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- DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsArtur SmolyaninovAndrey KhabarovOksana AkinshinaA young man who writes avant-garde plays in the Russian province tells the story of how he voluntarily let himself be admitted to a psychiatric ward to avoid military service.
- DirectorDebra GranikStarsJennifer LawrenceJohn HawkesGarret DillahuntAn unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
- DirectorPhilip ScheffnerDAY OF THE SPARROW is a political wildlife film. It centers around a country where the border between war and peace fades. On November 14, 2005, a sparrow is shot dead in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, after it toppled over 23000 domino stones. A German soldier dies in Kabul as a result of a suicide bombing. With these headlines appearing side by side, Philip Scheffner is induced to use ornithological methods in his quest for the war. In Germany, not in Afghanistan.
- DirectorMarietta KestingAljoscha WeskottStarsHelen BodigeloSimon FidelThato MatholeSun City in South Africa is a huge resort with a disco, casino and swimming pools just two hours north of Johannesburg. Opened in 1979, Sun City was not only the "disco of apartheid" but also an imitation Las Vegas. It became notorious as the epitome of apartheid culture. The film SUNNY LAND by director team Aljoscha Weskott and Marietta Kesting is a drama-documentary essay that examines Sun City, and with it, the culture of apartheid. Sun City was built when the apartheid system was still in full swing. It unwittingly became a laboratory for radical political experiments: a zone which was simultaneously real and unreal. "SUNNY LAND is the exact opposite of a conventional documentary about a dark place from South Africa's past. Instead, it works like a psychedelic drug in cinematic form, expanding consciousness in the here and now." (Dorothee Wenner, Catalogue Berlinale/International Forum of New Cinema)
- DirectorYong-hi YangDocumentary focuses on 'Sona', the daughter of the director's brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea. Sona's upbringing is quite normal, but the special aspects within North Korean society make their presence known in a subtle way. By showing the process of the migratory people establishing their identities within North Korean society, North Korea becomes a region that shows a universal view of human society in general and not just a closed society. This approach is a special feature of Yang. She adds normalcy through her depiction of a family to 'North Korea'; a name that we have come to regard as something quite special.
- DirectorGamma BakStarsGamma BakJanos M. BakPolly M. Bak
- DirectorYûya IshiiStarsHikari MitsushimaKôtarô ShigaRyô IwamatsuAfter 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill she have to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
- DirectorMatthew PorterfieldStarsSky FerreiraZoe VanceJames Siebor Jr.A young man's untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss.
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsMehmet AvciBirol EngelerSerkan KeskinResat lives with his sick mother in one of the suburbs of Istanbul. His only dream is to own a motorcycle. He also likes a girl who lives in his apartment. However, he cannot open up to the girl. Resat is a kleptomaniac. He makes petty thefts, rummages through the garbage.
- DirectorConstantin PopescuStarsConstantin DitaBogdan DumitracheIonut CarasThe story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.
- DirectorHyung-ki RyuStarsBo-eun ChoiGilles CollotSu-yun HanA young woman who was just betrayed by her boyfriend comes across a moneylender, and she needs some money.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsJosse De PauwMaren EggertNatacha RégnierAmidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris' Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit.
- DirectorChi-jan HouStarsBryan Shu-Hao ChangNikki HsiehGwen YaoA visual love poem of magical realism.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsOsama bin LadenSalim HamdanAbu JandalTells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
- DirectorLaxmikant ShetgaonkarStarsChittaranjan GiriVeena JamkarPrasanthi TalpankerA recently widowed forest ranger in India strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.
- DirectorSabuStarsRyûhei MatsudaHidetoshi NishijimaKengo Kôra(Japanese with English subtitles) Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Sick of being ruled by their harsh Superintendent, one of the workers, Shinjo, urges his peers to rise up and start a revolution on board of the Kanikosen.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsSharunas BartasKlavdiya KorshunovaErwan RibardA drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.
- DirectorCaroline KamyaStarsPhilip BuyiRehema NanfukaStephen OcenOne day in the life of three people, a 12 year old former child soldier, a hip hop dancer and a maid taking us from the city of Kampala, Uganda to northern Uganda post-war.
- DirectorThomas ArslanStarsMisel MaticevicKaroline EichhornUwe BohmReleased from prison, a Trojan (Misel Maticevic) begins to plan an armored car robbery with an old friend and a crooked cop.
- DirectorSang-min SoStarsLee Eun-jooLee Hee-joonSang-kyeong HwangThe main character's incessant loving and breaking up clearly illustrates the nature of a third rate poet. He is destined for predicaments, and we watch his journey. This paradox provides a true comedy hard to find nowadays.
- DirectorLuis SampieriStarsRamia ChaouiIrene GarrésSergi GibertThree youths that don't know each other get together to spend their last 12 hours before coming to their End.
- DirectorÓscar Ruiz NaviaStarsKarent HinestrozaArnobio Salazar RivasRodrigo VélezA drama set in the black communities of Colombia's Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman.
- DirectorInés de Oliveira CézarStarsEva BiancoSantiago GobernoriMarcelo D'AndreaA young man and a mature woman who has just been widowed find themselves in an unthinking relationship. The young man ignores the possibility that this woman is his mother and the dead man, his father.
- DirectorTatjana TuranskyjStarsMira ParteckeLaura TonkeFranziska DickBerlin in the summer: Greta. 40, architect, mother of the 12-year-old son, recently unemployed. She does everything in her power to keep hanging on in there, torn between the pressure to conform and the spirit of contradiction.
- DirectorSharon LockhartWatching & observing. A meditation.
- DirectorRui YangStarsChen QiangYonghua Xiao
- DirectorDieudo HamadiKiripi Katembo SikuDivita Wa LusalaA quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsVincenzo MottaMary MonacoFranco LeoThe story of a criminal Vincenzo and his trans lover Mary, who waited for him for many years while he served his prison sentence.
- DirectorAnat ZuriaStarsSarah EinfeldShulamit WeinfeldOver the last decade the number of prohibitions for the women followers of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (known as Haredi) have increased dramatically. Some accept this as religious law and others see it as a violation of their human rights. For those who speak out against it, excommunication from their family and society awaits.
- DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsOrsolya Török-IllyésOana PelleaRazvan VasilescuIn order to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left in the care of her fortune-telling aunt, Mona must tell a social worker her story. The tale she spins---and the movie we watch---is a wild, surreal adventure in which people are able to project and enter each other's dreams, and our heroine is sold into slavery and lands in a swank, debauched Liverpool brothel where the patrons enact their literary/sexual fantasies with Lolita, St. Joan, and Desdemona. Rendered with dazzling tracking shots, striking CGI effects and a pulsing soundtrack, Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu's risk-taking fantasia has style to spare. But under the seductive surface lurks the very human story of a woman who uses fantasy to cushion the pain of life.
- DirectorJean-François CaissyIn the far reaches of the Quebec countryside, between a road and a headland that plunges into the sea, an abandoned motel has been converted into a retirement home. The film is an elegiac exploration of life and aging set in a place where time seems to have ground to a halt.
- DirectorArvin ChenStarsChun-Yao YaoAmber KuoHsiao-chuan ChangA love story takes place over the course of one evening in Taipei.
- DirectorNicolas WadimoffThrough encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.
- DirectorTatsushi ÔmoriStarsShôta MatsudaKengo KôraSakura AndôKenta and Jun are like brothers. Having grown up together in an orphanage, they now work in a demolition squad, bullied and blackmailed by their boss. One night, they pick up a simple-minded girl called Kayo and go on a road trip.
- DirectorStéphane LafleurStarsFrancis La HayeFanny MalletteMichel DaigleBenoit and Maryse: a brother and sister with seemingly normal lives. Everything is changed by a series of coincidences... and the arrival of a man claiming to come from the future.
- DirectorTom FassaertAs the village of Doel dies a slow death under pressure from the advancing Antwerp docks, the elderly Emilienne tries to continue with her everyday life. But the village pastor Verstraete dies and her friends leave. Ultimately she is also forced to let go as well.
- DirectorAnne VillacèqueStarsAnne ConsignyCarlo BrandtAntoine ChappeyTurning 50 in a few weeks' time, getting dumped by a husband who has found a 28-year-old Capucine, refusing the advances of a fellow lecturer in corduroy trousers again, signing up with a dating site, making love with total strangers, at last finding a man you like and who takes you to a swingers' club, fainting in the metro, forgetting the date of your own birthday, having a nightmare about diving into an empty pool, crying over François Truffaut's The Soft Skin, running out of tissues... Those are things that happen.
- DirectorZuzana LiováStarsJudit BárdosMiroslav KrobotMarian Mitas
- DirectorThomas ImbachA smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by down below. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. There is a man behind the camera, looking for an image -- of himself? Of the world? Of society? By day and night, in rain and snow, he stands filming at the window of his studio. Periodically we hear people leaving messages on his answering machine. They talk about the weather while on vacation and congratulate him on his birthday. His father dies, a child is born, the young family begins to fall apart. Time passes. Slowly the cityscape morphs into the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.
- DirectorKelvin Kyung Kun ParkThe narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history. After running a scrap metal factory in Tokyo during World War II, his grandfather ended up in Cheonggyecheon of Seoul where rundown small scale metal workshops still exist amidst the gentrifying city. Drawing clues from fragments of dreams and myths relating to the metal, the film reveals the secret alchemy of third world modernity in Cheonggyecheon where these obsolete hand labors still survive. The film attempts to reveal how we shape the metal through techniques such as sand casting and milling machines, only to find out that metals had already shaped us into beings of an industrial society instead.
- DirectorNanouk LeopoldStarsSandra HüllerDragan BakemaSabine TimoteoCharlotte is a doctor in Brussels. She is married to the architect Max and has a young son. She rents an apartment to meet men, while maintaining an intimate marriage and family life.
- DirectorMarie LosierStarsGenesis P-OrridgeLady Jaye Breyer P'OrridgeBig Boy Breyer P'OrridgeA documentary on artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the transformations the pair underwent for their Pandrogyne project.
- DirectorMarco BergerStarsCarlos EchevarríaJavier De PietroAntonella CostaMartin, a young Argentine student, is exploring the reactions of his sports coach, Sebastian, while vying for his love and affection. He has an opportunity - one night to push the envelope and be as close as ever to reaching what he so desperately wants. With his teacher keeping him off at a distance, but at the same time being so kind and nurturing, Martin continues to inch further and further towards crossing the line. But, with all the twists and turns of love, life, and personas, Martin finds himself on the wrong side of the line, and Sebastian finds himself with more regret than Martin could have ever imagined.
- DirectorJan KrügerStarsCorinna HarfouchNico RognerMehdi DehbiSimon, a young German doctor, who is living and working in Marseille, doesn't give any news. His appartment is empty. Valérie, his mother, is desperate. She doesn't understand the reason of his disappearance. Therefore she asks Jens, the former boyfriend of Simon, to come to Marseille and help her out on this research.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsLuli BitriKarafil ShenaTodi LlupiConjugal visits unite two strangers visiting a prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. During these visits, Elsa and Spetim find the companionship missing from their lives. But a prisoner amnesty soon threatens their fragile bond in this contemplative drama. An official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. (Albanian w. English subs)
- DirectorAlejandro LingentiJuan VillegasStarsSantiago BarrionuevoGermán De SilvaFrancisco GrassiOur protagonist is going through a state of sleepy vigil. He does not know what is in store for him after this, but it is inevitable that this winter of idleness, death and failure will leave its mark.
- DirectorSheron R. DayocStarsJohn ArcillaArnalyn IsmaelMaria Isabel LopezThis film exposes the human trafficking operation and journey through the seas of Southern Philippines to neighboring Malaysia. Based on research and interviews, this dramatic narrative provides a kaleidoscope of characters hoping for a better life in Sabah, in spite of the dubiousness of the process, and uncertainty of a true job in Malaysia. It also represents a microcosm of the multi-cultural groupings of Mindanao whose diversity is bound by a common goal, an opportunity to earn a living, as they take that illegal small boat ride from their homeland to that foreign "Promised Land."
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsNoriko EguchiAkira EmotoMitsuru Fukikoshi(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.
- DirectorAditya AssaratStarsAnanda EveringhamSajee ApiwongCerise LeangAnanda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit. But the change of country takes its toll and she soon becomes frustrated with the situation. Meanwhile, Ananda meets another girl on the beach.
- DirectorSun KimStarsAe-young JungSuk Kang
- DirectorGabriel Rojas VeraStarsMaría Angélica SánchezEdgar AlexenEmerson RodríguezKaren discovers, after 10 years of marriage, she has left behind her dreams devoting herself to home chores and realizes it has been a mistake that cost her her youth. She decides then to separate and go in search of a life of its own. With her savings she rents a room in the center of Bogota and tries to get a job, but her age and inexperience makes it difficult. Karen will have to decide between returning to the stability of a relationship or facing life for herself.
- DirectorKôki YoshidaStarsKaho MinamiMariko TsutsuiTomorô TaguchiIn this story of a dysfunctional family all the stereotypes of a Japanese unit come to the fore when the wife works the kitchen, the husband is focused on his work and the son does not have a full-time position and all do not really interact. When a family does not communicate the family does not understand each other and the slippery slope rolls downward.
- DirectorPrzemyslaw WojcieszekStarsPiotr Wawer Jr.Janusz ChabiorPrzemyslaw BluszczBogus Kowalski is such a radical 17-year-old rebel that he even decides to have a "Fuck Off" tattoo on his forehead. His anger and frustration cannot be diminished by anyone, including his mother, Polish teacher and priest.
- DirectorBrigitte SyStarsRonit ElkabetzCarlo BrandtNoémie LvovskyBarbara is a filmmaker who has been working in the prison environment for a few years now. She is preparing a film written and directed by long-term inmates in a prison in the projects around Paris. Twice a week, Barbara goes to the prison where she shoots interviews with the inmates which will serve as a basis for the writing of their screenplay. But Barbara has encountered Michel, one of the inmates of the group. Their love affair will lead her to break the law.
- DirectorKim Tae-yongStarsTang WeiHyun BinJames C. BurnsAn adulterous wife, in prison for killing her husband, learns her mother has passed away in Seattle. Officials grant her a 3-day furlough to attend her funeral, when on the bus she meets a man who doesn't have enough money to for his fare.
- DirectorJean de CerteauMarcela SaidFor years Jorgelino worked as an agent in the repression apparatus of the military government. Jorgelino was "el mocito," the one who served the cafecitos in the middle of a torture session, the one who packed the already inert bodies and loaded them into the coffers of cars. Jorgelino was recently accused of the death of Víctor Díaz, General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1976. This fact gives Jorgelino the opportunity to reflect on his history. The Mocito is the psychological portrait of a man destroyed by his past. A man who participated in the horror and crimes of the military dictatorship and today, in becoming aware of all this desperately seeks forgiveness and redemption.
- DirectorErika HníkováStarsJozef GajdosDana PasekováMonika MaxováA situational documentary about a generation of singles in their 30s who live in a medium-sized Slovak village, and their mayor who, in an effort to maintain the village population, sets out to bring them together. It took its mayor, a retired army general, seven years to straighten out the whole village. Nearly all houses have been repaired, the gardens are in bloom, there are four grocer's shops and two pubs, and the brook is crystal clear. However, there is a persistent problem bothering the mayor. The village is slowly but surely dying out. He has decided to tackle the 'pan European countryside trend' and he tries to motivate the singles in the village to marry each other and start families.
- DirectorVáclav KadrnkaStarsZuzana LapcíkováMartin PavlusGerald TurnerThe story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in one day. His mother moves about in an intensified daily routine, mapping it out hour by hour. He catches up with her on that path but she must act alone in order to achieve their reunion
- DirectorPrashant BhargavaStarsNawazuddin SiddiquiMukkund ShuklaSeema BiswasIn the old city of Ahmedabad, amid India's largest kite festival, a family duels, spins and soars like the countless kites in the skies above.
- DirectorThunska Pansittivorakul"The Terrorists". A black cloak of forgetting, suppressing and covering has descended on the events that took place in Bangkok in spring 2010.
- DirectorSatoru HiroharaStarsMiho AraiMitsunori IzumiShotaro KaneyamaA high-school boy forms a friendship with a vagrant man who sleeps in a road tunnel near his home.
