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- DirectorDane DoddsThe ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African desert where the world's largest radio telescope is being built with antennae aimed at the far corners of the universe.
- DirectorLkhagvadulam Purev-OchirStarsTergel Bold-ErdeneNomin-Erdene AriunbyambaAnu-Ujin TsermaaZe, a 17-year-old, studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. When Ze encounters Maralaa, his senses are awakened and another reality seems possible.
- DirectorGiacomo AbbruzzeseStarsMorr NdiayeWahab OladitiSalem KisitaAfter a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
- DirectorEluned Zoe AianoAlesandra TaticIn Majdanpek, Serbia, a culture historically renowned for magical practices and supernatural creatures is being eaten away by an ever-expanding copper mine. A giver and taker of life, the mine is central to the regional economy but a major threat to traditional practices of the local Vlach population, a minority ethnicity within the Balkans that is often stigmatised and overlooked. The pollution is so critical it's even driving out the dragons said to live in the forests. These conflicts between nature/tradition and industry/modernity shape the lives of the family of Dragan, a miner by profession and dragon hunter by tradition. His 90-year old father "Grandpa" Pera was a dragon hunting legend whose fame crossed borders, but how is Dragan supposed to continue his legacy when there are no dragons left? In any case, he has more pressing concerns, such as the chronic health problems he's struggling with as a result of decades of inhaling toxic dust. Moreover, his own son Cvele doesn't seem to have any option but to follow him into the mine and keep perpetuating the cycle. The fate of Dragan's feisty, larger-than-life sister Desa is also interconnected with the mine. Her husband Ilija was the head of the union, but he died just as he retired, plunging their family into instability. When the mine is bought from the Serbian state by a Chinese company, Desa is worried that her last remaining rights might be taken away from her. She becomes determined to rally the city's old spirit of resistance and solidarity, but she has no idea where to start. Caught in the middle of global socio-political forces, the family continue in their optimism and keep dreaming of striking gold, both literally and metaphorically, against all odds. Flotacija follows them over several years, with humour and tenderness, bizarreness and humanity.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
- DirectorFlora MartínezStarsJosé AcostaJulián DíazPatricia ErcoleItzia is a deaf woman who stars listening a mysterious music coming from the south. Villagers think she is losing her mind.
- DirectorC.J. 'Fiery' ObasiStarsEvelyne Ily JuhenUzoamaka AniunohEmeka AmakezeWhen the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.
- DirectorAngelos RallisStarsAfrin KhanomBonna AkterFeroza BegumIn the desolate wilderness of the disappearing islands along the Brahmaputra river, 12-year-old orphan Afrin is coming of age. When heavy rainfalls and flood waters ravage Afrin's island, she refuses to surrender to its deadly tides. Afrin rows herself in a wooden boat toward the teeming metropolis of Dhaka to find her estranged father among the millions of climate refugees. Forced to grow up fast, Afrin must confront the mysteries of a sinking world.
- DirectorAmir ToodehroostaStarsAyhan ShayganShabnam DadkhahNora Hanifeh ZadehKindergarten student Roham falls in love with his classmate Rana and discovers the complicated secrets of her personal life, all the while confronting the class bully.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsJinpaZiqi XiongTseten TashiA father and son argue over whether they should kill a snow leopard that broke into their home and killed 9 sheep.
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsMohammed NahnalHana' Nc'mchBushra KaramanA Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef's family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father's in prison and his heavily-armed brother's on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef's schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he's waited so long for.
- DirectorBalojiStarsMarc ZingaYves-Marina GnahouaMarcel Otete KabeyaAfter spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.