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- DirectorJan DunnStarsPauline McLynnChloe SirenePaul McGannIt charts the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence. Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change. Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is on the brink of a breakdown. His biggest fear is change. Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee, awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom - a concept taken for granted by all those around her. Told in three revelatory narratives, each from a particular character's point of view, reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed.
- DirectorJosé Luis MarquèsStarsFabián StratasCamilla HeaneyFabián, a magician from Buenos Aires, saves his money from weddings, birthdays, and bar mitzvahs, and uses a hidden camera to document a week-long trip to the Falkland Islands where he has a patriotic plan: to impregnate a British woman. If 500 Argies do this annually, the islands will soon be overrun with children belonging to both cultures. He spends his first couple of days in Stanley doing reconnaissance, setting his sights on Camila, whom he's first seen in church. He chats her up at an Internet café. They go out for drinks, then dinner, then to the see the King penguins and a 1982 battlefield. Back home, editing his Dogma 95 film, he receives a final message from Camila.
- DirectorJuan PinzásStarsMonti CastiñeirasPilar Álvarez SaavedraVicente MohedanoFirst-ever Spanish Dogma Film. An acid psychosocial-sexual comedy tells the story of a group of friends from university who, ten years after finishing their journalism studies, decide to meet up again in one of their friends' homes to revisit past times. Up until now, they have all done well in life and should be happy, but they aren't. A weekend will be more than enough to bring out the best and the worst in each of them and to create conflict.
- DirectorMatthew BiancanielloStarsMatthew BiancanielloSara BerkowitzJoe GiebStory of a man who is obsessed with his stomach and how it gets in the way of his love, his dream and ultimately his life.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsEwen BremnerBrian FiskChloë SevignyA portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
- DirectorMartin RengelStarsClaudia KnabenhansAndri ZehnderSebastian HölzFor Sandra, a woman in her late teens, life is wonderful. She has recently fallen in love with Daniel, a member of the group of young men she hangs around with frequently. Daniel is flattered by Sandra's affection for him and they begin to spend more time together, apart from the rest of the gang. Their relationship remains diffuse and directionless, provoking tension and threatening to cause a schism within the group.
- DirectorNatasha ArthyStarsSidse Babett KnudsenBjörn KjellmanSøren ByderKatrine is getting married in two days but can't tell her sister at the mental hospital. Their ex pops up just as he left two years ago for Kenya. Then there's last minute preparations and a bachelor party. Wedding?
- DirectorMark PoggiLeif TildenStarsDwier BrownAndres FaucherMarlene ForteA bittersweet and heartfelt story about going back. In the twenty-four hours before their 20th high school reunion, five friends, a younger brother and a mysterious photojournalist are reunited by determined Mayor Margaret to remember the good times of 1981
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsSonja RichterNikolaj Lie KaasMads MikkelsenA Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
- DirectorPascal RobitailleStarsDhanaé Audet-BeaulieuPierre-Luc BlaisSylvie BouchardWilliam is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days camping with him, taking advantage of the situation by filming the trip and their time spent with another young gay couple. The camera never stops shooting, even when Médéric decides to get it on with another guy in a tent. As Canada's first Dogme95 film, the story is shot on location, with natural lighting and live sound, the camera is hand-held and all superficial elements are forbidden. Yet somehow, in spite of these harsh restrictions during the filmmaking process, the result is warm and beautiful.
- DirectorJean-Marc BarrStarsÉlodie BouchezSergej TrifunovicMadeleine BarrA French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
- DirectorAnnette K. OlesenStarsAnn Eleonora JørgensenTrine DyrholmNicolaj KopernikusAnna begins as a rookie chaplain in a women's prison and meets an inmate who can perform miracles and cure drug addicts with a touch. She says Anna is pregnant and a test confirms it. But not all is well.
- DirectorVladimir GyorskiSteven SobelStarsDavid AlvaradoMia KellyMichael GlazerA drug dealer after getting arrested, vows to make a fresh start; but instead winds up in a showdown with a malicious legal system threatening to steal his most valued posessions: his freedom and his life.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBodil JørgensenJens AlbinusAnne Louise HassingThe group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.
- DirectorLone ScherfigStarsAnders W. BerthelsenAnn Eleonora JørgensenAnette StøvelbækSeveral lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.
- DirectorKristian LevringStarsMiles AndersonRomane BohringerDavid BradleyWhen a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsStine StengadeLars MikkelsenSven WollterKira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
- DirectorÅke SandgrenStarsNikolaj Lie KaasPeter MygindSusan OlsenA 7-year-old girl's (Line Kruse) imaginary friend (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) comes to life, but adults misunderstand his kindness toward children.