Transgenders: Pakistan's Open Secret

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Lars von Trier, Barbara Albert

Cast

Alan Rees, Safia Aggoune, Abel Alves

When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply felt conviction that somewhere, shrouded in the din of talk shows and tabloid headlines, they'd discover the real America, alive and well in all of its regions and demographics.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Shainee Gabel, Kristin Hahn

Cast

Douglas Brinkley, George Stephanopoulos, Andrea Buchanan

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.

Runtime

1h 15m

Director

Sophia Turkiewicz

Director

Adriana Dutra

Cast

Carla Camurati, Herson Capri, Rita Guedes

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intim...

Runtime

1h 48m

Cast

Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Antonio Vico, Mary Santpere, Fernando Rey

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Virgílio Teixeira, Margarita Andrey, María Isbert