Catalogue

Maria’s home has always been the Empire Hotel, sited in Macau’s traditional neighborhoods. Lately, the burden to keep the hotel standing, together with all its inhabitants, has fallen on Maria’s shoulders. Chu is returning to the town he left with his mother more than 20 years ago. He is looking for revenge and to reclaim his mother’s inheritance: half of the Empire Hotel that she once shared with Maria’s father. When Maria and Chu come face to face, Chu might need to reveal his true identity.

»Euphoria« is the story of an unexpected love, genuine and merciless, almost brutal – set in the wide open steppes near the banks of the River Don.

In EVOLUTION, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (PIECES OF A WOMAN) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.
Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in EVOLUTION looks towards a more hopeful future

A chemical engineer feeling discriminated against and bullied at work, plunges into an identity crisis.

FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives.

A family comes together for the holidays, but before long starts falling apart. Just like every year, middle-aged sisters Susanna and Helena visit their parents' house with their families. But just like every year, Grandpa Lasse drinks too much, Grandma Ella has to take care of everyone, the kids are fed up and the sisters argue about the most pointless things. After Christmas, everyone separates and returns to their everyday lives. Tia Kouvo’s bitingly humorous, universally poignant debut digs into a question we can all relate to: Are we destined to remain stuck in the same patterns or can we ever change - and at last become a happy family?

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) - actress, writer and rally driver. Set at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. For the first time since the war, Mann returns to his native Germany, having made the difficult decision to flee for the safety of the US. With Fatherland Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring the themes of identity, guilt, family and love, amid the turmoil and moral confusion of post War Europe.