Aamhi Doghi
India | Pratima Joshi

When Teenager savi is introduced to her stepmother, she doesnt display any emotion. Having been trained to be pratical, Savi leads an independent life which even results in the loss of her love life. Her illiterate stepmother makes her realize that being emotional is not foolish, and if she is independent, so should her emotion be. When the dry, practical Savi finds this point of view of life and the world, she is suddenly like every one of us.

Abyakto
India | BENGALI | Arjun Dutta

Abyakto is a poignant tale of a mother an her son, Indra. The film captures a series of unexplained and unusual events which turn Indra into a men he never thought he would become.These events unfold through the film’s three most integral characters: Indra’s mother, Saathi his father, Kaushik his father’s friend and his favorite uncle Rudra. The film travels through various time lapses and captures the stirring and unexplainable situations and the intricacies and complexities of various relationship.

Baaram
India  | TAMIL | Priya Krisnaswamy

karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, live with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a a tradiditional healer. After Eight days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?

Bhayanakam
India | MALAYALAM | Jayaraj

A First World War veteran is coming to a small blackwater vilage in Kerala, India, as a Postman. He is distributing money orders and letter to the family of soldiers as a symbol of happiness. He turns out to be an Omen of death once the Second World War starts. The pain and impact of the War is shown through the telegrams and postman’s dilemma.

Bhor
India | Kamakhya Narayan Singh

Budhni, a poor girl from Bihar’s Mushar community, is split between her desire to study and her family’s demand for marriage. She agrees to marry Sugan after he promises her to let her continue her studies. After marriage, she faces another challenge ending the practice of open defecation. Sugan again supports and facilitates her with innovative makeshift toilet in the house. Bhor captures the nuances and emotions that define the relationship between Budhni and Sugan as she fights for education and sanitation.

Dhappa
India | MARATHI | Nipun Avinash Dharmadhikari

A political group in Pune disrupts rehearsals of Anuradha’s new children’s play on environmental issues with messages of Jesus Christ and Sant Tukaram. They object to Jesus Christ being part of the play to be staged during Ganesh chatuthi. While the elders relent, the children don’t find anything offensive in play. They try asking their elders but find no acceptable answers. Eventually, they decide to take matters in their own hands and find answers through their play.

Ee Maa Yove
India | Lijo Jose Pellissery

Vavachan, a master mason belonging to the Latin Catholic community in Kerala , shares memories his father’s burial with his son Eesy. He expresses a desire of a grand funeral for himself which Eesy promises. After Vavachan’s sudden death, Eesy tries to arrang a decent funeral for him but is met with unpredictable obstacles and reactions from different quarters. The subsequent events brings the fore conflict within the family and the deep ethical crisis simmering in the community.

Mahanati
India | TELUGU | Nagashwin

Mahanati chronicles the life of South Indian film industry’s first lady superstar- Savitri. Despite Unmatched beauty and talent, Savitri initially faces rejection. She eventually gets a break as a lead actress in Pelli Chesi Choodu (1952), and her life changes forever. Her journey to fame, marriage to Tamil super star Gemini Ganeshan and dramatic downfall make her story one of the most heart Wrenching romantic tragedies ever.

Makkana
India | MALAYALAM | Raheem Khader

The film unveils the repercussions and tantrums of an orthodox couple, when their daughter elopes and marries a man belonging to a different religion. The love for their daughter and deep-rooted religious dogma creates a dilemma among the parents. The film ends with a note of their realization that all religions must be propagating humanistic values and brotherhood, and that their daughter is far more important than the religion they believe in.

Nagarkirtan
India | BENGALI | Kaushik Ganguly

Born as a boy in rural Bengal, Parimal realized he is a woman trapped in a man’s body. He seeks refuge at a transgender shelter in Kolkata, and become Puti. There ‘she’ meets the love of her life Madhu, a flute player. Realizing that even the transgenders won’t accept their relationship, they flee. But their plight had only begun. The film explores their devotion to eternal love in a rigid society where many such love stories are lost to social shame.

 October 
India | Hindi | Shoojit Sircar

Dan, 21, leads a carefree life, revolving around a bunch of friends and fellow hotel interns. Shiuli, a colleague,is often at the receiving end of Dan’s audaciousness. Life goes on until a sudden turn of events smashes Dan and Shiuli’s lives together in an unusual bond. The emotional connection between them goes through a metamorphosis that brings out a form of love that’s unlike other, and leads to an internal awakening. October is a story of love…yet not a love story.

Olu
India | AMALAYALAM | Shaji N. Karun

Olu (She) is the tale of a gypsy girl who mysteriously survives under the Kerala backwaters where she has been sunk by her rapists. Only during full moon nights, can she see the world above water. It is on such a night that she happens to meet Vasu, a young untalented painter, rowing his boat. Out of love, she empowers him to create paintings that will change his life. But their contrasting inner visions of love may remain unbridgeable.

Paddayi
India | Abhaya Simha

Paddayi is a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Madhava and Sugandhi is a newly-married couple from the fishing community of south India. Their lust for better life is ignited by the prophecies from the spirit that wander the land. Dinesba, owner of a fleet, gives them new dreams. But when their life was on a new high, he betrays them. Now the couple is determined to take a bitter revenge. The story soon turns into a tale of murder and regrets.

Padmaavat
India | Hindi | Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The legend of the Queen Padmavati’s exceptional beauty reaches Allaudin Khilji. Obsessed with Padmavati, the sultan lays siege on the impregnable Chittorgarh fortress. After a gruelling six months, he returns to Delhi empty handed but returns with a bigger army. A fearsome
battle ensues with Chittor King Mabarawal Ratan Singh, who dies defending his kingdom and his queen. Khilji manages to breach the fortress but fails to capture Padmavati as she commits johar (self immolation) to protect her dignity.

Pariyerum Perumal BA. BL
India | TAMIL | Mari Selvaraj

Pariyerum Perumal a.k.a Pariyan is pursuing his law degree in Tirunveli, Tamil Nadu. Back in his village, he has a hunting dog Karuppi. When the pet is suddenly killed, he is devastated. At the college, a girl Jo offers help in studies and they develop friendship. Meanwhile, the mysterious killer, who is killing unsuspecting innocents, is now lurking around Pariyan. The more he tries to evade the war, the more he is sucked into it This is a tale of romance, rage and resilience.

Peranbu
India | TAMIL | Ram

Unable to cope up with a child with spastic paralysis, Amudhavan goes to Dubai to work. He has to return to take care of his daughter Paapa when his wife elopes. When she attains puberty, he addresses her biological needs. But he loses himself and his assets to an affair with a maid. When Paapa explores her sexuality just like he did, Amudhavan couldn’t bear it. But hope comes in the form of a transgender who helps them resurrect a new life.

Poomaram 
India | MALAYALAM | Abrid Shine

Poomaram conveys that ‘Art is life’ and the ‘life is an art’. At the annual youth festival, several colleges participate with music bands and dance troupes but only a few can win. As teams arrive with aspirations, Professor Anandan teaches his studens to go beyond the spirit of competition and while performing, experience the purest form of art- enjoyment. His students are committed to the cause but then there are others who have different plans. A clash is inevitable.

Raazi
India | Hindi | Meghna Gulzar

Raazi is a true life espionage thriller set in 1971. A 20- year- old Delhi university student, Sehmat is called back home to Kashmir by her parents. Her father, an influential businessman, has fixed Sehma’ts marriage wth Pakistani Brigadier’s son. The real reson for Sehmat’s marriage is a covert mission: she is to be sent as a spy into a Pakistani military family and source out all the information that she can get on Pakistani’s strategy in the impending Indo-Pak war.

Sa
India | BENGALI | Arijit Singh

Sa chronicles life of a simple family in West Bengal, in the aftermath of mass migration following the birth of Bangladesh. The birth of lalu brings great joy but the tragic circumstances force his father to send Lalu to his childhood friend, a venerated maestro of Indian classical music. There he picks up lessons on culture, religion and urban- rural divide and learns to live with a smile and a belief that everything is going to be alright.

Sinjar
India | Jasari | Pampally

Sinjar revolves around Ansar, and ordinary fisherman living in Kavaratti (in Lakshadweep Island), his sister Suhara and his fiancee Fida. The movie captures how the two ladies, who are held captive and exploited by the ISIS terrorists in Sinja, a place near Iraq, survive and fight the communal situation in kavaratti when they return. One of the women decides to bring up her illegitimate child into this world and raise his as a good Muslim.
Sinjar is the first Jasari language film.

Sudani from Nigeria
India | MALAYALAM | Zakariya

Majid, a typical football lover from Malappuram in Kerala, works as a recruitment agent of foreign players for local tournaments. When Samuel, a Nigerian footballer hired by him, suffers a severe back injury and is advised two months bed rest, Majid is obliged to take him home. Ecstatic to host a foreign footballer, Majid’s relatives and neighborhood shower their love on Samuel. But soon the beautiful friendship is disrupted by the state officials in the name of law.

Tiger Zinda Hai
India | Hindi | Ali Abbas Zafar

Tiger Zinda Hai continues the story of two super spies Tiger and Zoya form Ek Tha Tiger (2012), who are officially declared ‘dead’. When the Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage at an Iraqi hospital by terrorists, RAW chief Shenoy has just seven days to rescue them and he needs Tiger. Shenoy manages to locate Tiger and Zoya, and briefs them about the case. Tiger is reluctant at first, but he on Zoya’s insistence agrees to go on the mission to save the nurses.

To Let
India

To Let is a story of a couple with a child living in a rented house in Chennai. It takes place in 2007 when the metro city was experiencing a real estate boom as a result of an exponential development of the IT sector. Alittle too greedy for a higher rent, the land owner asks the couple to vacate their house. They have only thirty days to find new accommodation with their modest middle-class income. On their moped, the couple starts a race against time and all kinds of prejudice to get a house.

Uma
India | BENGALI | Srijit Mukherji

Uma is a story of a young girl who is fighting a terminal disease, a father, who is struggling to make his daughter’s dreams come true, and about a director whose past haunts him. It starts off with Uma, a young girl brought up in Austria, being recognized with a terminal disease and goes on about how Himadri, her father takes her Kolkata to fulfill her dream by setting up a fake Durga Puja, the most celebrated festival of the Bengalis.

Aai Shappath
India | MARATHI | Gautam Vaze

Eight-year- old Soham is delighted as his beloved aunty and cousin visit him over the weekend. Things start getting uneasy for him when his cousin Ninad takes a false swears on his mother. Little Soham couldn’t help but remain anxious and worried about his aunt’s wellbeing over the entire weekend, which lasts a century in his mind.

Bhar Dupari
India | MARATHI | Swapnil Vasant Kapure

Suhas and Sneha are expecting their first child after a five-year wait. Sneha is seven months pregnant. One pleasant Sunday when they are about to leave to shop for the upcoming baby shower, an unexpected incident changes their lives drastically. They not only lose their unborn child, but also get trapped in a sequence of uncontrollable events. They decide to spend some time in their village, but their problems get escalated when they meet another mother who also lost her son.

Bunkar: The Last of The Varanasi Weavers
English | Satyaprakash Upadhyay

Bunkar-The last of the Varanasi Weavers captures the lives of Varanasi weavers and the price they pay to keep Indian legacy alive. These weavers can weave with precision almost anything that the human mind can imagine. However, with cheap power loom fabrics rapidly making their way into our wardrobes, they stand at crossroads. Bunkar compels us to rethink the role we can play in making a difference to their lives. Else, we may lose this art forever.

Burning
India | Hindi | Sanoj V.S

Burning is a conversation between two young mothers brought together by strange and cruel social realities at a funeral ghat in Varanasi. Facing myriad forms of patriarchal violence, they build an instant bonding and understanding towards each other while trying to strike a bizarre deal they were pushed to negotiate.

Decoding Shankar
India | English | Deepti Sivan

This film explores Shankar Mahadevan’s tryst with music. Narrated in his own inimitable style, the singer- composer recollects the decisive moments that shaped his musical sensibilities. It focuses on how he balances his career as a singer, music composer, teacher and family man, and also his passion for food.

Gyamo-Queen of the Mountains
India | English | Doel Trivedy & Gautam Pandey

Gyamo, the female snow leopard, and her two cubs haven’t been seen since the big male snow leopard appeared. The father-son wildlife filmmaker duo Mike and Gautam return to the same mountain to pick up their trail and find the cubs. Exploring this amazing landscape, they discover there are many challenges surrounding the endangered cat. It is thus imperative to understand the people who share its home to protect this elusive cat and its habitat before it disappears forever.

Happy Birthday
India | MARATHI | Medhpranav Powar

Sharad, a machine operator at a workshop, works part-time as a mascot entertainer at birthday parties. One day, he gets a birthday party of his son Aakash’s friend. He manages to hide himself from Aakash, who enjoyed his act, but is noticed by a child Next day in school, Aakash is
teased for his father’s party mascot act. Aakash is socked and feels insulted, but he eventually understands why his father does that and accepts the reality whole heartedly.

Kharvas
India | MARATHI | Aditya Suhas Jambhale

Aasawari, a painter by profession, has just lost her girl child who was still born. Totally frustrated by the condolence visits, she withdraws to her ancestral house in a remote Konkan village. However, Aasawari’s struggle to overcome this trauma is met with ultimate provocation when she accidentally learns about a pregnant cow due to deliver soon in her own cowshed. (Kharvas is a sweet milk pudding made from cow colostrums, and is highly popular in western India).

Lasyam
India | MALAYALAM | Vinod Mankara

This documentary captures the efforts of Mohiniyattam exponent Dr. Sunanda Nair, who is trying to make the art more beautiful by imbibing Kerala’s own dance tradition. Mohiniyattam originated and grew in Kerala with Lasyam or love as its central feature. A recipient of Kerala Sangeetha Natak Akademi Puraskar, she says that to make the dance form modern and contemporary, other Kerala arts and musical instrument shave to be utilised.

Malai
India | Odia | Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti

A lower-caste boy from rural India goes with his family to attend the wedding of a local political leader’s son. He is excited at the prospect of having a grand meal, especially his favorite ice-cream called ‘Malal.’. The boy, however, discovers the dark side of the Great Indian Wedding as he witnesses caste discrimination and exploitation of the poor including women and children. His family too has to pay a great a price to earn the little boy’s his favorite ice-cream.

