Shtetl in the Caribbean, A (2015 Feature Film)
Documentary in which two Jewish childhood friends from Curaçao travel to Ukraine and Belarus in search of their roots. Their families fled home during the Holocaust to secure safe futures for their children. How did these wartime refugees end up on the exotic Caribbean island?
Salgán & Salgán: A Father-Son Tango (2015 Feature Film)
Fascinating, moving portrait of the exceptional relationship between father and son Salgán: one a famous tango composer, the other a racing driver and pianist always overshadowed by his father. Can two, strong, independent personalities relate after years of no contact? Replete with beautiful tango music by father and son.
Renny Show, The (2015 Short Film)
Screens before: Little White Lie. Short drama in which an eccentric TV personality suitably concludes his career with a farewell party. All the masked guests are shadows from his notorious, eventful past.
Relatos salvajes (2015 Feature Film)
What happens when people end up in situations that quickly make them blow their top? In this collection of deeply cynical, comedic tales, thoroughly frustrated people varying from annoyed road users and ignored citizens to betrayed spouses go to extremes to get revenge.
Rebecca’s Story (2015 Short Film)
Screens before: Partes de una familia. Short, nuanced drama in which Rebecca discovers that there is a reason for granny’s sharp tongue and the harsh upbringing she provides.
Quantum. (2015 Short Film)
Screens before: Alive Inside. Spotlighting this small Italian mountain village brings a variety of hidden activities to light.
Primero de Enero (2015 Feature Film)
Great road movie about children that also tackles tough adult themes. Crime, divorce and illegality are dealt with airily in the story about a boy who will stop at nothing to find his father’s stolen piano. Because if the piano comes back, his father is sure to follow.
Por amor en el caserio (2015 Feature Film)
This variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the poor neighbourhoods of San Juan, For Love in the Caserio is partially based on the experiences of local amateur actors. Antonio Morales previously also wrote the script for the eponymous play that aimed to reduce drug-dealing and violence on the streets.
Poetry Is an Island, Derek Walcott (2015 Feature Film)
Everything in poet Derek Walcott’s work exudes the Caribbean: its nature, light, sea and people. In this intimate portrait of the Nobel Prizewinner from St. Lucia, friends, family, other poets such as Seamus Heaney as well as Walcott himself discuss his work and life.
Phoenix (2015 Feature Film)
Intelligent psychological and historical drama in which a Jewish concentration camp survivor whose face is disfigured beyond recognition goes in search of her husband among the ruins of post-war Berlin. Was he the one who betrayed her to the Nazis?