Two men embark on perilous quests to be reunited with the women they love in these searing journeys through oft-unseen layers of Egyptian and Filipino society. Winner of the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes, director Sameh Alaa’s quietly wrenching I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE follows a young man who devises a startling plan in order to see his beloved one last time. Then, celebrated Filipino auteur Lino Brocka combines gritty realism with rich melodrama in MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT, in which a provincial fisherman travels to the big city in search of his missing girlfriend—and finds himself plunged into a dog-eat-dog fight to survive.