Werner Herzog’s "Grizzly Man" explores a common theme in the revered director’s work - man’s interactions with nature.

It tackles the uncommon life of bear-lover and amateur naturalist Timothy Treadwell, who devoted much of his life to studying the creatures only to fall prey to a gruesome grizzly attack in his 13th summer among them.

Treadwell had filmed over 100 hours’ worth of bear activity in a remote area of Alaska, before he and a companion were attacked in their tent in 2003.

"Grizzly Man" laces together edited scenes from Treadwell’s source material - a kind of video diary of his life - along with Werner Herzog’s narration as he meets with Treadwell’s friends and confronts the landscape Treadwell chose to inhabit.

Though "Grizzly Men" had featured prominently in many critics’ end-of-the-year top ten films list, often as the only documentary, it wasn’t picked up for an Oscar nomination in the documentary category.

"Head-On" has already proved a critical and commercial success both in Germany and abroad, having won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival.

The film by German-Turkish director Fatih Akin confronts the struggles of second generation Turkish immigrants to Germany, young people who have spent all of their lives in a Western nation but whose Muslim upbringing creates a cultural rift between them and the society they live in.

It is a love story that depicts two people on the brink of desperation, whose problems stem only in part from their cultural identity.