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- DirectorBenjamin ClearyStarsMatthew NeedhamChloe PirrieEric RichardA man whose lush inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter feels isolated from the world despite a flourishing online relationship.
- DirectorPatrick VollrathStarsSimon SchwarzJulia PointnerMarion RottenhoferA divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey.
- DirectorBasil KhalilStarsMaria ZreikHuda Al ImamShady SrourThe silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
- DirectorJon MilanoStarsMojan NourbakhshLauren ShawBahram KhosravianiA young Afghan girl makes a decision in a war torn village that will forever change her families life.
- DirectorWei HuStarsGenden PhuntsokSoephaSonam GonpoA young itinerant photographer and his assistant photograph Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds.
- DirectorMichael LennoxStarsMartin McCannCharlene McKennaRiley HamiltonJamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted Dad presents them with two baby chicks to care for, but the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.
- DirectorOded BinnunMihal BrezisStarsSarah AdlerUlrich ThomsenTwo strangers unexpectedly meet at an airport. He mistakenly assumes her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong.
- DirectorMark GillStarsMartin FreemanSimon GriffithsTom HollanderDoctor Williams is the latest psychiatrist to deal with a smug patient called Voorman who claims to be God himself. Although skeptical, Williams soon gets an eerie feeling that openly malicious Voorman is not simply insane.
- DirectorSelma VilhunenStarsJoanna HaarttiSanttu KarvonenRanja OmaheimoA chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.
- DirectorXavier LegrandStarsLéa DruckerAnne BenoîtMiljan ChâtelainMiriam, with her two children, escapes her husband, whom she fears.
- DirectorEsteban CrespoStarsAlejandra LorenteGustavo SalmerónBabou ChamA harrowing tale of courage and forgiveness as told from the perspective of the killers. Being a soldier is not difficult: either you get used to it or they kill you. The hardest thing is getting used to living with your memories and being yourself again after doing what you have done.
- DirectorAnders WalterStarsCasper CrumpPelle Falk KrusbækMarijana JankovicA young boy, Alfred, is dying, but through the stories about HELIUM - a magical fantasy world - told by the hospital's eccentric janitor Enzo, Alfred regains the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life.
- DirectorYan EnglandStarsGérard PoirierMarie TifoHubert LemireHenry, a great concert pianist, has his life thrown in turmoil the day the love of this life, Maria, disappears mysteriously. He'll then discover the inevitable verdict of life.
- DirectorTom Van AvermaetStarsMatthias SchoenaertsLaura VerlindenPeter Van den EedeStuck in a dark limbo between life and death, a deceased soldier Nathan Rijckx collects shadows of dying men and women to buy back his own second chance at life. Obsessed by a girl he met the moment before he died, the thought of seeing his beloved again drives the soldier to regain access to the world of the living. But when he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him toward a bitter decision, a decision not without its consequences...
- DirectorSam FrenchStarsFawad MohammadiJawanmard PaizWali TalashSet against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in Kabul city by an alliance of Afghan and international film makers, Buzkashi Boys is a look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.
- DirectorBryan BuckleyStarsHarun MohammedIbrahim Moallim HusseinAli MohammedA coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.
- DirectorShawn ChristensenStarsShawn ChristensenFatima PtacekKim AllenHaving reached the lowest point in his life, a self-destructive man on the brink of demise receives an unexpected call from his estranged sister to look after her young daughter for the night. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?
- DirectorHallvar WitzøStarsEdvard HægstadIngrid VikenTerje RanesEverybody will die one day, but 70-year-old Oskar will die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a long-ago disagreement. Will he reach his brother, whom he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it is too late?
- DirectorAndrew BowlerStarsMichael NathansonJohn Conor BrookeEmilea WilsonA neurotic inventor creates a time machine and gets lost traveling around yesterday.
- DirectorPeter McDonaldStarsAndrew BennettScott GrahamMichael McElhattonIreland 1977. Eleven-year-old Damian Lynch (Scott Graham) is called in at the last moment to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish. Following his last appearance as an altar boy when he knocked Father O'Toole off the altar, Damien is serving a 3 month ban from his only passion in life...football. To make matters worse, Damian's team, Liverpool FC, are playing in their first European cup final in two weeks time. Damien's father (Michael McElhatton) offers him a reprieve and crucially a chance to see the European cup final if he serves the mass correctly. Damien now faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or never watch his beloved Liverpool play again...
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsAnthony BrophyConleth HillPacky LeeThe story of Joe and Paddy, whose childhood friendship is shattered by the troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty five years later they are reunited.
- DirectorIan BarnesStarsSamuel HollandRory KinnearKieran HardcastleTells the story of a young man desperate to come of age before time runs out.
- DirectorIvan GoldschmidtStarsFabrice KwizeraRenaud Rutten1994 or thereabouts. There is a civil war on in Burundi. A genocidal conflict opposing Hutus and Tutsis... We are witnesses to one of those sadly frequent episodes : the attack by the rebels of a minibus transporting ordinary passengers. A Kalashnikov bursts out. The bus stops, the passengers get off. There follows a «selection» separating Hutus and Tutsis. But who is a Hutu, who is a Tutsi? Na Wewe means You Too in Kirundi.
- DirectorMichael CreaghStarsOlga WehrlyRory KeenanOran CreaghAn 8 year old schoolboy is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel...to the death.
- DirectorLuke MathenyStarsLuke MathenyMarian BrockChristopher HirshA lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion finds his prayers answered--literally--when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.