Silence and Swords

Real boys skinny-dip, fight with swords and learn to masturbate together. At least that's what the young men in 'Silence and Swords' imagine the boyhood they feel were cheated out of. They are transgender, and now, as ad

The Silence of Life

A Cure for Silence

Forgotten on her own 18th birthday, Jolene resents her family's concern for her sister, who is dying of a debilitating terminal disease. When Jolene receives an emergency call from her Mother, she must reckon with her je

Walk in Silence

Confronted with the divine, a mute coward must overcome himself to bring a homeless man to the hospital.

Silence on ferme

Omar Amiralay: Sorrow, Time, Silence

Veteran Syrian director Hala Alabdalla returns to LFF with a moving portrait of her late friend and pioneer of Arab non-fiction cinema.

19 Rue du Silence

Silence of the Sea

Settled comfortably in Sweden with his wife and two children, Siavash finds himself at middle age consumed with guilt for having abandoned his parents when he left Iran many years before. A hasty attempt to return finds

The Silence of Snow

A woman runs across a snow-covered landscape in slow motion. In the aftermath of a suicide, grief and longing collide with memories of a relationship marked by mental illness and violence. Fragments of the past are woven

5 Minutes Silence

Demonstrators gather to display signs of grief and remembrance of the genocide perpetrated by ISIL on the Yazidis beginning in 2014 commemorated with five minutes of silence.

The Day Silence Died

A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begin

The Silence Protocol

Clara, a newly hired nurse at a psychiatric hospital, witnesses abuse in the institution’s neglected wards. When she tries to report the torture of a patient, she ends up being interrogated by the police. But instead of

Guards of Silence

Based on novel by Ghada al-Samman.

The Silence of the Poet

This drama comes from one of Germany's greatest contemporary directors, Peter Lilienthal; and is one of the few to be released outside of the country. It is the story of an Israeli poet's struggle to create in an inhospi

40 Days of Silence

This is a passage between two faces, each the same, yet different. Bibicha’s face first appears in the dark, her eyes open and expression impassive, only her heavy breathing betraying the strain she feels. She will withs

The Daughters of Silence

A silent figure relentlessly stalks Cassie, a university student, after an unsolicited invitation. She subsequently must learn to navigate the misogynistic landscape she lives in whilst struggling to evade the figure’s e

Listen to the Silence

Nine-year-old Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children. Somewhat hyperactive, the youngster finds it difficult to make friends, and he feels quite isolated – until he decides to take up traditional Georgian danc

The melody of silence

A boy who heard strange sounds He then set out in the forest with his grandfather to find ‘ Wild Ghost ’ that could be the cause of the sound he heard. But during the journey, that sound took him to find some truths rela

The Silence Is Baroque

The rough voices of men (from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accatone ) open the film soundtrack, they banter in Italian about taking flowers to the cemetery. Filmed in Granada and Seville during Holy Week. The soundtrack mixes a

The Time of Silence

In Slavonia in the 1970ies it was still common practice to send old people to a decrepit house, usually on the edge of a forest, where they'd be left waiting for death. This is a document about one such wait for death, o