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- DirectorSantiago CaicedoStarsMaría Cecilia SánchezMartina ToroAlejandra BorreroPaola is born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest, her mother is a "psychic" and her sisters are not what their parents expected. She is a young Latin American woman struggling for her independence in a hard context full of stereotypes and appearances not being able to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world this girl learns to live while she lives as she witnesses a series of small crises that shape her personality.
- DirectorChristos MassalasStarsElsa LekakouPavlos IordanopoulosStathis StamoulakatosThis is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone - in every possible way.
- DirectorYannis VeslemesStarsVangelis MourikisAlexia KaltsikiDaniel BoldaPhotophobic Zano, arrives in the city for the very first time. The year is 1984 and Athens beckons. A vampire and a fine dancer, Zano quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city. All he really wants is a ''warm'' girl.
- DirectorIvan AyrStarsGeetika Vidya OhlyanSaloni BatraVikas ShuklaWhile fighting crimes against women in Delhi, a short-fused policewoman and her level-headed female boss grapple with gender issues in their own lives.
- DirectorStergios PaschosStarsIro BezouHaris FragoulisTwelve hard months after their sudden break-up, a struggling musician invites his ex-lover at a friend's sumptuous villa in search of answers. Living apart, or living together, is equally scary; but, is there an answer to every question?
- DirectorEmma DoxiadiStarsRomanna LobachKaterina ZisoudiTwo girls think they are under threat after they accidentally photograph something they're not supposed to.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsAndreas KonstantinouAlexandra K.Aggelos SkasilasOn his way to work, a lonely fish-farm worker learns he died the day before. Oblivious to his preposterous condition, he spends his last day on Earth trying to verify his existence. What will become of his poor canaries?
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsAlexandros PapaioannouFanis PavlopoulosTwo men are talking inside a car. One of them is dead.
- DirectorEfthimis Kosemund SanidisStarsAggelos SkasilasKarina Neupert BratosRinio KyriaziTime strung together by recollections, encounters and dreams. A farewell over the three last months of a man before his final transformation.
- DirectorEfthimis Kosemund SanidisStarsKostas LaskosFani ApostolidouGiannis TsortekisAn old groom walks in the open horizon towards a bride waiting for him. They meet but the distance between them starts to grow once again.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsMamadou DialloEftychia StefanidouKaterina IliadiWashingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because it's heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsFelix MargenfeldAggelos NtanosLucjano CaniThe leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them.
- DirectorStella KyriakopoulosBob Gardner a blind American tourist from Illinois takes on the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
- DirectorStella KyriakopoulosStarsMaria FiliniSofia KoroniA mother is too keen on having her baby daughter pass her infant aquatics survival exam.
- DirectorNikos KyritsisStarsVasilis VasilakisErsi MalikenzouDimitris GeorgalasBorn on 1988 in Athens Zoo and abandoned by his mother, silver-back gorilla Ivo has never been able to mate. Now he needs to be transferred to another zoo.
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouA filipino man's nightmare in Athens cityscape.
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsSofia KokkaliKaterina ZisoudiNikos ZeginoglouNew Year's eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost her heart?
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsNikos ZeginoglouNota TserniafskiKaterina ZisoudiStephanos is a boy working out. He does not know though, that he soon will be carrying the burden's of a man.
- DirectorVangelis LiberopoulosStarsYannis DrakopoulosNikos GeorgakisPanis KalofoliasMost adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.
- DirectorStergios PaschosStarsHaris FragoulisIro BezouToday is the one year anniversary of Nikos' and Sofia's break-up. But Nikos misses Sofia. And he wants to see her. So, he will use Elvis in order to get her back.
- DirectorChristos MassalasAn unidentified man sits in a dark room and watches an obscure film titled "Flowers and Bottoms".
- DirectorLoukianos MoshonasStarsCharles DugoujonQuentin MaussangSophie ShermanTwo graphic artists start playing, by mistake, with a scanner in the office. They advance various hypotheses, opening up to one another, becoming so caught up they forget all about the strange images emerging from the machine.
- DirectorLoukianos MoshonasStarsNikolas DervenouliasAnastasis RoubakosPanagiotis OikonomopoulosAn immigrant worker renovates a flat. Young men reflect on their existence.
