#ForeignFilmsMatter: Volume 5
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- DirectorBenoît VolnaisAlice ZeniterStarsNiels SchneiderAriane LabedSouheila YacoubTristan, campaign manager for a legislative candidate, is shocked by an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorMartin SkovbjergStarsAngela BundalovicJonas Holst SchmidtZlatko BuricA young woman named Ida disappears without a trace. Her boyfriend voluntarily lets himself be locked up to be questioned by Ida's father and brother, but Sander does not tell the whole truth.Denmark (Danish, Serbian and Swedish dialogue)
F - DirectorDevashish MakhijaStarsManoj BajpayeeSandeep ShikharAmrendra SharmaA father is on the run with his little baby girl to escape the ghosts of his past and the forces that want him dead.India (Hindi dialogue)
F - DirectorEdgar PêraStarsMiguel BorgesVictoria GuerraAlbano JerónimoPessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club. Though mostly similar in appearance, the heteronyms differ hugely in personality above all, the gleefully unhinged Álvaro de Campos, enacted by Albano Jerónimo. These clashes start to become indistinguishable from dramatic rifts in Pessoa's psyche: as he is increasingly beset by philosophical turmoil, his heteronyms are murdered, one by one. Meanwhile, Victoria Guerra plays a double role as Pessoa's Madonna-mistress Ophélia: at once a saintly psychiatric nurse and duplicitous femme fatale.Portugal (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorUmut SubasiStarsMelis SevinçMelisa BostanciogluIbrahim AriciCoincidence brings four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul together in humorous and playful ways. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.Turkey (Turkish dialogue)
F - DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsJulia FaureLouise LabèqueNinon FrançoisOnline behavior and content consumption through the eyes of a teenage girl who immerses audiences into her dreams and nightmares. Navigating between dreams and reality, she's guided by a disturbing and mysterious YouTuber, Patricia Coma.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorRima DasStarsAbhijit DasTarali Kalita DasBhuman Bhargav DasIt follows a father as he strains to keep his small-town business afloat while his relationships deteriorate amidst personal loss and lockdowns.India (Assamese dialogue)
F - DirectorClaude SchmitzStarsLucie DebayHélène BressiantJudith WilliquetAt her grandmother's house, with her daughter, Lucie dreams of being an actress.Belgium (French dialogue)
F - DirectorAmr GamalStarsKhaled HamdanAbeer MohammedSamah AlamraniCenters on Ahmed and Isra'a parents of three children who lost their job due to the country's economic crisis. Isra'a finds out about her fourth pregnancy at this time when they cannot afford to raise one more child.Yemen (Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorDusan MilicStarsDanica CurcicDarren PettieNikola RakocevicLetter from a girl from Kosovo, dedicated to her missing father, read at the United Nations, in which she publicly addresses the difficult life of Serbs, especially Serb children in the enclaves.Serbia (Serbian, English and Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorMeryam JoobeurStarsSalha NasraouiMohamed GrayaâMalek MecherguiA Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.Tunisia (Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorThati PeleDr. Shaloba Molefe decides to kidnap her unravelling family and won't let them leave until they love her again.South Africa
F - DirectorSilvia GiuliettiStarsFerruccio CastronuovoFederico FelliniDante FerrettiFellini behind the curtains, observing the great director through the eyes and the lenses of Ferruccio Castronuovo, Fellini's trusted partner, who filmed him between the '76 and '86.Italy (Italian dialogue)
D - DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsRégis LarocheAnnkristMarie LoustalotA retired army man lives in the Temple Woods housing project outside Paris, where his young neighbor belongs to a local gang about to rob the convoy of an Arab prince.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorSebastian MihailescuStarsIstván TéglásMãlina ManoviciDenisa NicolaeA surreal trip through the crisis of manhood.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorMartin MakarievStarsAlexander SanoJulian VergovIgor AngelovHumanity hides in the deepest, darkest places.Bulgaria (Bulgarian dialogue)