- DirectorJoe SwanbergStarsKate Lyn SheilTi WestAmy SeimetzA young actress is cast as the lead in a werewolf film which leads to many unexpected consequences in her life.
- DirectorKhalo MatabaneStarsFana MokoenaPresley ChweneyagaeNeo NtlatlengA potent drama about a South African corporate leader whose past as a violent revolutionary comes back to threaten him.
- DirectorRichard AyoadeStarsCraig RobertsSally HawkinsPaddy Considine15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: to lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
- DirectorHugo Vieira da SilvaHeidi WilmStarsKai HillebrandRalph HerforthMaria SchusterManuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come to Germany to be with Petra during her illness. They stay together in her old apartment. Another woman also occasionally lives there: Kim, a beautiful, enigmatic and aloof Asian. Petra's disease is of no interest to Manuel whereas Tarso visits Petra obsessively in the clinic. Sharing the same space with Tarso is hard for Manuel. Their previous relationship was based on 'visits only'. Manuel is overcome by a sense of emptiness. Meanwhile, Manuel develops an erotic desire for Kim, a trans woman, who helps him discover Petra's body.
- DirectorPierre-Yves VandeweerdDrawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall dividing Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement's Polisario Front, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment.
- DirectorSebastian HeidingerStarsSaba Sahar
- DirectorVolker SattelWithin the closed world of the nuclear power industry one of humanity's most compelling struggles has taken place. Germany was at the vanguard of the nuclear power industry but now the walls are coming down. It was the country's greatest scientific endeavour but now all are due to be decommissioned, thanks to popular fear and the power of democracy.
- DirectorZbigniew BzymekStarsJim FletcherLauren HindKate ValkTold through memory and metaphor, Utopians is a dark and subtly comic character study of three people on the edge: of society, of control, and of collapse. Roger is a yoga teacher. His daughter Zoe returns home from the military and to Rogers dismay resumes her relationship with her allegedly schizophrenic girlfriend Maya. Opposed to Zoes pursuit of Maya but eager to be a part of his daughters life, Roger becomes entangled in the ups and downs of their relationship. Increasingly late and obviously distracted during his yoga classes, his few remaining students begin to lose patience. When Rogers well-meaning friend Morris offers them a live-in renovation job in an upscale Brooklyn home, the three of them move in and start a job they are not exactly qualified for. Living rent-free provides them with a respite from the responsibilities and expectations of the outside world. Together they try to find comfort in their new reality while being revisited by their troubled pasts.
- DirectorDjo MungaStarsPatsha BayManie MaloneDiplome AmekindraRiva returns to his home town of Kinshasa to sell fuel, however the people whom he stole it from are close behind and when Riva tries to get with a girl her crime boss boyfriend isn't too happy about this.
- DirectorYahya AlabdallahStarsAli SulimanFadi AridaJoanna AridaWhen a forty-year-old divorced father discovers that he needs to undergo an operation, which he can not afford, within the next 4 days, he finds himself forced to deal with the life he isolated himself from for the longest time.
- DirectorMarlon RiveraStarsEugene DomingoJM De GuzmanKean CiprianoJocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are film-school graduates dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress (Eugene Domingo), and a thorough inspection of their film's major location, the Payatas dumpsite. They believe they have a winning script and the energy and drive to make their dreams come true, no matter what the cost.
- DirectorAxel PetersénStarsJohannes BrostPeter CarlbergLéonore EkstrandJanne, a 60-year-old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town, where he also teams up with his sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down.
- DirectorSilvina Landesman
- DirectorDenis CôtéAlong the rhythm of the seasons, beasts and humans regard each other. 'Bestiary' unfolds like a picture book about mutual observation. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loose, tranquil and indefinable elements.
- DirectorCalle OverwegStarsLeopold AltenburgAbak Safaei-RadAxel HartwigThree couples fighting for their love - and going to therapists. A played documentary.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsEmilia DíazErnesto LiottiJorge TemponiA middle-aged, single mother of three cares for her eighty year old father, and they are pushed to the breaking point.
- DirectorCelina Murga
- DirectorMichel K. ZongoFilmmaker Michel Zongo sets off to the Ivory Coast to find out what happened to his lost brother. Joanny left to go there many years ago and never returned, searching like so many others for work in the more affluent neighboring country.
