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- DirectorÁlvaro BrechnerStarsAntonio de la TorreChino DarínAlfonso Tort1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsJuliette BinocheMasatoshi NagaseTakanori IwataFrenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious aura and eccentric personality the woodsman finds a place in the visitor's heart.
- DirectorMarios PiperidesStarsAdam BousdoukosFatih AlVicky PapadopoulouYiannis, a faded musician who is about to leave Cyprus for a better life abroad, sees his plans turned upside down when his dog crosses the Buffer Zone that separates the "Greek South" from the "Turkish North". Can he smuggle him back in?
- DirectorIgor LegarretaStarsFlorencia TorrenteMiki EsparbéEduardo BlancoAn Argentinian girl returns to her natal town on Basque Country to discover who killed her father.
- DirectorJordana SpiroStarsJill ReneNastashia FullerJohn Earl JelksAngel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
- DirectorMarysia NikitiukStarsAnastasiya PustovitSofia HalaimovaMaksym SamchykThe story of a five year old little rebellious girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds herself at a crossroads after the death of her father. Yearning to be self made, the village community ostracizes her for loving Scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrificed her love for a young gypsy abandoning him for traditional values and other people's opinions. Larysa's mother is too psychologically weak to support her daughter. Larysa and Scar plan to escape from a life of crime, misery and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for freedom?
- DirectorEwa BukowskaStarsMagdalena PoplawskaMichal ZurawskiKinga PreisAnna, whose husband Witek is an acclaimed 1990s war correspondent, keeps waiting for him to return safely from each war he reports from. But soon she gets overwhelmed by fear and anxiety.
- DirectorPawel MaslonaStarsArtur ZmijewskiDorota SegdaNicolas BroTragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
- DirectorEtienne KallosStarsBrent VermeulenAlex van DykJuliana VenterSouth Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his fiercely-religious mother brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage, and parental love.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
- DirectorRuth CaudeliStarsAlejandra LaraSilvia SantamaríaRoberto CanoEva and Candela face the end of their relationship. They met and fell in love but what brought them together would separate them. Their professional dreams would become their end.
- DirectorLiang YingStarsNai AnJoe CheungZhe GongA filmmaker who has been living in exile in Hong Kong visits a festival in Taipei to present a film has been banned in Mainland China.
- DirectorBettina OberliStarsMélanie ThierryPierre DeladonchampsNuno LopesPauline, a young farmer, raises her animals far from the modern world. When Samuel arrives to install a wind turbine on the farm, her values and her love for Alex are put to the test.
- DirectorBenjamín NaishtatStarsDarío GrandinettiAndrea FrigerioAlfredo CastroIn Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
- DirectorArash LahootiStarsHediyeh TehraniAli MosaffaMehran AhmadiWhen Aban - tough, self-sufficient, and the only woman contractor in the orange fields of northern Iran - beats out the male competition for a big job, the operation seems to get off to a rocky start. But Aban won't let go without a fight.
- DirectorSelton MelloStarsVincent CasselSelton MelloJohnny MassaroYoung Tony decides to return to his hometown. There, he discovers his father has returned to France claiming to miss his friends and country of origin. Tony ends up becoming a teacher, and finds himself amid conflicts and inexperience.
- DirectorVerónica RiedelStarsSofía ArévaloGiacomo BuonafinaCarolina CuervoFONSI is an apparently privileged 12 year old boy. As we get to know his dysfunctional family, his world begins to crumble in a matter of hours. Due to a series of unexpected events, each character changes drastically, facing a crude reality.
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
- DirectorGuel ArraesStarsMatheus NachtergaeleSelton MelloRogério CardosoFollows the lives of 2 poor Brazilians and their schemes to get money and the consequences of their actions.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsMina FujiiJang Keun-sukAhn Sung-kiPeople from all sorts of backgrounds set sail on a warship. They get drunk on alcohol, drugs and sex. Later, everyone grows tired and falls asleep, then the ship enters an unknown space enveloped in fog.
- DirectorRamtin LavafipourStarsAmir JadidiParinaz IzadyarSaber AbarFour friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.
