Director: Richard Eyre
Stars: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Director: Christine Jeffs
Stars: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Sarah Peirse, Marton Csokas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Whilst on a family vacation on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand, 13-year-old Janey begins to realize that her parents’ marriage is on the rocks.
Director: Hae-sung Song, Hae-sung Song
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Cecilia Cheung, Dae-Hoon Jeong
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.
Director: Michael Cuesta
Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
Director: Petter Næss
Stars: Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, Marit Pia Jacobsen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own.
Director: Frank Oz
Stars: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany | Canada | USA
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Director: Doug Pray
Stars: The Allies, A-Trak, Craze
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
The story of the hip-hop DJ from the birth of hip-hop to the invention of scratching and “beat-juggling” vinyl, to the more recent “turntablism” movement. Underdogs and virtuosos who have radically changed the way we hear and create music.
Director: John Dahl
Stars: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Director: Pan Nalin
Stars: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Neelesha Barthel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India | Germany | France | Italy | Switzerland
A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man’s struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman’s struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending.
Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat’s secret changes both their lives.
Director: Robert Glinski
Stars: Aleksandra Gietner, Karolina Sobczak, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
A sensitive teenage girl from a poor family befriends a cynical schoolmate, who shows her how to smoke, drink, have sex and steal. Tereska’s life heads towards a catastrophe.
Director: Walter Salles
Stars: José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France | Switzerland
When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Stars: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states – East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.
Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: France
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Venus Seye, Mame Ndoumbé, Awa Sene Sarr
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Senegal
A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
Director: Walter Hill
Stars: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.
Director: Cristi Puiu
Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Dragos Bucur, Ioana Flora
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
A newbie agrees to deliver the wrong merchandise for money. He will learn soon that this trip will change his views about life, forever.
Director: Jae-young Kwak
Stars: Tae-Hyun Cha, Ji-Hyun Jun, In-mun Kim
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
A young man sees a drunk, cute woman standing too close to the tracks at a metro station in Seoul and pulls her back. She ends up getting him into trouble repeatedly after that, starting on the train.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Abbas Kiarostami, Seifollah Samadian
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran
Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Anne Kathryn Parma, Ashley Edwards, Evyn Clark
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.
Director: Ferenc Török
Stars: Gábor Karalyos, Erzsi Pápai, Eszter Balla
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn’t care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.
Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Dean Andrews, Thomas Craig, Joe Duttine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Germany | Spain
Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company.
Director: Christian Frei
Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Switzerland
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Russia | Netherlands
From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by ‘Pieter Jansz Saenredam’, ‘Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers’, Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Andreas Schelfhout, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel, Charles Henri Joseph Leickert.
Director: Zabou Breitman
Stars: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Bernard Le Coq
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire’s condition takes a turn for the worse…
Director: Caroline Link
Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland
An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | France
A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.
Director: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Italy | Belgium | UK | Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
Genre: Drama
Country: France
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Director: Dover Koshashvili
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | France
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza’s parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged.
Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Canada
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it’s wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose’s mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
Director: Artour Aristakisian
Stars: Anna Chernova, Vitaliy Khaev, Nonna Grishaeva
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Describes the life of homeless people who form a community in the center of modern-day Moscow. It relates the story of six couples who love each other and try to remain together despite the poverty and despair of their existence.
Director: B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro, Carlos Bolado
Stars: Moishe Bar Am, B.Z. Goldberg, Shlomo Green
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a group of seven local children between 1995 and 1998. They all have a totally different background. These seven children tell their own story about growing up in Jerusalem. Through this portrait of their generation, we see how deep rooted and almost insoluble the problems of the Middle East have become. When the protagonists speak out in an epilogue a couple of years later, it becomes apparent that all have lost their childlike innocence.
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Stars: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Troy Ruptash
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
Director: Bille August
Stars: Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark
Swedish composer/conductor Martin and concertmaster Barbara fall in love. After their divorces, they’re happily married. While composing an opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It slowly changes him.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany
During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Shôzô Îzuka, Mami Koyama
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.
Director: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany
A group of old friends reminisce about their lives over the years after the death of one of their crew.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Portugal
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
Director: Babak Payami
Stars: Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Abidi, Youssef Habashi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran | Italy | Canada | Switzerland
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Chile | Belgium | Spain
True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case built against him before & during this period by a young Spanish prosecutor, Carlos Castresana.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Jorge Trêpa, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria de Medeiros
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal | France
The city of Porto viewed by the intimate eye of Manoel de Oliveira.
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: France
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
Director: Edet Belzberg
Stars: Cristina Ionescu, Mihai Alexandre Tudose, Violeta ‘Macarena’ Rosu
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation’s reckless population growth policy during its communist era.
Director: Jill Sprecher
Stars: Alan Arkin, John Turturro, Matthew McConaughey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life’s cold unpredictability.
Director: Hans Weingartner, Tobias Amann
Stars: Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Patrick Joswig
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Kati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | France
The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India | USA | Italy | Germany | France | UK
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his observational camera on The Spring, a Florida shelter for battered women and children. For one-hundred and ninety-six minutes, Wiseman profiles the women and children that have been victim to domestic violence, showing them endure therapeutic, thoughtful lectures and learn from the tireless social workers employed at The Spring that their sanctuary has been found.
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico | Spain
After Carlos – a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War – arrives at an ominous boys’ orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior’s endurance and battle of its menace.
Director: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
Stars: LaLee Wallace, Reggie Barnes
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
This documentary follows a Mississippi Delta school district and a single Delta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of slavery.
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad
Stars: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Baran Kosari
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
A valuable visual commentary on modern society, ‘Under The Skin Of The City’ follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
Director: Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas
Stars: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Portugal
Two directors struggle to survive in the movie industry.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Stars: Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Finland | UK | Canada
Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
Director: Marisa Sistach
Stars: Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, Arcelia Ramírez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Netherlands
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped. Rebellious tomboy Yessica is frequently in trouble at school and at home, with its lower middle-class limitations. She is always at odds with her mother, bullying stepfather, and despicable stepbrother, Jorge. Then Jorge strikes a deal with a friend, helping the man trap Yessica and rape her, in exchange for money. Terrified and ashamed of the attack, Yessica remains silent, seeking comfort in her friendship with innocent and childlike Miriam, from a more stable home, though reared by a poor single mother. Tragedy unfolds as Yessica increasingly relies on Miriam and begins to get the naive girl into trouble, until Miriam finds she is no longer in control of her fate.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Alan Stanford
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
Director: Stacy Peralta
Stars: Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA
Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.
Director: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Itô
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou’s dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA | UK
160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
Director: Martina Kudlácek
Stars: Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Austria | Czech Republic | Switzerland | Germany
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Stars: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland | Spain | Italy
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Stars: Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical
Country: India
The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.