Midnight Run
India | MALAYALAM | Remya Raj

A young boy comes out from a scrap yard on a festive night and reaches a road. He hitches a ride with a trucker. Despite his attempts to strike a friendship with the driver, he fails, and his question creates an uncomfortable ambiance in the truck. Slowly, a frightening danger starts to loom over the boy and there seems to be no escape possible. Midnight Run realistically portray fear’s ability to trigger a complete transformation in people.

Monitor
India | Hindi| Hari Viswanath

Rupa works in a IT company while her boyfriend works at a call center. To be able to clear her debts and give a comfortable life to her mom Rupa gives her heart and soul to her job. Despite this she is harassed at work by her immediate superior. She struggles to balance her career and personal life by spending time with her mom and boyfriend. The entire film is told from a (Computer) monitor’s point of view.

Na Bole Wo Haram
India | Hindi | Nitish Patankar

Young boys Pashya and Aseem are best friends in a small town in Konkan, Maharashtra. Pashya’s father is a priest in local temple while Aseem is a son of a butcher. After witnessing a religious ritual involving sacrificial killing of a goat, the boys begin wondering why something is good and something not! How ‘virtues’ are created? As the start discovering the things they come with their own set of principles for holy and unholy.

Nani Teri Morni
India | Akashaditya Lama

This film is based on Mhonbeni Ezungwho was the youngest recipient of national bravery award for children in 2015. She saved her grandmother from drowning and rump over her fear. The tale is set in a far flung eastern comer of India, in the village of Tsungiki in the Wokha district of the State of Nagaland. Nani Teri Momi is said to be the first film from India to be entirely shot in the picturesque mountains of Nagaland.

Pamphlet
India | MARATHI | Shekhar Bapu Rankhambe

A 12-year-old boy receives a religious pamphlet which mandates circulation of copies of the same to avoid misfortune. But he does not have money to print the copies of the same. As he cannot follow the same, he develops a tremendous fear of misfortune. This film depicts how “this fear transforms the boy who was once ready to compete with moon into a mentally-handicapped child.

Sampurak
India | BENGALI | Prabal Chakraborty

After their five-day-long business workshop, a woman and a man are declared as joint winners for their presentation. The film traces the life of these two individuals after their joint win. While the man’s win is celebrated by his family and he is offered privileges on his return, the woman’s win is not even talked about and she is expected to manage the pending household chores on her return. She is even made to feel guilty for her absence from home for those five days.

Silent Scream 
India | MARATHI | Prasanna Ponde

Silent Scream is the story of a boy who gets caught up in a custody battle between his divorced parents. The parents are so caught up with their own problems that they don’t even notice the emotional turmoil their son is going through, and what does the child want. In the bargain, one of the parents gains the child custody but has to keep away from him because of career.

The Last of The Varanasi Weavers
India | English | Satyaprakash Upadhyay

Bunkar-The last of the Varanasi Weavers captures the lives of Varanasi weavers and the price they pay to keep Indian legacy alive. These weavers can weave with precision almost anything that the human mind can imagine. However, with cheap power loom fabrics rapidly making their way into our wardrobes, they stand at crossroads. Bunkar compels us to rethink the role we can play in making a difference to their lives. Else, we may lose this art forever.

The Sword of Liberty
India | MALAYALAM | Shiny Jacob Benjamin

The Sword of Liberty uses an unconventional narrative to recap the story of Velu Thambi Dalawa, one of the first Indian freedom fighters. Protagonist Devaki journeys from the laid-back, picturesque Nanjinadu to the distant Kilimanoor Palace, in pursuit of the Dalawa stories she had learnt. Her path crosses those of puppeteers, artists and historians and interweaves indigenous art forms to narrate important anecdotes and little-known snippets from Velu Thambi’s life.

The World’s Most Famous Tiger
India | English | S. Nalla Muthu

Machli, the legendary Tiger Queen of Ranthambhore National Park, was known for her determination, bravery and confidence. Machli died at the record age of 27 years but not before playing a population in the Ranthambhore and chronicles Machli’s journey from he prime to her death; telling the incredible stories behind Machli’s rise to power, her heartbreaking descent and the extraordinary legacy she left behind.

Yes, I am Mauli
India | MARATHI | Suhas Jahagirdar

Ashadhichi Wari is an annual spiritual journey in which millions warkaris walk on foot from. Alandi, Pune to Pandharpur, Solapur, covering about 250 kms.Suhas Jahagirdar had no intention of making this documentary. But be could not hold back recording the mesmerizing personal experience on his cell phone. Later, he decided to edit them and make a documentary on it, resulting in the film Yes, I am Mauli.

492
Brazil | Portugese | Henrique Goldman

This film is a thrilling portrait of Julio Santana, an innocent and lost man, who confessed to murdering 492 perosns. Filmed like a Western it’s a true-life story set in contemporary north-eastern Brazil, a barren and wild landscape , a reign of violence and lawlessness where the life of every human being has a fixed price.

1985
USA | English | Yen Tan

3 Days in Quiberon
Germany | Austria | France | German, French | Emily Atef

Romy Schneider, the biggest female star in Europe of her time gives her last interview to two journalists in a spa hotel. One year before her death, Hilde, her close friend comes to offer her support. Two journalists from the STERN arrive to conduct an interview, for three days and nights, the interaction between the quarter ranges from sensitivity to brutal manipulation, Romy goes through an emotional roller coaster ride, but the end of it, she rediscovers her zest for life and the inner strength to carry on.

7 Emotions
Poland | Polish | Marek Koterski

Adas Miauczynski goes back to his childhood days when, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time, which proves not so carefree after all to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions.
This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thoughts.

Alone at My Wedding
Belgium | French/Romanian/Romani/Dutch | Marta Bergman

Pamela, a single mother, she lives with her grandmother and her little girl in a small hut where the three of them shares a bed. How can she reconcile the needs of her two- year old daughter and her dream of freedom?
Pamela embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. All she has are three words in French ” Lapin, pizza, amount” and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughters destiny.

Amin
France | French, Wolof | Philippe Faucon

Amin came from Senegal nine years ago to work in France, leaving behind is wife Aisha and their three children. Aisha sees her husband only once or twice a year, for a week or two, sometimes a month, she accepts this situation as a necessity: the money that Amin sends to Senegal provides for several people. So fat seperated from his wife, he has led a life devoted to duty and knew he had to remain vigilant. Though Amin is reserved and there is the language barrier, one day, Amin meets Gabrielle and a relationship starts between them.

An Elephant Sitting Still
China | Mandarin | Hu Bo

An orange ship
Bangladesh | Bengali | Noor Imran Mithu

The story of the film revolves around a streamer named Rocket. Atik, who broads the ship as a first class passenger, has set fire to his own company to claim insurance money. He is travelling to his friend’s house to escape detection.On board the same is a man with the burnt body of a woman who worked in Atik’s factory.

