Kein Sex ist auch keine Lösung (2011)

Starring:
Stephan Luca
Marleen Lohse
Armin Rohde

Director: Torsten Wacker

Afghan Luke (2011)

AKA:
Hell Afghanistan
Hölle Afghanistan

About:
An experienced journalist risks returning to Afghanistan in pursuit of a sensational story.

Starring:
Nick Stahl
Nicolas Wright
Stephen Lobo

Director: Mike Clattenburg

Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland (2011)

AKA:
Almanya  
Almanya - Welcome to Germany 

About:
The story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family. It was primarily shot in Germany. To give an impression how the Turkish guest workers and their families felt when they came to Germany in the 1960s, the passages spoken by German characters in the flashback scenes are spoken in a German-like gibberish.  

Starring:
Aliya Artuc
Kaan Aydogdu
Siir Eloglu
Vedat Erincin
Demet Gül
Lilay Huser
Ercan Karacayli
Aykut Kayacik
Rafael Koussouris

Direcor: Yasemin Samdereli

Unknown (2011)

Synopsis:
A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man has claimed his identity. With help from a nurse, the cab driver, a retired Stasi agent, and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what's going on.

Starsring:
Liam Neeson
Diane Kruger
January Jones

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

The Flowers of War (2011)

AKA:
Jin ling shi san chai >> Original

Synopsis:
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor.

Starring:
Christian Bale
Ni Ni
Xinyi Zhang

Director: Yimou Zhang

Bheja Fry II (2011)

AKA:
Bheja Fry 2

Synopsis:
In order to pursue his dream of becoming a singer, Income Tax Officer Bharat Bhushan, decides to compete in 'Aao Guess Kare", and dramatically not only wins Rs.25 Lakhs, but also a 3-day luxury cruise. Attracted to his hostess, Ranjini, he embarks well-prepared for any eventuality, and is introduced to a number of fellow passengers. Out of these Ajit Talwar, Kapoor and their group are displeased when they find out he works for the Income Tax Department and bug his room in order to find out what he is really up to. Ajit then attempts to kill him but instead falls overboard. Bharat unknowingly throws up a life-jacket, while Ajit's goon pushes him overboard. The next day the duo wake up on an isolated island and Bharat makes himself virtually at home, starts singing old Bollywood songs much to Ajit's chagrin who is desperate to get back home in order to attend a meeting. Waiting for a quick rescue, the duo will be in for quite a shock when they find they are not quite alone on this.

Starring:
Vinay Pathak
Kay Kay Menon
Minissha Lamba

Director: Sagar Ballary

Kya Yahi Sach Hai (2011)

About:
This is a film based on the best-selling novel 'Carnage by Angels' written by the then serving officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS), based in Mumbai, India, Y.P. Singh in the year 2003.

Synopsis:
Y.P. Singh has been an officer of 1985 Batch of the IPS. Seeing the fast deteriorating ethics in police functioning, which otherwise has profound social consequences, Y.P. Singh took it as his mission to fight corruption from within.

Since there was a corrupt hierarchy from the bottom to the top, one lone officer, logically, would never have made a difference. Realising this, Y.P. Singh quit the police force with a view to making his endeavours more effective from the outside.

While still in service, Y.P. Singh wrote a novel ‘Carnage by Angels’ which was a bestseller of its times. The intent of this novel was plain – Let people know and understand the profound dynamics of corruption in the police and in the government.

Considering an enormous appreciation of this novel, it was considered expedient to adapt this novel into a feature film. Hence, ‘Kya Yahi Sach Hai’ (Is This is the Truth) was made.

Unfortunately, due to its radical theme, sensational revelations and honestly narrated facts, efforts were made, first to block this film and then its exhibition. Enormously constrained, amidst overwhelming odds, somehow, we could move ahead.

Starrring:
Gurpreet Chadha
Shalini Chandran
T.K. Chowdhary

Director: Y.P. Singh

Utt Pataang (2011)

Synopsis:
Mumbai-based Ramvilas Sharma has just broken-up with Sanjana Mahadik, a former bar dancer, with whom he had a six month relationship. His private-detective friend, Nandan Pandey, attempts to counsel him over this break-up, and even encourages him to meet other women. Ramvilas does meet with a homeless woman, Koel Datta, befriends her, and even brings her to spend the night in his flat but will be interrupted when Sanjana will come to take her belongings back and will leave a bag full of cash. Everyone will find their respective lives turned upside when they will be 'interrogated' by a suave French-speaking crook, Lucky Sardana, after the bag goes missing.

Starring:
Vinay Pathak
Saurabh Shukla
Mahie Gill

Director: Srikanth Velagaleti

Trapped in Tradition: Rivaaz (2011)

AKA: Rivaaz

Synopsis:
Mumbai-based Rahul accompanies his friend, Amar Singh, to a village called Bhedia in order to attend the marriage of Supriya, the latter's sister. While on the way there, he sees a young woman and instantly falls in love with her despite of being told that she is destined to be a prostitute according to the tradition prevailing in this community where local police actually procure young women for wealthy Zamindars/landlords. Unable to get her out of his mind, he approaches a pimp, Manghi, and through him finds out her name is Bela, who lives with her mother, Paro, and father, Mangatram. His overtures to get married to her will be met with strong opposition from her parents who are all set to sell her to the highest bidder. Rahul, however, meets Bela on the sly and both fall in love. The community finds out, they feel threatened as all males are dependent on the flesh trade, and hold a special Panchayat Meeting. After a short discussion the Mukhiya finds the couple guilty, instructs.

Starring:
Deepti Naval
Vijay Raaz
Meghna Naidu

Director: Ashok Nanda

Satrangee Parachute (2011)

Starrring:
Jackie Shroff
Kay Kay Menon
Zakir Hussain
Rajpal Yadav
Rupali Ganguly
Azaan Rustam Shah

Director: Vineet Khetrepal

A Lonely Place to Die (2011)

 

Synopsis:
"A Lonely Place to Die" opens with a beautifully lensed rock-climbing scene with some fucking breathtaking landscape photography (from a low-budget of $4M).  Even being shot on a Red One Camera, the Scottish Highlands look gorgeous.  And the opening scene is a real nail-biter.  Alison (Melissa George) and Ed (Ed Speleers) prepare a leg of the climb with Rob (Alec Newman) waiting ahead.  Distracted, Ed falls when Rob draws the rope.  They eventually save Ed from dangling off a cliff and continue on their journey.  Cut to the opening credits playing over ballad “The Burning of Achindoun” while the camera features the Highlands in all of their long-shot natural glory.

On their way to camp, Alison informs Ed that “complacency is a killer out here,” meaning he needs to pay more attention on their next ascent.  They meet up with Jenny (Kate Magowan) and Alex (Gary Sweeney) and settle for a bit at a chateau.  Alison has a nightmarish flashback to the accident while taking a bath.  Later, the group plays cards.  The next day, on their way to a climb, they discover an air pipe sticking out of the ground.  After digging, they find little Serbian girl Anna (Holly Boyd) buried alive in a small confined space.  Rob decides to take Alison to scale a dangerous face in order to get help as quickly as possible.  He instructs the others to take a longer trail to the closest village.  During the climb down, a stranger cuts Rob’s rope mid-climb and he plummets to his death.  A minor avalanche also causes Alison to fall, but branches and a river landing save her.

