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CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW TRAILER	JIYAN Written and Directed by OTIS BIRDY Produced by SAROO Produced by PENTAMEDIA SWITZERLAND 60 minutes English Subtitles Inspired by a true story, "Jiyan" (=life) recounts the daily life of Nerol, a young Syrian Kurdish boy (17) who arrived in Switzerland without his parents. He spends his winter in anxiety and insomnia because of his past (unknown to the viewer) and the situation of his mother who remained in the country, then in conflict. Throughout the film, Nerol lives between anger and love, accompanied by his closest friends, Kurdo and Khaled and his educator Renaud.
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW TRAILER IMDB	METAMORPHOSIS IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE Written, Directed and Produced by JAVAD DARAEI Produced by MEHDI KOOHZADEH REPUBLIC OF IRAN 1 hour and 20 minutes EXPERIMENTAL DRAMA English Subtitles Shadi is a little girl that her parents have been accused of murdering a girl in the village, and villagers killed her parents to seek revenge. Her uncle adopts her and now Shadi must face the problems that people of the village caused them.
	THE FOX (LOMAD) Written, Directed and Produced by HEMWANT TIWARI INDIA 1 hour and 34 minutes CRIME THRILLER English Subtitles World's first black and white one shot film LOMAD (THE FOX) is a story about a boy and a girl who had an affair in school and reunite via social media after more than a decade. Things are not the same as they were once. Both are married and almost strangers. They meet to create some magical moments but as they say. IT NEVER HAPPENS THE WAY WE WANT THINGS TO HAPPEN An afternoon, these two in a SINGLE SHOT will meet the strangers within them or shall we say the demons within them on a road, where they get stranded as their car breaks down. Drama unfolds with every frame and with every minute the past dominates them and the present grips them to make life changing decisions that alters the dynamics of the whole film. Will they jeopardize their marriage? Will their romance rekindle? Who is this stranger?
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW TRAILER	THE SECOND AUDITION Written, Directed and Produced by POUYA GOURABI NETHERLANDS 1 hour and 5 minutes ENGLISH SUBTITLES SOCIAL SATIRE An unemployed actor returns to his old theatre company to do an audition with his colleague, for a play that they have performed many times before. Under the direction of the newly named artistic director the actor is asked to try out a mask, which he refuses. After a heated argument the actor leaves the scene. In the dressing room his colleague gives him a telephone number for a private job.....
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW TRAILER	WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS Written and Directed by TAKESHI KUSHIDA Produced by SHIN NISHIMURA Produced by YOUSUKE SATO JAPAN 1 hour and 29 minutes ENGLISH SUBTITLES ROMANCE, HORROR COMEDY A misogynic photographer discovers for the first time in his life the joys of loving a woman, this one confused about her self-identity and self-esteem, by helping her in her perceptions of herself with his photographic retouching skills.