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- When a student's suicide rattles an all-girls Catholic school, a clairvoyant guidance counselor leans on a ghost to uncover the convent's abusive past.
- A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation.
- This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to support his family (in Tagalog w/ English subtitles).
- The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
- An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
- Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.
- "Babygirl" is a bittersweet Bronx-set drama about teenager Lena, who has grown up watching her mom Lucy squander her life on a series of deadbeat men. When Lucy's latest boy toy Victor starts hitting on her, Lena sets up an elaborate honey-trap, hoping to show her mom what a scumbag the guy really is, but her plan backfires. Trapped in a twisted love triangle with her mom and Victor, Lena finally realizes that the only way out is to stand up and finally confront some difficult home truths.
- High in the mountains, two orphaned children keep their mother's death secret. They survive until the villagers destroy their innocence when they brutally assault the girl. Now, the siblings must protect each other to survive.
- Richard Hunter, a promising young lawyer at a prestigious firm, has the perfect future mapped out. However, a costly mistake with a powerful client has put it all at risk. In a desperate attempt to save his job, Richard and his wife Tara spend the weekend at the cottage of senior partner Preston Westwood. The young couple is quickly seduced by their charismatic hosts' lavish lifestyle but it is clear that something ominous lies just below the surface. After a devastating act of violence reveals that they have become pawns in a blood feud between the Westwoods and a local family, Richard and Tara must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for success...their morals, their marriage, or their lives.
- A struggling young artist meets a mysterious and wealthy benefactor, who offers him a series of increasingly bizarre surveillance assignments.
- Through flashbacks, Full English Breakfast follows the violent career of Dave Bishop (Dave Courtney) a small-time London villain who kills his way to the top of Britain's drugs empire. Now happily 'retired' on the Kent coast Dave becomes embroiled in a bloody battle of wits with Al Qaeda terrorists who want to take over his criminal empire. Adding to the old mobster's woes is his younger trophy wife (Lucy Drive) wanting to play away with his new driver (Jamie Bannerman).
- A look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus route and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of school.
- A universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.
- A Latino comic's near-death experience forces him to revisit his personal and professional highs and lows.
- A story centered on a young woman who is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
- The story of the complications that ensue when an Afrikaans man and Zulu girl fall in love, especially when the traditional custom of "lobola", or dowry, makes things even more difficult for them.
- When their movie deal with a Bollywood studio fails, three young filmmakers take fate into their own hands, even if it means teaming up with a washed-up director, a sleazy producer, a famous porn-star or a mysterious money launderer.
- An ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches her husband's transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life.
- A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
- A 13-year-old American boy is recruited by terrorists to bomb a U.S. embassy in Delhi. After being brainwashed he is sent to live with a Muslim family prior to the attack. However, the man harboring him begins to play a dangerous game when he attempts to convince the boy not to go through with the bombing.
- A woman looking to start over moves into a new apartment, only to find that she is not as alone as she had believed.
- Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
- A young woman who lives with her strict father works to become a a champion at Silat, Indonesia's version of kung fu.
- The cross-frontier migrant's life 'within the system' - an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues - becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul doesn't want to admit it, but the arrival of Lidia, a Russian girl makes a difference. Hope? Surely not! A future? Get real! December is also the ninth month of Martina's pregnancy. But, just when the situation seems hopeless, help is at hand. A Christmas story.
- A soldier sets off for a week of patrolling with his unit. It is not long before strange and frightening things begin to happen to all the soldiers, and they start question whether they will come out of this experience alive.
- 17-year-old Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields from Flint, Michigan dreams of being the first woman in history to win a gold medal in Olympic boxing. But in order for her to succeed, she'll need to stand her ground both inside and outside the ring.
- This is the story of Mohsen aka « Bastardo », a man with no origins or history, who's always been excluded and rejected by the inhabitants of his poor neighborhood. After having been fired from his job, Mohsen, thanks to his friend Khlifa, has a GSM relay installed on his roof for a substantial monthly income. This aerial enables the neighborhood inhabitants to finally enjoy mobile telephony and the modernity of which they'd been deprived until then. This event will disrupt life in the neighborhood, and Mohsen's too, whose social and financial situation improve by the day. But that's not counting with Larnouba, Mohsen's life-long friend, but also the unscrupulous district mobster, who doesn't approve of Mohsen's ascent. This leads to a merciless fight between both men for the domination of the district. Bent Essengra, the mysterious girl with the insects, and secretly in love with Mohsen, will play an essential part in this confrontation, and will tip the scales in Mohsen's favor by committing the worst, out of love. Ridden of his rival and manipulated by his friend Khlifa, Mohsen's path is clear to become the most powerful and respected man in the district.
- The film traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who teams up with Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian, to travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats who rescued tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi death camps. While Nyombayire embarks upon this quest in an effort to uncover potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere, what emerges from their journey is more a testament to the ways in which the inherent good in the human spirit can trump institutional evil no matter what the circumstance.
- A wildlife film crew pursue local sightings of a rare wildcat in Central Asia using high-tech camera equipment.
- An obsessive psychologist attempts to reprogramme her subconscious mind, but when her actions become increasingly uncharacteristic she fears her experiment is dangerously out of control.
- Two eight year old girls fight in rural Thailand's underground child boxing economy to earn money to support their families.