She has a nightmare about waking up in the confined area they found the girl.  Two hunters (Douglas Russell, Alan Steele) watch the hiking group.  The two kidnappers Mr. Kidd (Sean Harris) and Mr. McRae (Stephen McCole) stumble across and murder the hunters, absconding with their weapons.  Andy (Eamonn Walker) drives Darko (Karel Roden) and Chris (Paul Anderson) to meet with the kidnappers.  The climbing team find Alison across a loud river and they experience trouble communicating.  The kidnappers start picking off the climbers.  Jenny is the first to go and she inadvertently drags Anna down with her into the river.  Alison receives a minor hit, knocking her into the water, but she manages to save Anna in the process.  They lose each other, but are reunited again when Ed grabs Anna to escape the kidnappers.  They also meet up with Alex, who chooses to run off with a decoy doll bundled up to look like Anna (where they found this doll is beyond me).  They shoot him like an animal.  As Alex slowly dies, Mr. Kidd enjoys his suffering for fooling them.  “Do you feel that?  That’s the price of your nobility.  It hurts, doesn’t it?”

Alison and Ed scale a small face with Anna.  Ed figures out that she is probably in the middle of a ransom situation.  Andy coaches Darko on how to conduct himself during the negotiations with Mr. Kidd.  When Darko expresses his doubts about receiving proper backup, Chris gets cheeky and chimes in, “We’re English, Darko.  We leave friendly fire to the Yanks."  During carnival (of all things) in the small town of Dingwall (?), Alison and Ed find a local police station.  But, there aren’t any officers available to help them, because they’re all on patrol at the festival.  Darko sits down with Mr. Kidd and refuses to pay until he sees Anna.  Mr. Kidd goes on to explain a botched kidnapping that occurred, because the parents tried to outsmart him.  The threatening scene is unnecessary for the characters, but the back-and-fourth bluffing between the two gentlemen buys Mr. McRae time to find Anna.

Ed convinces Alison to leave, because the officer doesn’t appear to be of much help, but the authority insists the pair must leave the girl in his custody.  Mr. McRae shoots the officer dead from outside the building and the electricity goes out.  The group escapes into the revelry and loudness of the fireworks.  A backup officer has been killed.  Mr. McRae emerges wearing a pig mask and shoots Ed, as well as another officer.  The females disperse and Mr. McRae continues to kill people, including innocent festival goers.  Andy finds the dying Ed and leaves him a gun to protect himself.  Alison and Anna find a house owner (Jamie Edgell) willing to let them in to his home.  Unfortunately, Alison doesn’t lock the door to even buy them a little time.  Mr. McRae shoots the man and takes off his piggy mask.  The house begins to burn.  After a few scuffles, Alison kills Mr. McRae and helps Anna escape from an upstairs window.  Fireman save the injured Alison.  Apparently, Mr. Kidd makes off with the money, though we never see how things ended with Darko.  Andy crashes through Mr. Kidd’s vehicle and beats the living shit out of him.  Darko observes Alison being wheeled off to the hospital with Anna at her side and a police officer (Gillian MacGregor) in attendance.

Darko and Andy meet with some Serbs, one of which is Anna’s father Mr. Rakovic (Mathew Zajac).  Mr. Kidd is brought to his feet and ordered to die.  Mr. Rakovic informs Andy that he wired a payment to his account.  The Serbs begin to bury Mr. Kidd.  Roll End Credits.

Starring:
Alec Newman
Ed Speleers
Melissa George

Director: Julian Gilbey

Kaslai Diu Yo Jovan (2011)

Starring:
Dilip Rayamajhi
Melina Manandhar
Jharana Thapa
Nikhil Upreti
Suraj R.D

Director: Suresh Darpan Pokharel

The Lovers’ Guide: Igniting Desire (2011)

Starring:
Cathy
Nick
Jasmine

Director: Kenny Rye

The Fukushima Syndrome: Japan (2011)

Synopsis:
Japan has always been energy hungry and addicted to nuclear power. Yet the tsunami washed away old certainties and the industry has seen a growing ground-level resistance and concern about its safety.

