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- DirectorShwan AttoofStarsHalwest MuhammadNzar SalamiNarin AlanA love story between a poor boy and a rich girl.Iraq
- DirectorBader Ben HirsiStarsNabil SaberDania HammoudPaolo RomanoA young photographer, Tariq, must choose between his love and his duty of this aristocratic family. He can either run away with his lover, an orphan from the lower class, or go through with his arranged marriage to the daughter of a judge.Yemen (Fandor)
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsKorkmaz ArslanGolshifteh FarahaniSuat UstaBaran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.Iraq
- DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsShazada HusseinYasser TalibBashir Al MajidA willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.Iraq (2.99 Prime)
- DirectorAmr GamalStarsSali HamadaKhaled HamdanMoh'd NagiAs a young couple from Aden city counts down to their wedding, they face a 10-day countdown filled with obstacles spawned by the aftermath of the 2015 Yemen war, testing love against the shadows of conflict.Yemen
- DirectorManuel de CocoStarsManos KokoromitisShaiya SalemDaniel PlackettThe Arab Spring, Yemen 2011. The revolution continues. It's the monsoon season and life goes on smoothly for the inhabitants of Socotra Island. Not far from land, a sailing boat bearing an Israeli flag sinks and the search for survivors begins. A castaway is washed ashore a secluded beach. On the other side of the island, a native dreams of the castaway seeking his help.This adventure begins through the castaway's body, a man who in the sinking of his life sees for the first time a chance to know gratefulness, to be reborn. Will he overthrow destiny? Will he get back alive?Yemen
- DirectorYeAlexandre MoorsElon RutbergStarsKid CudiSarah A.Ali SulimanA high-end car thief falls in love with a blind Arabian princess whose father will only allow them to wed if he can pass a series of three challenges.Qatar
- DirectorPetros CharalambousStarsKonstantinos FarmakasGiorgos DemetriouKika GeorgiouIn a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates' careless summer days of riding his bike and tantalizing the local residents come to an abrupt end when he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, which exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.Cyprus (Tubi)
- DirectorRene EllerStarsAimé ClaeysTijmen GovaertsPauline CasteleynEight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.Netherlands
- DirectorRodrigo BellottStarsReyes AnteloFernando BarbosaErwin BerzainFollowing his son Gabriel's death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel's boyfriend Sebastian.Bolivia (3.99 Prime)
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsZemyna AsmontaiteDonatas IvanauskasKestutis Stasys JakstasWhat would you get if you mix a gangster film and a soap opera? "Zero 2" is a crazy twister of criminal romance and sexy violence that just might laugh you to death.
- DirectorVilsoni HerenikoStarsSapeta TaitoRena OwenVoi FesaituA coming of age story about a young woman, Viki, attempting to escape the stifling conformity of island culture. Inspired by the myth of the Warrior Woman, Viki recovers from the death of her father and fights for justice and freedom.Fiji
- DirectorMichele MassariStarsFranco NeroAgnese BriciClaudia GaffuriIn a cave an ancient and mysterious rite is about to be performed. Seven girls will be sacrificed to grant another life to the thousand-years-old alchemist Felix. Only the off-duty cop Paul and a deaf-mute teenager Lara could save them from that tragic fate.San Marino
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiAmir Farrokh HashemianBahare SeddiqiAfter a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.Iran (Paramount+)
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsSofia BuenaventuraJulián GiraldoKaren QuinteroOn a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.Colombia (Hulu)
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsEduardo NoriegaPenélope CruzChete LeraA very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.Spain (IMDBTV)
- DirectorShin Sang-okStarsSon Hui ChangHam Gi SopJong-uk RiIn feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he may make weapons to fend off the peasant army. After he returns the property to the people, an old blacksmith is imprisoned and starved to death. His last creation is a tiny figurine of a monster- Pulgasari, a Godzilla-like creature that eats iron. The blood of his daughter brings the creature to life, and fights with the poor, starving peasants to overthrow the corrupt monarchy.North Korea
- DirectorKil-in KimShin Sang-okStarsKye-Sung ChanSon Hui ChangSun-bu ChoeThe illegitimate son of a nobleman defends peasants from greedy rulers, confounds local bandits, and struggles for permission to marry his tasty upper-crust sweetheart despite their vast societal differences. Then ninjas arrive.North Korea
- DirectorJamie UysStarsN!xauMarius WeyersSandra PrinslooA comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.South Africa
- DirectorLula Ali IsmaïlStarsAmina Mohamed AliTousmo Mouhoumed MohamedBilan Samir MoubusAsma, Hibo, and Deka are on the verge of high school graduation. As they navigate the beginnings of adulthood, they must decide between university in France or staying home in Djibouti.Djibouti
- DirectorMartin SulíkStarsRoman LuknárZuzana SulajováJana SvandováA disillusioned 30-something teacher falls out with his father and moves to a derelict house in their family garden. He is then visited by a stunningly beautiful neighbour, famous philosophers, his ex-lover and.Slovakia
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsRosy SamadKabori SarwarRawshan ZamilAfter their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.Bangladesh (EROS)
- DirectorAmitabh Reza ChowdhuryStarsChanchal ChowdhuryMasuma Rahman NabilaPartha BaruaA struggling actor becomes a professional impostor, hired to impersonate people for financial gain, but as he delves deeper into his work he becomes embroiled in trouble that threatens to unravel his life.Bangladesh
- DirectorHoward AllenStarsCentelia BrowneDenise FrancisJanil GreenawayAntigua's first feature film is a romantic comedy that tells the story of Lovelyanne 'Luv" Davies, who returns from Canada to Antigua and her struggles to adjust to life on a small island. It follows her professional turmoil and personal drama, including being caught in an unexpected love triangle.Antigua and Barbuda
- DirectorAnderson QuarlessStarsTahira CarterDeleon WaltersClara meets John at a particularly vulnerable time in her life. She is "blinded" by love and he becomes her world. The intense relationship then becomes violent and Clara is forced to take drastic action to protect herself and their son Chris.Grenada
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMonica BellucciGiuseppe SulfaroLuciano FedericoAmidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.Italy (2.99 Prime)
- DirectorMher MkrtchyanStarsGeorge HovakimyanAni KhachikyanHayk MargaryanTigran loses the girl he loves, then he participates in the war over Nagorno-Karabakh to overcome his inner fears.Armenia
- DirectorChristina KyiStarsZenn KyiHla Yin KyaeNann Wai Wai HtunWhen US-raised Jaden returns to his birthplace Myanmar, to search for his roots, he discovers a shocking truth, a new love and ultimately a possible future in his homeland.Myanmar
- DirectorMarzieh MakhmalbafStarsGol-GhotaiZahedAgheleh RezaieThe story of survival of 2 children in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Their mother has been imprisoned for "adultery" and their father is in Guantanamo Bay.Afghanistan
- DirectorHaminiaina RatovoarivonyStarsMahon AndoniainaBen ElissarHamy RatovoMalagasy Mankany is a colorful and entertaining dramedy-adventure set in Madagascar about three sociology students named Jimi, Bob and Dylan. When Jimi's father becomes suddenly ill and nears death in his home village, the three friends embark on a journey of a lifetime from the capital of Madagascar to the deep countryside to bring assistance to Jimi's family. On the road trip, the trio encounters off the wall characters that embody the spirit of the island of Madagascar. Their journey ends with each of them standing at the very edge of their future, which brings them not only face to face with their own fate but the fate of their country.Madagascar
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.Macedonia
- DirectorSolveig NordlundStarsSérgio TitosJaime JulioFrancisco ChilengueBased on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.Mozambique (Kanopy)
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsAleksey KopashovAndrey MerzlikinPavel DerevyankoA war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.Belarus (IMDB TV)
- DirectorVladimir YankovskiyStarsNikolay ShestakElena PobegaevaVeronika PlyashkevichA story about the dramatic fate of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. The movie reveals the main milestones of the poet's life and career, coinciding with the most tragic events of the 20th century.Belarus
- DirectorUmid KhamdamovStarsZarina ErgashevaFeruza SaidovaMunavar AbdullayevaA teenage girl longs to move away from her village to live with her mother in the city.Uzbekistan (available on website filmfreeway)
- DirectorGabriela CalvacheStarsNoëlle SchönwaldCristian MercadoJaime TamarizShe is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.Ecuador ($1.99 Prime)
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsSylvia PoortaAnneke BlokMonic HendrickxZus & Zo shows what three sisters are willing to do to stop their would-be sister-in-law from coming into possession of Paraíso, their beloved family summer home on the Portuguese coast.Netherlands (TUBI)
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsAndy LauDeannie IpHailu QinAfter suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.Hong Kong
- DirectorSonia FritzStarsLymari NadalYancey AriasRachel TicotinWhile the setting of her Caribbean beach village seems picture-perfect, America's life is anything but peaceful. When their daughter runs away, America's abusive lover unleashes his rage against her. Leaving everything behind, America escapes to New York City hoping for a new life. There she works as a nanny for a wealthy family and at night in a laundry. She befriends three nannies -a Mexican, a Colombian and a Dominican- and with their help and support from relatives in the Bronx, America is determined to bring her daughter back to her. But her past haunts her. America must confront her terror to protect her dream.Puerto Rico
- DirectorCarlitos Ruiz RuizMariem Pérez RieraStarsLuis GuzmánTeresa HernándezFernando TarrazoA three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.Puerto Rico
- DirectorObi EmelonyeStarsGenevieve NnajiOsita IhemeFatima JabbeThe Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.Gambia (Netflix)
- DirectorMariya SaakyanStarsAnna KapalevaOlga YakovlevaSos SargsyanIn the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Lena begs them to follow her lead and retreat to the safety of Moscow. They are hesitant to leave and as Lena stays to aid them in the rebuilding process, she finds herself being drawn back into the familiarity of the surroundings that she once chose to leave behind.Armenia (MUBI)
- DirectorJon ShenkStarsMohamed NasheedAfter bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea.Maldives DOCUMENTARY (Kanopy/Curiosity Stream - Prime)
- DirectorMatthiew KlinckStarsMiriam Antoinette-OchaetaJim Goodchild ArnoldArran BevisA sealed ancient Mayan cave would be blown open unleashing Xtabai to wreak havoc on the world and destroy civilization. She begins by infecting the inhabitants of a nearby village with a terrible and deadly fever. The government responds by placing the village under quarantine. A team of students along with their teacher escape into the jungle to find a cure, guided only by a dream. They go deep into the bowels of the Mayan underworld, hunted by Xtabai herself. Will they ultimately succeed in defeating the evil Xtabai and saving mankind from her curse? How many will live to tell the tale?Belize HALLOWEEN
- DirectorBakhtyar KhudojnazarovStarsChulpan KhamatovaMoritz BleibtreuAto MukhamedzhanovThe unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.Tajikstan
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsChristophe MinieDaisy Victoria VandyJoseph DuoA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.Liberia
- DirectorKareem MortimerStarsJohnny FerroStephen Tyrone WilliamsMargaret Laurena KempThe story of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with each other and portrays the homophobia of the Bahamian society.Bahamas ($3.99 Prime)
- DirectorPim de la ParraStarsBorger BreeveldDiana Gangaram PandayWilleke van AmmelrooyRoy is a handsome Surinam man, who studies in Amsterdam. He hurriedly left his Dutch girlfriend Karina to visit his dying mom in Paramaribo. Back in his homeland, Roy soon becomes obsessed with his own country and it's culture. When he falls for the Hindu nurse Rubia, the conservative Hindu and Black communities are in revolt. One day Karina arrives in Surinam too.Suriname
- DirectorIvan Tai-ApinStarsIdi LemmersGaby TreurnietAltaafkhan DhonreWhen nine-year-old Wiren meets the American Dr. Young a world of opportunities opens up for the small deaf boy. Driven by his ambition to get ahead in life he leaves his life in rural Nickerie behind and winds up at the Kennedy boarding school in the capital Paramaribo. He struggles to comply to the strict, conservative Catholic methods at the school, but turns out to become the catalyst for the change that leads to the introduction of sign language. After being rejected by the university he realizes that deaf people do not enjoy the same rights and opportunities as hearing people. Witnessing the constant withhold of deaf people in Suriname leads Wiren to seek justice by suing the government to coerce them to adhere to the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities. Will he succeed?Suriname
- DirectorMilan TodorovicStarsKristina KlebeDragan MicanovicNatalie BurnTwo young American women go on a Mediterranean vacation and uncover the watery lair of a killer mermaid hidden beneath an abandoned military fortress. What was once a carefree adventure becomes a deadly fight for survival.Montenegro HALLOWEEN (IMDBTV)
- DirectorAmeera Al-QaedStarsMohammed JunaidRazan JamalSara Al-SayedIn the wake of a viral outbreak through out Bahrain, a group of strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they must unite to ward off the undead plague.Bahrain HALLOWEEN
- DirectorAlexander HahnStarsMaria de MedeirosDominique PinonOrlando WellsA comedy that follows a group of people immersed in Latvia's summer solstice celebration, the shortest night of the year.Latvia
- DirectorTed BafaloukosStarsLeroy 'Horsemouth' WallaceRichard 'Dirty Harry' HallMonica CraigHorsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston.Jamaica (MUBI)
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsTristan HalilajSindi LacejRefet AbaziAn Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.Albania ($2.99 Prime)
- DirectorPaul JanmanStarsFuta Helu'Atolomake HeluSisi'uno HeluAncient philosophy, opera and Tongan culture come together in this intimate portrait of a teacher, his school and his people as they navigate a sea of repression and doubt in a small but troubled Pacific island kingdom.
