Films 2022

Name: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
Address: Kleiststraße 3-5, Mannheim, 68167, Germany
Telephone: +49 621 48926211

A Tale of Shemroon
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Director: Emad Aleebrahim DehkordiCountry: Iran, France, Germany, Italy
German Premiere
2022 | 102 min. | Persian, FrenchSubtitles: English, German
A breath of fresh air for Iranian cinema: Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi’s debut feature transforms from a portrait of Tehran’s young generation into an intense drama about two brothers who share an intimate bond.
A Woman
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Director: Jean-Paul CiveyracCountry: France
2022 | 96 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
Sophie Marceau, armed with bow and arrow: the competitive archer and police inspector Juliane resorts to drastic means when she discovers her husband’s infidelity. A Hitchcockian homage full of surprises.
Ashkal
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Director: Youssef ChebbiCountry: Tunisia, France
German Premiere
2022 | 92 min. | ArabicSubtitles: German, English
A few years after the Arab Spring, the Tunisian capital is shaken by the discovery of mysterious burn victims. A beautifully shot, stirring crime drama that brings together politics and the supernatural.
Astrakan
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Director: David DepessevilleCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 104 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
An orphan boy’s experience of puberty and the slow realization that his new foster family harbors a dark secret. A film like a timeless painting, poetic and harrowing.
Bigman
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Director: Camiel SchouwenaarCountry: Netherlands
2022 | 90 min. | DutchSynchronization in GermanFSK 6
Just wait, I’ll show you all! In this coming-of-age film, a stubborn 13-year-old refuses to give up his dreams of soccer – despite injury, setbacks and the misgivings of others.
Blanquita
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Director: Fernando GuzzoniCountry: Chile, Mexico, Luxembourg, France, Poland
German Premiere
2022 | 94 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German
Guilty or innocent? This is much more than a question for the court. Superbly photographed political cinema, revolving around an unforgettable protagonist.
Chiara
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Director: Susanna NicchiarelliCountry: Italy, Belgium
German Premiere
2022 | 106 min. | Italian, Latin, FrenchSubtitles: English, German SDH
Clare of Assisi is both a saint and a revolutionary: she prays and fights for her freedom, for recognition by the pope and for the rights of women. And she works miracles!
Comedy Queen
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Director: Sanna LenkenCountry: Sweden
2022 | 94 min. | SwedishSubtitles: GermanFSK 12
A 13-year-old girl, her devastating loss, and how humor can help her cope. Here’s a poignant film about grieving, directed with much sensitivity towards its characters.
Dead for a Dollar
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Director: Walter HillCountry: USA, Canada
German Premiere
2022 | 106 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Christoph Waltz meets Willem Dafoe meets Benjamin Bratt – a star-studded, suspense-filled neo-Western from veteran director Walter Hill.
Diary of a Fleeting Affair
Chronique d'une liaison passagèreread more
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Director: Emmanuel MouretCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 100 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German SDH
On the art of infidelity and misunderstandings involving sex and passion. A romantic film to love and fall in love with.
El Agua
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Director: Elena López RieraCountry: Spain, Switzerland, France
German Premiere
2022 | 104 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German
Magic, mysticism, superstition, and youthful romanticism. ›El Agua‹ explores the myths of femininity and, in doing so, paints a portrait of a region caught between a lack of perspective and a desire for change.
Forever Young
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Director: Valeria Bruni TedeschiCountry: France
2022 | 125 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
The dreams and scars of a generation: a dozen theatre students devote themselves entirely to the stage – and to life. With far-reaching consequences.
Gandhi & Co.
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Director: Manish SainiCountry: India
2022 | 101 min. | GujaratiSynchronization in GermanFSK 0
Who’s cooler, Mahatma Gandhi or an ordinary superhero? It’s difficult to know for two rascally boys who must first learn an important lesson: real strength doesn’t come from violence, but from truth and good deeds.
Girlhood
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Director: Céline SciammaCountry: France
2014 | 112 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German, English
A social portrait without kitsch or false dreariness, Céline Sciamma’s third feature tells the story of a gang of girls in a Parisian banlieu.
Girls Go Movie Special
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Director: VariousCountry: Germany
2022 | 90 min. | VariousSubtitles: German
Film highlights by young women directors from the last five editions of the GIRLS GO MOVIE short film festival.
How Is Katia?
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Director: Christina TynkevychCountry: Ukraine
German Premiere
2022 | 100 min. | UkrainianSubtitles: English, German
Anna fights back! The loving mother and doctor stands up against a society that doesn’t care about morality and justice. A sensitive portrait and psychological study of Ukraine before the war.
