GIFF 2012
by CwL_Sweden | created - 31 Jan 2012 | updated - 05 Feb 2012 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Flower (2011)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A female Beijing student living in Paris accidentally meets a French construction worker. They have an intense relationship based on sexual attraction, mistrust, submissiveness and a ... See full summary »
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Corinne Yam, Tahar Rahim, Jalil Lespert, Vincent Rottiers
Votes: 600
2. My Little Princess (2011)
105 min | Drama
When Hanah re-emerges in the life of her pre-pubescent daughter, she comes with a strange, yet attractive proposition: she needs her own girl to pose for her in ways that would later take by surprise the Parisian art world of the 1970s.
Director: Eva Ionesco | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anamaria Vartolomei, Georgetta Leahu, Denis Lavant
Votes: 1,884
3. At Night, They Dance (2011)
81 min | Documentary, History
Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured. A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo... See full summary »
Directors: Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault | Stars: Reda Ibrahim Mohamed Ali, Amira Said Samir Sayed, Bossy Said Samir Sayed, Hind Said Samir Sayed
Votes: 209
4. Whores' Glory (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
An examination of the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Emma, Ning, Toh, Wat
Votes: 5,118 | Gross: $0.03M
5. The Idiot (2011)
132 min | Drama, History
A story of a man, whose sincerity becomes a great weapon in a cynical world.
Director: Rainer Sarnet | Stars: Risto Kübar, Katariina Unt, Tambet Tuisk, Ragne Veensalu
Votes: 286
6. Girl Model (2011)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Thriller
A documentary on the modeling industry's 'supply chain' between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S., told through the experiences of the scouts, agencies, and a 13-year-old model.
Directors: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin | Stars: Ashley Arbaugh, Rachel Blais, Olivia Arben, Tigran Khachatrian
Votes: 2,306 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Not Rated | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Votes: 50,270 | Gross: $0.14M
8. Jess + Moss (2011)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
A series of vignettes involving memories of companionship and sexual awakening shared by two second cousins.
Director: Clay Jeter | Stars: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers, Haley Strode, Haley Parker
Votes: 1,000
9. 17 Girls (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
When a rebellious teenager finds out that she is already eight weeks pregnant, she forms a pact with sixteen of her classmates to get pregnant simultaneously, raise their children together, and most of all, be in charge of their lives.
Directors: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin | Stars: Louise Grinberg, Juliette Darche, Roxane Duran, Esther Garrel
Votes: 3,384 | Gross: $0.02M
10. Without (I) (2011)
88 min | Drama
On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.
Director: Mark Jackson | Stars: Joslyn Jensen, Ron Carrier, Darren Lenz, Brooke Bundy
Votes: 532
11. First Position (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.
Director: Bess Kargman | Stars: Aran Bell, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora, Miko Fogarty
Votes: 3,454 | Gross: $1.10M
12. Death of a Superhero (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon | Stars: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Lilly Forgách, Ian Fitzgibbon, Michael McElhatton
Votes: 3,706 | Gross: $0.00M
13. Fästmö uthyres (1950)
91 min | Comedy
The staff at a legal agency in Stockholm are suddenly unemployed. On the initiative of secretary Margit Berg, a service company is started. From that you can order childcare, flower watering etc.
Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Olof Winnerstrand, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Eva Dahlbeck, Dagmar Ebbesen
Votes: 67
14. The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
R | 84 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Light, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series of murders.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig, Samir Guesmi
Votes: 7,092 | Gross: $0.11M
15. Your Sister's Sister (2011)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after his brother's death. Jack's drunken encounter with Iris' sister Hannah at their remote cabin kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mike Birbiglia
Votes: 28,423 | Gross: $1.57M
16. Nuit #1 (2011)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama
It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.
Director: Anne Émond | Stars: Catherine De Léan, Dimitri Storoge, Véronique Rebizov, Raphaël Boulanger
Votes: 890
17. Beauty (2011)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
Portrait of a closeted gay husband/father living a life of quiet middle-aged desperation who becomes fixated on a friend's handsome collegiate son, leading to an incident.
Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Albert Maritz
Votes: 2,006
18. Generation P (2011)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A chronicle of the rise of the advertising industry in Post-Soviet Russia.
Director: Victor Ginzburg | Stars: Vladimir Epifantsev, Mikhail Efremov, Andrey Fomin, Sergey Shnurov
Votes: 4,310 | Gross: $0.01M
19. The Dish & the Spoon (2011)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Reeling from her husband's affair, Rose collides with a marooned teenager in a boarded-up Delaware beach town.
Director: Alison Bagnall | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Olly Alexander, Eleonore Hendricks, Amy Seimetz
Votes: 1,322
20. House of Tolerance (2011)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca
Votes: 7,790 | Gross: $0.02M
21. Los inadaptados (I) (2011)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely boy doesn't want to live anymore until he meets a girl who makes him feel like the star actor of his family.
Directors: Javier Colinas, Marco Polo Constandse, Jorge Ramírez Suárez, Sergio Tovar Velarde | Stars: Luis Arrieta, Luis Ernesto Franco, Paola Núñez, Tiaré Scanda
Votes: 180
22. Dark Horse (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
Romance blooms between two tricenarians in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow
Votes: 6,382 | Gross: $0.94M
23. Cracks in the Shell (2011)
113 min | Drama
Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Stine Fischer Christensen, Ulrich Noethen, Dagmar Manzel, Christina Drechsler
Votes: 1,003
24. Lena (2011)
119 min | Drama
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey | Stars: Emma Levie, Niels Gomperts, Jeroen Willems, Agata Buzek
Votes: 591
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