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- DirectorTatsumi KumashiroStarsEiji OkudaEiko NagashimaReiko TakashimaTanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsAlana HaimCooper HoffmanSean PennThe story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
- DirectorPeter LiechtiStarsPeter MettlerAlexander TschernekNikola WeisseA hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site reveals the man committed suicide by self-imposed starvation. Who was this man? Why did he kill himself in such a manner? Inspired by this true event and by the novella 'Until I Am a Mummy' by Shimada Masahiko, Insects sensuously evokes the mysterious man's last days.
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsGeorges CorrafaceDimitris VelliosValeria GolinoLonging for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.
- DirectorSamuel BenchetritStarsFrançois CluzetSergi LópezMarie TrintignantInsurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: Arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
- DirectorJon MoritsuguStarsAmy DavisDesi del ValleBonnie SteigerWest Side Story meets Rumble in the Bronx meets A Clockwork Orange. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are constantly at war with a gang of Asian Bikers. Amidst this turmoil, London and her soul mate M16 search for meaning in a phantasmagoria without it.
- DirectorStavros TsiolisStarsTassos DenegrisKonstantinos TzoumasKaterina TsioliA middle-aged sociology professor quits his job, leaves his family and lives in a secluded home. His only motive to keep going seems to be his desire to find an unknown woman who appears in a photograph.
- DirectorAntoinette BoulatStarsLou LamprosTom MercierCarmen KassovitzMarion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.
- DirectorClint MorrillStarsClint MorrillClint Alberta, as Clint Star, looks deep inside his friends and family - and perhaps himself too. But what is inside?
- DirectorTôru KameiStarsHidekazu MashimaSayuri OyamadaYûko NakamuraMashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Nishi-Shinjuku on a pre-arranged day. They are in love and planning to die together.
- DirectorKamen KalevStarsChristo ChristovOvanes TorosianSaadet AksoyThrough Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
- DirectorJuraj JohanidesMarko SkopStarsLubor DohnalMarián FiladelfiIvan MartinkaThis film pays a tribute to Elo Havetta, 1938-1975, a solitary director, an author of only two feature films - Celebration in the Botnical Garden and Field Lilies - that belong to the best of the Slovak cinema. At their time, they brought playfulness and spontaneity, on which the authors of the documentary base their happening - a journey to the director's grave in the search for his legacy.
- DirectorElo HavettaStarsSlavoj UrbanJirí SýkoraNina DivískováThis colorful "fairy"-tale is about the need of miracles in life and of letting the charms of nature, where every single particle is in constant motion, take over as if in an impressionist painting. It is a mosaic built of multiple stories like Pierre's. His arrival disturbs the peace of the wine-growing village of Bábindol but at the same time he shows its inhabitants how to really enjoy life.
- DirectorXiming ZhangStarsChao CaoDejun GaoSiqi GuoPoet and photographer Ren Hang was renowned for his sensual images of Chinese youth, and in I've Got a Little Problem, Zhang chronicles the artist's struggle with the depression, public morality, and painful criticism that sent his life spiraling out of control.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsSybille SchmitzJean GallandIlse AbelThe body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
- DirectorLiang ZhaoArtistic documentary about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. Some images can be disturbing.
- DirectorHaris RaftogiannisStarsAera Patera"Reality does not exist" is the motto of the chaotic and open music band of Aera Patera. Now that some of the band members, tired by the endless chaos, demand some structure, Jimmy - the band's leader - has to compromise or to battle once more with the reality "that does not exist". Airland is a handmade, independent documentary. A mixed-technique film about chaos, creation, deconstruction, escapism. A film about failure, about being mistaken.
- DirectorAraceli LemosStarsAbigael LomaHasmine KillipEirini InglesiA young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.
- DirectorLaila Pakalnina"We go to people's homes, ask them to go outside and we film them through their own windows - this is how we are making films about people, their homes, and about filmmaking." Pakalnina and her cinematographer position their selected subjects and ask them to hold still for a minute outside their homes, while they film them from the inside, through the (usually closed) windows, but sometimes also through open ones or through glass doors. An experimental hybrid documentary that celebrates the home environment in a highly original poetic fashion.
- DirectorSusumu Hani
- DirectorBogdan DziworskiStarsJerzy OrlowskiDespite his disability, Jerzy Orlowski leads a normal life as a sportsman, an artist and a family man. The lack of both arms has not stopped him from being physically strong.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTurgay AydinArzu BazmanEsra Bezen BilginIn an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsKarl Wallner
- DirectorMarek PiwowskiThe story of four institutionalized girls, staging Cinderella and the Prince. Interviews of the girls priorities in life.