Odesa International Film Festival : 2020
11th Odesa International Film Festival, 25.09-03.10.2020 + 04-11.10.2020
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- DirectorPeter BrosensJessica WoodworthStarsPeter Van den BeginLucie DebayUdo KierHow the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.Opening Film
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.International Competition
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.International Competition
- DirectorAdam RehmeierStarsKyle GallnerYancey FuquaJennifer KincerAn on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America's decaying Midwestern suburbs.International Competition
- DirectorUlrich KöhlerHenner WincklerStarsMaj-Britt KlenkeSebastian RudolphThomas SchubertUrs is a single doctor who looks after his alcoholic brother Falk. Trying to prevent his daughter Jette from getting stuck in their little province, he persuades her to volunteer in South America.International Competition
- DirectorKim Yong-hoonStarsJeon Do-yeonJung Woo-sungBae Sung-wooA struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.International Competition
- DirectorMaura DelperoStarsLidiya LibermanDenise CarrizoAgustina MalaleLu is a disruptive, rebellious teenage mother. She lives with her daughter Nina in a women's refuge run by a group of nuns in Buenos Aires. The arrival of Paola, a sympathetic Italian nun who takes a shine to Nina, coincides with Lu going missing. What ensues is a sensitively realized and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of life in a refuge.International Competition
- DirectorGuillaume BracStarsEric NantchouangSalif CisséÉdouard SulpiceAn unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.International Competition
- DirectorIgnas JonynasStarsDainius KazlauskasDarius BagdziunasPaulina TaujanskaitéJonas (Dainius Kazlauskas) pretends to be blind and enters a TV dance contest, where he meets his attractive dance partner Saule (Paulina Taujanskaite). Soon they become the show's most popular contestants. While the whole nation thinks that Jonas is blind, Vytas (Darius Bagdziunas), an old acquaintance of Jonas, is released from prison. As reminders of the past keep creeping up on them, Vytas is suppressing contradictory feelings - to seek revenge or forgiveness in such a manipulative world - for sins that were and for sins to be made.International Competition
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsThomas GioriaFantine HarduinBenoît PoelvoordeLove and mental illness know no bounds.International Competition
- DirectorIvan OstrochovskýStarsSamuel SkyvaSamuel PolakovicVlad IvanovTwo students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.International Competition
- DirectorAmjad Abu AlalaStarsMustafa ShehataIslam MubarakMahmoud Maysara ElsarajShortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.International Competition
- DirectorMárk BodzsárStarsLili WaltersErvin NagyZsolt NagyVampires are among us. But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts. Hungary in the 70s. Comrade Fábián (Zsolt Nagy), the Hungarian hero of the Cuban revolution, comes home to take part in a blood drive for Vietnam, the communist sister nation of Hungary. But something is wrong with the old comrade: he looks like a 30-year-old, has a cool demeanor, and drives a fire-red Mustang. A young couple who work for the secret police are assigned to monitor the stranger. Maria (Lili Walters) escorts him, and tries to find out the secret to his eternal youth. Maria's lover, Laci (Ervin Nagy), the master of surveillance and close combat, stalks the two, and when he's not mad from jealousy, does something which is not part of his skill set: he thinks. What is the secret of the ageless comrade, who drinks a red fizzy drink, and gazes longingly at ladies' gently curved necks? Comrades and spies start to believe that Bela Lugosi, the star of the old Dracula movie, is not the only Hungarian vampire.International Competition
- DirectorYegor TroyanovskyThe film investigates the kidnapping and alleged murder of a young Ukrainian soldier in the Donbas region in 2014. His father, an elderly fisherman from the south of Ukraine, follows the trail of his capturers. Traveling from the calm Azov coastline to industrial conglomerates, and then from the furious mining region to the sleepless capital, the father tries to find witnesses of the young soldier's last hours and minutes, as well as those who could see him dead or alive. When the testimonies are inconsistent, when the lawyers don't show up in courts, when you take one step forward and two steps back, all that remains to the father is to take the justice into his own hands.National Competition. Features
- DirectorAnatoliy LavrenishynStarsMariyka AglotkovaVasily MazurRimma ZyubinaThe artificial Iron Star has stopped shining for some unknown reason, and a girl named Victoria and her parents are arriving on a starship to repair it. In search of the creator of the Iron Star, Victoria meets a robot who becomes her friend and acquires the name Victor.National Competition. Features
- DirectorSergii StorozhevStarsDmitriy UsovSvitlana ShtankoAleksey TritenkoAfter the woman's death, a quarrel breaks out between her three children over their shared apartment where they spent childhood. In the province, even a small amount of money is life-saving for people. The youngest son Pasha is against selling. He still lives here and in addition, he took care of his old mother. But both his brother and sister are convinced of the need to sell it. When relatives run out of arguments, they start doing horrible, and above all, irreversible things. After all, when there is money, even between relatives, people change.National Competition. Features
- DirectorHelena MaksyomAdrian PirvuStarsHelena MaksyomAdrian PirvuThe two directors of this personal documentary begin a relationship based on their separate struggles: Hers with backbone pain, his with vision as a result of the Chernobyl disaster 25 years before.National Competition. Features
- DirectorAnastiasiya TykhaStarsTaras DenisenkoBetween the Frames is the story of an exceptional relationship between a teacher and a young generation of actors brought up in his creative workshop. Five years after graduation from university, the main characters return to see themselves from the side and try to catch what is happening between the frames. The story is told by ex-students while they are watching behind-the-scenes archives of their student performance The Cabaret and reflecting upon the years that have passed. In the center of the story stands a teacher as a life-turning figure for each of the characters.National Competition. Features
- DirectorJayden StevensStarsMaksym DerbenyovLarysa HraminskaTetiana KosianchukA man living in solitary seeks emotional refuge in the organising and documenting of family moments using low-grade impersonators.National Competition. Features
- DirectorOtar ShamatavaStarsNiko TavadzeJoséphine de La BaumeBogdan BenyukWith Georgia's capital under siege in 1992, unemployed film director NIKA sees a unique opportunity to escape the ravages of civil war. A former studio bear CHOLA has been invited to retire at the Berlin Zoo, and NIKA and his former stuntman TOMA can accompany Chola on the long journey. But the war again impinges on the two friends as Nika's films are burned in an attack that also leaves their beloved bear dead. With no other options, Nika hits on an outrageous solution: he'll disguise himself in a bear suit and travel as Chola to Berlin. They sneak through Turkey, the Balkans and Eastern Europe to, finally, Berlin, encountering soldiers, police, a mystic soothsayer, drug dealers and gangsters along the way - oh, and a fiery red-headed French Canadian animal rights activist who joins them to ensure the well-being of 'Chola!' It's a journey fraught with obstacles - some comic, some tragic, some both - in which the motley band of travellers learn that hope, love and freedom are as fragile as they are elusive.National Competition. Features
- DirectorJoanne RakotoarisoaStarsOles DmytrenkoVitaliy HopkaloSergey IzgaginAs they spend one last summer night together, a group of young Ukrainians shares their hopes and dreams for the future. But one of them must choose before the sun rises: reporting to the draft office calling him to war or fleeing the country?National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorIgor StekolenkoStarsIgor AronovIhor CiszkewyczTanya RubanA young talented surgeon loses a patient for the first time in his practice and struggles to accept death as a part of his profession.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorMykola RidnyiStarsKseniya MarchenkoLavinia OrigoniLorenzo ProfitaThe film explores unobvious connections between the cultural and political phenomena of Italy and Ukraine. Suddenly, fans of Italian futurism and fascism appear among the Ukrainian far-right community. At the same time, conservative ideas are spreading in Italy and Europe. There are its own heroes, villains and victims including Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Markiv, far-right publishing house Iron Dad, former Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, a group of pro-Russian recruits for the war in Donbas, and others.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorMathieu GrimardStarsOleksandr RudynskyyDaria PlakhtiiMaria StopnykWhen home is a hopeless place, is it more courageous to stay - or to go? For Ian Golovin, his father's death is an emancipation. Suddenly untethered, he is determined to leave behind the old man's words, abandon the desolate high-rises and get out from under his old life to start over.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorAleksandr StekolenkoStarsRita BurkovskaVasiliy KukharskiyDmytro YaroshenkoIs a dramatic story about contemporary Ukrainian society. The protagonist of the film is a 40-year-old man who is considered to be dead. He returns to his home town to restore his documents. However, his return turns out impossible.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorMaryna NikolchevaMaksym VasyanovychStarsMstyslav OvchinnikovMstyslav was known in Kyiv. In 1991, when Ukraine gained independence, Mstyslav was so inspired that he grew a traditional Ukrainian mustache and went to streets with songs about Ukraine. He was screaming his songs for more than 20 years. He was singing badly, but from the bottom of the heart. In those songs, the enemies of Ukraine were dying in terrible torments. He was badly adapted, unprotected and sincere. He got coins from passers-by, threats and insults from cops and lumpens. On "weekends" he used to drink, read, stroll around, take part in patriotic song contests, travel across Ukraine and dream of being a movie star. After he died, it became clear that his life wasn't schizophrenia but the beauty and the truth.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorVladyslav VitrivStarsMariya KhomutovaNona and Sasha have been together for four years. Their marvelous "happily ever after" should have already been formed. But so far, only "ever after" is real. And will it be "happily"? Maybe the wedding will change something?National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorElena RubashevskaStarsOleg PimenovAnna BritvinaIgor OmelchenkoIn a world with no humans, what will you do when you meet one?National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorOlga ZolotaryovaStarsNina AntonovaMaria BruniDmitry Solovyov"Mom!" says Yegor, looking for support. His parents Kolya and Anya don't pay attention to him. They are busy packing soviet junk and are going to finally take it out of the apartment to the summer cottage. Children are quarreling. The younger Yegor stole from the older Sofia a candy. But parents don't see the problem until they have to step over the threshold of morality.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorStanislav BytiutskyiStarsAnastasiya PustovitRoman YasinovskiyIn 1890, in one of the villages of Ukrainian Polissia, a man died under mysterious circumstances. The locals blamed his wife, a young healer, and banished her from the village. When affliction came to the village, people believed they had been cursed by the castaway woman. They discovered she was living in the forest, found her and burned her alive as a witch. But before doing it, they sent a priest to have a final conversation with her.National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorVitaliy GavuraStarsPetro RusanienkoOleksandr BondarukKseniia DiachenkoYanush grew up in a conservative Romani community in a small Ukrainian town. He is about to get married, just what his parents want. However, Yanush is gay and he is in love with another young man, Pasha. Together they decide to sneak away from the wedding and leave town, but can Yanush really do it?National Competition. Shorts
- DirectorMoritz SchulzTwo kids, one war, one camp. Jasmin and Jastrip grow up in Ukraine. Surrounded by war and rising nationalism, they visit the Azovez camp. There they become real patriots and that is what they came for - but it's not why they stay.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorQutaiba BarhamjiA patch of garden on the outskirts of Reims, far, very far from his orchards in Syria. During four seasons, Gevar learns how to farm this new land that waits for no one.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorEytan IpekerEvery year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorAnna-Karin GrönroosStarsJames S. KahaneEmilia HovingSusanna MälkkiConductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorYoav ShamirStarsClaude Vorilhon"The Prophet and The Space Aliens" follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials - that appointed him the "last prophet" - became the founder and leader of the world's biggest UFO religion.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorAlexandra KaufmannPaula and Xana love horses and help out as often as possible on Lois' farm. Lois looks after neglected animals, which makes her all the more endearing. A touching filmic novella about a childhood in Spain and the first encounter with death.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorDagmar SmrzováSingle mother Martina raised twin girls, one of whom was born blind and the other with polio, leaving her disabled. Both children are now adults, and disabled Jana would love to leave her mother and live on her own in institutional living. And she would also like to experience sex, perhaps with a paid assistant. The documentary offers a brutally unsentimental view into the life of an impoverished rural family with two permanently disabled members. It delicately captures both everyday and exceptional situations, focusing mainly on the personal, emotional and relationship problems between the protagonists.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorIlaria GambarelliStarsAdrian DevantLorenzo RivaLuigi ValiettiIn an economically depressed Italy, the fashion designer Lorenzo Riva and his collaborator Luigi Valietti fight to reconquest the heights of haute couture.European Documentary Competition
- DirectorPaul WegenerCarl BoeseStarsPaul WegenerAlbert SteinrückErnst DeutschIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.Cinema_Live - OPEN-AIR PERFORMANCE AT POTEMKIN STAIRS IN ODESA
