Tiger Awards Competition
Overview of films
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La leyenda del tiempo
This well hidden homage to the legendarian flamenco singer Camarón portrays two people playing themselves: the 13 year old gipsy boy Isra who is not a
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Old Joy
Beautifully acted silent elegy for the lost joys of youth, and for a whole era that seems to have come to an end.
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Song of Songs
Impressive feature debut about the intense, strange and occasionally cruel relationship between brother and sister in an Orthodox Jewish community in
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The Gaze
An Iranian living in Paris slowly goes blind and decides to visit his dying father in Teheran. Concepts such as `looking’ and `seeing’ play a major ro
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Ode to Joy
During debut by three film students who provide with three different stories their vision of today’s Poland, focusing on the problem of the mass exodu
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Un matin bonne heure
Two Guinean kids do not manage to find work despite their inventiveness and creativity. That’s why they decide to travel to Europe as aircraft stowawa
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Walking on the Wild Side
Autobiographically tinted film about the hopelessness of life in a Chinese mining town where the advance of the market economy leads to depressing law
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Land of the Blind
Political thriller about a nameless country with a totalitarian regime that is wrestling with a well-organised guerrilla movement, of which the leader
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Glue
Patagonia may be at the end of the world, adolescence is confusing everywhere. Impressively acted by the young cast and convincingly shot by débutant
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Langer licht
The life of an Amsterdam boxing school owner goes off the rails when he finds himself facing his 15-year-old son after a tragic accident.
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Taking Father Home
The quest of a Chinese country kid who goes to the big city (Zigong) to find his father turns into an unexpected confrontation.
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La perrera
Tragicomedy about a failed student who tries at the insistence of his father to build his own house in La Perrera where just as many dogs live as men