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- DirectorTomomi MochizukiStarsNobuo TobitaToshihiko SekiYoko SakamotoAs a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsMiyu IrinoKana HanazawaFumi HiranoOn a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsNanoka HaraHokuto MatsumuraEri FukatsuA modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsMarcel BalnoasEthan BalnoasFlorence RocheEncounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAhidjo Mahamat MoussaHamza Moctar AguidZara HarounTahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
- DirectorFyzal BoulifaStarsAicha TebbaeAbdellah El HajjoujiAntoine ReinartzFatima-Zahra and her teenage son Selim move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she's caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise the legitimacy they each crave but not without pushing the volatile mother-son relationship to the breaking point.
- DirectorsDaves GuzhaJoe NjaguStarsEmmanuel MbrirmiHenry B.J. PhiriSarah Mpofu-SibandaIt's 2015, following the controversial July 17 legislation by the Zimbabwean government to abruptly cut off thousands of jobs, Simon has been the delivering the dreaded dismissal letters to his colleagues for weeks but when the ax finally yields on the Harare News general manager he takes the bad news very badly. The respected company executive turns into a self-made criminal. His 23 year old son has just been chased from university for non payment of tuition fees and his 25 year old mistress has just announced that she is carrying his baby.Simon turns to the bottle but does this bring his job back? Is this child really his? The story navigates through the demise of a man who had big plans after his retirement now faced with destitution and embarrassment.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsMbissine Thérèse DiopAnne-Marie JelinekMomar Nar SeneA black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsTabata NdiayeAlioune FallMoustapha YadeIn protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
- DirectorDavid 'Tosh' GitongaStarsJoseph WairimuOlwenya MainaShix KapyengaA young, aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming a success in the big city. In pursuit of this and to the chagrin of his brother and parents, he makes his way to Nairobi:the city of opportunity.
- DirectorHawa EssumanStarsSamson OdhiamboLeila Dayan OpouKrysteen SavaneA Kenyan boy goes on a strange journey to return his father's soul.
- DirectorChadi Abdel SalamStarsAhmed MareiAhmad HegaziNadia LutfiAn Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyA somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists, and especially the influence of France's culture and its contrast with the indigenous culture of Senegal pre-colonization but still present in Dakar.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsAndongo DiabonRobert FontaineMichel RenaudeauAs World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
- DirectorMohamed ZinetStarsNoureddine DreisSuzie NacerRedouaneA mixture of archive images and fictional scenes, the film is a tribute to the city of Algiers, which is at the origin of the project. Random walks and meetings, Simon and his wife, a couple of French tourists, discover Algiers. Simon recognizes an Algerian in a bistro whom he was once tortured. The man stares at him. Panicked, Simon flees. "Tahia Ya Didou is the only film by actor Mohamed Zinet. Born from an order from the city of Algiers, which expected it to be a tourist documentary, it was not to the taste of the authorities and there is no not cut, no theatrical release.Despite everything, it has become a cult film, Tahia Ya Didou is much more than a promotional documentary.A tribute to the city of Algiers, to its inhabitants, it has an unclassifiable tone, cohabitation of comic burlesque and tragic reminiscences of the country's painful past."
- DirectorJamie UysStarPaddy O'ByrneHilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.
- DirectorMostafa DerkaouiStarsNour AbdellatifSalah Eddine BenmoussaMohamed DerhamIn search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsCora Lee DayAlva RogersBarbara OA languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsRyûnosuke KamikiMone KamishiraishiRyo NaritaTwo teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsRobert De NiroRobin WilliamsJulie KavnerDr. Sayer is a pioneering neurologist who wants to take a risk and give his patients who suffer from encephalitis a drug used for Parkinson's Disease. He tries it out on one man who miraculously wakes from his perpetual catatonic state.
- DirectorsPippa EhrlichJames ReedStarsCraig FosterTom FosterA filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAchouackh Abakar SouleymaneRihane Khalil AlioYoussouf DjaoroAmina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.