2004 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ

This film begins with the idea that families have the right to see one another and that U.S. citizens have the constitutional right to go where they please, arguing that such travel strengthens family ties, fosters cultural exchange and builds understanding. Nonetheless, the film explains, over the last 30 years, anti-Castro activists have engaged in violent intimidation tactics of beatings, political assassinations, and the bombing of businesses and even a plane to prevent the expansion of U.S. travel to Cuba.

La historia de dos hermanos que se involucran con una sexy stripper y su jefe, el rey de las discotecas de Santiago, contada desde la perspectiva de cada uno de ellos.

After fifteen years Çiçek Ali is released from prison and visits the family that he had murdered their son.

Una actriz de renombre está al borde del colapso mientras cuenta los días para un gran estreno en Broadway.

En el siglo XVI, el loco y despiadado Don Lope de Aguirre encabeza la expedición española en busca de El Dorado.

Un grupo de refugiados griegos de Odessa llega a algún lugar cerca de Tesalónica. Entre ellos hay dos niños: Alexis y Eleni.

Ira Madiyama is set in Sri Lanka during the mid-1990s and tells three simultaneous stories against the backdrop of the country's savage civil war. Chamari ( is searching for her husband, a Sinhalese Sri Lankan Air Force pilot shot down in flight, whom she believes has been taken prisoner by the Tamil Tigers. Desperate to know the truth, she enlists a sympathetic journalist and sets out on a journey to track him down. Meanwhile, eleven-year-old Tamil Muslim Arfath is struggling to keep his companion and friend, a dog, while the family together with the entire village is forced to evacuate by a rebel army. The third narrative follows Duminda, a young soldier who walks into a brothel to find his sister among the working girls.

A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...

Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

16 years of alcohol is about a skinhead named Frankie; his violent childhood, alcoholism and his love for Ska.

Ana, veintitantos años que ahora vive en Buenos Aires, regresa a su ciudad natal de Paraná, se reencuentra con viejos compañeros de escuela, viejos amigos, hace otros nuevos y comienza a repensar su vida y tal vez cambiar su futuro.

The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.

Una hija caprichosa invita a su madre moribunda y al resto de su familia distanciada a su apartamento para la cena de Acción de Gracias.

Una variedad de perdedores en Dublín tienen historias cruzadas de amor, codicia y violencia.

La historia de un joven periodista que cayó en desgracia al ser descubierto que se inventó más de la mitad de sus artículos en la publicación The New Republic.

la historia de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres durante la primera parte del siglo XX.

Dos almas muy unidas y emocionalmente heridas se reúnen tras pasar varios años separadas.

Rufie is a fifteen-year old girl who lives with her grandmother in a mountain village. Her father, Hairedin, has gone to look for work in Turkey, because of the unemployment at home. There has been no word from him for the past three years. Even Rufie's closest relatives begin to say that he has forgotten about her and will not come home. Sympathy for her and silent reproach toward her father makes her to feel isolated and lonely. She decides to cross the border illegally and find her father and prove to everyone that they love each other. Her efforts to get money to pay the smuggler to get her over the border are a supreme trial for her. Overcoming many dangers, Rufie makes a most difficult decision; she cuts off her hair and pretends to be a boy, in order to be accepted in the group. During the difficult winter crossing over the mountains, she meets a boy - the same age as her. He is with his father. Rufie experiences the first tremors of love, but cannot share them since she is a 'boy'. Hairedin, Rufie1s father, is in a group of refugees who traveling back to Bulgaria. The father is coming back now to live with her forever. The two groups pass each other by. Hairedin and Rufie do not recognize each other in the dark.

Un padre y su hijo viven juntos en un apartamento. Llevan años viviendo solos en su propio mundo privado, lleno de recuerdos y ritos cotidianos. A veces parecen hermanos. A veces incluso amantes.

Explores the legacy of Chicago Blues through the making of an album by Chuck D of Public Enemy and Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder, that brings together hip-hop artists like Common with blues legends like Howlin' Wolf.

The film is a combination of documentary and fiction. A woman from the former Soviet Union, Irina, comes to Greece in search of a better life and falls victim to the sex slave trade (trafficking). She wanders around Athens in search of a friend of hers who has disappeared. Her story unfolds through a series of personal confessions. During these moments of reality, Irina is in some way present as a sort of "suffering angel" who comments on the aftermath, indirectly linking the present to the past, the real to the imaginary. The presence of painting in the film emphasizes or illustrates the dreams and nightmares that this intense slice of present-day reality provokes. In other words, the uprooting of millions of people from their homes--history that repeats itself.

Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, pushes those who love him away and cannot complete the film.

Dubber Mr. Modaber spots spouse Kian with an unfamiliar man while working. After tracking him down, he realizes it's Kian's twin sister Vida, separated in childhood after their father's death.

Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.