VFF 2016
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- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraRym Ben MessaoudSabah BouzouitaHedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rim and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.
- DirectorCarmine AmorosoStarsLasse BraunRiccardo SchicchiGiampiero MughiniDocumentary follows pioneers battling censorship through pornography across Italy, Denmark, France, California, featuring Lasse Braun, Riccardo Schicchi, Cicciolina, Giuliana Gamba, Lidia Ravera, Siné, exploring sexuality, freedom debates.
- DirectorSherng-Lee HuangLivia UngurStarsLivia UngurLarry HagmanRazvan HîncuIn 1980s Romania, Dallas (1978) becomes a huge hit and inspires a young woman to emigrate to America. Playfully mixing fiction and documentary, "Hotel Dallas" is a surreal parable of communism, capitalism, and the power of art.
- DirectorMåns MånssonStarsAnders MosslingHilal ShomanIsaak ThedoridisA poet and writer gets fired from his job at a local newspaper after writing a review of his own work. To make ends meet he gets a job at the shipyard, a world completely different from the one he is used to.
- DirectorTomasz WasilewskiStarsJulia KijowskaMagdalena CieleckaDorota KolakPoland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
- DirectorPablo IraburuMigueltxo MolinaStarsGhariba BokhariBokhar BricioAl EncisoWalls tells the story of different people that live in one side and the other of different walls all around the world.
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsSøren MallingBodil JørgensenElliott Crosset HoveWhen their son moves out, a couple buys the condo from their youth and furnish it as back then. They start living as then and one day, they're same age as their son. Other twists follow.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsDarine HamzeRodrigue SleimanZeinab Hind KhadraFour tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
- DirectorEmanuel LichaThe act of seeing wars is a construction. This is where it starts. HOTEL MACHINE is a reflection on the production of representations of conflicts. HOTEL MACHINE is the story of a hotel that remembers.
- DirectorPatric ChihaStarsStefanYonkoAsenSoft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.
- DirectorTamer El SaidStarsKhalid AbdallaLaila SamyHanan YoussefA documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAmir JadidiEhsan GoodarziHomayoun GhanizadehAn orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
- DirectorJordi EstevaThe island of Socotra lies in the Indian Ocean between Arabia and Somalia. It was known in antiquity times for its Phoenix and Rukh birds. Frankincense and myrrh trees grow freely, as well as the dragon's blood tree proved by Egyptians, greeks and romans. The first commercial flights, at the start of this century marked, for almost a couple of decades, the end of Socotra's century of isolation. The current situation of civil war in Yemen has isolated again the remote island. In the film, a group of camel drivers heads to the secret interior of Socotra before the rainy season and they explain by the fire ancient stories of djinns and giant snakes.
- DirectorAnne Zohra BerrachedStarsJulia JentschBjarne MädelJohanna GastdorfAt work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.
- DirectorAbigail MalliaStarsPaul PortelliPaul CiliaDavide TucciLimestone Cowboy is a human story of a family grappling with the discomforting notion of a delusional parent, Karist, who believes he has what it takes to run for office.
- DirectorHalkawt MustafaStarsAhmed AdelWrya AhmedDana AhmesTwo Kurdish little people in Iraq risk their lives to fulfill their dreams and that is to meet football hero Cristiano Ronaldo.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsLinnea SmalströmAngela WangMarie ByzströmOn a 10-meter high diving tower, fear of taking the jump is pitted against the personal loss that would arise if you didn't dare. What do we look like when we hesitate and when we make a decision? What does it look like when we overcome our fear?