Tag: 2012

Director: Ursula Meier
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.

Director: Petra Costa
Stars: Li An, Elena Andrade, Petra Costa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil | USA

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | France | Mexico | USA

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum.

Director: Neil Barsky
Stars: Ed Koch, George Artz, Wayne Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary on Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA | Taiwan | UK | Canada

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China | France

Lu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her husband businessman Qiao Yongzhao entering the hotel with a young girl. A few hours later the girl Sun Xiaomin is run over and killed on a nearby motorway by a group of joyriding rich kids but when the police arrive they notice that Sun had been attacked before she was run over.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

Director: Matías Piñeiro
Stars: María Villar, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Agustina Muñoz
Genre: Drama
Country: María Villar, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Agustina Muñoz

A group of actresses performing in a production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue and revelation.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortêncílio Aquina
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal | Germany | Brazil | France | Spain

A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor’s maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.

Director: Grant Gee
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Tacita Dean, William Firebrace
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Using the late WG Sebald’s book “The Rings of Saturn” as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author’s account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | France

Along the rhythm of the seasons, beasts and humans regard each other. ‘Bestiary’ unfolds like a picture book about mutual observation. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loose, tranquil and indefinable elements.

Director: Candida Brady
Stars: Paul Connett, Jeremy Irons, Evangelos Kalafatis
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.

Director: Cate Shortland
Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia | Germany | UK

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents’ beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates

An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria | France | Germany

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lebanon | France | Qatar | Belgium | Egypt

An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Aniello Arena, Paola Minaccioni, Loredana Simioli
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.

Director: Plan B
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Lee Allen
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.

Director: Julian Pölsler
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Luchs, Karlheinz Hackl
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany | Netherlands | Belarus | Russia | Latvia

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church’s Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

Director: Thymaya Payne
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Crime
Country: Estonia | Philippines | Denmark | USA | Somalia | Canada

Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon and forces you to rethink everything you thought you knew about pirates.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | India

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

Director: Moussa Touré
Stars: Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laïty Fall, Malaminé ‘Yalenguen’ Dramé
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Senegal | Germany

A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.

Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-jae Lee, Hye-su Kim
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea

After a heist in South Korea, a gang of 5+1 fly to Hong Kong to look into a heist, in a Macau casino, of a $30M diamond, planned by someone unreliable. He brings in HK thieves as well. Can anyone be trusted?

Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Tessa Ia, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzalo Vega Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | France

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Marcelo Machado
Stars: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Brazil | USA | UK

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional brazilian music of that time.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA | France

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Director: James Ponsoldt
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Nick Offerman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Rita Marley
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

Director: Jamie Meltzer
Stars: Brandon Darby, Scott Crow, Lisa Fithian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on radical left-wing activist turned FBI informant, Brandon Darby.

Director: Chang-min Choo
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Seung-ryong Ryu, Hyo-joo Han
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea

A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

Director: Tom Donahue
Stars: Deborah Aquila, Risa Bramon Garcia, Ellen Chenoweth
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director – Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood.

Director: Elie Wajeman
Stars: Pio Marmaï, Cédric Kahn, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance, a past lover, a lifelong friendship and his brother’s addiction.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | Germany | Jordan | United Arab Emirates | USA

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Director: Peter Nicks
Stars: Sean Bennett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

Director: Dror Moreh
Stars: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Israel | France

A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.

Director: Jem Cohen
Stars: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | USA

When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Stars: Bernard, Catherine, Christian
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: France

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

Director: Ron Morales
Stars: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido de la Paz
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines

When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student’s increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend’s family.

Director: Pablo Berger
Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain | Belgium | France

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Director: Alice Winocour
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Director: Amy Berg
Stars: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Misskelley
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: New Zealand | USA

An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Francesca Pinto
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA | France

A look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus route and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of school.

Director: Jeremy Gardner
Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.

Director: Kim Nguyen
Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada

Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.

Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Stars: Harold Evans, Don McCullin, Michael Parkinson
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today’s photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent and the photographs that often defined historic moments.

Director: Annemarie Jacir
Stars: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri
Genre: Drama
Country: Palestine | Jordan | Greece | United Arab Emirates

1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Denmark | Canada | Croatia

A look at the lives of two teenage girls – inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa — growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Czech Republic | Germany

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician – and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Director: Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez
Stars: Donald Austin, Brendan Doogie Milewski, Craig Dougherty
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about Detroit told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.

Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori
Stars: Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Paraguay | Spain

Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.

Director: Keith Miller
Stars: Shanon Harper, Junior Adolph, Ernest Bastien
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A recently reformed drug dealer, now working as a claims adjuster by day and bouncer by night, receives earth-shattering news, compelling to make peace with his past and search for freedom beyond the concrete jungle of New York City.

Director: Mark Jarrett
Stars: Billy Harvey, Jeff Palmiotti, Leonora Lim-Moore
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan | USA

Two Ex-Pat Kindergarten teachers in Taiwan embark on a quixotic odyssey to bury a fellow countryman.

Director: Steven Feinartz
Stars: Eddie Pepitone, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Cult-Comic Eddie Pepitone’s life is on display in this unhinged portrait of creativity, enlightenment and rage.

Director: Emin Alper
Stars: Tamer Levent, Reha Özcan, Mehmet Özgür
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey | Greece

When some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Hong Kong

Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. Their parents are nowhere to be seen. The three little girls send their days working in the fields or wondering in the village. As their aunt finds difficult to provide food to the girls, the father returns to the village. He has come to take the girls with him to the city but he then agrees to leave the older one under the supervision of her grandfather.

Director: Andrew Semans
Stars: Will Rogers, Eleonore Hendricks, Rebecca Lawrence Levy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There’s just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that something has been left behind. A seemingly inconsequential object, but one Paul feels is of great importance to his dissertation and, therefore, to his future: a battered, personally annotated hardcover copy of ‘Little Dorrit’ by Charles Dickens. He will have to retrieve it from his former roommate – the obstinate Nancy. As he becomes increasingly consumed with the retrieval of ‘Little Dorrit’, Paul’s relationship and career unravel.

Director: Markus Imhoof
Stars: Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Belgium | Tunisia | Morocco

An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.

Director: Nabil Ayouch
Stars: Abdelhakim Rachi, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Tunisia | Morocco

A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.

Director: Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark

The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.

Director: Adam Leon
Stars: Ty Hickson, Tashiana Washington, Joshua Rivera
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When their latest work is buffed by a rival crew, two determined graffiti writers embark on an elaborate plan to bomb the ultimate location: the New York Mets’ Home Run Apple.

Director: Ross Ashcroft
Stars: Dominic Frisby, Gillian Tett, Lawrence Wilkerson
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: UK

The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn’t bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Joi Johannsson
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Iceland

Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.

Director: Jeff Orlowski
Stars: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.

Director: Leslie Zemeckis
Stars: Lea Thompson, Nancy Allen, Timothy Stack
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A biography of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who started as “freaks” in side shows, then went on to be stars of Vaudeville and films.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Stars: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.

Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Paul Simon, Maya Angelou, Okeyrema Asante
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | South Africa

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | UK | Germany | Japan | Australia | USA

From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America’s criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.

Director: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA | Japan

One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.

Director: Michael Paul Stephenson
Stars: Victor Bariteau, Tina Bariteau, Gwen Bariteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An original documentary which follows three families in a small seaside town in Massachusetts as they prepare for their annual home made haunted houses. This story highlights their long journey from planning to opening day and cleanup until next year and the obstacles which face them during the process.

Director: Christopher Kenneally
Stars: Derek Ambrosi, Michael Ballhaus, Andrzej Bartkowiak
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil

The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Lorraine Toussaint
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband’s well-being while he’s incarcerated – leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel

When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.

Director: Kim Cummings
Stars: Nina Kaczorowski, Lukas Hassel, George Katt
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The hardest choices in life are the ones we think we’ll never have to make.

Director: Manuel von Stürler
Stars: Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron, Pascal Éguisier
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Switzerland | France | Germany

A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

Director: Alan Berliner
Stars: Eli Berliner, Stuart Blazer, Susan Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles the deeply personal story of his mother’s first cousin–well-known poet/translator/professor Edwin Honig–on his journey into the depths of Alzheimer’s disease. Shot over the course of five years, the film presents an unflinching portrait of Edwin’s work and life while documenting his slow mental deterioration through visits and interviews with Edwin and his friends, former students, and others, along with archival footage and more.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | Singapore

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Stars: Je’Daiah Ballantyne, Michelle Ballantyne, Rochelle Ballantyne
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school’s champion chess team.

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Weiwei Ai, Dan Ai, Lao Ai
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.

Director: Dan Sallitt
Stars: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Claire Bodson, Niels Arestrup
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium | Luxembourg | France | Switzerland

Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle fall in love. Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle have children. But unlike them, they accept to give up their autonomy by agreeing to live with Mounir’s well off adoptive father, Doctor André Pinget. On the material level, all is well. But a house is not a home, and Murielle feels more and more stifled..

Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Stars: Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents’ bitter custody battle.

Director: Marten Persiel
Stars: David Nathan, Anneke Schwabe, Bill Clinton
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Country: Germany

This Ain’t California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens. The film follows its three heroes from their childhood in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows them to 2011.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Ririva Eona Mabi, Paula Asadi, Bal Kumari Gurung
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: South Korea | Israel | Iran | UK

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith’s birth – Iran.

Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Stars: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA

A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.

Director: Amy Seimetz
Stars: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A couple takes a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | Ireland

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare.

Director: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
Stars: Garrison Saenz, Kevin Conway, Skye Elmore
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A documentary on three teenagers living in a small desert town in Southern California.

Director: Sally El Hosaini
Stars: James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being British Arabs growing up on the streets of gangland London.

Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain | Thailand | USA

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | France

A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman’s relationship with her lover.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In Manhattan, film-maker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a fling. As their relationship becomes one fueled by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.

Director: Jesse Vile
Stars: Jason Becker, Dan Alvarez, Ehren Becker
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, they said he would never make music again. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.

Director: David France
Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

The story of two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Adrian Dunbar
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | Ireland

A chronicle of Terri Hooley’s life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India

A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania | France | Belgium

The friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

Legendary British rock band The Rolling Stones mark their 50th year together.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

Director: Marc Wiese
Stars: Shin Dong-Hyuk, Oh Yangnam, Hyuk Kwon
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Germany | South Korea

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.

Director: Mads Matthiesen
Stars: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In the months after the heady weeks of May ’68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.

Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Stars: Morton Downey Jr., Glenn Beck, Victoria Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr.

Director: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson
Stars: Ane Kruse, Lars Kristian Kruse, Ilannguaq Egede
Genre: Documentary, Family, News
Country: Denmark | UK | Greenland

Village At The End Of The World is a witty, surprising and ultimately feel good portrait of an isolated village of 59 people and 100 sledge dogs, surviving against the odds.

Director: Nisha Pahuja
Stars: Pooja Chopra, Manasvi Mamgai, Marc Robinson
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Two young women follow completely divergent paths in the new, modernizing India-one wants to become Miss India, the other is a fierce Hindu Nationalist prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Stars: Slavoj Zizek
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Ireland

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.

Director: Felix van Groeningen
Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | Denmark | Norway

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

Director: Anand Gandhi
Stars: Aida Elkashef, Yogesh Shah, Faraz Khan
Genre: Drama
Country: India | Netherlands

The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.

Director: Danielle Gardner
Stars: Michael Santosusso, Chad Anthony Miller, Sandra Palmeri
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

A documentary that explores the effects of 9/11 on the firm Cantor Fitzgerald, whose offices on the top five floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center were destroyed in the attacks, killing 658 out of their 960 employees.

Director: Joss Whedon
Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: UK

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple’s epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Shay Modaressi
Stars: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.

Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | France | USA

A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Santiago Figueroa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | France

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Director: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret
Stars: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret, Henry Chapier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing France with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation of an extraordinary travel journal. Depardon revisited important places from his past as a reporter: Chad, Venice and Cannes. Previously unseen footage from his archive has also been added to create an intimate, compelling and revelatory ‘Journal de France’ – a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes.

Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short film trilogy.

Director: Sophie Huber
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Sam Shepard
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Switzerland

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor’s enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid scenes with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry. The fragile soul of an actor emerges from the poignant collage.

Director: Ben Shapiro
Stars: Costanza Theodoli Braschi, Gregory Crewdson, Samantha Ressler
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A documentary shot over a decade with unprecedented access to photographer Gregory Crewdson that bares the artist’s process.

Director: Shola Lynch
Stars: Angela Davis, Eisa Davis
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.

Director: Brad Bernstein
Stars: Tomi Ungerer, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Depicts one man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator.

Director: Marcelo Gomes
Stars: João Miguel, Maeve Jinkings, Marcelo Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France

A woman tries to make a life for herself in a violent Brazilian city.

Director: Jared Moshe
Stars: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.

Director: Laurent Boileau, Jung
Stars: Maxym Anciaux, Cathy Boquet, Mahé Collet
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | South Korea | Switzerland

Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.

Director: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Stars: David Bahati, David Kato, Gilles Muhame
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Uganda

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Director: Jong-bin Yoon
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

Director: Jeffrey Kimball
Stars: Regina Alvarez, Anya Auerbach, Mike Bryant
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.

Director: Terence Nance
Stars: Alisa Becher, Jc Cain, Dexter Jones
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An artist’s shortsighted film about a failed relationship is reedited into a more collaborative, more inclusive work of art.

Director: Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett
Stars: Bobby Hackney, David Hackney, Dannis Hackney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA | Netherlands | UK | Denmark

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hoped of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music – and band name – too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A Band Called Death chronicles the incredible fairy-tale journey of what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made it way out of the attic and found an audience several generations younger.

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Stars: Jaqueline Siegel, David Siegel, Lorraine Barrett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Netherlands | UK | Denmark

A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.

Director: Benh Zeitlin
Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.