The Unknown Saint

In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopel...

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Reha Erdem

Cast

Ozen Ozkan, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit İşcan

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Éric Guirado

Cast

Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Radu Mihăileanu

Cast

Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as a quirky but lovable outsider in his home village.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Hardi Sturm

Cast

Max Riemelt, Katja Riemann, Armin Rohde

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Bahman Ghobadi

Cast

Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal