, with an infectiously carefree attitude and joie de vivre. The extremely sensitive 15-year-old boy feeling at odds with the world is her opposite. He is misunderstood by his father and his stepmother, a worldly and haughty woman who is capable of true feelings only on the verge of death. A tragicomedy about...

2014, Russia, 2h 8'

17:30 142201 - Charlie's Country

1h 48' Sõprus

For the established director, Rolf de Heer, collaboration with the legendary Aboriginal actor and writer David Gulpill, is a long term friendship and “Charlie’s Country” is Rolf’s 14th feature film. Going for his daily doings, Charlie shouts to the policeman Luke in a small Aboriginal Territory “You white bastard”, who simply replies “You black bastard” and we giggle to ourselves, following the wonderful and mischievous Charlie. Yet, the more we see him walking around and talking to the...

2014, Australia, 1h 48'

17:45 141602 - Rich Hill

1h 31' Coca-Cola Plaza

Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1393). On the highway, next to the railroad track. ANDREW, 14, works on his bike, talks dreams with his dad, practices dance moves with his twin sister. He’s just like a lot of American teenagers, except that his days are often also about survival. HARLEY, 15, lives with his grandma and eight other members of his extended family because his mom is in prison for attempted murder. Still, Harley is the first guy in the room to crack a joke and make you laugh...

2014, USA, 1h 31'

18:00 141202 - Trash

sold out 1h 53' Solaris Kino

Stephen Daldry (perhaps best known for “Billy Elliot”) directs and Richard Curtis scripts in this intriguing blend of Hollywood genre and foreign art-house. Running the gamut of influences – from “City of God” (whose director, Fernando Meirelles, is involved via his company 02 Filmes) to “Slumdog Millionaire” – the film is a surprising and refreshing piece of work. The film begins with corrupt Rip police killing a man in order to get their hand on his wallet that contains important...

2014, UK, 1h 53'

18:30 141702 - What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music

1h 50' Coca-Cola Plaza

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

2014, USA, Germany, 1h 50'

18:45 142002 - Brooklyn

1h 23' Artis

Coralie a.k.a. Brooklyn runs away from Switzerland and arrives in Paris to take her chance into hip hop music. She’s hired as a cook in a local association in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. Coralie meets Issa, the rising star of the hood. A 100% independent production, it was called ‘the hip hop film of the year’ after the screening at the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival 2014.

2014, France, 1h 23'

19:00 141901 - Stations of the Cross

1h 47' Artis

Fourteen-year-old Maria is a typical teenage girl except that, since her family are devoted Christians, her heart belongs first and foremost to God. The girl wants to do what is right according to her religion, but she’s constantly surrounded by various temptations and seductions. The drama, which observes the role of religion in a person’s life, shows Maria’s life in 14 scenes, matching the fourteen Stations of the Cross on Jesus’s path to Mount Kolkata. In these fourteen scenes, the...

2014, Germany, 1h 47'

19:00 141502 - The State - Mafia Pact

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

What do we mean when we talk about “The State-Mafia Pact”? About the concessions given on behalf of the State to the Mafia in exchange for an end to bloodshed? Who exactly is culpable for the assassination of Falcone and Borsellino? What do we know about the endless coexistence of Mafia and Politics? Between the Mafia and the Catholic Church? Between the Mafia and the Police? Or is there more? A group of actors bring to life the most relevant episodes of the sequence of events known as...

2014, Italy, 1h 48'

19:00 Güeros

1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

It is 1999 in Mexico City. Sombra and Santos live in a strange limbo since the UNAM strike broke out. Strikers against the strike stick at home: no school, no money, just devising strange ways for killing time. In the other side of the country, a water bomb thrown from a high block explodes in a baby stroller. Result: the out-of-control teenager Tomas is sent to the city, to visit his older brother Sombra. Tomas discovers that his hero, Epigmenio Cruz, a legendary rock singer of the 60’s,...

2014, Mexico, 1h 48'

19:15 141102 - Mommy

2h 19' Solaris Kino

A widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive 15-year-old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable ménage, the new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained. “Witnessing Dolan develop as a filmmaker over these past few years has been a rare thrill, and while “Mommy” further demonstrates a growing maturity impossible to deny, his...

2014, Canada, 2h 19'

19:30 141402 - Citizen

1h 44' Coca-Cola Plaza

“The Citizen” tells the story of a man born and brought up in Communist Poland and documents how the social conditions and ideologies of the time impacted his life. The main character tries to participate in the changing social conditions and consequently becomes entangled in a plot of absurd circumstances and unpredictable events – not helped by his own clumsiness.

2014, Poland, 1h 44'

19:30 141302 - The Way Out

1h 42' Solaris Kino

Young Romany Žaneta lives in a prefab housing block with her partner David, their daughter, and Žaneta’s younger sister. Her mother died years ago and her destitute father is unlikely to find another job after ten years without work. The young couple hope to find employment themselves, but their options are limited, as are the intellectual horizons of the personnel at the local authorities. Without resorting to idealisation or gratuitous sensationalism, the film examines issues of social...

2014, Czech Republic, France, 1h 42'

19:45 141802 - Love is Strange

1h 34' Coca-Cola Plaza

After 39 years together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when news of their marriage reaches the Catholic school where George works, he is fired from his longtime job, and the couple can no longer afford their New York City apartment. As a temporary solution, George moves in with the two gay cops next door, while Ben moves to Brooklyn to live with his nephew, Eliot; Eliot’s wife, Kate; and their...

2014, USA, France, 1h 34'

19:45 142202 - The State - Mafia Pact

1h 48' Sõprus

What do we mean when we talk about “The State-Mafia Pact”? About the concessions given on behalf of the State to the Mafia in exchange for an end to bloodshed? Who exactly is culpable for the assassination of Falcone and Borsellino? What do we know about the endless coexistence of Mafia and Politics? Between the Mafia and the Catholic Church? Between the Mafia and the Police? Or is there more? A group of actors bring to life the most relevant episodes of the sequence of events known as...

2014, Italy, 1h 48'

20:00 141203 - All This Mayhem

1h 44' Solaris Kino

All This Mayhem is a searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas’ intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiralling world of self-destruction.

2014, Australia, UK, 1h 44'

20:00 141603 - Jodorowsky's Dune

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Legendary Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky wanted to make a film about one of the most known sci-fi novels out there, the 1965 epic “Dune” by Frank Herbert. That, what is the world’s best selling science fiction novel, was years in preparation to become one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made. Jodorowsky would gather “spiritual warriors” around him and thus discovered the great artists like Dan O’Bannon, Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger and French graphic artist Jean “Moebius” Girard....

2013, USA, 1h 30'

20:30 142003 - A Wolf at the Door

1h 40' Artis

Set in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, “A Wolf at the Door” is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia (Fabíula Nascimento) discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband Bernardo (Milhem Cortaz) to the station for questioning. There Bernardo confesses his extra-marital affair with the beautiful young Rosa (Leandra Leal), whom detectives believe to be involved in the...

2013, Brazil, 1h 40'

21:00 141703 - 2030

1h 38' Coca-Cola Plaza

It is the year 2030. Catastrophic climate change as a result of global warming means that most of the arable land in southern Vietnam is now below sea level. Most of the population has already been evacuated, but Sao and her husband Thi refuse to leave their land. They are living in a stilt house and subsisting on the dwindling fish population. On floating farms along the coast, major multinational corporations are working on a secret project to create vegetables, now a rare commodity....

2014, Vietnam, 1h 38'

21:30 141902 - Difret

1h 39' Artis

In Ethiopia, following an ancient rural tradition, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped on her way to school with the intention of forcing her into marriage. Killing her captor, she manages to escape. When accused of murder, she is defended by a young female lawyer, a specialist in women’s rights. Two facets of Ethiopian society, the tradition of forced marriage and justice, fight it out in court.

2014, Ethiopia, USA, 1h 39'

21:45 141803 - Self Made

1h 31' Coca-Cola Plaza

Michal is a renowned Jerusalem artist. One morning, her bed breaks, she falls off and consequently loses her memory. She orders a new bed and discovers that a screw is missing. She complains to the furniture factory, leading to the dismissal of Nadine, a young Palestinian woman, who works packing screws in plastic bags. This event is a point of no return for both women until their fates cross again at a border checkpoint. A soldier’s mistake sends Michal to Nadine’s refugee camp and Nadine...

2014, Israel, 1h 31'

22:00 141303 - To Kill a Man

1h 22' Solaris Kino

Jorge is a quiet, hardworking family man, whose neighbourhood has become a bit dangerous. One day, he gets mugged by Kalule, a street thug. Jorge’s teenage son tries to confront Kalule, getting himself shot. Even though his son is near to death, the bully is sentenced to only two years in jail. When Kalule is released from prison the nightmare starts over, terrorizing the whole family, fear and humiliating anguish. Finding the police useless, Jorge decides to take justice into his own...

2014, Chile, France, 1h 22'

22:00 142203 - The New Girlfriend

1h 47' Sõprus

François Ozon should not be a name unknown to the Estonian audiences and this time he is back in the Black Nights Film Festival special program with a skillfully triangulated story about a woman who learns that the husband of her deceased best friend is harbouring a most unusual secret. Best friends Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) and Laura (Isild Le Besco) are utterly inseperable. As little girls, they carve their names to the wood and change blood to swear an oath for their friendship. After...

2014, France, 1h 47'

22:00 141403 - '71

1h 39' Coca-Cola Plaza

A tense and exciting action-drama about a young British soldier caught out of his depth on the mean streets of Belfast in Northern Ireland in the early years of the Troubles, the impressively mounted "’71" is a remarkably assured feature debut for Yann Demange. In England in 1971 new recruit Gary Hook and his fellow squaddies find themselves sent to Northern Ireland. The city is divided between Protestant Loyalist area and the Catholic Nationalist areas. When the soldiers find themselves...

2014, UK, 1h 39'

22:00 141604 - The Postman's White Nights

sold out 1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Separated from the outside world with only a boat to connect their remote village to the mainland, the inhabitants of Kenozero Lake live the way their ancestors did for centuries gone by: the community is small, everyone knows each other and they produce only those things which are necessary for survival. The village Postman (Aleksey Tryaptisyn) is their sole connection to the outside world, relying on his motorboat to bridge the two civilizations. But when his boat’s motor is stolen...

2014, Russia, 1h 30'

22:00 141103 - Obvious Child

1h 24' Solaris Kino

Donna Stern is a 27-year-old Brooklyn comedian whose unapologetically lewd, warmhearted wit is pretty irresistible with audiences. When she gets heartlessly “dumped up with” by her two-timing boyfriend, Donna plunges into some light stalking and heavy moping. Hitting a serious low point, she performs a dreary set of break-up vengeance and Holocaust jokes and drunkenly falls into bed with a nice young professional named Max – not remotely her type. A few weeks later, condoms be damned,...

2014, USA, 1h 24'

22:30 141204 - Enemy

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Jake Gyllenhaal meets Jake Gyllenhaal in this hypnotically baffling doppelgänger tale from the director of “Incendies”. Adam (Jake 1) is a Toronto history professor, a bit frayed around the edges and apt to drift in and out of focus, whether with his students or his girlfriend (Mélanie Laurent). One night Adam dreams that he saw himself in a DVD he watched earlier in the evening. He takes another look, and sure enough, there he is in a tiny part, identified in the credits as Anthony...

2013, Canada, Spain, 1h 30'

13:30 151901 - Mission: Sputnik

1h 30' Artis

“Mission Sputnik” is the adventurous story about the “real” happenings of Nov 9, 1989 in Germany, the day the wall came down. For ten-year-old Frederike, Oct 89 gets off to a disastrous start: her beloved Uncle Mike (27) is leaving the GDR. Inspired by her big idol Captain Kirk, Frederike and her friends Jonathan (10) and Fabian (10) construct a teleporting device to “beam” herself to West Berlin to bring back her uncle Mike. But the experiment dramatically fails. Instead of beaming Uncle...

2013, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, 1h 30'

16:00 151201 - The Word

1h 37' Solaris Kino

Three weeks ago, LILA’s world fell apart when her girlfriends reported that they saw Lila’s boyfriend, JANEK, kissing another girl during a party. This comes as a shock since Janek only had eyes for her and what they had felt so real. Lila can’t forgive him; she trusted him more than anyone else is her life. Days before the end of the school year, she gives Janek an ultimatum: Janek has 24 hours to prove his true love. Otherwise, he can forget about ever being with Lila again.

2014, Poland, 1h 37'

16:00 151601 - I Won't Come Back

sold out 1h 50' Coca-Cola Plaza

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusations, she has to flee, disguised as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year-old Christine, an orphan who is as desperate and reckless as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a turning point for Anya — reliving her adolescence for the second time,...

2014, Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Belarus, 1h 50'

16:00 151301 - Cherry tobacco

1h 33' Solaris Kino

“Cherry Tobacco” is about a small town girl who is constantly bored. Her mother gets on her nerves, boys her age are stupid, and all activities seem childish. One day Laura’s energetic friend Merit asks her to join a hike to a bog led by a middle-aged nature-lover Joosep. The beginning of the trip is anything but promising: the relationship between the reserved girl and the outgoing Joosep who tries to impress the hiking party with his hillbilly style and bizarre rituals becomes tense....

2014, Estonia, 1h 33'

16:30 151701 - Kick It

1h 42' Coca-Cola Plaza

Anja loves soccer more than anything, so when she begins training for the school's annual soccer tournament, her excitement is contagious. However, her classmate Jonas doesn't think girls should play a "boy's game," and he makes things difficult for her both on and off the field. When Anja is diagnosed with leukemia, she is determined to get better in time to play in the big game — but when it begins to look as if her illness will keep her sidelined, it's Jonas who hatches a special plan.

2014, Norway, 1h 42'

17:00 151101 - Premature

1h 33' Solaris Kino

Rob is facing the biggest day of his life. He needs to nail a college interview ensuring his admittance to his parents’ beloved alma mater, keep his cool when life-long crush Angela (nicknamed "Afterschool Special" for a reason) finally seems to show interest, and deal with his best friends as they realize their high school days are ending. As pressure mounts, something weird happens. He finds himself reliving the day's events over and over again. Is Rob stuck in a dream? Experiencing déjà...

2014, USA, 1h 33'

17:00 151902 - Istanbul United

1h 24' Artis

Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, and Beşiktaş – the three biggest football clubs in Istanbul, rivals come hell or high water. The fans of each team are united by a boundless love for their home club and an indescribably rancorous hatred toward the other two. But last year’s mass demonstrations in Turkey disrupted the normal routine. After the brutal police crackdown, the original disagreement with the renovation of Taksim Square grew into a nationwide statement of opposition to the direction the...

2014, Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey, 1h 24'

17:30 151801 - Boyhood

sold out 2h 45' Coca-Cola Plaza

Not just a coming-of-age movie, but the definitive coming-of-age movie, Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making “Boyhood” follows the travails of a young Texas boy and his family. Filmed sequentially in pieces every year from 2002–2013, the film observes its young actors Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater mature through the years, from wide-eyed children to awkward adolescents. “Boyhood” begins as Mason (Coltrane) and his older sister Samantha (Linklater) are in primary school,...

2013, USA, 2h 45'

17:30 151501 - Corn Island

1h 40' Coca-Cola Plaza

The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny island: small clusters of no man’s land. The islands are havens for wildlife but occasionally also for man. “Told almost without dialogue, the film relies on the faces of Ilyas Salman and Mariam...

2014, Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Hungary, 1h 40'

17:45 152001 - Refugiado

1h 35' Artis

After escaping the clutches of her abusive husband Fabian, Laura and her seven-year-old son Matias venture through Buenos Aires shelters, factories, and flophouses seeking refuge. With Fabian on their tail, the duo’s perilous journey alternates between safety and terror. Veteran director Diego Lerman, working in a mode of delicate realism, sensitively limns the social and emotional plight of a mother and child upended by harrowing domestic circumstances.

2014, France, Argentina, Colombia, Poland, Germany, 1h 35'

18:00 151202 - Supernova

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Meis is seventeen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house. She dreams of a young car driver called “Brad” whom she would like to take care of and maybe have sex with. Dad is waiting for the next driver to bring some heroism to his life again. Mom is waiting for the same moment, so they can permanently move to the city. Ever since dad was the first...

2024, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, 1h 30'

18:00 151302 - Tsili

1h 24' Solaris Kino

World War II. Tsili, a young Jewish woman, is hiding in the forest South of Czernowicz. Her entire family was deported to the camps. Hiding in the war zone, she builds a nest for herself. Escaping the savagery of the valley, she finds refuge in the nature. One day, Marek discovers her nest. He addresses her in Yiddish and finds out that she belongs to his people. Marek settles in the nest with Tsili. One day he will go down to the village to look for food. He will never...

2014, Israel, Russia, Italy, 1h 24'

18:15 151602 - Flow

1h 29' Coca-Cola Plaza

Michael lives in a housing project. He and his friends make music together. Michael is clearly the biggest talent in the group, and one day he is discovered by the established rapper Apollo who makes Michael his ghostwriter. A big opportunity for Michael, this also means moving forward without his friends and breaking the unwritten rule of loyalty. Michael focuses on his music, hoping that the situation will resolve itself. As his friends lose their patience, a dramatic showdown is...

2014, Denmark, 1h 29'

18:30 151702 - Cracks in Concrete

1h 45' Coca-Cola Plaza

Ertan leaves jail after 10 years and tries to settle back in society. Mikail (15) spends his time with parties, drugs and dreaming of a life as a gangster rapper. Ertan looks for Mikail. Mikail doesn’t know Ertan. Soon they both have to face a harsh reality.

2013, Austria, 1h 45'

18:30 151401 - Angels of Revolution

1h 53' Coca-Cola Plaza

Year 1934. Something is rotten in the North of USSR: shamans (native priests) of two indigenous populations, Khanty and Nenets, do not wish to accept new ideas. To reconcile two great cultures, the Russian Avant-garde and the Ancient Paganism, six metropolitan artists leave for the primeval forests around the great Siberian river Ob: a composer, a sculptor, a theater director, a Constructivist architect, a Primitive film director and the chief of the unit – the famous “Polina the...

2014, Russia, 1h 53'

19:00 151102 - Palo Alto

1h 40' Solaris Kino

Shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts) is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer). Emily (Zoe Levin), meanwhile, offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path — including both Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), a live wire without filters or boundaries. As one high school party bleeds into the next — and April and Teddy struggle to admit their mutual affection —...

2013, USA, 1h 40'

19:00 151903 - Hector and the Search for Happiness

1h 54' Artis

Based on François Lelord’s phenomenally successful novel, “Hector and The Search for Happiness” sees actor Simon Pegg go beyond the comedy and genre roles for which he has become famous. Hector is living the contented and successful life of a London professional with a prospering career and caring girlfriend (Rosamund Pike). But he still feels that there is something missing and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey of self-discovery. Travelling across the world he meets a...

2014, UK, Germany, Canada, South Africa, 1h 54'

19:30 151502 - God Loves Uganda

1h 23' Coca-Cola Plaza

All the disturbing news that started leaking to the world media somewhere around 2009 culminated in one of the most horrifying ones from Uganda, when the most outspoken gay rights advocate David Kato was beaten to death with a hammer. Until today, the government of Uganda has done their upmost to win over the minds of people to be not only anty-gay but to legalize a death-penalty to all homosexuals. One of the facts is that the gospel of peace spread by American Evangelical groups in...

2013, USA, 1h 23'

19:45 152002 - Halfway

sold out 1h 56' Artis

Involved in a bitter divorce Stephen moves into a splendid house he managed to buy at a bargain. But his peace and quiet are soon disturbed when he finds Theo standing in his living room, soaked to the skin, claiming to be the rightful resident of the house and demanding Stephen to move out. Unwilling to yield, Stephen finds himself in the midst of a turf war and the harassments between both men soon get out of hand. Then Stephen discovers that Theo used to be the...

2014, Belgium, 1h 56'

20:00 151303 - Theeb

1h 40' Solaris Kino

“Theeb” tells the story of one boy’s journey to adulthood after the death of his father. When Theeb (Jacir Eid) finds his Bedouin tribal life is interrupted with the arrival of a British Army Officer on a mysterious mission, Theeb’s older brother Hussein agrees to escort him on a treacherous journey across the Arabian Desert. An ambush occurs and Theeb, although just a young boy, comes to quickly understand that if he is to survive he must live up to the attributes of the wolf of which he...

2014, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, UK, 1h 40'

20:00 151203 - It Follows

1h 37' Solaris Kino

For 19-year-­old Jay (Maika Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind. With a riveting central performance from Monroe and a strikingly ominous electronic score by...

2014, USA, 1h 37'

20:15 151603 - Bypass

1h 46' Coca-Cola Plaza

Duane Hopkins is one of the most fascinating directors currently working in the UK. Already responsible for a number of brilliant and award-winning shorts and his lyrical first feature “Better Things”, Hopkins combines masterful composition that shows off the dark beauty of Northern England with the stark realism often associated with UK cinema. His second feature follows Tim, a young man pushed into responsibility after his older brother is put in jail. With an absent father, a surly...

2014, UK, 1h 46'

20:45 151703 - They Have Escaped

1h 41' Coca-Cola Plaza

A boy and girl meet at a custody centre for problematic youth. The boy has come to serve his obligatory civil service. The girl is one of the youths in custody, and she is constantly in trouble, a fire inside her, a lust for life that can’t be quashed or controlled. The boy becomes infatuated with her. He is a quiet one – a stutterer. But there is a fire inside him as well. Rules, laws, punishment – the shackles of a hostile, uncompromising environment around them – can be broken. They...

2014, Finland, 1h 41'

21:00 152202 - Cold in July

1h 49' Sõprus

One balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard’s family is woken up by noises coming from the living room. With shaking hands, the man loads his gun. In a torch’s blinding light he puts a bullet in the burglar’s brain. He’s hailed as a small-town hero. But his feelings change when the dead burglar’s father, ex-con Ben, shows up. Now Richard really fears for his family’s safety. A journey begins that takes Richard into realms where he’s never been: violence and corruption. Twists and turns lead up...

2014, USA, France, 1h 49'

21:00 151802 - Citizen

1h 44' Coca-Cola Plaza

“The Citizen” tells the story of a man born and brought up in Communist Poland and documents how the social conditions and ideologies of the time impacted his life. The main character tries to participate in the changing social conditions and consequently becomes entangled in a plot of absurd circumstances and unpredictable events – not helped by his own clumsiness.

2014, Poland, 1h 44'

21:15 151402 - Today

1h 27' Coca-Cola Plaza

Youness, an ageing taxi driver, takes a young woman to hospital at the end of his working day, not knowing what awaits him there. “I wanted to make a film about people who help others without knowing them and whose anonymity remains once help has been rendered; an anonymity which also exists for the cinema audience. Such a dimension is built on a minimum of dialogue, as speech is often a source of misunderstanding. Saint-Exupéry feared war, but for me it’s my society’s moral crisis I...

2014, Iran, 1h 27'

21:15 151103 - Foxcatcher

2h 10' Solaris Kino

The strikingly dark and tragic story of the unlikely relationship between a repressed and deeply eccentric millionaire and two champion wrestlers, Bennett Miller’s impressively sustained “Foxcatcher” is a wonderfully taut and thoughtfully unnerving drama likely to attract awards attention thanks to three very different lead performances that dovetail perfectly. While much attention will be heaped on Steve Carell’s prosthetic nose and his moody performance as troubled millionaire John...

2014, USA, 2h 10'

21:30 151904 - Goodnight Mommy

1h 39' Artis

Lukas and Elias (played by brothers Lukas and Elias Schwarz) are in the midst of a vigorous game of tag. The homemade animal mask worn by one of the boys sets up the disturbing recurring motif of hidden faces, especially as the mother (Susanne Wuest), is revealed, recovering from recent cosmetic surgery. With her face puffy and grotesque under a swath of bandages, the mother requires absolute peace and quiet in order to recuperate, yet the boys stuck in the big house in the middle of...

2014, Austria, 1h 39'

22:00 151304 - Blood Cells

1h 32' Solaris Kino

The fiction feature debut of directors Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull is a stark and often bleak story of a man trying to find his way back from a life lived in solitude. After the Foot and Mouth epidemic that swept Britain in 2001 devastates his family’s farm, Adam is living a transient life. Moving from town to town, picking up casual work and seeking comfort in drink, Adam is content to drift. But when his younger brother contacts him Adam decides to make the journey home. As he heads...

2014, UK, Italy, 1h 32'

22:00 152003 - These Are The Rules

1h 18' Artis

Ivo is a bus driver. His wife Maja stays at home. They live an ordinary life in a suburb of Zagreb. One night their teenage son Tomica is beaten up by boys his age. He ends up in hospital and has to undergo surgery. The parents are on their own because the police doesen’t want to help. The next few days make the parents realize that their world of false security has collapsed. They decide to re-examine their lives and question everything they always believed in.

2014, Croatia, France, Serbia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), 1h 18'

22:15 151204 - Güeros

1h 48' Solaris Kino

It is 1999 in Mexico City. Sombra and Santos live in a strange limbo since the UNAM strike broke out. Strikers against the strike stick at home: no school, no money, just devising strange ways for killing time. In the other side of the country, a water bomb thrown from a high block explodes in a baby stroller. Result: the out-of-control teenager Tomas is sent to the city, to visit his older brother Sombra. Tomas discovers that his hero, Epigmenio Cruz, a legendary rock singer of the 60’s,...

2014, Mexico, 1h 48'

15:00 161301 - Landscape With Many Moons

1h 17' Solaris Kino

“Landscape with Many Moons” is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory decorations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as a result, actual...

2014, Estonia, 1h 17'

16:00 161201 - The Spectacular Now

1h 35' Solaris Kino

Based on the beloved book by Tim Tharp, THE SPECTACULAR NOW is the story of Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) – high school senior, effortless charmer, and self-proclaiemd “life of the party” – and of how he unexpectedly falls in love with the “nice girl” Aimee Fineky (Shailene Woodley). While Aimee dreams of the future, Sutter lives in the now. And yet somehow, they’re drawn together. What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and...

2013, USA, 1h 35'

16:00 161601 - Rhubarb

1h 10' Coca-Cola Plaza

Winnie and Siem (12) meet when their parents, Rik and Tosca, fall in love at the playground of their school. They quickly form a ‘patchwork family’. Siem is pretty used to this already as his father, Rik, has been through two marriages already. Siem and Winnie get on really well together and are looking forward to the upcoming wedding between their parents. But when irritations and bickering start to take over between Rik and Tosca, the kids' faith in a new happy family takes its first...

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

16:30 161701 - Night Has Settled

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Oliver Nicholas, thirteen years old, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City. However he becomes traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper whom he considers his true mother. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage becomes complicated by intense emotions of loss, fear and guilt.

2014, USA, 1h 30'

16:30 161501 - Brides

1h 34' Coca-Cola Plaza

Seamstress Nutsa marries Goga, the father of her children. The ceremony is brief – both of them just give their signature and then she has to leave. Goga is in prison, where he will remain for another six years. By marrying him, Nutsa gains the right to talk to Goga once a month on the other side of the glass. Her children don’t want to accompany her on her next visit: their father has become a stranger to them. One day at work, Nutsa meets another man. They have a conversation and later...

2014, France, Georgia, 1h 34'

16:45 161901 - Next Goal Wins

1h 37' Artis

When American Samoan national soccer team suffered the world’s worst defeat, losing to Australia 31-0, these tiny islands crash-landed into last place in the FIFA world rankings, and became known as “the worst team in the world.” Despite having not won an official match for more than a decade, the team is held together by their pure love of soccer, deep faith, and American Samoan pride. “Next Goal Wins” delivers an intimate view of their miraculous efforts as they train for the next World...

2014, UK, 1h 37'

17:00 161101 - X+Y

1h 51' Solaris Kino

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

2014, UK, 1h 51'

17:00 161401 - Itsi Bitsi

1h 47' Coca-Cola Plaza

Based on actual events, the story begins in 1962, when Eik Skaløe meets the young peace activist Iben and falls head over heels in love. As Iben refuses to commit herself to one man only, Eik desperately tries to win her over. Unfolding over the next years in Denmark, France, Spain, North Africa, Greece and Iraq, the film follows the young poet, writer and singer as he finally recognizes his defeat and in 1968 travels to the land of dreams, Nepal – a journey from which he would never...

2014, Denmark, 1h 47'

17:00 161801 - The Wonders

1h 50' Coca-Cola Plaza

A rich, strange mix of coming-of-age film and troubled modern pastoral and delving partly into the director’s own family background, “The Wonders” captures something profound about the passage to adulthood. Anchored by a fine cast, dominated by the compellingly natural performance of first-time Romanian-Italian actress Alexandra Lungu in the central role, this resonant film will place Rohrwacher firmly in the canon of Italian directors to watch. A complex and strange mix of...

2014, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, 1h 50'

17:00 162201 - Red Rose

1h 27' Sõprus

Tehran, June 2009. The opposition has accused the government of falsifying the presidential election results. People take to the streets in protest. According to unofficial data, over 100 people are killed during several days of clashes with security services. A flat in the capital city becomes a refuge for a man and a woman who want to inform the world about these events. Locked within four walls, they only have a mobile phone, a computer and each other for company. With time, love will...

2014, France, Greece, Iran, 1h 27'

17:00 161302 - Ne me quitte pas

1h 47' Solaris Kino

“Ne Me Quitte Pas” is a tragicomic ode to failure. Set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude, sense of humor and carving for alcohol. They have agreed that suicide is the best way out if worse comes to worst. In that case, they have chosen the perfect spot to do so: under Bob’s tree of life. Bob is a retired cowboy who loves his freedom and forest, while Marcel is trying to hold on to the family he is about to...

2013, Netherlands, Belgium, 1h 47'

17:00 162001 - Best of International Student Animation 1

1h 22' Artis

International Student Animation programme collects the best examples of the world’s best animation schools. Student film in the animation context does not mean amateur cinema, but often is more brave and innovative than some works from an established studio. Due to its youthfulness and sincere dedication for animation, the programme is definitely one of the most diverse when it comes to choice of animations. It covers modern animation trends and dissects important topics for the younger...

tranlation, 1h 22'

17:30 161602 - Starred Up

1h 46' Coca-Cola Plaza

Scottish director David Mackenzie has made a career of creating complex and slightly surreal films with the likes of “Young Adam”, “Hallam Foe” and (his Hollywood debut) “Spread” all under his belt. But his latest film is perhaps his most uncompromising and grittily realistic work to date. Eric is a young offender moved to an adult jail (which is known as being ‘Starred Up’). His violent nature brings him into conflict with both the prison authorities and the various factions of...

2013, UK, 1h 46'

18:00 161202 - Hellion

1h 34' Solaris Kino

Hard-drinking Texas single dad Hollis (Aaron Paul) struggles to raise his two boys, including rebellious teenager Jacob (Josh Wiggins). Seething with anger, Jacob finds release in the high-risk, white-knuckle world of motocross—but his increasingly reckless behavior threatens to spin out of control.

2014, USA, 1h 34'

18:30 161702 - On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter

sold out 1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

When On Any Sunday premiered in 1971, it wasn’t just any movie. Directed by Bruce Brown – who also helmed surfing classic The Endless Summer – this insider look at motorcycle racing reached a wide audience that was fascinated by the heartfelt stories of real-life riders, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Four decades later, On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter shows that the passion for riding motorcycles is as strong as ever.Bruce’s son, acclaimed filmmaker Dana...

2014, USA, 1h 30'

19:00 161502 - Field of Dogs

1h 36' Coca-Cola Plaza

Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. These are the visions of Adam, a poet who had lost his beloved in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane being torn apart in mysterious circumstances along with the nations elite. Adam gives up his job as professor of...

2014, Poland, 1h 36'

19:00 161902 - Bornholmer Street

2h 0' Artis

9 November 1989. Günther Schabowski announces that from this day forward all citizens of the German Democratic Republic are allowed to leave the country as they wish. Harald Schäfer, the commanding officer at the border checkpoint in Bornholm Street learns the news while sitting in the canteen at work. This sounds strange to him; after all, he is devoted to his country. Soon, masses of Eastern Berliners line up at the Bornholm Street checkpoint and hours of drama begin. Harald and his...

2014, Germany, 2h 0'

19:00 162202 - Opening Ceremony with Estonian premieres

1h 30' Sõprus

PõhjatähtNorthern Starfish / 14’13REŽ/DIR: Mattias MälkPROD: Eesti Joonisfilm          A fantasy thriller about a female spy and a diver who knows the secrets of starfish.   Tik-TakTick-Tack / 9’REŽ/DIR: Ülo PikkovPROD: Nukufilm                     "Tick-Tack" visualizes the time and its fatal substance. We all have "our time", but it contains thousands of different "times" - so even every cell in our body has...

tranlation, 1h 30'

19:15 161102 - The Inbetweeners 2

1h 36' Solaris Kino

Will, Jay, Neil and Simon head Down Under in this raunchy sequel to the record-breaking comedy. Last time we met the Rudge Park posse, they were causing chaos in Malia, Crete. Nearly a year on, Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Simon (Joe Thomas) have gone their separate ways. Jay is staying with his uncle in Australia. Neil has actually managed to get a job. And Simon and Will are at different universities, but life isn't panning out as they'd hoped. So...

2014, UK, 1h 36'

19:15 161802 - Angels of Revolution

1h 53' Coca-Cola Plaza

Year 1934. Something is rotten in the North of USSR: shamans (native priests) of two indigenous populations, Khanty and Nenets, do not wish to accept new ideas. To reconcile two great cultures, the Russian Avant-garde and the Ancient Paganism, six metropolitan artists leave for the primeval forests around the great Siberian river Ob: a composer, a sculptor, a theater director, a Constructivist architect, a Primitive film director and the chief of the unit – the famous “Polina the...

2014, Russia, 1h 53'

19:15 161303 - Salvation Army

1h 24' Solaris Kino

Young Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia has directed his first feature film, a version of his autobiographical novel “Salvation Army,” into the same titled picture that premiered in Venice this year, telling a story of young Arab gay-man lost in the relationships of family, his own desires and the sexual power play of money. Abdellah (Said Mrini) 15, lives with his parents, two brothers and five sisters in Casablanca. His father has one bedroom, his older brother another and rest is shared...

2013, France, Morocco, Switzerland, 1h 24'

19:15 162002 - Disco and Atomic War

1h 20' Artis

“Disco and Atomic War” tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. And looses. Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children’s world-views in those days - in ways that now seem slightly odd. Finnish television was a window to a world of dreams that the authorities could not block in any way. Though Finnish channels were banned, many households found some way to access...

2009, Estonia, 1h 20'

19:30 161603 - When Animals Dream

1h 24' Coca-Cola Plaza

Jonas Alexander Arnby’s debut feature “When Animals Dream” that has its world premiere in Cannes, is a portrayal of a small, grim seaside town in Denmark, where one teenage girl discovers, that she has more problems than a regular teenage girl might. Sonia Suhl, a new but great face on the screen, plays Marie, a teenage girl who lives together steadily in a tiny fishing village with his overprotective father (Lars Mikkelsen, the handsome brother of the handsome Mads Mikkelsen) and...

2014, Denmark, 1h 24'

19:30 161402 - Mirage

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Fleeing from the police after fixing a match, Francis (Isaach De Bankolé), an African football player, seeks refuge in a ranch run by a local crime boss in the middle of the vast Hungarian plains known as the “Puszta”. He soon realizes that the workers on the ranch are little more than slaves. His presence on the ranch begins a chain of events that culminates in violent rebellion by the workers against their criminal overlords. A reluctant hero, Francis finds himself playing in the most...

2014, Hungary, Slovakia, 1h 30'

20:00 161203 - Nobody Owns Me

1h 35' Solaris Kino

After her parents' sudden divorce, Lisa lives with her alcoholic father. Their relationship grows stronger and they share a conviction: all people are of equal value. As Lisa grows older she is torn between shame and loyalty. One day she is forced to choose - leave her father or go under herself. Nobody Owns Me is a deeply touching declaration of unconditional lova. And a promise to pick up the fight for what is right

2013, Sweden, 1h 35'

20:30 161703 - The President

1h 59' Coca-Cola Plaza

A film inspired by the Arab Spring events of December 2010 that caused several dictatorships to collapse. In an imaginary country in the Caucasus, a coup d’état is under way. The nation’s leader, the President, is very lucky: he manages to flee the palace. He is now on the run with his five-year-old grandson. He has to keep hidden because a high reward has been promised for his head. Disguised as a street musician, he traverses the country, staying with people he meets on the way. Every...

2014, Georgia, France, UK, Germany, 1h 59'

21:00 162203 - Charlie's Country

1h 48' Sõprus

For the established director, Rolf de Heer, collaboration with the legendary Aboriginal actor and writer David Gulpill, is a long term friendship and “Charlie’s Country” is Rolf’s 14th feature film. Going for his daily doings, Charlie shouts to the policeman Luke in a small Aboriginal Territory “You white bastard”, who simply replies “You black bastard” and we giggle to ourselves, following the wonderful and mischievous Charlie. Yet, the more we see him walking around and talking to the...

2014, Australia, 1h 48'

21:15 162003 - Life Itself

1h 55' Artis

Veteran documentary maker Steve James turns his attention to beloved film critic Roger Ebert who succumbed to cancer in 2013. Yet this more than an examination of a life lived. It also reflects on the nature of death and how those left behind are left to cope. Cineastes will certainly enjoy the overview of Ebert’s career as it explores his beginnings in writing to championing a myriad of movies including works by the likes of Martin Scorsese. Scorsese speaks glowingly of Ebert and...

2014, USA, 1h 55'

21:15 161304 - Cure: The Life of Another

1h 23' Solaris Kino

1993: after the Siege of Dubrovnik. 14-year-old Linda has moved back to Croatia from Switzerland with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her up to the forbidden forest above the city. The two girls become entangled in an obsessive, sexually charged game of swapping identities that leads to a fatal fall. The following morning Linda comes back alone; slowly she begins to take Eta’s place in cher family. Ivo, Eta’s boyfriend, is drawn in as well. In troubled times dominated by women...

2014, Switzerland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1h 23'

21:30 161604 - Mr Turner

sold out 2h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

In his portrait of the visionary British painter Turner, Mike Leigh offers a film as successful in its tiny details as it is in its epic amplitude: Mr. Turner works at once as a warts-and-all portrait of the painter and his circle, and as a large-scale evocation of Victorian England. Built around Timothy Spall’s superb lead, “Mr. Turner” is hugely entertaining, deeply moving and will be especially tickling for anyone with a taste for sometimes grandiloquent, sometimes juicily profane...

2014, UK, 2h 30'

21:30 161103 - Hector and the Search for Happiness

sold out 1h 54' Solaris Kino

Based on François Lelord’s phenomenally successful novel, “Hector and The Search for Happiness” sees actor Simon Pegg go beyond the comedy and genre roles for which he has become famous. Hector is living the contented and successful life of a London professional with a prospering career and caring girlfriend (Rosamund Pike). But he still feels that there is something missing and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey of self-discovery. Travelling across the world he meets a...

2014, UK, Germany, Canada, South Africa, 1h 54'

21:30 161903 - 10 000 km

sold out 1h 39' Artis

Alexandra and Sergi are a couple from Barcelona who are thinking about having a baby when she receives a professional offer to work in Los Angeles for a year. Trusting in the strength of their relationship, they decide to postpone their plans and take up the challenge. The combination of both original and international titles (10.000 KM // LONG DISTANCE) depicts perfectly the deep intentions of the film: the updating of romantic film stories with nowadays elements, in not forced,...

2014, Spain, 1h 39'

21:45 161803 - The Tribe

2h 10' Coca-Cola Plaza

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s ambitious debut Ukrainian film is a strange and oddly immersive film that makes it audience really work but in the end delivers something rare and original. As the opening intertitles simply states “The film is on sign language of deaf-and-dumb. There is no translation, no subtitles, no voice over on purpose”. The grammar may be wrong, but the content is correct – the film is made up entirely of deaf sign-language users, and with no spoken language, music or...

2014, Ukraine, Netherlands, 2h 10'

22:00 161204 - Warsaw 44

sold out 1h 55' Solaris Kino

Summer 1944. Warsaw, Poland, is occupied by the Nazis. After the death of his father, Stefan works at a chocolate factory to support his mother and brother. Humiliated by the Nazis every day, Stefan wants to join the anti-Nazi resistance but he can’t because he promised her mother not to engage in any military activity. At last, he plans a revolt with his friends, while also falling in love with a girl. “Warsaw 44” is based on an actual revolt that happened on August 1, 1944 in...

2014, Poland, 1h 55'

22:00 161403 - Over Your Dead Body

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

A theatre troupe rehearsing a classic play of murder, betrayal and phantasmagorical vengeance find life bloodily imitating art backstage, in this wild cinematic detour from madly prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike. “Originally produced in 1825 as a kabuki play, “Yotsuya Kaidan” has been adapted to film over thirty times since, but it has never been seen like this. Miike, who is also a veteran theatre director, mounts the action on a number of dazzlingly elaborate sets that sail...

2014, Japan, 1h 30'

15:00 171301 - Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady

1h 23' Solaris Kino

In a quiet resort town Haapsalu four kids are spending their summer holidays together. Suddenly they are dragged into events that started in the 15th century in the local bishop’s stronghold. The children must solve a difficult mystery of a clock robbery and they have to find a treasure that has been lost for centuries and contains a formula of making gold...

2013, Estonia, 1h 23'

16:00 171601 - Corrections Class

1h 38' Coca-Cola Plaza

After years spent studying at home, disabled Lena is keen to get back to school. The attitude of the teachers in charge of the special needs class, however, soon fills her with cruel disenchantment. Debut director Ivan Tverdovsky avoids embellishment to unfold an entirely credible drama portraying the unequal struggle of the individual in the face of institutional torpor, human prejudice and a society that tries to trip up people who are different.

2014, Russia, Germany, 1h 38'

16:00 171201 - Belle and Sebastian

sold out 1h 44' Solaris Kino

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian (an adorable Félix Bossuet) is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep. At the same time, the Germans have arrived in the peaceful village looking for resistance members who are helping Jewish refugees escape into Switzerland. Through danger and adventure, Belle and...

