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Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Wendell Pierce
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | Germany | Canada

A drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America.

Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan

A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

An introverted man’s life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young bar-maid.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | USA

Tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora’s a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Japan | UK

About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago, a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the canopy ended in disaster when Dorrington’s friend Dieter Plage fell to his death. With the expedition is Werner Herzog, setting out now with a new prototype of the airship into the Lost World of the pristine rain forest of this little explored area of the world, to record and tell this unique story.

Director: Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson
Stars: Anthony Amsterdam, Jeanne Bishop, Stephen Bright
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Illinois Governor George Ryan, who, with 60 days left in office, makes a decision on the fate of death row prisoners.

Director: Jacques Richard
Stars: Henri Alekan, Catherine Allégret, Jo Amorin
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Stars: Evelyn Glennie, Fred Frith, Roxane Butterfly
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | UK

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.

Director: Mark Wexler
Stars: Haskell Wexler, Mark Wexler, Billy Crystal
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficult genius and a son’s path out of the shadow of a famous father.

Director: Hubert Sauper
Stars: Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Belgium | France | Germany

A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

Director: Lech Majewski
Stars: Claudine Spiteri, Chris Nightingale, Barry Chipperfield
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Italy | Poland

Based on his own novel Metaphysics, Lech Majewski crafts intimate passion plays and creates “a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death” (CHICAGO READER). When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where the artist’s work becomes the background for their physical passion and emotional discovery.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Belgium

Charlotte is single. She tries to write erotic books to survive without her mind being in the least absorbed by eroticism or desire.

Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Stars: Maya Banno, Takahiro Satô, Tadanobu Asano
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A spell of time of a rural family’s slightly surreal life.

Director: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city’s notorious red light district.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece | France | Italy | Germany

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos’ trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis’ family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming…

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar-Wai Wong
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Li Gong
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Italy | Hong Kong | France | Luxembourg | UK

Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.

Director: Antoine Fuqua
Stars: Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Antoine Fuqua’s documentary on the blues, shot at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Director: Xan Cassavetes
Stars: Robert Altman, Vera Carlisle Anderson, C.L. Batten
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel’s eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Director: Yang Li
Stars: Yixiang Li, Baoqiang Wang, Shuangbao Wang
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China | Germany | Hong Kong

Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. For their latest “mark,” they choose a naive teenager from a small village, and as they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated…

Director: Nimród Antal
Stars: Sándor Csányi, Eszter Balla, Zoltán Mucsi
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hungary

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks – and a tale about love.

Director: Gary Ross
Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | UK

Emmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees Nazi-occupied Paris with her children. A teenaged boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest — their best shot at survival.

Director: Siddiq Barmak
Stars: Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar, Khwaja Nader
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan | Ireland | Japan | Iran | Netherlands

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Bruno Todeschini, Éric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Two brothers with a problematic relationship in the past, find together again when the elder one gets a dangerous disease and asks his brother to accompany him to several doctors.

Director: Terry Zwigoff
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany | USA

A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Taiwan

The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search for a cafe that’s frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching.

Director: Je-yong Lee
Stars: Mi-sook Lee, Yong-jun Bae, Do-yeon Jeon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband’s coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran

An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.

Director: Hector Babenco
Stars: Enrique Diaz, Wagner Moura, Caio Blat
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Brazil | Argentina | Italy

Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil’s largest prison, Carandiru, in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience and mainly stories the tragic stories of hideous crimes which landed scum there and passionate dramas adding otherwise decent people. Just when he believes to leave the prisoners happy with a soccer tournament, a silly clothing line argument kick-starts a politically opportune revolt repression.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Italy | Finland | Germany | Austria

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan’s son from another marriage and his granddaughter.

Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem, Ilham Abdelwahed
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Morocco

A cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman’s yearning for a nineteen year local girl. Raja is an orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush garden. Fred’s attempt to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.

