Films

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd…

CHAUTHI KOOT evokes the atmosphere of suspicion, fear and paranoia of the Punjab in 1980s. It considers two loosely connected incidents: two Hindu friends trying…

Wolf and Sheep is the debut feature film of young Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat. Through the lives of shepherd children, the film portrays the society…

Exile endeavours to recreate and make sense of the experience of those thrown out of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with the arrival of Pol…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2015 Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. The state uses new underground techniques in the hunt for terrorists in shantytowns.…

Set against China’s bleak provincial wastelands, a 13-year-old boy receives a letter from his absent mother and sets off alone in search of her. Leaving…

A young Buddhist monk embarks on a quest for spiritual truth. A student, wanting to become a doctor, tries to test his limits. An organ…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actress, 2015 The sweet red bean jam called an is the lifeblood of the little pastry shop run by the…

The President tells the story of a dictator who comes face to face with the people he previously subjugated. The President and his family rule their land…

Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2015 In northeast Thailand, soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are sent to a temporary hospital. The memory-filled space becomes a…

An exploration of the Japanese concept of ‘mitoru’, the act of watching over or accompanying a dying person until their death, Journey to the Shore…

In a sunny Turkish village by the Black Sea, five spirited and adolescent sisters find themselves confronted with the restrictions of becoming a woman in…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2014 Nanjing. At a massage centre run by the blind, damaged bodies find relief beneath sensitive fingers. A new couple comes…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2014 Set in remote Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a half-empty small village in the wintry off-season. The film…

Never before has a civil war been so captured on film, from so many perspectives, by civilians using whatever device they have available. When a…

Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran in order to finalise his divorce from his French wife Marie. During his brief…

For the first time ever, six former heads of Israel’s domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their…

Harmony Lessons is set in a small Kazakhstan village, where Aslan, a thirteen-year-old boy living with his grandmother is a diligent student, bullied by an…

Special Mention, Achievement in Directing, 2013 In a remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan lives the Kurdish patriot Baran who since recently serves as a policeman.…

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2013 Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2013 Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan Khan) is a widower who is about to retire from his job as…

When his fourth son is born, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. At the same time an Israeli separation barrier…

Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes…

A week before 13 year-old Yoni’s bar mitzvah, Yoni’s autistic older brother unexpectedly returns home and threatens to demolish the already shaky foundations of the…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize for Director, Samuel Moaz, 2010 Winner, Best Screenplay, Samuel Moaz, 2010 The film depicts warfare as witnessed exclusively from the inside…

The film tells the story of a bakery’s human-resources manager (unnamed, like most of the film’s characters) who reluctantly travels to Eastern Europe to bring…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2009 The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical film, in four historic episodes, about a family – Elia Suleiman’s family –…

Roshane Saidnattar, a young filmmaker and survivor of the Cambodian death camps of the 1970s, meets the chief theorist of the Khmer Rouge, Khieu Samphân.…

The young man fell from the sky. Communication relay burns. Flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. Become part of another story.…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2008 A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies, battles against the odds to stay together by covering…

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2008 One night at a bar, an old friend tells director, Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actress, 2008 Winner, Best Screenplay, 2008 The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow to stop the Israeli…

Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile…

In Beirut, five women meet up at a beauty salon, a highly colourful and sensual microcosm. Layale loves Rabih, but he is a married man.…

Marty is an ambitious comic-book artist who has romantic feelings for his best friend Sally. Sally is a beautiful and funny girl, a passionate gadget…

Aktan Arym Kubat’s sixth features follows Centaur, a quiet, small and modest man who lives a simple life in a small Kyrgyzstan village. He is respected…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2017 Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives,…

A woman lives alone on the outskirts of her Russian village. One day she receives a returned care package that she had sent to her…

Chehnaz, an attractive woman, working as a psychiatrist, and her handsome husband, Cem live in a hip neighbourhood in Istanbul when Chehnaz has been assigned…

Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living…

Is life the result of meaningless, chaotic chance, or is chance itself a sophisticated, well-calculated plan? Told through three acts, Foxtrot is the story of…

In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and robbed for her cattle. To defend herself, she kills several…

In a small seaside town in southern China, a scandal breaks out when two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia,…

When a boy is murdered in a Kazakh village, Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly. And why wouldn’t he? After all, the…

Set in 1960s Indonesia, Siman is a quiet man who accidentally discovers the filming of a fake moon-landing, shot by a foreign crew in a…

In the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big fan…

Shimu is 23 years old and works in a clothing textile factory in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. She earns little money while working many…

Joy and her six-year-old daughter, Angel, live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal and alcoholic. Dante routinely returns home drunk at night…

Told through the director’s alter ego, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman (ES) escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland. On his travels, however, he finds parallels…

Winner – Hideho Urata for Achievement in Cinematography, 2018 Winner –  Yeo Siew Hua for Young Cinema Award, 2018 Set in industrial Singapore, police investigator…

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees from nearby Myanmar have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured…

Masafumi Yoshida and Kazuyuki Minami – or Fumi and Kazu as they are known – operate Japan’s first openly gay law firm in Osaka. Across…

After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic and sheltered countryside life for the cruel city. In order to save her…

Winner – Dan Kleinman & Sameh Zoabi, Best Screenplay for Tel Aviv on Fire, 2018 Israel/ Palestine, today. Salam, a charming 30-year-old Palestinian living in…

Winner – Zhao Tao, Best Performance by an Actress, for Ash is Purest White, 2018 Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During…

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but…

In the seemingly tranquil midst of a small canal town, a rapist lurks in the shadows of the night searching for prey. A schoolgirl, a…

Coming of age as a teenager is hard enough without being forced to do so amid the political and social upheaval of a national revolution.…

Chased by the army, a human trafficker crosses the border on a daily basis. An intimate yet harrowing portrait – shot over the course of…

Two fragments in a woman’s life. Maem is a young woman in 1960s rural Thailand. Her clocksmith father imparts his philosophy onto his daughter, while…

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of…

Yuni is a smart teenage girl with big dreams. She wants to attend university. She thinks everything is possible, then one day she got proposed…

The top clown actor of a renowned theatre troupe is welcomed into the Underworld. As he relives his vivid memories one last time before entering…

L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the…

The women do the work in a remote village while the men are fighting in 2nd WW. A small group of deserters is hiding in the…

Rahim is in prison because he was unable to pay a debt. During a two- day leave of absence from prison, he attempts to have…

With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakibworks as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna,a retired…

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted…

Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, has reached a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police force, he…

Tamer is a Palestinian teenager living in Israel. He and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful…