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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Peter Strickland
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D’Anna
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK | Hungary

A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Italy

Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.

Director: Jono Oliver
Stars: Isiah Whitlock Jr., Joe Morton, Gbenga Akinnagbe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.

Director: Antonio Tublen
Stars: Patrik Karlson, Izabella Jo Tschig, Per Löfberg
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden | Denmark

A man experimenting with sound discovers he can use it for mind control. He begins testing it on his neighbors, with increasingly unforeseen consequences.

Director: Anthony Chen
Stars: Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen, Angeli Bayani
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Japan | Taiwan | France

In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.

Director: Valeria Golino
Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Irene, nicknamed ‘Honey’, has devoted herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering, even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile | Spain

A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.

Director: Sean Dunne
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA

The ‘Hillbilly Heroin’ epidemic that’s slowly rotting the soul of rural America.

Director: Steven Knight
Stars: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | Denmark | France | UK

A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

Director: Richie Mehta
Stars: Rajesh Tailang, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anurag Arora
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | India

A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law’s suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.

Director: Rachel Boynton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Denmark | USA

The film’s central story follows a small group of American explorers at Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy. Between 2007 and 2011, with unprecedented, independent access, Big Men’s two-person crew filmed inside the oil company as Kosmos and its partners discovered and developed the first commercial oil field in Ghana’s history. Simultaneously the crew filmed in the swamps of Nigeria’s Niger Delta, following the exploits of a militant gang to reveal another side of the economy of oil: people trying to profit in any way possible, because they’ve given up on waiting for the money to trickle down.

Director: Dave Grohl
Stars: Trent Reznor, Tom Petty, Mick Fleetwood
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary on the fabled recording studio that was located in Van Nuys, California.

Director: Mariana Rondón
Stars: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela | Peru | Argentina | Germany

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.

Director: Penny Lane
Stars: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon’s closest aides – and convicted Watergate conspirators – offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Director: Sophie Hyde
Stars: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Imogen Archer
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.

Director: Katell Quillévéré
Stars: Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.

Director: Erik Matti
Stars: Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines

Inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-Ching Lu
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan | France

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.

Director: Bill Plympton
Stars: Sophia Takal, Jeremy Baumann, Alex Markowitz
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden “soul machine”, Ella takes the form of Jake’s numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.

Director: Ritesh Batra
Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India | France | Germany | USA | Canada

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Stars: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Palestine

A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he’s tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier’s killing.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy | Belgium | Iran

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife’s request for a divorce.

Director: Rick Rowley
Stars: Jeremy Scahill, Nasser Al Aulaqi, Saleha Al Aulaqi
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s expanding covert wars.

Director: Alexandre Moors
Stars: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An abandoned boy is lured to America and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by the real-life events that led to the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks.

Director: Jehane Noujaim
Stars: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: UK | Egypt | USA

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China | Japan | France

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Director: Steph Green
Stars: Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Will Forte
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland | Germany

An American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.

Director: Lake Bell
Stars: Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An underachieving voice coach finds herself competing in the movie trailer voice-over profession against her arrogant father and his protégé.

Director: David Wnendt
Stars: Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.

Director: Ryan McGarry
Stars: Danny Cheng, Andrew Eads, Jamie Eng
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

A notorious trauma bay in an inner-city E.R. earns its keep as the ‘hurt locker of medicine’ as new, idealistic and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war zone. When the hospital moves to a swank new building, the rush fades and bureaucracy gridlocks the state-of-the-art facility, and the doctors are faced with the unexpected realities of life and death in a safety-net health-care system on the brink of overload.

Director: Samantha Buck
Stars: Alyce Barnhardt, Carla Byrd, Robert Caspar
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

JFK High School, located in the midst of a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs, ranging from those on the autism spectrum to those with multiple disabilities. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate in the spring of 2012, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation.

Director: John Curran
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

Director: Chris Eska
Stars: Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

Director: Dan Krauss
Stars: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that unveils the moral tensions that tear at soldiers’ psyches through the lens of one highly personal story: Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield’s pleas went unheeded. Left on his own and with threats to his life, Private Winfield was himself drawn into the moral abyss, forced to make a split-second decision that would change his life forever.

Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer
Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.

Director: Zaza Urushadze
Stars: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Estonia | Georgia

In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man Ivo has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.

