Cinematography: Virginie Surdej

Direction Maryam Touzani

Cast Saleh Bakri · Lubna Azabal · Ayoub Messioui

Plot Halim and Mina who run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as...

Direction Maryam Touzani

Cast Lubna Azabal · Nisrin Erradi · Douae Belkhaouda · Aziz Hattab

Plot Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman knocks on their door,...

Direction Philippe Van Leeuw

Cast Hiam Abbass · Diamand Bou Abboud · Juliette Navis · Mohsen Abbas

Plot Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan, mother of three, turned her flat into a safe harbor for her family and neighbors, trying to protect them...

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Maryam Touzani · Arieh Worthalter · Amine Ennaji · Abdelilah Rachid

Plot The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one.

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Loubna Abidar · Halima Karaouane · Asmaa Lazrak · Sara Elhamdi Elalaoui

Plot A group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.

Direction Shahrbanoo Sadat

Cast Sediqa Rasuli · Masuma Hussaini · Ali Khan Ataee · Amina Musavi

Plot Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.

Direction César Díaz

Cast Armando Espitia · Emma Dib · Aurelia Caal · Julio Serrano Echeverría

Plot Guatemala, 2013. The country is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. The victims’ testimonials keep pouring in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the...

Direction Shahrbanoo Sadat

Cast Yama Yakmanesh · Arthur Köstler · Anwar Hashimi · Daria Gaiduk

Plot In the late 1980’s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big Bollywood fan and he daydreams himself...

Direction Maya Duverdier · Amélie van Elmbt

Plot The end of an long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us...

Direction Jessica Woodworth

Cast Jonas Smulders · Geraldine Chaplin · Jan Bijvoet · Samvel Tadevossian

Plot A young soldier embeds himself in a remote fortress amidst men whose lives are defined by waiting for a mythical enemy to appear. A contemporary adaptation of Dino Buzzati's The...

Direction Marco La Via · Hanna Ladoul

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Andrea Riseborough · Morgan Saylor · Naima Hebrail Kidjo

Plot Thrown together under tragic circumstances, three generations of women from the same family are forced to learn to live together on a small rural chicken farm in New Jersey, which...

Direction Katarzyna Roslaniec

Cast Magdalena Berus · Lukasz Simlat · Tygo Gernandt · Hanna Koczewska

Plot After the success of her best-selling novel, Karolina's life, full of parties, travels, drugs, booze and total emptiness, starts falling apart.

Direction Mary Jimenez · Bénedicte Liénard

Cast Saor Sax · Valentina Linares Gonzalez · Miguel Gomez Grandes · Dimas García Torres

Plot In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, Saor, a young androgynous Indian, carries a coffin. He is taking Valentina, his lover, back to her native village to bury her. When...

Direction Serge Mirzabekiantz

Cast Elsa Houben · Quito Rayon Richter · Charles François

Plot Nikolai, 16 years old, lives between the home and foster families. Lonely and haunted by the origins of his abandonment, he dreams of starting a family. When Camille, an intriguing...

Direction Vania Leturcq

Cast Constance Rousseau · Jenna Thiam · Julien Boisselier · Kévin Azaïs

Plot Clotilde and Aude are eighteen and have always been best friends. Their relationship is strong and interdependent, as teenage friendships can be. They are finishing school and have to decide...

Direction Sakaris Stora

Cast Helena Heðinsdóttir · Armgarð G. Mortensen · Rasmus Samuelsen · Erla Drós Simonsen

Plot Vetrarmorgun ('Winter Morning') is a story about Maria (Armgard G. Mortensen) and Birita (Helena Hedinsdottir) two girls in their early teens whose friendship has led them to a turning point...

Direction Alice Anderson

Cast Corinne Boudelique · Chelsea Humphreys · Marcus Limbour

Plot A mother loses her son. To overcome her immense grief, she replaces him with a doll. Life continues and the mother pays more attention to the doll-son than to his...

Direction Sakaris Stora

Cast Juliett Nattestad · Helena Heðinsdóttir

Plot On an isolated island, Ester goes about her mundane life, quietly obeying her religious parents. One day the rebellious Ragna moves to town, and together they enjoy the summer nights,...

Direction Anna Eborn

Cast Lida Utas Andreasdotter · Monk Nile · Vikali Volodja Mikitovich · Natalya Makarovna

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Ismail Adouab · Nouhaila Arif · Samah Baricou · Abdelilah Basbousi

Plot Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their...