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- DirectorGust Van den BergheStarsGabino RodríguezNorma PabloMaría AcostaOn his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, and start playing with its citizens' lives.
- DirectorJem CohenFifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film. Perhaps the most personal of Cohen's documentary works, COUNTING measures street life, light, and time, noting not only surveillance and over-development but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- DirectorDavid PablosStarsNancy TalamantesÓscar TorresLeidi GutiérrezYoung Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family's prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsAllen AiNatsuko HoriNatsuko HoriThe story of a young married couple who were exposed to radiation during the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsLouis-Do de LencquesaingBenjamin UtzerathVincent NemethA history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
- DirectorNathan SilverStarsDeragh CampbellHenri DouvryJason GiampietroA black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in 90's suburban New Jersey.
- DirectorAndré TurpinStarsSophie NélisseMylène MackayLise RoyComplex time shifting drama revolving about a violent senseless murder and young witness.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicNives IvankovicThree different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsTommaso CestroneSergio VitoloGesuino PittalisThe foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey's end does not bring what they were hoping for.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsIna Marija BartaitéSharunas BartasEdvinas Goldstein"Humans always doubt," says a father to his daughter. "Just imagine if suddenly everything (were) clear. What would you do?" What indeed? Such questions serve as a substitute for drama in Sharunas Bartas' "Peace to Us in Our Dreams," an old-school broodfest in which a man, his daughter and his violinist companion openly ponder Big Themes during a country getaway.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroRoberto FaríasAntonia ZegersA crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
- DirectorIvan OstrochovskýStarsPeter BalázNikola BongilajováStanislava BongilajováA former Olympic boxer on a quest for his last defeat.
- DirectorSibs Shongwe-La MerStarsBonko KhozaSibs Shongwe-La MerColleen BalchinEmily, Jabz, September, Nikki, Tanya, Matty, Tali and Rashi. Black and whites South Africans, male and female, gay and straight. Youth in the luxurious suburb of Johannesburg who are smashed all day long failing to have future plans.
- DirectorJuan SchnitmanStarsPilar GamboaJuan BarberiniLucía and Marcelo are thirty years old. They are carrying a hundred thousand dollars in cash to pay for their new house. But something comes up for the real estate agent and the signing of the papers is postponed. Tense and filled with frustration, they head back to their old apartment and put the money away in a safe place. Marcelo says to her: "Relax, today's just another day". Throughout the 24 hours of wait, the true nature of the love between Lucía and Marcelo unveils, as well as the crisis they are in and the violence within themselves. The film narrates these 24 hours of unbearable tension.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSergio CorrieriDaisy GranadosEslinda NúñezA Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsAlassane SyKoudous SeihonAdam GnegneTwo men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
- DirectorAvishai SivanStarsAharon TrietelKhalifa NatourRiki BlichAn ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaNora VelázquezSilvia PasquelIn the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross-dressing husband, the other with her loneliness. But that night they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin dwarves in masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the doses prove fatal. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street.
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsTeodor CorbanIulian PostelnicuOxana MoravecAfter being the sole unfortunate witness of a domestic quarrel that ends up in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer, the other one his very own conscience.
- DirectorAnnekatrin HendelStarsMargit CarstensenIrm HermannJuliane LorenzA film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.
- DirectorAntonio MeliandeStarsMeiry VieiraZelia MartinsArlete MoreiraYoung female delinquents are sent to a correctional facility run by a lesbian, depraved nun.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsJack NicholsonMaria SchneiderJenny RunacreUnable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara ValentinA lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsLizzie Curry MartinezKenny StricklandLizzie finds it frustrating and difficult that she is unable to fit things together. In the process she learns how much of the world actually has the need fit into something else.