2013
Coming Out
Erik is an openly gay radio personality with one of the top-rated talk-shows in the country, and as one of the most celebrated and successful members of the community he is just about to be elected the next President of Hungary’s leading gay rights organization. He is also about to marry Balázs his partner of 5 years.…
THE GOLDEN DREAM aka ‘La jaula de oro’
This story about Guatemalan teenagers trying to escape their life of poverty and illegally cross the Mexican Border after a long and arduous journey en route to the USA, is one of the saddest and most dispiriting I have seen in a very long time. It starts with three friends Samuel, Juan and his girlfriend…
HUMAN CAPITAL aka Il Capitale Umano
On a snowy wintry night in a small town in the suburbs of Milan, after he has worked at an Awards Evening for the local school, a waiter jumps on his bike to make his way home. However before he can get there, he is run over by a hit-and-run driver who leaves him at…
Westerland
The setting for Tim Staffel’s adaption of his own novel is as bleak and desolate as the story itself. On the windswept icy mass of the island of Sylt off Germany’s most northernmost region, young Jesus is sitting alone on a bench in the middle on nowhere, with a plastic bag over his head. The…
