World Cinema
Leaving by the WayNine-year-old Dauka longs for his father, a sailor, to return from the sea. His mother Ilga finds herself unable to tell him and his sister Liga the truth: their father has died. I...
The Critics` Week
LifeA girl with sadness and pain on her face is working in a desolate village. A funeral procession is passing her by, and an old man indifferently plays the flute day or night. And an...
World Cinema
Lilya 4-Ever16 year old Lilya lives in a dreary suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Her mother has moved to the US with a new man and Lilya is looking forward to joining them. But as ...
The Critics` Week
The LongingFollowing the short films Summer at Horlachen(1999) and I’ll Wait on You Hand and Foot(2000), The Longing is the last in the series of the director’s films on desire. It is also th...
The Critics` Week
A Lucky DayWhat Elsa wants is to have some money, to work and live at a place where she wants, and to live happily ever after with her loved one. This is her definition of happiness. Although...
World Cinema
The Man on the TrainIn a medium-sized town towards the end of the day, a train pulls in and a solitary figure gets out. His name is Milan, a man with a bag over one shoulder that is as worn and shabby...
World Cinema
The Man without a PastThe Man Without a Past details the misadventures of tired-faced, middle-aged M (Markku Peltola), who, upon arriving in Helsinki, is brutally mugged, taken to hospital and proclaime...
World Cinema
Minor MishapsMinor Mishaps is the story of a family in which relations are put to the test after the matriarch dies. It is a collective tale in which we follow the lives of the four main charac...
World Cinema
Monday MorningEvery Monday morning Vincent begins the same monotonous routine, a one-and-a-half hour-non-smoking-commute to an uninspiring factory job. Back at home, family obligations always in...
The Critics` Week
Morvern CallarMorvern Callar is the second film from the director of Ratcatcher, and the visually sensual film contains a story that can be interpreted in many different ways. Under the blinking...