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Director: Shola Lynch
Stars: Angela Davis, Eisa Davis
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.

Director: Brad Bernstein
Stars: Tomi Ungerer, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Depicts one man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator.

Director: Marcelo Gomes
Stars: João Miguel, Maeve Jinkings, Marcelo Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France

A woman tries to make a life for herself in a violent Brazilian city.

Director: Jared Moshe
Stars: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.

Director: Laurent Boileau, Jung
Stars: Maxym Anciaux, Cathy Boquet, Mahé Collet
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | South Korea | Switzerland

Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.

Director: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Stars: David Bahati, David Kato, Gilles Muhame
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Uganda

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Director: Jong-bin Yoon
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

Director: Jeffrey Kimball
Stars: Regina Alvarez, Anya Auerbach, Mike Bryant
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.

Director: Terence Nance
Stars: Alisa Becher, Jc Cain, Dexter Jones
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An artist’s shortsighted film about a failed relationship is reedited into a more collaborative, more inclusive work of art.

Director: Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett
Stars: Bobby Hackney, David Hackney, Dannis Hackney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA | Netherlands | UK | Denmark

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hoped of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music – and band name – too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A Band Called Death chronicles the incredible fairy-tale journey of what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made it way out of the attic and found an audience several generations younger.

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Stars: Jaqueline Siegel, David Siegel, Lorraine Barrett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Netherlands | UK | Denmark

A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.

Director: Benh Zeitlin
Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

Director: Lee Hirsch
Stars: Ja’Meya Jackson, Kelby Johnson, Lona Johnson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.

Director: Dee Rees
Stars: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Aasha Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Director: Cindy Meehl
Stars: Buck Brannaman, Gary Myers, Bibb Frazier
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An examination of the life of acclaimed ‘horse whisperer’ Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become a well-known expert in the interactions between horses and people.

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: John C. Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Bridger Zadina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

The story of a bullied fifteen-year-old boy in a small town as he struggles to adjust to his difficult life.

Director: Joseph Cedar
Stars: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.

Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Erik Hemmendorff, Ruben Östlund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | France

An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the ‘little brother number’ or ‘brother trick’, involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.

Director: Seung-jun Yi
Stars: Cho Young-Chan, Kim Soon-ho, Choi Jungah
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: South Korea | Japan | Finland

Young-Chan comes from planet of snail where deaf blind people live slow and quiet lives. When Young-Chan came to Earth, nobody understood his language and he was desperate. Then an angel walked into his life. Soon-Ho knows how it is to be lonely and soon becomes an inseparable part of his life. Young-Chan also discovers an amazing world under his fingers as he learned to read books with braille. Hopes began to grow and he dreams of writing a book.

Director: Eric Khoo
Stars: Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Animation, Biography, Drama

A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Germany | France | UK | USA

A tribute to the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Kôki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Masami Nagasawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents’ divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

Director: Nadav Lapid
Stars: Yiftach Klein, Yaara Pelzig, Michael Moshonov
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France

A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Germany | Poland | Spain | USA

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

Director: Miranda July
Stars: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France | Germany | USA | UK

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

Director: Alejandro Landes
Stars: Porfirio Ramire Aldana, Jarlinsson Ramirez Reinoso, Yor Jasbleidy Santos Torres
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia | Argentina | Uruguay | Spain | France

Confined between his bed and his wheelchair, Porfirio – a man who lives in a town on the edge of the Amazon – dreams of being able to fly.

Director: Valérie Massadian
Stars: Kelyna Lecomte, Marie Delmas, Alain Sabras
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A journey into the darkness of her childhood. The world from her height.

Director: Clay Jeter
Stars: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers, Haley Strode
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A series of vignettes involving memories of companionship and sexual awakening shared by two second cousins.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan …

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, Hailu Qin
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people’s home.

Director: David Sington
Stars: Andrew Luan, Robert Shiller, Louis Hyman
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

An examination of the causes of the economic crisis of 2008.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | France | Germany

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret.

Director: Ignacio Ferreras
Stars: Tacho González, Álvaro Guevara, Mabel Rivera
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Spain

An astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.

Director: Stephen Cone
Stars: Molly Kunz, Eric Hulsebos, Tyler Ross
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters – Brea, an introspective pastor’s daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea’s best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time.

Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A sex addict’s carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.

Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

Director: Pablo Giorgelli
Stars: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Reluctantly, a dour long-distance truck driver agrees to give a lift to a Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter to Buenos Aires. Can the palpable silence soften up the taciturn trucker’s sullen heart?

Director: Cyril Tuschi
Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Germany

Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn’t he stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky.

Director: Patrick Wang
Stars: Sebastian Banes, Patrick Wang, Trevor St. John
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When his partner Cody dies in a car accident, Joey learns that their son, Chip, has been willed to Cody’s sister. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are.

Director: Evan Glodell
Stars: Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang “Mother Medusa.”

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Stars: Jingchun Wang, Wenqing Liu, Guo Liuxing Zhong
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: China | France

11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school’s daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang encounters a wounded man on the run and their fates are intertwined.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.

Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Jane Alexander, Lindsay Almond Jr., Edward L. Ayers
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: USA

A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era.

Director: Duncan Jones
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA | Canada | France | Germany

A soldier wakes up in someone else’s body and discovers he’s part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Stars: Stephanie Sigman, Noé Hernández, Irene Azuela
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico

After entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang’s bidding.

Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Stars: Jean Barney, Chloé Berthier, JB Blanc
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Canada

Three characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland | Germany | Canada

A dramatization of one man’s rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Philippe Decouflé, Naamah Alva, Daizy Blu
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

A look inside Paris’ Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Leyla Zareh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Shahab Hosseini
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Story of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | India

Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert’s hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.

Director: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Ireland

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an up-tight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

Director: Maïwenn
Stars: Karin Viard, JoeyStarr, Marina Foïs
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters an affair with one of her subjects.

Director: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain

You wake day after day to the comfort and security of your home. But how safe is it really?

Director: Michel Ocelot
Stars: Julien Béramis, Marine Griset, Michel Elias
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: France

Tales of the Night weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, to the Land of the Dead. From the imagination of internationally renowned animator Michel Ocelot.

Director: Valérie Donzelli
Stars: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix
Genre: Drama
Country: France

When their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival.

Director: Chanoch Ze’evi
Stars: Bettina Göring, Katrin Himmler, Monika Hertwig
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Israel | Germany

A look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler’s command.

Director: Tristan Patterson
Stars: Sid Rocket, Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father in Fullerton, California, has to come to terms with the fact that it’s time to grow up and be responsible for his son and family.

Director: Ralph Fiennes
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

Director: Tom McCarthy
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach’s chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.

Director: Ben Rivers
Stars: Jake Williams
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

After working at sea, a man realizes his dream of moving to the middle of the forest.

Director: Julia Loktev
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA | Germany

An engaged couple’s backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.

Director: Sarah Polley
Stars: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada | Spain | Japan

A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.

Director: Frédéric Jardin
Stars: Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg

A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld finds his secret life exposed when he and his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a powerful drug dealer, a move that puts his son’s life in jeopardy.

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.

Director: Markus Schleinzer, Kathrin Resetarits
Stars: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria

Five months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.

Director: Andrés Baiz
Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Martina García, María Soledad Rodríguez
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia | Spain

Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend’s mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance. But, can he look beyond the facts?

Director: Vera Farmiga
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A chronicle of one woman’s lifelong struggle with her faith.

Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Stars: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde, Henriette Steenstrup
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Norway

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Alex Gibney, Dave Kaplan, Bob Costas
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

After the Chicago Cubs blow an opportunity to reach the World Series in 2003, Cubs fans blame the team’s misfortune on fellow fan Steve Bartman, who interfered with a foul ball and prevented Moises Alou from making a catch.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | USA

An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood’s silent era.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France

A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.

Director: Michael Glawogger
Stars: Emma, Ning, Toh
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Austria | Thailand | France

An examination of the lives, needs, troubles and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico.

Director: Sebastián Borensztein
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?

Director: Jim Hemphill
Stars: Lea Thompson, John Shea, Danielle Harris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she’s engaged.

Director: Steve James
Stars: Tio Hardiman, Ameena Matthews, Toya Batey
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.

Director: Susanne Rostock
Stars: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden

One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Neil Young
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Neil Young returns to his birth Canadian province of Ontario to revisit his old haunts and to perform in Toronto’s vintage Massey Hall.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Director: Andrea Segre
Stars: Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.

Director: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway | Sweden | Denmark | Germany

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Director: Júlia Murat
Stars: Sonia Guedes, Lisa Fávero, Luis Serra
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Argentina | France

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio’s shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another.

Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Stars: Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Palestine | Israel | France | Netherlands

A documentary on a Palestinian farmer’s chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

Director: Yoav Potash
Stars: Deborah Peagler, Joshua Safran, Nadia Costa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman, despite the injustices she has experienced, first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution, and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for her connection to the murder of her abuser. Her story takes an unexpected turn two decades later when a pair of rookie land-use attorneys cut their teeth on her case — and attract global attention to the troubled intersection of domestic violence and criminal justice.

Director: Alma Har’el
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har’el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life.

Director: Joe Cornish
Stars: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey | Bosnia and Herzegovina

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany

A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan’s 8-year absence from exploring the world.

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France | UK | Germany | USA

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.

Director: Carl Colby
Stars: William Colby, Dale Andrade, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby’s son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation’s most cloaked actions.

Director: Alison Bagnall
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Olly Alexander, Eleonore Hendricks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Reeling from her husband’s affair, Rose collides with a marooned teenager in a boarded-up Delaware beach town.

Director: Gareth Evans
Stars: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Indonesia | France | USA

A S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

Director: Ross McElwee
Stars: Adrian McElwee, Ross McElwee
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

Filmmaker Ross McElwee (Sherman’s March, Bright Leaves) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, a young adult who seems addicted to and distracted by the virtual worlds of the internet. To understand his fractured love for his son, McElwee travels back to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany for the first time in decades to retrace his own journey into adulthood. A meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, and the digital versus analog divide.

Director: Lech Majewski
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland | Sweden

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel’s painting. The theme of Christ’s suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.

Director: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Hafsia Herzi, François Damiens
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France

Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi’s cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette
Genre: Drama
Country: France

At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century, exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries, and most of all, slavery.

Director: Peter Richardson
Stars: Harry Bruton, Ray Carnay, Cody Curtis
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: USA

In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person’s request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. ‘How to Die in Oregon’ tell the stories of those most intimately involved with the practice today — terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and friends — as well as the passage of a similar law in Washington State.

Director: Michael Collins
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA | UK

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.

Director: Michael Perlman
Stars: Ethan Gutmann, David Kilgour
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction… The award winning “Free China: The Courage To Believe” tells the story of a mother and former Communist Party member, Jennifer Zeng, who along with more than 70 Million Chinese were practicing a belief that combined Buddhism and Daoism until the Chinese Government outlawed it.

Director: Bill Filipiak, Louise Palanker
Stars: Bill Cowsill, Bob Cowsill, Richard Cowsill
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

The story of the real-life family pop group consisting of six kids and their mother that inspired TV’s “Partridge Family.”

Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Kristin Booth
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Canada

A lesbian couple escape from their nursing home and head up to Canada to get married. Along the way, they pick up a young, male hitchhiker.

Director: Kelly Duane, Katie Galloway
Stars: Scott Crow, Brandon Darby, Matthew Vadum
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A pair of childhood friends from Texas who set out to prove themselves.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Ann Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Australia

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Director: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran

It’s been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.

Director: Tom Lin
Stars: Jiao Xu, Hui-Min Lin, Rene Liu
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan | China | Hong Kong

12-year-old Mei grew up with her grandparents in the mountains, but now lives with her parents in the city. Her parents constantly fight and she ignored at home. Mei withdraws into her own world and imagination.

Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller
Stars: Gedeon Burkhard, Michael Mendl, Catherine Flemming
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Germany

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

Director: David Weissman, Bill Weber
Stars: Ed Wolf, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.

Director: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton
Stars: Jeff Adachi, James H. Billington, Robin Blaetz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

Director: Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss
Stars: Joshua Milton Blahyi Jr., Janice Blahyi, Joshua Blahyi
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA | Georgia | Liberia

Tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked – a brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia’s horrific 14-year civil war. Today, the General has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as Evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi. This portrait takes viewers on Joshua’s crusade to redeem his past, as he confronts his victims and attempts to rehabilitate the former child soldiers who once fought for him. Whatever you make of him — liar or madman, charlatan or genuine repentant — the film challenges viewers to ask important questions about both the power and the limits of forgiveness, amid a nation’s search for healing and justice.

Director: Joshua Marston
Stars: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Albania | Denmark | Italy | UK

An Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.

Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Sweden | USA

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Israel

Can justice truly be served in the occupied territories given the current system of law administered by Israel for Palestinians?

