#ForeignFilmsMatter: Volume 2
More non-English-language narrative & documentary feature films that need distribution in the United States and (English) Canada.
Coming soon:
A Useful Ghost (2021, Thailand, Thai, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
I Am Arzé (TBA, Lebanon, Mira Shaib)
Communion (TBA, Tunisia, Nejib Belkadhi)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nwwy3tbqczstLmcYBAYdpEwIr8tTDtmSn1qeTcO-O40/
F = Narrative feature film
D = Documentary
Coming soon:
A Useful Ghost (2021, Thailand, Thai, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
I Am Arzé (TBA, Lebanon, Mira Shaib)
Communion (TBA, Tunisia, Nejib Belkadhi)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nwwy3tbqczstLmcYBAYdpEwIr8tTDtmSn1qeTcO-O40/
F = Narrative feature film
D = Documentary
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- StarsRen HanamiRachel SorsaUlf BjorlinJasper Vloemans, a young man with Down Syndrome, embarks on a road trip across Europe to be reunited with the love of his life.Belgium (Dutch and Albanian dialogue)
Television series - DirectorLav DiazStarsNanding JosefBart GuingonaDon Melvin BoongalingA look at how much human beings are like animals.Philippines (Tagalog and Filipino dialogue)
F - DirectorJu-hyoung LeeStarsSin Dong-ryeokJung In-taeKyeong-ik KimKim Gang-il was mobilized as a paratrooper to suppress the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Protests in 1980. Working as a forklift driver after retirement, he follows some inconvenient truths that had been buried all those years ago.South Korea (Korean dialogue)
F - DirectorCristina PinheiroStarsNuno LopesNaomi BitonBeatriz BatardaAn 8-year old Portugees child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an alcoholic father and unloving mother.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorMohsen GharaieStarsHamed BehdadBaran KosariMohsen KiayeeA municipality employee uses his position to put his hands on other people's money to collect enough to buy a truck, while his wife threatens to abort their child if he does not buy a house with their savings.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorKazuo HaraTen years in the making, Kazu Hara's three-and-a-half-hour-long epic is a longitudinal study of asbestos victims demanding reparations from a heartless state.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
D - DirectorNebojsa SlijepcevicStarsNina BatinicMarin BlazevicSandra Dekanic"Srbenka" is a film about peer violence toward children of different nationality in Croatia. It examines how the generation born after the war copes with the dark shadows of history.Croatia (Croatian dialogue)
D - DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsTimo TorikkaKari HeiskanenPertti SveholmDuring the COVID lockdown, three Finnish men get together in an otherwise empty bar, talk, and sample what is in some special bottles.Finland (Finnish dialogue)
F - DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsSigrún Edda BjörnsdóttirEyþór GunnlaugssonKarolina GruszkaIndiana lives in a council estate and makes her living preying on the welfare system. In her small private garden she tends to her award winning tree. When her only son turns up with a foreign girlfriend - Indiana's world is upended.Iceland (Icelandic dialogue)
F - DirectorFarnoosh SamadiStarsSadaf AsgariSahar DolatshahiAzita HajianA school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path zig to atonement.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorPascal PlanteStarsKaterine SavardAriane MainvilleHilary CaldwellNadia, an Olympic swimmer in her twenties, faces the challenges of her imminent retirement.Canada (French and English dialogue)
F - DirectorJudit OláhStarsIstvánné FarkasLászlóné FazekasDénes FábriIn 1980s, many Hungarian youngsters dreamed of visiting a unique summer camp in Epipo. A realm of role-playing and magic, yet behind innocent games lurked humiliation and concealed abuse. After 25 years secrets is still a part of them.Hungary (Hungarian dialogue)
D - DirectorEregowdaStarsChandrashekar C.S.Nagaraju D.P.Jnanesh MukhopadhyayKempanna, a bangle seller struggles to understand what is really wrong with their marriage. For behind every frustration there seem to lurk burning desires.India (Kannada dialogue)
