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- DirectorJorge CuchiStarsAlfonso DosalFiona PalomoGerardo TrejolunaOn a film set, an actress accuses her co-star of misconduct during an intimate scene. As she pursues legal action, the production scrambles to contain the fallout and prevent a public scandal.
- DirectorIsabel HergueraStarsMiren ArrietaRanjitha RajeevanManu KhuranaInés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsYôsuke EguchiKazuki KitamuraMasaki OkadaTroubles arise after three children accidentally film a murder.
- DirectorKyoshi SugitaStarsTakenori KanekoHidekazu MashimaYûko NakamuraOne day, Haru (25), who works as a bookstore clerk, reunites with Takeshi (45), whom he first met a few years prior, when he stopped him from jumping in front of a train. Takeshi offers Haru a job. Another day, Haru is worried about Yukiko (40) who is sitting on a bench in front of the station, and talks to her. This leads them on a small journey together. Haru takes along a cassette tape and recorder left behind by her mother Taeko, who died of illness when Haru was in primary school. Haru again faces regret of not being able to help Taeko, which she had held for a long time.
- DirectorRaúl RuizValeria SarmientoStarsNemesio AntúnezMarcial EdwardsColectivo Obrero Elmo CatalánA satirical reading of the process of the "Unidad Popular" of President Salvador Allende, prior to the military civic coup of 1973 in Chile. The film is a choral story, where different worlds are chained together.
- DirectorMati DiopStarsGildas AdannouHabib AhandessiJoséa GuedjeThe journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.
- DirectorVeljko VidakStarsAki KaurismäkiJim JarmuschNuppu KoivuIn the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and his creation of the town's first cinema.
- DirectorYûya IshiiStarsSôsuke IkematsuMasataka KubotaMayu MatsuokaSince she was a child, 26-year-old Hanako Orimura has dreamed of becoming a movie director. Now, she is on the verge of making her debut as a movie director. She also has a fateful encounter with handsome Masao Date. Hanako experiences the happiest moments of her life, but she is then cheated by a nasty and irresponsible producer. Because of this, she loses almost everything and becomes despondent. Masao asks her if she is going to give up on her dream.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsMichele De LucchiAn extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.
- DirectorHaruhiko AraiStarsGô AyanoTasuku EmotoHonami SatôThe story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and their lives intersect.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAnselm KieferDaniel KieferAnton WendersAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
- DirectorNoora NiasariStarsLeah PurcellZar Amir EbrahimiMojean AriaA young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women's shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).
- DirectorPedro FreireStarsYara de NovaesJuliana Carneiro da CunhaCarol DuarteMalu, a 50 year old unemployed actress living off memories of her glorious past, shares a run-down home in a Rio de Janeiro slum with her conservative mother, whilst also dealing with a troubled relationship with her own daughter.
- DirectorKazuhiro SôdaAn ample cat colony inhabits a Shinto shrine. Residents care for them; others disturbed by the mess. Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda observes their coexistence.
- DirectorRiho KudoStarsTakuma FujieYukino MurakamiShuri SuwaJoe works as a professional stand-in, posing as friends and family for clients. An occurrence at a funeral gig blurs the line between Joe's work and personal life.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsMutsuo YoshiokaSeiichi KohinataHana AmanoA school teacher is woken by a sound that fills him with dread.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsYunhee ChoKwon Hae-hyoIsabelle HuppertA French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.
- DirectorNelson Carlo de Los Santos AriasStarsJhon NarváezSor María RíosJorge Puntillón GarcíaA voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.