A cross-cultural comedy about two Danish men in their thirties who embark on a business adventure. They know each other from an elite boarding school, but have not had real success in their lives so far. Now they meet 15 years later and they set out to build a dog breeding centre in China. This […]
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Opening Party of Valletta Film Festival 2018 Hastings Gardens, Valletta 2300hrs-0100hrs
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Six films from Malta. France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and Iran make up this selection. Here are the details: ‘Il-Kompliċi’ by Ryan Gatt (Malta) Paul, an ambitious creative director, prides himself on having great insight into human nature and the world around him. When his heartbroken colleague reaches out to him for help, Paul fails to […]
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
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An inspiring story about the strength of young people in the face of adversity. Obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films, nine-year-old Jo dreams of being a superhero, but time is not on her side. When the doctors reveal that she is terminally ill, Jo leaves the hospital and returns home to be with her […]
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Six films from Norway, Malta, France, Lebanon, Poland, UK, Portugal & Mozambique make up this selection. Here are the details: ‘Wild Beasts’ by Sverre Kvamme (Norway) In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend. Drama – 9 min ‘Scorpion Mind’ by […]
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Welcome to Lafors! A small Swedish community in desperate need of a fresh start. Hope rises when the German low-cost superstore Superbilly is considering setting up business in the area. 500 new jobs, that would change everything! Musse at the local government office gets the honour to make the commercial that will be selling Lafors. But […]
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A strange country, yet it feels like coming home. On her first visit to South Korea since her adoption in Denmark, thirty-something Karoline discovers she is not the only one who wants to know where her roots are. In The Return, she is supported by fellow adoptees from Europe and the United States who, just […]
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The Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to support her family. With dauntless perseverance, Parvana draws strength from the stories her father told her, and ultimately risks her life to […]
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Children of the Snow Land tells the story of a group of children born in the High Himalayas of Nepal – a remote area of great natural beauty but where life is extremely tough. From just four years old, some children are sent by their parents to the capital city, Kathmandu, to a school run […]
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The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati (population: 100,000) is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. While Kiribati’s President Anote Tong races to […]
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22 young persons, 5 films, a unique perspective. Tafxnaf asked all of the students who were 12-13 years old in 2017 to tell a story. After a number of selections by their peers, 22 young persons were chosen to take part in a series of workshops on cinema and story telling. They then chose 5 […]
Full InfoA cross-cultural comedy about two Danish men in their thirties who embark on a business adventure. They know each other from an elite boarding school, but have not had real success in their lives so far. Now they meet 15 years later and they set out to build a dog breeding centre in China. This […]
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The fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is “art is life and life is art,” are captured like butterflies and arranged in an alphabet, a form that suits him perfectly as an encyclopedist. In intimate conversations with his perceptive 16-year-old daughter Zoë, we discover the whos, whats and whys about Greenaway. They begin with […]
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Every year, the San Juan de la Vega community in the lowlands of north-central Mexico witnesses an explosive tradition. Locals use explosive hammers, detonated by swinging them onto the ground, to recreate a centuries-old battle where the wealthy and the poor struggled over the same land. This film brings viewers into the excitement which has divided the generations of […]
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Over the years first unselfconsciously and then with growing consciousness, I made films about water. It does not need to be stressed – water is extremely photogenic – whether as cloud, fog, mist, snow, hail, rain, ice, lake, stream, river, sea or ocean. Or tears. Drip, splash, roar, trickle. The Earth is called The Blue […]
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Six films from Malta, France, Poland, Mauritius, Italy and Belgium make up this selection. Here are the details : Marbut by Winston Azzopardi (Malta) Robert wakes up after his stag party to find himself blindfolded and tied up. At first he thinks that it is his friends, taking their party pranks a tad too far, but […]
Full InfoThe Pacific Island nation of Kiribati (population: 100,000) is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. While Kiribati’s President Anote Tong races to […]
Full Info22 young persons, 5 films, a unique perspective. Tafxnaf asked all of the students who were 12-13 years old in 2017 to tell a story. After a number of selections by their peers, 22 young persons were chosen to take part in a series of workshops on cinema and story telling. They then chose 5 […]