Arthur & Claire
Germany | Austria | Netherlands | German, Dutch | Miguel Alexandre

Arthur (50) is terminally ill and wants to end his life in a euthanasia clinic in Amesterdam. ON the eve of his planned death he is being disturbed by an extremely loud noises from the hotel room next door. There he finds Claire (30), who wants to commit suicide. He manages to stop her and she takes him into the night life of Amsterdam and shows him there’s enough to live for. After the night is spent together they both return to their lives with renewed spirit.

Ash
China | chinese | Xiaofeng Li

A decade ago, a medical student and a steelworker becomes pen-friends. Off the page, passion and hatred mingle and two murders are committed, and the two friends part ways. A young police officer starts to investigate, but in vain. A decade later the steelworker returns to the the city. Meanwhile the police officer can’t shake off the unsolved mystery of the murder cases. The last ten years have made each of the characters fall deeper into webs of vice and desire. They must choose the path to salvation, or the road to hell.

 The Aspern Papers 
UK|Germany | English | Julien Landais

Autsajder
Poland | Polish | Adam Sikora

The protagonist of the film is Franek, a student of painting. Coincidentally he becomes involved and entangeled in the cogs of a horrific totalitarian machine. His sensitivity and humanity will be heavily tested. A story inspired by true events from the martial law period and the early 1980s.

Averno
Bolivia|Uruguay | Spanish | Marcos Loayza

Young bootblack, Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle lost in the Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, as myth and reality get endlessly intertwined, Tupah has to defeat the worst of his enemies and the greatest of his fears.

Back Home
Poland | Polish | Magdalena Lazarkiewicz

Birds of Passage
Colombia|Denmark|Mexico | Wayuu, Spanish, English | Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra

During the Marijuana Bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigeneous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Black ’47
Ireland|Luxembourg | English|Irish | Lance Daly

Set in Ireland during the great famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has beeh fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the Famine’s destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.

The Bra  
Germany | Azerbaijan | Ajerbaijan | Veit Helmer

Train driver, Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. One its way round the neighbourhoods of the city his train snags a blus bra off a washing line. To escape from hs lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous ourney of his life to find the owner of his perky piece of underwear.

Brothers
Netherlands | Dutch | Hanro Smitsman

Set in war-torn Syria, the film depicts the story of two brothers, Hassan and Mourad searching for their younger brother Yasin, an alleged extremist

Carmen & Lola
Spain | Spanish | Arantxa Echevarria

Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid. One day she meets Lola, a Gypsy who dreams about going to university draws bird graffin and likes girls. Carmen quickly develops complicity with Lola and they discover a world that leads them to be rejected by their famiies, thus breaking the analogue.

Colette
UK/Hungary/Germany | English | Wash Westmoreland

Daughter Of Mine
Italy/Germany/Switzerland | Italian | Laura Bispuri

A daughter torn between two mothers: one, who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back. The story of 3 women, struggling with primitive feelings, dealing with their wounds and inextricable bonds, involving imperfect motherhood and a wandering childhood.

Euphoria
Italy | Italian | Valeria Golino

Matteo is a succesful young entrepreneur. His brother Ettore is cautious, honest man who still lives in the small provincial town where they grew up and teaches there. They appear to be very different as people. But life forces back them together and a difficult situation provides the two brothers with the chance to know and discover each other in a vortex of fragility and euphoria.

 The Gentle Indifference of the world
Kazakhstan/France | Kazakh | Adilkhan Yerzhanov

The Happy Prince  
UK/Belgium | English, Italian, French | Rupert Everett

In a cheap Parisian hotwl room, Oscar Wilde lies on his deathbed and the past floods back. He reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his wife, Constance, the reprisal of his fatal love affair with Alfred Douglas. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, Oscar always moves on, revered by a strange group of outlaws to whom he tells the old stories, with his incomparable wit still sharp.

 The Harvesters 
South Africa/France/Greece/Poland | Afrikaans | Etienne Kallos

The Harvesters is set in a white ethnic minority culture, in the region of South Africa. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity. Janno is secretive and emotionally frail. One day his fiercely religious mother brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to makes his stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power and parental love.

The Heiresses 
Paraguay|Germany|Uruguay|Brazil|Norway|France | Spanish | Marcelo Martinessi

High Life
Germany | France | UK | Poland | USA | English | Claire Denis

A Sacred Gaucho
Argentina | Spanish/Guarani | Joaquin Pedretti

A farm laborer crosses the mythical nature of the Ibera Wetlands in search of the child that he lost in an accident. In order to find it , he has to transform into a popular hero called “Gauchito Gil”, a local Robin Hood, and therefore die like the myth hanged from the ankles.

In the Aisles
Germany | Arabic | Thomas Stuber

Kazantzakis
Greece | Greek| Yannis Smaragdis

Kazantzakis aims to potray the fascinating personality of Nikos Kazantzakis. The great Cretan writer uesd to say that his life was defined by his travels and his dreams. Based on his book “Report to Greco”, the movie captures his journeys to Germany, austria, Russia, France and Mount Sinai throuh these experiences, show his philosophical and metaphysical quest.

Lemonade
Germany | English, Romanian | Ioana Uricaru

Mata, a young Raomanian mother and nurse who moved to the United States several moths agofor work, has already become accustomed to the suspicious, questioning glances; a part of her life in America. By Morning she’s getting vaccinated, by afternoon, she’s taking her nine year old son to look at schools and by evening, she’s simply trying to keep peace with her new husband.

Little Tickles
France | French | Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer

London Fields
UK/USA | English | Mathew Cullen

Maine
USA | English | Matthew Brown

A married womans journey of self discovery and introspection while solo-hiking the Appalachian Trail ends up sidetraked, when she encounters a lone hiker.

Manta Ray
Thailand/France/China | Thai | Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds a man lying unconcious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, and names him Thong Chai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thong Chai begans to take over his life, his house, his job, his ex-wife.

Mug
Poland | Polish | Malgozata szumowska

After Fun loving Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant, which leads to his status as a national hero and martyr.

My Masterpiece
Argentina/Spain | Spanish | Gaston Duprat

Namdev Bhau In Search of Silence
Ukraine/India | Dar Gai

A 65 year old Cahuffeur, who is tired of the noises in the obstreperous Mumbai City life and has completely stopped speaking decides to leave everything in the search for “Silent Valley”.On this Journey, he chances upon an exasperating 12- year old boy, who happens to be on his own solo expedition.

Never Not Love You
Philippines | Filipino, Tagalog, English | Antoinette Jadaone

A young and reckless love ends when a couple take different paths in life. Five years later, they meet and discover musch has changed, including the love they had for each other.

Nico, 1988
Italy/Belgium | English, German, Czech, French | Susanna Nicchiarelli

Approaching 50, singer songwriter Nico leads a solitary low key existence in Manchester, far from her 60s glam days as a warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for the cult band, the Velvet underground. She doesn’t care much anymore about her looks nor her career.But her new manager Richard convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her latest album.

The Old Road 
Iran | Persian | Manijeh Hekmat

Minoo is a 45 years oldd successful woman, works in a bank. At the night of the New Year she takes a taxi to go home but gets into an annoying accident. The story is about her struggle with what happened on that night.

