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- DirectorRobert KirchhoffStarsUmberto EcoPavel KohoutRomano ProdiIt tells the story of the Czechoslovak politician Alexander Dubcek.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoKyôko KishidaEiji FunakoshiA childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.
- DirectorFarzin MohammadiStarsAmin EsfandiarMorteza PouraliLife of Amin, between 2012 to 2019; who comes to an unknown village to make his movie.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsJirô TamiyaJunko KanôEiji FunakoshiTwo car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsEiji FunakoshiMako MidoriNoriko SengokuA blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
- DirectorTinatin KajrishviliStarsLevan BerikashviliGeorge BabluaniMari KitiaA statue of a saint on a cross in a Georgian mining town suddenly vanishes. When a mysterious stranger appears, the superstitious residents believe the saint is now among them.
- DirectorHossein RajabianStarsTaher BaloueiFarnaaz YazdiSaghi ZinatiAnxious that he may become mad like his father, a man enlists with his wife in a manipulative state-run psychological experiment. Lies, fear and repression control their lives until they decide to fight for their freedom.
- DirectorCyril ArisStarsMounia AklSaleh BakriNadia CharbelOn August 4th 2020, an explosion hits the port of Beirut destroying a large part of Lebanon's capital. A Lebanese film crew decides to continue shooting their movie, in a nation struggling with economic turmoil and societal collapse.
- DirectorChristian AvilésStarsSam ZeitlinJulia FossiMarcel BorràsSun starved teenagers take on a dreamy trip to the Balearic Islands in the pursuit of light and warmth. They must absorb it and be a vessel in order to transport it back to their heavy clouded Kingdom.
- DirectorNegin AhmadiDream's Gate is an observational documentary where Iranian female director Negin Ahmadi starts a personal journey into the combat zone of North Syria to question what it means to be a woman. Alone with her camera, she decides to look for an answer for her questions by encountering the women who embody the strongest contemporary myth of female strength and freedom: Kurdish female fighters. The personal search and internal struggles turn into an intimate women diary written in the first person. Following, sharing, witnessing the life of this other Kurdish women put into question the image that the director has of herself and of the cost of equality and freedom in this difficult region.
- DirectorKyros PapavassiliouStarsMakis PapadimitriouYiannis NiarrosHristos SougarisIn a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple's relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.
- DirectorBehrooz KaramizadeStarsHamid Reza AbbasiSadaf AsgariKeyvan MohammadiTwenty somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today's Iran that's far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges' upper class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. With his back against the wall, Amir finds work at a local fishery, where he is drawn into the dangerous but lucrative business of black market caviar smuggling. As Amir's values are compromised by the illegal underworld, Narges stalls for time and tries to delay the arranged marriage her parents are planning for her. Can their love, hopes and dreams survive the tightly knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsHiroshi KawaguchiHitomi NozoeHideo TakamatsuIn the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
- DirectorItsaso AranaStarsBárbara LennieIrene EscolarItziar ManeroFour actresses and a writer spend a summer week in an old mill to rehearse a play. During those days, the girls will get to know each other and measure themselves through the materials that the work presents.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsShintarô KatsuTakahiro TamuraMikio NaritaA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
- DirectorErnst De GeerStarsAsta Kamma AugustHerbert NordrumAndrea EdwardsA hypnotherapist sees Vera throw off the trappings of civilized behaviour. For a event She attends with André, Vera's behaviour holds a mirror up to the faux-authenticity, virtue signalling and hypocrisy of her fellow entrepreneurs.
- DirectorNaqqash KhalidStarsJosie WalkerAntonio AakeelWilson BeneditoIn Camera follows Aden - played by Rizwan - a young Actor whose in a cycle of nightmarish auditions. After he receives multiple rejections, Aden takes it upon himself to find a new part to play.
- DirectorVahid VakilifarStarsFatemeh MortaziMarjan SadeghiAn indefinite solar eclipse has drenched the earth in darkness, bringing people to the verge of madness. Believing that this is the manifestation of wrath of God, a group of extremists go out of their way to clear the land of all culprits, namely dogs and immigrants.
- DirectorSophia MocorreaStarsRai TodoroffDavid BruningAnne KulbatzkiLuisa from Argentina and Fred from Germany are confronted with their social roles at their wedding. The German tradition of kidnapping the bride shakes the couple's equality. There is no room for love in this role-play of marriage
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsHiroshi KawaguchiHitomi NozoeAiko MimasuStory of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.
- DirectorFaezeh AzizkhaniStarsHanieh TavassoliPegah AhangaraniPedram SharifiHanieh is a 40 year old woman who has written a film script based on her own life. Now she is faced with the judgment of the others who call her "bastard".
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsRaizô IchikawaSachiko MuraseMayumi OgawaA young officer must choose between love and duty.
- DirectorNader SaeivarStarsVahid MobasseriShahin Kazem NezhadFahime JahaniAyaz is an ordinary man who wishes for his own home. His brother-in-law left Iran for a long time due to his anti-government activities, but the news of his possible return reaches Ayaz. Concerned that he might have to leave home if his brother-in-law returns, Ayaz tells a small lie-that the secret police have searched their home. He hopes that the lie about the secret police keeping an eye on their home would convince his brother-in-law to give up on returning home. The problem, however, begins with the appearance of real secret police. Ayaz's lie becomes an excuse for the real secret police to track down his brother-in-law, and Ayaz finds himself in a situation where he is forced to report his neighbors and family.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoShinsuke AshidaYûsuke KawazuDuring the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
- DirectorRobert HlozStarsAndrea MohylováMatej HádekMilan OndríkSet in central Europe during 2041, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
- DirectorThomas ImbachStarsJean-Luc GodardDavid CharapThomas ImbachSAY GOD BYE tells the story of a teenager's transformation into a filmmaker under the spell of the cineaste who has lived and worked on Lake Geneva since 1975: Jean-Luc Godard. It is also a story about the universal theme of love. It is the story of a man who finally summons the courage to seek out his beloved, to tell him face to face about his lifelong love and to say, "Thank you, JLG".
- DirectorTomás KleinStarsJaroslav CuhraTatiana DykováVladimír Javorský"Growing old isn't for sissies," states one of the characters from Jáchym Topol's acclaimed novel, which, according to one reviewer, is "a comical and brutal report from the flipside of life" and now appears loosely adapted into a film by Tomás Klein, one of the most talented Czech directors. This darkly grotesque drama sets off down more than one path. There's the real path - at times grim, at times crazy - via which Dad Mour, an itinerant actor, his wife Mum and their two sons try to return home; and then there's the imaginary one - more meandering and dusty - along which stirring intellectual youthfulness (or immaturity, as pessimists would have it) feuds with circumstances that force the protagonist to acquire wisdom. A restless and zesty cinematic feerie about love, fear of loneliness, and sons gazing intently at their father.
- DirectorTomás PavlícekJan VejnarStarsSimona PekováAnnette NesvadbovaJirí RendlWhen a couple of thirty-somethings let the mother of one of them cross the threshold into their home, they have no idea that they have just entered a kind of purgatory. Their peaceful life is slowly transformed into a chaotic wreck. Valerie, a well-groomed woman in her sixties, is an energetic diva who little by little conquers not only the space of the apartment, but also the minds of its occupants. As the creeping home invasion gains force, certainties are undermined and the boundaries of privacy are demolished. Are moms and mothers-in-law always right? Do they have good intentions toward us? And isn't that why they are the scariest monsters of them all?
- DirectorAmalie Maria NielsenStarsAnna Zerbib StreitzNiklas HerskindPetrine AggerIn a home for struggling girls, young Milo is transitioning gender with the support of care worker Nicki. One day, through the thin walls of the institution, Milo hears something they wish they hadn't. They push the emergency button.
- DirectorBahman ArkBahram ArkStarsJavad GhamatiFatemeh MasoudifarMahmoud NazaralianWhen demonic Jinns threaten his mother, a man must confront the sins of his family and a curse that spans generations. A tale of love, magic and superstition.
- DirectorMarija KavtaradzeStarsGreta GrineviciuteKestutis CicenasPijus GanusauskasDancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
- DirectorLuka BeradzeDuring its 2012 election campaign titled "Smiling Georgia," the governing party promised its country's poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people's decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites... In his bitterly humorous documentary, Luka Beradze takes us to a sleepy Georgian village, introduces us to its inhabitants, and shows that it rarely pays to believe the promises of populist politicians and to vote for purely selfish reasons. In the broader context, the film asks questions regarding the value of ordinary people in the eyes of political leaders.
- DirectorCamila Rodríguez TrianaStarsCelina Arcos de RoseroNatalia Cortés RochaRocío returns to her home town to reunite with her mother Alba, from whom she was separated as a child. Alba has stopped talking as a reaction to trauma from the war that their territory endured. This forces Rocío to find other ways to communicate with her mother and tell her that she is pregnant.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoAkio HasegawaGaku YamamotoA seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.
- DirectorPier-Philippe ChevignyStarsAriane CastellanosMarc-André GrondinNelson CoronadoAfter a bad breakup, Ariane moves home and gets a job as an interpreter for seasonal migrant workers. Witnessing workplace abuses, Ariane must decide how far she is willing to go to speak out against injustice.
- DirectorMohammad Reza Shayan NejadStarsMisagh BahrololomianSadra BehbodiMonir BeytariSounds are mechanical waves remaining in the space without disappearing. Zoya has gone to the Moon. Now, Farid needs to build his device to recover those sounds.
- DirectorMatej ChlupacekStarsEliska KrenkováMiloslav KönigMilan OndríkHelena is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city as the wife of a successful young factory manager.
- DirectorMarco RighiStarsJacopo Olmo AntinoriFiorenzo MattuYile Yara VianelloIn a small town in the Appennins, young and devout Antimo lives an uneventful life between the local church, the chaste dates with his girlfriend and the cowshed where he lazily works with his dad. One day, he meets Lazzaro, a simple and wild man who works as a helper in the nearby farm. Antimo sees a spark in Lazzaro and sets out to convert him. The religion he starts teaching him doesn't reflect what he learn at Sunday school though. It's a personal and heretic reading of Christianity, which leads the two on unbeaten paths, with no way back.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoHiroshi KawaguchiEitarô OzawaAyako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.
- DirectorRinaldas TomaseviciusStarsMarius RepsysSofija GedgaudaiteJonas GolubovskisThe protagonist of Alexei, after 15 years in prison, is released on probation. It is difficult for him to accept the new order. Depressed by guilt, he tries to come to terms with his daughter Maja, who has become a prostitute.