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Director: Maren Ade
Stars: Lars Eidinger, Birgit Minichmayr, Hans-Jochen Wagner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.

Director: Havana Marking
Stars: Habib Amiri, Setara Hussainzada, Rafi Naabzada
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

A look at how contestants on the a musical contest program “Pop Idol” in Afghanistan risk their lives to appear on the show.

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania

A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece

Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.

Director: Ounie Lecomte
Stars: Sae-ron Kim, Do Yeon Park, Ko Asung
Genre: Drama
Country: France | South Korea

Inspired by her childhood, French-Korean filmmaker Ounie Lecomte recounts the emotional journey of a little girl abandoned by her father in an orphanage.

Director: Ayan Mukherjee
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Supriya Pathak
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India

A spoiled young adult living in Mumbai experiences a change in his lazy ways when he meets a woman at a party, who inspires him to “wake up.”

Director: Elia Suleiman
Stars: Menashe Noy, Elia Suleiman, Baher Agbariya
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK | Italy | Belgium | France | Palestine | Israel

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK | France | Canada

A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.

Director: Michael Schwarz, Edward Gray
Stars: Frances McDormand, Michael Pollan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism and a student of food, presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans, thus ensuring widespread propagation. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic relationship with human civilization. The film tells these stories and examines these relationships.

Director: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Western
Country: UK | France | USA

In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges – a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.

Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Plagued by guilt, a corrupt police official attempts to solve the case of a missing schoolgirl after seeing connections between her disappearance and a rash of prior abductions.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Germany | Norway

A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.

Director: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An intimate and moving account of one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.

Director: Todd Solondz
Stars: Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

Director: Pietro Marcello
Stars: Vincenzo Motta, Mary Monaco, Franco Leo
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The story of a criminal Vincenzo and his transsexual lover Mary, who waited for him for many years while he served his prison sentence.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Hassan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.

Director: Patrick Coyle
Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Baumgartner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A prostitute plans to end her life on her birthday, but her priest attempts to stop her from doing so.

Director: Gloria La Morte, Paola Mendoza
Stars: Paola Mendoza, Sebastian Villada, Laura Montana
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A story based on facts which offers a fresh take on the issue of new immigrants in the United States. Mariana totes her two children from Colombia to reunite with her husband in Queens, New York. Her life is devastatingly turned around when her husband abandons the family. The woman and her kids have to fend for themselves in a foreign country. Mariana desperately searches for work. In the end, she resourcefully navigates a surprising avenue for making some money, the city’s recycling.

Director: Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath
Stars: Thet Sambath, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit the throats to Pol Pot’s right-hand man Nuon Chea, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath records shocking testimony never before seen or heard.

Director: Sophie Barthes
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | France

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov’s play, Vanya.

Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Stars: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France | Belgium

As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.

Director: Pedro González-Rubio
Stars: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Mexico

Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.

Director: Chuan Lu
Stars: Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China | Hong Kong

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Cameroon

Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.

Director: Aviva Kempner
Stars: Gertrude Berg, Lewis Berg, Sara Chase
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The story of the actress, writer, and broadcasting pioneer Gertrude Berg.

Director: Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes
Stars: Irandhir Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness.

Director: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
Stars: Peter Arnett, Ben Bagdikian, Ann Beeson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“The Most Dangerous Man in America” is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an “Imperial” Presidency-answerable to neither Congress, the press, nor the people-in order to help end the Vietnam War.

Director: Gregory V. Sherman, Jeff Sherman
Stars: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Roy Edward Disney
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Their music is unforgettable. Their name is legend. Delve into the lives and cinematic legacy of the prolific songwriting duo whose music has been featured in classic movies such as Mary Poppins (1964) and The Jungle Book (1967).

Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Stars: Margrét Dagmar Ericsdóttir, David G. Amaral, Simon Baron-Cohen
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iceland

The mother of an autistic child is determined not to accept the pessimistic prognosis for her son.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal | Spain | France

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Warren Clarke, Paddy Considine, James Fox
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A team of investigators attempt to stop a serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper from claiming his next victim, but uncover something far more terrifying.

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Stars: Stéphane Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Belgium | Luxembourg | France

Cowboy and Indian’s only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse’s birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they’ll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

Director: Andrew Monument
Stars: Lance Henriksen, Larry Cohen, Joe Dante
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Country: USA

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Jean, his loving wife and son live a simple, happy life. At his son’s homeroom teacher Madamoiselle Chambon’s request, he volunteers as substitute teacher and starts to fall for her delicate and elegant charm. His ordinary life between family and work starts to falter.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Alice de Lencquesaing
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

A film producer struggles with suicidal despair.

Director: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea
Stars: Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Iran

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert – and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Director: Claude Miller, Nathan Miller
Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and begins a relationship with her which slowly drives him to an act of madness.

Director: Phil Grabsky
Stars: Emanuel Ax, Jonathan Biss, Riccardo Chailly
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK

The first truly comprehensive feature length cinema documentary ever made about Beethoven. With over 60 live performances.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Stars: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.

Director: Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont
Stars: Cornelia Foss, Glenn Gould
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Canada

A documentary on the mysterious and influential pianist.

Director: Gerald Peary
Stars: Roger Ebert, Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

The history of American film criticism.

Director: Wael Mandour, Yusri Nasrullah
Stars: Mona Zaki, Mahmoud Hemida, Hasan El-Raddad
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt

A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women’s issues.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier
Stars: Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Canada | Palestine | Israel | Lebanon

About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.

Director: Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor
Stars: Itzik Cohen, Irit Kaplan, Dvir Benedek
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | Germany | France

A comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind – overweight people learning to accept themselves.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | Japan

When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.

Director: John Woo
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | Japan | Taiwan | South Korea | USA

The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China’s Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).

Director: Todd Kessler
Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, Jesse McCartney, Margo Harshman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Natalie, head of her curriculum activities in high school and riding on a tennis scholarship for college, gets Keith as her Chemistry lab partner. As Natalie can be uptight, Keith proves to be the opposite, even while hiding a secret.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | Cayman Islands | Denmark | USA

A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.

Director: Eran Creevy
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he’s hurtling towards.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Director: Haile Gerima
Stars: Aaron Arefe, Abiye Tedla, Takelech Beyene
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia | Germany | France

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people’s humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.

Director: Reshef Levi
Stars: Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Shmil Ben Ari
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

A family in the 80s with five kids get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.

Director: Steve Jacobs
Stars: John Malkovich, Natalie Becker, Jessica Haines
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | South Africa

After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.

Director: Brillante Mendoza
Stars: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines | France | South Korea | Hong Kong

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real “star” of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That’s when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss’s young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams.

Director: Ik-joon Yang
Stars: Kkobbi Kim, Hwan Lee, Ik-joon Yang
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

A bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.

Director: Marek Losey
Stars: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell, Laura Hopwood
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK

On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting – the elusive sociable plover – he will have ‘twitched’ the entire British List. Tunt has his shortwave radio, packed-lunch and a portrait of his ex-wife Sandra for company. Suddenly, in the midst of a conversation with Sandra’s portrait, the hide door blows open and a bedraggled stranger – unshaven, edgy and bloodied introduces himself as Dave John, a fugitive from the storm. After a tense introduction, the two men discover that they have a good deal in common, sharing sandwiches, tea and personal exchanges which are frank, poignant and often funny.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text — long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East — remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Director: Michael Joy
Stars: Grant Dodwell, Don Reid, Paul Gleeson
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Six strangers meet up every week to talk, finding they are not alone with their issues. Secrets are revealed as their friendships grow but when tragedy strikes, they realize that it is up to them to take responsibility for their own lives.

Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Stars: Isaiah Zagar, Julia Zagar, Ezekiel Zagar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of Julia Zagar and her husband Isaiah, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete.

Director: Lance Hammer
Stars: Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man’s suicide affects three people’s lives.

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Hee Ching Paw, Chun-lung Leung, Cheuk Man Au
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

“The Way We Are” tells the story of a hardworking, widowed, single mother (Mrs. Cheung) and her teenage son (Ka-on) living in the troubled housing estate of Tinshuiwai, a suburb regularly featured in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Director: Kenneth Glenaan
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany

While caring for a dying friend, a man reflects back on their youth together.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | France

The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.

Director: Dennis Gansel
Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany | France

A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard, Louca Tassone
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

Scampia Vele is the corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Chile | Brazil

A man is obsessed with John Travolta’s disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).

Director: Nash Edgerton
Stars: David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia

A man’s life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.

Director: Yoon-ki Lee
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-woo Ha, Il-hwa Choi
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

Jobless, single and in her early thirties, Hee-soo is miserable. Desperate, she sets out to find her ex-boyfriend, Byoung-woon, who owes her $3,500. Rather inconveniently, it turns out that Byoung-woon is also penniless, but he cheerfully claims he can get the money from a series of girlfriends. Suspicious, Hee-soo decides to trail Byoung-woon as he makes the rounds of his varied lady chums, just in case he tries to deceive her. Thus the pair embark on a strange, nostalgic journey together.

Director: Pieter Van Hees
Stars: Eline Kuppens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sien Eggers
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Belgium

When Marie moves into her boyfriend’s apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery.

Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA

An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.

Director: Sion Sono
Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | Germany | Spain | Lithuania

A Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

Director: Martin Provost
Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.

Director: Arsen A. Ostojic
Stars: Alen Liveric, Mustafa Nadarevic, Biserka Ipsa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Croatia | Slovenia

Ivan, a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War, discovers a dark family secret, which fundamentally changes his life he now wants to end.

Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Stars: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Japan | USA

A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.

Director: Megumi Sasaki
Stars: Paula Antebi, Will Barnet, Robert Barry
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.

Director: Courtney Hunt
Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Yeong-ho Kim, Su-jeong Hwang, Eun-hye Park
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

“Night and Day” is centered around the mixed emotions found in traveling. Characters in the film are Sung-nam Kim, an artist selected by the Korean government that escaped from Seoul and currently resides in Paris, student Yoo-jung Lee studying painting in Paris, Sung-in Han waiting for her husband Sung-nam Kim, and North Korean Kyeong-su Yun also studying in Paris.

Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Stars: Askhat Kuchencherekov, Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Samal Yeslyamova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan | Russia | Germany | Poland | Switzerland | Italy

On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It’s dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who’s slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa’s later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa’s dreams? What about the other lambs?

Director: Yves Christian Fournier
Stars: Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Maxime Bessette
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas’s dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. Only Mia, his best friend’s girl, can reach him. With more questions than answers, Josh’s is the story of a survivor. It is a modern portrait of today’s teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused, idealistic yet jaded.

Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Stars: Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Antonio Villaraigosa
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.

Director: Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Stars: Dan Bustard, Ashley Esqueda, Andrew Monkelban
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An intimate, fascinating look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging, hugely popular genre of computer games.

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Matt Boren, Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents’ loft.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France

Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.

Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Stars: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Masaaki Akahori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In 1993 Kanao and Shoko are a Tokyo couple awaiting the arrival of their first child. Although both have studied art, Kanao works as a shoe repairman which doesn’t stretch his rather laid-back style and Shoko works in a small publishing firm. Their home life is marked by some clashes between her attempts at regimentation, including scheduling their sex life on a calendar, and his flirting with other women. Kanao is offered work as a courtroom sketch artist and becomes a witness to the most sensational murder trials of Japan through the next 8 years. He must cope with the ugliness and breakdown in civility he encounters.

Director: Eran Riklis
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel | Germany | France

The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.

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

During a five year period an Italian filmmaker documents the world of down-on-their-luck individuals who live in a Californian desert trying to get by one day at a time. None of them has more than a vehicle, a dog and some clothes.

Director: Götz Spielmann
Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Austria

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated… and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.

Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Stars: Algenis Perez Soto, Jose Rijo, Walki Cuevas
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA | Dominican Republic

Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.

Director: Fred Cavayé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Spain

With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.

Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Gil-Byung Chae, Jung Gil Ja, Shin Hyun Je
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | South Korea

In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.

Director: Julia Sweeney
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study class. What she learns there leads her to new questions, and in search for answers she explores meditation, Buddhism and New Age gurus, then describes what she learned from the sciences and from sharpening her critical thinking skills. She discovers that to accept the truth leads to surprising revelations. She concludes by sharing how this effects her family.

Director: Tom Lin
Stars: Rhydian Vaughan, Chieh Chang, Jennifer Chia-Ching Chu
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan

The “Winds of September” are the wind of Hsinchu, a strong wind that visits the county and city between September and November. Lin Shu Yu’s semi auto-biographical debut, produced by Eric Tsang, takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.

Director: Peter von Bagh
Stars: Siiri Angerkoski, Ritva Arvelo, Susanna Haavisto
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Finland

History and the spirit of XXth century Helsinki through the cinema, documentary footage, architecture, art and politics.

Director: James Watkins
Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK

Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.

Director: Vanessa Gould
Stars: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Vincent Floderer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Depicts a cast of fine artists and eccentric scientists (from MIT and NASA) who have devoted their lives to the unlikely medium of modern origami. Through their determination to reinterpret the world in paper, they arouse a fascinating mix of sensibilities towards art, form, expressiveness, creativity and meaning.

Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | Iran | UK | USA

An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, ‘Be Like Others’ is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.

Director: Attila Gigor
Stars: Zsolt Anger, András Márton Baló, Péter Blaskó
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hungary | Sweden | Ireland

Badly needing money for the treatment of his ill mother, pathologist Tibor Malkáv accepts the proposition of a stranger to murder someone he doesn’t know a thing about.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Netherlands | Hong Kong

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Director: Chung-ryoul Lee
Stars: Won-gyoon Choi, Sam-soon Lee
Genre: Documentary
Country: South Korea

An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

Director: James Honeyborne
Stars: Paul Newman, Rufus Beck
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An inspiring exploration of one family’s resilience and fortitude shot using innovative and groundbreaking filming techniques.

Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Stars: David Antoon, Vincent Cannistraro, James Cullen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“The End of America” details the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism. It’s not a “lefty” taught-to-me, but rather a historical look at trends in once-functioning democracies from modern history that are being repeated in our country today. It gives any reader (or viewer of the lecture) a much-needed history lesson and constitutional refresher. Most importantly, it puts the recent gradual loss of civil liberties in the U.S. in a historical context. The average American might not be alarmed at AT&T selling our private information to the federal executive, but when this action is seen as part of a larger series of erosions and events, a pattern emerges with unfortunate consequences that become disturbingly clear.

Director: Juraj Lehotsky
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Slovakia

A poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Stars: Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, ‘Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities’. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That’s when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni’s door in the most unexpected way.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Finland | Germany

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Director: Mark N. Hopkins
Stars: Chris Brasher, Chiara Lepora, Davinder Gill
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.

Director: Steven Greenstreet
Stars: Richard Atkinson, Denise Austin, Brooke Bates
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An overview of the politics, social effects and problems associated with the rising epidemic of American obesity.

Director: Mariano Llinás
Stars: Mariano Llinás, Walter Jakob, Agustín Mendilaharzu
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina

In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark

A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.

Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Villmar Björkman, Linnea Cart-Lamy, Leif Edlund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | France

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

Director: Mariana Chenillo
Stars: Fernando Luján, Enrique Arreola, Ari Brickman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico

This story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he’d been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.

Director: Murray Siple
Stars: Murray Siple
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

This documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts.

Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him – incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.

Director: Don Hardy, Dana Nachman
Stars: Jack Cummings, Jackie Cummings, Allen Grafton
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

The story of several families who have their lives destroyed when their hometown is whipped into a frenzy by allegations of child molestation.

Director: Chris J. Ford
Stars: John Ratzenberger, Shelly Cole, Cindy Pickett
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A fading smalltime barber is forced to hire the last person on earth he’d want working in his shop – a woman.

Director: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Stars: Thavisouk Phrasavath
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Kuras has spent the last 23 years chronicling the family’s extraordinary journey in this deeply personal, poetic, and emotional film.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their “A Bigger Bang” tour.

Director: Peter Galison, Robb Moss
Stars: Steven Aftergood, Thomas Blanton, James Bruce
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Amidst the American hunger for instantaneous news and up-to-date “facts,” this unflinching film uncovers the vast, invisible world of government secrecy.

Director: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.

Director: Agnès Jaoui
Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother’s belongings. While she’s there, the son (Jamel Debbouze as Karim) of family maid (Mimouna Hadji) takes advantage of her presence and attempts to interview her as part of a documentary about successful women that he’s undertaken with his film school teacher, Michel (co-writer Jean-Pierre Bacri). However, Michel’s intentions aren’t quite what they seem, as he’s having an affair with Florence and hoping to persuade her to leave her husband. Meanwhile, Karim finds his own marriage threatened when his attractive hotel co-worker (Florence Loiret-Caille) declares an interest in him.

Director: Léa Pool
Stars: Marianne Fortier, Élie Dupuis, Hugo St-Onge-Paquin
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Summer 1966. It’s time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her youngest brother Benoît throws himself into his own inner world. The father seems absolutely knocked out by the situation. Élise decides to take control of her family, in an eloquent attempt to save them. With the assistance of flourishing nature around her, she stands on the threshold of an incomparable summer.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Italy | Germany

Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie – he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport – and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.

Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mayumi Tanaka, Mirai Shida
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Director: Bill Plympton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Much to his surprise, an utter misanthrope is transformed into a reluctant do-gooder, when a glorious pair of angelic snow-white wings sprouts up from his back. Now, everyone in town wants a piece of his feathered appendages.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | USA

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Director: Erik Poppe
Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Norway | Sweden | Germany

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

Director: Benoit Pilon
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii’s illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages.

Director: David Lebrun
Stars: Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: USA

The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times “one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery”, Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.

Director: Max Färberböck
Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany | Poland

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Terence Davies
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

Director: Agnès Varda, Laura Obiols
Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Italy

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.

Director: Tom Gustafson
Stars: Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower derived from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to turn many in his community gay, including a comely rugby player for himself.

Director: Steven C. Smith
Stars: Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie making in the early 1930s, and those same factors which resulted in the drastic turn to working under the code for the twenty or so years starting in 1934.

Director: David Fincher
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

Director: Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Stars: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Don King
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A filmed account of the Zaire 74 soul music festival, originally intended to be in concert with the famous Rumble in the Jungle bout in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974.

Director: Raymond Depardon
Stars: Paul Argaud, Louis Brès, Marcelle Brès
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Third documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l’approche (2001) and Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.

Director: Gini Reticker
Stars: Janet Johnson Bryant, Etweda Cooper, Vaiba Flomo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of women rise up to peace to Liberia and help bring to power the country’s first female head of state.

Director: Özgür Dogan, Orhan Eskiköy
Stars: Emre Aydin, Rojda Huz, Vehip Huz
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Turkey | Netherlands

On the Way to School is a film about a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state, and about his interaction with the Kurdish children who have to learn Turkish. The film witnesses the communication problem emphasizing the loneliness of a teacher in a different community and culture; and the changes brought up by his presence into this different community during one year. The film chronicles one school year, starting from September 2007 until the departure of the teacher for summer holiday in June 2008. During this period, they begin to know and understand each other mutually and slowly.

Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Isle Of Man | USA

In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar”, directed by a young Orson Welles.

Director: Stacy Peralta
Stars: Jim Brown, Tony Muhammad, Kershaun Scott
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.

Director: Jean-François Richet
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: France | Canada

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.

Director: Jean-François Richet
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: France | Canada

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France’s Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Stars: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

Director: Sean Donnelly
Stars: Kelly McCormick, Tiffany, Jeff Turner
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, claim to be in love with the 80’s pop singer Tiffany.

Director: Felix Moeller
Stars: August Zirner, Alice Harlan, Lotte Harlan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Finland

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940) – required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure – save for Leni Riefenstahl – is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan’s epic Kolberg (1945) was the basis for Inglourious Basterds (2009)’s pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.

Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Denmark | Germany | Norway | France | Sweden | Finland | Czech Republic

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Director: Arash T. Riahi
Stars: Navid Navid, Pourya Mahyari, Elika Bozorgi
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Turkey

Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.

Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany | France | Czech Republic

A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s.

Director: Daniel Leconte
Stars: Elisabeth Badinter, François Bayrou, Christophe Bigot
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

When twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published by Denmark’s largest newspaper in 2005, European muslim groups denounced the cartoons as insulting and sacrilegious. To everyone’s surprise, the protests against the Muhammad drawings took a worldwide scale, even leading to violent demonstrations in several Muslim countries. In France, the satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo joined the conversation and reprinted the controversial cartoons, causing an uproar among the country’s growing Muslim population. Months later, the Great Mosque of Paris, the World Muslim League and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France took Charlie Hebdo’s editor Philippe Val to court for defamation and incitement of hatred.

Director: Chris Bell
Stars: Chris Bell, Mike Bell, Mark Bell
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

An examination of America’s win-at-all-cost culture from the perspective of bodybuilding and performance enhancing drugs, as it focuses on a pair of siblings chasing their dream.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho
Genre: Music, Romance
Country: Portugal | France

Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August

Director: Philippe Claudel
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Director: Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault
Stars: Marie Frédérique Auger, Caroline Beauséjour, Yann Bernard
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Canada

A mosaic look at a day in the lives of twelve Quebec high schoolers strikingly captures the unique nature of the teenage years.

Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Stars: Michael Brown, George W. Bush, Julie Chen Moonves
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.

Director: David Prior
Stars: Pierre Bidou, Russell T. Butterbach, Les Lundblad
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Retrospective documentary covering aspects of the Zodiac investigation, including interviews with the original investigators and surviving victims.

Director: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
Stars: Mariella Frostrup, Zabou Breitman, Karoline Herfurth
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

The mysterious lives of flamingos are captured on film with a birds-eye view of the animals living in Africa.

Director: Stephan Komandarev
Stars: Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Carlo Ljubek, Hristo Mutafchiev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | Slovenia | Hungary | Serbia

The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, Bai Dan, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.

Director: Shane Meadows
Stars: Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: Germany | Finland | Netherlands

An ‘essayistic’ documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt’s paintings into seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate entities. However, reality was different.

Director: Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Infamously blunt, Wilma Stephenson runs a “boot camp” teaching Culinary Arts at Frankford High, disciplining her students into capable chefs and responsible students. But behind her tough exterior is a teacher who cares passionately about getting the best out of her kids.

Director: Ben Hopkins
Stars: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey | UK | Kazakhstan

A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.

Director: James Chressanthis
Stars: Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Sandra Bullock
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The lifelong friendship of the great Hungarian-born cinematographers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond and their impact on American cinema.

Director: Wendy Keys
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Profiles Milton Glaser (1929- ), America’s foremost graphic designer: designer of the iconic “I [heart] N.Y.” logo, teacher, and humanitarian. Interviews with Glaser are arranged to take him through a rough chronology of his life: study at New York High School of Music and Art and at Cooper Union, a seminal stay in Italy, his marriage, and his various partnerships – founding Push Pin Studios and “New York” magazine, designing Grand Union supermarkets, and working with “The Nation.” Interspersed are examples of his work. Glaser is, throughout, charming in manner, memorable in his observations, and generous of spirit.

Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.

Director: Frank H. Woodward
Stars: Robin Atkin Downes, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos.

Director: Rémi Bezançon
Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Five key days in a family’s life.

Director: Petr Zelenka
Stars: Michaela Badinková, Jerzy Michal Bozyk, Igor Chmela
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic | Poland | France

A film that examines the relationships between lives on both sides of the proscenium, Petr Zelenka’s Karamazovi finds a Prague-based theatrical ensemble arriving in Krakow, Poland – where its members prepare to mount a stage production of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

Director: Brendan Toller
Stars: Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Noam Chomsky
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Many sources all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores. Will these stores die or will they survive?

Director: Tom Donahue, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker
Stars: Cindy Sherman, John Waters, Eric Bogosian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on art-scene commentator Paul Hasegawa-Overacker’s relationship with enigmatic photographer Cindy Sherman.

Director: James Colquhoun, Carlo Ledesma
Stars: Vicky Blewitt, Ian Brighthope, Jerome Burne
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

Food Matters examines how the food we eat can help or hurt our health. Nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists weigh in on such topics as organic food, food safety, raw foodism, and nutritional therapy.

Director: Nahid Persson
Stars: Farah Pahlavi, Nahid Persson, Zinat S. Lloyd
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

Filmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.

Director: Jean Becker
Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marie-Josée Croze, Pierre Vaneck
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

The back story is a marvelous and gorgeous social commentary on the type of generous actions we could all take – to enrich our often-solitary elder-citizens’ lives.

Director: Toa Fraser
Stars: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand | UK

Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Stars: Antoine L’Écuyer, Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada

Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there’s Léa, the exasperating girl who’s always right about everything. In the summer of ’68, when mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain. Destroy the neighbors’ house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Léa. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned.

Director: Anders Østergaard
Stars: George W. Bush, Ko Muang, Aung San Suu Kyi
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Norway | UK | USA | Germany | Netherlands | Israel | Spain | Belgium | Canada

Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.

Director: Melissa Maclean, Luke Walker
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

To the Australian media Kenja is a ‘secretive cult’, their leader described in Parliament as a ‘seedy conman’. Despite preparing to fight yet another court case Ken Dyers and Jan Hamilton allow a film crew unprecedented access to the ‘spiritual evolvement centre’ they founded in 1982. How can the view from inside Kenja be so different to the one outside? Through remarkable verite footage and candid interviews, Beyond Our Ken explores the anatomy and ambiguity of the ‘cult’ enigma.

Director: Dan Stone, Patrick Gambuti Jr.
Stars: Paul Watson, Alex Cornelissen, Peter Hammarstedt
Genre: Documentary, Action, Adventure
Country: USA

At the Edge of the World chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, under-trained and under-equipped, develop a combination of bizarre and brilliant tactics with which to stop the whalers. But first they must find the Japanese ships, a far more difficult challenge than ever imagined – long-time activist Paul Watson and first-time captain Alex Cornelissen employ an array of strategies in the hopes of finding an elusive adversary in the vast expanse of the Ross Sea.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Kumiko Asô
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

Director: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Stars: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Using only word of mouth, two lifelong best friends and Internet comedians, Rhett & Link, embark on a search for the long-lost teacher of the first grade class where they met.

Director: Abdullah Oguz
Stars: Talat Bulut, Özgü Namal, Murat Han
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Greece

When an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.

Director: Billy Ray
Stars: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Haysbert
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

FBI upstart Eric O’Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

Director: Jay Chou
Stars: Jay Chou, Gwei Lun-Mei, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Hong Kong | Taiwan

Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Chico Buarque, Camané, Carlos do Carmo
Genre: Documentary, Musical
Country: Portugal | Spain

A drama steeped in Portugal’s Fado music culture.

Director: Yûichi Satô
Stars: Shun Oguri, Yûsuke Santamaria, Keisuke Koide
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan

One year after the suicide of C-list model Kisaragi Miki, five of her fans come together for a commemorative meeting; fan club leader Iemoto, Oda Yuji, “Snake”, Yasuo, and “Strawberry Girl”. After meeting each other for the first time, they reminisce about their idol, wondering how someone so bright and happy could have possibly taken her own life. As they discuss her death, the facts, and evidence, they slowly come to the realization that her death didn’t occur they way they thought it did. The more they talk, the more the case takes shape in their minds, and the closer they come to the truth.

Director: John Carney
Stars: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

Director: Rodrigo Plá
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Daniel Tovar, Alan Chávez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | Mexico

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood’s borders.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

Director: Peter Askin
Stars: Dalton Trumbo, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others’ names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture.

Director: Sandra Kogut
Stars: Thiago da Silva Mariz, Wallison Felipe Leal Barroso, Maria Juliana Souza de Oliveira
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France

Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.

Director: Hideo Nakata
Stars: Kikunosuke Onoe, Hitomi Kuroki, Mao Inoue
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.

Director: João Moreira Salles
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn’t edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.

Director: Jason S.
Stars: Jay Aaseng, Jeremy Alter, David Lynch
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of David Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire (2006). We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. The director of the documentary immersed himself in David Lynch’s world; living and working at Lynch’s home. His unobtrusive style has captured a personal side of David Lynch not seen before.

Director: Jin-ho Hur
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Gin-goo Kim, In-Sook Kim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A love story about two people who meet while battling serious illnesses.

Director: John Crowley
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Shaun Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | USA | Australia | Japan | France

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA | China | Taiwan

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

Director: Bent Hamer
Stars: Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway | Germany | France | Denmark

A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten’s existence: the evening of his retirement.

Director: Naoko Ogigami
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.

Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK | France | USA

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.

Director: Satoshi Miki
Stars: Joe Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura, Kyôko Koizumi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Takemura has no friends and no family. He’s a student but he doesn’t have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn’t going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000 yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he runs across Fukuhara a second time, and this time the thug has a different proposal-a walk. That’s right, in exchange for a million yen, Takemura must accompany Fukuhara on a walk across the city of Tokyo.

Director: Ayelet Menahemi
Stars: Mili Avital, BaoQi Chen, Alon Aboutboul
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings — as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing — accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.

Director: Aaron Woolf
Stars: Bob Bledsoe, Earl L. Butz, Dawn Cheney
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Stars: Marília Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Brazil

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Director: Kris Carr
Stars: Aura Carr, Kenneth Carr, Kris Carr
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Crazy Sexy Cancer is an irreverent and uplifting documentary about a young woman looking for a cure and finding her life. Weeks after she was diagnosed, filmmaker Kris Carr began documenting her story. Taking a seemingly tragic situation and turning it into a creative expression, Kris shares her inspirational story of survival with honesty, courage, and lots of humor.

Director: Harris Fishman
Stars: Joy Holiday, Ron Holiday, Chuck Lizza
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of the Cat Dancers, one of the world’s first exotic tiger entertainment acts, and the tragic accidents that brought their tale to an end.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia | France

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.

Director: Chris Smith
Stars: Nana Patekar, Venkatesh Chavan, Jhangir Badshah
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A boy in abject poverty works in a hotel and becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa, India. His life gets turned upside-down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family who lives at the house.

Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Stars: Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Juhan Ulfsak
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia

A film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.

Director: Anna Melikyan
Stars: Mariya Shalayeva, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Mariya Sokova
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia

In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.

Director: Christophe Honoré
Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France

Ismael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov, Laura Obiols
Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.

Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain | Mexico

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

Director: Jennifer Venditti
Stars: Penny Baker, Billy P., Heather Pelletier
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“I’m not black, I’m not white, not foreign, just different in the mind. Different brains, that’s all,” explains 15-year-old Billy in Jennifer Venditti’s provocative coming of age film. Billy’s intuitive commentary and intimate verite footage reveal a unique attitude as he responds to a painful childhood, first time love, and his experience as an outsider in small town Maine. By turns humorous and disturbing, this portrait challenges the viewer to understand a triumphant teen on his own terms.

Director: Jan Sverák
Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Pavel Landovský
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | UK | Denmark

A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.

Director: Scott Frank
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

Director: Chris Atkins
Stars: David Morrissey, Ashley Jensen, Riz Ahmed
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An examination of the erosion of civil liberties that has gradually taken place in recent years.

Director: Ernesto Contreras
Stars: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Magali Boysselle
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico

Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Benshan Zhao, Qiwen Hong, Dandan Song
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

A black comedy about a farmer who tries to bring home the body of his friend, who died far from their town.

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Germany

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.

Director: Adam Shankman
Stars: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA | UK | Canada

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Director: Paddy Considine
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Paul Popplewell
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK

Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.

Director: Jacques Nolot
Stars: Jacques Nolot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Marc Rioufol
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.

Director: Joanna Hogg
Stars: Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend’s family on holiday in Tuscany.

Director: Tom McCarthy
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Director: Geoffrey Smith
Stars: Henry Marsh
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Fanny Ardant, Dominique Pinon, Audrey Dana
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Kang-ho Song, Hye-jin Jang
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A woman moves to the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to fit in, another tragic event overturns her life.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Director: Olivier Dahan
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France | UK | Czech Republic

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf’s life was filled with tragedy.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It’s a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone “Pine Top” Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant’s, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.

Director: Ivan Zivkovic
Stars: Goran Susljik, Nebojsa Glogovac, Vojin Cetkovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia

Unsuccessful radio host Rasa makes a small party in his alcoholic father’s run-down apartment, and one of his guests is his neighbor Ivan who takes antipsychotics.

Director: Janine Hosking
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

A behind-the-scenes look at the trial of Schapelle Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for smuggling marijuana into Indonesia.

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jan Wikbladh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Germany | France | Denmark | Norway | Japan

You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved.

Director: Eran Kolirin
Stars: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Israel | USA | France

A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.

Director: Matthew Bonifacio
Stars: Hugo Aleman, Sophia Antonini, Michael Aronov
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.

Director: Adrienne Shelly
Stars: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Jeremy Sisto
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.

Director: Yung Chang
Stars: Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Campbell Ping He, Cindy Shui Yu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

Director: Laura Dunn
Stars: Curtis Peterson, Gary Bradley, Willie Nelson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment’s unexpected response to human interference.

Director: Leslie Iwerks
Stars: Stacy Keach, John Lasseter, Brad Bird
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios – from the success of “Toy Story” and Pixar’s promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company’s relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Simon Baker, Kelli O’Hara, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Short
Country: Spain

Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.

Director: Ron Lamothe
Stars: Thomas Clausen, Will Forsberg, Leonard Knight
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A 2007 documentary film by Ron Lamothe about Christopher McCandless notable for coming to a different conclusion on McCandless’s death than Sean Penn’s film, Into the Wild, and Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild.

Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.

Director: Susan Dynner
Stars: Craig Aaronson, Colin Abrahall, Adri
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk’s Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where punk rock music and culture continue to thrive.

Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany | Canada | USA | France

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.

Director: Pil-sung Yim
Stars: Jeong-myeong Cheon, Eun Won-jae, Eun-kyung Shim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: South Korea

After meeting an mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets and no way to escape.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

When Camille (Audrey Tautou) falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck (Guillaume Canet). A moving trio story.

Director: Stephane Gauger
Stars: Cat Ly, The Lu Le, Han Thi Pham
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam | USA

In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.

Director: Amin Matalqa
Stars: Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous
Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan

When an old airport janitor finds a captain’s hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | UK

Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.

Director: Stephen Walker, Sally George
Stars: Joe Benoit, Helen Boston, Louise Canady
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

A documentary on a chorus of senior citizens from Massachusetts who cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and other unexpected musicians.

Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Stars: Julie Gayet, Michaël Cohen, Virginie Ledoyen
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel’s offer of “a kiss without consequences”. Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else’s life.

Director: Scott J. Gill
Stars: Neil Armstrong, David Baker, Penelope Boston
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Visionary rocket scientist, Robert Zubrin, has a plan for getting humans to Mars in the next ten years and ultimately turning the Red Planet blue. But can he win over the skeptics at NASA and the wider world?

Director: Tony Ayres
Stars: Joan Chen, Yuwu Qi, Joel Lok
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | Singapore

A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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