
Country:United States of America, Uganda
Director:Kimi Takesue
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
Takesue films all her encounters with the cultural scene in Kampala and at Hope North in Northern Uganda, while reflecting on the phenomenon of the documentary.

Country:Switzerland
Director:Ayten Mutlu Saray
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
Two women roam around Turkey looking for the village of Zara. On the way, reality, memory and fantasy increasingly become entangled…

Country:Russia
Director:Alexander Sokurov
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
This is an intimate portrait of Emperor Hirohito at the end of his tether. As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, is Hirohito's future as an Emperor or a war criminal?

Country:United Kingdom
Director:Stephen Frears
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
Frears’ intimate sense of realism and Morgan’s slyly witty reality-mimicking script combined to uncanny effect in this dramatization of the private life of Queen Elizabeth.

Country:Italy
Director:Roberto Rossellini
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
The events that lead to the all encompassing power and abundancy of Louis XIV, French king of the sun, in a tale of betrayal and deceit.

Country:Belgium
Director:L. Vanderkeybus
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
In December 2008 a group of people went from Belgium to Soweto to create a “Murga”, a parading band, together with South African people.

Country:Germany
Director:Maria Arlamovsky
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
In this film people tell how soldiers use rape during times of war as a weapon to break the enemy. Then the floor is given to the perpetrator, who denies his actions.
Jonathan Stack The Road to Redemption (U.S.A./Libera, 2009, 25 min.)
Shaw describes the female survivors of the civil war in Liberia, the feelings of guilt, shame and the will to survive.

Country:Japan
Director:Masaki Kobayashi
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty.

Country:Russia
Director:Sergei Bonderchuk
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
Leo Tolstoy’s monumental novel is captured on film with total fidelity intertwining a love story and the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleons armies.

Country:South Korea
Director:Wong Kar-Wai
Program:World Parallel
Summary:
Wong Kar-Wai returns to a film from his past to finish it differently. A swordsman has found some magic wine that causes one to forget the past...