Official Section Feature Films

HOUSE WITHOUT ROFF, by Soleen Yusef, Germany-Irak-Qatar 2015. 117′

Kurdish film, with a great symbolic mening in which three siblings who live in Germany must travel to their country of origin to bury their mother.

COLLAR DE SAL, by Vicente Pérez Herrero, Spain 2017. 99′

Poetic film that deals with the scattered childhood memories of Inés -uncertain and disorderly feelings- who must face the abandonment of her parents.

QUIT STARING AT MY PLATE, by Hana Jusic, Croatia-Denmark 2017. 105′

In present-day Croatia, we meet Marijana who has a precarious job and she is completely annulled by her family as a person and as a woman. However, suddenly she will assume the main role in her family.

HAPPY END, by Michael Haneke, France 2015. 107′

Michael Haneke, winner of two Palm d’Or at Cannes and an Oscar, tells a story about a bourgeois family who runs a large company in Calais and lives ignoring the problem of refugees in that city.

CAINI, by Bogdan Mirica, Romania-France 2016. 95′

Romanian film that takes place in a desert land in the middle of nowhere. A story of hidden mafias with resonances of classic Western films and with lot of held back violence. Screened at Cannes, Rotterdam, Sarajevo and other significant European film festivals.

PORTO, by Gabe Klinger, Portugal-France 2017. 76′

A passionate drama with reminiscences of the classics of American and French independent cinema. Starred by Lucie Lucas and Anton Yelchin, which was his last film as a leading character before his premature death at age 27.

FRAGMENTS DE REVES, by Bahia Bencheikh el Fegoun, Algeria 2017. XX′

World premiere of this Algerian documentary that deals with the different focus of the country’s uprisings that emerged after the Arab Spring and how they have been systematically repressed by the government.

VISAGES, VILLAGES, by Agnès Varda y JR, France 2017. 89′

Filmmaker Agnès Varda, 89, who began to make films with the Nouvelle Vague, and photographer JR, travel through France to portray the faces of the road and tell their intimate and personal experiences.

AMBULANCE, by Mohamed Jabaly, Palestine 2016. 80′

A raw glance at the forgotten families of Gaza that have to confront death daily. For 51 days, their lives collapse and they are forced to leave their homes. A documentary shot in first person when the director was only 23 years old.

ONCE THERE WAS A GIRL, by Natalie Kaplan, Israel 2016. 75′

Subtle film around the fears and insecurities of a woman in a world where it seems that she does not fit at all. Kaplan’s debut won best feature film at LifeArt Festival, Athens, Greece and received the Danny Lerner Award.