AFI FEST 2016: World Cinema
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- DirectorJoachim LafosseStarsBérénice BejoCédric KahnMarthe KellerAfter 15 years of marriage, a couple with two kids is about to divorce. Until the husband find a new place to live, they have to cohabit, and figure out how to share their belongings.
- DirectorMehmet Can MertogluStarsSebnem BozokluMurat KiliçMuttalip MüjdeciA middle-class Turkish couple is far from willing to admit they used adoption as a last resort to build a family, and will do anything to keep it a secret.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsJames HyndmanSimone-Élise GirardDenis LavantA man begins having an extramarital affair to deal with his emotional and companionship needs while caring for his terminally ill wife.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsFares FaresTrine DyrholmUlrich ThomsenA story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.
- DirectorChao YangStarsHao QinZhilei XinLipeng WuA voyage in between a woman who tries to searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsSnezana VidovicIzudin BajrovicVedrana BozinovicThe major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of the place waiting to Jacques, a special French guest, workers in the kitchen preparing a strike because they have spent months without pay and journalist records a television show on the roof.
- DirectorPhilippe LesageStarsÉdouard Tremblay-GrenierPier-Luc FunkVassili SchneiderA young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAmir JadidiEhsan GoodarziHomayoun GhanizadehAn orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
- DirectorFrancesco CarrozziniStarsMarina AbramovicAzzedine AlaïaNaomi CampbellAn intimate portrait of Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAdrian TitieniMaria DragusLia BugnarA film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsJarkko LahtiOona AirolaEero MilonoffThe true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
- DirectorKôji FukadaStarsTadanobu AsanoMariko TsutsuiTaiga NakanoToshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
- DirectorFien TrochStarsSebastian Van DunMistral GuidottiLoïc BellemansThe struggle between two generations and its thin line between trust, friendship and betrayal.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDave JohnsHayley SquiresSharon PercyAfter surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGaspard UllielMarion CotillardLéa SeydouxLouis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEmma SuárezAdriana UgarteDaniel GraoAfter a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
- DirectorMijke de JongStarsNora El KoussourIlias AddabHassan AkkouchA teenage Muslim growing up in Amsterdam becomes radicalised.
- DirectorMarc Weymuller
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsTairo CaroliWendy WeberArthur RobinThe young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalLuis GneccoMercedes MoránAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsRyu Seung-beomLee Won-geunKim Young-minA North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.
- DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsFinnegan OldfieldVincent RottiersHamza MezianiSome young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
- DirectorJohnny MaStarsGang ChenNai AnHongwei WangA psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsPaul HamyJoão Pedro RodriguesXelo CagiaoFernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- DirectorJoaquin del PasoStarsJavier ZaragozaRamiro OrozcoIrene RamirezIt's Friday morning at Pan American Machinery Inc., a company specializing in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events pulls them off their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse. The discovery changes everything - the company is bankrupt, the elderly workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope of any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they agree to lock themselves in their workplace.
- DirectorMichael Dudok de WitStarsEmmanuel GarijoTom HudsonBaptiste GoyA man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a big red turtle, which changes his life.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsShahab HosseiniTaraneh AlidoostiMina SadatiWhile Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
- DirectorMia Hansen-LøveStarsIsabelle HuppertAndré MarconRoman KolinkaA philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
- DirectorAmat EscalanteStarsRuth RamosSimone BucioJesús MezaA couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsOmar AdilovTimur AidarbekovMadiyar AripbayIn a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
- DirectorDaouda CoulibalyStarsIbrahim KomaInna ModjaIsmaël N'DiayeA young man begins trafficking cocaine and quickly becomes embroiled in the Malian drug ring.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKim Ju-hyukLee Yoo-youngKwon Hae-hyoA foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire".