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- DirectorBradley LiewStarsAmerul AffendiTender exploration of a disconnected relationship between a beautiful stage performer from China, who is trying to preserve her dignity, and a Malay motorcycle gangster, who clings on to their love hopelessly.
- DirectorAkwaeke EmeziStarsAdé OdukoyaShot in Lagos and narrated in Igbo, UDUDEAGU is a haunting piece of visual mythology about impermanence and a spider.
- DirectorLaila KhanStarsVed DharmendraIn India, young children are often forced to work rather than go to school. Chotu is a slum boy who works as a Tea Seller in Mumbai's poorest poverty pocket, Dharavi. He has a simple wish - to go to school like the other children.
- DirectorSydney FreelandStarsJeremiah BitsuiCarmen MooreMorningstar AngelineThree young Native Americans - an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual - strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation.
- DirectorNelly KaplanStarsSami FreyAnn ZachariasFrançoise BrionIn Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year old publisher. When he drops her for her older sister, should she seek revenge or recapture? In subplots, she gets along badly with her sister and her father, and she encourages her mother's affair with dad's sister. Axel has problems too besides the determined Sibylle: he must come to terms with the drowning death of his mother years ago.
- DirectorAdilkhan YerzhanovStarsYerbolat YerzhanAidyn SakhamanAliya ZainalovaTwo Kazakh brothers are about to lose their ancestral tumbledown house to corruption and nepotism while their little sister loses her capacity to breathe and their mother loses her mind.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsAlain ChabatJonathan LambertÉlodie BouchezA wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
- DirectorTony GatlifStarsRomain DurisRona HartnerIzidor SerbanA man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
- DirectorMohammad Ali AtassiZiad HomsiHow to make a film on violence without directly showing or reproducing it? The film Our terrible country attempts to respond to this approach by taking us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous, dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma, Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home country for a temporary exile.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsIlyas SalmanMariam ButurishviliIrakli SamushiaThe river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.
- DirectorDiep Hoang NguyenStarsNguyen Thuy AnhThanh DuyHoang HaWhen young Hanoi couple, Tung and Huyen, discover they are going to have a baby, it inspires two desperate quests to raise money for an abortion. While Tung looks to illegal cockfighting, Huyen resorts to prostitution with a client that results in some surprising personal realizations.
- 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.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsElliot PageEvan Rachel WoodMax MinghellaAfter a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.