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The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.

A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

A 15-year-old ticket scalper in Kabul dreams of Bollywood until the Soviets force him into a state facility.

An adolescent who leaves rural Cambodia to become a construction worker only to be reunited with his missing older brother.

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha'i faith) that they don't know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith's birth - Iran.

Sunday Beauty Queen is a real-life Cinderella tale of a Filipina house helper who dreams of being a Beauty Queen in Hong Kong.

In remote Bhutan, an undercover detective investigates the case of a missing Buddhist nun and falls into a risky alliance with his only suspect - an alluring young woman known as the village "demoness".

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts. Described as a love poem to Japanese films of the past, as well as a protest at the present, Cut is an exploration of one man's obsessive relationship with cinema.

Two women in a remote Muslim community confront an escalating blood feud and reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the feud stretching back generations.

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.

Documentary focuses on 'Sona', the daughter of the director's brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea. Sona's upbringing is quite normal, but the special aspects within North Korean society make their presence known in a subtle way. By showing the process of the migratory people establishing their identities within North Korean society, North Korea becomes a region that shows a universal view of human society in general and not just a closed society. This approach is a special feature of Yang. She adds normalcy through her depiction of a family to 'North Korea'; a name that we have come to regard as something quite special.

After a devastating Tsunami, a school-teacher struggles with the loss of his family and students.

A 20-year-old drifter, living with his grandparents, gets the chance to appear in a student film. He forms a relationship with the college students, especially director Yun-ju who help him with his personal growth.

"You once told me that death will be important if we've been in love ..." From a short story, "Nakorn-Sawan" was cultivated to a length film that captures the memory, death, and love of Aey, 27 year old woman traveling to return home from Germany to face the departure of her mother, the memory between Aey and her father, and youth's melancholy with old friends at "Pak Nam Pho", a place that people believe for the main route to take the Mars Ashes to A flowing stream Heaven, connecting the film world of Aey and the documentary world of the director who recorded the story of the mother before the day of separation. Nakorn-Sawan may be the place where there lingers the faces of memories, or just a vision of dreams we all only imagine.