"The safety myth about nuclear power has been sunk deeply into people's hearts. But that lie has been exposed", says anti-nuclear activist, Hitomi Kamanaka. The Fukushima disaster is believed to have released as much radiation as 200 Hiroshima bombs. "There's been a lot of cover up over this". Across Japan communities are fighting to stop the construction of new power plants. Yet can the world's third biggest consumer of electricity live without them?

The Pied Piper of Jihad: Yemen (2011)

Synopsis:
The US may have assassinated Awlaki, but as this report indicates, though clear a mouthpiece for extremists he wasn't necessarily a violent man until he was tortured by the Yemenis at the behest of the Americans.

"We've turned him into a perverse kind of hero". Anwar al Awlaki allegedly recruited Al Qaeda members from all over the West. After his arrival and torture in Yemen, Awlaki used his English-speaking prowess to attract recruits from around the world to Yemen's terror camps. An Arab spy who has visited several of them tells how he had seen many Australians and Europeans there. As an American citizen, Awlaki was seen as particularly dangerous for the West. "People who don't fit profiles, who can breeze through airports, are a very potent weapon".

Bahrain's Dark Secret: Bahrain (2011)

Synopsis:
The regime in Bahrain has been determined to keep its protests out of the media. This report gets inside the country's insidious crackdown, exploring the covert tactics it has used to control dissenters.

On the edge of the capital, Manama, thousands gather for the funeral of a man brutally murdered by the police. "With our soul, with our blood we defend you, Bahrain!" the crowd shout. It's a scene repeated over and over in Bahrain, where killings and funerals have become the norm in a nation torn apart by protests and a brutal government crackdown. Hospital workers have also been targeted for speaking to the media, with reports of hospital staff being beaten by police: "Every doctor that speaks out in the media has been arrested," says a doctor at Salimaniya Hospital. As a result of this suppression the government has been accused of human rights violations - allegations that have been strongly denied by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. But with hundreds missing and violent arrests continuing, Bahrain is a nation crippled with fear.

Afghanistan's Turning Point (2011)

Synopsis:
Attacks from the Taliban continue to terrorise Afghanistan a decade after the invasion. With the US withdrawal scheduled for 2014, what hope is there after 10 years of Operation Enduring Freedom?

Operation Enduring Freedom was meant to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan for good, but recently they've been just as deadly as ever. Their killing of high profile Afghans, like Former President Bahruniddin Rabbani, has rocked the nation and in doing so, shattered both its peace process and its policy of 'talking' with the Taliban. "By killing a leader they have crossed the line", says Governor Mohammad Ata Nur. Rabbani's killing marks a turning point for this battered nation. Talking peace with terrorists has taken the country even closer to the edge. Former Taliban minister Wakil Ahmed Mutta Wakil argues the frustrations of his people are clear. "Major-General Atta, Dr Abdullah and others, they insist on one point, that we have to fight forever. But Afghans do not support this idea. They are tired after 30 years of war".

Belarusian Dream (2011)

Synopsis:
Belarusian Dream, an award-winning film, is the story of a young person from Minsk who has lived most of his life in a country ruled by a dictator. Against the background of falsified elections, brutal repressions, and a severe economic crisis, it shows how more people in the most 'stable' post-Soviet country are starting to demand change. This is a story about how the regime can crush a person, and how you can find your own freedom in a state that possesses total contol.

Belarusian Dream is the first independent documentary film to look at what has happened in Belarus since the 2010 presidential elections. Directed by Ekaterina Kibalchich, born in 1982 in Minsk; laureate of the 'Zolotoe Pero' award from the Russian Journalism Union.

Belarusian Dream won the viewer's award at the 2011 International Human Rights Film festival ''WatchDocs.

Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (2011)

AKA:
 ثمال الباقين تمثيلية العاشر- القديح

About:
This live acting took place on a town called Qudaih on Qatif City at the east province of Saudi Arabia.

Mama Illegal (2011)

Synopsis:
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.

 Director: Ed Moschitz