If Everything Was

A father's journey to save his son.

An unemployed man who plays a concertina gets involved with a band of crooks and tries to frustrate a kidnapping, in this farcical caper.

This gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.

Nadya, a young girl from St. Petersburg, is living and learning in London. Suddenly she decides to pay an unexpected visit to her boyfriend Zhenya.

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a good heart but little ambition and his fiancée, who feels torn when a charming and sophisticated intellectual enters her life and sweeps her off her feet. There are also several side stories, also all dealing with relationships, most significantly the soldier's mother, whose comfortable but unexceptional marriage is threatened when a past love returns to her life.

Circumstances trigger concoction of desire and guilt, when secrets from past overcast Daniel's existence. He travels through his nightmares to introspect his sexuality. Daniel's survival turns into a mirage, as he finds himself muddled between homosexuality and pedophilia.

A returnee from Australia causes uproar in his native village when he announces he's looking for bride.

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.

Five young high school graduates, who appear flawless on the outside, spend one last evening together before they all go their separate ways. After events escalate at a party they are at, the group is thrown out. On the way home together, innermost thoughts and secrets come to light that you would not have expected before.

An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot films.

Our homage to the stupid idea of God.

Paco and Manolo are two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona who have been working together for thirty years as if they were a single person, capturing their images in Kink magazine, a very personal photography fanzine with a homoerotic aesthetic of Mediterranean essence.

A Russian journalist Sergey is hiding in one of the Balkan countries from police detectives who suspect him in a double murder.

A young married couple moves to America because of poor material conditions. A popular stage play of Sarajevo theatre.

A look at the week's political events

Anna Kurkurina is a charismatic athlete, ‘the strongest woman in the world’, an animal activist, and an out lesbian. At an early age, Anna already had a unique bond with animals. She taught biology at school, worked at the local zoo where she made friends with a lion, helped to set up animal shelters, and tried to find new homes for dozens of stray animals. At the age of forty, she decided to pursue a career as a powerlifter and soon made it to the top by becoming a triple world champion. She also started to work as a coach of young people with disabilities. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Anna has been using the power of her popularity as an athlete and a social media influencer to help injured and abandoned animals, following her motto — Whoever saves one life saves the whole world.

Two men in a village are beaten up by a group of young­sters. A female detec­tive tries to find out why the two do not want to report the assault.

A pedantic killer receives an order from the CEO of a large corporation to remove a competitor. "Special" is sent to realize the desire of the customer, but after the successful completion of the task, it turns out that the office employees assigned to oversee this project have a couple of minor edits.

A 30-something slacker finds his carefree life turned upside down when he falls for his sister's teenage babysitter.