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An overbearing mother who lives with her son in a secluded crocodile farm spirals out of control when her son sees the outside world and falls for a girl for the first time.

After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.

In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears and settles at their house. While Bi gets closer to his grandfather, his father tries to avoid any contact with his family. Every night, he gets drunk and goes and see his masseuse, for whom he feels a quiet strong desire. Bi's mother turns a blind eye on it. The aunt, still single, meets a 16-year-old young boy in the bus. Her attraction to him moves her deeply.

Rânia is a teenager girl who lives on Santa Teresinha hill in the city of Fortaleza. Her busy days are also occupied by the dream of being a dancer. Rânia's best friend, Zizi, introduces her to 'Sereia da Noite', a local joint where fun, dance, money and sex rock the night. When Rânia meets the choreographer Estela, she will be torn between the possibility to make money in the nightclub and the will to become a "real dancer".

Nacho (18) flees the violence of his home in Buenos Aires and seeks refuge with his father, a farmer he barely knows. The stay is interrupted when a cow is found dead, without explanation. In an attempt to gain his father's approval, Nacho tries to solve the death of the cows. But as he investigates, he discovers a thick layer of mistrust and tension between the classes, which leads him to ask himself what it is to be a boss.

It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Vu, a photography student, arrives in the sprawling metropolis of Saigon and moves into a slum neighborhood where he meets a mix of eccentric characters including Thang, a charismatic young man, who convinces Vu to get a vasectomy in order receive money from the government.

A young newlywed couple in Hanoi begin to experiment with their sexual desires.

A couple torn apart by the violent military conflicts in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.

Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.

Cab driver Arturo has to find $2000 within 24 hours; his older son, Ramiro, who left home four years ago, has just phoned from Houston asking for urgent help.

La Nuit de la Vérité is situated in an imaginary West African country. After ten years of civil war between the government army of the Nayak, led by 'Le président', and the Bonande rebels led by Colonel Theo, there is some sign of peace negotiations. But not everyone is in favor of peace and one can feel the tension. The night of truth starts with a festive dinner, but the village idiot Tomoto always seems capable of ruining the attempts for peace with violence and provocation.

This morning is not like any other, the black drops flowing through the tap seem to announce a bad omen.

Santiago de Cali of Colombia, a Chinese waitress sinks into the love abyss with a Colombia gangster, but the lust may leads a storm of violence.

A sensible approach of this misrecognized disease called Noma. This often deadly disease affects about 100,000 children a year in Africa, South America and South Asia. Shot in Niger, this documentary follows some of these children during their treatment, in a hospital of the ONG "Sentinelles" which struggles against Noma's development, with local teams. The children affected by Noma are rejected by the population, even their own parents. Alone with their pain, they show great courage and determination to get better: you never see them cry, they actually smile.