What is Europe?
It is not easy to give a single description for Europe with its wide and deep diversity, but a film may capture one aspect of such diversity, serving as a mirror that reflects people’s hopes and fears.
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"Tangerines," a story about an Estonian man who has stayed behind in the middle of a bloody conflict in Georgia's Apkhazeti region in the early 1990s, was nominated for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN -
"The Ambassador to Bern" is a political thriller dramatizing the events behind the attack against the Hungarian embassy in Switzerland following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN -
"Song of the Sea" is a cartoon that takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN -
"Ida" tells the story of a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, who discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN -
"Macondo" depicts the life of a Chechen refugee family in Vienna. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN -
The story of Czech film "To See the Sea" is told through the eyes of the 11-year-old Tomas, a boy who gets a digital Nikon camera for his birthday and begins to record the world around him. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN -
The animated film "Rocks in My Pockets" created by Latvian-born Signe Baumane tells five stories of art, romance, marriage, nature, business and Eastern European upheaval based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with a genetic illness. | EU DELEGATION TO JAPAN
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