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- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsYuichi MikamiYûki KudôTomokazu MiuraThe movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.
- DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsYujing LiangYuqing LiaoLiping LüA married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.
- DirectorUri BarbashStarsKelly McGillisJohn SheaArnon ZadokA commune of young Jews from Europe establish a settlement in the Sinai Desert after World War I.
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsChristine LahtiSara WalkerAndrea BurchillAfter their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsMikhail BaryshnikovAlessandra FerriLeslie BrowneA successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsZlata AdamovskáJirí AdamíraJirí BartoskaThe film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janacek , (1854-1928) , also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his head and his strong character, which could overcome the adversities of fate.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsAnjelica HustonDonal McCannHelena CarrollGabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsSarah MilesDavid HaymanSebastian Rice-EdwardsBill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsDora BaretHéctor AlterioGraciela DufauDuring Argentina's "Dirty War," a 17-year-old boy falls in love with an older woman who is being chased by the authorities.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKeiji MutôMichiru AkiyoshiNarumi YasudaLove story of a mountain man who comes to Tokyo from Hokkaido and a club singer who can no longer sing, with astonishing visual beauty.
- DirectorBasu BhattacharyaStarsSuresh OberoiDeepti NavalAkbar KhanThis is a story about having an extra marital affair within the family itself. Vikram (Suresh Oberoi) and his younger brother Yatin (Akbar Khan) lead their import - export business. Eventually Vikram meets Sadhavi (Deepti Naval) who is a painter with the family in Nepal. They become great friends and one day Vikram decides that Sadhavi should marry his younger brother Yatin. They get married and were having happy married life till Sadhavi discovers that Yatin only wants sexual pleasure but does not want to give her his time. One day due to a big fight between husband and wife, Sadhavi leaves the house and goes back to Nepal. Vikram goes there to bring Sadhavi back. There is a great bond between them and they both end up having an extra marital affair. Sadhavi finally wants to become a saint and leave the world of pleasure.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJane BirkinDominique LavanantPauline LafontA film with idiotic prince and Rita Mitsouko who records a new album.
- DirectorLee Jang-hoStarsKim Myung-gonLee Bo-heeSok-Yang ChooA young man travels to various regions of South Korea to scatter the ashes of his dead wife.
- DirectorKen CameronStarsRachel WardBryan BrownSteven VidlerIn pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsTom ContiSusan GeorgeNitzan SharronIn the summer of 1944, in a peaceful resort town in the Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, an easy-going lifeguard takes in a widow of a partisan and her young son. Their relationship grows until he unknowingly saves a Nazi officer from drowning.
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsBurt ReynoldsCasey SiemaszkoSheila KelleyProfessional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
- DirectorRyû MurakamiStarsMiwako FujitaniJinpachi NezuMasahiro MotokiA mystery takes place in the decorous halls of the Stamford Raffles Hotel in Singapore.
- DirectorMartyn SandersonStarsFaifua AmigaRichard von SturmerPeseta Sinave IsaraPepe is a young Samoan. He has two mentors, who represents two opposite paths. One is Toasa, the senior chief of Pepe's village, an elder powerful and wise in the ancient way of his people. He is Pepe's 'conscience'. The other is Tagata, the city-bred dwarf, street smart, bold and cheeky, but condemned by his stature to be an oddity, a flying fox 'with an eagle in the gut'. Tagata is Pepe's 'other' side. Pepe sees his life as a constant set of choices, personified in both Toasa and Tagata; tradition and modernity, rural and urban, communal and individual. Torn between this paradox, he embarks on a life of defiance against his father's unholy trinity of 'God, Money, and Success' only to find that the precepts and responsibilities Toasa had taught him are impossible to practise.
- DirectorEuzhan PalcyStarsDonald SutherlandJanet SuzmanZakes MokaeA white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsPawan MalhotraMakrand DeshpandeAshutosh GowarikerAn unemployed Muslim youth aspires to become a big-shot criminal but mends his ways with the help of his educated brother-in-law.
- DirectorPeter KernStarsLem ArconChrista BerndlHans FalarThe shy Michael Seebisch wants to work even more in the new year. His great love is for computers. Only the enamel of great opera voices can transport him from everyday life to another, imaginative world.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsSteve MartinMary SteenburgenDianne WiestFour Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children - each in their own different style - and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings.