Director: Gilles Penso
Stars: Ray Harryhausen, Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

The life and work of the renowned film visual effects artist and producer.

Director: Gabrielle Provaas, Rob Schröder
Stars: Louise Fokkens, Martine Fokkens
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Netherlands

A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.

Director: Mark Racco
Stars: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Nirvana
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

On Halloween 1991, Nirvana played live at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. Songs from both albums, “Bleach” and “Nevermind”, were performed.

Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Kimberlee Acquaro
Stars: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jean Kilbourne, Jim Steyer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

Director: Robert Guédiguian
Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

Director: Gorô Miyazaki
Stars: Sarah Bolger, Chris Noth, Anton Yelchin
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Director: David Gelb
Stars: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.

Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | UK

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Director: Bryan Storkel
Stars: Ben Crawford, Brad Currah, David Drury
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Holy Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America-made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes gambling?

Director: Danfung Dennis
Stars: Nathan Harris, Ashley Harris, The Marines of Echo Company
Genre: Documentary, Action, History
Country: USA | UK | Afghanistan

What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.

Director: Corinna Belz
Stars: Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.

Director: Pip Chodorov
Stars: Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France | USA

What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man’s land. Excluded both from the art world and from the film industry, they bodly created a grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you some of the free, radicals artists who made them.

Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
Stars: Charles Eames, Ray Eames, James Franco
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America’s most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American culture. ‘Eames: The Architect & The Painter’ draws from a treasure trove of archival material, as well as new interviews with friends, colleague, and experts to capture the personal story of Charles and Ray while placing them firmly in the context of their fascinating times.

Director: Han-min Kim
Stars: Hae-il Park, Seung-ryong Ryu, Mu-Yeol Kim
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: South Korea

A skilled Korean archer goes up against the mighty force of Manchus with the sole purpose of rescuing his kidnapped sister.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Joon-Sang Yoo, Sang-Jung Kim, Seon-mi Song
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Bobby Fischer, David Edmonds, Anthony Saidy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | UK

‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’ is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer’s career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th century.

Director: Constance Marks, Philip Shane
Stars: Kevin Clash, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Oz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children across the globe. Meet the unlikely man behind the puppet – the heart and soul of Elmo – Kevin Clash.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | France | Italy

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hair-dresser agrees to foster him on week-ends.

Director: Diego Luna
Stars: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Karina Gidi, José María Yazpik
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico

About a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence.

Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand

Set on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

Director: Aaron Schock
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico | USA

A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st?

Director: Daniel Grou
Stars: Claude Legault, Rémy Girard, Martin Dubreuil
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Canada

A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.

Director: Josh Fox
Stars: Josh Fox, Dick Cheney, Pete Seeger
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.

Director: Mike Magidson
Stars: Gaba Petersen, Knud Therkielsen, Ole Jørgen Hammeken
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Greenland | France

Several years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.

Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Ayrton Senna, Reginaldo Leme, John Bisignano
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: UK | France | USA

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34

Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sienna Guillory, Annie Hardy
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young man faces the abrupt loss of his friend.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Jeong-hie Yun, Da-wit Lee, Hee-ra Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany | Ukraine | Netherlands

A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.

Director: Cheol-soo Jang
Stars: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A woman subject to mental, physical and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

Director: David Barker
Stars: Alexandra Meierhans, Ivan Martin, Michael Godere
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A harrowing psychological thriller from a widely acclaimed filmmaker, Daylight pits a couple lost in America against a conniving gang of kidnappers, in David Barker’s rigorous and personal re-imagining of the genre film.

Director: Xiaogang Feng
Stars: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.

Director: Rafi Pitts
Stars: Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Mahmoud Babai
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | Germany

In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: China

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdan, Abu Jandal
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Director: Janus Metz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They’re stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal – no actors.

Director: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Tracy Wright, Molly Parker, Daniel MacIvor
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Stars: Mohsen Kadivar, Mitra Khalatbari, Shadi Sadr
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A documentary on Iran’s 2010 Green Revolution.

Director: John Turturro
Stars: John Turturro, Max Casella, Angela Luce
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Italy | USA | Germany

A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.

Director: Jason Spingarn-Koff
Stars: Teasa Copprue
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by a virtual world — reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality.

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Stars: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: France | UK

A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.

Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Yoon-seok Kim, Sung-ha Jo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea | USA | Hong Kong

When the attempt to kill a professor goes wrong, a series of violent events are triggered which force a taxi driver to run for his life.

Director: Celine Danhier
Stars: Amos Poe, Ann Magnuson, Becky Johnston
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

During the punk rock stage in the late ’70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of “Do it yourself” independent filmmaking.

Director: Christian Marclay
Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Scenes from various films and TV programs that feature clocks, or some verbal mention of time, combine to make a 24 hour timepiece movie.

Director: Mark Landsman
Stars: Craig Baldwin, Craig Green, Conrad O. Johnson Sr.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Alumni from Houston’s storied Kashmere High School Stage Band return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for their beloved band leader who turned the struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.

Director: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Yu-mi Jung, Seong-kun Mun
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

A love story between a middle-aged professor, a young student who prepares a movie and a student/film-maker who drinks too much.

Director: Brendan Fletcher
Stars: Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, Greg Tait
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

TJ’s quest to find the son he’s never known, takes him on a journey across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape. On the road, TJ questions his life of violence… he meets a host of amazing characters who open up a way of life infused with music and hunting and community.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Shima Ohnishi, Ken Yoshizawa
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the ‘god soldier’.

Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan | UK

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Director: Luis Estrada
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico

El Benny is deported from the U.S. and returns home to a Mexico devastated by the drug wars. He too joins in, and starts climbing the hierarchy, finding a prosperous life, full of money, women, violence and fun.

Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Germany | UK

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Germany | France

The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Richard Lord
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Chad

Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the “war effort”, giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son.

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain | Mexico | France

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | Mexico

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende’s presidency, an employee at a Morgue’s recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

Director: René Féret
Stars: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna ‘Nannerl’ Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

Director: Eric Lartigau
Stars: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A successful Paris lawyer is forced to re-invent his life after he makes a fatal mistake.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance from it. Instead she observes it through the songs of Alan Vega’s Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual education lesson she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile is preparing for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be ‘overrated’. Caught between the two men and her collaborator Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Joon-hyuk Lee
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.

Director: Jennifer Arnold
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A young Kenyan’s life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday… Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

Director: Ricardo Calil, Renato Terra
Stars: Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Brazil

A documentary which shows the greatness in the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira of 1967.

Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Norway | Palestine

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark | France

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

Director: Jalmari Helander
Stars: Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland | Norway | France | Sweden

In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko
Stars: Igor Sergeev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia

Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Portugal | France

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kerian Mayan
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A young princess is the subject of a tug-of-war among witches, as each struggles to find the suitable antidote to a death sentence inculcated by an evil sister.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada | France

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother’s last wishes.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Director: Jeremy Sims
Stars: Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Le Marquand
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.

Director: Dover Koshashvili
Stars: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast.

Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | Australia

The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Director: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Stars: Vik Muniz
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | UK

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Stars: Pat Tillman, Josh Brolin, Mary Tillman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Mystery
Country: USA

Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn’t done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev’s riveting and enraging documentary.

Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands | Indonesia

Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 – World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2005). Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi. Director and DOP Leonard Retel Helmrich follows this family in a unique way with his breathtaking Single Shot Cinema-technique. Without interviews and voice-overs, Leonard will bring you closer to Indonesia than you will ever get.

Director: Simon Rumley
Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.

Director: Avi Nesher
Stars: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered.

Director: Mark Romanek
Stars: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.

Director: Robin Hessman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA | UK | Russia

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today’s Moscow.

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Stars: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Germany | Switzerland

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Stars: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter’s death.

Director: Sang-soo Im
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A man’s affair with his family’s housemaid leads to dark consequences.

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

Director: Baran bo Odar
Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Director: James Rasin
Stars: Candy Darling, Andy Warhol, Holly Woodlawn
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Candy Darling, The Life and Times of the Andy Warhol Superstar.

Director: Alix Delaporte
Stars: Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, Evelyne Didi
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her although he dislikes her blunt ways. Tony hires her as a fishmonger, lodges her and teaches her the tricks of the trade. The relationships between Myriam, Tony’s mother, and Angèle are far from easy but the young woman gradually adapts to her new environment and little by little Tony and Angèle manage to tame each other.

Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Stars: Won Bin, Sae-ron Kim, Tae-hoon Kim
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Belgium | Iran

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.

Director: Daniel Cockburn
Stars: Tracy Wright, R.D. Reid, Anand Rajaram
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada

A fantasy about a reclusive woman who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her, turning her home into an archive. As realities collapse and intersect around here, she must make a final choice: is she a free agent, or just a tool of the archive?

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Stars: Charles Adams, Jonathan Alter, Robert Balfanz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An examination of the current state of education in America today.

Director: Alan Lowery, John Pilger
Stars: Julian Assange, Tony Blair, Wilfred Burchett
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK

Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.

Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Stars: Lance Henriksen, Lathrop Walker, Andrew Keegan
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A young analyst talks with an old man claiming to be from the future – a dystopian future.

Director: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Stars: Bengt Braskered, Sanna Persson, Magnus Börjeson
Genre: Sweden | France
Country: Comedy, Crime, Music

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Director: Yael Hersonski
Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Germany | Israel

A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia | Japan

The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Pilar López de Ayala, Isabel Ruth, Filipe Vargas
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal | Spain | France | Brazil

A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

Director: Guillem Morales
Stars: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain

The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.

Director: Marius Holst
Stars: Benjamin Helstad, Trond Nilssen, Stellan Skarsgård
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway | France | Sweden | Poland

Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Tracie Thoms, Omari Hardwick
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.

Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: Graham Allison, James Baker III, Bruce Blair
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about how the likelihood of nuclear weapons (or fissile materials) usage has increased due to the rise of terrorism and lack of safeguards and verification.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain | France

A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.

Director: Juanita Wilson
Stars: Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland | Sweden | Republic of North Macedonia

A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson’s drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.

Director: Elijah Drenner
Stars: Robert Forster, Eric Schaefer, Eddie Muller
Genre: Documentary, Action, Comedy
Country: USA

A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent movie era to the 1970s.

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family’s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.

Director: Fred Cavayé
Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Samuel, a male nurse, saves the life of a thief whose henchmen take Samuel’s wife hostage and force him to spring their boss.

Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Stars: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, B. Ruby Rich
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

Director: José Padilha
Stars: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

Director: Adrian Grenier
Stars: Med Abrous, Alec Baldwin, Nicholas Barber
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that examines the relationship between celebrity and society.

Director: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Stars: Paul Bosche, Alfredo del Rio, John DiGiacomo
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

This film tells the story of the massive police raid of Stonewall in June 1969.

Director: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten
Stars: Bruce Barlow, Deloy Bateman, Michelle Benward
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An inside look at former FLDS teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.

Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan ‘Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: USA

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

Director: Taggart Siegel
Stars: Gunther Hauk, Kirk Webster, Carlo Petrini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

A look at the mysterious collapse of honeybee colonies in America and an exploration of how beekeeping is practiced there and around the world.

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Stars: Anselm Kiefer, Bill Katz, Klaus Dermutz
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Netherlands | UK

The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hill-studio estate in the South of France.

Director: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Stars: Damon Albarn, Mike Smith, Wayne Hernandez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK

An insightful rockumentary looking at the history of the British rock band, Blur, as they head out on the road for their 2009 reunion tour.

Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania

Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he’s shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

Director: Thomas Napper
Stars: Kevin Cohen, Manuel Compito, Danny Harris
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA

Los Angeles’ Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course – but more importantly we found life, hope and incredibly powerful human journeys.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Germany

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella by the celebrated Madame de Lafayette, the action centers on the love of Marie de Mezières for her dashing cousin Henri de Guise, thwarted when her father’s political ambitions force her into marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, whom she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman with a disdain for warfare, and soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky
Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren’t communicate.

Director: Tamra Davis
Stars: Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Sara Baras, José Miguel Carmona, Montse Cortés
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Spain

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance through the live performance of a wide variety of pieces.

Director: Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Tesoriere
Stars: Enrique Piñeyro, Germán Cantore, Agustin Negrussi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Argentina

“The Police Horror Show” is a documentary portraying the dramatic story of Fernando Ariel Carrera, an ordinary man unjustly convicted to 30 years of prison due systemic corruption.

Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Chao Deng, Carina Lau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

Director: Craig McCall
Stars: Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston’s The African Queen and King Vidor’s War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Director: Richard Press
Stars: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

Director: Andrei Ujica
Stars: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Stefan Andrei
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Romania | Germany

The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Spalding Gray, Forrest Gray, Kathie Russo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the art of Spalding Gray who drew from real life experience to create a compelling and deeply personal series of monologues.

Director: Jacob Hatley
Stars: Larry Campbell, Jay Collins, Elizabeth Danko
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary on Levon Helm, a founding member of The Band, at home in Woodstock in the midst of creating his first studio album in 25 years.

Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Stars: Werner Herzog, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.

Director: Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan, Elias Koteas
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on the late Elia Kazan.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, Hee-jin Choi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: South Korea | USA

Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.

Director: Jamin Winans
Stars: Christopher Soren Kelly, Quinn Hunchar, Jessica Duffy
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A mysterious creature, known as Ink, steals a child’s soul in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip to join the Incubi – the group of supernatural beings responsible for creating nightmares.

Director: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Hye-ja Kim, Won Bin, Goo Jin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl’s horrific murder.

Director: Julia Bacha
Stars: Jonathan Gould
Genre: Documentary, Action, Biography
Country: Israel | Palestine | USA

Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.

Director: Liang Zhao
Stars: Zhang Weiye, Xiao Yuan
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | Switzerland | UK | France | Belgium | Finland

It is a fantastic documentary about Chinese govt’s systemic oppression and persecution toward ordinary folk who petition the government.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Simon Yam
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong | France

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter’s family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Director: Samuel Maoz
Stars: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel | France | Germany | UK

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Stars: Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Belgium

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.

Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Stars: Karen O’Toole
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

MINE is the powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. MINE explores how tragedy intensifies that bond and is told from the perspective of original guardians, rescuers, and adoptive parents of the voiceless victims of Katrina.

Director: Christian Carion
Stars: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France

The French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events.

Director: Chris Smith
Stars: Michael Ruppert
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.

Director: Zachary Levy
Stars: Stanley Pleskun
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A man strong enough to bend a penny with just his fingers, Stanless Steel reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships that begin to test his strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around him — including his own.

Director: Jessica Hausner
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Germany

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Dan Ashley, Pablo Fajardo, Kent Robertson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The story of Mussolini’s secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany | France | Italy

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

Director: Gary Hustwit
Stars: Paola Antonelli, Chris Bangle, Andrew Blauvelt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; when a mysterious man finds her wallet, they embark on a peculiar romance.

Director: Sebastián Silva
Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile | Mexico

A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.

Director: Louie Psihoyos
Stars: Richard O’Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

Director: Chris Atkins
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Documentary that explores mankind’s desire to be famous and its effect on society.

Director: Michael Mann
Stars: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Japan

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

Director: Caroline Bottaro
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Francis Renaud
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

A chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l’Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.

Director: Daniel Monzón
Stars: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Spain | France

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot — the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico

A Honduran young girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the American border.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Hervé Loos
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Portugal | France

Intimate portrait of the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son’s friend, makes her senses kindle.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Germany | Italy | Canada | Japan

An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.

Director: Cherien Dabis
Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates | Canada | Kuwait | Jordan

A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison.

Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland | Spain | USA | United Arab Emirates

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Director: Miraz Bezar
Stars: Senay Orak, Muhammed Al, Hakan Karsak
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey

Diyarbakir, in the late nineties: Two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street after their parents have been murdered by a member of a secret state security force.

Director: Peter Strickland
Stars: Hilda Péter, Norbert Tankó, László Mátray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania | UK

In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder. When her village discovers her secret, Katalin’s husband rejects her. With nothing to lose, she is free to seek revenge on the perpetrators. As she puts human faces to horrible acts, she is forced to consider that morality might not be as black and white as she had imagined.

Director: Bruno Dumont
Stars: Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The aspirant nun Céline van Hadewijch is invited to leave the convent where she studies and she returns to the house of her parents in Paris. Céline meets her outcast Muslim teenage friend Yassine Chikh in a café and they hang around together. Céline tells that he is only her friend since she is committed with God and will stay virgin since her body belongs to God. Yassine introduces Céline to his older brother and religious leader Nassir Chikh and he invites the teenage girl to participate in his religious seminars. However, Nassir is actually a terrorist and the confused Céline is the perfect tool for his cell.

Director: Robert Connolly
Stars: Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia

War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.

Director: Lee Daniels
Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

Director: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Villa Amalia is the story of Ann, a musician, whose life is turned upside down by a kiss. When she sees Thomas kissing another woman, Ann makes a clean break, leaving him and everything else far behind her. Suddenly unsure of everything that seemed so certain, Ann knows only that she must change her life and become someone else to find herself. With her music and the friendship of Georges, who pops out of her distant past, she sets off on a journey that will take her to an island where the Villa Amalia stands.

