BIFFes 2016
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- DirectorJustin WebsterStarsJuan Gabriel VásquezIsidro AlvarezJon Lee Anderson'Gabo, The Magic of Reality' is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquez's life and work - "Gabo" to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension of an investigation.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsZhangke JiaDocumentary of the life & filmmaking of Jia Zhang-Ke from the Brazilian Walter Salles. Reflections on transformation of Chinese society, towns, family, the cultural revolution and globalization ("americanization"). Insights of the actors and on the places of his movies.
- DirectorMakarand BrahmeThis documentary is our humble tribute to the excellence of two brother's classical music. Last 40 years they have been the only singing duo from India who have been performing all over the world. This documentary traces their musical journey of 50 years.
- DirectorOp SrivastavaLife in Metaphors journeys into the world of the master filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli with an urge to understand the language, grammar and the core purpose of story telling through the medium of cinema.
- DirectorEeshwar NivasStarsNikhil DwivediAmrita RaoMithun ChakrabortyRiya lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an Assistant Director for a movie producer, Bharucha. After the passing of her mother, she is consoled by a young man, Anthony Gonsalves, in the church graveyard. He introduces himself as the son of Jeffrey, who passed away during 1986, and works as a waiter in Jimmy's Pub, Bandra and wants to be a Bollywood actor. Thereafter she meets him again in the studios when he comes to audition for the part of Mark Anthony in a re-make of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. Both are attracted to each other and continue to meet. Little does Riya know that Anthony has lied to her, as he never had a father by the name of Jeffrey, and the real person who brought him up is a gangster and killer, Sikander, who is now a suspect in the sudden disappearance of Police Inspector Gupta.
- DirectorAvi LewisStarsNaomi KleinStacey Arwen RaabA look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
- DirectorAntoine BoutetFollowing the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.
- DirectorDavid RosenthalWitnessing Death: a grandson's reflections on Alzheimer's (27 min) is a short video piece made by medical student David Rosenthal about the death of his grandfather Kurt Rosenthal from Alzheimer's disease.
- DirectorErol MintasStarsFeyyaz DumanZübeyde RonahiNesrin CavadzadeA young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsMehmet ÖzgürBerkay AtesTülin ÖzenAmid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist informations, activities, and searching for bombs on trash cans.
- DirectorJon GarañoJose Mari GoenagaStarsItziar ItuñoNagore AranburuItziar AizpuruAne's life turns around when, week after week, she receives a bunch of flowers at home. Always at the same time and always without a senders note.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsTim RothSarah SutherlandRobin BartlettA home care nurse works with terminally ill patients.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaNora VelázquezSilvia PasquelIn the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross-dressing husband, the other with her loneliness. But that night they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin dwarves in masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the doses prove fatal. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsJana RaluySebastián AguirreHugo AlboresWhen her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, Sonia Bonet (Jan Raluy) takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point: with her son in tow, she attempts to fight the system.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicNives IvankovicThree different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldNina KunzendorfAfter surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
- DirectorSenem TüzenStarsEsra Bezen BilginNihal G. KoldasSemih AydinNesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents' old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin's writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
- DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsVira SathidarVivek GomberGeetanjali KulkarniWhen an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsIlyas SalmanMariam ButurishviliIrakli SamushiaThe river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.
- DirectorEmine Emel BalciStarsEsme MadraRiza AkinArda AktolgaSerap is a quite but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister; the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver.
- DirectorSunny YuStarsChien-Ho WuChen-Ling WenLawrence KoPao-li is in 8th grade. When Pao-li comes to Jia-jia's rescue, they fall in love. Soon they move in together and have a daughter. However, Jia-jia gradually gets tired of the tedious life and begins an affair with a married man. When Pao-li's mother squanders his savings on gambling, Jia-jia decides to leave Pao-li. In order to win Jia-jia back, Pao-li takes a big risk.
- DirectorErmek TursynovStarsMikhail KarpovRoza KhayrullinaErzhan NurymbetYermek Tursunov (Kelin, The Old Man) completes his trilogy about Kazakh identity, in which an orphaned young boy takes to the mountains and lives among a pack of wolves in the days before WWII.
- DirectorShameera RanganaStarsDasun PathiranaSamanalee FonsekaVeena JayakodyRangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."
- DirectorYosef BarakiStarsFarzana NawabiHashmatullah FanaiQadir Aryaie12 year-old Mina cooks, sews, washes and works selling knick-knacks on the war-torn streets of Kabul to feed her neglectful father and senile grandfather. Nobody praises her. She spends her life walking without looking back or stopping.
- DirectorKohki HaseiStarsDon Gordon BellJomar BisuyoRaymond CamachoAbandoned in the shabby urban slums of Manila, the 11-year-old street urchin, Blanka, struggles for survival in a cruel world to succeed in her ultimate goal: to create the best family money can buy.
- DirectorRamin BahraniStarsAndrew GarfieldMichael ShannonLaura DernA recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.
- DirectorGurvinder SinghStarsSuvinder VickyGurpreet BhanguRajbir KaurFear and paranoia pervade life in rural Punjab of the '80s, before and after Operation Blue Star, as separatists clash with security forces.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsAlummoodanAshokanAzeezThe film starts in the early 1950s showing Sridharan, the protagonist, as a very popular communist leader and trade union activist. He is forced to go underground after his name was associated with the murder of the owner of a tile factory.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsMammoottyAshokanShobanaA young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsJalajaKaramana Janardanan NairRajam K. NairThe protagonist is trapped within himself and is unable to comprehend the changes taking place around him.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsHarvey KeitelStellan SkarsgårdMoritz BleibtreuAfter the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsRalph FiennesRosemary HarrisRachel WeiszThe fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna JandaIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsIldikó BánságiPéter AndoraiOszkárné GombikDuring WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsUtpal DuttSuhasini MulayShekhar ChatterjeeA lonely bureaucrat goes on holiday to a Gujarat village where a young peasant woman helps him see beyond his job and develop a newfound empathy for people.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsEva Gram SchjoldagerJan JohansenLine Arlien-SøborgWe follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsJakob CedergrenHelle FagralidIda DwingerDanish filmmaker Nils Malmros tells about his manic-depressive wife killing their baby, how he met her, a teacher, two years earlier in 1981 and the time after.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsSøren SejersenHeine PetersenJens AlbinusA portrait of a famous Danish brain surgeon, Richard Malmros. The son of the surgeon, Danish filmmaker Nils Malmros, tells the story of his father.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsThomas V. SolnæsSofie Linde LauridsenJesper SvaneA bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete's interest for philosophy and Jonas's friend Toke, her father's mental illness and Jonas's own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsThomas SchindelTom McEwanMichael CarøeA director recounts his experiences on his first film and memories from his childhood.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph SchildkrautThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
- DirectorMichael RadfordStarsJohn HurtRichard BurtonSuzanna HamiltonIn a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyFredric MarchGene KellyBased on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
- DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsDavid StrathairnGeorge ClooneyPatricia ClarksonBroadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
- DirectorBarbara MillerStarsYoani SanchezFarnaz SeifiZeng JinyanHow to start a revolution with a laptop.
- DirectorSaumyananda SahiStarsJane SahiIf this were a letter, the return address would be: From the students and teachers of Sita School, Silvepura, Bangalore 560090, India. If this were a diary, it would contain entries between 5th June 2012 an 28th April 2013. I return to my first school and join with the present students and teachers in their everyday adventures of learning. Through the stories that unfold we enter imaginary worlds and intimate relationships. 'Small Things, Big Things' is a celebration of when Education becomes Art.
- DirectorAbhay KumarAIIMS experiences an outrage of student union which leads to complete nerve damage of limb of sahil. Curious about the patterns of compulsion, his brother decides to stay back on campus and view the illusion of medical life.
- DirectorSanju SurendranStarsKapilaSanju Surendran composes a dreamlike and abstract portrait, focusing on the sensorial universe of a hyper-contemporary vestal committed to three thousand-year-old practice.
- DirectorChandrasekhar ReddyStarsNishant RaiRaj RaiSuraj SubbaIn the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India, boys and men descend into the abyss of the ‘rat-holes’ to scratch coal out of hard rock, with nothing more than a pickaxe and a head-torch. One of them is Suraj, an 11-year old boy.
- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsHovarth Ilie Nicusor Gabriel PetreAndreea Violeta PetreAna-Maria Badulescu PetreTotonel (10) and his sisters, Andreea (14) and Ana (17), are waiting for their mother to come back home from prison. As they grow up, each of them learns how to survive on their own, hoping that when their mother returns, the family will be reunited.
- DirectorMichel K. ZongoAfter it was shut down in 2001, the Faso Fani textile factory in Koudougou, Burkina Faso's third-largest city, was left to rot. It probably figures in the World Bank and IMF archives as one more piece of collateral damage, yet another write-off in a West African sideshow.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsThilakshini RatnayakeTwo women were denied justice and a journalist fails in his struggle to deliver justice to them, a filmmaker embarks on a quest to unearth the cause for that injustice.
- DirectorJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick SalgadoThe life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- DirectorAdi AdwanStarsEyad SheetyZuhaira SabbaghLucy AharishYoseph is a Druze who returns to his native village after having been estranged from it for 17 years. He arrives with his son and daughter, whose Jewish mother he has just divorced.
- DirectorGuy NattivErez TadmorStarsAriane LabedMakram KhouryVangelis MourikisAn elderly Greek man and his Hassidic rapper son embark on a journey with absurd encounters, which ultimately leads them to a final confrontation of father and son.
- DirectorYuval DelshadStarsNavid NegahbanAsher AvrahamiDavid DiaanThe son of a family of Iranian farmers in Israel rebels against his strong-willed father.
- DirectorEsther May CampbellStarsSophie BurtonJames StuckeyMike WrightRose longs to see mum, but nobody will take her. Ever. Dad disappears to work. Sister waits for a boy on a damp golf course while their brother communes with spirits online. But Rose reckons a familys like a constellation - connected up there in the infinite. Stars feel each other, even if they've died millions of years ago, even if theyre light years apart. Taking destiny into her hands, Rose slips out at dawn into Englands forgotten edge lands. Her departure provokes a family to change, to search for Rose and each other, until discovering the truth of their own awesome inheritance.
- DirectorDaniel di GradoStarsHelena Af SandebergJohan EhnUlrika EllemarkWhen Alena arrives at her new elite boarding school, Filippa and the other girls start to harass her. But Alena's best friend Josefin won't let her take anymore beating. If she won't strike back, Josefin will do it for her. Hard.
- DirectorLuan KryeziuStarsArben BajraktarajAdriana MorinaXhemi AgajA war hero confronts his post war life in the new Kosovo.
- DirectorNicolás TetéStarsNaiara AwadaNicolás ConditoCamilo Cuello VitaleAfter twelve years of absence, Martina meets with her cousins, whom she has not seen since childhood.
- DirectorJose PozoStarsCooper CrafarMolly MalcolmMelina MatthewsA teenager with boundless imagination tries to solve a murder he witnessed.
- DirectorIvona JukaStarsHelena BeljanLana BaricNatasa DorcicThree daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.
- DirectorKaveh EbrahimpourStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaMahan NasiriNeda JebraeiliYoung Yahya's father is going far looking for a job,therefore Yahya should stay with her infamous aunt....
- DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDarío GrandinettiMaría MarullMónica VillaSix short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
- DirectorVahid JalilvandStarsNiki KarimiAmir AghaeeShahrokh ForoutanianA not wealthy man publishes an ad which says near 25000$ will be donated to a needy person. His past makes whom to choose a super hard decision.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroyMaría TelónManuel AntúnOn the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- DirectorSebastian SchipperStarsLaia CostaFrederick LauFranz RogowskiA young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
- DirectorSlobodanka RadunStarsJana PlodkováOndrej NosálekVáclav HavelkaA love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema (Jana Plodková) runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony (Ondrej Nosálek), even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the internal, as well as external, obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a love story of two people and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody.
- DirectorPeng Fei SongStarsZe YingWenjie LuoFuyu ZhaoThe lives of three people entwine in Beijing's Underground City.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsLouis FranckViktoriya KorotkovaMerab NinidzeEpisodic, spiritual and existentialistic look at the state the Russia is in in 2017, exactly one hundred years after the communist-led Russian Revolution. The future looks gloomy, since the world is on the brink of yet another world war.
- DirectorSergio MachadoStarsLázaro RamosKaique de JesusElzio VieiraAfter failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils.
- DirectorAlante KavaiteStarsJulija SteponaityteAiste DirziuteJurate Sodyte17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
- DirectorAnna MuylaertStarsRegina CaséHelena AlbergariaMichel JoelsasWhen the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsCéline BonnierLysandre MénardDiane LavalléeIn a small convent school in rural Quebec, Mother Augustine provides a musical education to young women no matter their socio-economic background. However, with the looming changes brought by Vatican II and Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the school's future is at peril.
- DirectorJoost van GinkelStarsAngela NedyalkovBoris IsakovicErik AdelöwThe jarring lives of six immigrant residents of Amsterdam intertwine in a poetic mosaic.
- DirectorAmir Hossein SaghafiStarsMahmoud NazaralianLevon HaftvanMazdak MirabediniAn old man, living with his only doughter, tries to keep her close by any means. She is maried to a worker. She loves a horse which Is a memorial of her mother. The Old man makes her stay by letting the horse run. She dies. And the old man becomes a horse.
- DirectorFarzad MotamenStarsSaeed AghakhaniMohammad AshkanfarReza BakhtiarinikYahya is accused of murdering his wife who was in comma but because of lack of evidences after one year he got released. His wife's brother is after him to get revenge for his sister. Yahya falls in love with a woman and marries her but his dead wife's shadow seems to be heavily present in their life.
- DirectorKulikar SothoStarsMa RynetSok SothunRous MonyA lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsTawfeek BarhomQais AttaallahHiba AttalahMohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
- DirectorShakhwan IdreesStarsTaha AghajanNaser HasanDuring the Iraqi-Iranian war, which started in 1980 and lasted for eight years, a Muslim family in a Kurdish village received from the government the corpse of their son, who had been killed in the war. When they were preparing for the funeral, they discovered that the corpse was not circumcised, and they had doubts that it was their son. Once they told their Christian neighbors about that, the problem grew as each family claimed the body was their son.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsPili GroyneBenoît PoelvoordeCatherine DeneuveDid you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsShu QiChang ChenYun ZhouA female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiNasrin SotoudehBanned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
- DirectorMartin ButlerBentley DeanStarsMungau DainMarie WawaMarceline RofitSet on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.
- DirectorSean BakerStarsKitana Kiki RodriguezMya TaylorKarren KaragulianA hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.
- DirectorLaura BispuriStarsAlba RohrwacherEmily FerratelloLars EidingerYears after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsKirin KikiMasatoshi NagaseKyara UchidaBurdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
- DirectorMichal RogalskiStarsJonas NayFilip PiotrowiczGerdy ZintRomek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere in German-occupied Poland, and their lives are bound to change soon.
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakayuki AkaikeKiyomi ArataniMasahiro AsanoRyuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015) is about the story of Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen who love derby race want to do the last battle with Yakuza guys.
- DirectorMajid Al AnsariStarsAli SulimanOmar AbdulhamidAbdalla Bu AbedBeing behind bars is the least of Talal's problems as the insane Officer Daban plays a cruel game. In order to save himself and his family, Talal has to play along.
- DirectorGrímur HákonarsonStarsSigurður SigurjónssonTheodór JúlíussonCharlotte BøvingIn a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHaruka AyaseMasami NagasawaKahoThree sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsJuliano CazarréMaeve JinkingsJosinaldo AlvesIremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- DirectorSanna LenkenStarsRebecka JosephsonAmy DeasismontAnnika HallinJust as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsMargherita BuyJohn TurturroGiulia LazzariniMargherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
- DirectorDeniz Gamze ErgüvenStarsGünes SensoyDoga Zeynep DogusluTugba SungurogluWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsLoubna AbidarAsmaa LazrakHalima KaraouaneA group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoYi ZhangLiang JingdongThe life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.