The world is upset, culture and civilization have disappeared, total destruction is caused by the lack of water. A group of people barricaded themselves in a large abandoned and ruined factory, but with a tank of decontaminated drinking water. They are barricaded, they are armed, they do not go out and they forbid everyone to enter. Yet, one day they make a mistake, they let strangers in.

It is The Worthy, a film by the young UAE director Ali F. Mostafa, presented at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival.

Ali F. Mostafa makes a dizzying, intelligent film, helped by the actors: Mahmoud Al Atrash and Ali Suliman.

The life of a couple of Burmese illegal immigrant boys in Bangkok. Prostitution, drugs, backbreaking work, disturbing loneliness.

These are the themes of the film, The Road to Mandalay by director Midi Z, born in Myanmar and moved to Taiwan as a teenager. The film was presented at the 73 Venice Film Festival.

On 21 December 2012, according to the alleged Mayan calendar, should have been the date of the end of the world. The catastrophic prediction, spread by internet, frightened the most delicate minds. The film Videophilia (And Other Viral Syndromes) - Videofilia (y otros síndromes virales), by director Juan Daniel F. Molero, narrates an episode in Peru related to the prediction. The story has an electrified evolution between the tragic and the amused. The author depicts it with dirty shots, grainy images, extreme editing between video games and porn chat, with emoticons peeking out on the screen.

In 1947, the British abandoned India. Coexistence between Hindus and Muslims was impossible. The consequence was a political and geographical split, with thousands of deaths and the transhumance of millions of people: Muslims fled to Pakistan and Hindus to India.

The peculiarity of Pakistan was the division between two territories more than two thousand kilometres apart: Pakistan and East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

Despite having the same inhabitants, East Pakistan was ruled as a province, with limited power.

The film A Day in the Life of Anil Bagchi - Anil Bagchir Ekdin by director Morshedul Islam, screening at the 13th World Film Festival of Bangkok takes place during the Bangladesh war.

The cha-cha-cha dance has a Cuban origin. Like all dances born on the Caribbean island, cha-cha-cha has a fast pace. There is the same passion for cha-cha-cha in the Philippine islands, where it is even the title of a film - Anita's Last Cha Cha - Ang huling cha-cha ni Anita - by Filipino director Sigrid Andrea Bernardo. In a small village in the Obando area, near Manila, there are still intense social relationships. The kids live quietly, play in the countryside or wander around the still unpaved streets. Among them is twelve-year-old Anita. A beautiful, lively, intelligent, sensitive girl. The film is his story of the film.