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixJim HensonStarsIsabelle PascoGérard SandozGabriel MonnetThierry (Gérard Sandoz) drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo when he meets Roselyne (Isabelle Pasco), who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his job, the young lovers journey across France finding odd jobs at several circuses. In Germany, they fall under the tutelage of aging big cat trainer, Klint (Gunter Meisner), and while they are closer to realizing their dreams, they find that their success drives them apart.
- DirectorDiego López RiveraStarsJosé Carlos RuizGustavo AguilarTomás AlcázarThe closeness of his death and a final impulse to paint one more painting, lead the Mexican painter Francisco Goitia to remember his life.
- DirectorJytte RexStarsCarsten BangPeter BoesenKirsten BrøndumIsolde decides to leave her husband, who is a politician. At the library where she works, she meets a naive student and falls in love.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsElena YakovlevaTomas LaustiolaLarisa MalevannayaA hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPhilippe NoiretSabine AzémaPascale VignalIntense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.
- DirectorKwaw AnsahStarsKofi BucknorIan CollierAnima MisaThe story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsVincent SpanoTony Lo BiancoStephen MendilloAn intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsIvo GregurevicDavor JanjicBranka Trlin-MatulaBased on the true story about Jovo Stanivukovic, alias Caruga, a bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia.
- DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsOtar MegvinetukhutsesiElena AnisimovaTamari SkhirtladzeIn Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as the local authorities come under pressure to fall in line with the officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist Government. The village elder is one of our hero's best friends and together they seem to find a way to outwit these evil intentions but unfortunately they fail to understand what forces they are dealing with in a country where anti-Semitism is state policy.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsSheila FloranceGosia DobrowolskaNorman KayeUplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead actress, Sheila Florance, who was in fact dying of cancer as she created what is essentially a self-portrait.
- DirectorHiroaki YoshidaStarsJeff FaheyBridget FondaHiroaki MurakamiIn Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his mill. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it - in self defense. Chief Ruhle interrogates him and Sugito's young wife and business partners, but it takes a while, until he gets through the maze of apparently contradictory statements.
- DirectorClaude GagnonStarsGail TraversMacha GrenonEiji OkudaJean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in Vancouver and Amy is anxious to see him again but her sister curiously is not at all interested. The girls explore old passions, stalking, sibling rivalry and wrong life choice based on the fantasies of their youth. When Amy discovers her sister over the years, had nearly 7 or 8 sexual encounters with Yoshi, she is devastated. Inspite of the fact that Amy had chosen a career path which relocated her to New York City in order to increase her chances of a possible relationship with the handsome, exotic and gifted former neighbour, she never did meet Yoshi so her passions for him continued to smolder right up to the time of the family reunion. Will they meet Yoshi, will he now choose Amy? A delicate but not precious slice of life with unusual plot twists and turns which inspires the audience to ask of themselves, what have my life influences been and were my choices reasonable and wise?
- DirectorJianzhong HuangStarsBaotian LiLirong ZhaoJiali DingA story of a family's dilemma between different family member especially between 2 generations which erupted on "chu xi" (the day before the first day in Chinese lunar year).
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsRobert ArkinsMichael AherneAngeline BallJimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
- DirectorTony AuStarsAnita MuiTony Ka Fai LeungHidekazu AkaiTwo former lovers are reunited in war-torn Shangai during its occupation by Japanese troops in World War 2.
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsClaude MakiHiroko ÔshimaSabu KawaharaThe lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsSam ShepardJulie DelpyBarbara SukowaApril 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico. He learns that he became a dad in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Fate?
- DirectorEdward YangStarsChang ChenLisa YangKuo-Chu ChangBased on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
- DirectorSarah MoonStarsAlexandra CapuanoDavid LoweIsabelle MolyAfter being released from a mental hospital, David Woolf kidnaps his daughter, Melodie and drives from Paris to Belgium, stopping to get the young girl's hair cut to disguise her. The car breaks down and the two check into a hotel.
- DirectorHideo OnchiStarsKanako HiguchiRenji IshibashiKaoru KobayashiA young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence.
- DirectorJeong Ji-yeongStarsAhn Sung-kiLee Kyoung-youngShim Hye-jinSouth Korea, 1979. Han Kiju is an alcoholic novelist who has never recovered from his year long tour as a volunteer soldier in Vietnam. When he's asked to write a book about the Korean soldiers who fought in Vietnam he's battered by flashbacks that remind him of the brutality and lies that destroyed his innocence. The serialized novel brings him back in contact with a former soldier who served under him, PFC Pyon Chinsu, the one-time company clown driven mad by the violence of the war and who now looks to Han for some sort of emotional rescue.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMax von SydowLothaire BluteauSarah MilesHenry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsAsia ArgentoCarlotta NatoliClaudia PandolfiFifteen-year-old Simona has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Simona is a victim of incest.
- DirectorTakashi IshiiStarsShinobu ÔtakeMasatoshi NagaseHideo MurotaThe story about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiStarsAsuka OkasakaHiroshi FujiokaQian PoLooks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.
- DirectorPeter KosminskyStarsJuliette BinocheRalph FiennesJanet McTeerA man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsGötz GeorgeUwe OchsenknechtChristiane HörbigerThe slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.
- DirectorEdward James OlmosStarsEdward James OlmosWilliam ForsytheSal LopezA Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.
- DirectorIan SellarStarsAlan CummingSandrine BonnaireBruno GanzAlexander Novak goes to Prague to find a film extract. He meets Elena, with whom he falls in love, and who introduces him to Josef, the director of the film's Archives, who turns out to be Elena's lover. This one disappears
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMarco LeonardiLumi CavazosRegina TornéWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- DirectorChi Leung 'Jacob' CheungStarsRoy ChiaoKai-Chi LiuTeddy Robin KwanThe story about a young, unemployed man, who after being kicked out is desperate enough to live anywhere. He is directed to Fatso, who owns the caged establishment, and is given a living space.
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsYves MontandOlivier MartinezSekkou SallTwo young robbers meet an old man. The three start traveling together, looking for the same thing.
- DirectorBill DukeStarsLaurence FishburneJeff GoldblumLira AngelA uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.
- DirectorZhuangzhuang TianStarsTian YiWenyao ZhangXiaoman ChenThe lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsDamian ChapaJesse BorregoBenjamin BrattBased on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraCécile Sanz de AlbaLuís Miguel CintraEma is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsValentin GaftIrina RozanovaEvgeniy MironovIn a distant garrison, officers and soldiers are influenced by their love affairs.
- DirectorPercy AdlonStarsDonald SutherlandLolita DavidovichBrendan FraserA strange man owns a self-storage facility and lives in a reality of his own, until reality comes crashing down.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
- DirectorNicolas KlotzStarsAmina AnnabiMiguel BoséMaïté NahyrIn the 1920s, the story of the eighth daughter of a Moroccan family whose sex was hidden from everyone and who was raised in the tradition of males until the age of 21 under the name of Ahmed.
- DirectorWei-Yen YuStarsTe-Chien HouElaine JinYuan-Chi LuThe titular boy in the moonlight is actually the young spirit of a man, who has been in a kind of vegetative state for the last 30 years. The tortured spirit wanders in that earthly space between heaven and hell, himself exploring the why of his tragic fate. His wanderings take him into the lives of those in his family who hover over and care for his sleeping broken body.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsJames GammonNobu McCarthyKazuya KimuraA Japanese-American woman and her paralyzed friend and pow in WW2, Barbara, run a desert diner. A mob boss has a ranch nearby and things heat up, when a hitman and a thief arrive at the café.
- DirectorSam ShepardStarsAlan BatesRichard HarrisRiver PhoenixMad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.
- DirectorVincent WardStarsJason Scott LeeAnne ParillaudPatrick BerginArctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.
- DirectorXiaowei LuStarsSylvia ChangDa-Lu HsiaoXuejian Li
- DirectorShigemichi SugitaStarsMasahiro MotokiHidetaka YoshiokaNarumi YasudaRinko Shoji, a radio station employee, meets Shukichi, the vocalist of the rock band "Shoeless Four", at a live house brought to Terazono. Rinko is fascinated by her gentle singing voice, which is the exact opposite of Shukichi's radical personality. A young man, Kazuya, strums his guitar from the audience as if to challenge Shukichi's singing voice. Due to his talent, Shukichi forcibly kicked out Kenbo, a scout and band member, and made him join. Eventually, the band goes to Tokyo at the invitation of Shoko, the director of a record company.
