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- DirectorAlisa PavlovskayaThe film is based on a series of novels by Stas Dombrowski, a former drug addict and criminal who learned that he was HIV positive in 17 years, and plunged into absolute self-destruction for next two decades. Only on his deathbed in prison therapy, knowing that he would die in two weeks, Stas understood that he wants to live more than anything in this world.
- DirectorAleksandra RechkalovaStory of Gulnara, mother of 142 children, who is being sued by union officials' for child trafficking, sexual and labour exploitation. The object of the claim is the Issyk-Ata resort property, famous for its healing mineral geothermal hot springs, which was donated to Gulnara's orphanage by businessman Afanasy in the 90s, who then renounced the world to enter a convent for personal reasons.
- DirectorMano KhalilStarsHafis BertschingerMara BertschingerKim BertschingerThe later years of a diverse artistic couple, the Swiss-Lebanese artist Hafis Bertschinger and his faithful wife and patron, Mara.
- DirectorAnna JadowskaStarsMarta NieradkiewiczMichal ZurawskiNatalia BartnikEwa returns to her village after a hospital stay. She works on a plantation that grows wild roses. While Ewa was away her mother has been taking care of her children Marysia and Jas. Ewa's husband Andrzej also returns home after working for months in Norway. The time apart has created distance between them. During Marysia's first communion, Ewa starts to feel ill. Her friend Basia drives her home. Basia admits that she leaked the gossip to Andrzej about Ewa's affair with Marcel, a local high school boy. Ewa meets Marcel on the rose plantation. She says that their relationship is over. After Marcel leaves, Marta realizes that Jas, her 2-year-old son, has disappeared. The search begins. After hours a policeman appears and says that Jas has been found. Marta and Andrzej go to the next village and pick up Jas. Ewa returns to the hospital she left a few days before. We discover that Ewa had given birth to a child and put it up for adoption. Ewa wants her child back.
- DirectorKevin WilliamsStarsNicolas CosterHudson LeickWolfgang BodisonDuring a frantic police car chase, a fleeing Thief crashes into several twisted characters sending them to an Emergency Room where they emotionally clash and trash, unaware their lives are about to change forever!
- DirectorGökçe Kaan DemirkiranStarsNimet AcarFiliz AkinSelahattin AkyolThe story of a lifetime Besiktas football club worker Sureyya and the late history of the club.
- DirectorElisabeth SilveiroStarsFanny ArdantDaily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.
- DirectorKasim Abid'Mirrors of Diaspora' is a multi-characters story of seven Iraqi artists with more than forty years of exile, creativity, alienation, memories, nostalgia, survivals, and war.
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsRea LestEvald AavikAndrus AlbrechtThe film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? The film is led by the singularity of the leading character - Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress.
- DirectorAndrás JelesStarsDalma BergerTenki DalmaEnikö DobóOur story unfolds parallel to the uncovering of hidden messages in a mysterious painting. The painting in question is The Ambassadors, the well known work of Hans Holbein which at several points inflicts a wound upon a reality depicted as harmonious and complete. One such wound is the anamorphic skull which drifts in the foreground of the painting conveying a paradox impression that makes the viewer question what he/she sees and does not see. This visual sensation arouses the suspicion that here, within the universe of Holbein's painting rhizomatic meanings run along behind and beyond the simple representation as the story of the characters in the film is also mysteriously connected to events of this 500 year old time segment.
- DirectorAbdullah Hasan AhmedStarsAbdulrahman Al MuraqabAli JamalSaleh ZaalThis is a film about a simple Emirati family, a mother, father, and son, living in a mountainous area of the Emirates. The film takes place over a single day, a day devoted to the memory of martyrs and reminds us of these memorable moments with family, tradition and memory.
- DirectorSergio OliveiraRenata PinheiroStarsMaeve JinkingsDandara de MoraisMagali BiffBethania Wanderley (Maeve Jinkings) has to return to the place where she was born, a decadent sugar cane mill, to prevent the former cane workers from taking over the land. She will have to deal with her past and her prejudices.
- DirectorFelipe Vara de ReyStarsSarah BienzobasDiego 'Seda' QuejidoJonathan 'Suko' PeñaA generational portrait of Spain's youth in a time of crisis, "Nosotros" follows a group of five friends during the weekend of the Spanish presidential election held in December 2015.
- DirectorAntonio AndrisaniPascal ZullinoStarsAntonio AndrisaniGigi AngiulliFlavio BucciA cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "The Gospel According to Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew". As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolini film...