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- DirectorCédric KlapischStarsFabrice LuchiniRomain DurisJoffrey PlatelA ex-dancer has a heart problem and even with a transplant, he may still only have a few months to live. Time's spent looking at people/life in Paris from his balcony. His single mom sister moves in with her 3 kids to look after him.
- DirectorFrédéric ForestierThomas LangmannStarsGérard DepardieuClovis CornillacBenoît PoelvoordeAsterix and Obelix compete at the Olympics in order to help their friend Lovesix marry Princess Irina. Brutus also tries to win the game with his own team and get rid of his father Julius Caesar.
- DirectorDominique FarrugiaArnaud LemortStarsClovis CornillacVirginie EfiraManu PayetMichel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.
- DirectorHenk PretoriusStarsIvan BothaCherie van der MerweAltus TheartWimpie Koekemoer--the biggest geek in school. He is constantly embarrassed by his conservative mother and his strange father, especially in front of girls. Wimpie dreams of being popular. His dream could unexpectedly become a reality when the most popular girl in school, Katrien Swanepoel, is dumped by first-team rugby centre Werner 'Killer' Botha. Katrien and her friends Liezl and Christie decide to give Werner a taste of his own medicine by planning to make Wimpie the new first team centre. Rugby is a lot harder than Karien and Wimpie anticipated and Wimpie almost gives up. Fortunately, his unexpected popularity leads to friendship with school rascals Japie and Fanie. The mischievous duo unknowingly convince Wimpie to keep playing rugby although they're much more interested in pajama parties with girls. Bakgat is finding yourself, despite high school.
- DirectorCharles NemesStarsEric ElmosninoHéléna NoguerraAry AbittanWhen two people who no longer believe in love find each other, nothing can get in the way of their blossoming romance - except for a playful farce of miscues, meddling, and mistaken identity.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsÉmilie DequenneLoïc CorberySandra NkakeParisian philosophy teacher Clément is sent to Arras where he meets pretty hairstylist Jennifer who becomes his lover. Free in their hearts and bodies, they could share this perfect love if the cultural and social divide were not as deep.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsKoen De BouwWerner De SmedtBlerim DestaniVincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsTristan HalilajSindi LacejRefet AbaziAn Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoMichele PlacidoPiro MilkaniImmediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
- DirectorMarius HolstStarsEnrico Lo VersoNazif MuarremiGlenn Andre Kaada15-year old Mirush. He travels to Norway to find his father, as he left the family when Mirush was small. Now his dad is running a restaurant in Oslo's backyards and struggling with debt burdens to the Albanian mafia in the capital city. His father has started a new life with a Norwegian girlfriend, and his Albanian family is just a vague memory--until Mirush shows up. He starts working for his father but doesn't say much. Slowly but surely they get to know each other but Mirush isn't fully prepared for what he finds out, and he's forced to make choices that will have major consequences for both of them.
- DirectorJoni ShanajStarsKlevis BegaOlta GixhariNiko KanxheriA young pharmacist enters into a casual relationship with a young woman alleged to be his father's secret mistress, in contemporary Tirana.
- DirectorFatmir KoçiStarsBlerim DestaniMasiela LushaXhevdet FerriA young man is searching for the war to free his country and establish freedom. Instead of war he finds the love of his life.
- DirectorPanos H. KoutrasStarsKostas NikouliNikos GeliaGiannis StankoglouStrangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
- DirectorZeresenay MehariStarsMeron GetnetTizita HagereAbel AbebeA young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsYaël AbecassisRoschdy ZemMoshe AgazaiA Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
- DirectorKareem El-AdlStarsEyad NassarDorra ZarroukAhmed FahmiAhmed Sakr is one of the best news photographers in Egypt, he always puts himself in the right place while the most dangerous events happen, his wife got killed while she was with him and no body knows the killer, he goes on a journey to know the killer until he finds an antique camera that changes the course of the events, the camera doesn't just shoot the present, it shoots the past... or maybe the future?
