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A girl is awakened to a world of cruelty, shadowy passions and sensuality.

An 8-year-old boy, raised by his grandmother, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.

Set over the course of one sweltering summer, this charming drama focuses on Anna, a quiet teen who yearns to escape the confines of her small town, defined by its ever-looming power plant. With the arrival of the alluring leather-clad Lena, Anna finally gets the boost she needs. With authentic performances and cinematography that captures the languor and heat of summertime, this story of sexual awakening examines a girl daring to be different.

Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the "liquidation" of the Turkish consuls in Rotterdam, and executed them. He lures him with the picture of the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid The Bloody, which he has bought in the auction house 'Leo Jansen'. Secret connections consist between Wano and the old man of uptown Rotterdam, who presumably finances this terror-attack.

In life, you don't get what you want. You just get what you need.

A look at the life of Lawrence MacEwen who has farmed the Isle of Muck since the 1960s.

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

A musical documentary about the emancipation of Nigerian woman who have been exploited and humiliated as prostitutes in Europe and now, filled with a lust for life, are embarking on a new life. A growing group of illegal prostitutes from West Africa has settled in the suburbs of major cities in Europe. For most of them the European adventure is a disappointment that ends when they are arrested and fly back to Nigeria empty handed.The film shows the development of two woman who after returning to Nigeria, try to build a new life. Music, as a source of comfort, pleasure and beauty plays an important role in the lives of the woman and in the film, with songs by Nneka one of Nigeria's best producers and vocalists.

The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.

If Yes, Okay about a teenager, Amy, who goes to extreme lengths to reject her obscenely wealthy background.

Nick is his own worst enemy and he is aware of this. He has a fickle character and he just as easily attracts people as he puts them off. Hoping to escape reality he emerges on a journey to Croatia. Even though he cant solve his problems, his restless soul finds a certain peace. We as viewers can leave Nick behind accepting him as he is. An unusual road movie in terms of self reflection.

Beaten and hardened by life in a Nigerian ghetto, Charity leaves for Europe to work as an illegal prostitute. She is saddled with her younger sister Happy, whom she ruthlessly initiates into the world of prostitution. Happy resists her fate, jeopardizing Charity's dream of becoming rich. Together with other unregistered women they endure hardship, exploitation and humiliation with resilience and song, until one day it all becomes too much and they revolt, singing their fury from the rooftops.

In this travelogue, Mirka Duijn traces the history of the image of Shangri-La, the Utopian place from the novel Lost Horizon (1933), that has now become real.

A woman tries to get back on her feet after suffering from a devastating break-up.

DEAD BODY WELCOME is based on a true story about the journey filmmaker Kees Brienen undertook to see the phenomenon of the total solar eclipse. Upon arrival in India he finds out his best friend Ritchy had passed away. The trip suddenly becomes a search for a dead body, trying to understand and accept what had happened to him. Kees finds his friend up in the mountains, does what he needs to do, discovering new perspectives on friendship.

When Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new environment and the loss of her mother.

CHRONICLES OF MY VILLAGE is the story of Bachir's childhood during the Algerian war of independence. The film considers how a child's innocence, curiosity and dreams can play alongside the struggles of a country in search of its own identity.

C'EST DÉJÀ L'ÉTÉ is a portrait of a family, but above all the story of a teenager who's life seems to be pushed of track by the lack of a normal family and desperately, purely by instinctive battle, tries to lift himself out of his wretched, semi-feral existence.

Stepping in and out of character while trolling around an elegant Dutch theater augmented by life-sized video projections of a modern production of The Merchant of Venice, actor Cahit Ölmez is decidedly "not just talking about plays and acting." Addressing us, his audience, Ölmez excavates Tubal, a minor but freighted Shakespearean creation, the only friend of Merchant's notorious Semitic villain, Shylock. Tubal grants Ölmez fresh access to Shylock, and the scars of the Elizabethan era's rampant anti-Semitism. And though Shakespeare may never have known a Jew, Shylock's tragic dimension has given rise to an unsettling ambiguity winding through centuries of theatrical history to this moment: a provocative meta-theatrical venture seeking nothing less than the chance to set Shylock free.