- DirectorHo YimStarsSiqin GaowaChung-Hua TouJingwu MaGuan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. The alleged murderer whom Guan Jian accuses of the crime is his own mother.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJeni CourtneyEileen ColganMick LallyYoung Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKen TakakuraKiichi NakaiRie MiyazawaA group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenMatti PellonpääKirsi TykkyläinenLugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking?
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsVirginie LedoyenCyprien FouquetLászló SzabóWhen the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?
- DirectorTatsumi KumashiroStarsEiji OkudaEiko NagashimaReiko TakashimaTanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraGlicínia QuartinRuy de CarvalhoStories of various individuals living in a poor district of Lisbon are intertwined with the sad life of a blind street vendor whose only means of support is his elm box.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsDebra WingerBarbara HersheyGabriel ByrneMartha Horgan, a naive woman with an intellectual impairment who lives with her aunt Frances in a small town, is known for always telling truth.
- DirectorGustavo Graef MarinoStarsArmando AraizaPatricia RiveraWilly SemlerA young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.
- DirectorJianxin HuangYazhou YangStarsZhenhua NiuKesheng LeiQiang LiWang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. At home, Wang has problems because his father wants Wang to have a son to carry on the family name. However, because of the one-child policy, Wang cannot have any more children unless his young daughter is certified infirm.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsAnthony HopkinsBridget FondaMatthew BroderickA story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.
- DirectorStan LaiStarsLi-Wei ChangWen-Min ChenLeon DaiAhda sells language tapes by day and attends cram school at night, but his real passion is to achieve the secret art of "vaulting" - defying gravity to leap impossible distances. Fired by the exploits of the legendary Red Lotus Society, Ahda is on a romantic quest for a master.
- DirectorJoseph NovoaStarsLaureano OlivaresHerman GilNéstor TeránJairo, sick of living on the fringes of society, fed up with poverty and a terrible family life, enters the world of crime as a Hired Assassin. Once he is really deep into the world of killing for money and dying if necessary, he decides to change the course of his life. But it is too late: he is on a road of no return, and there is no way he can escape his fate.
- DirectorGarin NugrohoStarsWiwiek HandawiyahBambang S. JayantoroPramana PadmodarmayaTwo young people, both with troubled backgrounds, come to Surakarta to become students of Waluyo, a master of traditional Javanese arts. The boy, Ilalang, wants to write music but seems trapped in memories of childhood traumas, the girl, Bulan (Moon), is simply trying to find herself.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsKathy BatesJennifer Jason LeighChristopher PlummerA big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.
- DirectorJan Jakub KolskiStarsFranciszek PieczkaDojnica PaladiukJolanta FraszynskaThe runaway circus freak falls for his co-worker, who happens to be a dwarf woman.
- DirectorTony AuStarsTony Ka Fai LeungYasuko TomitaShinobu ChiharaRyuichi Okagawa is a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-Hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-Hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-Hua. When Okagawa returned home, leaving Jin-Hua behind, she was forced to work as a prostitute, catching both a severe case of the flu and a rather less socially acceptable condition. Meanwhile, Okagawa's guilt has torn him apart enough for him to return to China in an attempt to bring Jin-Hua home with him to get medical attention, but the girl is already too far gone for his help.
- DirectorJong-won ParkStarsAhn Sung-kiCho Jae-hyunKim Myung-gonThis film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power in 1800.
- DirectorTim MetcalfeStarsJames WoodsRobert Sean LeonardEllen GreeneA prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.
- DirectorJen WanStarsChiu-Yen ChenI-Chen KoYang LinAt an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsTil SchweigerKatja RiemannJoachim KrólThrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsCaroline GoodallCaroline GillmerTara MoriceMeg (Caroline Goodall), Pippa (Tara Morice), and Hilary (Caroline Gillmer) are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for ten years, has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsZdenek SverákAndrey KhalimonLibuse SafránkováA confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.
- DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsXu ZhuRenying ZhouZhigang ZhaoIn a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.
- DirectorMasahisa SadanagaStarsMomoko Kôchi
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMaja KomorowskaBartosz ObuchowiczKarolina WajdaIn the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. In spite of harsh Stalinist times, they are both fascinated by horses.