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Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? Is he avoiding the despairing life his father can’t escape from ?

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Stars: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong

Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.

Director: Vinko Bresan
Stars: Vlatko Dulic, Ljubomir Kerekes, Ivan Brkic
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Croatia

Although being one of the first movies to take humoristic approach towards violent break-up of Yugoslavia, this motion picture is partly based on real events that took place in September of 1991. Few months after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, Federal military installations are still present with previously recruited Croatian boys trapped inside. One such installation is a garrison on a small Dalmatian island, commanded by Major Aleksa Milosavljevic. Besieged by local militia, Major Aleksa threatens to blow up ammunition depots with half an island in case of any hostile action. During the stalemate, art historian Blaz Gajski comes from Zagreb in order to rescue his son from the barracks.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | Switzerland | UK

Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.

Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury, Indira Varma
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA | India | UK | Japan | Germany

Two female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg | Tunisia

Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man’s family against his father’s orders.

Director: Phil Davis
Stars: Reece Dinsdale, Richard Graham, Perry Fenwick
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany | UK

When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side.

Director: Larry Clark
Stars: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

Director: Tony Gatlif
Stars: Ovidiu Balan, Philippe Petit, Pierrette Fesch
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Mondo is a homeless young boy, with a big smile, who wanders around Nice looking for food and a place to sleep.

Director: Ulu Grosbard
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France | USA

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Her desperate need to be accepted by her sister is constantly complicated by her drug and alcohol problems.

Director: Maciej Slesicki
Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Dorota Segda, Ola Maliszewska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A father, who is in the middle of a brutal custody battle with his mentally ill wife, fights relentlessly for the right to take care of his 7-year-old daughter.

Director: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a man they knew.

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Pruitt Taylor Vince, Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother’s road-side restaurant.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.

Director: Cheol-su Park
Stars: Eun-jin Pang, Sin-hye Hwang, Chu-Ryun Kim
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea

Two women, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent relationship that forces both women to delve into their pasts of torment.

Director: Martin Sulík
Stars: Roman Luknár, Zuzana Sulajová, Jana Svandová
Genre: Comedy
Country: Slovakia | France

Jakub’s life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.

Director: Robert Jan Westdijk
Stars: Kim van Kooten, Romijn Conen, Hugo Metsers
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands

Martijn is obsessed with his younger sister Daantje and visits her to make a documentary about her. He manages to invade Daantje’s life with his video camera, but soon unresolved issues from a distant past come to the surface.

Director: Peter Mullan
Stars: Gary Lewis, Vicki Masson, Laurie Ventry
Genre: Short, Thriller
Country: UK

In a squalid tenement building in Glasgow, two toughs lock a helpless young boy inside a broken fridge-freezer.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Géraldine Pailhas, Antoine Pialat
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Antoine is four years old. His father Gerard leaves his mother Sophie. Gerard has several mistresses, but never knows how to leave them. Sophie takes a new lover, Jeannot.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Spain

As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.

Director: Michael Rymer
Stars: John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Colin Friels
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall passionately in love. Ahead of them lies the inevitable road to disaster – one they share to the end.

Director: Marleen Gorris
Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir, Veerle van Overloop
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands | Belgium | UK | France

A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.

Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

Director: Brian Springer
Stars: Larry Agran, Jim Bakker, Bill Beutel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contemptuous plans for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly spun fabric of television, a system which silences public debates and furthers the intolerance of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. rebellion and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.

Director: Susanne Ofteringer
Stars: Nico, Tina Aumont, Christian Päffgen
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Germany | USA

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn’t bring herself to care enough to live.

Director: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Benoît Magimel, Dominique Valadié
Genre: Drama
Country: France

One morning Valerie has to tell her unemployed boyfriend Remi that she is pregnant. She has decided to keep the child, but they argue whether they should break up or not. That same day she starts working in room service at a smart hotel.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Jacob Tierney, Drake Bell, Gena Rowlands
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Spain

While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy’s life in a rural 1940s Southern town.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman’s husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

Director: Yu-Hsun Chen
Stars: Akio Chen, Yi-fan Chen, Hsiao-fan Fan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan

Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Beata Fudalej, Wojciech Malajkat, Jakub Przebindowski
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland | Germany | France

An investigation of the history of anti Semitism in Poland.

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Josephine Siao, Kar-Ying Law, Allen Ting
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong

The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at school. Trouble strikes one day when Bing’s mother dies of a stroke, leaving her husband old Mr. Sun. Alzheimer’s Disease is diagnosed. From that day on, the family’s daily life is thrown into a poignant. Old Mr. Sun develops a tendency to wander off and get lost, he wakes up yelling in the middle of the night plus he is rude and disobliging … all this, along with May’s already full schedule as wife, mother and employee, drives her close to the edge of her endurance. The very last thing they all wanted has to happen: old Mr. Sun has to go into a Nursing Home. But it does not turn out quite like they expected.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK

Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France | China

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord’s mistress.

Director: Amy Heckerling
Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Matthew Barney, Dave Molyneux, Graham Molyneux
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA | France | UK

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

Director: Mircea Daneliuc
Stars: Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Clara Voda
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

In a small Romanian village, a senator goes through hilarious events as he takes advantage of the people’s hospitality while also ignoring their major issues.

Director: Kwang-su Park
Stars: Kyoung-In Hong, In-gi Jeong, Bo-kyeong Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

The film intercuts two stories, one in black and white, one in color. From 1965 to 1970, we follow Jeon Tae-Il, a poor young man who quits street vending to work in a garment factory. Amid appalling work conditions, he buys a law book, seeks government help, forms an association, talks to reporters. When conditions don’t change, he takes a dire step. Five years later, a young couple follow Tae-Il’s path: pregnant Shin Jung-Soon tries to organize a union in her garment factory. She’s harassed, then beaten. Her husband, Kim Yong-Su, an intellectual in hiding from Park Chung Hee’s repressive regime, is writing Tae-Il’s story. Can he elude capture to complete the book?