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Six films from Italy, Germany, Portugal, Malta, Lebanon and France make up this selection. Here are the details : Piove (It’s Raining) by Ciro d’Emilio (Italy) Four African girls and a bright rainy day. Drama – 7 min Tongue (A lingua) by Adriana Martins da Silva (Portugal) Ana is in her thirties and unable to […]
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Cobain comes from a broken home, but he is not a broken soul yet. He cares deeply for the person who gave him that funny name: his mother Mia. Living on the streets, Mia just can’t get a grip on her life, even now that she is heavily pregnant with another child. When Cobain demands that Mia […]
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A story of love versus opportunity adapted from a classic novel of the same name written by Caribbean author and historian Michael Anthony. In a remote village in 1952 Trinidad, Shell pursues the affection of two girls. Despite his ailing father’s advice, Shell follows the compassionate Indian planter, Mr Gidharee to work on his plantation […]
Full InfoA cross-cultural comedy about two Danish men in their thirties who embark on a business adventure. They know each other from an elite boarding school, but have not had real success in their lives so far. Now they meet 15 years later and they set out to build a dog breeding centre in China. This […]
Full InfoThe fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is “art is life and life is art,” are captured like butterflies and arranged in an alphabet, a form that suits him perfectly as an encyclopedist. In intimate conversations with his perceptive 16-year-old daughter Zoë, we discover the whos, whats and whys about Greenaway. They begin with […]
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Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her […]
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The Widowed Witch is a dark satire that highlights the moral vacuum in an impoverished part of China. After losing her house and husband, rural woman Wang Erhao leads a stranded life with her ten-year-old brother-in-law in a modified “recreational vehicle”. She drives it around different villages, in order to find a warm place to […]
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Greek filmmaker Babis Makridis’ ‘Pity’, written by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (The Lobster, Dogtooth, The Killing of the Sacred Deer), tells the story of a man, the Lawyer, who feels happy only when he is unhappy. He is addicted to sadness, with such a need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke […]
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Hissa Hilal is the voice from behind the veil. Her word is her weapon. We’ll never see her face. Like the majority of Saudi women, Hissa is covered from head to toe. She is not allowed to drive a car. She doesn’t own a passport and requires consent from her husband for any sort of […]
Full InfoHissa Hilal is the voice from behind the veil. Her word is her weapon. We’ll never see her face. Like the majority of Saudi women, Hissa is covered from head to toe. She is not allowed to drive a car. She doesn’t own a passport and requires consent from her husband for any sort of […]
Full InfoThe fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is “art is life and life is art,” are captured like butterflies and arranged in an alphabet, a form that suits him perfectly as an encyclopedist. In intimate conversations with his perceptive 16-year-old daughter Zoë, we discover the whos, whats and whys about Greenaway. They begin with […]
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Dr. Isak Borg, 78, is a renowned physician and researcher. His life’s experiences have left him cold, distant and uncaring. Now he is traveling to be awarded an honorary degree by a university, a reward for his life’s work. Along the road he meets strangers and relatives, and in his dreams, he questions some of […]
Full InfoSix films from Malta. France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and Iran make up this selection. Here are the details: ‘Il-Kompliċi’ by Ryan Gatt (Malta) Paul, an ambitious creative director, prides himself on having great insight into human nature and the world around him. When his heartbroken colleague reaches out to him for help, Paul fails to […]
Full InfoSuper close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her […]
Full InfoA story of love versus opportunity adapted from a classic novel of the same name written by Caribbean author and historian Michael Anthony. In a remote village in 1952 Trinidad, Shell pursues the affection of two girls. Despite his ailing father’s advice, Shell follows the compassionate Indian planter, Mr Gidharee to work on his plantation […]
Full InfoEvery year, the San Juan de la Vega community in the lowlands of north-central Mexico witnesses an explosive tradition. Locals use explosive hammers, detonated by swinging them onto the ground, to recreate a centuries-old battle where the wealthy and the poor struggled over the same land. This film brings viewers into the excitement which has divided the generations of […]
Full InfoAn inspiring story about the strength of young people in the face of adversity. Obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films, nine-year-old Jo dreams of being a superhero, but time is not on her side. When the doctors reveal that she is terminally ill, Jo leaves the hospital and returns home to be with her […]
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Tahiti, French Polynesia. Between the runway of the International airport and a small mound of earth lies a district called the Flamboyant. Over there, one says “district” as not to say “shantytown”. French colonial history and thirty years of nuclear tests have filled these districts with an alienated and tired people. Today the Ma’ohi people are subordinate people who […]
