Sweden

An improbable couple must make the choice to live in exile to stay together in this documentary from Swedish filmmaker Gabriella Bier.  An Israeli woman and a Palestinian man are without the support of their families when they make the decision to wed.  Constantly faced with the prejudices in their own homes, they take their chances on a happier life in Europe.  For three years Bier followed the couple, documenting their strife and hope at every turn.  Love During Wartime is a heartbreaking and celebratory story of the trials of young romance and displaced lives. Newcomer Bier is the cousin of Denmark’s Oscar-winning director Suzanna Bier.

“Sex and complications -- and stealing...I think my film is a kind of speech for the defense of the right not to be perfect.” – Johan Kling, Director

Rising young Swedish star Alicia Vikander, 23, former ballerina as well as TV soaps actress, delivers a striking performance in her first movie role as a complex young woman seeking something ‘pure’ in her life.

This film fest favorite is a not-to-be-missed riotous, ingeniously inventive, one-of-a-kind romp. 

An extraordinary visual feat, acclaimed Polish filmmaker, artist, poet, and stage director, Lech Majewski, brings Flemish renaissance painter Peter Bruegel’s 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, to life.

In this prize-winning documentary about one mother's attempt to feed her family from a world away, the Barrientos family struggles to make ends meet in their poor Peruvian neighborhood, as matriarch Nati, 55, reluctantly leaves her husband and three sons behind to find work in Spain. Taking a job as a maid, Nati attempts to generate income to send back to her family in the hopes of a better life for her children, which puts to the test their unrequited love. 

Director Bent Hamer Present

Mirth and misfortune go hand-in-hand in veteran director Bent Hamer’s (Factotum, Kitchen Stories, O’Horton) sixth feature.

Winner of the Jury Grand Prix at the 2010 Berlinale Film Festival. 

The Romanian New Wave continues to show its strength in this first feature from director Florin Serban.  Silviu has spent the last four years in a juvenile penitentiary, and mere weeks before his release he learns his estranged mother is departing for Italy with his brother.