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Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Bradecki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France

A cynical doctor, who is dying of cancer, would like to know the meaning of his life. He has to fight for it or just get ready for death.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Eun-ju Lee, Seong-kun Mun, Won-hee Cho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.

Director: Jenniphr Goodman
Stars: Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.

Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner’s course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

Director: Wen Jiang
Stars: Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: China

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant’s home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Switzerland

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire “Mika” Muller and they live in Lausanne with André’s son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK | USA | France | Germany

A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers’ class revolt.

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Belgium | Germany | Haiti

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Iglika Triffonova
Stars: Phillip Avramov, Ana Papadopulu, Peter Antonov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Netherlands | Hungary

Ivan’s best friend, Kamen, is dying in an American hospital. Since he’s denied a visa to the USA and can’t stay by his side in his last moments, he decides to set off for Bulgaria countryside, taking the camera Kamen has given him. After some time, he writes her a very special letter, telling all about the places and characters he meets on his way, witnesses to a time which is bound to be forgotten.

Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Stars: Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young inbred loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby’s parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots. In true bad guy fashion, a traveling salesman appears and truths about the baby’s origin start to unravel. But little did they know it was a trap.

Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Stars: Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Barbara Rudnik
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria

Ex-detective Brenner wants to keep himself out of trouble but several murder cases and his ex-girlfriend Klara finally get him involved. But making decisions is not one his strengths.

Director: Steven Okazaki
Stars: Tracey Helton, Alice McMunn
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This documentary follows the lives of a number of heroin addicts in the U.S.A. It shows their heroin life stories.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Djuangjai Hirunsri, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Saisiri Xoomsai
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand | Netherlands

A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Khanh Le
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam | France | Germany

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.

Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Baltasar Kormákur, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Iceland | Norway | Germany | Sweden | Denmark

Páll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom; at home with his parents who finally can’t cope, and in the mental institution, Kleppur.

Director: Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Evelyn Cox
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This is a documentary about the musical artists who performed the songs in the Coen Brothers’ film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Colombia

The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover’s killer in the Medellin slums, but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña, María Asquerino
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Spain

The accidental discovery of a big fortune hidden in the apartment of a deceased man will fill the heart of a real estate agent with greed and dreams of a luxurious life, but the neighbours think otherwise.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.

Director: Rodrigo García
Stars: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Five California women struggle with personal problems as their own paths unwind in ways unexpected.

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath
Genre: Documentary, History, Romance
Country: UK | Germany | USA

Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.

Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf
Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran

A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran.

Director: Mark Jonathan Harris
Stars: Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: UK | USA

The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Vanessa Martinez
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Limbo tells the story of people trying to reinvent themselves in the Southeastern islands of Alaska. The story revolves around Joe Gastineau, a fisherman traumatised by an accident at sea years before, singer Donna de Angelo and her disaffected daughter Noelle who come into Joe’s life. When Joe’s fast-talking half-brother Bobby returns to town and asks Joe for a favor, the lives of the characters are changed forever.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Jiayi Du, Zheng Fang, Bing He
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China

A young wealthy businessman’s icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw as he is forced to reconnect with his elderly father and mentally challenged younger brother, who together run a public bathhouse.

Director: Miroslav Lekic
Stars: Zarko Lausevic, Bojana Maljevic, Aleksandar Bercek
Genre: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanovic discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called.Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he finds the road to his faith.

Director: Emmanuel Finkiel
Stars: Shulamit Adar, Liliane Rovère, Esther Gorintin
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France | Belgium

During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Ryûhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan | France | UK

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.

Director: Philippe Harel
Stars: Philippe Harel, José Garcia, Philippe Bianco
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Story of a man whose misanthropy goes out of control due to a business trip together with a colleague.

Director: Benito Zambrano
Stars: María Galiana, Ana Fernández, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | Canada

While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father’s abusiveness and her mother’s passivity.

Director: Krzysztof Krauze
Stars: Robert Gonera, Jacek Borcuch, Andrzej Chyra
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland

The Debt is a gripping thriller about two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug. Two friends begin a business venture of importing Italian scooters into Poland. With no collateral, they turn to a Russian acquaintance that offers money and support in the beginning and then inexplicably turns violent and vicious. Tension mounts as the two friends begin to understand what must be done. Based on a true story, The Debt is a terrifying tale of ordinary men pushed to their limit.

Director: Fruit Chan
Stars: Yuet-Ming Yiu, Wai-Fan Mak, Yuet-Man Mak
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighbourhood of Hong Kong, just before the reunification with China. His parents are always working at their restaurant, so Little Cheung becomes much closer to his grandmother and her Filipino maid Armi. Little Cheung befriends Fan, a girl his age who is an illegal immigrant from China. He splits his tips with her when she helps him deliver take-outs for his father. The pair have some amusing adventures, and delight in peeing in the drinks of a troublesome thug. Against his father’s will, Little Cheung starts searching for his older brother, whom his father disowned because he became a gangster.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany | Austria | Canada | Hungary | France | UK | USA

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Director: Léa Pool
Stars: Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | Switzerland | France

In the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Anonymous
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Larger in scale, darker in tone, and much more lavishly produced than the previous installments, “Cremaster 2,” is an epic avant-garde western built around classic themes but laced with an intricate (and often whimsical) symbolic framework.

Director: José Luis Cuerda
Stars: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

For Moncho, it’s an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older brother, a budding saxophone player, he makes a trip with the band from their town in Galicia. But it’s also the year that the Spanish Republic comes under fire from Fascist rebels. Moncho’s father is a Republican as is the aging teacher, Don Gregorio. As sides are drawn and power falls clearly to one side, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly what should be the pleasure of coming of age.

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | France

An unabashed kid navigates the filthy world of 1973 Glasgow, preoccupying himself with the equally poor youth around him.

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg, Daniel Valenzuela
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Director: Sebastian Schipper
Stars: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Australia

Ruth’s been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.

