A tender, extremely hopeful story about a hospital janitor who comforts a dying boy by inventing a magical land called Helium, a place where “broken” boys like him get fixed. Incredibly powerful at just 23 minutes, thanks in no small part to Casper Crump as the compassionate janitor and Pelle Falk Krusbæk as the little boy.

Just Before Losing Everything follows a mother on the day she decides to escape from an abusive husband and is forced to hole up with her kids in a supermarket where she works. Terrifying and tense, Denis Ménochet (the French farmer from Inglorious Basterds) as the husband haunts every scene, his eerily quiet presence masking an unimaginable explosiveness.

A rare fictional account of child soldiers in Africa, That Wasn’t Me offers a harrowing glimpse into the perpetual civil wars that plague the continent, exploiting and all but dehumanizing its youth.

After sleeping in on a friend’s wedding day, a mother scrambles to get her entire family ready only to face a series of hilarious reversals and setbacks which she blames on her husband and children, unable to see that she more often foiled by her own haste.

A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is god. Good ideas, production value, and the always-welcome Martin Freeman as the psychiatrist can’t overcome a story that feels incomplete, rushed, and far too ambitious for 13 minutes.