I Have Electric Dreams
Tengo sueños eléctricosread moreOnline
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Director: Valentina MaurelCountry: Costa Rica, Belgium, France
German Premiere
2022 | 100 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German
They loved each other, they beat each other – this dense Costa Rican drama portrays a fascinating and conflicted daughter-father relationship. Winner of three prizes at the Locarno Film Festival.
Joyland
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Director: Saim SadiqCountry: Pakistan
German Premiere
2022 | 126 min. | UrduSubtitles: English, German
›Joyland‹ immerses us into the nightlife of Lahore, where repressed desires shake the foundations of rigid societal conventions.
Leila's Brothers
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Director: Saeed RoustaeeCountry: Iran
2022 | 169 min. | PersianSubtitles: English, German
The gifted Iranian director Saeed Roustaee crafts a sympathetic portrait of a woman and her dramatic struggle for her family’s future, which is thwarted by patriarchal traditions and a Donald Trump tweet.
Love 3D
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Director: Gaspar NoéCountry: France, Belgium
2015 | 135 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
In Gaspar Noé’s autobiographically tinged, sexually explicit 3-D flick called ›Love‹, desire and the fear of losing someone meet a love supreme.
Ludwig
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Director: Luchino ViscontiCountry: Italy, France, West Germany
1973 | 238 min. | ItalianSubtitles: English, German
The rise and fall of King Ludwig II, directed by the great Italian master as an opulent costume drama. The uncut version is shown in its brand-new restoration.
Manticore
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Director: Carlos VermutCountry: Spain
German Premiere
2022 | 115 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German
Julián, a young video game designer, is jolted out of his routine and seclusion after a fire breaks out in the apartment next door. Considered and perceptive, ›Manticore‹ explores the extremes of the human psyche.
My Small Land
My Small Landread more
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Director: Emma KawawadaCountry: Japan, France
2022 | 114 min. | Japanese, Kurdish, TurkishSubtitles: English, GermanFSK 12
What does it mean for someone to flee, start anew, adopt a new culture, and have to fear losing everything all over again? These are the issues addressed in this moving and honest film.
Next Sohee
Da-eum-so-heeread more
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Director: July JungCountry: South Korea
German Premiere
2022 | 134 min. | KoreanSubtitles: English, German
The call center employee Sohee commits a desperate act. When the police start investigating, they dig up a tightly woven network of social violence.
Oink
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Director: Mascha HalberstadCountry: Netherlands, Belgium
2022 | 70 min. | DutchSynchronization in GermanFSK 0
“Vegetables are my meat” is the motto of this wonderfully animated puppet movie. A pig can’t get any cuter than this, and a car chase could hardly be more exciting.
Orlando
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Director: Sally PotterCountry: United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands
1992 | 93 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” is a uniquely enigmatic work. Starring Tilda Swinton in the role of the androgynous poet.
Pacifiction
Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îlesread moreOnline
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Director: Albert SerraCountry: Spain, France, Portugal, Germany
2022 | 162 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German, English
Pure cinema. Film as trance. Bodies and movement, bodies in movement – majestically captured by a camera. Albert Serra breaks the boundaries of conventional narrative cinema. Beautiful.
Palm Trees and Power Lines
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Director: Jamie DackCountry: USA
2022 | 110 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
When teenage Lea meets a much older man, he seems to be the solution to all of her problems. But things are not as she thinks.
Paris Frills
Falbalasread moreOnline
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Director: Jacques BeckerCountry: France
1945 | 111 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German, English
Shot in 1944 during the German occupation, ›Falbalas‹ is one of the most beautiful films ever made about the work of a fashion designer, as well as an invaluable document of its era.
Paris Memories
Revoir Parisread more
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Director: Alice WinocourCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 103 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German SDH, English
A silver lining to trauma: how can one remember, process, and even emerge from an assassination attempt more compassionate than before? A powerful film about what happens after – from the winner of the Grand IFFMH Award 2022.
Philoktet
Philoktetread more
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Director: Jan BonnyCountry: Germany
2022 | 68 min. | German
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rockread more
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Director: Peter WeirCountry: Australia
1975 | 107 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
Peter Weir’s poetic horror film. A sensual and mystical masterpiece that ushered in a new era of Australian cinema. Shown in its restored version.
Pink Narcissus
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Director: James BidgoodCountry: USA
1971 | 65 min. | No Dialogue
The ultimate filmic definition of camp: James Bidgood’s sensual and erotic queer cinema masterpiece about a young man and his sexual fantasies.
Proxima
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Director: Alice WinocourCountry: France, Germany
2019 | 107 min. | French, English, Russian, GermanSubtitles: English, German
A thoroughly original space drama about an astronaut’s pain of separation. From this year’s Grand IFFMH Award winner – starring Eva Green, Lars Eidinger, and Matt Dillon.
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
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Director: Jerry SchatzbergCountry: USA
1970 | 105 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
The aftermath of a mental breakdown – in this emotional film, a woman casts a disillusioned look back at her glamorous life as a model.
Rodeo
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Director: Lola QuivoronCountry: France
2022 | 105 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
At the centre of Lola Quivoron’s visionary debut is a young woman, as strong as she is headstrong, amid the male-dominated world of French biker gangs.
Safe Place
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Director: Juraj LerotićCountry: Croatia
2022 | 102 min. | CroatianSubtitles: English, German
A young man gradually succumbs to the darkness of his mind – but his brother and mother won’t think of giving up on him. One of the best films of the year!
Salomé
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Director: Alla Nazimova, Charles BryantCountry: USA
1922 | 73 min. | SilentSubtitles: English, German
A riotous adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, this queer cult film, brimming with glamorous costumes, has influenced generations of filmmakers.
Skin Deep
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Director: Alex SchaadCountry: Germany
2022 | 103 min. | GermanSubtitles: English
Getting inside someone else’s skin. An exciting, fantastic love story about the nature of interpersonal relationships.
Sons of Ramses
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Director: Clément CogitoreCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 98 min. | French, ArabicSubtitles: English, German
A charming charlatan is supposedly able to contact the dead. But suddenly he’s involved in a death himself. An atmospherically dense thriller and a portrait of a Parisian neighborhood.
Spring Breakers
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Director: Harmony KorineCountry: USA
2012 | 94 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
Cult film, exploitation and insanely clever critique of the media: Harmony Korine’s most successful film owes much to Benoît Debie’s camerawork.
Stella in Love
Stella est amoureuseread moreOnline
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Director: Sylvie VerheydeCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 110 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
A head full of boys and dreams, a life full of obstacles. ›Stella in Love‹ conjures 1980s France in a melancholic coming-of-age story with an atmospheric mixtape soundtrack.
Stone Turtle
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Director: Woo Ming JinCountry: Malaysia
2022 | 91 min. | Malay, Indonesian, MandarinSubtitles: English, German
An island serves as the setting for mystical rituals. ›Stone Turtle‹ tells of a woman’s quest for justice in a Malaysia where past and future are intertwined.
Sun & Daughter
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Director: Catalina RazziniCountry: Bolivia, Spain, Germany
2021 | 84 min. | Spanish, AymaraSynchronization in GermanFSK 6
A sensitive film about an Indigenous girl living at Lake Titicaca, featuring a charismatic actress gorgeously photographed in front of breathtaking scenery.
Suna
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Director: Çiğdem SezginCountry: Turkey, Spain, Bulgaria
German Premiere
2022 | 102 min. | TurkishSubtitles: English, German
A marriage, a house, and the sadness that both can carry. A sensitive portrait of a woman and her exhausting search for a place in a world dominated by men.
The Beasts
As bestasread moreOnline
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Director: Rodrigo SorogoyenCountry: Spain, France
German Premiere
2022 | 137 min. | Spanish, French, GalicianSubtitles: English, German
Spectacular performance-driven cinema that raises a burning question: Is it possible to escape a cycle of violence? The suspense never lets up in this nerve-racking psychological thriller.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
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Director: Rainer Werner FassbinderCountry: West Germany
1972 | 124 min. | GermanSubtitles: English
A fashion designer abuses her assistant and yearns for the love of a young woman. One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most beautiful films.
The Dam
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Director: Ali CherriCountry: Sudan, France, Germany, Serbia
German Premiere
2022 | 80 min. | ArabicSubtitles: English, German
In northern Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, men earn their bread with arduous seasonal work. While mass protests rage in the rest of the country, here a destructive force of a very different kind is growing.
The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin
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Director: Ira CarpelanCountry: Finland, Poland
German Premiere
2021 | 74 min. | SwedishSynchronization in GermanFSK 0
The Moomins are back! And this time they embark on a fanciful, carefree journey through Moominvalley. By the end, we know one thing for sure: we will all eventually find our way.
The Handmaiden
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Director: Park Chan-wookCountry: South Korea
2016 | 145 min. | Korean, JapaneseSubtitles: English, German
In order to rob a rich heiress, the pickpocket Sook-hee poses as a maid. Park Chan-wook tells this erotic love story as a thriller.
The Maiden
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Director: Graham FoyCountry: Canada
German Premiere
2022 | 117 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
Two teenage boys on skateboards romp through a no man’s land of forests, ruins, rivers, and railroads. Only one of them returns. Contemporary American independent cinema at its best!
The Night of the 12th
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Director: Dominik MollCountry: Belgium, France
2022 | 115 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
Every detective has a case that won’t let them go and hurts more than all the others. This thrillingly realized and superbly acted crime film revolves around such a case.
The Sixth Child
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Director: Léopold LegrandCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 92 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
A baby at all costs? Childless Anna, in any case, is willing to risk everything. A moving drama that pushes its characters to the limits of law and morality, and beyond.
The Virgin Suicides
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Director: Sofia CoppolaCountry: USA
1999 | 97 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
The story of the suicide of five sisters. Sofia Coppola’s debut feature made a lasting impression on the US cinema of the 1990s.
The Women
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Director: George CukorCountry: USA
1939 | 133 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
Gossip and scandal in New York: a biting social satire with an all-female cast, and a milestone of Hollywood cinema.
Unicorn Wars
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Director: Alberto VázquezCountry: Spain, France
German Premiere
2022 | 92 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German
›Apocalypse Now‹ meets ›Bambi‹: this animated mêlée of blood, guts and dayglow colours pits teddy bears and unicorns, of all things, against each other and really lets it rip.
Valeria Is Getting Married
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Director: Michal VinikCountry: Israel, Ukraine
German Premiere
2022 | 76 min. | Hebrew, Russian, EnglishSubtitles: English, German
The reluctant bride: director Michal Vinik tells the story of an intimate sisterhood and an Israeli-Ukrainian emancipation.
Vera
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Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer FrimmelCountry: Austria
2022 | 115 min. | ItalianSubtitles: English, German
The daughter of a famous actor performing as the daughter of a famous actor. Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel playfully integrate biographical material into a fictional story.
Vinyan
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Director: Fabrice du WelzCountry: Belgium, France, United Kingdom
2008 | 97 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German
Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell are a couple searching for their missing son. Risking everything, they venture into the jungles of Myanmar.
When the Waves Are Gone
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Director: Lav DiazCountry: Philippines, Denmark, Portugal, France
German Premiere
2022 | 187 min. | TagalogSubtitles: German, English
The legendary Filipino director Lav Diaz follows two dirty cops into the depths of the brutal era of the Duterte presidency.
Winter Boy
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Director: Christophe HonoréCountry: France
German Premiere
2022 | 122 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German
Lust for life and adventure. With fantastic actors alongside Juliette Binoche and the exceptionally talented Paul Kircher, Christophe Honoré’s family drama tells of loss and new beginnings.
Wolf and Dog
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Director: Cláudia VarejãoCountry: Portugal, France
German Premiere
2022 | 111 min. | PortugueseSubtitles: English, German
To break free in order to live – this feature debut, as visually powerful as it is emotionally charged, surveys how the society of an island of the Azores becomes a prison for its queer protagonists.
You Won't Be Alone
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Director: Goran StolevskiCountry: Australia, United Kingdom, Serbia
German Premiere
2022 | 108 min. | MacedonianSubtitles: English, German
A witch makes a great humane decision! Goran Stolevski’s debut feature is a symphonically composed and poetic masterpiece with echoes of Terrence Malick.

Films 2022

A Tale of Shemroon

A Woman

Ashkal

Astrakan

Bigman

Blanquita

Chiara

Comedy Queen

Dead for a Dollar

Diary of a Fleeting Affair

El Agua

Forever Young

Gandhi & Co.

Girlhood

Girls Go Movie Special

How Is Katia?

I Have Electric Dreams

Joyland

Leila's Brothers

Love 3D

Ludwig

Manticore

My Small Land

Next Sohee

Oink

Orlando

Pacifiction

Palm Trees and Power Lines

Paris Frills

Paris Memories

Philoktet

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Pink Narcissus

Proxima

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Rodeo

Safe Place

Salomé

Skin Deep

Sons of Ramses

Spring Breakers

Stella in Love

Stone Turtle

Sun & Daughter

Suna

The Beasts

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Dam

The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin

The Handmaiden

The Maiden

The Night of the 12th

The Sixth Child

The Virgin Suicides

The Women

Unicorn Wars

Valeria Is Getting Married

Vera

Vinyan

When the Waves Are Gone

Winter Boy

Wolf and Dog

You Won't Be Alone

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