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- Reza, an ordinary factory worker, must return his wife's dowry when they get a divorce. Because of problems in their marriage, his wife Zari is seeking one. After doing everything he can to try to scrounge up the money, he must make a final decision.
- In a country where tradition is constantly at war with modernity, Koll is a college student set on enjoying his youth to the fullest. When his father dies and he is forced to assume responsibility for an ancient crime, Koll is thrust into the gruesome, feudal heart of contemporary Albania.
- A brother and sister trek over mountains, cross rivers, and walk over a bridge between cliffs to and from school. After school, they take care of pigs and their ill grandfather in bed. At night they dine with their older brother and do homework. Looks like a simple life which has nothing to lose, but it has. When news arrives that the mine is collapsed where their older siblings have been working to support them, the family falls in danger of starvation. The repetition of daily life mixes with dramatic tension which gradually rushes to them.
- A road movie, buddy picture and romance rolled into one, Low Lights pivots on a love triangle that evolves when two men and a woman take to ritual night driving. Transforming cold urban space into something charged with excitement, the drives provide the hope the trio so desperately needs.
- At times, the world is filled with things we cannot understand. [Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories] reveals the complicated interlinked chains of the world that people cannot comprehend. Shahrooz and Reza try to rob a jewelry shop despite their blindness. Hotel employee Ashkan tries again and again to kill himself. He meets Shahrooz and Reza and joins in their crime. To Ashkan, this is only another means of suicide. But this is not the whole story.
- Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building; and in the fourth story, Baste saves his sister from Ariel.
- In a poor village by the Manila Bay breakwater, brothers Buboy and Basilio come to the city to escape from the violence at home. They meet a prostitute named Pakita and become close with her when Basilio treats her wounds. All they want is to lead normal lives, but the town's leader Dave has knavish interruptions that await them.
- The Um family is about to leave for a family trip. However, at the house the family arrived to enjoy their break, fired employee, Kim was waiting for the family. He screams while holding the limbs of a family member who tries to flee from him, and Kim demands payment for his discharge. Suffering, the family screams out and asks Um to give him what he wants, but Um thinks differently.
- Seo-hee, Nam-hee and Lan. These three girls happen to read their tarot cards. Tarot cards tell them once-in-a-life-time opportunities will be coming to each of them simply by holding tarot cards and chanting magic spells. And the magic spells are nothing but their own names! Once their names are said, very special events begin to unfold.
- Story of a little boy living with blind parents.
- Two old ladies who never had a chance to go to school because of their gender are now almost 70. For the first time, they are given an opportunity to study arithmetic and Hangul at a community center. Busy taking care of late-in-life children and farming, it's tough for them to attend everyday, but the new experience livens up their lives. Watching how learning gives them joy and energy is not the only thing that is inspiring, but also the earnest manner they have toward their everyday lives as mothers and as women. Listening to the voice of aged women reading their own diaries gives viewers a chance to reflect upon life.
- Three teenage boys love soccer, are troublemakers, and always lie to their teachers and miss class. They are always up to no good. And they aren't alone. Their families are surrounded by restlessness. It almost seems like a so-so movie about teens from Argentina. But when one of the boys steals a gun from another boy's house, things start to take a different turn. There is an accident, and the boy disappears. Where did he go? Sometime later, the two boys and the missing boy's sister head off to an unknown location. With the accident as the starting point, the film turns into a little odyssey within the heart of Buenos Aires.
- This is another film which deals with the suffering of women. Eldest daughter Bun-rye is deeply distressed after she is raped by Yong-pal. To make things worse, she is treated coldly by the impotent Young-chul who received Bun-rye as his second wife.
- A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.
- The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word 'Manila' on its title.
- A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.
- Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with her bourgeois stepfather, and among male chauvinists in a communist group in Rome. Her only friend is her brother Arturo, who dreams of going to space but is unable to do so due to his epilepsy.
- Tension escalates and violence ensues when a young student unwittingly breaks a non-aggression pact between two rival high schools.
- The director, who admired Che Guevara, was preparing for a melodrama based in Cuba when he came across a story about the Chosun people who were sent to Cuba and forced to live there 100 years ago. He follows the lives of the descendants of people who had no choice but to accept Cuba as their country. During this journey, the director finds one thread of hope among the love, anxiety, and longing of a thousand people. This is a picture of us living in a different way in another place. Their actions set against beautiful music and magnificent landscapes evoke feelings or remorse and happiness.
- Adopted when he was young, Louis has a fight with his parents and looks for his birth mother. When the son she gave up suddenly appears, Solange denies him and Louis falls into despair. The film follows an adopted adolescent boy seeking his identity.
- Depicts a man who gets into a motorcycle accident, his wife Mei, younger sister, and mother. It also tells the story of Ying, a young woman, who is murdered in their home, policeman Jing who is investigating the case, and his wife Yin, who is having an affair with a fellow policeman. They are all connected. The more Jing tries to solve the case, the more cryptic their relationship becomes, and past memories come to light.
- Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a sexual awakening and finally exorcised, Sierva finds an unlikely ally in a young priest and together they discover passion.
- Footage collected from a dozen amateur videographers woven into a unique city symphony of social dysfunction.
- Three college girlfriends abandon city life. One is fascinated by hard-working farmers, another dreams of peasant movement and the other follows her loved one. A rural area full of farmlands is where they have to live now. While the film captures their everyday rural lives for a year, it reveals how their lives continue to change. They struggle to make themselves at home as women in a strange place while farming and acting as members of its peasant community. The rural life is different from what they have expected but they continue to overcome the hardships. Their efforts on the screen make viewers realize what it is like to live as a person or a woman in a rural society.
- Jumbo, the king's warrior elephant, wants to take it easy after the recently won war. But little does he know it's only the battle that's won, not the war.
- After more than thirty years of absence, three Korean women return with their German husbands to their old homeland - to a land that is no longer theirs.
- At eighty-four years of age, Master Cai is the last great Naxi folk musician on the north shore of the Jinsha River. He depends on his mentally-disabled son for a living. With little time left together, the father and son relationship grows tense.
- Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
- A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil.
- Temujin, who later became Genghis Khan is wise, or sometimes cunning. He goes through several heroic episodes; competing at the Man of Men contest, falling in love with the enemy commander's daughter, and struggling to restore his demolished hometown. Meanwhile his steps guide him to be a great conqueror. Khan's witty, humorous side in his adolescent years before he takes the throne.
- Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and lives of three different presidents: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term; the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy with great determination; and female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they must make between politics and ethics. Witness the affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
- Before the Iraqi government's Operation Anfal to massacre and suppress the Kurds separatist movement began, two lovers Herman and Adar 'who missed each other even while together' were forced to be separated due to unavoidable circumstances. Later, when Herman goes back, the village is already burnt to the ground by Iraqi soldiers and Adar is long gone. Now, Herman's long, desperate battle to find his love begins. Meanwhile, Adar, who ran away from the Iraqi soldiers to a refugee camp, later finds out that she is pregnant with Herman's baby. Adar's father tries to kill her for getting pregnant out of wedlock and keep the family's honor. The pain of parting with a loved one, the political situation that threatens an ethnic group's fight for independence, and the repressive Muslim principles that believe a woman's chastity is the family's honor, all squeeze upon Adar's life.
- Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who gave up her family, left, and never returned - and in doing so compels another revelation from her own mother.
- A father can have many different kinds of faces. Which one does your father have? This is a film of ten short stories, and each shows a different relationship between a father and his son. Each story reveals the complexity between fathers and sons.
- A prospective of the Nepal immigrants leaving for the Gulf in order to earn some riyals (Iranian currency). With a quarter of the family members gone to work as cheap laborers, Nepal seems to have lost its self-sufficiency. From a family finance supported by money sent by a young son or husband from abroad to a society without any other means of income, there seems to be no way of knowing where the problem begins and ends. The only thing we can do is revisit the present situation of immigration, which is a result of a vicious cycle of individual danger, pain, agitation, fear, and repeated migration. It's not easy for the naive citizens of Nepal who grew up in a feudal agricultural society to delve into the capitalistic economy. What if the agency that introduced foreign employers is a fraud? What if their wage is delayed? What happens to a family without its head for years? What if the money from foreign lands is gone again? Not knowing what will happen next, the citizens of Nepal live another day chasing after the mirage of foreign laborers. Can they really find riyal?
- Part nightmare, part fantasy, Ivul tells the tale of Alex, who bizarrely moves out onto the roof of his house and refuses to come down after a false abuse accusation. From there, he watches the family he loves, but can't live with, as it destroys itself from the inside out.
- Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun continues to earnestly take care of him he starts to open up his heart through candid conversations. The physical contact with Pun makes him rethink physical desires that he wants to forget. The grudge he held against his father slowly abates. All of this slowly becomes the motivating factor to confirm that he is alive, albeit with physical problems.
- I Am Yours is a love story rooted in dignity. A meaningless affair creates a rift in Martha and Jack's fragile marriage when she falls pregnant. Martha's sister, the lover, and his mother all weigh in with their opinions, revealing personal obsessions and secrets - and never considering the unborn child.
- An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find that a cold-blooded colleague of his, Jong-ho, has some humane traits.
- Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who has lost his legs from a landmine. Next door lives Hilin, who has not been able to express her feelings. One of the only sources of happiness for these people who live amid fear of poverty and bombings is soccer. Asu gathers together the Kurdish, Arabs and Turkish in order to hold a soccer match. Although they are of different races, they become close neighbors.
- On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a small village with film and a projector in their car. No one from the village comes to meet them. What happened? Who are they? The not knowing relays no small amount of interest at times through tension as in a horror movie, and at times through compassionate laughter.
- Hiroko is soon to marry when disaster strikes. On the road to Mount Fuji a woman falls on the hood of her car. The woman is Kobayashi Fukuko, and she attempts suicide again and again. The two women become friends, but Hiroko will meet disaster once again.
- The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a trip to get pregnant.
- Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.
- An adaptation of the novel by Ngarmpun "Jane" Vejjajiva about nine-year-old Kati's sorrow and hope. Kati lives with her grandparents, and cannot even remember her mom's face. Still, she is a normal, always cheerful child, due to her family and friends. One day, Kati meets her sick mom, and comes to learn why they were separated and how much her mom loves her. In reality, however, her grandfather is the most important person to Kati. He constantly talks with Kati to help her overcome sadness and grow up.
- In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to Anna, and like Anna, slowly loses all sense of time and self.
- An armchair in the home is often the seat of wisdom, responsibility, or power. In The Armchair, once a woman reaches that station, her world begins to fall apart. With the obligations of motherhood and pressure of social prejudice bearing down on her, Mrs. Ouédraogo must find the wisdom to help navigate her life.
- With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
- Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
- Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to confront their common past.