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Completed Films

StreetKids United

2010

StreetKids United is about a team of homeless children, chosen to represent South Africa in the first ever Street Child World Cup, who see football as a way to a better and brighter future.

Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

2009
RWWM is a splatter movie of the goriest kind. The story is true to its genre, and the humour as black as it gets. Men turn into beasts and kindness is a weakness that can only lead to defeat.

ZigZagKid

2009

Based on the novel by Israeli author David Grossmann, ZIGZAGKID tells the story of a young boy who teams up a crook and the pair end up with the police on their tail.

Donkey

Kenjac

2009

It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro travels to his nome village Drinovci, Herzegovina, with his wife Jasna and son Luka in the hope of seeing his brother who was wounded while leaving Sarajevo.

Congregation of Ghosts

2009

After years in India, working as a missionary, Reverend Densham returns to England to take up the post of vicar in the remote and insular Cornish village of Warleggan on Bodmin Moor.

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

2009
A loggerhead turtle follows the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. From a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream to the frozen north, swimming around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and then back to the beach where she was born. But her chance of survival is low - just one in a thousand turtles will make it safely home.

Quest for a Heart

Röllin sydän

2007
A young troll, Rolli, and his friends find themselves caught up in a quest to find a magic heart that will save his village and all the world from turning to stone. Worst yet he finds he has to do this with the help of a beautiful Elf, Milli – the surmise of everything a troll can’t stand.

Mirror Maze

2006

Diego leads a pleasant and ordinary life. One night on TV, he sees a man identical to himself get killed in a road accident. From then on he begins to realise that nothing is what he thought: not his parents, not his wife... not even himself.

Astropia

2007

High flying socialite Hildur is brought back to earth with a bump when her boyfriend, Jolli, is sent to jail - she must get a job.

Anastezsi

2007
Young violin prodigy Valerio is summoned to study at an exclusive musical academy. During his stay he learns that the academy’s world-famous virtuoso, Baltzer, has sinister plans for him.

Bathory

2008
Countess Elizabeth Bathory has been called the greatest murderess of history but no evidence has ever been found to prove the accusations. This film aims to settle the score by telling the story as it should be heard; within its historical context.

Border Post

Karaula

2006
A border post on the Macedonian-Albanian border is thrown into disarray when it's commander discovers he has syphilis, creating chaos in his bid to avoid his wife and admitting his infidelity.

Son of Man

2006
Based on the New Testament the narrative unveils a portrait of a man of our time whose currency is the politics of compassion. It is a gripping journey of love, deception and betrayal in a conflicted society.

Mystery of the Wolf

Suden arvoitus

2006
A young girl develops a special friendship with the wolves that live in the woods near her village.

Eleven Men Out

Strákarnir okkar

2005
An all gay football team in an amateur football league get the chance of a lifetime when they have the opportunity to play against the big guns...

Murk

Mørke

2005
An eerie and intense thriller, MURK tells the story of Jacob's investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.

Call of the Toad

Unkenrufe

2005
A serene and melancholy love story between a German man and a Polish woman as they are caught up in the advent of modern capitalism in Poland. Based on the novel by Gunther Grass.

Shadow of the Sword

Henker

2005

Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.