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- A son and a father go on a road trip that turns into a musical journey into the emotional memory and the history of Finnish immigration in Sweden; of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism, and family secrets.
- Iranian Kidney Bargain Sale follows young Iranians through the organ trade process, in the only country in the world where kidney trading is legal.
- The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the rest, she didn't vanish forever from history. Elisabeth Márton's film relates, restages and remembers the tragic story of Spielrein's life as gleaned from a box of her papers discovered in 1977 in the cellar of Geneva's former Institute of Psychology. Spielrein was a young Russian-Jewish woman of 18 when she arrived in August 1904 at the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich where Carl Gustav Jung had set up shop. She was his first patient. He was 29 and married. Her cathexis was rapid and she formed an intense attachment to her young doctor, who seems to have reciprocated. But after Sigmund Freud's note (above) on the nefarious nature of females, the doctors hatched the theory of counter-transference to explain their feelings. Luckily, this wouldn't be Sabina's final contribution to psychoanalysis. Pronounced cured, she became a psychoanalyst herself and, within eight years, was practising alongside the founding fathers. The correspondence between Spielrein, Freud and Jung discovered that day in the Geneva basement has become essential to understanding the evolution of psychoanalysis ^Ö and the virtually insurmountable challenges facing women who sought to contribute in any role other than that of patient. Márton's deft re-enactments and the actors' dramatic readings of Spielrein's own words tell a chilling story, bringing to light both the work of this pioneer and the dark side of psychoanalysis. Documentary and drama carry Spielrein's life into the cross-hairs of warring ideologies (Communism, National Socialism). With a rare gift for melding subjectivity with biographical facts, Márton brings Sabina Spielrein back to life, body and soul.
- There is a Swedish saying that claims that if a marriage can survive a rewallpapering job, it can survive anything. Paradise puts this maxim to the test. For the final part of his trilogy about the elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström, the originally Polish director Sladkowski takes this household task as his jumping-off point. Hans thinks the living room wall with the lake view could use a more vibrant wallpaper, but Kerstin does not agree. Before long, their difference of opinion results in a strange and futile verbal sparring match. The direct and at times slyly provocative photography intensifies the sharp dialogues with which the spouses compete against one another. In bold supporting roles, the hairdresser and a faithful friend provide a little extra ammo. It does not take long for this single argument to reveal the ups and downs of 60 years of marriage. The telling observations of Hans and Kerstin as individuals, but especially their mutual irritations, worries, and physical affection, produce a comic pas-de-deux that looks somewhat staged, yet comes across as authentic because of the irony.
- Working at the assembly line, bringing up children alone, dreaming of happiness - women's lives in the Russian provinces. Filmed like fiction and imbued with the gorgeous melancholy of crushed dreams, award-winning Vodka Factory is a stunningly intimate reflection on the price of dreams. A poignant documentary on solitude, on the heavy weight of daily life and on the strength of hope.
- Explores the strength of that unseen bond that can only be created by sharing family ties. It follows the Merenda family, one of the founding families of Paterno Calebro, a small village in southern Italy. Most members of the Merenda family immigrated to America over a century ago, and throughout the subsequent years the ties between those in America and those who chose to stay in the "old country" have almost become non-existent. In 2002, however, 70-year-old Gaetano Merenda (the filmmaker's father) and his wife are invited to be the guests of honor at a Merenda family reunion to be held in Kansas.
- Two young women's lives and their battle of the right to get a normal life. Religion is their only hope, living in small towns where the poverty takes away all human dignity. A hidden part of our Europe.
- Sometimes time stands perfectly still, holding its breath. Time out of place is a film about these moments, elusive yet eternal. Sara stands on a balcony looking down at the city summer night. Everything that happens on the street seems to mirror her situation. It's a film about the moment you decide to break up. Everything that you once believed in still echoes inside of you, but you've already moved on.
- A rich piece of dramatic storytelling about the love between two brothers, their struggle for a better life, and the turbulent relationship that threatens to break apart their family.
- Two friends on a boarding school in Krasnoiarsk in Siberia join a Show competion arranged by teachers in the school. Their friendship will be questioned and will they manage to come over the envy. A documentary about loyalty and fidelity.
- Twenty-eight of my family members and relatives have been operated at least once by my brother who is a plastic surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Having grown up as a 'work-in-progress' where the premise, myself, was constantly questioned, as an adult I had to ask my family: could that premise be changed ?