Maryam is a 20-year-old Iranian girl who is forced to lie about her relationship not to have to deal with the rigid rules of her family of origin. She has to pay a high price for her freedom, the price of lies and obstacles, which make her path dangerous.

Ebrahimi’s story tells of the difficult generational gap between parents and children and, in particular, of the problematic life of women in a country such as Iran…and not only there.

Times (modern ones) are tough for fishermen in Cornwall since many were forced to sell their boats to rich capitalists. Fisherman Martin does not have a boat anymore, while his brother Steven has transformed his into a cruise boat, which is a source of tension between the two.

What is striking about the film, even before learning about the plot and story, is how it is shot: it is entirely in black and white, filmed with a hand- cranked 16-mm Bolex camera from the Seventies, perfectly in line with Eisenstein’s style.

The theme of the water and the acting pushed to the extreme of comedy hint at the L’Atalante by Vigo with Michel Simon playing the character of the grumpy fisherman.

Elli is an android built by a man, whom she identifies as her father, by reproducing the features of his daughter who had died some time earlier. He shares his memories with her and each day is identical to the other, when one night, Elli starts walking in the woods to chase a distant echo. In her second film as screenwriter and director, Sandra Wollner tells the story of a machine and the ghosts each of us carries inside.

Jin, an illegal immigrant in Paris,
makes his living by driving a night taxi without legal permit. He is a passionate DJ of electronic music and during one of his shifts he meets Naomi, a stripper. While planning together their escape, they start an affair with some danger.
In his debut film, Ferrucci uses a dark approach to present a face of the French capital different from the one shown in postcards by transporting the viewers to a dilapidated environment illuminated by neon lights.
Non-professional actors move in the circles of the local mafia, which has started a modern slavery based on the exploitation of illegal immigrants.

Shadi lives in the same village
village where she lost
both her parents. They were accused of having killed Hasti, their daughter’s play-mate, so they were killed to revenge her death. The little Shadi was then adopted by her uncle but she had to face the marginalization the inhabitants of the village forced her to experience starting from school. Metamorphosis in Slaughterhouse describes the
cruelty of taking justice into one’s own hands and the social and psychological consequences it has on the individual. He does that through the clear, green eyes of someone, though innocent, who pays the highest price.

Lola is a transsexual girl
who has just turned eighteen. She has moved away from her family
since two years and is now living in Brussels where she shares
a flat with her friend Antoine. She has decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery but her mother’s death forces her to come into contact again with her father. The two set off for a car trip to fulfil the deceased woman’s last wishes and they soon are cast into a conflict.
‘Lola’ is a road movie that explores
the dimension of time through the claustrophobic dimension of space. It looks into the deep chasm and ups and downs leading the protagonist to rise again from her own ashes.

Anita, a teenager, plays the drums to cover the noise of the world outside her room. After her mother died of leukemia, she lived with her father Jacopo who became ill with the same pathology. The urgent need for a transplant and the fear of losing also her other parent drove the sixteen-year-old girl to contact
her uncle Gaetano, the only potential donor of bone marrow.
Jacopo and Gaetano have not spoken to each other for years and only Anita will be able to convince him to do the necessary tests.
Set in Sardinia, the drama directed by Piredda unveils a polluted and patriarchal land.
The lamb of the title, who is orphan of the mother and does not have many chances of surviving long, is probably
the transposition of the main character, who, on the contrary, is going to fight with all her strength so that life can triumph over death.

In 1941, a Lithuanian man kills
Isaac, his Jewish neighbor, during the infamous Lietukis garage massacre,
one of the first acts of the Holocaust carried out not by Germans but by Lithuanians. Twenty-five years later, in Soviet Lithuania, the director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the United States with a new script for a film describing in detail the massacre of the Lietukis garage and in particular the killing of the Jewish man Isaac. The script later came to the attention of the KGB, which started investigating.
Based on the novel by Antanas Škėma, the film of the emerging director Jurgis Matulevičius explores the post-war sense of guilt, war traumas and experiences of the exile in an engaging film rich of surprises.

For years, the black Christ of Siculiana,
a town near Agrigento in Sicily, has been carried in a procession by local aristocrats chosen on
a hereditary base. This time it is the nineteen-year-old Edward from Ghana who
of the porters. This offer shakes up the community and fuels a heated debate which upsets the identity of one of the most deeply felt and ritualised religious celebrations
in the whole Mediterranean area.
A Black Jesus is a group work of a Sicilian author who has been working in Germany for years and manages to look at his land with an open mind, without a local approach. He therefore takes on a disruptive standpoint aimed
at challenging the very idea of border.