33rd Göteborg International Film Festival (2010)
Göteborg International Film Festival 29 Jan - 8 Feb 2010, complete list
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- DirectorMikel Cee KarlssonFredrik EgerstrandStarsDon AlsterbergErik BodinJosé GonzálezA documentary about the life of artist José González.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsMaria BonnevieGunilla RöörAntti ReiniAs the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later, flashbacks reveal her disturbing youth and young adulthood. From the wrong side of the tracks, Lea grows up in a small house on the edge of the forest. When her father dies, her fragile mother Madelene takes up with the jealous alcoholic Ole. Unable to prevent Madelene from being beaten, Lea winds up as a substance abuser.
- DirectorBabak NajafiStarsSebastian Hiort af OrnäsEva MelanderKenny WåhlbrinkSebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in a small apartment
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsPaul DanoBrian CoxBill BuellA cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.
- DirectorNicolo DonatoStarsThure LindhardtDavid DencikNicolas BroFormer Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when it's discovered.
- DirectorSara JohnsenStarsHermann SabadoAgnieszka GrochowskaMads Sjøgård PettersenAs young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now. All this is about to change, however, as Yanne's Polish friend Maria starts working as a maid for Axel's parents, there discovering a photograph of a young boy. Maria has seen the same picture on the wall of Yanne's flat. She decides to reunite them. But before having time to realize the consequences, she sets in motion a chain of events which throws many people into emotional turmoil.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsIlmari JärvenpääOnni TommilaLauri TilkanenIn 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
- DirectorTobias LindholmMichael NoerStarsPilou AsbækDulfi Al-JabouriRoland MøllerThe R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
- DirectorLucía PuenzoStarsInés EfronMariela VitalePep MunnéA desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.
- DirectorTom FordStarsColin FirthJulianne MooreMatthew GoodeAn English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
- DirectorShahram AlidiStarsOmer ChawshinMaryam BoubaniFakher Mohammad BarzaniAn elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdestan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsPaprika SteenMichael FalchSara-Marie MalthaActress Thea tries to adjust to life after rehab, 1 1/2 years after a divorce in which her ex won custody of their two sons.
- DirectorEsther RotsStarsRifka LodeizenWim OpbrouckChris BorowskiThe silent aftermath of a young woman's disaster is broken by her discovery of nature's old rhythms.
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsLars EidingerBirgit MinichmayrHans-Jochen WagnerWhile on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
- DirectorSuk-Gyung LeeStarsLee Chan-yeongCheong-nam ChiYoung-Bok KimA troubled divorcée leaves her daughter with her blind father to attend a training session. While there, she and her roommate share a revealing late night.
- DirectorOliver HermanusStarsDenise NewmanKeenan ArrisonEmily ChildShirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. Shirley has no money, no job and no husband - he left without a trace months ago. Shirley's life now consists of trying to make ends meet by shoplifting and relying on the charity of others. When a young, eager occupational therapist, Tamsin Ranger, comes into their lives, Shirley hopes that it might lift her son's spirits and finally put them on the path to some form of stability. At the same time Shirley receives a phone call one afternoon informing her that Donovan's case is finally going to trial, but the glory is short lived when Shirley discovers that the shooter is one of Donovan's childhood friends. Her reaction to the betrayal is so overwhelming that she chooses not to tell Donovan in fear of further damaging his already unstable emotional state. Determined to make a change in their lives, Shirley actively decides to embrace their new circumstances, hoping that Donovan will follow her example. But his mental state continues to deteriorate and Tamsin is unsuccessful in distracting him from his ever-present disability. Shirley is eventually left without an sign of the family she once had. Set in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, Shirley Adam's story is symptomatic of the relationship between violence and poverty - the destruction of an entire family is related to one single incident that cannot be erased or repaired. Riddled with the socio-political and racial tensions that plague these Cape Flats slums, Shirley Adams is the story of one woman's amazing strength and self sacrifice.
- DirectorHeidi Maria FaisstStarsLærke WintherMads RiisomSolbjørg HøjfeldtKatrine has just given birth to a beautiful girl, but she worries about being a good mother, and when her boyfriend goes away for work she asks her own mother for help. But the two women have unresolved issues, and instead of feeling helped, Katrine feels more and more insecure and slowly falls apart.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsKaarina HazardHeikki NousiainenJukka KeinonenWith few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
- DirectorHenrik HellströmFredrik WenzelStarsSebastian EklundJörgen SvenssonHannes SandahlAn eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsAksel HennieAgnes KittelsenNicolai Cleve BrochThe true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
- DirectorÓskar JónassonStarsBaltasar KormákurIngvar SigurdssonLilja Nótt ÞórarinsdóttirFinancial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
- DirectorDavid AronowitschStaffan LindbergStarsKhieu SamphânTheary SengSo SocheatKhieu Samphan was, as head of state, the public face of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot. Facing Genocide is a close portrait of the man who made Pol Pot's terror regime possible.
- DirectorFateme GoshehStarsFaramarz GoshehFateme GoshehSiavash GoshehAn Iranian artist and women's rights activist falls for a traditional Mulsim man and over seven years, films herself in the midst of a difficult love affair.
- DirectorAndreas BrinkStarsEddie MeduzaA documentary on the life of Swedish musician Eddie Meduza.
- DirectorEmil JonsvikStarsTom LjungmanChristopher MhinaHanna ArdéhnIn an ordinary Swedish suburb the destiny of seven misguided youths are in the hand of the society of the grown ups. In a helpless situation of abuse, bullying and sexual harassment, the change comes when they get hold of a gun.