Once Upon a Time In November
Poland | Polish | Andrzej Jakimowski

The film situates itself at the heart of political developments in Poland, torn apart by ideolgical divides. Mareczek is a law student whos is trying to set up overnight quarters for his mother and his small dog on the streets.Mareczek’s walks through the city illustrate a disturbing portrait of a fragile sociey, where the leap from middle-class existence to homeless and violence is all too small.

The Originals 
Egypt | Arabic | Marwan Hamed

Samir Eliwa is the head of a small amily, an employee in a bank for years, but he suddenly gets fired after a decision to reduce labour. During his search for a job he discovers that his bank account is depleted, few days later he opens the door to find cell-phone in it and he recieves a phone call that changes his life forever.

Petra
Spain/France | Spanish,Catalan | Jaime Rosales

After the death of her mother she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume. Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the sories of these charactrs begin to intertwine in a spirit of incidents that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path of hope and redemption.

Phoenix
Norway | Norwegien | Camilla Strøm Henriksen

Pity
Greece/Poland | Greek | Babis Makridis

Panic Attack
Poland | Polish, English | Paweł Maślona

In a rollercoaster of events, a woman meets her two exes during one night, a couple picks the worst seat on the aeroplane, a young girl risks having her girlfriend expose her as a porn star, a bridegives brth at her own wedding , a teenager gets stoned for a first time while a young man has to beg his weird mother to save his life’s work.

The Pluto Moment 
China | Chinese | Ming Zhang

The Prize
Italy | Italian | Alessandro Gassman

Giovanni Passamonte has lived an unrestrained life along side his several international best sellers, but the time has turned him into a cynical and egocentric men man. When he is told that he ha swon the Nobel Prize in Literature, afraid of Flying he decides to embark on a car journey to Stockholm with his long time assistance Rinaldo.

Rage
Portugal | Portugese | Sérgio Tréfaut

Set in Portugal, 1950. In the desolate landscape of the south, battered by the win, by misery and hunger, sudden violence erupts: a succession of cold blooded murders occurs over a single night. Why? What’s the origin of these crimes?

Ramen Shop
Singapore | Japan | France | Cantonese, English, Japanese, Mandarin | Eric Khoo

Masato, a young Ramen chef, leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore to find out the truth about his past. He uncovers a lot more than family secrets and delicious recipes.

Regarding the case of Joan of Arc
USA | English | Matthew Wilder

Roobha
Canada | Tamil, English | Lenin M. Sivam

Roobha, a young South Asian trans-woman, struggles to make a living after she is ostracized by her family. unable to make a decent living, she walks the streets of Toronto, and one day, is violently assaulted y a group of thugs. she heals withthe help of her well-wishers. Her chance encounter with a family man, Anthony, leads to a rapturous romance. However, trouble starts when their families discover their relationship.

Rust
Brazil | Portugese | Aly Muritiba

Tati and Renet were already trading pictures, videos and music from their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact.Howewer, what could be the beggining of a love story , becomes an end.

Sealed Lips
Germany | German | Bernd Böhlich

Antonia Berger, a young German and enthusiastic Communist, goes to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Whilst there, she is accused of spying and sent to Vorkuta’s labor camp. After being released from the gulag in 1952, she manages to return home to the new socialist East German state with her daughter Lydia. Antonia is forced by her party comrades to keep her terrible experiences secret for the common good. It is only after Stalin’s death that she speaks out about her time in the Soviet Union. But her newly regained freedom is taken away from her again when her lover, a committed Communist, informs the authorities. Antonia has to make a choice – between truth or the present.

The Seen and the Unseen
Indonesia | Indonesian, Balanese | Kamila Andini

Slut in a Good Way
Canada | French | Sophie Lorain

Charlottes beau drops a bomb on her: he’s gay. She is crushed when she learns it.Along with her best friends, Charlotte seeks distraction through a job at a toy store. Still heartbroken, she starts having casual sex with a few of her new coworkers. Initially , she loves her new freedom. Others around her, howewer, feel differently, leading them to smear Charlotte’s name and challenge her new found sexual empowerment.

Sorry Angel
France | French | Christophe Honoré

Set in Paris, 1993.Jacques is a semi renowned writter and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humour in spite of the turmoil in his life. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur, an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and is eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man.

Suleiman Mountain
Kyrgyzstan|Russia | Russian, Kyrgyz | Elizaveta Stishova

On a quest through Kyrgyzstan’s countryside to reach a storied healing mountain, a disjointed family made up of con artist, his two wives, and a son newly recovered from an orphanage,face unpredictable circumstances around every bend and discover much more than they bargained for.

The Sweet Requiem 
USA|India | Tibetan | Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam

Dolkar, a 26 years old exxile Tibetan, lives in Delhi. 18 years ago she escaped freom Tibet with her father making a trek across the Himalayas that ended in tragedy of which Dolkar has suppressed all recollection. but when she encounters Gompo the guide who abandoned them memories of her escape are reignited. Caught in aweb of politically intrigued quest, Dolkar must reconcile Gompo’s treachery with the life or death situations he now faces.

The Queen of Fear
Argentina|Denmark | Spanish | Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia

Robertina, a women well-acquianted with her anxieties is readying a theater production, a one woman show she wrote and stars in. They’re just touching up her smile on the posters, but is Robertina happy in her Life? No: Her Husband left her and her best friend is dying of cancer. She faces fierce, unrelenting fear. Robertina must prove that she can use it as a creative force.

To the Desert
Argentina | Spanish | Ulises Rosell

Julia, a casino employee from Comodoro Rivadavia, is tempted by Gwynfor a Welsh descendent who promises her an administrative position at the oil company where he works.
A kidnapping is the trigger for a relationship that will change as the days go by. Julia and Gwynfor cross the Patagonian desert on foot while Commission Ptieto and his assistants follow their footsteps.

To The Ends of the World
France | French | Guillaume Nicloux

Indo-China 1945. Robert Tassen a young French soldier is the only survivor of a massacre where his brother perished before his eyes. Blinded by vengence Robert engages in a solitary and secret quest to find the assassins. But his meeting with Mai a young Indo-Chinese woman will change his beliefs.

The Trouble with You
France | Russian | Pierre Salvodori

Ina town on the French Riviera, dectective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi. When she realises her husband was not exactly the model of virtue idolized by their young son and that an innocent young man has spent 8 years in prison due to do everything she can to help this very charming Antoine get back to his life and his wife.

U-July 22
Norway | Norwegien | Eric Poppe

We meet Kaja (18), 12 minutes before the first shot is fired at the Utoya summer camp on july 22nd 2011, soon is to be the worst day in modern Norway’s history. They know about Anders Behring Breivik’s bonb in Oslo, but is he here now?

The Widowed Witch
China | Mandarin | Chengjie Cai

With the Wind
Switzerland|France | French, Russian, English | Bettina Oberli

On a farm in the Jura far from the surrounding villages Pauline and Alex realised their dream gto achieve definitive independence by producing electri city independently. Samuel, a pragmatic and cheerful engineer comes to the farm to direct the construction of the wind turbine. Pauline immediately feels attracted to him and sudeenly realises the limits of his life.

