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Director: Philippe Aractingi
Stars: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawia Elchab
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Lebanon | UK

In the wake of Israel’s 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.

Director: Weijun Chen
Stars: Cheng Cheng, Luo Lei, Xu Xiaofei
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | South Africa | Denmark

Democracy in China exists, that is, in a primary school in Wuhan where a grade 3 class can vote who they want as class monitor.

Director: Daniel O’Connor, Neil Ortenberg
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like “Tropic of Cancer” and “Naked Lunch” to publication.

Director: Naomi Kawase
Stars: Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

Director: Eric Guirado
Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Antoine moves home to help his mom drive the mobile grocery, when his dad’s hospitalized. He brings Claire along, hoping she’ll become more than a friend. He drives around Provence’s countryside, selling mainly to old people.

Director: Carlo Mazzacurati
Stars: Giovanni Capovilla, Valentina Lodovini, Ahmed Hafiane
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A writer’s need to maintain an appropriate amount of professional “distance” from his or her subject; the journalist in question here is Giovanni, a late adolescent with a flair for journalistic correspondence.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Italy | Germany | Spain | Poland

After being fired from her job, Angie teams up with her flatmate to find employment for immigrants.

Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky
Stars: Sally Taylor, David Taylor, Paul Taylor
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary memoir following a filmmaker’s deaf parents as they receive a complex surgical implant, which allows them to experience sound for the first time.

Director: Oliver Hodge
Stars: Michael Reynolds, Chris Reynolds, Shauna Malloy
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home – then set out to build it.

Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
Stars: Sabine Bonnaire
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Austria | Germany

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.

Director: Cristian Nemescu
Stars: Armand Assante, Jamie Elman, Razvan Vasilescu
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Romania

A railway chief delays a NATO train transporting military equipment during the war in Kosovo in 1999.

Director: Mike Jacobs
Stars: Richard Gazowsky, Pietro Manigrasso
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary following a Pentecostal minister who receives a vision from God to create an epic science fiction movie based on the biblical story of Joseph, sending him and his followers on a journey of extreme faith.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Director: Jake Kasdan
Stars: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Director: Alison Thompson
Stars: A.P. Darmedesa, Bruce French, Oscar Gubernati
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | Sri Lanka

Four volunteers travel to Peraliya, Sri Lankan after the 2004 tsunami, and their planned two-week journey becomes a year of heartbreak and rebirth.

Director: Richard Schenkman
Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA | Germany | France | Spain

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.

Director: Michèle Ohayon
Stars: J.P. Gillain, Jeroen Krabbé, Marieke Oudejans
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: USA

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. 1943: Holland is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party – a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack’s pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, the husband, the wife and the lover find themselves at the same concentration camp; actually living in the same barracks. When Jack’s wife objects to the “girlfriend” in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.

Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Stars: Sinjai Plengpanich, Songsit Roongnophakunsri, Pimpan Buranapim
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand

Two boyhood friends are separated due to the disappearance of the sister of one of them, then later meet again as teenagers, when one of them has become a pop singer, and they discover feelings that they did not know they had.

Director: Jim Brown
Stars: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bill Clinton
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.

Director: Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg
Stars: Cowboy, Gecko, Dreadie Jeff
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of radicals live in the desert, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique vision of the American dream.

Director: Henry Corra
Stars: Sal Abbatiello, Afrika Bambaataa, Wayne Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A two-hour documentary that tells the story of one astonishing year in New York City history. The documentary is told chronologically and weaves together the stories of the emergence of hip hop, punk and disco, graffiti art, and sexual liberation. In the background are the major political events and social issues of the day — crime, urban decay, financial woes, the infamous blackout, drugs, Son of Sam, the bitter mayoral election and the overall poverty that gripped the city.

Director: Daniele Luchetti
Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the ’60s and ’70s.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Taiwan

A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner’s daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.

Director: Ömer Vargi
Stars: Sener Sen, Kenan Imirzalioglu, Ismail Hacioglu
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey

Ali Osman is living a quiet life after years of struggle, and tears. And he is slowly slipping into dementia. He made his peace with the horrible life he had and waiting for his final day to come. He then learns a long kept secret about a rebel boy whom happens to be his son. The boy is targeted by an insane mobster over a pretty singer girl. After a bloody firefight in a bar where she performs, the boy and the girl takes refuge in Ali Osman’s life. Now Ali Osman is at a junction; will he break his vow of peace and take the matter into his hands or will he let dementia make him forget about everything?

Director: David Volach
Stars: Assi Dayan, Ilan Griff, Sharon Hacohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

A respected rabbi is forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family.

Director: Ben Affleck
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Casey Affleck
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl’s kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.

Director: Anna Broinowski
Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Australia

A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that “Forbidden Love” author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.

Director: Marcos Jorge
Stars: João Miguel, Fabiula Nascimento, Babu Santana
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Italy

In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks in order to survive and find a place in society. He arrives in town without a penny in his pockets and starts working as help in a decadent bar, a nasty place, lost amid the urban desert. He sleeps in the storage room on the back, and under a cold neon light learns how to fry “pastel” and “coxinhas”, outdoing his “master”, Zulmiro, the owner of the bar. Nonato is ignorant, but talented. He knows how to work the kitchen, soon others realize it too. The first one to notice him, is Iria, a prostitute, who doesn’t know how to cook but loves to eat and starts an affair with him.