F - DirectorDamjan KozoleStarsPrimoz PirnatMartina ScavnicarMojca PartljicPeter Musevski was something of Damjan Kozole's acteur fétiche, appearing in almost all of his films since Rezervni deli (2003), which, again, marked a breakthrough for both of them. Kozole began work on Pero in 2019, when it should have been something like a therapeutic journey through Musevski's fears and sorrows - a film of various registers and aesthetics whose diversity of approaches would mirror the many sides of its subject. But then, on March 18th 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Musevski died by suicide.Slovenia (Slovene dialogue)
D - DirectorKatja GauriloffStarsAgafia NiemenmaaHeidi GauriloffSanna-Kaisa PaloIida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland's Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.Finland (Skolt Sámi dialogue)
F - DirectorMichel GondryStarsPierre NineyBlanche GardinFrançoise LebrunFollows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorEtienne FourieStarsLlandi BeeslaarJacques BessengerPaul du ToitAn actor secretly moonlighting at a failing drag club has to fight for his marriage after being caught red-handed by his wife, as well as deliver the performance of his life to avert suspicion regarding the mysterious death of a colleague.South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue)
F - DirectorConstanza FeldmanAgustín MendilaharzuStarsConstanza FeldmanAgustín MendilaharzuAlejo MoguillanskyEveryone is locked up, but Clementina and the man she's quarantined with don't stop working. We know little about him. And what do we know about her? Even less.Argentina (Spanish dialogue)
F - DirectorHarshad NalawadeStarsSudip BilawarShalini ChouguleAtul DeshmukhIn a town riddled with territorial disputes, a radicalized journalist believes in exposing the atrocities faced by his community. But as the line between his professional and personal life blurs, an inconvenient truth makes him reflect back on a simpler time when he had not yet succumbed to radicalization.India (Marathi, Kannada and Hindi dialogue)
F - DirectorSorayos PrapapanStarsKorndanai Marc DautzenbergSiriboon NaddhabhanWinyu WongsurawatIt is about the encounter between an ace pupil and a professional exams cheat.Thailand (Thai dialogue)
F - DirectorLyda PatitucciStarsIsabella RagoneseAndrea ArcangeliClara PonsotA policewoman infiltrated in a criminal gang looks for revenge and redemption, surviving in an unforgiving world of deranged men.Italy (Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorKongdej JaturanrasameeRasiguet SookkarnStarsJennis OprasertPraewa SuthamphongPhantira PipityakornIt is about a woman with memory loss faced with the challenge of survival on a mysterious island.Thailand (Thai dialogue)
F - DirectorBoi KwongStarsMark LeeShane MardjukiSheila SimThe life of five disparate people intertwine as they deal with issues of money, class, ambition, and love in Geylang.Singapore (Mandarin, Singaporean Hokkien and English dialogue)
F - DirectorDaigo MatsuiStarsAkari FukunagaAkio KanedaDaichi KanekoSawako's scrapbook details her teenage fascination with older men. At 20, still home, relationship with former co-worker Mori triggers sexual, emotional awakening and newfound self-assurance.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorJames LeongBrian never thought he would become a political dissident living in exile. Jenny didn't think she would develop a fear of trains. Peter was just a student wondering how best to spend his summer vacation. Eddie was sure his belief in non-violence would never waver. And yet, by the end of summer 2019, everything had changed for all of them. Hundreds of thousands - perhaps even millions - of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially by the government's plans for a controversial extradition bill, the movement has now transformed into a broader push for greater freedoms and democracy, with anger over police brutality fuelling a cycle of violence. The protests are Hong Kong's biggest challenge to Beijing since its return to China in 1997. If We Burn looks at the movement through the eyes of Hong Kongers whose fates, like their city's future, now hang in the balance.Hong Kong (Cantonese dialogue)
D - DirectorAnastasia TsangStarsSylvia ChangSimon YamHenick ChouDevastated by the loss of her skilled neon-sign-making husband, a wife decides to carry on his unfinished dream of making neon signs.Hong Kong (Cantonese dialogue)
F - DirectorLucile ChaufourStarsSteve DehouxNancy DetournayFranco FossatiLucile Chaufour's LOVE and CRASHES takes us for an unforgettable ride in partnership. With a mixture of fictional and documentary techniques, the film immerses us in the universe of sidecar racing, paying attention to the peculiarities of a vehicle driven by a magical alliance between pilot and passenger (or as it is known in sidecar jargon, 'monkey'). Aided by a dreamy musical score and Hélène Louvart's deft cinematography, LOVE and CRASHES explores technique and sensuality, control and spontaneity, the physical and the mental, speed and care.France (French dialogue)
