Chennai International Film Festival 2012
The entire line-up for the year.
Four movies which I couldn't find on IMDB are:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's THE GARDENER
Zhanna Issabayeva's TALGAT
Iskandar Usmonov's THE TELEGRAM
Boonsong Nakphoo's FOUR STATIONS
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Four movies which I couldn't find on IMDB are:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's THE GARDENER
Zhanna Issabayeva's TALGAT
Iskandar Usmonov's THE TELEGRAM
Boonsong Nakphoo's FOUR STATIONS
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- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNabil AsliAdila BendimeradKhaled BenaïssaThanks to the "civilian agreement" law, an Islamist is pardoned and reinstalled in society. He soon understands law doesn't erase the crimes he committed.
- DirectorPaula HernándezStarsDiego PerettiLuis ZiembrowskiElena RogerChildhood friends Bruno and Lalo are inseparable, until Lisa enters their lives. Beautiful and free-spirited, she quickly turns both their heads, igniting a passionate but heartbreaking love triangle - before suddenly leaving town without a word. Lisa resurfaces much later; Bruno is married and Lalo divorced, and none have them have been able to completely shake their memories of that summer 30 years ago. When Lisa reunites the group, those old feelings are stirred - and relived.
- DirectorSebastián BorenszteinStarsRicardo DarínIgnacio HuangCarolina HsuA well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn't speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?
- DirectorMiro BilbroughStarsAlice McConnellGarry McDonaldSimon StoneVenice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts an affair with her best friend. To her chagrin, her ex-hippie dad, camped on her sofa for a week, ignores it at all.
- DirectorIvan SenStarsDannielle HallDamian PittJenna Lee ConnorsLena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsEdward WoodwardJack ThompsonJohn WatersThree Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsMel GibsonMark LeeBill KerrTwo Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
- DirectorKriv StendersStarsJosh LucasRachael TaylorRohan NicholBased on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
- DirectorJohn PolsonStarsLinus RoacheDanielle CormackIan BlissA British man with a peculiar curse goes on a low-rent bus tour in Australia.
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsPaul MercurioTara MoriceBill HunterA maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
- DirectorDaniel NettheimStarsWillem DafoeSam NeillMorgan DaviesMartin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
- DirectorUmut DagStarsNihal G. KoldasBegüm AkkayaVedat ErincinAyse is wed to Hasan, the handsome son of house-proud mother Fatma. Ayse is whisked away to Vienna where she soon finds that the marriage is a sham and she is to be the second wife to Fatma's husband.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMargarete TieselPeter KazunguInge MauxTeresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMamunTariq Anam KhanMunmun AhmedStory of a teenage boy who is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.
- DirectorLaurent BoileauJung HeninStarsMaxym AnciauxMahé ColletChristelle CornilComic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.
- DirectorJoachim LafosseStarsÉmilie DequenneClaire BodsonNiels ArestrupHappy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are heading
- DirectorAida BegicStarsMarija PikicIsmir GagulaBojan NavojecSiblings Rahima and Nedim are the Bosnian war orphans. She works as a restaurant chef and earns just enough money to survive.
- DirectorBrandon CronenbergStarsCaleb Landry JonesLisa BerrySarah GadonIn a blackly satirical near future, a thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Employee Syd March's attempts to exploit the system backfire when they involve him in a potentially deadly mystery.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsMelvil PoupaudEmmanuel SchwartzSuzanne ClémentA drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsCatherine De LéanDimitri StorogeVéronique RebizovIt starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.
- DirectorMaryanne ZéhilStarsNathalie CoupalJoseph AntakiWafa TarabeyMarie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these envelopes and finds out who is the anonymous writer. This is how she establishes a connection with Joseph, a Lebanese worker hired to paint the offices. A strange relation develops between these two persons who come from very different worlds. But after a while, Joseph abruptly disappears and Marie, overwhelmed by the mission fallen on her, starts a journey into the past, through a small village in Lebanon, in the heart of a bloodthirsty culture were lies the key of all the enigmas.
- DirectorKim NguyenStarsRachel MwanzaAlain Lino Mic Eli BastienSerge KanyindaSomewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
- DirectorFrancisca SilvaStarsMarcelo AlonsoMaría de Los Ángeles GarcíaAldo ParodiIvan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bond. They begin struggling with each other when the girl's sexuality awakens. Ivan desires her love and companionship. Maria de los Angles Garcia as Natalia and Marcelo Alonso as Ivan gave unforgettable performances.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsFrancisco AcuñaJuan AlfaroOrlando AlfaroA portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
- DirectorYe LouStarsLei HaoHao QinXi QiLu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her husband businessman Qiao Yongzhao entering the hotel with a young girl. A few hours later the girl Sun Xiaomin is run over and killed on a nearby motorway by a group of joyriding rich kids but when the police arrive they notice that Sun had been attacked before she was run over.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsMinzhi WeiHuike ZhangZhenda Tian13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.
- DirectorAntonio DoradoThis mystical journey takes us through the untrodden, war-locked Northwest Amazon, where we discover the secret knowledge of of Cabiyari and Cubeo indigenous cultures and their insight into nature, life and medicinal and psychotropic plants. It is a window into a forbidden zone of the Amazon, patrolled by violent factions.
- DirectorCarlos OsunaStarsÁlvaro BayonaFernando ArévaloJairo CamargoAntonio Farfan is a 46 year old man working in a notary's office who has always believed that his personal and professional failure is the inevitable result of his looks: he is bald, short and fat. Though his mind is never silent, his life goes almost uneventfully until the new notary arrives: a fatter, balder and shorter man that, unlike Antonio, is successful and loved by others. Dazed and confused, Antonio is now thrown out to the real world where he faces his own fears and ends up living pretty unexpected situations.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsPorfirio Ramirez AldanaJarlinsson Ramirez ReinosoYor Jasbleidy Santos TorresLiving between his bed and his wheelchair, Porfirio - a man who lives in a town on the edge of the Amazon - dreams of being able to fly.
- DirectorAndrés BurgosStarsCarmen MauraGustavo AngaritaJulián ArangoAn old couple living in the Colombian countryside has been planing a trip to sea for years in order to break the monotony of their life. He just wants to live the routine, she wants to see the world and is not able to keep waiting.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsKirsten DunstCharlotte GainsbourgKiefer SutherlandTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsMenna ShalabiBasem SamrahNahed El SebaïMahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his job, been subjected to humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. He and his family are close to despair when he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who lives in a wealthy neighbourhood of Cairo. This will be the encounter of two people but also of two different worlds.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsHind SabriMaged El-KidwaniHany AdelA woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsAmr AbdullatifIbrahim AbdulqaderMuhgah AbdulrahmanThe film revolves around a mother of five children and she is trying to contain them and seek to resolve their problems, but she decides to leave the house after their problem become beyond her control.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineKhaled YoussefStarsKhaled SalehMenna ShalabiYoussef El SherifEgyptian movie deals with the issue of corruption in Egypt and the Egyptian police excesses, embodies all of this in the character of the police officer, "Hatem".
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsTõnu OjaRain SimmulKetter HabakukkFilm about a man who was sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converted to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war.The front line in the decrepit Estonian town runs between Eastern and Western culture, men and women, common sense and madness. Somewhere amidst these battles is his daughter, who Kirotaja has decided to find after all the years of absence. His only leads are the sound of his daughter crying, heard once on the telephone, and a dog-eared notebook full of letters addressed to her. But the town has other plans for him and the women running it seem to take him for their savior from the nagging feeling of emptiness that has enveloped them.
- DirectorToomas HussarStarsRaivo E. TammElina ReinoldJuhan UlfsakA journalist has gotten wind of corruption rumors involving a politician. On the day the journalist tries to contact him, he decides to go mushrooming with his wife.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsAlma PöystiAino LouhimiesSean PertweeNaked Harbour tells the story of people who seek love and acceptance at any cost.
- DirectorSakari KirjavainenStarsJoonas SaartamoLauri TilkanenTerhi SuorlahtiA drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly centres near enemy lines. Silence is a story of a group of people in a limbo between life and death, and a mental no-man's-land, where Heaven and Hell, horror and joy, love and fear touch each other.
- DirectorSaara CantellStarsElin PetersdottirMeri NenonenIrina BjörklundA story of a house and three women of different generations who inhabit it through the years.
- DirectorAlice WinocourStarsVincent LindonStéphan WojtowiczSokoA look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.
- DirectorEstelle LarrivazStarsStefano CassettiGéraldine PailhasMuriel RobinA teenage girl rediscovers the feeling of love towards her father when he is in the midst of an existential crisis.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsLéo-Paul SalmainMarc BarbéUlrich MatthesA teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRobert PattinsonJuliette BinocheSarah GadonRiding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
- DirectorValérie DonzelliStarsValérie DonzelliJérémie ElkaïmCésar DesseixWhen their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival.
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsDenis LavantEdith ScobEva MendesA man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
- DirectorBenoît DelépineGustave KervernStarsBenoît PoelvoordeAlbert DupontelBrigitte FontaineThe film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother.
- DirectorGuillaume GiovanettiÇagla ZencirciStarsUzma AliBaba HussainNoorNoor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life. Now, he is doing a man's job in a Truck Decoration Center and he made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is...
- DirectorRachid DjaidaniStarsSlimane DaziSabrina HamidaStéphane Soo MongoBlack Christian boy and North African Muslim girl fall in love, but her family is against this union.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsMarion CotillardMatthias SchoenaertsArmand VerdurePut in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
- DirectorPascal ArnoldJean-Marc BarrStarsMathias MelloulValérie MaësStephan HersoenThree generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class.
- DirectorClaude MillerStarsAudrey TautouGilles LelloucheAnaïs DemoustierAn unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMarie TrintignantStéphane AudranJean-François GarreaudA drunken self-destructive woman called Betty wanders through bars and meets a man that drives her to a restaurant outside Paris called Le Trou (The Hole). She meets the middle-aged alcoholic Laure from Lyon, who is the lover of the Le Trou's owner Mario. Laure decides to take care of Betty and brings her to the room next-door in her hotel. Along the days, Betty tells the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy marriage to Laure and also recalls moments of her promiscuous life.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean PoiretJean-Claude BrialyBernadette LafontInspector Lavardin investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abuse her.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsEmmanuelle BéartFrançois CluzetNathalie CardonePaul and Nelly have everything to be happy: a dream wedding and a hotel. Until Paul starts to doubt Nelly.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyMichèle MéritzAfter long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsNathalie BayeBenoît MagimelSuzanne FlonThree generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsMax RiemeltTom SchillingDevid StriesowFriedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsAlba RohrwacherVinzenz KieferMatthias BrandtTwo young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
- DirectorLinus de PaoliStarsKetel WeberAmanda PlummerBurak YigitBerlin's notorious Neukoelln district. The near future, a time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without licence as a doctor. He treats people in the streets, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.
- DirectorBarnaby SouthcombeStarsCharlotte RamplingGabriel ByrneEddie MarsanA noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
- DirectorEmily AtefStarsMaria DragusAnne BennentRobert Hunger-BühlerFifteen-year-old Adele wants to die. She's felt alienated by everything around her since the death of her brother. All that remains in her dull, hard-working life is profound sadness. Timo (43) is on the run. Eight years ago he had been found guilty of murder and jailed. Now he has finally managed to break out of prison. Injured and exhausted, he tries to hide on Adele's parents' farm. When Adele discovers the escapee, she makes him a frank and eerie offer: she will help him to flee, but once they are in safety, Timo is to kill her. Timo is forced by his circumstances to accept this morbid pact. Suspicion and distrust accompany them on a journey that leads them all the way to Marseille. The boundary between perpetrator and victim fades. The frail Timo can barely stand to be close to this girl; Adele reminds him of his dark duties. The more difficult circumstances become, the more this peculiar couple has to trust each other and eventually both find their way back into life.
- DirectorCate ShortlandStarsSaskia RosendahlKai-Peter MalinaNele TrebsAs the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
- DirectorMarkus ImhoofStarsFred JaggiRandolf MenzelJohn MillerAn in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.
- DirectorToke Constantin HebbelnStarsAlexander FehlingAugust DiehlRonald ZehrfeldThe dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.
- DirectorJan ZabeilStarsAlexander FehlingObusentswe Dreamar ManyimNx'apa MotswaiA drama centered on a white man lost in the Botswana marshlands.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsIrene PapasGiannis FertisAleka KatselliLiving in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsAnthony QuinnAlan BatesIrene PapasAn uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
- DirectorJózsef SiposStarsGerd BöckmannKároly MécsErika MarozsánBudapest in 1940. Professor Péter Kadar's life seems perfect: his career is at its peak and he has married a pretty young woman. But everything falls apart the very day he is appointed head of department at one of the city's most reputable clinics. For his adopted son, Doctor Zoltan, is planning to have an affair with his wife. Against all expectations, Kadar negotiates a bizarre arrangement that will change the trio's lives forever.
- DirectorBence MiklauzicStarsZoltán RátótiYu DebinEszter BánfalviMate, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here before selling them on the market. The stock comprising of several thousands of boxes is guarded by a Chinese man, Wu, who also lives in the storage. During this forced association a strange friendship begins between the two lonely men, even though Wu is told by his boss to prevent the sale of the storage under all circumstances. The boss is also giving enticing promises to Wu to help him realize his dream: go back to China and create his own football team. The situation is further complicated by the pizza girl, who is equally liked by both men and stirs up the strange life of the storage.
- DirectorKris KasparStarsKata DobóBéla MészárosTamás LengyelA long-lost retired father comes for a visit to his daughter and as both of them are detectives they begin to investigate each-other. Dark secrets come to surface mixed with life-threatening love triangle.
- DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsIsabelle AdjaniAnouk AiméeWoody AllenA simple yet timeless love story between a man and a woman, told using scenes edited together from hundreds of other films.
- DirectorPéter BergendyStarsJános KulkaZsolt NagyPéter Scherer1957, Budapest. A young defense officer's loyalty is tested by his mentor in a highly deceptive spy game.
- DirectorEndre HulesStarsEndre HulesZsolt LászlóBea MelkviThere were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsTómas LemarquisÞröstur Leó GunnarssonElín HansdóttirIs he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Noi's universe and offer him a window into a better world.
- DirectorMarteinn ThorssonStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonÞorsteinn BachmannHilmir Snær GuðnasonThe tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.
- DirectorAli RafieStarsMehdi HashemiHanieh TavassoliShahrokh ForoutanianA man is living with his only daughter and does everything he can for a living and for his daughter's sake hoping she is his forever. But a misunderstanding makes everything really complicated for him.
- DirectorBahram TavakoliStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaSaber AbarNegar JavaherianThe story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
- DirectorRambod JavanStarsReza AttaranVishka AsayeshPegah AhangaraniThis movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school.
- DirectorAmir ManorStarsYosef CarmonRivka GurEfrat Ben-ZurHayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsGuy AdlerOz ZehaviMichael AloniThe 1956, a few years after the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel. Immigration is at its peak, transit camps are scattered throughout the country. This is the story of one platoon at Training Base 4, a three-month boot camp boot comprised of conscripts from Ashkenazi Jews, new immigrants from North Africa and Europe, Holocaust survivors, as well as both secular and religious individuals. All the platoon members are physically unfit or mentally disabled. They find themselves on the extreme margins of society, at the bottom of the social ladder, and dream of ascending to the top. Common precepts such as "melting pot," "team spirit," and "one for all and all for one," remain unfulfilled. This is a battle for the individual's survival, a war for status, identity, and independence. A battle to attain the loftiest dreams, a war waged by individuals against their destiny.
- DirectorNir BergmanStarsOrly SilbersatzYehuda AlmagorRoee ElsbergA young boy with growth disorders lives through his daily life's tragedies and comedies, while struggling to come to terms with his own personal problems.
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsNicholas JacobMichael AloniJameel KhouryA drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsYiftach KleinYaara PelzigMichael MoshonovA member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
- DirectorGuy NattivStarsRonit ElkabetzTzahi GradMichael MoshonovEverything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, real gifted, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up before his threatening up-coming Bar Mitzva.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsMark IvanirGuri AlfiNoah SilverA tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerMaya DaganDror KerenDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsAniello ArenaPaola MinaccioniLoredana SimioliLuciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsSean PennFrances McDormandJudd HirschCheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsJack NicholsonMaria SchneiderJenny RunacreUnable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsRobert De NiroMonica BellucciRiccardo ScamarcioIn Italy three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man (Robert DeNiro) falls in love with his friend's daughter (Monica Bellucci).
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsRaoul BovaBarbora BobulovaAmbra AngioliniTwenty years ago, while they were 12th grade students, Giorgio, Lorenzo, Piero, Luisa, Virgilio and Francesca were a high-spirited band. Then they graduated, integrated themselves into society and lost track of one another. One day they receive a letter from the Ministry of Education: because of a formal error, they must retake the exam. With the initial shock now past, they grasp the opportunity to meet again, to share laughters and to cram together like they used to. On the other hand, they are not the same persons they were two decades before...
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsMasahiro MotokiRyôko HirosueTsutomu YamazakiSoon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiBanafsheh ModaressiStarsRin TakanashiTadashi OkunoRyô KaseIn Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsToshiyuki NishidaTomokazu MiuraTakeshi KitanoAs the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
- DirectorSatoshi KonStarsMegumi HayashibaraTôru EmoriKatsunosuke HoriWhen a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
- DirectorMasayuki SuôStarsTamiyo KusakariKoji YakushoTakao OsawaShinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision.