President, The (Dreyer)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Richard Christensen, Christian Engelstoft, Hallander Helleman, Halvard Hoff
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Denmark

The judge in a Danish town sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, and is rather sure that she will be sentenced to death. She became pregnant from an aristocrat who didn’t want to marry her.

 

J’accuse! (Gance)

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Genre: Drama, Horror, War, Silent
Country: France

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

 

Satan’s Rhapsody (Oxilia)

Director: Nino Oxilia
Stars: Lyda Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini, Giovanni Cini
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Silent
Country: Italy

A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.

 

Satan Triumphant (Protazanov)

Director: Yakov Protazanov
Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Polycarpe Pavloff, Aleksandr Chabrov
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Russia

Pastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

 

Immigrant, The (Feuillade)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama, Silent
Country: USA

Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.

 

Judex (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen, Édouard Mathé
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Silent
Country: France

A twelve-part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

 

After Death (Bauer)

Director: Yevgeny Bauer
Stars: Vitold Polonsky, Olga Rakhmanova, Vera Karalli, Mariya Khalatova
Genre: Drama, Horror, Silent
Country: Russia

Andrei lives a secluded life with his aunt, studying and thinking about his now-deceased mother. His friend Tsenin is concerned, and tries to get Andrei to accompany him to social events. After watching the actress Zoya Kadmina perform, Andrei is fascinated with her, and is then astounded to receive a note from her. He has only one brief meeting with her, and then three months later he is shocked to learn of her death. He now becomes obsessed with her memory, and he decides that he must find out all that he can about her.

 

Tramp, The (Chaplin)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Billy Armstrong, Lloyd Bacon, Bud Jamison
Genre: Short, Comedy, Silent
Country: USA

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.

 

Cabiria (Pastrone)

Director: Giovanni Pastrone
Stars: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano, Carolina Catena
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Silent
Country: Italy

Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.

 

Fantômas: The False Magistrate (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Mesnery
Genre: Crime, Drama, Silent
Country: France

Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work.

 

Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas, Renée Carl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Silent
Country: France

The mystery of the drama is the appearance of the finger-print of a dead artist upon the neck of Princess Sonia Danidoff, whom Fantomas, as Nanteuil, relieves of her pearl necklace, and again on the body of Thomery, a merchant also done to death by the arch villain.

 

Fantomas: The Man in Black (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Silent
Country: France

In Part Two of Louis Feuillade’s 5 1/2-hour epic follows FantÃ’mas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.

 

Unseen Enemy, An (Griffith)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Silent
Country: USA

The physician’s death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor’s small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father’s household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall. But the resourceful girls use the telephone to call their brother who has returned to town. He gets the message and organizes a rescue party.

 

New York Hat , The (Griffith)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Short, Silent
Country: USA

The young village minister was not quite as discreet as he might have been in fulfilling the strange trust left by the dying mother, but it certainly worked for the common good.

 

Automatic Moving Company, The (Bosetti, Cohl)

Director: Romeo Bosetti, Émile Cohl
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A film of more than unusual interest. Those who are familiar with the length of time it takes to make a picture wherein all the furniture in the house moves out automatically, will appreciate the great labor of making this film.

 

Visit to the Seaside, A (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: UK

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, showing people doing everyday activities. It is ranked of high historical importance. Kinemacolor later influenced and replaced by Technicolor, which was used from 1916 to 1952.

 

Golden Beetle, The (de Chomón, Zecca)

Director: Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
Stars: N/A
Genre: Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A sorcerer tosses an iridescent little beetle into a flaming ceremonial cauldron, and much to his amazement, a six-winged fairy in the body of a beautiful young woman emerges. Is his sorcery potent enough to tame her?

Voyage Across the Impossible, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d’Alcy, May de Lavergne
Genre: Action, Adventure, Short, Silent
Country: France

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Kingdom of the Fairies, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Marguerite Thévenard, Bleuette Bernon, André Deed
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play “La Biche au Bois”, the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.

Bluebeard (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy, Bleuette Bernon, Thomas White
Genre: Short, Horror, Silent
Country: France

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Let Me Dream Again (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Tom Green, Laura Bayley
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Short, Silent
Country: UK

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.

Joan of Arc (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Bleuette Bernon, Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy
Genre: Drama, History, Short, Silent
Country: France

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Grandma’s Reading Glass (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Harold Smith
Genre: Drama, Short, Silent
Country: UK

A child borrows his grandmother’s magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what he is doing. The child looks next at grandma’s eye, then at a kitten.

As Seen Through a Telescope (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: N/A
Genre: Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: UK

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men do now?

One-Man Band, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy Short, Silent
Country: France

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair.

Human Figure in Motion (Muybridge)

Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA

Muybridge first photographed the human figure in motion on March 4th 1879. However, he did not focus on the human body until his contract at Pennsylvania University began in May 1884, resulting in two volumes of work dedicated to photographs of human subjects. Muybridge’s test footage included cinematic glimpses of naked men and women in motion.

X-Ray Fiend, The (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Short, Silent
Country: UK

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès’ accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

Bewitched Inn, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night’s sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his room–beds vanishing and re-appearing, candles exploding, pants flying through the air and his shoes walking away by themselves.

Annie Oakley (Dickson, Heise)

Director: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Stars: Annie Oakley
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison’s Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

Pillar of Fire, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Jehanne d’Alcy, Georges Méliès
Genre: Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot.

Devil in a Convent, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: N/A
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into a outlet of Pandemonium.

Kiss, The (Muybridge)

Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA

Two women shake hands and kiss. The first ever moving image of a kiss was not filmed, but instead consists of individual photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope.

Haunted Castle, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Short, Silent
Country: France

The film tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its audiences, rather than fear.

Four Troublesome Heads, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: France

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison.

Falling Cat (Marey)

Director: Étienne-Jules Marey
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: France

Directed by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist, this is believed to be the first cat ever filmed in cinematic history. Jules Marey created the chronophotographic gun in 1882, a device which looked like a short barrelled shotgun with a magazine on top. It was capable of taking twelve consecutive frames a second. He used this to study various animals, the most famous study in what was called Marey’s ‘animated zoo’, was the one involving a cat which was dropped from a height of a few feet in order to see if it always landed on its feet.

Kiss in the Tunnel, The (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Laura Bayley, George Albert Smith
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: UK

A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.

Cinderella (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Barral, Bleuette Bernon, Carmelli
Genre: Romance, Family, Drama, Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella’s rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince – but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out? Méliès based the art direction on engravings by Gustave Doré. First known example of a fairy-tale adapted to film, and the first film to use dissolves to go from one scene to another.

L’affaire Dreyfus (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Short, Drama, Silent
Country: France

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (Muybridge)

Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Stars: Gilbert Domm, Sallie Gardner
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

The clip shows a jockey, Domm, riding a horse, Sally Gardner. The clip is not filmed but instead consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.

New-York (Svenska Biografteatern)

Director:Svenska Biografteatern
Stars: N/A
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: Sweden

Old film of New York City in the year 1911. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to the United States. It was released two years later.

L’Inferno (Berolini, Padovan, de Liguoro)

Director: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Stars: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy

Loosely adapted from Dante’s Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.

Zola (Bravo)

Director: Janicza Bravo
Stars: Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Ari’el Stachel
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.

Balance, A (Harumoto)

Director: Yûjirô Harumoto
Stars: Yumi Kawai, Ken Mitsuishi, Kumi Takiuchi, Masahiro Umeda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.

One Second (Zhang)

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Yi Zhang, Haocun Liu, Wei Fan, Yan Li
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong

A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Wolfwalkers (Moore, Stewart)

Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
Stars: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, France

A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.

Wojnarowicz (McKim)

Director: Chris McKim
Stars: Alan Barrows, Barry Blinderman, Bono, William Dannemeyer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A controversial artist blazes a trail for other gay image makers in New York ‘s 1980s scene, only to perish at the end of the decade from the AIDS virus.

Wildfire (Brady)

Director: Cathy Brady
Stars: Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland

The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited.

Uppercase Print (Jude)

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Serban Lazarovici, Bogdan Zamfir, Ioana Iacob, Serban Pavlu
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

The story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.

Undine (Petzold)

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Germany, France

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

Time (Bradley)

Director: Garrett Bradley
Stars: Sibll Fox Richardson, Robert G. Richardson, Mahlik Richardson, Remington B. Richardson
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.

Wolf of Snow Hollow, The (Cummings)

Director: Jim Cummings
Stars: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there’s no such thing as werewolves.

Windermere Children, The (Samuels)

Director: Michael Samuels
Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK

This is the stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.

Truffle Hunters, The (Dweck, Kershaw)

Director: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Stars: Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda, Maria Cicciù, Aurelio Conterno
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Italy, Greece

Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation.

Reason I Jump, The (Rothwell)

Director: Jerry Rothwell
Stars: Donna Budway, Emma Budway, Jeremy Dear, Joss Dear
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK, USA

Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.

Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, The (Midell)

Director: David Midell
Stars: Frankie Faison, Steve O’Connell, Enrico Natale, Ben Marten
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

Kid Detective, The (Morgan)

Director: Evan Morgan
Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first ‘adult’ case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Half of It, The (Wu)

Director: Alice Wu
Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to become his friend – or fall for his crush.

Go-Go’s, The (Ellwood)

Director: Alison Ellwood
Stars: The Go-Go’s, Charlotte Caffey, Elissa Bello, Belinda Carlisle
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The Go-Go’s are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.

Forty-Year-Old Version, The (Blank)

Director: Radha Blank
Stars: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.

Earth Is Blue as an Orange, The (Tsilyk)

Director: Iryna Tsilyk
Stars: Ganna Gladka, Stanislav Gladky, Anastasiia Trofymchuk, Myroslava Trofymchuk
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Ukraine, Lithuania

To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.

Duke, The (Michell)

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

Dissident, The (Fogel)

Director: Bryan Fogel
Stars: Omar Abdulaziz, Irfan Fidan, Recep Kiliç, Wadah Khanfar
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.

Disciple, The (Tamhane)

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Aditya Modak, Arun Dravid, Sumitra Bhave, Deepika Bhide Bhagwat
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India

Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.

Sylvie’s Love (Ashe)

Director: Eugene Ashe
Stars: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

Sweet Thing (Rockwell)

Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Stars: Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell, Will Patton, Karyn Parsons
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story revolves around two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves.

Supernova (Macqueen)

Director: Harry Macqueen
Stars: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood, Peter MacQueen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.

Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa)

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Ryôta Bandô
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.

Spontaneous (Duffield)

Director: Brian Duffield
Stars: Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Get ready for the outrageous coming-of-age love story about growing up…and blowing up. When students in their school begin exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

Spaceship Earth (Wolf)

Director: Matt Wolf
Stars: Kathelin Gray, Marie Harding, William Dempster, John Allen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth’s ecosystem, in 1991.

Soul (Docter, Powers)

Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.

Son of Monarchs (Gambis)

Director: Alexis Gambis
Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Tenoch Huerta, William Mapother, Electra Avellan
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.

Some Kind of Heaven (Oppenheim)

Director: Lance Oppenheim
Stars: Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America’s largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.

Never Gonna Snow Again (Szumowska, Englert)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Stars: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, Germany, Netherlands

Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community of his clients.

Servants (Ostrochovský)

Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
Stars: Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland

Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they’ll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they’ll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

Slalom (Favier)

Director: Charlène Favier
Stars: Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier, Marie Denarnaud, Muriel Combeau
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium

Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star.Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?

Sisters with Transistors (Rovner)

Director: Lisa Rovner
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Wendy Carlos, Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK, France, USA

Follows the story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

Identifying Features (Valadez)

Director: Fernanda Valadez
Stars: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús Varela, Ana Laura Rodríguez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain

A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.

Shithouse (Raiff)

Director: Cooper Raiff
Stars: Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, Logan Miller
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A lonely college freshman forges a strong connection with his resident assistant during a fraternity party.

My Little Sister (Chuat, Reymond)

Director: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Stars: Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland

Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.

Days (Tsai)

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anong Houngheuangsy
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

Rising Phoenix (Bonhôte, Ettedgui)

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Jean-Baptiste Alaize, Ryley Batt, Ellie Cole, Philip Craven
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK

The history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world’s third largest sporting event.

Riders of Justice (Jensen)

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Residue (Gerima)

Director: Merawi Gerima
Stars: Obinna Nwachukwu, Dennis Lindsey, Taline Stewart, Derron Scott
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends being scattered to the wind.

Rebuilding Paradise (Howard)

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Woody Culleton, Michelle John, Matt Gates
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The community of Paradise, California, a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, attempts to rebuild after devastating wildfires in 2018.

Quo Vadis, Aida? (Zbanic)

Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Stars: Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrovic
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Pretend That You Love Me (Haver)

Director: Joel Haver
Stars: Joel Haver, Annalisa Noel, Hannah Monsour, Hannah Rose
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Joel attempts to find a romantic connection while in the development of his next film, all the while dealing with his health and other personal issues.

Possessor (Cronenberg)

Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK

An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.

Little Girl (Lifshitz)

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Stars: Sasha
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Denmark

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.

Father (Golubovic)

Director: Srdan Golubovic
Stars: Goran Bogdan, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin, Milica Janevski
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A Serbian man fights to regain custody of his children.

On the Record (Dick, Ziering)

Director: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
Stars: Sil Lai Abrams, Joe Biden, Tarana Burke, Kimberle Crenshaw
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.

Notturno (Rosi)

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy, France, Germany

Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.

No Ordinary Man (Chin-Yee, Joynt)

Director: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
Stars: Billy Tipton Jr., Holden Bernstein, Kate Bornstein, Ryan Cassata
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Canada

No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton.

Nine Days (Oda)

Director: Edson Oda
Stars: Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Benedict Wong
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.

News of the World (Greengrass)

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China

A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.

My Darling Vivian (Ehrlich, Reed)

Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Stars: Craig Foster, Tom Foster
Genre: Documentary
Country: South Africa

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

Mogul Mowgli (Tariq)

Director: Bassam Tariq
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Anjana Vasan, Nabhaan Rizwan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA

A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.

Miss Juneteenth (Peoples)

Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples
Stars: Nicole Beharie, Liz Mikel, Marcus M. Mauldin, Kendrick Sampson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant.

Apples (Nikou)

Director: Christos Nikou
Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, Poland, Australia, Slovenia

Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.

Mayor (Osit)

Director: David Osit
Stars: Walaa Eltiti, Yazeed Faruja, Musa Hadid
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK

A look at the life of Musa Hadid, the charismatic mayor of Palestinian city Ramallah, who aspires to lead the city into the future.

Mandibles (Dupieux)

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium

When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.

MLK/FBI (Pollard)

Director: Sam Pollard
Stars: Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard’s resonant film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Red Moon Tide (Patiño)

Director: Lois Patiño
Stars: Rubio de Camelle, Ana Marra, Carmen Martínez, Pilar Rodlos
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain

In a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man.

Lorelei (Doyle)

Director: Sabrina Doyle
Stars: Jena Malone, Pablo Schreiber, Ryan Findley, Cory Ellis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A working-class fable about a biker, a mermaid and three shades of blue.

Little Fish (Hartigan)

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, Soko, Raúl Castillo
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada

A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.

Limbo (Sharrock)

Director: Ben Sharrock
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kenneth Collard, Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.

Last and First Men (Jóhannsson)

Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Stars: Tilda Swinton
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Iceland

Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.

Lapsis (Hutton)

Director: Noah Hutton
Stars: Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard, Ivory Aquino
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother, delivery man Ray takes a strange job in a strange new realm of the gig economy.

Night of the Kings (Lacôte)

Director: Philippe Lacôte
Stars: Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Côte d’Ivoire, Canada, Senegal

A young man is sent to “La Maca”, a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Painter and the Thief, The (Ree)

Director: Benjamin Ree
Stars: Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova, Øystein Stene
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway, USA

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

Whaler Boy, The (Yuryev)

Director: Philipp Yuryev
Stars: Vladimir Onokhov, Kristina Asmus, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Nikolay Tatato
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Belgium

A young hunter sets off an a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.

Josep (Porter)

Director: Aurel
Stars: Sergi López, Emmanuel Vottero, Xavier Serrano, David Marsais
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium

A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.

John Lewis: Good Trouble (Porter)

Director: Dawn Porter
Stars: Elijah Cummings, Anthony Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Ayanna Pressley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The film explores Georgia representative’s, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.

Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself (Oz)

Director: Frank Oz
Stars: Derek DelGaudio, Hal Schulman, Jason England, Robert Herritt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question ‘Who am I?’

I Carry You with Me (Ewing)

Director: Heidi Ewing
Stars: Armando Espitia, Yael Tadeo, Raúl Briones, Alberto Juárez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

Holler (Riegel)

Director: Nicole Riegel
Stars: Pamela Adlon, Austin Amelio, Becky Ann Baker, Jessica Barden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

To pay for her education, and the chance of a better life, a young woman joins a dangerous scrap metal crew.

His House (Weekes)

Director: Remi Weekes
Stars: Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Matt Smith
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK

A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.

Herself (Kail)

Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Ian Lloyd Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK

A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.

Hamilton (Kail)

Director: Thomas Kail
Stars: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The real life of one of America’s foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.

Gunda (Kosakovskiy)

Director: Viktor Kosakovskiy
Stars: Gunda
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway, USA, UK

Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.

Ballad of a White Cow (Moghadam, Sanaeeha)

Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Stars: Maryam Moghadam, Alireza Sani Far, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Avin Poor Raoufi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France

Mina’s life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter’s sake.

Gagarine (Liatard, Trouilh)

Director: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Stars: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Yuri fights to save his home town – which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin – from demolition.

Final Account (Holland)

Director: Luke Holland
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

An urgent portrait of the last living generation of Hitler’s Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.

Father Soldier Son (Davis, Einhorn)

Director: Leslye Davis, Catrin Einhorn
Stars: Brian Eisch, Isaac Eisch, Joey Eisch, Roxanne Gregory
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.

Farewell Amor (Msangi)

Director: Ekwa Msangi
Stars: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.

Enemies of the State (Kennebeck)

Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Stars: Joel Widman, Stuart Anderson, Nemo Baletic, Angela Barbosa
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An American family becomes entangled in a bizarre web of secrets and lies when their hacker son is targeted by the U.S. government, making them all ENEMIES OF THE STATE.

Emma. (de Wilde)

Director: Autumn de Wilde
Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China

In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.

Another Round (Vinterberg)

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands

Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.

Dear Comrades! (Konchalovskiy)

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

Disclosure (Feder)

Director: Sam Feder
Stars: Laverne Cox, Bianca Leigh, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An in-depth look at Hollywood’s depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.

Dinner in America (Rehmeier)

Director: Adam Rehmeier
Stars: Kyle Gallner, Yancey Fuqua, Jennifer Kincer, Hannah Marks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America’s decaying Midwestern suburbs.

Hidden Life of Trees, The (Adolph, Haft)

Director: Jörg Adolph, Jan Haft
Stars: Peter Wohlleben, Achim Bogdahn, Markus Lanz, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

When Peter Wohlleben published his book “The Hidden Life of Trees” in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.

Breaking Fast (Mosallam)

Director: Mike Mosallam
Stars: Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy, Amin El Gamal, Patrick Sabongui
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Woliner)

Director: Jason Woliner
Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA

Borat returns from Kazakhstan to America and this time he reveals more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic and the political elections.

Being a Human Person (Kulumbegashvili)

Director: Fred Scott
Stars: Roy Andersson, Johan Carlsson, Martin Serner, Pernilla Sandström
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, Sweden

At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process.

Beginning (Kulumbegashvili)

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvili
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana’s inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.

Beastie Boys Story (Jonze)

Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Beastie Boys, Mike D, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Here’s a little story they’re about to tell… Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of the band, Beastie Boys, and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend and collaborator, Spike Jonze.

Beans (Deer)

Director: Tracey Deer
Stars: Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Rainbow Dickerson, Joel Montgrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Based on true events, Tracey Deer’s debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 in Quebec.

Lost Bullet (Pierret)

Director: Guillaume Pierret
Stars: Alban Lenoir, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Ramzy Bedia, Stéfi Celma
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Sport
Country: France

A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.

Assassins (White)

Director: Ryan White
Stars: Siti Aisyah, Hadi Azmi, Anna Fifield, Doan Thi Huong
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

An account of the two women convicted of assassinating Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The film follows the women’s trials in an attempt to understand whether they are trained killers or simply pawns.

Asia (Pribar)

Director: Ruthy Pribar
Stars: Alena Yiv, Shira Haas, Tamir Mula, Gera Sandler
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Despite living together, Asia barely interacts with her daughter Vika. Their routine is shaken when Vika’s health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs

David Byrne’s American Utopia (Lee)

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva, Daniel Freedman
Genre: Documentary, Music, Musical
Country: USA

Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.

Alone (Hyams)

Director: John Hyams
Stars: Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Rosenthal
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.

All In: The Fight for Democracy (Cortes, Garbus)

Director: Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus
Stars: Carolyn Abrams, Robert Abrams, Stacey Abrams, Debo Adegbile
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary takes a look at the history, and current activism against voter suppression; barriers to voting that most people don’t even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.

After Love (Khan)

Director: Aleem Khan
Stars: Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss, Nasser Memarzia
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.

Acasa, My Home (Ciorniciuc)

Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Stars: Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache, Mihaela Murgoci
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania, Germany

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.

Thousand Cuts, A (Diaz)

Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Stars: Amal Clooney, Ronaldo ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa, Rodrigo R. Duterte, Patricia Evangelista
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Philippines

A look at how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte uses social media to spread disinformation.

Secret Love, A (Bolan)

Director: Chris Bolan
Stars: Terry Donahue, Pat Henschel, Diana Bolan, Kim Donahue
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Falling in love in 1947, two women — Pat Henschel and pro baseball player Terry Donahue — begin a 65-year journey of love and overcoming prejudice.

Most Beautiful Thing, A (Mazzio)

Director: Mary Mazzio
Stars: Common, Arshay Cooper, Ken Alpart, David Banks
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Narrated by Common, this film chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, coming together to row in the same boat).

7 Prisoners (Moratto)

Director: Alexandre Moratto
Stars: Christian Malheiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Lucas Oranmian, Vitor Julian
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca, but becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking.

A Chiara (Carpignano)

Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Swamy Rotolo, Pio Amato, Leonardo Bevilacqua, Susanna Amato
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France

Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.

Night of Knowing Nothing, A (Kapadia)

Director: Payal Kapadia
Stars: Bhumisuta Das
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, India

L writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

Ali & Ava (Barnard)

Director: Clio Barnard
Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook, Ellora Torchia, Shaun Thomas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

ALI and AVA, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of AVA’s past relationship, and ALI’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.

All My Friends Hate Me (Gaynord)

Director: Andrew Gaynord
Stars: Georgina Campbell, Christopher Fairbank, Joshua McGuire, Dustin Demri-Burns
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK

Pete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him. Is he being punished, is he paranoid, or is he part of some sick joke?

Attica (Curry, Nelson)

Director: Traci Curry, Stanley Nelson
Stars: Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Arthur Harrison, Al Victory
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.

Ascension (Kingdon)

Director: Jessica Kingdon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.

Azor (Fontana)

Director: Andreas Fontana
Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Carmen Iriondo, Juan Trench
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, France, Argentina

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Jude)

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Babi Yar. Context (Loznitsa)

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Hans Frank, Dina Pronicheva, Anastasya Osmachko, Vladimir Artobolevsky
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands, Ukraine

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.

Becoming Cousteau (Garbus)

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Carol Burnett, Vincent Cassel, Louis Malle, Fidel Castro
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the life, passions, achievements and tragedies surrounding the famous explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau, featuring an archive of his newly restored footage.

Belfast (Branagh)

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.

Benedetta (Verhoeven)

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Netherlands

A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.

Benediction (Davies)

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Kate Phillips, Tom Blyth, Jeremy Irvine, Jack Lowden
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA

Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within.

Boiling Point (Barantini)

Director: Philip Barantini
Stars: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Ray Panthaki
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.

Brighton 4th (Koguashvili)

Director: Levan Koguashvili
Stars: Levan Tedaishvili, Giorgi Tabidze, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco

Georgian wrestler Kakhi travels to Brooklyn to help his son out of a gambling debt.

Bring Your Own Brigade (Walker)

Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: Trina Cunningham, Mike Davis, Don Hankins, Chad Hanson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An investigation into our landscape’s hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.

Come from Away (Ashley)

Director: Christopher Ashley
Stars: Petrina Bromley, Jenn Colella, De’Lon Grant, Joel Hatch
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

7,000 passengers are stranded after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a small town in Newfoundland, where they were housed and welcomed. Filmed live on stage at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York City.

Costa Brava, Lebanon (Akl)

Director: Mounia Akl
Stars: Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Yumna Marwan, Nadia Charbel
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar

A couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.

Cousins (Gardiner, Smith)

Director: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith
Stars: Rachel House, Ana Scotney, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Cohen Holloway
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand

Entwines the very different lives of three Maori girls, cousins, through tumultuous decades, after one of them is taken from her family and raised in an orphanage.

Cryptozoo (Shaw)

Director: Dash Shaw
Stars: Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Alex Karpovsky, Zoe Kazan
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA

Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

In Front of Your Face (Sang-soo)

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Yunhee Cho, Lee Hye-yeong, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

Girl and the Spider, The (Zürcher, Zürcher)

Director: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
Stars: Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Switzerland

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.

Innocents, The (Vogt)

Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom

During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren’t looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.

Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, The (Katz)

Director: Ana Katz
Stars: Raquel Bank, Daniel Katz, Nicolás Levin, Valeria Lois
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

Sebastián, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

Encanto (Bush, Howard, Smith)

Director: Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith
Stars: Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: United States

A Colombian teenage girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.

Faya Dayi (Beshir)

Director: Jessica Beshir
Stars: Murano Mlbb, Kawa Sherif, Salih Sigirci
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Ethiopia, United States, Qatar

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today.

Flee (Rasmussen)

Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Stars: Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Finland, Italy, Spain, Estonia, Slovenia

FLEE tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.

Found (Lipitz)

Director: Amanda Lipitz
Stars: Lily Bolka, Chloe Lipitz, Sadie Mangelsdorf, Liu Hao
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

The story of three American teenage girls-each adopted from China-who discover they are blood-related cousins on 23andMe. Their online meeting inspires the young women to confront the burning questions they have about their lost history.

Four Hours at the Capitol (Roberts)

Director: Jamie Roberts
Stars: Eddie Block, Buddy Carter, James McGovern, Leah Han
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A chronicle of the incursion at the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C., many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Futura (Marcello, Munzi, Rohrwacher)

Director: Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.

Hero, A (Farhadi)

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sahar Goldust, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don’t go as planned.

Great Freedom (Meise)

Director: Sebastian Meise
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi)

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Ahed’s Knee (Lapid)

Director: Nadav Lapid
Stars: Avshalom Pollak, Nur Fibak, Oded Azulay, Michal Benkovitz Sasu
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Israel, Germany

An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.

Hating Peter Tatchell (Amos)

Director: Christopher Amos
Stars: Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Peter Tatchell, George Carey
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

The profound life story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience rocked the establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed tyrants in the fight for equality.

Hive (Basholli)

Director: Blerta Basholli
Stars: Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi, Aurita Agushi, Kumrije Hoxha
Genre: Drama
Country: Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania, North Macedonia

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision.

Hold Your Fire (Forbes)

Director: Stefan Forbes
Stars: Shuaib Raheem
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Brooklyn, 1973. Shu’aib Raheem tried to steal guns for self-defense, starting the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to reform police use of violence and save lives by using words, not guns.

Compartment Number 6 (Kuosmanen)

Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Stars: Yuriy Borisov, Seidi Haarla, Valeriy Nikolaev, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Russia, Estonia, Germany

As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

I Was a Simple Man (Yogi)

Director: Christopher Makoto Yogi
Stars: Steve Iwamoto, Constance Wu, Tim Chiou, Kanoa Goo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A family in Hawai’i faces the imminent death of their eldest as the ghosts of the past haunt the countryside.

I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) (Kali, Molina)

Director: Kelley Kali, Angelique Molina
Stars: Wesley Moss, Kelley Kali, Dominique Molina, Lucas Byrd
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

When a recently widowed mother becomes houseless, she convinces her 8-year-old daughter that they are only camping for fun while working to get them off of the streets.

I’m Your Man (Schrader)

Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Jürgen Tarrach
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.

Hole, The (Frammartino)

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Stars: Claudia Candusso, Paolo Cossi, Mila Costi, Carlos José Crespo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany

The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.

Lost Illusions (Giannoli)

Director: Xavier Giannoli
Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium

Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist.

In the Heights (Chu)

Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A film version of the Broadway musical in which Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.

Jockey (Panahi)

Director: Panah Panahi
Stars: Pantea Panahiha, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.

Jockey (Bentley)

Director: Clint Bentley
Stars: Clifton Collins Jr., Moises Arias, Molly Parker, Logan Cormier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.

King Richard (Green)

Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Stars: Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Saniyya Sidney
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.

Happening (Diwan)

Director: Audrey Diwan
Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.

Box, The (Vigas)

Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Stars: Elián Gonzalez, Hernán Mendoza, Hatzín Navarrete, Cristina Zulueta
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.

Lamb (Jóhannsson)

Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Poland, Sweden

A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

Mad Women’s Ball, The (Laurent)

Director: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel ‘Le bal des folles’ by Victoria Mas.

Summit of the Gods, The (Imbert)

Director: Patrick Imbert
Stars: Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France

A photojournalist’s obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

Paris, 13th District (Audiard)

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant, Jehnny Beth
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They’re friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Lingui (Haroun)

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro, Briya Gomdigue
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Germany

Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.

Listening to Kenny G (Lane)

Director: Penny Lane
Stars: Clive Davis, Craig Ferguson, Kenny G, James Gardiner
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.

Luzzu (Camilleri)

Director: Alex Camilleri
Stars: Jesmark Scicluna, Marlene Schranz, David Scicluna, Marta Vella
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Malta

A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta’s black-market fishing industry.

Mad God (Tippett)

Director: Phil Tippett
Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world’s preeminent stop-motion animator.

Marx Can Wait (Bellocchio)

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Alberto Bellocchio, Letizia Bellocchio, Marco Bellocchio, Maria Luisa Bellocchio
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director’s twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.

Memoria (Weerasethakul)

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jerónimo Barón
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China, Switzerland

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.

Memory Box (Hadjithomas, Joreige)

Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Stars: Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clémence Sabbagh
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, Canada, France, Qatar

The lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.

Montana Story (McGehee, Siegel)

Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague, Gilbert Owuor, Kimberly Guerrero
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Speth)

Director: Maria Speth
Stars: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.

Murina (Kusijanovic)

Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic
Stars: Gracija Filipovic, Danica Curcic, Leon Lucev, Cliff Curtis
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia

A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.

Neptune Frost (Uzeyman, Williams)

Director: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Stars: Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire, Elvis Ngabo
Genre: Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Rwanda, France, Canada

An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.

Nightmare Alley (del Toro)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada

A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychiatrist bent on exposing him.

No Sudden Move (Soderbergh)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, Jon Hamm
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what’s really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.

Prayers for the Stolen (Huezo)

Director: Tatiana Huezo
Stars: Guillermo Villegas, Mayra Batalla, Eileen Yañez, Alejandra Camacho
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, USA

Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.

Not Going Quietly (Bruckman)

Director: Nicholas Bruckman
Stars: Ady Barkan, Cory Booker, Tracey Corder, Kamala Harris
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.

Olga (Grappe)

Director: Elie Grappe
Stars: Anastasiia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio, Théa Brogli
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Switzerland, France, UK

A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland, who is working to secure a place at the country’s National Sports Center. When the Euromaiden revolt breaks out in the country, anxieties rise as her family gets involved.

On the Count of Three (Carmichael)

Director: Jerrod Carmichael
Stars: Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, Lavell Crawford
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut and stars in On the Count of Three, a darkly comic feature about two best friends, Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott), on the last day of their lives.

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (Harari)

Director: Arthur Harari
Stars: Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Cambodia

When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.

Bloody Oranges (Meurisse)

Director: Jean-Christophe Meurisse
Stars: Alexandre Steiger, Christophe Paou, Lilith Grasmug, Olivier Saladin
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A retired couple deeply in debt try to win a rock dance competition. A minister is suspected of tax fraud. A teenager makes the acquaintance of a pervert.

Passing (Hall)

Director: Rebecca Hall
Stars: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada

“Passing” follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

Petite Maman (Sciamma)

Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.

Petrov’s Flu (Serebrennikov)

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

Small Body (Samani)

Director: Laura Samani
Stars: Celeste Cescutti, Ondina Quadri
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Slovenia

Italy, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks herself on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter’s soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.

Pray Away (Stolakis)

Director: Kristine Stolakis
Stars: Michael Bussee, Alan Chambers, Ricky Chelette, James Dobson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Former leaders of the “pray the gay away” movement contend with the aftermath unleashed by their actions, while a survivor seeks healing and acceptance from more than a decade of trauma.

President (Nielsson)

Director: Camilla Nielsson
Stars: Nelson Chamisa
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Norway, United States, United Kingdom

A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe’s 2018 presidential election.

Unclenching the Fists (Kovalenko)

Director: Kira Kovalenko
Stars: Milana Aguzarova, Alik Karaev, Soslan Khugaev, Khetag Bibilov
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

Tale of King Crab, The (de Righi, Zoppis)

Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Stars: Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Ercole Colnago, Bruno di Giovanni
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Argentina

In the 19th century, a wandering drunkard in Italy is cast out of his village for a crime. He is exiled to Tierra del Fuego, where he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption.

Rebel Dykes (Shanahan, Williams)

Director: Harri Shanahan, Siân A. Williams
Stars: Indigo Azidahaka, Karen Fisch
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

REBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.

Rehana (Saad)

Director: Abdullah Mohammed Saad
Stars: Azmeri Haque Badhon, Afia Jahin Jaima, Kazi Sami Hassan, Afia Tabassum Borno
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar

An assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault where she knows both the victim and the perpetrator.

Sabaya (Hirori)

Director: Hogir Hirori
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

Film follows a group into Syria’s Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.

Saloum (Herbulot)

Director: Jean Luc Herbulot
Stars: Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Roger Sallah, Mentor Ba
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Senegal

2003, three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.

Spencer (Larraín)

Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Chile

Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (Agrelo)

Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Stars: Frank Biondo, Linda Bove, Fran Brill, Northern Calloway
Genre: Documentary, Family, History
Country: USA

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children’s series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.

Stuck in the Groove (Golonka)

Director: Taylor Golonka
Stars: Aki Abe, Rusty Apper, Sharone Bechor, Pilak Bhatt
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with the experts, musicians and fans alike, ‘Stuck in the Groove’ takes you on a journey of vinyl-mania, music and nostalgia.

Summer of Soul (Questlove)

Director: Questlove
Stars: Dorinda Drake, Barbara Bland-Acosta, Darryl Lewis, Ethel Beatty
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.

Sundown (Franco)

Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Tim Roth, Albertine Kotting McMillan, Samuel Bottomley, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden

Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.

White Fortress , The (Drljaca)

Director: Igor Drljaca
Stars: Pavle Cemerikic, Sumeja Dardagan, Jasmin Geljo, Kerim Cutuna
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina

When a chance encounter brings together two teens from opposite sides of life in post-war Sarajevo, a blossoming romance conceals their desperate and disturbing motives.

Auschwitz Report, The (Bebjak)

Director: Peter Bebjak
Stars: Noel Czuczor, Peter Ondrejicka, John Hannah
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter–two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, and with the help and resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind, courageously stand their ground against Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence can save lives.

Beta Test, The (Cummings, McCabe)

Director: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe
Stars: Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK

An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.

Bombardment, The (Bornedal)

Director: Ole Bornedal
Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen, Caspar Phillipson, Danica Curcic, Susse Wold
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark

The fates of several Copenhagen residents collide when a WWII bombing mission accidentally targets a school full of children.

Forever Prisoner, The (Gibney)

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Stephen Gaudin, Chantell Higgins, Daniel Jones, Steven Kleinman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.

French Dispatch, The (Anderson)

Director: Wes Anderson
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch Magazine”.

Hunt for Planet B, The (Kahn)

Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Stars: Janet Arenberg, Jon Arenberg, Natalie Batalha, Natasha Batalha
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars.

Last Cruise, The (Olson)

Director: Hannah Olson
Stars: Kent N. Frasure, Rebecca Frasure, Jerri Jorgensen, Mark Jorgensen
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, DIAMOND PRINCESS chronicles the first and largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner.

Lost Leonardo, The (Koefoed)

Director: Andreas Koefoed
Stars: Mohammad Bin Salman, Robert K. Wittman, Jerry Saltz, Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: Denmark, France

The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.

Many Saints of Newark, The (Taylor)

Director: Alan Taylor
Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony’s struggles and the influence his family – especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti – had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.

Mitchells vs the Machines, The (Rianda, Rowe)

Director: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe
Stars: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Hong Kong

A quirky, dysfunctional family’s road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope.

Novice, The (Hadaway)

Director: Lauren Hadaway
Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone, Jonathan Cherry
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA

A college freshman joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

Phantom, The (Forbes)

Director: Patrick Forbes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: UK

Carlos DeLuna was arrested in 1983 aged 21 for the murder of Wanda Lopez, and protested his innocence until his execution, declaring that it was another Carlos who committed the crime.

Rescue, The (Chin, Vasarheyli)

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Bancha Duriyapunt, Apakorn Youkongkaew, Anan Surawan, Woranan Ratrawiphukkun
Genre: Documentary, Action, Mystery
Country: UK, USA

A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

Sparks Brothers, The (Wright)

Director: Edgar Wright
Stars: Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Beck, Jane Wiedlin
Genre: Documentary, Music, Biography
Country: UK, USA

A musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with Ron and Russell Mael celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks.

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (Coen)

Director: Joel Coen
Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: United States

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.

Velvet Underground, The (Haynes)

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: John Waters, Mary Woronov, Barbara Walters, Lou Reed
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.

White Tiger, The (Bahrani)

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Vedant Sinha
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA

An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.

Titane (Ducournau)

Director: Julia Ducournau
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh
Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Country: France, Belgium

Alex Lowe’s ill-fated climb and his son’s arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.

Torn (Lowe)

Director: Max Lowe
Stars: Conrad Anker, Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Alex Lowe, Sam Lowe
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Alex Lowe’s ill-fated climb and his son’s arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.

Try Harder! (Lum)

Director: Debbie Lum
Stars: Alvan Cai, Shealand Fairchild, Rachael Schmidt, Richard Shapiro
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Seniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.

Another World (Brizé)

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anthony Bajon, Marie Drucker
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.

Playground (Wandel)

Director: Laura Wandel
Stars: Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret, Lena Girard Voss, Simon Caudry
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children’s and adult’s worlds.

Val (Poo, Scott)

Director: Ting Poo, Leo Scott
Stars: Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Mercedes Kilmer, Joanne Whalley
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Documentary centering on the daily life of actor Val Kilmer featuring never-before-seen footage spanning 40 years.

Reflection (Vasyanovych)

Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Stars: Roman Lutskyi, Stanislav Aseyev, Oleksandr Danyliuk, Vasiliy Kukharskiy
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine

Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life.

Vortex (Noé)

Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Monaco

The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.

Most Beautiful Boy in the World, The (Lindström, Petri)

Director: Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
Stars: Kristina Lindström, Luchino Visconti, Mario Tursi, Björn Andrésen
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Sweden, Germany, France

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen’s life.

West Side Story (Spielberg)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez
Genre: Musical, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

What Josiah Saw (Grashaw)

Director: Vincent Grashaw
Stars: Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze, Kelli Garner
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (Kunstler)

Director: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Stars: Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher, Carolyn Payne
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.

Wild Roots (Kis)

Director: Hajni Kis
Stars: Gusztáv Dietz, Zorka Horváth, Kati Andai, Réka Babócsai
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Slovakia

A wild 12 year old girl who has been with her grandparents decides against their advice to seek out her father, a bouncer with a temper who is just getting out of prison.

Wood and Water (Bak)

Director: Jonas Bak
Stars: Lena Ackermann, Anke Bak, Theresa Bak, Alexandra Batten
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

As she enters retirement, a mother leaves behind her solitary life in rural Germany and memories of a once perfect family life and travels to protest-ridden Hong Kong, a place that has kept her son away from her for many years.

Writing with Fire (Ghosh, Thomas)

Director: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
Stars: Meera Devi, Shyamkali Devi, Suneeta Prajapati
Genre: Documentary
Country: India

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.

Leave No Traces (Matuszynski)

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Stars: Tomasz Zietek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

Hand of God, The (Sorrentino)

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, United States

In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.

Întregalde (Muntean)

Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Maria Popistasu, Ilona Brezoianu, Alex Bogdan, Luca Sabin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

A group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong.

Anaïs in Love (Bourgeois-Tacquet)

Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Follows Anaïs, a 30-year old woman that is broke and has a lover she doesn’t think she loves anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her, but Daniel lives with Emilie – who Anaïs also falls for.

 

Stella (Verheyde)

Director: Sylvie Verheyde
Stars: Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guerard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents’ bar.

 

To Let (Ra)

Director: Chezhian Ra
Stars: Dharun Bala, T. Arul Ezhilan, Mk Mani
Genre: Family
Country: India

The struggle of a family of three as they search for a house to rent after being given an ultimatum to vacate their house by their land lady.

 

Hala (Baig)

Director: Minhal Baig
Stars: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.

 

Lara (Gerster)

Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Stars: Tom Schilling, Rainer Bock, Corinna Harfouch
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany

It’s Lara’s 60th birthday, and this very evening, her son will be giving his debut piano concert. Lara mapped out his musical career. But Lara is not welcome at his debut performance. Even if Lara engages, everything gets out of control.

 

Ema (Larraín)

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Mariana Di Girólamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.

 

63 Up (Apted)

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

 

Luce (Onah)

Director: Julius Onah
Stars: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.

 

Hope (Sødahl)

Director: Maria Sødahl
Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Terje Auli
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway | Sweden

The relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis.

 

Aurora (Tervo)

Director: Miia Tervo
Stars: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Elá Yildirim
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland

Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.

 

Tench (Toye)

Director: Patrice Toye
Stars: Line Pillet, Greet Verstraete, Tijmen Govaerts
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

A kindhearted twenty-something struggling with his pedophile urges is put to the test when a young girl moves in next door.

 

Litigante (Lolli)

Director: Franco Lolli
Stars: Antonio Martinez, Alejandra Sarria, David Roa
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | France

A single mother balances taking care of her mother during her fight with cancer while dealing with a corruption scandal at work.

 

Share (Bianco)

Director: Pippa Bianco
Stars: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.

 

Monos (Landes)

Director: Alejandro Landes
Stars: Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Colombia | Argentina | Netherlands | Germany | Sweden | Uruguay | USA | Switzerland | Denmark | France

On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

 

Colewell (Quinn)

Director: Tom Quinn
Stars: Karen Allen, Kevin J. O’Connor, Hannah Gross
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

For thirty-five years, Nora has been the postmaster of Colewell, when the USPS decides to close her office, she must choose whether to relocate for a new position or face retirement in Colewell.

 

Synonyms (Lapid)

Director: Nadav Lapid
Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Israel | Germany

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

 

Saint Maud (Glass)

Director: Rose Glass
Stars: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.

 

Jezebel (Perrier)

Director: Numa Perrier
Stars: Tiffany Tenille, Numa Perrier, Brett Gelman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In the last days of her mother’s life, 19 year old Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her older sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of internet fetish cam girls. Tiffany becomes popular as the only “live black model” at the new adult site and soon becomes too close to one of her frequent callers. Dynamics shift in the sister relationship as each woman explores and exploits their sexuality, using their created fantasy worlds as an escape from the realities of their challenging real life circumstances.

 

Goldie (de Jong)

Director: Sam de Jong
Stars: Slick Woods, George Sample III, Danny Hoch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. A story about displaced youth, ambition and strength.

 

Dirty God (Polak)

Director: Sacha Polak
Stars: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady-Girard
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | UK | Belgium | Ireland

A young British mother struggles to reclaim her life after a brutal acid attack leaves her severely scarred.

 

Atlantics (Diop)

Director: Mati Diop
Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | Senegal | Belgium

In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.

 

Cave, The (Fayyad)

Director: Feras Fayyad
Stars: Amani Ballour, Samaher, Alaa
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Germany | France | UK | USA | Qatar | Syria

Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.

 

Better Days (Tsang)

Director: Derek Tsang
Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Jackson Yee, Fang Yin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: China

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, all while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

 

Premature (Green)

Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green
Stars: Zora Howard, Joshua Boone, Michelle Wilson
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Seventeen year-old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious Isaiah in her path toward self-discovery. Her entire world is turned upside down as she travails on the rigorous terrain of young love in the summer before she leaves for college.

 

Label Me (Kreuser)

Director: Kai Kreuser
Stars: Nikolaus Benda, Renato Schuch, Jogi Kaiser
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

No kissing. No passive penetration. For Waseem the rules are very clear: When Lars pays him for sex then only in a way that he can reconcile with his heterosexuality. On the one side the refugee from Syria living in a shelter, on the other side the wealthy German with a loft apartment – the differences couldn’t be more crass and yet both are connected by a sincere interest in each other. Their relationship is rooted in a constant alternation between dominance and longing for closeness. The playful power struggle between the two of them reveals their inability to hide their fears and longings from one another and to keep up their carefully constructed facades.

 

Hustlers (Scafaria)

Director: Lorene Scafaria
Stars: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

 

Citizen K (Gibney)

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.

 

Ad Astra (Gray)

Director: James Gray
Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: China | USA

Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

 

Brink, The (Klayman)

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Steve Bannon, Louis Aliot, Sean Bannon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A fly-on-the-wall chronicle of embattled former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s global mission to spread extreme nationalism.

 

Ms. Purple (Chon)

Director: Justin Chon
Stars: Mark Krenik, Jake Choi, Courtney Bandeko
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman who works as a karaoke hostess in Koreatown reconnects with her estranged brother in the final days of their father’s life.

 

Jojo Rabbit (Waititi)

Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: New Zealand | Czech Republic | USA

A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

 

Beanpole (Balagov)

Director: Kantemir Balagov
Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

 

Collective (Nanau)

Director: Alexander Nanau
Stars: Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania | Luxembourg

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

 

1917 (Mendes)

Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | UK | India | Spain | Canada | China

April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

 

VFW (Begos)

Director: Joe Begos
Stars: Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA

A group of old war veterans put their lives on the line to defend a young woman taking shelter in their local VFW post, who’s running from a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of drug addled punks.

 

Plagiarists, The (Parlow)

Director: Peter Parlow
Stars: William Michael Payne, Emily Davis, Lucy Kaminsky
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.

 

Assistant, The (Green)

Director: Kitty Green
Stars: Julia Garner, Owen Holland, Jon Orsini
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

 

Proxima (Winocour)

Director: Alice Winocour
Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France | Germany

An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.

 

Moffie (Hermanus)

Director: Oliver Hermanus
Stars: Kai Luke Brummer, Barbara-Marié Immelman, Michael Kirch
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: South Africa | UK

Nicholas has long known he is different, that there is something shameful and unacceptable in him that must stay hidden, denied even. But South Africa’s minority government are embroiled in conflict at the Angolian border and all white young men over 16 must serve two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime and its culture of toxic racist machismo. The ‘black danger’ is the real and present threat; what is wrong with Nicholas and others like him can be rooted out, treated and cured like a cancer. But just when fear pushes Nicholas to accept unspeakable horrors in the hopes of staying invisible, a tender relationship with another recruit becomes as dangerous for them both as any enemy fire.

 

Kuessipan (Verreault)

Director: Myriam Verreault
Stars: Brigitte Poupart, Étienne Galloy, Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community who promised each other to stick together no matter what. But their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy.

Jawline (Mandelup)

Director: Liza Mandelup
Stars: Nick Champa, JJ Hannon, Austyn Tester
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The film follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.

Ghost Tropic (Devos)

Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Saadia Bentaïeb, Laurent Kumba, Jovial Mbenga
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

After a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.

Seventeen (Arévalo)

Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Stars: Biel Montoro, Nacho Sánchez, Lola Cordón
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

To find a shelter dog he befriended, a 17-year-old boy escapes a juvenile detention center and is joined on his quest by his older brother.

Son, A (Barsaoui)

Director: Mehdi Barsaoui
Stars: Sami Bouajila, Najla Ben Abdallah, Youssef Khemiri
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia | France | Lebanon | Qatar

11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.

Babyteeth (Murphy)

Director: Shannon Murphy
Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

Milla, a seriously ill teenager falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents worst nightmare.

Sun, A (Chung)

Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Stars: Chien-Ho Wu, Yi-wen Chen, Samantha Shu-Chin Ko
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.

Painted Bird, The (Marhoul)

Director: Václav Marhoul
Stars: Petr Kotlár, Nina Sunevic, Alla Sokolova
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia | Ukraine

A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.

Tremors (Bustamante)

Director: Jayro Bustamante
Stars: Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | France | Luxembourg

The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.

Fire Will Come (Laxe)

Director: Oliver Laxe
Stars: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Abrao
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Luxembourg

Amador is a notorious Galician arsonist who has been accused of causing a new fire. Lois, a young firefighter, explores the depths of a forest on fire. Their destinies are linked by the power of a mysterious fire.

Les Misérables (Ly)

Director: Ladj Ly
Stars: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.

August Virgin, The (Trueba)

Director: Jonás Trueba
Stars: Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz, Isabelle Stoffel
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Eva is not satisfied with her life. In an act of faith, she decides to stay in Madrid over the summer, when all the other locals leave. August offers her a chance to start from scratch.

I Lost My Body (Clapin)

Director: Jérémy Clapin
Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d’Assumçao
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.

Human Nature (Bolt)

Director: Adam Bolt
Stars: Jennifer Doudna, George Church, Alta Charo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A breakthrough called CRISPR opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. A provocative exploration of its far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it.

Ford v Ferrari (Mangold)

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.

Dark Waters (Haynes)

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

Clemency (Chukwu)

Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Stars: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

2040 (Gameau)

Director: Damon Gameau
Stars: Damon Gameau, Eva Lazzaro, Zoë Gameau
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker’s daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.

Hidden Life, A (Malick)

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK | Germany

The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

Waves (Shults)

Director: Trey Edward Shults
Stars: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russell
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA | Canada

Traces the journey of a suburban family – led by a well-intentioned but domineering father – as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.

Turnover (Palmer)

Director: Linda Palmer
Stars: Isabella Blake-Thomas, Donna Mills, Jamie Brewer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA

Café owner Peter, leaves his disgruntled manager Henry, to take care of business, and he instead hires a crew of misfits. Peter returns to an unrecognizable business but soon learns the value of camaraderie with the new team.

Rest of Us, The (Chin-Yee)

Director: Aisling Chin-Yee
Stars: Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Abigail Pniowsky
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.

Kingmaker, The (Greenfield)

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Stars: Imelda Marcos, Etta Rosales, Ferdinand Marcos
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Denmark | USA

An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided a nation.

State Funeral (Loznitsa)

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands | Lithuania

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin’s funeral.

Only the Animals (Moll)

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany

A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don’t know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.

Madre (Sorogoyen)

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Marta Nieto, Jules Porier, Alex Brendemühl
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

Ten years have passed since Elena’s son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.

Truth, The (Koreeda)

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Japan | Switzerland

A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne’s autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a mother who never grows old.

Whistlers, The (Porumboiu)

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazar
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Romania | France | Germany

Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a policeman who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception.

I Am Mother (Sputore)

Director: Grant Sputore
Stars: Rose Byrne, Maddie Lenton, Luke Hawker
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia

In the wake of humanity’s extinction, a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

Circus of Books (Mason)

Director: Rachel Mason
Stars: Karen Mason, Barry Mason, Micah Mason
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US.

All of Us (Wallyn)

Director: Willem Wallyn
Stars: Delfine Bafort, Ellis De Beule, Gilles De Schryver
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.

Divine Love (Mascaro)

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Antonio Pastich
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Denmark | Norway | Chile | Sweden

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.

Wet Season (Chen)

Director: Anthony Chen
Stars: Jia Ler Koh, Christopher Ming-Shun Lee, Shi Bin Yang
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Taiwan

A teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.

Two Popes, The (Meirelles)

Director: Fernando Meirelles
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Italy

Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Other Lamb, The (Szumowska)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Stars: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland | Belgium | USA

A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.

Queen & Slim (Matsoukas)

Director: Melina Matsoukas
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Canada

A couple’s first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.

Heroic Losers (Borensztein)

Director: Sebastián Borensztein
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Verónica Llinás
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Argentina | Spain

In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.

Marona’s Fantastic Tale (Damian)

Director: Anca Damian
Stars: Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno Salomone, Thierry Hancisse
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: France | Romania | Belgium

After an accident, a little dog remembers all the different masters she’s had successively and loved unconditionally.

Incitement (Zilberman)

Director: Yaron Zilberman
Stars: Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitay Yaish Ben Ousilio, Anat Ravnitzki
Genre: Thriller
Country: Israel

Details the year leading to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), from the point of view of the assassin.

How to Build a Girl (Giedroyc)

Director: Coky Giedroyc
Stars: Beanie Feldstein, Cleo, Dónal Finn
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.

End of Sentence (Adalsteins)

Director: Elfar Adalsteins
Stars: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Ireland

After being widowed, Frank Fogle reluctantly embarks on a journey to honor his wife’s last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son, Sean, along for the trip. As Sean steps out of prison the last thing on his mind is a foreign road trip with his alienated father. What he needs is a fresh start in California. But when his travel plans collapse he reluctantly accepts his father’s proposal in return for a ticket to the West Coast and a promise that they never have to see each other again. Between a disconcerting Irish wake, the surfacing of an old flame, the pick up of a pretty hitchhiker and plenty of unresolved issues, the journey becomes a little more than father and son had bargained for.

Platform, The (Gaztelu-Urrutia)

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain

A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.

Cunningham (Kovgan)

Director: Alla Kovgan
Stars: Carolyn Brown, John Cage, Ashley Chen
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Germany | France | USA

The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan’s 3D documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Burning Cane (Youmans)

Director: Phillip Youmans
Stars: Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, Dominique McClellan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.

Apollo 11 (Miller)

Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Stars: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

16 Shots (Rowley)

Director: Rick Rowley
Stars: Anita Alvarez, Dean Angelo, Alma Benitez
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

Toy Story 4 (Cooley)

Director: Josh Cooley
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

When a new toy called “Forky” joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.

Egg (Wang)

Director: Robert Jury
Stars: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. His peculiar decision has a profound effect on the whole community, though his actions yield an outcome that no one ever expected.

Working Man (Jury)

Director: Robert Jury
Stars: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. His peculiar decision has a profound effect on the whole community, though his actions yield an outcome that no one ever expected.

Blonde One, The (Berger)

Director: Marco Berger
Stars: Gaston Re, Alfonso Barón, Malena Irusta
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

In the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Gabriel has just moved in with his colleague, Juan. Shy and reserved, Gabo is reluctant to follow Juan’s wandering hands and meaningful looks.

River and the Wall, The (Masters)

Director: Ben Masters
Stars: Ben Masters, Jay Kleberg, Filipe DeAndrade
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Country: Mexico | USA

Five friends travel from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico along the Rio Grande via bicycle, horseback, and canoe, exploring the relationship between the river and the proposed wall along America’s border with Mexico.

Perfect Candidate, The (Al-Mansour)

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Stars: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali, Nora Al Awad
Genre: Drama
Country: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali, Nora Al Awad

A determined young Saudi doctor’s surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town’s first female candidate.

Mustang, The (de Clermont-Tonnerre)

Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict, who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs.

Ghost Town Anthology (Côté)

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

In a small and isolated town, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end.

About Endlessness (Andersson)

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms, Marie Burman
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | Norway | France

With ABOUT ENDLESSNESS, Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.

Midnight Family (Lorentzen)

Director: Luke Lorentzen
Stars: Juan Ochoa, Fer Ochoa, Josue Ochoa
Genre: Documentary, Action, Crime
Country: Mexico

In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.

Leftover Women (Medalia, Shlam)

Director: Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia
Stars: Hua Mei Qiu, Min Xu, Qi Gai
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | USA

In China, single women are under immense pressure to marry young or face the stigma that comes with being “leftover.” Leftover Women follows three hopeful singles seeking to define love on their own terms.

Unknown Saint, The (Aljem)

Director: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Stars: Younes Bouab, Salah Ben Saleh, Bouchaib Semmak
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Morocco | France | Qatar

A criminal returns to the fake grave where he buried his loot years before and discovers that it has become the shrine of an unknown saint and a thriving little village.

Cordillera of Dreams, The (Guzmán)

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Jorge Baradit, Vicente Gajardo, Francisco Gazitúa
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile | France

Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the government. However, he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture and a place on the map.

No.7 Cherry Lane (Yonfan)

Director: Yonfan
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Wei Zhao, Alex Tak-Shun Lam
Genre: Animation
Country: Hong Kong | China

Ziming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.

County, The (Hákonarson)

Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Stars: Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark | Germany | France

A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.

High Flying Bird (Soderbergh)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: André Holland, Melvin Gregg, Eddie Tavares
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

During a pro basketball lockout, a sports agent pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business proposition.

Weasel’s Tale, The (Campanella)

Director: Juan José Campanella
Stars: Graciela Borges, Oscar Martínez, Luis Brandoni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A group of four old friends conformed by a film director, a film writer, an actress and her husband share a big house in the country. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple who resourcefully and deceitfully seek to get them to sell the house to develop a real estate project of their own.

Song Without a Name (León)

Director: Melina León
Stars: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru | Spain | USA | Chile

Georgina’s newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.

Corpus Christi (Komasa)

Director: Jan Komasa
Stars: Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Alice (Mackerras)

Director: Josephine Mackerras
Stars: Emilie Piponnier, Martin Swabey, Chloé Boreham
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Australia | France

She did everything right, until it all went wrong.

Invisible Life (Aïnouz)

Director: Karim Aïnouz
Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Germany

Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.

Little Women (Gerwig)

Director: Greta Gerwig
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.

Zana (Kastrati)

Director: Antoneta Kastrati
Stars: Adriana Matoshi, Astrit Kabashi, Fatmire Sahiti
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Kosovo | Albania

Haunted by her long suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

Edge of Democracy, The (Costa)

Director: Petra Costa
Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Brazil

Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.

Talking About Trees (Gasmelbari)

Director: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Stars: Manar Al Hilo, Suleiman Ibrahim, Altayeb Mahdi
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Sudan | Chad | Germany | Qatar | United Arab Emirates

Four older Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan, not without resistance. Their ‘Sudanese Film Club’ have decided to revive an old cinema, and again draw attention to Sudanese film history.

See You Yesterday (Bristol)

Director: Stefon Bristol
Stars: Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow, Astro
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA

Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.’s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Wolf)

Director: Matt Wolf
Stars: Michael Metelits, Marion Stokes
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.

Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (Beauvais)

Director: Frank Beauvais
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. France, still in shock from the November terror attacks, is in a state of emergency. I feel helpless, I suffocate with contained rage. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.

Mister America (Notarnicola)

Director: Eric Notarnicola
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, Terri Parks
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After representing himself and beating a murder charge, a concert promoter runs for the San Bernardino District Attorney’s office against the prosecutor of his case.

Lucky Grandma (Sealy)

Director: Sasie Sealy
Stars: Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Set in New York City’s Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck – and in the middle of a gang war.

Mystery of Henri Pick, The (Bezançon)

Director: Rémi Bezançon
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece, in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by the publishers. The text is signed Henri Pick, a Breton pizza maker who died two years earlier.

Good Intentions, The (Blaya)

Director: Ana García Blaya
Stars: Javier Drolas, Jazmín Stuart, Amanda Minujin
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status-quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

In Search of Darkness (Weiner)

Director: David A. Weiner
Stars: Tom Atkins, Doug Bradley, John Bloom
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An exploration of ’80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

Honeyland (Kotevska, Stefanov)

Director: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
Stars: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Republic of North Macedonia

The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

Fantastic Fungi (Schwartzberg)

Director: Louie Schwartzberg
Stars: Brie Larson, Andrew Weil, Giuliana Furci
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

Days to Come, The (Marques-Marcet)

Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Stars: Maria Rodríguez Soto, David Verdaguer, Lupe Verdaguer Rodríguez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

Vir and Lluis have been dating for a year now. Vir finds out she is pregnant. During the next nine months, Vir and Lluis will live their fears, joys, expectations and realities that, during their pregnancy, grow before them.

Come As You Are (Wong)

Director: Richard Wong
Stars: Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, Ravi Patel
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film ‘Hasta La Vista’.

Who You Think I Am (Nebbou)

Director: Safy Nebbou
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?

Advocate (Bellaiche, Jones)

Director: Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones
Stars: Lea Tsemel, Yasser Joubeh, Suheila Dweik
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Israel | Canada

A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.

Farewell, The (Wang)

Director: Lulu Wang
Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (Costin)

Director: Midge Costin
Stars: Erik Aadahl, Ioan Allen, Richard L. Anderson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of the history and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.

One Child Nation (Wang, Zhang)

Director: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
Stars: Nanfu Wang, Zaodi Wang, Zhimei Wang
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Zombi Child (Bonello)

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret – not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.

Where’s My Roy Cohn? (Tyrnauer)

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Roy M. Cohn, Ken Auletta, Marie Brenner
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues – from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump.

To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa)

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Shôta Sometani, Tokio Emoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Uzbekistan | Qatar

A young Japanese woman named Yoko who finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

Disappearance of My Mother, The (Barrese)

Director: Beniamino Barrese
Stars: Benedetta Barzini, Beniamino Barrese, Stephanie DeBaillew
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.

Sea of Shadows (Ladkani, Bogle, Podolsky)

Director: Richard Ladkani, Sean Bogle, Matthew Podolsky
Stars: Romel Eduardo Ledezma Abaroa, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Hector Capetillo
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: Austria | Australia | Germany | USA

The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Engel)

Director: Janice Engel
Stars: Ben Barnes, Paul Begala, Pat Buchanan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

RAISE HELL: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril, and said “Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.” Molly’s words have proved prescient. Now it’s up to us to raise hell.

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (Herzog)

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin, Karin Eberhard
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog’s creative and personal vision which was share with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of ‘In Patagonia’ and a champion of the nomadic life.

Memory: The Origins of Alien (Philippe)

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Stars: Bijan Aalam, Tim Boxell, Axelle Carolyn
Genre: Documentary, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Switzerland

An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film “Alien” with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.

Swallows of Kabul, The (Breitman, Gobbé-Mévellec)

Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Stars: Simon Abkarian, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: France | Switzerland | Luxembourg | Monaco

Summer 1998, Kabul in ruins is occupied by the Taliban. In love despite the daily violence and misery, Mohsen and Zunaira want to believe in the future. But a senseless act by Mohsen will upset their lives forever.

Last Breath (da Costa, Parkinson)

Director: Richard da Costa, Alex Parkinson
Stars: Duncan Allcock, Duncan Allcock, Kjetil Ove Alvestad
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Belgium | Sweden

A deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue. With access to amazing archive this is the story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.

Endless Trench, The (Arregi, Garaño, Goenaga)

Director: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Canada

1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.

Tale of Three Sisters, A (Alper)

Director: Emin Alper
Stars: Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Germany | Netherlands | Greece

Three young girls are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia, one after another, after failing in more affluent foster families.

And the Birds Rained Down (Archambault)

Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Andrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Three elderly hermits live in the woods. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women – A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.

White, White Day, A (Palmason)

Director: Hlynur Palmason
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark | Sweden

An off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

Give Me Liberty (Mikhanovsky)

Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky
Stars: Chris Galust, Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer, Maxim Stoyanov
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (Lewkowicz)

Director: Max Lewkowicz
Stars: Marc Aronson, Michael Bernardi, Jerry Bock
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The origin story behind one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when “tradition” was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.

Dolemite Is My Name (Brewer)

Director: Craig Brewer
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Brügger)

Director: Mads Brügger
Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza
Genre: Documentary, Animation, History
Country: Denmark | Norway | Sweden | Belgium

Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Pemberton)

Director: Justin Pemberton
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Kate Williams, Thomas Piketty
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | New Zealand

Adapting one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time, Capital in the 21st Century is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, shining a new light on the world around us and its growing inequalities. Traveling through time from the French Revolution and other huge global shifts, to world wars and through to the rise of new technologies today, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future.

Bacurau (Dornelles, Filho)

Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: Brazil | France

After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.

American Factory (Bognar, Reichert)

Director: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Stars: Junming ‘Jimmy’ Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Those Who Remained (Tóth)

Director: Barnabás Tóth
Stars: Károly Hajduk, Abigél Szõke, Mari Nagy
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of national conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.

Vitalina Varela (Costa)

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.

Hal (Scott)

Director: Amy Scott
Stars: Allison Anders, Judd Apatow, Rosanna Arquette
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Hal Ashby’s obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby’s uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

1985 (Tan)

Director: Yen Tan
Stars: Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

Egg (Palka)

Director: Marianna Palka
Stars: Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Centers on conceptual artist Tina (Reiner), when she introduces her eight-month pregnant art school rival (Hendricks) to her non-traditional surrogate Kiki (Camp). The truth comes outs and the patriarchy fights to hang on.

Funan (Do)

Director: Denis Do
Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Louis Garrel, Colette Kieffer
Genre: Animation, War
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg | Cambodia | Reunion

The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.

Luz (Singer)

Director: Tilman Singer
Stars: Luana Velis, Johannes Benecke, Jan Bluthardt
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany

Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.

Girl (Dhont)

Director: Lukas Dhont
Stars: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | Belgium

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

Mid90s (Hill)

Director: Jonah Hill
Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

Burning (Lee)

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Ah-In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea | Japan

Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

José (Cheng)

Director: Li Cheng
Stars: Enrique Salanic, Manolo Herrera, Ana Cecilia Mota
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | USA

José lives with his mother in Guatemala. It’s a tough life in one of the most violent and religious countries. When he meets Luis, he’s thrust into new-found passion and pain.

Shirkers (Tan)

Director: Sandi Tan
Stars: Sandi Tan, Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.

Pity (Makridis)

Director: Babis Makridis
Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Pavlos Makridis
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | Poland

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

Mirage (Paulo)

Director: Oriol Paulo
Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darín, Javier Gutiérrez
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain

Two storms separated by 25 years. A woman murdered. A daughter missed. Only 72 hours to discover the truth.

Ricordi? (Mieli)

Director: Valerio Mieli
Stars: Luca Marinelli, Linda Caridi, Giovanni Anzaldo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A love story told through the memories of two nameless lovers in different stages of their lives.

Grass (Hong)

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Joobong Kee, Jae-hong Ahn
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

In a small Café, Min-hee Kim plays a guest who prefers to observe but not interact with the other guests herself.

Rojo (Naishtat)

Director: Benjamín Naishtat
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France | Netherlands | Germany | Belgium | Switzerland

In Argentina pre-coup d’etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.

Rams (Hustwit)

Director: Gary Hustwit
Stars: Naoto Fukasawa, Dieter Rams
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

It is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design.

Jinn (Mumin)

Director: Nijla Mumin
Stars: Simone Missick, Zoe Renee, Hisham Tawfiq
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.

Loveling (Pizzi)

Director: Gustavo Pizzi
Stars: Karine Teles, Otávio Müller, Adriana Esteves
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Germany

Irene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.

Peterloo (Leigh)

Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Joy (Mortezai)

Director: Sudabeh Mortezai
Stars: Anwulika Alphonsus, Mariam Sanusi, Angela Ekeleme
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria

Joy, a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking, is instructed by her exploiter Madame to supervise Precious, a teenage girl who is not ready to accept her fate.

Cam (Goldhaber)

Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Stars: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she’s been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

3 Faces (Panahi)

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Iran

Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.

Invisibles (Petit)

Director: Louis-Julien Petit
Stars: Patricia Mouchon, Khoukha Boukherbache, Bérangère Toural
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Following a municipal decision, SDF Women’s Shelter, will close. There are only three months left for social workers to reintegrate at any cost the women they care for: falsification, pistons, lies – From now on, everything is allowed.

Holiday (Eklöf)

Director: Isabella Eklöf
Stars: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark | Netherlands | Sweden

A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.

Calibre (Palmer)

Director: Matt Palmer
Stars: Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A shocking deed turned their weekend trip into a nightmare. Now their only hope is to swallow their paranoia and act normal.

Mirai (Hosoda)

Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Stars: Rebecca Hall, John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Roma (Cuarón)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Void (Salmenperä)

Director: Aleksi Salmenperä
Stars: Laura Birn, Tommi Korpela, Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a successful actress and a struggling writer.

Load, The (Glavonic)

Director: Ognjen Glavonic
Stars: Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia | France | Croatia | Iran | Qatar

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.

Relaxer (Potrykus)

Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian, Andre Hyland
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge – the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man – and he can’t get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.

Maiden (Holmes)

Director: Alex Holmes
Stars: Frank Bough, John Chittenden, Bruno Du Bois
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK

The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.

Prayer, The (Kahn)

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.

Border (Abbasi)

Director: Ali Abbasi
Stars: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden | Denmark

A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.

Kanarie (Olwagen)

Director: Christiaan Olwagen
Stars: Schalk Bezuidenhout, Hannes Otto, Germandt Geldenhuys
Genre: Drama, Musical, War
Country: South Africa

A coming-of-age war musical about a small town boy who gets chosen to serve his compulsory two year military training in the South African Defence Force Choir and Concert group- known as the “Canaries”- during the height of the Apartheid regime.

Cut Off (Alvart)

Director: Christian Alvart
Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Germany

Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

High Life (Denis)

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: France | UK | Germany | Poland | USA

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Mug (Szumowska)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Malgorzata Gorol
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.

Last Race, The (Dweck)

Director: Michael Dweck
Stars: Marty Berger, Barbara Cromarty, Jim Cromarty
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

A sumptuous Sundance doc depicting the Long Island birthplace of stock car racing where only one track remains. Located on prime real estate, the real tors are circling. The property is worth millions and only the love and integrity of the track’s community and elderly owners keep the bulldozers at bay. Stunning cinematography immerses us in the intimate world of grassroots racing, at a time when its future is in the balance. Can this great blue collar American pastime survive?

Stan & Ollie (Baird)

Director: Jon S. Baird
Stars: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

Laurel and Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song – a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.

Mutant Blast (Alle)

Director: Fernando Alle
Stars: Pedro Barão Dias, Maria Leite, João Vilas
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA | Portugal

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse.

Still Human (Chan)

Director: Oliver Siu Kuen Chan
Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Crisel Consunji, Sam Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A paralyzed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino domestic worker who has put her dream on hold and came to the city to earn a living. These two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons, and as they learn more about each other, they also learn more about themselves. Together, they learn about how to face the different seasons of life.

Lemonade (Uricaru)

Director: Ioana Uricaru
Stars: Mãlina Manovici, Dylan Smith, Steve Bacic
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania | Canada | Germany | Sweden

Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.

Crystal Swan (Zhuk)

Director: Darya Zhuk
Stars: Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yuriy Borisov
Genre: Drama
Country: Belarus | USA | Germany | Russia

In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Gloria Bell (Lelio)

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile | USA

A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.

Dogman (Garrone)

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | France

A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.

Ayka (Dvortsevoy)

Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Stars: Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, Sergey Mazur
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | Germany | Poland | China | France | Kazakhstan

A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.

Genesis (Lesage)

Director: Philippe Lesage
Stars: Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin, Pier-Luc Funk
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.

Ága (Lazarov)

Director: Milko Lazarov
Stars: Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Sergei Egorov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | France

In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth. Nanook and Sedna’s traditional way of life starts changing – slowly, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable deaths and the ice has been melting earlier every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world – and to their daughter Ága, who has left the icy tundra a long time ago due to family feud. When Sedna’s health deteriorates, Nanook decides to fulfill her wish. He embarks on a long journey in order to find Ága.

One Last Deal (Härö)

Director: Klaus Härö
Stars: Heikki Nousiainen, Pirjo Lonka, Amos Brotherus
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

An elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.

Cold Blue, The (Nelson)

Director: Erik Nelson
Stars: V.G. Alexander, Paul Haedike, Mort Kimmel
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A tribute to one of the world’s great filmmakers and the men of the 8th Air Force who flew mission after suicidal mission in the Second World War.

Socrates (Moratto)

Director: Alexandre Moratto
Stars: Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji, Jayme Rodrigues
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

After his mother’s sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo’s coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

Number 37 (Dumisa)

Director: Nosipho Dumisa
Stars: Aphinda Afaika, Irshaad Ally, Ben Appolis
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Africa

Entrapped in his apartment, Randal Hendricks, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to Emmie, a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal, named Lawyer, commit murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme.

Love Sonia (Noorani)

Director: Tabrez Noorani
Stars: Abhishek Bharate, Riya Sisodiya, Mrunal Thakur
Genre: Drama
Country: India

Inspired by real life events, Love Sonia is the story of a young girl’s journey to rescue her sister from the dangerous world of international sex trafficking.

Incredibles 2 (Bird)

Director: Brad Bird
Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA

The Incredibles hero family takes on a new mission, which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world.

One Day (Szilágyi)

Director: Zsófia Szilágyi
Stars: Zsófia Szamosi, Leó Füredi, Ambrus Barcza
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A day in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.