The Guest – by Duccio Chiarini
Dumped by his girlfriend and stranded on different friends’ couches, thirty-eight year-old Guido tries to transform his wacky urban drift into a chance for a new beginning.
The Road to Mandalay – by Midi Z
Lianqing and Guo meet when they illegally crossed into Thailand. Lianqing finds a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant while Guo works in a textile factory in the suburbs. But Guo’s faith in Lianqing is diminishing rapidly; their love is irreversibly doomed. Director
The Ornithologist – by João Pedro Rodrigues
Fernando is a 35-year-old ornithologist. He decides to go down a river in a kayak, hoping to find extremely rare black storks. Distracted by the beauty of the landscape, Fernando is soon thrown overboard by the current, and his motionless, bloody body reaches the riverbank.
Oblivion Verses – Alireza Khatami
Somewhere in South America. Morgue-Man, in his early 70s, has an exceptional ability to recall every single detail of his past three decades, except anyone’s name. About to be retired, he’s in charge of a nearly forgotten remote morgue by the border of a huge cemetery. One day, the militias raid his morgue to hide the corpses of the civilians shot dead during public demonstrations. When the militias leave, the Morgue-Man finds the body of an unknown young girl. He wishes to give her a proper burial before the militias come back. Above the usual bureaucratic obstacles, he seeks the help of his friend, the Gravedigger, and an Old Woman who has been searching for her daughter, missing since the tragic summer of 1988.
To live to sing – Johnny Ma
MARIA is 28, restless, wants to have every man and proud of speaking five languages. She flies to Taipei, lives on small jobs but what she wants more than anything is to finish her novel. Seven books under way, and none of them completed. She meets OLIVIER, a young expat. He is slow-moving, shy and can speak fifteen languages. As he welcomes her, she becomes calmer.
Territory of Love – by Romain Cogitore
MARIA is 28, restless, wants to have every man and proud of speaking five languages. She flies to Taipei, lives on small jobs but what she wants more than anything is to finish her novel. Seven books under way, and none of them completed. She meets OLIVIER, a young expat. He is slow-moving, shy and can speak fifteen languages. As he welcomes her, she becomes calmer.
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