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The Last Illusion and Termites
Aida
(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2021; Director: Hanane Abi Khalil)
A woman decides to get married. What is her story?
The Balloon Catcher
(Country: Japan; Year: 2020; Director: Isaku Kaneko)
Rejected and feared, will the axeman manage to use his peculiarity to find freedom?
The Bitch (Narttu)
(Country: Estonia, Finland; Year: 2021; Director: Ville Niemi)
The fate of three brothers is tied up with that of a missing woman.
Black Holes (Les Trous Nous)
(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Pierre Lazarus; Writer: Pierre Lazarus, Dorothée Levesque; Stars: Cosme Castro, Kiara Havas, Gaëtan Lejeune, Obed Lotika, Stanislas Michon-Gentil, Sophie Mourousi, Zacharie Poquet, Noé Szerbojm, Veronika Varga, Constantin Vidal)
When David mysteriously falls into a coma, his friends and family all try to deal with the trauma.
The Boy Who Walked Barefoot
(Director: Gracjana Piechula)
Zbyszek has a special connection with animals. One day a stranger man brings his restive horse to the stable. How much will Zbyszek sacrifice to become a man?
Black Holes and The Solace Of Ruins
Bungee To The Beyond (Bungee Al Mas Alla)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2020; Director: El Huitzo; Writer: El Huitzo; Stars: Emmanuel Giménez, Jonathan Marino, Edgar Ramos, Adrián Rojas)
Friends help fulfill a dying wish, but they're not the only ones late to do so.
By The Time I Fall Asleep (Zanim zasne)
(Year: 2021; Director: Damian Kosowski; Writer: Wiktoria Czeladka, Damian Kosowski; Stars: Helena Urbanska, Mateusz Trojanowski, Urszula Gryczewska, Katarzyna Bargielowska)
About what happened one November night, in one of the apartments on the top floor of a block of flats.
Chiffon
(Country: India; Year: 2021; Director: Roopkatha Purakayastha; Writer: Roopkatha Purakayastha)
Bijoli is serene until a mysterious visitor shows up in her small tailoring shop with a commission.
Dayfly
(Country: China; Year: 2021; Director: Yi Baoxingchen)
Life is a ray of sunshine that breaks through darkness. In the vast universe, the life of human beings and of all the things in the world comes to an end, a short and wonderful experience which is at the same time evanescent, just like a dayfly.
Days Lost
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2020; Director: Jovana Avramovic; Writer: Sara Djurovic; Stars: Predrag Bjelac, Jana Bjelica, Gordana Djurdjevic, Jovan Jovanovic, Alisa Lacko, Suncica Milanovic, Zoe Radovanovic, Tatjana Vencelovski)
Olja and Igor's sibling equilibrium is broken by his new girlfriend, and will be tested further by what they leave behind.
Pile Of Salt and Little One
En Rang Par Deux
(Country: Italy; Year: 2020; Director: Elisabetta Bosco, Margherita Giusti, Viola Mancini; Writer: Margherita Giusti)
Animation sees Afif, originally from Tunisia and Aliou, from Senegal, tell their different stories.
Europa
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2021; Director: Lucas del Fresno; Stars: Angèle Colas, Magali Heu, José Lillo)
A foreign worker in Switzerland has to take a cow to slaughter while his mother is dying in a Spanish hospital.
Gossipy (Novelara)
(Year: 2021; Director: Willy Suárez; Writer: Willy Suárez; Stars: Lorenza Machín, Juani Rodríguez)
A woman watches every move in her neighbourhood.
The Heart Of The Volcano
(Country: Germany, Mexico; Year: 21; Director: Montserrat Cattaneo; Stars: Xochitl Galindres, Humberto Yanez, Miguel Cooper)
Their fate in the hands of a powerful sorcerer, by the next moon a daughter must save her father's soul.
The Last Illusion (Poslednyaya illusia)
(Country: Russia; Year: 2020; Director: Vladimir Feklenko; Writer: Vladimir Feklenko)
Russia. 1910. A once-famous magician has been reduced to a wandering circus artist. He prepares himself for his final performance…
Yard Kings and The Next One
Little One (Malechka)
(Country: Macedonia; Year: 2020; Director: Ana Andonova)
A couple of sisters stick together.
