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- DirectorChema García IbarraStarsNacho FernándezLlum ArquesJoanna ValverdeWhen the leader of a UFO association dies unexpectedly, José Manuel becomes the only person who knows a secret that could alter the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, a young girl goes missing in Spain.
- DirectorElene NaverianiStarsBebe SesitashviliGia AgumavaMegi KobaladzeA village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other. One day, Eliko is found hanged. His granddaughter Moe comes to organize his funeral. She is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko’s hidden love life.
- DirectorJohn SwabStarsJosh HartnettFrank GrilloMelissa LeoIda "Red" Walker may not survive her terminal illness while incarcerated for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
- DirectorMaung SunStarsKhin Khin HsuOkkar Dat KheKo ThuWai Bhone, a young film director, has to overcome the tough realities in order to direct his debut film. The hard worked scenario is criticised and undermined by the unpretentious censorship of the authorities. The film producers constantly pressure for lack of money, and even casting actors to the unfamous director is not an easy task. With the help of friends and relatives, the hardly prepared film production begins at last. However, an accident occurs in which an expensive camera is dropped. To fix the broken camera and to escape the difficult life, he even thinks of robbing the bank and he starts to plan. The debut film of Maung Sun satirizes the life of an artist based on events in Myanmar's modern history.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsChristian MarquandCatherine SpaakJean SorelFrancesca, a 17-year old school girl, has a vivid dream of making love to Enrico, a 37-year old divorced architect and family friend. She turns her dream into reality by meeting Enrico during a regular school day.
- DirectorKit ZauharStarsIsabelle BarbierGabrielle RichardsonFraser JonesA girl in her final week of college goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from her home town of Philadelphia and ends up having to confront her escalating anxieties about her love life, family and future.
- DirectorNeus BallúsStarsMohamed MellaliValero EscolarPep SarràA peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience.
- DirectorAurélia GeorgesStarsLyna KhoudriSabine AzémaMaud WylerNelie takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.
- DirectorAurélia GeorgesStarsLyna KhoudriSabine AzémaMaud WylerNelie takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.
- DirectorPhil TippettStarsAlex CoxNiketa RomanSatish RatakondaThe Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorSvetlana RodinaLaurent StoopStarsAlinaAnatolyAnnaOn the island of Ostrov in the Caspian Sea the inhabitants, left alone by the Russian state after the collapse of the Soviet Union, survive through poaching.
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsElina LöwensohnPaula LunaVimala PonsA chimeric future on After Blue, a planet from another galaxy, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna. The story is of a punitive expedition.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsFausto Russo AlesiA man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others.
- DirectorLeonardo MartinelliStarsDennis PinheiroSilvero PereiraJoão is a delivery man who dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
- DirectorMajid Al-RemaihiStarsMajid Al-RemaihiTala KaddouraRehana KhanFilmed on an abandoned fishermen village of Northern Qatar, 'And Then They Burn the Sea' is an ode to the filmmaker's living mother whose memories abruptly left her during the making of the film. Al-Remaihi ruminates on an experience of familial loss of that which cannot be defined but is deeply felt by pairing existing family archives with reenacted dreams. Weaving a myriad of poetry, folk history, and personal archives, the film mirrors a history of maternal mourning rituals that lament their loved ones who may never be returned by the sea. Created in DFI's Short Documentary Lab with Rithy Panh.
- DirectorLuka PopadicStarsJane SlavinRyan WhittleNATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. James, a young journalist on his first deployment abroad, is faced with the absurd reality of news production and is forced to choose between his career and his moral code.
- DirectorGiselle LinStarsWendy ZhuoPeter YuIris LiA mother, trapped in the comfort of memory and mourning, confronts her grief when she is invited to the wedding of her late son's childhood sweetheart.
- DirectorHannes Þór HalldórssonStarsAuðunn BlöndalEgill EinarssonSverrir Þór SverrissonIceland's toughest cop will stop at nothing to solve a string of violent bank robberies. But when he is forced to take on a new partner, the pressures of solving the case prove too much for the tough-as-nails renegade.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsEthan HawkeCristina ChiriacPhil NeilsonAn American soldier stationed in Rome with the Vatican blown up, embarks on a hero's journey to uncover and defend against an unknown enemy threatening the entire world.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsMartine CarolRaf ValloneMario CarotenutoAnnamaria, an ex-prostitute, takes her young daughter from convent school with her on a summer vacation. She introduces herself like a widow just to be accepted by people in the Italy of the '50s. She is surrounded by new friends and people show to love her. But some days after their arrival in the Italian Riviera, a former client recognizes her and reveals the hidden secret. People immediately become hostile. None wants her in the hotel. Supposed friends disappear. She's isolated. The people's hypocrisy will explode in entire contradiction later, when Annamaria becomes intimate friend with a rich respectable man.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsAnne ParillaudAnthony LaPagliaRobert LoggiaMarie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
- DirectorPeter BrunnerStarsSusanne JensenFranz RogowskiTheo BlaicknerA man with the mental faculties of a child must save his mother, thereby becoming god and devil.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsDario ArgentoFrançoise LebrunAlex LutzThe last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsRussell CroweAl PacinoChristopher PlummerA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
- DirectorAlexis LangloisStarsJustine LangloisLioNana BenamerDorothy's a film director and a bit of a loser. One night, fueled up on Heineken, she lets loose on her script when a call from her producer kills her buzz: enough with the queer comedies, it's time to start making mainstream films. To avoid sinking to the deepest depths of despair, Dorothy seeks comfort in her favorite TV show Romy the Vampire Slayer. Unfortunately, her own demons show up.
- DirectorLorenz MerzStarsArt BllacaPablo CaprezLolita ChammahYoung father Gabriel takes care alone of his son. When he falls in love with enigmatic Corey, a state of emergency is declared - wild animals are on the run and life becomes utterly existential.
- DirectorMarí AlessandriniStarsLara TortosaSantos CurapilCirilo WesleyMora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions school and asserts her individuality towards her parents, two environmentalists from Italian-speaking Switzerland whose dream of autonomy turns into a nightmare.