Tag: 2020

Director: Janicza Bravo
Stars: Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Ari’el Stachel
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.

Director: Yûjirô Harumoto
Stars: Yumi Kawai, Ken Mitsuishi, Kumi Takiuchi, Masahiro Umeda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.

Director: David Darg, Price James
Stars: David Arquette, Christina McLarty Arquette, Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

Actor David Arquette attempts a rocky return to the sport that stalled his promising Hollywood career.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Yi Zhang, Haocun Liu, Wei Fan, Yan Li
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong

A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
Stars: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, France

A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.

Director: Chris McKim
Stars: Alan Barrows, Barry Blinderman, Bono, William Dannemeyer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A controversial artist blazes a trail for other gay image makers in New York ‘s 1980s scene, only to perish at the end of the decade from the AIDS virus.

Director: Cathy Brady
Stars: Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland

The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited.

Director: Marielle Heller
Stars: Heidi Schreck, Mike Iveson, Rosdely Ciprian, Thursday Williams
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Live Broadway cast production of Heidi Schreck’s play presenting multiple facets, historical perspectives and personal experiences with the U.S. Constitution.

Director: David France
Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK

A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Serban Lazarovici, Bogdan Zamfir, Ioana Iacob, Serban Pavlu
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

The story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Germany, France

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

Director: Julia von Heinz
Stars: Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Andreas Lust
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France

How far one is willing to go for the sake of one’s political commitment.

Director: Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger
Stars: Alex Azar, Charlie Baker, Scott Becker, Taison Bell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.

Director: Garrett Bradley
Stars: Sibll Fox Richardson, Robert G. Richardson, Mahlik Richardson, Remington B. Richardson
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.

Director: Jim Cummings
Stars: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there’s no such thing as werewolves.

Director: Michael Samuels
Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK

This is the stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.

Director: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Stars: Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda, Maria Cicciù, Aurelio Conterno
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Italy, Greece

Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation.

Director: Aaron Sorkin
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, India

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Stars: Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson, Joe Toscano
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

Director: Jerry Rothwell
Stars: Donna Budway, Emma Budway, Jeremy Dear, Joss Dear
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK, USA

Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.

Director: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Stars: Matilda Tucker, Martin Amis, Adolf Hitler, Mike Taibbi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An inquiry into decades of cultural fascination with the Nazi leader, and the ramifications of such a fascination on present day politics.

Director: David Midell
Stars: Frankie Faison, Steve O’Connell, Enrico Natale, Ben Marten
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

Director: Evan Morgan
Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first ‘adult’ case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Director: Alice Wu
Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to become his friend – or fall for his crush.

Director: Alison Ellwood
Stars: The Go-Go’s, Charlotte Caffey, Elissa Bello, Belinda Carlisle
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The Go-Go’s are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.

Director: Radha Blank
Stars: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.

Director: Eli B. Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Stars: Brigitte Amiri, Joshua Block, David Cole, Lee Gelernt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An inside look at the legal battles that lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union are facing during the Trump administration.

Director: Iryna Tsilyk
Stars: Ganna Gladka, Stanislav Gladky, Anastasiia Trofymchuk, Myroslava Trofymchuk
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Ukraine, Lithuania

To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

Director: Bryan Fogel
Stars: Omar Abdulaziz, Irfan Fidan, Recep Kiliç, Wadah Khanfar
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Aditya Modak, Arun Dravid, Sumitra Bhave, Deepika Bhide Bhagwat
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India

Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.

Director: Frank Marshall
Stars: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, Peter Brown
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

An exploration of the history of the Bee Gees, featuring revealing interviews with oldest brother Barry Gibb, and archival interviews with the late twin brothers Robin and Maurice.

Director: Eugene Ashe
Stars: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Stars: Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell, Will Patton, Karyn Parsons
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story revolves around two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves.

Director: Harry Macqueen
Stars: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood, Peter MacQueen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Ryôta Bandô
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.

Director: Brian Duffield
Stars: Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Get ready for the outrageous coming-of-age love story about growing up…and blowing up. When students in their school begin exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

Director: Matt Wolf
Stars: Kathelin Gray, Marie Harding, William Dempster, John Allen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth’s ecosystem, in 1991.

Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.

Director: Alexis Gambis
Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Tenoch Huerta, William Mapother, Electra Avellan
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.

Director: Lance Oppenheim
Stars: Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America’s largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Stars: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, Germany, Netherlands

Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community of his clients.

Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
Stars: Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland

Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they’ll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they’ll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

Director: Charlène Favier
Stars: Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier, Marie Denarnaud, Muriel Combeau
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium

Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star.Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?

