Five Children and It (UK/US). Dir. John Stephenson, starring Tara Fitzgerald and Alex Jennings. Five children evacuated from London during the war to the country house of a strange uncle find an elf-like psammead that can make their wishes come true.

Decoys (Can). Dir. Matthew Hastings, starring Corey Sevier and Stefanie von Pfetten. Alien blonds seduce idiot college men in this sci-fi romp.

Knallharte Jungs Porky college: un duro per amico (Ge). Dir. Granz Henman, starring Tobias Schenke and Axel Stein. A hormonal teenager discovers he has a surprisingly talkative bodily appendage.

Shadowboxer (US). Dir. Lee Daniels, starring Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr. The lives of two professional hit men changes dramatically when one is diagnosed with cancer.

The Eye 3 - Infinity (HK). Dir. Oxide and Danny Pang, starring Ekin Cheng and Angelica Lee. A group of young people decide to contact the spirit world and encounter some ghosts who have not yet abandoned the earthly realms in this horror.

The Ringer - L'imbucato (US). Dir. Barry W. Blaustein with Johnny Knoxville and Brian Cox. A man in desperate need of money decides to compete in the Paralympics by faking a mental handicap in this black comedy.

Three Dollars (Au). Dir. Robert Connolly, starring David Wenham and Frances O'Connor. Drama about a man and the three women in his life: his daughter, his wife and his childhood sweetheart, who reappears every nine and a half years.

Tom White (Aus). Dir. Alkinos Tsilimidos, starring Colin Friels and Rachael Blake. Five stories on the theme of solitude in this narrative epic.