Director: Mohamed Al Daradji
Stars: Shazada Hussein, Yasser Talib, Bashir Al Majid
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq | UK | France | Netherlands | United Arab Emirates | Egypt | Palestine

A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed’s father, who never returned from war.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Lee Brilleaux, Wilko Johnson, John Martin
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

The story of Dr Feelgood, four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early ’70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll, leaving all that came before a burnt-out ruin – four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten’s anti-Christ. Taking London by storm, they sped through Europe and conquered the UK with No 1 chart success, before imploding just as punk was born and America beckoned with open arms. Contributions from members of The Clash, Blondie and The Sex Pistols join Dr Feelgood with collaborators Jools Holland and Alison Moyet to tell the story of Canvey, ’70s England and the greatest local band in the world.

Director: Urszula Antoniak
Stars: Lotte Verbeek, Stephen Rea, Tom Charlfa
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | Ireland

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Ludovic Berthillot, Hafsia Herzi, Pierre Laur
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France

Armand, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is a popular middle-aged homosexual. Just as he was getting sick of life, he falls in love with a young girl called, Curlie, and goes on the run from her parents and the police.

Director: Bartosz Konopka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: Poland | Germany

The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls.

Director: Armando Iannucci
Stars: Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.

Director: Haim Tabakman
Stars: Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | Germany | France

A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran | France

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

Director: Dominic Murphy
Stars: Muse Watson, Carrie Fisher, Wallace Merck
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, “the dancing outlaw”. As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father’s death, crazy Jesco dons his father’s tap shoes and takes his show on the road.

Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.

Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK

The story of the controversial Brian Clough’s 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.

Director: Franny Armstrong
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, Alvin DuVernay
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: UK

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

Director: Warwick Thornton
Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.

Director: Robert Guédiguian
Stars: Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.

Director: Hae-jun Lee
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Ryeowon Jung, Yeong-seo Park
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.

Director: Ken Wardrop
Stars: Leah Holohan, Grace McGee, Eimear Peters
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland

Using his mother’s life as inspiration, the filmmaker has created a film that explores how we share life’s journey with the opposite sex. His and Hers is an investigation into the ordinary to discover the extraordinary. It finds comedy in the mundane, tragedy in the profound and provides an original insight into a life. The hallways, living rooms and kitchens of the Irish Midlands are used as the canvas for the film’s rich tapestry of female characters. The story unfolds sequentially through young to old with a charmingly unabashed array of Irish ladies, and there’s not a man in sight.

Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Stars: Brian Geraghty, Kel O’Neill, Marguerite Moreau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In an effort to promote his unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell sets out on a road trip with his younger brother. However, the idealism of being on the road wears off and it quickly proves to be a lonely and unfulfilling experience for Davy. One night in a motel room he gets a random phone call from a mysterious woman named Nicole. They start a funny and intimate long distance relationship that leaves Davy happier than he has been in years. Hoping there is more to the relationship then a voice and a phone bill, Davy decides he wants to meet Nicole. Ultimately, he will have to face not only the truth about their relationship but also about himself.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir
Genre: Fantasy
Country: France

An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.

Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany | Israel | UK

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.

Director: Adam Elliot
Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Director: Heitor Dhalia
Stars: Laura Neiva, Vincent Cassel, Camilla Belle
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father’s infidelities.

Director: Rebecca Cammisa
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“Which Way Home” is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans, who are desperately trying to reach their parents in the US.; children like Jose, a ten-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center; and Kevin, a canny, streetwise fourteen-year old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach the U.S. and send money back to her. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the children you never hear about; the invisible ones.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA | Japan

The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.

Director: Peter Hanson
Stars: Allison Anders, Jane Anderson, Doug Atchison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

War stories and life lessons from the industry’s top writers.

Director: Alexander Adolph
Stars: Devid Striesow, Nadja Uhl, Jörg Schüttauf
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

After a flirtation in a store looking for the imposter Frank is taken and to be behind bars. Free again, he tries to earn money in an honest way. One day, he meets the woman from the store again. For her he would do anything. That she works as a prostitute does not bother him. Soon, Frank can not help but return to his old ways and loses more and more its sense of reality.

Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Stars: Taavi Eelmaa, Ravshana Kurkova, Tiina Tauraite
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Estonia | Finland | Sweden | France

A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being “good” finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.

Director: Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: USA