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Completed Films

Guy X

2005
1979: Qangattarsa – Top Secret US Military Hospital – The Vietnam war ended four years ago. Reagan has just announced his intention to stand for President with George Bush as his running mate on a ticket of "Peace through Strength". The U.S. military kicks into action with a huge injection of finance and the U.S.S.R is about to lose the cold war. Meanwhile on Qangattarsa military base, Rudy Spruance is lost.

Cold Light

Kaldaljós

2004
Grimur, a troubled teenager, can't come to terms with a feeling of guilt he has carried since he lost his family in a tragedy that he thinks he could have prevented. In his childhood, a mystical talent had tormented him with visions of the future – now he must learn to let go of the haunting visions of his past and accept all the good things that life has to offer.

Strings

2004
The Kharo, the country's king, is writing a farewell letter to his son, Hal Tara, to whom he is entrusting the throne in the hope that Hal Tara will be able to achieve that which he himself could not: making peace. With this hope, the Kharo draws his sword, severs his head-string, and dangles lifelessly from his remaining strings.

Niceland

2004
Jed and Chloe, in their early 20's, live a very simple life in the city. They love each other, find happiness in the smallest things and plan to get married. One day the death of Chloe's cat triggers inconsolable sadness and a deep confusion in the meaning of life for both Jed and Chloe.

My Brother is a Dog

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund

2004
Children have many wishes. Marietta has just the one - she wants a dog. Her parents are not keen, especially as they have their four year old son Tobias to look after too. For years Marietta pestered her parents, but to no avail. But then, on her tenth birthday she gets a magic stone from the child the family is sponsoring in Africa.

Loving Glances

Sjaj u ocima

2003
The film tells the story of Labud, a young student set adrift on the tide of refugees created by the ethnic strife in the region, and Romana a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the ethnic divide who meet and fall in love as displaced people in Belgrade of the mid nineties. As they fall in love so the "ghosts" of their past visit them and try to keep them apart.

Falcons

Fálkar

2002
Drama. Simon, an ex-con just released from prison in his native America, returns to Iceland to kill himself. Before he has a chance to do so, he meets Dua, a young Icelandic girl who is a force of nature with amazing powers over animals and people.

Deathwatch

2002
Set in 1915 on the Western Front, one million or more Allied and German troops face each other across the scarred, cratered planes of northern Europe, thick with mud and blood. Private Charles Shakespeare and the last few men of Y Company are utterly lost, deep in enemy territory, awaiting a rescue that will never come.

Under the Stars

Kato apo ta asteria

2001
Directed and written by Cristos Georgiou, this film begins in Cyprus, 1974. a Greek right wing military coup overthrows the government, and the Turkish government invades the island. After a period of intense fighting, the UN intervenes and draws a "Green Line" through the middle of Cyprus, separating the Turkish and Greek territories.

Josephine

2000
When Jan’s father dies, he leaves him a small legacy of memories, and a mission: to find legendary dancer Josephine Baker, and bring her back to their Bohemian village. Jan heads for Hamburg not realizing that Josephine’s club there had been closed for forty years.

Sweet Angel Mine

1996
A gripping psychological thriller in which long buried secrets are revealed with horrifying consequences. Paul, a young man from Chicago, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community.

Young Poisoner's Handbook

1995

Black Comedy. This film is based on the real life case of a teenage boy who wants to become history's most accomplished poisoner.

Before the Rain

Prije kise

1994
Awarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, this film is a trilogy an all three stories focus on tragic and fated love affairs. The stories take place on the brink of a civil war in the Macedonian mountains between the Macedonians and the Albanians.