In this section, featuring eleven feature films and two documentaries, we present highlights from this year’s festival season. We take you along on a journey to Algeria, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Myanmar, Senegal and Tunisia. Included here are the Oscar entries A POET (Colombia), THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO (Chile), THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE (Iraq) and KOKUHO (Japan). Degrading work conditions are exposed in the Burmese film MA – CRY OF SILENCE, while the Israeli film FULL SUPPORT focuses on finding undergarments for members of all religious groups. The productions from South America deal with supernatural phenomena. In the Maghreb countries, we look at new identities and how different classes experience life at the beach. The films from Iran underscore the problems of those forced to live under the theocratic regime: a married couple cannot afford to have children amid economic crisis, and a young musician is not allowed to sing as a woman. We can highly recommend all of the works in this series.