D - DirectorZero ChouStarsPei-Jen YuCindy Yu-Han LienHerb HsuIt tells the story of a group of female thought criminals who were taught by the freshmen of Ludao during the white terror period in Taiwan in the 1950s.Taiwan (Mandarin, Japanese and Taiwanese Hokkien dialogue)
F - DirectorRemy van HeugtenStarsGeert Van RampelbergLeopold WitteJoes BrauersA family's stability is shaken by the teenage son's drift towards extremismNetherlands (Dutch dialogue)
F - DirectorJimmy Laporal-TrésorStarsJonathan FeltreAngelina WorethMissoum SlimaniFrance (French dialogue)
F - DirectorZhi Wei JowStarsLeon DaiEdward TanJay VictorA middle-aged widower whose relationship with his sensitive teenage son in the densely packed spaces of contemporary Singapore slowly becomes unbearable.Singapore (Mandarin and English dialogue)
F - DirectorTamta KhalvashiZaza KhalvashiStarsInga JakhutashviliGuladi GoguadzeLeila BibineishviliLove and crime and secrets and dreams intertwine in this ensemble tale that wends its seductive way through a tight-knit community in a Georgian seaside town. Nothing is as it seems in the modulating rhythms of fate, the shifting loyalties and the ultimate reality that "neighborhood" sometimes really means "family".Georgia (Georgian dialogue)
F - DirectorJoão CanijoStarsAnabela MoreiraRita BlancoMadalena AlmeidaFollows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.Portugal (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorJoão CanijoStarsNuno LopesFilipa AreosaLeonor SilveiraFive women are running an old hotel. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend and are drawn into a web of ongoing conflict.Portugal (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorHelin CelikIt centers on three Jordanian women who barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.Jordan (Arabic dialogue)
D - DirectorThierno Souleymane DialloStarsThierno Souleymane DialloPenda LamAboubacar CondéDiallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country's film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.Guinea (French, Maninka and Pulaar dialogue)
D - DirectorLukas NathrathStarsSebastian Jakob DoppelbauerPauline WernerSusanne Dorothea SchneiderA group of friends getting together for one couple's farewell party while eyeing each other's achievements.Germany (German dialogue)
F - DirectorChristopher MurrayStarsValentina Véliz CaileoDaniel AntiviloSebastian HülkOn the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa's father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organization of sorcerers.Chile (Spanish, Mapuche and German dialogue)
F - DirectorAyse PolatStarsKatja BürkleAhmet VarliÇagla YurgaA German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.Germany (German, Turkish, Kurdish and English dialogue)
F - DirectorSteffi NiederzollStarsReyhaneh JabbariShole PakravanFereydoon JabbariFollows a female student in Tehran who was hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defense against a rapist. For a pardon and after seven years in prison, she would have had to retract her testimony.Germany (Persian dialogue)
D - DirectorSahim Omar KalifaStarsBangen AliErrol Trotman-HarewoodAtheer AdelIn war-torn Iraq, a ten-year-old boy with a crippling injury has an unquenchable passion for football.Belgium (Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorElena MartínStarsElena MartínMila BorràsClàudia MalageladaA sexual awakening causes a woman to reconsider her past relationships.Spain (Catalan dialogue)
F - DirectorMartin ProvostStarsCécile de FranceVincent MacaigneStacy MartinExplores the art and love story of renowned French painters Pierre Bonnard and his wife Marthe.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorJust PhilippotStarsGuillaume CanetLaetitia DoschPatience MunchenbachIn the middle of a heat wave, an ominous cloud appears and with it, a lethal acid rain. A separated family will have to come together to escape this plague ravaging the world.France (French dialogue)
F - DirectorKanu BehlStarsMohit AgarwalPriyanka BoseVibha ChhibberA family and an exploration of space in an increasingly crowded world. It follows the quest for a sexual odyssey of an individual.India (Hindi dialogue)
F - DirectorCyril ArisStarsMounia AklSaleh BakriNadia CharbelOn August 4th 2020, an explosion hits the port of Beirut destroying a large part of Lebanon's capital. A Lebanese film crew decides to continue shooting their movie, in a nation struggling with economic turmoil and societal collapse.
- DirectorMarco RighiStarsJacopo Olmo AntinoriFiorenzo MattuYile Yara VianelloIn a small town in the Appennins, young and devout Antimo lives an uneventful life between the local church, the chaste dates with his girlfriend and the cowshed where he lazily works with his dad. One day, he meets Lazzaro, a simple and wild man who works as a helper in the nearby farm. Antimo sees a spark in Lazzaro and sets out to convert him. The religion he starts teaching him doesn't reflect what he learn at Sunday school though. It's a personal and heretic reading of Christianity, which leads the two on unbeaten paths, with no way back.Italy (Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorElene NaverianiStarsEka ChavleishviliTemiko ChichinadzeLia AbuladzeEtero, 48, single in a Georgian village, encounters gossip. She unexpectedly falls for a man, caught between a relationship or independence. She navigates her emotions while grappling with societal norms, searching for happiness.Georgia (Georgian dialogue)
F - DirectorDani RosenbergStarsIdo TakoMika ReissEfrat Ben TzurEighteen-year-old Israeli soldier flees back to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the military elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war.Israel (Hebrew dialogue)
F - DirectorStephan KomandarevStarsEli SkorchevaGerasim GeorgievRozalia AbgarianA teacher falls victim to a phone scam that robs her of her life savings, then realizes that there is no way to get the money back. The tables then turn as cash begins rolling in as she transforms into a scammer herself.Bulgaria (Bulgarian dialogue)
F - DirectorMaryna VrodaStarsNina AntonovaOleksandr MaksiakovOleg PrimogenovAnatoliy, a man who comes home to care for his dying mother. An encounter with his brother and a woman he loves causes him to reflect on the decisions he has made along the way.Ukraine (Ukrainian and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorMatej ChlupacekStarsEliska KrenkováMiloslav KönigMilan OndríkHelena is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city as the wife of a successful young factory manager.Czech Republic/Slovakia (Czech and Slovak dialogue)
F - DirectorRaphaël BalboniAnn SirotStarsLucie DebayLazare GousseauVincent LecuyerRémy and Sandra are unable to conceive a child as they suffer from the "Past Love Syndrome". In order to be cured, they only have one solution: they have to sleep once again with each and every one of their past lovers.Belgium (French dialogue)
F - DirectorZacharias MavroeidisStarsYorgos TsiantoulasAndreas LabropoulosRoubini VasilakopoulouWhile having a day-long swim at Athens' queer beach, best friends Demos and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature debut.Greece (Greek dialogue)
F - DirectorMika GustafsonStarsBianca DelbravoDilvin AsaadSafira MossbergThree sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.Sweden (Swedish dialogue)
F - DirectorNara NormandeTiãoStarsIan BoechatKaique BritoErom CordeiroIn the summer of 1996, Tamara enjoys the last few weeks in the village where she lives on the coast of Alagoas before going to Brasília. Over the summer, however, Tamara meets and gets attracted to a mysterious girl nicknamed "Heartless".Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraWalid BouchhiouaSamer BisharatA man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.Tunisia (Arabic dialogue)
F - DirectorEnrico Maria ArtaleStarsEdoardo PesceMargarita Rosa de FranciscoMaria del RosarioA mother-son love story, a vivid tragedy that immerses its heroes in the ever-shifting shades of their deepest states of mind.Italy (Italian dialogue)
F - DirectorKatalin MoldovaiStarsÁgnes KrasznahorkaiTunde SkovranSoma SándorWhen high-school literature teacher Ana Bauch innocently recommends a film to her students, a parent's complaint spirals her life into chaos.Hungary (Hungarian dialogue)
F - DirectorWregas BhanutejaStarsSha Ine FebriyantiAngga YunandaPrilly LatuconsinaAfter a viral altercation, Prani, a guidance counselor, faces backlash endangering her career and family.Indonesia (Indonesian dialogue)
F - DirectorStefanie KolkStarsFrieda BarnhardArnoud BosJelmer ChalkiopoulosDays after her baby is stillborn, Robin's breasts begin to produce milk. Unable to throw it away, she decides to donate the milk. As her quest for a place to donate is more difficult than she anticipated, more and more milk starts to crowd her freezer and life.Nederlands (Dutch dialogue)
F - DirectorLina SoualemStarsHiam AbbassUm AliNemat AbbassYears after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.Palestine (Arabic dialogue)
D - DirectorEkain AlbiteNegu CollectiveMikel IbargurenStarsAnitaBeñardoKitxaIn 2011, the prolonged armed conflict in the Basque Country appears to come to an end. A young woman runs away wanting to cross the border. She arrives in Zubieta, a border village where ancient myths and modern conflicts seem to converge.Spain (Spanish and Basque dialogue)
F - DirectorBernhard BraunsteinStarsFilippa AckerMartina AmbrosiNoah Abdel AzizThe ski boarding school in Stams in the Tyrolean Alps is considered a training ground for the very best. Over the course of one academic year, the young skiing elite in their meticulous daily training regimen.Austria (German dialogue)
F - DirectorWei ShujunStarsYilong ZhuChloe MaayanHou TianlaiChief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the localsChina (Mandarin dialogue)
F - DirectorNehir TunaStarsDoga KarakasCan Bartu AslanOzan ÇelikTwelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it's a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, "Yurt"s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the "perfect son" but it isn't easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet's family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders' good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet's father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father's expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.Turkey (Turkish dialogue)
F - DirectorAnna BuryachkovaStarsZachary ShadrinArthur AliievAlina ChebanSet in Kyiv in the late 1990s, "Forever-Forever" is an unsettling portrait of the young and rebellious as they navigate love, explore their sexuality, and play cruel games, which never have a winner.Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue)
F - DirectorMichal NohejlStarsOtakar BrousekCyril DobrýAlisher FakhrijevAfter the premiere, the theatre group gathers in a bar to celebrate. However, the cheerful gathering is interrupted by a drunken Soviet officer.Czech Republic (Czech and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorNara NormandeTiãoStarsIan BoechatKaique BritoErom CordeiroIn the summer of 1996, Tamara enjoys the last few weeks in the village where she lives on the coast of Alagoas before going to Brasília. Over the summer, however, Tamara meets and gets attracted to a mysterious girl nicknamed "Heartless".Brazil (Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorKei Chika-uraStarsMirai MoriyamaTatsuya FujiYôko MakiFollows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.Japan (Japanese dialogue)
F - DirectorCristi PuiuStarsBianca CuculiciLaur BondarencoOtilia PanainteFollows Oana Pfifer, her brother Mihai Dumitru, Oana's husband, and Narcis Patranescu, an organized crime inspector, showing moments that capture their wanderings.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorFarhad DelaramStarsMirsaeed MolavianBehdokht ValianRoya AfsharA young filmmaker who currently works in a hospital takes a mental patient out for a short ride to find out who she really is.Iran (Persian dialogue)
