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- DirectorCarlos BoladoStarsDamián AlcázarJesús OchoaFernando Torre LaphamDamian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After he accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assisted by local guide Arce, Damian locates his grandmother's resting place and searches for redemption through a long trek in the arid wilderness of his ancestral land.
- DirectorEnrique CarrerasStarsRodolfo BebánSusana CamposOsvaldo MirandaThe romance between a young man from a wealthy family and the dancer from a place of fun.
- DirectorJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollStarsDaniel HendlerJorge TemponiAlfonso Tort24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.
- DirectorTommy Lee JonesStarsTommy Lee JonesBarry PepperDwight YoakamRanch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
- DirectorMarcos JorgeStarsJoão MiguelFabiula NascimentoBabu SantanaIn the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks in order to survive and find a place in society. He arrives in town without a penny in his pockets and starts working as help in a decadent bar, a nasty place, lost amid the urban desert. He sleeps in the storage room on the back, and under a cold neon light learns how to fry "pastel" and "coxinhas", outdoing his "master", Zulmiro, the owner of the bar. Nonato is ignorant, but talented. He knows how to work the kitchen, soon others realize it too. The first one to notice him, is Iria, a prostitute, who doesn't know how to cook but loves to eat and starts an affair with him. Then, Giovanni, the owner of the Boccaccio (an Italian restaurant in the neighborhood), offers Nonato a job as his apprentice. A turn of events results in Nonato spending time in prison. For the prisoners and their boss, the violent Bujiù, Nonato is a savior; in fact soon their meager meals turn to a feast of exotic dishes orchestrated by Nonato's magic. As a consequence of this, Nonato is given the following the nickname, a well suited one indeed: Rosemary.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesStarsJoão MiguelPeter KetnathMadalena AcciolyA road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsAna Rita GurgelCaio AlmeidaMaeve JinkingsThe lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorÓscar CatacoraStarsVicente CatacoraRosa NinaA couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMercedes MoránGraciela BorgesMartín AdjemiánThe life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMaría OnettoClaudia CanteroCésar BordónAfter hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMercedes MoránCarlos BellosoAlejandro Urdapilleta16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
- DirectorIván GaonaStarsRené Diaz CalderónWillington GordilloCristian HernándezWillington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to his cousin. While Willington tries to get her back, the rumor of a thief in town and a series of violent murders remind them of a fearful past, that will endanger Mariana.
- DirectorAlvaro Delgado AparicioStarsJunior BejarAmiel CayoMagaly SolierSegundo Paucar, wants to become a master story-box maker just like his father to carry on with the family legacy.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSergio CorrieriDaisy GranadosEslinda NúñezA Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- DirectorAndré Novais OliveiraStarsGrace PassôRusso AprRejane FariaIn order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
- DirectorLuis Alberto RestrepoStarsRolf AbderhaldenMarcela AgudeloHumberto DoradoTells the story of the Millán family, landowners who expanded their lands and their socio-political power at the cost of expropriating land from the poorest by illicit and violent means during the eighteenth century.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto Gómez CruzBlanca GuerraAlejandro ParodiPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsJennifer ConnellyCillian MurphyMélanie LaurentA struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsLorenzo QuinterosHugo SotoInés VernengoA patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?
- DirectorJaime Osorio MarquezStarsJuan Pablo BarragánAlejandro AguilarMauricio NavasAfter losing contact with a military base, a high mountain unit is sent to investigate. Upon arrival, they find only a woman in chains. Isolation and the impossibility of escape serve to undermine the soldiers' judgment.
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsGilberto ForeroCarlos MayoloFlorina LemaitreRoberto Hurtado, a rich old man suffers from a blood disease, so he requires transfusions of a rare type of blood from young men. His son Adolfo blackmails the nurse and two drivers, involved in a sexual crime, to get the blood kidnapping, killing and stealing the blood of their victims, which raises terror throughout Cali.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsTamara GarinaSergio KleinerDiana MariscalFando and his partially-paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.