Director: Garth Davis
Stars: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Australia | USA
A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Director: Mohamed Diab
Stars: Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, El Sebaii Mohamed
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Egypt | France | Germany
Set entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.
Director: Ceyda Torun
Stars: Yaman Barlas, Sari, Arzu Göl
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey | USA
A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.
Director: Vanessa Gould
Stars: Bruce Weber, William McDonald, Margalit Fox
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Writers and editors from the New York Times discuss their unique approach to writing the obituaries of public figures.
Director: Sara Jordenö
Stars: Loretta Coombs, Takima Coombs, Afrika Juicy Couture
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | USA
A group of LGBTQ youths of color unite to form a safe gathering space.
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Seung-bum Ryoo, Won-geun Lee, Young-min Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile | Argentina | France | Spain | USA
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Director: Adam Leon
Stars: Callum Turner, Grace Van Patten, Michal Vondel
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A young man and woman find love in an unlikely place while carrying out a shady deal.
Director: Mariano Llinás
Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Argentina
A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
Director: Len Collin
Stars: Stephen Marcus, Christopher Dunne, Amy-Joyce Hastings
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart.
Director: Rahul Jain
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: India | Germany | Finland
Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanising physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they’ve already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara’s staying.
Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea | USA
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Director: Andrew Ahn
Stars: Joe Seo, Youn Ho Cho, Haerry Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A closeted Korean-American teenager takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, only to discover an underground world of gay sex at the spa that both scares and excites him.
Director: Derek Tsang
Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Sichun Ma, Toby Lee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong
Two women who have been close friends since adolescence must cope with the changes that maturity brings.
Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Riley Keough, Jena Malone, Jessie Ok Gray
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
The relationship between two friends deepens during an impromptu road trip.
Director: Andreas Johnsen
Stars: Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | Denmark | France | Germany
In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.
Director: Junfeng Boo
Stars: Firdaus Rahman, Wan Hanafi Su, Mastura Ahmad
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Germany | France | Hong Kong | Qatar
Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.
Director: Thomas Ryan, Thomas Ryan
Stars: Shane Murray-Corcoran, Iseult Casey, Ardal O’Hanlon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland | UK
Andy and Maggie, a young Irish couple, travel to England as the result of an unplanned pregnancy, where Maggie will face the biggest decision of her life.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
The story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight’s passengers and crew.
Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.
Director: Johnny Ma
Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada | China
A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Stars: Christine Schuler-Deschryver, Denis Mukwege Mukengere, Eve Ensler
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Congo
This film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monolgoues”) and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away.
Director: Alex Lehmann
Stars: Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Clu Gulager
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
Director: Árpád Sopsits
Stars: Károly Hajduk, Gábor Jászberényi, Zsolt Anger
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary
True story of a serial killer in 1950-60s Hungary.
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa, Shiladitya Sen
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.
Director: Elite Zexer
Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France
When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
Director: Clay Tweel
Stars: Steve Gleason, Mike Gleason, Scott Fujita
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
After he is diagnosed with ALS, former professional football player Steve Gleason begins making a video diary for his unborn son, as he, his wife, and their friends and family work to raise money for ALS patients as his disease progresses.
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy | France
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Director: Papu Curotto
Stars: Ignacio Rogers, Esteban Masturini, Joaquín Parada
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France
Two boyhood chums, separated soon after sexually awakening together, re-meet as young men with unspoken sexual tensions lying between them.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada | USA | Spain | South Korea
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Stars: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Director: Roland Vranik
Stars: Cake-Baly Marcelo, Ágnes Máhr, Arghavan Shekari
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Wilson, a black man in his late fifties, has been living as a refugee in Hungary for years. He works as a security guard in Budapest and his main desire is to acquire Hungarian citizenship, but he keeps failing the exams that are required for his application. In preparing for the next exam, he is helped by Mari, a Hungarian woman of roughly the same age who is a history teacher. Unexpectedly the teacher and her pupil start to develop deep affection towards each other.
Director: Julia Ducournau
Stars: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France | Belgium | Italy
A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.
Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
Director: Theo Anthony
Stars: Theo Anthony, Dan Deacon, Matt Fouse
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. “Rat Film” is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat–as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them–to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem”.
Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.
Director: Houda Benyamina
Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kevin Mischel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Qatar
A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
Director: Eva Orner
Stars: John Howard, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Australia
Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia’s cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.
Director: Cristi Puiu
Stars: Mara Elena Andrei, Mirela Apostu, Eugenia Bosânceanu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | France | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Republic of North Macedonia
Centers around a family gathering on the anniversary of a patriarch’s recent death.
Director: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
For three Border Patrol agents working a remote desert checkpoint, the contents of one car will reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours will take them on a treacherous journey that could cost them their lives.
Director: Christian Schwochow
Stars: Carla Juri, Albrecht Schuch, Roxane Duran
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany | France
The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Director: Kim A. Snyder
Stars: Gene Rosen, Syeda Suriya Ahmed, Abbey Clements
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.
Director: Josh Locy
Stars: Andre Royo, Jeannetta Arnette, Kellee Stewart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
After a 3-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find that she and his family have done what they always wanted to do – forget he exists.
Director: Denzel Washington
Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Canada
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Director: Nicole Lucas Haimes
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Chicken People is a funny and uplifting look at the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Starting at the largest national poultry competition, likened to the Westminster Dog Show for chickens, Chicken People follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life’s challenges while vying to win the next year’s crown. Both humorous and heartfelt, Chicken People is an unforgettable celebration of the human spirit.
Director: Sophia Takal
Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives…forever.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn’t know him at all.
Director: Ashley McKenzie
Stars: Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil, Mark Woodland
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Zuzana Mauréry, Zuzana Konecná, Csongor Kassai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia | Czech Republic
The arrival of Maria Drazdechova, associated with the Communist party, to a school in Bratislava in 1983 worries parents, students and colleagues.
Director: Shane Black
Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.
Director: Amanda Kernell
Stars: Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Ánne Biret Somby
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden
A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930’s at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Zofia Wichlacz, Bronislawa Zamachowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
From the author of “The Whale Rider”, a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
Director: Paolo Virzì
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Carnelutti
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
Two quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?
Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Romania | Germany | Belgium | France
Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients’ attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.
Director: Theodore Melfi
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain | Germany
A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.
Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Stars: Bendix Hansen, Sarah Fuhrer, Louis Hofmann
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | Austria
After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania | France | Belgium
A film about compromises and the implications of the parent’s role.
Director: Jenny Gage
Stars: Dusty Rose Ryan, Delia Cunningham, Lena M.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.
Director: Maren Ade
Stars: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany | Austria | Monaco | Romania | France | Switzerland
A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach.
Director: Anna Zamecka
Stars: Ola Kaczanowski
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland
‘Communion’ reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
Director: Kôji Fukada
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Taiga Nakano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France
Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio’s family life.
Director: Todd Solondz
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium
A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the 19th-century.
Director: Deepak Rauniyar
Stars: Dayahang Rai, Asha Magrati, Rabindra Singh Baniya
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Nepal | Netherlands | Qatar | USA | UK
Anti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father’s funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A portrait of post-civil war Nepal during the fragile deadlocked peace process.
Director: Adam Irving
Stars: Charles Bilal, Courtney Brown, Sally Butler
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA
How one man’s love of transport led to a lifetime of incarceration.
Director: Stephan Streker
Stars: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | Pakistan | Luxembourg | France
Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.
Director: Jane Gull
Stars: Steven Brandon, Shana Swash, Sarah Ioannou
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Luke, an independent young man with Down’s syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.
Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Greece | Brazil
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents’ battle over a dress shop lease.
Director: Gastón Solnicki
Stars: Laila Maltz, Lara Tarlowski, Katia Szechtman
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Several young daughters of rich industrialists examine in an equally intangible and compelling way the physical and spiritual aspects of a cultural recession.
Director: Edoardo De Angelis
Stars: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is another trait which cloaks them in fascinating charm: they are siamese twins. They support their family with their singing like a well oiled company/entertainment machine. This idyllic situation ends when a notable English doctor sees them at a first communion in Casertavecchia. He sentences them to the possibility of a normal life when he states, “I can separate you.”
Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani
Stars: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Faced with his father’s untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.
Director: Ryan Suffern
Stars: Kate Doyle, Scott Greathead, Fredy Peccerelli
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada | Guatemala | USA
FINDING OSCAR is a feature length documentary about the search for justice in the devastating case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. That search leads to the trail of two little boys who were plucked from a nightmare and offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the massacre.
Director: Kris Avedisian
Stars: Jesse Wakeman, Kris Avedisian, William Billington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day’s journey into the past.
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ju-hyuk Kim, Yoo-Young Lee, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel’s “That Obscure Object of Desire”.
Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Israel
Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Emma Bell, Sara Vertongen, Rose Williams
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Belgium | USA | Canada
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Stars: Ellen Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sandra Oh
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Director: Stephanie Soechtig
Stars: Katie Couric, Ted Cruz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children were murdered at their school by a resentful, gun-obsessed shooter, but led to no changes in American federal gun laws.
Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Sweden | France
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
Director: Jason Cohen
Stars: Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.
Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Director: Tony Stone
Stars: Peter Dunning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary on Peter Dunning, the proprietor of Mile Hill Farm in Vermont who has isolated himself away from his family and often suggests to the filmmakers to make his own suicide a narrative device.
Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Stars: Heather Linebaugh, Daniel Hale, Lisa Ling
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song, Yoo Gong
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Poland
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: William Oldroyd
Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.
Director: Je-yong Lee
Stars: Yuh-Jung Youn, Hyun-jun Choi, Kim Hye-Yoon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
The Bacchus Lady looks into the issue of elderly prostitution in South Korea. So-Young, an elderly lady who provides sex services to the male senior citizens using the pretext of selling Bacchus (an energy drink) to them. When So-Young picks up a Korean-Filipino boy named Min-Ho from the clinic she visits after Min-Ho’s mother stabs the doctor (Min-Ho’s father), she takes care of him while seeking a living through prostitution. From her interactions with her former clients, she finds that the golden age in their silver years may not be that bright after all.
Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Ye Haiyan, Huang, Wang Jianfen
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: China | USA
State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government’s reaction surprised even the most seasoned activists across China. ‘The Road from Hainan’ follows Sparrow as she was chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors.
Director: Matthew Newton
Stars: Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez-Richmond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.
Director: Roger Mainwood
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Country: UK | Luxembourg
The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs.
Director: Xuan Liang, Chun Zhang
Stars: Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: China
A 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Stars: Jacques Derrida, Kirsten Johnson, Roger Phenix
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
Director: Ted Braun
Stars: William Ackman, Douglas M. Brooks, William Cohan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Writer/director Ted Braun follows controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history.
Director: Toni Myers
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Samantha Cristoforetti, Scott Kelly
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An exploration of Earth and beyond as seen from the International Space Station. Narrated by Jennifer Lawrence.
Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d’Assumçao, Marc Susini
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Spain | Portugal
Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Katia Krafft
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany | Canada
An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.
Director: Ingrid Jungermann
Stars: Annette O’Toole, Sheila Vand, Deborah Rush
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan’s new love interest is a murderer.
Director: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Stars: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Jordan Zain Weiner
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and today’s political landscape.
Director: Sara Taksler
Stars: Bassem Youssef, Jon Stewart, Shadi Alfons
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.
Director: Ferne Pearlstein
Stars: Renee Firestone, Klara Firestone, Gilbert Gottfried
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA
World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.
Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Stars: Vonda Viland, Julia Alexander, Laura Ambrosius
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.
Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Stars: Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Alexandra Angelova
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Greece
A reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry’s head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran
Teenage girls consigned to the Iranian “Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre” discuss their troubled lives and reveal what brought them there.
Director: Andrei Dascalescu
Stars: Ion Barbu, Catalin Cenusa, Mihai Barbu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania
In Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard, Emmy Boissard Paumelle
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Belgium
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium
Some young folks, tired of the society they’re living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Eri Fukatsu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Director: Claude Barras
Stars: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A coming of age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.
Director: Amat Escalante
Stars: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico | Norway | Denmark | France | Germany | Switzerland
A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.
Director: Sam Blair, Joe Martin
Stars: Csanad Szegedi
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Hungary
An anti-Semitic far-right politician’s astonishing transformation after finding out he is Jewish.
Director: Neasa Ní Chianáin, David Rane
Stars: Dermot Dix, Amanda Leyden, John Leyden
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | Spain
Long careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English, and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: “Reading. ‘Rithmetic. Rock ‘n’ roll!” But leaving is the hardest lesson.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Germany | Austria
Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.
Director: Adam Nimoy
Stars: Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Canada | USA
An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).
Director: Nele Wohlatz
Stars: Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.
Director: Bill Morrison
Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Tom Brokaw, Harold Brown, Allan Childers
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Documentary of 1980’s near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser’s award-winning book of the same name.
Director: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens
Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Todd Fisher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An intimate portrait of actress Debbie Reynolds and her relationship with her beloved children, Carrie and Todd.
Director: Maria Jose Cuevas
Stars: Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Rossy Mendoza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico
An honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty, while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame and the chance for happiness.
Director: Rachel Lang
Stars: Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Lazare Gousseau
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium | France
Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
Director: Susan Glatzer
Stars: Hilary Alexander, Evita Arce, Kimberly Clever
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Sweden | USA
Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.
Director: Amma Asante
Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic | UK | France | USA
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Director: Fabien Delage
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Director: Fabien Delage
Stars: Alexandre Aja, Dave Alexander, Jean-Jacques Bernard
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
A documentary investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany
A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
Director: Kasper Collin
Stars: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | USA
An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | France
While both participating in a production of “Death of a Salesman,” a teacher’s wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife’s traumatized objections.
Director: Ryôta Nakano
Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Aoi Itô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame. She needs to retrieve her husband who has vanished and get the family business restarted. She needs to help her daughter be able to pick after herself. Will the family bonds grow stronger or wither?
Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Tómas Lemarquis, Barbara Sukowa, Valerie Pachner
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria | Germany | France
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right attitude” toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.
Director: Keith Maitland
Stars: Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Crime
Country: USA
Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.
Director: Peter Foott
Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland
Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China
High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.
Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago’s South Side.
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium
A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | UK | France
Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
Stars: Paul Hamy, João Pedro Rodrigues, Xelo Cagiao
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal | France | Brazil
Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
Director: Anna Muylaert
Stars: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Dani Nefussi
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother’s actions and must try to cope with his biological family.
Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | USA
The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
Director: Viesturs Kairiss
Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Edvins Mekss, Ivars Krasts
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia | Czech Republic | Finland
Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
Director: Eugène Green
Stars: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium
A discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.
Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Stars: Non, Ava Pickard, Kenna Pickard
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life’s amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
Director: Jérôme Reybaud
Stars: Pascal Cervo, Arthur Igual, Fabienne Babe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
A man leaves his home unannounced, and spends four days wandering around France.
Director: Tonislav Hristov
Stars: Ivan Fransuzov, Angela Jekova, Vangel Jekov
Genre: Documentary
Country: Finland | Bulgaria
A small and stubborn Bulgarian village facing the Turkish border has been resisting foreign invaders since the times of the Roman and Ottoman Empires. Now its electorate of 38 elderly Bulgarians is deciding on future of Europe. The Great Gate, as the village has been called for centuries because of its location on the doorsteps of the former Ottoman Empire, has found itself in the middle of European crisis, as at night asylum seekers sneak across the border causing fear and unrest.
Director: Matías Piñeiro
Stars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Diop
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | USA
Hermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Director: Lloyd Stanton, Paul Toogood
Stars: Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of stand-up comedians.
Director: Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young
Stars: Chen Alon, Jamil Qassas, Avner Wishnitzer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | Palestine | USA
In a world torn by conflict -in a place where the idea of peace has been abandoned-an energy of determined optimism emerges. When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? DISTURBING THE PEACE is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us and, with the power of our convictions, take action to create new possibilities.
Director: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger
Stars: Imogen Poots, Daniel Brühl, Jens Söring
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Germany | Denmark | UK | Sweden | Netherlands
The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County.
Director: Doug Nichol
Stars: Silvi Alcivar, Ken Alexander, Tom Hanks
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | India | Canada | USA
California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.
Director: Brendan Byrne
Stars: Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Ireland | UK
In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive, non-violent protest to be classified as a political prisoner became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. Sands’ death after 66 days marked a key turning point in the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and brought a global spotlight to the Northern Irish conflict which eventually triggered international efforts to resolve it.
Director: Todd Soliday, Leah Warshawski
Stars: Sonia Warshawski, SuEllen Fried, Caroline James Kennedy
Genre: Documentary, Family, History
Country: USA
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than thirty years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to revisit her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, BIG SONIA also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth-telling to heal us all.
Director: Vincent Garenq
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany
Based on a true story, KALINKA is about the struggle of Andre Bamberski to bring justice to his daughter Kalinka who died in disturbing circumstances. After 27 years of investigation to hunt down her presumed murderer, Bamberski will finally get the killer kidnapped and brought to justice.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Director: Tamer El Said
Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt | Germany | UK | United Arab Emirates
A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.
Director: Babak Anvari
Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK | Jordan | Qatar | Iran
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Ken Loach, Laura Obiols
Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | France | Belgium
After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France | Belgium | USA
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia | France | Germany
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day – she grows a tail and turns her life around.
Director: Michal Marczak
Stars: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland | UK
A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city’s streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.
Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Jamal Cavil, Maisha Diatta
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France | Germany | USA
An exploration into our planetary past and a search for humanity’s place in the future. With narration by Cate Blanchett.
Director: Louise Osmond
Stars: Ken Loach, Jim Allen, Lesley Ashton
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Documentary on the life and times of Ken Loach. His politics in British TV and Cinema and the chaos he has caused the establishment for 50 years.
Director: Aaron Brookner
Stars: Aaron Brookner, John Giorno, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK | USA
Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William Burroughs’ bunker until his nephew Aaron unearths his uncle’s story and the memory of everything he was.
