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- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Claude BrialyAurora CornuBéatrice RomandOn lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
- DirectorJavier Fuentes-LeónStarsGhia BurnsRoberto CanoSusana FreyreA long-hidden secret flips generational hierarchies upside down at a huge birthday celebration.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsAnne TeyssèdreHugues QuesterFlorence DarelSimple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy flat; she's loaned hers to a cousin, so she accepts the invitation of Natasha, a music student whom she meets at a party, to sleep in her father Igor's bedroom because he's always with his young girlfriend, Eve. Natasha tells Jeanne a story of a missing necklace and her suspicions of Eve. They all meet at dinner, then again at Igor's country house. Is Natasha scheming to get Igor and Jeanne together alone? Once alone, what determines how they choose to act? And the necklace, what of it?
- DirectorDash ShawStarsLake BellMichael CeraAlex KarpovskyCryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
- DirectorIsabel LambertiStarsMaría Duro RegoDavid Gabarre DuroDavid Gabarre JiménezIn a shanty town near Madrid, a group of squatters are forced to leave their self-built homes when the land they live on is sold. While this process slowly unfolds, the different members of the Spanish Gabarre Mendoza family struggle, each in their own way, with their newly uprooted lives.
- DirectorIvan IkicStarsMarijana NovakovTijana MarkovicValentino ZenuniReal life people play versions of themselves, in a love triangle set in a facility for intellectually disabled youth.
- DirectorClaus DrexelStarsGenevièveFloriaIsidroThe beginning of this story is a forest that surrounds the city and, in it, strange characters circulate and they'll tell you their stories, but also receive their customers. In the heart of the forest, they are the ladies of the wood.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaVladislav KomarovAndrey GusevWhen the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
- DirectorNemanja CeranicStarsDusan PetkovicStrahinja BlazicJovo MaksicMundir is a loan shark in a small Serbian town, a former boxer with diabetes. He is old school, he realizes the times have changed, and that money lending business is not what it used to be.
- DirectorPepe AndreuRafael MolesStarsHeiðar Ingi AðalgeirssonBjörk BergsdóttirGuðbergur BergssonEvery morning Krilli prepares the lobster soup from Bryggjan café, a tiny place in Iceland's most anodyne village. His wife helps out in the kitchen and longs to get back to Reykjavik. In the café, Krilli's brother, Alli, sits with the old fishermen, Iceland's last boxer and the translator of Don Quixote into Icelandic. Every day they discuss and find a new solution to the world's problems.
- DirectorMarko DjordjevicStarsFilip DjuricIvana VukovicJasna DjuricicA drama with underlying humor about the shame and despair that 30 year old boy feels on his way to losing virginity.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsCassenJosé Luis López VázquezElvira QuintilláIn a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in its midst is Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because they lack the money to pay rent, and who must pay the second bill on his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.
- DirectorIosif DemianStarsAnton AftenieMarcela AndreiLászló BotkaA collective farm president is deserted by his bride 2 days after the wedding. A comedic radiography of village life.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenMagnus MillangFour high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
- DirectorIon IndoleanStarsAlexandru IonIlinca HarnutEmil MandanacA film crew with not much of experience tries to find and shoot a documentary about Toni Oniga, star or neighborhood legend.
- DirectorDavid Martín de los SantosStarsPetra MartínezAnna CastilloFlorin Piersic Jr.Maria's stable, retired life drastically changes when the condition of a young patient sharing a hospital room abruptly worsens. This road movie celebrates human dignity with the ageless possibilities of life.
- DirectorBogdan PuslengheaOvidiu ZimceaStarsFlorin BanEmil BiebelCiprian CostacheA study of the underground music scene in the former Eastern Bloc city of Timisoara, Romania, in the first decade following the fall of the Communist regime.
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsNathalie BonnifayGeorge AlexandruMarius StanescuIt is late in the Ceausescu era in Romania, and Cristina is having a difficult time with her boyfriend. He wants her to have sex with him before he goes off to do his obligatory stint in the army. She wants him to marry her first. She also gets involved with a slightly rebellious actor, a would-be ladies' man. He has some vague plans to defect - could those be the reason he is receiving mysterious phone calls? Or are they the work of his anonymous admirer?
- DirectorVadim PerelmanStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartLars EidingerJonas NayA young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
- DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsOrsolya Török-IllyésSzabolcs HajduLilla SárosdiStories of the city at night reveal the dark side of relationships among people.
- DirectorAsia DérSara HaragonicsStarsMelisszaNóraVirágAs Hungary's political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the pretend-to-be democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner Nóra decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together. With a sensitive lens and close access, directors Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics follow the two women through their long and ultimately successful adoption process to bring home their young daughter. But tensions begin to rise between the two as Virág thrives in her role as a mother and Nóra struggles to find her place within the family. As the rising tides of right wing propaganda in Hungary begin to overflow into their family, their lives hit a boiling point and they must face the difficult decision of whether to leave their country behind.
- DirectorAndrei GruzsniczkiStarsMircea AndreescuValer DellakezaGabriel SpahiuEmil and Titi's lifelong friendship is jeopardized when Smaranda, Emil's wife, moves to Titi's house, 40 days after her funeral.
- DirectorTomm MooreRoss StewartStarsHonor KneafseyEva WhittakerSean BeanA young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.
- DirectorHamy RamezanStarsAran-Sina KeshvariShahab HosseiniShabnam GhorbaniA story of an Iranian refugee family in Finland waiting for the decision of whether or not they'll be granted an official asylum status. The story is loosely based on the childhood experiences of the director.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsNatalya TsvetkovaFilipp AvdeevAnna SlyuMany years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natasha returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.