- DirectorThanasis NeofotistosStarsChristos KaravevasStelios KarambinasKorina AlexandridouTwo high school students. While seeking their identity, through violence, they will inevitably test each other's boundaries.
- DirectorThanasis NeofotistosStarsMarina SymeouKonstantina KoutsonasiouDimitra AlexandrakouA single mother's most important roles in life will collide over the phone, during a long-take shot in the centre of Athens.
- DirectorThanasis NeofotistosStarsEnes KozlicicLazar DragojevicSimonida MandicIn a sweaty, overcrowded tram in Sarajevo, a shy teenager is beset by every imaginable impediment as he tries to capture the attention of his object of desire.
- DirectorThanasis NeofotistosStarsEuaggelia EconomouTelis EconomouA visit to grandfather, grandmother and their memories.
- DirectorZachos SamoladasAlmost a century has passed since the tragic events that led to the expatriation of Asia Minor's Greek population and the Great fire of Smyrna, this animation pays homage to the brave Japanese captain of the cargo ship Tokei Maru, who let go of the ship's valuable merchandise in order to save the Ionian refugees from drowning. An act of sheer heroism that is threatened to fall into historical oblivion.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsVasilis KekatosAn epidemic has hit mankind. People from all ends of the Earth are asleep, and no one knows when they'll wake.
- DirectorCarol DysingerStarsFatimaKashidaLearning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) is the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write-and skateboard-in Kabul.
- DirectorLasse LinderStarsChristian AmannKatjuschaMarmeladeNo mere viral cat video can compare with the feline-centric poignancy of Lasse Linder's astonishingly intimate study of one man's ardent longing to expand his multi-species household.
- DirectorAnna AntonopoulouThe 102-years-old Cleoniki lives in the mountains of Evrytania in Central Greece. She spends her time singing and telling stories from the past together with Kostas and Georgos, two of her eight children. Everyone is awaiting the day of the 'Sotiros', a traditional feast in the summer, when the little village is reborn.
- DirectorAlexis HatzigiannisGiorgos KyvernitisNefeli Oikonomou PantzouStarsVangelis GermanosBoredom, an escape, the sea, the city, free time. Musician and songwriter Vangelis Germanos dives into an eternal summer, almost 40 years after the release of his first album Ta Barakia (The Tiny Bars) and following his occasional performances in films and TV shows. As his work is all about colors, sounds, and the sea, he manages to carry us along into a summer adventure that is full of these elements.
- DirectorChristos SagiasStarsGiorgos FrentzosPeriklis HoursoglouNikos KavoukidisDimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in Athens lies his renowned by the Guinness World Records collection. Now, 90 years old, Dimitris recounts his past, hidden in his machines, hoping that his memories are not going to be lost forever.
- DirectorTim Travers HawkinsStarsChelsea ManningNancy HollanderVincent J. WardA look at the life and career of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- DirectorAnna CadyEm CooperWhistling, kidnap and a bottle of tippex all feature in this part animated documentary which looks at the violence and corruption women face when entering the male dominated world of politics in Sierra Leone. The ten year struggle to achieve fair representation for women in the governance of Sierra Leone is revealed to us with passion by three extraordinary women from diverse backgrounds. The film focuses on the characters of the women through live action video whilst the stories they relate about their personal experiences are presented in painted animation. They tell us their stories as they travel to a meeting where all three of them will work together on the 30% Quota bill which they are about to submit to parliament.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsJuan Carlos AduviriNelly PrinceElisa MassinoOn Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
- DirectorPip PiperStarsPhil BartonClint BoonBilly BraggThe rapid rise of record shops in the 1960's / 70s and 80's, the influence of the chart, the underhand deals, the demise of vinyl and rise of the CD as well as new technologies. Hear from over 20 record shop owners and music industry leaders as well as musicians including Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Norman Cook, Billy Bragg, Nerina Pallot, Richard Hawley and Clint Boon as they all tell us how the shops became and still are a part of their own musical education, a place to cherish and discover new bands and new music.
