CINEMONDO: Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story
Category: World Cinema
A modern Egyptian retelling of "The Arabian Nights," features oppressive politics and repressed women in this feature by director Yousry Nasrallah.

CINEMONDO: Ramchand Pakistani
Category: World Cinema
Ramchand Pakistani is based on actual events about an accidental border crossing of a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father into India and the consequences of this unintended action on the lives of the boy, his father and mother.

CINEMONDO: The Country Teacher
Category: World Cinema
A gifted young teacher takes a job at a grammar school in the country. Here he forms a bond with a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. But when the teacher's ex-boyfriend visits, jealousy sets in motion a series of events that will test the inner strength of everyone involved.

CINEMONDO: Troubled Water
Category: World Cinema
Recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, Jan has always maintained his innocence. But his past catches up with him when he is recognized by the mother of the murdered child at the church where he works.

CINEMONDO: Song From The Southern Seas (Pesn' Juzhnykh Morej)
Category: World Cinema
Two couples, one Russian and one Kazakh, live happily in the semi-desolate region of the Great Steppe. But when the fair-skinned Russians give birth to a dark-skinned boy, suspicion and acrimony arises between them.

CINEMONDO: Laila's Birthday
Category: World Cinema
Laila's Birthday portrays a day in the life of a Palestinian taxi driver, who, in trying to get home for his daughter's birthday, encounters numerous hurdles that nearly derail his objective, including a car bombing, and the kidnapping of his taxi!

CINEMONDO: 35 Shots of Rum
Category: World Cinema
Set among a small circle of friends and neighbors in a Parisian suburb, "35 Shots of Rum" is a warm, funny and enchanting film from the great French filmmaker Claire Denis.

CINEMONDO: Days and Clouds
Category: World Cinema
After leaving her job to fulfill her dream of studying art history, Elsa discovers her husband has lost his job and their once sophisticated lifestyle is falling to pieces. Tension grows between the couple, threatening their most valuable possession: Love.

GLOBAL LENS: Getting Home
Category: World Cinema
In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker’s last wish to be buried in China’s Three Gorges region.

GLOBAL LENS: The Photograph
Category: World Cinema
In this poignant drama Sita, a spirited young woman, works to support her family as a singer and prostitute in a local brothel. When an elderly photographer agrees to rent her a room, witness the unlikely bond that forms between them.

MADE IN TAIWAN: Blue Cha Cha
Category: World Cinema
This moving tale of a young woman's attempt to find her place in the world after her release from a Taiwanese prison explores the depths of depression and the universal yearning for love.

MADE IN TAIWAN: Nyonya's Taste of Life
Category: World Cinema
Nyonya’s Taste of Life depicts stories of Indonesian domestic helpers and Thai workers who came to Taiwan dreaming of a better life.

Love Sick
Category: World Cinema
In this Romanian film Kiki, a young college student from Bucharest, explains how on her very first day at university she met Alex, a country girl looking to escape from the provinces, and immediately fell in love with her.

Exam
Category: World Cinema
This Romanian film tells the tale of a wrongful conviction in a brutal murder case. The police - eager to close the case - knowingly arrest the wrong man, leaving a trail of guilt, pyschological torture and revenge in their wake.

Bar de Zi (Day Bar)
Category: World Cinema
This Romanian documentary of intertwined tales discreetly discovers the intimate stories of the simple customers of a 'bar de zi' (day bar) -- the last State-owned bar to survive the communist regime.