GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

GLOBAL LENS: Max and Mona
Category: World Cinema
Max Bua has his sights set on becoming a doctor. However, unable to pay his university fees, he must crash at his hard-drinking uncle's place...with goat in tow.

GLOBAL LENS: Bunny Chow
Category: World Cinema
Three up-and-coming comedians find humor amidst hardship in the "new" Johannesburg, celebrating life on a raucous roadtrip to South Africa’s largest music festival.

GLOBAL LENS: Daughter of Keltoum (Bent Keltoum)
Category: World Cinema
Rallia, a young Swiss woman, returns to her Algerian birthplace to seek out her roots. Unable to await mother's return, she heads out into the desert to find her.

GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero
Category: World Cinema
A tragi-comic story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, this film follows the adventures of a Kurdish soldier - a despised minority in the Iraqi military - traveling with an Iraqi taxi driver.

GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Category: World Cinema
A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.

GLOBAL LENS: Nada +
Category: World Cinema
Cuban postal clerk, Carla, takes up the absurd lengths of red tape in her bureaucracy and ties them up in a bow as she fabricates a rich - and covert - fantasy life out of her comrades' letters.

GLOBAL LENS: Rachida
Category: World Cinema
Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom, forcing her to seek refuge in the countryside. Can she escape?

GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant)
Category: World Cinema
Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.

GLOBAL LENS: Whisky
Category: World Cinema
Jacobo is the dull and and dour owner of a sock factory. He rarely shares words with the manager, Marta. Until he asks her to be his wife - that is, in pretense - to deceive his brother.

July Rhapsody
Category: World Cinema
A moving drama from acclaimed director Ann Hui. It stars Jacky Cheung as Lam, a middle aged high school teacher whose life is disrupted when a student falls in love with him.

CINEMONDO: Rana's Wedding
Category: World Cinema
A romantic drama about a Palestinian girl that wants to marry the man of her own choice, but only has ten hours to find a boyfriend in occupied and chaotic Jerusalem.

Interview with filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO host Peter Scarlet interviews the world renowned Iranian Kurd director Bahman Ghobadi. In this passionate interview, which took place in northern Iraq, Ghobadi talks about his work, memories and love of cinema.

Interview with "Making Of" Director and Star
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO host Peter Scarlet interviews "Making Of" director Nouri Bouzid and star Lofti Abdelli about the film, its portrayal of Islam and its unusual fusion of documentary and fiction styles.

Human Resources
Category: World Cinema
A naive business student takes an internship at his blue-collar father's factory and soon discovers the duplicitous machinations of the executives who run the company.