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Director: Tonya Lewis Lee, Paula Eiselt
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaser
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Director: Ivy Meeropol
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Following a series of great white shark attacks that dominated the headlines, one Cape Cod community renegotiates its relationship with the marine environment. Local residents, fishermen, and environmentalists are forced to confront dramatic changes to their way of life. How far can we push nature before it bites back?

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.

Director: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.

Director: Roddy Bogawa, Storm Thorgerson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Music, Documentary
Country: UK

Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.

Director: Suzanne Raes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.

Director: Thomas Tancred
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled.

Director: Kenneth Dagatan
Stars: Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, James Mavie Estrella
Genre: War, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan

Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.

Director: Chloe Domont
Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Country: USA

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.

Director: Zackary Drucker, Kristen Parker Lovell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

Director: Amanda Kim
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, South Korea

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would arise from the interconnected metaverse of today’s world.

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.

Director: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi
Stars: Evelyne Ily Juhen, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Emeka Amakeze
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France, Nigeria

In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious daughter Zinwe and skeptical protégé Prisca warn Efe about unrest among the villagers. With the sudden arrival of a mysterious rebel deserter named Jasper, a conflict erupts, leading to a violent clash of ideologies and a crisis of faith for the people of Iyi.

Director: Davina Pardo, Leah Wolchok
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.

Director: Julie Cohen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.

Director: Margreth Olin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway

With Olin’s 85-year-old father as guide, we experience Norway’s most adventurous valley, Oldedalen in Nordfjord. He grew up here, and here generations before him have lived in balance with nature.

Director: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Stars: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Estéban
Genre: Animation
Country: France, Italy

Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter — only she can’t cook and shopkeepers are on strike.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Japan

The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.

Director: Goran Stolevski
Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, USA

Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together.

Director: Noora Niasari
Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Leah Purcell
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.

Director: Minhal Baig
Stars: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

Director: Savanah Leaf
Stars: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Keta Price, Doechii
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

Director: Raven Jackson
Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jayah Henry
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Director: Ena Sendijarević
Stars: Hayati Azis, Renée Soutendijk, Lisa Zweerman
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Netherlands, Réunion, Sweden

Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid.

Director: Luna Carmoon
Stars: Saura Lightfoot, Leon Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.

Director: Turner Ross, Bill Ross
Stars: Micah Bunch, Nathaly Garcia, Nichole Dukes, Tony Aburto, Makai Garza
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: UK, USA

With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place none of them has ever been— the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away.

Director: Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami
Stars: Majid Salehi, Gohar Kheyrandish, Farzin Mohades
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Iran

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.

Director: Luke Gilford
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.

Director: Joanna Arnow
Stars: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Peter Vack
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sweden

A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man’s death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to confess her role in the tragedy, she hopes to move forward, but the country’s growing unrest threatens to reveal her secret.

Director: Veerle Baetens
Stars: Charlotte De Bruyne, Rosa Marchant, Sebastien Dewaele
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.

Director: Billy Luther
Stars: Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan, Sarah H. Natani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family’s past and themselves.

Director: D. Smith
Stars: Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Angela Davis, Alexa Rachelle Jennings, Rafa Marinho
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: USA

Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi’s bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.

Director: Koen Mortier
Stars: Thibaud Dooms, Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Antilles, Belgium, Netherlands

The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.

Director: Adrien Beau
Stars: Ariane Labed, Kacey Mottet Klein, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France

Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.

Director: Stephen Kijak
Stars: Rock Hudson, Joe Carberry, Tim Turner, Lee Garlington
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public “ladies’ man” persona to his private life as a gay man.

Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Haitham Omari, Yumna Marwan
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

Director: Laetitia Colombani
Stars: Kim Raver, Fotinì Peluso, Mia Maelzer, Katharine King So
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy

India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.

Director: Benjamin Cantu
Stars: Walter Arlen, Howard Myers, Klaus Mueller, Morgan M. Page
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.

Director: Nick Cheuk
Stars: Lo Chun-Yip, Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei, Sean Wong Tsz-Lok
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore

High school teacher Cheng looks back to his repressed childhood memories, as he finds an anonymous suicide note in the classroom. He strives hard to prevent another tragedy from happening, meanwhile facing a series of family problems, his wife is divorcing him, and his father is dying.

Director: Phạm Thiên Ân
Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam

After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.

Director: Lisa Cortés
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.

Director: Amanda Mustard, Rachel Beth Anderson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A photojournalist turns her lens on the decades of sexual abuse her family and community experienced at the hands of her grandfather in this unflinching portrait of intergenerational trauma, family secrets, and redemption.

Director: Patricia Font
Stars: Enric Auquer, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa, Ramon Agirre
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain

Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather’s teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.

Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter future for her daughters.

Director: Errol Morris
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.

Director: Ivan Sen
Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Australia

Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Germany

This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Canada, Poland

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major’s house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

Director: Marija Kavtaradzė
Stars: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas, Gediminas Rimeika
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Spain, Sweden

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Director: Robert Hloz
Stars: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík
Genre: Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechia, Poland

It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.

Director: Anna Hints
Stars: Kadi Kivilo, Maria Meresaar, Elsa Saks, Marianne Liiv
Genre: Documentary
Country: Estonia, France, Iceland

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.

Director: Giuseppe Fiorello
Stars: Samuele Segreto, Gabriele Pizzurro, Fabrizia Sacchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A sunbaked Sicilian town in the summer of 1982 provides the vivid backdrop to this tender romantic drama about two teenagers who fall in love, but much to the disapproval of those around them. Gianni is a handsome but shy teen who works as a car mechanic at his stepfather’s garage but is mercilessly taunted by the macho townsmen for being a homosexual. With his family life no better, Gianni withdraws into himself until one day he meets Nino, a curly-haired boy with an infectious smile. As the two become close and fall in love, the moral rumblings from their families and neighbors begin to erupt. With all against them, the boys decide to make a stand.

Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Stars: Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis, Wavyy Jonez
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.

Director: Laurel Parmet
Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Genre: Crime, History, Drama
Country: France

A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.

Director: Luke Korem
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice having left an abusive household, they shared a similar upbringing, as well as a future goal: to become famous superstars. In a few short years, their dreams came true. Rob and Fab, better known as Milli Vanilli, became the world’s most popular pop duo in 1990 and won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. However, their ascension to success came with a devastating price that ultimately led to their infamous undoing.

Director: Monia Chokri
Stars: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada, France

Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?

Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam, Choeying Jatsho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bhutan, France, Taiwan, USA

An American travels to Bhutan searching for a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.

Director: Kristian Mercado Figueroa
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Zoë Chao, Natalie Morales, Geoff Stults
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Country: USA

Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they’re better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.

Director: Babak Jalali
Stars: Anaita Wali, Zada Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor’s guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

Director: Zhang Yimou
Stars: Shen Teng, Jackson Yee, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, History
Country: China, Hong Kong

During China’s Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui’s palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.

Director: Erica Tremblay
Stars: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Following her sister’s disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what’s left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.

Director: Maite Alberdi
Stars: Paulina Urrutia, Augusto Góngora, Gustavo Cerati
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, USA

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: N/A
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Paolo Pierobon
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić
Stars: Alexis Manenti, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Miki Manojlović
Genre: Thriller, History, Drama
Country: North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Director: Jeanne Herry
Stars: Birane Ba, Leïla Bekhti, Anne Benoît, Dali Benssalah
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Since 2014, France’s restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.

Director: Dan Hartley
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

As Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the Harry Potter films, David Holmes’ work has been seen worldwide by millions of people. Tragically an on-set accident ended what David calls “the best job in the world,” leaving him paralyzed. Like the on-screen character he helped bring to life, David is determined to continue seeking adventure and living life to the fullest despite mounting obstacles.

Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Stars: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.

Director: Michael Lockshin
Stars: Yevgeni Tsyganov, Yuliya Snigir, August Diehl
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia

Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer’s works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He’s kicked out of the Soviet Writer’s Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita – his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel’s central character is Woland – a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer’s downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.

Director: Madeleine Gavin
Stars: Barbara Demick, Kim Sung-eun, Lee Hyeon-seo, Lee So-yeon
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

Director: David Wnendt
Stars: Levy Rico Arcos, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling, Vincent Wiemer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany

The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan

Director: Felipe Gálvez
Stars: Camilo Arancibia, Heinz K. Krattiger, Mark Stanley
Genre: Western, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Taiwan, UK

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

Director: Jason Yu
Stars: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Kuk-hee, Lee Kyung-jin
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea

Hyun-su and Soo-jin have just gotten married. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. ‘Someone’s inside.’ From that night forward, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of the night before. Soo-jin is overwhelmed with anxiety that he’d hurt her family while she sleeps and can barely sleep a wink because of this irrational fear. Despite sleep treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and she begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger…

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Country: France

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.

Director: Christopher Zalla
Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Haddad, Jennifer Trejo
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and perhaps even their genius.

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France

In the middle of a performance of the play “Le Cocu”, a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.

Director: Charlotte Regan
Stars: Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun, Laura Aikman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she’s forced to confront reality.

Director: Ariane Louis-Seize
Stars: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.

Director: Indianna Bell, Josiah Allen
Stars: Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan, Elena Carapetis
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: Australia

Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality…

Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, UK, USA, Chile

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

Director: Martin Bourboulon
Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain

D’Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.

Director: Jérémie Périn
Stars: Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Njo Lobé
Genre: Animation, Mystery, Action, Science Fiction
Country: France

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.

Director: Pascal Plante
Stars: Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Élisabeth Locas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

Director: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Sean San Jose
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Stars: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah, Poppy Allen-Quarmby
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK

Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

Director: Paola Cortellesi
Stars: Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano
Genre: History, War, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. An Italian box office phenomenon and winner of six Italian Academy Awards.

Director: John Carney
Stars: Eve Hewson, Orén Kinlan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jack Reynor
Genre: Music, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, USA

Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician, and harmony for this frayed Dublin family.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.

Director: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
Stars: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Ayo Edebr
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless “crypto-bro” son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

Director: Sam Wrench
Stars: Taylor Swift
Genre: Music, Documentary
Country: USA

The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour.

Director: Martin Bourboulon
Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain

D’Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King’s Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen’s confidante.

Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Director: İlker Çatak
Stars: Leonie Benesch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer
Genre: Drama
Country: German

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

Director: Tina Satter
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK

On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner returns from running errands to find two FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia. An Air Force veteran and yoga instructor, Winner spends the next two hours being questioned about her work as an intelligence contractor — specifically, whether she leaked a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg
Genre: History, Drama, Action
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen’s fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life…?

Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA

The unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his estate at Graceland.

Director: Demián Rugna
Stars: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA

Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.

Director: Matt Johnson
Stars: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Rich Sommer
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, Finland, USA

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.

Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

Director: Cord Jefferson
Stars: Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Director: Dan Reed
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

Filmed over four years with unprecedented access, this documentary chronicles the riveting courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ families against Alex Jones and his website, InfoWars.

Director: Oksana Karpovych
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, France, Ukraine

Intercepted is a journey through Ukraine that reveals the banality of evil behind the Russian invasion with the shocking juxtaposition of two realities: the Ukrainians who have been suffering and resisting the war violence, and the Russian military, and civilians, who have been perpetrating it.

Director: Carla Gutierrez
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.

Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Stars: Maria Gros Vatne, Nikolaus Ithell Payne, Freja Vatne Payne
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway

In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.

Director: Lou Ye
Stars: Qin Hao, Mao Xiaorui, Qi Xi, Liang Ming, Huang Xuan
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Singapore

In January 2020, director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted a decade earlier. With the shoot almost complete, rumors regarding an illness begin to circulate. Some cast and crew manage to leave before the hotel is put on lockdown. Everyone remaining is confined to their rooms, and the director must decide whether to halt filming once more as Wuhan is shut down in the early days of a terrifying pandemic.

Director: Daniela Völker
Stars: Hans-Jürgen Höss, Kai Höss, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Genre: Documentary, War, History
Country: Germany, Israel, Poland, UK, USA

While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face. This is the first time the descendant of a major war criminal meets a survivor in such a private and intimate setting, Anita’s London living room. Together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, the four protagonists explore their very different hereditary burdens.

Director: Matthias Glasner
Stars: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.

Director: Bálint Révész, Dávid Mikulán
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Croatia, France, Hungary

Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 10 wild years of their young lives.

Director: Charlie Hamilton James
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

A man forms an unlikely friendship with a wild otter while living in the remote Shetland Islands.

Director: Ray Yeung
Stars: Patra Au Ga-Man, Maggie Li Lin-Lin, Hui So-Ying, Tai Bo
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.

Director: Titus Kaphar
Stars: André Holland, Andra Day, John Earl Jelks
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, a Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.

Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Stars: Zhao Tao, Zhubin Li, Pan Jianlin, Zhou Lan, Zhou You
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France, Japan

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Ryosuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.

Director: Fernanda Valadez, Astrid Rondero
Stars: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Sandra Lorenzano
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, USA

When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.

Director: Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson
Stars: Adria Arjona, Héctor Medina, Eros de la Puente
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, “Frikis” bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It’s there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.

Director: David Tedeschi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK

Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, follow McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Starr as they land in New York City in February 1964 and solidify their status as the biggest band in the world.

Director: Julien Colonna
Stars: Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: France

Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes. Forced to go on the run, father and daughter will learn to face one another, to understand and love each other.

Director: Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
Stars: Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, Jen Cohn, Tilly Steele, Dipo Ola
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Machinima
Country: USA

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.

Director: Tiina Lymi
Stars: Amanda Jansson, Linus Troedsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja becomes aware of a new era: a woman can be an equal partner instead of a mere bystander. The couple have children, and life is good until trouble sets in: war arrives on the island, Janne is forced to flee from the English troops, and Maja and the children are imprisoned. The family also faces many financial difficulties and death. Years pass, but Maja remains strong and stays in Stormskerry despite all the hardships and difficulties.

Director: Naoko Yamada
Stars: Sayu Suzukawa, Akari Takaishi, Taisei Kido,Yasuko, Aoi Yuki
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn’t play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections.

Director: Marco Calvani
Stars: Marco Pigossi, James Bland, Marisa Tomei, Bill Irwin
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Lourenço decides to leave his homophobic family and country behind to get lost in the queer mecca of Provincetown, until the intense and unexpected romance with Maurice, who also feels lost in today’s America, changes his life forever.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Stars: Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, France, Iceland, Netherlands

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton, Jorge Duran
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Colombia, UK, USA

After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestral wisdom as an unprecedented rescue mission unfolds.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Stars: Carrie Coon, Shea Whigham, Glenn Fleshler, Max Casella
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Comedy
Country: USA

Newly released from prison, a white-collar criminal, used to dealing with numbers, is tasked with one last job by his boss: kill the boss’ girlfriend before she talks.

Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Stars: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France, Greece, Netherlands, UK, State of Palestine

The stakes couldn’t be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.

Director: Yandy Laurens
Stars: Chicco Kurniawan, Amanda Rawles, Fatih Unru
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia

After the untimely death of his older siblings, a struggling young architect suddenly becomes a “single parent” for his nephews. When the opportunity for a better life arises, he must choose between his love life, career, or his nephews.

Director: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Jesse Williams, Lily Rabe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in the rehearsals her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.

Director: Bogdan Mureșanu
Stars: Adrian Văncică, Nicoleta Hâncu, Emilia Dobrin
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Serbia

On the brink of counter-revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amidst protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.

Director: Sandhya Suri
Stars: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Naval Shukla
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France, Germany, UK

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

Director: Bálint Szimler
Stars: Paul Mátis, Anna Mészöly, Ákos ‘Dadan’ Kovács, Inez Mátis
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.

Director: Nathan Silver
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly de Leon
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

Director: E.oni
Stars: Kim Go-eun, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Jung Whee, Oh Dong-min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

Free-spirit Jae-hee and closeted Heung-soo deeply connect over being misfits and begin living together. The pair ceaselessly rely on each other as they navigate the complexities of love and romance in the big city of Seoul.

Director: Boris Lojkine
Stars: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow
Genre: Drama
Country: France

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.

Director: Louise Courvoisier
Stars: Clément Faveau, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard, Dimitri Baudry
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France

Totone and his band of friends, local barflies, spend most of their summer scouring the Jura dances. Following the sudden death of his cheese-making father, Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.

Director: Pamela Adlon
Stars: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch, Oliver Platt
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

Director: Alessandra Lacorazza
Stars: Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Dreya Renae Castillo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Mireia Oriol, Urko Olazábal, Ricardo Gómez, Lucía Veiga
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain

In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both sentimental and professional, by the mayor, a man accustomed to doing his will politically and personally. She never decides to report, although she knows that she will have to pay a very high price: her environment does not support her, the society of Ponferrada turns its back on her and the media subjects her to a public trial. A story inspired by real events that turns its protagonist into a pioneer by taking an influential and popular politician to court for sexual and workplace harassment for the first time.

Director: Anselm Chan
Stars: Michael Hui, Dayo Wong Chi-Wah, Michelle Wai Si-Nga
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China

A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.

Director: Rahul Sadasivan
Stars: Arjun Ashokan, Mammootty, Sidharth Bharathan
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Country: India

Thevan, a folk singer of the Paanan caste, has a fateful encounter when escaping slavery, leading to discover an ancient tradition altering his destiny.

Director: Ignas Miškinis
Stars: Džiugas Grinys, Robertas Petraitis, Digna Kulionytė
Genre: Comedy
Country: Lithuania

It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.

Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Stars: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid
Genre: Mystery, History, Horror, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany

In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Christopher Reeve, Dana Reeve, Matthew Reeve, Will Reeve
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK

Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.

Director: Josephine Bornebusch
Stars: Josephine Bornebusch, Pål Sverre Hagen, Sigrid Johnson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Anna Díaz, Motell Gyn Foster
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Mexico, Sweden, USA

It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned.

Director: Chidambaram
Stars: Soubin Shahir, Sreenath Bhasi, Balu Varghese
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Country: India

Manjummel Boys, based on a real story, is about a bunch of friends who set out on a trip to Kodaikanal and the events that occur there.

Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia, Ukraine, USA

Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

Director: Paula Ortiz
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Alba Planas, Aixa Villagrán, Patrick Criado
Genre: History, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA

Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.

Director: Shuchi Talati
Stars: Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiron
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, India, Norway, USA

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.

Director: Dani de la Orden
Stars: Emma Vilarasau, Enric Auquer, Maria Rodríguez Soto
Genre:  Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy

Montse, divorced and with two children who have long ignored her, prepares for a family reunion at her home on the Costa Brava.

Director: Amber Sealey
Stars: Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Rosemarie DeWitt
Genre:  Drama
Country: USA

Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student’s untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Iceland, UK

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.

Director: Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Stars: Lily Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoureh Ilkhani
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Iran, Sweden

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.

Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Inspired by a true story, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran—thanks to the presence of her dead best friend from the Army—is at odds with her estranged Vietnam Veteran grandfather and her VA counselor.

Director: Maura Delpero
Stars: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium, USA

Set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, a series of dramatic, consequential events unfold after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier, who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with a provincial family’s eldest daughter.

Director: Cristina Comencini
Stars: Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Christian Cervone
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

Director: Jang Jae-hyun
Stars: Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin, Lee Do-hyun
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family’s ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

Director: David Moreau
Stars: Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France

A teenager stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman and the night takes a surreal turn.

Director: Josh Margolin
Stars: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Action
Country: Switzerland, USA

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Elliott Heffernan, Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

Director: Rich Peppiatt
Stars: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí, Josie Walker
Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

Director: John Andreas Andersen
Stars: Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Philip Helgar, Magnus Dugdale
Genre: History, War, Drama
Country: Norway

On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man’s drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country.

Director: David Leitch
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Action, Romance
Country: Australia, USA

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor, Zendaya
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA

Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he’ll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend.

Director: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Stars: Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: France, Belgium

After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada

A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists.

Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Dunn
Genre: Thriller, Action
Country: UK, USA

A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and proves to be unstoppable until a veteran engineer and young conductor risk their lives to try and stop it with a switch engine.

Director: John Akomfrah
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ghana, UK

Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.

Director: Michael Madsen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark Finland Italy Sweden

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels – that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Director: Florin Şerban
Stars: Ada Condeescu, George Piștereanu, Mihai Constantin
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Sweden

A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he’s told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.

Director: Wang Bing
Stars: Cheng Zhengwu, Niansong Jing, Xiangnian Li, Renjun Lian
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, South Korea

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Waldstätten
Genre: Thriller, History, Drama, Crime
Country: Germany, France

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who’s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Jerzy Stuhr
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope’s fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

Director: Viktor Kossakovsky
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Ned Dennehy
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands

What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down.

Director: Paddy Considine
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Ned Dennehy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph’s life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

Director: Alessandro Comodin
Stars: Giacomo Zulian, Stefania Comodin, Barbara Colombo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy

A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.

Director: Ron Fricke
Stars: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil, China, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, USA

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play “Eurydice.” These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It’s up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun…

Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Stars: Haru Kuroki, Yukito Nishii, Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa
Genre: Animation, Anime
Country: Japan

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father’s traits prove to be a challenge for her.

Director: James Benning
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from Kaczynski’s journals from the early 1970s, recording his progress at hunting and gathering, and his connection to the Montana wilderness.

Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Stars: Sudeep, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nani, Adithya Menon
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Country: India

Nani is a flower decorator, madly in love with his neighbor Bindhu. He gets killed by the baddie, Sudeep, a powerful businessman. Nani comes back as a housefly to get his revenge.

Director: Mati Diop
Stars: Magaye Niang, Wasis Diop, Myriam Niang
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Senegal

In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots “Touki Bouki.” Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, “A Thousand Suns” investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents “Touki Bouki.” What has happened since?

Director: Paolo Virzì
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Country: Canada, France, Spain

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man’s private affairs.

Director: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Danny Huston
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

Director: Naomi Kawase
Stars: Nijiro Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.

Director: Paul King
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, USA

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.

Director: Bruno Dumont
Stars: Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Lucy Caron, Alane Delhaye
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Stars: N/A
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Taiwan

In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marseille, he decided to make a film as tourist, capturing the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine in the late summer of that year. He also invited famous French actor, Denis Lavant, to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng playing Xuanzang. “Journey to the West” was invited to be the opening short film at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda
Genre: Drama, Biopic
Country: USA

A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland, UK

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Director: Pierre Huyghe
Stars: N/A
Genre: Experimental, Art
Country: USA

The ‘Human Mask’ film is inspired by a real situation in Japan, in which a monkey – wearing the mask of a young woman – has been trained to work as a waitress. The film opens with footage of the deserted site of Fukushima in 2011, the camera functioning as a drone scaling the wreckage. This is followed by scenes of the monkey alone in her habitat, silhouetted against the empty, dark restaurant.

Director: Omer Fast
Stars: Ed Speleers, Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Nicholas Farrell
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK

A London man who loses his memory when he’s struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.

Director: Kevin Jerome Everson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long, unbroken sequences of assembly and fabrication focus on the bodies of African American and Vietnamese American workers, while both mobile and fixed cameras transform their acts into pure movement.

Director: Gregory Jacobs
Stars: Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Damien Bonnard, India Hair, Raphaël Thiéry
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.

Director: Eduardo Williams
Stars: Sergio Morosini, Shine Marx, Domingos Marengula
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Portugal

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest.

Director: Angela Schanelec
Stars: Miriam Jakob, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Maren Eggert, Phil Hayes
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no longer loves him. The paths they both take lead them to Kenneth and Theres.

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Stars: Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Arak Amornsupasiri, Atchara Suwan
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, Netherlands, France, Qatar

A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters’ lives.

Director: Scott Barley
Stars: N/A
Genre: Mystery
Country: UK

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.

Director: Paul King
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Stars: Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Ami Koshimizu, Aoi Yuki
Genre: Animation, Anime
Country: Japan

As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as “The Girl with Black Hair” experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of “Senpai”, a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.

Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Stars: Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Matt Lucas
Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Musical, Comedy
Country: USA, UK

In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of first love.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-hee, Kim Sae-byuk, Cho Yun-hee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.

Director: Kantemir Balagov
Stars: Darya Zhovner, Olga Dragunova, Veniamin Kac, Nazir Zhukov
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.

Director: Shana Moulton
Stars: Shana Moulton
Genre: Art, Experimental
Country: USA

In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, video and performance artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and new age kitsch, creating situations in turn comic, contemplative, and surreal.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Genre: Drama
Country:France, Germany

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, USA

Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company’s female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio’s hidden underground chambers.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Shayna McHayle
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side ‘sports bar with curves’, Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely – but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?

Director: James Benning
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, USA

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who’s responsible—before it’s too late.

Director: Blindspotting
Stars: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Erika Karata, Masahiro Higashide, Rio Yamashita, Sairi Ito
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Stars: Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Lesotho, South Africa, USA

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.

Director: Pietro Marcello
Stars: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Carlo Cecchi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing,” traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.

Director: Brian Welsh
Stars: Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser, Brian Ferguson, Ross Mann
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.

Director: Olivia Peace
Stars: Madeline Grey DeFreece, Rachel Sennott, Daniel Taveras
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Two best friends attend the funeral of a Hebrew school classmate who died by suicide and accidentally damage their friendship beyond repair.

Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Sarah Snook
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA

When a young mother’s home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

Director: Luis López Carrasco
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain, Switzerland

In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain’s global empire with the discovery of America – Spain proudly presented itself to the international community as a modern, developed, dynamic country through the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the Expo in Seville. But for filmmaker Luis López Carrasco (1981, Murcia), 1992 was also the year in which the regional parliament building in Cartagena was razed during furious protests against the threatened closure of various local industries. El año del descubrimiento revives this almost forgotten history in a typical Spanish bar in Cartagena, where different generations come together to drink, eat, smoke and talk.

Director: Regina King
Stars: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hwa, Song Sun-mi, Kim Sae-byuk
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

While her husband is on a business trip, Gam-hee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul.

Director: Ephraim Asili
Stars: Chris Jarell, Eric Lockley, Nyabel Lual, Nozipho McLean
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: USA

Based on real events, the film’s protagonist inherits a house in West Philadelphia that becomes home to an urban collective for activists of color. The increasingly claustrophobic drama unfolds as the group attempts to live together and find consensus through Black political discourse and social philosophy.

Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

Director: Panah Panahi
Stars: Hasan Ma’juni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Iran

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland

The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.

Director: Ricky D’Ambrose
Stars: Brian d’Arcy James, Monica Barbaro, Hudson McGuire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy

An only child’s meditative, impressionistic account of an American family’s rise and fall over two decades.

Director: Kogonada
Stars: Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Colin Farrell
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Country: USA

When his young daughter’s beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn’t know was there.

Director: Kiro Russo
Stars: Julio Cezar Ticona, Israel Hurtado, Max Bautista Uchasara
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland, UK

A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.

Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Stars: N/A
Genre: Art Film, Experimental, Documentary
Country: Austria

Peter Tscherkassky condenses the long history of railways in the movies into a rousing blast for the senses in a heartfelt tribute to another legend of experimental cinema Kurt Kren.

Director: Debbie Tucker Green
Stars: Lashana Lynch, Tosin Cole, Danny Sapani, Carmen Munroe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK

From front rooms, Black families, friends, students and older generations navigate British and American society today.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Alec Baldwin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

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

Director: Laura Citarella
Stars: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, Germany

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Director: Alice Diop
Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Aurélia Petit
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Director: Park Chan-wook
Stars: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Lee Jung-hyun, Go Kyung-pyo
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Poland

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Stars: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim
Genre: History, Drama, Action
Country: Canada, USA

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: France, French Polynesia, Germany, Portugal, Spain

Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.

Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Lee Hye-young, Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hwa, Park Mi-so
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who’s been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

Director: Colm Bairéad
Stars: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Director: Marie Kreutzer
Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Director: Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Switzerland

An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, UK

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Director: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós
Stars: Léa Alves da Silva, Joana Darc Furtado, Andreia Vieira
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Crime
Country: Brazil, Portugal, USA

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh”) of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers.

Director: Cyril Schäublin
Stars: Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Monika Stalder
Genre: Drama, History
Country: German

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh”) of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers.

Director: Davy Chou
Stars: Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Romania, South Korea

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions. Based on the true story of Laure Badufle.

Director: James Gray
Stars: Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA

In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Director: Sara Dosa
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA

A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.

Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Director: Shaunak Sen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: India, UK, USA

Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi’s apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.

Director: Owen Kline
Stars: Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Director: Domee Shi
Stars: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park
Genre: Animation
Country: USA

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Music Documentary
Country: Germany, USA

At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

Director: Peter Strickland
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed
Genre: Horror, Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA

At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Alexander Sagabashi, Vakhtang Kuchava, Fabio Mastrangelo
Genre: Drama, Animation, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Russia

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh
Genre: History, Drama
Country: UK, USA

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Director: Pablo Berger
Stars: Ivan Labanda, Tito Trifol, Rafa Calvo, José García Tos
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Animation, Drama
Country: France, Spain

A lonely dog’s friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazăr
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Croatia, France, Luxembourg, Romania

On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.

Director: Celine Song
Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Director: Víctor Erice
Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, Spain

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.

Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Stars: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg,

Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”

Director: Angela Schanelec
Stars: Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marissa Triantafyllidou
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Greece, Serbia

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to seek out his presence, takes care of him, records music for him. Jon’s eyesight begins to fail … From then on, for every loss he suffers, he will gain something in return.

Director: Claire Simon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Jean-Pierre Troisgros, Marie Badaut, Jean Troisgrois, Pierre Troisgros
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France

Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel’s sons are continuing the family business: César runs the Michelin-starred restaurant, “Le Bois sans feuilles” (“The Leafless Wood”), and Léo is in charge of one of the other two Troisgros restaurants, “La Colline du colombier” (“The Dovecote Hill”).

Director: Trần Anh Hùng
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche, Patrick d’Assumçao
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Japan

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bağcı
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Czechia, France, Poland, USA

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine..

Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong, Cédric Luvuezo, Teodor Corban
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium

Stefan, a migrant construction worker living in Brussels, is planning a trip home to his mother in Romania. In preparing for his voyage, he reconnects with local family members over gifted bowls of homemade soup, interacts with strangers, and discovers a revivifying commune with nature. This leads him to an unexpected connection with Shuxiu, a Chinese-Belgian bryologist studying the local moss.

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal

A cowboy arrives in a village in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in a the Amazon forest.

Director: Pat Collins
Stars: Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy, Sean McGinley
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

Director: Wei Shujun
Stars: Zhu Yilong, Chloe Maayan, Hou Tianlai, Tong Linkai
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: China

1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman’s body is found by the river. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that leads to an obvious arrest. His superiors hurry to congratulate him, but several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behaviour of his fellow citizens.

Director: David Fincher
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children’s clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.

Director: Wang Bing
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Netherlands

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children’s clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.

Director: Lila Avilés
Stars: Naíma Sentíes, Montserrat Marañon, Marisol Gasé
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark, France, Mexico

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Osaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi’s house offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to nature.

Director: Sebastián Silva
Stars: Sebastián Silva, Jordan Firstman, Catalina Saavedra
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

Director: Raven Jackson
Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jaya Henry
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Director: A.V. Rockwell
Stars: Teyana Taylor, William Catlett, Josiah Cross, Aven Courtney
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Elizabeth Pinard, Alice Costa, Karyna Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the volcano Fogo. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through music and singing.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Shin Seok-ho, Ha Seong-guk, Kim Seung-yun, Kim Min-hee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A director, a cinematographer, and an actress spend the days leading up to a movie shoot together on-location, waiting for the director to come up with an idea for what the film will be about.

Director: Ulises de la Orden
Stars: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Julio César Strassera, León Arslanián
Genre: History, Documentary
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Norway

Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people and other State crimes.

Director: Halina Reijn
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Netherlands

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Georgia | Italy

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn’s death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: China | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | Portugal

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | USA

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.

Director: Jonás Trueba
Stars: Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz, Fernando Trueba, Andrés Gertrúdix
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Spain

After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have an idea that might seem absurd: to organize a party to celebrate their breakup. This announcement leaves their loved ones perplexed, but they remain firm in their decision to separate. Or maybe not?

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hye-young, Kwon Hae-hyo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Portugal | Spain

Jérémie returns to his hometown for an old friend’s funeral. In this village where so much goes unsaid, he must contend with rumours and suspicion, until he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.

Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | UK | France | USA

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

Director: Rungano Nyoni
Stars: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland | UK | USA

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

Director: Mati Diop
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Senegal

Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.

Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva Carax
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

Director: Matthew Rankin
Stars: Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Matthew Rankin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kim Min-hee, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee, Ha Seong-guk
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

After a scandal breaks out among several students involved in the production of a skit, a lecturer at a South Korean women’s college brings in her uncle, a famous actor, to bring the work to fruition.

Director: Guan Hu
Stars: Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhang-ke, Zhou You
Genre: Drama
Country: China

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls embark on a journey together.

Director: Magnus von Horn
Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark| Poland | Sweden

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

Director: Edward Berger
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Misagh Zare, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany | Iran

Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.

Director: Josh Greenbaum
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When Will Ferrell’s good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

Director: Alex Thompson, Kelly O’Sullivan
Stars: Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen, Kupferer Tara Mallen
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

Director: Levan Akin
Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanlı
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | France | Georgia | Sweden | Turkey

Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.

Director: Shiori Itō
Stars: Shiori Itō, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Shinzo Abe
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan | UK | USA

Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

Director: Anthony Schatteman
Stars: Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.