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- Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
- Alice and Louis are estranged siblings who have been avoiding each other for over twenty years and are forced to reunite after a tragedy.
- A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
- The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist Raymond Briggs.
- Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
- Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents, who were both doctors, and the director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
- Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.
- A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
- A teacher arrives at a rural school and falls in love with his predecessor by reading her diary.
- The story revolves around two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world.
- An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
- A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his 4-year male lover, who grieve but don't speak a lick of each other's language.
- Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.
- The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
- Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
- It's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.
- Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.
- 50 men live for 12 months in a madhouse, they passing their days in a single plane and having little contact with the medical team. Every one of the inmates is not there for mental health problems but for had killing someone for committing a crime against public officials.
- A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
- A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.
- It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao's camps, at the end of the fifties, where 'rightists' were sent to be 're-educated through labor'.
- A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
- A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.
- A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
- A feature film shot over the course of two years intended to capture the changing of the seasons along the river in a town in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou city.
- (Japanese with English subtitles) Part revenge story, part existential meditation, Heaven's Story is 100% modern epic, gracefully threading together multiple suburban tales of lost souls seeking retribution and redemption.
- The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
- A look at how two young lovers from totally different background cope with family and social pressure.
- Three young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.
- Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old traditions and adapting to American values.
- Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
- A Malay-mixed pianist and an Indian guitarist are partnered in a talent show competition.
- A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.
- Kinshasa, DRCongo, 2005: Benda Bilili, poor paraplegic street musicians, get noticed by a French film team. Studio recordings get their music out on album and 2009, they have concerts in Europe.
- A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
- Furiously developing Eastern China has been inhabited by enlarging number of immigrants. In search for better tomorrow, they become violent and corrupted.
- 'Communion' reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
- A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war during one night at the Italian Front.
- Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age, such as loneliness and growing blindness, which he thinks he can disguise. When Ernesto became a widower, he learned that aging is about filling the silences with a spinning record, with the calls from his son who lives far away, with the bank errands to withdraw his pension, with his neighbor Javier's flying visits, with the wait for a new letter from Lucía. However, Bia, a careless dog carer, storms into his life and upsets his methodical daily life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the intense company of a girl who is not even thirty years old. And that life and love are possible even for those who are almost eighty.
- After the defeat in elections, Refugees Eviction Minister, Giorgi Mchedlishvili, loses everything that is dear to him: the office, the car, the source of income and most importantly - power. Giorgi's chair, which is a live being, motivates former Minister to take actions, but these efforts do not bring the desired result.
- Yangchan, a young Tibetan girl from a sheep herding family, is trying to make sense of her changing world.
- Dancer Lil' Buck grew up jookin and bucking on the streets of Memphis. After a breathtaking video of him dancing to Camille Saint-Saëns' "The Swan" accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma went viral, everything changed.
- Lhamo and Skalbe fail to register their marriage because Skalbe is already engaged in a legal conjugal relationship. Skalbe embarks on a journey to search for his so-called ex-wife Tsoyag.
- When the Japanese government announced to build an airport in Narita in 1966, the local farmers banded together to fight against it. The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories (2014), screened at the 16th Jeonju International Film Festival, dealt with the process and aftermath of it. Daishima Haruhiko directed its sequel, The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories, to show the stories of young people who fight with the farmers against the government. The 1960s were the time where the young people of the European countries and China, as well as Japan, rebelled to overthrow the system. After the battle had ended in defeat, people forgot about the rebel. However, this film asks what they are doing and if their rebel is still meaningful. While examining the bleak backwater of the past, the film gives hope soaring from the bottom.
- TANAKA, a man lives in the countryside, breaks into a game arcade with his friend, rob the safe and runs away with the store owner's car. After straying on a highway route, he finally ends up a lonesome beach. A few days later, a girls idle group, Momoiro Clover, visits the beach for their music video shoot, and find his car in the bush...