- DirectorAlejandro Loayza GrisiStarsJosé CalcinaLuisa QuispeCandelaria QuispeIn the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
- DirectorHaider RashidStarsAdam AliSvetlana YanchevaPietro CicirielloKamal has fled Iraq to try to enter "Fortress Europe". At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, Kamal has three days to escape.
- DirectorSelwyne BrowneStarsAndrew FranklinDamien GibsonVincia ClarkePayday, a Barbadian comedy-drama/buddy film showcasing a raw slice of Barbadian community life. Romie, an aspiring mechanic and ladies man, with his brutally honest best friend Pack, invest their entire salaries in a down-payment on a garage. Their goal: to establish a successful mechanic's shop to get away from their boring jobs as security guards, their loving yet eccentric and demanding families, and poor standard of living in their village - Pickletons. Their simple task of making the down-payment to the garage owner at the village lime that night is hilariously complicated by Romie's love-life, and Pack's love for cannabis. The complications and laughs multiply as the best friends go to extremes to avoid violent drug men, a charity collector, crazy ex-girlfriends and other wacky villagers.
- DirectorTshoper KabambiStarsMoyindo MpongoBrandon Ray OliveElbas ManuanaA Congolese man runs from a terrible accident and finds himself at a revolutionary camp, where he is told that he has a great destiny. Now, he must face his fears and his shame, but also his magnificent possibilities.
- DirectorJonas Rusumalay DiazThomas HenningStarsJuvencio da Silva CorreiaLola Bety PiresTuta Monteiro PiresEma Nudar Umanu is the story of the dream of a woman who has died told to a man born from a duck's egg in a jungle far from anything. It is the story of a couple forced together, coming to realise that what they each wish for is to be one another. It is a story about the point at which life is death, love is loneliness, man is woman and dream is reality. Five weeks from initial concept to shot and made on the barest of budgets, the film is an unprecedented undertaking that brings to life a dream from beyond the grave. Ema Nudar Umanu is a romance of liberty, draped in tragedy, comic and absurd.
- DirectorCarlos MembreñoStarsCarlos Alberto MoncadaEthel FloresEnrique BarrientosA story inspired by real events, which revolves around a coffee producing family (from Marcala, Honduras) in which their harvest is impacted by the plague of rust and low coffee prices. Trying to survive, migration will be one of the options to save their farm. But it will not be the biggest obstacle they will have to overcome, but also death will put them to the test and measure them to see if a strong family bond is unbreakable; showing the sacrifice, passion and faith that exists behind the cup of coffee consumed in the world.
- DirectorJuan Carlos FanconiStarsJosé ZúñigaGabriela de la GarzaLali GonzalezRomance is in the air on the picturesque Caribbean island of Roatán, but the troubled pasts of its guests threaten to tame their desires.
- DirectorIn Hak JangStarsHyang Suk KimRyung Min KimJung Taik ParkA North Korean nurse and a South Korean soldier fall in love during a tumultuous time of the Korean War, and experience lifetimes of consequences, separation and pain, with the hope of reuniting one day.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsSara KlimoskaNatalija TeodosievaKamka TocinovskiThree women - one medieval, two contemporary - struggle to become mothers. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggles with tradition, loyalty, adoption and control over their bodies make them unlikely heroines.
- DirectorYoosuf ShafeeuStarsAinthuMohamed FaisalFathimath FareelaA teacher recalls his broken relationship with the girl he loved due to his parents' request to marry a spoiled daughter of the family they were indebted to, while being centered only about giving love to his child in the process. Eight years later ill-fated lovers meet again.
- DirectorIlyas WaheedAhmed Ifnaz FiragStarsNuzhath ShuaibAhmed Ifnaz FiragFathimath LatheefaIbu, a physical instructor from Male', visits a rural island to conduct a three-month-long physical education and exercise program for the islanders. During his stay, he meets Shehenaz, a beautiful young girl who, to his surprise, lives in the same house he is staying in. But he is shocked by the islanders' mentality towards her, who thinks she is prideful and mentally unfit. Nevertheless, he finds companionship in her, which blossoms into an unconventional relationship. After much convincing, Ibu marries Shehenaz, and they move to Male', escaping her inconvenient island life and restarting a life filled with hope in the capital city. However, their new life is disrupted by strange events that start happening almost immediately after moving back to Male'. Mysterious occurrences throw everything into question, and Ibu must find the cause of these events. Ibu must get to the bottom of things as their marriage depends on it, and maybe even their lives. What they unveil is far more sinister than anyone would have imagined.
- DirectorSuzanne ChutaroJack NiedenthalStarsIohaan AnjolokNetha GideonMartha HoriuchiLaninbwil's Gift is the story of Jacob, an old island man with a complicated secret. When Jacob was a teenager, a noniep, a Marshallese fairy known for helping troubled souls, transformed him from a simpleton into a normal young man. This favor, however, came with a cost: The noniep made Jacob promise that one day he must bestow this new-found intelligence upon another deserving person. After a lifetime of pondering this otherworldly commitment to the noniep, Jacob discovers Laninbwil, a homeless young man. Just when Jacob begins to get close to the troubled youth, Laninbwil unwittingly gets caught up in a war of mystical power between an evil Mejenkwar, a demon that possesses pregnant women, and her archenemy, the gifted, shamanic old woman, Lijimu.
- DirectorKhalid Abdulrahim Al-ZadjaliStarsSaleh Za'alZoha QaderSaud Al-DarmakiThe film takes place in a coastal town where the locals are known for fishing and boat building. As it turns out, work in these two professions has started to decrease. Most young local men have deserted the town and started heading to the capital to look to for work They claim that the sea's fortune has run short and that a container of fish is not enough to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. Sheik Ibrahim, one of the wise and rich men of the town, was a vital catalyst in the migration of the work force. For it is in the sake of his big investments, that everyone talks of but no one seems to know what they are and who are his Omani and foreign partners. He offers people to buy off their old fishing boats, even their old homes which are close to the coast. No one stands in his way but a elder man in his fifties Nokhithah(Captain) Salem "Abu Zahir", who has long relationship with the sea since his childhood. It is said that his son Zahir has gone off to sea on a fishing trip and has not returned This is why he waiting for him while raising, Noor, a girl he has betrothed for Zahir. Abu Zahir insists on fixing old fishing boats. Sheik Ibrahim finds the Nokhithah as an obstacle in his way to achieve his investments. So he starts fighting him by any means, one of which was spreading false rumors about an illegitimate relationship with his son's fiancée Noor; Sheik Ibrahim even raises doubts about the existence of Zahir that everyone heard of but never seen on first hand.
- DirectorKhalid Abdulrahim Al-ZadjaliStarsNoura Al-FarsiAli Al-AmriM.R. GopakumarThe film deals with certain major women issues within Oman and Asia with a focus on Oman and India, and how an Omani conservative society treats it. It is a self-discovery journey and a mixture between drama and road-movie.
- DirectorNigel LewisStarsUnoma AllenTianna ByronJudy DupontA feature length narrative about two young individuals who goes through different family dilemmas. A young girl by the name of Rose, is physically abused by her father, and her mother knows about the abuse but does nothing to prevent or dismiss it. Rose dances to escape her pain, but having difficulties escaping it. Rose's boyfriend Antonio, has an alcoholic mother and his older brother is in jail. He has no father, no guidance and goes down a similar path as his mother.
- DirectorFabian GuerraStarsKeishon A. BrowneLittle DanNisha HopeA young fella tries to win the girl he previously met in a bar by visiting a Voodoo magician.
- DirectorChris OwenAlbert ToroStarsAlbert ToroRegina TalsaWenceslas NorukeTells the story of a university drop out who returns to his village in Buka Passage, Bougainville. He drifts into rootlessness among bad companions, becoming progressively alienated from his parents and village life, with tragic results.
- DirectorAndrew AdamsonStarsHugh LaurieXzannjah MatsiHealesville JoelAs a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
- DirectorNabwana I.G.G.StarsKakule WilliamSserunya ErnestG. PuffsUganda's president gives Captain Alex an assignment to defeat the Tiger Mafia, but he gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex's death.
- DirectorFlora GomesStarsDulcenia BidjanqueDjuco BodjanDadu CisseDone in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.