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NNarrative Competition

Director: Jia Zhangke
China,  Japan | Cantonese, Mandarin
2013 | 129min.

NNarrative Competition

A Touch of Sin
( Tian zhu ding )
Middle East Premiere

Four regions of China, four working-class protagonists and four examples of class conflict. But this is also a martial arts film that echoes the masterpiece “A Touch of Zen' by King Hu, as if the spirit of the heroes of the past were still alive.Director: Jia Zhangke
China,  Japan | Cantonese, Mandarin
2013 | 129min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Danis Tanović
Bosnia and Herzegovina,  France,  Slovenia,  Italy | Bosnian
2013 | 74min.

NNarrative Competition

An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
( Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza )
UAE Premiere

Oscar winner Danis Tanović persuaded the real-life couple the story is based on to reenact their near-death ordeal In this raw, intimate docudrama about an impoverished Roma couple and the ordeals they face in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Director: Danis Tanović
Bosnia and Herzegovina,  France,  Slovenia,  Italy | Bosnian
2013 | 74min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Jun Robles Lana
Philippines | Tagalog
2013 | 120min.

NNarrative Competition

Barber's Tales
( Mga kuwentong barbero )
Middle East Premiere

After the death of her husband, Marilou (Eugene Domingo) takes over his barbershop. But her conservative Marcos-era village is not ready for its first female barber. However, events take an unexpected turn when she wins over the other women.Director: Jun Robles Lana
Philippines | Tagalog
2013 | 120min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Canada,  Spain |
2013 | 90min.

NNarrative Competition

Enemy
Middle East Premiere

Brilliantly adapting the late Nobelist author José Saramago’s haunting, surreal novel, Oscar-nominated Denis Villenueve (Incendies), one of today’s most skilled storytellers, breathes new life into the doppelgänger tradition.Director: Denis Villeneuve
Canada,  Spain |
2013 | 90min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Jasmila Žbanić
Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Qatar | Bosnian, English
2013 | 72min.

NNarrative Competition

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
( Za one koji ne mogu da govore )
Middle East Premiere

An Australian performance artist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. From Jasmila Zbanic, director of the Golden Bear winner Grbavica.Director: Jasmila Žbanić
Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Qatar | Bosnian, English
2013 | 72min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Poland,  Denmark | Polish
2013 | 80min.

NNarrative Competition

Ida
Middle East Premiere

A young woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since being orphaned as a child, embarks on a voyage of discovery to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family.Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Poland,  Denmark | Polish
2013 | 80min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji
Iraq,  United Kingdom,  Netherlands,  United Arab Emirates |
2013 | 92min.

NNarrative Competition

In the Sands of Babylon
( Taht remal Babyl )
World Premiere

An Iraqi soldier escaping from Kuwait as the army retreats in 1991 is captured and cast into Saddam’s infamous prisons, accused of being a traitor. Outside, an Iraqi uprising instills hope for those held captive in the killing fields of Babylon.Director: Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji
Iraq,  United Kingdom,  Netherlands,  United Arab Emirates |
2013 | 92min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Philippe Garrel
France | French
2013 | 76min.

NNarrative Competition

Jealousy
( La Jalousie )
Middle East Premiere

Another delicate study on the meaning of love by French master Phlippe Garrel who analyses the fragile connections that love and jealousy create and destroy in an instant through the story of a talented but broke actor and the women he loves.Director: Philippe Garrel
France | French
2013 | 76min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Hiner Saleem
Iraq,  France,  Germany,  United Arab Emirates | Kurdish
2013 | 95min.

NNarrative Competition

My Sweet Pepper Land
( Biladi al-halwa . . . biladi al-hada )
Middle East Premiere

In post–Saddam Kurdistan, an independence war hero accepts a position in a dreary village where he meets a beautiful young woman. Director Saleem’s (Vodka Lemon) humor is sublime, as is the performance of Golshifteh Farahani.Director: Hiner Saleem
Iraq,  France,  Germany,  United Arab Emirates | Kurdish
2013 | 95min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Kelly Reichardt
USA | English
2013 | 112min.

NNarrative Competition

Night Moves
Middle East Premiere

Three clandestine activists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard) scheme to blow up a dam in a seemingly well-planned act of ecoterror, but a clean getaway proves to be more elusive than they anticipated.Director: Kelly Reichardt
USA | English
2013 | 112min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Stephen Frears
United Kingdom,  USA,  France | English
2013 | 97min.

NNarrative Competition

Philomena
Middle East Premiere

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in the deeply moving, true story of Philomena Lee, an Irishwoman who spent decades searching for the son taken from her by Catholic nuns and sold into adoption overseas. From the director of The Queen.Director: Stephen Frears
United Kingdom,  USA,  France | English
2013 | 97min.
NNarrative Competition

Director: Ahmad Abdallah
Egypt | Arabic
2013 | 87min.

NNarrative Competition

Rags and Tatters
( Farsh wa ghata )
Middle East Premiere

Escaping from prison amid the turbulence of the 2011 Tahrir Square demonstrations, a fugitive desperately seeks warmth and shelter in the outer regions of Cairo, in this vivid and captivating portrait of the fallout from the Arab Spring.Director: Ahmad Abdallah
Egypt | Arabic
2013 | 87min.
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