The Promise

In a crowded train, young spaniards say goodbye while singing their native country. A Dutch minister, who has come to Morocco to recruit workers whom his "companies" demand, systematically eliminates graduates. Somewhere in Belgium, a laughing Turkish boy helps his flemish friend doing his home works. In Rotterdam, two young men with long hair set on fire home for foreign workers, after braking all of its windows. In Bradford, in front of burned cars and broken showcases, an Asian marchant deplores a "return of ten years". In Amsterdam, thousands of people pay tribute to the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, who has just been murdered.

Sarah and her parents celebrate her confirmation. But instead of eating the lobster on her plate, Sarah hides it under the table. When her father finds the lobster there, he draws the consequences.

Directed by Zbigniew Gniazdowski and Aleksander Hertz.

Upon moving to Los Angeles, Matt makes a pact with himself: In seven years he'll be a working actor. His promise is that if he isn't working by then, he'll pack up and return home. The film begins seven days shy of the seven year deadline... and he's just as anonymous as the day he started. This is his goodbye story.

Adam stands between two choices, should he choose his gang or family?

During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of ​​Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.

The film revolve around the affection of Hieu and Mai Ngoc, their concerns, gender "boundaries" between instinct and reason, between curiosity about the age of adolescence and early vibrations. What difficulties, "temptations" will be for both, how to keep a beautiful spring love and sweet memories?

Barely fifteen years old, Miranda has become pregnant during her first sexual intercourse. After talking to Luisa, they will share an afternoon of complicity and empathy that will end with the promise to keep a secret.

Abdias and Sara are a married couple who have lost their 7-year-old daughter, named Ana. Sara convinces her husband to take Ana’s dead body in their car trunk and enter on a journey hoping to find a clergyman who could miraculously resucitate their daughter.

In a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...

Jane Corbin explores the legacy of the Balfour Declaration on a journey that starts in her home village. She explores the role her ancestor, British politician Leo Amery, played in the drafting of the declaration, issued by the government in 1917.

A young girl leaves the comfort of her home town to work for an NGO at a hospital in Libya. Adaptation of the novel by Laura Garzón.

Yousef Srouji’s childhood in Palestine wasn’t something that he and his parents spoke of as a family, so when he found a box of his mother’s home videos from the early 2000s, an especially perilous and tumultuous period in the West Bank, the tapes became a means for remembering and comprehending a painful past. The stories she captured illuminate the nature of life in a war zone, and familial bonds that cannot be broken. – Bedatri Choudhury (DocNYC)

In the early 1920s, soon after the Latvian republic was established, about 2000 Baptists immigrated to Brazil to await the end of the world. It did not come, and Latvians created an island of Christianity in the middle of a rainforest. The Latvian language is still spoken in the Vārpa settlement, but the younger generations have left the area.

Filmmaker Laurent Hasse travels through France and reflects on happiness and the meaning of life.

Pregnant Lady Nak dies giving birth in 1868, returns as a ghost and has her restless spirit trapped in a pot by a clergyman (with help from her husband). Cut to present day and things may end up repeating themselves with reincarnated characters. Leading lady Trirak Rakkarndee had already starred in a Mae Nak TV series in 1989 prior to appearing in this film version (one of dozens about this same ghost).

Freshman Yuan Juntang applied to Minsong University in order to get closer to Zhu Zhu, whom he has had a crush on. At the university, he meets Li Shiya who used to be his idol, and takes a temporary absence from school.