Parvaneh (2012)

2012-11-0125m

Parvaneh is a young Afghan immigrant who recently arrived at a transit centre for asylum seekers in the Swiss Alps. The only things she has got to know yet are the rural area surrounding the centre and the centre itself.

Related Movies

5469-thumbnail

Love Exchange (2001)

Jackie and Ben move into a luxurious new home in the affluent neighborhood of Verdana Hills. They are immediately welcomed and befriended by their sexy new neighbor Lizelle and invited to a pool party to meet the rest of the neighbors in the complex. After meeting Lizelle’s husband Lorenzo at the pool gathering, Ben is invited and told about a “sexual card game” that allows everyone in the complex to discard their marital inhibitions. Soon both Jackie and Ben are pulled into a world of swingers and lurid sex that threatens the very fibers of their relationship.

5525-thumbnail

Sister's Keeper (2007)

4996-thumbnail

Afternoon (2007)

A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.

5047-thumbnail

Les petites couleurs (2002)

Swiss drama in the form of a road movie starring Bernadette Lafont. Hairdresser Christelle is harassed daily by her chauvinistic husband until she can no longer stand it and flees. She then meets the strong landlady Mona and learns to see her life from a different perspective.

442720-thumbnail

I Will Always Love You Conny (2017)

It’s minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees F) and 20 y/o Conny walks around like a restless criminal with his hoodie up in a small forgotten village in northern Sweden. He's not welcome anywhere and the whole village seems to hate him. Yesterday he panicked and drove away from his girlfriend’s delivery of their baby - but now he has repented and wants to come back. But what will it take for her to forgive him?

264713-thumbnail

3 Minutes (1999)

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. Passing the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life.

1370626-thumbnail

Triggerwarnung (2024)

Alina has her first Tinder date with Louis after a long-term relationship. After the date, they have sex, even though Alina didn't really want to.

1000365-thumbnail

Cloudbusting (2023)

An immigrant from Hong Kong now lives in Los Angeles. He deals with his homesickness and sense of loss after encountering a strange old man.

153-thumbnail

Lost in Translation (2003)

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

156-thumbnail

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

205-thumbnail

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

1364997-thumbnail

Eugenia and John (2016)

Working as a cleaning lady, studying at university and maintaining a relationship with her high school sweetheart, John, is all Eugenia does to achieve her goal of entering medical school despite her undocumented status. When her sister gets arrested for a routine traffic ticket, she turns to John for help, but she finds that John's response is surprisingly aloof. As she struggles to prevent her sister's deportation and tries to salvage her romance with her boyfriend, Eugenia realizes that her position in America is more tenuous than she ever imagined.

226-thumbnail

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

1178081-thumbnail

The Death of Toys (2010)

Ten year-old SETH wants to give up his toys, but his work-numbed mother LILY needs the spark of their playtime more than he does. Her insistence that he keep the toys leads to some unexpected places.

259201-thumbnail

Gift (2013)

John despises his father for being a failure in life. When John returns home to facilitate his father's funeral, his life comes to a turning point, as he discovers the true motivation of his misjudged father.

437569-thumbnail

Miranda's Letter (2016)

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother would have wanted to say to her daughter. Commissioned as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016.

437618-thumbnail

Alien Lover (1975)

An orphaned teenager becomes involved with an alien who was beamed to Earth from another galaxy in a TV signal. Is the alien a dream come true or a harbinger of doom? Originally broadcast as part of "The Wide World of Mystery."

258529-thumbnail

Fighting for Freedom (2013)

Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.

258579-thumbnail

The Wet Season (2002)

Jocelyn works at her Uncle's 'Crying Booths' in the country, while crying is forbidden in the cities.

1177697-thumbnail

Basorexia (2017)

A young artist is caught in between the world of fantasy and reality. There he finds a girl that he can't understand, explain, or identify.