1. Lu-To (Lu-To)
Luisa and Tomas try to save their relationship by avoiding their differences and clinging to the love they have for each other. Everything starts disintegrating when they realize that love is not enough.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
2. Repeat Performance
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
3. Blackboards (تخته سياه)
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
It has an average vote of 6.641 on TMDB.
4. Wild Chicks in Love (Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe)
Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
5. Strandgut (Strandgut)
The oppressing life of a father and his son with a tragic ending and what can happen if a dream suddenly comes true.
6. CAI - BER (CAI - BER)
In a post-revolution Cairo, after numerous failed attempts to escape the status quo of her generation’s depression, Nour, 29, secretly arranges to flee her homeland. Hours before her departure, she embarks on a journey of struggle with a patriarchal society and a fight within to keep her hidden secret.
7. Beans
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
8. Fated
When the charismatic and eccentric art teacher Tatty falls in love with Amy, one of his students, he believes he has met the love of his life. Unfortunately Amy dies in an accident. Distraught and blaming himself, Tatty loses all focus on his own life and drinks heavily. In a state of delirium he creates a statue of Amy that he places in the dark interior of a haunted, burnt-out church. Tatty lives there, protecting his creation, and devoted to her for the next 13 years. On New Year s Eve, a magical night with the sky lit with fireworks, a clubhouse burns. Cal is on the run and takes refuge in the church and accidentally breaks the statue. The magic of the night and the mystery of the church combine to cast a spell and Amy comes alive. However, in order to remain alive, Amy must kiss the first man she sees.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
9. Sailfish (旗鱼)
Set against the social turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution, 12 years old Yue Haiyang is forced to leave the swimming team despite his dreams to become the greatest swimmer of his generation. In a quest to fulfill his dream, friendship and loyalty are tested as three friends wade through the waters of personal struggle and social unrest.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. The Story of the Demon Cult Leader and the Decent Miss (教主和小师妹的故事)
Ye Xiao Qi, a young disciple, follows her brother secretly as he goes to a martial conference. On the way there, she meets a mysterious woman, Xiao Rhu Feng, who is very skilled at martial arts. She decides to follow her to get her to become her master.
11. Jouet
Jouet tells a dark, sexy and disturbing tale of synthetic emotion. Can robots feel real love?
12. Mori
A man on the brink of death, has a conversation with a stranger. The pair philosophize about the meaning of a life well lived.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
13. The Wonders (Le meraviglie)
Gelsomina’s family works according to some special rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, is head of the family and her three younger sisters must obey her: sleep when she tells them to and work under her watchful eye. But the world, the outside, mustn’t know anything about their rules, and must be kept away from them. They must learn to disguise themselves.
It has an average vote of 6.874 on TMDB.
14. Radit and Jani (Radit & Jani)
Radit and Jani is a happy couple with a very rock-and-roll way of living. Drugs, tattoos, lots of cigarettes, noise musics. Once upon a time, they got no money, and Radit and Jani have to work to get money.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
15. Still the Water (2つ目の窓)
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.
It has an average vote of 6.887 on TMDB.
16. The Limb Salesman
Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
17. Feral
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
18. Flora (Flora)
A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. Surviving with Wolves (Survivre avec les loups)
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...
It has an average vote of 6.174 on TMDB.
20. The Savages
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
It has an average vote of 6.83 on TMDB.