2013, France, 1h 44'

16:30 171701 - Jack

1h 43' Coca-Cola Plaza

JACK runs the house. He wakes up his little brother. Makes breakfast. Walks to school. A lot for a ten-year-old boy… His mother SANNA means well for her sons. But she is young. Too young and self-absorbed. When one day she doesn’t come home, JACK and his little brother head out – alone, through the city, without money, without food, in search of their mother. When they finally find SANNA, JACK makes a drastic decision.

2014, Germany, 1h 43'

16:30 171501 - My Man

2h 9' Coca-Cola Plaza

One of the most debated and celebrated Japanese film of the year, “My Man” is character driven psychological drama of forbidden love and the haunting repercussions of obsession driven relationship of two lonely souls. 10 year girl Hana has lost everything in her life to an earthquake – it has taken her home and parents. Wondering aimlessly at the dark halls of the shelter, Hana almost miraculously meets a distant relative sailor Junko, who decides to adopt the girl on the spot whilst...

2014, Japan, 2h 9'

16:45 171302 - Labour of Love

1h 24' Solaris Kino

The spiralling recession that hit India peaked a few years ago. Thousands of people lost their jobs without notice. Faced with financial uncertainty, a married couple living in a disintegrating district of Calcutta is under great pressure. They could lose their jobs at any time. Their lives are filled with an endless cycle of shift work and domestic routine, with long stretches of waiting in the silence of an empty house. These are no conditions for love to blossom. They are forced to...

2014, India, 1h 24'

17:00 171101 - Palo Alto

1h 40' Solaris Kino

Shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts) is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer). Emily (Zoe Levin), meanwhile, offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path — including both Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), a live wire without filters or boundaries. As one high school party bleeds into the next — and April and Teddy struggle to admit their mutual affection —...

2013, USA, 1h 40'

17:00 171401 - In the Crosswind

1h 26' Coca-Cola Plaza

It is 3 AM on June 14, 1941. More than 40,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are deported to Siberia by the authorities of Soviet Russia. Among then is Erna, a 27-year-old student of philosophy, mother of a small daughter and happily married. Her husband is sent to a prison camp, and Erna with her daughter and other women and children are deported to the uninhabited territories of Siberia for 15 years. Despite hunger, diseases and humiliation, Erna won’t lose hope to return to her...

2014, Estonia, 1h 26'

17:00 172201 - Eden

2h 11' Sõprus

Heartbreaking and profound in its beautifully modest way, filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Eden” tackles one of fiction’s oldest themes — the awkward transition from youthful idealism to wised-up, resigned adulthood — and finds rich new terrain to explore. Starting in the early 1990s, Eden is interested in the journey of two young men who are starting up a DJ group in Paris called Cheers, but in reality the film is more invested in Paul (Félix de Givry), the handsome, unsettled member of...

2014, France, 2h 11'

17:00 171801 - Song of My Mother

1h 43' Coca-Cola Plaza

Young teacher Ali lives with his aging mother Nigar in Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı district, home to many Kurdish refugees since the 1990s. When the ongoing gentrification of the old city forces them to move for a second time, they end up in the soulless concrete desert of the city’s furthest outskirts. Nigar is convinced that her old neighbours have all moved back to their Kurdish village. Every morning she packs her belongings and sets out to return to her village. She roams the city, in search...

2014, France, Turkey, Germany, 1h 43'

17:00 172001 - Slovak animation

1h 19' Artis

Selection of animated films from the 60s, 70s and 80s is a taste of what Slovak animation was from its institutional beginnings until the fall of socialist regime. Although Viktor Kubal was already making his films, 1965 is the year of Animated Film Group constitution and the beginnings of professional Slovak animation filmmaking. 70s and 80s are marked with big changes in cultural landscape due to normalization, strict censorship and ideological demands. Animators started to focus on films...

tranlation, 1h 19'

18:00 171602 - The Word

sold out 1h 37' Coca-Cola Plaza

Three weeks ago, LILA’s world fell apart when her girlfriends reported that they saw Lila’s boyfriend, JANEK, kissing another girl during a party. This comes as a shock since Janek only had eyes for her and what they had felt so real. Lila can’t forgive him; she trusted him more than anyone else is her life. Days before the end of the school year, she gives Janek an ultimatum: Janek has 24 hours to prove his true love. Otherwise, he can forget about ever being with Lila again.

2014, Poland, 1h 37'

18:15 171202 - Days of My Youth

1h 5' Solaris Kino

A new film that examines every skier’s lifelong affinity for the sport. Filmed over two years using state of the art techniques and technologies, this movie offers a unique glimpse into the journey of self-discovery that every skier experiences. MSP Films, along with an intimate cast of skiing’s modern day superstars, have looked through the lens in a new way to capture moments that redefine what is possible on skis.

2014, USA, 1h 5'

18:30 171702 - 52 Tuesdays

1h 49' Coca-Cola Plaza

16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week – only on Tuesdays – these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.

2013, Australia, 1h 49'

18:30 171303 - Finnish animation 100: Retrospective

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Finnish animation has long history, but only four outstanding artists are known from the time before World War II. The war halted the development of animation and some of the films were destroyed. Economic rise that followed the war gave rise to the world of advertising and consequently the production of animation begun again with the help of new filmmakers. The development of animation techniques showed fervour towards the new means of expression. When the ’70s arrived, animation had...

tranlation, 1h 30'

18:45 172002 - International Competition 1

sold out 1h 19' Artis

1. Mina ja mu Moulton /Me and My Moulton Kanada, Norra / Canada, Norway 2014, 13’ REŽ/DIR: Torill Kove PROD: Mikrofilm AS, Natinal Film Board OF Canada A seven year old girl and her sisters ask their parents to get them a bicycle. With a bright palette, this film views the creative attitudes of the parents through the eyes of their introspective daughter, telling a charming story of a young girl whose sensitive nature sometimes makes it difficult for her to be honest with the ones she loves...

tranlation, 1h 19'

19:00 171502 - Itsi Bitsi

1h 47' Coca-Cola Plaza

Based on actual events, the story begins in 1962, when Eik Skaløe meets the young peace activist Iben and falls head over heels in love. As Iben refuses to commit herself to one man only, Eik desperately tries to win her over. Unfolding over the next years in Denmark, France, Spain, North Africa, Greece and Iraq, the film follows the young poet, writer and singer as he finally recognizes his defeat and in 1968 travels to the land of dreams, Nepal – a journey from which he would never...

2014, Denmark, 1h 47'

19:00 172901 - Summertime

1h 30' Lennusadama

“Summertime” is a movie about the summer when the sun seems to shine brighter and your best friends stand by your side – maybe the last youthful summer ever. Iiris, 25, who has worked odd jobs abroad for years, returns to her native Finland for the summer because her best friend Karoliina, 25, has found a summer job for them both in Hanko. The girls will work in a cafeteria in a holiday town on the south coast. The idea is to spend one more care-free summer with your soulmate, enjoying...

2014, Finland, 1h 30'

19:00 171901 - Tour de Force

1h 35' Artis

At first, their friends make fun of Hannes and Kiki when they opt for Belgium – the country only famous for chocolate and Jean-Claude van Damme – when it’s their turn to choose the destination for the annual cycling trip. But when Hannes discloses the real motive behind the trip, shock follows. He is terminally ill and has decided to die in Belgium. This is the start of the new work by director and writer Christian Zübert, whose last film, the emotional “Three Quarter Moon”, was very...

2014, Germany, 1h 35'

19:15 171102 - Premature

1h 33' Solaris Kino

Rob is facing the biggest day of his life. He needs to nail a college interview ensuring his admittance to his parents’ beloved alma mater, keep his cool when life-long crush Angela (nicknamed "Afterschool Special" for a reason) finally seems to show interest, and deal with his best friends as they realize their high school days are ending. As pressure mounts, something weird happens. He finds himself reliving the day's events over and over again. Is Rob stuck in a dream? Experiencing déjà...

2014, USA, 1h 33'

19:15 171802 - Mirage

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Fleeing from the police after fixing a match, Francis (Isaach De Bankolé), an African football player, seeks refuge in a ranch run by a local crime boss in the middle of the vast Hungarian plains known as the “Puszta”. He soon realizes that the workers on the ranch are little more than slaves. His presence on the ranch begins a chain of events that culminates in violent rebellion by the workers against their criminal overlords. A reluctant hero, Francis finds himself playing in the most...

2014, Hungary, Slovakia, 1h 30'

19:15 171402 - Valley

1h 25' Coca-Cola Plaza

This is the story of three sensitive teenagers who are forced to deal with violence: violence at home, at school. A story of friendship, love and hate, where the adolescents’ world is revealed as cruel and beautiful; a world where the desire to die or kill and the will to live will define their fate.

2014, Israel, 1h 25'

19:45 171203 - Four Corners

1h 54' Solaris Kino

Four lives will change forever as the destinies of a reformed prison ‘general,’ a local cop, a charismatic gang leader and a surgeon back from London intersect with a young boy’s coming of age in in a tale of family lost and family regained in the unknown world of South Africa’s Cape Flats.

2013, South Africa, 1h 54'

20:00 The Trip to Italy

1h 48' Lennusadama

After they visited the rolling hills, beautiful countryside and exquisite restaurants of Yorkshire in “The Trip”, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their unlikely partnership in Michael Winterbottom’s follow-up “The Trip to Italy”. As the title suggest, the duo now find themselves in Italy and are ostensibly there to visit five restaurants and write a piece for a national newspaper. This is a very playful film on many levels. On one hand it gives scope for Coogan and Brydon’s...

2014, UK, 1h 48'

20:00 172202 - Advanced Style

sold out 1h 12' Sõprus

“Inspirational, touching and absolutely fabulous!”, “Incredibly warm and life-affirming” and “Charming” are only a few of the praising reactions of critics speaking of “Advanced Style”, a documentary made in 2014. It is based on Ari Seth Cohen’s blog of the same name, which shows photos of street fashion, focusing on stylish women aged over 60. His fascinating photo collection was first published as a book and now revived as a documentary. This film features seven truly unique women...

2014, USA, 1h 12'

20:15 171603 - Black Souls

1h 43' Coca-Cola Plaza

Francesco Munzi has made a name for himself in Italy as a director to watch in Italy since the release of his debut, “Saimir” (2004). This tough, dark Calabrian Mafia tale confirms his promise thanks to some fine performances by an under-the-radar cast and the director’s sure control of tone and pace. We see a major drug deal go down in a Dutch port city, and follow the Italian brokers as they drive back to their powerbase of Milan – with street-smart Luigi (Leonardi) persuading his...

2014, Italy, 1h 43'

20:30 171304 - Corn Island

1h 40' Solaris Kino

The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny island: small clusters of no man’s land. The islands are havens for wildlife but occasionally also for man. “Told almost without dialogue, the film relies on the faces of Ilyas Salman and Mariam...

2014, Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Hungary, 1h 40'

20:45 171703 - Life in a Fishbowl

sold out 2h 10' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Life in a Fishbowl” is about three people whose lives are intertwined: After a horrible tragedy a writer drinks himself into oblivion on a twenty-year binge. A young single mom moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. Former soccer star is recruited into the snake pit of international banking and loses touch with his family. ““Life in a Fishbowl” is a simple story about three people who must face decisive changes to find some sort of redemption. On closer inspection, the stories...

2014, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, 2h 10'

20:45 172003 - International Competition 2

1h 26' Artis

1. Kükloop/ Cyclope Prantsusmaa/France 2013, 12’ REŽ/DIR: Marine Duchet PROD: Octopus Collective A door opens into a world haunted by flying fish, buried chimaeras and deep fancies. 2. Karrotoop/ Carrotrope Portugal/ Portugal 2013, 8’ REŽ/DIR: Paulo D’Alva PROD: Bando à Parte Carrotrope is a new optical toy. It represents the cyclic movements of life.  3. Kivi pesa/ Nest of stone Suurbritannia/ UK 2013, 7’ REŽ/DIR: Kim Noce PROD: Mewlab A collection of memories set in stone 4. Isehakanu/...

tranlation, 1h 26'

21:00 171902 - Is the Man who is tall happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky

1h 29' Artis

“Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?” is essentially a dialogue between the eccentric French filmmaker Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “The Science of Sleep”, “Mood Indigo”) and the American linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky’s impact on contemporary linguistics is tremendous, particularly with regard to his work in generative grammar and his study of the common structural underpinnings shared by all languages. Chomsky’s language theories...

2013, France, 1h 29'

21:30 171403 - Calvary

1h 40' Coca-Cola Plaza

Irish director John Michael McDonagh previous film “The Guard” was a clever and darkly humorous film that contained a justifiably lauded central performance from Brendan Gleeson. In “Calvary”, McDonagh works with Gleeson again with the actor giving another excellent performance. But while there are still elements of the humour prevalent in “The Guard”, “Cavalry” is a much more introspective and existential examination of life. We begin the film with Father James (Gleeson) taking...

2014, Ireland, UK, 1h 40'

21:30 171103 - Wild Tales

sold out 2h 2' Solaris Kino

Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world where we live is the reason why many people suffer from stress or depression. Some explode. This is a film about them. The heroes of “Wild Takes”, vulnerable to an abruptly changing and therefore unpredictable reality, give in to the undeniable pleasure of losing control. Behind this enigmatic synopsis hides one of the craziest and most politically incorrect comedies that you have ever seen. The film is organized in five different...

2014, Argentina, Spain, 2h 2'

21:45 171803 - The Smell of Us

1h 32' Coca-Cola Plaza

In Paris, the same crew of skate kids meet up every day at The Dome – behind the Museum of Modern Art, opposite the Eiffel Tower – to skateboard, goof off and get stoned as they ignore the smart crowd of art lovers. They are inseparable, bound by complicated family ties. Boredom, the lure of easy money and the anonymity of the Internet all have a role in tearing their world apart. “I’ve wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film “Kids” in 1995. I...

