Directed by Majid Majidi

Starring: Ali Nassirian, Javad Ezati, Tannaz Tabatabaei

Country: Iran

Year: 2020

Directed: Roderick MacKay

Starring: David Wenham, Jay Ryan, Mahesh Jadu, Erik Thomson

Country: Australia

Year: 2020

Directed by Ahmad Bahrami

Starring: Touraj Alvand, Ali Bagheri, Majid Farhang, Mahdie Nassaj

Country: Iran

Year: 2020

Directed: Ivan Ayr

Starring: Lakshvir Saran, Suvinder Vicky

Country: India

Year: 2020

Directed by Giovanni Aloi

Starring: Anthony Bajon, Leïla Bekhti, Jonas Dinal, Karim Leklou

Country: France

Year: 2020

INTRODUCING : ANTHONY CAPRISTO

Author Karina Kurani

Bright, vibrant and dynamic - three words that describe the films made by Anthony Capristo. With his versatile portfolio, Capristo always makes a lasting impression on his audience. Anthony has done several commercial ads for well known brands, such as Nike and Adidas.

Directed: Sebastián Muñoz

Starring: Juan Carlos Maldonado, Alfredo Castro, Gastón Pauls

Country: Chile, Argentina, Belgium

Year: 2019

Directed: Hoon-jung Park

Starring: Seung-Won Cha, Tae-goo Eom, Yeo-bin Jeon

Country: South Korea

Year: 2020

Directed: Roman Polanski

Starrings: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner

Country: France, Italy

Year: 2019

Indian music has an ancient tradition. It is a precious gift, transmitted orally from teachers to devote disciples. The followers are deferential, respectful of their tutors and the music. They consecrate their lives to both, despite the troubles and the misery of earnings. The story of a young lover of classical music is narrated by Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane in the film The Disciple, presented at the 77th Venice Film Festival, winner of the Golden Lion for best screenplay. One of the executive producers is Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón. The film is not easy, it requires attention and, above all, an open mind.

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.

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.

Even in the strongest economies in the world there are neighborhoods crowded with marginalized, unemployed, vagabonds, prostitutes. The Kamagasaki slum in Osaka is the most famous in Japan. The director Leo Sato in the film Tsukiyo no kamagassen - The Kamagasaki Cauldron War narrates us, without victimism, the bizarre but human characters of the slut.

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.