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsIoko Ioannis KotidisNikos ZeginoglouTwo strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking money to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
- DirectorAnja BreienStarsSvein Sturla HungnesAnne Marie OttersenLiv ThorsenA housewife is brutally raped a winter morning, and the day after a young woman becomes a victim of attempted rape. The Police suspect Anders, a young road worker who was seen on the site in both cases. Have they got the right man?
- DirectorGabriel RangeStarsJohnny FlynnMarc MaronJena MaloneChronicles the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971 - a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
- DirectorMauro ManciniStarsAlessandro GassmannSara SerraioccoLuka ZunicThe son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
- DirectorDavid IlundainStarsDavid VerdaguerPatricia López ArnaizAna LabordetaA substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
- DirectorCarys WatfordStarsBella PaddenHelena AlbrightAnika SelvarajahFour space-obsessed 9-year-old girls embark on a secret mission in their cardboard rocket.
- DirectorGiorgos DrivasStarsGia BurjanadzeNino KoridzeNiko TavadzeKEPLER is a newly discovered planet with supposedly, same air and ground conditions like earth.
- DirectorBenjamin ReeStarsKarl Bertil-NordlandBarbora KysilkovaØystein SteneAn artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
- DirectorPhilippe LacôteStarsBakary KonéSteve TientcheuJean Cyrille DigbeuA young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsJuli JakabMárton KristófMáté VáthThe repeated rituals of an online performer have a transfixing effect on her viewers, in this short exploration of sensual audio visual stimulation.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsMichele ValleyTakis SpyridakisPanos ThanassoulisGoing alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the past and penetrate the zone together.
- DirectorTamara KotevskaLjubomir StefanovStarsHatidze MuratovaNazife MuratovaHussein SamThe last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
- DirectorRungano NyoniHamy RamezanStarsYusuf Kamal El-AliZeinab RahalAmira Helene LarsenCopenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.
- DirectorMarie SkovgaardStarsFatih AlevAmiraSaer El JaichiThree years in the life of the female Danish imam and feminist Sherin Khankan's life, through ups and downs.
- DirectorWeronika JurkiewiczIn a quiet Hungarian village, men gather to swill beer at the bar. Meanwhile, the women are busy at work, contributing their time to the mass production of sexual satisfaction.
- DirectorFeras FayyadStarsAmani BallourAlaaSalim NamourAmidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.
- DirectorZabou BreitmanEléa Gobbé-MévellecStarsSimon AbkarianHiam AbbassSwann ArlaudSummer 1998, Kabul in ruins is occupied by the Taliban. In love despite the daily violence and misery, Mohsen and Zunaira want to believe in the future. But a senseless act by Mohsen will upset their lives forever.
- DirectorDavid TeboulStarsFrederic LuzyDavid TeboulMourning his boyfriend Frédéric's death from an overdose, the French filmmaker David Teboul goes to Siberia on a ritual journey. Out here, under the enormous dome of the skies, he finds the free space to disentangle his thoughts again.
- DirectorHektor SakaloglouStarsAntonello KolaniJohn KoniniGiannis KostarasSaman has arrived in Greece as a war refugee. He is one of the last members of the Yazidi tribe of North Iraq that has suffered a genocide. In Athens he is struggling to survive by doing the only thing he knows well, wrestling. This is his last day, after his final fight in the low ranked wrestling league he will continue his journey to central Europe. But things are not going as expected.
- DirectorVassilis PanagiotakopoulosThe initiative of the residents of the mountainous village Ethia in the Asterousia Mountains, Crete, to get their village back to life and turn it into a beautiful traditional settlement.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAdan JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyLeandro TaubSurrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
- DirectorFrédéric MermoudStarsGilbert MelkiEmmanuelle DevosCyril DescoursTwo police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend.
- DirectorUrsula MeierStarsIsabelle HuppertOlivier GourmetAdélaïde LerouxLife for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.
- DirectorFrédéric MermoudStarsEmmanuelle DevosNathalie BayeDavid ClavelDiane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha (Moka) color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsBulle OgierJean-Luc BideauJacques DenisPierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her.
- DirectorEmiliano AielloLudovica AndòFilmed entirely inside Civitavecchia prison, with protagonists and co-authors who are prisoners themselves, this is a free adaptation of "desert of the tartars", one of the most meaningful novels in the XX century.
