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- DirectorJack CahillDavid EberhardtStarsJessieHorizontal JohnJoshua Long GoneDocumentary about 6 tramps who hop trains in America.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsTatsuya MihashiYumeji TsukiokaMie KitaharaWhen she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku's portrait was painted by a talented young artist. Years later, she takes it to an art gallery in Ginza, in hopes of reuniting with the creator whom she never knew the name.
- DirectorJohn WinterStarsKatherine HicksAnya BeyersdorfValerie BaderAngie is a prostitute, a chameleon - a butterfly. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her.
- DirectorHiroshi OkuharaStarsArata IuraAoi MiyazakiKumiko AsôDJ Richio wears sunglasses to hide a scar around his eyes. He is also haunted by nightmares of a childhood accident that led to his scar. Richio also dates Akemi. Meanwhile, Richio notices his girlfriend's younger sister Konomi taking an interest in him.
- DirectorEric PauwelsOn the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship with her: a relationship that made him a free individual, as a man and as a filmmaker. The second night is the final part of a trilogy that began with Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter, which was followed by Dreaming films. The making of this " Cabin Trilogy" is the fruit of fifteen years of work and reflection.
- DirectorJoey CiccolineStarsRamon De OcampoRachael KahneRobin MooreWhen rendered powerless by an outside force, a young woman must find a way to fight back.
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsMicheline PresleMassimo GirottiGaby MorlayMarie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home. Despite her strong feelings for André, Marie refuses to give up her vocation and the two lovers part. Marie finds herself alone, with a broken heart.
- DirectorJeong-hyang LeeStarsShim Eun-haLee Sung-jaeAhn Sung-kiTwo strangers with very little in common, find themselves forced to live together.
- DirectorWillem van de Sande BakhuyzenStarsPetra LaseurBram van der VlugtMarisa Van EyleOpenheartedness turns into a question of life and death when what was planned to be a pleasant family holiday becomes a harsh confrontation with the happy family myth.
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsRobert BrobergLars LennartssonLinda KrügerLife wonderfully described as a football match; ups and downs, disallowed goals, penalties and so on. Everything is accompanied with the ever changing pop music and the song "Bye, bye love" runs all through the film.
- DirectorTakatsugu NaitôStarsKazuki Hiro'okaShinya KoteAkaji MaroManzo is a lonely fisherman almost in his 40's but still single. When the local government organizes a matchmaking party Manzo figures to try his luck.
- DirectorChia-Liang LiuStarsYue WongChen-Chi LinLung TiA con artist uses Kung Fu to swindle villagers for money by pretending to be possessed by angry gods. However, when the villagers are later threatened by bandits he must use the same skills for good.
- DirectorNahid PerssonStarsSoudabeh ArdavanParvaneh ArefMonireh BaradaranAs a student, the director managed to flee revolutionary Iran. Many who stayed behind did not survive. When there are renewed protests in Teheran 30 years later, she goes looking for a couple of other survivors who fled. An emotional, very personal documentary.
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsKaoru KobayashiKippei ShînaTeruyuki KagawaAs a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to a guide dog school, by a friendly, yet firm trainer Satoru Tawada. Although Quill is a little slower than the other dogs at the school, he seems to have an unusual 'empathy' and remarkable patience with his trainers. Tawade decides that Quill would be the ideal guide dog for Mitsuru Watanabe, but Wanatabe, a lonely and ill-tempered middle aged man, isn't as enthusiastic - he would "would rather sleep than be dragged around by a dog.". From here, the story is narrated by Wanatabe's daughter, Mitsuko, and slowly, Wantanbe is rehabilitated, venturing into the outside world, and learning, not only to trust other humans, but the animal at his side who guides him.
- DirectorWayne EwingStarsBob BraudisDouglas BrinkleyAlex CoxA documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsRie MiyazawaYoshio HaradaTadanobu AsanoBased on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
- DirectorSaam FarahmandSoulwaxStarsDavid DewaeleStephen DewaeleSoulwaxRockumentary about the brothers Dewaele. They became a worldwide phenomenon through Soulwax and 2manydj's.
- DirectorMartin StirlingStarsHils BarkerLisa GiffordJohn Martin-ShawIn the mid-21st century offices are dull, health and safety seminars are boring and the meek are downtrodden by the bitchy. In other words: nothing's changed...until the arrival of a social network which connects users to friends from the far future. With it, awkward office worker Rose finds a new lease on life...
- DirectorJan NemecStarsJan BartusekOldrich BláhaIvan RencBy the end of 2nd World War 3 prisoners wish to escape from the train. To make it real, they need to get food first...
- DirectorMartin HollýStarsStefan KvietikEmília VásáryováIvan RajniakA dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsNobuo KanekoSetsuko KatôYoshirô KatôTwo women start relationships with men who are considered wrong to them.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsRyôji HayamaKeiji ItamiKeiko IzumiThe conclusion to Yûzô Kawashima's Hungry Soul.
- DirectorErmek TursynovStarsGulsharat ZhubyevaTurakhan SadykovaErzhan NurymbetA woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is not such a bad catch after all but domestic bliss does not last long.
- DirectorColin LevyStarsDaniel JonesTom NowickiTom CarleglioA psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.
- DirectorNina DavenportStarsNina DavenportEric E. OlesonFirst comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. For filmmaker Nina Davenport, that old playground song didn't go as planned. Single at age 41, she decides to have a baby on her own, never minding the odds stacked against her or the extra hurdles of living in New York City. Along the way, she explores the ever-changing definition of "family."
- DirectorCelia Rico ClavellinoStarsAsunción BalaguerFernando GuillénMaría Alfonsa RossoLuisa's washing machine has stopped working. After the initial misfortune this will represent, it will actually become her perfect alibi to slip away from her slow daily routine. To her husband, the absence of the washing machine will become a greater absence, Luisa is not home anymore fulfilling her submissive housewife duties.
- DirectorJoão Pedro PlácidoStarsDaniel Xavier PereiraAntónio GuimarãesDaniela BarrosoVolta à Terra tells the story of an endangered community: farmers who practice subsistence farming in a mountainous village of northern Portugal, deserted due to emigration. Between the evocation of the past and their uncertain future, we follow the 49 inhabitants through four seasons.
- DirectorRicardo MehedffStarsTomas Oscar AndrenSarah HanselA couple wake up at the same time. They live in parallel worlds, side by side, but with each other too? A Film about morning rituals, grind and relationships within which the viewer is repeatedly wrong footed.
- DirectorChase GordonStarsPat TowneCree SummerBeth LuluBrad Whitman has a plan to make sure he will never go hungry again.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsUwe KockischMisel MaticevicJulia BlankenburgStrangers are blackmailing the city of Leipzig. An attack and further threats underline their demands.
- DirectorBani KhoshnoudiStarsNeda RazavipourMorteza SokhangouMohammad Ali ZolfaghariZiba is an upper-class housewife in today's modern Tehran. Unable to relate to her environment or to her alienating life, she lives within her repetition unable to express to those around her what is wrong. But one long summer day, Ziba finds herself in an unexpected situaiton in the company of people unknown to her, confronted with her own choices and indecisions. Not a character portrait per se, this film works as a visceral metaphor of the general state of oppression and silence in Iran today.
- DirectorAlonso AlvarezStarsAmilcar CarrascosaMauricio Garcia MuelaOne stranger on his way to an important meeting will transform the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film.
- DirectorStefan SchallerStarsSascha Alexander GersakBen MilesMarc HodappHow Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
- DirectorCédric BaboucheThe cycle of life. A boy whose father is a pilot imagines that his toy plane becomes the real thing, allowing him to fly side-by-side through the heavens with his father. He takes off from a tree house overlooking the sea and his father's landing strip. Their flight is graceful and full of adventure. Then, we watch the boy grow, study, marry, father a child, and become, himself, a grandfather. Holding a toy plane, he takes his grandchild to the same cliff from whence his own imagination took off years before.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsKuan Tai ChenFeng KuJason Piao PaiRighteous constable Leng Tian-Ying has a fearsome reputation of killing criminals without remorse. But after being assigned to track a gang that robbed the imperial treasury, he comes to find that his reputation is being used against him.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsMandy MillerHilda FenemoreRussell WatersA little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
- DirectorDaan BakkerStarsSteve AernoutsIdar AndersenMaja BaaserudFive thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.
- DirectorAaron KoppAmanda KoppStarsGcina MhlopheFive children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsAntonio PetruzziStefano Satta FloresSergio FerraninoThe story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.