Best International Film - List of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards 2023
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- DirectorEdward BergerStarsFelix KammererAlbrecht SchuchAaron HilmerA young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.━≪•◦ GERMANY ◦•≫━
Streaming on Netflix
OSCAR WINNER BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
This is the 4th time a German film wins this category. This makes Germany also the fourth country in the world with more winning films (along with Spain and Denmark) only surpassed by Japan (5 Oscars), France (12 Oscars) and Italy (14 Oscars).
• Oscar Winner: Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography
• Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Visual Effects
• Golden Globe Nominee (Best International Film)
• BAFTA Winner (Best Film Not in English Language + Best Film)
• Critics' Choice Nominee (Best International Film) - DirectorSantiago MitreStarsRicardo DarínGina MastronicolaFrancisco BertínA team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.━≪•◦ ARGENTINA ◦•≫━
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
OSCAR NOMINATION: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
• Golden Globe Winner (Best International Film)
• BAFTA Nomination (Best Film Not in English Language)
• Critics' Choice Nominee (Best International Film) - DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie DequenneThe intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.━≪•◦ BELGIUM ◦•≫━
US Distributor: A24
US release date: December 2 (limited)
OSCAR NOMINATION: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
• Golden Globe Nominee (Best International Film)
• Critics' Choice Nominee (Best International Film)
• BAFTA Shortlist (Not nominated) - DirectorColm BairéadStarsCarrie CrowleyAndrew BennettCatherine ClinchIn rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.━≪•◦ IRELAND ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Super LTD
US release date: December 16, 2022 (limited)
OSCAR NOMINATION: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
• BAFTA Nomination (Best Film Not in English Language) + along with 1 more nomination - DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsHolaTakoMariettaFollows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.━≪•◦ POLAND ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Janus Films
US release date: November 18, 2022
OSCAR NOMINATION: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
• BAFTA Shortlist (Not nominated) - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsPark Hae-ilTang WeiLee Jung-hyunA detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.━≪•◦ SOUTH KOREA ◦•≫━
Streaming on MUBI
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated)
• Golden Globe Nominee (Best International Film)
• BAFTA Nomination (Best Film Not in English Language) + along with 1 more nomination
• Critics' Choice Nominee (Best International Film) - DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsVicky KriepsFlorian TeichtmeisterKatharina LorenzA fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.━≪•◦ AUSTRIA ◦•≫━
US Distributor: IFC Films
US release date: 23 December 2022 (limited)
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated)
• BAFTA Nomination (Best Film Not in English Language) - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsDaniel Giménez CachoGriselda SicilianiXimena LamadridAn acclaimed documentarian goes on an introspective journey through surreal dreamscapes to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity.━≪•◦ MEXICO ◦•≫━
Streaming on Netflix
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated in this category, but it received one nomination for Best Cinematography)
• Critics' Choice Nominee (Best International Film)
• BAFTA Shortlist (Not nominated) - DirectorAli AbbasiStarsAlice RahimiDiana Al HussenSoraya HelliA journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.━≪•◦ DENMARK ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Utopia
US release date: October 28, 2022 (limited)
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated)
• BAFTA Shortlist (Not nominated) - DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.━≪•◦ FRANCE ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Super LTD
US release date: January 13, 2023 (limited)
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated) - DirectorDavy ChouStarsPark Ji-minOh Gwang-RokGuka HanA twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.━≪•◦ CAMBODIA ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
US release date: December 2, 2022 (limited)
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated) - DirectorSaim SadiqStarsAli JunejoRasti FarooqAlina KhanThe youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.━≪•◦ PAKISTAN ◦•≫━
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated) - DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalSaleh BakriAyoub MissiouiA middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.━≪•◦ MOROCCO ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Strand Releasing
US release date: unknown
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated) - DirectorPan NalinStarsBhavin RabariRicha MeenaBhavesh ShrimaliSamay fights heaven and earth to find light. He wants to catch, control, cut and project that light to tell stories. Now to pursue that dream he must leave everything he loves and take a flight to find the light.━≪•◦ INDIA ◦•≫━
US Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
US release date: December 2, 2022 (limited)
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated)
If India committee had chosen RRR instead of Last Film Show, the film would have been among the top 5 for sure being one of the strong contenders to win.
(update): RRR finally received one nomination to the Oscars for Best Original Song. - DirectorTarik SalehStarsTawfeek BarhomFares FaresMohammad BakriAdam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.━≪•◦ SWEDEN ◦•≫━
OSCAR SHORTLIST (finally not nominated) - DirectorCarla SimónStarsJosep AbadJordi Pujol DolcetAnna OtinThe life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.━≪•◦ SPAIN ◦•≫━
- DirectorAlejandro Loayza GrisiStarsJosé CalcinaLuisa QuispeCandelaria QuispeIn the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.━≪•◦ BOLIVIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorAlli HaapasaloStarsAamu MilonoffEleonoora KauhanenLinnea LeinoThree young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.━≪•◦ FINLAND ◦•≫━
- DirectorJason LoftusStarsHenry GuoShi JianYu FengFalun Gong practitioners were persecuted in China, they tried to tell the truth but they were kidnapped, some Falun Gong practitioners died.━≪•◦ CANADA ◦•≫━
- DirectorLorenzo VigasStarsHernán MendozaHatzín NavarreteElián GonzalezA Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.━≪•◦ VENEZUELA ◦•≫━
- DirectorGentian KoçiStarsEdgar MoraisRafael MoraisDrita KabashiTwo identical deaf-mute twin brothers discover they suffer from a genetic disease that will also progressively and irreversibly make them blind.━≪•◦ ALBANIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsReda KatebLyna KhoudriRaphaël PersonnazBased on the story of 22-year-old Malik Oussekinean, whose death is believed was caused by an affair of police violence after several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill.━≪•◦ ALGERIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorInna SahakyanStarsAnzhelika HakobyanArpi PetrossianShushan AbrahamyanA genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.━≪•◦ ARMENIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorGoran StolevskiStarsNoomi RapaceAnamaria MarincaAlice EnglertIn an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.━≪•◦ AUSTRALIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorShamil AliyevStarsAkif AlizadehElbay QasimzadehRasim Aliyev━≪•◦ AZERBAIJAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorMejbaur Rahman SumonStarsChanchal ChowdhurySariful RazzNasir Uddin KhanMiracles about the life story of fishermen.━≪•◦ BANGLADESH ◦•≫━
- DirectorAida BegicStarsMarija PikicJasna ZalicaSlaven VidakMerjem-Meri, an unambitious, 30-year-old homemaker and mother to 8-year-old girl Mila, moves back to her parental home after 10 years of marriage. Soon after, Meri realizes she is stuck in a circle of provincial rules and expectations and a complex relationship with her ambitious mother and spoiled younger brother. Her hope to get the custody of her daughter wanes from day to day because she has no chance of finding a permanent job. The only thing that makes her happy, but also makes everyone else look down on her, is participation in an audition for a film role in her neighborhood.━≪•◦ BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ◦•≫━
- DirectorGabriel MartinsStarsCícero LucasCarlos FranciscoCamilla DamiãoA lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.━≪•◦ BRAZIL ◦•≫━
- DirectorZornitsa SophiaStarsDaria SimeonovaLeon LucevVirginia ClayElena, a theatre director, finds out at the age of 32 that she cannot conceive in a natural way. Trying therapies and failing to convince her husband Leon, to stay with her in Bulgaria, Elena develops a theatre program for orphans.━≪•◦ BULGARIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorDingha Eystein YoungStarsNimo LovelineNkem OwohStephanie TumIn a west African Plantation in the 60s, A young determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father's legacy; A colonial plantation; amid Disagreements , betrayal and secrets. A dramatic musical , An allegory of Neo colonization.━≪•◦ CAMEROON ◦•≫━
- DirectorFernando GuzzoniStarsLaura LópezAlejandro GoicAriel GrandónBlanca lives in a foster home for minors run by father Manuel. A sexual scandal involving businessmen and politicians puts Blanca and Manuel in the eye of the press, turning Blanca into a feminist martyr and key witness of the case.━≪•◦ CHILE ◦•≫━
- DirectorMuye WenStarsJackson YeeYu TianHalin Chen20-year-old Jing Hao came to Shenzhen to live with his young sister alone. The siblings live a warm yet straitened life. In an effort to pay for his sister's expensive surgery, Jing Hao gets an opportunity by chance, thinking that a better life is coming, but unexpectedly encounters a serious setback. Under the pressure of both time and money, Jing Hao, who has no way out, decides to take a desperate gamble. Can this ignite the spark of hope for his troubled ordinary life?━≪•◦ CHINA ◦•≫━
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian AcevedoFollows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.━≪•◦ COLOMBIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorAriel EscalanteStarsCarlos UreñaSylvia SossaEsteban Brenes SerranoThe town Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants and pave the way for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret-the ghost of his wife who visits him within the mist.━≪•◦ COSTA RICA ◦•≫━
- DirectorJuraj LeroticStarsJuraj LeroticSnjezana SinovcicGoran MarkovicFollows Damir, who's trying to take his own life while his family wants to save him. Everything happens over a period of just 24 hours.━≪•◦ CROATIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorPetr VáclavStarsVojtech DykElena RadonicichBarbara RonchiLooking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo.━≪•◦ CZECH REPUBLIC ◦•≫━
- 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 ◦•≫━
- DirectorJavier AndradeStarsAnahí HoeneisenMatilde LagosJuan Lorenzo BarragánWhen Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa's only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.━≪•◦ ECUADOR ◦•≫━
- DirectorOve MustingStarsMait MalmstenReimo SagorPriit VõigemastThe Soviet Union is likely to collapse and Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. Soviet Union's basketball championship is set to begin while Public opinion opposes the Estonian national team's participation━≪•◦ ESTONIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorDavit PirtskhalavaStarsShako MirianashviliGiorgi SharvashidzeSandro KalandadzeAfter 13 years, Tsitsi (31) initiates a reunion of his former classmates with a seemingly harmless cause: they have not seen each other since graduation and the reason for the gathering is to remember school and have a drink. However, Tsitsi has a secret motivation: he wants to punish his former classmate, Guga (31), who used to make life difficult for the entire class at school. Several male classmates gather at school, drink, talk, and as their time together progresses, Tsitsi gets drunk and tries to accomplish his goal.━≪•◦ GEORGIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorYorgos GoussisStarsElena TopalidouAntonis TsiotsiopoulosNikos SpanidesHaving met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.━≪•◦ GREECE ◦•≫━
- DirectorAnaïs TaracenaIn the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona, also known as "The Mole", infiltrated the heart of one of the most repressive governments in Guatemalan history. The film captures the moments when revelations from the past explore the cracks in the walls of silence that surround the country's secret history.━≪•◦ GUATEMALA ◦•≫━
- DirectorPhilip YungStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiAaron KwokJessie LiFollows Lui Lok, a police officer who decides to make a name for himself within the police force by controlling organized crime.━≪•◦ HONK KONG ◦•≫━
- DirectorÁdám TõsérStarsZoltán SeressAttila Ifj. VidnyánszkyTibor GáspárIn 1990, six months after his election as Prime Minister, József Antall faces the most difficult test of his life: taxi drivers blockading the whole country as a protest against the drastic rise in petrol prices.━≪•◦ HUNGARY ◦•≫━
- DirectorGuðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonStarsBirgir Dagur BjarkasonÁskell Einar PálmasonViktor Benóný BenediktssonAddi, a gifted boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys discover aggression, violence, loyalty, and love.━≪•◦ ICELAND ◦•≫━
- DirectorBene Dion RajagukgukStarsArswendy Bening SwaraTika PanggabeanBoris BokirA married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.━≪•◦ INDONESIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.━≪•◦ IRAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorShawkat Amin KorkiStarsAvan JamalVania SalarHussein Hassan AliIf Rojin doesn't pass the university entrance exam, she will have to go through with an arranged marriage. If she gets in, she'll be free. This is the pronouncement of her father.━≪•◦ IRAQ ◦•≫━
- DirectorOrit Fouks RotemStarsLiora LeviAseel FarhatOrit SamuelEight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.━≪•◦ ISRAEL ◦•≫━
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsPierfrancesco FavinoFrancesco Di LevaTommaso RagnoAfter 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.━≪•◦ ITALY ◦•≫━
- DirectorChie HayakawaStarsChieko BaishôHayato IsomuraStefanie ArianneGovernment program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.━≪•◦ JAPAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorDarin J. SallamStarsKaram TaherAshraf BarhomAli SulimanA 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.━≪•◦ JORDAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsYerkebulan TasynovKarina HuramshinaYerzhan BurkutbayevA tech company that digitizes memories experiences a catastrophic data loss.━≪•◦ KAZAKHSTAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorAndrew KaggiaStarsMelvin AlusaMungai KirogaPeter MudambaA team of superheroes unites in an attempt to vanquish an ancient wizard who threatens to destroy the earth with a powerful mysterious artifact.━≪•◦ KENYA ◦•≫━
- DirectorNorika SefaStarsKosovare KrasniqiRozafa CelajErjona KakeliThe quiet, taciturn teenager Venera lives in a small town in Kosovo. At home, where three generations are crawling together in a small house, she has hardly any privacy.━≪•◦ KOSOVO ◦•≫━
- DirectorTaalaibek KulmendeevStarsOmurbek NurdinovKalipa TashtanovaDamir is being threatened in an abandoned factory. Loan sharks even go to his home, where his pregnant wife, Cholpon, and their young daughter are. The loan sharks harass the family, even to the point of writing "home for sale" on the exterior of their house. Damir desperately tries to borrow money from his relatives, friends, and anyone else he knows; Cholpon also struggles to prevent the worst from happening. To the couple, every second is urgent, but their conversations are concise; their actions plain. With occasional silences and pauses, the film indifferently watches the couple's pressing circumstances, and paradoxically such indifference adds to the tension. Driven to a dead end, each makes the best choice for themselves. Yet ironically their choices are incompatible, and this irony shows the present state of Kyrgyzstan.━≪•◦ KYRGYZSTAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsKarlis Arnolds AvotsKristiana BerzaBaiba BrokaAn aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.━≪•◦ LATVIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsRim TurkiManal IssaPaloma VauthierThe lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.━≪•◦ LEBANON ◦•≫━
- DirectorLaurynas BareisaStarsGabija BargailaiteGiedrius KielaIndre PatkauskaiteIndre and Paulius travel to the small town where a gruesome crime was committed and they learn it is not as easy as expected to revisit the past.━≪•◦ LITHUANIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorCarlo VogeleStarsCamille CottinNiels SchneiderFéodor AtkineOn the island of Crete, under the reign of King Minos, Humans worship and fear the Gods of Olympus. Only a fool would dare to offend them.━≪•◦ LUXEMBOURG ◦•≫━
- DirectorIon BorsStarsDumitru RomanIon VantuIgor Caras-RomanovDark comedy set in the early 90s during the Transnistria War.━≪•◦ MOLDOVA ◦•≫━
