Director: Sylvie Verheyde
Stars: Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guerard
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents’ bar.
Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | Japan
When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
Director: John Woo
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | Japan | Taiwan | South Korea | USA
The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China’s Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
Director: Todd Kessler
Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, Jesse McCartney, Margo Harshman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Natalie, head of her curriculum activities in high school and riding on a tennis scholarship for college, gets Keith as her Chemistry lab partner. As Natalie can be uptight, Keith proves to be the opposite, even while hiding a secret.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | Cayman Islands | Denmark | USA
A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
Director: Eran Creevy
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he’s hurtling towards.
Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Director: Haile Gerima
Stars: Aaron Arefe, Abiye Tedla, Takelech Beyene
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia | Germany | France
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people’s humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
Director: Reshef Levi
Stars: Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Shmil Ben Ari
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
A family in the 80s with five kids get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Steve Jacobs
Stars: John Malkovich, Natalie Becker, Jessica Haines
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | South Africa
After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Stars: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines | France | South Korea | Hong Kong
A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real “star” of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.
Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That’s when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss’s young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams.
Director: Ik-joon Yang
Stars: Kkobbi Kim, Hwan Lee, Ik-joon Yang
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
A bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.
Director: Marek Losey
Stars: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell, Laura Hopwood
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting – the elusive sociable plover – he will have ‘twitched’ the entire British List. Tunt has his shortwave radio, packed-lunch and a portrait of his ex-wife Sandra for company. Suddenly, in the midst of a conversation with Sandra’s portrait, the hide door blows open and a bedraggled stranger – unshaven, edgy and bloodied introduces himself as Dave John, a fugitive from the storm. After a tense introduction, the two men discover that they have a good deal in common, sharing sandwiches, tea and personal exchanges which are frank, poignant and often funny.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text — long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East — remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Director: Michael Joy
Stars: Grant Dodwell, Don Reid, Paul Gleeson
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Six strangers meet up every week to talk, finding they are not alone with their issues. Secrets are revealed as their friendships grow but when tragedy strikes, they realize that it is up to them to take responsibility for their own lives.
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Stars: Isaiah Zagar, Julia Zagar, Ezekiel Zagar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The story of Julia Zagar and her husband Isaiah, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete.
Director: Lance Hammer
Stars: Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man’s suicide affects three people’s lives.
Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Hee Ching Paw, Chun-lung Leung, Cheuk Man Au
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
“The Way We Are” tells the story of a hardworking, widowed, single mother (Mrs. Cheung) and her teenage son (Ka-on) living in the troubled housing estate of Tinshuiwai, a suburb regularly featured in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Director: Kenneth Glenaan
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany
While caring for a dying friend, a man reflects back on their youth together.
Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | France
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Dennis Gansel
Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany | France
A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard, Louca Tassone
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Scampia Vele is the corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Chile | Brazil
A man is obsessed with John Travolta’s disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Nash Edgerton
Stars: David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
A man’s life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.
Director: Yoon-ki Lee
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-woo Ha, Il-hwa Choi
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Jobless, single and in her early thirties, Hee-soo is miserable. Desperate, she sets out to find her ex-boyfriend, Byoung-woon, who owes her $3,500. Rather inconveniently, it turns out that Byoung-woon is also penniless, but he cheerfully claims he can get the money from a series of girlfriends. Suspicious, Hee-soo decides to trail Byoung-woon as he makes the rounds of his varied lady chums, just in case he tries to deceive her. Thus the pair embark on a strange, nostalgic journey together.
Director: Pieter Van Hees
Stars: Eline Kuppens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sien Eggers
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Belgium
When Marie moves into her boyfriend’s apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery.
Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA
An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.
Director: Sion Sono
Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | Germany | Spain | Lithuania
A Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Director: Martin Provost
Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium
Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.
Director: Arsen A. Ostojic
Stars: Alen Liveric, Mustafa Nadarevic, Biserka Ipsa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Croatia | Slovenia
Ivan, a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War, discovers a dark family secret, which fundamentally changes his life he now wants to end.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Stars: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Japan | USA
A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
Director: Megumi Sasaki
Stars: Paula Antebi, Will Barnet, Robert Barry
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.
