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- DirectorDarezhan OmirbayevStarsTalgat AssetovSamat BeysenbinBaljan BisembekovaLiving in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets, and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsNiki KarimiYassamin MaleknasrKhosro ShakibaiSara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three years, it is Sara, labouring secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's manly pride. Until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
- DirectorDev BenegalStarsTanvi AzmiRahul BoseRupen BoseAgastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock, and jazz, and reads Marcus Aurelius. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He feels like a foreigner, but must survive. He's surrounded by wild characters: Srivastava, the pompous head bureaucrat and his wife Malti, the fashion and cultural leader of the town; Sathe, a local pothead and cartoonist; Kumar, the Police Superintendent and connoisseur of porn films; and Vasant, the world's worst cook. August negotiates this provincial creek with the only paddle he can find; fantasy, daydreams and "self-abuse" become his means of revolt and escape as he escapes from the heat into the mystery and quiet of his secret world of erotic fantasy and contemplation.
- DirectorYing NingStarsLi JianLiu Ying ShuLiangui WangTake crime out of police work, and what's left is procedures. In the western sector of Beijing, we follow the tedium of police officers. A rabid dog is loose in Guoli's beat: a gang of police officers hunts it down. Then, word comes from on high to pick up all the dogs in the sector: fear of rabies combines with the dogs' being status symbols of the nouveau riche. Occasionally a criminal is picked up: someone selling porn, someone running a three-card-monte game. Cops smoke, go to meetings, and hold trainings. They patrol on bicycles and enforce edicts. Guoli works nights. He's lazy at home, his wife wants him to do more. Is there any more to do?
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanNazira SuleimanFuad SuleimanA Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.
- DirectorHoang LeStarsMien MocCong Ninh NguyenSet in 1981, this "on the road" movie centers an ex-Viet Cong soldier's commitment to return the cremated ashes of his former army comrade to his birthplace for burial. Starting his journey via train, the Army veteran meets a small-time trader. but then gets separated from him as well as from the rucksack containing the cremated ashes. He enlists a motorcyclist to pursue the train, but the trader, suspected of carrying contraband goods, has switched to a bus and then to hitchhiking. The trader inadvertently switches bags with a female Vietnamese soldier, so the two men must then pursue her upriver to Hanoi.
- DirectorSerik AprimovStarsErzhan AshimNurzhuman IkhtymbaevSabit KurmanbekovAksuat is the name of a village in Kazakhstan, where Kanat takes his pregnant wife Zhanna to visit his brother, Aman. Just after the baby is born, Kanat is thrown into jail after a fight with a policeman, so Aman has to take care of Zhanna and gets the gossip and disapprovals of the village. Aman loses his status, but learns a thing or two about life.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsMehdi LotfiRohalah HosseyniAli BokaeianOn New Year's Eve, a young soldier is looking forward to going home but is given orders to escort a juvenile delinquent to a distant reformatory. He sets off with the child handcuffed to him.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyIndrani HaldarThe film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
- DirectorNasser RefaieStarsRaya NasiriFarzin AghaieAghdas KhoshmouAn assembly of women of all generations gather inside a school of Tehran to take an exam that will lead them to the university. Their conversations reveal their daily problems.
- 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.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsJuan VillegasWalter DonadoRosa ValsecchiIn Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsZiad SaadJulia KassarAlexandra KahwagiA day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ago during the civil war.
- DirectorTomoyuki FurumayaStarsMari HoshinoHidetoshi NishijimaToshinobu MatsuoNaive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
- DirectorDiego LermanStarsValeria BertuccelliMaría MerlinoClaudio QuinterosVioleta asks a time to Mono to decide what to do with his partner. Eva arrives in the city ready to do anything to change her life.
- DirectorJohn BarkerStarsDavid KibuukaKim EngelbrechtKagiso LedigaThree comedians and a weird guy named Cope embark on a raucous weekend journey to Oppikoppi, South Africa's biggest rock festival. The guys slip out of the city for a few dusty and increasingly absurd days with hopes of mass debauchery, drugs, rampant sex, true love, and conquering the comedy stages, but they get a bit more than they bargained for.