Director: Pere Portabella
Stars: Christian Atanasiu, Féodor Atkine, George-Christoph Biller
Genre: Musical
Country: Spain

Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.

Director: Various international directors
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.

Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Baki Davrak, Nurgül Yesilçay, Tuncel Kurtiz
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey | Italy

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father’s former girlfriend.

Director: Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
Stars: David Lee Hoffman, Song Diefeng, Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He’s a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman’s mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmers’ collectives selling tea, ways to export “boutique tea” from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming’s best friend, the earthworm.

Director: Brook Silva-Braga
Stars: Scott Erikson, Rebecca Filmer, Sabrina Hezinger
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

On a trip around the world, every day feels like Saturday. A MAP FOR SATURDAY reveals a world of long-term, solo travel through the stories of trekkers on four continents. The documentary finds backpackers helping neglected Thai tsunami victims. It explains why Nepal’s guesthouses are empty and Brazil’s stoplights are ignored. But at its core, SATURDAY tracks the emotional arc of extreme long-term travelers; teenagers and senior citizens who wondered, “What would it be like to travel the world?” Then did it.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Louis Negin
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin’s home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Director: Steven Okazaki
Stars: Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida, Kiyoko Imori
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Using extensive interviews with survivors and archival footage, an examination reveals the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Director: David Schisgall, Nina Alvarez
Stars: Laura Guzman, Rachel Lloyd
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Very Young Girls, whose title reflects the fact that in the United States the average age of entry into prostitution is just thirteen. The film takes us into the work of a former sexually exploited youth-turned-activist named Rachel Lloyd, who started the New York City organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) to help victimized young women escape their pimps and find another way of life.

Director: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty
Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Australia

Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people’s struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.

Director: Pavla Fleischer
Stars: Eugene Hutz, Pavla Fleischer, Boban Markovic
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York’s Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and his musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about him. The Pied Piper of Hutzovina follows Eugene and Pavla on their subsequent road trip through Eugene’s home country, Ukraine.

Director: Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Matthew Prinzing
Stars: Michael Bloomberg, Christo, Rudy Giuliani
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates,” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.

Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Stars: Nicholas Kristof, Brian Steidle
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Sudan

A documentary that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.

Director: Gonzalo Arijon
Stars: Jose Algorta, Roberto Canessa, Alfredo Delgado
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Uruguay | Argentina | Spain | USA

For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Stars: Forrest J. Ackerman, John Badham, Diane Baker
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Director: Nae Caranfil
Stars: Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie “Romania’s Independence” – an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, “Restul e tacere” tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska
Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Marta Waldera
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

When the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it’s finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.

Director: Richard Robbins
Stars: Sharon D. Allen, Beau Bridges, Colby Buzzell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A unique documentary about troops’ experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A larger assortment was published as a book by Random House last September. The film drew upon the submissions by soldiers for the book.

Director: Ben Niles
Stars: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick Jr., Hélène Grimaud
Genre: Documentary, Family, Musical
Country: USA

A feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037- from forest floor to concert hall.

Director: Sergei Bodrov
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: Russia | Germany | Kazakhstan | China

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

Director: Jason Kohn
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | USA

An examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm.

Director: Joan Brooker-Marks
Stars: Larry Flynt, Al van Schaik, Simon L. Leis Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.

Director: David Sington
Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Stephen Armstrong
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK | USA

The crew members of NASA’s Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.

Director: Brad Isaacs
Stars: Cayden Boyd, Lara Flynn Boyle, Matthew Modine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Set in the 1960s, a magical tale of two 12-year-olds embarking on an adventure to find new, cool parents and escape their neglected, overly adult existence.

Director: Craig Zobel
Stars: Pat Healy, Kene Holiday, John Baker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

When a man answers an advertisement to train as a record producer, he’s excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered musicians, only to discover his new job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Director: Stelios Kouloglou
Stars: John Perkins
Genre: Documentary, Thriller
Country: Greece | Ecuador | Venezuela | UK | USA

In front of an angry audience somewhere in Latin America, a North American discloses the secret network that used the World Bank, payoffs, extortion and sex, military coups and political assassinations to create the American empire. The definitive answer to President Bush’s question: “why do they hate us?”

Director: César Charlone, Enrique Fernández
Stars: César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez, Mario Silva
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay | Brazil | France

A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope’s 1988 visit.

Director: Jean Becker
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Director: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi
Stars: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Ted Bachardy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Romance
Country: USA

The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book ‘The Berlin Stories’ inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.

Director: Noah Thomson
Stars: David Berg, Ricky Rodriguez, Joey Thomson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A first-person account of growing up in an evangelical Christian cult.

Director: Hana Makhmalbaf
Stars: Abbas Alijome, Abdolali Hoseinali, Nikbakht Noruz
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran | France

A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only young boy who takes her to his school is thrown out by the teacher, because helping her prevented him from coming in time. – It must not go unnoticed that the schoolgirls and the female teacher are likewise hostile toward this girl. None of them want her in the classroom. On her way home she and other girls are taken as prisoners by boys playing talibans.

Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland

The story of a son’s conflicting memories of his dying father.

Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Stars: Gaku Hamada, Eita, Megumi Seki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Italy

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he’s captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Yeon Park, Jun-yeong Jang
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea | Japan

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients’ dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong

As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Director: Tarsem Singh
Stars: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA | South Africa | India

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Iran

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

Director: Erik Richter Strand
Stars: Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Edward Schultheiss
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway

Trouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in Lars, and he embarks on a crusade to stop the abuser. But it soon spins out of control, and Lars’ actions end up endangering those he set out to protect.

Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Lee Boardman, Jim Broadbent, Tam Dean Burn
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal’s brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.

Director: Malik Bader
Stars: Malik Bader, Wesley Walker, Frank Zieger
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

The movie follows the life of Chicago burglar Kaspar Karr. Kaspar cases and robs stores. He counts up his score and a small interview follows where Kaspar introduces himself. He shows his expertise in social engineering, stalking, and intelligence gathering and discusses his careful, meticulous planning cycles.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kesal
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey | France

A dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed and selfish, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.

Director: James Moll
Stars: Vivian Delman, Monika Hertwig, Reinhardt Hertwig
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“Inheritance” is the story of Monika Hertwig and her journey to accept the truth about her father, Nazi commander, Amon Goeth, who was portrayed by actor Ralph Fiennes in “Schindler’s List.” As part of Monika’s search for information, she reaches out to Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a woman who had been enslaved by Monika’s father during the war. More than sixty-years after Monika’s father was executed for his war crimes, in a historic and painful moment, these two women meet, bringing closure, yet raising new questions.

Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Country: UK

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Farzin Sabooni
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Austria | France | Iran | Iraq

Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.

Director: György Pálfi
Stars: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary | Austria | France

Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.

Director: Dror Shaul
Stars: Tomer Steinhof, Ronit Yudkevitz, Shai Avivi
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France | Japan

Set in mid-70’s, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.

Director: Ragnar Bragason
Stars: Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland

Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she’s oblivious to what’s going on with her twelve year old son Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund’s only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his forties, who lives with his mother in the same apartment building.

Director: Emanuele Crialese
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Vincent Schiavelli
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A Sicilian peasant begins the journey to the promised land and meets a beautiful Englishwoman. But neither is prepared for the harsh realities of Ellis Island. Can they make it through the golden door to the America of their dreams?

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland | Germany | Denmark

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu
Stars: Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon, Alexandre Steiger
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad | France | Belgium | Austria

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father’s own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks.

Director: Hae-sung Song
Stars: Nayoung Lee, Dong-Won Gang, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A suicidal girl started to visit a convicted murderer awaiting execution every Thursday.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Guillermo Pfening, Martina Gusman, Victoria Vescio
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Italy | UK

In Patagonia, a successful interior designer’s life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.

Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Carolyn Eby, Taegu Andy Kang, Madgalena Karasinska
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | South Korea | USA

A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.

Director: Julie Gavras
Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.

Director: Robert Sarkies
Stars: Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Lois Lawn
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand

Based on the Aramoana Massacre that occurred on 13 November and 14 November 1990. Resident David Gray, an unemployed gun collector, went on a rampage in which 13 people were shot dead, before Gray himself was shot by police.

Director: John Jeffcoat
Stars: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman (Hamilton) heads to India to train his replacement.

Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Tabu
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | India

American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family’s unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

Director: Guillaume Canet
Stars: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | UK

An accidental discovery near a doctor’s estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife’s hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he’s letting on?

Director: Peter Miller
Stars: Anton Coppola, Henry Fonda, Arlo Guthrie
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

Director: Deborah Scranton
Stars: Zack Bazzi, Duncan Domey, Ben Flanders
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

Called up for service in Iraq, several members of the National Guard were given digital video cameras. This film, edited from their footage, provides a perspective on a complex and troubled conflict.

Director: Serdar Akar
Stars: Erkan Can, Haldun Boysan, Yildiray Sahinler
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey

Sailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.

Director: Nia Di Nata
Stars: Jajang C. Noer, Shanty, Dominique Agisca Diyose
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia

This is the story of women those are live in polygamy life. It’s about their consequence to accept the status as other wife.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg

A divorced mother of two boys reaching adulthood decides to sell their house, find love and get on with her life away from her husband and sons; a decision that will lead to an escalating fraternal dispute.

Director: Reha Erdem
Stars: Ozen Ozkan, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

A small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, facing the immense sea, flanked by olive yards. Villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living, on a daily survival basis, out of the earth and of a few animals they feed. Just like the animals and trees around them, they have the knowledge of their temporary existence, hence a sober resignation prevails. They live according to the rhythm of the earth, air and water, day and night and seasons.

Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
Stars: Ufuk Bayraktar, Vildan Atasever, Engin Akyürek
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Greece

Bekir loves Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.

Director: John Curran
Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | USA | Canada

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Director: Neil Burger
Stars: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA | Czech Republic

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.

Director: Emilis Velyvis
Stars: Donatas Ivanauskas, Mindaugas Papinigis, Andrius Paulavicius
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Lithuania

ZERO is an 0 sucking in a young deserter, a casino victim and three heroin brothers. That is a destiny, a mixture of objectives and desires of heroes. That is a lifestyle balancing on the edge – bullets, numbers and needles.

Director: Marion Hänsel
Stars: Issaka Sawadogo, Asma Nouman Aden, Carole Karemera
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality. Rahne and his family travel across hostile lands under a lethal sun, walking endlessly onwards and frequently crossing paths with death. But “Sounds of sand” is also a parable about determination and eternity that takes us in the footsteps of Shasha, a nomad child full of the joys of life, whose tenacity and strength will conquer her father’s love.

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Anna Geislerová, Josef Abrhám, Jana Brejchová
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic

A flood in Prague has damaged Marcela and Jarda’s home. He behaves boorishly over their son’s asthma so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom’s, a possessive woman whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed for possession of a stolen car (he’s a mechanic who’s turned his garage into a chop shop). Benes, the urbane man whose car it is, befriends Marcela, and soon she has options. Jarda’s mother and her mother push her in opposite directions. Jarda has animal magnetism, Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may be at cross purposes. The Cold War is over, Czechs are free to behave well or badly. What’s best?

Director: Ham Tran
Stars: Kieu Chinh, Long Nguyen, Diem Lien
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.

Director: Pascale Ferran
Stars: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Hippolyte Girardot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence’s erotic tale.

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands | Germany | UK | Belgium

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France | Italy

Diana, the “People’s Princess” has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen (Dame Helen Mirren) and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the public.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Poland

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union.

Director: n/a
Stars: Bobby Bailey, Laren Poole, Jason Russell
Genre: Documentary
Country: Lebanon

Invisible Children is an American documentary which shows the human rights abuses by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) in Uganda.

Director: Jon Einarsson Gustafsson
Stars: Andrew Rai Berzins, Gerard Butler, Martin Delaney
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Canada | Iceland

When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel in 2004, they expected the usual complication involved in making a movie, but what they encountered made them wonder if the Norse gods were actually working against them.

Director: Quan’an Wang
Stars: Nan Yu, Ba’toer, Sen’ge
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China

Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Mamhoud Chokrollahi, Mahnour Shadzi, Karl Maass
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Iran | France | India

A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India. Searching the countryside for a guru called the “perfect man,” who fobs them off with a message in invisible ink. Seeking for the truth, the wife starts performing rituals by dunking herself in the Ganges river, while naked old men cavort around her…

Director: Hilary Brougher
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

Director: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
Stars: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

In Australia’s Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It’s about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.

Director: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Donald Crowhurst, Jean Badin
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Country: UK

A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.

Director: Philippe Lioret
Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lili returns from holidays and learns that her twin brother left the house after a violent argument with their father.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Stars: Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Algeria | France | Morocco | Belgium

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Director: Doug Atchison
Stars: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.

Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden | UK | Norway

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Director: Michael Hofmann
Stars: Josef Ostendorf, Charlotte Roche, Devid Striesow
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | Switzerland

A successful chef falls for a married woman.

Director: Marek Koterski
Stars: Marek Kondrat, Andrzej Chyra, Michal Koterski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Son’s painful memories of his father’s lifelong alcohol addiction turn to be traumatic for both of them. These memories make them realise the booze inheritance in their family. Will they get out of this vicious circle?

Director: Jon Fauer
Stars: Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

110 of the world’s top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

Director: Malcolm Ingram
Stars: Jim Bishop, Terry Capps, Jackie Cox
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.

Director: James Longley
Stars: Mohammed Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud, Muqtada al-Sadr
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.

Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary by Oscar winner Laura Poitras about the war in Iraq.

Director: Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish
Stars: James Akins, Arik Ascherman, Bishop Barltlett Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.

Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Stars: Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary on the The Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines’ anti-George W. Bush statement at a 2003 concert.

Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker
Stars: Panther Bior, John Bul Dau, Nicole Kidman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Seung-woo Kim, Hyun-Jung Go, Seon-mi Song
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend’s girlfriend.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Norman Atun
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia | China | Taiwan | France | Austria

A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark | Sweden | France | Italy | Germany | Iceland

An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company’s president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Soo-jung Lim, Rain, Seong-hun Cheon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people’s souls.

Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | France | Japan

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Barry Pepper, Joseph Cross
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Director: Frank Theys
Stars: Jay McMahon, Osman Bakar, Michel Baudry
Genre: Documentary, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium

Technocalyps examines transhumanism. Experts and scientists discuss whether human beings will use discoveries in genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence to enhance their bodies and minds beyond their current physical and mental forms.

Director: Michael Verhoeven
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Germany

The popular reaction to a German museum exhibit detailing the war crimes and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany’s regular armed forces is explored.

Director: Mark Verkerk
Stars: Phra Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto, Khun Ead, Pan Sean
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | France

Buddha’s Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who – armed only with his faith and skills and master boxer skills – wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children, fight drug abuse, and preserve a vanishing way of life.

Director: Jasmine Dellal
Stars: Maharaja, Esma Redzepova, Taraf de Haidouks
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A brief look into Romani culture and Rom (Gypsies) from around the globe as five famous Romani groups tour the USA. The film visits their families at home in Spain, India, Macedonia and Romania.

Director: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Stars: Jowita Budnik, Arkadiusz Janiczek, Ewa Wencel
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man’s infidelity and the woman’s fragility lead the family to destruction.

Director: Luu Huynh
Stars: Thien Tu Tran, Truong Ngoc Anh, Khanh Quoc Nguyen
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam

Wartime epic involving a poverty-stricken family who struggle to make ends meet, and the mother who does the unthinkable to provide her daughters with the traditional silk dresses required to attend school.

Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Paul Ipate, Adi Carauleanu, Dragos Bucur
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Romania

Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.

Director: Linda Hattendorf
Stars: Linda Hattendorf, Jimmy Mirikitani
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary about red-beret-ed Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor, Linda Hattendorf, persuades elderly Jimmy to move in with her, while seeking a permanent home for him. The young woman delves into the California-born, Japan-raised artist’s unique life which developed his resilient personality, and fuels his 2 main subjects: cats and internment camps. The editor films Jimmy’s remarkable journey back into his incredible past.

Director: Zdravko Sotra
Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Zoran Cvijanovic, Petar Kralj
Genre: Documentary
Country: Serbia

Warriors from Salonica front in the First World War. The narrator tells us how much they struggled to go back to Serbia, but many of them never came back – their remains lie on the Island of Corfu.

Director: Christiane Cegavske
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA

A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart’s desire.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Albert Maysles
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.

Director: Manuel Huerga
Stars: Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain | UK

A profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kyôka Suzuki, Genzô Wakayama
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A young boy is tired of the city and escapes into the country. Two strangers trade him a strange seed. The boy accepts and the seed sprouts into a miniature planet, which continues to grow.

Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Stars: Seung-woo Cho, Yun-shik Baek, Hye-su Kim
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea

A guy with a talent for cards makes his way into the dangerous world of underground gambling in this crime thriller from South Korea. Go-ni (Jo Seung-woo) is a small-town guy with a big appetite for gambling. Convinced he?s on a hot streak one evening during a card game, Go-ni bets his life savings on a hand of hwatu, only to lose to a crooked cardsharp. Determined to get revenge, Go-ni sets out to find the guy who cheated him and win back his money.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Iran

On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks — a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.

Director: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld
Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stew Albert
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America’s most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.

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

A film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | Japan

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Director: Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan
Stars: Jesse Abbott-Dallamora, Robert Bonazoli, Tyler DiVittorio
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease deals with the woman falling for him and a brother who becomes obsessed with finding a cure.

Director: Gisela Grischow, Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Jean Arthur, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA

Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

Director: Andrew Jenks
Stars: Bill Delarm, Andrew Jenks, Dotty Shepard
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

At 19 years old, Andrew Jenks moved into an assisted living facility in Florida with two friends in order to document life there and to glean what lessons he could from the senior population. In turns moving, hilarious and disturbing, this documentary should be required viewing for every young adult with aging parents.

Director: Joe Halderman
Stars: Ruslan Aushev, Shamil Basayev, Dmitry Beliakov
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dead.

Director: Jake Clennell
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Welcome to The Great Happiness Space: Rakkyo Café. The club’s owner, Issei (22), has a staff of twenty boys all under his training to become the top escorts of Osaka’s underground love scene. During their training, they learn how to dress, how to talk, how to walk, and most importantly, how to fake relationships with the girls who become their source of income. Join us as Osaka’s number one host boy takes us on a journey through the complex and heartrenching world of love for sale in the Japanese underground.

Director: Takashi Koizumi
Stars: Akira Terao, Eri Fukatsu, Takanari Saito
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan

This is the story between a single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor, who has a brain damage.

Director: Rick Ray
Stars: The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Bagdro, Bob Dole
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray.

Director: Bård Breien
Stars: Fridtjov Såheim, Kirsti Eline Torhaug, Henrik Mestad
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway

The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.

Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi, Kenji Sakaguchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A successful businessman’s family life is shattered by an early onset of Alzheimer’s.

Director: Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels
Stars: James Naughton, Bev Harris, Deanie Lowe
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

The film the voting machine corporations don’t want you to see. HACKING DEMOCRACY follows investigator/grandmother, Bev Harris, and her citizen-activists as they set out to uncover how America counts its votes. Proving the votes can be stolen without a trace culminates in a duel between the Diebold corporation’s voting machines and a computer hacker – with America’s democracy at stake.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Austria | Germany

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada | USA

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Director: Chris Paine
Stars: Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Gigi Angelillo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people’s affairs, pretending to be the “family friend”. One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a “beauty and the beast” relationship.

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.

Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Stars: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

As Magdalena’s 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she’s pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.

Director: Stanley Nelson
Stars: Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

Director: Marwan Hamed
Stars: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt | France

Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Stars: Miki Nakatani, Eita, Yûsuke Iseya
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Japan

When Matsuko dies of murder, her nephew Sho gets to progressively unveil many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn’t only a forgotten outcast but led a very interesting yet bizarre life.

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: China | Hong Kong

During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Stars: Slavoj Zizek
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Austria | Netherlands

Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland | UK | Germany | Italy | Spain | France | Belgium | Switzerland | Netherlands

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Director: Changwei Gu
Stars: Jing An, Li Feng, Changwei Gu
Genre: Drama
Country: China

China in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the life of an ordinary working family as seen through its three siblings.

Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Matseke-Zulu
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | South Africa

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Stars: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | India

Set in colonial India against Gandhi’s rise to power, it’s the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia’s feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.

Director: Carroll Ballard
Stars: Alex Michaeletos, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia | Italy | Switzerland | France

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov’s quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.

Director: Vladan Nikolic
Stars: Sergej Trifunovic, Geno Lechner, Peter Gevisser
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | Serbia and Montenegro

Told through a looping, non-linear narrative from each of the characters’ points of view, the film reconstructs the stories of a Yugoslav hit man, his former lover and her police officer boyfriend, as their paths cross in New York.

Director: Lajos Koltai
Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary | Germany | UK | Israel | France | USA

14-year-old György’s life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.

Director: Luc Dionne
Stars: Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.

Director: Francisco Vargas
Stars: Ángel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico

In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson. Can the old man ferry out the ammunition in his violin case under the soldiers’ nose?

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic, Slavko Labovic
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark

Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Germany

The marriage between Gabrielle and Jean begins to fray after the discovery of a letter that belongs to Gabrielle.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may’ve predicted.

Director: Van Fischer
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, David E. Allen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, Ned is placed in a mental hospital where he is mesmerized by a young black girl who believes Adolf Hitler was reincarnated in her. What follows is a gritty character study and poignant love story of two people brought together by a seemingly impossible connection. As a result of that connection, they both find that there is more to a person than what is on the surface.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Stars: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father’s conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Ali Nassirian, Hossein Farzi-Zad, Neda Pakdaman
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Some poor people in the Southern coasts of Iran do not have any place to live, and thus, they reside on an old, abandoned ship in the sea. Captain Nemat, their chief, tries to persuade the ship-owner and the official authorities not to get the ship back. On the other hand, he is selling the iron parts of the ship piece by piece. ‘Iron Island’ is the story of those whose ignorance makes them simply trust those who are always ready to abuse their trust.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won’t throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?

Director: Charles Sturridge
Stars: John Lynch, Samantha Morton, Peter O’Toole
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | France | Ireland | UK

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Fang Mei
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Taiwan

Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.

Director: Gary Tarn
Stars: Hugues de Montalembert
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Gary Tarn’s remarkable, award-winning documentary, BLACK SUN, investigates this through the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist and filmmaker who was blinded by a vicious attack in 1978.

Director: Klaus Härö
Stars: Topi Majaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Maria Lundqvist
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland | Sweden

During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn’t There (2002)), “Mother of Mine” tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Monfils
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Spain

A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

Director: Rowan Woods
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Director: Marshall Curry
Stars: Jen Bluestein, Cory Booker, Bill Bradley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey in which a City Councilman, Cory Booker, attempted to unseat longtime mayor Sharpe James.

Director: David Zeiger
Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner, Joe Bangert
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.

Director: Algimantas Puipa
Stars: Valentinas Masalskis, Steven Berkoff, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Lithuania | UK

The story about one man- an artist and an intellectual- who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. ‘The Professor’ is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called “freedom” of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.

Director: Jessica Sanders
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A gripping, emotionally charged film that follows wrongfully convicted men freed by DNA evidence after decades in prison as they struggle to transition back into society.

Director: Gregory Colbert
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeanne Moreau, Enrique Rocha
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.

Director: Julian Fellowes
Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Hermione Norris
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A couple’s marriage is complicated by the introduction of a third party.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.

Director: Bent Hamer
Stars: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway | USA | Germany | France | Italy

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Netherlands | France | Germany | UK | Italy | USA

A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.

Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: New Zealand | USA | Germany

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

Director: Valérie Minetto
Stars: Mila Dekker, Aurélia Petit, Malik Zidi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything -including her comfort- to follow her.

Director: Rachel Boynton
Stars: Mauricio Balcazar, James Carville, Tad Devine
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.

Director: Paul Wilmshurst
Stars: John Hurt, Shuntaro Hida, George Elsey
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: UK

Documentary with dramatic reenactments with actors to describe what dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was like.

Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Stars: Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Director: Ali Selim
Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Mexico | USA

Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi, Shi-hoo Kim
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Canada | USA

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each with his own peculiarities. Her university classmate, Homma, suffers from impotence. “

Director: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Stars: Irina Baronova, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Yvonne Chouteau
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: USA

Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists — now in their 70s, 80s and 90s — who gave birth to modern ballet.

Director: Cle Sloan
Stars: Daryl Gates, Fred Hampton, Joe Hicks
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Surrounded by death and the brutal lifestyle that feeds it, a Los Angeles gangbanger explores the history of Southern California street gangs from the 1950s through the 1990s in an attempt to fully understand his existence. Bastards of the Party humanizes the staggering casualties of the LA gang wars.

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A night in the life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Stars: Claus Hansen Petz, Arkadiusz Rydellek, Barbara Hinz
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Austria

OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest – and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas.

Director: Emmanuel Carrère
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, “how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?” She doesn’t think it’s a great idea, for the 15 years they’ve been married, she’s never known him without his ‘stache. He shaves it off anyway, but when he sees his wife, she doesn’t notice, neither do their friends at dinner that night, neither do his co-workers. Marc finally flips out, shouts at everyone, tells them he’s tired of their little joke, and what do they really think. His wife and co-workers are appalled, what is he talking about, he’s never had a mustache. In fact, he’s imagining other things as well, or is he?

Director: Fabián Bielinsky
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Manuel Rodal, Dolores Fonzi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain | France

A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.

Director: Christian Carion
Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France | Germany | UK | Belgium | Romania | Norway | Japan | USA

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other’s way of life.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | UK | Czech Republic

An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Min-a Shin, Yeong-cheol Kim
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn’t proceed by his boss’s orders.

Director: Doug Block
Stars: Carol Block, Doug Block, Ellen Block
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA

Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents’ 54-year marriage was a good one. But when his mother dies unexpectedly and his father swiftly marries his former secretary, he discovers two parents who are far more complex and troubled than he ever imagined. 51 Birch Street is a riveting personal documentary that explores a universal human question: how much about your parents do you really want to know?

Director: Bernard Émond
Stars: Élise Guilbault, Patrick Drolet, Marie-Josée Bastien
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

The faith of a caring physician and an unquestioningly religious youth is shaken to the core when the pair is inexplicably brought together.

Director: Florence Ayisi, Kim Longinotto
Stars: Vera Ngassa, Beatrice Ntuba
Genre: Documentary
Country: Cameroon | UK

Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.

Director: Ward Serrill
Stars: Darnellia Russell, Bill Resler, Ludacris
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

A documentary Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls’ high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player’s fight to regain her eligibility to play.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Daler Nazarov, Mariam Gaibova, Farzona Beknazarova
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Iran | Tajikistan

On his fortieth birthday, a man engineers a revolt against himself. He telephones his lovers — all four of them — and arranges to meet them at his dance school that afternoon. The women are shocked to discover that they have been sharing the affections of the same man. He arrives and tries to explain his actions. He has realized that time is limited for each of us. Total honesty is the only answer. One by one we review the beginning of each affair.

Director: Philip Gröning
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Switzerland | Germany

An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Parviz Parastui, Roya Taymourian, Soghra Obeisi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

Director: Auraeus Solito
Stars: Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz, J.R. Valentin
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

A young boy falls in love with a handsome policeman who is investigating his family’s criminal activities.

Director: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

When a schoolteacher is sacked he projects his bad mood at his troubled teen son. He in turn buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This causes a chain-reaction that wreaks havoc on many lives, as everyone transfers their problems to the next victim.

Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Stars: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Palestine | France | Germany | Netherlands | Israel

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Stars: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Finland | Russia | Ukraine

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.

Director: John Hillcoat
Stars: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia | UK

A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they’ll execute his younger brother.

Director: Michael Apted, Paul Almond
Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

In 1964, to explore the adage “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” World in Action filmed seven-year-olds. Every seven years, Michael Apted visits them. At 49, 12 agree to talk about family, work, their hopes, and the series. We also see footage from previous interviews. Some marriages seem stronger; some have ended. Being a parent or a grandparent dominates life’s pleasures. Simon has found responsibility; John’s charity work flourishes. Neil remains in politics, against all odds. Jackie leads the critique of a more deliberately-present Apted and the series’ intrusiveness. None enjoy participating; all are reflective; several surpass expectations.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

Director: Ellen Perry
Stars: Alberto Fujimori
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

President Alberto Fujimori risked everything to win Peru’s war on terror, but in doing so became an international fugitive, wanted for corruption, kidnapping and murder.

Director: Taggart Siegel
Stars: John Peterson, Anna Nielsen, John Edwards
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. Castigated as a pariah in his community, Farmer John bravely transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and arson. He succeeds in creating a bastion of free expression and a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America.

Director: Susan Buice, Arin Crumley
Stars: Susan Buice, Arin Crumley, Julia Ann Ames
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Apathy, technology, paranoia, disease and medication. Meet Arin. Arin is a shy videographer who finds it too much to handle to go out and meet girls, so he sets up an account on meester.net. The flood of responses never comes, save for one email from Susan, a struggling artist who finds her job as a waitress stifling her creativity. Susan is also on the shy side and is seeking an alternative to the classic dating situation. When Arin and Susan finally meet, that alternative dating situation comes to life as the two refuse to communicate verbally with each other, wanting to avoid bullshit small talk. Instead, when they do need to communicate to each other, they pass a pen and pad back and forth.

Director: Edward A. Burger
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | Canada

A journey exploring the practices of Chinese hermits living in the Zhongnan Mountains.

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Stars: Heather Berman, Emma Therese Biegacki, Eva Carrozza
Genre: Documentary, Family, Music
Country: USA

The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terajima
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Japan | Hong Kong

A Japanese father travels to China’s Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Germany | UK | France

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | UK

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who’s accompanied by a community-service volunteer who’s assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Dina Korzun, Rip Torn, Darren E. Burrows
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-‘n’-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband’s estranged son comes to visit.

Director: Penn Jillette, Paul Provenza
Stars: George Carlin, Don Rickles, Chris Rock
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke–one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK | USA

Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.

Director: Çagan Irmak
Stars: Çetin Tekindor, Fikret Kuskan, Hümeyra
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey

The family of a left-wing journalist is torn apart after the military coup of Turkey in 1980.

Director: Jason Reitman
Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, Maria Bello
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco’s chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.

Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | UK | USA

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?

Director: Keith Beauchamp
Stars: Mamie Till Mobley, Wheeler Parker, Simeon Wright
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.

Director: Micha X. Peled
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The sweatshop conditions and the growing importance of China as an exporting country on a global scale are followed through by the life of a young seventeen-year-old worker in a Chinese jeans’ factory.

Director: Hank Rogerson
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.

Director: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

‘The Devil’s Miner’ tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support his family.

Director: Ewa Ewart, Leslie Woodhead
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. For three days, more than a thousand children and adults were held hostage in a sweltering gymnasium, denied food and water, and forced to keep their hands over their heads. The harrowing siege ended on September 3 with a series of explosions and a hail of gunfire that killed some 350 people – half of them children. In this film, the youngest survivors of Beslan tell their story.

Director: Aleksandar Manic
Stars: Jasar Destani, Bajram Severdzan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Serbia and Montenegro | Czech Republic

A documentary about bizarre residents of Shutka, a Macedonian village built on the former city dump area.

Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
Stars: Jean Ziegler, Peter Brabeck, Karl Otrok
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria

A look at how the world’s food is produced and how mass production changes the environment and the lives of people.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Matthew Barney, Björk, Shigeru Akahori
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA | Japan

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney’s interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

Director: Andrucha Waddington
Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Germany | Turkey

Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.

Director: Felice Conte, Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud
Stars: Matt, Michelle, Sebastian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When you’re a junkie, the money comes and goes–and so does the high. Do relationships stand a chance among addicts? Meet Matt & Tracy and Sebastian & Michelle–two New York City couples looking for love, and fixes, in all the wrong places. This startlingly candid documentary follows these two drug-addicted couples as they eke out a bare-bones existence on the streets of New York, desperately trying to score cash to pay for their next fix. The result is an unflinching, captivating examination of the human need for love and escape–and the virtual impossibility of finding anything more than temporary solace.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany | France | Austria | UK

An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visits to Earth and Earth’s man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Stars: Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton, Rhett Wilkins
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift – a giant purple LazyBoy.

Director: James Cameron, Steven Quale
Stars: James Cameron, Anatoly M. Sagalevitch, Genya Chernaiev
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet’s most unique life forms.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France

Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?

Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA

A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Dave Chappelle, Yasiin Bey, Lauryn Hill
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
Country: USA

A mix of Dave Chappelle’s sketch comedy and musical interludes, inspired in part by the 1973 documentary Wattstax.

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Seung-Yun Lee, Hee Jae, Hyuk-ho Kwon
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea | Japan

A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents’ lives for a few days.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Japan | France

An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong | China | France | Italy | Germany

Several women enter a science fiction author’s life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark | UK

Tonny is released from prison – again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere growingly tense; he is an alcoholic and becomes increasingly drunk the more often they stop. After a fierce discussion they split and both have to face great danger during the night.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Canada | UK

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Director: Agnès Jaoui
Stars: Marilou Berry, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Italy

A french girl gifted with a great voice, has a complex about her weight and her appearance.

Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan

A young woman returns from the dead to her guilt-ridden husband and son, but she cannot remember them.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Jeff Anderson, Barbara Blaine, David Clohessy
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A man confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest only to find his decision shatters his relationships with his family, community and faith.

Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: Alex Etel, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

Ethics, being human and the soul come to the fore when a 7-year old finds a bag of Pounds just days before the currency is switched to Euros and learns what we are really made of.

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Argentino Vargas, Francisco Dornez, Yolanda Galarza
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | France | Netherlands | Switzerland

Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the prvince of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.

Director: Shola Lynch
Stars: Shirley Chisholm, Walter Cronkite, George Wallace
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Brooklyn-based Congresswoman Shirley’s Chisholm’s 1972 presidential bid.

Director: Jessica Sharzer
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Richard Hagerman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.

Director: Jorge Gaggero
Stars: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina, Marcos Mundstock
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routine and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.

Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg | Italy | Switzerland

Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?

Director: Andrés Wood
Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile | Spain | UK | France

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other’s world as political tensions in their country increase.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekili, Güven Kiraç
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | Turkey

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Petr Forman, Emília Vásáryová, Jan Tríska
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic

The discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers kicks into a gear a series of tragic, comic events.

Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
Stars: Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia | Netherlands

Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner “simply Volodya” drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three plus one is four) while each regales the others with made-up biographies. Oleg claims to work in President Putin’s administration, supplying him with bottled water and his wife with liquor; Marina passes herself off as a marketing executive; and Volodya, the infamous lead singer of the rock group Leningrad, as a geneticist who clones twins (two times two makes four, again) in a laboratory that has been engaged in these experiments since the days of Stalin. After they separate, these fantasy realities, especially Volodya’s, begin to dominate their everyday lives.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastav
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India

A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved –police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Director: Stephen Chow
Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong | China | USA

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious “Axe Gang” while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Director: Christian Bauer
Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Canada | Germany

During WWII, the U.S. formed an elite intelligence unit — mostly German Jewish academics — at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Tasked with devising ways to break the morale of the SS, these men are often credited with bringing an early end to the war. Some of these heroes, who are now in the eighties, are reunited in this documentary.

Director: Jun Ichikawa
Stars: Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Maury Chaykin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | USA | Hungary | UK

Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.

Director: Ernie Barbarash
Stars: Zachary Bennett, Stephanie Moore, Martin Roach
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada

A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an innocent mother trapped in one of its rooms.

Director: Gregg Araki
Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Netherlands

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal | Burkina Faso | Morocco | Tunisia | Cameroon | France

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf
Stars: Gol-Ghotai, Zahed, Agheleh Rezaie
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France | Afghanistan

The story of survival of 2 children in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Their mother has been imprisoned for “adultery” and their father is in Guantanamo Bay.

Director: Marie Nyreröd
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreröd
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Finland

All three documentaries were mainly shot in the home of Ingmar Bergman. This was the first time ever that a filmmaker had access to Ingmar Bergman in his home at the small island Fårö in the Baltic Sea. ‘Bergman and Cinema’ starts with “Frenzy” from 1944 and ends with “Saraband” from 2003. It contains unique behind-the-scenes material from Bergman’s private archive. ‘Bergman and Theatre’ is about some of Bergman’s 125 theatrical stagings and about his delight with the TV medium, with successes as “Scenes from a Marriage”. In ‘Bergman and Fårö Island’ he talks about the childhood that shaped him. He shows where he shot his film “Persona” and fell in love – and he lists his worst demons.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany | Italy

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister’s bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Director: Lucrecia Martel
Stars: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Italy | Netherlands | Spain

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran | France | Iraq

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Italy

The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.