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After saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.

After killing a cop in a Delhi brothel, Renuka takes refuge in a northern India community of sex workers. There, she begins a forbidden romance with the 17-year-old Devika. Against all odds, they try to forge their path to freedom.

Wang Bing's sequel documentary chronicles the struggles of migrant workers at clothing workshops, capturing their daily struggles to survive on low wages and exploring the possibility of collective empowerment as China's economy booms.

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.

2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.

Zhili is one of the centers of the textile industry and people around rural areas flock there for work. They toil away tirelessly, live in squalid conditions, face prejudice from their families, and have to fight for better pay.

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.

Wang Bing's Youth documentary trilogy concludes with migrant factory workers celebrating the New Year with their families. Their cyclical struggle captured over 5 years becomes a poignant portrait of surviving in contemporary rural China.

In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, in the Philippines, a young man is searching for a missing significant other as other storm approaches.

Maria is 30, she is impatient, rebellious, and expert in Dutch. Olivier is the same age, he is slow, shy and speaks fourteen languages. They meet in Taiwan. And then suddenly, the new lightning. It's their story. That of the incredible strength of a love. And that of its confines, where everything begins to let go. Except Maria.

Tsai Ming-liang returns with this latest entry in his Walker series, in which his monk acquires an unexpected acolyte in the form of Denis Lavant as he makes his way through the streets of a sun-dappled Marseille.

Two Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed with the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.

When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.

"Humans always doubt," says a father to his daughter. "Just imagine if suddenly everything (were) clear. What would you do?" What indeed? Such questions serve as a substitute for drama in Sharunas Bartas' "Peace to Us in Our Dreams," an old-school broodfest in which a man, his daughter and his violinist companion openly ponder Big Themes during a country getaway.

A bitter-sweet late coming of age about the problems of modern-day love.

In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing refuses to go gentle into this good night.

Furiously developing Eastern China has been inhabited by enlarging number of immigrants. In search for better tomorrow, they become violent and corrupted.

A series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. We experience Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc'O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith. It's like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.

A woman is wandering the upstairs shopping center above a bus terminus aimlessly, as she cannot pay for the bus ticket to travel to Muar, even though she is generously offered a ticket at a discounted price that she has enough money for.

A Sichuan Opera troupe are faced with the demolition of their theater and dissolution.

The lives of three people entwine in Beijing's Underground City.

Director Zhang Tao's grim depiction of an old woman's final days in the care of her cynical offspring.