Director: Martin Doblmeier
Stars: Martin Doblmeier, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adele Schmidt
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.

Director: Sue Brooks
Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

Director: Tamás Sas
Stars: Patricia Kovács, Gábor Máté, Józsa Hacser
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary

A one-room drama about a very young woman and her middle-aged lover.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.

Director: Bent Hamer
Stars: Tomas Norström, Joachim Calmeyer, Bjørn Floberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway | Sweden

A scientific observer’s job of observing an old cantankerous single man’s kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what’s more, “She gave him her eyes”…

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France | Austria | Germany

When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Dong-won Kim
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: North Korea | South Korea

North Korean spies return to their homeland.

Director: Ross McElwee
Stars: Allan Gurganus, Paula Larke, Marilyn Levine
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Country: USA | UK

North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. Bright Leaves describes a journey taken across the social, economic, and psychological tobacco terrain of North Carolina by a native Carolinian, Ross McElwee, whose great-grandfather created the famous brand of tobacco known as Bull Durham. The comedic chronicle is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. It’s also a film about family history, addiction, denial, and filmmaking–as McElwee, noted director of Sherman’s March, grapples with the legacy of an obscure Hollywood melodrama that is purportedly based on this curious man that was his great-grandfather.

Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Stars: Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara Drukarova
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Georgia

The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family’s adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Portugal | France | Italy

Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden, and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Switzerland | France

A romantic musical story having the vibes both France and USA.

Director: Erik Van Looy
Stars: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium

Vincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer.

Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy | Spain | UK

A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | Australia | France | USA

New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective, who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: The Dalai Lama, Lama Lhundup Woeser, Takna Jigme Sangpo
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Austria | Italy

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

Director: Paul Devlin
Stars: Dennis Bakke, Piers Lewis, Butch Mederos
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Georgia

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Power Trip provides insight into today’s headlines, with a graphic, on-the-ground depiction of the challenges facing globalization in an environment of culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Edith Hahn Beer, Julia Ormond, Susan Sarandon
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

Edith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned home months later, she found her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman’s identity papers, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.

Director: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Stars: Santino Majok Chuor, Jarrid Geduld, Peter Kon Dut
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.

Director: Robert Lepage
Stars: Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marco Poulin
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother.

Director: Alain Corneau
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Tarô Suwa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Japan

A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amélie’s downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?

Director: Andy Byatt, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Michael Gambon, David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany

Join a voyage through aquatic realms where humans have rarely dared to go. Waddle with playful penguins, dart with lightning speed through schools of sharks, ride over stormy waves with massive whales and view rare alien-like creatures.

Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Takashi Miike
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand | Japan | Netherlands

A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada | France

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.

Director: Laura Gabbert
Stars: Lucille Alpert, Irja Lloyd
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Lucille and Irja are retired residents of Sunset Hall, a Los Angeles home for the elderly. Residents of Sunset Hall are retired radicals; they have retired from work but not from protesting against injustice. Bitter Lucille considers herself a realist. Wheelchair-bound Irja is sunny and optimistic. Lucille was raised a Jew but always aspired to assimilate. Irja wants to explore all sorts of new traditions. Through the lives of these women, Sunset Story shows the life at Sunset Hall: teachers, a dancer, an engineer, a social worker, and others, all living out their golden years in a unique environment.

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

Stan Brakhage’s final film, made shortly before his death by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the emulsion.

Director: Geramie Barmé, Richard Gordon, Carma Hinton
Stars: Xiaoping Deng, Qing Jiang, Nanyang Li
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

About the shifting, unpredictable currents behind the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this documentary shows the various phases of the 12 years from 1964 through the purging of the Gang of Four at the end of 1976, with some retrospective information about the Long March and the 1958 Great Leap forward.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran | Japan | France

Five sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on a winter beach. A herd of dogs. A love story 4) A group of loud ducks cross the image, in one direction then the other 5) A pond, at night. Frogs improvising a concert. A storm, then the sunrise.

