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Director: Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Stars: Kiet Engel, Haya Khleif, Branche Jovanovski
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don’t understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Thomas Campanella, Vincent D’Onofrio, Mindy Fullilove
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

Director: Richard Knights
Stars: Thomas Hansen, Espen Mellingen, Terje Hansen
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

British documentary about the late Norwegian artist St Thomas, in which the distinction between life, art, reality and imagination become increasingly unclear.

Director: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Stars: Robin Bourland, Daisy Coleman, Charles Coleman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the effects that online bullying has on the lives of teenagers and their community.

Director: Rodrigo Grande
Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Clara Lago
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain

A paraplegic computer engineer in a wheelchair starts hearing noises and voices of bank robbers in his basement.

Director: Steve James
Stars: Thomas Sung, Hwei Lin Sung, Cyrus Vance Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States’ 2008 mortgage crisis.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Bertrand Tavernier, François Truffaut, Jean-Paul Gaultier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Bertrand Tavernier’s personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.

Director: Errol Morris
Stars: Elsa Dorfman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman.

Director: Sébastien Laudenbach
Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Philippe Laudenbach
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener and the prince in his castle. A long journey towards the light…

Director: Emil Ben-Shimon
Stars: Evelin Hagoel, Igal Naor, Orna Banai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

A bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.

Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s ranch in West Texas.

Director: Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon Nguyen
Stars: David Lynch, Lula Lynch, Edwina Lynch
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Denmark

Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.

Director: Dagur Kári
Stars: Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Sigurjón Kjartansson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark

Fusi, a 43 year old man, still lives with his mother. His daily life is characterized by monotonous routine. The appearance of vibrant Sjöfn and young neighbour Hera will upset his old bachelor habits.

Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA | UK | France | Hungary | Germany

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.

Director: Trey Edward Shults
Stars: Krisha Fairchild, Alex Dobrenko, Robyn Fairchild
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Yun-Fat Chow, Eason Chan
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong

A musical set mainly in a corporate high-rise. Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is an earnest young man who naively enters the world of high finance with noble intentions. Kat on the other hand has a secret.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | Bulgaria | Czech Republic | France

Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

Director: Santiago Mitre
Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France

An intellectual young law student who renounces a promising career to become a schoolteacher in a remote poor village is forced to make a puzzling decision, in the aftermath of her rape.

Director: Alain Gsponer
Stars: Anuk Steffen, Anna Schinz, Lilian Naef
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany | Switzerland | South Africa

A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.

Director: Bi Gan
Stars: Yongzhong Chen, Yue Guo, Linyan Liu
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China

While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.

Director: François Delisle
Stars: Luc Senay, Simon Poitras, Didier Lucien
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of reconciliation. Chorus is a love story that emerges from mourning and leads to two survivors clinging to each other as if to heal the deepest cut of all.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Two mismatched personal trainers’ lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.

Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela | Mexico

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran

Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

Director: Danielle Arbid
Stars: Manal Issa, Vincent Lacoste, Paul Hamy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lina is a Lebanese Student that just arrived to Paris to continue her studies in a French University in 1993, only to find that the Chaos that was home was no different than what she will witness in the French capital. But Paris will offer her the opportunity to find herself and acquire a new self confidence that she didn’t know she had in herself.

Director: Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | France

The story of a Danish commander, who is accused of civil murder in Afghanistan, while trying to save his squad.

Director: Marcin Wrona
Stars: Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska, Andrzej Grabowski
Genre: Marcin Wrona
Country: Poland | Israel

A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.

Director: Avishai Sivan
Stars: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel

An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.

Director: Jennifer Peedom
Stars: Russell Brice, Tim Medvetz, Phurba Tashi Sherpa
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | Nepal

A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 6400 m (21,000 ft) as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. In 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay had reached the summit in a spirit of co-operation and brave optimism. Now climbers and Sherpas were trading insults – even blows. What had happened to the happy, smiling Sherpas and their dedication in getting foreigners to the top of the mountain they hold so sacred? Determined to explore what was going on, the filmmakers set out to make a film of the 2014 Everest climbing season, from the Sherpas’ point of view.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Chile

A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced Priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.

Director: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.

Director: Karyn Kusama
Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.

Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Stars: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany | Qatar

When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.

Director: David Pablos
Stars: Nancy Talamantes, Óscar Torres, Leidi Gutiérrez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | France

Young Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family’s prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.

Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who’s surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.

Director: Liang Zhao
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | France

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves.

Director: Anna Rose Holmer
Stars: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Da’Sean Minor
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

While training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.

Director: Cesc Gay
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Dolores Fonzi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain | Argentina

Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián’s faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián’s complicated situation.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

Director: David Sington
Stars: Herbert A. Fuchs, Sammy Silverwatch, Nick Yarris
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK

A convicted murderer who has spent 23 years on Death Row tells his story.

Director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
Stars: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia | Vanuatu

Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister’s loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.

Director: Xavier Giannoli
Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Czech Republic | Belgium

It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience acts as if she was the diva she believes she is.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Jonny Greenwood, Ehtisham Khan Ajmeri, Nihal Khan
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Musician Jonny Greenwood travels to Rajasthan, where he performs with a multitude of Indian musicians.

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Yun Zhou
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Taiwan | China | Hong Kong | France

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

Director: Paddy Breathnach
Stars: Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.

Director: Shemi Zarhin
Stars: Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf, Rassabn Abes
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Canada

Follows three siblings who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Luxembourg

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Germany

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

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

‘The combination is simple: a lot of slow motion portraiture combined with a soundtrack of snippets of people’s conversation and interview. This straightforward method yields one of the most powerful and compassionate statements on race, on politics, on class, on policing, on drugs, that I’ve encountered in contemporary American cinema.’ – Zach Campbell Critics RoundUp

Director: Laura Israel
Stars: Robert Frank, Sid Kaplan, June Leaf
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Canada | France | USA

Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings, Josinaldo Alves
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Netherlands

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region’s booming clothing industry.

Director: László Nemes
Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary

A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Stars: Harun Farocki, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: France | Switzerland | Germany

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA | Germany | Denmark | Belgium | Japan

A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Director: Yaniv Rokah
Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Renée Zellweger, Yaniv Rokah
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Country: USA

Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found “home” at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi’s passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood’s red carpets.

Director: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine
Stars: Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham, Mandeep Dhillon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK

Suicidal Rob starts dating a colleague at the supermarket. But whenever they have sex, his dead girlfriend, Nina, pops up.

Director: Jayro Bustamante
Stars: María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | France

On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Germany | Netherlands

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal

A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orfanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece | Germany

A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?

Director: Scott Cooper
Stars: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Director: Vitaliy Manskiy
Stars: Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong, Hye-Yong
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czech Republic | Russia | Germany | Latvia | North Korea

A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.

Director: Sebastian Schipper
Stars: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, Claire Potter
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families.

Director: Fernando González Molina
Stars: Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Macarena García
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spanish | Kriolu | Aragonese

After the death of her father, a young Spanish woman discovers a partial letter. As she searches for the answers, she embarks on a journey that takes her back to Africa, where she unfolds the secrets of her family.

Director: Clément Cogitore
Stars: Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud, Marc Robert
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

While on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu’s men start vanishing one by one without explanation.

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA | India

Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy | France | UK

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat
Genre: Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA

A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.

Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | Canada

Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Director: Steve Hoover
Stars: Gennadiy Mokhnenko
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Ukraine | USA

Gennadiy calls himself “Pastor Crocodile.” He’s known throughout Ukraine for his years working to rehabilitate drug-addicted kids. But he’s also a vigilante who uses any force necessary to carry out his moral vision. Gennadiy believes he has made Mariupol a better place, but now, the violence in Ukraine threatens everything.

Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Stars: Sanâa Alaoui, Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium

A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city’s gang culture increases each year. It’s in this criminal milieu that directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set Black, a pulse-pounding contemporary take on a Shakespearean tragedy.

Director: Tom Fassaert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | Denmark | South Africa

On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him. She was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the 1950s, and a mother that put her two sons into a children’s home. Fassaert decides to accept her invitation. But when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession, his venture becomes much more complicated than he could ever have imagined.

Director: Martin Zandvliet
Stars: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark | Germany

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

Director: Craig Zobel
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland | Switzerland | USA

In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.

Director: Leah Wolchok
Stars: Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Emily Flake
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The iconic cartoons of The New Yorker have become an instantly recognizable cultural touchstone over the past 90 years, and Leah Wolchock’s intimate documentary offers an unprecedented glimpse into the process behind the cartoons. The film follows cartoon editor Bob Mankoff as he sifts through hundreds of submissions and pitches every week to bring readers a carefully curated selection of insightful and humorous work.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Peter Agnefjall, Tasso Azevedo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions.

Director: Andrew Cividino
Stars: Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada

While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.

Director: Alex Infascelli
Stars: Emilio D’Alessandro, Alex Infascelli, Roberto Pedicini
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | UK

S Is For Stanley is the story of Emilio D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick’s personal driver. A Friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and brought together two apparently opposite people, that found their ideal journey companion far away from their homes.

Director: Roberto Berliner
Stars: Glória Pires, Luciana Fregolente, Simone Mazzer
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil

Based on the true story of Dr. Nise da Silveira, a psychiatrist in Brazil who treated her patients with art instead of electroshock therapy.

