CIFF38

A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.

To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.

A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.

Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.

A gang of Afghan kids from the Kuchi tribe dig out old Soviet mines and sell the explosives to children working in a lapis lazuli mine. When not dreaming of the time when American troops finally withdraw from their land, another gang of children keeps tight control on the caravans smuggling the blue gemstones through the arid mountains of Pamir.

A film about a woman who discovers her husband's war crimes and must decide how to respond.

The single mom Anna is forced to take three then four jobs to support herself and her autistic son who lives in a children's home, and when the whole thing becomes too much to bear she decides to leave Georgia and travel to the US. But it's easier said than done getting tickets and the faked visa she needs.

Mattias is a young talented photographer in his final year of secondary school, who has a dream to become a student of the Berlin Arts Academy. He unexpectedly falls in love with a wild red-haired beauty Hanna, who doesn't seem to take him seriously unless he proves to be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Mattias risks his whole future by breaking the law together with Hanna, but ends up destroying the girl he loves. Hanna appears to suffer from bipolar disorder, the most dangerous effects of which are triggered by alcohol and drugs. Saving Hanna from herself, Mattias commits a crime that could end up putting him behind bars. His only solution for avoiding jail time is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that, Mattias would have to start faking the illness his girlfriend already has - bipolarity.

A paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. Weary of life and caring for her two sons, she develops an attraction to the nightclub bouncer, but he is in love with the club stripper, who is in turn waiting for the father of her child to return from the same prison where our prison guard works. A story about the demons of our day.

A dying Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas in a caravan escorted by two rogues.

Two disabled teenagers looking for meaning in their lives, team up with a wheelchair hit-man.

A man who was declared dead comes home.

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.