- DirectorHassen FerhaniStarsMalikaSamir El HakimChawki AmariIn the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorLadj LyStarsDamien BonnardAlexis ManentiDjebril ZongaA cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorIvana MladenovicStarsIvana MladenovicAnca PopAndrei DinescuIt's based on the story of a crisis that took place in the summer of 2017 in the life of Mladenovic, a Serbian-born director living in Romania.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorMaciej PieprzycaStarsDawid OgrodnikCyprian GrabowskiPiotr AdamczykTells the story of Mieczyslaw 'Mietek' Kosz, a Polish jazz pianist, from his childhood to his death under tragic circumstances.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorKatrin GebbeStarsNina HossKaterina LipovskaAdelia-Constance OcleppoA woman who trains police horses adopts her second child, a severely traumatised 5-year-old girl. When the girl shows violent and anti-social behaviour, her new mother becomes determined to help her.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorDavid FranceStarsOlga BaranovaDavid IsteevRamzan KadyrovA group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanTarik KoptyKareem GhneimFilmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsAgathe BoschUgo BroussotFrédéric Schulz-RichardA landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsLuca MarinelliJessica CressyVincenzo NemolatoMartin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsMarta NietoJules PorierAlex BrendemühlTen years have passed since Elena's son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorMehmet Bahadir ErMaryna Er GorbachStarsCem BenderTaj Sher YakubMenderes SamancilarIsmet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorJonás TruebaStarsItsaso AranaVito SanzIsabelle StoffelEva is not satisfied with her life. In an act of faith, she decides to stay in Madrid over the summer, when all the other locals leave. August offers her a chance to start from scratch.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorAnca DamianStarsLizzie BrocheréOlimpia MelinteMarius ManoleAfter an accident, a little dog remembers all the different masters she's had successively and loved unconditionally.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorMassoud BakhshiStarsSadaf AsgariBehnaz JafariBabak KarimiIn Iran today: Maryam (22) accidentally kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular live TV show and forgive Maryam.Festival of Festivals
- DirectorNadège TrebalStarsArieh WorthalterNadège TrebalLiv HenneguierFrank is fired from a car repair workshop where he works illegally. In his area, it's the zone. Although very attached to his life with Maroussia, Frank must leave to find work elsewhere, far from home. Twelve thousand euros is the sum of which they both agree, the amount he must earn before returning. Will Frank succeed in collecting this sum? Will he come back? Will he just come back like that.Visions
- DirectorFelipe BragançaStarsHigor CampagnaroIsabél ZuaaCatarina WallensteinHow to make a film in a country that is losing its identity? This is the question facing Fernando: a bankrupt, thirty-something-white-male filmmaker from Brazil.Visions
- DirectorJurgis MatuleviciusStarsAleksas KazanaviciusSeverija JanusauskaiteDainius GavenonisKaunas, Lithuania, 1941, Lithuanian activist Andrius Gluosnis kills a Jew Isaac in Lietukio garage massacre. Years after the incident Gluosnis is haunted by the guilt.Visions
- DirectorElsa KremserLevin PeterStarsAleksey SerebryakovNatalia KuranovaNadezhda SobetskayaThey are Moscow's stray shadows: a "pack" of dogs and humans, claiming their territory where the city is crumbling and yet reveals a magical landscape.Visions
- DirectorYaron ShaniStarsBar GottfriedLaliv SivanReni HalabiA young musician is secretly in love with the beautiful woman living across the street. He is unaware of the horrifying mental crisis she is going through. She is oblivious to the heavy price he had to pay when he gave up his dreams. The encounter between them will entwine their fates forever.Visions
- DirectorYaron ShaniStarsStav AlmagorOri ShaniLaliv SivanAvigail had a baby too young and has been raising her alone. Now the teenage daughter is exploding with anger and defiance. When Avigail is remarried, the daughter doesn't accept the new father and the house turns into a war zone. Things become even more complicated when Avigail is unable to fulfill her husband's dream of becoming a father to his own child. Just when Avigail is about to collapse, she finds comfort in the hands of Yael, an expert in pregnancy and childcare. Yael, an abandoned child, had managed to build herself a persona of a spiritual guru of motherhood, only to run away from her grave fear of becoming a mother herself. Her troubled sister Na'ama is there to remind her the truth she has been running away from. Na'ama is a walking volcano. She is a bright and highly devoted daughter to her demented father by day and a desperate hunter of men at night. Yet, there is hope through connections. These women can help each other to change, break the cage of their self-destruction and be reborn.Visions
- DirectorYaron ShaniStarsStav AlmagorEran NaimStav PatayThe private life of policeman Rashi is thrown out of balance by a sudden loss of authority on the job.Visions
- DirectorMinos NikolakakisStarsPrometheus AleiferAnastasia Rafaella KonidiKostas LaskosA village doctor uncovers the dark secret of an isolated woman who lives with a mysterious skin condition.Visions
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsAbdullah MiniawySouhir Ben AmaraKhaled BenaissaS is a young soldier in the southern desert of Tunisia. When he learns about his mother's death, he obtains a week's leave and goes back home. He will never return to the camp.Visions
- DirectorSandra WollnerStarsLena WatsonDominik WartaIngrid BurkhardElli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.Visions
- DirectorYuriy BelyanskiyStarsIgor MaslovLev DurovAleksei ZalivalovUkrainian Retrospective: Odesa Free Cinema - OFFLINE SCREENING TAKES PLACE AT DOVZHENKO CENTRE (IN KYIV)
- DirectorYuri SadomskyStarsEvgeniy LebedevEvgeniy EvstigneevAleksandr KalyaginUkrainian Retrospective: Odesa Free Cinema - OFFLINE SCREENING TAKES PLACE AT DOVZHENKO CENTRE (IN KYIV)
- DirectorMikhail KatsStarsViktor SukhorukovSergey GalkinTamara TimofeevaUkrainian Retrospective: Odesa Free Cinema - OFFLINE SCREENING TAKES PLACE AT DOVZHENKO CENTRE (IN KYIV)
- DirectorSergey RakhmaninStarsDima GolubovNikolay KochegarovElena KondulaynenThe main character, which is a prototype of Kafka, is on his way to achieving true self-cognition. The impetus for this was vague childhood memories associated with emotions, as well as the identification of his identity with certain images at that period. He is facing an internal conflict, tearing him apart, between creativity and reality that are not compatible with each other.Ukrainian Retrospective: Odesa Free Cinema - OFFLINE SCREENING TAKES PLACE AT DOVZHENKO CENTRE (IN KYIV)
- DirectorMikhail KatsStarsAleksandr StanilovMais SarkisyanSergey RusskinUkrainian Retrospective: Odesa Free Cinema - OFFLINE SCREENING TAKES PLACE AT DOVZHENKO CENTRE (IN KYIV)
- DirectorEvgeniya GrygorovychPopular science film about the structure and features of the female body, recommendations on women's behavior in everyday life, in particular during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.Retrospective: Women Pioneers of Cinema
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsMila Al ZahraniDae Al HilaliNora Al AwadA determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate.Retrospective: Women Pioneers of Cinema
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsCarlyle BlackwellDoris KenyonEdgar NortonAn abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.Retrospective: Women Pioneers of Cinema
- DirectorJacqueline AudryStarsEdwige FeuillèreSimone SimonMarie-Claire OliviaLate nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.Retrospective: Women Pioneers of Cinema
- DirectorPamela B. GreenStarsJodie FosterAlice GuyPamela B. GreenPamela B. Green's energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.Retrospective: Women Pioneers of Cinema
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAndrée BrabantGabriel SignoretJules RaucourtA Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.Retrospective: Women Pioneers of Cinema
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsLars NordhStefan LarssonBengt C.W. CarlssonWhere are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.Retrospective: Roy Andersson
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsJessica LouthanderTatiana DelaunayAnders HellströmRoy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.Retrospective: Roy Andersson
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsAnn-Sofie KylinRolf SohlmanAnita LindblomTwo teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.Retrospective: Roy Andersson
- DirectorGregory MonroStarsStanley KubrickMichel CimentMalcolm McDowellA rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of unearthed interview recordings from the master himself.Special Screenings
- DirectorOleh SentsovAkhtem SeitablaevStarsViktor AndrienkoOleksandr YaremaIrina MakAn absurd and strict dystopian society is suddenly disrupted when its leader is overthrown.Special Screenings
- DirectorLudi BoekenStarsPaul Octavian DiaconescuJulia Levy-BoekenCristian BalintThis saga unfolds at the 1955 Court Martial in which Israeli soldier stands accused of desertion, during which he made his way via Europe to the swamps of Vietnam, in search of justice - and revenge.Special Screenings
- DirectorTrevor HardyStarsKen StottLizzie WaterworthAlex KellyA young mole must try to achieve his impossible dream of becoming a footballer in order to save his hometown gold mine from a greedy supervillain known only as 'The Boss'.OIFF for Kids: With Children Kinofest
- DirectorChristian LoStarsTage Johansen HognessJakob DyrudJonas Hoff OftebroA young band from Norway sets out on a journey across the country to attend the National Championship of Rock in a race against time, police and parents.OIFF for Kids: With Children Kinofest
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieXavier PicardStarsEnrico Di GiovanniThomas SagolsGabriel Le DozeAn old prince runs aground on an unknown shore. Wounded and lost, he is found by young Tom and taken in by his parents, two researchers forced into exile ... The prince, guided by Tom, discovers with enthusiasm and fascination a society that is however frozen and sclerotic .OIFF for Kids: With Children Kinofest
- DirectorRaya MartinStarsNoel Comia Jr.Agot IsidroMoi MarcampoIn the early 1990s, a teenager and his gang of friends enjoy their summer playing games as they grow up.OIFF for Kids: With Children Kinofest
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsIvan TrojanJosef TrojanJuraj LojThe life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.Closing Film