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- Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
- Aimless and uncertain, a group of teenagers go through an intense coming-of-age experience in their small desert town.
- The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.
- A bankrupt Taiwanese man loses everything including girlfriend. He still has a key to his luxury condo, where he grows and smokes marijuana. He spends time with a woman on suicide hotline and a lingerie clad woman selling cigarettes.
- During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news. This, in turn, brings them together.
- Carla is abandoned by her husband while vacationing on a national park. There she finds herself stranded with a Norwegian backpacker and a former pop star.
- Tahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
- When the air-conditioners mysteriously start to fall in city of Luanda, Matacedo (security guard) and Zezinha (housemaid) have the mission of retrieving their boss's ac.
- Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
- The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
- Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the underprivileged outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to their grim realities. Until they discover that out of struggle come strength, and out of strength, the courage to continue on.
- A Haitian man who recently lost his job as a French teacher begins a desperate search for work in Santo Domingo.
- A handyman named Hans moves to a small town in Majorca where his presence strikes a discord with the local residents.
- Ping leaves her hometown for Kuala Lumper to work with her aunt. During the counteless days of boredom, her niece shares with her conversations with a pen pal during the day, while a young man named John tries to woo her at night even though she already has a boyfriend back home. Although they already set the rules from the every beginning, her belief that love conquers all still slowly strips off all her inhibitions. With authentic and relatable characters, TAN Chui-mui's debut feature was a winner at numerous film festival. There are a thousand ways for love story to be a cliché, but this film is the one that remains true and captivating.
- The story of the performer of Javanese Ramayana human wayang. They are the spouses who lives in a village by selling earthenware products. Conflicts arrived as the husband is going bankrupt and the wife start to looking for another love.
- Mimicking early silent films, Independencia creates a lush metaphor that plays with cinematic illusions and the cultural and mythical history of the Philippines.
- This award winning debut film from director Park chan-ok tells the story of a young graduate student who takes a job under false pretenses in order to get close to an editor at a magazine. The editor takes advantage of his passive ways and makes him do things for him excessively. Later, the graduate student's girlfriend begins working at the same magazine and begins to get to know the editor. It's here that this story steps off the beaten path...
- Promised Land is the story one man's journey to find truth... and one community's desperate struggle to hide from it. The script is based on an award winning novel by Karel Schoeman.
- Maria earns her living fishing in a northern Peruvian village, working alongside her husband. But when her husband is called away to work on larger industrial fishing boat, Maria, who is pregnant, finds ways to act out her anger.
- The protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft. He is living temporarily with his sister and her children. He doesn't do much, just exists a little between the living and their things. One day, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they live together, like driftwood temporarily clinging on to each other.
- Filmed in a single shot with laser scanners, the film moves through Rotterdam from a series of unique viewpoints. We move over, under, and through the city; expert narration offers insights into how the urban and natural can co-exist.
- Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.
- The lives of three people entwine in Beijing's Underground City.
- David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.
- A drama centered on a youth gang in a coal mining area of China's Shanxi province.
- Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and power that surround them, the two stow away on a flight to Europe.
- For his video diary, Chris Petit really wanted to go to a kind of ships' graveyard near Bombay in India. However that proved productionally impossible. But closer to his home in London, Petit also found some intriguing places along the Thames.
- A meditation about traveling and being at home. Jon Jost did not make his diary in a specific port, but took images of various ports from his personal archive, the real diary. He sought for abstract images and a seductive, show editing style in order to archive a hypnotic rhythm.
- Mrs. Harris husband has disappeared, he never showed up at their favorite hotel in Rotterdam, her usual routine has snapped, her credit cards have been canceled and she has no money. All her hopes are centered on her mobile phone. Will he call or will he at least text her?
- Several years after the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were brutally murdered, the country is rebuilding, forging new beginnings and challenging old-fashioned myths about the place. Edouard Bamporiki (Eddy) is a lyrical poet, actor and director who travels the country showing his films and sharing anecdotes from his past. Yves Montand Niyongabo (Yves) is an ambitious 22-year old first-time director who hopes his work will win prestigious grants and film awards. Both filmmakers are part of a nascent but quickly evolving film and media community based in Kigali, the nation's capital and the film trails them for several months. The studio Eddy and Yves belong to -- Almond Tree Films Rwanda -- creates several short films a year and collaborated to produce the documentary. An experimental film, it weaves together hundreds of high-res photographs, clips from the artists' films, Rwandan hip hop music and video gathered by the artists themselves to construct a rich, lyrical portrait of a recovering nation and the sensitive culture that has sprung from it.
- For filmmaker Jem Cohen, virtuoso with 8mm and 16mm celluloid, the commission from Rotterdam provided his first opportunity to get to know about working with digital video. He focused his attention on recent developments around the New York South Street Seaport, a traditional port area.
- RATGIRL is the digital avatar of an artist who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalized people in post-apartheid South Africa.
- Two filmmakers are surprised about everyday life in the city of Habana where there is so much happiness, despite the material wants of today's Cuba. They look around candidly, like curious tourists without any specific plan.