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- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEmily WatsonStellan SkarsgårdKatrin CartlidgeOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.In Competition
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsMathieu AmalricEmmanuelle DevosEmmanuel SalingerPaul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? Is he avoiding the despairing life his father can't escape from ?In Competition
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames SpaderHolly HunterElias KoteasAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.In Competition
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.In Competition
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsJieh-Wen KingKuei-Ying HsuAnnie Shizuka InohA glimpse at the lives of two petty criminals in Taipei.In Competition
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsJennifer Jason LeighMiranda RichardsonHarry BelafonteA pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.In Competition
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenKari VäänänenElina SaloThe recession hits a couple in Helsinki.In Competition
- DirectorMimmo CaloprestiStarsNanni MorettiValeria Bruni TedeschiValeria MililloProfessor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself.In Competition
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsDaniel AuteuilPascal DuquenneMiou-MiouAn unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.In Competition
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsCatherine DeneuveDaniel AuteuilLaurence CôteThe fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.In Competition
- 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.In Competition
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsCharles BerlingJean RochefortFanny ArdantTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.In Competition
- DirectorMike LeighStarsTimothy SpallBrenda BlethynPhyllis LoganFollowing the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.In Competition
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJeremy IronsLiv TylerCarlo CecchiAfter her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.In Competition
- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsWoody HarrelsonJon SedaAnne BancroftA prestigious oncologist learns a valuable lesson in humility and is forced to reexamine his relationship with medicine and his life in general when Brandon, a young patient and convicted for murder, kidnaps him at gunpoint.In Competition
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeslie CheungGong LiKevin LinNot far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well, and then paralysed and effectively brain-dead. Zhongliang, Zhengda's brother-in-law, is a successful gigolo in Shanghai who seduces older married women and then blackmails them. When Older Master Pang dies, the clan elders make Ruyi take over the role as the head of the household. Zhongliang returns to the Pang family on the death of Old Master Pang, re-encounters Ruyi, and they are secretly attracted to each other. Wanting to seem sophisticated, she succumbs to Zhongliang's attempts to seduce her. But then an emotional maelstrom follows - for the angry, jealous and sexually frustrated sister (Zhengda's wife) is also part of the picture.In Competition
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsCeline O'LearyChloe FergusonPaul BlackwellA seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.In Competition
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsColm MeaneyDonal O'KellyGer RyanSet in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.In Competition
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsCarmelo GómezEmma SuárezKarra ElejaldeAngel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deceased townspeople?In Competition
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsMarcello MastroianniAnna GalienaMarisa ParedesTake a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.In Competition
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsRazvan VasilescuCecilia BârboraVictor RebengiucDumitru Costa, a young trainee prosecutor is entrusted with the investigation about the suspicious death of a Jiu Valley coal miner in 1990s Romania. Accident or murder?In Competition
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsMathieu KassovitzAnouk GrinbergSandrine KiberlainSet in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.In Competition
- DirectorAnjelica HustonStarsJennifer Jason LeighRon EldardGlenne HeadlyA mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsVera FogwillNicolás PaulsFernán MirásThis is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past. This is a story of contrasts, offered by a despair choir of characters: the old couple who hire a young woman to record city's present images, because they "don't get out much now", the boy who finds out the real story about his parents out of a coincidence... this and the others are all illustrations of actual Buenos Aires.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsMichel PiccoliAsia ArgentoLino CapolicchioIn Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother's suicide, her brother's mental illness. Ada, a dog-owning client, hires her to follow Ada's aged and courtly father every day. The dad, a retired philology professor, has a touch of dementia, sometimes forgetting where he is; Cora is to keep him in sight, phoning Ada if the professor has difficulties. On the third day, he takes a train out of Rome, and Cora follows on what proves to be a journey into her best and worst selves. She becomes his traveling companion, but what does he become to her?Un Certain Regard
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMelvil PoupaudAmanda LangletGwenaëlle SimonAs a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMaja KomorowskaBartosz ObuchowiczKarolina WajdaIn the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. In spite of harsh Stalinist times, they are both fascinated by horses.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsAlex DescasYekaterina GolubevaPiotr KishteevSilent Lithuanian film about a woman visiting a Fayre.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsKarin ViardJean-Quentin ChâtelainCécile TannerEight years ago, Rosemonde killed a man who tried to rape her. Now she has sold her story to a television channel that produces crime victim films.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsShaghayeh DjodatHossein MoharamiRogheih MoharamiWhen an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRashid MasharawiStarsMohammad BakriAhmad Abu Sal'oumHiam AbbassHaifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who gains new hopes from the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure things for the future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe things. Sabah, the 12 year old daughter is romancing the future and wants to find out what's in it for her. The different stories are interwoven into a very timely insight into the current Palestinian mind.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMary HarronStarsLili TaylorJared HarrisMartha PlimptonThe story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but after he repeatedly ignored her, she shot him.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsMaggie CheungJean-Pierre LéaudNathalie RichardA Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorLucile HadzihalilovicStarsSandra SammartinoDenise Aron-SchropferMichel TrillotA ten-year-old girl goes to live with her aunt when her mother is admitted to a mental hospital, but the aunt lives with a man who is too affectionate towards the girl.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAl PacinoStarsAl PacinoAlec BaldwinKevin SpaceyAl Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."Un Certain Regard
- DirectorShirley BarrettStarsMiranda OttoRebecca FrithGeorge ShevtsovIn Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced, hatchet faced. But both sisters next door find him attractive: awkward Dimity, only 20, who works in a Chinese restaurant with few patrons, and perky Vicki-Ann, a hairdresser with a hope chest who invents a happy future with Sherry based on little but his arrival. First Dimity then Vicki-Ann spend the night with Ken, one concluding he's her boy friend, the other her fiance. Then Dimity begins to smell something fishy.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSrinivas KrishnaStarsKim LieuClark JohnsonMichael RhoadesLulu, a Vietnamese mail-order bride, has been bought and sold, but she can not be owned. Mysterious and exotic, she presents an immaculate façade as she works behind a cosmetics counter in a department store. But, behind her flawless make-up, she conceals a terrible past and a troubled present. Frustrated by her traditional Vietnamese parents who blame her for their unhappiness, Lulu is also pursued by her seedy, ineffectual husband, Lucky, his opportunistic friend Clive, and a documentary filmmaker, Miguel. A chain of desire binds the three men together. Despite the intensity of their claims on her, Lulu eludes them all, disappearing into her mirror, her secret intact.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSafi FayeStarsMagou SeckIsseu NiangMoustapha YadeMossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer's son who plans to drag her away. Even her own brother Ngor is in love with her. However she is in love with Fara, a poor student who has returned to the village, while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRichard FranklandStarsShane FrancisCaine MuirDavid NgoombujarraUn Certain Regard
- DirectorLaila PakalninaThe morning begins when the mail is delivered - this has been a tradition for almost an eternity. This film looks at daily things, daily movements, daily life and the daily routines of the postman, which are nevertheless meaningful to those who await and receive newspapers and letters.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorLaila PakalninaIt can turn out that seemingly eternal things are not like that at all.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsHelen MirrenFionnula FlanaganAidan GillenThe 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsPhilip Baker HallJohn C. ReillyGwyneth PaltrowProfessional gambler Sydney teaches John the tricks of the trade. John does well until he falls for cocktail waitress Clementine.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMatt ReevesStarsDavid SchwimmerGwyneth PaltrowMichael RapaportA young man's life is thrown into a loop when he is asked to be a pallbearer for the funeral of a classmate he doesn't remember, and his old high school crush temporarily returns to town.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsVivian WuEwan McGregorYoshi OidaA woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDeborah WarnerStarsFiona ShawA film version of a performance by Fiona Shaw of T.S. Eliot's great poem. First published in 1922, " The Waste Land " remains a startlingly modern work, and this film offers a unique opportunity to reassess its relevance today. A first film by the acclaimed theatre director Deborah Warner, the production has been shot in a spare, simple but remarkably powerful manner, revealing both the comedy and the tragedy of the poem. Long takes complement and capture the richly varied tones and sometimes startling shifts in Fiona Shaw's performance.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDiane BertrandStarsElsa ZylbersteinÉric CaravacaJohan LeysenA series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsFabia BergamoPaolo Di VirgilioPaola OrfeiThe work and obsessions of director Nanni Moretti when the Iranian movie "Close Up" is scheduled to open in the movie theater he owns in Rome. Attention to details and above all a great love for cinema at its best.Out of Competition
- DirectorChris BaileyStarsWayne AllwineRussi TaylorKelsey GrammerIn an attempt to convince Minnie that he hasn't forgotten to buy her an anniversary present, Mickey Mouse ends up promising to take her to Hawaii. Funds being short, he applies for a job as lab assistant to the sinister Dr. Frankenollie, who happens to be searching for a donor to provide his monstrous creation with a brain...Out of Competition
- DirectorDavid O. RussellStarsBen StillerPatricia ArquetteTéa LeoniA young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.Special Screenings
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsTheresa RandleIsaiah WashingtonSpike LeeAn aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.Special Screenings
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsIsabelle HuppertFabrizio BentivoglioJean-Hugues AngladeThe novel (1809) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The marriage of Edward and Charlotte gets worse with the arrival at the castle Young Ottilia, grandson of Carlotta, and Brass. Edward is attracted to Ottilia, Carlotta by Otto. The action is moved from Germany to Tuscany San Miniato and Poggio a Caiano and moved chronologically Napoleonic era (but the finishing touches are several).Special Screenings
- DirectorClaude NuridsanyMarie PérennouStarsKristin Scott ThomasJacques PerrinA documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.Special Screenings
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.Special Screenings
- DirectorJean-Pierre AmérisStarsBruno PutzuluElisabeth DepardieuJean-François StéveninSerge Perrin lives in Paris, without housing, without work. But Serge wants to exist and break his loneliness. When he pushes the door of a police station his great adventure begins. He finally finds a first role.International Critics' Week
- DirectorYun-ho YangStarsJung Jin-GakEun-jeong LeeShin-yang ParkInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorTatiana GaviolaStarsClaudia Di GirólamoWilly SemlerLiliana GarcíaA reporter interviews a man and shortly after he follows her because he belongs to a revolutionary movement.International Critics' Week
- DirectorBarry J. HersheyStarsNorman RodwayCamilla SøebergPeter Michael GoetzAdolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Göbbels, Hermann Göring, and Sigmund Freud.International Critics' Week
- DirectorGreg MottolaStarsHope DavisStanley TucciParker PoseyWhen she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice.International Critics' Week
- DirectorCheng-sheng LinStarsKang-sheng LeeVicky WeiGrace ChenHistorical drama about a man coping with the tragic death of his young wife. As he makes new connections, he works to be a better man and father.International Critics' Week
- DirectorPierre GangStarsLouise PortalIsabelle PascoRichard MoffattInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorGaël MorelStarsÉlodie BouchezStéphane RideauPascal CervoA brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsGlen BerryLinda HenryScott NealJamie is a shy teenager, often bullied at school. His neighbour Ste has a rough time at home, being beaten by his father and brother. This issues bring them together and they find that what they feel for each other is more than friendship.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJorge Alí TrianaStarsJorge PerugorríaÁngela MolinaFrancisco RabalDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorPascal BonitzerStarsJackie BerroyerValeria Bruni TedeschiNatacha RégnierAbel Vichac, a renowned University professor, meets a student in a bar. She claims that her name is Aurore, and that she sent him a paper on his latest book. A few days later, Vichac, who has found Aurore's paper (and her address), turns up at her apartment. This is the start of a period of misunderstanding, romantic confusion and seductive schemes that ends in a major crisis for Vichac and his wife, Aliette.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorIngrid SinclairStarsMarian KunongaUlla MahakaMoise MaturaThe 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people are rising up against their white suppressors. As the war reaches even the most distant villages, the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names - Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPéter GothárStarsMaksim SergeevEvgeniy SidikhinValentina KasyanovaVászka, the town robber, is off his form. He has no money and Luvnya, his sweetheart, constantly clamors for a trip to Moscow. His problems are solved when he meets Ványka, the village robber. The two robbers enter into an alliance and start working together.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorArthur PennStarsNigel HawthorneEric StoltzLouis Gossett Jr.A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsMarc BarbéRoland AmstutzSamuel DupuyA young high school teacher, Pabst, has to deal with increasing racism and intolerance among his pupils. They exclude him from their world. During a military training in a summer camp, one of his pupils is murdered.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsChristopher EcclestonKate WinsletLiam CunninghamIn late 1800s England, Jude plans to go to the city and attend university but marries early and becomes a stonemason. When his wife leaves, he moves to the city, where he befriends his liberal cousin Sue.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsOleg MenshikovSergey BodrovSusanna MekhraliyevaTwo Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsKen KanekoMasanobu AndôLeo MorimotoDropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsJérémie RenierOlivier GourmetAssita OuedraogoRoger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorYvon MarcianoStarsSergio CastellittoMarie TrintignantAnémoneAn illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorNana DzhordzhadzeStarsPierre RichardNino KirtadzeMicheline PresleThe story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsChris CooperElizabeth PeñaStephen MendilloWhen the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorZeka LaplaineStarsSidy CamaraAndré CarvelloHabib DembéléMike goes out from prison and joins his brother in his wanderings through Bamako, being with their friends in bars and gyms. By other side, their mother feels lonely and became alcoholic.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJudit ElekStarsElie WieselJean-Hugues AngladeTamás FodorA documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsIsabelle RenauldFrancis RenaudLaura SaglioIn Dunkirk, a man and a woman meet and fall in love, then hate each other.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorDaniel CalparsoroStarsNajwa NimriAlfredo VillaIon GabellaGabi is a marginal young girl who is part of a gang and whose life is to evade the police. When she meets Carmina, an alcoholic and unemployed woman, she finds consolation in the usual emptiness of his life.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsGad ElmalehMessaoud HattauMagaly BerdySalut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorLaurent BouhnikStarsJulie GayetJean-Michel FêteSerge BlumentalIt's a hotel with walls in the corridor covered with striped paper, crossed like bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallow and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined life and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie's grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSteve BuscemiStarsSteve BuscemiCarol KaneMark Boone JuniorTommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorArnon ZadokStarsShalom ShmuelovSharon AlexanderIdan AltermanCharlie tries to clean himself off drugs, with the help of his prison cell mate Shlomo. Althou coming from different background they manage to build a true friendship.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSandrine VeyssetStarsDominique ReymondDaniel DuvalJessica MartinezA woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm an egotistic and authoritarian individual, who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsCatherine KleinDominique PerrierSerge GermanyIn this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.ACID
- DirectorPascale FerranStarsAnne CantineauChristèle TualAnne CaillereTen young men and women in Strasbourg today. Some of them are students, some work, others would like to but can't find a job. All of them are at the crossroad of life, struggling to decide what they want their lives to be.ACID
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertPhilibert films Zoology Gallery of the National Museum of Natural History (today known as the Great Gallery of Evolution) for a period of reforms which lasted from 1991 until 1994. The documentary shows how to perform dissection or even how to transport or restore some of the pieces in the collection, such as elephants, rhinos, gorillas and giraffes.ACID
- DirectorJean-Claude BietteStarsJean-Christophe BouvetHoward VernonYsé TranIt is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him.ACID
- DirectorJean-Daniel PolletStarsMichael LonsdaleTribute to the poet Francis Ponge whom Jean-Daniel Pollet considers as "natural".ACID
- DirectorMarco PicoStarsSimon AbkarianMichel AumontJean-Paul BonnaireIt is the story of Jesus (not God's son, just a guy who gets excluded by others for questioning the world) and The Vagabond (his companion who, like him, thinks differently). They first hit the road in each other's company but are soon joined by other uprooted creatures, the Intruder, the Indian, the Prostitute, The Artist and the Crazy Girl, all of the them on the loose, all of them in pursuit of the absolute...ACID
- DirectorRobert KramerStarsJacques MartialLaure DuthilleulBetsabée HaasThe story of several trips, that of Raye, a young girl who leaves the family home for one or other European countries, that of her father, Abel, former athlete and finally that of Nellie, his wife, who does not not but travel among the micro-organisms that she studies with her microscope.ACID