Director: Diego Luna
Stars: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Karina Gidi, José María Yazpik
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
About a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence.
Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Set on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Director: Aaron Schock
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico | USA
A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st?
Director: Daniel Grou
Stars: Claude Legault, Rémy Girard, Martin Dubreuil
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.
Director: Josh Fox
Stars: Josh Fox, Dick Cheney, Pete Seeger
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.
Director: Mike Magidson
Stars: Gaba Petersen, Knud Therkielsen, Ole Jørgen Hammeken
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Greenland | France
Several years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.
Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Ayrton Senna, Reginaldo Leme, John Bisignano
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: UK | France | USA
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34
Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sienna Guillory, Annie Hardy
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A young man faces the abrupt loss of his friend.
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Jeong-hie Yun, Da-wit Lee, Hee-ra Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany | Ukraine | Netherlands
A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
Director: Cheol-soo Jang
Stars: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
A woman subject to mental, physical and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
Director: David Barker
Stars: Alexandra Meierhans, Ivan Martin, Michael Godere
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
A harrowing psychological thriller from a widely acclaimed filmmaker, Daylight pits a couple lost in America against a conniving gang of kidnappers, in David Barker’s rigorous and personal re-imagining of the genre film.
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Stars: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
Director: Rafi Pitts
Stars: Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Mahmoud Babai
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | Germany
In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: China
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdan, Abu Jandal
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Director: Janus Metz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden
Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They’re stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal – no actors.
Director: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Tracy Wright, Molly Parker, Daniel MacIvor
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Stars: Mohsen Kadivar, Mitra Khalatbari, Shadi Sadr
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
A documentary on Iran’s 2010 Green Revolution.
Director: John Turturro
Stars: John Turturro, Max Casella, Angela Luce
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Italy | USA | Germany
A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.
Director: Jason Spingarn-Koff
Stars: Teasa Copprue
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by a virtual world — reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality.
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Stars: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: France | UK
A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.
Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Yoon-seok Kim, Sung-ha Jo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea | USA | Hong Kong
When the attempt to kill a professor goes wrong, a series of violent events are triggered which force a taxi driver to run for his life.
Director: Celine Danhier
Stars: Amos Poe, Ann Magnuson, Becky Johnston
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
During the punk rock stage in the late ’70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of “Do it yourself” independent filmmaking.
Director: Christian Marclay
Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Scenes from various films and TV programs that feature clocks, or some verbal mention of time, combine to make a 24 hour timepiece movie.
Director: Mark Landsman
Stars: Craig Baldwin, Craig Green, Conrad O. Johnson Sr.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
Alumni from Houston’s storied Kashmere High School Stage Band return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for their beloved band leader who turned the struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.
Director: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Yu-mi Jung, Seong-kun Mun
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
A love story between a middle-aged professor, a young student who prepares a movie and a student/film-maker who drinks too much.
Director: Brendan Fletcher
Stars: Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, Greg Tait
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TJ’s quest to find the son he’s never known, takes him on a journey across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape. On the road, TJ questions his life of violence… he meets a host of amazing characters who open up a way of life infused with music and hunting and community.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Shima Ohnishi, Ken Yoshizawa
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the ‘god soldier’.
Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan | UK
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Director: Luis Estrada
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
El Benny is deported from the U.S. and returns home to a Mexico devastated by the drug wars. He too joins in, and starts climbing the hierarchy, finding a prosperous life, full of money, women, violence and fun.
Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Germany | UK
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Germany | France
The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Richard Lord
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Chad
Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the “war effort”, giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son.
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain | Mexico | France
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | Mexico
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende’s presidency, an employee at a Morgue’s recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Director: René Féret
Stars: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna ‘Nannerl’ Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Director: Eric Lartigau
Stars: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
A successful Paris lawyer is forced to re-invent his life after he makes a fatal mistake.
Director: Charles Ferguson
Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance from it. Instead she observes it through the songs of Alan Vega’s Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual education lesson she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile is preparing for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be ‘overrated’. Caught between the two men and her collaborator Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Joon-hyuk Lee
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.
Director: Jennifer Arnold
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A young Kenyan’s life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday… Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
Director: Ricardo Calil, Renato Terra
Stars: Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Brazil
A documentary which shows the greatness in the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira of 1967.
Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Norway | Palestine
In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark | France
When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
Director: Jalmari Helander
Stars: Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland | Norway | France | Sweden
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko
Stars: Igor Sergeev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Portugal | France
Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kerian Mayan
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A young princess is the subject of a tug-of-war among witches, as each struggles to find the suitable antidote to a death sentence inculcated by an evil sister.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada | France
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother’s last wishes.
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA
The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Director: Jeremy Sims
Stars: Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Le Marquand
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.
Director: Dover Koshashvili
Stars: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast.
Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | Australia
The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Director: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Stars: Vik Muniz
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | UK
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Stars: Pat Tillman, Josh Brolin, Mary Tillman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Mystery
Country: USA
Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn’t done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev’s riveting and enraging documentary.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands | Indonesia
Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 – World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2005). Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi. Director and DOP Leonard Retel Helmrich follows this family in a unique way with his breathtaking Single Shot Cinema-technique. Without interviews and voice-overs, Leonard will bring you closer to Indonesia than you will ever get.
Director: Simon Rumley
Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK | USA
A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
Director: Avi Nesher
Stars: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered.
Director: Mark Romanek
Stars: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
Director: Robin Hessman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA | UK | Russia
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today’s Moscow.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Stars: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Germany | Switzerland
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Stars: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter’s death.
