Personal 67th Locarno Film Festival List

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

An urban nomad conflicted with his own existence and loneliness finds mercy in the most unlikely place.

A dad and his two daughters are looking for old materials to recycle in a forest rubbish tip. Despite the apparent peace of the forest, each of the three characters is going to face up to the dangers running through the tip and its surroundings.

360 Eritrean refugees drown off the coast of Lampedusa. Chaos breaks loose at the harbor, whilst hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.

After a car accident, Meng Xiaojun has to face a tragic reality: his wife is dead and his daughter needs an expensive brain surgery. Struggling to find the money, he is offered a way out: his wife might still be able to help him save their daughter. But how far is he ready to go to make things right?

A lonely 40 year old woman meets a man in the wood near the building where she works as a caretaker. They spend the night together. Early in the morning the police arrive at her flat. They just found a dead body in the woods.

The close relationship between 5yo Cyril and his elder sister Marie, 8, exploring their imaginative worlds, jealousies and passion for music. Day by day, their shared world is tested but enriched as they grow and develop.

A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.

Our skin both exposes and protects us: it is part of our sense of identity, a witness, like it or not, to the events in our lives, a tool of communication, and plays an important role in how we relate to the world.

Roman and Linda are a couple who have long since ceased to have anything in common, apart from the Bloody Marys they like to drink. One day, they set off for a bicycle ride in the Swiss mountains, with Roman, despite not feeling very well, on a traditional bike, while Linda has an electric model. Their trip soon hits unforeseen complications, and this couple in a dying relationship find themselves forced to react and take action.

Florence and Etienne visit Florence's dead father's house. He has hung himself from a tree. Etienne will soon discover that the couple's excursion brings up the challenge to open up to each other about unspoken truths.

Accompanied by voice-over extracts from Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France by Blaise Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian follows the train journey of the same name, via footage shot from a carriage window. These calm and linear images are combined with abstract animation, sometimes geometric, sometimes more organic, expressing the sensations of this journey, of the horizontal shifting, with its tempo, ist pauses, its agitations and the proliferation of thoughts that this particular space-time makes possible.

The August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.

Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman.

The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn't had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme's strict rules - withdrawn, no social contact and constantly undercover. One day, the shy Rosa crashes into his car and life. Before he knows it, Koralnik is having dinner with her. For the first time, he can flee his everyday misery for an evening of company. But then the telephone rings. It's Koralnik's first job. With Rosa alongside, Koralnik sets off on a chaotic odyssey through a night in which nothing goes according to plan. It is only when Koralnik's target is revealed to be none other than one of his colleagues that the rigid concept by which he lives finally comes into question. He is confronted with the dilemma of either protecting his secret programme or drawing a line under his unfulfilled existence as a killer. It is the biggest liar of them all, Rosa, who forces him to confront his own life's lie.

Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.

Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all look forward to the adventure, after all they know that what counts the most is the time they spend together. It's only after the tour has begun that Hannes tells his friends that he's suffering from an incurable disease. The trip is to be his last. At first, the group is shocked and helpless, but after they hit the road again, they embark on a wild and one-of-a-kind adventure. Through Hannes, they realize how precious life is. Equipped with a list of things that still remain to do, and aware that nothing will be the same after this trip, they celebrate life as they never did before.

A winter spent in the heart of an emergency shelter where every night watchmen have the difficult task of "sorting the poor" due to lack of space.

Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.

Holidays, heat, crickets... Think 'sea, sex and sun'. Except there is no sex for Victoria and Leo because Victoria can't make love. This is a couple on the brink of separation. But then, along come two sexed-up, happy lovebirds...

David and Eliab, two apprentice jockeys get to know each other between admiration, rivalry and jealousy.

A black sun rises above Lake Leman. In a surrealist backlight, several bathers and aquatic birds witness the spectacle of daybreak, hypnotized by the music played by a cellist.

17-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and, in a thoughtless impulse, shoots himself twice. But he survives.

Hélène, Lili and Rose are companions in nazi-concentrationcamp Auschwitz. In the chaos at the end of WW II they lose each other. The three meet again, thanx to an annual ad Hélène places, at last in 1962.