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- DirectorJos StellingStarsBianca KoedamGene BervoetsAnnet Malherbe
- DirectorTina MascaraGuido SantiStarsThe Dalai LamaKhyongla RinpocheNicky VreelandNicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama. Soon thereafter, he gave up his glamorous life to live in a monastery in India, where he studied Buddhism for fourteen years. In an ironic twist of fate, Nicholas went back to photography to help his fellow monks rebuild their monastery. Recently, the Dalai Lama appointed Nicholas as Abbot of the monastery, making him the first Westerner in Tibetan Buddhist history, to attain such a highly regarded position.
- DirectorJohn McKayStarsKaren GillanStanley WeberIain De CaesteckerWhen a troubled editor discovers that his only successful author is blocked, he knows that he needs to do something about it.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMichael ColeVan HeflinHarry GuardinoIn a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaTadeusz LomnickiZbigniew ZapasiewiczWitek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
- DirectorJohn O'BrienStarsGeorge ThrushMarya CohnAnn O'Brien
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsJuliette BinocheWilliam HurtStephanie ButtleA psychoanalyst in NYC exchanges apartments with a woman in Paris. When his patients show up, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early to NYC and becomes a patient.
- DirectorJirí BartaStarsOldrich KaiserJirí LábusMichal PavlícekThe story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsBurt LancasterPeter RiegertFulton MackayAn American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorFederico VeirojStarsEduardo BartfeldAna María CabezasJenny Goldstein13-year-old Rafael Bregman (Diego Radzewicz) prepares for his bar mitzvah in the Jewish community of Montevideo, Uruguay.
- DirectorAli Asgharzadeh
- DirectorMorteza AhadiFarkhondeh TorabiA big bad wolf terrorizes some little goats by entering their home when their mother is away. He swallows two of them but they are saved with some help from their family.
- DirectorBahram JavaheriA sunflower growing in the shade of a wall has no sunlight. Bees and butterflies do not fly near it. Eventually, a bird advises the flower that it must grow above the wall in order to reach the sunlight.
- DirectorTim NackashiDavid SamplinerStarsDarrell AllenBernard HolstonRuss PageDocumentarians David Sampliner & Tim Nackashi follow three men with odd, potentially unpleasant careers -- a bull semen collector, a sewage tank pumper, and an embalmer.
- DirectorDaniel B. GoldJudith HelfandStarsWilliam BaggettCharlie CrayDaniel B. GoldThe hazards of bio-accumulation, pollution, and the makeup of what we commonly hope are benign plastics are tackled in this documentary.
- DirectorJeff RenfroeMarteinn ThorssonStarsRichard ReesJeremy SistoUdo KierAfter receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer begins a personal investigation into their origins.
- DirectorLidiya BobrovaStarsNina ShubinaOlga OnishchenkoAnna OvsyannikovaAn old Russian grandmother, a product of "old" Russia who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, sacrificed everything for her children and even sold her house to get money for her grandchildren, is shuttled among those very grandchildren--products of the "new" Russia--none of whom want her to stay with them since she's too much of a "burden" for them.
- DirectorEvan OppenheimerStarsErik PalladinoMichael Jai WhiteDaphne Rubin-VegaA comic strip writer in NYC, still grieving over the death of a friend in 9/11, gets his publisher to agree to a limited run of "Justice", a comic book about an ordinary person who is a hero.
- DirectorSteven Lewis SimpsonStarsAlan McCaffertyIan HanmoreJames BryceIn the remote west coast of Scotland, a drug dealer double-crosses and kills a drug trafficker who imports drugs for him. The dealer is arrested and learns that the murder was witnessed by a couple of anonymous locals. Facing life imprisonment, the dealer decides to hire a hitman to eliminate all the potential witnesses. Outside a rural police station, the hired hitman starts a stopwatch, runs across a road, jumps into his car, and takes off with a screech. He drives full speed through the barren country until he reaches the remote, one street hamlet of Bartoun. He checks his stopwatch. It reads 28 minutes, 36 seconds. He sees a poster advertising a fair in the next village. The residents of Bartoun are advised to meet on main street at noon to get a ride. As the people begin to congregate the next day, the hitman walks toward them and begins shooting. He knows that he has 28 minutes and 36 seconds before the police arrive. Pandemonium ensues as he methodically hunts down his targets and people frantically try to stay alive.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
- DirectorJerzy KuciaA short animated film which combines movement and instrumental music to convey it's message.
- DirectorPiotr DumalaStarsJózef DuriaszA film based on a short story by Dostoevsky about a young woman dominated and intimidated by her old husband.
- DirectorManijeh HekmatStarsRoya NonahaliRoya TeymourianPegah AhangaraniSpanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
- DirectorBrian Edward RiseStarsKelly BoermanDoug StrahanA young couple silently explore the distances in their relationship while drifting through a Carnival dreamland.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsOduvil UnnikrishnanSukumariMallikaKaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess.