Thirst(1988)

Arbat Motif(ru)

The action takes place during perestroika in one of the old Moscow houses on the Arbat, intended for demolition. The tenants have long been evicted, and only 80-year-old Vera Vasilievna does not want to leave, claiming that Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov have been in this house ...

Chiamami, Valentina(it)

Mimo Okon Idut Poezda(ru)

In a boarding school in a provincial Siberian town comes a literature teacher, a graduate of a teacher training college. The directness with which the heroine intrudes into the life of the school provokes active resistance from the principal and head teacher. As a result of a series of clashes, the young teacher must leave the boarding school, but her pupils protest, and the directorate is defeated.

Moshpit(es)

Ana spends the day playing alongside her mother, Elena, with the intention of getting closer to her, as they have been distant lately. A series of phone calls to Elena’s mobile will make Ana suspect that her mother is hiding something more than just her feelings.

Emptiness(es)

LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.

Sunday Morning in Victoria Park(id)

A young woman struggles in foreign countries to improve her self esteem to her family and to the community.

152 AB(pt)

Cêcil and Cecília, neighbors in a suburb, suffer daily from the challenges imposed by the Brazilian suburban condition. An unexpected meeting leads the two, newly introduced, to nurture a friendship separated by a wall.

Reparation(en)

Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects [one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident], as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?

María(es)

Argumosa 11(es)

A house. From outside come shouts of what looks like a demonstration. Inside, two children, Luis (six years old) and Ana (eight years old) play while her mother, Carmen, tries tough it out in front of the little ones.

The Curtain(az)

Lala's father is getting her married. Her lover Emil asks Lala's brother Zaur to help her run away from home and hide with him.

Los bárbaros(es)

In the year of the crisis, four young people attempt to make a home by squatting in an unfinished building – a paradoxical limbo amid the real-estate bubble, where they willingly remain on the fringes of it all.

La Haine(fr)

Maribel(es)

Maribel is a homeless woman who begs for food in the building where she once lived. There she works cleaning the apartment of a friend, Miguel, who out of pity gives her money. After getting the food and the money. She returns to the annex where she lives with her abusive boyfriend, Rafael, who ends up beating her and stealing the food that is for her daughter.

Fragmentos(es)

Humberto Ortiz, a frustrated journalist, becomes obsessed with discovering what happened one early morning in November, when Maribel Angarita allegedly murdered her usual attacker, his partner Rafael. The investigation of what appears to be a simple chronicle becomes an elusive metaphor for the conflict of an entire country.

Zinky Boys Go Underground(en)

Thriller providing a chilling insight into the damaged psyche of Russian soldiers returning home from Afghanistan. Andrei is the drug-crazed leader of the Zinky Boys, who make a living on the black market in the underground railway, where a serial killer is on the loose.

La niña tatuada(es)

Dead End(az)

"Dalan" is a film that tells about dead-end life situations that anyone can get into. In the film, several intertwined stories are built around the main plot line - the betrayal of a young wife to her despotic husband.

Two-Syllable Name(pt)

60-year-old seamstress Cida needs to sign a document at her workplace, but can't read what it says. With the help of her granddaughter's teacher, she becomes interested in literacy and, at the same time, starts questioning things that happen at her job.

O Que Aconteceu com Catarina(pt)