"A charm­ing and well-act­ed sto­ry" is how one crit­ic de­scribed the Bel­gian movie Turquaze.

This sto­ry about Turk­ish im­mi­grants in Ger­many is on at Movi­eTowne from 8 pm as part of the Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val.

The EFF runs un­til May 28 at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain. The To­ba­go pro­gramme starts at on Wednes­day Movi­eTowne To­ba­go and runs un­til May 28.

Tick­ets are $30, with tick­ets for chil­dren and stu­dents in uni­form or with stu­dent ID priced at $20.

For more in­for­ma­tion, vis­it the EFF Face­book page at Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val � Trinidad and To­ba­go or www.ttfilm­fes­ti­val.com/eff

To­day's sched­ule for the Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain

11 am

Wrin­kles

Di­rec­tor: Igna­cio Fer­reras 2011/Spain/89 mins/An­i­ma­tion/PG13

Emilio and Miguel are friends who live in a home for the el­der­ly. Miguel is de­ter­mined to avoid see­ing Emilio, in the ear­ly stages of Alzheimer's, end up on the dread­ed "lost caus­es" floor of the home. In the process, Miguel in­fus­es their oth­er­wise te­dious day-to-day life with great hu­mour and ten­der­ness.

1 pm

Peo­ple Out There

Di­rec­tor: Aik Kara­pet­ian 2012/Latvia/90 mins/Dra­ma/18+

Jan lives in a drea­ry hous­ing com­plex on the out­skirts of town. He and his friend Crack­er hang out smok­ing weed and en­gag­ing in pet­ty theft. Jan's life is thrown for a loop when he meets the beau­ti­ful Sabi­na. The de­sire for love goads him to fight against the hope­less­ness of his sit­u­a­tion.

3.30pm

Un­cle Hank

Di­rec­tor: El­bert van Strien 2012/The Nether­lands/92 mins/Com­e­dy/14+

Koen, a law stu­dent, avoids be­ing beat­en up by street thugs one day when he claims to be the nephew of feared crime boss Henk de Kon­ing. When "Un­cle" Henk rings Koen's door­bell not long af­ter­wards, the young man finds him­self be­ing made an of­fer he can't refuse.

5.30pm

Hands Up

Di­rec­tor: Ro­main Goupil

2010/France/90 mins/Dra­ma/PG13

Mi­lana, a Chechen girl liv­ing in France, sees the neigh­bour­ing fam­i­ly de­port­ed and is fear­ful her fam­i­ly is next. Her friend Blaise is hor­ri­fied at the thought of los­ing her. With the help of Blaise's moth­er, Mi­lana is tak­en in to their home in the hope she can be safer there.

8pm

Kiymet + Turquaze

Kiymet

Di­rec­tor: Canan Tu­ran

2012/Ger­many/25 mins/Doc­u­men­tary/GA

Back in the late 1960s, Kiymet be­came the first mem­ber of her fam­i­ly to mi­grate from Turkey to Ger­many.

Now an el­der­ly woman liv­ing in her na­tive vil­lage again, she re­counts her re­mark­able life–as a moth­er, ac­tivist and im­mi­grant work­er–to her grand­daugh­ter, a film­mak­er who lives in Berlin.

Turquaze

Di­rec­tor: Kadir Bal­ci

2010/Bel­gium/96 mins/Dra­ma/14+

Ex­plor­ing the lives of im­mi­grants who find them­selves torn be­tween two lands and cul­tures, with roots in nei­ther, this messy, mov­ing and joy­ous ro­man­tic dra­ma in­tro­duces a trio of Turk­ish broth­ers liv­ing in Bel­gium who re­de­fine fam­i­ly dy­nam­ics af­ter their fa­ther's death.