- DirectorYan FengBINGAI features one woman farmer who refuses to move away from her village. The audience will follow her seven-year struggle with officials who pressure her to relocate, while a strong devotion to her land compels her to remain in the place she calls home.
- DirectorEdwinStarsJoko AnwarClarine BaharrizkiLadya CherylThe experiences of a woman and the people around her, all with obsessive agendas of their own. A fragile but panoramic vision of a community that is not at ease with itself - and hopes that can never be truly fulfilled.
- DirectorRenate CostaStarsMiguel Auad PetuniaNancy BarujaRenate CostaOf all my uncles, Rodolfo was the only one who didn't want to be a blacksmith like my grandfather: He wanted to be a dancer. The search for the traces of his life leads to the discovery that in the eighties in Paraguay, under Stroessner's dictatorship, Rodolfo was included in one of the "108 lists of homosexuals", arrested and tortured. Rodolfo's story reveals a part of the hidden and silenced history of my country. In "Cuchillo de palo" two generations come face to face in a confrontation that ultimately allows each of us to understand our place in the world.
- DirectorShangjun CaiStarsJianbin ChenHong TaoXiubo WuA man is tracking down the murderer of his brother and this journey in many places made him facing his own troubles.
- DirectorDaniela SeggiaroStarsRosmeri SegundoSasa Sharet Isabel MendozaXimena BanúsSet in the north of Argentina. Yolanda, a young girl of Wichi origin, tells in her native language (Wichi Lhämtes), the story of how, as a family maid in a "criollo" home, she has her hair unjustly cut: this is her most particular trait, her beauty. This event jeopardizes her cultural ties with the "criollo" world and defines her destiny.
- DirectorWang Bing50 men live for 12 months in a madhouse, they passing their days in a single plane and having little contact with the medical team. Every one of the inmates is not there for mental health problems but for had killing someone for committing a crime against public officials.
- DirectorErol MintasStarsFeyyaz DumanZübeyde RonahiNesrin CavadzadeA young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsSachie TanakaHazuki KikuchiMaiko MiharaA slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.
- DirectorTetsuya MarikoStarsYûya YagiraMasaki SudaNana KomatsuAt some point beating and ravaging others becomes a routine pastime when two kids go on a rampage. Taira picks his target of men and goes for broke, while Kitahara puts down his camera long enough to instead go after women. There is enough blood shed during the course of one night to paint a mural of red for the whole city to see.
- DirectorVivian QuStarsVicky ChenMeijun ZhouKe ShiIn a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.
- DirectorSissi DengStarsFangyi XuPascal GreggoryRibbon OoiA Chinese girl named Xingxi travels alone to Alor Setar, a town in Northern Malaysia. As the result of a blown tire, she experiences three variant adventures. She introduces herself to people as different identities with mysterious secrets. Brooke claims herself a traveler in the first adventure, but an anthropologist in the second adventure. In the third adventure, Brooke is a disheartened woman who comes across French writer Pierre. Two lonely travelers become intimate friends. They share their respective insights into life, death, and love. As the enigmatic story of Alor Setar begins to unfold, Brooke tells Pierre the true reason why she has come. Nature divulges her sought for love with the magical Blue Tears.
- DirectorHassen FerhaniStarsMalikaSamir El HakimChawki AmariIn the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.
- DirectorNatesh HegdeStarsGopal HegdeRamakrishna Bhat DundiRaj B. ShettyIn a remote village in Southern India, Pedro, an outcast and a drunk, accidentally kills a cow and sets off a revelatory chain of events that put him against the entire community.
- DirectorIrfana MajumdarStarsJaihind KumarShreeja MishraAdwik MathurThe friendship between a little girl born into a privileged family and a village man who is the family servant.
- DirectorHadi MohagheghStarsHadi MohagheghMohammad EghbaliAmir Abbas EskandariA disabled man living with his handicapped son in a remote Iranian village.
- DirectorCyrielle RaingouStarsFalta SouleymaneIbrahim AlilouMohamed AlilouA clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.