Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway | Netherlands
Forsaken in a new Oslo apartment, a frail blind woman battles to come to terms with her condition, as she slowly retracts into an elaborate fantasy bubble. Are her stories fanning her suspicions, or is this what total blindness looks like?
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Argentina | Denmark | France | Mexico | USA | Germany | Brazil | Netherlands
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.
Director: Albert Maysles
Stars: Iris Apfel, Harold Koda, Dries Van Noten
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93-year-old style maven who has had an out-sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88-year-old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles.
Director: Matthew Warchus
Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | USA
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Director: Yann Demange
Stars: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
In 1971, a young and disorientated British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.
Director: Kaan Müjdeci
Stars: Okan Avci, Cakir, Ezgi Ergin
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey
An eleven-year-old boy and a weathered fighting dog develop a strong relationship after the boy finds the dog wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Director: Keith Miller
Stars: James ‘Primo’ Grant, John Diaz, Wanda Nobles Colon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A member of the notorious Bloods since he was 12 years old – both in the film and in real life – Primo takes John, the son of his slain mentor, under his wing, versing him in the code of the streets. Set in East New York, FIVE STAR blends documentary and fictional storytelling as director Keith Miller carefully avoids worn clichés of gang culture to offer a compelling portrait of two men forced to confront the question of what it really means to be a man.
Director: Tom Fisher
Stars: Daniel Cerqueira, Richard Johnson, Gemma Jones
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Radiator will have its British Premiere 58th London Film Festival on 15th October 2014 and features the oldest, oddest couple by a very long chalk. It is a darkly comic examination of family life, marriage, age and love.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Italy
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Drama
Country: India
When an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.
Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Brandy Burre, Michael Tomlinson
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.
Director: Naji Abu Nowar
Stars: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates | Qatar | Jordan | UK
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Director: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels.
Director: Yuriy Bykov
Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.
Director: Kanu Behl
Stars: Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Shivani Raghuvanshi
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Titli, the youngest member of a car-jacking brotherhood wants to escape the family business. He and his wife form a pact to set free from their family roots. But is escape possible?
Director: Debra Granik
Stars: Ronnie Hall, Felipe Angel Padilla, Felipe de Jesus Padilla
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA
A contemplative portrait of Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall: biker, Vietnam Vet, and lover of small dogs.
Director: Seong-hun Kim
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde
Stars: Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid, Cesar Ramos
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Four stories of love and disgust between men of different generations facing their conflicts and their fears
Director: Mark Raso
Stars: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | USA | Denmark
When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it’s time to grow up.
Director: Johanna Hamilton
Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson
Genre: Documentary, History, Thriller
Country: USA
The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau’s numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.
Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Netherlands
15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it.
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands
A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital’s central square.
Director: Masaharu Take
Stars: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai, Yôzaburô Itô
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) lives at home with her parents, passing the days in self-indulgent grunginess. Ichiko’s recently divorced younger sister Fumiko has moved back home with her young son. One day, after a particularly heated argument, Ichiko charges out of the house for good. With few employment options to support herself, Ichiko works the night shift at a 100 yen shop (dollar store). On her way home each day she passes a boxing gym where she watches Yuji Kano (Hirofumi Arai) silently practice, developing a crush on him. The pair starts seeing each other and things change for Ichiko… At last, the bell rings and longtime loser Ichiko’s rematch with life begins!
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Stars: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Genre: Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: Belgium | France
Fervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.
Director: Chris Rock
Stars: Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown is spending a day interviewing comedian and recovering alcoholic Andre Allen, star of the hit film franchise Hammy The Bear, about a cop in a bear suit. Chelsea has forgotten her audio recorder, so they first go to her apartment. While there they discuss a magazine article about the Cinderella complex. Chelsea explains that Cinderella left something behind to let the prince know that she wanted to see him again..
Director: Adam Wingard
Stars: Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Director: Bille August
Stars: Ghita Nørby, Paprika Steen, Danica Curcic
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Three generations of a family coming together over a weekend. A sick mother’s wish to die before her disease worsens gets harder to handle as old conflicts come to the surface.
Director: Gareth Evans
Stars: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia | USA
Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
Director: Eugène Green
Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
Director: Paul Katis
Stars: David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg – or your life.
Director: Afia Nathaniel
Stars: Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Pakistan | Norway | USA
In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl’s marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.
Director: Francesco Munzi
Stars: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France
The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.
Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Silhol
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
Director: John Magary
Stars: Josh Lucas, Stephen Plunkett, Lucy Owen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A comic drama about rage, doubt, lust, madness, and other brotherly hand-me-downs.
Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: Meccah Boynton-Brown, Doug Brown, Bob Cavnar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion as seen through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on.
Director: James Kent
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | Denmark
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I – a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Director: Gabe Polsky
Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Russia
The story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
Director: Alberto Rodríguez
Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Spain
Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.
Director: Leigh Janiak
Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
Director: July Jung
Stars: Doona Bae, Sae-ron Kim, Sae-byeok Song
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Young-nam was a promising graduate of the police academy before she was transferred to the small seaside village, as a result of misconduct. On her first day in the village, she encounters Dohee, a girl living in the town with a gloomy looking face. As Young-nam tries to acclimate to her new surroundings, Dohee’s grandma died in a car accident. To protect the girl from her stepfather’s abuse, Young-nam lets Dohee stay at her place, but things become more mysterious as she gets to know her.
Director: Pascale Ferran
Stars: Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.
Director: Eddie Martin
Stars: Tas Pappas, Ben Pappas, Tommy Caudill
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: UK | Australia
All This Mayhem is a searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas’ intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.
Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany | Poland
A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | Congo
A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.
Director: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
Director: Damián Szifron
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain | France | UK
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Director: Asaf Korman
Stars: Liron Ben-Shlush, Dana Ivgy, Yaakov Zada Daniel
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Cheli, 27, is raising her mentally challenged 24yo sister, Gaby, alone. When the social worker finds out that Cheli leaves Gaby alone in the house while Cheli is at work, Cheli is compelled to place Gaby in a day program. For the first time in her life, Cheli shares Gaby’s care with someone else; her daily routine collapses and the huge void left by Gaby’s absence makes room for a man in Cheli’s life in the shape of Zohar, who inadvertently creates a chink in the sisters’ symbiotic relationship. While Cheli hangs on to Zohar’s love for all she’s worth, her inability to have a normal, intimate, and emotional relationship with anyone but her sister forces them into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing, and torturing are crossed.
Director: Carlos Vermut
Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France
The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter’s last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors’ costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city’s dark underbelly.
Director: David Oelhoffen
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: France
Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ryô Kase, So-Ri Moon, Young-hwa Seo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology – and so must we?
Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.
Director: Camilla Nielsson
Stars: Paul Mangwana, Robert Mugabe, Douglas Mwonzora
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Zimbabwe
In politically unstable Zimbabwe, a new constitution is being put together by the ruling party of strongman Robert Mugabe and the divided opposition. Various political, local and personal interests are bogging the process down.
Director: Yi’nan Diao
Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle’s pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Mauritania | France | Qatar
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives — which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith — abruptly disturbed.
Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.
Director: Teodora Mihai
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Romania
Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Torn between adolescence and heavy responsibilities, the teenage girl struggles to keep everyone afloat.
Director: Stéphane Lafleur
Stars: Julianne Côté, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Luc Senay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
While her parents are away, a young woman and her friend are hanging out for the summer, and are joined by her brother and his bandmates.
Director: J.P. Sniadecki
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network, ‘The Iron Ministry’ traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture.
Director: Zachary Wigon
Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Lyn Sheil, Louisa Krause
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend whom he met on the Internet has been living in the same city as him, and he sets out looking for her.
Director: Paul Harrill
Stars: Ashley Shelton, Bryce Johnson, Linds Edwards
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
When a tragedy shatters her plans for domestic bliss, a seemingly typical Southern newlywed gradually transforms into a spiritual seeker, quietly threatening the closest relationships around her.
Director: Scott Crawford
Stars: Fred Armisen, Brendan Canty, Dave Grohl
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.
Director: Julia Marchese
Stars: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Edgar Wright
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.
Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Hazel Orencio
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
Director: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
Stars: Jason Carrión, Paxx Moll, Alberic Prados
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico | USA
A documentary about the power of transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico.
Director: James D. Cooper
Stars: Kit Lambert, Christopher Stamp, Roger Daltrey
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
A documentary that reveals how the unlikely partnership between aspiring filmmakers Christopher Stamp and Kit Lambert produced one of the greatest rock bands in history: The Who.
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Germany
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
Director: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France | Germany
After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband’s compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Stars: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horvát
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary | Germany | Sweden
Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Germany
A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Germany | UK
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Chris Moukarbel
Stars: Beth Stebner, Keegan Hamilton, Jaime Rojo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Documentary chronicling the famed street artist’s “31 works of art in 31 days” in New York city.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA | UK
A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.
Director: Hubert Sauper
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Austria
As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.
Director: Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Stars: Ariel Hsing, Michael Landers, Lily Zhang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Three teenagers’ quest to qualify for the 2012 US Olympic table tennis team.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Denmark | Indonesia | Finland | Norway | UK | Israel | France | USA | Germany | Netherlands
A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Director: James Napier Robertson
Stars: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.
Director: Terry McMahon
Stars: Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford, Philip Jackson
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Ireland
When a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.
Director: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A twenty-something comedienne’s unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.
Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Frederick Singer, Naomi Oreskes, Jamy Ian Swiss
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Switzerland | Germany
A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?
Director: JK Youn
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Yunjin Kim, Dal-su Oh
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Amid the time of Korean War, a young boy’s vow to take care of his family marked the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning 60 years.
Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Canada
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
Director: Hans Herbots
Stars: Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan van Assche
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland | UK
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Stars: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.
Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Stars: Shira Haas, Keren Mor, Ori Pfeffer
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar’s role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan-an ethereal boy who joins her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevallier
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland | France
A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.
Director: Edet Belzberg
Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Raphael Lemkin, Matt Mitler
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Netherlands | France | Chad | Rwanda
Four modern stories of remarkable courage while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term ‘genocide’. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ‘A Problem From Hell’, ‘Watchers of the Sky’ traverses time and continents to explore genocide and the cycle of violence.
Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
The August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.
Director: Ian Cheney
Stars: Ian Cheney
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, History
Country: USA | Taiwan | China
Who was General Tso, and why are we eating his chicken? This feature documentary explores the origins and ubiquity of Chinese-American food through the story of an iconic sweet and spicy chicken dish.
Director: Mark Craig
Stars: Eugene Cernan, Fred ‘Baldy’ Baldwin, Alan Bean
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: UK
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love, and loss.
Director: Ben Cotner, Ryan White
Stars: Ted Olson, Christopher D. Dusseault, Jeffrey J. Zarrillo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA
A behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Director: Mary Dore
Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Alta, Judith Arcana
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.
Director: Signe Baumane
Stars: Signe Baumane
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Latvia
Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands
A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the ‘tribe’.
Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Lauryn Hill, Kati Outinen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Finland | Denmark | USA
The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.
Director: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens
Stars: Barbara Block, James Cameron, Michael deGruy
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Bermuda | Ecuador
Feature documentary about legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle , and her campaign to create a global network of protected marine sanctuaries.
Director: Lacey Schwartz, James Adolphus
Stars: Matthew Noah Word
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
A film about denial, race, family secrets and a search for identity.
Director: Eric Lartigau
Stars: Karin Viard, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Belgium
A girl, who lives with her deaf parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing.
Director: Alan Hicks
Stars: Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Quincy Jones
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary that follows jazz legend Clark Terry over four years to document the mentorship between Terry and 23-year-old blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin as the young man prepares to compete in an elite, international competition.
Director: Leah Meyerhoff
Stars: Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack, Julia Garner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love.
Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Stars: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
Director: Darius Clark Monroe
Stars: Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie Foumbi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of family, friends…and victims.
Director: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic | Mexico | Argentina
An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an irresistible storm.
Director: Eran Riklis
Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Razi Gabareen, Yaël Abecassis
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France
A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
“The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces… and suddenly it is also then, the mid ’70s and the time of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim.” This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa’s “Colossal Youth” with Ventura again playing himself.
Director: Arne Birkenstock
Stars: Wolfgang Beltracchi, Helene Beltracchi, Henrik Hanstein
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany
A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.
Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Stars: Harold Evans, Ralph Nader, Michael Sheen
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Before the Internet. Before Social Media. Before Breaking News. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight their corner: Investigative Journalism. This is the story of how Harold Evans fought and won the battle of his and many other lives.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA | Germany
When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man’s true identity – oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré’s novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.
Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Stars: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer, Sirius Flatz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Alex moves to Los Angeles for a new job; Sergi stays in Barcelona. They love each other, but maintaining a relationship through technology proves challenging.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don’t recognize.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Shanyn Leigh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France
Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.
Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Stars: Hera Hilmar, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
A Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
George seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, a Manhattan intake center for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter.
Director: Beth Harrington
Stars: Chet Atkins, Lorrie Bennett, John R. Brinkley
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA
The Winding Stream is a 90-minute High Definition music history documentary-in-progress that tells the story of the American roots music dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes. Starting with the Original Carter Family (A.P., Sara, Maybelle), the film traces the ebb and flow of their influence, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters, the marital alliance with legend Johnny Cash and the efforts of present-day family to keep this legacy alive. No one has yet pulled together all the elements of this family saga in one documentary. The goal of The Winding Stream is to honor this multi-generational family where it stands — at the headwaters of American roots music.
Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Brazil | Italy
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.
Director: Gabriel London
Stars: Scoot McNairy, Shea Whigham
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: Canada | USA
When a legendary escape artist comes up for parole after 30 years behind bars, a chance for freedom must be weighed against his infamous past.
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Stars: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
Director: Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi
Stars: Barbara Epstein, W.H. Auden, Isaiah Berlin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | Japan
A documentary on the history and influence of the New York Review of Books.
Director: Hanna Polak
Stars: Yula, Hanna Polak
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Denmark | Poland | Japan | Netherlands | USA
Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream – to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin’s Russia.
Director: Ethan Hawke
Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke, Sam Bachelor
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.
Director: Nancy D. Kates
Stars: Noël Burch, Lucinda Childs, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag’s life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.
Director: John Boorman
Stars: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland | France | UK | Romania
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Director: James Simone, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Due to 12 y.o. Anna’s asthma, she’s sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the Japanese countryside. She likes to be alone, sketching. She befriends Marnie. Who is the mysterious, blonde Marnie.
Director: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Stars: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelstein, Aliza Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | Germany
Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Director: Michele Josue
Stars: Michele Josue, Judy Shepard, Zeina Barkawi
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Morocco | Switzerland
Friends and family reflect on the life and death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in a targeted homophobic attack in Wyoming in 1998.
Director: Rory Kennedy
Stars: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Stuart Herrington
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only–or to risk treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can.
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden
After his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.
Director: Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker
Stars: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.
Director: Joe Swanberg
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
After a break up, Jenny moves in with writer Kelly, her filmmaker husband, and their child. Despite a rocky start, Jenny’s influence helps Kelly realize that an evolution in her life, career and relationship is necessary for her happiness.
Director: Stuart Murdoch
Stars: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.
Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden | Germany | Norway | France | Denmark
Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
Director: John Pirozzi
Stars: Norodom Sirivudh, Norodom Sihanouk, Sisowath Kossamak
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Cambodia | France
Through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, ‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll’ examines and unravels Cambodia’s tragic past, culminating in the genocidal Khmer Rouge’s dismantling of the society and murder of two million of its citizens. Combining interviews of the surviving Cambodian musicians themselves (a total of 150 hours of interviews were filmed) with never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, this documentary tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country.
Director: Justin Simien
Stars: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland
A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
Director: Charles Poekel
Stars: Kentucker Audley, Craig Butta, Maria Cantillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman’s beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city.
Director: Amanda Wilder
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.
Director: Shawn Rech, Brandon Kimber
Stars: Dexter Hammett, Joseph Alex, Jason Patrick
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA
Documentary filmmakers assert that Anthony Porter – a former death-row inmate who was spared the death penalty thanks to the efforts of a college journalism program – was actually guilty, and an innocent man was sent to prison.
Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates
In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city’s history.
Director: Peter Strickland
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D’Anna
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK | Hungary
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Italy
Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.