2014, France, Belgium, 1h 32'

22:00 172203 - Cold in July

1h 49' Sõprus

One balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard’s family is woken up by noises coming from the living room. With shaking hands, the man loads his gun. In a torch’s blinding light he puts a bullet in the burglar’s brain. He’s hailed as a small-town hero. But his feelings change when the dead burglar’s father, ex-con Ben, shows up. Now Richard really fears for his family’s safety. A journey begins that takes Richard into realms where he’s never been: violence and corruption. Twists and turns lead up...

2014, USA, France, 1h 49'

22:00 171204 - Wild

1h 55' Solaris Kino

Aspiring to achieve both self-discovery and catharsis, Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) sets out to hike 1,800 kilometres of the imposing Pacific Crest Trail. This gruelling three-month quest not only pushes her to her physical limits but also forces her to confront the demons that plague her. Vallée and Hornby preserve the unflinching candour and biting humour of Strayed’s book while delivering bold, cinematic storytelling that demands to be experienced on the big screen. “A ruggedly...

2014, USA, 1h 55'

22:30 171305 - A Hard Day

sold out 1h 51' Solaris Kino

Late for his mother’s funeral police inspector Ko recklessly sticks to the phone whilst speeding on a dark highway and seemingly meets his luck by narrowly escaping a crash with a pooch that suddenly appears on the road. But luck is short, and the next second Ko runs of a gang member that equally suddenly pops up from the darkness. Panicked from the accident and prospects of losing his lucrative career Ko decides to hide the body in the trunk, and dispose it in the hopes of seemingly...

2014, South Korea, 1h 51'

22:30 172004 - Midnight screening: Desire and sexuality

0h 55' Artis

Endemic’s Greed Poland 2014, 11’ DIR: Natalia Dziedzic At the seaside beach fates of a balding sailor, a young girl and two modest creatures – the bee and the crab are tangling.   No Man’s Bush Belgium 2014, 2’ DIR: Jelle van Meerendonk An erotic adventure about a guy trying to find the perfect lady.   Condom Australia 2013, 3’ DIR: Igor Coric, Sheldon Lieberman PROD: Bigfish When six-year-old Spike finds a used condom, Dadda attempts to...

tranlation, 0h 55'

16:00 181601 - Finn

sold out 1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Still mourning the death of his mother, gentle nine-year-old Finn also has to struggle with his father's insistence that he be like all the other boys and play soccer, despite the fact that he has no interest in the sport. When Finn meets a mysterious old man at an abandoned farm and hears him play the violin, he is entranced by the beauty of the music. He is determined to learn how to play the instrument, and sneaks away for lessons while his father believes he's at soccer practice....

2013, Netherlands, 1h 30'

16:00 181201 - Speed Walking

1h 48' Solaris Kino

In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It’s 1976, music’s in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin’s mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin’s life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. An intense, humorous and evocative story about...

2014, Denmark, 1h 48'

16:30 181701 - #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator

sold out 1h 14' Coca-Cola Plaza

From her childhood bedroom in suburban Chicago, Ala’a, a 19-year-old American girl, coordinates the revolution in Syria. Through Facebook, Twitter and Skype, she coordinates protests for Aous, a dental student in Damascus, Bassel, a film student from Syracuse who returned home to Syria after the revolution began, and a score of citizen journalists in Homs. It’s Revolution 2.0. Tunisia fell in 28 days when a cell phone video went viral. Egypt fell in 18 days in a revolution sparked by a...

2013, Netherlands, 1h 14'

17:00 181101 - X+Y

1h 51' Solaris Kino

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

2014, UK, 1h 51'

17:00 181901 - Amnesia

1h 14' Artis

Nini Bull Robsahm debut film “Amnesia” main characters takes a look at a seemingly happy couple Katherine Odegaard and Thomas Winther, who decide to go for a weekend getaway on secluded Norwegian island. A weekend that should have included good food and wine, lots of laughter and Katherine finishing her book, turns quickly into a bad dream. Katherine discovers she needs to find self-confidence in herself and not always depend on her boyfriend. Thomas on the other hand discovers that he and...

2014, Norway, 1h 14'

17:00 182201 - Christian Dior: The Man Behind the Myth

0h 52' Sõprus

Christian Dior has been rightfully called one of the most influential designers of our time. Though his time in charge of his own fashion house was limited, Dior managed to create cuts and silhouettes that are in fashion and demand also today. Thanks to this man, Paris became the fashion capital after the Second World War, and Dior’s New Look is now part of every fashion bible. Christian Dior was a modest and conservative man, who, unlike many other fashion designers, did not seek for...

2005, France, 0h 52'

17:00 182001 - International Competition 3

sold out 1h 17' Artis

1. Kolmas silm / The Third Eye Le Troisième Oeil Prantsusmaa / France 2014,16’ REŽ/DIR: Jerome Perrillat-Collomb PROD: Les Trois Ours Theo secretly piles up objects in a letterbox of an uninhabited house. These are offerings that are just a part of his other rituals, in which he always avoids odd numbers, and in particular number 3. He follows the advice of enigmatic Abra in order to prevent misfortune from hitting him and his family. But misfortune soon strikes at his classroom’s window......

tranlation, 1h 17'

17:15 181801 - The Wanted 18

1h 15' Coca-Cola Plaza

Soon after the dawn of the 1987 Palestinian uprising, residents of the town of Beit Sahour secretly bought 18 cows from an Israeli kibbutz. It was an act of resistance – allowing them to produce their own milk for their children. Blending interviews, archival footage and whimsical animation, “The Wanted 18” tells the unlikely story of how these cows became an inspiring symbol of resistance, sparking a self-sufficiency movement, and remaining hidden even as hundreds of Israeli soldiers...

2014, Canada, Palestine, France, 1h 15'

17:15 181401 - Moomins on the Riviera

1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

A hand-drawn animation feature celebrating writer and artist Tove Jansson’s wildly popular comic strips from the 50s and the universal appeal of the beloved Finnish creatures known as the Moomins. In the newest Moomin film, the family embarks on a search of adventures, and set sail for the Riviera, where, after a journey fraught with menacing storms and desert island dangers, the Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of a playboy Clark and Moomin learns that jealousy’s sting is the most...

2014, Finland, 1h 20'

17:30 181501 - Field of Dogs

1h 36' Coca-Cola Plaza

Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. These are the visions of Adam, a poet who had lost his beloved in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane being torn apart in mysterious circumstances along with the nations elite. Adam gives up his job as professor of...

2014, Poland, 1h 36'

18:00 181602 - Violet

1h 25' Coca-Cola Plaza

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends from the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it. The looks of his close ones and his inability to answer their questions gradually isolate Jesse and the growing grief prevents him from finding comfort.

2014, Belgium, Netherlands, 1h 25'

18:00 181301 - Viktoria

2h 35' Solaris Kino

At the end of 70’s, in Bulgaria and Boryana, a woman is fed up with the regime that reigns in her homeland, she dreams of Italy. An unexpected surprise arrives to burst her bubble: she becomes a mother, giving birth to Viktoria. Her daughter is born without umbilical cord and no belly button. Viktoria is suddenly proclaimed “The baby of the future” and becomes a symbol for communist Bulgaria. Viktoria is a star of the regime with a direct line to the Communist party leader. She is...

2014, Bulgaria, Romania, 2h 35'

18:15 181202 - Galore

1h 43' Solaris Kino

At 17, love is as big as life is immense. It’s a sweltering summer before the final year of school and Billie and Laura share every secret except for Billie’s biggest secret – she’s crazy in love and sleeping with Laura’s boyfriend Danny. When Billie’s social worker mum takes in Isaac, a troubled teenager looking to get his life straight, the delicate balance of the three friends’ lives is disrupted. As bushfires threaten the edge of their suburbs and they immerse themselves in the swirl...

2013, Australia, 1h 43'

18:30 181702 - Songs for Alexis

sold out 1h 15' Coca-Cola Plaza

Songs for Alexis is a classic coming of age love story about two passionate teenagers stuck in American suburbia. 18-year-old Ryan is a talented musician and transgender, and began his transition from girl to boy 4 years earlier. He is wildly in love with the beautiful and enigmatic 16-year-old Alexis, but her parents' disapproval of Ryan forces her to choose between her family and an unsafe future with the man she loves.

2014, USA, Denmark, 1h 15'

18:30 182202 - Dior and I

sold out 1h 30' Sõprus

When fashion designer John Galliano was sacked from the House of Dior after a big scandal, Ralf Simons from Belgium became his successor. When Simons started, he had only limited time to create a new collection. While designing his first, and hopefully triumphant, collection, he had to get to know the fashion house, its staff and traditions, and also allowed a film crew to watch and shoot him. The outcome was a film that is a real treat for all fashionistas. We have the chance to see...

2014, France, 1h 30'

19:00 182901 - The Trip to Italy

1h 48' Lennusadama

After they visited the rolling hills, beautiful countryside and exquisite restaurants of Yorkshire in “The Trip”, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their unlikely partnership in Michael Winterbottom’s follow-up “The Trip to Italy”. As the title suggest, the duo now find themselves in Italy and are ostensibly there to visit five restaurants and write a piece for a national newspaper. This is a very playful film on many levels. On one hand it gives scope for Coogan and Brydon’s...

2014, UK, 1h 48'

19:00 181802 - Hector and the Search for Happiness

1h 54' Coca-Cola Plaza

Based on François Lelord’s phenomenally successful novel, “Hector and The Search for Happiness” sees actor Simon Pegg go beyond the comedy and genre roles for which he has become famous. Hector is living the contented and successful life of a London professional with a prospering career and caring girlfriend (Rosamund Pike). But he still feels that there is something missing and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey of self-discovery. Travelling across the world he meets a...

2014, UK, Germany, Canada, South Africa, 1h 54'

19:00 181902 - Stereo

1h 35' Artis

Erik is happy with his life. Away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, he rides his motorbike between idyllic fields, speeding towards dinner with his girlfriend and her daughter. In an atmosphere of friendly chaffing, you really feel his sense of being happy with his life and his wish to make his home there. In order to achieve this, Erik tries to win over his girlfriend Julia’s sceptical father. This carefree life is brought to an end with the sudden appearance of a strange man,...

2014, Germany, 1h 35'

19:00 181402 - Yvone Kane

1h 57' Coca-Cola Plaza

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to her childhood’s African country to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the atmospheric longing of a lost paradise. Rita discovers a country where progress is build above the ruins of a violent past, while meets her mother (Sara), still living in the old familiar house. In a singular parallel/opposite research both women are looking for...

2014, Portugal, Mozambique, Brazil, 1h 57'

19:00 182002 - International Competition 4

sold out 1h 27' Artis

1. Jõehobud/ Hippos Hipopotamy Poola / Poland 2014, 12’ REŽ/DIR: Piotr Dumala PROD: FUMI Studio A story about a terrifying encounter between men, women and children. 2. Nälg/ Hunger Glad Horvaatia / Croatia 2014, 6’REŽ/DIR: Petra Zlonoga PROD: Bonobostudio Everything that is alive is hungry; seed is hungry for light, bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us. 3. Sinu südamesse/ To Thy Heart Do serca Twego REŽ/DIR: Ewa...

tranlation, 1h 27'

19:30 181102 - What We Do in the Shadows

1h 26' Solaris Kino

Flatmates Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern society; from paying rent and sticking to the housework roster to trying to get invited in to nightclubs, they’re just like anyone else – except they’re immortal and must feast on human blood. When their 8000 year-old flatmate Petyr, turns 20-something human hipster Nick, into a vampire, the guys must teach him the ropes and guide him through his new found eternal life. And in return they are...

2014, New Zealand, 1h 26'

19:30 181502 - Doc of the Dead

1h 21' Coca-Cola Plaza

What would happen if one day you wake up to discover that the apocalypse is and the streets have been taken over by brain hungry zombies? How to behave, how to protect oneself, what to storage and and whom to ask for help? However the main point in question in today’s ebola fear driven world is the sole probability of a worldwide zombie epidemic? Exactly those existentialist questions are given answers in the wild and humorous zombie film and subculture dissecting...

2014, USA, 1h 21'

20:00 181603 - Goodbye Mom

1h 37' Coca-Cola Plaza

A story about a chance encounter that momentarily destroyed a successful and happy family life. All of a sudden the woman found passion and desire more important than her loving husband and cherished child. The father and son suffer from the realization that they are no longer needed, but try to understand and forgive. The woman, who failed to become happy, is in turmoil.

2014, Russia, 1h 37'

20:30 181203 - The Smell of Us

1h 32' Solaris Kino

In Paris, the same crew of skate kids meet up every day at The Dome – behind the Museum of Modern Art, opposite the Eiffel Tower – to skateboard, goof off and get stoned as they ignore the smart crowd of art lovers. They are inseparable, bound by complicated family ties. Boredom, the lure of easy money and the anonymity of the Internet all have a role in tearing their world apart. “I’ve wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film “Kids” in 1995. I...

2014, France, Belgium, 1h 32'

20:30 181703 - 28

1h 38' Coca-Cola Plaza

Two men, Abasiri (50) and his cousin Mani (25), arrive in the capital city to identify the body of a woman who was raped and murdered. Abasiri recognizes his wife Suddhi, who left him more than 15 years ago. He decides to bury her in her native village. Without a penny to his name to pay for transporting the coffin with her body, he uses every trick he knows to persuade ice-cream vendor Lenin to help him. Believing the coffin to be empty, Lenin places it on the hood rack of his van. The...

2014, Sri Lanka, 1h 38'

20:45 182003 - Best of International Student Animation 2

1h 25' Artis

International Student Animation programme collects the best examples of the world’s best animation schools. Student film in the animation context does not mean amateur cinema, but often is more brave and innovative than some works from an established studio. Due to its youthfulness and sincere dedication for animation, the programme is definitely one of the most diverse when it comes to choice of animations. It covers modern animation trends and dissects important topics for the younger...

tranlation, 1h 25'

21:00 181903 - Calvary

sold out 1h 40' Artis

Irish director John Michael McDonagh previous film “The Guard” was a clever and darkly humorous film that contained a justifiably lauded central performance from Brendan Gleeson. In “Calvary”, McDonagh works with Gleeson again with the actor giving another excellent performance. But while there are still elements of the humour prevalent in “The Guard”, “Cavalry” is a much more introspective and existential examination of life. We begin the film with Father James (Gleeson) taking...

