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    Archive : 17th AIFF 2011

  • The Conquest

    Divided between the personal and political path of the sitting President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Xavier Durringer's film tells his story ...
  • Amador

    Marcela is a young immigrant from Peru, living in Madrid with her partner, Nelson. Though she plans on leaving him, her plans are aborted when ...
  • Polisse

    A little girl confesses to the police that her father is sexually harassing her. Another case opens for the Child Protection Unit of a police ...
  • Another Happy Day

    Drugs, self-harm, depression, neuroses, and constant fighting: few families are as dysfunctional as Lynn's. She will meet them all again ...
  • We Need to Talk about Kevin

    One day young Kevin decides to take up his bow and wipe out an entire class at school, ending up in jail. What went wrong? His mother, an elegant ...
  • Hannibal Ante Portas

    18-year-old Chara, daughter of a prostitute and a father she never met, shies away from crowds the same way she avoids school. She starts working ...
  • Three Days Happiness

    In a decomposing city, three young women are looking for a way out. Irina is getting ready to leave to Canada to escape her family, who is procuring ...
  • Burning Heads

    The tragic story of three characters, Rina and her two sons, Antonis and Lefteris. Having emigrated years ago from Tbilisi, Antonis, ambitious ...
  • Fish n' Chips

    Andy, a Cypriot immigrant who's spent his whole life frying fish and chips in London, decides to return to his home country and open his ...
  • Tied Red Thread

    In a mountain village of the Greek countryside, after the Treaty of Varkiza, armed paramilitary gangs, with Michas as their leader, proceed to ...
  • Jerks

    Kallidromiou, Themistokleous, Strefi hill. A story that takes place in an empty Athens in August, during a 12-hour period, from 6 p.m to 6 a.m. ...
  • 4Ever

    Andreas and Katherine met at university and have been life partners ever since. They're married with two kids and maintain a successful ...
  • Amnesty

    A new law allows conjugal visits in the Tirana prisons and so Elsa and Spetim, strangers to each other, visit their spouses regularly. Outside ...
  • Another Earth

    Rhoda Williams is a brilliant astrophysics student at MIT. One night, as she's driving her car, she's distracted by a blue object in ...
  • TT3D: Closer to the Edge

    A documentary delving into the sanctuaries of motorsport and trying to explain the reasons for which even to this day contemporary riders take ...
  • Drive

    An introverted driver living on the wrong end of Los Angeles, does any kind of job having to do with cars – even acting as the getaway ...
  • Win Win

    Mike is a loser attorney in New Jersey, who's trying to keep himself and his family happy. When he's no longer able to pay the bills ...
  • Machine Gun Preacher

    The true story of Sam Childers, an ex-drug dealer of the 90s, who rediscovers his faith in God and is turned into an activist fighting for underage ...
  • The Conspirator

    Mary Surratt is the lone woman prosecuted as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Frederick is a Union soldier during the ...
  • Declaration of War

    Roméo and Juliette met at a party and instantly fell in love. They're enjoying life with their little son without anticipating ...
  • Matching Jack

    Marissa learns that her child is seriously ill and at the same time finds out that her husband has been cheating on her for years. In her efforts ...
  • The Ides of March

    A former governor's young spokesman finds himself drawn into a political scandal that threatens to ruin the presidential aspirations of his ...
  • House of Tolerance

    The titillating story of a Parisian brothel on the eve of the 20th century, as it's struggling to survive the financial wilting and the ...