Director: Lisa Rovner
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Wendy Carlos, Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK, France, USA

Follows the story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

Director: Fernanda Valadez
Stars: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús Varela, Ana Laura Rodríguez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain

A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.

Director: Cooper Raiff
Stars: Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, Logan Miller
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A lonely college freshman forges a strong connection with his resident assistant during a fraternity party.

Director: Matias Mariani
Stars: O.C. Ukeje, Indira Nascimento, Chukwudi Iwuji, Oula Alsaghir
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to find his long lost brother.

Director: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Stars: Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland

Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anong Houngheuangsy
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Jean-Baptiste Alaize, Ryley Batt, Ellie Cole, Philip Craven
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK

The history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world’s third largest sporting event.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Director: Merawi Gerima
Stars: Obinna Nwachukwu, Dennis Lindsey, Taline Stewart, Derron Scott
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends being scattered to the wind.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Woody Culleton, Michelle John, Matt Gates
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The community of Paradise, California, a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, attempts to rebuild after devastating wildfires in 2018.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Stars: Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrovic
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Director: Joel Haver
Stars: Joel Haver, Annalisa Noel, Hannah Monsour, Hannah Rose
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Joel attempts to find a romantic connection while in the development of his next film, all the while dealing with his health and other personal issues.

Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK

An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Stars: Sasha
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Denmark

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.

Director: Srdan Golubovic
Stars: Goran Bogdan, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin, Milica Janevski
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A Serbian man fights to regain custody of his children.

Director: Anabel Rodriguez Rios
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela, United Kingdom, Brazil, Austria

Villagers in the Venezuelan community of Lake Maracaibo fight against pollution, corruption and neglect to keep homes and way of life.

Director: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
Stars: Sil Lai Abrams, Joe Biden, Tarana Burke, Kimberle Crenshaw
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy, France, Germany

Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.

Director: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
Stars: Billy Tipton Jr., Holden Bernstein, Kate Bornstein, Ryan Cassata
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Canada

No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton.

Director: Edson Oda
Stars: Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Benedict Wong
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China

A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.

Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Stars: Craig Foster, Tom Foster
Genre: Documentary
Country: South Africa

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

Director: Matt Riddlehoover
Stars: Elvis Presley, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Kristen Wiig
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash’s first wife and the mother of his four daughters.

Director: Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch
Stars: Walter Mercado, Willy Acosta, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Raul de Molina
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Every day for decades, Walter Mercado — the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer — mesmerized 120 million Latino viewers with his extravagance and positivity.

Director: Bassam Tariq
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Anjana Vasan, Nabhaan Rizwan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA

A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.

Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples
Stars: Nicole Beharie, Liz Mikel, Marcus M. Mauldin, Kendrick Sampson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant.

Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Stars: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Noel Cho
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.

Director: Christos Nikou
Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, Poland, Australia, Slovenia

Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.

Director: David Osit
Stars: Walaa Eltiti, Yazeed Faruja, Musa Hadid
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK

A look at the life of Musa Hadid, the charismatic mayor of Palestinian city Ramallah, who aspires to lead the city into the future.

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium

When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.

Director: Barry Avrich
Stars: Ann Freedman, M.H. Miller, Perry Amsellem, Patricia Cohen
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Canada

Made You Look is an American crime documentary about the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and super fast art world of New York.

Director: Sam Pollard
Stars: Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard’s resonant film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director: Lois Patiño
Stars: Rubio de Camelle, Ana Marra, Carmen Martínez, Pilar Rodlos
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain

In a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man.

Director: Sabrina Doyle
Stars: Jena Malone, Pablo Schreiber, Ryan Findley, Cory Ellis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A working-class fable about a biker, a mermaid and three shades of blue.

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, Soko, Raúl Castillo
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada

A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.

Director: Ben Sharrock
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kenneth Collard, Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan, Dianne Wiest, Christopher Fitzgerald
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A famous author goes on a cruise trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and happiness while she comes to terms with her troubled past.

Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Stars: Tilda Swinton
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Iceland

Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.

Director: Noah Hutton
Stars: Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard, Ivory Aquino
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother, delivery man Ray takes a strange job in a strange new realm of the gig economy.

Director: Philippe Lacôte
Stars: Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Côte d’Ivoire, Canada, Senegal

A young man is sent to “La Maca”, a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Director: Benjamin Ree
Stars: Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova, Øystein Stene
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway, USA

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

Director: Philipp Yuryev
Stars: Vladimir Onokhov, Kristina Asmus, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Nikolay Tatato
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Belgium

A young hunter sets off an a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.

Director: Aurel
Stars: Sergi López, Emmanuel Vottero, Xavier Serrano, David Marsais
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium

A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.