Director: Sally Wainwright
Stars: Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, Chloe Pirrie
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
A chronicle of the Brontë sisters’ battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Stars: Mario Fanfani, Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Théo and Hugo encounter each other’s bodies in a sex club. They talk, things blur into the haziness of unbridled desire, then take shape for a moment as their gaze meets before they resume their exploration and lose themselves anew. A few moments later the two men feel the need to go outside. Together they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and aimlessness and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations?
Director: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
Stars: Andrea Crosta, Ian Stevenson, Prince William
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria
Wildlife activists in take on poachers in an effort to end illegal ivory trade in Africa.
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | UK
A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.
Director: André Øvredal
Stars: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
While investigating the murder of a family, Sheriff Sheldon and his team are puzzled with the discovery of the body of a stranger buried in the basement that does not fit to the crime scene. He brings the corpse of the beautiful Jane Doe late night to the coroner Tommy Tilden and requests to have the cause of death until the next morning to have an answer to the press. Tommy’s son and assistant Austin Tilden is ready to go to the movie theater with his girlfriend Emma, but he decides to stay to help his father in the autopsy. Along the stormy and tragic night, they disclose weird and creepy secrets about Jane Doe.
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Ian Buruma, Guo-Qiang Cai, Wen-You Cai
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao’s China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.
Director: Asaph Polonsky
Stars: Sharon Alexander, Shai Avivi, Tomer Capon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.
Director: Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger
Stars: Peter Martins, David Prottas, Wendy Whelan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Documentary on the great American Ballerina Wendy Whelan
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Javier Pereira
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Spain
Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they’d never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.
Director: Paolo Genovese
Stars: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles.
Director: Andrew Dominik
Stars: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | France
Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.
Director: Pawel Lozinski
Stars: Ewa Szymczyk, Hanna Maciag, Bogdan de Barbaro
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland
Two adult women – a mother and her daughter – take part in a family therapy to improve their painful relationship.
Director: Dash Shaw
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
An earthquake causes a high school to float into the sea, where it slowly sinks like a shipwreck.
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Stars: Nancy Rooney, Harry Mapplethorpe, George Stack
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Germany
An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Stars: Diane Dassigny, Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Frot
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France | Canada | Belgium
Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?
Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Stars: Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
Director: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Higgs, Eric Loscheider
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA | France
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel
When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium | France
A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
Director: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Stars: Christa Epperlein, Petra Epperlein, Uwe Epperlein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her father’s 1999 suicide.
Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Stars: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Sweden | Germany
The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Stars: Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland | Denmark
In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.
Director: Justin Bare, Matthew Miele
Stars: Harry Benson, Carl Bernstein, Bryant Gumbel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
What we know today about many famous musicians, politicians, and actresses is due to the famous work of photographer Harry Benson. He captured vibrant and intimate photos of the most famous band in history;The Beatles. His extensive portfolio grew to include iconic photos of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, and Dr. Martin Luther King. His wide-ranging work has appeared in publications including Life, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Benson, now 86, is still taking photos and has no intentions of stopping.
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Germany | Sweden | Norway
Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present will require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer, while time is running out.
Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain
A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive a prize. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Director: Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Stars: Kiet Engel, Haya Khleif, Branche Jovanovski
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands
Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don’t understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Thomas Campanella, Vincent D’Onofrio, Mindy Fullilove
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
Director: Richard Knights
Stars: Thomas Hansen, Espen Mellingen, Terje Hansen
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
British documentary about the late Norwegian artist St Thomas, in which the distinction between life, art, reality and imagination become increasingly unclear.
Director: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Stars: Robin Bourland, Daisy Coleman, Charles Coleman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the effects that online bullying has on the lives of teenagers and their community.
Director: Rodrigo Grande
Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Clara Lago
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain
A paraplegic computer engineer in a wheelchair starts hearing noises and voices of bank robbers in his basement.
Director: Steve James
Stars: Thomas Sung, Hwei Lin Sung, Cyrus Vance Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States’ 2008 mortgage crisis.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Bertrand Tavernier, François Truffaut, Jean-Paul Gaultier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Bertrand Tavernier’s personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
Director: Errol Morris
Stars: Elsa Dorfman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman.
Director: Sébastien Laudenbach
Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Philippe Laudenbach
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener and the prince in his castle. A long journey towards the light…
Director: Emil Ben-Shimon
Stars: Evelin Hagoel, Igal Naor, Orna Banai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
A bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s ranch in West Texas.
Director: Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon Nguyen
Stars: David Lynch, Lula Lynch, Edwina Lynch
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Denmark
Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.