AWARDS 12/09 : EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS

A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.

Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.

A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.

The story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.

A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.

Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.

David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.

Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

A ghostwriter uncovers a dark secret while working on the memoirs of England's former Prime Minister.

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.