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsMenna ShalabiBasem SamrahNahed El SebaïMahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his job, been subjected to humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. He and his family are close to despair when he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who lives in a wealthy neighbourhood of Cairo. This will be the encounter of two people but also of two different worlds.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizKhaled El-SawiNilli KarimWhile trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
- DirectorAyten AminStarsKal NagaLeblebaArwa GudahA dramedy about illness, intimacy and death sparkles with the lighthearted touch of Director Ayten Amin. Hussein, played by Khaled abol Naga, is a terminally ill, yet charming architect who enjoys a solitary routine in his old family home, and a variety of female visitors. Not realising his past is about to catch up with him, Hussein's sister and her grandson move into the house, disrupting a well established lifestyle, and forcing him to re-examine his ideas about life, love, and family.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsGabriele CarraraMarina DauniaMacha MagallNazi officials recruit prostitutes to gather intelligence on potential plots against Hitler by seducing those suspected of disloyalty within the military ranks.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAhidjo Mahamat MoussaHamza Moctar AguidZara HarounTahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMichel PiccoliSalah ZulfikarMohsen MohieddinA story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradition and modernization in the context of fighting the French invaders.
- DirectorHenry BarakatYusuf MaloofStarsSamia GamalFarid El-AtrashLola SedkiWhen Asfour asks a genie he found to help him win the woman he loves, the genie has other plans of her own for him.
- DirectorScandar CoptiYaron ShaniStarsFouad HabashNisrin SiksikElias SabaAjami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
- DirectorJean RollinStarsMarie-Georges PascalFélix MartenSerge MarquandA young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsNanda van BergenAda TaulerMonica SwinnA group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and forced to serve as prostitutes for them in a jungle brothel. The sadistic female warden decapitates uncooperative girls.
- DirectorFlavio MogheriniStarsRay MillandDalila Di LazzaroMichele PlacidoIn Australia, a retired police inspector is called to duty to solve the murder case of a young woman whose partially-burned body has been found on the beach.
- DirectorEdoardo MulargiaStarsAnthony SteffenAjita WilsonCristina LayAbused female prisoners at an all-women's prison camp in the tropics plot revenge against their sadistic overseers.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYoussraKhaled NabawyMahmoud HemidaRam leaves the nomadic life and embarks on a quest for knowledge in a pharaonic Egypt mired in political intrigue. Based on a biblical story.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsSophia LorenOmar SharifGeorges WilsonIn 17th century Italy, a Spanish prince, who's searching for a bride, falls in-love with a beautiful local peasant girl.
- DirectorAndrew LauStarsSimon YamChingmy YauMark ChengWhen a cunning lawyer is set free after raping a model, the victim's best friend seeks revenge with the help of her triad boyfriend.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMounïm KbabMustapha HansaliHicham MoussouneA group of children living on the street leave their gang, prompting retribution from the gang's leader. After one of the children dies, the rest try to come up with the resources to give their friend a proper burial.
- DirectorGiulio QuestiStarsGina LollobrigidaJean-Louis TrintignantEwa AulinThe depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory - which is genetically engineering boneless chickens - is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsTom SchanleyRenée SimonsenNicola PerringA park ranger from Wyoming, whose twin sister is a fashion model in Milan, Italy, strongly senses that his sister is in mortal danger. Once he arrives in Milan, he discovers that his sister has disappeared.
- DirectorUgo LiberatoreStarsRenato CestièRena NiehausYorgo VoyagisA blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsAndrés ResinoGeneviève RobertDennis PriceA lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsKlaus KinskiChristiane KrügerGünther StollAfter a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsCharles BronsonJill IrelandMarlène JobertA US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsHind SabriMaged El-KidwaniHany AdelA woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsChristina LindbergStellan SkarsgårdDanièle VlaminckAnita, a young woman with a troubled childhood and a hunger for love, finds a soul mate in Erik, a kindly college student.
- DirectorSaeed El MaroukKarim ElmehyFatma LouatiStarsAhmed EzzDonia Samir GhanemSalah AbdullahHady has a great life. He's a handsome millionaire playboy, women fall at his feet, and he loves and leaves them guilt-free. Then fate deals him a hand he isn't expecting - the woman of his dreams.
