A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.
Social & External
The people behind it
Alina Turdumamatova
Sezim
Nurbek Esengazy Uulu
Dayrbek
Madina Talipbek
Aksana
Taalaikan Abazova
Sezim's Mother
Kanat Abdahmanov
Sezim's Father
Aybike Erkinbekova
Aygul
Jandat Djamanbaeva
Grandmother
Sheker Joomartova
Dayrbek's Mother
Ruslan Orozakunov
Dayrbek's Father
Jyldyz Mikieva
Aunt
Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.
Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm
Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.
A single mother struggles with the day-to-day challenges of raising her daughter, holding down a job, and grieving her husband’s death.
After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.
A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.
After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.
A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.
Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.
A blossoming writer learns that his artistic hero isn't all he thought he was in this satirical exploration of how one separates the art from the artist.
Luka moves to a small coastal town to live with his aunt, while his parents are in the middle of a divorce. A sense of numbness seems to hang above the town, but there is also Jana, a girl from the neighborhood who loves to sunbathe. The end of a lazy summer is near...
Montreal 1952, teenager Samuel brings his friend Julien to the neighbourhood steam bath for his weekly routine with Dad. Julien’s first time will be a day to remember.
A troubled "twunk" ventures down a destructive path, searching for a solution to his problems and a way to ensure his sister's continued support.
Iván is a blind man who lives with his wife, Mercedes. They lead a quiet and peaceful life, but an event is about to change everything. Iván will undergo an operation that will restore his sight, something he has always longed for. However, little by little, he will discover that the world he is about to see hides a dark secret.
Hye-ji takes a dirty picture of her body in the bathroom, and uploads it on her social media. Suddenly, a power outage broke out and she went to the living room to raise the fuse box. Then, she saw wrapped red underwear, which her father prepared for his girlfriend.
A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Based on a true story. 15-year-old Kara Robinson was kidnapped, assaulted and held captive for 18 hours. With her survival instincts kicking in, she plots a daring escape from the serial killer and leads police to his apartment.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to learn how far a jealous husband will go.
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