Director: Barbara Kopple
Stars: Sharon Jones, Starr Duncan-Lowe, Binky Griptite
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.

Director: Jeremy Sims
Stars: Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Mark Coles Smith
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn’t have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.

Director: Catherine Corsini
Stars: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

A young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.

Director: Patrick Shen
Stars: John Cage, Pico Iyer, Garry Moore
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Belgium | China | Germany | Hong Kong | India | Japan | Taiwan | UK

A film about our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives.

Director: Hannes Holm
Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

Director: Louise Osmond
Stars: Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian ‘Daisy’ Vokes
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK

An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Tim Nailer Foley, José Manuel ‘El Doctor’ Mireles, Paco Valencia
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Director: Nicolas Steiner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland | Germany

From Mars to Earth and underneath. Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels deep down under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry and lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother’s madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that’s parked in his driveway.

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Carmen Herrera
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: USA

Carmen Herrera is one of the oldest working artists today. She was a pioneering abstract painter in the ’40s and ’50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career, as she approaches her 100th birthday.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Dong Liang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France | Japan

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Director: Louie Psihoyos
Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA | China | Hong Kong | Indonesia | Mexico | UK | Japan

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Director: Anna Muylaert
Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

Director: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson
Stars: Radley Balko, William ‘Dub’ Lawrence
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of ‘Dub’ Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigation skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Maria Rueff
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Switzerland

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.

Director: Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Tina Fey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Life is an adventure for a young monkey and her son, living among ancient ruins in the jungle. But when her family is forced from their home, she must lead them to safety amidst strange new creatures and surroundings.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Raphael, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

During the never-ending TV taping for a New Year’s Eve program, peoples personal lives clash and eventually explode out into the open.

Director: César Augusto Acevedo
Stars: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Edison Raigosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | France | Netherlands | Chile | Brazil

After having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into.

Director: Grant Gee
Stars: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen, Ara Güler
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland

Base on a novel of the Nobel Prize writer Orhan Pamuk ‘The Museum of Innocence’. Set in Istanbul during 1975 to 1984, a story of a man who collects various objects of a woman as memory during their love period.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Spain | Chile | Switzerland

Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet’s coup d’état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.

Director: Kim Longinotto
Stars: Brenda Myers-Powell, T.T., Keena
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.

Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland

In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.

Director: Chanya Button
Stars: Laura Carmichael, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joe Dempsie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

Director: Colin Hanks
Stars: Russ Solomon, Chuck D, Chris Cornell
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: USA | Japan

‘All Things Must Pass’ is a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Tower Records, and its legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon.

Director: Sean McAllister
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK | France | Lebanon | Syria

Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of “Shariff”, a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government’s counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, (T)ERROR illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks who is watching the watchers.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Tsring Chodron, Tsewang Dolkar, Jiangcuo Seba
Genre: Drama
Country: China

A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France

Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal’s sister. Also, and to show how small the world has become, Chantal remains in contact with her mother at other times of the year via Skype from lands as far away from Belgium as Oklahoma or New York.

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Stars: Marta Blanc, Max Brebant, Roxane Duran
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium | Spain

The only residents of young Nicholas’ sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the “High Priestess of Soul.”

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Stars: Andrew Sensenig, Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

In the cold, wintery fields of New England, a lonely old house wakes up every thirty years – and demands a sacrifice.

Director: Nick Berardini
Stars: Rick Smith, Tom Smith
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Canada | USA

In the early 2000s, two brothers found tremendous success when their company began selling a device that has been called ‘the biggest revolution in law enforcement since the radio.’ But as their company grew, they made decisions that would have lasting impact on both the public and their increasingly skeptical customer base.

Director: Chad Gracia
Stars: Andrei Alexandrovich, Fedor Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Ukraine | UK | USA

As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.

Director: George Amponsah, George Amponsah
Stars: Marcus Knox Hooke, Kurtis Henville
Genre: Documentary, Action, Crime
Country: UK

The police killing of Mark Duggan in London, 2011, ignited the worst civil unrest in recent British history and made headlines around the globe.

Director: Anne Bogart, Holly Morris
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there – semi-officially, for years.