Director: Robert Lepage
Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada | UK | France

The year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1994, Pierre Lamontagne (Lothaire Bluteau) has returned to Québec to attend his father’s funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc (Patrick Goyette), who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Québec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrinque where the answer to the mystery lies.

Director: Charles Matthau
Stars: Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After his mother’s death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father’s cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena to market Dolly’s locally-famous tonic, Dolly finally gets some backbone, refuses to divulge the formula, and heads for a tree house with Collin and Catherine, the loyal maid. Verena, who has most of the town in her pocket, sics the law on the renegades. Dolly, Catherine, and Collin find a supporter in a retired judge, Charlie Cool, who’s attracted to Dolly. Will Verena’s venom win out? And what about that city slicker?

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

Director: Richard Loncraine
Stars: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK

The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Germany

A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.

Director: Fei Xie
Stars: Dalarsurong, Aojirdai, Bayirtcya
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong | China

Bayinbulag and Somiya are brought up, from a young age, as brother and sister by their adoptive grandmother. The three live happily in a yurt on the Mongolian steppes. Just before Bayinbulag is to leave for the city, to be trained as a vet, the grandmother suggests that Bayinbulag and Somiya should eventually marry. Bayinbulag, now training to be a musician, stays away for long periods of time without communicating with Somiya. He finally comes back expecting to marry her.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Waclaw Ulewicz, Lech Grzmocinski, Tadeusz Bartosik
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A short working day for sure: the main character is unable to complete his regular hours. But what a day it is. A local party secretary (this is still the time when Poland was behind the iron curtain) has to face a mob of strikers protesting hefty increases in food prices by the central government. The embattled secretary decides at first to stick it out at the party’s office instead of making the recommended hasty escape. Most of the footage is from the point of view of the party secretary. His thoughts and stratagems to deal with the protesters is done through voice-over. The confrontation between mob and the party leads to a tense, suspenseful situation.

Director: Robert Ménard
Stars: David La Haye, Marie-France Monette, Gilbert Sicotte
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A small plane crashes in the Caribbean, leaving only two survivors: a precocious teenage girl and a simple-minded grown-up. They end up on a desert island, with no inhabitants and no rescue in sight, and split. Then, a friendship bond develops between the two. The teenager, realizing she may not live long enough to see this experience, and the grown-up, never faced with this reality, soon fall in love.

Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Kenny Bee, Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong

Kit is a gangster looking to start a new life as a chef in Canada, so he can be closer to his girlfriend. But in his struggle to learn the fine art of cuisine, he runs across a red-headed beauty who will change his plans, and soon finds himself off in search of the retired master who can teach him how to win in the ultimate cooking challenge.

Director: Gakuryû Ishii
Stars: Rena Komine, Shinsuke Aoki, Reiko Matsuo
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an “acoustic wonder”, his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds. Elias falls in platonic love with Elsbeth, the sister of Peter, a neighbor’s son, who has longstanding homosexual feelings towards Elias.

Director: Darrell Roodt
Stars: Richard Harris, James Earl Jones, Vusi Kunene
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa | USA

A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran

Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

Director: Jin Xie
Stars: Wei Zhao, La-La Chiu, Tsui-Wan Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears streaming down her face, but told that it’s too late to cry. The story continues to slowly reveal the lives of the female prisoners, and each of their struggles to have ended up where they are today.

Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Ayuko Babu, Florence Bracy, Kenny Merritt
Genre: Short, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A musician spends New Year’s Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Eric Kot
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong

Like many young people of the 1920s, Kong and Yan are infected with the “happily ever after” syndrome waiting for their perfect match. Unlike other love stories, this couple journeys through murder, ghostly spirits and true sacrifice all in the name of love.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Country: France | Switzerland

Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Stars: Carlo De Filippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

It’s the story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. The story begin with the arrest of “Pelosi”, a young man then accused of the murder of the poet. All the investigation about the crime is about the question: “Was ONLY the “Pelosi” to kill Pasolini?” The help of a Policeman, Trepalle put in evidence a trouble: Was Pasolini killed because of his accuses to some politicians?

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Behzad Dorani, Feizola Gashghai
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Hetta Charnley
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A group of theater actors plays “Hamlet” in a provincial village, faced with their own temptations, disappointments, and joys.

Director: Gorcin Stojanovic
Stars: Branka Katic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Ana Sofrenovic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia’s war with Croatia; she’s making a book of her grandmother’s diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogden, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother’s story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother’s friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogden recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK | France

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | Germany

When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.

Director: Michel Negroponte
Stars: Maggie Cogan, Katina Pendleton
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Mystery
Country: USA

Michel Negroponte, a documentary filmmaker, meets Maggie one day in Central Park. Maggie claims to be married to the god Jupiter and the daughter of actor Robert Ryan. Michel gets to know Maggie over the next couple of years, and attempts to use her often outlandish stories as clues to reconstruct her past.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece | France | Italy | Germany | UK | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Romania | Albania | Bosnia and Herzegovina

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

An emotionless and offish portrait of the Warsaw Central Railway Station, a flagship development of PZPR in the seventies.

Director: Todd Louiso
Stars: Austin Pendleton, Ernest Perry Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: USA

Shakespeare films Hamlet on a single reel then, after an initial screening, edits it down to the bare bones.

Director: Kate Blewett, Brian Woods
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: UK

Documentary about a crew going from one orphanage to another in China to investigate these so called “dying rooms” where the orphanage workers leave baby girls to die.

Director: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Stars: Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Stefan Barber, Wiebke Bayer, Nadine Büttner
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the “bioskop”, an early version of the film projector.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan | Taiwan

Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a young woman, Liang Ching. She is being persecuted by an anonymous man who calls her repeatedly but does not speak. He has stolen her diary and faxes her pages daily. Liang is also rehearsing for a new film that is due to go into production soon. The film, entitled Haonan Haonu, is about a couple Chiang Bi-yu and Chung Hao-tung who returns to China to participate in the anti-Japanese movement in China in the 1940s and are arrested as communists when they go back to Taiwan.

Director: Mort Ransen
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Nelligan, Clive Russell
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | UK

Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.

Director: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
Stars: Fernanda Torres, Fernando Alves Pinto, Alexandre Borges
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil | Portugal

After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to his mother’s native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.

Director: Jon Blair
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Janny Brandes-Brilslijper
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: UK | USA | Netherlands

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world’s most famous victim of the Holocaust.

Director: Benjamin Ross
Stars: Hugh O’Conor, Antony Sher, Tobias Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Germany | France

This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers.

Director: Jeffrey Lau
Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Athena Chu
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong

The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Stars: Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany | Italy

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says “towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see”.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara’s creativity and sense of self-worth. Sara’s belief that “every girl’s a princess” is tested to the limit, however, when word comes that her father was killed in action and his estate has been seized by the British government.

Director: Torben Skjødt Jensen
Stars: Clara Pontoppidan, Hélène Falconetti, Lisbeth Movin
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Denmark

Carl Theodor Dreyer is a young journalist in Copenhagen when he gets involved in the early Danish film industry. He writes scripts and inter-titles, and for some years he is the main editor at Nordisk Film. After those years of apprenticeship he gets the opportunity to direct his first film in 1917. Dreyer wanted his films to carry his personal imprints down to the smallest details, and already in his first silent movies it’s possible to find stylistic traits that characterize his entire film production until his last film in 1964.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | France

Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.

Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stars: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France | Germany | Spain | Belgium | USA

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Director: Ralph Ziman
Stars: Danny Keogh, Patrick Shai, Seputla Sebogodi
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Africa

Set when the apartheid government was still in control, this powerful South African thriller is based on the true story of a policeman belonging to an elite government squad who was assigned to masquerade as a supporter and infiltrate the African National Congress so he could assassinate their leaders. Fourie is the cop, and his squadron is the most notoriously racist unit of the S.A. police force; they were infamous for donning street clothes, putting on blackface make up, and driving around in unmarked cars to kill people and cause trouble to encourage fighting amongst rival groups. Although the ANC members are initially suspicious of Fourie, eventually they accept him and send him to be trained in Lusaka, Zambia and other places. They even send him to Moscow where he learns about Marxist philosophies. By the time Fourie completes all that training the conflict has ended, Mandela is released, and his squadron has split up and melted into the general populace.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Ryszard Dembinski, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Ewa Konarska
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. The boy accidently loses a tent along the road which is picked up by those in the bus who offer a trade of the tent for his girl.

Director: Krzysztof Wierzbicki
Stars: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jacek Petrycki, Krzysztof Wierzbicki
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Poland | Denmark

Director/Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation.

Director: Mark Rappaport
Stars: Mary Beth Hurt, Jean Seberg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Mark Rappaport’s creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and culture, and film theory to inform, entertain, and move the viewer. Seberg’s many marriages, as well as her film roles, are discussed extensively. Her involvement with the Black Panther Movement and subsequent investigation by the FBI is covered. Notably, details of French New Wave cinema, Russian Expressionist (silent) films, and the careers of Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, and Clint Eastwood are also intensively examined. Much of the film is based on conjecture, but Rappaport encourages viewers to re-examine their ideas about women in film with this thought-provoking picture.

Director: Brett Thompson
Stars: Maila Nurmi, Dolores Fuller, Paul Marco
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

How was it possible that a movie like Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) could be made? This documentary about Edward D. Wood Jr.’s masterpiece gives the answer.

Director: Helena Solberg
Stars: Helena Solberg, Eric Barreto, Cynthia Adler
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | Brazil

A biography of the Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti frutti hat. She came to the US as the “Brazilian Bombshell” and was a Broadway and Hollywood star in the 1940s.

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Mariana Arias, Oscar Martínez
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Argentina

It is the fantastic story of a couple that has the chance to live for centuries loving one another because of various reincarnations.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Jeff Alperi, Michele Carlyle, Stan Lothridge
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: USA

A short film about the events following a murder.

Director: Laurent Bouzereau
Stars: Steven Spielberg, Peter Benchley, David Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Excellent and very detailed documentary on the making of a classic. Filled with appealing trivia, exhaustive interviews with cast and crew members, and never before seen footage.

Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Stars: Yoshinori Okada, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kouji Yamaguchi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara – who may or may not be in love with Ito – teaching Yoshida a lesson.

Director: Romuald Karmakar
Stars: Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch, Pierre Franckh
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany

Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing methods.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Japan | Germany

A young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Lynne Adams, Wesley Addy, Allen Altman
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada | Japan

The grisly events leading to the first attack with a nuclear weapon.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Stars: Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Arditi
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Director: Jeffrey Lau
Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Kar-Ying Law
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong | China

Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.

Director: Pat O’Connor
Stars: Chris O’Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O’Rawe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland | USA | UK

3 women, who’ve been friends since kids, meet at university in Dublin in 1957. Student and boyfriend life begins.

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime
Country: Japan | UK

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Pasquale D’Onofrio, Salvatore Catorano, Angelo Carrabs
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany

Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from the 16th century.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Nino Castelnuovo
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Belgium | Spain

In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.

Director: Boaz Yakin
Stars: Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan

“Memories” is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, “Magnetic Rose,” four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by one woman’s memories. In “Stink Bomb,” a young lab assistant accidentally transforms himself into a human biological weapon set on a direct course for Tôkyô. The final episode, “Cannon Fodder,” depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unseen enemy.

Director: Boaz Yakin
Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Denmark | Spain | Sweden

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.

Director: Boaz Yakin
Stars: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | France

Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.

Director: Rafal Zielinski
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada

Hillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and on a rising wave of frenzy later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun.

Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.

Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Carrie Ng
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a pretty girl like a boy, so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but industrious young man. However, their short love affair ends in disaster.