Migrants
(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Hugo Caby, Zoé Devise, Antoine Dupriez; Writer: Lucas Lermytte)
Driven south by climate change, a family of polar bears tries to make a new life.
The Next One (Ďalšia)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2020; Director: Dominik György; Writer: Dominik György, Pavlína Vítková; Stars: Hana Adámiková, Irena Erbenová, Lída Jakubuv, Jana Krajciová, Simona Prasková, Lesana Sovicová, Petr Urban)
A troubled young woman enters an abortion clinic and realises she has forgotten the socks that she must have with her in order that the procedure will be carried out.
The Other (Digari)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2021; Director: Ako Zandkarimi, Saman Hosseinpour)
A man becomes suspicious of his wife's faithfulness, more so when he sees another at her graveside.
Pile Of Salt (Estatua de sal)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2021; Director: Marc Camardons; Writer: Marc Camardons, Jordi Tortosa; Stars: Oriol Ramis, Gerard Clavell, Luis Anyó, Pau Bascompte, Joan Camardons, Pau Camps, Lourdes Cirera, Toni Farré, Gerard Larrondo, Andrés Montoya, Albert Muntanyola, Jan Zawisza)
A diligent and faithful Catholic seminarist, experiences a crisis after meeting a fellow student.
Bungee To The Beyond and Round 0
Romantic Eggs
(Country: China; Year: 2021; Director: Sun Xiangping)
After some insects warn a girl the Earth is under threat she sets out on a mission to save it.
Round 0
(Director: Sonia Ladidà Schiavone)
Kolbeinn and his friends are young boxers from Iceland and they are training for the Nordic Championship. A serious accident risks copromising their future.
The Solace Of Ruins (O Conforto Das Ruinas)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Gabriela Lourenzato; Writer: Gabriela Lourenzato; Stars: Ellen Silva, Tamirys Rodrigues, Cyda Baú, Rodrigo Mercadante, Rosane Alecrim, Aneide Amorim, Maciel Araújo, Keli Assunção, Baixinho, Karoline Barros, Bela Bastos, Murilo Bastos, Lídia Borges, Grazielly Brito, Maicon Brito)
Madu and her small assistant investigate the case of a woman who suddenly disappeared.
The Sugar Grocer (Seker Gida)
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2020; Director: Ferman Narin; Writer: Kendal Ozturk, Ferman Narin; Stars: Tolga Manyer, Salih Yildirim, Ayfer Sen, Mehmet Leblebici, Aynur Saçkesen, Pelin Gören, Bülent Kizil)
Salih is a neighborhood grocery living alone in a monotonous life. One day with an order coming while Salih is sitting at the grocery store, he will come out of this monotony and experience the most traumatic day of his life.
Termites (Ghunn)
(Country: India; Year: 2020; Director: Jayabrata Das; Writer: Jayabrata Das, Banibrata Adak; Stars: Raja Chakraborty, Mouli Saha, Debaditya Naha, Manab Saha)
The voice reminds the city that all art is banned, but when a young girl discover's one man's secret he cannot remain silent.
Weightlessness and The Boy Who Walked Barefoot
A Toy In The River (Kawatan Sa Salog)
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2020; Director: Alphie Velasco; Writer: Alphie Velasco; Stars: Marc Felix, Kyle Kaizer, Lui Manansala, Rob Roberto, Atanacio Rodavia)
A boy steals a toy dinosaur and runs away from home... and into trouble.
Vegetarians (Vegetariani)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2021; Director: Marco Mazzone)
Hunting with his father, a son's first shot will have a lasting impact.
Weightlessness (Nevesomost)
(Country: Russia; Year: 2021; Director: Lyubov Knyazeva)
A young ballet dancer tries to cope with trauma and faces a creative crisis.
Where The Leaves Fall
(Country: Italy; Year: 2020; Director: Xin Alessandro Zheng; Writer: Xin Alessandro Zheng; Stars: Giulio Cai, Wuyi Zheng)
Giacomo, a young second-generation Italian-Chinese student, travels to the Chinese county of Wencheng to bring back the ashes of his late father.
Yard Kings
(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Vasco Alexandre; Writer: Vasco Alexandre, Billy King, Justin Scher-Smith; Stars: David Price, Elle Atkinson, Caroline Lazarus, Jermaine Ricketts)
The film follows the story of Ellie, a young girl from a violent home, who decides to confront the situation.
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