- DirectorMichel OcelotIan McIntyreStarsCyril MouraliKarim M'RibaHiam AbbassRaised by the same woman, the dark-complexioned, Asmar, and the flaxen-haired, Azur, set out on a quest to a strange and magical land to liberate the enchanting Djinn-fairy; but, only one can save her. Will the brothers be triumphant?
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNadia KaciMohamed OurdacheHassan AbidouFollows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsSamy NaceriFaudelJulie GayetKamel and his younger brother live in Bab el Oued, a popular district of Algiers. Kamel is embittered and rather taciturn while jollier Bouzid escapes the drab reality of his life chatting on the Internet with girls from all over the world. Certain that none of them will ever accept he invites them all to visit him. To his amazement, a French woman called Laurence accepts his invitation...
- DirectorBassam Al-ThawadiStarsSaad AbdullaFatima AbdulrahimAbdulla Al Sa'adawiSet during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, this epic drama is both the personal story of a middle-class Bahraini family and an account of the hopes and faith the Arab world had in Jamal Abdul Nasser as its leader. Intimately told, it skillfully interweaves the personal and the general to reveal a society built on male domination and female sacrifice, as women attempt to enjoy freedom of choice.
- DirectorDjamila SahraouiStarsRachida BrakniFettouma Ousliha-BouamariZahir BouzerarSet amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
- DirectorBassam Al-ThawadiStarsEbrahim BaharRashed Al-HassanMariam ZimanAl-Hajiz (The Barrier), the movie deals with social and emotional barriers imposed upon individuals by society and also with those that the individual imposes upon himself. The characters in the movie lack the ability to communicate with each other and therefore, fail to understand their own emotions. Hence, they fail to maintain healthy relationships with each other because of the lack of love amongst them. This failure is attributed to the surrounding environment that dose not allow for healthy relationships to grow and prosper.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsSylvia KristelCharles VanelFernand LedouxAlice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek help. She goes to a creepy manor and is welcomed by the owner, Henri Vergennes, and his butler, Colas. Alice is invited to spend the night in the house. The next morning, Alice can't find the two men from he previous night but finds her car surprisingly fixed. She tries to leave but cannot find the gate. She stops the car and walks around the wall trying to find an exit but becomes increasingly worried with what she finds.
- DirectorJoe Bou EidStarsJoy KaramChady TinehCarol AbboudIt was the summer of 82, when a priest, about to be ordained, was exhausted by temptations and an arrogant girl felt passionately in love... A sifted memory and a personal history of a narrator who tells with nostalgia and poetry the meeting of his parents until their marriage...
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsRajesh KhannaAsha ParekhPrem ChopraA runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.
- DirectorKunal KohliStarsHrithik RoshanKareena KapoorRani MukerjiMeet Raj, Pooja and Tina - 3 best friends thrown into a situation that time, letters, love and separation have created for them.
- DirectorAleksandr ZarkhiStarsTatyana SamoylovaNikolai GritsenkoVasiliy LanovoyAnna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.
- DirectorGeorges HachemStarsDana AbedBadih Bou ChakraTakla ChamounNoha is about to get married. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her sister. Everything seems to be going well. However, on this special Sunday of August 1976 in Lebanon, on the same evening her elder brother is organizing a dinner in her honor 15 days prior to the wedding, Noha changes her mind.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsRodney El HaddadNadine LabakiNada Abou FarhatFifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveJean SorelMichel PiccoliA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
- DirectorThierry BinistiStarsAgathe BonitzerMahmud ShalabyHiam AbbassTal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
- DirectorMohamed MalasStarsGianna AanidEzat Abu-JabalHussein Al ShazliGhalia is inhabited by the soul of Zeina, a girl who drowned the day she was born. Haunted by Zeina's past life, Ghalia travels to Damascus to study acting and understand her present condition. She meets Fouad an aspiring filmmaker who becomes fascinated by Ghalia's duality. He takes her under his wing and helps her find a place to live in a Damascene house, now converted into a dorm inhabited by young Syrians from different regions. Within the confines of the house and its ancient courtyard, Fouad's love for Ghalia and Zeina blossoms while the tumultuous events in Syria start unfolding in the streets around them gradually encroaches on their idyllic isolation.
- DirectorYusuf MaloofStarsPierre BordayNidal Al-AskharSaladin NaderThese are the early 1900s. Gibran, a young painter and poet, arrives in Beirut and gets to know Skeikh Fares, a rich aristocrat who was a friend of his father's years before. The young man falls in love with his beautiful daughter, Salma, who is equally attracted to Gibran. But the local bishop disapproves of such a relationship and forces Salma to marry Mansoor Bey. Mansoor, who is a gambler and the lover of a dancer, soon deserts his home. Salma and Gibran meet again but their love remains platonic. They will be separated for ever when Salma dies giving birth to a stillborn child.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsNicola WarrenFrancesca DelleraAndy J. ForestAfter the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
- DirectorHesham IssawiStarsMohamad RamadanMaryhanAhmad BedairA powerful account of life in contemporary Cairo, this raw drama about a pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city's diverse population. Heralding a bold new shift for contemporary Egyptian cinema, 'Cairo Exit' is a gritty and uncompromising work from a major new cinematic talent, Hesham Issawi.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsClaudia KollPaolo LanzaFranco BranciaroliAfter five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.
- DirectorAmin MatalqaStarsNadim SawalhaRana SultanHussein Al-SousWhen an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsThorkild RooseLisbeth MovinSigrid NeiiendamThe young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
- DirectorKarin AlbouStarsLizzie BrocheréOlympe BorvalNajib OudghiriThe Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.
- DirectorPiero VivarelliStarsNadia CassiniBeryl CunninghamSergio TramontiA beautiful Italian woman, Paola (Nadia Cassini) is told by her black friend (Evaristo Márquez) about the Caribbean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Paola decides to give herself to Jambaya while a local woman named Stella (Beryl Cunningham) departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsMagda El-KhatibAdel AdhamAhmed Al JaziriSet against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean-Paul BelmondoMia FarrowLaura AntonelliDoctor Popaul doesn't trust beautiful women: he says he prefers "moral beauty". Among colleagues he makes a bet who manages to sleep with the most ugly woman during the next year - and wins. Shortly after he meets the plain Christine on vacation in Tunesia. She leaves him after their first night, but by chance they meet again in Bordeaux. He learns that her father is a wealthy doctor who's very pleased to meet him and encourages him to become his son in law. Just on the wedding Popaul meets Christine's beautiful sister, who has the bad fortune to always marry the dumbest guy around. But Popaul knows how to help her out...
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaWolfgang SchenckUlli LommelIn the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiKazuko YoshiyukiTakahiro TamuraA married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsEmmanuelle BéartFrançois CluzetNathalie CardonePaul and Nelly have everything to be happy: a dream wedding and a hotel. Until Paul starts to doubt Nelly.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsSong Kang-hoLee Byung-hunJung Woo-sungThe story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
- DirectorAbbas FahdelStarsKarim SalehHafsia HerziHiam AbbassThe Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.
- DirectorFelicitas KornStarsHenriette HeinzeGolo EulerSabine BachA photography student struggles to balance school, work, and helping her mom. She meets a mysterious younger man at a club. They start a passionate affair, but their new relationship faces tough challenges that test their commitment.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsSamy NaceriRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaDuring World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNour El-SherifLayla OlwiMahmoud HemidaThe story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone. The caliph's political rivals, centered around the leader of a fanatical Islamic sect, force the caliph to send Averroes into exile, but his ideas keep on living thanks to his students.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsLeïla BekhtiHafsia HerziHiam AbbassA comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsAleksey GuskovMélanie LaurentDmitriy NazarovThirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.
- DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsAseel AdelBashir Al MajidMuhammed HashimScarred Baghdad 2003... confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a Psychiatric asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the past and the present of three Iraqi lives entangled by the chaos of the American 'Shock and Awe' campaign...
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaMarcello MastroianniAntonio CantaforaIn 1925, Nacib (Marcello Mastroianni) is the owner of a bar in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. He meets Gabriela (Sonia Braga) and hires her on as a cook. They soon enter a passionate relationship, fueled by his strong attraction to her sensual nature. However, he soon grows annoyed by the attention she receives. Under his best friend Tonico's (Cantafora) advice, he proposes to her, thinking it will stop the attention. After they're married, he warns her to dress and behave more modestly so they will be seen as more respectable, but she can't help but stray and he is forced to annul their marriage when he finds her in bed with none other than Tonico. Later, as both Nacib and the town begin to undergo a transformation, Nacib and Gabriela resume their relationship. The town's political ways modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsNina Pens RodeBendt RotheEbbe RodeIn the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
- DirectorTewfik SalehStarsMohamed Kheir-HalouaniAbdul Rahman Al RashiBassan Lofti Abou-GhazalaThree men, stranded in Iraq, illegally cross the Syrian border to seek work in Kuwait, aided by a water-truck driver.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsOussama NadirMohsen MohieddinNour El-SherifIn the middle of his own heart surgery, an Egyptian filmmaker remembers his life. In fact his old self, as a child, is accused of the attempted murder of his new self. Through the metaphoric trial, we are drawn into his life in relation to the Egyptian revolution, his constant need for success, and the effect the American Dream has on him.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaMaged El-KidwaniHouria FarghallyDecor is about "choices" we make in life. Can one major choice haunt us to the extent of wishing to imagine or live our alternate options of such choice? Decor is an incredible journey down that rabbit hole.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsNacer KhemirSoufiane MakniNoureddine KasbaouiA teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsImed MaalalKhaled KsouriHabib BelhadiIn the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsLudivine SagnierBenoît MagimelFrançois BerléandA black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.
- DirectorCheol Woo KangStarsLee Sun-kyunLee Soo-kyungLee Min-kiThree Korean couples travel separately to the Phillipines. A middle aged couple first time abroad, a convenience store clerk bumps into an incognito pop star and the runaway Soo-jin meets a businessman who is there for his father's death.
- DirectorJeong-hoon KimStarsLee Sun-kyunChoi Kang-heeOh Jung-seA comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition.
- DirectorYoon-ki LeeStarsJeon Do-yeonHa Jung-wooSeo Dong-wonJobless, single and in her early thirties, Hee-soo is miserable. Desperate, she sets out to find her ex-boyfriend, Byoung-woon, who owes her $3,500. Rather inconveniently, it turns out that Byoung-woon is also penniless, but he cheerfully claims he can get the money from a series of girlfriends. Suspicious, Hee-soo decides to trail Byoung-woon as he makes the rounds of his varied lady chums, just in case he tries to deceive her. Thus the pair embark on a strange, nostalgic journey together.
- DirectorChan-ok ParkStarsKim Bo-kyungLee Bong-gyuLee Dae-yeonTeenager Eun-mo suspects her brother-in-law is responsible for her sister's death. Perhaps more unbearable than her grief and anger is the irreconcilable love she feels for him.
- DirectorMichel KammounStarsElie MitriGabrielle Bou RachedCaroline AzzamEverything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip through Beirut.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKim Sang-kyungMoon So-riYoo Joon-sangTwo friends, while having drinks together, share their memories of visiting the seaside resort of Tongyeong.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLena NymanVilgot SjömanBörje AhlstedtTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiEiko MatsudaAoi NakajimaA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsRomy SchneiderRod SteigerFrançois MaistreSaint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her neighbour Jeff Marle, a writer, are lovers. They plan the assassination of Julie's wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits Louis, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. She finds herself alone the following day, and becomes the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsCeliaMarina NinchiMichel BouquetCharles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicBojan NavojecDaria Lorenci FlatzNikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother, Braco turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.