"Pan's Labyrinth" (Mexico) - A fantasy by Guillermo del Toro set in Spain in 1944 following the Civil War, the movie follows 12-year-old Ofelia, who moves with her pregnant mother and stepfather into a new home in the countryside.

The stepfather is a fascist disciplinarian sent to rid the remote area of Republican militia, but Ofelia escapes from his influence in an immense and ancient labyrinth, where she meets a faun who reveals that she is in fact the long-lost daughter of the king of the Underworld and that she must complete three tasks in order to regain entry to the magical kingdom.

"Days of Glory" (Algeria) relives the forgotten role of 130,000 North African troops who joined the French forces to fight Nazi Germany in World War II.

The story follows three Algerians who enlist to free the "fatherland" and who despite facing discrimination, fight in Italy and Provence before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.