Hungary

This second film from Hungarian director Diana Groo is a sweet but not overly sentimental tale about a 12-year-old boy's first venture outside of his hometown.  Learning he just won a new Vespa scooter, the young Roma boy Lali sets off with a street musician to Budapest, where his prize awaits him. 

Bibliotheque Pascal is not a library – it’s a licentious brothel located in Liverpool, where the patrons can project and enter each other’s dreams and, dressed as literary characters, can enact their bookish sexual fantasies. Having left her daughter with her fortune-telling aunt, young and beautiful Mona is tricked into embarking on a trek from Transylvania to Germany for life-saving surgery. Instead, she finds herself on a harrowing journey into the shadowy world of sexual slavery.

Austrian documentarian Elisabeth Scharang makes the difficult transition to fiction filmmaking look easy as she tackles the already challenging subject of the closing days of World War II.