- DirectorDamiano D'InnocenzoFabio D'InnocenzoStarsElio GermanoTommaso Di ColaGiulietta RebeggianiA few families living out on a limb in the suburbs of Rome. Tensions here can explode at any time; ultimately it's the children who bring about the collapse.
- DirectorHarry WattBasil WrightStarsArthur ClarkJohn GriersonStuart LeggShows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
- DirectorEdwin MingardAn Intermission is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year and a half, they worked collaboratively with artist Edwin Mingard to make a film to express their views to the wider world.
- DirectorAsia DérSara HaragonicsStarsMelisszaNóraVirágAs Hungary's political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the pretend-to-be democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner Nóra decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together. With a sensitive lens and close access, directors Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics follow the two women through their long and ultimately successful adoption process to bring home their young daughter. But tensions begin to rise between the two as Virág thrives in her role as a mother and Nóra struggles to find her place within the family. As the rising tides of right wing propaganda in Hungary begin to overflow into their family, their lives hit a boiling point and they must face the difficult decision of whether to leave their country behind.
- DirectorLéa ForestStarsAli AbdallahWarren ChambinaArsène ChapronIn a small hair salon, eight boys get their hair cut. They're between 12 and 18 years old, with different backgrounds, paths and social environments. As the barber works, the director asks the boys questions.
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsMariko KagaHiroyuki NagatoShôichi OzawaFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
- DirectorChloé ZhaoStarsFrances McDormandDavid StrathairnLinda MayA woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAchouackh Abakar SouleymaneRihane Khalil AlioYoussouf DjaoroAmina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
- DirectorRinio DragasakiStarsMaria KitsouPipera MayaKimonas KourisWhen a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsBajram SeverdzanSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranka KaticMatko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
- DirectorAris KaplanidisStarsConstantina GeorgantaMaria DiakopanayotouYannis EconomidesA middle aged lady observes the world of an Athenian neighborhood from her balcony with mixed reactions from those she constantly watches.
- DirectorRichard Reeves
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsBarry BostwickJennifer DrakeEric BauginOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- DirectorMaksym NakonechnyiStarsRita BurkovskaValivots LiubomyrMyroslava Vytrykhovska-MakarReturning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to survive this trauma and save the child in a society that is not ready to accept either of them?
- DirectorYorgos GoussisStarsElena TopalidouAntonis TsiotsiopoulosNikos SpanidesHaving met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
- DirectorCyril SchäublinStarsAlisa MiloglyadovaElisaveta KrimanOlga BushkovaIn late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsSema GültekinIsmail ZagrosMünir Can CindorukWhat is the weight of a snowflake? And how long does its life cycle last? Does it melt the moment it touches the ground? Or can it freeze time in its tiny capsule? In Trabzon, a Turkish city on the Black Sea, snow falls heavily like never before in the last days of autumn, and the roads are blocked. In this setting, two people who attend the same school but have never met before have a chance encounter at a bus station, waiting for the same bus that has run late. They fall in love at first sight. But Miase is the daughter of a local Turkish family, while Adar is the son of a Kurdish family from Hakkari, a city close to the Iraq-Turkey border. The two of them skip classes, meet up every day, walk for hours, and they live an a romantic love story for thirty-one days. On the night of New Year's Eve, Adar disappears. Miase hits the road and heads to Dersim in order to find Adar.
- DirectorMarco RighiStarsJacopo Olmo AntinoriFiorenzo MattuYile Yara VianelloIn a small town in the Appennins, young and devout Antimo lives an uneventful life between the local church, the chaste dates with his girlfriend and the cowshed where he lazily works with his dad. One day, he meets Lazzaro, a simple and wild man who works as a helper in the nearby farm. Antimo sees a spark in Lazzaro and sets out to convert him. The religion he starts teaching him doesn't reflect what he learn at Sunday school though. It's a personal and heretic reading of Christianity, which leads the two on unbeaten paths, with no way back.
- DirectorAli AsgariAlireza KhatamiStarsBahram ArkAli AsgariSadaf AsgariOrdinary people navigate societal constraints in a series of vignettes.