Warsaw Film Festival: Features Lineup
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- DirectorAndrzej JakimowskiStarsAgata KuleszaGrzegorz PalkowskiAlin SzewczykA mother and her adult son are evicted from their flat and struggle to find safe place in a homeless shelter.Opening film
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAlicia VikanderCelyn JonesJannik SchümannJames and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. She's going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. He's going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.Closing Film
- DirectorDrazen KuljaninStarsDisa ÖstrandSrdjan GrahovacJohannes KuhnkeIt has been seven years since Nina's daughter went missing and only during cigarette breaks do we get to follow her hunt for the perpetrator as she returns to Montenegro for one last time.International Competition
- DirectorRobert GlinskiStarsMateusz WieclawekJakub ZajacMagdalena WieczorekInternational Competition
- DirectorUrszula AntoniakStarsAndrzej ChyraJakub GierszalChristian LöberA young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.International Competition
- DirectorJoan ChemlaStarsGael García BernalMarine VacthNahuel Pérez BiscayartCast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.International Competition
- DirectorMehdi Ben AttiaStarsHafsia HerziRaouf Ben AmorHaythem AchourFollowing the death of her husband in an accident, young Amel tries to find some consolation in photography. She takes photos of strangers from the street, looking at men as they tend to do towards women.International Competition
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsTansu BiçerNalan KuruçimTaner BirselScrewy signs indicate the arrival of the doomsday. The people of a small town find themselves on the edge of insanity, thinking the Antichrist is already around. But who is Christ, then? A poor guy with a sacred mark on his back working in a coffee shop?International Competition
- DirectorDan ChisuStarsMircea AlbulescuRazvan VasilescuEmanuel ParvuAt Radu Maligan's 94th anniversary the family members and the former colleagues of the old man come to his birthday party. Everything gets complicated when half of the guests try to convince Radu to confess his sins to a priest, while the others think that no one should be forced to do something beyond their will.International Competition
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsDimitri TatishviliJoseph KhvedelidzeSophia SebiskveradzePriest Giorgi, a former Film Director, is sent to serve the small parish in the mountain village. To bring villagers closer to church he starts showing films there. After the screening of the first picture - "Some Like It Hot" - the audience imply that the local music teacher Lili looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. After meeting Lili, Father Giorgi's balance between cleric and secular world starts to quiver - the woman is extremely sexy and the temptation is difficult to resist.International Competition
- DirectorHanna Antonina Wojcik SlakStarsLeon LucevMarina RedzepovicZala Djuric2009, Slovenia, European Union. For 30 years, Alija, the miner, has been one of the many Bosnian immigrant workers. Due to the crisis, miners are losing jobs. Alija is sent to check an abandoned mine. His task is to quickly make sure the mine is empty before management sells the company. But in the mine, Alija finds hidden proof of executions after WWII. He is told to stop digging and report the mine empty. He decides to continue, although he is risking his job. Alija discovers thousands of executed people. He informs the police. He found women among the dead. Some of them were civilians, missing persons, just like his sister that was lost in the 1995 genocide in Bosnia. Alija is convinced the victims need to be brought out, identified and buried. But there is no interest in doing that. The mine is proclaimed a WWII military grave and walled in. The dead will stay without a burial. Alija loses his job and struggles to preserve his dignity. He is sure he was doing the right thing, in spite of the unemployment his family is now faced with. Based on a true story.International Competition
- DirectorZehao GaoStarsYong DongMing HuHua LiuOne hot summer day, A pedestrian, his wife, a village head, a murderer, an official of the county, and a policeman took turns showing up at the main character Chen's melon shed. For the first time in his life, this quiet and obedient man realizes the meaning of his own existence. This is the story a man at the bottom of the society, and the awakening of his need to fight back in life.International Competition
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsAnders JuulAmanda CollinRasmus HammerichWhen Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces.Competition 1-2
- DirectorDenijal HasanovicStarsAndrea OtalvaroLana BaricAndrzej ChyraA Colombian girl who studies law in France arrives to Sarajevo to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.Competition 1-2
- DirectorModi BarryCédric IdoStarsJacky IdoTatiana RojoJean-Baptiste AnoumonAn agile and colorful comedy about the lives of African immigrants in Paris. Charles is the most skilled and elegant among the sellers used by hairdressers in the populated district of Château d'Eau. His mission is to fill the beauty salon with the clients captured in the street. But when the competition is intense and everyone wants to be the number one, the dirty game is on the agenda. Soon Charles will find himself in a dangerous spiral in which his dreams, reputation and even his wardrobe will be affected.Competition 1-2
- DirectorGentian KoçiStarsOrnela KapetaniSuzana PriftiKasem HoxhaLeta has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old woman confined to bed, whose daughter has just employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and a roof over their head, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.Competition 1-2
- DirectorBen BrandStarsWim OpbrouckSteef CuijpersNino den BraveA brash teenage boy faces a whirlwind of consequences when his video of his younger sister committing an act of animal cruelty goes viral.Competition 1-2
- DirectorTom EspinozaStarsGermán De SilvaAna CelentanoNina SuárezMr. Arguello, school director, must take care of Cata, a 14-year-old student, injured in a lake, while waiting for her parents to arrive. During the wait the most important story of their lives will unravel.Competition 1-2
- DirectorElena MartínStarsElena MartínOriol Puig GrauLaura WeissmahrJulia goes to Berlin to study but once there, completely alone, she realizes that she doesn't know herself as well as she thought and that she has no idea what she wants to do while living in a completely new city.Competition 1-2
- DirectorViviana Gómez EcheverryStarsMercedes SalazarSebastián Enciso SalamancaFelipe CabezaA young woman living on a Caribbean island is searching for her father who is lost at sea. When her estranged family come to help, she must confront their dark past and this new family she never expected to embrace.Competition 1-2
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsNatasha JaramilloGiovanny RodríguezCarmenza CossioAfter the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.Competition 1-2
- DirectorTomas AlzamoraStarsRodrigo SalinasErnesto MeléndezCatalina SaavedraA small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for.Competition 1-2
- DirectorPéter PolitzerStarsFischer SamuPeter VassAntónia BodóSlices pregnant with meaning from the lives of 3 males in Budapest: a 13 year old football player who gets the apartment to himself for unexpected reasons, a philandering 40 year old classical bassist who has to deal with kids, work and unexpected problems of his own making, and a 91 year old photographer slash counterfeiter, who weaves the last strands into his rich tapestry of a life.Competition 1-2
- DirectorAlexandra Latishev SalazarStarsLiliana BiamonteJavier MontenegroErick CalderonMaría José is 25. Her life moves back and forth between the monotony of class at the university, her eternally distant parents, and a couple of alternative spaces where she can explore her own and others' limits. One day, she meets Javier, a boy she really likes and tries to have a relationship with, but her behavior starts changing radically. In fact, she's a few months into her pregnancy and no one knows.Competition 1-2
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.Competition 1-2