F - DirectorChee Sum ChiaStarsThi Diu TaAster Yeow EeAbdul Manaf bin RejabA woman and a little girl find solace and joy during secret stairwell meetings, bonding over playful games.Malaysia (Mandarin dialogue)
F - DirectorMladen DjordjevicStarsTamara KrcunovicLeon LucevSzilvia KrizsánWorkers from a factory that has closed reach out to the supernatural in a struggle for personal dignity.Serbia (Serbian dialogue)
F - DirectorYosep Anggi NoenStarsReza RahadianShenina CinnamonLaura BasukiGaspar, a detective works on a mass slaughter case involves government where he encounters a informant who gives hint towards disappearance of his childhood friend Kirana, which points him towards Wan Ali, a human-trafficking crook.Indonesia (Indonesian dialogue)
F - DirectorPhuttiphong AroonphengStarsKitty ChichaJoe CummingsHugoJimmy, a 40-year-old former pop-star turned engineer, is sent to the region of his childhood to supervise the renovation of an old hotel. Once settled, Jimmy finds out the once flamboyant hotel has become a ruin, a maze of narrow corridors and a relic of a bygone era, which still bears the scars of the American occupation. In the heart of this mysterious place, Jimmy will wander between dream and fantasy and retrace his family's history.Thailand (Thai dialogue)
F - DirectorRajesh S. JalaStarsDurga Prasad ChoudharyBhagirathi DeviPuneet SaraswatKabir, a filmmaker, enters the city of Banaras. He starts following Durga, a young cremator; and Amma, who awaits her death in this sacred city to attain Moksha. As the story progresses, hidden realities emerge, real mission unfolds.India
F - DirectorHenri PardoStarsRayan DieudonnéPenande EstimeMartin DubreuilIn the early 70s, after leaving their troubled hometown in Haiti, a young boy and his mother settle in a small rural village in Quebec where the boy counts on his invisible friend to understand the new world around him.Canada (French and Haitian Creole dialogue)
F - DirectorJaione CambordaStarsJanet NovásSiobhan FernandesCarla RivasIlla of Arousa, 1971. María earns her living fishing and also helps other women in their deliveries. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee from her and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival.Spain/Portugal (Galician and Portuguese dialogue)
F - DirectorAskhat KuchinchirekovStarsAydos AyesbaevJanbyrbay BaidilbayevKairat BaisalbayevFollowing an old nomadic tradition 'bauryna salu', a boy Yersultan, was given after his birth to be raised by his grandmother. When he turns twelve, his grandmother dies and he has to move back with his family which he barely knows.Kazakhstan (Kazakh dialogue)
F - DirectorPhilip SotnychenkoStarsAndrii ZhurbaNovruz HikmetValeria OleinikovaUkraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.Ukraine (Ukrainian, Azerbaijani and Russian dialogue)
F - DirectorAbdelhai LarakiStarsOumaima BaridMohamed NaimaneMounia LamkimelSummer 1955. Kamal, an 11 year old boy of the Medina of Fez, is experiencing the last months before Morocco's independence. With Aïcha and the students of the Qaraouiyine, he discovers and takes part in the fight for freedom. These 3 months will change his life.Morocco (Arabic and French dialogue)
F - DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsEmanuel ParvuIulia LumânareAna CionteaFollows director Dragos Binder as he explores the dark secrets of his family and attempts to use his filmmaking to overcome the trauma he experienced as a child.Romania (Romanian dialogue)
F - DirectorNelson YeoStarsPeter YuDoreen TohKelvin HoThree middle aged individuals who are forced to confront their inner demons as a long buried love triangle between them resurfacesSingapore (Mandarin dialogue)
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