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Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Switzerland | France

A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.

Director: Gonzalo Tobal
Stars: Lali Espósito, Emilio Vodanovich, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Mexico

A young student is the only one accused of the brutal murder of her best friend, a case that is excessively reported by the media. Cornered by the evidence, she must face her own doubts about what really happened.

Director: Panos Cosmatos
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK | Belgium

The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Director: Suzi Yoonessi
Stars: Charlene deGuzman, John Hawkes, Melissa Leo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.

Director: Ash Mayfair
Stars: Hong Chuong Nguyen, Long Le Vu, Nu Yên-Khê Tran
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam

In 19th century rural Vietnam, May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will force her to decide between living in safety and being free.

Director: Jodie Mack
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A playful trip around the world, through its fabrics and textiles and their place in a busy international market.

Director: Sameh Zoabi
Stars: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Luxembourg | Israel | France | Belgium

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise – until the soldier and the show’s financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.

Director: Chang-hee Lee
Stars: Sang-kyung Kim, Hee-ae Kim, Kang-woo Kim
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea

The body of Yoon Seol Hee disappears at the National Institute of Scientific Investigation. Detective Woo Joong Shik seeks clues on her disappearance, while her husband Park Jin Han claims she is alive.

Director: Christophe Honoré
Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Jacques is an older writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they’ll have to face rejection and sickness to keep it that way.

Director: Guillaume Senez
Stars: Romain Duris, Basile Grunberger, Lena Girard Voss
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France

Olivier is fighting with his comrades at work against injustices, but one night his wife Laura leaves him and the kids on 9 and 6. He must now meet another struggle and face up to his new responsibilities. Can he find a new balance?

Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Stars: Bob Fulton, Stuart Barrie, John Keenan
Genre: Documentary, Animation, History
Country: UK | Chile

In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk
Genre: Biography, Music, Romance
Country: Russia | France

A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.

Director: Elena Trapé
Stars: Alexandra Jiménez, Miki Esparbé, Isak Férriz
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

A weekend in Berlin. Five friends reunited for a celebration. Five lives turn upside-down.

Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella
Stars: Ilse Salas, Flavio Medina, Cassandra Ciangherotti
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico’s 1982 economic crisis.

Director: Rene Liu
Stars: Boran Jing, Dongyu Zhou, Zhuangzhuang Tian
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China

During the hectic chunyun period, 2 strangers traveling home meet on the train.

Director: Marcus Lindeen
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Fe Seymour, Maria Björnstam
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Germany | USA

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behavior. Although the project became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three month journey. Through extraordinary archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition on a full scale replica of the raft, this film tells the hidden story behind what has been described as ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Ukraine | France | Netherlands | Romania | Poland

In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.

Director: Gustav Möller
Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family.

Director: Eva Vives
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Brodie Reed, Charlotte Newhouse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Nina is a stand-up comedian who sees her life turned upside down when she meets Rafe.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Norway | Iceland | USA

A three-part story of Norway’s worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway’s political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.

Director: Olmo Omerzu
Stars: Tomás Mrvík, Jan Frantisek Uher, Eliska Krenková
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | Slovenia | Poland | Slovakia | France

Two mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu’s road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth.

Director: Yann Gonzalez
Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Mexico | Switzerland

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.

Director: Alex Winter
Stars: Luke Harding, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Robert Bridges, Angie Firmalino, Rita Redberg
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | USA

A look at the unforeseen consequences of advanced technological devices used in the medical field.

Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Stars: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia | USA

After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.

Director: Jeanne Herry
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Élodie Bouchez
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Belgium

Theo was born an unwanted child. The social services set out to find the perfect home for his adoption.

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Simon Russell Beale, Ilse Salas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico

In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.

Director: Martín Deus
Stars: Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Lautaro Rodríguez, Guillermo Pfening
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

Lorenzo is a quiet teenager who lives with his parents and his younger brother in small city in the Argentinean Patagonia. One day, a family friend’s son named Caíto moves south and settles in at Lorenzo’s home. His family is going through difficult times and can’t give much care to him. Caíto is very shy and hardly speaks. Lorenzo is supposed to help him feel at home. They become friends. They spend great amounts of time together. Although Lorenzo doesn’t like sports, he puts up with Caíto’s fascination for mountain biking. They share deep conversations too. They can be very different but they come to understand each other. It won’t be long until everybody at home realizes Caíto is a difficult case. After a couple of days, Lorenzo’s parents feel they’ve had enough. But then, Caíto makes a big confession to Lorenzo.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen’s elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

Director: Lisa D’Apolito
Stars: Andrew Alexander, Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA

In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.

Director: Heather Lenz
Stars: Yayoi Kusama
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Artist Yayoi Kusama and experts discuss her life and work, from her modest beginnings in Japan to becoming an internationally renowned artist.

Director: Tolga Karaçelik
Stars: Tolga Tekin, Bartu Küçükçaglayan, Tugce Altug
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey

In a Turkish village, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and each other, they also start to learn more about themselves.

Director: Amy Adrion
Stars: Ava DuVernay, Brenda Chapman, Caroline Libresco
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.

Director: Amy Adrion
Stars: Ava DuVernay, Brenda Chapman, Caroline Libresco
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | Japan

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Director: Chih-Yen Hsu, Mag Hsu
Stars: Roy Chiu, Ying-Xuan Hsieh, Spark Chen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan

A teenage boy and his mother are further driven apart when they find out that his father’s life insurance policy is to be received by his lover.

Director: Abdelhamid Bouchnak
Stars: Yassmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed, Aziz Jebali
Genre: Horror
Country: Tunisia

An investigation into witchcraft leads a trio of journalism students to a mysterious town marked by sinister rituals. Inspired by true events.

Director: Sophie Lorain
Stars: Romane Denis, Anthony Therrien, Rose Adam
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada

One tipsy evening, Charlotte, the recently heartbroken, Megan, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, the shy romantic, stumble into the ‘Toy Depot’. Charmed by the male employees, the girls fill out a job application and quickly become part of the ‘Toy Depot’ gang. Charlotte has found the guys to be particularly helpful in getting over her heartbreak, to say the least. But has she taken it too far? The film explores teenage girls’ desires, the blurred lines between sex and friendship, and the unfair double standard imposed upon girls. It is a story of desire, self-censorship, and self-assertion.

Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Director: Bing Liu
Stars: Keire Johnson, Bing Liu, Zack Mulligan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi’nan Diao
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: China | France | Japan

A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.

Director: Eva Trobisch
Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans Löw
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Janne’s new boss’s brother-in-law rapes her, but she doesn’t report the incident and continues her way of life as usual. But her silence has consequences, not only for her but also for the love that she feels for her friend Piet.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.

Director: Erik Poppe
Stars: Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Solveig Koløen Birkeland
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway

A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.

Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Stars: Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Trine Dyrholm
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden | Denmark

Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children’s books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.

Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Stars: Jeff Koons, Paul Schimmel, Larry Poons
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.

Director: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
Stars: Shimon Peres, Dennis Ross, Uri Savir
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | Canada

A group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for an unsanctioned peace talks during the 1990s in order to bring peace to the Middle East.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Dick Cavett, Frank Capra
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Director: John Chester
Stars: John Chester, Molly Chester, Lydia Marie Hicks
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentarian John Chester and his wife Molly work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.

Director: John Andreas Andersen
Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Edith Haagenrud-Sande
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway

In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the “Oslo Graben” which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.

Director: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

Director: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl
Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Pedro Pascal
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They’ve secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon’s toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest’s other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father’s greed-addled judgment, the girl finds she must carve her own path to escape.

Director: Spike Lee, Danya Taymor
Stars: Jon Michael Hill, Julian Parker, Ryan Hallahan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.

Director: Patricia Rozema
Stars: Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Maev Beaty
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expresses the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman’s head, during a 48-hour period as she tries to organize the affairs for her mother’s funeral.

Director: David Sington, Heather Walsh
Stars: Joyce Case, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary profiles women who were tested in 1961 for spaceflight, but had their dreams dashed when only men were chosen to become astronauts.

Director: Nia DaCosta
Stars: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A modern Western about two sisters who work outside the law to better their lives.

Director: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
Stars: Aphisit Hama, Wanlop Rungkumjad, Rasmee Wayrana
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand | France | China

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend’s life – his house, his job and his ex-wife.

Director: Ulrich Köhler
Stars: Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Michael Wittenborn
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany | Italy

A bored man suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared though he isn’t sure what happened.

Director: Peter Farrelly
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Stars: Orlando von Einsiedel
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Following his Oscar winning The White Helmets, Orlando von Einsiedel turns his camera on his own family as they attempt to cope with a devastating loss. When his brother, newly diagnosed as schizophrenic and suffering from intense depression, took his own life at 22, Orlando and his other two siblings buried the trauma, rarely talking about it. Over a decade later, the remaining family set out on a hiking tour, visiting landscapes Evelyn liked to walk, to reflect on his life and death. The result is an intensely personal and moving take on the emotional impact of suicide within a family and a powerful account of the benefits of creating safe spaces for emotional communication.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.

Director: Kimberly Reed
Stars: Jon Tester, Debra Bonogofsky, Jim Peterson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana–a front line in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide–to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impact of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

Director: Wash Westmoreland
Stars: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France | Hungary | Netherlands

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Director: Nadine Labaki
Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon | USA | France | Cyprus | Qatar | UK

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Ken Boe
Genre: Documentary, Western
Country: USA

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Director: Viktor Kosakovskiy
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany | Denmark | USA

Water and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Piolo Pascual, Shaina Magdayao, Bituin Escalante
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Philippines

A young and fearless doctor opens a clinic for a poor community in a remote village of the Phillipines. However, she disappears without a trace. Her husband, a poet and teacher seeks the truth of her vanishing.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Poland | UK | France | Belgium

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what’s right.

Director: Ramón Salazar
Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Greta Fernández
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

A high-class old lady receives the unexpected visit of her long-time stranded daughter that she had left over thirty years ago, asking a strange request: to spend ten days the two together.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Dimitri Basil, Jean-Pierre Gos
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.

Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Stars: Evan Rosado, Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.

Director: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Stars: Robin Aubert, Emilie Bierre, Madeleine Blais-Tremblay
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Between high school pressure and family disorganisation, Mylia is trying to find her bearings. Meeting Jacinthe and Jimmy will lead her to outline a new life.

Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Thomas Adlam, William Argent, John Ashby
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: UK | New Zealand

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Director: Sara Colangelo
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Ato Blankson-Wood
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Israel | UK | Canada

A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.

Director: Mark Cousins
Stars: Mark Cousins, Jack Klaff, Beatrice Welles
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before.

Director: Likarion Wainaina
Stars: Stycie Waweru, Marrianne Nungo, Nyawara Ndambia
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Kenya

Story of a young girl whose dream of becoming a superhero is threatened by terminal illness, inspiring her village to rally together to make her dream come true.

Director: Kim Min-Ho
Stars: Dong-seok Ma, Ji-Hyo Song, Seong-oh Kim
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea

Dong-Chul (Don Lee) and Ji-Soo (Song Ji-Hyo) are a happily married couple. One day, Dong-Chul comes home to find his house in disarray and his wife is missing.

Director: Mari Okada
Stars: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yôko Hikasa
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Escaping war, a young girl finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son.

Director: Barry Avrich
Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Christian Wenaweser, David Scheffer
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Canada

A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.

Director: David Douglas, Drew Fellman
Stars: Kristen Bell, Wen Lei Bi, Rong Hou
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

In the mountains of Sichuan, China, a researcher forms a bond with Qian Qian, a panda who is about to experience nature for the first time.

Director: Jordana Spiro
Stars: Dominique Fishback, Jill Rene, Tatum Marilyn Hall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.

Director: Gastón Duprat
Stars: Andrea Acatto, Lucas Aranda, Raúl Arévalo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Bernard Arnault, Joseph Bennett, Detmar Blow
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death.

Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Stars: Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir, Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iceland | Finland | Germany

Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.

Director: Leon Lee
Stars: Anonymous, Julie Keith, Fu Ning
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

When a desperate SOS letter penned by a political prisoner turns up in Halloween decorations sold in Oregon, it sparks a nail-biting chain of events that exposes appalling human rights violations and leads to sweeping labor reform in China.

Director: Marcelo Martinessi
Stars: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova
Genre: Drama
Country: Paraguay | France | Germany | Norway | Brazil | Uruguay | Italy

Chela and Chiquita are both descended from wealthy families in Asunción and have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection.

Director: Sébastien Pilote
Stars: Karelle Tremblay, Pierre-Luc Brillant, François Papineau
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother’s influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.

Director: Michal Aviad
Stars: Liron Ben-Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promotes her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant afloat, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered, she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self-worth.

Director: Sally Rubin, Ashley York
Stars: Michael Apted, Ronny Cox, Sam Gleaves
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“hillbilly” is a documentary film that examines the iconic hillbilly image in media and culture. The film explores more than a hundred years of media representation of mountain and rural people and offers an urgent exploration of how we see and think about rural America.

Director: Alberto Saúl Arnaut Estrada
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico

On March 19th 2010, the Mexican government announced the death of two hitmen, armed to the teeth, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Days later, it was discovered that they were in fact honor students who had been tortured and murdered by the military, who later tried to disappear them in a common grave.

Director: Michael Noer
Stars: Jesper Christensen, Clara Rosager, Magnus Krepper
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

As winter approaches in rural 1850s Denmark, an old farmer (Jens) and his family face starvation. With the harsh circumstances and the prospect of yet another tough winter, Jens agrees to ally with the neighbor family in a marriage between his daughter and their son. However, when the rich farmer at a nearby farm wants to buy Jens’s land, he sees a chance to provide him and his family with an even better life.

Director: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo
Stars: María Martín, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain | France | Canada | USA

The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking ‘Argentine Lawsuit’ and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy.

Director: Bo Hu
Stars: Yu Zhang, Yuchang Peng, Uvin Wang
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.

Director: Tinge Krishnan
Stars: Michaela Coel, Mya Lewis, Arinzé Kene
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A dedicated single mother who, on an unusual night on the town, is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger.

Director: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
Stars: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.

Director: Göran Uhlin, Richard Gardt
Stars: Zulmai Afzali, Alexander Bard, Arg Blatte
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

A Swedish Elephant is a feature-length documentary film about the Swedish society of today.

Director: Barbara Miller
Stars: Deborah Feldman, Leyla Hussein, Rokudenashiko
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Germany

#FEMALE PLEASURE embarks on a journey to discover the remaining obstacles that stand in the way of female sexuality in the 21st century.

Director: Blitz Bazawule
Stars: Ama K. Abebrese, Joe Addo, Henry Adofo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ghana | USA

A man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.

Director: Lila Avilés
Stars: Gabriela Cartol, Agustina Quinci, Teresa Sánchez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | USA

Life and intrigue in an ancient Chinese court.

Director: Colin Minihan
Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada

Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.

Director: Chris Martin
Stars: Ziad Abaza, Janine Birkett, Edith Bouvier
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

In 2012, Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin and photographer, Paul Conroy arrived in Syria to tell the story of civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army.

Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind, in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.

Director: Sam Hobkinson, Havana Marking
Stars: Robin Leach
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: UK

Red Granite Pictures was the next big thing following their release of The Wolf of Wall Street and then the walls closed in as their source of funding became the lead story.

Director: Stephanie Soechtig, Jeremy Seifert
Stars: Sue Bailey, Bucky Bailey, Ken Wamsley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.

