Meanwhile, economic growth has been inconsistent and the unemployment rate hit a record high of 11% at the end of 2013.

While Afghan President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign the pact, both candidates running to replace him have said they will.

The plan will be submitted to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June, ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit, Takemoto said.

"Edge of Tomorrow" follows a soldier fighting in a war with aliens who finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle.

In her son Edoardo Ponti’s “Human Voice”, Loren plays Angela, a woman who is speaking on the phone with a lover who has left her.

The story revolves around "the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route."

The film, based on real-life events, features Witherspoon as an American woman assigned to help four young Sudanese refugees.

The fest will feature Abel Ferrara’s controversial “Welcome to New York,” starring Gerard Depardieu as ex-IMF boss Dominique Strass-Kahn.

Safarov was welcomed as a national hero, granted an immediate pardon, long before the expiry of the minimum sentence set by the Hungarian court.