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- An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
- A country girl comes to the city in search of her father, but secrets and mysteries will force her to re-evaluate when a family needs to stay together and when it needs to let go.
- Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her old lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple with his girlfriend in search of a cure for his insomnia.
- A village girl travels to the Lao capital, Vientiane, to care for her rich cousin who has lost her sight and gained the ability to communicate with the dead.
- Jack White flies to South East Asia to start a new life. However, he soon finds his life being threatened on arrival by events beyond his control or understanding, until his grip on reality begins to spiral dangerously out of control.
- Phim and Naree, a couple seeking a fresh start in Laos, find themselves trapped in a nightmarish ordeal when Phim's deranged ex-girlfriend, Linda, resurfaces with a malevolent agenda.
- When a bomb endangers the Pha Tang temple, 'Satu' an orphan child laborer decides to head north through the rich and feral landscape of Laos in search of his long lost mother with his new photojournalist friend 'Bo'.
- A Thai photographer is sent to Laos by his boss. He had originally planned to travel to Japan to pursue his photography. Little does he know he begins to fall in love with his Laotian tour guide.
- This Little Land of Mines is an independent feature documentary about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded bombs from when the United States secretly bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth.
- A sickly young woman experiences visions of her dead mother. She struggles to determine if the apparition is simply a side effect of her daily medication, or her mother actually reaching out to her from beyond the grave.
- Noy, a male medical graduate who seems to lead a perfect life, is pressured by his parents to marry his beautiful rich girlfriend. When he can no longer deny and hide his sexual preference, he risks the consequences to tell his parents the truth. At the same time, Noy, a Hmong woman from a poor family in Xiengkhouang province, looks forward to celebrating her graduation after a long struggle to support herself in Vientiane. However, her parents' arrival brings not the joy she expected, but the need to decide whether to remain in Vientiane with her musician crush or get married overseas in order to repay her parents' debt.
- Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
- AT THE HORIZON is about two different worlds colliding: the wealthy influential people on the one hand and the poor and honest on the other hand. Sin, a wealthy boy had been spoiled by his parents and has never realized the importance of self-dependence and how to become a responsible man. The boy lives his life relying on his parents wealth and power,making him even more arrogant and pompous. Lud, a mute middle-aged man came from a rural area to be a motorcycle mechanic in Vientiane. His wife worked as a market woman and they had a six-year-old daughter. Though Luds life was simple, his family was warm and loving. One day Lud unexpectedly faces the greatest loss of his life caused by Sin.
- A magazine writer visits Laos for an assignment and meets a beautiful local girl. Will a series of unexpected events keep them apart?
- By the Lake Nam Ngum, in North Laos, France is a young woman desired by two diametrically opposed men. Her fate brings her to cross the path of Hugo, a French man, in search of the woman who left him a year ago.
- Set in a small village in Vientiane Province in the early 1970s. Pathet Lao troops have gained the upper hand over the US-backed Royal Laotian army. The government wants to use the village as a base for a counter-offensive. Bua Deng (Somchit) is a village girl whose boyfriend has run off to join the Pathet Lao. Her mother forces her to marry a capitalist, but her boyfriend and his guerrillas return to liberate the village and rescue Bua Deng from her lecherous stepfather.
- In this 5-channel video work shot on location in Laos, Serbian artist Marina Abramovic addresses the topic of violence as it is portrayed in contemporary media.
- The film follows the experiences of Noi, a teenage girl from Laos, whose family faces financial difficulties and emotional problems. Noi is persuaded by Toui, a young woman she knows well, to leave home for an apparently attractive job in neighboring Thailand. Once there, Noi realizes too late that Toui is actually a broker. She has been sold. Her hopes of a better life are shattered as she suffers both physical and sexual abuse. Noi finally manages to escape with the help of a supportive Thai man and the assistance of the Laos and Thai authorities.
- Love story about a man with an unnatural talent for seeing the end date in relationships. It's not instinct, it's nose hairs. Kai's nose tells him it's time to get out of the relationship he's in just as an old school mate comes back into his life. They take to the road and lead us on a wild and charming journey through the Lao mountains of Vang Vieng.
- Music Saves My Soul is an intimate portrait of an individual who finds solace in art. It focuses on a day in the life of Khamlek Xayasith, a cleaning lady by day and traditional singer at night. Illiterate until her 50s, she still performs in the lesser-known singing style Khub Thoum, Arn Nung Seu (literally, "book reading") found in Luang Prabang, where lyrics are not written by a single composer but arise organically from the singers themselves. As the film progresses, it reveals her history of mistreatment from male figures in the home: sexual harrassment from a stepfather, unfaithfulness from ex-husbands, and abandonment by her song. Shaped by hardship, Khamlek rises above the traditional gender roles prescribed for women to find shelter and identity in her own songs, creating beauty from ashes.
- For several years, Arina, her father Valeri, Nicolai, Roman have been coming to the natural reserve of Stolby, situated a few kilometers away from the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, fleeing the rough day-to-day life of their hometown and come here to rest, dance, climb and talk for hours.
- A woman's spiritual journey brings her to South-East Asia. While in Thailand she meets a rock climber that shares his metaphor about life.
- Ray McDonald is a photographer who is down on his luck when he travels to Pakse in Southern Laos to take on an assignment as a wedding photographer. There he meets a beautiful Lao woman who becomes his inspiration to write a movie script about a Thai-Lao romance. In real life, however, the photographer has a slim chance to win the heart of the woman who may already have a boyfriend.
- A Lao American runner returns to her home country after her family's exile during the communist regime of the 1970s, and struggles to raise awareness and money for human trafficking victims by coordinating the country's first ultra marathon across the country.
- After the Vietnam War, many Hmong civilians ran from their homes in Laos. In escape of being attacked by the communist party, three Hmong women retell their challenging journey of reaching the next step towards a new home.