Belgium
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Three young special-needs men go on a road trip to lose their virginity.
Director Geoffrey Enthoven (The Over the Hill Band, Cinequest 2010) returns to the festival in fine form with his brilliant new comedy, which deservedly won the Grand Prize of the Americas and the Audience Award at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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Life is short. Tom is not going to let his illness get in the way of allowing him to enjoy all life has to offer.
Tom and his older brother, Luke, both suffer from cystic fibrosis. While Luke chooses to undergo a lung transplant, Tom prefers to ignore his condition, even as he is hospitalized. In the hospital, Tom meets the rebellious Xavier, who despite suffering from the same disease, keeps his joie de vivre. Xavier?s optimism and spirit rub off on Tom, who begins to see the hope of a fun-filled and free-wheeling life, including the possibility of love.
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Three very different Magi in a Brueghels forest encounter the miraculous and learn ?it isn?t easy being a human being.?
Lost in a forest and laden down with new wealth from Christmas caroling, three drunken beggars stumble upon a couple with a newborn baby, the Baby Jesus perhaps, and experience a spiritual conversion. Over three Christmases, some of them become religiously obsessed; others have their newfound faith sorely tempted by such offerings as ?a Latina devil, a singing transvestite and a black midget musician.? (Hollywood Reporter)
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Can you stop something you never could have predicted?
Sam is an ordinary man. He works at a shopping mall as a security guard and does not take his job too seriously. He has his morning routine, heads off to work and comes home at night. Repeat, endlessly. But not today. Things will never be the same as Sam arrives at work. Is it his lack of intuition, or his inability to pick up on personal cues that leaves him unaware of the troubled individual entering the mall? Boom. An incident. What has happened? Something unpredictable.
Sam Louwyck, Titus De Voogdt, Jan Hammenecker, Wim Willaert, Norman Baert, Steffi Peeters, Barbara Callewaert, Gunter Lamoot
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Sometimes you have to get lost to find the way to what you really want and what you really need.
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Albania: A land still all but unknown, even to its nearest neighbors in Europe. Yet, from a land where the everyday verges on the surreal, a land with no international train service, a land that has seen its population dwindle with over 600,000 of its best and brightest emigrated-comes this wild and wooly film, brimming with energy, chaos, and, amidst the detritus of change run amok, hope and love. Niku and Klara, each living with their parents in Albania's capital city, Tirana, are very much in love.
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Juliette is frantically running away from a man when a car hits her. Lying in the street, semiconscious and stunned, she commences counting. She knows that if no one helps her by the time she reaches 100, something terrible will happen. But Gaspard, a paramedic, arrives, and Juliette is safely transported to the hospital. Gaspard is a classic caretaker. Transfixed by Juliette, Gaspard is determined to make sure she recovers from her accident. However, there's Guido, the man Juliette most fears. And with good reason.
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Winner ? Prize of Hope, Cannes Film Festival
There is a hell, a hell on earth, and it?s a place once known as paradise.
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An edgy comedy about euthanasia and the confusions of the multicultural society.
Tom Naegels, a young and idealistic journalist, finds himself on the brink of commitment to his no-nonsense long-term girlfriend, when his world is suddenly turned upside down by the beautiful, free-spirited Nadia. She?s a Pakistani refugee who captures his heart and challenges him to face the deep-seated prejudices of society and his unsuspecting self.