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In a remote fjord in 1940's Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.

Financial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.

A girl wakes up after a car crash. Her younger brother has disappeared. As she promised him, she boards a cargo ship to find a new life. Then the shady Gábor crosses her path. A surreal trip on the fragile edge of life and death.

A father and a daughter face a range of conflicting emotions when she commits a random act of violence.

Victor owns a civil engineering company. Due to problems on a building site in North Africa he has to go there, where he is confronted with memories of his youth, slowly plunging into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

A humorous portrait of a young man with a working class background who turns into an anarchist punk. Over the years, however, he changes into a genuine bourgeois with conservative opinions. Anarchy is no more.

Seven Days a Week is truly the last documentary film Kieslowski ever directed.

Imagine a place, somewhere in the western world: Voro-Nova. A place where a small-time trader lives alone. Sometimes his girlfriend drops by. A place where children play, talk, fight. What could be their connection? He lives isolated, in the middle of a port, surrounded by all kinds of consumer society trash, computers, cameras. He appears to have a chewing-gum slot-machine business. The children, most of them from non-western countries, discover the place. They play, they talk, they fight. He observes them. They use the place. They could make a party together.

The last ship (Utolsó hajó) is leaving the quay. Sirens are sounding.

Wing is six years old and is living in the Netherlands with her family, who are expatriates from China. Little Wing is fascinated by marine life and curious about her ancestral homeland of China. Fantasy and reality begin to mingle in a story concerning little Wing, an old lady who does not talk, some fish and a cup of tea.

In 1980 film writer Ruud den Drijver goes head to head with two notorious Dutch film directors, Paul Verhoeven and Wim Verstappen, passionate film makers, competitors and colleagues in a free for all heated discussion ranging (among other subjects) from oral sex to the art of motion pictures. 25 years later the confrontation is continued during the Cannes Film Festival. In the meantime Wim Verstappen has died a year earlier and Paul Verhoeven has returned from a brilliant career in the States. Paul is still very outspoken. He talks freely about the present-day neo-conservative policies of America, and about the situation in Hollywood and his work. THAT'S IT !!! (English title) (1980-2005) is a retrospective view on the careers of two driven film directors and is a hilarious time document larded with passionate statements.

A woman goes in search of her missing husband for three days behind the scenes of Dakar.

In Houston, a young manager loses his well-paid and status oriented job with an oil company. He roams through the city, realizing that his life of luxury is over and that his credit cards may soon become overheated.

People. Young and old, fat and thin, black and white. Sand, sea, wind and clouds, a day at the beach. In the background, the decor of ships entering and leaving port. Ego and vanity, machismo, insecurity and unconditional love, brought together on a small stretch of land. Don't Catch My Face is an ode to life.

LET ME GET MY COAT! [Waar is mijn jas?] Netherlands, 2004 In 1980, Wim Verstappen and Paul Verhoeven, Holland's best-known film makers, were interviewed by film writer Ruud den Drijver. The film makers Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden followed this humorous encounter with the camera. A hilarious film with spicy statements; a document that provides a unique glimpse of the Dutch film world in the 1980s.

GROETEN UIT ROTTERDAM (Greetings from Rotterdam), tells a story of the cultural life in Rotterdam around 1980. In particular, the punk scene does not go unnoticed. The television broadcasting (VPRO) during that time led to strong reactions and severe criticism. Now it is a unique document of a turbulent time, with a direct movie style.

Where Joris Ivens realized his 'study of mechanical movement' in 1928, the bridge keeper of the Koningshaven Hefbrug now thrones high above the city and the river, passing his last working days.