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- DirectorJoseph Chen-Chieh HsuStarsShu-Fang ChenYing-Hsuan HsiehVivian HsuFamily members grapple with the passing of their estranged father and the remnants of the life he led during his absence.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsNoriko KijimaRyo NaritaTadayoshi OhkuraKyoichi, a man with an indecisive personality, constantly cheats. That is, until his wife sends a P. I to investigate his affairs. But what will happen when the man she sent wants to fulfil his own desires?
- DirectorYonfanStarsSylvia ChangWei ZhaoAlex Tak-Shun LamZiming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong's turbulent times of 1967.
- DirectorYu-Chieh ChengStarsMorning Tzu-Yi MoShu-Fang ChenRun-yin BaiA boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsJessica LouthanderTatiana DelaunayAnders HellströmRoy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.
- DirectorKit HungStarsDerek TsangYiu-Sing LamStefan KollmussA rare cancer forces Lim to go to Switzerland for a risky life-saving operation. While staying with his brother, he re-ignites a passionate affair with an old flame. Abandoned by his brother and lover after his failed operation, he alone fights for his survival, with a stoma fitted to his waist, searching for a reason to live on. ("Stoma" is an artificial surgically created opening in the abdomen to replace the anus.)
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsIvan TrojanJosef TrojanJuraj LojThe life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyJekaterina OertelStarsNatalia BerezhnayaOlga ShkabarnyaVladimir AzhippoNatasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsDanilo AcinapuraRaffaella GalloYlenia GaltieriMarghe, six years old daughter lives with her single mother Claudia who's been kicked out of her house because of payment difficulties, leaving Marghe to an old woman next door.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsLouis GarrelChristophe MaratierPierre PoirotIn 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.
- DirectorDominik MollStarsDenis MénochetLaure CalamyDamien BonnardA woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.
- DirectorAlice WinocourStarsEva GreenZélie BoulantMatt DillonAn astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
- DirectorBenedict AndrewsStarsKristen StewartYvan AttalGabriel SkyInspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsPaula BeerFranz RogowskiMaryam ZareeUndine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
- DirectorNobuhiro SuwaStarsShoko IkezuShinsuke KatoTomokazu MiuraInspired by an actual occurrence in Japan Haru who has relocated to Hiroshima in southern Japan comes across a rogue telephone booth in the middle of nowhere when she returns to Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. The unconnected telephone in a white booth is driven by superstition that it is a direct line to the dead. She and several locals converse and they share their stories and the different states of belief regarding the booth that is prevalent.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKim Min-heeKwon Hae-hyoLee Eun-miWhile her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
- DirectorZi HuangStarsHang-Ying PangHoward SitHon-Man KoThe life of a family of three was changed by the diagnosis of terminal liver cancer by his father Weiming. The seemingly peaceful family is shrouded in haze. Mother Mu Ling carried the house, but could not get the father and son's understanding. The son Yiming received the admission letter from the American university, but he dared not tell his parents. He knew that his mother was not easy, but he did not want to show too much concern. Father Weiming secretly made a choice to change the fate of the family in the mist.
- DirectorXinyuan Zheng LuStarsZhou ChenYe HongmingJin JingZhao Muzi went back to her hometown Hangzhou for spring festival. Her parents divorced years ago, her mother is dating a foreigner now while her father started a new family and had a new kid.
- DirectorGaoming LiuStarsYucong HuangXuanyu ChenLong LiangThe hypnotic, clammy atmosphere is felt in the sophomore film from Gao Ming, who uses the dampness of early summer there as a lens through which to zoom in on the relationship between a young couple who grow apart.
- DirectorYunbo LiStarsXiaochen ZhangYongliang SuiShang-baiThe thief Guo Changsheng was arrested by a mysterious white man. When he was washing his hands with a golden bowl, he agreed to escort them. On the way, all the masters of the road were willing to enmity, and they also brought out the blood of the unnamed door 15 years ago. - Everyone's story leads to different facts. What is the truth?
- DirectorMing LiangStarsXingchen LüXiaoliang WuJiajia WangGu Xi is about to lose her job because of undocumented citizenship status. While making use of all her connections in her effort to get official registration papers, she also tries to getting along with her brother's new girlfriend.
- DirectorNader SaeivarStarsBakhtiyar PanjeeiSevil ShirgirHadi EftekharzadehIn an ordinary Iranian town, two mysterious strangers in a car begin to park daily at the same spot for hours. This unusual occurrence causes paranoia among the locals, who suspect them to be national security.
- DirectorCamilo RestrepoStarsFernando Úsaga HiguítaLuis Felipe LozanoA man comes to terms with his past after satiating his greatest desire: assassinating the leader of the sect of which he was a part for many years.
- DirectorVisar MorinaStarsMisel MaticevicSandra HüllerRainer BockEXIL tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.