Fiff 2021

An encounter of two married couples from two opposite social classes that seem to have nothing in common. An accident and a tragic event bring these people together fatefully in a single night and most likely until the rest of their lives.

Two hopeless dreamers join forces in a quest to erect the ultimate German sausage restaurant, much to the irritation of the residents of the small-town of Gutterbee, who want to keep their town wholly American.

Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?

A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!

A woman disguises herself as a man to join the army in order to protect her educationally subnormal son who has been called up to fight in WW1.

A successful writer asks his ex, who left him, to climb one last time in the mountains together. Only then he can really let her go.

Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.

In a remote area in Afghanistan, stories of the lives of a young shepherdess, a bird catcher boy and a mourning teacher are intertwined by the wounds of war which are still bleeding.

Nine years ago, Marion and Grégoire shared a brief love affair. Now, by chance, they meet in a train station, in between two journeys. He is arriving, she is leaving. They have eighty minutes to re-evaluate their lives, and come face to face with their truths, regrets and memories. This is their last chance.

Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Lebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village and leaves his wife Rana preparing alone their immigration to Canada. Marwan finds no traces of his father and the ceasefire is quickly broken, forcing him to take shelter in Najib's house, his father's friend. Marwan finds himself trapped under the rain of bombs with Najib and a group of elders, friends of his father. Tension rises inside and outside of the house. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. The next three days sees the situation spiral out of control.

Amjad, a rural young man, is marginalized within his surroundings after his marriage to Rama. He was hit by a mortar shell and lost his eyesight as a result of his inability to receive the necessary treatment due to the siege that the region is witnessing, to find the only safe haven being his wife. Later, this young man makes the decision to migrate illegally with his wife to receive treatment.

An inspiring and encouraging documentary about the peaceful uprising of a nation against injustice and the brutal oppression of their democracy movements.

An insignificant Water Inspector enters at a remote building only to find himself trapped inside, facing a Kafkaesque maze of obstacles.

Kris, living with her uncle since her teenage years, is starting to second guess her current life, at her disabled uncles farm. As love crosses her path, a possible life changing question emerges.

Fellini behind the curtains, observing the great director through the eyes and the lenses of Ferruccio Castronuovo, Fellini's trusted partner, who filmed him between the '76 and '86.

After a neighbor's daughter throws some contemptuous remarks about his dead father, ten years old boy teaches the girl a cruel lesson thereby condemning himself in the eyes of the surrounding folk.

A married Albanian mother and her pregnant sister try to find a man to play the part of the sister's husband before they meet up with their strict, traditional father.

While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.

The desperate lives of Hungarian soldiers on the Eastern Front through the eyes of a captain. Their task is to find and capture Soviet partisans to secure the front lines.

When John, a thirty-four-year-old window cleaner, is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.

Ireland, 1845. As the famine progresses, a fisherman unable to protect his family is subsumed by darkness until a helpless little girl saves him from despair.

Leningrad, World War II. An Olga is walking through the whole city to her father. She has just buried her husband and is sure she is going to die soon out of hunger. Olga wants to see her father one last time to say goodbye.

A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he's confronted with raw reality, which finally brings him to his knees. But music has the last word.

A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.