Winter Flies
Czech Republic/Slovania/Poland/Slovakia | Czech | Olmo Omerzu

Mara and Hedus set out in search of adventures by car. After all Mara’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter and a story before it ends at tghe police station that tells the story of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something even if you dont exactly know what.

Nervous Translation
Phlippines | Filipino | Shireen Seno

Eight year old Yael, is shy and not always at ease. She prefers writting letters to performing dances for her applauding Filipino Family. Her uncle, a rock star with the band The Futures, acts as a surrogate father. When she hears an advertisment for a pen that will give her a ‘Wonderful Life’, she decides to spend all her savings on this miraculous pen.

Footnote
Israel | Hebrew | Joseph Cedar

A great rivalry between a father and son, both professors in the Tilmund department of Hebrew University. The son has an addictive deendency on the embrace and accolandes that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, beneath his contempt lays a desperate thrist for some kind of recognition. Israel most prestigious national award, is ‘the jewel’ that brings these two to a final, bitterconfrontation.

Longing
Israel | Hebrew, French | Savi Gabizon

A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years ago.

Red Cow
Israel | Hebrew | Tsivia Barkai Yacov

Redemption
Israel | Hebrew | Joseph Madmony, Boaz Yehonatan Yaakov

Menachem, a former front man for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a 6 years old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds and allows him to reconnect with his secular past. Menachem understands that only a new connection to his past and to his music can pave the road to his own redemption.

Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema
Australia | Englsih | Danny Ben-Moshe

Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000 year old Indian jews community and its formative place in shaping worlds largest film industry.

The Bubble
Israel | Hebrew, Arabic, English | Eytan Fox

The movie looks at young people’s lives in Tel Aviv. It all begins when Noam , a young Israeli soldier, who serves in the reserve force, meets a Palestinian, young man called Ashraf at a check point. Following an incident during which Noam misplaces hi ID card at the check point,Ashraf shows up on the doorstep of the apartment that Noam shares with a gay man and straight woman. The film is aout how meeting affects all of their lives.

The Other Story
Israel | Hebrew, English | Avi Nesher

The Unorthodox
Israel | Hebrew, Yiddish | Eliran Malka

This is a film based on a real story about a single father whose daughterwas expelled from school for ethnic reasons, he decides to run for the city elections and almost single handedly establises the first ethnic political group in Israel which today is an empire with half a million voters and significant implications to society.

Waltz with Bashir
Israel, France, Germany | Hebrew | Ari Folman

Working Woman
Israel | Hebrew | Michal Aviad

Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promises her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant aflost, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered,she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self worth.

Summer With Monika
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Wild Strawberries
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Professor Isak Borg, 78, is summoned from his home in Stockholm to the University of Lund in southern Sweden, to receive an honorary doctorate for his services to Science. He travels there with his daughter-in-law, who feels resentful toward him because his son, her husband, displays all the egotistical traits of the old man and does not want to have children. They encounter three hikers and take them along in the car with them to Lund. While visiting his family’s former summer house, Borg is assailed by nightmares in which his failings are brought home to him.

The Seventh Seal
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

As the film opens, a knight, Antonius Blok, and his squire, Jons, have just returned from the Crusades to a Sweden being ravaged by the plague. As they journey toward his castle, the knight struggles to forestall Death in a game of chess. He encounters a trio of wandering players, ]of, Mia, and Skat- and conducts them through the forest to avoid the plague. Subsequently, he diverts Death’s attention so that Jof and Mia can escape with their baby while he and his company are trapped in his castle and forced to join in the Dance of Death.

Persona
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Elisabet Vogler is a a famous actress. In the middle of performance of Electra, she falls silent. Even prolonged treatment at a psychiatric clinic fails to make her speak. The doctor incharge suggest to her nurse. Alma that she should spend some time in isolation on the coost with their patience. Faced by the obstinate yet also sympathetic silence of Elisabet, Alma begins to tell her more than she should. Impressed by the physical resemblance between the two of them, she even identiies herself, subconsciously, with the actress. But the friendship is disturbed when Alma discovers from an unsealed letter to the doctor that the actress is observing her coollly and amusedly. Alma now becomes almost hysterical, trying to project her own feelings of guilt and anguish on to Elisabet, urging her wildly to speak. But at the clinic, Alma breaks down after a final outburst.

Autumn Sonata
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman said, “The relationship between mother and daughter has hardly ever been treated in literature or cinema. I have become fascinated by the tension between them.”
A female pianist devoted to her career pays a 36-hour visit to her daughter, a priest’s wife in northern Norway. As they talk, we are shown flashbacks from their lives.

Fanny and Alexander
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Saraband
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex- husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And, so one beautiful autumn day, there she is beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. Staying at a cottage on the property are Johan’s son, Henrik and Henrik’s daughter Karin. Henrik is giving his daughter cellos lesson. and already sees her future as staked out. Relations between father are very strained, but both are protective of Karin. They are still mourning Anna, Henrik’s much-loved wife who died two years ago yetwho, in many ways, remains present among them. Marianne soon realises that things are not all as they should be, and she finds herself unwillingly drawn into a complicated and upsetting power struggle.
Richard Corliss in Time Magazine wrote, ‘This is a testament of love and anguish from the man who used to be called the greatest living filmmaker. Well, dammit, he was. And, as proves he still is.”

Bergman Island
Sweden|Denmark|Norway|Finland | Swedish | Marie Nyreröd

In the film, Ingmar Bergman, one of the world’s most important and influential filmmakers is eighty-five years old, having spent more than sixty of those years directing. Now, for the first time, he shows us his world on the desolate and mysterious Baltic island of Faro. A man whose only company is the sea and his demons. Together with filmmaker Marie Nyrerod, he looks back on his life and on his long career in films, the theatre and TV. This documentary includes numerous clips from Bergman’s best films and unique behind-the scenes materials from his private archives. His Oscars winning film Through a Glass Darkly although to Bergman is important for a completely different reason. He was looking for a barren stony island and someone suggested Faro. That proved to be a turning point in his life. Ingmar Bergman shot five more films on Faro among them Persona and Scenes from a Marriage.
But more important, he found a place to rest and a home.

Amadeus
USA | France | Czechoslovakia | English | Italian | Latin | German | Milos Forman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer ho unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart, for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart’s downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

In the Line of Fire
USA | English | Wolfgang Petersen

Oliver!
UK | English | Carol Reed

Night Comes On
USA | English | Jordana Spiro

Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her 10 year old sister to avenge her mother’s death.

Respeto
Philippines | Tastalog | Debut Competition

Hendrix dreams of a hip- hop greatness, but he is spiralling down a rabbit-hole of crime andd poverty. When Hendrix meets Doc, an old poet still haaunted by his martial law past, an unlikely mentorship begains, but can they turn each other’s lives around before they are swallowed by circumstance?

The Load
Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar | Serbian | Ognjen Glavonić

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting mysterious load from Kosovo to Beelgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequencess.

The Pigeon
Turkey | Turkish | Banu Sivaci

Only on the roof of her parents house, above the alleys of a slum in Adana, with his beloved pigeons, can Yusuf find peace and ind hiself. Finding a foothold in the dystopian world outsie is more difficult for him.

Volcano
Ukraine|Germany | Ukranian | Roman Bondarchuk

Lukas has been left stranded near a small southern Ukrainian steppe town by a series of odd coincidences. With nowhere to turn, this boy finds shelter at the home of a local named Vova. With the guidence of Vova, Lukas confronts a universe beyond his imagination. Facinated by his host and his host’s daughter Marushka, with whom he is rapidly falling in love, lukas’s contempt for provincial life slowly melts away and sets him on a quest for a happiness he had never knoen could exist.

To Let
India | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra

To Let is a story of a couple with a child living in a rented house in Chennai. It takes place in 2007 when the metro city was experiencing a real estate boom as a result of an exponential development of the IT sector. Alittle too greedy for a higher rent, the land owner asks the couple to vacate their house. They have only thirty days to find new accommodation with their modest middle-class income. On their moped, the couple starts a race against time and all kinds of prejudice to get a house.

Abyakto
India | Bengali | Arjun Dutta

Abyakto is a poignant tale ofa mother an her son, Indra. The film captures a series of unexplained and unusal events which turn Indra into a men he never thought he would become.These events unfold through the film’s three most integral charecters: Indra’s mother, Saathi his father, Kaushil his father’s friend and his favorite uncle Rudra. Thefim travels through various time lapses and captures the stirring and unexplainable situations and the intricacies and complexities of various relationship.

Red Cliff
China|Hong Kong|Japan|Taiwan|South Korea | Mandarin | John Woo

Power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao organizes a southward – bound mission designed to crush two troublesome warlords, Liu Bet and Sun Quan. As the expedition gets under way, Cao Cao’s troops rain destruction on Liu Bet’s army forcing the latter to retreat. Their only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, they reach out to Sun Quan’s trusted advisor, war hero Zhou Yu. Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao’s fast approaching, brutal army the rebel warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign unrivalled in history that changes the face of China forever.

Gatturo
Argentina | Spanish | Gustavo Cova

Gaturro always gets into trouble,and his master doesn’t know what to do with him. Gaturro’s heart belongs to Agatha, the most unpleasant cat of the town. His several attempts to conquer her love disapper when she stumbles across Michou, a young, handsome cat from an aristocratic background. Gaturro accidently becomes famous but finds that fame and success brings other problems.
Gaturro sad and lonely but with the help of a little mouse, they come up with a plan to prevent Agatha marrying Michou.

Blade Runner 2049
USA|UK|Hungary|Canad | English|Finnland|Japanese|Hungarian | Denis Villeneuve

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on quest to find Rick Deckard a former LAPD blade runner who has been mising for 30 years.

3 Faces
Iran | Persian | Jafar Panahi

Actress, Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl’s video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker, Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have amusing encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl’s mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover that old tradirions die hard.

And Breathe Normally
Iceland|Sweden|Belgium | Icelandic, English | Isold Uggadottir

At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect for a brief moment. While trapped in circumstances unforseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.

Ash is purest white
China | Chinese, Mandarin | Zia zhangke

Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between a rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao get five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

At War
France | French | Stéphane Brizé

Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. 1100 employees. led by their spokesman, Laurent Amedeo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.

Climax
France | English | Gasper Noe

Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.

Cold War
Poland|France|UK | Polish,French, German, Croatian,Italian, Russian | Pawel Pawlikowski

Cold war is a passionate love story between man and a women who meet in the runs of post war Poland. With different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the cold war in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris., the couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate, an impossible love story in impossible times.

Dogman
Italy|France | Italian | Matteo Garrone

Dogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. marcello, A small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

Grass
South Korea | Korean | Sang-soo Hong

Down an alley, there is a coffeehouse where people sit and talk amongst themselves. Opposite the coffeehouse, the owner of a small grocery has planted various kinds of vegetables that sprout up inside large rubber basins. As time passes, the people sitting at different tables grows familiar with each other and starts to mix. One woman observes the others and writes down her thoughts.

House that Jack Built
Denmark | France | Germany | Sweden | English | Lars Von Trier

The film follows the highly intelligent Jack, through 5 incidents and introduces us to the murders that define Jacks development as a serial killer. The story is told from Jack’s point of view. He views each murders as an artwork in itself. Despite the fact that the final and inevitable police intervention is drawing ever near, he is, contrary to all logic, set on taking greater chances. Along the way we experinces Jack’s descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge.

Human, Space, Time and Human
South Korea | Korean, Japanese | Kim Ki Duk

A group of people set sail on an warship. The passengers include a senator with his son , a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of criminals. At first the aggressive behavior of the thugs is directed at the first class passengers, but then in a dramatic interpersonal downward spiral, the cruel fight ultimately veers into the fantstical.

The Image book 
Switzerland|France | French,English, Arabic,Italian | Jean luc godard

Do you still remember how, long ago, we trained our thoughts? Most often we’d start from a dream. We wondered how, in total darkness, colours of such intensity could emerge within us. In a soft, low voice saying great things, surprising, deep and accurate matters. Image and words like, a bad bream written on a stormy night. Under western eyes. The lost paradises. War is here.

Shoplifters
Japan | Japanese | Hirokazu Koreeda

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first, reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Althrough the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Summer
Russia | Russian | Kirill Serebrennikov

Leningrad, one summer in the early 80s’s. Summgling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the Underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Petesroika. Mike and his beautiful wife, Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends they will change the destiny of rock ‘n’ roll in the Soviet Union.

Touch Me Not
Romania | Germany | Czech Republic | Bulgaria | France | English, German | Adina Pintilie

The film centers on a filmmaker and characters she documents who together venture into a deep personal soul searching on how to achieve real human intimacy. On the border between reality and fiction the film follows the emotional and sexual journey of various diverse subjects offering deeply empathic insights into their personal lives. Craving intimacy, yet also deeply afraid of it each of them work to overcome old patterns defence mechanisms and taboos to cut the cords of inhibition and finally be free.

Vision
Japan|France | Japanese | Naomi Kawase

Jeanne comes to Japan in search of ‘Vision’ a rare medicinal herb said to strip away all spiritual anguish and weakness in human beings. she knows that Vision only apppears once every 997 years. Aki, a wise villager who knows the forest well prophesies the arrival of the mysterious ‘One’ and then disappears. Tomo who is devoted to Aki, works as a keeper of the forests and is beginnings to sense instinctively recent changes in the mountains. will Jeanne succeed in finding the phantom herb ‘Vision’.

The Wild Pear Tree 
Turkey | Turkish | Nuri Bilge ceylan

Sinan is passionate about literture and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published but his father’s debts catch up with him.

Woman at War
Iceland | France | Ukraine | Icelandic | Benedikt Erlingsson

Halla leads a double life as a passionate environmental activists. she secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. But as she begins planninig her biggest and boldest operation yet her application to adopt a child gets accepted and there is a little girl waiting for her in Ukraine. As Halla prepares to abandon her role as saboteur and saviour of the Highlands, to fulfil her dreams of becoming a mother she decides to plot one final attack to deal the aluminium industry a crippling blow.

