Gothenburg International Film Festival 2015
All the movies shown at Gothenburg International Film Festival 2015
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- DirectorLiv UllmannStarsColin FarrellJessica ChastainSamantha MortonOver the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
- DirectorStéphane LafleurStarsJulianne CôtéPierre-Luc LafontaineLuc SenayWhile her parents are away, a young woman and her friend are hanging out for the summer, and are joined by her brother and his bandmates.
- DirectorRichard GlatzerWash WestmorelandStarsJulianne MooreAlec BaldwinKristen StewartA linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsJohannes KuhnkeLisa Loven KongsliClara WettergrenA family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsHera HilmarÞorsteinn BachmannThorvaldur KristjanssonA Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsLaura Peterson-AardamTarmo SongMirt Preegel"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"
- DirectorAlix DelaporteStarsRomain PaulClotilde HesmeGrégory GadeboisA 13-year old boy who lives with his single sick mom in a trailer near the beach, comes in contact with the father he never knew when the man performs as a conductor at the local music theater.
- DirectorSara JohnsenStarsAnnika HallinKristoffer JonerFridtjov SåheimAfter her son is hospitalized, a doctor cheats on her husband with a snow plow driver who is a suspect in her investigation of the recent death of a young Arab boy.
- DirectorLiv UllmannStarsLena EndreErland JosephsonKrister HenrikssonAn imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.
- DirectorAntonio AugugliaroGabriele del GrandeKhaled Soliman al NassiryStarsTasneem FaredAbdallah SallamA Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden, and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers, by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of three thousand kilometres.
- DirectorIvan GergoletStarsMaría FuxMaría GarridoMaria Fux spends her life training dancers, particularly those with disabilities. But now, at 90, she finds her toughest student may be herself.
- DirectorZeresenay MehariStarsMeron GetnetTizita HagereAbel AbebeA young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
- DirectorJessie ChisiSalla SorriStarsEsther PhiriAfter trading her marriage for a boxing career, seven-time world welterweight champion Esther Phiri is torn between her family obligations and cultural expectations.
- DirectorJ.P. SniadeckiStarsWoseser TseringFilmed over three years on what will soon be the world's largest railway network, 'The Iron Ministry' traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture.
- DirectorSaodat IsmailovaStarsRushana SadikovaBarohad ShukurovaSaodat Rahminova40 Days of Silence is the story of four women in Central Asia in key moments of their lives, discovered through their different ages. It is a trip into an unconscious and intimate female world; it is an attempt to portray broken identities and women who confront their own will to choose and decide.
- DirectorFrancesco MunziStarsMarco LeonardiPeppino MazzottaFabrizio FerracaneThe story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.
- DirectorTeodora MihaiFifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Torn between adolescence and heavy responsibilities, the teenage girl struggles to keep everyone afloat.
- DirectorAlejo MoguillanskyFia-Stina SandlundStarsLuciana AcuñaGuillermo GoldschmidtWalter JakobAfter an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden near a town in the Misiones province named after the 19th-century politician Leandro N. Alem, he persuades the producers to change the project, as a portrait of the radical Alem and move the production there - so he can search for the treasure. A portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentinian director.
- DirectorSophie HydeStarsTilda Cobham-HerveySam AlthuizenImogen Archer16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
- DirectorHafsteinn Gunnar SigurðssonStarsBjörn ThorsHelgi BjörnssonNanna Kristín MagnúsdóttirHugi is a teacher in a small and remote village in the east of iceland (population 169). He is quite content by himself among the mountains, which surround the quite village where hardly anyone walks the streets. But has he withdrawn too far? When Hugi receives a phone call from his estranged father announcing his arrival he is not too pleased. But after consulting with his AA-sponser, Hugi, decides to welcome him. Something he immediately regrets.
- DirectorHallvard BræinStarsAnders BaasmoIda HusøySven NordinThe illegal sports car race "Street legal" goes 2000 kilometers through Norway from Oslo to North Cape, and Roy has been challenged to participate. At the same time, he has to look after his daughter.
- DirectorAmir EscandariStarsDjan Ivson SilvaRicardo Rodrigo de Lima LuísWilliam Pereira da SilvaA group of friends risk death to make their mark on the world.
- DirectorSuha ArrafStarsNisreen FaourUla TabariCherien DabisThree unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have shut themselves in their villa clinging desperately to their former glory, until their orphan niece, Badia, walks into their life and turns their world upside down
- DirectorDiep Hoang NguyenStarsNguyen Thuy AnhThanh DuyHoang HaWhen young Hanoi couple, Tung and Huyen, discover they are going to have a baby, it inspires two desperate quests to raise money for an abortion. While Tung looks to illegal cockfighting, Huyen resorts to prostitution with a client that results in some surprising personal realizations.
- DirectorEster Martin BergsmarkStarsSaga BeckerIggy MalmborgShima NiavaraniA gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.