Tag: 1994

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: Béla Tarr
Stars: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László feLugossy
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary | Germany | Switzerland

Plotting on a payment they are about to receive, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is coming back to the village.

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.