- DirectorSo Yong KimStarsPaul DanoMargarita LevievaJon HederA struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.
- DirectorAnn-Kristin ReyelsStarsSabine TimoteoThure LindhardtIlse RitterA young couple on holiday slowly becomes estranged.
- DirectorBrian M. CassidyMelanie ShatzkyStarsMelissa LeoVictoria CharkutDave ClarkEx-con Francine has difficulty adjusting to life in a small lakeside town until she begins working with animals, though she finds herself growing increasingly isolated from the community and embracing forms of anti-social behavior.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsMiyuki MatsudaKokoro FujinamiMasashi Gotô
- DirectorClémence Ancelin
- DirectorSacha PolakStarsHannah HoekstraHans DageletMark RietmanA promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.
- DirectorManuel von StürlerStarsCarole NoblancJean-Paul PeguironPascal ÉguisierA 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole.
- DirectorOlmo OmerzuStarsNatálie RehorováMartin PechlátJirí CernýOn New Years Day, two innocent 12-year-old boys in a small town buys vodka for a young female teacher, Katerina's (Natálie Rehorová) and two other men (David (Martin Pechlát), her boyfriend, and his friend Stepanand (Jirí Cerný). They are invited to the house. Here they experience their first encounter with sexuality. The children lose track of time. They were expected home long ago. They drink, throw up and are intoxicated by love and "the shameless, unbridled and licentious" world in which David, Katerina and Stepán live.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiMani HaghighiSaeed ChangizianAn Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.
- DirectorHeinz EmigholzA journey from Roman construction to its influences on modernist architect Pier Luigi Nervi.
- DirectorAtsushi FunahashiA documentary chronicling the lives of Japanese refugees displaced by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi.
- DirectorToshi FujiwaraStarsArsinée KhanjianA man wanders through the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the stricken nuclear reactors at Fukushima, meeting the people that decided to remain there.
- DirectorThomas HeiseStarsPope Benedict XVIVolker Spengler
- DirectorShoko KimuraStarsMiwako WagatsumaYôichirô SaitôAimi SatsukawaIn a noisy classroom, biology teacher Madoka proceeds with his lesson in a small voice. He is unable to look the students square in the face nor admonish them for talking or sleeping in class. Only Tsubura looks upon him with a smile.
- DirectorDavid ZellnerStarsSydney AguirreNathan ZellnerDavid WingoAnnie is girl with no moral compass, thanks to a complete lack of parental supervision. One day, while playing in the woods, a voice calls out to her from deep within an abandoned well, causing her to consider the right course of action.
- DirectorYong-hi YangStarsSakura AndôArata IuraYang Ik-joonBased on the director's own experience, Our Homeland follows a Korean family living in Japan, of which the father (Masane Tsukayama) decided to take North Korean nationality because of his strong belief decades ago. In 1997, Sonho (Arata Iura), the son of the family who was sent to North Korea under a "repatriation program" with the promise of a "paradise" free of discrimination, returns to Japan for the first time in 25 years to seek treatment for his brain tumor due to the difference in medical technology between the two countries. Allowed to stay for only three months and closely monitored by a North Korean officer (Yang Ik-Joon), Sonho is welcomed and embraced by his family and old friends but his father, who is still sticking to the belief but also feeling guilty about sending his son to North Korea at the same time, while Sonho's younger sister Rie (Sakura Andô) develops the aversion to North Korea and its political ideas.
- DirectorJoong-Hyun KimStarsYoon Chae-youngKil Hae-yeonLim Hak-soonA local salary-man struggles to start a better life when a missing person shows up demanding an old dept be paid.
- DirectorVincent DieutreStarsEva TruffautVincent DieutreShe came to see. I have no photo of Simon to show her, no trace except for these stolen shots, taken from the windows of his home overlooking the Jaures metro station: the canal, cars, neighborhood life and this handful of Afghan refugees beneath the Lafayette arch... She watches with me, She questions me, we watch the seasons of this last year of my life with Simon pass, the final months of the refugees' wearying battle to find a place here in Paris. Of course, it's over now, the camp and the love affair, but She and I know that from here on, quite naturally, the world has been ever so slightly... transformed