Director: Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia
Stars: Rick Rubin, Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

The story of the punk rock band The Ramones.

Director: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
Stars: Janchiv Ayurzana, Chimed Ohin, Amgaabazar Gonson
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: Germany | Mongolia

When a Mongolian nomadic family’s newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada

A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany | USA

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who’s poised to become a principal performer.

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Soo-jung Lim
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea

A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.

Director: Thom Andersen
Stars: Encke King, Ben Alexander, Jim Backus
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.

Director: Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Stars: Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Switzerland | Belgium | France

Filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.

Director: Ziad H. Hamzeh
Stars: Ziad H. Hamzeh
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy a firestorm erupts when 1,100 Somali refugees relocate to predominately white Lewiston, Maine.

Director: Richard Schickel
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Sydney Pollack, Bill Irwin
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Narrated by Sydney Pollack, film critic Richard Schickel’s dazzling two-hour plus documentary to one of the towering figures in film: Charles Chaplin. Hardcore Chaplin fans may not find much new material here, but more unfamiliar admirers will gain some valuable information about one of the most famous personalities of the 20th century.

Director: Mark Moormann
Stars: Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary about Tom Dowd, who was an innovative recording engineer and producer of noted albums with John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Otis Redding, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers and many others.

Director: Kim Bartley, Donnacha O’Briain
Stars: Hugo Chávez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | Netherlands | UK | Germany | France | Finland

In April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.

Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Khieu ‘Poev’ Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Cambodia | France | Belgium | Canada | Australia | Switzerland | Czech Republic | Finland

A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.

Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
Stars: Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield, Terry Humphreys-Slay
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: UK | USA

Nick Broomfield’s second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.

Director: Manish Jha
Stars: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Sushant Singh
Genre: Drama
Country: France | India

A disturbing saga about male chauvinism and mistreatment of women in India.

Director: Maren Ade
Stars: Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

Director: Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya
Stars: Tôru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Director: Peter Webber
Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Luxembourg | France | Belgium | USA

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Director: Blair Young, Lance Bangs
Stars: Isobel Campbell, Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

FANS ONLY is an excellent companion to Belle and Sebastian’s albums. It features all of Belle and Sebastian’s videos while on the Jeepster/Matador label (they recently switched to Rough Trade) and also some interesting live performances. These segments are linked together by vintage footage of the band that seems to have been shot for TV a few years ago and by photographs of the band.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from him, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns him that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. He responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can he, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?

Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada | France

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Stars: Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

After nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the cop on his tail. An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected.

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.

Director: Kwon-taek Im
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Sung-Ki Ahn, Ho-jeong Yu
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Korea

In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.

Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Hélène de Saint-Père
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

It’s Friday night–she’s moving in with her boyfriend tomorrow–so she goes out, but gets stuck in traffic–where she meets a handsome stranger.

Director: Niki Caro
Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand | Germany

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Director: Tareque Masud
Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Germany | Spain

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Director: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
Stars: Jacques Derrida, Marguerite Derrida, René Major
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked fierce debate throughout American academia.

Director: Carlos Sorin
Stars: Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

The third film of a five-part art-installation epic — it’s part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Kate Dollenmayer, Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she’s still in school, and is looking for a temporary job but a permanent boyfriend. She loves a guy who doesn’t love her (?), ping-pongs between awkward romantic alternatives and even less suitable jobs.

Director: Chris Leavens
Stars: Jack Nance, John Achorn, Leo Bulgarini
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Biography of actor Jack Nance, who became famous when he appeared in the 1977 cult film “Eraserhead.”

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Germany | Spain

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get “in between the wolf’s teeth and avoid being chewed up”. Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.

Director: Nae Caranfil
Stars: Mircea Diaconu, Gheorghe Dinica, Mara Nicolescu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | France

Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.

Director: Alireza Raisian
Stars: Leila Hatami, Nezam Manouchehri, Mehran Rajabi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple’s transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife’s heart.

