Waiting for News (2015 Short Film)
Screens before: Labour of Love. Only a boy from Papua could hang from a climbing frame like this. He’s elated because his big brother Hans called. Elegant glimpse of real life at an orphanage.
Viva la libertà (2015 Feature Film)
Toni Servillo (La grande bellezza) is fabulous in this political satire. He plays the leader of Italy’s largest opposition party, who runs away shortly before the elections and his twin, a philosopher who has just been released from a mental health institution.
Vertigo (2015 Feature Film)
Everything’s about doubles in this masterpiece by the ‘master of suspense’, which since 2012 is officially the best film of all time. A detective who retired because his vertigo made work impossible falls in love with his friend’s wife. After her death, he foists his obsession with her onto her double.
vacas con gafas, Las (2015 Feature Film) Nominee
When a solitary, eccentric artist and professor hears he’ll go blind, he has to deal with this terrifying fact and reconcile with his daughter, who became alienated from him due to circumstances years ago. Subtle drama about aging and coming to terms with the inevitable.
Tú y yo (2015 Feature Film) Nominee
Tragi-comic documentary on the daily lives of an elderly Caucasian widow and her Afro-Caribbean housekeeper who lives with her. Their quiet days are filled with hard work, soap series and grumbling within four spotless walls. However, sometimes the fact that the gradually intertwined women are from entirely different social classes becomes painfully apparent.
Today (2015 Feature Film)
A taxi driver unexpectedly becomes the most important person in the life of a very pregnant woman who gets into his taxi in a panic. He speeds off to the hospital and there becomes embroiled in a complex situation. A moving drama about compassion in the best Iranian tradition.
tirisia, La (2015 Feature Film)
This film has won several prizes with its beautiful camerawork. It is set in the surreal, sensual landscape of Oaxaca, Mexico. There, in a remote village where the rest of the world feels far away, two women are made pregnant by the same man – and he is not married to either of them.
Timbuktu (2015 Feature Film)
Tragically, this beautiful film becomes more relevant every day. Almost everything in it is beautiful, from the locations to the traditional costumes, but the story is one of the major dramas of our time: fanatical strangers disrupt the lives of a nomadic community on the edge of the desert. The desert becomes an unwilling metaphor.
Speed Walking (2015 Feature Film)
Bitter-sweet coming-of-age comedy about 14-year-old Martin. The sudden death of his mother puts his rite of passage from boy to man in a higher gear. With 1970s clothing and music, racing hormones and refined supporting roles from Borgen stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Pilou Asbaek.
Sin alas (2015 Feature Film) Nominee
When 70-year old, retired journalist Luis Vargas reads that celebrated ballerina Isabela Muñoz has died, his thoughts return to his brief, passionate, yet impossible relationship with her. Love story with great music and lots of local color.