Tag: 1997

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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