Director: Kimberly Peirce
Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.

Director: Eyal Sivan
Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Gideon Hausner, Gabriel Bach
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | France

The incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about obedience and responsibility is the portrait of an expert in problems resolving, a modern criminal. The film is inspired from the controversial book by Hannah Arendt : “Eichmann in Jerusalem, report on the banality of evil”.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Albert Dupontel, Valérie Dréville, Dominique Reymond
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This is a story about the world of a doctor called Bruno Sachs.He wrote a book called ‘La Maladie DE Sachs’ in which he describes his consultations with different patients.

Director: Roko Belic
Stars: Richard Feynman, B.B. King, Kongar-ol Ondar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Vietnam | USA

San Francisco bluesman and composer, Paul Peña makes a musical pilgrimage to the land of Tuva.

Director: Tony Bui
Stars: Ngoc Hiep Nguyen, Ngoc Minh, Phat Trieu Hoang
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam | USA

An American in Ho Chi Minh City looks for a daughter he fathered during the war. He meets Woody, a child who’s a street vendor, and when Woody’s case of wares disappears, he thinks the soldier took it. Woody hunts for him. A cyclo driver, Hai, gives a ride to Lan, a hotel call girl, and starts waiting for her daily; he falls in love with her and tries to break through her tough veneer. Kien An, a young woman, takes a job harvesting lotuses in the ponds of Teacher Dao, a reclusive man who has leprosy. Her singing awakens him from depression, and he asks her to write down poetry he has composed. The characters’ paths cross in small ways, around flowers and kindnesses.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Kyung-gu Sol, Yeo-jin Kim, So-Ri Moon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea | Japan

Consists of five phases of a man’s life about why he committed suicide in the end.

Director: Damien O’Donnell
Stars: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.

Director: Janez Burger
Stars: Jan Cvitkovic, Natasa Burger, Janez Rus
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovenia

Dizzy is a perennial student living in a small double room in a hostel. He never seems to study, but spends his time sleeping, watching TV, and drinking. Marko, a studious freshman from the country, is assigned to the other bed in the room, and he is soon joined by his young, very pregnant, girlfriend Ana. Meanwhile, Dizzy’s girlfriend Marina is trying to get Dizzy to make a commitment, but he would prefer to continue his idle ways.

Director: Louis Bélanger
Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Sylvie Moreau, Hélène Loiselle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.

Director: Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Stars: Sam Doumit, Martin Goldman, Harry Keitt
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The story of three young boxers and their coach who is determined to guide them in a positive direction in and out of the ring.

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Stars: Maud Forget, Lou Doillon, Robinson Stévenin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian
Genre: Drama
Country: China

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if there’s not one less student when he returns. Within days, poverty forces the class troublemaker, Zhang Huike, to leave for the city to work. Minzhi, possessed of a stubborn streak, determines to bring him back. She enlists the 26 remaining pupils in earning money for her trip. She hitches to Jiangjiakou City and begins her search. The boy, meanwhile, is there, lost and begging for food. Minzhi’s stubbornness may be Huike and the village school’s salvation.

Director: Yuan Zhang
Stars: Lin Liu, Bingbing Li, Yeding Li
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | Italy | Hong Kong

Tao Lan and Yu Xiaoqin are teenage stepsisters. They go to the same high school, sleep in the same bedroom, but couldn’t be more different. The first is wild, a bit of a vagabond, while the other is diligent and studies hard. One day Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and puts the blame on Tao Lin, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence, and is put in jail. 17 years later, a woman by now, she is allowed out and is escorted by a guard to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of the ageing parents, and the guard becomes an eyewitness to the difficult reunion and the girl’s remorse, the anxiety and fear of the mother and the stepfather’s silent struggle to rise above his pain and find forgiveness.

Director: Michael Polish
Stars: Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Michele Hicks
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Conjoined twins have their relationship tested when a woman takes interest in one of them.

Director: Joe Johnston
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father’s wishes.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Benoît Mariage
Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Switzerland

Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.

Director: Roland Suso Richter
Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Götz George, Karoline Eichhorn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany | USA

The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele – the “death angel of Auschwitz”, who killed more than 300.000 people – comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor Peter Rohm has to defend him. But Peter Rohm – himself an expert on Josef Mengele and his crimes – feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only the relationship to his wife but also their lifes. A fictional story around the non-fictional person of Josef Mengele who died in 1979.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Gianni Buscarino, Vittorio Vigneri, Angela Nugara
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Germany

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Fatma Ceylan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey

This is a movie within movie, which is almost recursive, i.e., the movie inside looks like director Ceylan’s previous movie, Kasaba. It is about the movie director, Muzaffer, going back to his hometown to make a movie using a cast of local people. While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin gets out of his job to help Muzaffer who promises him to find a job in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for 40 days so that he’ll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they get to form the cast for Muzaffer’s movie as well.

Director: Gavin O’Connor
Stars: Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O. Sanders
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A woman and her daughter have been constantly moving from town to town for years, but their newest home might be different from all the others.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Director: Max Färberböck
Stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer’s wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Kátia Lund, João Moreira Salles
Stars: Nilton Cerqueira, Carlos Luis Gregório, Paulo Lins
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | Spain

Documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners.

Director: Giuseppe Piccioni
Stars: Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Carolina Freschi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

Director: Andrew Shea
Stars: Noble Willingham, Jim Holmes, David Steen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son…

Director: Takashi Koizumi
Stars: Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shirô Mifune
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

During a downpour, a generous ronin and his supporting wife are stranded at a country inn. The ronin comes to the attention of a lord who wants to hire him as an instructor for his men, who treat the ronin with disrespect.

Director: Eric Valli, Michel Debats
Stars: Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland | UK | Nepal

An aging chief’s last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal’s Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet’s salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son’s friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son’s widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey.

Director: Barry W. Blaustein
Stars: Terry Funk, Mick Foley, Jake Roberts
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: USA

A heartfelt documentary focusing on the day-to-day lives of professional wrestlers, some on the rise, some on the wane, and others fighting for their lives.

Director: Eric Mendelsohn
Stars: Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy, Edie Falco
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A lonely, but talented teacher enjoys a flirtation with the (married) principal of the school, who returns her affections, but is hampered by his family members. Whilst the teacher and principal can steal their fleeting moments during an eclipse.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman’s death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Daniel is schoolmaster of a kindergarten in a small French town. The local economy, which depended entirely on coal production, has been mired in a depression ever since the mines were closed. When their parents fall into utter discouragement or even poverty because of prolonged unemployment, the children suffer the consequences.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran

The story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy | USA

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

Director: Jasmin Dizdar
Stars: Thomas Goodridge, Faruk Pruti, Tony Peters
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film from the Persian series made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Marcelo Masagão
Stars: Franz Reichelt
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.

Director: Jon Reiss
Stars: Moby, Lord T. Byron, McGuinnes
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This is a documentary film about the history of the U.S. rave scene which includes a fantastic soundtrack. Both the film and soundtrack capture the people and the music that shaped the underground subculture around electronic music in America. Featured soundtrack artists include: Moby, Keoki, The Crystal Method, DJ Spooky, Roni Size, Psychic TV, and a host of others.

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu
Stars: Nazmi Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Netherlands | Germany

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan’s home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | UK

The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.

Director: Allan Moyle
Stars: Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Mary Walsh
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada

A gifted teenager dreaming of life beyond her small town becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Country: Switzerland | Germany | UK

The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Director: Barry Levinson
Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the “colored” girl in his class cute – upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy | Portugal

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust’s memory lane.

Director: Patricia Rozema
Stars: Frances O’Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt’s husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas’s younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. Thomas promotes this match, but to his displeasure, Fanny has a mind of her own, asking Henry to prove himself worthy. As Edmund courts Henry’s sister and as light shines on the link between Thomas’s fortunes and New World slavery, Fanny must assess Henry’s character and assert her heart as well as her wit.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Germany | USA | UK | France | Cuba

Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro’s takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians’ careers.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Stars: Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: India | Canada

It’s 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

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

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Germany

When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking – and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Taiwan | France

While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.

Director: Jamil Dehlavi
Stars: Christopher Lee, Shireen Shah, James Curran
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK | Pakistan

The story of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

Director: John Curran
Stars: Peter Fenton, Sacha Horler, Marta Dusseldorp
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

An unfocused twentysomething (Peter Fenton) moves in with a former co-worker (Sacha Holder), who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex. Curiously, though the two are presented in a tender and humorous light that lets the viewer get involved in concerned about their direction.

Director: Simon Shore
Stars: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Fanny Ardant, Antonio Catania, Francesca d’Aloja
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A multitude of characters face personal problems while having dinner in a roman restaurant.

Director: Bennett Miller
Stars: Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Affectionate portrait of Tim “Speed” Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan’s Gray Line double-decker buses. He talks fast, is in love with the city, and dispenses historical facts, architectural analysis, and philosophical musings in equal measures.

Director: Hideaki Anno
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

Director: Predrag Antonijevic
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Pascal Rollin
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Japan | France

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Director: James Moll
Stars: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Randolph Braham
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the “cleansing” of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. Though these survivors recount the horrors they witnessed and endured as a result of the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” their individual triumphs are a testament to hope and humanity.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A horse meat butcher’s life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Director: Shekhar Kapur
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Director: Steve Yeager
Stars: John Waters, Pat Waters, John Waters Sr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine’s mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland’s last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters’s pictures.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O’Neill
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Belfast, Northern Ireland housewife takes up the peace cause, which causes her family trouble with I.R.A. sympathizers.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Stars: Courtney B. Vance, Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1957, black lawyer John Williams has to defend his nephew Charlie, who is accused of strangling a white boy to death. John doesn’t believe Charlie did it, and although Charlie confesses, John wants to find out the real truth.

Director: Chris Eyre
Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family (and his tough son Victor), and Victor hasn’t seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold’s remains, but only if Thomas can also go with him. Thomas and Victor hit the road.

Director: Tom Tykwer
Stars: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Director: Jim Shedden
Stars: Jerry Aronson, Jane Brakhage, Marilyn Brakhage
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Canada

The film BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators.

Director: Teresa Villaverde
Stars: Ana Moreira, Alexandre Pinto, Nelson Varela
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.

Director: Michael Glawogger
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Switzerland

A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.

Director: Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Stars: Cesar Montano, Joel Torre, Jaime Fabregas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Philippines

Jose Rizal’s life and works are recounted through a series of non-linear flashbacks which reflect on various aspects of his life – as writer, propagandist, lover, friend, brother, doctor, and the man that inspired a revolution.

Director: Mike Nichols
Stars: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | USA | France | Germany | Japan

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the U.S.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK | Germany | USA

Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.

Director: Alex Proyas
Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia

A man struggles with memories of his past, which includes a wife he cannot remember, and a nightmarish world, no one else seems to be waking up from.

Director: Peter Lichtefeld
Stars: Joachim Król, Outi Mäenpää, Peter Lohmeyer
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime
Country: Germany | Finland

Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.

Director: David Riker
Stars: Anthony Rivera, Joseph Rigano, Miguel Maldonado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.

Director: Karim Traïdia
Stars: Jaap Spijkers, Monic Hendrickx, Rudi Falkenhagen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands

Polish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer.

Director: Nicole Garcia
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Realising a dishonest deal has been found out a diamond merchant commits suicide, leaving the gems in question for his wife. Knowing the business from the time before drink largely took over her life, she decides to sober up and sell them herself. Though they attract much interest, no-one legitimate will touch them. As she tries to get her present life straight the lure of the stones means she may have to confront the past as well.

Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A few friends have a weekly fools’ dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.

Director: Craig Monahan
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia

A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.

Director: Maya Angelou
Stars: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr., Mary Alice
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also telling them about the generations of their family, the Sinclairs, dating back to their time in slavery before the the Civil War.

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK

The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Director: Peter Jones
Stars: Angela Lansbury, Esther Williams, Arlene Dahl
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company’s work.

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stars: Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany

Austria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first time in history: The farm workers inherit the whole farm together, as the farmer himself was childless. Now, conflicts come up, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Stars: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France | Netherlands

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Director: Hal Hartley
Stars: Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Dave Simonds
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France | USA

The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year’s Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ’s assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world, the opening of the seven seals, and the essence of being human.

Director: Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Stars: Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan

A man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent group of young vicious punks. They first beat him severely and then he seeks revenge with his fist, then with a gun. Everything from then on is a complete downward spiral.

Director: Ted Demme
Stars: Denis Leary, Ian Hart, Jason Barry
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada | USA

A small-time hoodlum is divided between his conscience and loyalty to his boss when his cousin is murdered.

Director: Srdjan Dragojevic
Stars: Dusan Pekic, Milan Maric, Dragan Bjelogrlic
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Germany

This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.

Director: Michel Ocelot, Raymond Burlet
Stars: Doudou Gueye Thiaw, Maimouna N’Diaye, Awa Sene Sarr
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg

In a troubled African village, an unusual baby is born.

Director: Garin Nugroho
Stars: Sarah Azhari, Deni Christantra, Christine Hakim
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Indonesia

The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady’s eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.

Director: Jeong-hyang Lee
Stars: Eun-ha Shim, Sung-Jae Lee, Sung-Ki Ahn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USouth Korea

Two strangers with very little in common, find themselves forced to live together.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Robyn Hitchcock, Deni Bonet, Tim Keegan
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

In this film, director Jonathan Demme documents a live performance by Robyn Hitchcock, an English singer-songwriter.

Director: Erick Zonca
Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Romania | Italy

The Bucharest’s suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if Norica wouldn’t want to marry Gili, her 50’s boss and boyfriend, and if Mitu wouldn’t have to make two years of military service. Mitu’s passion for Norica will make him to get in trouble: drove by his obsession for her, he makes something unforgettable. The society’s resorts start moving and hunting the couple.

Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia
Stars: Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Iran

The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.

Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Stars: Michael Alig, Gitsie, James St. James
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Documentary film exploring the rise of Club Kid legend Michael Alig and his fall in 1996 when he murdered his drug dealer/roommate Angel Melendez.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia

Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.

Director: Jin-ho Hur
Stars: Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha Shim, Goo Shin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

Hahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. What will be the fate of this love – will it be a tragic ending?

Director: Kirk Jones
Stars: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK | Ireland | France | USA

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Stars: Aleksandar Bercek, Vojislav ‘Voja’ Brajovic, Bogdan Diklic
Genre: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Republic of North Macedonia | France | Greece | Turkey

Random Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.

Director: Tamara Jenkins
Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Bryna Weiss
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Director: Stavros Tsiolis
Stars: Yannis Zouganelis, Argyris Bakirtzis, Sakis Boulas
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece

End of July, and it’s holiday time. Panos and Michalis are brothers-in-law from Thessaloniki and run a small business together. Brimming over with high spirits, they leave for Thasos to meet their families. In the vicinity of Lake Volvi, their brief encounter with a young bar woman delays them. Panos, who is madly in love with her, attempts to commit suicide, and Michalis is forced to strike camp by the lake. Antonis, the third brother-in-law, who is concerned about their delay, comes around to find out what has happened, only to fall himself for one of the nurses treating Panos. He forgets about everything else and goes with her to the casino, where he wins on the roulette tables. Their relationship, naturally, does not reach fruition. Antonis reunites with Panos and Michalis, and they all start afresh for Thasos, but on the spur of the moment they decide to stop over at a hotel. Since their women can wait for them, they might just never go back.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Germany | France | Spain

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | Greece | Germany

Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.

Director: Radwan El-Kashef
Stars: Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib, Abla Kamel
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt

This film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial ‘other side’. The womenfolk, those too old and those too young are left behind… and as the years pass, only letters return, telling tales of loneliness and hard-times. A young man, Ahmed, grows-up under these surroundings and has to deal with being the de-facto man-in-charge; when several of the migrant workers return one day, everyone has to come to terms with things being forever changed.

Director: Barbara Sonneborn
Stars: Xuan Ngoc Nguyen, Barbara Sonneborn
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.

Director: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran | UK

A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran’s tribunals.

Director: Alexandra Isles
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Rosetta LeNoire, Dick Campbell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O’Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Director: Steve Humphries
Stars: Dervla Kirwan, Martha Cooney, Christina Mulcahy
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being “too pretty” (believe it or not).

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun, Maksim Sukhanov
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia | France

Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.

Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Philip Bosco, Julie Harris
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A biography of the life and work of the American architect.

Director: Robert B. Weide
Stars: Robert De Niro, Steve Allen, Honey Bruce Friedman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Country: USA

Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce’s increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s counterculture. This is his story.

Director: Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack
Stars: Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate’s perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

Director: Joan Chen
Stars: Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong | USA | Taiwan

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Director: Kaige Chen
Stars: Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China | Japan | France

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king’s cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia | France | Italy | Czech Republic

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives–getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.

Director: Julio Medem
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain | France

In cold Lapland Finland, under the eternal midnight sun, two ardent lovers reunite once again after a long period apart, governed by a powerful and eloquent circular motif woven by destiny, faith, and love. Can they deny their destiny?

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan ‘Zika’ Todorovic, Branka Katic
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | France | Germany | Austria | Greece

Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.

Director: Aleksey German
Stars: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementev
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia | France

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin’s Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called “doctors’ plot.”

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Director: Geoff Posner, David Tyler
Stars: Steve Coogan, Simon Pegg, Julia Davis
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: UK

Steve Coogan brings five of his characters to the stage.

Director: Penelope Spheeris
Stars: Stephen Chambers, Flea, Gary Fredo
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.

Director: Amos Kollek
Stars: Anna Thomson, Matthew Powers, Tahnee Welch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man (Matthew Powers) whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Mariya Lipkina
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Denmark

A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon

Director: Sean Mathias
Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK | Japan

In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.

Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Iran

Leila and Reza meet in a kind of celebration and fall for each other. Having discovered their love, they get married soon only to find out the infertility of Leila. That’s when Reza’s authoritative mother starts wheedling Leila to persuade Reza into second marriage for the sake of having a grandchild. Leila accepts at first but is unaware of her own strain threshold.

Director: John Woo
Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind, who murdered his only son. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Director: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Director: Andrej Kosak
Stars: Demeter Bitenc, Miranda Caharija, Nina Ivanic
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia

A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he’ll fall in love, make friends and discover the world of punk rock. The latter will put him into the troubles with his strict father.

Director: Henry Jaglom
Stars: Victoria Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Vanessa Redgrave
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.

Director: Martin Sulík
Stars: Dorota Nvotová, Emília Vásáryová, Frantisek Kovár
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Slovakia

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Havva Saglam, Cihat Bütün
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.

Director: Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung
Stars: Carina Lau, Charlie Yeung, Ah-Lei Gua
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong | Taiwan

Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40’s.

Director: Youssef Chahine, Khairiya A-Mansour
Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France | Egypt

The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgements are not liked by everyone. The caliph’s political rivals, centered around the leader of a fanatical Islamic sect, force the caliph to send Averroes into exile, but his ideas keep on living thanks to his students.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they’ve done.

Director: Víctor González
Stars: Mabel Dai, Gustavo Domínguez, Omar Fanucci
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

A portrait of a couple, living in poverty and prostitution. Couple is joined by a second woman, and problems escalates.

Director: Sharunas Bartas
Stars: Francisco Nascimento, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Alex Descas
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania | Portugal | France

A ramshackle mansion in the woods: individuals of all type, age and condition eat, roam or rest inside. But always in strict silence.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Samantha
Genre: Thriller
Country: France

While waiting her husband return from a business trip, a young woman with a baby is getting close with a strange woman traveler.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Director: Hal Hartley
Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talentless novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the ‘great American poem’. As Simon begins his controversial ascent to the dizzying heights of Nobel Prize winning poet, Henry sinks to a life of drinking in low-life bars. The two friends fall out and lose touch until Henry’s criminal past catches up with him and he needs Simon’s help to flee the country.

Director: Rob Sitch
Stars: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.

Director: Waris Hussein
Stars: Firdaus Kanga, Souad Faress, Khodus Wadia
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The unusual story of a boy who will never grow. Born with a disease that makes his bones brittle, Brit, as he is appropriately named by his mom, will be four feet tall for life. But he doesn’t think small. He has his own spirited way of dealing with the world, and the cast of characters that surrounds him helps ensure that life is never dull: an eccentric mom, a dad with movie star looks, a doting sister, and numerous other mentors, lovers (both male and female), and charlatans who come in and out of the picture.

Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Juliette Gautier, Ivon Orvain, Anne Céline Auche
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Rong Chang, Xudong Du, Qingzhuo Fang
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong | China

A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker — who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover — seeks for monetary compensation for his smashed computer. The lover’s and the onlooker’s lives intertwine as two people collaborate. The onlooker’s fate faces an unpredictable turn and mirrors the lover’s life.

Director: Ricardo Franco
Stars: Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Mollà
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain | Italy | France

Rafael witnesses Marina – a woman with a glass eye – being attacked on the street by Daniel; her long-time acquaintance since the orphanage, where they were both raised as kids. He rescues her from Daniel and brings her to his home, where a relationship between them soon develops. Marina is pregnant, but since Daniel does not want the child, Rafael offers to step in as the father, having his own physical problems, preventing him from having kids. He and Marina stays together as a couple, and as a family. But once everything seems to be settled, Daniel – released from prison – shows up again.

Director: William Nicholson
Stars: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK | USA

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father’s debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter’s governess, and she can’t reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Maxine McNair, Walter Cronkite, Chris McNair
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan | Russia

Examing the daily life of an elderly woman in rural Japan allows Sokurov to evoke how folkways (Japanese and Russian) shape our worldview.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman takes an intimate and nuanced look at the Ida B. Wells housing project in the south side of Chicago, Illinois.

Director: Wolfgang Becker
Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul, Ricky Tomlinson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan’s life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds…

Director: Ademir Kenovic
Stars: Mustafa Nadarevic, Almedin Leleta, Almir Podgorica
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | France

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani, Kazem Mojdehi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself. In this ingenious and daringly original feature, world renowned director Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, Crimson gold) has wrapped a blunt political critique inside the layers of a deceptively simple film.

Director: Mike van Diem
Stars: Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands | Belgium

Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Director: Robert Duvall
Stars: Zeki Demirkubuz
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.

Director: Robert Duvall
Stars: Robert Duvall, Todd Allen, Paul Bagget
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji
Genre: Animation, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krassner, John Lennon
Genre: Documentary, Short, Musical
Country: USA

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, curated by David Ross, presently Director of Whitney Museum, in New York. On the same day an unusual group of John’s and Yoko’s friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krasner, and many others, gathered to celebrate John’s birthday. This film is an visual and audio record of that event.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: France

Documentary. The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic, an asylum in the truest sense of the word, where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients and staff work together in rehearsals and preparations for their annual summer play. This year, they perform the modernist, absurdist classic, “Operette,” by Witold Gombrowicz, whose dialogue is more nonsensical than that of the patients themselves.

Director: Bob Gosse
Stars: Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | CanadaSA

An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette’s syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Neil Young, Jim Jarmusch, Ralph Molina
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.

Director: Pavel Chukhray
Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Mikhail Filipchuk
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia | France

A woman meets a man who isn’t the right man for her – but she hasn’t realised it yet…

Director: John Singleton
Stars: Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Catherine Belkhodja, Kenji Tokitsu, Nagisa Ôshima
Genre: Documentary, Romance, War
Country: France

The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Short
Country: Russia

Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past.

Director: Antonio Mitrikeski
Stars: Agnieszka Wagner, Nikola Ristanovski, Marija Atanasovska
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Republic of North Macedonia | Poland

A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.

Director: Ka-Fai Wai
Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Carman Lee, Francis Ng
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong

When Ah-Gou, a smalltime Hong Kong street rascal, visits a fortune teller and hears that soon he will face a life-changing choice, he surely can’t imagine that his life reached a middle point without return. Will he go to Mainland China with his fellow gangsters to close a deal on a couple of stolen cars? Or will he instead chose to accompany his friend on a trip to kill a mafioso in Taiwan?

Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Silvia Munt
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal | Spain

Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.

Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Stars: Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | Argentina

19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany | Austria

The film chronicles the rise and fall of Germany’s most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.

Director: Bruno Barreto
Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Brazil | USA

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat’s life hangs in the balance – helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate – and his fear of the captors themselves.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Dan Rivera González
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | Mexico

Humberto Fuentes is a wealthy doctor whose wife has recently died. In spite of the advice of his children, he takes a trip to visit his former students who now work in impoverished villages. His trip soon becomes a quest, politically awakening him when he finds out that one of his students was killed by the army.

Director: Noah Baumbach
Stars: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he’s very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of Lester’s slightly wacky current partner Ramona – arrogant best-selling author Dashiell. Lester joins Dashiell’s therapy group under an alias to find out if Dashiell still has any feelings for her.

Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Ireland

The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.

Director: John Madden
Stars: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | Ireland | USA

When Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.

Director: John Duigan
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Mischa Barton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Ursula Andress, Matthew Barney, Joanne Rha
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: USA

A five-act opera, sung in Hungarian, set in the late nineteenth century Budapest.

Director: Arthur Dong
Stars: Donald Aldrich, Corey Burley, Raymond Childs
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“Licensed to Kill” goes behind the media headlines of recent high-profile anti-gay murders to investigate their causes.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage focusing on flashing light and photographic images.

Director: Xiaogang Feng
Stars: You Ge, Xiaogang Feng, Wei Chen
Genre: Comedy
Country: China

Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.

Director: Kôki Mitani
Stars: Toshiaki Karasawa, Kyôka Suzuki, Masahiko Nishimura
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko decides she wants the name of her character to be Mary Jane and not Ritsuko. That leads to the chain of events which changes the play completely.

Director: Philippe Harel
Stars: Isabelle Carré, Philippe Harel, Nathalie Conio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

39-year-old François meets 22-year-old Muriel, who is a virgin. She agrees that on a certain day they will meet at a hotel and he will see her naked, and promises not to sleep with her at that occasion.

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
Stars: Héctor Alterio, Cecilia Roth, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.

Director: Richard Kwietniowski
Stars: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Canada

Giles De’Ath (Sir John Hurt) is a widower who doesn’t like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with movie star Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestly). He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that, he travels to Long Island City, where Ronnie lives, and meets him, pretending that Ronnie is a great actor, and that’s why Giles admires him.

Director: Paul Weiland
Stars: Jean Reno, Mercedes Ruehl, Polly Walker
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA | Italy

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can’t expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won’t sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello’s future.

Director: Alan Rickman
Stars: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A recent widow, who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son, gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Bill Pullman
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | USA

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener’s family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max’s disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max’s production.

Director: Bruno Dumont
Stars: David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed to by Kader, a young Arab man, Freddy and his friends have an idea: they decide to punish Kader for what they call “such a provocation.” After they have raped another girl, Marie finally commits to Kader, which seals his fate.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | Germany

An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | France

After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she’s married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor’s gun…

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic “games” with one another for their own amusement.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short by Stan Brakhage which combines and overlaps various lights, colors, and footage.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Richard Salter, Christine Whittlesey, Annabelle Hahn
Genre: Music, Comedy
Country: France | Germany

It is late at night and a married couple has just returned home from a party, where they met a former school friend of the wife and a famous singer. The husband has been charmed by the seductive and elegant woman, and this makes him treat his wife, who has gone straight back to being a housewife, condescendingly. Talking about the evening, the husband praises the school friend’s beauty and intelligence. This makes his wife reveal the advances she received from the singer and the compliments he paid her; the man may be affected, but made her feel she was still desirable. When she realises her husband is jealous, the wife decides to teach him a lesson.

Director: Peter Meyer
Stars: Danny Glover, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

An in-depth, award-winning documentary on the life and music of legendary bluesman ROBERT JOHNSON. Mixing rare photographs, exclusive interviews, and dramatic re-creations, director PETER MEYER presents a compelling portrait of this enigmatic figure. Hosted by Danny Glover with Keb’ Mo’ as Robert Johnson, featuring Johnny Shines, Honeyboy Edwards, John Hammond, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal | France

Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose, Kathe Burkhart
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis from a young age, performance artist Bob Flanagan shared his life and pain in his art, usually through sadomasochistic practices.

Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jordan Kiziuk, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark | UK | Germany | France

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, John Logan Allen
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

The story of the most important American exploration expedition in American history and the participants in it.

Director: S.R. Bindler
Stars: Sid Allen, Brent Baskin, Greg Cox
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Twenty-four contestants compete in an endurance/sleep deprivation contest in order to win a brand new Nissan Hardbody truck. The last person to remain standing with his or her hand on the truck wins. An absurd marketing gimmick at first glance, the contest proves to be much more.

Director: Yoshio Kuroda, Doug Stone
Stars: Makoto Tsumura, Sakura Tange, Brady Bluhm
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan | USA

A small poor boy lives with his caring grandfather in a small Flemish village in the 19th century Belgium, has a lovable pet dog, loves art and dreams of becoming a famous painter one day. Based on a famous Flemish novel.

Director: Mustafa Altioklar
Stars: Okan Bayülgen, Müjde Ar, Savas Dinçel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey | Hungary | France

A young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | Canada

Based on Pat Barker’s novel of the same name, ‘Regeneration’ tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England’s most important WW1 poets.

Director: Shane Meadows
Stars: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, Toby
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.

Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Stars: Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox, Ian Parsons
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | UK

William, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can’t cope with his memories.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

Journalist Flynn from the U.S., Michael Henderson from the U.K., and their teams meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, they find an orphanage run by the devoted Mrs. Savic near the frontline. Henderson gets so involved in the kids’ problems, that he decides to take one of the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.

Director: Iain Softley
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alex Jennings
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Director: Peter Cattaneo
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | USA

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” – total nudity.

Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything’s going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she’s a lesbian.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has found the man of her dreams in Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), but her plans to marry him are strongly opposed by her father, Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney), who believes Townsend is only interested in his daughter for her money. But Catherine is determined to follow her heart, even if she loses her inheritance in the process. But just what are Townsend’s intentions?

Director: George Armitage
Stars: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Director: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA | Ireland

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after “taking the rap” for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France | Switzerland | UK | Italy

A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Iran

After a boy loses his sister’s pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can’t, he tries a new way to “win” a new pair.

Director: Ivan Fíla
Stars: Lenka Vlasáková, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic | Germany | France

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert’s dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea’s initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.

Director: Scott Hicks
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Australia

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbæk
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

Director: Julio Medem
Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez, Karra Elejalde
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an “earthy” taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a “ghost” of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople?

Director: John Greyson
Stars: Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

When a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.

Director: James Lapine
Stars: Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In 19th century Italy, a young soldier becomes shattered by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel’s homely, ailing cousin.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Hossein Abedini, Mohammad Kasebi, Parivash Nazarieh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Hungary

Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.

Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | Hungary

HBO biopic about the infamous “mad monk” Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.

Director: Santosh Sivan
Stars: Benaf Dadachandji, Rajkumar Santoshi, Sahil Choujar
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India

The story revolves around a seven-year-old girl, Sasha (Benaf Dadachandji), who looses her puppy. It is about her search and the variety of people she meets.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Norway | Germany

Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun’s controversial support for the Nazi regime during WW2 and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Maria Bonnevie, Ulf Friberg, Pernilla August
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Finland | Iceland

The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. While Ingmar is away during the winter, a religious wave spreads in the area. Also Gertrud becomes a follower of the new Christian belief. The new priest is very mesmerizing and he wants his followers to emigrate with him to Palestine. Ingmar’s sister decides to follow him and sells the home which has been the family’s for centuries. The only way for Ingmar to save it is to marry the daughter of the man who buys it, Barbro. With Ingmar married to another, Gertrud cannot stay and follows the others to Palestine. However, Ingmar does not love Barbro. He is still in love with Gertrud and eventually follows her.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Ger Ryan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland | USA

Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.

Director: Satoshi Isaka
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Keiko Unno, Akira Hirai
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A small and intrusive reporting crew are reporting on the actions of a man who monitors transmissions in a documentary they are filming. When suddenly a weapon is introduced the nerd and the events turn tupsy turvy and the results are not sublime.

Director: Leon Ichaso
Stars: René Lavan, Mayte Vilán, Miguel Gutiérrez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic | USA

Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his father, a psychiatrist, can make four times as much playing piano at a hotel for foreigners; his sweetheart, Yolanda, wants a career as a dancer and longs for the riches of Miami; his younger brother Bobby simply wants to play rock music, and as a result is in constant trouble with the authorities. When Bobby takes a shocking step of revolt and Gustavo is refused service at a foreigners-only bar, the contradictions in his resolve to become a “new man” push him to the breaking point.

Director: Geoffrey Sax
Stars: Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | UK

The newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999.

Director: Andrew Kotting
Stars: Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting, Benji Ming
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

When British filmmaker Andrew Kotting decided to tour the perimeter of Great Britain with his grandmother Gladys and his daughter Eden, he brought a film crew along. The result is this often humorous and picturesque documentary.

Director: Zvonimir Maycug
Stars: Miran Javorovic, Vedrana Likan, Roswitha Mir
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia

A traveling accordionist and superintendent of an old castle lives in an unhappy marriage, with a grown up daughter and has a sister-in-law who has been in love with him for years. During a trip, he meets young journalist (Mato Pavelic)and falls madly in love. His visit to the old castle tears the family apart, resulting in tragedy.

Director: Sharunas Bartas
Stars: Alex Descas, Yekaterina Golubeva, Piotr Kishteev
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Lithuania

Silent Lithuanian film about a woman visiting a Fayre.

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Ernst Schönmann, Franz Holzschuh, Erich Wögerer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria

In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.

Director: Bertram Verhaag
Stars: Jane Elliott, Martin Luther King
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Germany

In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the “rules” are unable to remain uninvolved. What starts as a game turns into cruel reality which causes some participants’ emotions to erupt with unforeseen intensity.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Director: Kôhei Oguri
Stars: Sung-Ki Ahn, Christine Hakim, Jun Hamamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji’s slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

Director: Theo van Gogh
Stars: Renée Fokker, Peer Mascini, Roeland Fernhout
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands

A bartender watches with amusement as two strangers meet and duel verbally in his bar. Katya, a former dancer, is trying to forget the death of her young daughter. Pom, a comedian known for his verbal thrust and parry, tries to charm, shock and disgust his date in turn.

Director: Chi-Ngai Lee
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Kelly Chen, Michael Wong
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong

Where is the end of the world? A rich girl diagnosed with leukemia wants to follow a sailor friend to St Kilda, Scotland to find out…but first she must search him out, who is missing.

Director: Chris Smith
Stars: Randy Russell, Matt Collier, Ed English
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

American Job is a narrative film about Randy Scott, a youth caught in the dismal confusion of living and working in the world of minimum wage. American Job follows main character Randy Scott through a number of low wage jobs: factory worker, fast food dishwasher, third shift inventory specialist, motel room custodian and telemarketer. We live with Randy through these jobs and witness the pain, absurdity and sheer boredom of minimum wage work.

Director: Caroline Link
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany

Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes interested in music and starts to play clarinet very successfully. However her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara’s musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | France | UK

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he’s recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war. After shortly serving in Goerings hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in Kaltenborn Castle, an elite training camp for German boys. Completely happy to take care of these children, he becomes a servant of Nazism, catching boys from the area as supplies for the camp.

Director: Yavuz Turgul
Stars: Sener Sen, Ugur Yücel, Sermin Hürmeriç
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey | France | Bulgaria

Baran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches for vengeance and his lover.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of “Les Vampires”, finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.

Director: Robert Lepage
Stars: Patrick Goyette, Marie Brassard, Peter Stormare
Genre: Crime
Country: Canada | France | Germany

Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie’s neighbour Francois, was Marie-Claire’s boyfriend. He is a suspect in the continuing investigation and is unsure of his own innocence although he has an alibi from his previous girlfriend, Claude. Francois’ polygraph (lie detector) test proves inconclusive and while he awaits his second test, Lucie’s film is completed with its own ideas on who killed Marie-Claire.

Director: Nikos Grammatikos
Stars: Nikos Georgakis, Giorgos Evgenikos, Vangelis Mourikis
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven-year period of their integration into society.

Director: Tian-Ming Wu
Stars: Li Chen, Zhaoji Jia, Zhigang Zhang
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art. A famous master performer of the Sichuan Opera offers to bring him into his act, thus giving Wang fame and possible fortune, but Wang opts for staying the simple street performer. Then, one night after a performance he is sold a young boy by a slave trader posing as the boy’s parent. “Grandpa” finds new joy in life as he plans to teach “Doggie” (an affectionate term often used for young children in China) his art. All is well until Doggie is found out to really be a girl.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Iran | France

When an old couple washes their gabbeh – a type of Persian rug – a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.

Director: Kelly Makin
Stars: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada | USA

A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it’s successful, it has unfortunate side effects.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France | USA

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Marti Domination, Gemma Bourdon Smith, Kathleen Crepeau
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA

An experimental short film from the Cremaster series which alludes to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic development process.

Director: Tata Amaral
Stars: Paulo Vespúcio, Leona Cavalli, Lígia Cortez
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Dalva, a young hairdresser, is leaving for Miami to receive a prize. Her journey is interrupted, when her former boyfriend, Victor, makes her a captive in her own house.

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Lorne Brass, Gaston Lepage, Benoît Brière
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

In Montreal, the wanderings of two urban homeless, Marcel, an old timer and Joseph, who just landed in the big city. Both philosophers and resourceful nice bums roam the streets of the metropolis in search of Stanley, the only friend of Marcel and who has not been heard of since a long time. Throughout their adventures, the two men forged an unbreakable friendship. Will they find Stanley before it’s too late?

Director: Franco Piavoli
Stars: Patrizio Girardi, Emanuela Cobelli, Laura Carnevali
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Semi-documentary without comment portraying Castellaro Lagusello, a small town in Northern Italy.

Director: Dirk Rijneke
Stars: Ari de Weerd
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Netherlands

Where Joris Ivens realized his ‘study of mechanical movement’ in 1928, the bridge keeper of the Koningshaven Hefbrug now thrones high above the city and the river, passing his last working days.

Director: Nae Caranfil
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Mircea Diaconu, Florin Calinescu
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Romania

A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.

Director: Arturo Ripstein
Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico

The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.

Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon, James Thierrée
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

The “Green Planet” belongs to another solar system. Through the simplicity of their lifestyle those who live there are a real step ahead of us: they spend their time concentrating their knowledge, strength and energy on the development of their minds and bodies in a natural environment which they dearly preserve and care for. Once a year, they gather in the crater of a dormant volcano to decide which planets they ought to send messengers to. There are volunteers for every planet except Earth, which is considered too polluted and too dangerous. One woman alone, Mila, decides to go there to seek out her identity, as Osam the old sage has revealed to her that she was conceived there during a previous trip by her father.

Director: Keith Gordon
Stars: Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Anthony J. Robinow
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Jacques Nolot
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A brother and sister reunite after time apart. But the sister is pregnant, which could either bring the siblings together or tear them apart.

Director: Tom Hanks
Stars: Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

Director: Jim Klein
Stars: Jim Klein, Renee Montagne, Bradford Snell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.

Director: Alan Berliner
Stars: Alan Berliner, Oscar Berliner
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A portrait of the director’s father, searching for the extraordinary in the subject’s seemingly normal existence.

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Stars: José Luis Ruiz Barahona, Ana Risueño, Diego Bertie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain | Peru | Germany

Passion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Madeleine Assas, Ghalya Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Switzerland | France

Jean-Luc Godard’s densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the attempts by a young group of idealists to stage a play in war-torn Sarajevo and an elderly director’s efforts to complete his film.

Director: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Itô
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

The struggles of a group of immigrant outcasts living in an alternative-future, xenophobic Japanese metropolis.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | Germany | France

The recession hits a couple in Helsinki.

Director: Trevor Nunn
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland | UK

Shakespeare’s comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

Director: Cheryl Dunye
Stars: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA