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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand’s most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Director: Issa López
Stars: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico

A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.

Director: Nora Twomey
Stars: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Ireland | Canada | Luxembourg | USA | UK | Philippines | India

In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Director: Robin Campillo
Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.

Director: Ya-che Yang
Stars: Kara Wai, Ke-Xi Wu, Vicky Chen
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan

Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a cruel murder.

Director: Pierre Rehov
Stars: Assaf Avraham, Dan Bahat, Gabriel Barkay
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“Unveiling Jerusalem” offers a historical journey, in search of Salomon’s and Herod’s Temples. Many experts, historians and archaeologists, bring their testimonies, on images, animations and exclusive documents.

Director: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland | Belgium | Iceland

A film adaptation of Väinö Linna’s best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel’s unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.

Director: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Stars: Karla Souza, José María Yazpik, Ben O’Toole
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico

A successful and single career woman asks her co-worker to pose as her boyfriend at a family wedding back home in Mexico. Her situation gets complicated when her ex shows up at the ceremony.

Director: Amichai Greenberg
Stars: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Hagit Dasberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Israel

Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.

Director: Tarik Saleh
Stars: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark | Morocco | France

A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don’t want the case solved.

Director: Jessica M. Thompson
Stars: Stephanie Beatriz, Conrad Ricamora, Michael Stahl-David
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After her world is irrevocably changed, a successful New York City architect struggles to regain intimacy and control in her life.

Director: Jim Strouse
Stars: Jessica Williams, Chris O’Dowd, LaKeith Stanfield
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendship with a guy while on the rebound from a break-up.

Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Stars: John Branch, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: Austria | USA

In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

Director: Ali Soozandeh
Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany | Austria

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

Director: Lysa Heslov
Stars: Nichole Alred, Jas Boothe, Rachel Engler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Director Lysa Heslov’s documentary, “Served Like a Girl, provides a candid look at several American women as they transition from active duty to civilian life after serving tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Director: Michael Larnell
Stars: Chanté Adams, Nia Long, Mahershala Ali
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

In the late 80s/ early 1990s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita “Roxanne Shanté” Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.

Director: Vahid Jalilvand
Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Aghaee, Hediyeh Tehrani
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran

When Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic pathologist, comes to work he encounters a corpse that looks familiar.

Director: Julia Solomonoff
Stars: Guillermo Pfening, Rafael Ferro, Paola Baldion
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain | Colombia | Brazil | USA

NADIE NOS MIRA is a film about the struggle of self-imposed exile; how the pleasures of anonymity and freedom contrast with the pain of loneliness and loss that shapes immigrant experience. NICO, mid 30’s, is a young Argentine actor fighting to build a career in the US, without assistance, or connections, never too far from heart-breaking failure, but often blinded by the mirage of immediate success.

Director: Ana Asensio
Stars: Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman’s struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China | Hong Kong

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.

Director: Natalia Beristáin
Stars: Karina Gidi, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Tessa Ia
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn’t seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Stars: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany

Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.

Director: Everardo González
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

A documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.

Director: Shin’ichirô Ueda
Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

Director: Léonor Serraille
Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

In her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she’ll make it anywhere.

Director: Danny Gold
Stars: Carl Reiner, Iris Apfel, Tony Bennett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Carl Reiner tracks down several nonagenarians to show how the twilight years can be rewarding.

Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Rike Schmid, Hans Henrik Wöhler
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Germany

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.

Director: Spencer T. Folmar
Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Dax Spanogle, Barrett Donner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Dying mother Sarah tells her elder son Drew that her last wish is for him to take his younger brother Will to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.

Director: Angelina Jolie
Stars: Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Cambodia | USA

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

Director: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron
Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.

Director: Adrian Goiginger
Stars: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy Miliker, Lukas Miko
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Germany

Seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of the Austrian city Salzburg, famous for culture and classical music.

Director: Jon Alpert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Life in Cuba for three struggling families over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro.

Director: Laís Bodanzky
Stars: Maria Ribeiro, Clarisse Abujamra, Paulo Vilhena
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

When Rosa’s mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.

Director: Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
Stars: Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Brazil | France | Germany

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.

Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Stars: Marish, Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Genre: Documentary
Country: Hungary | Canada | Czech Republic | Germany

A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.

Director: Hope Litoff
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

She’s beautiful, artistic, loved and can’t stand to be alive. 32 PILLS traces the fascinating life and mental illness of my sister, New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and my struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.

Director: Cullen Hoback
Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Marc Edwards, Rahul Gupta
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: USA

In this scandalous political thriller, an investigation into a chemical spill spirals into an indictment of the entire system meant to protect drinking water, revealing cover-ups at the highest levels of government.

Director: Nick Willing
Stars: Paula Rego, Nick Willing, John McEwen
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son, the film maker Nick Willing.

Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Stars: Andrew Bleechington, Regina Williams, Robert Williams
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | USA

Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young black man in today’s America. With his mother longing to find more to her life than parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Young-hwa Seo, Jae-yeong Jeong
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea | Germany

An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.

Director: Rezo Gigineishvili
Stars: Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Georgia | Russia | Poland

The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.

Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Stars: Julia Pott, Winona Mae
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: USA

Emily is visited by a backup clone of herself from the even-more distant future, as they must venture into each other’s psyches in order to restore the clone’s deteriorating mind.

Director: Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis
Stars: Lezley McSpadden, Michael Brown Sr., David Whitt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.

Director: Juan Carlos Fanconi
Stars: José Zúñiga, Gabriela de la Garza, Lali Gonzalez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Honduras | USA

Romance is in the air on the picturesque Caribbean island of Roatán, but the troubled pasts of its guests threaten to tame their desires.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Korpela, Dome Karukoski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | Germany

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.

Director: Derek Dennis Herbert
Stars: Kane Hodder, Mike Aloisi, John Carl Buechler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The emotional story of Kane Hodder who survived a harrowing childhood and near-death accident to become one of films biggest and most beloved horror icons.

Director: Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous
Stars: Chris Renton, Brian Nazarof, Eldra ‘Vegas’ III Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.

Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Recy Taylor, Robert Corbitt
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.

Director: John Maggio
Stars: Marion Barry Jr., Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about Ben Bradlee, the iconic editor of The Washington Post.

Director: Nick Kelly
Stars: Dermot Murphy, Jacob McCarthy, Peter Coonan
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

An unlikely friendship develops between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an institutionalized teen suffering from Asperger’s syndrome.

Director: David France
Stars: Kurt Wolfe, Sue Yacka, Catherine Shugrue Dos Santos
Genre: Documentary
Country: Greece | USA

Victoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson’s family, friends and fellow activists.

Director: Andrew Kightlinger
Stars: Jessica Rothe, Bates Wilder, Forrest Weber
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France

A wayward millennial escapes to a South Dakota ranch, unhinging her Uncle’s placid alcoholic life.

Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Stars: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland

Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Scotty Bowers, Lois Bowers, William Mann
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
Stars: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Japan | USA

A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Director: Stephan Komandarev
Stars: Haralan Alexandrov, Dimitar Banenkin, Vasil Banov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | Republic of North Macedonia

Multiple stories of taxi drivers while they work one night.

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Stars: Oleg Afanasyev, Alexandra Ryabichkina, Jarik
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Finland

THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight.

Director: Gustavo Salmerón
Stars: Julita Salmerón, Antonio García Cabanes, Ramón García Salmerón
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain

Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Giles New
Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

Based on “The Little Broomstick” by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.

Director: Mouly Surya
Stars: Marsha Timothy, Egy Fedly, Tumpal Tampubolon
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Indonesia | France | Malaysia | Thailand

Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.

Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk
Genre: Animation, Biography, Crime
Country: Poland | UK | USA | Switzerland | Netherlands

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Director: John Ridley
Stars: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Damian ‘Football’ Williams
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.

Director: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner
Stars: Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Belgium

Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it’s a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas. If you want to take a vacation, keep driving past this place.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Germany | Lithuania | Netherlands

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Stars: Yû Aoi, Sadao Abe, Tôri Matsuzaka
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Tawako’s boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she still reminisces about him and is attracted to his bad ways. Enter Mizushima who reminds Tawako of her old boyfriend, but soon more transpires to remind the girl of her old relationship.

Director: Joe Piscatella
Stars: Joshua ‘Chi-Fung’ Wong
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.

Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Taner Akçam, Hagop Asadourian
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.

Director: Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir
Stars: Gail Abarbanel, Richard Bell, Joe Biden
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.

Director: Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
Stars: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Amr Al-Azm, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.

Director: Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro, Morgan Pehme
Stars: Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Paul Manafort
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary exploring the life and career of notorious Republican dirty trickster and longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, who helped create the real estate mogul’s political career.