- DirectorAmarsaikhan BaljinnyamStarsAmarsaikhan BaljinnyamTenuun-Erdene GaramkhandDamdin SovdThe encounter between a man, who returns from the big city to countryside and then stays to take up an agricultural role, being brought up by his grandparents.━≪•◦ MONGOLOIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorDusan KasalicaStarsFrano LasicSavina GersakDraginja VoganjacFilip, a sophisticated professor goes on vacation with his wife. Their ideal marriage is over. Escape from problems leads him to a deep forest, where he meets his mother and falls in love with a girl that once was a snake.━≪•◦ MONTENEGRO ◦•≫━
- DirectorSujit BidariStarsKanchan ChimariyaDinesh KhatriSiru BistaAs the studious Bidya(13) prepares for her further studies, her juvenile brother Basanta(9) distracts her with his antics. But learning, his sister is giving up on her dreams, he struggles to give Bidya the hope she desperately needs.━≪•◦ NEPAL ◦•≫━
- DirectorMartijn de JongStarsThekla ReutenFedja van HuêtSepp RitsemaNarcosis is about a young family that is hit by a family tragedy and has to deal with it in its own unique way.━≪•◦ NETHERLANDS ◦•≫━
- DirectorTearepa KahiStarsCliff CurtisJay RyanManu BennettInspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between his badge and his people, when the Government launches an armed raid through his Ruatoki community, on a school day.━≪•◦ NEW ZEALAND ◦•≫━
- DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsJelena Kordic KuretAdnan OmerovicLabina MitevskaAsja is a 40-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo. She meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness.━≪•◦ NORTH MACEDONIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorGunnar VikeneStarsKristoffer JonerPål Sverre HagenIne Marie WilmannThe sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.━≪•◦ NORWAY ◦•≫━
- DirectorMaha HajStarsAmer HlehelAshraf FarahAnat HadidWaleed dreams of a writing career while suffering from depression. He develops a relationship with his neighbor - a small-time crook. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.━≪•◦ PALESTINE ◦•≫━
- DirectorArturo MontenegroDiego ArrueStarsAlbi De AbreuGaby GnazzoJoavany AlvarezSuffering is not an option.━≪•◦ PANAMA ◦•≫━
- DirectorPaz EncinaStarsAnel PicaneraiCuria Chiquejno EtacoroDucubaide ChiquenoiEami's homeland is invaded by settlers. Embodying Asojá, the bird-god-woman, she falls into trance in which she walks slowly and stunned through her beloved forest as she prepares to leave it forever.━≪•◦ PARAGUAY ◦•≫━
- DirectorAldo SalviniStarsHaydeé CáceresBruno BalbuenaSergio Velasco"Moon heart" is the story of M: an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her: an ant. And what does a person do when they find an ant? You crush it with your finger, you blow it away. Instead, M decides to share her world with it. A world made of nostalgic memories and a dark presence that haunts her, until the day a "mechanical angel" arrives to help her. At its core, this is a film about abandonment and mental anguish that homeless people suffer. However, it is also an extraordinary warm film with an outstanding lead performance.━≪•◦ PERU ◦•≫━
- DirectorErik MattiStarsDolly De LeonDennis TrilloDonna CariagaThis sequel to On the Job (2013) focuses on corruption and media censorship now that a new strongman, Duterte, is in power in the Philippines.━≪•◦ PHILIPPINES ◦•≫━
- DirectorCristèle Alves MeiraStarsLua MichelAna PadrãoJacqueline CoradoLike every summer, little Salomé returns to a family village in the mountains. Suddenly her beloved grandmother dies. While the adults are fighting over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.━≪•◦ PORTUGAL ◦•≫━
- 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 ◦•≫━
- DirectorMohamed al SalmanStarsAsem AlawadIbraheem AlkhairallahAbdullah AljafalNasser, an unexceptional washout, is diagnosed with a brain tumor when he meets an enigmatic and peculiar young woman. Infatuated by her and sick of being a failure, he must quickly figure out what he wants to do in life before he goes through a risky surgery, and reach out to the young woman with the most seductive way there is .. a song.━≪•◦ SAUDI ARABIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorMoussa Sene AbsaStarsNguissaly BarryMabeye DiolIbrahima M'BayeSenegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa boldly inflects contemporary melodrama with traditional storytelling modes in this potent, music-filled tale of one woman's tragedy and transcendence.━≪•◦ SENEGAL ◦•≫━