Director: Patrick Keiller
Stars: Paul Scofield, John Major, Norma Major
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Yekaterina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland

A serial killer terrorizes Paris at night, but that doesn’t stop Daïga and Théo from meeting up, and falling in love.

Director: Xiaowen Zhou
Stars: Liya Ai, Peiqi Liu, Zhijun Ge
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong | China

A woman gets obsessed with buying a television for her family.

Director: Gianni Amelio
Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland | Austria

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The fates of two homosexual partners are divided.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | France | UK | Germany

An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.

Director: Gilles de Maistre
Stars: Tewfik Jallab, Younesse Boudache, Salah Teskouk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

A Lebanese kid is sent to France on a terrorist mission for “Allah’s Army”. An Arab French kid becomes involved unwittingly. A bond develops between the two, while they become alienated from and independent of the adults in their lives.

Director: Jing Wong
Stars: Stephen Chow, Man Cheung, Man-Tat Ng
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong

Pao Lung-Sing, a descendant of the famous Judge Pao Ching Tient, is a 9th degree corrupt judge (lowest degree) who changes his tune when he tries to champion a woman Chi Siu-Lin, who was framed for killing her husband. As a result, Pao is forced to flee and through a series of events (often hilarious) becomes a 1st degree judge and comes back to wreak havoc and justice on the guilty.

Director: Whit Stillman
Stars: Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Ted, a stuffy white guy from Illinois working in sales for the Barcelona office of a US corporation, is paid an unexpected visit by his somewhat less stuffy cousin Fred, who is an officer in the US Navy. Over the next few months, both their lives are irrevocably altered by the events which follow Fred’s arrival, events which are the trivial stuff of a comedy of manners at first but which gradually grow increasingly dramatic.

Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Peng Phan, Mom Soth, Chhim Naline
Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia | France | Switzerland | Germany

In Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, “from UN lorries”. They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have to learn to live in Cambodia, i.e., they will have to learn to cultivate, to plough, to work the land. Rice people tries to share this way of life, to demonstrate the fragile equilibrium on which it lies and the freedom it represents.

Director: Nien-Jen Wu
Stars: Akio Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Jun Fu
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan

Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.

Director: Ismail Merchant
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | India

An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visited by sycophants who drink his whisky and eat his food. Deven wants to record Nur for posterity and seeks funds to buy an aged tape recorder, to bribe Safiya, the elder wife, to get Nur into a room at a brothel for a week for the recording, and to feed Nur’s pals who show up. Nur’s beautiful second wife, Imtiaz, wants to be taken seriously as a poetess. Dever dismisses her and ignores his own wife and child much as Nur does. In the end, what is preserved?

Director: Laurent Boutonnat
Stars: Jeff Dahlgren, Mylène Farmer, Joss Ackland
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: France

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgio Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgio finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine.

Director: Alex Proyas
Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée’s murder.

Director: Pierre Falardeau
Stars: Hugo Dubé, Luc Picard, Pierre Rivard
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist abduction & murder of a government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska
Stars: Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A thin child of about 10, nicknamed “Crow” because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher’s hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees a chubby, cherubic child hugged by both parents as the father leaves for work. When the toddler is left alone, Crow lifts her through the fence and kidnaps her. That day, Crow tries to mother the child, alternately playing with and scolding her, taking her to the beach, leaving shore in a boat, pushing her into the sea in a pique, and eventually carrying the sleeping child back home. Crow returns to her own mother and asks for affection.

Director: Christian Vincent
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil, Jérôme Deschamps
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

One night at the cinema, Pierre reaches for out to take Anne’s hand. She is annoyed and rebuffs him. He feels rejected. This moment begins the story of the disintegration of a couple… Pierre and Anne live in Paris with their two-year-old child Louis. After the night in the cinema it is clear that Anne is distracted and the small gulf between them seems to widen as time goes on. Lunches, evenings out with friends, there’s obvoiusly something wrong. One night after a party, Anne tells Pierre that she is in love with another man. Although her confession is not surprising, Pierre’s reaction is. He seems to accept it as a fact of life and refrains from asking the most burning questions. However, as Anne continues to see the other man, Pierre’s feelings become more violent and it begins to dawn on them that some thing intangible has happened that can’t be put right.

Director: Chris Menges
Stars: William Hurt, Nathan Yapp, Keith Allen
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to give Graham a chance. Will the two be able to accept each other as family?

Director: Bernard Rose
Stars: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | USA

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was–not easy, as Beethoven has had many women in his life.

Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Ion Siminie, Adrian Vâlcu, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania

Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.

Director: Andrei Blaier
Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Florina Cercel, Coca Bloos
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania

Andrei Blaier’s film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of Bucharest before the Communist period, doomed to destruction under the new rules of proletarian morals that the Communists were trying to impose. The idea could be the start of a great film, with the prostitution being seen not so much from its destructive and exploitation perspective, but rather as a form of freedom in a time when the whole society was falling under the rule of propaganda, hypocrisy, and repression. In a world due to fall under tyranny for the coming decades prostitution becomes a metaphor of the old more free way of life.

Director: Jackie Bastide, Jean-Jacques Beineix
Stars: Akitoshi Ashida, Hiroki Hashimoto, Noriko Kato
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A documentary that explores the life styles of various otakus in Japan. Various interviews are given to selected otakus who express how interesting it is to be an otaku as oppose to not being one at all. Along with various shots of various Japanese city landscapes and the inside of an average otaku home from rooms filled with videos, models, and the latest in technology.

Director: Wen Jiang
Stars: Yu Xia, Wei Chen, Shaobo Dai
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong

A story of four teenagers during Cultural Revolution in Beijing.

Director: Eric Rochant
Stars: Yvan Attal, Richard Masur, Allen Garfield
Genre: Thriller
Country: France

At 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist… We will assist to the methods, the manipulations, the abuses, the machiavellism, the doubts of secret agents.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy | Germany

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

Director: Marlon Riggs
Stars: Angela Davis, Essex Hemphill, bell hooks
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A film about black experiences with a “backdrop of Creole cooking.”

Director: Arthur Dong
Stars: Salome Jens, Phillis Abry, David Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.

Director: Jean Bach
Stars: Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Hinton, Marian McPartland
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The documentary compiles interviews of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksandr Cherednik, Sergey Barkovskiy, Elizaveta Koroleva
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | Germany

A hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Extercatte
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

How the life of Victor Chmara toppled during the course of a single day during the summer of 1958 ?

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | France

Onoff is a famous writer who hasn’t published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, László Szabó
Genre: Drama
Country: France

When the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?

Director: Eli Cohen
Stars: Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Individual memories of a group of teenage Holocaust survivors in Israel creates sharp conflicts among them.

Director: Teresa Villaverde
Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe, Evgeniy Sidikhin
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany

Lisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go separate ways. When Maria does need help, the three brothers will join again – but a trifle too late.

Director: Andreas Gruber
Stars: Elfriede Irrall, Rainer Egger, Oliver Broumis
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria | Germany

It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to break out. One winter night the Russian prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them gets killed. Some, however, succeed to hide in nearby villages. But the German Nazis convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt the prisoners “like rabbits”.

Director: Stanley Kwan
Stars: Joan Chen, Veronica Yip, Winston Chao
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong | Taiwan

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

Director: Edward Yang
Stars: Li-Mei Chen, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-wen Chen
Genre: Comedy
Country: Taiwan

After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

Director: Bruce Brown
Stars: Patrick O’Connell, Robert ‘Wingnut’ Weaver, Robert August
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Country: USA

Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of two young surfers to top surfing spots around the world. Along the way we see many of the people and locales Bruce visited during the filming of Endless Summer (1966).

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Vasco Sequeira
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany | Portugal

The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks later, Monroe is disappeared but has left the unfinished film. Winter decides to stay, because he is fascinated of the city and the Portuguese singer Teresa, and he starts to record the sound of the film. At the same time Monroe cruises through the city with a camcorder and tries to catch unseen pictures. Later they meet and Winter convinces Monroe of finishing the film.

Director: Mike Figgis
Stars: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.

Director: Ole Bornedal
Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark

In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow student Jens, the police begins to think he is the murderer. Police detective Wormer wants to help him but Martin is more and more suspected.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Rambo Amadeus, Melodie Annis, Dennis Jakob
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Country: Netherlands

Makavejev travels to Yugoslavia and charts the change of the society which Parallels his own life.

Director: Heddy Honigmann
Stars: Víctor Talledo, Señor English, Mercedes Aguilar
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Netherlands

In 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire republican history (1821- onwards). A cataclysmic economic meltdown and over 10 years of death and conflict brought upon by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla had left deep scars in the Peruvian population. Furthermore, Alberto Fujimori had just dissolved the congress and senate in order to obtain extraordinary faculties and implement harsh economic measures. It is amidst this critical moment in the history of Perú that filmmaker Heddy Honigmann chronicles the views and lives of 14 real life taxi drivers in Lima.

Director: Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Stars: Ronnie Washington
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.

Director: Martine Dugowson
Stars: Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Thomassin
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | France | Belgium

The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France

Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France

A part of Joan of Arc’s life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne’s first battle, at Orleans. Meanwhile, Jeanne is depicted more as a warrior than a saint (all cliches are avoided), with only her faith for strength.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Russia | France

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna questions.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman’s fight with Social Services over the care of her children.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA | Ireland

Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.

Director: Harald Sicheritz
Stars: Alfred Dorfer, Reinhard Nowak, Andrea Händler
Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria

A satirical take on the life of a family in a public housing complex in Vienna as they prepare for Mother’s Day.

Director: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA | Canada

Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Director: Jay Rosenblatt
Stars: Richard Silberg
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: USA

A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Stars: Samuel Fuller, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Brazil | Finland | Germany

In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil’s Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954.

Director: Ping He
Stars: Jing Ning, Gang Wu, Xiaorui Zhao
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong

A woman inherits her father’s fireworks factory, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day, an itinerant painter is hired to decorate the doors and vases at the factory. The woman, forbidden to marry and thereby involve outsiders in the factory ownership, finds herself drawn to the headstrong painter. When they fall in love, the situation throws her entire life into disarray.

Director: Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang
Stars: Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang’s cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. At home, Wang has problems because his father wants Wang to have a son to carry on the family name. However, because of the one-child policy, Wang cannot have any more children unless his young daughter is certified infirm.

Director: Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang
Stars: Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang’s cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. At home, Wang has problems because his father wants Wang to have a son to carry on the family name. However, because of the one-child policy, Wang cannot have any more children unless his young daughter is certified infirm.

Director: Doris Dörrie
Stars: Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing up on her. She is obsessed with death, even visits evening classes on dying and so it seems fitting, that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a black, gay self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet “him”. But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager …?

Director: Milos ‘Misa’ Radivojevic
Stars: Svetozar Cvetkovic, Bojana Maljevic, Branislav Lecic
Genre: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

This Serbian drama follows the exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists.

Director: Moufida Tlatli
Stars: Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia | France

As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont, Olga Tudorache
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania | France

Romania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband’s commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a dark and dangerous outpost on the frontier between Bulgaria and Romania where their relationship and humanity are severely tested.

Director: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Ryan Rajendra Black, Adam Beach, Jennifer Podemski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

A story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family … and murder.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Germany

71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.

Director: Milcho Manchevski
Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Republic of North Macedonia | France | UK

Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.

Director: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand

A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Geneviève Pasquier, Denis Jadót
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.

Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A man’s personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L’Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge’s nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul’s wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town’s workers are exploited by the mine’s owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico

A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

Director: Chris Gore
Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Scott Spiegel
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA

Based on the true story of Louis “Red” Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
Stars: Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

Director: Andrew Davis
Stars: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: UK | Czech Republic

BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser – and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: After failing to catch the waiter’s eye, two would-be diners end up eating everything within reach. DINNER: Portraits of various meals made up of human organs.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Angela Bettis, Johnathon Schaech, Eva Alexander
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Japan

Catania, Sicily, 1854. An epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. 16-year old novice Maria leaves her convent and returns home to avoid the plague. Her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent her to live the normal life of a young girl. In their minds, Maria is the promised “bride of God” and a regular life is inappropriate for her. Nevertheless, she falls in love with a neighbor, Nino. Her freedom ends abruptly when she is forced to return to the convent.