Director: Sang-soo Im
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
A man’s affair with his family’s housemaid leads to dark consequences.
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Director: Baran bo Odar
Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
Director: James Rasin
Stars: Candy Darling, Andy Warhol, Holly Woodlawn
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary on Candy Darling, The Life and Times of the Andy Warhol Superstar.
Director: Alix Delaporte
Stars: Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, Evelyne Didi
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her although he dislikes her blunt ways. Tony hires her as a fishmonger, lodges her and teaches her the tricks of the trade. The relationships between Myriam, Tony’s mother, and Angèle are far from easy but the young woman gradually adapts to her new environment and little by little Tony and Angèle manage to tame each other.
Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Stars: Won Bin, Sae-ron Kim, Tae-hoon Kim
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Belgium | Iran
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
Director: Daniel Cockburn
Stars: Tracy Wright, R.D. Reid, Anand Rajaram
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
A fantasy about a reclusive woman who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her, turning her home into an archive. As realities collapse and intersect around here, she must make a final choice: is she a free agent, or just a tool of the archive?
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Stars: Charles Adams, Jonathan Alter, Robert Balfanz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An examination of the current state of education in America today.
Director: Alan Lowery, John Pilger
Stars: Julian Assange, Tony Blair, Wilfred Burchett
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Stars: Lance Henriksen, Lathrop Walker, Andrew Keegan
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
A young analyst talks with an old man claiming to be from the future – a dystopian future.
Director: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Stars: Bengt Braskered, Sanna Persson, Magnus Börjeson
Genre: Sweden | France
Country: Comedy, Crime, Music
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
Director: Yael Hersonski
Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Germany | Israel
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia | Japan
The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Pilar López de Ayala, Isabel Ruth, Filipe Vargas
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal | Spain | France | Brazil
A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
Director: Guillem Morales
Stars: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France | Belgium
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.
Director: Marius Holst
Stars: Benjamin Helstad, Trond Nilssen, Stellan Skarsgård
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway | France | Sweden | Poland
Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Tracie Thoms, Omari Hardwick
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.
Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: Graham Allison, James Baker III, Bruce Blair
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary about how the likelihood of nuclear weapons (or fissile materials) usage has increased due to the rise of terrorism and lack of safeguards and verification.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain | France
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Juanita Wilson
Stars: Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland | Sweden | Republic of North Macedonia
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson’s drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.
Director: Elijah Drenner
Stars: Robert Forster, Eric Schaefer, Eddie Muller
Genre: Documentary, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent movie era to the 1970s.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family’s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
Director: Fred Cavayé
Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Samuel, a male nurse, saves the life of a thief whose henchmen take Samuel’s wife hostage and force him to spring their boss.
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Stars: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, B. Ruby Rich
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
Director: José Padilha
Stars: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
Director: Adrian Grenier
Stars: Med Abrous, Alec Baldwin, Nicholas Barber
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary that examines the relationship between celebrity and society.
Director: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Stars: Paul Bosche, Alfredo del Rio, John DiGiacomo
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
This film tells the story of the massive police raid of Stonewall in June 1969.
Director: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten
Stars: Bruce Barlow, Deloy Bateman, Michelle Benward
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An inside look at former FLDS teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.
Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan ‘Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: USA
A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.
Director: Taggart Siegel
Stars: Gunther Hauk, Kirk Webster, Carlo Petrini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
A look at the mysterious collapse of honeybee colonies in America and an exploration of how beekeeping is practiced there and around the world.
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Stars: Anselm Kiefer, Bill Katz, Klaus Dermutz
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Netherlands | UK
The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hill-studio estate in the South of France.
Director: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Stars: Damon Albarn, Mike Smith, Wayne Hernandez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK
An insightful rockumentary looking at the history of the British rock band, Blur, as they head out on the road for their 2009 reunion tour.
Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he’s shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
Director: Thomas Napper
Stars: Kevin Cohen, Manuel Compito, Danny Harris
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA
Los Angeles’ Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course – but more importantly we found life, hope and incredibly powerful human journeys.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Germany
Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella by the celebrated Madame de Lafayette, the action centers on the love of Marie de Mezières for her dashing cousin Henri de Guise, thwarted when her father’s political ambitions force her into marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, whom she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman with a disdain for warfare, and soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
Director: Alexei Popogrebsky
Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren’t communicate.
Director: Tamra Davis
Stars: Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Sara Baras, José Miguel Carmona, Montse Cortés
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Spain
A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance through the live performance of a wide variety of pieces.
Director: Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Tesoriere
Stars: Enrique Piñeyro, Germán Cantore, Agustin Negrussi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Argentina
“The Police Horror Show” is a documentary portraying the dramatic story of Fernando Ariel Carrera, an ordinary man unjustly convicted to 30 years of prison due systemic corruption.
Director: Hark Tsui
Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Chao Deng, Carina Lau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
Director: Craig McCall
Stars: Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston’s The African Queen and King Vidor’s War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Director: Richard Press
Stars: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
Director: Andrei Ujica
Stars: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Stefan Andrei
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Romania | Germany
The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Spalding Gray, Forrest Gray, Kathie Russo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the art of Spalding Gray who drew from real life experience to create a compelling and deeply personal series of monologues.
Director: Jacob Hatley
Stars: Larry Campbell, Jay Collins, Elizabeth Danko
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
A documentary on Levon Helm, a founding member of The Band, at home in Woodstock in the midst of creating his first studio album in 25 years.
Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Stars: Werner Herzog, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.
Director: Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan, Elias Koteas
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary on the late Elia Kazan.