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- DirectorShoja AzariShirin NeshatStarsSheila VandMatt DillonWilliam MoseleyIn an effort to understand and control its populace, the government begins a program to record citizens' dreams.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsIsmail GhaffariAllah-Morad RashtianFarzin SabooniMamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway there, the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsClaudia CardinaleOmar SharifNathalie RousselThe saga of an Armenian family that immigrated to France after the break-up of the oppressive Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorHaile GerimaStarsAaron ArefeAbiye TedlaTakelech BeyeneThe Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
- DirectorOmer SarikayaStarsRobert MailletKabir BediBill Oberst Jr.The Edict of Expulsion of the Sephardic Jews in Spain went public with the Alhambra Decree in April 1492. The charter declared that no Jews were permitted to remain within the Spanish Kingdom and Jews who wished to convert were welcome to stay. The power of the wealthy Spanish Jewry was inconsequential; whether a Jew was rich or poor did not matter, they all still had to convert or leave by orders of Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Tomas de Torquemada, an ally to King Fernando II de Aragón and Queen Isabel I de Castilla. In the faraway Ottoman Empire, Sultan Bayezid II, extended an immediate welcome to the persecuted Sephardim.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStefan ArsenijevicAida BegicStarsAli SulimanHiam AbbassEsin AlpoganAn aged mother with her middle aged daughter travels from Palestine to Istanbul, Turkey, to meet some relatives. This and other short stories give us a clue about the city of Istanbul.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerStarsShohreh AghdashlooTaner AkçamHagop AsadourianFilmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.
- DirectorHeidi HassanPatricia Pérez FernándezAn intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom.
- DirectorHiner SaleemStarsNazmi KirikEyam EkremBelçim BilginSet during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
- DirectorKenda GeeTom RadfordStarsKenda GeeTook GeeHanson LauAn epic documentary touching upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia; covering four generations of racism as revealed through the journey and family story of Kenda Gee. Based on over 12 years of research and two-years in the making. Also telecast as a 2-part television mini series nationally for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC TV), the Prime-time Summer Series (world premiere, in Alberta and Saskatchewan) and CTV Two Alberta (repeat broadcasts). Original feature-length, theatrical RUN-TIME: 1:28:42 (88 mins).
- DirectorYüksel YavuzStarsCagdas BozkurtNecmettin ÇobanogluLeroy DelmarBaran (Cagdas Bozkurt) is a young Kurd who was sent to Hamburg after his parents, who had helped Kurdish rebels, were betrayed and subsequently killed by the Turkish militia. Now that Baran is 16, he is no longer allowed to stay in Germany and faces the bleak prospect of getting deported back. Baran meets Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an African boy who has the same problem and traffics drugs to make some money. Chernor is openly gay and their friendship has sexual overtones from the beginning. Baran also has very little interest in girls, even though a marriage might solve his immigration-related legal trouble. Things get even more complicated when Baran spots the traitor of his family and wants to kill him. However, the man pleads for his life and Baran spares him. After this act of forgiveness, Cherno and Baran have sex together for the first time, making it clear to Baran that his interest in Cherno goes beyond friendship. Finally, both Cherno and Baran, who had made a desperate attempt to free Cherno, are arrested by the police.