A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.

Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.

In the summer of his nineteenth year, Giulio has decided not to go away: he will spend his vacation at home, helping his parents with their work in the vegetable garden. In the house next door, empty for some time, arrives Lia, a twenty-year-old girl. Giulio would like to get to know her, but she is sullen and introverted. One day Giulio is swimming in the lake and Lia plays at drowning him. Giulio is a regular guy, sensitive and polite to a fault. Attracted to her, he starts thinking about her day and night. Lia initiates him into strange and increasingly dangerous "games." The girl won't talk about herself though. She has told him she came alone to spend her vacation in the old family home, where she hadn't been since she was a child. But Lia has secrets to keep and won't let anyone set foot in the old and abandoned house.

Five passengers - the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei's old father, the Musician, and a young woman - race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Belfry of Happiness which, according to hearsay, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg and the town of Uglich, near a deserted nuclear power station. The Belfry takes people, but it does not take everyone. Each of the five passengers believes that he or she will be chosen.

Jack Diamond und sein kränklicher Bruder kommen als Schmuckdiebe im Prohibition New York an. Nach einer Haftstrafe kommt der kühl ehrgeizige Diamond auf die Idee, selbst Diebe zu stehlen und macht sich daran, Gangsterboss Arnold Rothstein nahe zu kommen, um seine Alkohol-, Mädchen-, Glücksspiel- und Drogengeschäfte zu betreiben.

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".

Danish photographer Daniel Rye is one of the main characters in a nerve-wracking hostage drama based on a shocking interview with two life-sentenced British ISIS members in a confrontation with journalist Sean Langan.

The film follows the parallel and entwining stories as well as the common fates of some very different young people for 24 hours in the summertime: from the prison to the corridors of the airport and from the Saronikos beaches to the Psiloritis mountain. The common characteristic of the heroes is that they have inherited from their nefarious parents various problems. In spite of the fact that they used to be neutral, due to specials conditions they will be forced to grow up.

Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes there under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Opposing forces quickly divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.

Movie star London Clash gets his world turned upside down when he must choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing starring role in a major motion picture.

'Wer wir sind und wer wir waren' entführt die Zuschauer in die malerischen Kulissen eines südenglischen Küstenortes. Doch die Idylle trügt, denn hier erlebt Annette Bening in der Hauptrolle der Grace eine emotionale Tour de Force. Ihr Ehemann Edward, gespielt von Bill Nighy, gesteht ihr nach fast 30 gemeinsamen Ehejahren, dass er sich in eine andere Frau verliebt hat. Für seine Frau bricht eine Welt zusammen. Doch so schnell will sie ihren geliebten Mann nicht aufgeben...

Following a tense encounter with a mysterious stranger with otherworldly powers, a man is banished to a parallel, tyrannical, liberal Earth, where he fights to get back the woman he loves.

Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to abstinence, via exhibition, six separate stories with the same questioning of desire today in the center.

February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.

Während eines Streits seiner Eltern flüchtet der kleine Luke nach draußen und wird zufällig Zeuge einer Schießerei. Luke ist völlig überfordert mit der Situation und seine Fantasie holt sich einen imaginären Freund zu Hilfe. Daniel und er sind ab jetzt unzertrennlich. Weil Daniel aber immer übergriffiger wird, wird er kurzerhand weggesperrt. Doch die Dämonen seiner Vergangenheit beschäftigen ihn nach wie vor. Und plötzlich taucht Daniel wieder auf.

Die Entdeckungen und Forschungen der polnischen Chemikerin und Physikerin Marie Curie in Frankreich haben bis heute unweigerliche Auswirkungen auf den Alltag der Menschen. Die visionäre Pionierin und zweifache Nobelpreisträgerin hatte aufgrund ihres Geschlechts zeit ihres Lebens mit Widerständen in der männlich dominierten Wissenschaftswelt zu kämpfen. Ihre ausländische Herkunft machte sie derweil zur Zielscheibe der französischen Presse. Eine wichtige Stütze fand sie nur in ihrem Ehemann und Forschungspartner Pierre, der Liebe ihres Lebens. Neben dem Sexismus ihrer Zeit kämpft Curie dabei auch mit dem Wissen darum, was ihre Entdeckung von Polonium und Radium für die Zukunft der Menschheit bedeuten könnte – neben Fortschritt lauert in der von ihr selbst so benannten Radioaktivität auch Gefahr, denn auch die Gesundheit von Curie ist bereits angeschlagen …

In dem Krimi-Drama Brothers By Blood von Jérémie Guez geht es um einen trauernden Bruder, der sich an die kriminellen Verbindungen seiner Familie wendet, um sich an der Person zu rächen, die seine Schwester getötet hat.