Director: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyun Ahn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea | USA
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend – a fascinating beast named Okja.
Director: Sun-ho Cho
Stars: Myung-Min Kim, Yo-Han Byun, Hye-Sun Shin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
A mystery drama revolving around a father who commits an unethical act in an attempt to save his daughter’s life. Three years later, his actions return to haunt him, trapping him in an endless time loop.
Director: Ferenc Török
Stars: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.
Director: John Carroll Lynch
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.
Director: Oded Raz
Stars: Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, Gal Amitai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
The biggest Israeli blockbuster since 1986. Steve and Chuma, two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfillment for people who write requests on paper and put between the sacred stones of the Wailing Wall.
Director: Natalia Leite
Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr., Leah McKendrick
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free.
Director: Samuel Maoz
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Switzerland | Germany | France
A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post.
Director: Amanda Lipitz
Stars: Gari McIntyre, Amanda Leonard, Blessin Giraldo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
STEP documents the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore.
Director: Emmanuel Gras
Stars: Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
Director: Peter Bratt
Stars: Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
In the 1950’s, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer’s union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.
Director: Maggie Betts
Stars: Melissa Leo, Lisa Stewart, Alyssa Brindley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
Director: James Mangold
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
Director: Sadaf Foroughi
Stars: Vahid Aghapoor, Parnian Akhtari, Sarah Alimardani
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | Canada | Qatar
The life of a high school girl in Iran becomes more complicated after her mother catches her in an act of rebellion.
Director: Chloé Zhao
Stars: Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Director: Matan Yair
Stars: Asher Lax, Ami Smolartchik, Yaacov Cohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Poland
17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him.
Director: Gürcan Keltek
Stars: Ebru Ojen Sahin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
They come at night and everybody steps out. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the coming hours, the city will be on lockdown: an eclipse appears and meteors start to fall.
Director: Weiwei Ai
Stars: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA | China | Palestine | France
Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei’s detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
Director: Alain Gomis
Stars: Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France | Belgium | Senegal | Germany | Lebanon | The Democratic Republic Of Congo
Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
Director: Zak Hilditch
Stars: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
A simple yet proud farmer in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to assist. But their actions have unintended consequences.
Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Director: Jonathan Olshefski
Stars: Christopher Rainey, Christine’a Rainey, P.J. Rainey
Genre: Documentary, Family, Music
Country: USA
A husband and wife live in an impoverished neighborhood in north Philadelphia while they raise their daughter and run a recording studio in their basement.
Director: Dee Rees
Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Cyprus | Belgium | Lebanon | USA
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Director: Teemu Nikki
Stars: Matti Onnismaa, Jari Virman, Hannamaija Nikander
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland
A man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
Director: Rainer Sarnet
Stars: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Estonia
In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway | France | Denmark | Sweden
A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.
Director: Peter Nicks
Stars: Cat Brooks, Jonathan Cairo, Ben McBride
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
THE FORCE goes inside an embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America’s most violent yet promising cities.
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: France | Belgium
Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Director: Bing Wang
Stars: Fang Xiuying
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | France | Germany
Surrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.
Director: Xavier Legrand
Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Director: Clément Cogitore
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Finland
In the Siberian forest, away from any civilization, a feud is opposing two families whose houses are separated by a river. In the middle of the river stands an island where the kids of the two families are meeting on their own.
Director: Raymond Depardon
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
Director: Jennifer Brea
Stars: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Jessica l e Taylor
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA
When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
Director: Björn Runge
Stars: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Sweden | USA
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Janet (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine.
Director: Paul Damien Williams
Stars: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Mark Grose, Michael Hohnen
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Australia
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
Director: Yance Ford
Stars: Yance Ford, Harvey Walker, Kevin Myers
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Denmark
When filmmaker Yance Ford investigates the 1992 murder of a young black man, it becomes an achingly personal journey since the victim, 24-year-old William Ford Jr., was the filmmaker’s brother.
Director: Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp
Stars: Gcina Mhlophe
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: Swaziland | Qatar | USA
Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium | France | Lebanon
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium | France | Lebanon
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. This nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an Audience Award at Berlinale.
Director: Savi Gabizon
Stars: Ella Armony, Shai Avivi, Shmil Ben Ari
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.
Director: Milad Alami
Stars: Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Lars Brygmann
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Sweden
“The Charmer” is an intense psychological drama about Esmail, a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
Director: Erik Nelson
Stars: David Crowley, Danny August Mason, Alex Jones
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.
Director: Óscar Catacora
Stars: Vicente Catacora, Rosa Nina
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.
Director: Nathan Silver
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA
Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
Director: Stephen Cone
Stars: Marika Mashburn, Jessie Pinnick, Paul Brian Fagen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Philippines | USA
Taking us into the heart of the planet’s busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital’s stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it’s absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.
Director: Marine Francen
Stars: Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium
Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the next two years, the village is completely cut off. The women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband, so that life may continue to flourish in each of their wombs.
Director: Naoko Ogigami
Stars: Mugi Kadowaki, Tôma Ikuta, Eiko Koike
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
One spring Hiromi, who is the mother of an 11-year-old girl Tomo, left home for the umpteenth time. Tomo is accustomed to such a mother and as always went to Makio’s place. He is a brother of Hiromi and has lived with Rinko, a pretty girlfriend. Actually, Rinko is a transwoman. She works as a caregiver in a nursing home where Makio’s mother Sayuri who suffers from dementia is living.
Director: Anders Walter
Stars: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA | Belgium | Denmark | UK | Sweden | China
Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.
Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: Jan Rader, Patricia Keller, Necia Freeman
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA
Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.
Director: Oliver Kienle
Stars: Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christoph Letkowski
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
After Sophie and Jessica had witnessed a brutal crime when they were kids, Jessica promised her younger sister Sophie: “I will always protect you!” Growing older, this promise became an obsession. Now, Jessica (28) is suffering from paranoia and sees threats to her and her sister everywhere. But Sophie (26) wants to live a normal life without fear, without her sister. She wants to become a pianist and wants to fall in love. When the perpetrators are released of prison after 20 years, Jessica is shocked and wants to confront them. But an accident changes everything. Jessica’s promise to always protect her little sister turns into an existential nightmare.
Director: Kogonada
Stars: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France
24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | France | Germany | Belgium
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Valeska Grisebach
Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Bulgaria | Austria
German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
Director: Michael Del Monte
Stars: Janae Marie Kroczaleski
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender.
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Stars: Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Director: Marta Prus
Stars: Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun, Irina Viner
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Poland | Germany | Finland | France
An intimate portrait of the world’s most outstanding rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun who needs to overcome mental fragility to take part in the Olympic Games.
Director: Noël Wells
Stars: Noël Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
After a loved one falls ill, 25 year old struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Director: Laura Mora Ortega
Stars: Natasha Jaramillo, Giovanny Rodríguez, Camilo Escobar
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | Argentina
Lita witnesses the murder of her own father, a university professor. Frustrated over the local police she and her family start to investigate the murder themselves. Located at the dark and violent Medellin the quest for truth and revenge starts.
Director: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out.
Director: Saul Dibb
Stars: Paul Bettany, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Stars: Andrew Ackerman, Pim Bongaerts, Neal Cantin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | Brazil | Germany | France | Sweden | USA
In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions – the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.
Director: Lukas Feigelfeld
Stars: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Austria | Germany
Paranoia & Superstition in 15th Century Europe.
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina | Brazil | Spain | Dominican Republic | France | Netherlands | Mexico | Switzerland | USA | Portugal | Lebanon
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Director: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Stars: Tim Black, Philip Glass, Christo Gomes
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Namibia | South Africa | Zimbabwe | USA
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | France | Denmark | USA
A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
Director: Emer Reynolds
Stars: Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, John Casani
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Ireland
It is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space – the first human-made object ever to do so.
Director: Hogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal
Stars: Fakhir Berwari, Sheyma Ibrahim, Abdulla Fakhir
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden
A portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.
Director: Go-Woon Jeon
Stars: Esom, Jae-hong Ahn, Duk-moon Choi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.
Director: Joko Anwar
Stars: Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Dimas Aditya
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia | South Korea
After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
Director: João Moreira Salles
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Brazil
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China’s Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Stars: Menashe Lustig, Josh Alpert, Abraham Bresky
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland | France | Belgium
Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
Director: Lucy Cohen
Stars: Jamie-Jodie Shanks, Kacie-Kimie Shanks, Lorie-Lanie Shanks
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK
A father’s suicide sends a family of eight on a journey through childhood memories and treacherous emotional waters in this poignant documentary.
Director: John Trengove
Stars: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa | Germany | Netherlands | France
Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Austria | Germany
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Director: Pascal Plante
Stars: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault, Lysandre Nadeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a brutal punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a marginal teenager who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story unfolds between them, but Theo has to move at the end of the summer in a small town, far away from a painful past.
Director: Harald Zwart
Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Norway
They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away…
Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Abdelaziz Alhamza, Mohamad Almusari, Hamoud Almousa
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA
A documentary that follows the efforts of “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
Director: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa
Stars: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.
Director: Boris Khlebnikov
Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | Finland | Germany
A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
Director: Carla Simón
Stars: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Spain
After her mother’s death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle’s family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Stars: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | Canada | USA
A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
Director: Rima Das
Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A young village girl in northeast India wants to start her own rock band.
Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Director: Hsin-yao Huang
Stars: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
One day when Pickle’s and his colleague, Belly Bottom’s television is broken, their lives are changed forever.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Hungary
When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it’s difficult in real life.
Director: Colin M. Day
Stars: Ben Eine, Glen E. Friedman, Kelly ‘Risk’ Graval
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Internationally known graffiti artist, Banksy, left his mark on San Francisco in April 2010. Little did he know that this act of vandalism would spark a chain of events that includes one of his rats being removed from a wall, Museums ignorantly turning down a free Banksy street work, and a NY gallerist who has made it his business model to remove Banksy street works from all over the globe doing whatever it takes to get the rat in his possession.
Director: Yves Hinant, Jean Libon
Stars: Anne Gruwez, David Derumier, Serge Graide
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France
In this unapologetic and politically incorrect portrait, an extraordinary and eccentric Belgian judge takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life criminal investigations. The stranger-than-fiction documentary makes for a wild and riveting ride.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | China
Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
Director: Greg Barker
Stars: Jason Amerine, George W. Bush, Mark Nutsch
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA
Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, fewer than 100 US Troops were sent on a secret mission to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war-origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the impact of 15 years of constant combat.
Director: Rachel Israel
Stars: Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Sondra James
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Stars: Maggie Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | Germany | Zambia
In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches’ camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
Director: Jian Liu
Stars: Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: China
A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain | Argentina
In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Stars: Vicente Santos, Jose Cruz, Yuberbi de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Germany | Qatar | Dominican Republic
An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.
Director: Sonja Sohn
Stars: Devin Allen, Genard Shadow Barr, Elijah Cummings
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Baltimore Rising follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death in police custody.
Director: Rebecca Miller
Stars: Joan Allen, Joan Copeland, Peter Falk
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rebecca Miller’s film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home. This celebration of the great American playwright is quite different from what the public has ever seen. It is a close consideration of a singular life shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a bracing look at success and failure in the public eye; an honest accounting of human frailty; a tribute to one artist by another.
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Min-hee Kim, Mi-hee Chang
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea | France
The story of female friendship as Frenchwoman Claire helps the subject of her photograph, Min-Hee, discover why she was fired without apparent cause.
Director: JR, Agnès Varda
Stars: Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.
Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Suzanne Shepherd
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA
In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens her life.
Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Stars: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland | Poland | Denmark | Germany | France
When Baldwin and Inga’s next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Director: Daniel McCabe
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA | Congo
An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
Director: Armando Iannucci
Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK | France | Belgium | Canada | USA
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
Stars: Sylvio Bernardi, Meghan Doherty, Kentucker Audley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
A small town gorilla joins a local TV program where a series of on-air mishaps send him on a journey of self-discovery.
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Stars: Etty, Chani Getter, Ari Hershkowitz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Penetrating the insular world of New York’s Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Stars: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy | Belgium
The last year of singer Nico’s life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Stars: Ellen Page, Kate Mara, Amy Seimetz |
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause.
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Stars: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
Director: Mina Shum
Stars: Pei-Pei Cheng, Tzi Ma, Sandra Oh
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.
Director: Russell Harbaugh
Stars: Andie MacDowell, Chris O’Dowd, James Adomian
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Beizaee, Nasim Adabi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
A drama about corruption and injustice in Iranian society. You are the oppressed, or you have to join the oppressor to survive!
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Ashin Wirathu, U. Zanitar, Kyaw Zayar Htun
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France
A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
Director: Talal Derki
Stars: Abu Osama, Ayman Osama, Osama Osama
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Germany | USA | Syria | Lebanon | Netherlands | Qatar
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
Director: Vivian Qu
Stars: Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Ke Shi
Genre: Drama
Country: China
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli
Stars: Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Dylan, Nanfu Wang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Eating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society’s rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning of freedom – and its limits.
Director: Hsin Yin Sung
Stars: Gwei Lun-Mei, Te-Sheng Wei, Bor Jeng Chen
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?
Director: Jim McKay
Stars: Fernando Cardona, Gilberto Jimenez, Abel Perez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.
Director: Daniel Warth
Stars: Claire Armstrong, Naomi Skwarna, Andreana Callegarini-Gradzik
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Stars: Hadi Al Abdullah, Raed Al Saleh, Riad Al-Asaad
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Czech Republic
CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their reality or agrees on what to do about it.
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
Director: Albert Dupontel
Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Canada
November 1919. Two soldiers – a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant – start a memorial con. But in the France of the Roaring Twenties, their adventures soon turn dangerous.
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Stars: Joe Cole, Cherry Miko, Vithaya Pansringarm
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | France | China | Cambodia | USA | Germany
The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand’s most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.
Director: Issa López
Stars: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Director: Nora Twomey
Stars: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Ireland | Canada | Luxembourg | USA | UK | Philippines | India
In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Director: Robin Campillo
Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
Director: Ya-che Yang
Stars: Kara Wai, Ke-Xi Wu, Vicky Chen
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a cruel murder.
Director: Pierre Rehov
Stars: Assaf Avraham, Dan Bahat, Gabriel Barkay
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
“Unveiling Jerusalem” offers a historical journey, in search of Salomon’s and Herod’s Temples. Many experts, historians and archaeologists, bring their testimonies, on images, animations and exclusive documents.
Director: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland | Belgium | Iceland
A film adaptation of Väinö Linna’s best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel’s unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
Director: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Stars: Karla Souza, José María Yazpik, Ben O’Toole
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
A successful and single career woman asks her co-worker to pose as her boyfriend at a family wedding back home in Mexico. Her situation gets complicated when her ex shows up at the ceremony.
Director: Amichai Greenberg
Stars: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Hagit Dasberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Israel
Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.
Director: Tarik Saleh
Stars: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark | Morocco | France
A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don’t want the case solved.
Director: Jessica M. Thompson
Stars: Stephanie Beatriz, Conrad Ricamora, Michael Stahl-David
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
After her world is irrevocably changed, a successful New York City architect struggles to regain intimacy and control in her life.
Director: Jim Strouse
Stars: Jessica Williams, Chris O’Dowd, LaKeith Stanfield
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendship with a guy while on the rebound from a break-up.
Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Stars: John Branch, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: Austria | USA
In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
Director: Ali Soozandeh
Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany | Austria
In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
Director: Lysa Heslov
Stars: Nichole Alred, Jas Boothe, Rachel Engler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Director Lysa Heslov’s documentary, “Served Like a Girl, provides a candid look at several American women as they transition from active duty to civilian life after serving tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Director: Michael Larnell
Stars: Chanté Adams, Nia Long, Mahershala Ali
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
In the late 80s/ early 1990s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita “Roxanne Shanté” Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.
Director: Vahid Jalilvand
Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Aghaee, Hediyeh Tehrani
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran
When Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic pathologist, comes to work he encounters a corpse that looks familiar.
Director: Julia Solomonoff
Stars: Guillermo Pfening, Rafael Ferro, Paola Baldion
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain | Colombia | Brazil | USA
NADIE NOS MIRA is a film about the struggle of self-imposed exile; how the pleasures of anonymity and freedom contrast with the pain of loneliness and loss that shapes immigrant experience. NICO, mid 30’s, is a young Argentine actor fighting to build a career in the US, without assistance, or connections, never too far from heart-breaking failure, but often blinded by the mirage of immediate success.
Director: Ana Asensio
Stars: Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman’s struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China | Hong Kong
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Director: Natalia Beristáin
Stars: Karina Gidi, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Tessa Ia
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn’t seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Stars: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany
Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.
Director: Everardo González
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico
A documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.
Director: Shin’ichirô Ueda
Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
Director: Léonor Serraille
Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium
In her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she’ll make it anywhere.
Director: Danny Gold
Stars: Carl Reiner, Iris Apfel, Tony Bennett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Carl Reiner tracks down several nonagenarians to show how the twilight years can be rewarding.
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Rike Schmid, Hans Henrik Wöhler
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Germany
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
Director: Spencer T. Folmar
Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Dax Spanogle, Barrett Donner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Dying mother Sarah tells her elder son Drew that her last wish is for him to take his younger brother Will to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
Director: Angelina Jolie
Stars: Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Cambodia | USA
Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
Director: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron
Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.
Director: Adrian Goiginger
Stars: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy Miliker, Lukas Miko
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Germany
Seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of the Austrian city Salzburg, famous for culture and classical music.
Director: Jon Alpert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Life in Cuba for three struggling families over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro.
Director: Laís Bodanzky
Stars: Maria Ribeiro, Clarisse Abujamra, Paulo Vilhena
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
When Rosa’s mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.
Director: Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
Stars: Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Brazil | France | Germany
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Stars: Marish, Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Genre: Documentary
Country: Hungary | Canada | Czech Republic | Germany
A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
Director: Hope Litoff
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA
She’s beautiful, artistic, loved and can’t stand to be alive. 32 PILLS traces the fascinating life and mental illness of my sister, New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and my struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.
Director: Cullen Hoback
Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Marc Edwards, Rahul Gupta
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: USA
In this scandalous political thriller, an investigation into a chemical spill spirals into an indictment of the entire system meant to protect drinking water, revealing cover-ups at the highest levels of government.
Director: Nick Willing
Stars: Paula Rego, Nick Willing, John McEwen
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK
A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son, the film maker Nick Willing.
Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Stars: Andrew Bleechington, Regina Williams, Robert Williams
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | USA
Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young black man in today’s America. With his mother longing to find more to her life than parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Young-hwa Seo, Jae-yeong Jeong
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea | Germany
An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France | USA | Brazil
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father’s research assistant.
Director: Rezo Gigineishvili
Stars: Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Georgia | Russia | Poland
The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Stars: Julia Pott, Winona Mae
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: USA
Emily is visited by a backup clone of herself from the even-more distant future, as they must venture into each other’s psyches in order to restore the clone’s deteriorating mind.
Director: Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis
Stars: Lezley McSpadden, Michael Brown Sr., David Whitt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys
Genre: Drama
Country: France
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Director: Juan Carlos Fanconi
Stars: José Zúñiga, Gabriela de la Garza, Lali Gonzalez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Honduras | USA
Romance is in the air on the picturesque Caribbean island of Roatán, but the troubled pasts of its guests threaten to tame their desires.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Korpela, Dome Karukoski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | Germany
A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
Director: Derek Dennis Herbert
Stars: Kane Hodder, Mike Aloisi, John Carl Buechler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The emotional story of Kane Hodder who survived a harrowing childhood and near-death accident to become one of films biggest and most beloved horror icons.
Director: Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous
Stars: Chris Renton, Brian Nazarof, Eldra ‘Vegas’ III Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.
Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Recy Taylor, Robert Corbitt
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.
Director: John Maggio
Stars: Marion Barry Jr., Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary about Ben Bradlee, the iconic editor of The Washington Post.
Director: Nick Kelly
Stars: Dermot Murphy, Jacob McCarthy, Peter Coonan
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
An unlikely friendship develops between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an institutionalized teen suffering from Asperger’s syndrome.
Director: David France
Stars: Kurt Wolfe, Sue Yacka, Catherine Shugrue Dos Santos
Genre: Documentary
Country: Greece | USA
Victoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson’s family, friends and fellow activists.
Director: Andrew Kightlinger
Stars: Jessica Rothe, Bates Wilder, Forrest Weber
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France
A wayward millennial escapes to a South Dakota ranch, unhinging her Uncle’s placid alcoholic life.
Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Stars: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland
Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Scotty Bowers, Lois Bowers, William Mann
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
Stars: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Japan | USA
A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Stars: Haralan Alexandrov, Dimitar Banenkin, Vasil Banov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | Republic of North Macedonia
Multiple stories of taxi drivers while they work one night.
Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Stars: Oleg Afanasyev, Alexandra Ryabichkina, Jarik
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Finland
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight.
Director: Gustavo Salmerón
Stars: Julita Salmerón, Antonio García Cabanes, Ramón García Salmerón
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain
Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Giles New
Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan
Based on “The Little Broomstick” by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Director: Mouly Surya
Stars: Marsha Timothy, Egy Fedly, Tumpal Tampubolon
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Indonesia | France | Malaysia | Thailand
Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk
Genre: Animation, Biography, Crime
Country: Poland | UK | USA | Switzerland | Netherlands
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Director: John Ridley
Stars: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Damian ‘Football’ Williams
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
Director: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner
Stars: Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Belgium
Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it’s a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas. If you want to take a vacation, keep driving past this place.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Germany | Lithuania | Netherlands
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Stars: Yû Aoi, Sadao Abe, Tôri Matsuzaka
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Tawako’s boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she still reminisces about him and is attracted to his bad ways. Enter Mizushima who reminds Tawako of her old boyfriend, but soon more transpires to remind the girl of her old relationship.
Director: Joe Piscatella
Stars: Joshua ‘Chi-Fung’ Wong
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.
Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Taner Akçam, Hagop Asadourian
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.
Director: Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir
Stars: Gail Abarbanel, Richard Bell, Joe Biden
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.
Director: Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
Stars: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Amr Al-Azm, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.
Director: Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro, Morgan Pehme
Stars: Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Paul Manafort
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A documentary exploring the life and career of notorious Republican dirty trickster and longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, who helped create the real estate mogul’s political career.
Director: Michael Matthews
Stars: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dlamini
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: South Africa
Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.
Director: Mila Turajlic
Stars: Srbijanka Turajlic, Mila Turajlic, Mira Boskic
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Serbia | France | Qatar | Germany | Hungary
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother’s apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country’s tumultuous political inheritance.
Director: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
Stars: Khaled Umar Harah, Batul, Mahmoud
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Syria
Khaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.
Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia | Germany | France
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.
Director: Alexandra Dean
Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Director: Rebecca Cammisa
Stars: Dawn Chapman, Douglas Clemens, Robbin Ellison Dailey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A terrifying look at the corruption that’s destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Italy | UK | China
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Stars: Marli Renfro, Alfred Hitchcock, Tere Carrubba
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), the “man behind the curtain”, and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.
Director: Joon-Hwan Jang
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Hae-Jin Yoo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.
Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
Stars: n/a
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Director Guy Maddin’s interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Elvis Costello, Richard Dawkins
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.