Director: Michael Matthews
Stars: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dlamini
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: South Africa

Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.

Director: Mila Turajlic
Stars: Srbijanka Turajlic, Mila Turajlic, Mira Boskic
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Serbia | France | Qatar | Germany | Hungary

For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother’s apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country’s tumultuous political inheritance.

Director: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
Stars: Khaled Umar Harah, Batul, Mahmoud
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Syria

Khaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia | Germany | France

In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.

Director: Alexandra Dean
Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Director: Rebecca Cammisa
Stars: Dawn Chapman, Douglas Clemens, Robbin Ellison Dailey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A terrifying look at the corruption that’s destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Italy | UK | China

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Stars: Marli Renfro, Alfred Hitchcock, Tere Carrubba
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), the “man behind the curtain”, and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.

Director: Joon-Hwan Jang
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Hae-Jin Yoo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.

Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
Stars: n/a
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA

Director Guy Maddin’s interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area.

Director: Garth Davis
Stars: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Australia | USA

A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Director: Mohamed Diab
Stars: Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, El Sebaii Mohamed
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Egypt | France | Germany

Set entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.

Director: Ceyda Torun
Stars: Yaman Barlas, Sari, Arzu Göl
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey | USA

A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.

Director: Vanessa Gould
Stars: Bruce Weber, William McDonald, Margalit Fox
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Writers and editors from the New York Times discuss their unique approach to writing the obituaries of public figures.

Director: Sara Jordenö
Stars: Loretta Coombs, Takima Coombs, Afrika Juicy Couture
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | USA

A group of LGBTQ youths of color unite to form a safe gathering space.

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Seung-bum Ryoo, Won-geun Lee, Young-min Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile | Argentina | France | Spain | USA

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Director: Adam Leon
Stars: Callum Turner, Grace Van Patten, Michal Vondel
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A young man and woman find love in an unlikely place while carrying out a shady deal.

Director: Mariano Llinás
Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Argentina

A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

Director: Len Collin
Stars: Stephen Marcus, Christopher Dunne, Amy-Joyce Hastings
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland

Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart.

Director: Rahul Jain
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: India | Germany | Finland

Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanising physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France

Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they’ve already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara’s staying.

Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea | USA

Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Director: Andrew Ahn
Stars: Joe Seo, Youn Ho Cho, Haerry Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A closeted Korean-American teenager takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, only to discover an underground world of gay sex at the spa that both scares and excites him.

Director: Derek Tsang
Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Sichun Ma, Toby Lee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong

Two women who have been close friends since adolescence must cope with the changes that maturity brings.

Director: Andreas Johnsen
Stars: Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | Denmark | France | Germany

In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.

Director: Junfeng Boo
Stars: Firdaus Rahman, Wan Hanafi Su, Mastura Ahmad
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Germany | France | Hong Kong | Qatar

Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.

Director: Thomas Ryan, Thomas Ryan
Stars: Shane Murray-Corcoran, Iseult Casey, Ardal O’Hanlon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland | UK

Andy and Maggie, a young Irish couple, travel to England as the result of an unplanned pregnancy, where Maggie will face the biggest decision of her life.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight’s passengers and crew.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.

Director: Johnny Ma
Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada | China

A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.

Director: Madeleine Gavin
Stars: Christine Schuler-Deschryver, Denis Mukwege Mukengere, Eve Ensler
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Congo

This film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monolgoues”) and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away.

Director: Alex Lehmann
Stars: Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Clu Gulager
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.

Director: Árpád Sopsits
Stars: Károly Hajduk, Gábor Jászberényi, Zsolt Anger
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary

True story of a serial killer in 1950-60s Hungary.

Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa, Shiladitya Sen
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India

A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.

Director: Elite Zexer
Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France

When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.

Director: Clay Tweel
Stars: Steve Gleason, Mike Gleason, Scott Fujita
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

After he is diagnosed with ALS, former professional football player Steve Gleason begins making a video diary for his unborn son, as he, his wife, and their friends and family work to raise money for ALS patients as his disease progresses.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy | France

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

Director: Papu Curotto
Stars: Ignacio Rogers, Esteban Masturini, Joaquín Parada
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France

Two boyhood chums, separated soon after sexually awakening together, re-meet as young men with unspoken sexual tensions lying between them.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada | USA | Spain | South Korea

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Director: Roland Vranik
Stars: Cake-Baly Marcelo, Ágnes Máhr, Arghavan Shekari
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Wilson, a black man in his late fifties, has been living as a refugee in Hungary for years. He works as a security guard in Budapest and his main desire is to acquire Hungarian citizenship, but he keeps failing the exams that are required for his application. In preparing for the next exam, he is helped by Mari, a Hungarian woman of roughly the same age who is a history teacher. Unexpectedly the teacher and her pupil start to develop deep affection towards each other.

Director: Julia Ducournau
Stars: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.

Director: Tatiana Huezo
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.

Director: Theo Anthony
Stars: Theo Anthony, Dan Deacon, Matt Fouse
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. “Rat Film” is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat–as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them–to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem”.

Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.

Director: Houda Benyamina
Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kevin Mischel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Qatar

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.

Director: Eva Orner
Stars: John Howard, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Australia

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia’s cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

Director: Cristi Puiu
Stars: Mara Elena Andrei, Mirela Apostu, Eugenia Bosânceanu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | France | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Republic of North Macedonia

Centers around a family gathering on the anniversary of a patriarch’s recent death.

Director: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA

For three Border Patrol agents working a remote desert checkpoint, the contents of one car will reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours will take them on a treacherous journey that could cost them their lives.

Director: Christian Schwochow
Stars: Carla Juri, Albrecht Schuch, Roxane Duran
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany | France

The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Director: Kim A. Snyder
Stars: Gene Rosen, Syeda Suriya Ahmed, Abbey Clements
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

Director: Josh Locy
Stars: Andre Royo, Jeannetta Arnette, Kellee Stewart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After a 3-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find that she and his family have done what they always wanted to do – forget he exists.

Director: Denzel Washington
Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Canada

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

Director: Nicole Lucas Haimes
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Chicken People is a funny and uplifting look at the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Starting at the largest national poultry competition, likened to the Westminster Dog Show for chickens, Chicken People follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life’s challenges while vying to win the next year’s crown. Both humorous and heartfelt, Chicken People is an unforgettable celebration of the human spirit.

Director: Sophia Takal
Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives…forever.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan

Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn’t know him at all.

Director: Ashley McKenzie
Stars: Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil, Mark Woodland
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Zuzana Mauréry, Zuzana Konecná, Csongor Kassai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia | Czech Republic

The arrival of Maria Drazdechova, associated with the Communist party, to a school in Bratislava in 1983 worries parents, students and colleagues.

Director: Shane Black
Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

Director: Amanda Kernell
Stars: Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Ánne Biret Somby
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden

A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930’s at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Zofia Wichlacz, Bronislawa Zamachowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland

The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

Director: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand

From the author of “The Whale Rider”, a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.

Director: Paolo Virzì
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Carnelutti
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Two quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.

Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Romania | Germany | Belgium | France

Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients’ attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.

Director: Theodore Melfi
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain | Germany

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.

Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Stars: Bendix Hansen, Sarah Fuhrer, Louis Hofmann
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | Austria

After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania | France | Belgium

A film about compromises and the implications of the parent’s role.

Director: Jenny Gage
Stars: Dusty Rose Ryan, Delia Cunningham, Lena M.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.

Director: Anna Zamecka
Stars: Ola Kaczanowski
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland

‘Communion’ reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.

Director: Kôji Fukada
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Taiga Nakano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio’s family life.

Director: Todd Solondz
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the 19th-century.

Director: Deepak Rauniyar
Stars: Dayahang Rai, Asha Magrati, Rabindra Singh Baniya
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Nepal | Netherlands | Qatar | USA | UK

Anti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father’s funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A portrait of post-civil war Nepal during the fragile deadlocked peace process.

Director: Adam Irving
Stars: Charles Bilal, Courtney Brown, Sally Butler
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA

How one man’s love of transport led to a lifetime of incarceration.

Director: Stephan Streker
Stars: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | Pakistan | Luxembourg | France

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.

Director: Jane Gull
Stars: Steven Brandon, Shana Swash, Sarah Ioannou
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Luke, an independent young man with Down’s syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Greece | Brazil

A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents’ battle over a dress shop lease.

Director: Gastón Solnicki
Stars: Laila Maltz, Lara Tarlowski, Katia Szechtman
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

Several young daughters of rich industrialists examine in an equally intangible and compelling way the physical and spiritual aspects of a cultural recession.

Director: Edoardo De Angelis
Stars: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is another trait which cloaks them in fascinating charm: they are siamese twins. They support their family with their singing like a well oiled company/entertainment machine. This idyllic situation ends when a notable English doctor sees them at a first communion in Casertavecchia. He sentences them to the possibility of a normal life when he states, “I can separate you.”

Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani
Stars: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India

Faced with his father’s untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.

Director: Ryan Suffern
Stars: Kate Doyle, Scott Greathead, Fredy Peccerelli
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada | Guatemala | USA

FINDING OSCAR is a feature length documentary about the search for justice in the devastating case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. That search leads to the trail of two little boys who were plucked from a nightmare and offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the massacre.

Director: Kris Avedisian
Stars: Jesse Wakeman, Kris Avedisian, William Billington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day’s journey into the past.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ju-hyuk Kim, Yoo-Young Lee, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel’s “That Obscure Object of Desire”.

Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Israel

Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Emma Bell, Sara Vertongen, Rose Williams
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Belgium | USA | Canada

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Stars: Ellen Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sandra Oh
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

Director: Stephanie Soechtig
Stars: Katie Couric, Ted Cruz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children were murdered at their school by a resentful, gun-obsessed shooter, but led to no changes in American federal gun laws.

Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Sweden | France

A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.

Director: Jason Cohen
Stars: Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.

Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.

Director: Tony Stone
Stars: Peter Dunning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Peter Dunning, the proprietor of Mile Hill Farm in Vermont who has isolated himself away from his family and often suggests to the filmmakers to make his own suicide a narrative device.

Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Stars: Heather Linebaugh, Daniel Hale, Lisa Ling
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song, Yoo Gong
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.

Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Poland

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Director: William Oldroyd
Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.

Director: Je-yong Lee
Stars: Yuh-Jung Youn, Hyun-jun Choi, Kim Hye-Yoon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

The Bacchus Lady looks into the issue of elderly prostitution in South Korea. So-Young, an elderly lady who provides sex services to the male senior citizens using the pretext of selling Bacchus (an energy drink) to them. When So-Young picks up a Korean-Filipino boy named Min-Ho from the clinic she visits after Min-Ho’s mother stabs the doctor (Min-Ho’s father), she takes care of him while seeking a living through prostitution. From her interactions with her former clients, she finds that the golden age in their silver years may not be that bright after all.

Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Ye Haiyan, Huang, Wang Jianfen
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: China | USA

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government’s reaction surprised even the most seasoned activists across China. ‘The Road from Hainan’ follows Sparrow as she was chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors.

Director: Matthew Newton
Stars: Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez-Richmond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.

Director: Roger Mainwood
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Country: UK | Luxembourg

The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs.

Director: Xuan Liang, Chun Zhang
Stars: Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: China

A 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.

Director: Kirsten Johnson
Stars: Jacques Derrida, Kirsten Johnson, Roger Phenix
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Director: Ted Braun
Stars: William Ackman, Douglas M. Brooks, William Cohan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Writer/director Ted Braun follows controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history.

Director: Toni Myers
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Samantha Cristoforetti, Scott Kelly
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of Earth and beyond as seen from the International Space Station. Narrated by Jennifer Lawrence.

Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d’Assumçao, Marc Susini
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Spain | Portugal

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Katia Krafft
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany | Canada

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

Director: Ingrid Jungermann
Stars: Annette O’Toole, Sheila Vand, Deborah Rush
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan’s new love interest is a murderer.

Director: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Stars: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Jordan Zain Weiner
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and today’s political landscape.

Director: Sara Taksler
Stars: Bassem Youssef, Jon Stewart, Shadi Alfons
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.

Director: Ferne Pearlstein
Stars: Renee Firestone, Klara Firestone, Gilbert Gottfried
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.

Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Stars: Vonda Viland, Julia Alexander, Laura Ambrosius
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.

Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Stars: Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Alexandra Angelova
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Greece

A reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry’s head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.

Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran

Teenage girls consigned to the Iranian “Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre” discuss their troubled lives and reveal what brought them there.

Director: Andrei Dascalescu
Stars: Ion Barbu, Catalin Cenusa, Mihai Barbu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania

In Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.

Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard, Emmy Boissard Paumelle
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Belgium

Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

Some young folks, tired of the society they’re living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Eri Fukatsu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

Director: Claude Barras
Stars: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A coming of age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.

Director: Amat Escalante
Stars: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico | Norway | Denmark | France | Germany | Switzerland

A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

Director: Sam Blair, Joe Martin
Stars: Csanad Szegedi
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Hungary

An anti-Semitic far-right politician’s astonishing transformation after finding out he is Jewish.

Director: Neasa Ní Chianáin, David Rane
Stars: Dermot Dix, Amanda Leyden, John Leyden
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | Spain

Long careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English, and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: “Reading. ‘Rithmetic. Rock ‘n’ roll!” But leaving is the hardest lesson.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Germany | Austria

Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.

Director: Adam Nimoy
Stars: Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Canada | USA

An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).

Director: Nele Wohlatz
Stars: Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.

Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Tom Brokaw, Harold Brown, Allan Childers
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Documentary of 1980’s near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser’s award-winning book of the same name.

Director: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens
Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Todd Fisher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An intimate portrait of actress Debbie Reynolds and her relationship with her beloved children, Carrie and Todd.

Director: Maria Jose Cuevas
Stars: Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Rossy Mendoza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

An honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty, while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame and the chance for happiness.

Director: Rachel Lang
Stars: Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Lazare Gousseau
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium | France

Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.

Director: Susan Glatzer
Stars: Hilary Alexander, Evita Arce, Kimberly Clever
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Sweden | USA

Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.

Director: Amma Asante
Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic | UK | France | USA

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Director: Fabien Delage
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

Director: Fabien Delage
Stars: Alexandre Aja, Dave Alexander, Jean-Jacques Bernard
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

A documentary investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.

Director: Kasper Collin
Stars: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | USA

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | France

While both participating in a production of “Death of a Salesman,” a teacher’s wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife’s traumatized objections.

Director: Ryôta Nakano
Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Aoi Itô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame. She needs to retrieve her husband who has vanished and get the family business restarted. She needs to help her daughter be able to pick after herself. Will the family bonds grow stronger or wither?

Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Tómas Lemarquis, Barbara Sukowa, Valerie Pachner
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria | Germany | France

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right attitude” toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.

Director: Keith Maitland
Stars: Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Crime
Country: USA

Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.

Director: Peter Foott
Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland

Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago’s South Side.

Director: Katell Quillévéré
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | UK | France

Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland

The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
Stars: Paul Hamy, João Pedro Rodrigues, Xelo Cagiao
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal | France | Brazil

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.

Director: Anna Muylaert
Stars: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Dani Nefussi
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother’s actions and must try to cope with his biological family.

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | USA

The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.

Director: Viesturs Kairiss
Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Edvins Mekss, Ivars Krasts
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia | Czech Republic | Finland

Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.

Director: Eugène Green
Stars: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

A discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.

Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Stars: Non, Ava Pickard, Kenna Pickard
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life’s amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.

Director: Jérôme Reybaud
Stars: Pascal Cervo, Arthur Igual, Fabienne Babe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A man leaves his home unannounced, and spends four days wandering around France.

Director: Tonislav Hristov
Stars: Ivan Fransuzov, Angela Jekova, Vangel Jekov
Genre: Documentary
Country: Finland | Bulgaria

A small and stubborn Bulgarian village facing the Turkish border has been resisting foreign invaders since the times of the Roman and Ottoman Empires. Now its electorate of 38 elderly Bulgarians is deciding on future of Europe. The Great Gate, as the village has been called for centuries because of its location on the doorsteps of the former Ottoman Empire, has found itself in the middle of European crisis, as at night asylum seekers sneak across the border causing fear and unrest.

Director: Matías Piñeiro
Stars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Diop
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | USA

Hermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Director: Lloyd Stanton, Paul Toogood
Stars: Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

The craft, creative process and complicated lives of stand-up comedians.

Director: Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young
Stars: Chen Alon, Jamil Qassas, Avner Wishnitzer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | Palestine | USA

In a world torn by conflict -in a place where the idea of peace has been abandoned-an energy of determined optimism emerges. When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? DISTURBING THE PEACE is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us and, with the power of our convictions, take action to create new possibilities.

Director: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger
Stars: Imogen Poots, Daniel Brühl, Jens Söring
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Germany | Denmark | UK | Sweden | Netherlands

The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County.

Director: Doug Nichol
Stars: Silvi Alcivar, Ken Alexander, Tom Hanks
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | India | Canada | USA

California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.

Director: Brendan Byrne
Stars: Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Ireland | UK

In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive, non-violent protest to be classified as a political prisoner became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. Sands’ death after 66 days marked a key turning point in the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and brought a global spotlight to the Northern Irish conflict which eventually triggered international efforts to resolve it.

Director: Todd Soliday, Leah Warshawski
Stars: Sonia Warshawski, SuEllen Fried, Caroline James Kennedy
Genre: Documentary, Family, History
Country: USA

In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than thirty years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to revisit her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, BIG SONIA also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth-telling to heal us all.

Director: Vincent Garenq
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany

Based on a true story, KALINKA is about the struggle of Andre Bamberski to bring justice to his daughter Kalinka who died in disturbing circumstances. After 27 years of investigation to hunt down her presumed murderer, Bamberski will finally get the killer kidnapped and brought to justice.

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

Director: Tamer El Said
Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt | Germany | UK | United Arab Emirates

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Director: Babak Anvari
Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK | Jordan | Qatar | Iran

As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.

Director: Ken Loach, Laura Obiols
Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | France | Belgium

After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France | Belgium | USA

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia | France | Germany

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day – she grows a tail and turns her life around.

Director: Michal Marczak
Stars: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland | UK

A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city’s streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Jamal Cavil, Maisha Diatta
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France | Germany | USA

An exploration into our planetary past and a search for humanity’s place in the future. With narration by Cate Blanchett.

Director: Louise Osmond
Stars: Ken Loach, Jim Allen, Lesley Ashton
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Documentary on the life and times of Ken Loach. His politics in British TV and Cinema and the chaos he has caused the establishment for 50 years.

Director: Aaron Brookner
Stars: Aaron Brookner, John Giorno, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK | USA

Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William Burroughs’ bunker until his nephew Aaron unearths his uncle’s story and the memory of everything he was.

Director: Sally Wainwright
Stars: Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, Chloe Pirrie
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

A chronicle of the Brontë sisters’ battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Stars: Mario Fanfani, Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Théo and Hugo encounter each other’s bodies in a sex club. They talk, things blur into the haziness of unbridled desire, then take shape for a moment as their gaze meets before they resume their exploration and lose themselves anew. A few moments later the two men feel the need to go outside. Together they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and aimlessness and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations?

Director: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
Stars: Andrea Crosta, Ian Stevenson, Prince William
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria

Wildlife activists in take on poachers in an effort to end illegal ivory trade in Africa.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | UK

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Ian Buruma, Guo-Qiang Cai, Wen-You Cai
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao’s China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.

Director: Asaph Polonsky
Stars: Sharon Alexander, Shai Avivi, Tomer Capon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

Director: Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger
Stars: Peter Martins, David Prottas, Wendy Whelan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary on the great American Ballerina Wendy Whelan

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Javier Pereira
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Spain

Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they’d never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.

Director: Paolo Genovese
Stars: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles.

Director: Andrew Dominik
Stars: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | France

Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.

Director: Pawel Lozinski
Stars: Ewa Szymczyk, Hanna Maciag, Bogdan de Barbaro
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland

Two adult women – a mother and her daughter – take part in a family therapy to improve their painful relationship.

Director: Dash Shaw
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An earthquake causes a high school to float into the sea, where it slowly sinks like a shipwreck.

Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Stars: Nancy Rooney, Harry Mapplethorpe, George Stack
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Germany

An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Stars: Diane Dassigny, Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Frot
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?

Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Stars: Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma
Genre: Drama
Country: India

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Director: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Higgs, Eric Loscheider
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA | France

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel

When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium | France

A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.

Director: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Stars: Christa Epperlein, Petra Epperlein, Uwe Epperlein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her father’s 1999 suicide.

Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Stars: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Sweden | Germany

The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.

Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Stars: Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland | Denmark

In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.

Director: Justin Bare, Matthew Miele
Stars: Harry Benson, Carl Bernstein, Bryant Gumbel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

What we know today about many famous musicians, politicians, and actresses is due to the famous work of photographer Harry Benson. He captured vibrant and intimate photos of the most famous band in history;The Beatles. His extensive portfolio grew to include iconic photos of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, and Dr. Martin Luther King. His wide-ranging work has appeared in publications including Life, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Benson, now 86, is still taking photos and has no intentions of stopping.

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Germany | Sweden | Norway

Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present will require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer, while time is running out.

Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive a prize. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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