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<div style='padding:10px'><h6>25 Carat</h6><p>From director Patxi Amezcua comes a fresh action film that delves into the world of thieves, go-getters, swindlers, thugs, mafia members and corrupt police officers in Barcelona.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Adrift</h6><p>This is a sensual drama about a newlywed couple, exploring sexual awakening, forbidden lesbian desire and marital infidelity within modern Vietnam.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Ajami</h6><p>An original, powerful film in which an accidental murder and a murky drug deal spur uncontrolled violence in a Palestinian community in Jaffa.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>At the End of Daybreak</h6><p>Two young people of different classes are bound together by restless ennui. But when the girl is revealed to be underage, lies and blackmail spiral out of control.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Backyard</h6><p>A policewoman investigates the gruesome murders of female assembly-line workers in Ciudad Juárez. This suspense thriller is the first fictionalized account of the real-life events.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Balibo</h6><p>This is the true story of a war correspondent who goes in search of missing colleagues amid the chaos of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Beyond the Circle</h6><p>In this political fable from Bangladesh’s leading filmmaker, a simple village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Blessed</h6><p>During the course of one day and night, seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey. Blessed is a film about mothers and children, about love and beauty, about being lost and finding your w <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/blessed '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Bran Nue Dae</h6><p>The renowned Australian stage musical about young love and Aboriginal identity makes its exuberant and fun-filled way to the big screen.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Castaway on the Moon</h6><p>This is a smart and original love story by one of Korea’s most promising young filmmakers, Lee Hey-jun. A potential suicide victim becomes a modern Robinson Crusoe on an island in the middle of Seoul’ <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/castawayonthemoon '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Cell 211</h6><p>A newly hired prison officer finds himself in the midst of a prison riot after an unforeseen turn of events. With the inmates around him unaware of his position, he must pretend to be a prisoner to su <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/cell211 '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Cole</h6><p>Cole (Richard de Klerk) wants to write his way out of small-town Lytton, B.C. and his job at the family gas station. A new romance with Serafina (Kandyse McClure), a woman from his writing class, off <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/cole '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Deliver Us from Evil</h6><p>A Danish variation on Straw Dogs, Deliver Us from Evil is an almost unbearably intense thriller about a young couple who moves to the countryside and encounters xenophobia, psychosis and murder.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Dogtooth</h6><p>Shut off from the outside world by their over-protective parents, three siblings are raised in a manner that their mother and father deem appropriate until the eldest daughter is offered an interestin <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/dogtooth '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Double Hour</h6><p>When an attractive young Slovenian girl moves to Italy and meets an eligible young man, both of their lives are set to change. They become the victims of a very professional art heist, but in this tau <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/doublehour '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Down for Life</h6><p>Based on a New York Times article, this film depicts a single, fateful day in the life of a 15-year-old Latina gang leader. Leaving the gang, she discovers, is more difficult than joining. Shot in So <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/downforlife '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Eyes Wide Open</h6><p>A gay love story set in the heart of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, where the belief that love conquers all results in societal pressures and threats of violence.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Giulia Doesn't Date at Night</h6><p>A young novelist is intrigued by his daughter’s swimming instructor. When he asks her out, he learns that she doesn’t date at night and discovers that she is serving a sentence for a crime of passion <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/giuliadoesntdateatni '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Gun to the Head</h6><p>A reformed criminal escapes his wife’s dinner party for a quick beer with his cousin and former partner in crime. Over the course of one wild night, he’s dragged back into a world of drugs, women, gu <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/guntothehead '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Heiran</h6><p>A young Iranian girl falls in love with an immigrant student from Afghanistan, causing her family to react with anger.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Help Gone Mad</h6><p>Following the whimsical, warm-hearted relationship between two men, Help Gone Mad is a modern-day depiction of the theme of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. All sorts of their wild charades go wrong, bu <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/helpgonemad '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>High Life</h6><p>Two drug-addled former cell-mates go for one last major score in writer-director Gary Yates’s energetic and funny crime comedy.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>House of Branching Love</h6><p>Family therapist Juhani and business trainer Taula decide to divorce in a civilized manner. Despite these good intentions, things turn ugly and the Pandora’s Box of their marriage flies open, releasi <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/houseofbranchinglove '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Huacho</h6><p>A warm family saga which follows 24 hours in the life of a poverty-stricken provincial family in central Chile.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>I Am Not Your Friend</h6><p>This is a fresh and entertaining improvised film made up of a series of vignettes portraying the many faces of love relationships. Young couples move through stages of desire, jealousy and infidelity, <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/iamnotyourfriend '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>If I Knew What You Said</h6><p>An affecting, sensitive and convincingly drawn teen romance between a rebellious rock girl and a deaf boy who loves to dance.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Jean Charles</h6><p>A Brazilian girl comes to live with her cousin in London. He has already carved out a life for himself there; she hopes to do the same. It is 2005, a year in which the city will be traumatized by terr <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/jeancharles '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Last Days of Emma Blank</h6><p>Emma is a lady living in high style, surrounded by family members who double as maids and servants. Everyone hopes Emma’s bad health will soon do her in, letting them inherit her substantial wealth.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Like You Know It All</h6><p>Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director, directed by Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Lourdes</h6><p>In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life-changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Men on the Bridge</h6><p>The stories of three men working at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul are told by the original characters, in this mosaic depicting real persons exposing their lives and aspirations.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>My Year Without Sex</h6><p>One Family. One Year. No Sex. Instead: sports, spending, saving, singing, sickness, storage solutions, spiritual stuff and Santa.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Passenger Side</h6><p>In writer-director Matthew Bissonette’s intimate and amusing road movie Passenger Side, two talkative brothers tour Los Angeles while trying to reconcile their romantic lives.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Père de mes enfants</h6><p>When a hard-working, independent film producer finds that personal and professional pressures are too much, something has to give – and it does. His wife is left to pick up the pieces in this heart-re <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/peredemesenfants '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Police, Adjective</h6><p>A witty portrait of life in the small town of Vaslui, the sophisticated Police, Adjective builds on the promise of Porumboiu’s debut 12:08, East of Bucharest.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Prince of Tears</h6><p>A gorgeously shot, thought-provoking look at Taiwan’s White Terror, the anti-communist campaign that swept the island throughout the 1950s. This little-known time in history becomes the backdrop for a <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/princeoftears '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Rabia</h6><p>Rabia is a romantic thriller about a construction worker on the run for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a housekeeper.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Same Same but Different</h6><p>This is an exceptional modern love story in which a young German falls in love with a Cambodian bar girl and stays by her side, even though she is HIV-positive. The film is based on the true story of <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/samesamebutdifferent '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Sawasdee Bangkok</h6><p>Directed by four distinctly talented Thai directors, this collection of tales about Bangkok is less a love letter than a funny, touching and surprising expression of the city’s reality.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Search</h6><p>This peacefully charming second feature by Pema Tseden (Wan Ma Cai Dan) is the first ever to be shot entirely in Tibet and in the Tibetan language by a local crew. It is a road movie and an expedition <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/search '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Shameless</h6><p>This film, freely inspired by stories form Michal Viewegh’s bestseller, Tales of Marriage and Sex, is a wry comedy about sex and marriage and a story about losing and finding love.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Slovenian Girl</h6><p>A young university student solicits sex clients through newspaper ads, involving her in a hellish adventure.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Suck</h6><p>A rock’n’roll vampire comedy about a down-and-out band that will do anything for a record deal. Their humdrum image radically changes when the bass player disappears one night with a hip vampire and <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/suck '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Tales From The Golden Age</h6><p></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Tanner Hall</h6><p>Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England town, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age s <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/tannerhall '>more ...</A></p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Time That Remains</h6><p>This semi-biographic film, divided into four historical episodes, portrays the daily life of Palestinians in 1948 who were considered a minority, even in their homeland.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>V.O.S.</h6><p>A smart and intriguing film-within-a-film comedy about love and friendship, where the characters travel playfully in and out of one another’s lives and the film’s narratives.</p></div> <div style='padding:10px'><h6>Wind Journeys</h6><p>Ignacio, a former traveling musician, makes one final trip across the country following his wife’s death. He is joined by a teenaged fan, and together they explore the possibilities that life has in s <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/windjourneys '>more ...</A></p></div>
Contemporary World Cinema
 
25 Carat - Patxi Amezcua
Adrift - Bui Thac Chuyen
Ajami - Scandar Copti | Yaron Shani
At the End of Daybreak - Ho Yuhang
Backyard - Carlos Carrera
Balibo - Robert Connolly
Beyond the Circle - Golam Rabbany Biplob
Blessed - Ana Kokkinos
Bran Nue Dae - Rachel Perkins
Castaway on the Moon - Lee Hey-jun |
Cell 211 - Daniel Monzon
Cole - Carl Bessai
Deliver Us from Evil - Ole Bornedal
Dogtooth - Yorgos Lanthimos
The Double Hour - Giuseppe Capotondi
Down for Life - Alan Jacobs
Eyes Wide Open - Haim Tabakman
Giulia Doesn't Date at Night - Giuseppe Piccioni
A Gun to the Head - Blaine Thurier
Heiran - Shalizeh Arefpour
Help Gone Mad - Boris Khlebnikov
High Life - Gary Yates
The House of Branching Love - Mika Kaurismäki
Huacho - Alejandro Fernández Almendras
I Am Not Your Friend - György Pálfi
If I Knew What You Said - Mike Escareal Sandejas
Jean Charles - Henrique Goldman
The Last Days of Emma Blank - Alex van Warmerdam
Like You Know It All - Hong Sang-soo |
Lourdes - Jessica Hausner |
Men on the Bridge - Asli Özge
My Year Without Sex - Sarah Watt
Passenger Side - Matthew Bissonnette
Le Père de mes enfants - Mia Hansen-Løve
Police, Adjective - Corneliu Porumboiu
Prince of Tears Yonfan
Rabia - Sebastián Cordero
Same Same but Different - Detlev Buck
Sawasdee Bangkok - Wisit Sasanatieng | Aditya Assarat | Kongdej Jaturanrasmee | Pen-ek Ratanaruang
The Search - Pema Tseden (Wan Ma Cai Dan)
Shameless - Jan Hrebejk
Slovenian Girl - Damjan Kozole
Suck - Rob Stefaniuk
Tales From The Golden Age - Cristian Mungiu | Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu
Tanner Hall - Francesca Gregorini | Tatiana von Furstenberg
The Time That Remains - Elia Suleiman
V.O.S. - Cesc Gay
The Wind Journeys - Ciro Guerra

The best of current international filmmaking, Contemporary World Cinema is a lavish collection of premieres and prize-winning film selections. From Vietnam to Iceland, Kazakhstan to Chile, and points beyond, Contemporary World Cinema is your ticket for a worldwide cinematic tour.

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