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- DirectorMira NairStarsKal PennIrrfan KhanTabuAmerican-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJuliette BinocheThierry NeuvicJosef BierbichlerA young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsFrançois BégaudeauAgame Malembo-EmeneAngélica SancioTeacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsPilar PadillaAdrien BrodyElpidia CarrilloTwo Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBaki DavrakGürsoy GemecCengiz DanerA Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
- DirectorTakeshi FukunagaStarsBishop BlayZenobia TaylorDuke Murphy DennisA struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.
- DirectorLiliana Dulce Marinho de SousaA group of Syrian video activists is threatened in south-eastern Turkey for their anti-Isis comedy sketches and relocates to Istanbul with a plan to set up a new satirical TV show. However, unexpected events force the group to decide, one by one, how they can continue.
- DirectorJuan David Soto TabordaWilson left home in Medellin (Colombia) on his way to Bogota but he never arrived to his destination.
- DirectorDavid FedeleTHE LAND BETWEEN offers an intimate insight into the hidden lives of Sub-Saharan African migrants living in the mountains of northern Morocco. For most, their dream is to enter Europe by jumping a highly-militarized barrier into Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the African continent. With unique and unprecedented access, this film documents the everyday life of these migrants trapped in limbo, as well as the extreme violence and constant mistreatment they face on a daily basis from both the Moroccan and Spanish authorities. It also explores many universal questions, including how and why people are prepared to risk everything, including their life, to leave their country, their family and friends, in search of a new and better life.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsSoria ZeroualZita HanrotKenza Noah AïcheAn immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.
- DirectorCésar Augusto AcevedoStarsHaimer LealHilda RuizEdison RaigosaAfter having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into.
- DirectorÓscar Ruiz NaviaStarsKarent HinestrozaArnobio Salazar RivasRodrigo VélezA drama set in the black communities of Colombia's Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman.
- DirectorAbou Bakar SidibéMoritz SiebertEstephan WagnerMount Gurugu overlooks the Spanish enclave of Melilla on northern Africa's Mediterranean coast. The European Union and Africa are separated here by a high-security border facility consisting of three fences. Refugees, mostly from the sub-Saharan region, live in the tree-covered foothills, from where they try to cross the land border between Morocco and Spain. One of them is Abou Bakar Sidibé from Mali, who in Les Sauteurs is both the protagonist and the one doing the documenting.
- DirectorRaMell RossStarsLatrenda 'Boosie' AshKarmyn BryantKorbyn BryantA kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.