PÖFF 2019

Two hopeless dreamers join forces in a quest to erect the ultimate German sausage restaurant, much to the irritation of the residents of the small-town of Gutterbee, who want to keep their town wholly American.

La vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Great Poetry is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They're young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. Dreaming, they attend a poetry class at their local cultural center, and watch cock fights at a dorm for migrant workers. Attempts to find poetry in the prosaic world that surrounds them lead the heroes to the conclusion that the only poetic move they can make is to rob a bank. Paul Claudel wrote that a person lives their life intimately and poetically, and in our film there is a lot of poetry. But the film isn't about words or rhymes. It's about friendship and betrayal, and about our vicious and alien world in which anyone who tries to be honest and consistent ends up looking naive and cruel. It's about the ever-present and incomprehensible force that no matter what makes our life so frantic, strange, and lonely.

1997. Russia is finding it tough in the wake of the USSR, a fact reflected in local criminal gangs. Bull is leader of one such. He ends up at the police station, where he s asked pull off a risky mob-job in return of imprisonment.

The fantastic story about the power of simple people, capable of living and surviving in the most complex circumstances, about love, loyalty and beauty.

Winter, moonlit night - Two women with a child make their way through the forest. And somewhere nearby, a werewolf wanders in search of a victim. Either a beast, or a man, or a phantom .

This award-winning documentary chronicles the dramatic upbringing of boxing prodigies Kenneth Sims Jr. and Destyne Butler Jr., and their aspirations of surviving on the dangerous South Side of Chicago to achieve boxing glory.

THE LONGEST WAVE offers a rare glimpse into what motivates an athlete who has everything to lose to push his body and mind to the limit. A film about surf legend Robby Naish.

Daniel sperimenta un'evoluzione spirituale in un centro di detenzione. Sebbene la sua fedina penale gli impedisca di fare domanda per il seminario, non rinuncia al suo sogno e decide di fare il sacerdote della parrocchia di un paese.

As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town. But in a place where "you either get knocked up or locked up," innocent games can easily turn into serious crime.

Nella sua selvaggia ricerca d'amore, l'energia selvaggia di Benni, 9 anni, porta tutti intorno a lei alla disperazione.

Dancer Lil' Buck grew up jookin and bucking on the streets of Memphis. After a breathtaking video of him dancing to Camille Saint-Saëns' "The Swan" accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma went viral, everything changed.

According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.

Trapped in father's nightmare, a boy tries to repeal the psychological repression by competing for his sister's sexual attention.

Four actors travel illegally through Balkan borders in war times. To the theatre festival. But their real mission is to find their idol Michael Palin.

Three women - one medieval, two contemporary - struggle to become mothers. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggles with tradition, loyalty, adoption and control over their bodies make them unlikely heroines.

Un burattinaio fugge in Scozia per sfuggire alla sua miserabile vita. Ma subisce un incidente nella sua prima notte ed è paralizzato dalla vita in giù. La sua vita si complica, ma trova il coraggio nel lavoro che fa con Carnevale Chaotica.

A seemingly friendly dinner party erupts into a night of violence and terror at a lush Hollywood estate.

A hypochondriac, a failed comedian, a loner and two naive stoners seek an escape from their pitiful and mundane existence.

Three police patrol-vehicles, six policemen, city of Sofia in the night, between 9th and 10th of November 2019.

A group of German immigrants lives isolated in the countryside of south Brazil. They try to be invisible, but the fear of what might be around makes them fragile and creates violent conflicts among them.

As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's death, Julia, an old countryside teacher, is invited to share her historical story with the world: Giving a bowl of soup to the captured guerrilla in her classroom, while he recited a poem about flowers to her a few hours before his death. The invitation is withdrawn soon after, as other women step forward, claiming the story of "the soup and the flower" as their own.

Il dodicenne Paul vive un'esistenza isolata con sua madre, che lavora in un ospedale psichiatrico privato nei boschi vicino a casa. Un giorno, Paul incontra una giovane adolescente di nome Gloria, una nuova paziente di cui si innamora.

Un tuttofare in un campeggio per nudisti in lutto si ritrova in una ricerca esistenziale mentre cerca di recuperare il suo martello preferito.

Wim, a loner who prefers to stay in and binge watch TV on his birthday, is offered a surprise by his half brother Gert: an hour with Angelique, a sophisticated prostitute.