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Norway, The Netherlands
Norway’s Eskil Vogt makes a sparkling directorial debut with Blind, a tragic but playful tale of a woman whose loss of sight serves to sharpen her creative imagination.

Spain
Eugenio Mira with Grand Piano presents his third feature, an appealingly absurd Spanish thriller of a pianist who is threatened by an unseen gunman during a concert. 

Austria
Macondo is the empathetically observed fiction debut of documentary director Sudabeh Mortezai. Set in Vienna, the story centres on the 11-year-old refugee Ramasan, who finds himself torn between Chechen custom and his new Austrian environment.

Slovenia
In the compelling Slovenian Class Enemy by Rok Bicek, a group of teens blame their demanding new German teacher and his demeaning methods after one of their classmates commits suicide.

Italy, Germany, Tansania
Noaz Deshe presents a staggering debut with the drama White Shadow, about African albinos, a film that evokes a world physically and spiritually out of balance.

Ireland, United Kingdom
Writer-director John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson inCalvary portrait a tough-minded Irish priest with black humour who has to battle dark forces.

Georgia, Ukraine
Awarded in Karlovy Vary last year, the humorous Georgian tragicomedy,Blind Dates, by Levan Koguashvili  enrolls the story of Sandro, a lonely, 40-year-old Tbilisi teacher, who has little luck with online dating before he meets hairdresser Manana.

France
Screened at Cannes this year, Marianne Tardieu`s directing debut,Insecure, takes a fresh and empathetic look at the personal insecurities of a small-town security guard.

Romania
Andrei Gruzsniczki's striking black-and-white drama, Quod erat demonstrandum, takes a look at two academics targeted by the secret service in 1980s Romania, raising an atmosphere of cautionary hope, fear and betrayal.

United Kingdom
Catch Me Daddy is the beautifully shot, impressive feature debut of music video director Daniel Wolfe. The thriller about a British-Asian teen follows the story of an 'honour killing' set on the West Yorkshire Moors.