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- DirectorAli AhmadzadehStarsSaba BagheriMina HasanlooAlireza KeymaneshA man driving through Tehran's underworld with his dog, dealing drugs and healing troubled souls.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsSol MirandaLucas AndradeLorena ComparatoSimone 23-year-old studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.
- DirectorEdwinStarsMarthino LioLadya CherylReza RahadianIn a society ruled by machismo, a hibernating "bird" becomes a serious matter. In a life of brutality, the sleeping bird is an allegory for a peaceful and serene life, even when the whole world tries desperately to rouse it.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVitalina VarelaVenturaManuel Tavares AlmeidaA Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- DirectorSiew Hua YeoStarsPeter YuXiaoyi LiuYue GuoA lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
- DirectorWang BingStarsFang XiuyingSurrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.
- DirectorRalitza PetrovaStarsIrena IvanovaVentzislav KonstantinovSvezhen MladenovA nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsJeong Jae-yeongKim Min-heeYoun Yuh-jungA married film director falls for a young painter - twice.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsPerry DizonRoeder CamanagHazel OrencioThe Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsVicenç AltaióLluís SerratEliseu HuertasFamous lover Casanova now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula during a journey to Transylvania.
- DirectorJean-Claude BrisseauStarsVirginie LegeayClaude MorelLise BellynckA retired mathematics professor spends his days writing, when one day he comes across a young injured girl with no home or history. As he takes her in and cares for her, he begins to suspect that she is the reincarnation of his late wife.
- DirectorMilagros MumenthalerStarsMaría CanaleMartina JuncadellaAilín SalasPortrait of everyday life of Marina, Sofia and Violeta, three sisters living in Buenos Aires his grandmother's house, the woman who raised her, after she has died.
- DirectorHongqi LiStarsJinfeng BaiLei BaoHui WangAn ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin's home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and nephew. Like most contemporary teenagers, these youths want to enjoy their last day of holiday and simply hang out in this place where nothing ever seems likely to happen. Their conversations are desultory and they sometimes seem to argue for argument's sake. One of them, Laowu, talks frankly with his girlfriend about how teenage love might affect their studies, while Laobao questions school's value and relevance to real life.
- DirectorXiaolu GuoStarsLu HuangYibo WeiGeoffrey HutchingsThis is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her entrapment begins anew.
- DirectorEnrique RiveroStarsNolberto CoriaNancy OrozcoTesalia HuertaThe story follows Beto, who's been in charge of taking care of an upper-class house for the last ten years, and subtly traces contemporary social conflicts with a very peculiar representation of how capitalism builds jailhouses on the most unimaginable places.
- DirectorMasahiro KobayashiStarsMasahiro KobayashiMakiko WatanabeCoincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. The woman who is the mother of the killer wants to apologize to the father, although she knows it would change nothing. He refuses to meet. She moves back to her hometown. She works in the kitchen at an inn where the man now lives. No one speaks. He eats alone. He reads in his apartment. She walks to her home and has a sandwich. She keeps her eyes lowered. He drives to work. Does either want to connect? What bond can they establish?
- DirectorAndrea StakaStarsMirjana KaranovicMarija SkaricicLjubica JovicRuza left Belgrade for Switzerland as a young woman full of hope for a new, better life. 25 years later she appears to have achieved everything: She owns a canteen in Zurich, which she manages with a firm grip and financial success. Ruza values her meticulously-structured daily routine, both in her professional and private life. Ruzas's orderly world shifts when 22-year-old Ana from Sarajevo enters the scene. She feels threatened by Ana's direct, impulsive manner while at the same time she is intrigued by her zest for life. Slowly a friendship develops between these two self-willed women. However, a certain distance between them remains: Ruza's afraid to open herself up completely, and Ana has a secret too difficult to reveal.
- DirectorRodrigo GarcíaStarsKathy BakerAmy BrennemanGlenn CloseCaptives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
- DirectorSaverio CostanzoStarsMohammad BakriLior MillerHend AyoubA Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
- DirectorSabiha SumarStarsKirron KherAamir Ali MalikNavtej Singh Johar1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.
- DirectorIain DiltheyStarsSusanne-Marie WrageKlaus GrünbergRobert LohrThe Longing relates a tale of duty, desire, and high crime in a rural German village.
- DirectorMaurizio SciarraStarsAndoni GraciaGeorges MoustakiAdriano GianniniAs April 25, 1974 dawns, 25-year-old Marco, an Italian, and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. They are bound for Lisbon, which on that night was freed from Europe's longest dictatorship. The two are joined by Claire, Victor's former girlfriend and University classmate, who wants to take a break from everyday life (including her husband and baby son) to form again, even for a few days, a traveling trio with her friends.
- DirectorShuo WangStarsXiaogang FengXiaopei HuFan XuA middle-aged man raises his son all by himself. He works as the chairman of the labor union and acts the way of putting on airs and cocky style both at work and home. He tries to build good relations with son but it does not work.
- DirectorHélène AngelStarsSerge RiaboukineBernard BlancanPascal CervoAurélie, five years old, is spending holidays with her grandmother with her sister and her young uncle. But one day their father, after fifteen years of absence, returns to the heart of the family clan, disturbing their summer peace.
- DirectorYue LüStarsZhihua ZhangJingming ShiYi'nan ChenThe psychology in this triangle situation focuses on a Shanghai university professor, his factory worker wife, and a young female former student who becomes his mistress.