Harmonisation and joy, hope, loss and disappointment – all this you will find in our selection of international feature films.
GV/EV - german/english version
ogs/oes - original with german/english subtitles
This list contains only films in english or with english subtitles.
Malgoska Szumowska, Poland 2008,
feature film, 96 min, color, 35mm, oes
Julia, a successful photographer with a loving husband and a beautiful home, comes from a close-knit family of artists. When her mother is diagnosed with a terminal desease, the family's happiness collapses. Now forced into a new kind of adulthood, Julia learns to find courage in the chaos and to accept the things that she cannot change in life by finding laughter in the most unusual places ...
Filmfest Locarno 2008: Special price of the Jury.
In cooperation with: 
Courtney Hunt, USA 2008,
feature film, 97 min, color, 35mm, ogs
Two women – one white, one Mohawk, both faced with desperate circumstances – form an unlikely partnership. Ray, an upstate New York trailer mom, is broken after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new house. She reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal immigrants in the trunk of Ray’s Dodge Spirit.
Two Oscar-nominations 2009 for Melissa Leo as Ray (best female actor) and for Courtney Hunt (best script) and many more awards.
Sophie Laloy, France 2009,
feature film, 96 min, color, 35mm, oes
Marie leaves here home to study at the conservatory in Lyon and moves in with her childhood friend Emma. Even though Marie submits herself to her roommates rules, their once intimate bond is agitated, when Emma falls in love with Marie. Emma fascinates, dominates and devastates Marie, who struggles between her desire for Emma and the urge to escape.
Valérie Donzelli, France 2009,
feature film, 84 min, color, DVD, oes
Adèle's world crumbles, when she is left by Mathieu. Rachel, a distant cousin, unwillingly agrees to take Adèle in, and then, moved by her evident distress, advices her to find a new job and to date other men.
Director Valérie Donzelli starring as Adèle.
Urszula Antoniak, Niederlande/Irland 2009,
Spielfilm, 85 Min, Farbe, 35mm, OmdU
A lone woman on the road in Ireland meets an equally reticent man, who offers her food for work on the grounds of his house. In the beginning they abide to their commitment not to exchange anything personal ...
Filmfest Locarno 2009:
award for best female actor, Lotte Verbeek,
award of FIPRESCI and
Youth Jury Award.
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