Full InfoA strange country, yet it feels like coming home. On her first visit to South Korea since her adoption in Denmark, thirty-something Karoline discovers she is not the only one who wants to know where her roots are. In The Return, she is supported by fellow adoptees from Europe and the United States who, just […]
Full InfoGreek filmmaker Babis Makridis’ ‘Pity’, written by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (The Lobster, Dogtooth, The Killing of the Sacred Deer), tells the story of a man, the Lawyer, who feels happy only when he is unhappy. He is addicted to sadness, with such a need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke […]
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In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped […]
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Forty-year old Rike is an emergency doctor from Europe. She embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. One day she decide to fulfil her long-held dream and sails out on her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Her dream holiday is quickly broken […]
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On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths.There is a gold rush fever in the air and the price for this white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost releases precious ivory and a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets […]
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Euro Connection is the marketplace for short film co-production in Europe. This pitching and networking event aims at fostering partnerships between European productions companies, funders and broadcasters for short film projects. Julie Rousson will give a one hour session offering her first hand insight into the marketplace. FREE ADMISSION
Full InfoEvery year, the San Juan de la Vega community in the lowlands of north-central Mexico witnesses an explosive tradition. Locals use explosive hammers, detonated by swinging them onto the ground, to recreate a centuries-old battle where the wealthy and the poor struggled over the same land. This film brings viewers into the excitement which has divided the generations of […]
Full InfoAn inspiring story about the strength of young people in the face of adversity. Obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films, nine-year-old Jo dreams of being a superhero, but time is not on her side. When the doctors reveal that she is terminally ill, Jo leaves the hospital and returns home to be with her […]
Full InfoThe Widowed Witch is a dark satire that highlights the moral vacuum in an impoverished part of China. After losing her house and husband, rural woman Wang Erhao leads a stranded life with her ten-year-old brother-in-law in a modified “recreational vehicle”. She drives it around different villages, in order to find a warm place to […]
Full InfoSix films from Norway, Malta, France, Lebanon, Poland, UK, Portugal & Mozambique make up this selection. Here are the details: ‘Wild Beasts’ by Sverre Kvamme (Norway) In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend. Drama – 9 min ‘Scorpion Mind’ by […]
Full InfoGreek filmmaker Babis Makridis’ ‘Pity’, written by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (The Lobster, Dogtooth, The Killing of the Sacred Deer), tells the story of a man, the Lawyer, who feels happy only when he is unhappy. He is addicted to sadness, with such a need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke […]
Full InfoTahiti, French Polynesia. Between the runway of the International airport and a small mound of earth lies a district called the Flamboyant. Over there, one says “district” as not to say “shantytown”. French colonial history and thirty years of nuclear tests have filled these districts with an alienated and tired people. Today the Ma’ohi people are subordinate people who […]
Full InfoOn the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths.There is a gold rush fever in the air and the price for this white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost releases precious ivory and a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets […]
Full InfoWelcome to Lafors! A small Swedish community in desperate need of a fresh start. Hope rises when the German low-cost superstore Superbilly is considering setting up business in the area. 500 new jobs, that would change everything! Musse at the local government office gets the honour to make the commercial that will be selling Lafors. But […]
Full InfoHissa Hilal is the voice from behind the veil. Her word is her weapon. We’ll never see her face. Like the majority of Saudi women, Hissa is covered from head to toe. She is not allowed to drive a car. She doesn’t own a passport and requires consent from her husband for any sort of […]
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There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga, he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. So a visit in the main island ends in a disaster. Wolski only narrowly manages to […]
Full InfoForty-year old Rike is an emergency doctor from Europe. She embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. One day she decide to fulfil her long-held dream and sails out on her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Her dream holiday is quickly broken […]
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Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. Together for 15 years, the lawyers want to raise a family of their own in a country where their partnership has no legal recognition or protection. Driven by their own experience […]
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An intimate love story about two young people in Tel Aviv whose love you will never be able to fathom. Tom’s eating disorder and desire to disappear forever means that she is forced to live in a closed institute. Neil roams the streets with a tuba, convinced that he will be able to leave on […]