2014, Ireland, UK, 1h 40'

21:00 181302 - They Have Escaped

1h 41' Solaris Kino

A boy and girl meet at a custody centre for problematic youth. The boy has come to serve his obligatory civil service. The girl is one of the youths in custody, and she is constantly in trouble, a fire inside her, a lust for life that can’t be quashed or controlled. The boy becomes infatuated with her. He is a quiet one – a stutterer. But there is a fire inside him as well. Rules, laws, punishment – the shackles of a hostile, uncompromising environment around them – can be broken. They...

2014, Finland, 1h 41'

21:00 182203 - EXCLUSIVE! LIVE music Mothwasp (UK) + abstract animation showcase

1h 15' Sõprus

Animated Dreams brings to the stage of cinema Sõprus the creative duo from Mothswap, Birmingham, who, in their creation, mix together improvised beats, film-like sounds of noise and analogue visuals, while experimenting painting, collage and macro photography. The audiovisual show is followed by a film programme, which offers to the audience a selection of abstract animations, creating a unique experience, which is a combination of unique visual language and sound composition.

tranlation, 1h 15'

21:30 181103 - Foxcatcher

2h 10' Solaris Kino

The strikingly dark and tragic story of the unlikely relationship between a repressed and deeply eccentric millionaire and two champion wrestlers, Bennett Miller’s impressively sustained “Foxcatcher” is a wonderfully taut and thoughtfully unnerving drama likely to attract awards attention thanks to three very different lead performances that dovetail perfectly. While much attention will be heaped on Steve Carell’s prosthetic nose and his moody performance as troubled millionaire John...

2014, USA, 2h 10'

21:30 181803 - Tu dors Nicole

1h 33' Coca-Cola Plaza

Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, Nicole (22) is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. When Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test. Their vacation takes an unexpected turn, punctuated by a heatwave, Nicole’s growing insomnia and the persistent courtship of a 10-year-old boy. “Tu dors Nicole” takes a humorous look at the beginning of adulthood and all...

2014, Canada, 1h 33'

21:45 181403 - The Theory of Everything

sold out 2h 3' Coca-Cola Plaza

After crafting the terrifically tense and entertaining documentary “Man on Wire”, director James Marsh once again focuses on a real-life genius. Here he eschews documentary for adaptation as he tells the story of world famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his relationship with his wife Jane. Beginning in the 1960s, young scientist Stephen Hawking is at Cambridge University and already destined to become one of the great minds of his generation. But this genius is also slightly...

2014, UK, 2h 3'

22:15 181604 - Sea Fog

1h 51' Coca-Cola Plaza

The inhabitants of Korean fishing town of Yeosu have been hit hard by the 1998 IMF monetary crisis. Yet again returning from the sea with an empty hold, the tough captain Kang and his crew of five face a harsh reality – whether to sell the ship or find any work available as soon as possible. Struck by his wives affair with a Chinese-Korean, Kang chooses for the latter and agrees to the local hoodlum’s proposition to smuggle into the country a group of ethnic Korea-chinese. But doing so...

2014, South Korea, 1h 51'

22:30 182004 - Brooklyn

1h 23' Artis

Coralie a.k.a. Brooklyn runs away from Switzerland and arrives in Paris to take her chance into hip hop music. She’s hired as a cook in a local association in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. Coralie meets Issa, the rising star of the hood. A 100% independent production, it was called ‘the hip hop film of the year’ after the screening at the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival 2014.

2014, France, 1h 23'

11:30 192001 - Animation Ark for Toddlers

1h 13' Artis

The Children’s programme has been put together by last year’s best cartoons from all over the wide world. In the Children’s Cartoon programme’s animated dreams, everything is possible! After the screening the fun and games will continue in the cinema with life-sized animacharacters.

tranlation, 1h 13'

12:00 191301 - Pim and Pom: The Big Adventure

1h 10' Solaris Kino

The two cats Pim and Pom are best friends who live together with "The Lady". When, one day, the lady's nieces Tracey and Stacey come to visit, they take the cats to the park for a picnic. However, the nieces want to keep the cats for themselves and have come up with a secret plan to kidnap them. Pim and Pom manage to escape their clutches but then they get lost and end up trying to survive on the streets. There, they meet a bunch of alley cats who really put their friendship to the test....

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

12:00 191701 - The Legend of Longwood

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Mickey Miller is a 12-year-old girl from New York whose great love is horses. She has little enthusiasm for her mother’s plan to take Mickey and her little brother to start a new life in a run-down mill she has inherited in Longwood, an Irish village at the end of the world. Mickey’s presence in Longwood coincides with the return of the Black Knight, a legendary ruler who found no peace after his baby daughter was taken from him, and whose appearances always mean that something evil is...

2014, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, 1h 30'

12:30 191201 - Beyond Beyond

1h 18' Solaris Kino

Johan and his father have lived at sea for as long as Johan can remember. Or at least since he was three and his mother disappeared. Johan likes the ship. It has a greenhouse where they grow carrots, and it has fishing nets. Johan is good at diving and at mechanics, and helps his father repair the ship. One day when Johan’s father goes for provisions and Johan is left alone on the boat, he receives a distress call on the radio with a clue about his mother’s whereabouts...

2014, Sweden, Denmark, 1h 18'

13:30 191302 - Lola on the Pea

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Good things come to those who wait. Lola lives with her mom Loretta on a houseboat. Since her father vanished into thin air a year ago, she has become introverted and lives in her own little dream world. She has vowed not to cut her hair or wash the spot on her neck where her dad last kissed her until he gets back. She doesn't really get along with her classmates at school, and her only real friend is the crazy old captain Solmsen. One day, however, while hanging out at her favorite spot...

2014, Germany, 1h 30'

14:00 191702 - Muutoksii

1h 28' Coca-Cola Plaza

Living in the Herttoniemi suburb in Eastern Helsinki, 12-year-olds Antti and Muhis have been best friends since kindergarten. Even with the underlying racism and anti-Somali sentiments that plague the community, the boys’ friendship has never been challenged, despite Muhis’ Somali background. That is until one night, when the boys find themselves in the middle of an unexpected confrontation that ends in a local drunk and racist being pushed off a cliff. Antti and Muhis must now hold onto...

2014, Finland, 1h 28'

14:00 192002 - Labour of Love

1h 24' Artis

The spiralling recession that hit India peaked a few years ago. Thousands of people lost their jobs without notice. Faced with financial uncertainty, a married couple living in a disintegrating district of Calcutta is under great pressure. They could lose their jobs at any time. Their lives are filled with an endless cycle of shift work and domestic routine, with long stretches of waiting in the silence of an empty house. These are no conditions for love to blossom. They are forced to...

2014, India, 1h 24'

14:00 191901 - Art of Happiness

1h 24' Artis

Two brothers. Two continents. Two lives. One single soul. Under a gloomy sky, between apocalyptic premonitions in a Naples at its utmost decay, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives shocking news. Nothing will be the same as before. Now Sergio looks himself in the mirror and what he sees is a forty-year-old man who has turned his back on music and got lost in the limbo of his city. While a storm is raging outside, a crowd of memories, hopes, regrets and presences begins to populate his cab....

2013, Italy, 1h 24'

14:30 191202 - A Christmoose Story

1h 21' Solaris Kino

When his father cannot make it home Max is convinced that Christmas will be extremely boring this year. But then Mr. Moose crashes through his roof and he is not so sure anymore. This is a giant talking Moose with a big mouth, a warm hearth and a tendency for drama. He claims he was on a test-run with Santa Claus, lost control over the sleigh and crashed, injuring his leg. And now he has to find Santa Claus, otherwise nobody will receive their Christmas gifts. Is Max able to get Mr. Moose...

2013, Netherlands, 1h 21'

14:30 191601 - The Bumpy

1h 15' Coca-Cola Plaza

One beautiful morning the toddler of the forest ogre family gets a babysitter, a little girl named Iti. She and her brother Kusti have been decoyed into a deep forest by a witch who wants to make them work in her ogre's household. Despite the extremely hard times she has with the toddler, Iti won't lose her patience and the little Bumpy starts to behave like a normal child. His name - Bumpy - comes from the tiny horns he has on his head. When the children find the opportunity to escape,...

1981, Estonia, 1h 15'

15:00 191801 - Life in a Fishbowl

sold out 2h 10' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Life in a Fishbowl” is about three people whose lives are intertwined: After a horrible tragedy a writer drinks himself into oblivion on a twenty-year binge. A young single mom moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. Former soccer star is recruited into the snake pit of international banking and loses touch with his family. ““Life in a Fishbowl” is a simple story about three people who must face decisive changes to find some sort of redemption. On closer inspection, the stories...

2014, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, 2h 10'

15:00 192201 - Finding Vivian Maier

1h 23' Sõprus

Vivian Maier was a nanny with a secret hobby. She loved to walk on the streets and record what she saw with her photo camera. Yet she never showed these photos to anyone. Vivian was a solitary and unsociable woman, whose only friends were the children that she used to babysit, and her camera. Maier’s extensive photo collection came to light only recently, when John Maloof came across it at an auction and bought it. Amazed by the negatives, he started to explore who was the talented...

2013, USA, 1h 23'

15:30 191303 - Zombie: The Resurrection of Tim Zom

1h 10' Solaris Kino

Tim Zom, born and raised in the South of Rotterdam, steps out of a dark past and stands at the point of becoming an international professional skateboarder. His career takes him from the cold Dutch reality into the American Dream, with big companies like Nike & Monster Energy supporting him. ZOMBIE is a film about a unique and surprising character who through talent and personality, against all odds and hardships, grew out to become a hero.

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

15:45 192003 - Panorama 1

1h 11' Artis

Panorama offers a chance to circle the world’s best animations with two 90-minute screenings. Panorama’s programme holds a wide overwiev of the créme de la créme of the world’s animations, which were just barely left out of the competition programme, but are still honourably deserving of their place in the official programme. Panorama is meant to a dedicated animafriend but also to an audience unfamiliar with animation but who wishes to be acquainted with last year’s animation.1. Armunud...

tranlation, 1h 11'

16:00 191703 - Ükskord meie külas

sold out 1h 50' Coca-Cola Plaza

tranlation, 1h 50'

16:00 191902 - Special screening: animated documentaries

1h 1' Artis

A documentary can also be animated. In the animated documentaries special programme the topics portrayed are those that are not easy to catch on camera or that are not easily discussed in front of the camera: openly about homosexuality, abortion through the female psychology, war through visual metaphors or life with Asperger’s syndrome.

tranlation, 1h 1'

16:30 191602 - Supernova

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Meis is seventeen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house. She dreams of a young car driver called “Brad” whom she would like to take care of and maybe have sex with. Dad is waiting for the next driver to bring some heroism to his life again. Mom is waiting for the same moment, so they can permanently move to the city. Ever since dad was the first...

2024, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, 1h 30'

16:30 191203 - Belle and Sebastian

1h 44' Solaris Kino

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian (an adorable Félix Bossuet) is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep. At the same time, the Germans have arrived in the peaceful village looking for resistance members who are helping Jewish refugees escape into Switzerland. Through danger and adventure, Belle and...

2013, France, 1h 44'

17:00 191101 - Kid Cannabis

1h 50' Solaris Kino

KID CANNABIS is the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border. But his pursuit of the high life - complete with girls, guns, and vicious rival drug lords - may leave this ex-pizza boy in way over his head.

2014, USA, 1h 50'

17:00 191304 - Red Amnesia

1h 50' Solaris Kino

Veteran Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai, whos name should be already known to PÖFF fans (“11 Flowers”, “Shangai Dreams” etc), is back with his new film “Red Amnesia” that like the title suggests, depicts an idea of a selective memory, but in a very interesting manner. Combining elements of strong political context, mystery and thriller in a slow paced way to build up a very powerful picture of China today, this film becomes a wonderful must see. The central character of the story is a...

2014, China, 1h 50'

17:00 192202 - In Vogue: The Editor's Eye

sold out 1h 30' Sõprus

The film, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of Vogue, introduces the exciting world of fashion magazines. Based on Vogue’s exceptional archives, the documentary features interviews with editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and fashion editors Grace Coddington, Tonne Goodman, Polly Allen Mellen, Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, Camilla Nickerson, Phyllis Posnick and Babs Simpson. In addition, fashion designers Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang and Alber Elbaz, and Vogue celebrities Nicole Kidman and Sarah...

2012, USA, 1h 30'

17:00 191402 - Go On Living

1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

Two children under a death threat run away from Juarez, join a journalist, who has also some hidden inner pain, and become a new family. During a long journey in a short time, everything will spin around death, the fragile universe of love, and life’s traps. “Go On Living” is a precious tale, which exposes, through a subtle and intelligent manner, some of the main social issues from a country which hurts to its inhabitants. The road movie narrative conventions connect an intimate story...

2014, Mexico, 1h 20'

17:15 192004 - Panorama 2

1h 8' Artis

Panorama offers a chance to circle the world’s best animations with two 90-minute screenings. Panorama’s programme holds a wide overwiev of the créme de la créme of the world’s animations, which were just barely left out of the competition programme, but are still honourably deserving of their place in the official programme. Panorama is meant to a dedicated animafriend but also to an audience unfamiliar with animation but who wishes to be acquainted with last year’s animation.1....

tranlation, 1h 8'

17:45 191802 - I Origins

sold out 1h 47' Coca-Cola Plaza

Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a PhD student studying molecular biology with a specialty in eye evolution, leaves his lab to go to a party and has an intense, but fleeting, encounter with a mysterious, masked model who escapes into the night. With only a picture of her stunning and iconic eyes, he tracks her down, and they fall in love. Their fundamentally different beliefs about life only serve to intensify their connection, and they vow to spend forever together. Years later, Ian and his lab...

2014, USA, 1h 47'

18:30 191204 - The Word

1h 37' Solaris Kino

Three weeks ago, LILA’s world fell apart when her girlfriends reported that they saw Lila’s boyfriend, JANEK, kissing another girl during a party. This comes as a shock since Janek only had eyes for her and what they had felt so real. Lila can’t forgive him; she trusted him more than anyone else is her life. Days before the end of the school year, she gives Janek an ultimatum: Janek has 24 hours to prove his true love. Otherwise, he can forget about ever being with Lila again.

