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The Angel and Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The Angel (El Angel)
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Luis Ortega; Writer: Serguio Olguín, Luis Ortega; Stars: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darin, Mercedes Moran, Cecilia Roth, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani)
The story of a real life teenage serial killer in Argentina.
Angel Face (Gueule D'Ange)
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Vanessa Filho; Writer: Diastème, Vanessa Filho; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Alban Lenoir, Amélie Daure)
A single mother meets somebody new in a nightclub and decides to abandon her eight-year-old daughter.
Border
(Country: Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf, based on a story by John Ajvide Lindqvist; Stars: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom, Jörgen Thorsson)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, their relationship forces her to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
The Dead And the Others (Chuva E Cantoria Na Aldeia Dos Mortos)
(Director: Rene Nader Messora, Joao Salaviza)
An indigenous teen runs away to the city to avoid becoming a shaman.
Donbass
(Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania; Year: 2018; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa; Stars: Valeriu Andriutã, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Georgiy Deliev, Sergey Russkin, Alexander Zamuraev, Konstantin Itunin, Irina Plesnyayeva, Vadim Dubovsky, Svetlana Kolesova, Evgeny Chistyakov, Valeriu Andriutã, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Georgiy Deliev)
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.
Girl and Sextape
Euphoria (Euforia)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2018; Director: Valeria Golino; Writer: Valeria Golino, Francesca Marciano; Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Isabella Ferrari , Valentina Cervi, Jasmine Trinca)
Two brothers with very different personalities have to live together in Rome for a few weeks.
Friend (Rafiki)
(Country: Kenya, South Africa; Year: 2018; Director: Wanuri Kahiu; Writer: Jenna Cato Bass, Wanuri Kahiu; Stars: Patricia Amira, Muthoni Gathecha, Jimmy Gathu, Nice Githinji, Charlie Karumi, Patricia Kihoro)
When they fall in love, two girls from rival families must choose between being together and being safe.
The Gentle Indifference Of The World
(Country: Kazakhstan, France; Year: 2018; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Writer: Roelof Jan Minneboo, Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city... and she is followed by her loyal but penniless admirer.
Girl
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Nele Hardiman, Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter)
A teenage trans girl dreams of becoming a ballerina.
The Harvesters
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2018; Director: Etienne Kallos; Writer: Etienne Kallos)
A teenager's comfortable life starts to unravel when his parents bring home an orphan.
In My Room and Border
In My Room
(Country: Germany, Italy; Year: 2018; Director: Ulrich Köhler; Writer: Ulrich Köhler; Stars: Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Antonia Putiloff)
A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
Little Tickles (Les Chatouilles)
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer; Writer: Andréa Bescond; Stars: Andréa Bescond, Karin Viard, Clovis Cornillac)
A dancer struggles to achieve her dreams after trauma in her childhood.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
(Country: China; Year: 2018; Director: Bi Gan; Writer: Bi Gan, Dong Jinsong; Stars: Tang Wei, Sylvia Chang, Huang Jue)
A man returns to the town of his birth 12 years after having committed a still-unpunished murder. Memories of the enigmatic and beautiful woman for whom he killed resurface, confronting him with unbearable revelations.
Manto
(Country: India; Year: 2018; Director: Nandita Das; Writer: Nandita Das; Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Purab Kohli, Rasika Dugal, Vijay Varma)
A biopic of the writer Saadat Hasan Manto.
Murder Me, Monster (Muere, Monstro, Muere)
(Country: Argentina, France, Chile; Year: 2018; Director: Alejandro Fadel; Writer: Alejandro Fadel; Stars: Esteban Bigliardi, Francisco Carrasco, Tania Casciani, Romina Iniesta, Victor Lopez, Sofia Palomino, Jorge Prado, Stéphane Rideau, Esteban Bigliardi, Francisco Carrasco, Tania Casciani, Romina Iniesta, Victor Lopez, Sofia Palomino, Jorge Prado)
Rural police officer Cruz investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman’s body found in a remote region by the Andes Mountains. But her husband, the prime suspect, blames her death on a "monster".
Donbass and Friend
My Favorite Fabric (Mon Tissu Préféré)
(Country: France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2018; Director: Gaya Jiji; Writer: Gaya Jiji, Eiji Yamazaki; Stars: Metin Akdülger, Manal Issa, Ula Tabari, Gaya Jiji)
With tensions rising in pre-war Syria, a young woman dreams of escape through an arranged marriage to an American citizen - but does he prefer her sister?
Sextape (Des Bails De Rêve)
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Antoine Desrosieres; Writer: Antoine Desrosieres, Anne-Sophie Nanki; Stars: Souad Arsane, Inas Chanti, Loubna Abidar)
Two sisters plot blackmail.
Sofia
(Year: 2018; Director: Meryem Benm'Barek; Writer: Famor Botero, Angelica Figueroa; Stars: Sara Elmhamdi Elalaoui, Sarah Perles, Hamza Khafif, Lubna Azabal, Faouzi Bensaidi, Nadia Niazi, Said Bey)
When a woman suddenly and unexpectedly gives birth, her two sisters have one night in which to find the father in order to save her from arrest.
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