- Against the backdrop of New York and New Orleans, Elliott, Leanne and Jermaine question their ability to dream amidst a crumbling economic climate. Opening in the streets of downtown Manhattan, Elliott (23), living at home after college, is surrounded by incomplete projects, frustrated and in search of purpose. Simultaneously, in New Orleans, Leanne (26), an aspiring model/actress and single mother of four, struggles to pick up the pieces, presenting at times a clash between family and her ambitious career. Plagued by an unforgiving criminal record, Jermaine (22), a New Orleans native, shifts through his home town for what seems like a hopeless attempt at legal employment. After a series of rejections, he resolves to reinvent himself in hopes of successfully starting anew.
- Childhood friends and aspiring violinists, Kai and Fei's music dreams are shattered when the Japanese invaded Malaya and Singapore in late 1941.
- Amateur porn producer Dan Leal, aka 'Porno Dan', searches for commitment and intimacy in spite of his industry and himself.
- Left for dead in an open grave, Emilia struggles to keep both her life and her sanity.
- Jake is an unhappy school teacher whose childhood scars are not merely skin deep. Jake's life is upended when his shifty, rogue of a father, Leif - an absentee parent and a man who best days as a travel writer are well past him-- insists that Jake help him with his next project, a book about Algonquin Park. Agreeing to a temporary arrangement, father and son arrive at the long-neglected family cabin in the woods, a tranquil backdrop to their fractious relationship. But bickering and bad feelings are soon cut short by an unexpected tragedy Laying his father to rest along with the man's many secrets, Jake decides to finish the book as a gesture to the father he barely knew. Back at the cabin, Jake's work is interrupted by unexpected visitors: a mother and child. Carmen and Iggy are revealed to be grieving members of Leif's secret family. For Jake, this deception seems to be the final straw. All he wants to do is pack up and leave. However something stops him. Iggy, just an eleven-year-old boy, has an uncanny amount of information about an event from Jake's childhood involving a horseshoe that he views as pivotal in his life and for the book. Can these two brothers, having just met, come together on an unlikely quest that may just help them both find what they're looking for and so badly need? Algonquin is a story about family secrets, second chances, and discovering the bonds that connect us through our families having nothing to do with luck.
- Searching for the first time, the three friends Enea, Carlo and Alex are dfinding a whole lot more than they were looking for.
- War and poverty force Gulzar, a young tourist boatman, to run away from Kashmir with his best friend. But a military crackdown derails their escape, and they become trapped in Gulzar's lake village. Waiting for conditions to change, they discover a mysterious woman, braving the curfew to research the dying lake. As Gulzar falls for her, rivalry and jealousy threaten his boyhood friendship and their plans of escape. Gulzar must choose between a new life and a new love. The first film set in the endangered lake communities of Kashmir, Valley of Saints blends fiction and documentary to bring audiences inside this unique world.
- Yokotani, bound by obligations to honour his ex-wife Kaoru's passing before he can begin life anew. Completely incompatible, Yokotani and Kaoru's daughter must change completely to create a new family while performing Kaoru's funeral.
- Adam, a young Tanzanian boy persecuted because of his albinism, finds a kindred spirit in Peter, a Canadian man with the same condition. Together they embark on an unlikely journey that transcends cultures and continents.
- Footprint takes a dizzying spin around the globe witnessing population explosions, overconsumption, limited resources, and expert testimony as to what a world straining at its limits can sustain.
- In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb. Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase.
- Nobu's Japan is a television series that celebrates the culinary arts as well as the culture of Japanese locales. Created by world-renowned chef Nobuyuki ""Nobu"" Matsuhisa, this is a series that shares more with its audience than just recipes. In each episode, Chef Nobu explores the culture and history of a Japanese region. Each episode also features famous chefs from around the world, including José Andrés, Thomas Keller, and Eric Ripert. In each episode, Chef Matsuhisa will travel with another world-renowned chef, visiting the lesser known regions of Japan to witness the faces of Japanese life not typically seen in the popular cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto. The chefs will experience the lifestyle of the locals as they coexist with the seas, mountains and rivers, encounter food ingredients of the highest quality and discover a rich and unique culinary heritage. As the chefs journey together and come across a reality of Japan that they were previously not aware of, what will they think and feel and how will they be inspired? This program will document not just the travels of the chefs but also their emotions and reactions to what they uncover. Each episode culminates with the chefs developing a one-of-a-kind menu based on the inspiration they find during their travels. The program will document that process as the chefs take ingredients they find on their journey and tap in to the inspiration they unearth to create dishes that push the boundaries of culinary creation. The new dishes will be presented and served at a charity dinner, with proceeds of the charity being donated to the earthquake recovery effort.
- Exodus documents the harrowing journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. It's a life and death gamble that they are willing to take for a chance at a new life away from their war-torn homeland.
- Tartan-Noir, crime thriller about a botched robbery, a safe that won't open and lives that have gone off the tracks.
- Fondi '91 follows the lustful adventures of Anil and his Jersey-based high school soccer team's two week trip to the town of Fondi, Italy.
- The Great Sasuke chronicles a-year-in-the-life of an aging Japanese professional wrestler and politician who once enjoyed a great fame. Reflecting on his 20 turbulent years as a wrestler, Sasuke decides to climb back into both arenas -- wrestling and politics -- for a final battle royale.
- Cold Nights Hot Salsa takes you inside the international Latin dance world of Victor and Katia, aspiring young salsa dancers from Montreal, Canada who seek to win a World Salsa Championship.