Director: Courtney Hunt
Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Yeong-ho Kim, Su-jeong Hwang, Eun-hye Park
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
“Night and Day” is centered around the mixed emotions found in traveling. Characters in the film are Sung-nam Kim, an artist selected by the Korean government that escaped from Seoul and currently resides in Paris, student Yoo-jung Lee studying painting in Paris, Sung-in Han waiting for her husband Sung-nam Kim, and North Korean Kyeong-su Yun also studying in Paris.
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Stars: Askhat Kuchencherekov, Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Samal Yeslyamova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan | Russia | Germany | Poland | Switzerland | Italy
On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It’s dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who’s slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa’s later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa’s dreams? What about the other lambs?
Director: Yves Christian Fournier
Stars: Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Maxime Bessette
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas’s dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. Only Mia, his best friend’s girl, can reach him. With more questions than answers, Josh’s is the story of a survivor. It is a modern portrait of today’s teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused, idealistic yet jaded.
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Stars: Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Antonio Villaraigosa
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.
Director: Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Stars: Dan Bustard, Ashley Esqueda, Andrew Monkelban
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An intimate, fascinating look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging, hugely popular genre of computer games.
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Matt Boren, Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents’ loft.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Stars: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Masaaki Akahori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
In 1993 Kanao and Shoko are a Tokyo couple awaiting the arrival of their first child. Although both have studied art, Kanao works as a shoe repairman which doesn’t stretch his rather laid-back style and Shoko works in a small publishing firm. Their home life is marked by some clashes between her attempts at regimentation, including scheduling their sex life on a calendar, and his flirting with other women. Kanao is offered work as a courtroom sketch artist and becomes a witness to the most sensational murder trials of Japan through the next 8 years. He must cope with the ugliness and breakdown in civility he encounters.
Director: Eran Riklis
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel | Germany | France
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Italy
During a five year period an Italian filmmaker documents the world of down-on-their-luck individuals who live in a Californian desert trying to get by one day at a time. None of them has more than a vehicle, a dog and some clothes.
Director: Götz Spielmann
Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated… and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Stars: Algenis Perez Soto, Jose Rijo, Walki Cuevas
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA | Dominican Republic
Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.
Director: Fred Cavayé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Spain
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Gil-Byung Chae, Jung Gil Ja, Shin Hyun Je
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | South Korea
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
Director: Julia Sweeney
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study class. What she learns there leads her to new questions, and in search for answers she explores meditation, Buddhism and New Age gurus, then describes what she learned from the sciences and from sharpening her critical thinking skills. She discovers that to accept the truth leads to surprising revelations. She concludes by sharing how this effects her family.
Director: Tom Lin
Stars: Rhydian Vaughan, Chieh Chang, Jennifer Chia-Ching Chu
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
The “Winds of September” are the wind of Hsinchu, a strong wind that visits the county and city between September and November. Lin Shu Yu’s semi auto-biographical debut, produced by Eric Tsang, takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.
Director: Peter von Bagh
Stars: Siiri Angerkoski, Ritva Arvelo, Susanna Haavisto
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Finland
History and the spirit of XXth century Helsinki through the cinema, documentary footage, architecture, art and politics.
Director: James Watkins
Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.
Director: Vanessa Gould
Stars: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Vincent Floderer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Depicts a cast of fine artists and eccentric scientists (from MIT and NASA) who have devoted their lives to the unlikely medium of modern origami. Through their determination to reinterpret the world in paper, they arouse a fascinating mix of sensibilities towards art, form, expressiveness, creativity and meaning.
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | Iran | UK | USA
An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, ‘Be Like Others’ is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.
Director: Attila Gigor
Stars: Zsolt Anger, András Márton Baló, Péter Blaskó
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hungary | Sweden | Ireland
Badly needing money for the treatment of his ill mother, pathologist Tibor Malkáv accepts the proposition of a stranger to murder someone he doesn’t know a thing about.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Netherlands | Hong Kong
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Director: Chung-ryoul Lee
Stars: Won-gyoon Choi, Sam-soon Lee
Genre: Documentary
Country: South Korea
An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Director: James Honeyborne
Stars: Paul Newman, Rufus Beck
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
An inspiring exploration of one family’s resilience and fortitude shot using innovative and groundbreaking filming techniques.
Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Stars: David Antoon, Vincent Cannistraro, James Cullen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
“The End of America” details the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism. It’s not a “lefty” taught-to-me, but rather a historical look at trends in once-functioning democracies from modern history that are being repeated in our country today. It gives any reader (or viewer of the lecture) a much-needed history lesson and constitutional refresher. Most importantly, it puts the recent gradual loss of civil liberties in the U.S. in a historical context. The average American might not be alarmed at AT&T selling our private information to the federal executive, but when this action is seen as part of a larger series of erosions and events, a pattern emerges with unfortunate consequences that become disturbingly clear.
Director: Juraj Lehotsky
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Slovakia
A poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Stars: Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, ‘Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities’. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That’s when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni’s door in the most unexpected way.
Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Finland | Germany
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Director: Mark N. Hopkins
Stars: Chris Brasher, Chiara Lepora, Davinder Gill
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
Director: Steven Greenstreet
Stars: Richard Atkinson, Denise Austin, Brooke Bates
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An overview of the politics, social effects and problems associated with the rising epidemic of American obesity.
Director: Mariano Llinás
Stars: Mariano Llinás, Walter Jakob, Agustín Mendilaharzu
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina
In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Villmar Björkman, Linnea Cart-Lamy, Leif Edlund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | France
In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.
Director: Mariana Chenillo
Stars: Fernando Luján, Enrique Arreola, Ari Brickman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
This story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he’d been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
Director: Murray Siple
Stars: Murray Siple
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
This documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts.
Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.
Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him – incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Director: Don Hardy, Dana Nachman
Stars: Jack Cummings, Jackie Cummings, Allen Grafton
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
The story of several families who have their lives destroyed when their hometown is whipped into a frenzy by allegations of child molestation.
Director: Chris J. Ford
Stars: John Ratzenberger, Shelly Cole, Cindy Pickett
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A fading smalltime barber is forced to hire the last person on earth he’d want working in his shop – a woman.
Director: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Stars: Thavisouk Phrasavath
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Kuras has spent the last 23 years chronicling the family’s extraordinary journey in this deeply personal, poetic, and emotional film.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their “A Bigger Bang” tour.
Director: Peter Galison, Robb Moss
Stars: Steven Aftergood, Thomas Blanton, James Bruce
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Amidst the American hunger for instantaneous news and up-to-date “facts,” this unflinching film uncovers the vast, invisible world of government secrecy.
Director: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother’s belongings. While she’s there, the son (Jamel Debbouze as Karim) of family maid (Mimouna Hadji) takes advantage of her presence and attempts to interview her as part of a documentary about successful women that he’s undertaken with his film school teacher, Michel (co-writer Jean-Pierre Bacri). However, Michel’s intentions aren’t quite what they seem, as he’s having an affair with Florence and hoping to persuade her to leave her husband. Meanwhile, Karim finds his own marriage threatened when his attractive hotel co-worker (Florence Loiret-Caille) declares an interest in him.
Director: Léa Pool
Stars: Marianne Fortier, Élie Dupuis, Hugo St-Onge-Paquin
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Summer 1966. It’s time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her youngest brother Benoît throws himself into his own inner world. The father seems absolutely knocked out by the situation. Élise decides to take control of her family, in an eloquent attempt to save them. With the assistance of flourishing nature around her, she stands on the threshold of an incomparable summer.
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Italy | Germany
Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie – he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport – and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.
Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mayumi Tanaka, Mirai Shida
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.
Director: Bill Plympton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Much to his surprise, an utter misanthrope is transformed into a reluctant do-gooder, when a glorious pair of angelic snow-white wings sprouts up from his back. Now, everyone in town wants a piece of his feathered appendages.
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA | Germany | Hungary
A prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, and Hellboy his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | USA
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Erik Poppe
Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Norway | Sweden | Germany
A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.
Director: Benoit Pilon
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii’s illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages.
Director: David Lebrun
Stars: Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: USA
The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times “one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery”, Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.
Director: Max Färberböck
Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany | Poland
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Terence Davies
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK
A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
Director: Agnès Varda, Laura Obiols
Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Italy
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
Director: Tom Gustafson
Stars: Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
A bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower derived from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to turn many in his community gay, including a comely rugby player for himself.
Director: Steven C. Smith
Stars: Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie making in the early 1930s, and those same factors which resulted in the drastic turn to working under the code for the twenty or so years starting in 1934.
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
Director: Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Stars: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Don King
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
A filmed account of the Zaire 74 soul music festival, originally intended to be in concert with the famous Rumble in the Jungle bout in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974.
Director: Raymond Depardon
Stars: Paul Argaud, Louis Brès, Marcelle Brès
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Third documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l’approche (2001) and Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.
Director: Gini Reticker
Stars: Janet Johnson Bryant, Etweda Cooper, Vaiba Flomo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A group of women rise up to peace to Liberia and help bring to power the country’s first female head of state.
Director: Özgür Dogan, Orhan Eskiköy
Stars: Emre Aydin, Rojda Huz, Vehip Huz
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Turkey | Netherlands
On the Way to School is a film about a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state, and about his interaction with the Kurdish children who have to learn Turkish. The film witnesses the communication problem emphasizing the loneliness of a teacher in a different community and culture; and the changes brought up by his presence into this different community during one year. The film chronicles one school year, starting from September 2007 until the departure of the teacher for summer holiday in June 2008. During this period, they begin to know and understand each other mutually and slowly.
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Isle Of Man | USA
In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar”, directed by a young Orson Welles.
Director: Stacy Peralta
Stars: Jim Brown, Tony Muhammad, Kershaun Scott
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.
Director: Jean-François Richet
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: France | Canada
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.
Director: Jean-François Richet
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: France | Canada
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France’s Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Stars: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
Director: Sean Donnelly
Stars: Kelly McCormick, Tiffany, Jeff Turner
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, claim to be in love with the 80’s pop singer Tiffany.
Director: Felix Moeller
Stars: August Zirner, Alice Harlan, Lotte Harlan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Finland
Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940) – required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure – save for Leni Riefenstahl – is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan’s epic Kolberg (1945) was the basis for Inglourious Basterds (2009)’s pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Denmark | Germany | Norway | France | Sweden | Finland | Czech Republic
A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
Director: Arash T. Riahi
Stars: Navid Navid, Pourya Mahyari, Elika Bozorgi
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Turkey
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany | France | Czech Republic
A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s.
Director: Daniel Leconte
Stars: Elisabeth Badinter, François Bayrou, Christophe Bigot
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
When twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published by Denmark’s largest newspaper in 2005, European muslim groups denounced the cartoons as insulting and sacrilegious. To everyone’s surprise, the protests against the Muhammad drawings took a worldwide scale, even leading to violent demonstrations in several Muslim countries. In France, the satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo joined the conversation and reprinted the controversial cartoons, causing an uproar among the country’s growing Muslim population. Months later, the Great Mosque of Paris, the World Muslim League and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France took Charlie Hebdo’s editor Philippe Val to court for defamation and incitement of hatred.
Director: Chris Bell
Stars: Chris Bell, Mike Bell, Mark Bell
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA
An examination of America’s win-at-all-cost culture from the perspective of bodybuilding and performance enhancing drugs, as it focuses on a pair of siblings chasing their dream.
Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho
Genre: Music, Romance
Country: Portugal | France
Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August
Director: Philippe Claudel
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Director: Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault
Stars: Marie Frédérique Auger, Caroline Beauséjour, Yann Bernard
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Canada
A mosaic look at a day in the lives of twelve Quebec high schoolers strikingly captures the unique nature of the teenage years.
Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Stars: Michael Brown, George W. Bush, Julie Chen Moonves
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.
Director: David Prior
Stars: Pierre Bidou, Russell T. Butterbach, Les Lundblad
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
Retrospective documentary covering aspects of the Zodiac investigation, including interviews with the original investigators and surviving victims.
Director: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
Stars: Mariella Frostrup, Zabou Breitman, Karoline Herfurth
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK
The mysterious lives of flamingos are captured on film with a birds-eye view of the animals living in Africa.
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Stars: Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Carlo Ljubek, Hristo Mutafchiev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | Slovenia | Hungary | Serbia
The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, Bai Dan, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
Director: Shane Meadows
Stars: Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.
Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: Germany | Finland | Netherlands
An ‘essayistic’ documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt’s paintings into seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate entities. However, reality was different.
Director: Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Infamously blunt, Wilma Stephenson runs a “boot camp” teaching Culinary Arts at Frankford High, disciplining her students into capable chefs and responsible students. But behind her tough exterior is a teacher who cares passionately about getting the best out of her kids.
Director: Ben Hopkins
Stars: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey | UK | Kazakhstan
A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
Director: James Chressanthis
Stars: Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Sandra Bullock
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The lifelong friendship of the great Hungarian-born cinematographers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond and their impact on American cinema.
Director: Wendy Keys
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Profiles Milton Glaser (1929- ), America’s foremost graphic designer: designer of the iconic “I [heart] N.Y.” logo, teacher, and humanitarian. Interviews with Glaser are arranged to take him through a rough chronology of his life: study at New York High School of Music and Art and at Cooper Union, a seminal stay in Italy, his marriage, and his various partnerships – founding Push Pin Studios and “New York” magazine, designing Grand Union supermarkets, and working with “The Nation.” Interspersed are examples of his work. Glaser is, throughout, charming in manner, memorable in his observations, and generous of spirit.
Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.
Director: Frank H. Woodward
Stars: Robin Atkin Downes, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos.
Director: Rémi Bezançon
Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Five key days in a family’s life.
Director: Petr Zelenka
Stars: Michaela Badinková, Jerzy Michal Bozyk, Igor Chmela
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic | Poland | France
A film that examines the relationships between lives on both sides of the proscenium, Petr Zelenka’s Karamazovi finds a Prague-based theatrical ensemble arriving in Krakow, Poland – where its members prepare to mount a stage production of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
Director: Brendan Toller
Stars: Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Noam Chomsky
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
A documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Many sources all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores. Will these stores die or will they survive?
Director: Tom Donahue, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker
Stars: Cindy Sherman, John Waters, Eric Bogosian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary on art-scene commentator Paul Hasegawa-Overacker’s relationship with enigmatic photographer Cindy Sherman.
Director: James Colquhoun, Carlo Ledesma
Stars: Vicky Blewitt, Ian Brighthope, Jerome Burne
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
Food Matters examines how the food we eat can help or hurt our health. Nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists weigh in on such topics as organic food, food safety, raw foodism, and nutritional therapy.
Director: Nahid Persson
Stars: Farah Pahlavi, Nahid Persson, Zinat S. Lloyd
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden
Filmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.
Director: Jean Becker
Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marie-Josée Croze, Pierre Vaneck
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
The back story is a marvelous and gorgeous social commentary on the type of generous actions we could all take – to enrich our often-solitary elder-citizens’ lives.
Director: Toa Fraser
Stars: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand | UK
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Stars: Antoine L’Écuyer, Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there’s Léa, the exasperating girl who’s always right about everything. In the summer of ’68, when mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain. Destroy the neighbors’ house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Léa. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned.
Director: Anders Østergaard
Stars: George W. Bush, Ko Muang, Aung San Suu Kyi
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Norway | UK | USA | Germany | Netherlands | Israel | Spain | Belgium | Canada
Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
Director: Melissa Maclean, Luke Walker
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
To the Australian media Kenja is a ‘secretive cult’, their leader described in Parliament as a ‘seedy conman’. Despite preparing to fight yet another court case Ken Dyers and Jan Hamilton allow a film crew unprecedented access to the ‘spiritual evolvement centre’ they founded in 1982. How can the view from inside Kenja be so different to the one outside? Through remarkable verite footage and candid interviews, Beyond Our Ken explores the anatomy and ambiguity of the ‘cult’ enigma.
Director: Dan Stone, Patrick Gambuti Jr.
Stars: Paul Watson, Alex Cornelissen, Peter Hammarstedt
Genre: Documentary, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
At the Edge of the World chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, under-trained and under-equipped, develop a combination of bizarre and brilliant tactics with which to stop the whalers. But first they must find the Japanese ships, a far more difficult challenge than ever imagined – long-time activist Paul Watson and first-time captain Alex Cornelissen employ an array of strategies in the hopes of finding an elusive adversary in the vast expanse of the Ross Sea.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Kumiko Asô
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
Director: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Stars: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Using only word of mouth, two lifelong best friends and Internet comedians, Rhett & Link, embark on a search for the long-lost teacher of the first grade class where they met.