Director: Shinji Sômai
Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, Renko gradually realises the practical implications of divorce, and tries repeatedly to get her parents to reconcile. An old man teaches her about the need to forget the past.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Branko Samarovski, Judit Pogány, Thierry van Werveke
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria

The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death he recognizes that he was always too decent and too obedient.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Sophie Aubry, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine’s. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never knew. But she first meets her half-sister Lise, and Constantin, the unusual Ludovic’s lawyer.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany

The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.

Director: Ron Maxwell
Stars: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Director: Memduh Ün
Stars: Emre Akyildiz, Asuman Arsan, Meriç Basaran
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Turkey

Adana, a big city in Southern Turkey, 1949. Muzo, a young man, is experiencing a terrible heartache. He is in love but his love is baffled. He will finish his studies in five or six years and wanted to marry the girl he loves only then, when he was a “big man”, worthy of her. But the young lady’s father did not agree. He preferred any son-in-law rather than a well-read one like Muzo much later. And now that the wedding procession of the girl who will never be his passes him, Muzo remembers his childhood.

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-François Balmer
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox, Maquisard Alfonso
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: France

This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media.

Director: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Norman Foster
Stars: Manuel ‘Jacare’ Olimpio Meira, Jeronimo André De Souza, Raimundo ‘Tata’ Correia Lima
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK

This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

Director: Rolf de Heer
Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia | Italy

Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape, and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into the modern and nihilistic life begins.

Director: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
Stars: Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

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

Stan Brakhage’s artistic view of the cosmos.

Director: Mark Baker
Stars: Annie Griffin, Dave Western, James Baker
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A village is ruled by the church, but it filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Switzerland

Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Canada

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | China

The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.

Director: Jon Jost
Stars: Howard Swain, Nancy Carlin, Kate Sannella
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. Beth’s longing to visit California and Ricky’s longing for quick cash leads them into a desperate situation. Director Jost uses a variety of avant-garde visual and narrative techniques, such as montage, collages, split screens and lengthy, tongue-in-cheek monologues to tell the tragicomic story of two complete losers in love.

Director: Frédéric Back
Stars: Paul Hébert, Donald Sutherland
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: Canada

The environmental history of the St. Lawrence River and the impact of human exploitation of it.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Short
Country: France

Godard looks into the Bosnia conflict in the early 1990’s.

Director: Agnès Merlet
Stars: Ludovic Vandendaele, Eric da Silva, Sandrine Blancke
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg

Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother’s leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Natalia Chakhovskaia
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France | Portugal

A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Stars: Nobuo Tobita, Toshihiko Seki, Yoko Sakamoto
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down.

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA | France

A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Kidnapped boy Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther) strikes up a friendship with his captor Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner): an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search is headed up by honorable Texas Ranger “Red” Garrett (Clint Eastwood).

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Finland

This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement at seeing his film HAPPINESS for the first time, and his contemporaries shed light on his life and work.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down motel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.

Director: Lita Stantic
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Mexico | UK

A film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. But will making a movie about it force Silvia to remember her traumatic past?

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: László Szabó, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernard Eisenschitz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot,” offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

Director: Jon Jost
Stars: Tom Blair, Marshall Gaddis, Ellen McLaughlin
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean’s lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter writes home from college, saying she has uncovered her repressed memories of sexual abuse, and naming Ray as her abuser.

Director: Victor Nunez
Stars: Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman struggles for independence and identity in a small Florida tourist town.

Director: Philip Haas
Stars: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A thrill seeker agrees to help a shady professional gambler win a high stakes poker game. However, they lose and become captives of two eccentric rich men who decide to forcibly keep them on their remote gated ranch as indentured servants.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | USA

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK | USA

A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Anna Hitch, Vissarion
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA

What is faith and religion to Russians after the fall of communism? We get the insight into the Russian Orthodox church as well as different folk and shamanic beliefs.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Portugal

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

Director: Nick Donkin, Melodie McDaniel
Stars: William S. Burroughs, Susan Ashline, Dayton Bard
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA

Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas spirit instead.

Director: Stan Lai
Stars: Brigitte Lin, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Taiwan

Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played ‘Peach Blossom’, a comedy in medieval costume. Another played ‘Secret Love’, a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home.

Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Anita Yuen, Carina Lau
Genre: Romance
Country: Hong Kong

A jazz musician (Lau Ching-Wan) who has problems in both his life and career breaks up with his girlfriend, and moves into a poor neighborhood. There, he meets a girl (Anita Yuen), who started being interested in him as of his saxophone skills. Their friendship turns into a romance, and he gets inspired to write songs again. However, Min discovers that she has an issue with her health-condition.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie’s one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be depicted both Berthe’s destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Vietnam

A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Agnès Varda, Michel Legrand
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: France

A recital becomes part of the French culture; 25 years later the performers return to the village where it was first launched.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

Director: Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, Marc Citti
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France

After hitting her head, a woman has to face living in a mental institution for a period of time.

Director: Gérard Mordillat
Stars: Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his “theatre of cruelty” to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

Director: Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
Stars: Liane Bonin, Tom Joslin, Mark Massi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about two gay men as they live through their last months of life with AIDS.

Director: Bay Okan
Stars: Ilyas Salman, Valérie Lemoine, Micky Sébastian
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany | Switzerland

The film is based on ‘Fikrimin Ince Gulu’, a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey’s west border – and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara – capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes – possibly his first car – using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram’s motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.

Director: Peter Capaldi
Stars: Richard E. Grant, Crispin Letts, Ken Stott
Genre: Short, Biography, Comedy
Country: UK

While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka’s constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions.

Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.

Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Switzerland

An examination of the possible consequences of a certain event.

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

An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage in which light, black and white, and color images are contrasted.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A short black and white animated film with a contemporary musical accompaniment.

Director: Fei Xie
Stars: Gaowa Siqin, Yujuan Wu, Kesheng Lei
Genre: Drama
Country: China

If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang’s business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

Director: George Paul Csicsery
Stars: Paul Erdös, Ronald Graham, Joel Spencer
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.

Director: Susan Raymond
Stars: Susan Raymond, Deanna Burney, Clary Jansson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmakers Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond document Philadelphia teachers facing challenges at an inner-city school.

Director: Yolande Zauberman
Stars: Roma Alexandrovitch, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Vladimir Mashkov
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belarus

In 1930s Poland, it was traditional for some Christian boys to live for a time with Jewish families in order to learn a trade from Jewish craftsmen. For this reason, Ivan has gone to live on a large estate with Abraham and his family, has learned Yiddish, and has become Abraham’s best friend. But the anti-Semitism born of poverty, ignorance, and superstition is fierce in this community of and the two boys run away into the countryside to flee an imminent conflict. Journeying together in a menacing environment, they reveal their innocence and inseparability.

Director: François Girard
Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada | Netherlands | Portugal | Finland

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío
Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Cuba | Mexico | Spain | USA

Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Maria Conchita Alonso
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal | Germany | Denmark | USA | France

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende’s best-seller.

Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Stars: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. But the socialist party lose his majority in the election. But… But… Well everything would have been all right without those seven coincidences.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Director: Ivan Passer
Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia | Hungary | USA

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Director: Helmut Dietl
Stars: Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany

The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.

Director: Ron Fricke
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.

Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Stars: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Gilbert Sicotte
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada | France

Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he’s Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds…

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A drunken self-destructive woman called Betty wanders through bars and meets a man that drives her to a restaurant outside Paris called Le Trou (The Hole). She meets the middle-aged alcoholic Laure from Lyon, who is the lover of the Le Trou’s owner Mario. Laure decides to take care of Betty and brings her to the room next-door in her hotel. Along the days, Betty tells the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy marriage to Laure and also recalls moments of her promiscuous life.

Director: Stijn Coninx
Stars: Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium | France | Netherlands

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He’s expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman’s rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Zabou Breitman
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Italy | France

When Victor finds out one morning that his wife had left him and that she had forgotten to at least buy milk for the Kids, he finds that things can only get worse. Having also been fired from his job on the very same day, he ends up searching through a list of friends and family for someone who will listen to his grief and give some advice. The only person who does give him attention is a rather clumsy and not too intelligent street pauper called Michou. Victor finds Michou irritating and only finally comes to see him in a positive light when he starts to realise that his insensitivity to those closest to him has been major reason for all his troubles.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | France

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son’s fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Romania

A description of Romania before Ceausescu’s downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

This gritty police drama shows us the underbelly of the Parisian drug trade. Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn’t play by the rules or kowtow to his weak and/or corrupt superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can overcome his squad’s deficiencies of money and equipment. Despite the ruthless environment that he lives and works in every day, he still manages somehow to maintain his humanity.

Director: Darrell Roodt
Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: South Africa | UK | France | USA

South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Frédérique Meininger
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | UK | Vietnam

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.

Director: Paul Turner
Stars: Huw Garmon, Catrin Fychan, Ceri Cunnington
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

A young poet living in the North Wales countryside competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry – that of the chair of the National Eisteddfod, a tradition dating back a hundred years. Before the winner is announced Hedd Wyn gets sent to fight with the English in the trenches of the First World War.

Director: George Miller
Stars: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Shigeru Chiba, Tomoko Ishimura, Fumihiko Tachiki
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan

A revered director with an obscure style, Rei Maruwa, has gone missing during the production of his latest animated feature, Talking Head. With the deadline approaching and next to no progress made, the producer calls in a “shadow director” with the ability to mimic any director’s style. Arriving at the studio, he begins meeting with the eccentric crew members in order to understand the project, but soon they begin dying in the same order that he met up with them.

Director: Régis Wargnier
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There’s an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Abou Camara, Marie Augustine Diatta, Mame Ndoumbé Diop
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany | Senegal | USA

Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor. A satiric portrayal of religion and politics, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious.

Director: Hal Hartley
Stars: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | UK | USA

Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas. D:”Long Island is a a terminal moraine.” B:”What’s that?” D:”It’s the material left behind when a glacier recedes.” D:”Gee, then what the hell are we waiting for?”

Director: Fernando Trueba
Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain | Portugal | France

A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer’s four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Japan | USA

A businessman thwarts his wife’s bequest of an estate to another woman.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Pyotr Aleksandrov, Leonid Mozgovoy
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia

A caretaker encounters Anton Chekov and spends a lonely night and day in his company.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Yasuo Daichi, Takehiro Murata
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

A grand old Japanese hotel is trying to get a prestigious contract as the site of a summit meeting of important foreign officials. Unfortunately, this hotel is quite popular with the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) and is a favorite target of theirs for extortion. They employ a variety of schemes to con the hotel out of ‘hush-money.’ The hotel needs to rid itself of the Yakuza and finally begins to fight back by hiring Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer who is an expert at dealing with these criminals on their own terms. This film by Juzo Itami combines action with farce, as an all-out war ensues.

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Faly Gueye
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France | Senegal | UK | Netherlands | Italy

Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
Genre: Drama
Country: France

More than just an abbreviated form of “La Belle Noiseuse”, Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view – this one being more from Marianne’s point of view.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciarán Fitzgerald
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland | UK

Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.

Director: Tim Robbins
Stars: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | UK

A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France | UK

After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic’s wife.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Bunshi Katsura Vi
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.

