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A 15-year-old who must accept the unacceptable-that his mother is an accomplice of the regime's crimes

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico.

A historical drama set in Lithuania in 1948, "Au Crépuscule" focuses on Ounté, a 19-year old boy who experiences passion and violence after joining a group of partisans resisting the Soviet occupation.

Sergeant Bulut spends his nights in a watchtower waiting for an enemy that doesn't arrive, until suddenly strange lights appear on the horizon. Ali Cherri creates a universe in which a suspended and void time opens the door to ghostly presences from a past made of war. Shot with an extreme and detailed precision of vision and sound, The Watchman is an urgent film that deconstructs the myth of duty, laying bare the absurdity of the omnipresent war rhetoric.

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region.

Exiled from Iran after the ban on her 2009 film about the Green Movement, a filmmaker breaks her family's decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in political prisons.

Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.

"Humans always doubt," says a father to his daughter. "Just imagine if suddenly everything (were) clear. What would you do?" What indeed? Such questions serve as a substitute for drama in Sharunas Bartas' "Peace to Us in Our Dreams," an old-school broodfest in which a man, his daughter and his violinist companion openly ponder Big Themes during a country getaway.

A father and his daughter, during the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.

After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.

A story of journeys and spaces: The journey from Russia to France... from school to church, between social hotels... The space between mother and daughter.

Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another.

This French drama/comedy follows the development of a unique friendship between a young French woman and an old, cynical librarian.

Upon hearing her beloved grandmother is dying, a young woman returns to rural Lithuania, where she must confront a past she's tried to forget.

It follows 40-year-old Helena, who, after the death of her mother, has time for herself. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, and gets drunk.

Alice in Wonderland meets The Little Prince on the outskirts of Paris. Looking for a place to spend the night, Luba, a Belorussian immigrant, crosses Ben's paths, a French homeless, living on the edge of the Lost Lake. They wander together and try to understand each other, in spite of the language barrier.

A perfectly happy couple believe they live their dream when they expect their first child. That dream is shattered when the child dies, leaving them to cope with their loss, their environment, and ultimately themselves.

Every evening, a worker in a traditional brickyard by the the Nile secretly builds a mysterious mud construction. 'The Dam' is a political fable about the power of imagination set against the backdrop of the Sudanese revolution.

Filmed between a large-scale underground mine in post-war Serbia and an illegal mining collective in the tropical heat of Suriname, Good Luck is a visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil.

The contradictions of the country of Lesotho today.

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They request her presence at the police station. Paz immediately understands the fatality of this visit.

Demonstrates how cattle are constitutive for the entirety of social life in Lesotho, a small state in the middle of South Africa. The film was shot in a prison where cattle thieves are imprisoned. For every cow stolen, they face one year in prison.