Director: Bill Weber, David Weissman
Stars: Larry Brinkin, Peggy Cass, The Cockettes
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Shahab Ebrahimi, Faegh Mohamadi, Allah-Morad Rashtian
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

Director: Andrzej Sekula
Stars: Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

Director: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Brazil

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator’s background.

Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

Director: David Strohmaier
Stars: Lowell Thomas, Fred Waller, Jim Morrison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes the viewer back to a lost era of movie showmanship, placing this American cinema phenomenon into historical perspective.

Director: Tom Piozet
Stars: Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.

Director: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Stars: Traudl Junge
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: Austria

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler’s personal secretaries during WWII.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK | Ireland

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: France

A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Stars: Catherine Borek, Karen Greene, Ebony Starr Norwood-Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Dominguez High, in the infamous Compton, CA, has not produced a play in over twenty years. With no money and no stage, two teachers and twenty-four students attempt to produce Thornton Wilder’s American Classic OUR TOWN.

Director: David C. Thomas
Stars: Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary on the MC5.

Director: Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Stars: Mai Thi Kim, Heidi Neville-Bub, Gerald Ford
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

Separated at the end of the Vietnam war, an “Americanized” woman and her Vietnamese mother are reunited after 22 years.

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Wanda Jean Allen, Jesse Jackson, David Presson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Bodan Litnanski, Macha Makeïeff, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.

Director: Elia Suleiman
Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Morocco | Germany | Palestine

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.

Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Stars: Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.

Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK | Germany | USA | Vietnam | Australia | France | Canada

An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Director: Steve Rosenbaum
Stars: Rasheed J. Daniel, Peter DiPilato, Jim Goetz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary from director Steven Rosenbaum presents the experiences of a diverse group of regular Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Featuring footage from the area surrounding the World Trade Center shot as early as 10:05 a.m. on the day of the tragedy, SEVEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER looks at the way 9/11 changed the lives of a firefighter’s wife, a Muslim-American woman, an 11-year-old boy, and many others.

Director: Maureen Muldaur
Stars: Joan Baez, Jack Benny, David Bianculli
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The history of the irreverent “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and the content battles it fought with its television network.

Director: Jeroen Berkvens
Stars: Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Gabrielle Drake
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Netherlands

A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother’s birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and in London, then back to his parents’ home in Tanworth. His parents describe his habits and personality. Two friends and the producer, arranger, sound engineer, and photographer for his three albums comment. His mother, a musician and poet, is an early influence. His quiet folk style made his one tour a disaster. His lack of success and gradual withdrawal end with his death at 26. Eleven of his recordings play on the soundtrack, usually as we see his room, a city, or the Warwickshire countryside.

Director: Lee Hirsch
Stars: Abdullah Ibrahim, Duma Ka Ndlovu, Vusi Mahlasela
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: South Africa | USA

Interviews, archival footage, and filmed performances highlight the role of music in the South African struggle against apartheid.

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Stars: Brian Cox, Henry Kissinger, Anna Chennault
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | Denmark | France | Canada | Australia

A film about the war crimes of the American diplomat, Henry Kissinger.

Director: Paul Justman
Stars: Joe Hunter, Jack Ashford, Uriel Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Germany | France

M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.

Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Director: AJ Schnack
Stars: John Flansburgh, John Linnell, Gina Arnold
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the music group They Might Be Giants.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
Stars: Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong | France | Netherlands

The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who’s an old school friend of Liyan’s and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen’s childhood sweetheart.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.

Director: Pelin Esmer
Stars: Mithat Esmer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey

This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.

Director: Richard Eyre
Stars: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Director: Christine Jeffs
Stars: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Sarah Peirse, Marton Csokas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand

Whilst on a family vacation on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand, 13-year-old Janey begins to realize that her parents’ marriage is on the rocks.

Director: Hae-sung Song, Hae-sung Song
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Cecilia Cheung, Dae-Hoon Jeong
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.