- DirectorRene EllerStarsAimé ClaeysTijmen GovaertsPauline CasteleynEight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsPaolo VargasLuigi AntezanaAlejandro MarañonYoung bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle lost in the Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face.
- DirectorLisa BrühlmannStarsLuna WedlerZoë Pastelle HolthuizenRegula GrauwillerAn outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsMaged El-KidwaniMenna ShalabiKhaled El-SawiSamir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life.
- DirectorMarcelo MartinessiStarsNorma CodasMargarita IrunAna BrunMarcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
- DirectorPooya BadkoobehStarsNegar MoghaddamYasna MirtahmasbAli MosaffaGolsa, a 16 year old girl from suburb of Tehran, who is motivated primarily by boredom rather than greed, robs a corner shop with her friends. But while sharing the booty they are distressed to realize that they forgot to take the security camera footage. One of them must return to the crime scene to get it.
- DirectorBodo KoxStarsOlga BoladzPiotr PolakSebastian StankiewiczA janitor in Warsaw stumbles upon a time-traveling device in his apartment and gets stuck in the past while the woman he's been seeing looks for him.
- DirectorMeryem Benm'Barek-AloïsiStarsMaha AlemiLubna AzabalSarah PerlesSofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy, she finds herself illegally giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide the papers of the father of the child before alerting the authorities .
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsMoustapha MbengueEmmanuelle DevosMareme N'DiayeNIne years ago, Amin came from Senegal to work in France, leaving his wife Aisha and their three children behind. In France, there is nothing but work for him, no friends but the people he lives with at his workers' home.
- DirectorOlmo OmerzuStarsTomás MrvíkJan Frantisek UherEliska KrenkováTwo mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu's road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth.
- DirectorHadi MohagheghStarsMahyar AbravanMohammad AzarakhshHamdollah AziziA life of three generational men in a family.
- DirectorAlejo MoguillanskyStarsMaría VillarWalter JakobMargarita FernándezAndersen's "Little Match Girl", Bresson's donkey, the relationship between a German guerrilla and an Argentine pianist, and Helmut Lachenmann trying to stage an opera with the orchestra of the Teatro Colón on strike. In the middle of all that, Marie and Walter try to survive with their daughter.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsFranz RogowskiPaula BeerGodehard GieseA man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
- DirectorPaul MoloneyStarsMick MolloyBill HunterFrank WilsonA local bowling club faces potential takeover due to dwindling membership and increasing overheads. A thrilling battle ensues, involving young and old, greed and good, and extraordinary circumstances.
- DirectorGlauber RochaStarsJardel FilhoPaulo AutranJosé LewgoyIn the fictional Latin American country Eldorado, a poet tries to effect political change by influencing powerful men.
- DirectorBehrouz ShoaybiStarsMahnaz AfsharSara BahramiAmin HayayeeThe story of an addicted woman Mahsa who thinks that her girl is dead but when finds out that she is alive and lives by her father (Mahsa's ex-husband) decides to take her back. This put her to face her ex-husband and his new wife.
- DirectorNadia TassStarsColin FrielsJohn HargreavesLindy DaviesA socially awkward and mechanically gifted man becomes involved in a quirky and unconventional crime.
- DirectorJean-Philippe GaudStarsMadi BelemOuidad ElmaOlivier SitrukGrowing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.
- DirectorDaniel SanduStarsStefan IancuVlad IvanovToto DumitrescuA group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsNatasha JaramilloGiovanny RodríguezCarmenza CossioAfter the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.
- DirectorAbu Bakr ShawkyStarsRady GamalAhmed AbdelhafizOsama AbdallahA Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMarcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsYannis DrakopoulosEvi SaoulidouMakis PapadimitriouThe story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
- DirectorJulie BertuccelliStarsCatherine DeneuveAlice TaglioniChiara MastroianniIn Verderonne, a small village in the Oise, it's the first day of summer and Claire Darling wakes up convinced to live her last day - She then decides to empty her house and brade everything without distinction, Tiffany lamps to the collection clock. The objects so loved echo her tragic and flamboyant life. This last madness brings back Mary, her daughter, whom she has not seen for 20 years.