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<p>Summer 2011. During a holiday trip to Southern Tunisia, Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son, Aziz, are ambushed by an armed group. Aziz is injured in the attack and taken to a rudimentary hospital nearby. As the race to provide him with a new liver begins, long-buried truths begin to resurface, jeopardizing the family's chances of finding a donor in time. </p><p>With support from the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, CNC, PACA Region, AIF, AFAC and Cinemed.</p>
Un Fils
<p>Sergio Garces thinks himself a suave, attractive, talented Argentine man. He is in his 50’s, but he thinks he’s still 35. He lives in Buenos Aires, drinks a lot, and smokes a ton of weed. He wears fitted clothes, and walks and talks like a gigolo. His friends call him “Francés” on account of the fact that when he was younger he recorded an album of Spanish language covers of Serge Gainsbourg songs, and ultimately believes himself to possess a certain French quality. He scrapes by in life by getting odd acting jobs here and there, mostly as an extra in films that shoot around town. At the same time, to make ends meet, he also does the occasional porn job if it happens to fall into his lap – but his real passion, his dream, is to be an actor, a real artist. But after getting into a bike accident that ruins his face, he gets fired from an upcoming job and begins finding it increasingly difficult to land work.</p><p>Around the same time, a small film festival starts up in Buenos Aires, and naturally Sergio attends. There, he meets an American woman named Jane , 47, who is in town on business. Soon enough, Sergio and Jane are involved in somewhat of a “festival fling,” although Sergio is a bit reluctant, mainly because he thinks he can get younger women.</p>
Initials S.G.
<p>Maryam (22) is “temporarily married” to her rich boss, Nasser Zia (65). She accidentally kills him, but is pregnant with his child. She is sentenced to death.  Iranian law dictates that only a victim’s family can forgive the killer. For Maryam, this pardon plays out on the country’s most popular reality show. She quickly discovers that nothing is what it seems. She must choose in front of millions of viewers.</p>
Yalda
<p>Elia Suleiman escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. </p><p>From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?</p>
It Must Be Heaven
<p>Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown Saint built directly over his loot, and a brand new village constructed all around it.</p>
The Unknown Saint
<p>Maria’s home has always been the Empire Hotel, in the traditional neighborhoods of Macao, where clothes hang between neons, and an entangled net of electric wires takes over streets flooded with vapour.</p><p>Withheragingfather,theburdenofkeepingthedecrepit hotel running stands on her shoulders. She sings Fado in a Casino where gambling and prostitution go hand in hand, but money is scarce and real estate speculators become insistent. That is when Chu arrives, a mysterious young man with an obsessive interest in Maria.</p><p>Disillusioned dreams, greed and decadence: a chronicle of Macao today, 20 years after it’s return to China.</p>
Empire Hotel (Hotel Império)
<p>Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives, but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety -</p>
Rafiki
<p>Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny of her unborn child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night changes their plans. </p><p><br></p>
Good Manners
<p>The elderly caretaker of a remote morgue possesses an impeccable memory for everything but names. He passes his days showing corpses to those searching for their lost ones and tending to his beloved plants. When protest in a nearby city breaks out and the militia covertly raids the morgue to hide civilian casualties, he discovers the body of an unknown young woman. Evoking memories of personal loss, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial with the help of a mystic gravedigger who collects stories of the dead, an old woman searching for her long-lost daughter, and a hearse driver tormented by his past.</p>
Oblivion Verses
<p>Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the revolution. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister Myriam, Nahla finds refuge at her neighbor's, the mysterious Ms Jiji.</p>
My Favorite Fabric
<p>Viyada, a Thai soap opera actress in her 30s, is married to Jerome, a rich foreign national. Though their marriage started out happily, Jerome has lately become increasingly controlling as he gets more involved with Buddhakaya, an alternative religious sect founded by a powerful figure named the Holy One, whom Jerome reveres. However, Viyada is not a follower. Soon the abbot also comes to visit the couple’s house- hold. But his latest visit with Viyada leaves the woman violated and shaken. She believes that Jerome might have even consented to this violation.</p><p>This is precisely when Viyada meets Guy Spencer, a suave drifter with a shady past whom she encounters at a hospital canteen. He insinuates himself towards her and, in a moment of weakness, she agrees to his offer to have her husband killed – for a price.</p><p>Soon, a murder plan is set. Unfortunately, it all goes wrong. Guy is forced to lie low, and he is unable to track Viyada down. Worse, he is suddenly being followed by dangerous men.</p><p>As for Viyada, she must take drastic measures in order to escape once and for all from the influence of The Holy One.</p>
Samui Song
<p>Mitra is an ambitious artist in her forties who embarks on her dream project of making a film about the legendary Egyptian singer and diva Oum Kulthum. Her film explores the struggles, sacrifices and the price of Oum Kulthum’s success as a female artist in a male dominated society. However, having left her family behind for her career and in her efforts to capture the essence of Oum Kulthum as a myth, a woman and an artist, Mitra’s own struggles blend with those of the singer and she finds herself caught in an emotional and artistic breakdown.</p><p>With the support of Austrian Film Institute Fisa - Film Industry Support Austria, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Vienna Film Fund, Regione Lazio</p><p>In association with Doha Film Institute, Noirmont Art Production<br></p><p>In collaboration with ORF<br></p><p><br></p>
Looking for Oum Kulthum
<p>During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves with him. A long night will begin, during which she’ll have to fight for her rights and her dignity. But how can Justice be made when it lies on the side of the tormentors?</p><p>With the support of Ministère des affaires culturelles & Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image – Tunisie, Swedish Film Institute, Sorfond – Norway, Visions Sud Est – Suisse, Fonds Image de la Francophonie, Doha Film Institute, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée – Institut français, World Cinema Fund Europe, Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, la SACEM, Commune Image</p>
Beauty and the Dogs
<p>Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit.With the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée,Institut Français, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, Netherlands Film Fund, Programa Ibermedia.    </p>
Zama
<p>Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father in hand delivering the wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.</p>
Wajib
<p>Félicité is a Congolese singer who desperately needs money after her 14-year-old son Samo suffers a serious accident. She soon finds financial and emotional support from Tabu, one of the regulars in the bar where she performs.</p>
Félicité
<p>Pierre, a 75 year old widower, discovers online dating websites. Using the profile picture of Alex, his grand daughter's boyfriend, Pierre meets Flora. Charmed by his elegant conversations and intimate confessions, she asks him on a date, face to face. Excited by this unexpected adventure, Monsieur Pierre asks Alex to go in his place.</p>
Un Profil Pour Deux
<p>NICO left a promising acting career in Argentina, after a tumultuous break-up with his producer. He lands in New York, lured into believing that his talent will help him find success “on his own” and prove his self-worth. But that’s not what he finds. Too blond to play Latino, his accent to strong to play anything else, he ends up working as caretaker for a friend’s baby. Nico becomes unexpectedly attached to baby Theo, who will stir in him a new tenderness and a search for home.</p>
Nobody's Watching (Nadie Nos Mira)
<p>After the party in Karsten’s apartment, everybody leaves except Anna. Admiringly, Karsten approaches this mysterious woman. How could he have known, that in a moment of weakness, his well-established life would spiral out of control and turn into a disaster? In this small provincial German town, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.</p>
All of a Sudden (Auf Einmal)
<p>1971. António Lobo Antunes life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear, he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.</p>
Letters From War (Cartas da Guerra)
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Revengeance
<p>Nero, a deported Mexican, returns illegally to the U.S in search of his identity. He joins the U.S army as a Green card soldier, a shortcut to citizenship. Lost in a maze, Nero fights to obtain his nationality.</p>
Soy Nero