Director: Michael Cuesta
Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.

Director: Petter Næss
Stars: Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, Marit Pia Jacobsen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway

When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own.

Director: Frank Oz
Stars: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany | Canada | USA

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.

Director: Doug Pray
Stars: The Allies, A-Trak, Craze
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The story of the hip-hop DJ from the birth of hip-hop to the invention of scratching and “beat-juggling” vinyl, to the more recent “turntablism” movement. Underdogs and virtuosos who have radically changed the way we hear and create music.

Director: John Dahl
Stars: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

Director: Pan Nalin
Stars: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Neelesha Barthel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India | Germany | France | Italy | Switzerland

A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man’s struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman’s struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending.

Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat’s secret changes both their lives.

Director: Robert Glinski
Stars: Aleksandra Gietner, Karolina Sobczak, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A sensitive teenage girl from a poor family befriends a cynical schoolmate, who shows her how to smoke, drink, have sex and steal. Tereska’s life heads towards a catastrophe.

Director: Walter Salles
Stars: José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France | Switzerland

When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.

Director: Roland Suso Richter
Stars: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany

During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states – East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.

Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: France

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Venus Seye, Mame Ndoumbé, Awa Sene Sarr
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Senegal

A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.

Director: Walter Hill
Stars: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA

During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.

Director: Cristi Puiu
Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Dragos Bucur, Ioana Flora
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania

A newbie agrees to deliver the wrong merchandise for money. He will learn soon that this trip will change his views about life, forever.

Director: Jae-young Kwak
Stars: Tae-Hyun Cha, Ji-Hyun Jun, In-mun Kim
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A young man sees a drunk, cute woman standing too close to the tracks at a metro station in Seoul and pulls her back. She ends up getting him into trouble repeatedly after that, starting on the train.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Abbas Kiarostami, Seifollah Samadian
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran

Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Anne Kathryn Parma, Ashley Edwards, Evyn Clark
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.

Director: Ferenc Török
Stars: Gábor Karalyos, Erzsi Pápai, Eszter Balla
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary

1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn’t care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Dean Andrews, Thomas Craig, Joe Duttine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Germany | Spain

Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company.

Director: Christian Frei
Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Switzerland

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan

Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Russia | Netherlands

From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by ‘Pieter Jansz Saenredam’, ‘Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers’, Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Andreas Schelfhout, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel, Charles Henri Joseph Leickert.

Director: Zabou Breitman
Stars: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Bernard Le Coq
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire’s condition takes a turn for the worse…

Director: Caroline Link
Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany

A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | France

A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.

Director: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Italy | Belgium | UK | Slovenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

Director: Dover Koshashvili
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | France

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza’s parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Canada

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it’s wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose’s mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

Director: Artour Aristakisian
Stars: Anna Chernova, Vitaliy Khaev, Nonna Grishaeva
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

Describes the life of homeless people who form a community in the center of modern-day Moscow. It relates the story of six couples who love each other and try to remain together despite the poverty and despair of their existence.

Director: B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro, Carlos Bolado
Stars: Moishe Bar Am, B.Z. Goldberg, Shlomo Green
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a group of seven local children between 1995 and 1998. They all have a totally different background. These seven children tell their own story about growing up in Jerusalem. Through this portrait of their generation, we see how deep rooted and almost insoluble the problems of the Middle East have become. When the protagonists speak out in an epilogue a couple of years later, it becomes apparent that all have lost their childlike innocence.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark

Swedish composer/conductor Martin and concertmaster Barbara fall in love. After their divorces, they’re happily married. While composing an opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It slowly changes him.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany

During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Shôzô Îzuka, Mami Koyama
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.

Director: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany

A group of old friends reminisce about their lives over the years after the death of one of their crew.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Portugal

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.

