The 12 titles come from countries including Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Iceland, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain and the USA. Emotion, extreme tension and the surprising attempts of young filmmakers to revive genre cinema are the main ingredients of this year's Official Competition.

The only film from a CEE country is Bulgarian entry The Lesson / Urok by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov.

“This year, I favored intimate films and those productions that resort, in an intelligent and surprising manner, to the conventions of genre cinema. On one hand, emotion, and on the other, tension,"  the festival artistic director Mihai Chirilov said.

The Lineup:

Rams/Hrutar (Iceland, Denmark)
Directed by Grímur Hákonarson

Radiator (UK)
Directed by Tom Browne

Paris of the North/París Norðursins (Island, France, Denmark)
Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson

Melody (Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
Directed by Bernard Bellefroid

The Lesson/Urok (Bulgaria, Greece)
Directed by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Produced by Abraxas Film
Coproduced by Graal Film
Supported by ZDF, American Foundation for Bulgaria, Central Cooperative Union

10,000 Km/Long Distance (Spain, USA)
Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet

Plan sexenal/Six Year Plan (Mexico)
Directed by Santiago Cendejas

Summer Nights/ Les nuits d'été (France)
Directed by Mario Fanfani

Melbourne (Iran)
Directed by Nima Javidi

The King's Surrender / Wir Waren Könige (Germany)
Directed by Philipp Leinemann

The Fire / El Incendio (Argentina)
Directed by Juan Schnitman

600 Miles / 600 Millas (Mexico, USA)
Directed by Gabriel Ripstein