2014, Poland, 1h 37'

18:30 191603 - The Art of Flight 3D

sold out 1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

A new breed of action sports film comes to life as Red Bull Media House, in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema, present "The Art of FLIGHT," a Curt Morgan film. Equal parts action and adventure mix with the inevitable drama encountered along the way. Two years in the making, "The Art of FLIGHT" gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside...

2011, USA, 1h 20'

18:30 191704 - The Quiet Roar

1h 17' Coca-Cola Plaza

Marianne (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year-old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she’s treated with psilocybin (LSD) and meditation with a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year-old self and her former husband.

2014, Sweden, Norway, 1h 17'

18:45 192005 - 28

1h 38' Artis

Two men, Abasiri (50) and his cousin Mani (25), arrive in the capital city to identify the body of a woman who was raped and murdered. Abasiri recognizes his wife Suddhi, who left him more than 15 years ago. He decides to bury her in her native village. Without a penny to his name to pay for transporting the coffin with her body, he uses every trick he knows to persuade ice-cream vendor Lenin to help him. Believing the coffin to be empty, Lenin places it on the hood rack of his van. The...

2014, Sri Lanka, 1h 38'

19:00 191102 - Leave The World Behind

1h 35' Solaris Kino

"Leave the World Behind" follows global music sensation Swedish House Mafia as they complete their ‘One Last Tour’, the largest worldwide electronic music tour in history with over 1,000,000 tickets sold worldwide in just one week. Director Christian Larson captures the band’s decision to bring an end to their life's biggest achievement in order to save their friendship. Audiences will get a front-row seat as Larson films the trio in an honest, raw and emotional showcase of the group's...

2014, UK, USA, 1h 35'

19:00 191401 - Justi lõpetamine

sold out 2h 0' Coca-Cola Plaza

tranlation, 2h 0'

19:00 191904 - Inbetween Worlds

1h 43' Artis

The German soldier Jesper (Ronald Zehrfeld) has lost his brother in Afghanistan. Despite this, he returns and his unit’s mission is to protect a small remote village from the Taliban’s growing influence. The young Afghan interpreter Tarik (Mohamad Mohsen) is assigned to work with him. Although Jesper has problems with his nerves, he tries to get on with his work, to win the trust of the locals and their allies, the Arbak militia, with Tarik’s help. However, the differences between Tarik’s...

2014, Germany, 1h 43'

19:00 192203 - The Balmain Style

0h 52' Sõprus

Pierre Balmain, the creator of Balmain Fashion House, was an excellent promoter, advertising his brand in Australia and spreading it also to the US. His designs were worn by Katherine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, among other celebrities. Olivier Rousteing, the current Head Designer at Balmain, has been following his footsteps, creating haute couture for many celebrities, including Rihanna, Victoria Beckham, Leighton Meester and Justin Bieber. Olivier is also very skilled in social...

2014, France, 0h 52'

19:30 191305 - Life Itself

1h 55' Solaris Kino

Veteran documentary maker Steve James turns his attention to beloved film critic Roger Ebert who succumbed to cancer in 2013. Yet this more than an examination of a life lived. It also reflects on the nature of death and how those left behind are left to cope. Cineastes will certainly enjoy the overview of Ebert’s career as it explores his beginnings in writing to championing a myriad of movies including works by the likes of Martin Scorsese. Scorsese speaks glowingly of Ebert and...

2014, USA, 1h 55'

20:00 191803 - Valley

1h 25' Coca-Cola Plaza

This is the story of three sensitive teenagers who are forced to deal with violence: violence at home, at school. A story of friendship, love and hate, where the adolescents’ world is revealed as cruel and beautiful; a world where the desire to die or kill and the will to live will define their fate.

2014, Israel, 1h 25'

20:00 Summertime

1h 30' Lennusadama

“Summertime” is a movie about the summer when the sun seems to shine brighter and your best friends stand by your side – maybe the last youthful summer ever. Iiris, 25, who has worked odd jobs abroad for years, returns to her native Finland for the summer because her best friend Karoliina, 25, has found a summer job for them both in Hanko. The girls will work in a cafeteria in a holiday town on the south coast. The idea is to spend one more care-free summer with your soulmate, enjoying...

2014, Finland, 1h 30'

20:30 191604 - Goodbye Mom

1h 37' Coca-Cola Plaza

A story about a chance encounter that momentarily destroyed a successful and happy family life. All of a sudden the woman found passion and desire more important than her loving husband and cherished child. The father and son suffer from the realization that they are no longer needed, but try to understand and forgive. The woman, who failed to become happy, is in turmoil.

2014, Russia, 1h 37'

20:30 191205 - Goodbye to Language

1h 10' Solaris Kino

“The idea is simple. A married woman and an unattached man meet. They make love, they argue, fists fly. A dog wanders between the city and the countryside. The seasons pass. The man and the woman meet again. The dog is between them. The other is in the one. One is in the other. And these are the three characters. The ex-husband breaks it all up. A second film begins. The same as the first. And yet not. From the human race we move to metaphor. This ends in barking. And the crying of...

2014, France, 1h 10'

20:30 191705 - The Reaper

1h 40' Coca-Cola Plaza

This film is about Ivo (60), a farm labourer who works for an agri-business conglomerate in rural Croatia. Many years ago, he was convicted of rape and although he served his sentence, the legacy of his crime still lingers. Three loosely interlinked stories, taking place over a single night and dealing with Ivo in different ways, gradually give us a stark, but compassionate picture of Ivo’s life, and of a rural community which is overshadowed by the aftermath of the...

2014, Croatia, Slovenia, 1h 40'

20:30 192204 - Awarded films 2014

1h 30' Sõprus

ANIMATED DREAMS GRAND PRIX 2013 BEST ABSTRACT ANIMATION BEST SOUND DESIGN JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION TUDENGIŽÜRII ERIAUHIND: BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM

tranlation, 1h 30'

21:00 192006 - Song of My Mother

1h 43' Artis

Young teacher Ali lives with his aging mother Nigar in Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı district, home to many Kurdish refugees since the 1990s. When the ongoing gentrification of the old city forces them to move for a second time, they end up in the soulless concrete desert of the city’s furthest outskirts. Nigar is convinced that her old neighbours have all moved back to their Kurdish village. Every morning she packs her belongings and sets out to return to her village. She roams the city, in search...

2014, France, Turkey, Germany, 1h 43'

21:15 191905 - Gemma Bovery

sold out 1h 39' Artis

Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a lively imagination and just as lively a passion for great literature, Gustave Flaubert in particular. We can sense his excitement when an English couple with bizarrely familiar names moves into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behaviour also seems to be inspired...

2014, France, 1h 39'

21:30 191403 - Inferno

1h 53' Coca-Cola Plaza

The film focuses on a young unemployed working‑class family (mother, father and two children) and their everyday struggle for survival. The family is like any ordinary European family, trying to make a living with the work of their hands. Due to the global economic crisis their life ends up in a blind alley. Everything looks as if there is no way out. That individuals cannot fight against injustice, misery, the unseen authority of the capital... However... Granite cubes, torn out of...

2014, Slovenia, Croatia, 1h 53'

21:45 191103 - Whiplash

1h 46' Solaris Kino

Andrew (Miles Teller) is a gifted jazz drummer who practises day and night to be among the best in the conservatory he attends in Manhattan. The last thing he will do is end up among the mediocre like his father and his career as a writer. When the charismatic lecturer Terrence Fletcher (J. K. Simmons) asks him to join his ensemble, the 19-year-old's dream appears to be heading for fulfillment. But Fletcher turns out to be a ruthless despot, who demands everything from his pupils. Soon,...

2014, USA, 1h 46'

22:00 191306 - Monument to Michael Jackson

1h 35' Solaris Kino

It’s 2009, in a dusty and dying Serbian town. The old communist heros are not politically correct anymore in the post-war society, therefore local authorities finally decide to remove an old-fashioned monument from the main square. Where the others just see an empty base, the daydreamer Marko sees an opportunity. He comes up with a crazy idea: to build a monument to Michael Jackson. The pop idol is preparing a world tour, and by the statue’s erection lots of tourist will come, business...

2014, Serbia, Germany, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Croatia, 1h 35'

22:00 191206 - Wild Tales

sold out 2h 2' Solaris Kino

Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world where we live is the reason why many people suffer from stress or depression. Some explode. This is a film about them. The heroes of “Wild Takes”, vulnerable to an abruptly changing and therefore unpredictable reality, give in to the undeniable pleasure of losing control. Behind this enigmatic synopsis hides one of the craziest and most politically incorrect comedies that you have ever seen. The film is organized in five different...

2014, Argentina, Spain, 2h 2'

22:15 191804 - Alleluia

1h 35' Coca-Cola Plaza

Via a dating portal, Gloria makes contact with Michel. For her it’s love at first sight. But feelings aren’t part of Michel's world: he’s a gold-digger preying on women wanting to get married. Gloria invests everything in a future life at the side of the man with whom she has fallen in love so deeply she’s prepared to give up her own identity. As his fake sister, she joins him as he raids the hearts and houses of single women. With each coup, Gloria’s murderous jealousy grows, until...

2014, Belgium, France, 1h 35'

22:30 191706 - Dancing Arabs

1h 45' Coca-Cola Plaza

“Dancing Arabs” tells the story of Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy from the town of Tira whose parents send to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity – trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him. Feeling foreign and alienated, Eyad realizes that in order to be accepted as an equal, in order to allay people’s suspicions, in order to work, to love, and,...

2014, Israel, 1h 45'

22:30 192205 - Midnight screening: Desire and sexuality

0h 55' Sõprus

Endemic’s Greed Poland 2014, 11’ DIR: Natalia Dziedzic At the seaside beach fates of a balding sailor, a young girl and two modest creatures – the bee and the crab are tangling.   No Man’s Bush Belgium 2014, 2’ DIR: Jelle van Meerendonk An erotic adventure about a guy trying to find the perfect lady.   Condom Australia 2013, 3’ DIR: Igor Coric, Sheldon Lieberman PROD: Bigfish When six-year-old Spike finds a used condom, Dadda attempts to...

tranlation, 0h 55'

22:45 191605 - A Hard Day

1h 51' Coca-Cola Plaza

Late for his mother’s funeral police inspector Ko recklessly sticks to the phone whilst speeding on a dark highway and seemingly meets his luck by narrowly escaping a crash with a pooch that suddenly appears on the road. But luck is short, and the next second Ko runs of a gang member that equally suddenly pops up from the darkness. Panicked from the accident and prospects of losing his lucrative career Ko decides to hide the body in the trunk, and dispose it in the hopes of seemingly...

2014, South Korea, 1h 51'

11:30 202001 - Animation Ark for Toddlers

1h 13' Artis

The Children’s programme has been put together by last year’s best cartoons from all over the wide world. In the Children’s Cartoon programme’s animated dreams, everything is possible! After the screening the fun and games will continue in the cinema with life-sized animacharacters.

tranlation, 1h 13'

12:00 201701 - Finn

sold out 1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

Still mourning the death of his mother, gentle nine-year-old Finn also has to struggle with his father's insistence that he be like all the other boys and play soccer, despite the fact that he has no interest in the sport. When Finn meets a mysterious old man at an abandoned farm and hears him play the violin, he is entranced by the beauty of the music. He is determined to learn how to play the instrument, and sneaks away for lessons while his father believes he's at soccer practice....

2013, Netherlands, 1h 30'

12:00 201301 - Jill and Joy

sold out 1h 20' Solaris Kino

When the two best friends, Jill and Joy find a huge amount of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday they decide to buy a house from mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It is a real dream house, measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Jill and Joy start to live the summer of their dreams, which is full of adventure and surprises but without any parents. Anything can happen and strange things occur as reality and fantasy magically...

2014, Finland, 1h 20'

12:30 201201 - Side by Side

1h 35' Solaris Kino

Side by Side is the story of the unique bond that exists between a brother and a sister. After a rough couple of years, the pair face spending the rest of their childhood apart resulting in the pair of them running away in search of the only person who can keep their family together.

2013, UK, 1h 35'

14:00 201702 - The Incredible Machine

1h 20' Coca-Cola Plaza

Nine-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his outdated house robot T.I.M. When his father trades his robot in for a newer version Tibor manages to save his friend from dismantlement and undertakes an epic journey to the only person who can repair T.I.M: the mythical robot maker Hector Sammler. But on this voyage through an unknown world T.I.M. slowly but surely falls apart and the question arises if they will ever find Hector Sammler if he even exists at all...

2014, Netherlands, Denmark, 1h 20'

14:00 201302 - Jack

1h 43' Solaris Kino

JACK runs the house. He wakes up his little brother. Makes breakfast. Walks to school. A lot for a ten-year-old boy… His mother SANNA means well for her sons. But she is young. Too young and self-absorbed. When one day she doesn’t come home, JACK and his little brother head out – alone, through the city, without money, without food, in search of their mother. When they finally find SANNA, JACK makes a drastic decision.

2014, Germany, 1h 43'

14:00 201901 - Xenia

2h 8' Artis

After the death of their mother, Dany, 16, leaves Crete to join his older brother, Odysseas, who lives in Athens. Born from an Albanian mother and a Greek father they never met, the two brothers, strangers in their own country, decide to go to Thessaloniki to look for their father and force him to officially recognize them. At the same time in Thessaloniki, is held the selection for the cult show, “Greek Star.” Dany dreams that his brother Odysseas, a gifted singer, could become the new...

2014, Greece, France, 2h 8'

14:00 202002 - Special screening: animated documentaries

1h 1' Artis

A documentary can also be animated. In the animated documentaries special programme the topics portrayed are those that are not easy to catch on camera or that are not easily discussed in front of the camera: openly about homosexuality, abortion through the female psychology, war through visual metaphors or life with Asperger’s syndrome.

tranlation, 1h 1'

14:30 201202 - Beyond Beyond

sold out 1h 18' Solaris Kino

Johan and his father have lived at sea for as long as Johan can remember. Or at least since he was three and his mother disappeared. Johan likes the ship. It has a greenhouse where they grow carrots, and it has fishing nets. Johan is good at diving and at mechanics, and helps his father repair the ship. One day when Johan’s father goes for provisions and Johan is left alone on the boat, he receives a distress call on the radio with a clue about his mother’s whereabouts...