Director: Babak Payami
Stars: Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Abidi, Youssef Habashi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran | Italy | Canada | Switzerland

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Chile | Belgium | Spain

True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case built against him before & during this period by a young Spanish prosecutor, Carlos Castresana.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Jorge Trêpa, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria de Medeiros
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal | France

The city of Porto viewed by the intimate eye of Manoel de Oliveira.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: France

A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.

Director: Edet Belzberg
Stars: Cristina Ionescu, Mihai Alexandre Tudose, Violeta ‘Macarena’ Rosu
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation’s reckless population growth policy during its communist era.

Director: Jill Sprecher
Stars: Alan Arkin, John Turturro, Matthew McConaughey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life’s cold unpredictability.

Director: Hans Weingartner, Tobias Amann
Stars: Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Patrick Joswig
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Kati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Iran | France

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | France

The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

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

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his observational camera on The Spring, a Florida shelter for battered women and children. For one-hundred and ninety-six minutes, Wiseman profiles the women and children that have been victim to domestic violence, showing them endure therapeutic, thoughtful lectures and learn from the tireless social workers employed at The Spring that their sanctuary has been found.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico | Spain

After Carlos – a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War – arrives at an ominous boys’ orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior’s endurance and battle of its menace.

Director: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
Stars: LaLee Wallace, Reggie Barnes
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary follows a Mississippi Delta school district and a single Delta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of slavery.

Director: Rakhshan Banietemad
Stars: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Baran Kosari
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

A valuable visual commentary on modern society, ‘Under The Skin Of The City’ follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.

Director: Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas
Stars: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Portugal

Two directors struggle to survive in the movie industry.

Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?

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

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

Director: Marisa Sistach
Stars: Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, Arcelia Ramírez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Netherlands

A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped. Rebellious tomboy Yessica is frequently in trouble at school and at home, with its lower middle-class limitations. She is always at odds with her mother, bullying stepfather, and despicable stepbrother, Jorge. Then Jorge strikes a deal with a friend, helping the man trap Yessica and rape her, in exchange for money. Terrified and ashamed of the attack, Yessica remains silent, seeking comfort in her friendship with innocent and childlike Miriam, from a more stable home, though reared by a poor single mother. Tragedy unfolds as Yessica increasingly relies on Miriam and begins to get the naive girl into trouble, until Miriam finds she is no longer in control of her fate.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Alan Stanford
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.

Director: Stacy Peralta
Stars: Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.

Director: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Itô
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Japan

The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou’s dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA | UK

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

Director: Martina Kudlácek
Stars: Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Austria | Czech Republic | Switzerland | Germany

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Stars: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland | Spain | Italy

Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Stars: Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical
Country: India

The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

Director: Jeong-kwon Kim
Stars: Ji-Tae Yoo, Ha-neul Kim, Ji-Won Ha
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea

Two students, separated in time, are somehow able to talk to each other using amateur radio, one in 1979 and the other in 2000.

Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Stars: Jung-jae Lee, Ji-Hyun Jun, Mu-saeng Kim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea

In 1999, a voice actor moves from Il Mare, a seaside house, and she leaves a Xmas card in its (magical) mailbox. He, an architect student, receives it in 1997, and so begins a friendship separated by 2 years.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany

A young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany | France | Italy

A family falls into poverty during the Depression.

Director: Pat Murphy
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Andrew Scott
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland | UK | Italy | Germany

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he’s convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at ‘the writin’ game’ to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he’s gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim’s green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?

Director: Per Fly
Stars: Jesper Christensen, Marius Sonne Janischefska, Stine Holm Joensen
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj’s life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.

Director: Rob Sitch
Stars: Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia

In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind’s first steps on the moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm in the boondocks town of Parkes was just one of the reasons that NASA was concerned. Based on a true story, The Dish takes a smart, witty, comical look at the differing cultural attitudes between Australia and the U.S. while revisiting one of the greatest events in history.

Director: Achero Mañas
Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Pablo Galán, Alberto Jiménez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

El Bola, a 12 year old boy a.k.a. “Pellet” is a 12 year old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates, and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola’s life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate.

Director: Norio Tsuruta
Stars: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan

In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest…

Director: Mike Figgis
Stars: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgård, Salma Hayek
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner’s dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Director: Mark Borchardt
Stars: Mark Borchardt, Tom Schimmels, Miriam Frost
Genre: Short, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns out to be demonic.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | Italy | Switzerland

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

Director: Paul Cox
Stars: Julia Blake, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | Belgium

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair. However, this time around, there are more complications, including the possibilities of ill health and death, as well as the impact their relationship might have on John.

Director: Hilary Birmingham
Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Mongryong marries the beautiful Chunhyang without telling his father, the Governor of Namwon. When his father is transferred to Seoul, Mongryong has to leave Chunhyang and finish his exams. Chunhyang, being the daughter of a courtesan, is also legally a courtesan. She is beaten and imprisoned when she refuses to obey the new Governor Byun, as she wishes to be faithful to her husband. After three years, Mongryong passes his exam and becomes an emissary to the King. He returns to Namwon, disguised as a beggar, just before Chunhyang is to be flogged to death at the governor’s birthday celebration.

Director: Hilary Birmingham
Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tully Coates, Jr., with his good looks and chiseled body, is the local heartthrob, and while he has a new girlfriend virtually every night, he’s incapable of getting close to anyone. His younger brother Earl, the shy and sensitive type, frequents the local revival house. The only common bond between these disparate siblings is Ella Smalley, an intelligent and even-tempered young woman who returns to their Nebraska hometown to intern at a local veterinarian’s clinic. Meanwhile, their father, Tully, Sr., a rancher who gets by with the help of his two sons, carries a brooding sadness, a hint of past wounds too long in healing. The family dynamic is changed forever when several secrets surface.

Director: Liv Ullmann
Stars: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden | Italy | Germany | Finland | Norway

An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.

Director: Hans Petter Moland, Tony Spataro
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Sweden | Norway

A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He’s drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Japan

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna, Dominika Bednarczyk
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet. As the man and his new companion take their daily walks in the village, neighbors are drawn to the odd sight and approach him about riding the camel or using it for any number of purposes. He declines to exploit or capitalize on the friendly animal, and is met with barely veiled hostility. In time, the camel becomes a burden on both the town and the man, who’s edged out of community affairs and lives on shaky ground with his wife.

Director: Shinji Aoyama
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

Director: Laís Bodanzky
Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket.

Director: Bob Giraldi
Stars: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

At a popular NYC Italian restaurant on a dramatic, busy evening, there are 2 gangsters, cop detective, food-critic, ex bookmaker owner, his chef son, indebted gambler sous-chef etc.

Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK | France

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Director: George Butler
Stars: Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA | UK | Germany | Sweden

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton ‘s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio interviews with expedition members, and a generous helping of the footage and still photos shot on the expedition.

Director: Fabián Bielinsky
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the “nine queens”).

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: Marlene Kaminsky
Genre: Short, Animation
Country: UK

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers’ force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? “Sweetheart, come.”

Director: Fruit Chan
Stars: Hailu Qin, Wai-Fan Mak, Xiao Ming Biao
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong | France | China

Hong Kong life from the perspective of a young northern mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong.

Director: Stanley Tucci
Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund, and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he’s overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad, and writes a 1942 piece about him, “Professor Seagull”, bringing Gould some celebrity, and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he’s often crashed. Gould’s touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat, lead to a break-up, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould’s death, and Mitchell’s unveiling of the secret.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Aidan Quinn, Jared Harris, Ric Reid
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

In 1976, John Lennon and Paul McCartney have a chat about their lives and discuss whether The Beatles will ever reunite.

Director: Michael Almereyda
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal story about Hamlet’s plight to avenge his father’s murder.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Juliane Koepcke, Juan Zaplana Ramirez
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: Germany | UK

Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.

