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- When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
- The groundbreaking story of a 67-year-old married woman who rediscovers her passion and sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year-old man.
- A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don't lose their humor and spend many nights together on Nike's balcony, drinking and chatting. However, Nike gets to know the trucker Ronald one day...
- Frank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
- Páll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom; at home with his parents who finally can't cope, and in the mental institution, Kleppur.
- A metalworker and volunteer firefighter, who is content with his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, sees his life turn upside down when he falls in love with an attractive waitress from a nearby town.
- Benjamin dufa is movie about four friends. They love knights and dream to be knights when they grow up. The friends get in trouble with bullies and one of them (Baldur) gets in serious trouble with the bullies and something really sad happens to him.
- The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.
- Two couples, each married for quite a long time, live in a small East German town. The film focuses on the relationships between each of the four people and what happens when an affair takes place between two of them who are not married to each other and logically betraying the two remaining characters. This event leads to deep thoughts about marriage, friendship, relationships, and life itself.
- The Pope is in town and the night of his visit is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin's inhabitants. The down-and-out, the rich and the poor, the polizei, the street kids and taxi drivers, in search of a little bit of happiness, all end up going for a harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.
- A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.
- The story of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s. Tomas loves the movies and is highly influenced by them.
- In contemporary Mannheim, Branko and Merab, two hapless hitmen, are assigned to kill a businessman for unknown reasons. Although the unsuspecting businessman offers them plenty of opportunities to kill him, the two men are prevented from carrying out their mission by the most absurd coincidences, even after taking on a new helper by the name of Carlos.
- One day, Guido, who has suffered from neurocytoma since childhood, begins to question his surroundings. In the process, he finds out that his seemingly intact family home is based on lies. Disappointed, he seeks refuge with his brother.
- Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young women DÚA who he believes might be his daughter. When she gets into trouble with the police Simon represses his death wish and decides to help her out. Together they flee to the city of Hamburg and smuggle with them what used to be the greatest export of the Vikings, an Icelandic Falcon. Their plan is to sell it to wealthy Arabs.
- Follows five successful African artists for a year, through rehearsals, shows, and visits to their respective hometowns.
- About the Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, Annie, who is also a concert pianist. This era was frustrating for Leifs because his works were seldom performed.
- A trio of lonely outsiders - a Russian knife-thrower, a prostitute and an accordeon player - establish a moving circus troupe.
- The Appletree House: This is the story of a large house in Leipzig. Before the war it was used as an atelier for the Zadikow family, who manufactured fur coats and gloves there. Then came the war and they were forced to sell to another Jewish family, the Scheindls. The Appletree House is now inhabited by a strange, bad tempered man, Danzig. He has a printing press in the basement and is on the verge of printing a new edition of Karl Marx's poems. In the other part of the house there is Karl, the masseur. They're daily lives are turned upside down when Jael Zadikow arrives from America. She has plans for the house, wanting to turn it into a large shopping center. Her only problem however is that she cannot track down Scheindl, who is still registered as the owner. Then Karl's mother turns up at the house, convinced she is about to die, and desperate to tell her son the secrets she has kept all these years. The Appletree House is a poetic and intelligent film which weaves together the lives of various characters, producing an unique insight into Jewish life in contemporary Germany, while also engaging with another highly sensitive issue, that of property rights and land.
- Documentary about the Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson