Personal 66th Locarno Film Festival List

Milan. Behind the windows of the city's buildings are private rooms and private lives. And a man, Inspector Monaco, weary of his job since his wife died three years ago. According to the rules for survival that he has set himself, he wants no further contact with other people or with the stench of violence; he just wants to do paperwork. This night, however, sees the arrival at police headquarters not just of the Ullrich murder case, but also of Monaco's daughter Linda, arrested for possession of a firearm. Dawn casts light on a new and grim reality, and the Inspector must decide how to face it: as policeman or father. Searching for himself, he will find Linda again, as well as a truth which is not what it seemed.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad. They dig into a case about a missing woman.

The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.

Paul, fourteen, neglects his studies to spend all his time on his moped, to the consternation of his parents. When his beloved moped disappears, none of his nearest and dearest seem to realize what this means to him. Paul soon tracks down the thief, Karim, a young apprentice mechanic of his own age. From this an unexpected relationship develops.

Catania, Sicily. In the heart of the working class neighborhood lies a vast and lawless territory where makeshift stables can be found. One of them is owned by Concetto aka 'il farmacista' a man respected and even feared by many, who built a reputation for himself in the small world of clandestine horse racing. Every day, before sunrise, his son Vittorio walks to the stables to get their horse, Vito Portanova, ready for training. In a few days, a clandestine race will take place on a desert street at the foot of the Etna...

My grandfather is telling me a story that he invented, and asks me to make a film out of it. Because of pollution, pesticides, and other toxic substances, a bee decides to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable place for her to live in.

Seen as hopeless cases, they live in a run-down boarding house by the name of Annelie. A true story about a real place, where in 2012 the unthinkable happens: the reality comes to an end.

Maxime returns to live with his father in a small town in Burgundy (Tonnerre). He meets the young and pretty journalist Melodie and finds love when he least expects it. However with gradually rising tension the simple story turns into a dark thriller.

An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

Logline An introspective cinematic journey following the thin line between transcendental inspiration and bleak visions evoked by the spirit of vodka. Synopsis THE GREEN SERPENT is a journey into the depths of intoxication: drinking vodka as a transcendental experience. Bitten by the green snake, people enter into a twilight zone where the beauty of life becomes indistinguishable from a dark, devastating void and inspiration and destruction can equally form. During this cinematic trip through the Russian winterland we meet the actor Aleksandr Bashirov, the poet Mstislav Biserov and renowned physicist Nikolai Mikhailovich Budnev who speak about their relationship with vodka; the struggle against fear and pain and the pursuit of divine spirits its consumption awakens. THE GREEN SERPENT is introspection about drinking, a brusque Cinepoem not only for inebriated barflies, but for everyone driven by a desire for ecstasy in an otherwise ordinary life. This film is an ode to passion, about people who comprehend drinking as an extension of the world beyond religion and materialism.

The Unplaceables is a feature length documentary about the need for imagination in order to live a fully human life. It focuses on a group of (ex)-addicts, their work and their attempts to gain control over their lives. The documentary shows how the world looks from their perspective, what gives them hope, the strategies they develop to survive and how their world reflects ours.

In a suburb of Algiers, in the mid 90's. Jaber and Yamina are neighbors, but do not know each other. Within days, however, what was so far a dull and distant violence erupts before them, forever changing their destinies.

A car is floating in the middle of a house's pool. Sofía, a young woman, manages to escape from the wreckage and sits silently on the edge. From one of the windows overlooking the pool, a witness is looking. Once in the hospital, Sofía has trouble remembering the accident.

Prevented from speaking to his son, Alvy must choose between anger or change.

The kafkaesque story of a Kurdish refugee trying to follow his passion of beekeeping in Switzerland.

Coming to grips with the truth that he will never earn a living playing baduk; a young man's encounter by chance with a local gangster finds him with a new pupil, about the vastly different past and future of the two men.

Since the first Gold Rush in the late 1890s the Yukon and its legendary Klondike gold fields has been a remote land shrouded in mystery. In times of economic instability the high price of gold makes the search for the precious metal all the more attractive. Individual miners compete in this modern day gold rush tale about the quest for the fabulous mother lode, the source, which, despite decades of exploitation, is still believed to lie hidden underground.

A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.

Áurea is a sentimental older woman, who befriends teenager Áureo. They like each other, so she talks to him about herself, her spirituality, mysticism and existence itself. They become inseparable, so his jealous mother confronts her.