Director: Alan Zweig
Stars: Alan Zweig, Harvey Pekar, Don McKellar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Alan Zweig investigates the wacky world of record collecting.

Director: F.A. Brabec
Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales – glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light – make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.

Director: Dan Cohen
Stars: Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg, Bess Armstrong
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After 30 years on the road, a veteran jewelry salesman is forced to show his young replacement the tricks of the trade, but when the kid introduces him to the ladies of the “Altoona Riding Club,” the old dog is introduced to a whole new set of “tricks.”

Director: Carlo Carlei
Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Jürgen Prochnow, Lorenza Indovina
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy

The poor Italian peasant boy Francesco already has visions of Jesus and Mary as a child, but the Devil visits him too. He, Francesco, is quite certain that he will become a priest. After entering the Capuchin Order it becomes clear that Padre Pio (his new name) has powers which can not be explained rationally: he heals the sick, knows the names, problems and future of complete strangers.

Director: Myles Connell
Stars: Christopher Walken, Peter McDonald, Anne Pitoniak
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

A struggling auto mechanic with a criminal past agrees to one last heist to pay off his debts.

Director: Ulf Malmros
Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Rebecca Scheja
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden | Denmark

Two kids move in with a lonely undertaker who is secretly in love with the town’s school teacher.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Switzerland

Jean Barnery is a young Protestant cleric in Barbazac in 1900 when he divorces his severe wife after falling in love with Pauline, the independent-minded niece of an upper-crust parishioner. Jean’s also an heir to a high-end porcelain factory in Limoges. He gives his fortune to his wife to assuage his guilt over the divorce. He pursues Pauline; they marry and live idyllically in Switzerland. Then, duty calls: his family asks him to come to Limoges to run the business. He accepts, ignoring Pauline’s wishes. His new responsibilities, as well as his fighting in the Great War, change him and his relationship with Pauline.

Director: Jean-Pierre Denis
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.

Director: Hideaki Anno
Stars: Shunji Iwai, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Murakami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating “Tomorrow is my birthday” everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera

Director: Fernando Trueba
Stars: Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, Arturo O’Farrill
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Spain | France | Italy | Mexico | Belgium

A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.

Director: Bernard Rapp
Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas’ charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

Director: Adam Simon
Stars: George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Country: USA | UK

An examination into the nature of 1960s-’70s horror films, the artists involved, and how they reflected contemporary society.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | China | France

The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Lou Ye, who spent his youth on the banks of the Suzhou, shows the river as a Chinese Styx, in which forgotten stories and mysteries come together.

Director: Raymond De Felitta
Stars: Michael Rispoli, Kelly Macdonald, Kathrine Narducci
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A dreamer finds that his wife and friends are binding him to his mediocre existence.

Director: Agnès Jaoui
Stars: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | UK | Japan

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child.

Director: John Fawcett
Stars: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada

Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.

Director: Josh Aronson
Stars: Jaime Leigh Allen, Jemma Braham, Freeda Cat
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture – and their bonds with each other.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov, Paddy Considine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Canada

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Director: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Mexico

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Director: Amos Gitai
Stars: Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Klauzner
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel | France

When the Yom Kippur War breaks out, two Israeli soldiers find themselves unable to locate their unit. Eager to take part in the war effort, they join an airborne medical evacuation unit.

Director: Charles Kiselyak
Stars: Seymour Cassel, Carol Kane, Jon Voight
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Romance
Country: USA

A look at the life, times, and art of independent film pioneer John Cassavetes through interviews with his family, friends, and admirers of his work.

Director: Zhou Sun
Stars: Li Gong, Xin Gao, Jing-ming Shi
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.

Director: Trent Harris
Stars: Groovin’ Gary, Sean Penn, Crispin Glover
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris visits the small town of Beaver, Utah to film a talent show. Impressed by a performer called Groovin’ Gary, he recreates Gary’s act in 1981 with Sean Penn and in 1985 with Crispin Glover.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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