Director: Pawel Lozinski
Stars: Henryk Grynberg
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland

After almost 50 years, Holocaust survivor Henryk Grynberg visits the village he grew up in. He was also hiding there during the Nazi occupation. Grynberg wants to know what happened to his father and younger brother during the war.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn’t seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan.

Director: Raymond Lee, Siu-Tung Ching, Hark Tsui
Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong

Set during the Ming Dynasty, this acclaimed production tells the story of a power hungry eunuch who employs an evil sect in his quest to rule China. An extravagant climax features dizzying acrobatics and masterful fight sequences.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet, Jean-François Stévenin
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother’s house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child, Nadine, and her devoted neighbor, Marcel. Several years later, having relocated to the city, the police investigator who handled the case meets a Paris rent boy whom he believes to be the missing Olivier.

Director: Carl Franklin
Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.

Director: Ebrahim Forouzesh
Stars: Behzad Khodaveisi, Fatemeh Azrah, Abbas Khavaninzadeh
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran

In the yard of an Iranian village school stands in the shade of a tree a large stoneware jar from which all the pupils drink fresh water. On an unfortunate day, the jar starts leaking. The schoolmaster tries hard to get a new one but in vain. The only solution is to have it fixed…

Director: Viktor Kosakovskiy
Stars: Anna Fyodorovna Belova, Mikhail Fyodorovich Belov, Vasiliy Fyodorovich Belov
Genre: Documentary
Country: Russia

“Belovy (the Belovs)” is a breathtaking portrait of a troubled peasant family. It’s poetry in the form of a documentary that won many prizes. Beautifully shot in vintage black and white, the film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest and strong – he is the drunken poet, the idealist, his philosophy fades into radical nonsense time after time.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Robert W. Castle, Jane Castle Moulton, Kate Castle
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Spain

A documentary about Director Jonathan Demme’s cousin, an Episcopalian minister in Harlem.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Stina Ekblad, Anita Björk, Marie Richardson
Genre: History
Country: Sweden

Ingmar Bergman’s staging at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. While the Marquis De Sade is in prison on charges of crimes of gross perversion, his faithful wife Renee awaits him. Despite all the horrors her husband has committed, she believes that his evil is sacred. Her mother however does everything possible to ensure that the Marquis stays in prison.

Director: Temur Babluani
Stars: Elguja Burduli, David Kazishvili, Lia Babluani
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Georgia

The Sun of the Sleepless. The film is about a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) and his wealthless family in Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia. In the film Gela Bendeliani has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness.

Director: Cyril Collard
Stars: Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos López
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A bitter story of a young man’s crisis.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | France | Sweden | Germany

Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite knock backs and tragedies.

Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Stars: Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | France | Germany | Japan | Italy | Spain

New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he’s creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can’t pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yuki Sumida, Kazuyo Asari
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The film tells the story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.

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

An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Richard Bohringer, Elena Safonova, Romane Bohringer
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene’s husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene’s triumphs and affairs.

Director: Assi Dayan
Stars: Gila Almagor, Akram Tillawi, Smadar Kilchinsky
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous Israeli mental health institution. The pub’s name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn.

Director: Barbara Trent
Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Carlos Cantú, Diviana Ingravallo
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA | UK

A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.

Director: Hal Hartley
Stars: Martin Donovan, Matt Malloy, Rebecca Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Jude, a college literature professor, falls for one of his students. She is more interested in the empirical experience of a relationship with a man whose life is ruled by the themes of the Russian Lit. he extolls in class. Jude shows an interesting side of the stigmas associated with transgenerational relationships and how to deal with the inevitable pain of a love doomed to failure.

Director: Gianni Amelio
Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.

Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Siu Chung Mok
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: Hong Kong

Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the ‘Dancing Lion Competition’ to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.

Director: Srdjan Dragojevic
Stars: Nikola Kojo, Milena Pavlovic, Branka Katic
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria | Switzerland

A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.

Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A sardonic hardware store clerk is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead so he can return home.

Director: Daniel Bergman
Stars: Henrik Linnros, Thommy Berggren, Lena Endre
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Finland | Iceland | Norway | France

The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden and and the adult Pu visiting his father who lives in an old people’s home. Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland in the 1920s with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | UK | Italy | Norway | Iceland

In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A tear falls from the eyes of a veiled face. A white ball whips around a heart-shaped paddle. A mournful voice sings, “Are we still married?” A child’s stuffed rabbit watches, sees someone’s legs hanging and shoes jiggling, and sees a girl holding a heart-shaped paddle. A hand seen through a door’s glass knocks incessantly; the lock jiggles, the child holds the heart-shaped object and leans against the wall, sometimes moving up and down on the toes of her shoes. The rabbit watches, plays with the ball, tries to keep the door shut. The child raises her face; we see a woman’s eyes.

Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Stars: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Jens Taschner, Ichgola Androgyn
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Germany

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.

Director: Chris Hunt
Stars: Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, John Hammond
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK

A UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Johanna ter Steege, Enikö Börcsök, Péter Andorai
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary | Germany

The story shows Emma’s and Böbe’s fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don’t want to lose their place and become village girls again.

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Narda Blanchet, Pierette Pompom Bailhache, Aleksandr Cherkasov
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | Germany

A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants.

Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Stars: José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain | Uruguay

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer — surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

Director: Jean Beaudin
Stars: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-François Pichette
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

Depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead character to make those around him understand the reason for his crime.

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Argentina | Canada

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he’s searching for when his ideal of love’s pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

Director: Roeland Kerbosch
Stars: Maarten Smit, Andrew Kelley, Jeroen Krabbé
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands

Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: Jean-Claude Poulain, Abou Bakar, Anh Tuan
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Italy | UK | Switzerland

With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges.

Director: David Markey
Stars: Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: USA

David Markey’s documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes In Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: France | UK | Germany

This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames, with few interviews and no explanatory narration. Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Chao-jung Chen, Chang-Bin Jen, Kang-sheng Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.

Director: Joshua Waletzky
Stars: Philip Bosco, Elmer Bernstein, Claudine Bouché
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA | UK | France