Yomeddine
Egypt/USA/Austria | Arabic | A.B. Shawky

Beshay, a man cured of Leprosy has never left the Leper Colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meagre possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he sets out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wings, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with all its sorrows its hardships and moments of grace in his quest for a family a place to belong and a little humanity.

Ayka
Russia|Germany|Poland|Kazakhstan|China | Russian | Kirghiz | Sergei Dvortsevoy

A young Kyrgyz girl, Ayka lives and works illegally in Moscow. After giving birth to her son she leaves him in hospital.Sometime later, however her motherly yearning leads her to desperate attempts of finding the abandoned child.

The Guilty  
Denmark | Danish | Gustav Möller

Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realises that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.

Baaram
India | Tamil | Priya Krishnaswamy

karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, live with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a a tradiditional healer. After Eight days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?

Border
Sweden | Swedish | Ali Abbasi

Custom officer, Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. But when Vore, a suspicious looking man, walks past her abilities are challenged for the first time ever. Tina can sense Vore is hiding something she cant identify. Even worse, she feels a strange attraction towards him. As Tina develops a speacial bond with Vore and discovers his true identify, she also realises the truth about herself.

Capernaum
Lebanon | Arabic | Nadine Labaki

Dovlatov
Russia/Poland/Serbia | Russian | Aleksei German

Laugh or Die
Finland|Sweden | Finnish, German | Heikki Kujanpää

Los Silencious
Brazil/France/Columbia | Portugese, Spanish | Beatriz Seigner

Rain of Homs
Syria | Arabic | Joud Said

Yusuf and his nephew were planning on leaving Homs on the day a ceasefire was declared in 2014. Yet Homs held them back and made them meet Yara, a stubborn girl with a very different perspective and background. She is searching for her missing brother, hoping she can find him in what is left of their beautiful city. Trapped in a city that became a grave to all who stayed in it, this is a tale of people with so many different perspectives who had to endure the long wait that the war imposed on them.

The Interpreter
Slovakia/Austria | German, Slovak, English, Russian | Martin Sulik

Ali Ungar travels to Vienna in search of the former Nazi officer who might have executed his parents in Slovakia. He finds only his son, Grog. But Ali’s visit awakes his intrest, and two men take off on a journey across Slovakia in search of surviving witnesss of the wartime tragedy. Their different views and life experiences result in both tensions and comic moments. For the two men, it’s a bittersweet road trip on which they discover deep unresolved conflicts being washed ashore in new forms.

The Mercy of the Jungle
Belgium/France/Germany | French, Swahili | Joel Karekezi

The Rib
China | Chinese | Zhang Wei

Li Jianguo, a devout Christian, volunteers at a church. He finds out that his only son, Li Huanyu, plans to have sex reassignment surgery. He seeks guidance from others and recevies various feedbacks.When Liu Mann, one of his son’s transgender friends, commits suicide out of desperation, he renews his effort to better connect with his son.

The Silent Revolution
Germany | German, Russian | Lars Kraume

Walking With the Wind
India | Hindi | Praveen Morchhale

53 Wars
Poland | Polish | Ewa Bukowska

53 Wars is an evocative psyhological drama about second hand experience of war.Anka, whose husband, Witek is a war correspondent spends most of each year away on assignments. Anka must endure the horrors of war from home. The testmonies Witek passes on to the world feed Anka’s solitude. Anka, swoly becomes more and more hysterical and paranoid ,over the safety of her husband.

A Translator
Cuba | Canada | Spanish, Russian | Rodrigo, Sebastian Barrriuso

Aga
Bulgaria/Germany/France | Yakut | Milko Lazarov

Devine Wind
Algeria/France/Qatar/Lebanon | Arabic, Algerian | Merzak Allouache

Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the Algerian Sahara. They are supposed to launch an arm action against oil refinery. But tjings don’t turn out quite as expected.

Donbass
Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania | Ukrainian, Russian | Sergey Loznitsa

In Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine , a hybrid war takes place, involving an open arm conflict alongside killings androbberies on a mass scal perpetrated by separatist gangs. In Donbass, war is called peace and propaganda is utter as truth. A journey through Donbass unfolds as a curious adventures. This is a tale of one region or a political system. It is about a world , lost in post-truth and fake identities.

A Family Tour
Taiwan | Hong Kong | Singapore | Malaysia | Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese | Liang Ying

After directing a film , Yang Shu has been forced to live in exile in Hong Kong. But when her mother has to undergo an operation, the two women plan to meet in Taiwan where Yang will b attending a film festival and where her mother will b taking a tour. They stay at the same hotel and follow the tour on its various scenic destinations.

Here
Iran | Persian | Hadi Mohaghegh

Its night and everything is happening in an endless silence. The lonely and tired old man is walking around. He’s thinking of saing his son, Sohrab. However, all doors are closed.He’s involved in a cycle of daily life and he ‘s not able to change anything. Inspite of all efforts, the son is executed . He takes the body of his son, which looks like a white poplar tree , through the mountain rivers and baptizes him. The old man takes care of his grandson too before he returns to bury his son.

Our Struggles
Belgium/France | French | Guillaume Senez

The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow
Estonia, Lithuania | Estonian/Spanish | Sulev Keedus

The film consists of three chapters. It employs a theme known in Scandinavian folklore. The time frame of the story from the early morning is wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The leading character Maara is a young bride whos is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria to Estonia during the previous war. The shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy.

The Unseen
Argentina | Spanish / English | Nicolas Puenzo

A pregnant Quechua girl and her Creole partner escapes from a refugee camp. On their trek south across the Bolivian Highlands, now a barren wasteland controlled by bloody militia groups, they meet Ruiz, 50 years old, war-scarred photographer who seeks to save them from warzone , salvaging whatwhat remains of their humanity

Van Goghs
Russia | Russian | Sergey Livnev

Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always deprssed. he’s 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor , who still supports him financially. For his father, Victor Ginzburg, work is his life. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son sets off on a difficult journey that leads them from hate to love.

When the Trees Fall
Ukraine/Poland | Ukrainian | Marysia Nikitiuk

This is the story of the 5 years old rebellious girl,Vitka with her teenae cousin, Larysa and he boyfriend, the young criminal,Sear. Larysa finds herself at a crossroad after the death of her father. The village community ostracizes her for loving scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrifised her love for a young gypsy, abandoning him for traditional values and other people’s opinions. Larysa and Scar plans to escape from a life of crime ,misrey and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for their freedom?

Jesus Mary Joseph
India | Malayalam | Lijo Jose Pellissery

To Let
India | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra

To Let is the story of a couple with a child living in a rented accommodation in Chennai. It takes place in 2007 when the metro city was experiencing a real estate boom as a result of an exponential development of the IT sector. A little too greedy for a higher rent, the land owner asks the couple to vacate their house. They have only thirty days to find new accommodation with their modest middle-class income. On their Mopeds, the couple starts a race against time and all kinds of prejudice to get a house.

Fear
India | Malayalam | Jayaraj

A First Worl War veteran is coming to a small blackwater vilage in Kerala, India, as a Postman. He is distributing money orders and letter to the family of soldiers as a symbol of happiness. He turns out to be an Omen of death once the Second World War tstarts. The pain and impact of the War is shown through the telegrams and postman’s dilemma.