Director: F. Gary Gray
Stars: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland

Balancing between the past and the present, the darkness and the light, within the musky stone walls of Santa Chiara’s 17th-century convent prison in Bobbio, a sinful Sister and a cultivated night owl Count are somehow linked together.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Thailand | UK | Germany | France | Malaysia | South Korea | Mexico | USA | Norway

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

Director: Jeanie Finlay
Stars: Jerry Adams, Sharon Attaway Nettleton, Gail Brewer-Giorgio
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

‘There are many that believe that Elvis is still alive – if he is alive he wears a mask and goes by the name Orion’ (Nashville News 1979) ORION’s the story of Jimmy Ellis, an unknown singer plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme which had him masquerade as Elvis…back from the grave. With an outlandish fictional identity torn from the pages of the best selling novel Orion by Gail Brewer Giorgio, the backing of the legendary birthplace of rock ‘n roll; Sun Records and a voice which seemed to be the very twin of Presley’s himself, the scheme – concocted in the months after Presley’s death mushroomed into a cult phenomena – and the ‘Elvis is alive’ myth was begun.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Luísa Cruz
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Switzerland

Continuation of the Arabian Nights stories by the structure were adapted to modern life in Portugal in three innings and the third chapter “The Owners of Dixie” has three chapters.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Diane Besnier
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.

Director: Stevan Riley
Stars: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bernardo Bertolucci
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend’s story.

Director: Celso R. García
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Silverio Palacios
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Five men are hired to paint the lines of a road. Painting 1 km/hour is slow enough to learn the lines between good and evil, laughter and despair, life and death. The challenges they face will change their lives forever.

Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Rosa Delor, Emanuela Forgetta, Patricia Gil
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

After his classes, the teacher is questioned by his wife. The wife is skeptical about the new Academic project his husband is devising. The teacher is trying to build up a new “Academy of the Muses”that, inspired by the Classics will help to build up a brand new World through a real commitment to Poetry. The controversial project triggers a round of scenes on words and desire.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Laura Obiols
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old traditions and adapting to American values.

Director: Jason Krawczyk
Stars: Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Kate Greenhouse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

Jack, a social outcast, is thrust out of his comfort zone when the outside world bangs on his door and he can’t contain his violent past.

Director: Jacob Bernstein, Nick Hooker
Stars: Tom Hanks, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.

Director: Ciro Guerra
Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Colombia | Venezuela | Argentina

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Director: Hao Zhou
Stars: Li Fu, Ma Suying, Geng Yangbo
Genre: Documentary, Drama, News
Country: China

DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu, Corneliu Cozmei
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania | France

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.

Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA | UK

In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town’s doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.

Director: Ermalo Magradze
Stars: David Kamkamidze, Rezo Esadze, Buba Khotivari
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia

A school teacher meets a dying billionaire, inheriting his estate and becoming a philanthropist.

Director: Marc Silver
Stars: Lucia McBath, Ron Davis, Michael David Dunn
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving November 2012, four boys in a red SUV pull into a gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls. With music blaring, one boy exits the car and enters the store, a quick stop for a soda and a pack of gum. A man and a woman pull up next to the boys in the station, making a stop for a bottle of wine. The woman enters the store and an argument breaks out when the driver of the second car asks the boys to turn the music down. 3 1/2 minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead. 3 1/2 MINUTES dissects the aftermath of this fatal encounter.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

Director: Leyla Bouzid
Stars: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Tunisia | France | Belgium | United Arab Emirates | Switzerland

A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Stars: Bishop Agapit, Catherine Ashton, Serhii Averchenko
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Ukraine | USA

A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

Director: Rodrigo Plá
Stars: Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre, Hugo Albores
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico

When her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, Sonia Bonet (Jan Raluy) takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point: with her son in tow, she attempts to fight the system.

Director: Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto
Stars: Anaïs Bordier, Samantha Futerman, Kanoa Goo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: UK | France | South Korea | USA

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.

Director: Álvaro Longoria
Stars: Álvaro Longoria, Simon Cockerell, Kang Hyoin Gyu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain | France

Granted controlled access by national officials, filmmaker Álvaro Longoria tours North Korea to contrast his findings to the typical Western depiction of the nation.

Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Canada

In this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.

Director: Stanley Nelson
Stars: Blair Anderson, Omar Barbour, Julian Bond
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Steve Jobs, Alex Gibney, Steve Wozniak
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the personal and private life of the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.

Director: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

Director: Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez
Stars: Andrea Alzuri, Eva Ojanguren, Josu Cubero
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain | Japan

Three children decide to leave their homes looking for a better life.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Américo Silva, Amar Bounachada
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Switzerland

The final trilogy of adaptation of Arabian Nights story by the structure in Portugal modern life between 2013-2014 in three chapter.

Director: David Evans
Stars: Niklas Frank, Horst von Wächter, Philippe Sands
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK | Austria | Poland | Ukraine

A human-rights lawyer conducts conversations with two men whose fathers were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII – Nazi Governors and consultants to Adolf Hitler himself.

Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Alassane Sy, Koudous Seihon, Adam Gnegne
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | USA | Germany | Qatar

Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.

Director: Károly Ujj Mészáros
Stars: Mónika Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary

iza’s a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An unemployed factory worker is trying to make ends meet in working-class France.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Switzerland

Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. But the new girl in his life finds out that Manon has a lover. When she tells Pierre, the time comes for difficult decisions all round.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Min-hee Kim, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A married film director falls for a young painter – twice.

Director: Jerry Rothwell
Stars: Robert Hunter, Patrick Moore, Paul Watson
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: Canada | UK | Netherlands

In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world’s imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How To Change The World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.

Director: Daniel Raim
Stars: Lillian Michelson, Harold Michelson, Bill Krohn
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Harold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood in 1947, where they became the film industry’s secret weapons. Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them. Theirs is the greatest story never told-until now.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Director: Douglas Tirola
Stars: Danny Abelson, Judd Apatow, Kevin Bacon
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA | UK

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never-before-seen footage.

Director: Vibha Bakshi
Stars: Kiran Bedi, Mr. Arvind Gaur, Dipankar Gupta
Genre: Documentary
Country: India

‘Daughters of Mother India’, is an Indian filmmaker’s journey on the aftermath of the horrific rape and murder of a 23 year old old medical intern in Delhi on 16 December 2012. The film is India’s story of resolve, hope and courage against the fight on gender violence. The film goes inside Indian society, the Government and looks at the swift and radical changes being made in the Police, the Judiciary and community groups, who are provoking for the first time, a national dialogue on the current sexist attitudes of Indian society and how to change them. For the first time, in the long history of the Police force, the Police Commissioner of the Capital of India, Delhi granted permission for a camera to be allowed inside the Delhi Police Control and Command room.

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: Aaron Burckhard, Chad Channing, Don Cobain
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: USA

An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.

Director: Mor Loushy
Stars: Amos Oz
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Israel | Germany

The 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war ended with Israel’s decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking – a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzniks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. ‘Censored Voices’ reveals the original recordings for the first time.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany | India | USA

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Marc-André Grondin, Philippe Katerine
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

It’s 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Director: Sara Hirsh Bordo
Stars: Lizzie Velasquez, Hillary Clinton
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

A documentary following the life of Lizzie Velasquez, her triumphant journey to the other side of bullying, and her mission to inspire and empower a more positive online environment.

Director: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Uncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas, a 94-resident town so tucked away “you’ve got to be lost to find it”.

Director: Stig Björkman
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Alicia Vikander, Pia Lindström
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Germany

A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.

Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway | Netherlands

Forsaken in a new Oslo apartment, a frail blind woman battles to come to terms with her condition, as she slowly retracts into an elaborate fantasy bubble. Are her stories fanning her suspicions, or is this what total blindness looks like?

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Argentina | Denmark | France | Mexico | USA | Germany | Brazil | Netherlands

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico

Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.

Director: Albert Maysles
Stars: Iris Apfel, Harold Koda, Dries Van Noten
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93-year-old style maven who has had an out-sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88-year-old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles.

Director: Matthew Warchus
Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | USA

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Director: Yann Demange
Stars: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In 1971, a young and disorientated British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.

Director: Kaan Müjdeci
Stars: Okan Avci, Cakir, Ezgi Ergin
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey

An eleven-year-old boy and a weathered fighting dog develop a strong relationship after the boy finds the dog wounded in a ditch, left to die.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

Director: Keith Miller
Stars: James ‘Primo’ Grant, John Diaz, Wanda Nobles Colon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A member of the notorious Bloods since he was 12 years old – both in the film and in real life – Primo takes John, the son of his slain mentor, under his wing, versing him in the code of the streets. Set in East New York, FIVE STAR blends documentary and fictional storytelling as director Keith Miller carefully avoids worn clichés of gang culture to offer a compelling portrait of two men forced to confront the question of what it really means to be a man.

Director: Tom Fisher
Stars: Daniel Cerqueira, Richard Johnson, Gemma Jones
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Radiator will have its British Premiere 58th London Film Festival on 15th October 2014 and features the oldest, oddest couple by a very long chalk. It is a darkly comic examination of family life, marriage, age and love.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Drama
Country: India

When an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.

Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Brandy Burre, Michael Tomlinson
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.

Director: Naji Abu Nowar
Stars: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates | Qatar | Jordan | UK

In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.

Director: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels.

Director: Yuriy Bykov
Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.

Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.

Director: Kanu Behl
Stars: Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Shivani Raghuvanshi
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India

Titli, the youngest member of a car-jacking brotherhood wants to escape the family business. He and his wife form a pact to set free from their family roots. But is escape possible?

Director: Debra Granik
Stars: Ronnie Hall, Felipe Angel Padilla, Felipe de Jesus Padilla
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A contemplative portrait of Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall: biker, Vietnam Vet, and lover of small dogs.

Director: Seong-hun Kim
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde
Stars: Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid, Cesar Ramos
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico

Four stories of love and disgust between men of different generations facing their conflicts and their fears

Director: Mark Raso
Stars: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | USA | Denmark

When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it’s time to grow up.

Director: Johanna Hamilton
Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson
Genre: Documentary, History, Thriller
Country: USA

The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau’s numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.

Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands

A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital’s central square.

Director: Masaharu Take
Stars: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai, Yôzaburô Itô
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) lives at home with her parents, passing the days in self-indulgent grunginess. Ichiko’s recently divorced younger sister Fumiko has moved back home with her young son. One day, after a particularly heated argument, Ichiko charges out of the house for good. With few employment options to support herself, Ichiko works the night shift at a 100 yen shop (dollar store). On her way home each day she passes a boxing gym where she watches Yuji Kano (Hirofumi Arai) silently practice, developing a crush on him. The pair starts seeing each other and things change for Ichiko… At last, the bell rings and longtime loser Ichiko’s rematch with life begins!

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Director: Fabrice du Welz
Stars: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Genre: Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

Fervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.

Director: Chris Rock
Stars: Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown is spending a day interviewing comedian and recovering alcoholic Andre Allen, star of the hit film franchise Hammy The Bear, about a cop in a bear suit. Chelsea has forgotten her audio recorder, so they first go to her apartment. While there they discuss a magazine article about the Cinderella complex. Chelsea explains that Cinderella left something behind to let the prince know that she wanted to see him again..

Director: Adam Wingard
Stars: Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Ghita Nørby, Paprika Steen, Danica Curcic
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

Three generations of a family coming together over a weekend. A sick mother’s wish to die before her disease worsens gets harder to handle as old conflicts come to the surface.

Director: Gareth Evans
Stars: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia | USA

Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

Director: Eugène Green
Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.

Director: Paul Katis
Stars: David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK

Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg – or your life.

Director: Afia Nathaniel
Stars: Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Pakistan | Norway | USA

In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl’s marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.

Director: Francesco Munzi
Stars: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Silhol
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.

Director: John Magary
Stars: Josh Lucas, Stephen Plunkett, Lucy Owen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A comic drama about rage, doubt, lust, madness, and other brotherly hand-me-downs.

Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: Meccah Boynton-Brown, Doug Brown, Bob Cavnar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion as seen through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on.

Director: James Kent
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | Denmark

A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I – a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Director: Gabe Polsky
Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Russia

The story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.

Director: Alberto Rodríguez
Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Spain

Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.

Director: Leigh Janiak
Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.

Director: July Jung
Stars: Doona Bae, Sae-ron Kim, Sae-byeok Song
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Young-nam was a promising graduate of the police academy before she was transferred to the small seaside village, as a result of misconduct. On her first day in the village, she encounters Dohee, a girl living in the town with a gloomy looking face. As Young-nam tries to acclimate to her new surroundings, Dohee’s grandma died in a car accident. To protect the girl from her stepfather’s abuse, Young-nam lets Dohee stay at her place, but things become more mysterious as she gets to know her.

Director: Pascale Ferran
Stars: Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France

In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.

Director: Eddie Martin
Stars: Tas Pappas, Ben Pappas, Tommy Caudill
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: UK | Australia

All This Mayhem is a searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas’ intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany | Poland

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | Congo

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

Director: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Director: Damián Szifron
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain | France | UK

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

Director: Asaf Korman
Stars: Liron Ben-Shlush, Dana Ivgy, Yaakov Zada Daniel
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Cheli, 27, is raising her mentally challenged 24yo sister, Gaby, alone. When the social worker finds out that Cheli leaves Gaby alone in the house while Cheli is at work, Cheli is compelled to place Gaby in a day program. For the first time in her life, Cheli shares Gaby’s care with someone else; her daily routine collapses and the huge void left by Gaby’s absence makes room for a man in Cheli’s life in the shape of Zohar, who inadvertently creates a chink in the sisters’ symbiotic relationship. While Cheli hangs on to Zohar’s love for all she’s worth, her inability to have a normal, intimate, and emotional relationship with anyone but her sister forces them into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing, and torturing are crossed.

Director: Carlos Vermut
Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter’s last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors’ costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city’s dark underbelly.

Director: David Oelhoffen
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: France

Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ryô Kase, So-Ri Moon, Young-hwa Seo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology – and so must we?

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.

Director: Camilla Nielsson
Stars: Paul Mangwana, Robert Mugabe, Douglas Mwonzora
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Zimbabwe

In politically unstable Zimbabwe, a new constitution is being put together by the ruling party of strongman Robert Mugabe and the divided opposition. Various political, local and personal interests are bogging the process down.

Director: Yi’nan Diao
Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China

An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle’s pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Mauritania | France | Qatar

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives — which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith — abruptly disturbed.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.

Director: Teodora Mihai
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Romania

Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Torn between adolescence and heavy responsibilities, the teenage girl struggles to keep everyone afloat.

Director: Stéphane Lafleur
Stars: Julianne Côté, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Luc Senay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

While her parents are away, a young woman and her friend are hanging out for the summer, and are joined by her brother and his bandmates.

Director: J.P. Sniadecki
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network, ‘The Iron Ministry’ traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture.

Director: Zachary Wigon
Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Lyn Sheil, Louisa Krause
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend whom he met on the Internet has been living in the same city as him, and he sets out looking for her.

Director: Paul Harrill
Stars: Ashley Shelton, Bryce Johnson, Linds Edwards
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When a tragedy shatters her plans for domestic bliss, a seemingly typical Southern newlywed gradually transforms into a spiritual seeker, quietly threatening the closest relationships around her.

Director: Scott Crawford
Stars: Fred Armisen, Brendan Canty, Dave Grohl
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.

Director: Julia Marchese
Stars: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Edgar Wright
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Hazel Orencio
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.

Director: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
Stars: Jason Carrión, Paxx Moll, Alberic Prados
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico | USA

A documentary about the power of transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico.

Director: James D. Cooper
Stars: Kit Lambert, Christopher Stamp, Roger Daltrey
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary that reveals how the unlikely partnership between aspiring filmmakers Christopher Stamp and Kit Lambert produced one of the greatest rock bands in history: The Who.

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Germany

A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.

Director: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France | Germany

After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband’s compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Stars: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horvát
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary | Germany | Sweden

Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Germany

A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Germany | UK

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Director: Chris Moukarbel
Stars: Beth Stebner, Keegan Hamilton, Jaime Rojo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary chronicling the famed street artist’s “31 works of art in 31 days” in New York city.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany

A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA | UK

A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.

Director: Hubert Sauper
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Austria

As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.

Director: Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Stars: Ariel Hsing, Michael Landers, Lily Zhang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Three teenagers’ quest to qualify for the 2012 US Olympic table tennis team.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Denmark | Indonesia | Finland | Norway | UK | Israel | France | USA | Germany | Netherlands

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

Director: James Napier Robertson
Stars: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand

A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.

Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.

Director: Terry McMahon
Stars: Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford, Philip Jackson
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Ireland

When a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

Director: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A twenty-something comedienne’s unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.

Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Frederick Singer, Naomi Oreskes, Jamy Ian Swiss
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Switzerland | Germany

A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.

Director: Mathieu Amalric
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?

Director: JK Youn
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Yunjin Kim, Dal-su Oh
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea

Amid the time of Korean War, a young boy’s vow to take care of his family marked the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning 60 years.

Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Canada

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Director: Hans Herbots
Stars: Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan van Assche
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium

Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.

Director: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland | UK

After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.

Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Stars: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Stars: Shira Haas, Keren Mor, Ori Pfeffer
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar’s role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan-an ethereal boy who joins her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevallier
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland | France

A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.

Director: Edet Belzberg
Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Raphael Lemkin, Matt Mitler
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Netherlands | France | Chad | Rwanda

Four modern stories of remarkable courage while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term ‘genocide’. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ‘A Problem From Hell’, ‘Watchers of the Sky’ traverses time and continents to explore genocide and the cycle of violence.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

The August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.

Director: Ian Cheney
Stars: Ian Cheney
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, History
Country: USA | Taiwan | China

Who was General Tso, and why are we eating his chicken? This feature documentary explores the origins and ubiquity of Chinese-American food through the story of an iconic sweet and spicy chicken dish.

Director: Mark Craig
Stars: Eugene Cernan, Fred ‘Baldy’ Baldwin, Alan Bean
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: UK

When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love, and loss.

Director: Ben Cotner, Ryan White
Stars: Ted Olson, Christopher D. Dusseault, Jeffrey J. Zarrillo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

A behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Director: Mary Dore
Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Alta, Judith Arcana
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.

Director: Signe Baumane
Stars: Signe Baumane
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Latvia

Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.

Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands

A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the ‘tribe’.

Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Lauryn Hill, Kati Outinen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Finland | Denmark | USA

The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.

Director: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens
Stars: Barbara Block, James Cameron, Michael deGruy
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Bermuda | Ecuador

Feature documentary about legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle , and her campaign to create a global network of protected marine sanctuaries.

Director: Lacey Schwartz, James Adolphus
Stars: Matthew Noah Word
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A film about denial, race, family secrets and a search for identity.

Director: Eric Lartigau
Stars: Karin Viard, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Belgium

A girl, who lives with her deaf parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing.

Director: Alan Hicks
Stars: Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Quincy Jones
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that follows jazz legend Clark Terry over four years to document the mentorship between Terry and 23-year-old blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin as the young man prepares to compete in an elite, international competition.

Director: Leah Meyerhoff
Stars: Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack, Julia Garner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love.

Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Stars: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil

Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.

Director: Darius Clark Monroe
Stars: Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie Foumbi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of family, friends…and victims.

Director: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic | Mexico | Argentina

An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an irresistible storm.

Director: Eran Riklis
Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Razi Gabareen, Yaël Abecassis
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France

A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

“The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces… and suddenly it is also then, the mid ’70s and the time of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim.” This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa’s “Colossal Youth” with Ventura again playing himself.

Director: Arne Birkenstock
Stars: Wolfgang Beltracchi, Helene Beltracchi, Henrik Hanstein
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany

A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.

Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Stars: Harold Evans, Ralph Nader, Michael Sheen
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Before the Internet. Before Social Media. Before Breaking News. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight their corner: Investigative Journalism. This is the story of how Harold Evans fought and won the battle of his and many other lives.

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA | Germany

When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man’s true identity – oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré’s novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Stars: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer, Sirius Flatz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

Alex moves to Los Angeles for a new job; Sergi stays in Barcelona. They love each other, but maintaining a relationship through technology proves challenging.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria

Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don’t recognize.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Shanyn Leigh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.

Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Stars: Hera Hilmar, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland

A Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

George seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, a Manhattan intake center for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Director: Beth Harrington
Stars: Chet Atkins, Lorrie Bennett, John R. Brinkley
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

The Winding Stream is a 90-minute High Definition music history documentary-in-progress that tells the story of the American roots music dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes. Starting with the Original Carter Family (A.P., Sara, Maybelle), the film traces the ebb and flow of their influence, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters, the marital alliance with legend Johnny Cash and the efforts of present-day family to keep this legacy alive. No one has yet pulled together all the elements of this family saga in one documentary. The goal of The Winding Stream is to honor this multi-generational family where it stands — at the headwaters of American roots music.

Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Brazil | Italy

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.

Director: Gabriel London
Stars: Scoot McNairy, Shea Whigham
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: Canada | USA

When a legendary escape artist comes up for parole after 30 years behind bars, a chance for freedom must be weighed against his infamous past.

Director: Brian Knappenberger
Stars: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.

Director: Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi
Stars: Barbara Epstein, W.H. Auden, Isaiah Berlin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | Japan

A documentary on the history and influence of the New York Review of Books.

Director: Hanna Polak
Stars: Yula, Hanna Polak
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Denmark | Poland | Japan | Netherlands | USA

Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream – to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin’s Russia.

Director: Ethan Hawke
Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke, Sam Bachelor
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.

Director: Nancy D. Kates
Stars: Noël Burch, Lucinda Childs, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag’s life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland | France | UK | Romania

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

Director: James Simone, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Due to 12 y.o. Anna’s asthma, she’s sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the Japanese countryside. She likes to be alone, sketching. She befriends Marnie. Who is the mysterious, blonde Marnie.

Director: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Stars: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelstein, Aliza Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | Germany

Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.

Director: Michele Josue
Stars: Michele Josue, Judy Shepard, Zeina Barkawi
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Morocco | Switzerland

Friends and family reflect on the life and death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in a targeted homophobic attack in Wyoming in 1998.

Director: Rory Kennedy
Stars: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Stuart Herrington
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only–or to risk treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can.

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden

After his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.

Director: Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker
Stars: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.

Director: Joe Swanberg
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After a break up, Jenny moves in with writer Kelly, her filmmaker husband, and their child. Despite a rocky start, Jenny’s influence helps Kelly realize that an evolution in her life, career and relationship is necessary for her happiness.

Director: Stuart Murdoch
Stars: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK

As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden | Germany | Norway | France | Denmark

Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.

Director: John Pirozzi
Stars: Norodom Sirivudh, Norodom Sihanouk, Sisowath Kossamak
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Cambodia | France

Through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, ‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll’ examines and unravels Cambodia’s tragic past, culminating in the genocidal Khmer Rouge’s dismantling of the society and murder of two million of its citizens. Combining interviews of the surviving Cambodian musicians themselves (a total of 150 hours of interviews were filmed) with never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, this documentary tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country.

Director: Justin Simien
Stars: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland

A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.

Director: Charles Poekel
Stars: Kentucker Audley, Craig Butta, Maria Cantillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman’s beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city.

Director: Amanda Wilder
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.

Director: Shawn Rech, Brandon Kimber
Stars: Dexter Hammett, Joseph Alex, Jason Patrick
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA

Documentary filmmakers assert that Anthony Porter – a former death-row inmate who was spared the death penalty thanks to the efforts of a college journalism program – was actually guilty, and an innocent man was sent to prison.

Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates