Philippe Avril

Jimmy, a 40-year-old former popstar turned engineer, is sent to the region of his childhood to supervise the renovation of an old hotel. Once settled, Jimmy finds out the once flamboyant hotel has become a ruin, a maze of narrow corridors and a relic of a bygone era, which still bears the scars of the American occupation. In the heart of this mysterious place, Jimmy will wander between dream and fantasy and retrace his family’s history.

Summer, 1918. Two young women, Luise and Elsa live alone on a secluded farm in Alsace. As young German deserter Hermann comes along, a new relationship forms between the three, filled with love, competition and hate.

En la frontera entre realidad y ficción, 'Touch Me Not' sigue los viajes emocionales de Laura, Tómas y Christian. Ansiosos por intimar pero al mismo tiempo con miedo a hacerlo, intentarán superar sus mecanismos de defensa y sus tabúes para llegar a ser libres.

Nobi (Wanlop Rungkumjad), un pescador que vive cerca de la costa de Tailandia, colecciona piedra del bosque para cazar rayas gigantes. Además de las raíces y ramas que yacen en el bosque, también se pueden encontrar cuerpos enterrados. El "mudo" (Aphisit Hama) es uno de esos cuerpos, excepto que cuando no le encuentra, éste está vivo, cubierto en mugre y herido. Nobi lo lleva a casa, le cuida y le da el nombre de Thongchai.

Five Venezuelan women, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of their collapsing country that faces possibly its worst social, economic, power and political crisis in its 200-year-history.

La Patagonia, sur de Argentina. Después de la muerte de su madre, Nahuel, un adolescente violento, se reencuentra con su padre biológico, Ernesto, un experimentado guía de caza; pero su reunión resulta áspera, ya que en sus almas imperan solo el orgullo y el resentimiento.

A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.

Dino Fabrizzi, de 42 años, vive en Niza y es un exitoso vendedor de coches. Cuando en su empresa le ofrecen un ascenso, su novia Hélène le propone que se casen. Dino tendrá entonces que enfrentarse a un espinoso problema: nadie sabe que es musulmán y que su nombre real es Mourad Ben Saoud; podría seguir ocultándolo, pero le ha prometido a su padre celebrar el Ramadán ese año.

El intelectual etíope Anberber regresa a su país natal durante el represivo régimen totalitario de Haile Mariam Mengistu y el reconocimiento de su propio desplazamiento e impotencia ante la disolución de la humanidad y los valores sociales de su pueblo. Después de varios años de estudiar medicina en Alemania, descubre que el país de su juventud ha sido reemplazado por la confusión. Su sueño de utilizar su oficio para mejorar la salud de los etíopes es aplastado por una junta militar que utiliza científicos para sus propios fines políticos. Al buscar la comodidad de su casa rural, Anberber no encuentra refugio de la violencia. El consuelo que brindan los recuerdos de su juventud es rápidamente reemplazado por las fuerzas rivales de las facciones militares y rebeldes. Anberber debe decidir si quiere soportar la tensión o reconstruir una vida a partir de los fragmentos que se encuentran a su alrededor.

The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by nice neighbours. But Paula's view of normality has been sharpened by her extensive and consistent diet of horror movies.

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother's suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship with patient potter Daiji, but leaves him behind when she quits her job and returns to her home town after a 10 year absence.

The first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when people were deprived of their roots and forced to sit and watch their lives slip from their fingers. In a decrepit house that once belonged to a bourgeois family, several families seek shelter. Senis, a 65-year-old alcoholic, lives on the ground floor with his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. Senis is a survivor of the Nazis as well as the communist camps. He drowns the pain of his memories in a nearby pub and in talking to a depressed young laborer, Lorenca. Later on, a young couple and a lonely eccentric who enjoys only his cat's company join the inhabitants. Children wile away the time with useless games or spying on adults. When Lorenca hangs himself at the ruins of a nearby factory, the lives are shaken up. During the dinner held for the deceased, they find a moment of common hope.

La hija aún no nacida de Mamlakat está contando su historia. Mamlakat tiene diecisiete años, es bonita y vivaz, y sueña en secreto con ser actriz. Vive con su padre y su hermano en un pequeño pueblo de la Asia central donde una noche es seducida por un actor de una compañía errante, quien se hace pasar por amigo de Tom Cruise, y la deja embarazada. Mamlakat intenta abortar, pero su padre y su hermano deciden encontrar al seductor, iniciando una cascada de cómicas aventuras.

In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. The conflict became a religious war that resulted in a rebel Confucian army massacring hundreds of Christians in little more than a matter of days. The Uprising details the events leading up to the assault, focusing on the story of Yi Jae-su, the young man destined to become the leader of the rebel army.