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We follow the journey of former soldier Nassif, who fled the war in Iraq by hiding in dark cinemas. During this time, he used to watch his favorite film, “Papillon” (1973), starring Steve McQueen. Nowadays, he is looking for this film among the Iraqi cinemas’ ruins. The search for this lost film copy in the old and obsolete cinemas becomes the sole purpose of Nassif and his primary motivation to leave his house. “Take me to the Cinema” allows us to discover Baghdad through Nassif’s eyes as he takes us to streets that contrast with his silent and quiet world. A lot has changed in today’s Iraq. The street where cinema theaters were is now a market that sells military uniforms. It is crowded with young men, fitting military shirts and shoes. The quest for “Papillon” becomes the quest of character, who does not want to acknowledge the transformations of his city, and who wants to cling on to its luminous past through the light of cinema and his inner world.

Shot in the historic city of Nara, this film depicts the growth and conflicts of a talented 14-year-old female sprinter with a complex family background.

This short film portrays a group of gay teens in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their worldviews. The testimonies of 10 young people between 16 and 18 call attention to important issues and other issues that are just fun. Through the statements of this group, the documentary gives voice to the new generation and finds out what they think about identity, sexuality and prejudice.

A independent Hong Kong film about gender issue.

A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father, who left 6 years before and has not been heard of since. The fact that his mother still receives money his father does nothing to tame his anger. He his not looking for a warm reunion, it is unconcealed revenge that drives him. Totally lost, he roams the big city with his basket of ducks on his back...

Ten groups of kids from various parts of Finland, aged between 12 and 15, improvise an episode each based on one of the Bible's Ten Commandments.

A series of scenes shot in different countries around the world, which explore the relationship between people and smoking, under various situations and emotions, which rise up certain questions about the reasons that motivates them to smoke in these moments of their lives.

The emotional conflict of Africans in Paris.

A portrait of a contemporary, artist and drug user.

This Spanish lost film showed various episodes where several Spanish try to achieve their dream about going to Hollywood.

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, due largely to the shame attached to rape in German culture at that time.

Cecilia and Juan are at the boardwalk; she has just arrived from Aeroparque and tells him she has just lost her pregnancy, and that all she wants to do at that precise moment is get high. Juan doesn’t know very well how to react.

Jia-ling got notified of her father’s passing due to the COVID, and she returns to Taipei from abroad to take care of the funeral matters. Chen Hsiung is an old man living alone with mild dementia, who mistakes Jia-ling as his married daughter. In the congregate housing shrouded by the pandemic, they found the long lost feeling of accompanying, even just for some brief moment.

Shao and Huang have cooperated for many years and invested a lot of human and financial resources in the research and development of a new product. Shao Guohui learned that China is promoting the “Belt and Road” and decided to return to China for development. Huang Shuaihuan was not clear about Shao Guohui's intention to return to China, thinking that he was absconding with confidential information, so he tried his best to sneak into Shao's house. Huang Shuai received warm hospitality from the Shao family, deepening Huang Shuai's suspicion of Shao Guohui, so he planned to take the documents away. In the process of implementing the plan, it caused an outrageous ending.

Abdul Rauf is a novelist. On his journey to find inspiration in the war-torn Vietnam, Rauf loses a friend in a battle. He feels the destruction of human dignity in war. In addition, Rauf fails to win the love of Bulan, the girl of his dream as her mother considers that he has no future. When he goes to Singapore, he meets Kartika, the guitar player and daughter of Dr. Ibrahim Mahmud M.A., an Indonesian dictionary researcher. Kartika happens to be a friend of Rauf’s cousin, Ria, and they have just returned from Tokyo and stopped in Singapore to visit Ria’s parent who is a diplomat. Kartika, who is spoiled by her father, is attracted to Rauf and they fall in love. Kartika’s father does not like Rauf as the latter once dubbed him as a lice-seeking grandpa. Dr. Mahmud then becomes sympathetic after he reads Rauf’s latest novel given to him by Kartika.

Film adaptation of Georges Feydeau's 1908 stage farce.

Three students wander through the UNAM University City at the dawn of the October 2 massacre and in the midst of the 1968 student movement

A young woman stands on the Rialto Bridge in Venice; in a cool box is her dead goldfish. Initially she had planned to let it be carried out to sea. But then an emotion that is even stronger causes her misgivings, and so she packs the fish up again. In the surreal setting of an empty city, she sets out in search of lost meaning.

Ever since she was a little girl, Anna has dreamed of one day becoming a famous actress. But when Bob arrives in Hungary in the summer of 1988, she is suddenly confronted with the sacrifices she must make for the American dream.