Director: Robert May
Stars: Charlie Balasavage, Joanne Balasavage, Justin Bodnar
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Kids For Cash is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, Kids For Cash exposes a shocking American secret. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small town celebrates a charismatic judge who is hell-bent on keeping kids in line…until one parent dares to question the motives behind his brand of justice. This real life thriller reveals the untold stories of the masterminds at the center of the scandal and the chilling aftermath of lives destroyed in the process – a stunning emotional roller coaster.

Director: Dawn Porter
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.

Director: Robin Campillo
Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster’s involvement in a controlling street gang.

Director: Neil Drumming
Stars: Dorian Missick, Suzy Jane Hunt, Gbenga Akinnagbe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Members of a once-promising hip-hop group, now in their late 30’s, struggle with regret, disappointment, and change on Election Night 2008.

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Stars: Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France

Paul is a sweet man-child, raised – and smothered – by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. (He does express himself through colorful suits that would challenge any Wes Anderson character in nerd chic.) Paul’s aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbor. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.

Director: Martin Provost
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Tony Benn
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Evelyne Brochu, David Cronenberg
Genre: Short
Country: Canada

An interview between a doctor and a patient who is convinced that a nest of bugs is growing in her breast.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

Director: Ragnar Bragason
Stars: Thora Bjorg Helga, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland

A girl is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in the dark music of Black Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.

Director: Alexandros Avranas
Stars: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

An unnerving story about a horrid family drama kept behind closed doors, and an elaborate facade where appearances can be deceiving, and nothing is as it seems.

Director: Jillian Schlesinger
Stars: Dick Dekker, Kim Dekker, Laura Dekker
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | France

A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.

Director: Alicia Scherson
Stars: Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Rutger Hauer
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Chile | Germany | Spain

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

Director: Anthony Wonke
Stars: Sue Jane Taylor
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

Fire in the Night relives the tragic events that occurred on the Piper Alpha rig on 6th July 1988. It was a catastrophe that killed 167 men and left only 61 survivors, each of whom had to fight for their lives to escape the huge, labyrinthine structure and the flames that were consuming it. The documentary features astonishing testimonies from men who found themselves in the midst of an inferno that destroyed a rig which was, at one time, the world’s single largest oil producer. Speaking to survivors and rescuers, many of whom have never spoken on camera before, this film uses dramatic reconstructions to show the horror of this disaster and how the survivors escaped the burning rig.

Director: Hilla Medalia
Stars: Pierre Dulaine, Yvonne Marceau, Alaa Bubali
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: USA | Israel

Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.

Director: Nanouk Leopold
Stars: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | Germany

A middle aged farmer, living with his old and bedridden father, tries to find truth in life.

Director: J.P. Chan
Stars: Jo Mei, Andrew Pang, Teyonah Parris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie about life that smashes into a funny movie about death. It’s a story about family, loss, secrets, letting go, and starting anew.

Director: Eliza Hittman
Stars: Gina Piersanti, Nyck Caution, Giovanna Salimeni
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Lila wants to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy who will “sleep with anyone” and tries to insert herself into his world, putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.

Director: Aleksey German
Stars: Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia

In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like, planet.

Director: Matt Adams
Stars: Charlie Todd, Ben Folds, Daniel Berman
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

The extraordinary story of a group of twenty-somethings who seized the streets of New York, transforming the meaning of comedy, performance and art through forming ‘Improv Everywhere,’ a prank collective ten years in the making.

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada

Two lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, are trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic’s probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from Flo’s past.

Director: Kim Mordaunt
Stars: Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Suthep Po-ngam
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | Thailand | Laos

Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.

Director: Michael Obert
Stars: Louis Sarno, Samedi Mathurin Bokombe, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Germany

25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded over 1000 hours of original BaAka music. Now he is part of the BaAka community and raises his pygmy son, Samedi. Fulfilling an old promise, Louis takes Samedi to America. On this journey Louis realizes he is not part of this globalized world anymore but globalization has also arrived in the rainforest. The BaAka depend on Louis for their survival. Father and son return to the melodies of the jungle but the question remains: How much longer will the songs of the forest be heard?

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Germany

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (‘Paradise: Love’) and her aunt does missionary work (‘Paradise: Faith’), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

Director: Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier
Stars: Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as “I’ll Take You There”, “Brown Sugar”, and “When a Man Loves a Woman”.

