Special Programs in Focus

• Juan Antonio BARDEM
• Spain
• 2010
• 88min

Juan Fernandez Soler and his lover Maria Jose de Castro hit a cyclist while driving. There are no witnesses, so they make a run for it. After reading in the paper the cyclist died,...

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• Luis BUÑUEL
• Mexico,Spain
• 2010
• 90min

Just before taking her final vows as a nun, Viridiana visits her uncle, who finds Viridiana resembling his dead wife. While drugged her to sleep, he tried to rape her. On her way t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Luis García BERLANGA
• Spain,Italy
• 2010
• 87min

Penniless Jose Luis marries an executioner’s daughter and is coaxed into ‘inheriting’ his fatherin-law’s lowly profession in order to gain a home. After a year of continued pardons...

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• Fernando Fernán GÓMEZ
• Spain
• 2010
• 92min

Obtuse brother and sister Paquita and Venancio live with their oldest sister Ignacia in a small village near Madrid. One night, Paquita overhears Ignacia’s plan to sell the family ...

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• Carlos SAURA
• Spain
• 2010
• 88min

Julian, Ramon, Juan, El Chato, Paco and Manolo are a group of low class youths wandering the impoverished streets of Madrid. To help Juan become a bullfighter, his friends steal mo...

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• Carlos SAURA
• Spain
• 2010
• 93min

Jose, Paco, Luis, and Enrique gather for a rabbit hunt. Except for Enrique, the three have fought in the Spanish Civil War. As the day gets hotter, the dissention between them expa...

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• Carlos SAURA
• Spain
• 2010
• 107min

Ana’s parents die leaving Ana and her two sisters to be raised by their aunt. Young Ana believes she killed her father, sees her mother’s spirit and dreams of poisoning her aunt. ...

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• Şerif GÖREN,Yilmaz GÜNEY
• Turkey,Switzerland,France
• 2010
• 114min

[Yol] is the first Turkish film that won the Palm d’or at Cannes Film Festival and directed by the master Yilmaz Guney and ?arif Goren. Released from the harsh Turkish prison, five...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hiner SALEEM
• France,Italy,Switzerland,Armenia
• 2010
• 84min

A love story blooms in a graveyard. Living on a pension, a widower Hamo visits his wife’s grave every day. Nina who lives on selling vodka at the small street shop visits her husba...

Special Programs in Focus

• Yilmaz ARSLAN
• Germany,France,Luxembourg
• 2010
• 90min

What does it mean to be a Kurdish? At a pro-Kurdish camp in Germany, two boys struggle to support their family at home while battle for the survival as an outsider. However, in the...