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Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a feature length documentary film set on the remote Christmas Island. Poh Lin is a trauma counsellor living on the remote Christmas Island with her young family. Poh Lin’s job is to work with people trying to seek asylum to Australia who have been detained in a high security […]
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History of Modern Ethiopian Music 1897-2018 A Masterclass by Francis Falceto Ethiopian music has a rich and diverse musical tradition that stretches back thousands of years. Francis Falceto will talk about the history of Ethiopian music and the way it was influenced by the religious, political and social changes that took place in the country […]
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An aristocratic wife commissions a young, cocky artist to sketch her husband’s property while he is away, in exchange for room, board, and one sexual favor per drawing. This arrangement soon spirals out of control, and the draughtsman finds him the prime suspect of a murder…
Full InfoOn the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths.There is a gold rush fever in the air and the price for this white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost releases precious ivory and a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets […]
Full InfoWelcome to Lafors! A small Swedish community in desperate need of a fresh start. Hope rises when the German low-cost superstore Superbilly is considering setting up business in the area. 500 new jobs, that would change everything! Musse at the local government office gets the honour to make the commercial that will be selling Lafors. But […]
Full InfoTahiti, French Polynesia. Between the runway of the International airport and a small mound of earth lies a district called the Flamboyant. Over there, one says “district” as not to say “shantytown”. French colonial history and thirty years of nuclear tests have filled these districts with an alienated and tired people. Today the Ma’ohi people are subordinate people who […]
Full InfoSix films from Malta, France, Poland, Mauritius, Italy and Belgium make up this selection. Here are the details : Marbut by Winston Azzopardi (Malta) Robert wakes up after his stag party to find himself blindfolded and tied up. At first he thinks that it is his friends, taking their party pranks a tad too far, but […]
Full InfoForty-year old Rike is an emergency doctor from Europe. She embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. One day she decide to fulfil her long-held dream and sails out on her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Her dream holiday is quickly broken […]
Full InfoThe Widowed Witch is a dark satire that highlights the moral vacuum in an impoverished part of China. After losing her house and husband, rural woman Wang Erhao leads a stranded life with her ten-year-old brother-in-law in a modified “recreational vehicle”. She drives it around different villages, in order to find a warm place to […]
Full InfoA story of love versus opportunity adapted from a classic novel of the same name written by Caribbean author and historian Michael Anthony. In a remote village in 1952 Trinidad, Shell pursues the affection of two girls. Despite his ailing father’s advice, Shell follows the compassionate Indian planter, Mr Gidharee to work on his plantation […]
Full InfoSuper close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her […]
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A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades to find the plague sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the […]
Full InfoIsland of the Hungry Ghosts is a feature length documentary film set on the remote Christmas Island. Poh Lin is a trauma counsellor living on the remote Christmas Island with her young family. Poh Lin’s job is to work with people trying to seek asylum to Australia who have been detained in a high security […]
Full InfoAn intimate love story about two young people in Tel Aviv whose love you will never be able to fathom. Tom’s eating disorder and desire to disappear forever means that she is forced to live in a closed institute. Neil roams the streets with a tuba, convinced that he will be able to leave on […]
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The eponymous documentary tells the story of the French music journalist Francis Falceto, who masterminded the Éthiopiques series of CDs. This infectious music influenced by Western genres such as soul, funk, rock ‘n’ roll and jazz as tolerated in the late 20th century while Emperor Haile Selassie was in power in Ethiopia but everything changed […]
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Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He races in his little car on the country lanes outside his house. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment and keeps fit working on a building site […]
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For slam poetry coach Lauren Whitehead, to “be nice” is to stay on the surface of things, to prop up the status quo and, for black people, to be what white culture demands. She pushes her team of young Brooklyn poets to go deeper and brave their inner demons, buck societal expectations and find their […]
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As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko’s father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from “The Pillow Book”, the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a “parfait […]
Full InfoThe Pacific Island nation of Kiribati (population: 100,000) is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. While Kiribati’s President Anote Tong races to […]
Full InfoA Knight and his squire are home from the crusades to find the plague sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the […]
Full InfoIn a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped […]
