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- DirectorAdam TsueiStarsSimon YamYu-Wei ShaoXing LiA sadisitic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building.
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsWei ZhaoLouis KooWallace ChungShot and hospitalized, a cunning robber refuses surgery to avoid police custody. A detective sees through this but is resisted by a dedicated doctor. A tense battle of wills ensues, as the threat of a rescue by the robber's gang grows.
- DirectorKang-sheng LeeStarsKang-sheng LeeXimending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film was shot. Twenty years ago, director Tsai Ming-liang asked Lee if he wanted to be in his film, and Lee's answer changed the course of his own life forever. Now Lee returns to where his career began to shoot a film about himself.
- DirectorHong-min ParkStarsJu-won LeeYou-hyun SongIt's broad daylight in a shantytown and a man witnesses a woman being murdered by masked men on the rooftop of a nearby building. He tries to surreptitiously take a photo the event but is seen. He runs away and hides in his studio apartment but the men soon find him, bashing his head in with a hammer and knocking him out. After being unconscious for some time, the man wakes up in the middle of the night to find himself naked and abandoned in the center of town. To his even greater surprise, he comes across a crying child. Where is he and who is this kid?
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsBaya MedhaffarGhalia BenaliMontassar AyariA few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
- DirectorMin Bahadur BhamStarsKhadka Raj NepaliSukra Raj RokayaJit Bahadur MallaThey are bonded, nonetheless, by friendship and affection for a hen, whose eggs just might make a difference to Prakash's impoverished family. When the boy's father sells the bird, the chums desperately attempt to raise funds in order to buy it back.
- DirectorUisenma BorchuStarsUisenma BorchuCatrina StemmerJosef BierbichlerHedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a love relationship and Iva is desperately in love. Suddenly Iva's father appears, to whom Hedi feels strongly attached. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi - her own.
- DirectorOlmo OmerzuStarsDaniel KadlecJenovéfa BokováVanda HybnerováA couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.
- DirectorGuillaume SenezStarsKacey Mottet KleinGalatéa BellugiCatherine SaléeThe story of two teenagers that are about to have a baby. After deciding they will keep the baby, they have to deal with their parents and also with their everyday life.
- DirectorLéa FehnerStarsFrançois FehnerMarion BouvarelMarc BarbéThey go from town to town, a big top on their backs, their show over their shoulder. They bring dreams and disorder to people's lives. They are ogres, giants. They've devoured the theater and miles and miles of road. But the imminent arrival of a baby and the return of a former lover make almost-forgotten feelings resurface. So the party begins.
- DirectorSina Ataeian DenaStarsRoya AfsharDorna DibajHooshang GhovanlooThe 25 years old Hanieh lives in the household of her married sister in Tehran. Every day Hanieh travels long and tedious hours to get to the suburbs where she works as a teacher at a girls' primary school. Hanieh tries to get shifted to a school inside Tehran but the paperwork seems stuck in bureaucratic channels. Increasingly exhausted by her paralysing everyday life and the two-faced reality she subliminally experiences as a woman, an employee, a younger sister, and unhappy partner, Hanieh struggles to find her way out, but despite her real intention, Hanieh plays a different role...
- DirectorElite ZexerStarsLamis AmmarRuba BlalHitham OmariWhen their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsOmar AdilovTimur AidarbekovMadiyar AripbayIn a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
- DirectorAdil El ArbiBilall FallahStarsSanâa AlaouiMartha Canga AntonioAboubakr BensaihiWhen Mavela, member of the notorious youth gang Black Bronx, falls madly in love with a boy from a rival gang, she is forced to make a choice between loyalty and love. A choice that will have dramatic consequences.
- DirectorJung Ji-wooStarsPark Hae-joonYoo Jae-sangKang Ae-shimA former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su - this is for your own good!
- DirectorAndrew NeelStarsBen SchnetzerNick JonasGus HalperReeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there in the name of "brotherhood" tests him and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.
- DirectorMeghna GulzarStarsIrrfan KhanKonkona Sen SharmaNeeraj KabiAn experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.
- DirectorPetr KazdaTomás WeinrebStarsMichalina OlszanskaMartin PechlátKlára MelískováBased on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
- DirectorPieter-Jan De PueStarsGholam NasirKhyrgyz BajNoorA gang of Afghan kids from the Kuchi tribe dig out old Soviet mines and sell the explosives to children working in a lapis lazuli mine. When not dreaming of the time when American troops finally withdraw from their land, another gang of children keeps tight control on the caravans smuggling the blue gemstones through the arid mountains of Pamir.
- DirectorNawapol ThamrongrattanaritA documentary about a video store in 1990s Thailand, which established the independent cinema scene by selling pirated VHS tapes of Indie American, European and Asian films.
- DirectorHerman YauStarsChapman ToGregory WongPhilip KeungWhen a gang boss is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he looks to two of his lieutenants to take over.
- DirectorAlejandro Fernández AlmendrasStarsAgustín SilvaPaulina GarcíaDaniel AlcaínoCarefree college student Vicente ends up in a desperate fight for freedom when a well-connected friend falsely accuses him of a hit-and-run accident.
- DirectorKazuhiro SôdaStarsShinsuke HiranoKoichi WatanabeYukiko WatanabeIn the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population's rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster shucking has been a job for local men and women, but for a few years now, some of the factories have had to use foreigners in order to keep functioning. Hirano oyster factory has never employed any outsiders but finally decides to bring in two workers from China. Will all the employees get along?
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsBurghart KlaußnerRonald ZehrfeldLilith StangenbergThe story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
- 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.