Directed by Mattie Do

Starrings: Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany

Country: Laos

Year: 2019

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Starring: Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep

Country: USA

Year: 2019

Directed: Roman Polanski

Starrings: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner

Country: France, Italy

Year: 2019

The Four Harmonious Brothers are a tale of Buddhist mythology. In front of a tree, there were four animals: elephant, monkey, pheasant and hare. They were discussing who was the oldest. The results were accepted by all and they became friends. They learned to support each other: the elephant carried the monkey, on whose shoulders stood the hare and on it the pheasant. They are the four harmonious brothers. They were an inspiration for the inhabitants of the forest. Their brotherhood, mutual help, without hierarchy or individuality was a model. What happens to Four Harmonious Brothers when colonizing laws come from afar and the party bureaucrats infiltrate to change Tibet's spiritual traditions?

This is narrated in the film Qi qiu - Balloon by the Tibetan director Pema Tseden presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival.

Five Cubans are arrested in Miami. For years, they had infiltrated to spy the anti-Castro associations in Florida. They operated for years and they cheated all the illustrious American police and intelligence agencies. This episode is known as the trial of the Five Cubans. This event of contemporary history, together with the background of the nineties, is told in the film Wasp Network by French director Olivier Assayas, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival.

Thirty thousand Iraqi soldiers are fleeing Mosul. Daesh has conquered Mosul, the city is totally in their hands. Yet a small but deadly and annoying resistance still exists in the city. It is a squadron of swats, all Iraqis. Deadly, heroic, brave, strong fighters, ruthless and bad. ISIS fears them, the order to kill them immediately without offering them the opportunity of the Towba, the conversion. These heroic human characters have attracted the curiosity of an American director Matthew Michael Carnahan. It made an American production action film with local actors and starred in Arabic. It is Mosul presented at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

Adrian is young, bizarre but for some obscure reason the boy is impotence. Impotence is widespread neurosis even among healthy and vigorous man.

Adrian is clumsy, funny, lazy, ignorant, listless, immature, incompetent in love affairs, and above all he faces existence with a shadow in his mind, showing him extravagant and wacky. In his life, levity does not exist.

This is followed by an openly Freudian thought by the French director Antoine de Bary in the film Mes jours de gloire - My Days of Glory presented at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

A gunfire with terrorists hits ten-year-old Aziz. The parents, a wealthy Tunisian family, are shocked. The son needs a liver transplant. The waiting list is long and time is short, where to find a compatible liver? The father might offer himself, but the compatibility test gives an unexpected result: Fares is not the father. The couple already destroyed by pain now has to face a profound relationship crisis.

The Tunisian reality - political and social - which are added dramatic personal issues such as adultery in an Islamic society, are married by the Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui in the film Bik Eneich - Un Fils - A son presented at the 76 Venice Film Festival.

An engaged couples have a happy holiday on the streets of Kerala but the serenity turns into inhuman violence. Unfortunately, both of them will be crushed by the disgusting sexual libido of the boss.

Reason, rationality, disappear in the journey. A theme important for the young Indian directors Sanal Kumar Sasidharan in the film Chola - Shadow of Water presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival.

Iran is one of the countries in the world with the greatest prevalence of drug addicts. The hunt for drug dealers has become a real war, those arrested are sentenced to be hanged. The adrenaline-pumping battle between police and drug traffickers is narrate in a genre film by the Iranian director Saeed Roustayi in the film Metri Shesh Va Nim - Just 6.5 presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival.

Why does a young Tunisian girl, after living ten years in Paris, move to Tunis to psychotherapy practice? The director Manele Labidi Labbé narrates it in the brilliant comedy Arab Blues - Un Divan à Tunis presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival. The girl is Selma. Selma is determined, intellectual, courageous, extravagant, proud, free. She is not afraid, she does not feel the anguish of fighting a new competition.

In the 1930s, Shanghai still had parts of the city under foreign domination through concessions. England, the United States, France and others like Italy had the settlements. The city was a hotbed of languages and nationalities. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, this promiscuity turned into a dangerous mix. Shanghai became the battlefield for the secret services of the world. It is the mysterious, fascinating background, ideal for conceiving an espionage story with a theatrical structure. The film is Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan - Saturday Fiction by director Ye Lou, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival. It is a story of spies, in a Shanghai of the past, with a bewitching woman.

In the eighties, South Africa entered in war in Angola. The war is the background of the film Moffie directed by Oliver Hermanus, screened at the 76th Venice Film Festival. The protagonist is Nicholas, a young South African enlisted for the war. In the training camp, the erotic and sensual impulses among the strong, energetic young recruits are manifested in scenes full of virility, naked, lustful. They are in camouflage under the scorching sun. Lined with virility, naked, lustful, diaphanous in the showers. Sensuality is deliberately sought, using direct images in training, or in combat.

Bureaucracy is a clandestine power that subdues everyone, including governments, parliaments, dictators, kings, presidents. Preferred victims are ordinary, simple people. In front of the modules flattened like bureaucratic rifles, they are annihilated. La muerte de un burócrata by director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea tells of a heroic and terrible battle against the notorious bureaucracy.

In 1967 Hong Kong had many violent riots by youth riots. The boys demonstrated with the Red Book by Mao Tse-tung. The rallies were made up of dreamers, utopians and imaginative. Everything ended one day. Now those young people are mature men, many have become important, famous as the director Yonfan. His oneiric nostalgia is the beautiful No.7 Cherry Lane, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Osella Best Screenplay.

Father is the one who protects and nourishes. A difficult and complex task. Many men have weaknesses or are totally unreliable in fatherhood. The film Rialto by director Peter Mackie Burns, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival, shows two fathers, different, in crisis, one young and one mature. Both have families and have become unable to fulfill their role: to protect and nourish.