F - DirectorAndrés LübbertStarsJorge LubbertAndrés LübbertJavier RebolledoDuring the Pinochet-dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert escaped from Chile and left behind a frightening period of his life. But he forgot everything. With his son Andrés he decides to remember what happened and confront his past.Chile/Belgium (Spanish and German dialogue)
D - DirectorGlenda NicácioAry RosaStarsWal DiazArlete DiasMaíra AzevedoGeralda's father is admitted to the hospital and he can die at any time. This painful expectation forces an interaction between her and the three sisters who have not seen each other since her mother's death in a long time.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorGlenda NicácioAry RosaStarsValdinéia SorianoAline BrunneBabu SantanaFive friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their lives.Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorCécile TelermanStarsJulie DepardieuEmmanuelle BéartPatrick BruelTwo sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorAlejandro Guzmán AlvarezStarsFernando BonillaRaúl BrionesJosé Concepción MacíasA deceitful and unemployed 40-year-old man returns to the house of his mother, who has recently passed away, to spend time with his alcoholic father and with a strange monster that oozes skin pieces, employed as fabric on the family's tailor shop business.Mexico (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorMoritz BleibtreuStarsMoritz BleibtreuNadja UhlEmily KuscheHagen develops disturbing nightmares and soon can no longer distinguish between dream and reality.Germany (German and French dialogue)
F - DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsGheorghe VisuCatalina MihaiBogdan DumitracheIn the Outskirts of Bucharest, in an area he's known all his life, near 60s Police officer Visoiu is given the mission to find two prostitutes that are willing to testify in an organized crime case.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorMathieu DenisSimon LavoieStarsCharlotte AubinLaurent BélangerEmmanuelle Lussier MartinezA group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.Canada (French dialogue)
F - DirectorAli DerakhshandehStarsRoya AfsharNeda JebraeiliGhorban Najafi60 year-old Zohreh's son is missing. Her husband has left her and she lives with her elderly, foul-mouthed mother and recently widowed and short-tempered daughter in the Ekbatan Housing Project. She has a beauty salon in her apartment and life I good until one day when leaflets begin to appear in mailboxes around the housing project that slander Zohreh's character. Her life becomes a nightmare as problems begin to get worse. We soon find out that Zohreh herself is the author of these leaflets that she writes in order to get revenge on herself and other. It is a game where she loses everything but also wins everything back.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorYûichirô TanakaStarsRyôhei AbeHonoka IshibashiArata IuraTwo slackers work at a midnight bar while also selling marijuana; when they get dangerously close to some unhinged yakuza, they follow wildly divergent fates.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorJeon Go-WoonStarsEsomAhn Jae-hongJae-Hyun ChoiWhiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.South Korea (Korean dialogue)
F - DirectorMei-Juin ChenStarsAlly ChiuJack KaoLawrence KoWhen her mom dies unexpectedly, a rebellious teen is reunited with her dad, a small-time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime -- until a corrupt cop turns their world upside down.Taiwan (Mandarin dialogue)
F - DirectorJoão VianaStarsHanic CorioPak NdjamenaErnania RainhaLucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son, Hanic and her husband, Pak who is a soldier at war. In the meantime, a quirky musical instrument plays: her own bed. Lucy's musical virtuosity attracts the attention of the hospital nurses. One day, her song is played in a radio program and Rosa, an evangelical priest of Radio Mozambique goes to the hospital to listen to Luc's song. Lucy takes the priest's visit as an opportunity to run away from the hospital.Mozambique (Tswa and Swahili dialogue)
F - DirectorBaris SarhanStarsOzan ÇelikNesrin CavadzadeAlican YücesoyCemil, a wannabe actor auditions for the villain role in a film. He can't get the role but the role gets him.Turkey (Turkish dialogue)
F - DirectorMengqiao LiStarsLeah DouKailang HeAl DiIn Lhasa, a young woman encounters a lobster that will change her life.China (Mandarin dialogue)
F - DirectorHung-i ChenMuni WeiStarsHsueh-Fu KuoAggie HsiehCamille Chalons'As We Like It,' a reworking of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It,' tells of the love blossoming between Orlando and Rosalind, who is disguised as a man. Filmmakers Chen Hung-i and Muni Wei opted for the lovebirds to be played by women, thereby referencing Shakespeare's era when women were banned from the stage and all roles were played by men. This colorful, energetic film follows Orlando and Rosalind and three other potential couples in their search for one another in an internet-free neighborhood in the bustling metropolis of Taipei, where there is no rush and people consciously live together. Fairy-tale settings, magical meetings, cryptic messages, but also fights, kidnappings, and family feuds. The film upends the binary world, making it a loving spectacle with plenty of music and doll-like design.Taiwan (Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin dialogue)
F - DirectorYassine Marco MarroccuStarsMohamed ZouaouiAziz DadasKamal KadimiIn the lost world, after a four months drought, an ordinary man randomly gets picked to be on a special radio show: Jamal Afina reveals an extraordinary journey of a life, through space and time, looking for his lost paradise.Morocco (Arabic, English, Serbian and Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorYaroslav LodyginStarsOleg MoskalenkoVladimir YamnenkoAleksey GorbunovHerman Korolyov, 33, is getting by, working a meaningless executive job in a big city. One day he gets a strange call and learns that his older brother has mysteriously disappeared. Herman must go back to his hometown to defend the family business - a small gas station (and with it, old friends and a girlfriend from the past) - against the 'kukuruzniks', mafia-type gangs that are grabbing up businesses and land in the Donbas region and turning them into corn fields and railways that lead nowhere.Ukraine (Ukrainian and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorDag Johan HaugerudStarsHenriette SteenstrupJan Gunnar RøiseThorbjørn HarrLykke (13), the daughter of a prominent Labour Party politician, has accidentally beaten her classmate Jamie, the son of a local right wing-politician, to death. Lykke claims Jamie's death was an accident, but nobody believes her. The school's principal, Liv, is an idealist who, against her political beliefs, has been living in a secret relationship with Karl Erik, Jamie's father. When they can't keep their relationship a secret anymore, the surroundings react with disbelief. Liv's brother Anders is Lykke and Jamie's class teacher. He was supposed to be in the school yard when the accident happened, and is overwhelmed with guilt for not having been able to prevent the accident from happening. Like water surrounding an undertow, we'll experience how the community relates to the accident and the aftermath. How could it happen - and how is it possible to continue living afterwards?Norway (Norwegian dialogue)
F - DirectorTaiki SakpisitStarsChalad Na SongkhlaManatsanun PhanlerdwongsakulSunida RatanakornA dysfunctional family falls from grace in the shadow of war.Thailand (Thai dialogue)
F - DirectorYoon Dan-biStarsChoi Jung-unHeung-ju YangHyeon-yeong ParkTwo kids are moving to their grandfather's house, but everything is going to change when the aunt moves there too.South Korea (Korean dialogue)
F - DirectorMartin EdralinStarsRogelio BalagtasSheila LotuacoEsteban ComilangJoshua, a shy middle-aged Filipino immigrant, has lived in the comfort of his parents' home his entire life. As their health declines he longs for a partner, terrified of being alone after they pass.Canada (English and Filipino dialogue)
F - DirectorIvan HerreraStarsClarisse AlbrechtEuris JavielJohnny MoralesAfter being arrested in the Dominican Republic, an Afropean woman escapes and is sheltered by 3 minors, in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.Dominican Republic (Spanish and French dialogue)
F - DirectorFrançois BouvierStarsFrançois LétourneauGilbert SicotteJulie LeBretonPaul is a cartoonist who lives with his girlfriend and their little daughter in Montreal in the summer of 1999. His in-laws, the Beaulieus, are a large, joyful clan composed of siblings, grandchildren and a much loved patriarch named Roland who constantly reminds Paul that he has yet to marry his daughter. When Roland fades with ill health, the family bands together and Paul projects his own devotion by doodling several portraits of his ailing father-in-law.Canada (French dialogue)
F - DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsRadovan VujovicMladen SoviljMarta BjelicaGuided by their maverick sociology professor, three students set up separate experiments around the city to prove his "Tetris" theory of chaos: that human nature inevitably deteriorates from order to anarchy.Serbia (Serbian dialogue)
F - DirectorAndréa BescondEric MétayerStarsAndréa BescondKarin ViardClovis CornillacOdette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorAinhoa RodríguezStarsIsabel María MendozaGuadalupe GutiérrezCarmen ValverdeHow we cling to age old patriarchal traditions, though in a new globalized world, society needs to move on and invent new ways of thinking.Spain (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorZero ChouStarsPeace YangYu-Ting HsuJiawei WengAfter Phoenix Du kills a thug who broke into her apartment, she comes before Jade Liu, broken by her brother's suicide and Catholic upbringing. Jade has a night of passion with her that redirects both of their lives.Taiwan (Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien dialogue)
F - DirectorGreg ZglinskiStarsBirgit MinichmayrPhilipp HochmairMona PetriA collision with a sheep on a country road initiates a whole series of weird and unsettling experiences for Anna and Nick which ultimately leave them both incapable of being certain exactly where they are: in the real world, in their own imaginations - or in someone else's imagination.Switzerland (German, French and English dialogue)
F - DirectorBogdan George ApetriStarsBogdan FarcasDragos DumitruVasile MuraruAn unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorDalibor BaricStarsRakan RushaidatAna VilenicaFrano MaskovicMartin is on the run because he tried to fight the system. Sara is a conceptual artist. Together they join a revolutionary commune in the countryside, with the police on their trail.Croatia (Croatian dialogue)
F - DirectorGiorgos GeorgopoulosStarsOmiros PoulakisVangelis MourikisKora KarvouniWomanizer Aris finds out he is a carrier of a sexually transmitted virus, lethal only for women. But he is also the only hope for a curing vaccine if he finds which one of his ex girlfriends had the first viral strain.Greece (Greek and Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorRasmus MerivooStarsMari LillNora MerivooHarri MerivooChildren are left at grandma's house without their smartphones. Real life seems boring until they find instructions for kratt - a magical creature who will do whatever its master says. All they need now is to buy a soul from the devil.Estonia (Estonian dialogue)
F - DirectorMasashi YamamotoStarsKaho MinamiSeikô ItôSoran TamotoAt a large mansion on the outskirts of Tokyo, Shuji SASAYA looks around a room with full of packed cardboard boxes. He has to sell this mansion because of his mistake. His hermit son, Yuta, brings a homeless into the house, and his daughter has frustrated by her reckless father, and wrote on Twitter, "Let's have a party today at my place. Anyone is welcome!!" A re-tweet sound is ringing at high speed beside her sleeping. The first to come to the Sasayas were moving companies Taichi and Atsushi, and a divorced mother of Yuta and Akane, Akiko. She seems to have hit-and-run away from the moving truck. A gay couple looking for a wedding venue, elementary school students come to rent a shower, two men cultivating suspicious plants on the premises of the Sasayas, and other peculiar people get together to have a wedding, a funeral and even a festival at the mansion. Both the living and the dying are in the rage of frenzy, the story unfolds.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorKhavnStarsRez CortezWilliam BuenaventeRon CapindingA crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.Philippines (Filipino and Tagalog dialogue)
F - DirectorKhadar Ayderus AhmedStarsOmar AbdiYasmin WarsameKadar Abdoul-Aziz IbrahimIn times of misfortune, Guled and his family have to push themselves to the limits in order to reunite with their family.Finland (Somali dialogue)
F - DirectorFrigge FriStarsJayJosephineMareridtThe deep friendship between three young outsider goths is threatened when one of them falls in love and eyes a possible escape from the Danish province.Denmark (Danish dialogue)
D - DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsLeon de la ValléePaolo PierobonMaria RoveranThe end of civilization has arrived. A Father and his Son are among the survivors. When the Father dies, the Son decides to undertake a journey along a river, in search of someone who can read his journal.Italy (Italian dialgoue)
F - DirectorDina DumaStarsAntonija BelazelkoskaMia GiraudMarija JancevskaThe friendship of two adolescent girls is threatened the moment they have to face the dire repercussions of their manipulative behaviour.North Macedonia (Macedonian dialogue)
F - DirectorIoseb 'Soso' BliadzeStarsNutsa KukhianidzeIva KimeridzeEka ChavleishviliSixteen-year-old Nika hits an old man with a car. The family of the deceased agrees not to sue in return for a substantial sum of money. Nika's mother has to collect this amount in one day.Georgia (Georgian dialogue)
F - DirectorBenedek FliegaufStarsEszter BallaLászló CzifferPéter FancsikaiSeven hypnotic and erratic fugue-like miniatures search for answers.Hungary (Hungarian dialogue)
F - DirectorKeat Aun ChongStarsJojo GohSeason CheeHong Herr WongCheong, a Chinese man, falls sick after a row with his neighbour. His wife Yan is desperately looking for a remedy to cure her husband. Throughout the journey, Yan endures strange encounters and unearthly experiences. Finally, Yan is convinced that she should seek help from the village shaman. Mysteries, legends and shamanism surround Yan with unknowns yet to be solved.Malaysia (Hokkien dialogue)
F - DirectorAndrea StakaStarsMarija SkaricicGoran NavojecMateusz KosciukiewiczRoutinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family's modest household, although a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing. When a chance encounter rekindles her libido, she does not hold back for long.Croatia (Croatian and English dialogue)
F - DirectorQiu JiongjiongStarsTao GuNan GuanQiao HuThe leading clown role in a renowned theatre troupe passes on, and is welcomed into the Underworld. As he relives his vivid memories one last time before entering the afterlife, 50 years of art, struggle and love play out against the background of 20th century China’s tumultuous history.Hong Kong (Cantonese dialogue)
F - DirectorLeri MatehhaStarsMax PoertingAlexandra FinderZhenja IsaakThomas, a young adult, lives an isolated life with his mother in a sports camp. His only encounter with the outside world is through sports. His life is characterized by emotionless discipline and skewed social rules established by his mother. The ambition to make her son an athlete leads her to the narcissist trainer Frank. His alternative training methods, which include psychological power games shake up the importance of routines and the authority of mothers control regiment starts to fade.Germany (German dialogue)
F - DirectorAlbert DupontelStarsVirginie EfiraAlbert DupontelNicolas MariéA seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorDarko SinkoStarsDavor JanjicIgor GodinaJanez SkofAfter someone tries to shoot a middle aged man, he makes an inventory of friends and acquaintances to find out who might feel wronged by him.Slovenia (Slovene dialogue)
F - DirectorNeus BallúsStarsMohamed MellaliValero EscolarPep SarràA peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience.Spain (Catalan, Spanish and Berber dialogue)
F - DirectorClaudia HuaiquimillaStarsIván CáceresCésar HerreraAndrew BargstedTwo brothers have been in a juvenile prison for a year, dreaming. The arrival of a rebellious young man offers a possible escape: the only door to make those dreams come true.Chile (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorFernando SalemStarsAntonella SaldiccoJustina BustosAgustín SullivanEmilia is a young psychiatrist living in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend. She has a steady life but is not fully satisfied. She receives an invitation to go back to 28 de Noviembre, her hometown in Patagonia to spread Andrea's ashes, Emilia's best friend who died five years earlier. Emilia pauses her life in the city and travels for the ceremony. The cold and the snow of the hard winter in southern Argentina are the setting of her journey to the past. There, she revisits her friendship with dead Andrea and mourns her with her family. On the isolated routs of Patagonia, Emilia meets Julián, her first love, who has recently become a father.Argentina (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorHleb PapouStarsMaurizio BoussoGiacomo CiarrapicoMarco FalaguastaDaniel, the only African-Italian officer in Rome's riot police, is forced to evict an apartment building with 150 families, including his own.Italy (Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorGeorge ChiperMonica StanStarsAna DumitrascuVasile PavelCezar GrumazescuWhen young Daria enters rehab, her perceived innocence gains her the protection of the mostly male junkies inside, but she soon finds out that this special treatment comes at a great price.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorPeter von BaghStarsErja MantoEero SaarinenPeter von BaghSocialism, the 20th century's greatest dream and source of some of its darkest nightmares. Divided into eighteen chapters which all begin with quotes from left-wing thinkers and writers, Socialism embarks on a chronological journey through 20th century film and social history, starting with images from Louis Lumière's Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), followed among others by Chaplin's comedy Work (1915), Roberto Rosselini's Rome, Open City (1945) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).Finland (Finnish dialogue)
D - DirectorAlessandro CassigoliCasey KauffmanStarsIkram JaafariKhadija JaafariThe five year trajectory of a young woman from Morocco who tries to fit into a small town near Naples : her dreams, her disappointments and her loneliness.Italy (Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorSamuel M. DelgadoHelena GirónStarsXoán ReicesDavid PantaleónValentín Estévez1492. Among the crew captained by Christopher Columbus, travel three men who should have been dead by now. They have managed to avoid their sad fate by participating in this uncertain journey. When reaching the Canary Islands they flee, taking one of the ship's sails with them. Meanwhile, in the "Old World", a woman tries to save her dying sister by bringing her to a healer. Both of these journeys attempt to laugh at death. Both journeys are at the mercy of History.Spain (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorVesela KazakovaMina MilevaStarsMaria BakalovaVesela KazakovaDiana SpasovaA family full of women in a society where "gender" is not a familiar word.Bulgaria (Bulgarian dialogue)
F - DirectorFrédéric HambalekStarsKerstin AggerMira BenserMathilde BundschuhA mother has designed an unconventional plan to change her son's disturbing obsessions.Germany (German dialogue)
F - DirectorAl Hadi Ulad-MohandStarsSamir GuesmiLubna AzabalSayyid El AlamiMid-nineties, a small town in Northern Morocco. Fouad is a technician whose life is disrupted by a neurological disease. While Fouad is dying, his family rediscovers itself through love, sorrow and memories.Morocco (Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorAmil ShivjiStarsGudrun MwanyikaIkhlas Gafur VoraSiti AminaA rebellious young revolutionary becomes involved with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage.Tanzania (Swahili, English and Swedish dialogue)
F - DirectorVictoria FioreAmong the narrow streets of contemporary Naples, 'Hide and Seek' ('Nascondino') follows four years in the life of nine-year-old Entoni and his grandmother Dora during a critical state crackdown on crime that threatens Entoni's future with forced removal and imprisonment.Italy (Italian and Neapolitan dialogue)
D - DirectorLaura WandelStarsMaya VanderbequeGünter DuretElsa LaforgeWhen Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.Belgium (French dialogue)
F - DirectorMaureen FazendeiroMiguel GomesStarsCrista AlfaiateCarloto CottaJoão Nunes MonteiroFollows Crista, Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines, but they are not the only ones.Portugal (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorThomas KruithofStarsIsabelle HuppertReda KatebNaidra AyadiA story that revolves around Clemence who's in the final stage of her political career as a Mayor of Parisian suburbs.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsTatsuya FujiwaraRyûhei MatsudaTasuku EmotoA cult leader is as cynical as the next and picks up a loose woman at a bar one night. This is followed by a car accident, which sends the woman into a coma. Anticipating attempts on the cult leader's life his assistant hires three thugs as bodyguards to the man. The cultist is holed up at his mansion in Okinawa and plots a surprise to his family and followers.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorSharipa UrazbayevaStarsAinur BermukhambetovaBolat MomyshzhanovRecently-married Anar has relocated to a remote rural village in Kazakhstan with her unreliable husband and her rebellious stepson, Adil. Separated from her parents, made unemployed, and soon to be abandoned by her man, she also has to deal with pregnancy while being anaemic. When her husband's creditors arrive and she learns that Adil was raped, she has to somehow find a way to fight back against sorrow and misfortune.Kazakhstan (Kazakh dialogue)
F - DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsNoriko EguchiTasuku EmotoDaisuke KurodaTakeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the factory, he begins to live in at an old and cheap apartment building. One day, his apartment building neighbor Kozo Shimada visits Takeshi and asks to take a bath in his bathroom. Since then, Takeshi begins to make relations with the residents at the apartment building and he becomes friends with Kozo. Later, Kozo learns the secret on why Takeshi came to the village.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorHsiang ChiennStarsShiang-chyi ChenYi-Wen ChenJou-Min HuangTaiwan (Mandarin dialogue)
- DirectorLauris AbeleRaitis AbeleStarsToms AuninsMarcis LacisDaniela VetraBrothers Robert and Martin are a month away from their largest art exhibition. To get creative juices flowing, Martin locks himself in a black cube. The film examines the thin line between the artist's creativity and mental troubles.Latvia (Latvian dialogue)
F - DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsCaroline BoultonAttila Menszátor-HéreszTamás PolgárAbout a post-apocalyptic Hungarian-Ukrainian village where everything is rotten, planes randomly crash. Only alcohol makes people to move. In this wasteland, Ocsenas is the only hero, the one trying to survive amidst the savages and war.Hungary (Hungarian dialogue)
F - DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsTom DewispelaereFrieda BarnhardHans KestingFound in the German woods as a four-year-old boy, Gunter grows up in a foster family. Four decades later he leads a normal life. When a man on a bridge whispers a single word in his ear, he starts to wonder about his origins.Netherlands (German, English and Dutch dialogue)
- DirectorEmre ErdogduStarsHalil BabürHayal KöseogluSermet YesilThis film is about the gravity of the desire for being loved.Turkey (Turkish dialogue)
- DirectorKristijonas VildziunasStarsSaulius BareikisAgnese BudovskaDziugas GrinysDainius, a young rock singer, locks himself away in a secluded country house surrounded by swamps. Hoping to meet his beloved in dreamland, the musician is eagerly assisted in his studies by a local boy exploited by moonshiners.Lithuania (Lithuanian dialogue)
F - DirectorGrzegorz JaroszukStarsBartlomiej TopaPiotr ZurawskiTomasz SchuchardtA group of misfits from a carpet shop have a chance to change their lives with the help of two marketing experts - an ex-kebab shop worker and an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine.Poland (Polish and English dialogue)
F - DirectorFernando Lavanderos MonteroStarsCristóbal PalmaRagni Orsal SkogsrodIsaac ArriagadaJerónimo rent rooms and check people's belongings when they are not present. Sanna, an attractive Norwegian actress, enters his life and awakens something new in Jerónimo.Chile (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorGranaz MoussaviStarsArafat FaizElham Ahmad AyaziSaeida SadatA nine-year-old boy from Kabul decides to start a business as a cart pusher, hoping to raise enough money to follow his dreams.Australia/Afghanistan (Pashtu and Dari dialogue)
F - DirectorJosé María CabralStarsCyndie LundyRamón Emilio CandelarioVladimir AcevedoA pregnant woman, left alone in the wilderness near the Dominican border, tries to escape the massacre of Haitians in 1937.
- DirectorJenna Cato BassStarsChumisa CosaNosipho MtebeKamvalethu Jonas RaziyaA strange psychological thriller about Tsidi, who is forced to move in with her separated mother, a domestic worker who obsessively cares for her catatonic white "Madame" in the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town.
- DirectorHajni KisStarsGusztáv DietzZorka HorváthÉva Füsti MolnárA wild 12 year old girl who has been with her grandparents decides against their advice to seek out her father, a bouncer with a temper who is just getting out of prison.