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- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsAlain ChabatJonathan LambertÉlodie BouchezA wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
- DirectorMurat DüzgünogluStarsTansu BiçerVuslat SaraçogluEsra KizildoganBahadir, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsTang WeiShaofeng FengZhiwen WangThe life story of Xiao Hong, one of China's most famous essayists and novelists, who reflected the progressive thinking not frequently seen during the 1930s.
- DirectorCédric KahnStarsMathieu KassovitzCéline SalletteDavid GastouPaco and Nora once were an ideally matched couple. Both loved nature, nomadic or semi-nomadic life and agreed to raise their children far from the corruption of the consumer society. But Nora, unlike Paco, grew tired of such a lifestyle and left Paco taking their children with her. Paco would not accept what he considered a betrayal, all the more since Nora had obtained custody of the children. Taking advantage of his access to his children, Paco took flight with his two sons, Tsali and Okyesa. Their escape was to last an amazing eleven years...
- DirectorShawkat Amin KorkiStarsHussein Hassan AliNazmi KirikShima MolaeiKurdish childhood friends Hussein (37) and Alan (40) direct and produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsOla RapaceThure LindhardtNatalie Madueño1962. A young generation rebels against the Establishment. Peace activist Eik Skaløe meets Iben and falls head over heels in love, but Iben refuses to commit herself to one man only. Desperate, Eik tries to win her over by transforming from poet to writer, nomad, junkie and eventually lead singer in the destined-to-become-legendary band STEPPEULVENE.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsTinatin DalakishviliSeverija JanusauskaitePavel TabakovYoung Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature Rita is the lover of the deputy minister, who wants to become pregnant and marry him. Kostya is the son of a deputy minister, who is constantly in conflict with his father and Rita, but falls in love with Masha when he meets her. After quarreling, Rita is forced to leave her lover's house, and meets Masha by chance.
- DirectorFrancesco MunziStarsMarco LeonardiPeppino MazzottaFabrizio FerracaneThe story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.
- 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.
- DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsJason SchwartzmanElisabeth MossJonathan PryceWhen a self-obsessed novelist (Jason Schwartzman) has problems with his novel and his girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss), he seeks refuge in his mentor's cottage where the peace and quiet allow him to focus on his favorite subject - himself.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsCarey MulliganMatthias SchoenaertsMichael SheenIn Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsHera HilmarÞorsteinn BachmannThorvaldur KristjanssonA Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
- DirectorBoris LojkineStarsJustin WangEndurance NewtonNabyl Fally KoivoguiOn his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsNoor Agha AhmadiMahdi EbadiHasiba EbrahimiA romance blooms between a young Iranian man working in a factory in Tehran and the daughter of an Afghan worker.
- 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.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsParviz ParastuiSoheila GolestaniShabnam MoghadamiA taxi driver takes a young woman at a small Iranian hospital. As long as he gets there he realizes that he must take crucial decisions that may change his life.
- DirectorAyat NajafiStarsImed AlibiÉlise CaronJeanne CherhalIn Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organize an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and her friends invite three French female singers, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical project, re-opening a musical bridge between Europe and Iran. Are they going to succeed and finally be gathered in Tehran, sing together, on stage and without restrictions, and to open a door towards a new freedom of women in Iran ?
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsEmraan HashmiGeetanjali ThapaDanny HustonAyan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.
- DirectorJan-Willem van EwijkStarsFettah LamaraThekla ReutenMohamed MajdA Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
- DirectorDaniel WolfeMatthew WolfeStarsSameena Jabeen AhmedConor McCarronGary LewisLaila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.
- DirectorHisham ZamanStarsAli Bag SalimiZheer DurhanNazmi Kirik'Letter to the King' portrays five people on a day trip from a refugee camp to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. Each and every one of them has an agenda for their trip. All five will make decisive choices on this day, as they discover happiness, humiliation, or love--or fulfill a long-awaited revenge. The five stories are tied together by a letter written by 83-year-old Mirza, who wants to hand it over to the King personally.
- DirectorNajwa NajjarStarsKal NagaSouad MassiSuhail HaddadA father with a dangerous secret searches for his daughter.
- DirectorAli AtayStarsErtan SabanSerkan KeskinFunda EryigitSo begins an entertaining road story where we witness two brothers with different cultural backgrounds, who don't even know each other, have similarities, differences and even their fights.
- DirectorBaris AtayStarsÖzgür Emre YildirimNur SürerBaris AtayLack; after the military coup on the 12Th of September, this is the story where the revolutionist hunt was most lived during the years 1981 - 1984 and is still continuing today.