Full InfoSix films from Italy, Germany, Portugal, Malta, Lebanon and France make up this selection. Here are the details : Piove (It’s Raining) by Ciro d’Emilio (Italy) Four African girls and a bright rainy day. Drama – 7 min Tongue (A lingua) by Adriana Martins da Silva (Portugal) Ana is in her thirties and unable to […]
Full InfoAn intimate love story about two young people in Tel Aviv whose love you will never be able to fathom. Tom’s eating disorder and desire to disappear forever means that she is forced to live in a closed institute. Neil roams the streets with a tuba, convinced that he will be able to leave on […]
Full InfoFumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. Together for 15 years, the lawyers want to raise a family of their own in a country where their partnership has no legal recognition or protection. Driven by their own experience […]
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In this information session, Eurimages Project Manager Anton Calleja will be discussing the Council of Europe fund for the co-production, distribution, exhibition and digitisation of European cinematographic works. While Malta is not yet a member, prospective producers and filmmakers are encouraged to attend to widen their knowledge about the programme should they be interested in […]
Full InfoIsland of the Hungry Ghosts is a feature length documentary film set on the remote Christmas Island. Poh Lin is a trauma counsellor living on the remote Christmas Island with her young family. Poh Lin’s job is to work with people trying to seek asylum to Australia who have been detained in a high security […]
Full InfoChildren of the Snow Land tells the story of a group of children born in the High Himalayas of Nepal – a remote area of great natural beauty but where life is extremely tough. From just four years old, some children are sent by their parents to the capital city, Kathmandu, to a school run […]
Full InfoDr. Isak Borg, 78, is a renowned physician and researcher. His life’s experiences have left him cold, distant and uncaring. Now he is traveling to be awarded an honorary degree by a university, a reward for his life’s work. Along the road he meets strangers and relatives, and in his dreams, he questions some of […]
Full InfoFor slam poetry coach Lauren Whitehead, to “be nice” is to stay on the surface of things, to prop up the status quo and, for black people, to be what white culture demands. She pushes her team of young Brooklyn poets to go deeper and brave their inner demons, buck societal expectations and find their […]
Full InfoJacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He races in his little car on the country lanes outside his house. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment and keeps fit working on a building site […]
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To depict his view of the global refugee crisis, Ai Weiwei used 25 camera teams in 20 countries. The results involve many surreal scenes: tent camps erected between railways with passing Greek trains continually sounding their horns; aerial shots of perfectly symmetrical rows of tents with tiny dots in between that move around like ants; […]
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Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. After a road accident, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change […]
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What happens to our laptops, televisions, and phones when we throw them away? Austrian filmmakers Christian Krones and Florian Weigensamer traveled to Ghana to find out. Over 250,000 tons of electronic waste are shipped to Ghana each year to be recycled under almost apocalyptic conditions. Here, thousands of children and adults work on disassembling flat […]
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An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers severe stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and his own life.
Full InfoThere is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga, he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. So a visit in the main island ends in a disaster. Wolski only narrowly manages to […]
Full InfoChildren of the Snow Land tells the story of a group of children born in the High Himalayas of Nepal – a remote area of great natural beauty but where life is extremely tough. From just four years old, some children are sent by their parents to the capital city, Kathmandu, to a school run […]
Full InfoFumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. Together for 15 years, the lawyers want to raise a family of their own in a country where their partnership has no legal recognition or protection. Driven by their own experience […]
Full InfoFor slam poetry coach Lauren Whitehead, to “be nice” is to stay on the surface of things, to prop up the status quo and, for black people, to be what white culture demands. She pushes her team of young Brooklyn poets to go deeper and brave their inner demons, buck societal expectations and find their […]
Full InfoJacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He races in his little car on the country lanes outside his house. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment and keeps fit working on a building site […]
Full Info22 young persons, 5 films, a unique perspective. Tafxnaf asked all of the students who were 12-13 years old in 2017 to tell a story. After a number of selections by their peers, 22 young persons were chosen to take part in a series of workshops on cinema and story telling. They then chose 5 […]
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In this session, journalist and documentary producer Carol Nahra will examine a range of creative documentary subgenres, looking at how Scotsman John Grierson’s definition of documentary as “the creative treatment of actuality” plays out in contemporary international documentary making. How are documentary makers today pushing boundaries to tell stories?
Full InfoA strange country, yet it feels like coming home. On her first visit to South Korea since her adoption in Denmark, thirty-something Karoline discovers she is not the only one who wants to know where her roots are. In The Return, she is supported by fellow adoptees from Europe and the United States who, just […]
Full InfoCobain comes from a broken home, but he is not a broken soul yet. He cares deeply for the person who gave him that funny name: his mother Mia. Living on the streets, Mia just can’t get a grip on her life, even now that she is heavily pregnant with another child. When Cobain demands that Mia […]
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This observational documentary short captures the Maltese migrant experience in Michigan, USA with the help of the Maltese community. Malta to Motor City comes from first-time Malta based director and producer Charlie Cauchi. Spending time at two Maltese clubs in Michigan in 2017, Cauchi creates a portrait of emigre life for this minority community. Cauchi […]
Full InfoWhat happens to our laptops, televisions, and phones when we throw them away? Austrian filmmakers Christian Krones and Florian Weigensamer traveled to Ghana to find out. Over 250,000 tons of electronic waste are shipped to Ghana each year to be recycled under almost apocalyptic conditions. Here, thousands of children and adults work on disassembling flat […]
Full InfoMirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. After a road accident, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change […]
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Jamaica is a place where spirituality, religion and raw reality meet in complimentary relation to each another. Renowned photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah allows himself be drawn deep into the spiritual, cultural and historical texture of this unique Caribbean island in this almost hallucinatory mosaic that shows the tough prostitutes in their own environment to an ecstatic prayer in the city street, and […]
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Eva and Kat’s humble, yet carefree, lifestyle in their London canal boat gets turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she’s always envisaged with Eva. But wait, perhaps there’s an answer. Kat’s lifelong best friend Roger, is coming to visit. […]
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If you want to tame your nightmares, you need to capture them first. That’s what Syrian documentary filmmaker Talal Derki learned from his father. In this documentary Talal returns to his homeland and becomes part of life in a war zone. For more than two years he lives with the family of Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra […]
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In turn-of-the-century Sweden, cancer-stricken, dying Agnes is visited in her isolated rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria. As Agnes’ condition deteriorates and pain management becomes increasingly more difficult, fear and revulsion grip the sisters, who seem incapable of empathy, and Agnes’ only comfort and solace comes from her maid Anna. As the end […]
Full InfoThere is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga, he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. So a visit in the main island ends in a disaster. Wolski only narrowly manages to […]
Full InfoEva and Kat’s humble, yet carefree, lifestyle in their London canal boat gets turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she’s always envisaged with Eva. But wait, perhaps there’s an answer. Kat’s lifelong best friend Roger, is coming to visit. […]
Full InfoJamaica is a place where spirituality, religion and raw reality meet in complimentary relation to each another. Renowned photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah allows himself be drawn deep into the spiritual, cultural and historical texture of this unique Caribbean island in this almost hallucinatory mosaic that shows the tough prostitutes in their own environment to an ecstatic prayer in the city street, and […]
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A workshop exploring the many facets of optical games and animated images using glasses, paper, pencils and hand spinners, showing how these can be used to tell stories and to give a voice to young and old alike. Ages: 16-25. Max: 15 participants. FREE ADMISSION This workshop was made possible with the support of Agenzija Zghazagh.
Full InfoWhat happens to our laptops, televisions, and phones when we throw them away? Austrian filmmakers Christian Krones and Florian Weigensamer traveled to Ghana to find out. Over 250,000 tons of electronic waste are shipped to Ghana each year to be recycled under almost apocalyptic conditions. Here, thousands of children and adults work on disassembling flat […]
Full InfoCobain comes from a broken home, but he is not a broken soul yet. He cares deeply for the person who gave him that funny name: his mother Mia. Living on the streets, Mia just can’t get a grip on her life, even now that she is heavily pregnant with another child. When Cobain demands that Mia […]
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Khalik Allah will lead a talk on ethics and representation in documentary, presenting photographs and clips from his films that illustrate his unique approach to gaining trust, intimacy and access in unrepresented communities.
Full InfoIn a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped […]
Full InfoIf you want to tame your nightmares, you need to capture them first. That’s what Syrian documentary filmmaker Talal Derki learned from his father. In this documentary Talal returns to his homeland and becomes part of life in a war zone. For more than two years he lives with the family of Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra […]
Full InfoMirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. After a road accident, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change […]
Full InfoJamaica is a place where spirituality, religion and raw reality meet in complimentary relation to each another. Renowned photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah allows himself be drawn deep into the spiritual, cultural and historical texture of this unique Caribbean island in this almost hallucinatory mosaic that shows the tough prostitutes in their own environment to an ecstatic prayer in the city street, and […]
Full InfoIf you want to tame your nightmares, you need to capture them first. That’s what Syrian documentary filmmaker Talal Derki learned from his father. In this documentary Talal returns to his homeland and becomes part of life in a war zone. For more than two years he lives with the family of Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra […]
Full InfoEva and Kat’s humble, yet carefree, lifestyle in their London canal boat gets turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she’s always envisaged with Eva. But wait, perhaps there’s an answer. Kat’s lifelong best friend Roger, is coming to visit. […]
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Vittoria, a shy 10-year-old girl, spends the summer on the windswept Sardinian coast with her loving-but-overprotective mother Tina. Vittoria begins to suspect that the local party girl Angelica is her actual birth mother, a revelation that upsets her innocent childhood existence. When financial difficulties force Angelica to leave town, she asks Tina if she can […]
Full InfoTo depict his view of the global refugee crisis, Ai Weiwei used 25 camera teams in 20 countries. The results involve many surreal scenes: tent camps erected between railways with passing Greek trains continually sounding their horns; aerial shots of perfectly symmetrical rows of tents with tiny dots in between that move around like ants; […]
Full InfoThe eponymous documentary tells the story of the French music journalist Francis Falceto, who masterminded the Éthiopiques series of CDs. This infectious music influenced by Western genres such as soul, funk, rock ‘n’ roll and jazz as tolerated in the late 20th century while Emperor Haile Selassie was in power in Ethiopia but everything changed […]
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Bruno Bouchard will enthrall younger audiences through the power of animation. Using props, he will teach the ever curious how to create images and tell stories. Ages: 8-12. Max: 10 participants. FREE ADMISSION
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To depict his view of the global refugee crisis, Ai Weiwei used 25 camera teams in 20 countries. The results involve many surreal scenes: tent camps erected between railways with passing Greek trains continually sounding their horns; aerial shots of perfectly symmetrical rows of tents with tiny dots in between that move around like ants; […]
Full InfoThe Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to support her family. With dauntless perseverance, Parvana draws strength from the stories her father told her, and ultimately risks her life to […]
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The winner of Teens Choice Award 2018
Full InfoVittoria, a shy 10-year-old girl, spends the summer on the windswept Sardinian coast with her loving-but-overprotective mother Tina. Vittoria begins to suspect that the local party girl Angelica is her actual birth mother, a revelation that upsets her innocent childhood existence. When financial difficulties force Angelica to leave town, she asks Tina if she can […]
Full InfoThis observational documentary short captures the Maltese migrant experience in Michigan, USA with the help of the Maltese community. Malta to Motor City comes from first-time Malta based director and producer Charlie Cauchi. Spending time at two Maltese clubs in Michigan in 2017, Cauchi creates a portrait of emigre life for this minority community. Cauchi […]
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Vittoria, a shy 10-year-old girl, spends the summer on the windswept Sardinian coast with her loving-but-overprotective mother Tina. Vittoria begins to suspect that the local party girl Angelica is her actual birth mother, a revelation that upsets her innocent childhood existence. When financial difficulties force Angelica to leave town, she asks Tina if she can […]
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The winning film of Valletta Film Festival 2018.
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After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, […]
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