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- DirectorWes AndersonStarsBryan CranstonKoyu RankinEdward NortonSet in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
- DirectorLola AriasTHEATRE OF WAR is an innovative feature documentary that reveals the personal stories of both British and Argentinean former soldiers whose lives were deeply affected by the Falklands war. The stylized individual narratives, where real experience is turned into fiction by men re-enacting their own memories, reveals deeper emotional truths about the consequences of war. It is a unique collaboration between Argentinean and British timed for the 35th anniversary of the war. In a film set turned time machine, those who fought are transported into the past to reconstruct their war and aftermath memories in acclaimed Argentinian artist Lola Arias' latest work.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsDola RashadSarah GoldbergWill JanowitzA charismatic but mentally unstable vet captures the attention of a documentary film crew who are ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern, urban fairy tale set amidst a fractured ideal of family.
- DirectorAnahí BerneriStarsSofía Gala CastiglioneDante Della PaoleraDana BassoA young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.
- DirectorYves HinantJean LibonStarsAnne GruwezDavid DerumierSerge GraideIn this unapologetic and politically incorrect portrait, an extraordinary and eccentric Belgian judge takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life criminal investigations. The stranger-than-fiction documentary makes for a wild and riveting ride.
- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsNoée AbitaLaure CalamyJuan Cano13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.
- DirectorJosephine DeckerStarsHelena HowardMolly ParkerMiranda JulyA theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
- DirectorMehdi Ben AttiaStarsHafsia HerziRaouf Ben AmorHaythem AchourFollowing the death of her husband in an accident, young Amel tries to find some consolation in photography. She takes photos of strangers from the street, looking at men as they tend to do towards women.
- DirectorCatherine EatonStarsTeddy SearsCatherine EatonHarris YulinA mysterious new language leads to conflict and rebellion.
- DirectorTonie MarshallStarsEmmanuelle DevosSuzanne ClémentRichard BerryA high executive is asked if she'd like to be the first female CEO in a water company, ruled by the government. But she'll not be the only one running for the job. She'll face some hard and dirty competition.
- DirectorRambod JavanStarsNegar JavaherianMohammad Reza ForutanAli Reza Shoja'nooriAccording to the police, Negar's father committed suicide. Having had a happy life, Negar suspects that his death has not happened the way it seems. She starts unfolding the truth through an unconventional investigation.
- DirectorAna UrushadzeStarsNato MurvanidzeRamaz IoselianiDimitri TatishviliA 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.
- DirectorSamuel BenchetritStarsVincent MacaigneVanessa ParadisBouli LannersJacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.
- DirectorBurak CevikStarsZinnure TüreDila YumurtaciEsme MadraA reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city.
- DirectorNelson Carlo de Los Santos AriasStarsVicente SantosJose CruzYuberbi de la RosaAn Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.
- DirectorMarco DutraJuliana RojasStarsIsabél ZuaaMarjorie EstianoMiguel LoboClara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
- DirectorValeska GrisebachStarsMeinhard NeumannReinhardt WetrekSyuleyman Alilov LetifovGerman construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
- DirectorAndrzej JakimowskiStarsAgata KuleszaGrzegorz PalkowskiAlin SzewczykA mother and her adult son are evicted from their flat and struggle to find safe place in a homeless shelter.
- DirectorIvana MladenovicStarsDan BursucSorin CocisCezar GrumazescuAdi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music, the 'pop music' of the Roma community. Manele music serves as a way out of poverty for some successful musicians, but more often it's just another opportunity for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching this subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon enough, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty, while Alberto feeds Adi with phrases of love. Little by little, their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveSimon SearsVic Carmen SonneA brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
- DirectorMouly SuryaStarsMarsha TimothyEgy FedlyTumpal TampubolonMarlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
- DirectorAsghar YousefinejadStarsMohadeseh HeyratRamin RiaziGholamreza BagheriThe story is about a will. A man has passed away and everybody is gathering around his body. His last will was that after his death his body will be give to the medical university to be used in their medical researches. But his daughter who has returned home after many years is not agreeing with that.
- DirectorChloé ZhaoStarsBrady JandreauMooneyTim JandreauAfter suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsIbrahim Al HusseinQutaiba NaferMaria AlahmadBerlin's Tempelhof Airport was opened in 1923 and, under Adolf Hitler, extended to become the world's largest airport which was finally closed in 2008. But even today Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures being used simultaneously as a refugee shelter and a leisure park for the inhabitants of Berlin. A historically unique moment for a portrait of this city within a city, but also of a European society in a state of emergency, caught between crisis and utopia.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMaryam TouzaniArieh WorthalterAmine EnnajiThe streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one.