- DirectorDusan MilicStarsDanica CurcicDarren PettieNikola RakocevicLetter from a girl from Kosovo, dedicated to her missing father, read at the United Nations, in which she publicly addresses the difficult life of Serbs, especially Serb children in the enclaves.━≪•◦ SERBIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorShuming HeStarsYeo Jin-gooKang Hyoung-sukHan Yeo-reumA widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life to Seoul and finds more than she had bargained for.━≪•◦ SINGAPORE ◦•≫━
- DirectorMichal BlaskoStarsVita SmachelyukGleb KuchukIgor ChmelaIrina lives with her son Igor in a small Czech border town. When she discovers that Igor has been assaulted by three Romas her whole world comes crashing down. As times goes on, Irina begins to spot inconsistencies in his story.━≪•◦ SLOVAKIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorMatevz LuzarStarsGregor ZorcGregor CusinJernej KogovsekA small town orchestra goes on a tour to Austria - an accasion to escape their everyday lives, indulge in heavy partying and try to connect with their true emotions.━≪•◦ SLOVENIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorMichael KochStarsMichèle BrandSimon WislerElin ZgraggenIn a remote mountain village, Anna tries to preserve her young love for Marco, against all odds.━≪•◦ SWITZERLAND ◦•≫━
- DirectorYi-an LouStarsJoseph HuangDevin PanYu-Xuan WangDuring the night of his 18th birthday, Jan-wen commits a random shooting in a crowded night market.━≪•◦ TAIWAN ◦•≫━
- DirectorAmil ShivjiStarsGudrun MwanyikaIkhlas Gafur VoraSiti AminaA rebellious young revolutionary becomes involved with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage.━≪•◦ TANZANIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorBaz PoonpiriyaStarsYayaying Rhatha PhongamChutimon ChuengcharoensukyingYi LiuBoss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his estranged best friend in Thailand, revealing he has terminal cancer and needs his help to complete a final bucket list.━≪•◦ THAILAND ◦•≫━
- DirectorErige SehiriStarsAmeni FdhiliFide FdhiliFeten FdhiliAmong the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find - and flee - deeper connections.━≪•◦ TUNISIA ◦•≫━
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsErdem SenocakJale ArikanRiza AkinCAN witnesses a murder in a small town.The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony.On the other hand,a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs.The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.━≪•◦ TURKEY ◦•≫━
- DirectorMorris MugishaStarsPatriq NkakalukanyiNinsiima RonahCosmas SserubogoEnter the mind of Tembele, a waste dump scavenger in Uganda, as he battles a mental breakdown following the death of his son.━≪•◦ UGANDA ◦•≫━
- DirectorMaryna Er GorbachStarsOksana CherkashynaSergey ShadrinOleg ShcherbinaAfter flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.━≪•◦ UKRAINE ◦•≫━
- DirectorHassan NazerStarsMohammad Amir NajiParsa MaghamiMartine Malalai ZikriaIn a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan (Reza Naji) decides to help them find the owner.━≪•◦ UNITED KINGDOM ◦•≫━
- DirectorManolo NietoStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartCristian BorgesJustina BustosThe employer is a young man from a middle-class family; he leads a modern life and doesn't fit in with the traditional stereotype of rural producer. But he has one pressing concern: his baby's health. The employee is even younger than him and is in urgent need of his own job so that he can support his new family. Tragedy occurs. A film about the relationship between two young men and about the convoluted relationship of both with happiness, freedom and work.━≪•◦ URUGUAY ◦•≫━
- DirectorDung Luong DinhStarsJessica Minh AnhAnh Tuan Hac Martial ArtAlexandre NguyenA truck driver's daughter is kidnapped, leading him on a dangerous pursuit to find her abductor, uncovering a sinister criminal network he must confront to rescue his child.━≪•◦ VIETNAM ◦•≫━