Festival 's Programme

Thursday 27/4

20:00 - Neruda: When Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is named an enemy of the state in post-WWII Chile for his communist leanings, a determined investigator launches a search to apprehend him.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUwXV_cSwM

Friday 28/4

18:00 - The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki: Everything is set for Olli Mäki to become the first ever Finn to be the world champion in featherweight boxing. There's only one problem: Olli has just fallen in love.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAAx7XWAzpMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAAx7XWAzpM

20:00 - Butterfly Kisses: Everyone has their demons, but Jake can never reveal his. The film portrays the life of a teenager whose increasing isolation takes on a sinister form under the burden of a secret he cannot tell anyone.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMEcWVqIzZA

22:00 - Manchester by the Sea: The life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVoD0pTge0

Saturday 29/4

18:00 - Bourek: Set against current global issues – economic crises and general bad news, an extravagant international cast of characters meet on the sleepy Greek island and discover new meaning to their lives.Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WttOZoI0Tkw

20:00 - Rosemarie:  A burned out soap opera writer turns his gaze upon his dysfunctional neighbours, but gets more than the inspiration he bargained for.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7O1ZIpmLk

22:00 - The Salesman: After their old flat becomes damaged, a young couple living in Tehran is forced to move into a new apartment. An incident linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-61yYjKHHchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-61yYjKHHc

Sunday 30/4

18:00 - Jackie: Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children and define her husband's historic legacy.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjClaFDhSCs 

20:00 - Beluga: The story is about 13-year-old Damon, who is engaged in illegal fishing with his father. But their fishing boat is stopped and seized by the Coast Guards of the Environmental monitoring department.

Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/187560008  

22:00 - Raw: Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to emerge.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLVP13jX900

Monday 1/5

18:00 - El Club: A group of Catholic priests, suspected of having committed various criminal offenses, live in an isolated “club” of a seaside town. When a scandal related to one of the priests’ past is uncovered, a psychoanalyst is requested by the church authorities to settle the matter.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8c2DYoF7lA

20:00 - Indivisible: Two conjoined twins and singers manage to support their entire family on what they earn from their performances. All is well until they discover they can be separated.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJzZuoXZlR4

22:00 - The Student: A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUAcN-mqxiU

Tuesday  2/5

20:00 - I Still Hide to Smoke: In the heart of the hammam, far from the accusing gaze of men, mothers, lovers, virgins and Islamic fanatics, butts and burqas, mingle and mix, confront one another, with laughter, tears, rage, the Bible and the Koran... 

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DS5XbDxaJU 

22:00 - Suntan: On a hedonistic Greek island, a doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNJhayR0lB4

Τετάρτη 3/5

20:00 - Zoology: Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day… she grows a tail and turns her life around.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Unl0-h0jh8

22:00 - On the Milky Road: Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down.

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIM6Pwh3Hbohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIM6Pwh3Hbo

Thursday 4/5

20:00 - Boy on the Bridge: In a seemingly idyllic Cyprus village, twelve year-old Socrates finds himself involved in a murder investigation that will tear his life, and the lives of his family apart.

Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/166856228

22:00 - A Wedding: Eighteen-year-old Zahira, a Pakistani girl with jet-black eyes, wants to keep the baby growing inside her. Amir, her brother and confidant, promises to help her. But the parents have other ideas for the young girl.

Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/116666065

Friday 5/5

18:00 - Blue Bicycle: Twelve-year-old Ali’s mother sells the clothes she knits on the streets of a Turkish town, while he himself earns a little money on the side working in a garage when he’s not in school. Ever since his father’s been gone, the family has been struggling to avoid financial ruin. The beautiful blue bicycle that he admires regularly in a shop window on his way home seems far removed from his reality. Ali’s heart belongs to Elif, the school’s head prefect. When she is forced to step down from her office and make way for Hasan, the new kid in class, on the orders of the headmaster, Ali is unable to just accept this undemocratic move. In spite of his family’s precarious situation, Ali and his best friend risk getting expelled in order to fight for justice – and for pretty Elif.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pvxu8fk87w

20:00 - Godless:  A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnxgAdPDYZ0

22:00 - Harmonia:  Harmonia is a modern adaptation of the mythological triangle between the childless Abraham and Sarah and young Hagar. Sarah is the harpist of the Jerusalem Philharmonic; Abraham is its almighty conductor. When Hagar, a young horn player from East Jerusalem joins the Western Side Orchestra, she bonds with Sarah and a unique friendship evolves between the two women.

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABwGpET-RdM