Director: Dominga Sotomayor
Stars: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | Brazil | Argentina | Netherlands | Qatar

During the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three teenagers face their first loves and fears.

Director: Crystal Moselle
Stars: Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | UK | Brazil

A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.

Director: Camille Vidal-Naquet
Stars: Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here – longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.

Director: Carlos Vermut
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Eva Llorach, Carme Elias
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain | France

When Lila, a celebrated but fame-weary and amnesiac singer forgets how to perform, super-fan Violeta steps in to teach Lila how to be Lila once again.

Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
Stars: Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Tony Azzolino
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

Director: Alexandria Bombach
Stars: Nadia Murad, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Following the 2016 presidential election, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary dissects small-town America to understand how its values impact and influence the political landscape of the nation.

Director: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile | Germany

Chola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.

Director: Ron Davis
Stars: Ron Danta, Danny Robertshaw
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

LIFE IN THE DOG HOUSE will tell the inspiring stories of Danny and Ron’s Rescue (501c3). The film will showcase their unique approach to dog rescue and adoption, which has enabled them to rescue and adopt out 10,000 dogs.

Director: Romain Gavras
Stars: Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France

A small-time dealer dreams of another life but can’t afford it. To escape, he must accept one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.

Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Alice Taglioni
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In Verderonne, a small village in the Oise, it’s the first day of summer and Claire Darling wakes up convinced to live her last day – She then decides to empty her house and brade everything without distinction, Tiffany lamps to the collection clock. The objects so loved echo her tragic and flamboyant life. This last madness brings back Mary, her daughter, whom she has not seen for 20 years.

Director: Susan Lacy
Stars: Jane Fonda, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.

Director: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren
Stars: Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Heikkinen
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland | Norway | Belgium

Turo (25) is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ju-bong Gi, Min-hee Kim, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

It is the dead of winter and a poet invites his sons to join him at a hotel for a reunion. The hotel also hosts a newly single woman who has a friend keep her company and with whom she shares a room, strolls and conversations. The poet is drawn to the beautiful girls and cannot resist the temptation to discover more. Their lives intersect, connect and disconnect and potentially become a metaphor for modern life.

Director: Laura Bispuri
Stars: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Germany | Switzerland

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Mónica López, Josep Maria Pou
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

A Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper expose him to the public eye.

Director: Alexis Bloom
Stars: Tony Waag, Babette Bombshell, Catherine Corcoran
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that explores the rise and fall of the late Roger Ailes, from his early media influence on the Nixon presidency to his controversial leadership at Fox News.

Director: Sven Taddicken
Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Luise Heyer, Florian Bartholomäi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | France

Two young teachers, Malte and Liv, are spending their summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast, when they are suddenly attacked by three young men and Liv is assaulted. Two years later, Malte and Liv are not only still together, but demonstrating an amazing strength in dealing with the trauma, determined that it will not tear them apart. But when Malte has a chance encounter with one of the perpetrators, he finds himself driven to seek revenge and sets out in pursuit. But once he is facing the longed-for confrontation, he realizes that the situation has gotten out of control once again. He hasn’t told Liv, he didn’t call the police and now the couple’s fragile relationship, which they have fought so hard to preserve, is threatened once more.

Director: Arantxa Echevarría
Stars: Zaira Romero, Rosy Rodríguez, Moreno Borja
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

The love story of two roma women.

Director: Khalik Allah
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Jamaica | USA

From red light districts to lush rain-forests, ‘Black Mother’ is a loving and lyrical ode to Jamaica and its people, a visual poem that is at once deeply felt love letter and ecstatic street-corner prayer.

Director: Bora Kim
Stars: Ji-hu Park, Sae-byeok Kim, Seung-Yun Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Seoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.

Director: Dava Whisenant
Stars: David Letterman, Martin Short, Chita Rivera
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
Country: USA

A Late Night comedy writer stumbles upon a hilarious, hidden world of corporate entertainment and finds an unexpected connection to his fellow man. Tribeca and WGA Award winner.

Director: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow
Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Vergil J. Smith, Tomasz Zietek
Genre: Animation, Biography
Country: Spain | Poland | Belgium | Germany | France | Hungary

A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland | France | Ukraine

Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.

Director: Stephen T. Maing
Stars: Manuel ‘Manny’ Gomez, Sandy Gonzales, Rukia Lumumba
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Republic of North Macedonia | France | Germany | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Sweden | Qatar

An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father’s deteriorating indulgence into gambling.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | Germany | Bulgaria | France | Czech Republic

“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Director: Ruth Beckermann
Stars: Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Austria

A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II.

Director: Tina Brown, Dyana Winkler
Stars: Salt-N-Pepa, Reggie Brown, Coolio
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When America’s last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture–one that has remained undiscovered by the mainstream for generations, yet has given rise to some of the world’s greatest musical talent.

Director: Catherine Corsini
Stars: Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

In the late 1950s in Châteauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, Chantal is a great source of happiness for Rachel. She wishes for Philippe to legally acknowledge his daughter, which would give her his last name. A battle of more than ten years ensues, which will eventually break up all of their lives.

Director: Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto
Stars: Pedro Henrique, Denise Fraga, Matheus Nachtergaele
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Brazil

The film tells the story of a boy who is responsible, along with his father, for finding the cure for an illness that is contracted after the person takes a fright.

Director: Jeremy Workman
Stars: Matt Green
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

For over six years, and for reasons he can’t explain, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every block of every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles. THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET tells the story of one man’s unusual personal quest and the unexpected journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.

Director: Irek Dobrowolski
Stars: Stanislav Szukalski, Glenn Bray, Robert Williams
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland | USA

This documentary chronicles the life of Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) from his early years in Chicago, to his time in Poland and Los Angeles, and his artistic and political contributions to the world.

Director: Rob Stewart
Stars: Rob Stewart, Rebecca Aldworth, Will Allen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmaker Rob Stewart exposes the illegal fishing industry that threatens the survival of the world’s sharks.

Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
Stars: Jack Andraka, Anjali Chadha, Ramy Khodeir
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and hormones on their quest to win the international science fair. Only one can be named “Best in Fair.”

Director: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Stars: Sandra Bland, Robert E. Brzezinski, Brian Encinia
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An investigation into what happened to activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody after a routine traffic stop.

Director: Milorad Krstic
Stars: Iván Kamarás, Csaba Márton, Gabriella Hámori
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime
Country: Hungary

Four expert thieves attempt to steal every famous artwork that is haunting their mutual psychotherapist. A detective attempts to find out who the “Collector” is.

Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia | Denmark | Mexico | Germany | Switzerland | France

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Director: Hao Wu
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China

As an entire generation has come of age on social media, virtual relationships are slowly replacing real-life human connections. And China has taken it to an extreme. Here, live streaming has become the most popular online entertainment for hundreds of millions. People’s Republic of Desire provides a vérité journey into this digital universe, where young performers earn as much as US$150,000 a month singing, dancing or doing talk shows to live, interactive audiences of tens of thousands.

Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist, Julián Camilo Duque, Julian Duque
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Brazil

NOSSA CHAPE tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, leaving all but three of the players dead. With exclusive access to the new team, families of the deceased, and three surviving players, this documentary shows a team and a city divided about how to handle tragedy – should they focus on keeping the memory of the dead alive or moving on with their own lives?

Director: Dennison Ramalho
Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Bianca Comparato
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

Director: John Paulson
Stars: Michael Keaton, Judd Apatow, Joyce DiDonato
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Cast members and several guest celebrities from the groundbreaking series share their personal perspectives and insights that pay tribute to television’s longest-running children’s series, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Director: Werner Herzog, André Singer
Stars: Yuri Andropov, James Baker, Leonid Brezhnev
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: UK | Germany | USA

The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.

Director: Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Radhika Apte, Bhumi Pednekar, Kiara Advani
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India

Four short films by four of India’s biggest directors exploring love, sex and relationships in modern India.

Director: Ashley Bell
Stars: Ashley Bell, Lek Chailert, Noi Na
Genre: Documentary, Action, Adventure
Country: Thailand | Cambodia | USA

Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist Lek Chailert, embark on a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a 70-year old captive blind Asian elephant and bring her to freedom.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: France | Spain | Romania | Belgium | USA

In 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix), chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally.

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | Switzerland | France | Germany

An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

Director: Álvaro Brechner
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Uruguay | Spain | Argentina | France | Germany

1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: “As we can’t kill them, let’s drive them mad.” The three men will remain in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them is Pepe Mujica – later to become president of Uruguay.

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Junko Abe, Yôsuke Eguchi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company’s employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.

Director: Gabrielle Brady
Stars: Arthur Floret, Poh Lin Lee
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | UK | Australia

While the yearly crab migration takes place and locals perform rituals for ghosts, a therapist works in Christmas Island’s asylum seeker detention center.

Director: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Brazil | Netherlands | Italy | USA | Japan | UK | Sweden | Austria | Switzerland | Denmark | Canada

A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.

Director: Janus Metz, Sine Plambech
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Netherlands | Sweden | Thailand

In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand married a Jutland native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to marry and share life with. Acclaimed filmmaker Janus Metz and his anthropologist wife, Sine Plambech, follow four of these Thai-Danish couples over ten years in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.

Director: RaMell Ross
Stars: Latrenda ‘Boosie’ Ash, Quincy Bryant, Daniel Collins
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.

Director: Jong-bin Yoon
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Sung-min Lee, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Country: USA

Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.

Director: Johanna Demetrakas
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Phyllis Chesler, Judy Chicago
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change.

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Pepe Mujica
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Argentina | Uruguay | Serbia

An examination of the life, times, and legacy of Uruguay’s last president, José “Pepe” Mujica.

Director: Keith Scholey, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Natalie Portman
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

Echo, a young Pacific dolphin, seems far more interested in exploring his spectacular coral reef home than learning to survive in it. But lessons from his family may encourage Echo to master his vital role in the marine community.

Director: Lars Kraume
Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany

A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Director: Ron Mann
Stars: Eszter Balint, Christine Bougie, Nels Cline
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Canada

Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars.

Director: Tuva Novotny
Stars: Pia Tjelta, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Per Frisch
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway

BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.

Director: Jane Magnusson
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Lena Endre, Thorsten Flinck
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | Norway

Journeying through 1957, the year Bergman released two of his most acclaimed features (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), made a TV film and directed four plays for theatre, Magnusson has amassed a wealth of archive and contemporary interviews, along with a fantastic selection of clips from his vast body of work.

Director: Pamela B. Green
Stars: Alice Guy, Richard Abel, Marc Abraham
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Pamela B. Green’s energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta, Bettina Böhler, Felix Moeller
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | France

Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman’s life and work and explores his film legacy with Bergman’s closest collaborators, both in front and behind the camera, as well as a new generation of filmmakers. The documentary presents key scenes, recurring themes in his films and his life, and journeys to the places at the center of Bergman’s creative achievement and the focal points of his life such as the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, locations and landscapes from his masterpieces, and the stations from his career in Sweden, France and Germany.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier
Stars: Alicia Vikander
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.

Director: Isold Uggadottir
Stars: Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir, Babetida Sadjo, Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Sweden | Belgium

Two women’s lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.

Director: Patrick Wang
Stars: Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry, James Marsters
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple–performance artists from China–come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Iran | USA

A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.

Director: Nancy Schwartzman
Stars: Mark Cole, Anthony Craig, Rachel Dissell
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

An account of a notable sexual assault that took place in Steubenville, Ohio in 2012, and the role that social media played in the crime and on the community.

Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile | Germany

Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.

Director: Peter W. Kunhardt
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the final years in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director: Bi Gan
Stars: Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China | France

A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.

Director: Salvador Simó
Stars: Jorge Usón, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Spain | Netherlands | Germany

The true story of how Luis Buñuel made his third movie.

Director: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland | Switzerland | UK | France | USA

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

Director: Barry Jenkins
Stars: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit.

Director: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyun Ahn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea | USA

A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend – a fascinating beast named Okja.

Director: Sun-ho Cho
Stars: Myung-Min Kim, Yo-Han Byun, Hye-Sun Shin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A mystery drama revolving around a father who commits an unethical act in an attempt to save his daughter’s life. Three years later, his actions return to haunt him, trapping him in an endless time loop.

Director: Ferenc Török
Stars: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.

Director: John Carroll Lynch
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.

Director: Oded Raz
Stars: Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, Gal Amitai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

The biggest Israeli blockbuster since 1986. Steve and Chuma, two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfillment for people who write requests on paper and put between the sacred stones of the Wailing Wall.

Director: Natalia Leite
Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr., Leah McKendrick
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free.

Director: Samuel Maoz
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Switzerland | Germany | France

A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post.

Director: Amanda Lipitz
Stars: Gari McIntyre, Amanda Leonard, Blessin Giraldo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

STEP documents the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore.

Director: Emmanuel Gras
Stars: Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.

Director: Peter Bratt
Stars: Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

In the 1950’s, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer’s union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Director: Maggie Betts
Stars: Melissa Leo, Lisa Stewart, Alyssa Brindley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.

Director: Sadaf Foroughi
Stars: Vahid Aghapoor, Parnian Akhtari, Sarah Alimardani
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | Canada | Qatar

The life of a high school girl in Iran becomes more complicated after her mother catches her in an act of rebellion.

Director: Chloé Zhao
Stars: Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

Director: Matan Yair
Stars: Asher Lax, Ami Smolartchik, Yaacov Cohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Poland

17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him.

Director: Gürcan Keltek
Stars: Ebru Ojen Sahin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands

They come at night and everybody steps out. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the coming hours, the city will be on lockdown: an eclipse appears and meteors start to fall.

Director: Weiwei Ai
Stars: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA | China | Palestine | France

Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei’s detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.

Director: Alain Gomis
Stars: Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France | Belgium | Senegal | Germany | Lebanon | The Democratic Republic Of Congo

Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.

Director: Zak Hilditch
Stars: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A simple yet proud farmer in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to assist. But their actions have unintended consequences.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Director: Jonathan Olshefski
Stars: Christopher Rainey, Christine’a Rainey, P.J. Rainey
Genre: Documentary, Family, Music
Country: USA

A husband and wife live in an impoverished neighborhood in north Philadelphia while they raise their daughter and run a recording studio in their basement.

Director: Dee Rees
Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Cyprus | Belgium | Lebanon | USA

After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

Director: Teemu Nikki
Stars: Matti Onnismaa, Jari Virman, Hannamaija Nikander
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland

A man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.

Director: Rainer Sarnet
Stars: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Estonia

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway | France | Denmark | Sweden

A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.

Director: Peter Nicks
Stars: Cat Brooks, Jonathan Cairo, Ben McBride
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

THE FORCE goes inside an embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America’s most violent yet promising cities.

Director: Coralie Fargeat
Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: France | Belgium

Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: Fang Xiuying
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | France | Germany

Surrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.

Director: Xavier Legrand
Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.

Director: Clément Cogitore
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Finland

In the Siberian forest, away from any civilization, a feud is opposing two families whose houses are separated by a river. In the middle of the river stands an island where the kids of the two families are meeting on their own.

Director: Raymond Depardon
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.

Director: Jennifer Brea
Stars: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Jessica l e Taylor
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.

Director: Björn Runge
Stars: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Sweden | USA

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Janet (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine.

Director: Paul Damien Williams
Stars: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Mark Grose, Michael Hohnen
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Australia

GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.

Director: Yance Ford
Stars: Yance Ford, Harvey Walker, Kevin Myers
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Denmark

When filmmaker Yance Ford investigates the 1992 murder of a young black man, it becomes an achingly personal journey since the victim, 24-year-old William Ford Jr., was the filmmaker’s brother.

Director: Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp
Stars: Gcina Mhlophe
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: Swaziland | Qatar | USA

Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium | France | Lebanon

Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium | France | Lebanon

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. This nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an Audience Award at Berlinale.

Director: Savi Gabizon
Stars: Ella Armony, Shai Avivi, Shmil Ben Ari
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.

Director: Milad Alami
Stars: Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Lars Brygmann
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Sweden

“The Charmer” is an intense psychological drama about Esmail, a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love and his past catches up with him.

Director: Erik Nelson
Stars: David Crowley, Danny August Mason, Alex Jones
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.

Director: Óscar Catacora
Stars: Vicente Catacora, Rosa Nina
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru

A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.

Director: Nathan Silver
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.

Director: Stephen Cone
Stars: Marika Mashburn, Jessie Pinnick, Paul Brian Fagen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Philippines | USA

Taking us into the heart of the planet’s busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital’s stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it’s absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.

Director: Marine Francen
Stars: Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the next two years, the village is completely cut off. The women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband, so that life may continue to flourish in each of their wombs.

Director: Naoko Ogigami
Stars: Mugi Kadowaki, Tôma Ikuta, Eiko Koike
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

One spring Hiromi, who is the mother of an 11-year-old girl Tomo, left home for the umpteenth time. Tomo is accustomed to such a mother and as always went to Makio’s place. He is a brother of Hiromi and has lived with Rinko, a pretty girlfriend. Actually, Rinko is a transwoman. She works as a caregiver in a nursing home where Makio’s mother Sayuri who suffers from dementia is living.

Director: Anders Walter
Stars: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA | Belgium | Denmark | UK | Sweden | China

Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: Jan Rader, Patricia Keller, Necia Freeman
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.

Director: Oliver Kienle
Stars: Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christoph Letkowski
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

After Sophie and Jessica had witnessed a brutal crime when they were kids, Jessica promised her younger sister Sophie: “I will always protect you!” Growing older, this promise became an obsession. Now, Jessica (28) is suffering from paranoia and sees threats to her and her sister everywhere. But Sophie (26) wants to live a normal life without fear, without her sister. She wants to become a pianist and wants to fall in love. When the perpetrators are released of prison after 20 years, Jessica is shocked and wants to confront them. But an accident changes everything. Jessica’s promise to always protect her little sister turns into an existential nightmare.

Director: Kogonada
Stars: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France

24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | France | Germany | Belgium

A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.

Director: Valeska Grisebach
Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Bulgaria | Austria

German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.

Director: Michael Del Monte
Stars: Janae Marie Kroczaleski
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender.

Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Stars: Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany

A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.

Director: Marta Prus
Stars: Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun, Irina Viner
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Poland | Germany | Finland | France

An intimate portrait of the world’s most outstanding rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun who needs to overcome mental fragility to take part in the Olympic Games.

Director: Noël Wells
Stars: Noël Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After a loved one falls ill, 25 year old struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

Director: Laura Mora Ortega
Stars: Natasha Jaramillo, Giovanny Rodríguez, Camilo Escobar
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | Argentina

Lita witnesses the murder of her own father, a university professor. Frustrated over the local police she and her family start to investigate the murder themselves. Located at the dark and violent Medellin the quest for truth and revenge starts.

Director: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out.

Director: Saul Dibb
Stars: Paul Bettany, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

Director: Jeff Orlowski
Stars: Andrew Ackerman, Pim Bongaerts, Neal Cantin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.

Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | Brazil | Germany | France | Sweden | USA

In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions – the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.

Director: Lukas Feigelfeld
Stars: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Austria | Germany

Paranoia & Superstition in 15th Century Europe.

Director: Lucrecia Martel
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina | Brazil | Spain | Dominican Republic | France | Netherlands | Mexico | Switzerland | USA | Portugal | Lebanon

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.

Director: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Stars: Tim Black, Philip Glass, Christo Gomes
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Namibia | South Africa | Zimbabwe | USA

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | France | Denmark | USA

A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

Director: Emer Reynolds
Stars: Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, John Casani
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Ireland

It is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space – the first human-made object ever to do so.

Director: Hogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal
Stars: Fakhir Berwari, Sheyma Ibrahim, Abdulla Fakhir
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

A portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.

Director: Go-Woon Jeon
Stars: Esom, Jae-hong Ahn, Duk-moon Choi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.

Director: Joko Anwar
Stars: Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Dimas Aditya
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia | South Korea

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

Director: João Moreira Salles
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Brazil

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China’s Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Stars: Menashe Lustig, Josh Alpert, Abraham Bresky
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland | France | Belgium

Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.

Director: Lucy Cohen
Stars: Jamie-Jodie Shanks, Kacie-Kimie Shanks, Lorie-Lanie Shanks
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK

A father’s suicide sends a family of eight on a journey through childhood memories and treacherous emotional waters in this poignant documentary.

Director: John Trengove
Stars: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa | Germany | Netherlands | France

Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Austria | Germany

A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

Director: Pascal Plante
Stars: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault, Lysandre Nadeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a brutal punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a marginal teenager who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story unfolds between them, but Theo has to move at the end of the summer in a small town, far away from a painful past.

Director: Harald Zwart
Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Norway

They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away…

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Abdelaziz Alhamza, Mohamad Almusari, Hamoud Almousa
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A documentary that follows the efforts of “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Director: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa
Stars: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.

Director: Boris Khlebnikov
Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | Finland | Germany

A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.

Director: Carla Simón
Stars: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Spain

After her mother’s death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle’s family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

Director: Taylor Sheridan
Stars: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.

Director: Rima Das
Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A young village girl in northeast India wants to start her own rock band.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

Director: Hsin-yao Huang
Stars: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

One day when Pickle’s and his colleague, Belly Bottom’s television is broken, their lives are changed forever.

Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Hungary

When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it’s difficult in real life.

Director: Colin M. Day
Stars: Ben Eine, Glen E. Friedman, Kelly ‘Risk’ Graval
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Internationally known graffiti artist, Banksy, left his mark on San Francisco in April 2010. Little did he know that this act of vandalism would spark a chain of events that includes one of his rats being removed from a wall, Museums ignorantly turning down a free Banksy street work, and a NY gallerist who has made it his business model to remove Banksy street works from all over the globe doing whatever it takes to get the rat in his possession.

Director: Yves Hinant, Jean Libon
Stars: Anne Gruwez, David Derumier, Serge Graide
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France

In this unapologetic and politically incorrect portrait, an extraordinary and eccentric Belgian judge takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life criminal investigations. The stranger-than-fiction documentary makes for a wild and riveting ride.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | China

Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.

Director: Greg Barker
Stars: Jason Amerine, George W. Bush, Mark Nutsch
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, fewer than 100 US Troops were sent on a secret mission to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war-origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the impact of 15 years of constant combat.

Director: Rachel Israel
Stars: Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Sondra James
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.

Director: Rungano Nyoni
Stars: Maggie Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | Germany | Zambia

In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches’ camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.

Director: Jian Liu
Stars: Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: China

A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain | Argentina

In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.

Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Stars: Vicente Santos, Jose Cruz, Yuberbi de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Germany | Qatar | Dominican Republic

An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.

Director: Sonja Sohn
Stars: Devin Allen, Genard Shadow Barr, Elijah Cummings
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Baltimore Rising follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death in police custody.

Director: Rebecca Miller
Stars: Joan Allen, Joan Copeland, Peter Falk
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Rebecca Miller’s film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home. This celebration of the great American playwright is quite different from what the public has ever seen. It is a close consideration of a singular life shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a bracing look at success and failure in the public eye; an honest accounting of human frailty; a tribute to one artist by another.

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Min-hee Kim, Mi-hee Chang
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea | France

The story of female friendship as Frenchwoman Claire helps the subject of her photograph, Min-Hee, discover why she was fired without apparent cause.

Director: JR, Agnès Varda
Stars: Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.

Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Suzanne Shepherd
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens her life.

Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Stars: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland | Poland | Denmark | Germany | France

When Baldwin and Inga’s next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Director: Daniel McCabe
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA | Congo

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

Director: Armando Iannucci
Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK | France | Belgium | Canada | USA

Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
Stars: Sylvio Bernardi, Meghan Doherty, Kentucker Audley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A small town gorilla joins a local TV program where a series of on-air mishaps send him on a journey of self-discovery.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Stars: Etty, Chani Getter, Ari Hershkowitz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Penetrating the insular world of New York’s Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Stars: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy | Belgium

The last year of singer Nico’s life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.

Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Stars: Ellen Page, Kate Mara, Amy Seimetz |
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause.

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Stars: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

Director: Mina Shum
Stars: Pei-Pei Cheng, Tzi Ma, Sandra Oh
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.

Director: Russell Harbaugh
Stars: Andie MacDowell, Chris O’Dowd, James Adomian
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Beizaee, Nasim Adabi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

A drama about corruption and injustice in Iranian society. You are the oppressed, or you have to join the oppressor to survive!

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Ashin Wirathu, U. Zanitar, Kyaw Zayar Htun
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.

Director: Talal Derki
Stars: Abu Osama, Ayman Osama, Osama Osama
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Germany | USA | Syria | Lebanon | Netherlands | Qatar

Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.

Director: Vivian Qu
Stars: Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Ke Shi
Genre: Drama
Country: China

In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.

Director: Stephen S. Campanelli
Stars: Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Dylan, Nanfu Wang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Eating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society’s rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning of freedom – and its limits.

Director: Hsin Yin Sung
Stars: Gwei Lun-Mei, Te-Sheng Wei, Bor Jeng Chen
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan

Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?

Director: Jim McKay
Stars: Fernando Cardona, Gilberto Jimenez, Abel Perez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.

Director: Daniel Warth
Stars: Claire Armstrong, Naomi Skwarna, Andreana Callegarini-Gradzik
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.

Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Stars: Hadi Al Abdullah, Raed Al Saleh, Riad Al-Asaad
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Czech Republic

CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their reality or agrees on what to do about it.

Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.

Director: Albert Dupontel
Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Canada

November 1919. Two soldiers – a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant – start a memorial con. But in the France of the Roaring Twenties, their adventures soon turn dangerous.

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Stars: Joe Cole, Cherry Miko, Vithaya Pansringarm
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | France | China | Cambodia | USA | Germany