Director: Abdullah Oguz
Stars: Talat Bulut, Özgü Namal, Murat Han
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Greece
When an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.
Director: Billy Ray
Stars: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Haysbert
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
FBI upstart Eric O’Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Director: Jay Chou
Stars: Jay Chou, Gwei Lun-Mei, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Hong Kong | Taiwan
Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.
Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Chico Buarque, Camané, Carlos do Carmo
Genre: Documentary, Musical
Country: Portugal | Spain
A drama steeped in Portugal’s Fado music culture.
Director: Yûichi Satô
Stars: Shun Oguri, Yûsuke Santamaria, Keisuke Koide
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
One year after the suicide of C-list model Kisaragi Miki, five of her fans come together for a commemorative meeting; fan club leader Iemoto, Oda Yuji, “Snake”, Yasuo, and “Strawberry Girl”. After meeting each other for the first time, they reminisce about their idol, wondering how someone so bright and happy could have possibly taken her own life. As they discuss her death, the facts, and evidence, they slowly come to the realization that her death didn’t occur they way they thought it did. The more they talk, the more the case takes shape in their minds, and the closer they come to the truth.
Director: John Carney
Stars: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
Director: Rodrigo Plá
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Daniel Tovar, Alan Chávez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | Mexico
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood’s borders.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
Director: Peter Askin
Stars: Dalton Trumbo, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others’ names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture.
Director: Sandra Kogut
Stars: Thiago da Silva Mariz, Wallison Felipe Leal Barroso, Maria Juliana Souza de Oliveira
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France
Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
Director: Hideo Nakata
Stars: Kikunosuke Onoe, Hitomi Kuroki, Mao Inoue
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.
Director: João Moreira Salles
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil
Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn’t edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
Director: Jason S.
Stars: Jay Aaseng, Jeremy Alter, David Lynch
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of David Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire (2006). We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. The director of the documentary immersed himself in David Lynch’s world; living and working at Lynch’s home. His unobtrusive style has captured a personal side of David Lynch not seen before.
Director: Jin-ho Hur
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Gin-goo Kim, In-Sook Kim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
A love story about two people who meet while battling serious illnesses.
Director: John Crowley
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Shaun Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | USA | Australia | Japan | France
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA | China | Taiwan
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Director: Bent Hamer
Stars: Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway | Germany | France | Denmark
A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten’s existence: the evening of his retirement.
Director: Naoko Ogigami
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK | France | USA
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.
Director: Satoshi Miki
Stars: Joe Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura, Kyôko Koizumi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Takemura has no friends and no family. He’s a student but he doesn’t have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn’t going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000 yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he runs across Fukuhara a second time, and this time the thug has a different proposal-a walk. That’s right, in exchange for a million yen, Takemura must accompany Fukuhara on a walk across the city of Tokyo.
Director: Ayelet Menahemi
Stars: Mili Avital, BaoQi Chen, Alon Aboutboul
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings — as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing — accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
Director: Aaron Woolf
Stars: Bob Bledsoe, Earl L. Butz, Dawn Cheney
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Stars: Marília Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Brazil
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
Director: Kris Carr
Stars: Aura Carr, Kenneth Carr, Kris Carr
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Crazy Sexy Cancer is an irreverent and uplifting documentary about a young woman looking for a cure and finding her life. Weeks after she was diagnosed, filmmaker Kris Carr began documenting her story. Taking a seemingly tragic situation and turning it into a creative expression, Kris shares her inspirational story of survival with honesty, courage, and lots of humor.
Director: Harris Fishman
Stars: Joy Holiday, Ron Holiday, Chuck Lizza
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The story of the Cat Dancers, one of the world’s first exotic tiger entertainment acts, and the tragic accidents that brought their tale to an end.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia | France
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.
Director: Chris Smith
Stars: Nana Patekar, Venkatesh Chavan, Jhangir Badshah
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A boy in abject poverty works in a hotel and becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa, India. His life gets turned upside-down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family who lives at the house.
Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Stars: Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Juhan Ulfsak
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
A film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.
Director: Anna Melikyan
Stars: Mariya Shalayeva, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Mariya Sokova
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.
Director: Christophe Honoré
Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Ismael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov, Laura Obiols
Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain | Mexico
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: Jennifer Venditti
Stars: Penny Baker, Billy P., Heather Pelletier
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
“I’m not black, I’m not white, not foreign, just different in the mind. Different brains, that’s all,” explains 15-year-old Billy in Jennifer Venditti’s provocative coming of age film. Billy’s intuitive commentary and intimate verite footage reveal a unique attitude as he responds to a painful childhood, first time love, and his experience as an outsider in small town Maine. By turns humorous and disturbing, this portrait challenges the viewer to understand a triumphant teen on his own terms.
Director: Jan Sverák
Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Pavel Landovský
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | UK | Denmark
A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
Director: Scott Frank
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Director: Chris Atkins
Stars: David Morrissey, Ashley Jensen, Riz Ahmed
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
An examination of the erosion of civil liberties that has gradually taken place in recent years.
Director: Ernesto Contreras
Stars: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Magali Boysselle
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Benshan Zhao, Qiwen Hong, Dandan Song
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong
A black comedy about a farmer who tries to bring home the body of his friend, who died far from their town.
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Germany
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
Director: Adam Shankman
Stars: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA | UK | Canada
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Director: Paddy Considine
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Paul Popplewell
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK
Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.
Director: Jacques Nolot
Stars: Jacques Nolot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Marc Rioufol
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
Director: Joanna Hogg
Stars: Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend’s family on holiday in Tuscany.
Director: Tom McCarthy
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Director: Geoffrey Smith
Stars: Henry Marsh
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.
Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Fanny Ardant, Dominique Pinon, Audrey Dana
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Kang-ho Song, Hye-jin Jang
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
A woman moves to the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to fit in, another tragic event overturns her life.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Director: Olivier Dahan
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France | UK | Czech Republic
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf’s life was filled with tragedy.
Director: John Sayles
Stars: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It’s a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone “Pine Top” Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant’s, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.
Director: Ivan Zivkovic
Stars: Goran Susljik, Nebojsa Glogovac, Vojin Cetkovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Unsuccessful radio host Rasa makes a small party in his alcoholic father’s run-down apartment, and one of his guests is his neighbor Ivan who takes antipsychotics.
Director: Janine Hosking
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
A behind-the-scenes look at the trial of Schapelle Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for smuggling marijuana into Indonesia.
Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jan Wikbladh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Germany | France | Denmark | Norway | Japan
You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved.
Director: George A. Romero
Stars: Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Canada
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Director: Eran Kolirin
Stars: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Israel | USA | France
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Director: Matthew Bonifacio
Stars: Hugo Aleman, Sophia Antonini, Michael Aronov
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Director: Adrienne Shelly
Stars: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Jeremy Sisto
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Director: Yung Chang
Stars: Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Campbell Ping He, Cindy Shui Yu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Director: Laura Dunn
Stars: Curtis Peterson, Gary Bradley, Willie Nelson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment’s unexpected response to human interference.
Director: Leslie Iwerks
Stars: Stacy Keach, John Lasseter, Brad Bird
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios – from the success of “Toy Story” and Pixar’s promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company’s relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Simon Baker, Kelli O’Hara, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Short
Country: Spain
Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.
Director: Ron Lamothe
Stars: Thomas Clausen, Will Forsberg, Leonard Knight
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A 2007 documentary film by Ron Lamothe about Christopher McCandless notable for coming to a different conclusion on McCandless’s death than Sean Penn’s film, Into the Wild, and Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild.
Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
Director: Susan Dynner
Stars: Craig Aaronson, Colin Abrahall, Adri
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk’s Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where punk rock music and culture continue to thrive.
Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany
A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.
Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany | Canada | USA | France
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.
Director: Pil-sung Yim
Stars: Jeong-myeong Cheon, Eun Won-jae, Eun-kyung Shim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: South Korea
After meeting an mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets and no way to escape.
Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
When Camille (Audrey Tautou) falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck (Guillaume Canet). A moving trio story.
Director: Stephane Gauger
Stars: Cat Ly, The Lu Le, Han Thi Pham
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam | USA
In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.
Director: Amin Matalqa
Stars: Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous
Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan
When an old airport janitor finds a captain’s hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | UK
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.
Director: Stephen Walker, Sally George
Stars: Joe Benoit, Helen Boston, Louise Canady
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK
A documentary on a chorus of senior citizens from Massachusetts who cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and other unexpected musicians.
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Stars: Julie Gayet, Michaël Cohen, Virginie Ledoyen
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel’s offer of “a kiss without consequences”. Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else’s life.
Director: Scott J. Gill
Stars: Neil Armstrong, David Baker, Penelope Boston
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Visionary rocket scientist, Robert Zubrin, has a plan for getting humans to Mars in the next ten years and ultimately turning the Red Planet blue. But can he win over the skeptics at NASA and the wider world?
Director: Tony Ayres
Stars: Joan Chen, Yuwu Qi, Joel Lok
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | Singapore
A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.
Director: Philippe Aractingi
Stars: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawia Elchab
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Lebanon | UK
In the wake of Israel’s 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Director: Weijun Chen
Stars: Cheng Cheng, Luo Lei, Xu Xiaofei
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | South Africa | Denmark
Democracy in China exists, that is, in a primary school in Wuhan where a grade 3 class can vote who they want as class monitor.
Director: Daniel O’Connor, Neil Ortenberg
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like “Tropic of Cancer” and “Naked Lunch” to publication.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Stars: Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France
A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
Director: Eric Guirado
Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Antoine moves home to help his mom drive the mobile grocery, when his dad’s hospitalized. He brings Claire along, hoping she’ll become more than a friend. He drives around Provence’s countryside, selling mainly to old people.
Director: Carlo Mazzacurati
Stars: Giovanni Capovilla, Valentina Lodovini, Ahmed Hafiane
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A writer’s need to maintain an appropriate amount of professional “distance” from his or her subject; the journalist in question here is Giovanni, a late adolescent with a flair for journalistic correspondence.
Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Italy | Germany | Spain | Poland
After being fired from her job, Angie teams up with her flatmate to find employment for immigrants.
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky
Stars: Sally Taylor, David Taylor, Paul Taylor
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary memoir following a filmmaker’s deaf parents as they receive a complex surgical implant, which allows them to experience sound for the first time.
Director: Oliver Hodge
Stars: Michael Reynolds, Chris Reynolds, Shauna Malloy
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home – then set out to build it.
Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
Stars: Sabine Bonnaire
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Austria | Germany
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.
Director: Cristian Nemescu
Stars: Armand Assante, Jamie Elman, Razvan Vasilescu
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Romania
A railway chief delays a NATO train transporting military equipment during the war in Kosovo in 1999.
Director: Mike Jacobs
Stars: Richard Gazowsky, Pietro Manigrasso
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary following a Pentecostal minister who receives a vision from God to create an epic science fiction movie based on the biblical story of Joseph, sending him and his followers on a journey of extreme faith.
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
Director: James Mangold
Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Director: Jake Kasdan
Stars: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Director: Alison Thompson
Stars: A.P. Darmedesa, Bruce French, Oscar Gubernati
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | Sri Lanka
Four volunteers travel to Peraliya, Sri Lankan after the 2004 tsunami, and their planned two-week journey becomes a year of heartbreak and rebirth.
Director: Richard Schenkman
Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA | Germany | France | Spain
Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
Director: Michèle Ohayon
Stars: J.P. Gillain, Jeroen Krabbé, Marieke Oudejans
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: USA
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. 1943: Holland is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party – a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack’s pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, the husband, the wife and the lover find themselves at the same concentration camp; actually living in the same barracks. When Jack’s wife objects to the “girlfriend” in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.
Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Stars: Sinjai Plengpanich, Songsit Roongnophakunsri, Pimpan Buranapim
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Two boyhood friends are separated due to the disappearance of the sister of one of them, then later meet again as teenagers, when one of them has become a pop singer, and they discover feelings that they did not know they had.
Director: Jim Brown
Stars: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bill Clinton
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.
Director: Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg
Stars: Cowboy, Gecko, Dreadie Jeff
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of radicals live in the desert, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique vision of the American dream.
Director: Henry Corra
Stars: Sal Abbatiello, Afrika Bambaataa, Wayne Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
A two-hour documentary that tells the story of one astonishing year in New York City history. The documentary is told chronologically and weaves together the stories of the emergence of hip hop, punk and disco, graffiti art, and sexual liberation. In the background are the major political events and social issues of the day — crime, urban decay, financial woes, the infamous blackout, drugs, Son of Sam, the bitter mayoral election and the overall poverty that gripped the city.
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France
Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the ’60s and ’70s.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Taiwan
A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache
Genre: Drama
Country: France
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner’s daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Director: Ömer Vargi
Stars: Sener Sen, Kenan Imirzalioglu, Ismail Hacioglu
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Ali Osman is living a quiet life after years of struggle, and tears. And he is slowly slipping into dementia. He made his peace with the horrible life he had and waiting for his final day to come. He then learns a long kept secret about a rebel boy whom happens to be his son. The boy is targeted by an insane mobster over a pretty singer girl. After a bloody firefight in a bar where she performs, the boy and the girl takes refuge in Ali Osman’s life. Now Ali Osman is at a junction; will he break his vow of peace and take the matter into his hands or will he let dementia make him forget about everything?
Director: David Volach
Stars: Assi Dayan, Ilan Griff, Sharon Hacohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
A respected rabbi is forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family.
Director: Ben Affleck
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Casey Affleck
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl’s kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
Director: Anna Broinowski
Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Australia
A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that “Forbidden Love” author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Director: Marcos Jorge
Stars: João Miguel, Fabiula Nascimento, Babu Santana
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Italy
In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks in order to survive and find a place in society. He arrives in town without a penny in his pockets and starts working as help in a decadent bar, a nasty place, lost amid the urban desert. He sleeps in the storage room on the back, and under a cold neon light learns how to fry “pastel” and “coxinhas”, outdoing his “master”, Zulmiro, the owner of the bar. Nonato is ignorant, but talented. He knows how to work the kitchen, soon others realize it too. The first one to notice him, is Iria, a prostitute, who doesn’t know how to cook but loves to eat and starts an affair with him.
Director: Pere Portabella
Stars: Christian Atanasiu, Féodor Atkine, George-Christoph Biller
Genre: Musical
Country: Spain
Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
Director: Various international directors
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.
Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Baki Davrak, Nurgül Yesilçay, Tuncel Kurtiz
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey | Italy
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father’s former girlfriend.
Director: Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
Stars: David Lee Hoffman, Song Diefeng, Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He’s a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman’s mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmers’ collectives selling tea, ways to export “boutique tea” from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming’s best friend, the earthworm.
Director: Brook Silva-Braga
Stars: Scott Erikson, Rebecca Filmer, Sabrina Hezinger
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
On a trip around the world, every day feels like Saturday. A MAP FOR SATURDAY reveals a world of long-term, solo travel through the stories of trekkers on four continents. The documentary finds backpackers helping neglected Thai tsunami victims. It explains why Nepal’s guesthouses are empty and Brazil’s stoplights are ignored. But at its core, SATURDAY tracks the emotional arc of extreme long-term travelers; teenagers and senior citizens who wondered, “What would it be like to travel the world?” Then did it.
Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Louis Negin
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin’s home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Director: Steven Okazaki
Stars: Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida, Kiyoko Imori
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Using extensive interviews with survivors and archival footage, an examination reveals the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Director: David Schisgall, Nina Alvarez
Stars: Laura Guzman, Rachel Lloyd
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
Very Young Girls, whose title reflects the fact that in the United States the average age of entry into prostitution is just thirteen. The film takes us into the work of a former sexually exploited youth-turned-activist named Rachel Lloyd, who started the New York City organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) to help victimized young women escape their pimps and find another way of life.
Director: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty
Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Australia
Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people’s struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.
Director: Pavla Fleischer
Stars: Eugene Hutz, Pavla Fleischer, Boban Markovic
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK
In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York’s Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and his musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about him. The Pied Piper of Hutzovina follows Eugene and Pavla on their subsequent road trip through Eugene’s home country, Ukraine.
Director: Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Matthew Prinzing
Stars: Michael Bloomberg, Christo, Rudy Giuliani
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates,” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.
Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Stars: Nicholas Kristof, Brian Steidle
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Sudan
A documentary that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.
Director: Gonzalo Arijon
Stars: Jose Algorta, Roberto Canessa, Alfredo Delgado
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Uruguay | Argentina | Spain | USA
For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Stars: Forrest J. Ackerman, John Badham, Diane Baker
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
Director: Nae Caranfil
Stars: Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie “Romania’s Independence” – an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, “Restul e tacere” tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska
Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Marta Waldera
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
When the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it’s finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.
Director: Richard Robbins
Stars: Sharon D. Allen, Beau Bridges, Colby Buzzell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A unique documentary about troops’ experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A larger assortment was published as a book by Random House last September. The film drew upon the submissions by soldiers for the book.
Director: Ben Niles
Stars: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick Jr., Hélène Grimaud
Genre: Documentary, Family, Musical
Country: USA
A feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037- from forest floor to concert hall.
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: Russia | Germany | Kazakhstan | China
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Director: Jason Kohn
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | USA
An examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm.
Director: Joan Brooker-Marks
Stars: Larry Flynt, Al van Schaik, Simon L. Leis Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary that celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian.
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
Director: David Sington
Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Stephen Armstrong
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK | USA
The crew members of NASA’s Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.
Director: Brad Isaacs
Stars: Cayden Boyd, Lara Flynn Boyle, Matthew Modine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Set in the 1960s, a magical tale of two 12-year-olds embarking on an adventure to find new, cool parents and escape their neglected, overly adult existence.
Director: Craig Zobel
Stars: Pat Healy, Kene Holiday, John Baker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
When a man answers an advertisement to train as a record producer, he’s excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered musicians, only to discover his new job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Director: Stelios Kouloglou
Stars: John Perkins
Genre: Documentary, Thriller
Country: Greece | Ecuador | Venezuela | UK | USA
In front of an angry audience somewhere in Latin America, a North American discloses the secret network that used the World Bank, payoffs, extortion and sex, military coups and political assassinations to create the American empire. The definitive answer to President Bush’s question: “why do they hate us?”
Director: César Charlone, Enrique Fernández
Stars: César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez, Mario Silva
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay | Brazil | France
A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope’s 1988 visit.
Director: Jean Becker
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Director: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi
Stars: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Ted Bachardy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Romance
Country: USA
The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book ‘The Berlin Stories’ inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.
Director: Noah Thomson
Stars: David Berg, Ricky Rodriguez, Joey Thomson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A first-person account of growing up in an evangelical Christian cult.
Director: Hana Makhmalbaf
Stars: Abbas Alijome, Abdolali Hoseinali, Nikbakht Noruz
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran | France
A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only young boy who takes her to his school is thrown out by the teacher, because helping her prevented him from coming in time. – It must not go unnoticed that the schoolgirls and the female teacher are likewise hostile toward this girl. None of them want her in the classroom. On her way home she and other girls are taken as prisoners by boys playing talibans.
Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland
The story of a son’s conflicting memories of his dying father.
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Stars: Gaku Hamada, Eita, Megumi Seki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Italy
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he’s captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?