Director: Jason Osder
Stars: Birdie Africa, Ramona Africa, Wilson Goode
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Poland

An actress attempts to convince a director how she’s perfect for a role in his upcoming production.

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Austria

Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.

Director: Ryan Coogler
Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Director: Rolf de Heer
Stars: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.

Director: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson
Stars: George Tiller, Warren Hern, Leroy Carhart
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. AFTER TILLER moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients’ lives. AFTER TILLER shows them confronting harassment from protesters, challenges in their personal lives, and a series of tough ethical decisions.

Director: Jason DaSilva
Stars: Alice Cook, Jason DaSilva
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Canada

In 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier doctors had told him that he had multiple sclerosis, which could lead to loss of vision and muscle control, as well as a myriad of other complications. Jason tried exercise to help cope, but the problem only worsened. After his dispiriting fall on the beach, he turned to his Mom, who reminded him that, despite his disease, he was still a fortunate kid who had the opportunity to pursue the things he loved most: art and filmmaking. Jason picked up the camera, turned it on his declining body, and set out on a worldwide journey in search of healing, self-discovery, and love.

Director: Jim Mickle
Stars: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA | France

The Parkers, a reclusive family who follow ancient customs, find their secret existence threatened as a torrential downpour moves into their area, forcing daughters Iris and Rose to assume responsibilities beyond those of a typical family.

Director: Lukas Moodysson
Stars: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Denmark

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Paul Eenhoorn, Demetrius Grosse, Tom Plunkett
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Martin Bonner has just moved to Nevada from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building.

Director: Clio Barnard
Stars: Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.

Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On first day he assaults another inmate and several guards. He’s offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.

Director: James Toback
Stars: James Toback, Alec Baldwin, Jessica Chastain
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival, cinema art, money, glamor and death.

Director: Tomasz Wasilewski
Stars: Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.

Director: Alê Abreu
Stars: Vinicius Garcia, Marco Aurélio Campos, Lu Horta
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Brazil

A little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.

Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Stars: Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Anthony Okungbowa
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria | USA

Adenike and Ayodele, a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, are having trouble conceiving a child – a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save or destroy her family.

Director: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez
Stars: Chabbi Lal Gandharba, Anish Gandharba, Bindu Gayek
Genre: Documentary
Country: Nepal | USA

A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.

Director: Aarón Fernández Lesur
Stars: Kristyan Ferrer, Adriana Paz, Eliseo Lara Martínez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain | France | Mexico

On the desolated coast of Veracruz, Mexico, 17-year-old Sebastián takes over running his uncle’s small & cozy rent-by-the-hour motel. There all by himself much of the time, he meets Miranda, a regular customer who comes to the motel to meet a lover who always keeps her waiting. There together with time to kill, Sebastián and Miranda begin to get to know each other, and an ambiguous game of seduction begins between them.

Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Randal Douc, Jean-Baptiste Phou
Genre: Documentary
Country: Cambodia | France

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Japan | France | USA

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Vicenç Altaió, Lluís Serrat, Eliseu Huertas
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | France | Romania

Famous lover Casanova now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula during a journey to Transylvania.

Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez
Stars: Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Adriana Barraza
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Germany

Ramon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend’s aunt.

Director: Joaquim Pinto
Stars: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel, Serge Daney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Portugal | Spain

Joaquim Pinto, who has been living with HIV for more than two decades, looks back at his life in cinema, at his friendships and loves, at the mysteries of art and nature – while undergoing an experimental drug treatment.

Director: Ramon Zürcher
Stars: Jenny Schily, Anjorka Strechel, Mia Kasalo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

A family in a house, and a chain of events that take place, on an ordinary evening that they plan to have dinner with relatives.

Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Stars: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara, Alex Shinohara
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband’s assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.

Director: Steve Hoover
Stars: Rocky Braat, Steve Hoover, Anitha
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentarian visits best friend in India to see the mutual unconditional love that keeps his buddy bonded to a village hostel housing AIDS-afflicted children.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Germany

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Stars: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: UK

Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.

Director: Marta Cunningham
Stars: James Bing, Jeremy Bing, Rosalie Black
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who may have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it? Looking beyond all the copious news coverage of this tragic event, Valentine Road tells the story of two victims: the deceased and the murderer. With keen insight, the film connects the human wreckage of Larry’s and Brandon’s troubled lives-both physically abused, both from broken homes, and both searching for a sense of belonging.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Belgium

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Director: Mami Sunada
Stars: Hayao Miyazaki, Yumiko Miyoshi, Toshio Suzuki
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Follows the routines of those employed at Studio Ghibli, including filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki as they work to release two films simultaneously, The Wind Rises and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

Director: David Trueba
Stars: Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.

Director: Bill Siegel
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Muhammad Ali, David Susskind
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: USA

The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.

Director: Talal Derki
Stars: Abdul Basset Saroot
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Syria | Germany

A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.

Director: Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren
Stars: John Wojtowicz, Carmen Bifulco, Jeremy Bowker
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary portrait of the late John Wojtowicz, whose attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery was the real-life inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

Director: Sam Fleischner
Stars: Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Andrea Suarez Paz, Azul Zorrilla
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story of an autistic youth named Ricky who, after a particularly difficult day at school, escapes into the subways. It’s here that he starts his real journey, on a days-long voyage of discovery while, above ground, his mom frantically searches for him.

Director: Anup Singh
Stars: Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany | India | Netherlands | France

Umber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.

Director: Mark Levinson
Stars: David Kaplan, Fabiola Gianotti, Sherwood Boehlert
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time — or perhaps their greatest failure.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.

Director: Marc Bauder
Stars: Rainer Voss, Angela Merkel
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Germany

A former banker in Germany, who entered the business with the advent of modern computer systems reminisces of his working years in some of the world-leading banking corporations.

Director: Theo Love
Stars: David Mahfood, Peggy Mahfood, Bill Parr
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, 10 churches burn to the ground in just over a month igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. No stone is left unturned and even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Families are torn apart and communities of faith struggle with forgiveness and justice in this incredible true story.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain | France

A gang of armed robbers finds a safe haven in a secluded village crammed with witches–only to encounter the bizarre, the unexpected, and the occult. Can they save themselves, and the rest of the world from the next witch apocalypse?

Director: Frank Pavich
Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Director: Lawrence Shapiro
Stars: Charlie Adler, Pamela Adlon, Carlos Alazraqui
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Several voice actors discuss their art and their careers.

Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Stars: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Zurab Gogaladze
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia | Germany | France

Set in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992. Friends Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An account of the American Evangelicals’ attempts to indoctrinate their Christian Right beliefs in Uganda.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan | France | Hong Kong

50 men live for 12 months in a madhouse, they passing their days in a single plane and having little contact with the medical team. Every one of the inmates is not there for mental health problems but for had killing someone for committing a crime against public officials.

Director: Chiemi Karasawa
Stars: Elaine Stritch, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité.

Director: Edgar Reitz
Stars: Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany | France

Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Anahid Modrek
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system, is also one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. The film, At Berkeley, shows the major aspects of university life, its intellectual and social mission, its obligation to the state and to larger ideas of higher education, as well as illustrates how decisions are made and implemented by the administration in collaboration with its various constituencies.

Director: Andreas Johnsen
Stars: Weiwei Ai, Andreas Johnsen, Lao Ai
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Denmark | China | UK

A documentary reflects on artist Ai Weiwei’s battle against the lawsuit thrust upon him by the Chinese government in an effort to silence him.

Director: Sebastian Junger
Stars: Chris Anderson, Peter Bouckaert, James Brabazon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Documentary about deceased photojournalist Tim Hetherington directed by Sebastian Junger. Together with his friend and long-term collaborator Sebastian, Tim had travelled the world documenting conflicts in Afghanistan, Liberia and Libya among other locations. Best known for their 2010 film ‘Restrepo’ which was nominated for an Academy Award, the two strived to capture the humanity within conflict situations and with their images they focused on the individuals involved and their experiences of the violence surrounding them. Unfortunately, in 2011 Tim was killed by a mortar blast and this film is a tribute and celebration of the legacy he has left behind and includes Sebastian conducting interviews with those who knew Tim best.

Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Director: Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq
Stars: Shehr Ali, Qayyum Bhai, Abdul Sattar Edhi
Genre: Documentary, Drama, News
Country: Pakistan | USA

A poor runaway boy and a reluctant ambulance driver in Karachi. Their two lives come together through a dying humanitarian upon whom so much of their daily lives depend.

Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Stars: Caitlin Atwater, Bradley Bannon, Freda Black
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Explosive developments – implicating both the forensics laboratory of the police department of North Carolina, and Duane Deaver, its chief – recently saw the convicted subject of ‘The Staircase’, Michael Peterson, released from jail after serving eight years of a life sentence, pending a retrial.

Director: Sini Anderson
Stars: Kathleen Hanna, Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the “riot grrrl” movement of the 1990s.

Director: Ralph Fiennes
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.

Director: Roberto Minervini
Stars: Sara Carlson, Colby Trichell, Tim Carlson
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Italy | Belgium

Sara, a girl being home-schooled on a goat farm alongside her 11 siblings, finds her devout values challenged after she meets Colby, an amateur bull rider.

Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Stars: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | USA

Follows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.

Director: Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi
Stars: Kambuzia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Jafar Panahi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a young woman fleeing from the authorities. Refusing to leave, she takes refuge in the house. But come dawn, another unexpected presence will change everything.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Eun-chae Jung, Sun-kyun Lee, Joon-Sang Yoo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

The secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?

Director: Hiner Saleem
Stars: Korkmaz Arslan, Golshifteh Farahani, Suat Usta
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq | France | Germany

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.

Director: Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: France | Belgium

Somewhere in the forest, a stranded ladybug joins forces with a squad of black ants to retrieve a tin box of delicious sugar cubes to the hive. A battalion of fierce red ants has already set their sights on the loot. Who shall prevail?

Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Stars: Thanapob Leeratanakajorn, Chonnikan Netjui, Patcha Poonpiriya
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Thailand

Mary is in her last course of school. She’ll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relatins and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.

Director: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
Stars: Sam Berns, Leslie Gordon, Scott Berns
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A moving look at a couple’s inspiring efforts to save their only son Sam from the rare and fatal premature-aging disease of progeria.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Stars: Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: France | Austria

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the “model ghetto”, designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn’t even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the “Final Solution” like never before.

Director: Diego Quemada-Díez
Stars: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Spain | Guatemala

A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | France

In a Chilean little town, the son of an uprooted couple, formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother, tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry, Richard Feynman
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: France

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Charlotte Bøving, Johann Pall Oddson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland | Germany | Norway

A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses’ perception.

Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall
Stars: Gore Vidal, Howard Auster, James Best
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Italy

This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal’s America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal’s acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore’s political views and his concern at the present state of American democracy using interviews and historical footage of his famous appearances on television and talk shows over the last fifty years. In the recently filmed interviews Gore examines the course of American history and policy making and draws dramatic conclusions on the fate of the nation in the modern age.

Director: Mitra Farahani
Stars: Bahman Mohasses
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Iran | France

A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called “Persian Picasso,” whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.

Director: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Nazif Mujic, Senada Alimanovic, Semsa Mujic
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | France | Slovenia | Italy

A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy, cooks, bakes and cares for their two small daughters. One day, she feels a sharp pain in her abdomen. At the hospital she is told there is something wrong with the baby she is carrying: “They say it’s dead.” She is at risk of septicaemia and they must operate immediately. But Senada has no medical insurance; since the operation will cost much more than the family can afford the hospital’s head refuses to treat her. A race against time together with a mounting sense of hopelessness played by a cast of non-professional actors re-enacting an episode from their own lives.

Director: Daniel Dencik
Stars: Per Bak Jensen, Jonas Bergsøe, Bo Elberling
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Greenland

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Anonymous, Anonymous, Ramin Parham
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…

Director: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Stars: Cindy Bitney, David Crone, Jessica Mitchell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Shane Bitney Crone’s plans to marry Tom Bridegroom in California after the same-sex marriage law is passed takes a tragic turn when his partner of six years accidentally dies and Tom’s family refuses Shane from attending the funeral.

Director: Nicolas Vanier
Stars: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Chatelier
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France

A six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.

Director: David Lowery
Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Tanaquil Le Clerq, Jacques d’Amboise, Barbara Horgan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike – her elongated, race-horse physique became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. Her unique style, humor and authenticity redefined ballet for all dancers who followed. Amazingly, she was the muse to not one great artist but two; both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins loved her as a dancer and a woman. Balanchine married her and Robbins created his famous version of Afternoon of a Faun for Tanny. Tanaquil Le Clercq was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. On a tour of Europe, she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

Director: Sébastien Betbeder
Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Maud Wyler, Bastien Bouillon
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Arman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in the park. When he literally bumps into Amélie – slightly cynical but nevertheless lovely – on the jogging path, he’s dead-set on making a connection with her. As a bit of contrived fate brings them together, Arman’s best friend Benjamin suffers an unexpected stroke, relegating him to the hospital for weeks where he falls for his doting young physical therapist. Over the course of two autumns and three winters, Arman, Amélie and Benjamin share the incidental moments, unexpected accidents, unconventional love stories and unforgettable memories that will define who they are.

Director: Isao Takahata
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

Director: Ursula Meier
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.

Director: Petra Costa
Stars: Li An, Elena Andrade, Petra Costa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil | USA

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | France | Mexico | USA

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum.

Director: Neil Barsky
Stars: Ed Koch, George Artz, Wayne Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary on Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA | Taiwan | UK | Canada

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China | France

Lu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her husband businessman Qiao Yongzhao entering the hotel with a young girl. A few hours later the girl Sun Xiaomin is run over and killed on a nearby motorway by a group of joyriding rich kids but when the police arrive they notice that Sun had been attacked before she was run over.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

Director: Matías Piñeiro
Stars: María Villar, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Agustina Muñoz
Genre: Drama
Country: María Villar, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Agustina Muñoz

A group of actresses performing in a production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue and revelation.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortêncílio Aquina
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal | Germany | Brazil | France | Spain

A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor’s maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.

Director: Grant Gee
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Tacita Dean, William Firebrace
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Using the late WG Sebald’s book “The Rings of Saturn” as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author’s account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | France

Along the rhythm of the seasons, beasts and humans regard each other. ‘Bestiary’ unfolds like a picture book about mutual observation. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loose, tranquil and indefinable elements.

Director: Candida Brady
Stars: Paul Connett, Jeremy Irons, Evangelos Kalafatis
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.

Director: Cate Shortland
Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia | Germany | UK

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents’ beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates

An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.

Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lebanon | France | Qatar | Belgium | Egypt

An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Aniello Arena, Paola Minaccioni, Loredana Simioli
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.

Director: Plan B
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Lee Allen
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.

Director: Julian Pölsler
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Luchs, Karlheinz Hackl
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany | Netherlands | Belarus | Russia | Latvia

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church’s Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

Director: Thymaya Payne
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Crime
Country: Estonia | Philippines | Denmark | USA | Somalia | Canada

Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon and forces you to rethink everything you thought you knew about pirates.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | India

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

Director: Moussa Touré
Stars: Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laïty Fall, Malaminé ‘Yalenguen’ Dramé
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Senegal | Germany

A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.

Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-jae Lee, Hye-su Kim
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea

After a heist in South Korea, a gang of 5+1 fly to Hong Kong to look into a heist, in a Macau casino, of a $30M diamond, planned by someone unreliable. He brings in HK thieves as well. Can anyone be trusted?

Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Tessa Ia, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzalo Vega Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | France

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Marcelo Machado
Stars: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Brazil | USA | UK

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional brazilian music of that time.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA | France

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Director: James Ponsoldt
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Nick Offerman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Rita Marley
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

Director: Jamie Meltzer
Stars: Brandon Darby, Scott Crow, Lisa Fithian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on radical left-wing activist turned FBI informant, Brandon Darby.

Director: Chang-min Choo
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Seung-ryong Ryu, Hyo-joo Han
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea

A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

Director: Tom Donahue
Stars: Deborah Aquila, Risa Bramon Garcia, Ellen Chenoweth
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director – Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood.

Director: Elie Wajeman
Stars: Pio Marmaï, Cédric Kahn, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance, a past lover, a lifelong friendship and his brother’s addiction.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | Germany | Jordan | United Arab Emirates | USA

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Director: Peter Nicks
Stars: Sean Bennett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

Director: Dror Moreh
Stars: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Israel | France

A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.

Director: Jem Cohen
Stars: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | USA

When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Stars: Bernard, Catherine, Christian
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: France

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

Director: Ron Morales
Stars: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido de la Paz
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines

When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student’s increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend’s family.

Director: Pablo Berger
Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain | Belgium | France

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Director: Alice Winocour
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Director: Amy Berg
Stars: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Misskelley
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: New Zealand | USA

An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Francesca Pinto
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA | France

A look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus route and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of school.

Director: Jeremy Gardner
Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.

Director: Kim Nguyen
Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada

Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.

Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Stars: Harold Evans, Don McCullin, Michael Parkinson
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today’s photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent and the photographs that often defined historic moments.

Director: Annemarie Jacir
Stars: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri
Genre: Drama
Country: Palestine | Jordan | Greece | United Arab Emirates

1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees.

Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Denmark | Canada | Croatia

A look at the lives of two teenage girls – inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa — growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Czech Republic | Germany

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician – and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Director: Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez
Stars: Donald Austin, Brendan Doogie Milewski, Craig Dougherty
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about Detroit told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.

Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori
Stars: Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Paraguay | Spain

Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.

Director: Keith Miller
Stars: Shanon Harper, Junior Adolph, Ernest Bastien
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A recently reformed drug dealer, now working as a claims adjuster by day and bouncer by night, receives earth-shattering news, compelling to make peace with his past and search for freedom beyond the concrete jungle of New York City.

Director: Mark Jarrett
Stars: Billy Harvey, Jeff Palmiotti, Leonora Lim-Moore
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan | USA

Two Ex-Pat Kindergarten teachers in Taiwan embark on a quixotic odyssey to bury a fellow countryman.

Director: Steven Feinartz
Stars: Eddie Pepitone, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Cult-Comic Eddie Pepitone’s life is on display in this unhinged portrait of creativity, enlightenment and rage.

Director: Emin Alper
Stars: Tamer Levent, Reha Özcan, Mehmet Özgür
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey | Greece

When some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Hong Kong

Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. Their parents are nowhere to be seen. The three little girls send their days working in the fields or wondering in the village. As their aunt finds difficult to provide food to the girls, the father returns to the village. He has come to take the girls with him to the city but he then agrees to leave the older one under the supervision of her grandfather.

Director: Andrew Semans
Stars: Will Rogers, Eleonore Hendricks, Rebecca Lawrence Levy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There’s just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that something has been left behind. A seemingly inconsequential object, but one Paul feels is of great importance to his dissertation and, therefore, to his future: a battered, personally annotated hardcover copy of ‘Little Dorrit’ by Charles Dickens. He will have to retrieve it from his former roommate – the obstinate Nancy. As he becomes increasingly consumed with the retrieval of ‘Little Dorrit’, Paul’s relationship and career unravel.

Director: Markus Imhoof
Stars: Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Belgium | Tunisia | Morocco

An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.

Director: Nabil Ayouch
Stars: Abdelhakim Rachi, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Tunisia | Morocco

A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.

Director: Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark

The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.

Director: Adam Leon
Stars: Ty Hickson, Tashiana Washington, Joshua Rivera
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When their latest work is buffed by a rival crew, two determined graffiti writers embark on an elaborate plan to bomb the ultimate location: the New York Mets’ Home Run Apple.

Director: Ross Ashcroft
Stars: Dominic Frisby, Gillian Tett, Lawrence Wilkerson
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: UK

The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn’t bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Joi Johannsson
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Iceland

Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.

Director: Jeff Orlowski
Stars: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.

Director: Leslie Zemeckis
Stars: Lea Thompson, Nancy Allen, Timothy Stack
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A biography of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who started as “freaks” in side shows, then went on to be stars of Vaudeville and films.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

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

A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.

Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Paul Simon, Maya Angelou, Okeyrema Asante
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | South Africa

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | UK | Germany | Japan | Australia | USA

From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America’s criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.

Director: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA | Japan

One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.

Director: Michael Paul Stephenson
Stars: Victor Bariteau, Tina Bariteau, Gwen Bariteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An original documentary which follows three families in a small seaside town in Massachusetts as they prepare for their annual home made haunted houses. This story highlights their long journey from planning to opening day and cleanup until next year and the obstacles which face them during the process.

Director: Christopher Kenneally
Stars: Derek Ambrosi, Michael Ballhaus, Andrzej Bartkowiak
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil

The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Lorraine Toussaint
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband’s well-being while he’s incarcerated – leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel

When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.

Director: Kim Cummings
Stars: Nina Kaczorowski, Lukas Hassel, George Katt
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The hardest choices in life are the ones we think we’ll never have to make.

Director: Manuel von Stürler
Stars: Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron, Pascal Éguisier
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Switzerland | France | Germany

A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

Director: Alan Berliner
Stars: Eli Berliner, Stuart Blazer, Susan Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles the deeply personal story of his mother’s first cousin–well-known poet/translator/professor Edwin Honig–on his journey into the depths of Alzheimer’s disease. Shot over the course of five years, the film presents an unflinching portrait of Edwin’s work and life while documenting his slow mental deterioration through visits and interviews with Edwin and his friends, former students, and others, along with archival footage and more.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | Singapore

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Stars: Je’Daiah Ballantyne, Michelle Ballantyne, Rochelle Ballantyne
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school’s champion chess team.

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Weiwei Ai, Dan Ai, Lao Ai
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.

Director: Dan Sallitt
Stars: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Claire Bodson, Niels Arestrup
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium | Luxembourg | France | Switzerland

Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle fall in love. Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle have children. But unlike them, they accept to give up their autonomy by agreeing to live with Mounir’s well off adoptive father, Doctor André Pinget. On the material level, all is well. But a house is not a home, and Murielle feels more and more stifled..

Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Stars: Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents’ bitter custody battle.

Director: Marten Persiel
Stars: David Nathan, Anneke Schwabe, Bill Clinton
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Country: Germany

This Ain’t California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens. The film follows its three heroes from their childhood in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows them to 2011.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Ririva Eona Mabi, Paula Asadi, Bal Kumari Gurung
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: South Korea | Israel | Iran | UK

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith’s birth – Iran.

Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Stars: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA

A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.

Director: Amy Seimetz
Stars: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A couple takes a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | Ireland

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare.

Director: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
Stars: Garrison Saenz, Kevin Conway, Skye Elmore
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A documentary on three teenagers living in a small desert town in Southern California.

Director: Sally El Hosaini
Stars: James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being British Arabs growing up on the streets of gangland London.

Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain | Thailand | USA

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | France

A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman’s relationship with her lover.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In Manhattan, film-maker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a fling. As their relationship becomes one fueled by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.

Director: Jesse Vile
Stars: Jason Becker, Dan Alvarez, Ehren Becker
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, they said he would never make music again. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.

Director: David France
Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

The story of two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Adrian Dunbar
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | Ireland

A chronicle of Terri Hooley’s life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India

A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania | France | Belgium

The friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

Legendary British rock band The Rolling Stones mark their 50th year together.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

Director: Marc Wiese
Stars: Shin Dong-Hyuk, Oh Yangnam, Hyuk Kwon
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Germany | South Korea

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.

Director: Mads Matthiesen
Stars: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In the months after the heady weeks of May ’68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.

Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Stars: Morton Downey Jr., Glenn Beck, Victoria Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr.

Director: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson
Stars: Ane Kruse, Lars Kristian Kruse, Ilannguaq Egede
Genre: Documentary, Family, News
Country: Denmark | UK | Greenland

Village At The End Of The World is a witty, surprising and ultimately feel good portrait of an isolated village of 59 people and 100 sledge dogs, surviving against the odds.

Director: Nisha Pahuja
Stars: Pooja Chopra, Manasvi Mamgai, Marc Robinson
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Two young women follow completely divergent paths in the new, modernizing India-one wants to become Miss India, the other is a fierce Hindu Nationalist prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.

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

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.

Director: Felix van Groeningen
Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | Denmark | Norway

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

Director: Anand Gandhi
Stars: Aida Elkashef, Yogesh Shah, Faraz Khan
Genre: Drama
Country: India | Netherlands

The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.

Director: Danielle Gardner
Stars: Michael Santosusso, Chad Anthony Miller, Sandra Palmeri
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

A documentary that explores the effects of 9/11 on the firm Cantor Fitzgerald, whose offices on the top five floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center were destroyed in the attacks, killing 658 out of their 960 employees.

Director: Joss Whedon
Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: UK

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple’s epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Shay Modaressi
Stars: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.

Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | France | USA

A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Santiago Figueroa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | France

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Director: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret
Stars: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret, Henry Chapier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing France with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation of an extraordinary travel journal. Depardon revisited important places from his past as a reporter: Chad, Venice and Cannes. Previously unseen footage from his archive has also been added to create an intimate, compelling and revelatory ‘Journal de France’ – a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes.

Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short film trilogy.

Director: Sophie Huber
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Sam Shepard
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Switzerland

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor’s enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid scenes with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry. The fragile soul of an actor emerges from the poignant collage.

Director: Ben Shapiro
Stars: Costanza Theodoli Braschi, Gregory Crewdson, Samantha Ressler
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A documentary shot over a decade with unprecedented access to photographer Gregory Crewdson that bares the artist’s process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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