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- DirectorDhimiter AnagnostiStarsTimo FllokoAgim QirjaqiKadri RoshiA tale of orphaned Albanian children coping with life in an orphanage and Italian occupation while acquainting themselves with communist ideas.
- DirectorElchin MusaogluStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaVidadi EliyevRamil ZeynalovAn elderly couple confront the ravages of war in their poverty-stricken village.
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- DirectorRithy PanhStarsPeng PhanMom SothChhim NalineIn Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, "from UN lorries". They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have to learn to live in Cambodia, i.e., they will have to learn to cultivate, to plough, to work the land. Rice people tries to share this way of life, to demonstrate the fragile equilibrium on which it lies and the freedom it represents.
- DirectorVictor ViyuohStarsMbufung SeikehAnurin NwunembomNorbert KechaNinah is a runaway wife whose husband finds out she is pregnant and he comes to recover the dowry he paid or take home the woman he owns. By any means necessary.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsEmir HadzihafizbegovicArmin OmerovicJens MünchowIbro takes his son Armin from their small Bosnian village to Croatia to audition for a German film about the Balkan conflict.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsCarlos ValenciaMarco BustosCristina DávilaSalvador's life takes a dark turn when his ex-convict cousin, Angel, arrives seeking money and shelter. Together, they involve their loved ones in a dangerous criminal journey.
- DirectorDjo MungaStarsPatsha BayManie MaloneDiplome AmekindraRiva returns to his home town of Kinshasa to sell fuel, however the people whom he stole it from are close behind and when Riva tries to get with a girl her crime boss boyfriend isn't too happy about this.
- DirectorBlitz BazawuleStarsJoseph OtsimanMamley DjangmahKobina Amissah-SamA man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.
- DirectorImunga IvangaStarsDavid N'Guema-N'KogheEmile MepangoRoland NkeyiMougler and his friends slip into a life of petty crime in Libreville, Gabon. When they take their chances in robbing a lottery kiosk, things turn from lighthearted to tragic.
- DirectorRiri RizaStarsCut Mini TheoZulfannyIkranagaraIn the 1970s, a group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.
- DirectorKhalid Al SiddiqStarsMohammed Al-MansourAmal BakrSaad Al FarrajThe first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bay Ya Bahr is the story of a crippled pearl diver who forbids his son Mussaid to go to sea to dive for pearls. Mussaid's father got the 'bends' after resurfacing too fast during a shark attack on his boat. However, the boy cannot see any other way to make enough money to mary Nura, his beloved. Nura is the daughter of a merchant who wants her to marry for money. Finally, his father gives Mussaid permission to go to sea and even gives him his special black diving suit. Mussaid then works with the man to whom his father owes money. While Mussaid is away, Nura is forced by her family to marry a rich, older suitor. During his last dive Mussaid puts his hand inside a huge clam which closes on it. Mussaid is gasping for air and his friend has to amputate his arm in order to 'rescue' him. However Mussaid was dead long before he was brought to the boat. Nura meanwhile is raped by her husband on her wedding night. Mussaid's best friend looks through his cache of oysters and gradually starts opening all of them. Finally when he gets to the last one he finds a huge pearl inside. Maybe Mussaid's death will not be in vain if he can give this to Mussaid's family. When the boat reaches Kuwait, Mussaid's mother is welcomed by the dead body of her son and his prize - the pearl - for which he lost his life. The mother stares at the sea with unbridled rage and flings the pearl into it uttering the phrase: "Bas ya bahr" (enough oh sea)!
- DirectorDong-won KimNorth Korean spies return to their homeland.
- DirectorBlerta ZeqiriStarsAdriana MatoshiLulzim BucolliNina GovoriA man comes back from a Serb prison to his wife and son. A lot has changed since he was declared missing. Continuing where they left off four years ago may not be as easy as it seems.
- DirectorAktan Arym KubatStarsMirlan AbdykalykovAdir AbilkassimovMirlan CinkozoevIn a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he's starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he's a foundling. A death in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles: he must brush tears from his eyes, lead a funeral procession, and reconcile with his friend. Then, he borrows a bicycle and calls on Aynura: courtship begins.
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsBel PowleyLisa Loven KongsliMartin WallströmIn 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
- DirectorYasmin AhmadStarsChoo Seong NgSharifah AmaniLinus ChungA look at how two young lovers from totally different background cope with family and social pressure.
- DirectorSouleymane CisséStarsIssiaka KaneAoua SangareNiamanto SanogoA young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
- DirectorByambasuren DavaaStarsBatchuluun UrjindorjBuyandulam DaramdadiNansal BatchuluunThe little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.
- DirectorIvan MarinovicStarsNikola RistanovskiBogdan DiklicJelisaveta 'Seka' SablicWhen misanthropic Orthodox priest Peter returns to his idyllic Montenegrin peninsula to nurse his demented mother, he quickly gets into a conflict with superstitious villagers who seek creative ways to chase him away.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
- DirectorEric ValliMichel DebatsStarsThilen LhondupGurgon KyapLhakpa TsamchoeAn aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsLilita BerzinaOlga DregeUldis DumpisThe struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events.
- DirectorSarmad Sultan KhoosatStarsSania SaeedShamoon AbbasiDanyal Adam KhanThe chronicles of Manto, a famous Urdu novelist who opts to live in Lahore after the independence of Pakistan. He left Bombay because it wasn't safe anymore for Muslims, but his artistic choices made him face obscenity charges.
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMagaly SolierSusi SánchezEfraín SolísFausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
- DirectorHéctor HerreraThis story tells about daily violence inside the ghettos of Panama. Three main characters: LATIN FRESH music band; a clerk who collects corpses on Panama streets; and LOLO, the leader of CRAZY KILLER one of the most dangerous gangs of Panama
- DirectorLee Isaac ChungStarsJeff RutagengwaEric NdorunkundiyeJean Marie Vianney NkurikiyinkaFrom opposing ethnicities, Ngabo and Sangwa are tested when old-timers warn, "Hutus and Tutsis should not be friends." An intense and inspiring portrait of youth in Rwanda, 'Munyurangabo' features Poet Laureate Edouard Uwayo delivering a moving poem about his healing country. Rwanda. Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroyMaría TelónManuel AntúnOn the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- DirectorFlorian SchottStarsSteven AfrikanerCamilla Jo-Ann DariesRobert Hara GaebA story of how Rhino Poaching triggers social change in rural Namibia, seen through the eyes of a 9 year old girl.
- DirectorTeresa PrataStarsNick Lauro TeresaAladino JasseErnesto Lemos MacuacuaIn the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.
- DirectorHachimiya AhamadaStarsMama HayiriyaFahamwe IbouroAbidine Said MohamedA Comorian village. Djibril spends his free time taking care of an abandoned villa. While living there, his small straw hut is ravaged by a fire. Homeless, he now must find a place to live.
- DirectorMuhammad CamaraStarsMohamed CamaraMaimouna CoulibalyAwa TraoréMariama and her blind son Bilaly are shunned by their neighbors. When Mariama rescues an albino man, Samba, from drowning, she discovers that he is a healer and can cure her son's blindness. In order for him to do this, Mariama must commit incest with Bilaly.
- DirectorJean RouchStarsDamouré ZikaLam Ibrahim DiaTallou MouzouraneThe story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey. When a third person joins the group, the organization of the trip begins to look even more precarious.
- DirectorMikhail KalikStarsNika KrimnusTatyana BestayevaNikolay VolkovA story about a boy walking across the town following sun.