Eidolon

Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

อองตวนและโอลกา คู่สามีภรรยาชาวฝรั่งเศสอาศัยอยู่ในหมู่บ้านเล็กๆ ในกาลิเซียมาเป็นเวลานานแล้ว พวกเขาทำเกษตรกรรมที่เป็นมิตรกับสิ่งแวดล้อมและบูรณะบ้านร้างเพื่อให้มีประชากรเพิ่มขึ้น ทุกอย่างควรจะสวยงามแต่พวกเขากลับไม่เห็นด้วยกับโครงการกังหันลมซึ่งก่อให้เกิดความขัดแย้งร้ายแรงกับเพื่อนบ้าน ความตึงเครียดจะทวีความรุนแรงจนถึงจุดที่ไม่อาจแก้ไขได้

คลาริสส์ (วิคกี้ ครีปส์) ผู้หญิงที่หนีจากครอบครัวด้วยเหตุผลที่ไม่ชัดเจน ภาพเหมือนของหญิงสาวที่ตกอยู่ในภาวะวิกฤตที่แยบยลและกล้าหาญนี้สลับไปมาระหว่างการผจญภัยบนท้องถนนของคลาริสส์ และภาพของมาร์คสามีที่ถูกทอดทิ้งของเธอ (อาเรียห์ วอร์ธาลเตอร์) ในขณะที่เขาต้องดิ้นรนเพื่อดูแลลูก ๆ ของพวกเขาที่บ้าน

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de)

Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.