2014, Sweden, Denmark, 1h 18'

14:30 201601 - Kick It

1h 42' Coca-Cola Plaza

Anja loves soccer more than anything, so when she begins training for the school's annual soccer tournament, her excitement is contagious. However, her classmate Jonas doesn't think girls should play a "boy's game," and he makes things difficult for her both on and off the field. When Anja is diagnosed with leukemia, she is determined to get better in time to play in the big game — but when it begins to look as if her illness will keep her sidelined, it's Jonas who hatches a special plan.

2014, Norway, 1h 42'

15:00 201801 - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

sold out 1h 54' Coca-Cola Plaza

Take a wily centenarian, stolen money, angry skinheads, an elephant, and circus costumes, and you have the ingredients of a rollicking, slapstick cross-country road trip. Oh, and did we mention explosions? The titular old man is also a dynamite expert. The result from actor-turned-director Felix Herngren is one of 2013’s highest-grossing comedies in Sweden. Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, this anarchic film follows the journey of Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson), who...

2013, Sweden, 1h 54'

15:00 202201 - Rocks in my pockets

1h 29' Sõprus

A personal story of animator Signe Baumane about the women in her family, including herself, and their battles with madness. Defying the stigma that silences so many, Signe takes us on a journey deep into her own depression where she looks to confront the family demons. The film is packed with visual metaphors, surreal images and her twisted sense of humour, following the story of women though the flux of generations and dark history of the 20th century Latvia.

2014, Latvia, 1h 29'

15:15 202003 - Contemporary Estonian animation screening

1h 48' Artis

Must stsenaarium/ Worst-Case Scenario / 14’40 REŽ/DIR: Kristjan Holm PROD: Eesti Joonisfilm Two managers Adolf and Rudolf solve the problem that threatens to ruin the company. Põhjatäht/ Northern Starfish / 14’13 REŽ/DIR: Mattias Mälk PROD: Eesti Joonisfilm A fantasy thriller about a female spy and a diver who knows the secrets of starfish. Tik-Tak/ Tick-Tack / 9’ REŽ/DIR: Ülo Pikkov PROD: Nukufilm"Tick-Tack" visualizes the time and its fatal substance. We all have "our time", but it contains...

tranlation, 1h 48'

16:00 201303 - Night Has Settled

1h 30' Solaris Kino

Oliver Nicholas, thirteen years old, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City. However he becomes traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper whom he considers his true mother. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage becomes complicated by intense emotions of loss, fear and guilt.

2014, USA, 1h 30'

16:00 201703 - Behavior

sold out 1h 48' Coca-Cola Plaza

Eleven-year-old Chala lives alone with his mother and takes care of fighting dogs for a living. He feels a close connection to his sixth grade teacher Carmela who, after falling ill, is replaced by a new teacher who imposes a strict disciplinary regime in class. She sends Chala to a reeducation school, a decision Carmela vehemently opposes. The bond between teacher and student grows stronger as they confront a system determined to impose a rather orthodox method of teaching

2014, Cuba, 1h 48'

16:30 201602 - #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator

1h 14' Coca-Cola Plaza

From her childhood bedroom in suburban Chicago, Ala’a, a 19-year-old American girl, coordinates the revolution in Syria. Through Facebook, Twitter and Skype, she coordinates protests for Aous, a dental student in Damascus, Bassel, a film student from Syracuse who returned home to Syria after the revolution began, and a score of citizen journalists in Homs. It’s Revolution 2.0. Tunisia fell in 28 days when a cell phone video went viral. Egypt fell in 18 days in a revolution sparked by a...

2013, Netherlands, 1h 14'

16:30 201203 - Rhubarb

1h 10' Solaris Kino

Winnie and Siem (12) meet when their parents, Rik and Tosca, fall in love at the playground of their school. They quickly form a ‘patchwork family’. Siem is pretty used to this already as his father, Rik, has been through two marriages already. Siem and Winnie get on really well together and are looking forward to the upcoming wedding between their parents. But when irritations and bickering start to take over between Rik and Tosca, the kids' faith in a new happy family takes its first...

2014, Netherlands, 1h 10'

16:30 201902 - Star

2h 8' Artis

A young debuting actress dreams of being a famous star admired by everybody. She lacks talent so she’s planning to have plastic surgery to help her succeed. She is always an optimist, with an infectiously carefree attitude and joie de vivre. The extremely sensitive 15-year-old boy feeling at odds with the world is her opposite. He is misunderstood by his father and his stepmother, a worldly and haughty woman who is capable of true feelings only on the verge of death. A tragicomedy about...

2014, Russia, 2h 8'

17:00 201101 - Hellion

1h 34' Solaris Kino

Hard-drinking Texas single dad Hollis (Aaron Paul) struggles to raise his two boys, including rebellious teenager Jacob (Josh Wiggins). Seething with anger, Jacob finds release in the high-risk, white-knuckle world of motocross—but his increasingly reckless behavior threatens to spin out of control.

2014, USA, 1h 34'

17:00 201401 - In The Sands of Babylon

1h 32' Coca-Cola Plaza

1991 Gulf War: Ibrahim an Iraqi soldier has escaped from Kuwait as the army retreats. He now faces the dangerous journey home with only one path: across the southern desert, the no-man’s-land between Saddam’s Regime and the American intervention. With no place to hide, he is soon captured by the Republican Guard and cast into Saddam’s infamous prisons, suspected of being a traitor. But as Ibrahim’s fate seems written, the Iraqi people are uprising beyond the prison walls, instilling hope...

2013, Iraq, UK, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, 1h 32'

17:00 202202 - Men of the Cloth

sold out 1h 36' Sõprus

Today’s fashion industry is all about speed: new collections are made super fast and flown from catwalks to the shelves of retailer shops, then finding their way to people’s wardrobes and later into recycling (if quality allows). But there are also exceptions. Vicki Vasilopoulos’s documentary focuses on slow fashion, featuring old masters who have dedicated their life to tailoring. Italians Nino Corvato, Joe Centofanti and Checchino Fonticoli have perfected their craft for the whole...

2013, USA, Italy, 1h 36'

17:30 201802 - Felix and Meira

1h 45' Coca-Cola Plaza

Meira is a young Hasidic Jewish wife and mother. She lives in an Orthodox Jewish community in a district of Montréal. She is discontented with both her marriage and her boring life. She rebels secretly against her faith by listening to soul music and taking birth control pills. One day she meets Felix, a lonely and eccentric atheist who lives nearby. They begin to meet in secret and get to know each other. They balance between guilt and pleasure. As they get close, the choices they face...

2014, Canada, 1h 45'

17:30 202004 - Awarded films 2014

1h 30' Artis

ANIMATED DREAMS GRAND PRIX 2013 BEST ABSTRACT ANIMATION BEST SOUND DESIGN JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION TUDENGIŽÜRII ERIAUHIND: BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM

tranlation, 1h 30'

18:00 201304 - Tu dors Nicole

sold out 1h 33' Solaris Kino

Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, Nicole (22) is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. When Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test. Their vacation takes an unexpected turn, punctuated by a heatwave, Nicole’s growing insomnia and the persistent courtship of a 10-year-old boy. “Tu dors Nicole” takes a humorous look at the beginning of adulthood and all...

2014, Canada, 1h 33'

18:15 201704 - The Wanted 18

1h 15' Coca-Cola Plaza

Soon after the dawn of the 1987 Palestinian uprising, residents of the town of Beit Sahour secretly bought 18 cows from an Israeli kibbutz. It was an act of resistance – allowing them to produce their own milk for their children. Blending interviews, archival footage and whimsical animation, “The Wanted 18” tells the unlikely story of how these cows became an inspiring symbol of resistance, sparking a self-sufficiency movement, and remaining hidden even as hundreds of Israeli soldiers...

2014, Canada, Palestine, France, 1h 15'

18:30 201204 - Premature

1h 33' Solaris Kino

Rob is facing the biggest day of his life. He needs to nail a college interview ensuring his admittance to his parents’ beloved alma mater, keep his cool when life-long crush Angela (nicknamed "Afterschool Special" for a reason) finally seems to show interest, and deal with his best friends as they realize their high school days are ending. As pressure mounts, something weird happens. He finds himself reliving the day's events over and over again. Is Rob stuck in a dream? Experiencing déjà...

2014, USA, 1h 33'

18:30 201603 - Lucky Devils

1h 36' Coca-Cola Plaza

From the streets to the circus – a magical spectacle. In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its director Larissa have decided to give some of those children a chance to leave all that behind them. “Lucky Devils” takes us on a journey from the Russian slums to the big top’s lights and the joys of a tour to Switzerland, following the half-orphan Danja, who discovers the pleasure of playing and performing, the street...

2013, Switzerland, Russia, 1h 36'

19:00 202203 - Advanced Style

sold out 1h 12' Sõprus

“Inspirational, touching and absolutely fabulous!”, “Incredibly warm and life-affirming” and “Charming” are only a few of the praising reactions of critics speaking of “Advanced Style”, a documentary made in 2014. It is based on Ari Seth Cohen’s blog of the same name, which shows photos of street fashion, focusing on stylish women aged over 60. His fascinating photo collection was first published as a book and now revived as a documentary. This film features seven truly unique women...

2014, USA, 1h 12'

19:00 201903 - Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision

3h 45' Artis

“Home From Home” by Edgar Reitz opened in cinemas in 2013 and won the German Film Prize in 2014. The film is the latest in Reitz’s “Heimat” (Homeland) epic, which started with a TV mini-series in 1984. With this prequel to the saga, Reitz returns to his main topic, the migration of German peasants from Hunsrück to South America. Hunger, poverty and chance force people in the middle of the 19th century to migrate from the fictional village of Schabbach to an uncertain future in Brazil....

2014, Germany, France, 3h 45'

19:00 201102 - It Follows

1h 37' Solaris Kino

For 19-year-­old Jay (Maika Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind. With a riveting central performance from Monroe and a strikingly ominous electronic score by...

2014, USA, 1h 37'

19:15 201402 - The Salvation

1h 31' Coca-Cola Plaza

1870s America. When settler Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) kills his family’s murderer, he unleashes the fury of notorious gang leader Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart. ""The Salvation" is not a film driven by dialogue, but an action led story, which has a strong visual impact. The characters’ actions are strengthened by the dynamic moving camera,...

2014, Denmark, 1h 31'

19:30 202005 - Blood Cells

1h 32' Artis

The fiction feature debut of directors Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull is a stark and often bleak story of a man trying to find his way back from a life lived in solitude. After the Foot and Mouth epidemic that swept Britain in 2001 devastates his family’s farm, Adam is living a transient life. Moving from town to town, picking up casual work and seeking comfort in drink, Adam is content to drift. But when his younger brother contacts him Adam decides to make the journey home. As he heads...

2014, UK, Italy, 1h 32'

20:00 201803 - The Man in the Orange Jacket

1h 11' Coca-Cola Plaza

Aik Karapetian has done something we in Estonia have not really done yet, directed the first Latvian horror film. His debut film, strong and fierce “People Out There” played in our Baltic competition few years ago and his new film is here to make us think and scare us while we do that. A whole bunch of harbor workers are fired and the boss of them all goes away to his countryside house to take some time off with his young wife. Right before he can really fall asleep, a stranger creeps...

2014, Latvia, 1h 11'

20:00 201705 - Red Army

sold out 1h 16' Coca-Cola Plaza

Home to some of the greatest players the sport has ever seen, the Soviet Union’s Red Army team became a key combatant in the Cold War’s propaganda battle. When they first played Canada and the USA, they were in a golden age of coordinated teamwork and almost balletic ease. These skilful tactics achieved their zenith with the storied Russian Five” unit, which included eventual Vancouver Canucks Vladimir “The Tank” Krutov and Igor “The Professor” Larionov, as well as standout defenceman...

2014, USA, Russia, 1h 16'

20:00 201305 - Tour de Force

sold out 1h 35' Solaris Kino

At first, their friends make fun of Hannes and Kiki when they opt for Belgium – the country only famous for chocolate and Jean-Claude van Damme – when it’s their turn to choose the destination for the annual cycling trip. But when Hannes discloses the real motive behind the trip, shock follows. He is terminally ill and has decided to die in Belgium. This is the start of the new work by director and writer Christian Zübert, whose last film, the emotional “Three Quarter Moon”, was very...

2014, Germany, 1h 35'

20:30 201205 - Yvone Kane

1h 57' Solaris Kino

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to her childhood’s African country to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the atmospheric longing of a lost paradise. Rita discovers a country where progress is build above the ruins of a violent past, while meets her mother (Sara), still living in the old familiar house. In a singular parallel/opposite research both women are looking for...

2014, Portugal, Mozambique, Brazil, 1h 57'

20:45 201604 - Over Your Dead Body

1h 30' Coca-Cola Plaza

A theatre troupe rehearsing a classic play of murder, betrayal and phantasmagorical vengeance find life bloodily imitating art backstage, in this wild cinematic detour from madly prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike. “Originally produced in 1825 as a kabuki play, “Yotsuya Kaidan” has been adapted to film over thirty times since, but it has never been seen like this. Miike, who is also a veteran theatre director, mounts the action on a number of dazzlingly elaborate sets that sail...

2014, Japan, 1h 30'

21:00 201103 - Wild

1h 55' Solaris Kino

Aspiring to achieve both self-discovery and catharsis, Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) sets out to hike 1,800 kilometres of the imposing Pacific Crest Trail. This gruelling three-month quest not only pushes her to her physical limits but also forces her to confront the demons that plague her. Vallée and Hornby preserve the unflinching candour and biting humour of Strayed’s book while delivering bold, cinematic storytelling that demands to be experienced on the big screen. “A ruggedly...

2014, USA, 1h 55'

21:00 202204 - Saint Laurent

sold out 2h 30' Sõprus

Let’s cut to the chase right away – “Saint Laurent”, a French film from 2014, has been entered for the best foreign language film at the Oscar Awards. Whether it will win the title, remains to be seen in 2015. In any case, this is a great acknowledgement for the film, making it a magnet for the audience. Yves Saint Laurent is probably one of the most inspiring designers for film-makers. This spring brought to us a new feature film “Yves Saint Laurent”, starring his ex-partner Pierre...

2014, France, 2h 30'