Director: Dawn Porter
Stars: Elijah Cummings, Anthony Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Ayanna Pressley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The film explores Georgia representative’s, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.

Director: Frank Oz
Stars: Derek DelGaudio, Hal Schulman, Jason England, Robert Herritt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question ‘Who am I?’

Director: Heidi Ewing
Stars: Armando Espitia, Yael Tadeo, Raúl Briones, Alberto Juárez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

Director: Nicole Riegel
Stars: Pamela Adlon, Austin Amelio, Becky Ann Baker, Jessica Barden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

To pay for her education, and the chance of a better life, a young woman joins a dangerous scrap metal crew.

Director: Remi Weekes
Stars: Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Matt Smith
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK

A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.

Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Ian Lloyd Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK

A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.

Director: Thomas Kail
Stars: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The real life of one of America’s foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.

Director: Viktor Kosakovskiy
Stars: Gunda
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway, USA, UK

Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.

Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Stars: Maryam Moghadam, Alireza Sani Far, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Avin Poor Raoufi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France

Mina’s life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter’s sake.

Director: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Stars: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Yuri fights to save his home town – which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin – from demolition.

Director: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer
Stars: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Simon Schaffer, Jon Larsen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they’ve had on Earth.

Director: Luke Holland
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

An urgent portrait of the last living generation of Hitler’s Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.

Director: Lili Horvát
Stars: Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Benett Vilmányi, Zsolt Nagy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary

Márta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.

Director: Leslye Davis, Catrin Einhorn
Stars: Brian Eisch, Isaac Eisch, Joey Eisch, Roxanne Gregory
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.

Director: Ekwa Msangi
Stars: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.

Director: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
Stars: Emmanuel Adeji, Mary Agholor, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Ivy Akinyode
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria

In Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families.

Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Stars: Joel Widman, Stuart Anderson, Nemo Baletic, Angela Barbosa
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An American family becomes entangled in a bizarre web of secrets and lies when their hacker son is targeted by the U.S. government, making them all ENEMIES OF THE STATE.

Director: Autumn de Wilde
Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China

In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands

Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

Director: Sam Feder
Stars: Laverne Cox, Bianca Leigh, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An in-depth look at Hollywood’s depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.

Director: Adam Rehmeier
Stars: Kyle Gallner, Yancey Fuqua, Jennifer Kincer, Hannah Marks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America’s decaying Midwestern suburbs.

Director: Jörg Adolph, Jan Haft
Stars: Peter Wohlleben, Achim Bogdahn, Markus Lanz, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

When Peter Wohlleben published his book “The Hidden Life of Trees” in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Marty Walsh
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

Director: Mike Mosallam
Stars: Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy, Amin El Gamal, Patrick Sabongui
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.

Director: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Stars: Ben Feinstein, Steven Garza, Robert MacDougall, René Otero
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.

Director: Jason Woliner
Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA

Borat returns from Kazakhstan to America and this time he reveals more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic and the political elections.

Director: Fred Scott
Stars: Roy Andersson, Johan Carlsson, Martin Serner, Pernilla Sandström
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, Sweden

At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process.

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvili
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana’s inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.

Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Beastie Boys, Mike D, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Here’s a little story they’re about to tell… Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of the band, Beastie Boys, and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend and collaborator, Spike Jonze.

Director: Tracey Deer
Stars: Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Rainbow Dickerson, Joel Montgrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Based on true events, Tracey Deer’s debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 in Quebec.

Director: Guillaume Pierret
Stars: Alban Lenoir, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Ramzy Bedia, Stéfi Celma
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Sport
Country: France

A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.

Director: Ryan White
Stars: Siti Aisyah, Hadi Azmi, Anna Fifield, Doan Thi Huong
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

An account of the two women convicted of assassinating Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The film follows the women’s trials in an attempt to understand whether they are trained killers or simply pawns.

Director: Ruthy Pribar
Stars: Alena Yiv, Shira Haas, Tamir Mula, Gera Sandler
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Despite living together, Asia barely interacts with her daughter Vika. Their routine is shaken when Vika’s health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva, Daniel Freedman
Genre: Documentary, Music, Musical
Country: USA

Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.

Director: John Hyams
Stars: Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Rosenthal
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.

Director: Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus
Stars: Carolyn Abrams, Robert Abrams, Stacey Abrams, Debo Adegbile
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary takes a look at the history, and current activism against voter suppression; barriers to voting that most people don’t even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.

Director: Aleem Khan
Stars: Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss, Nasser Memarzia
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.

Director: Maya Zinshtein
Stars: Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Johnnie Moore Jr., Yechiel Eckstein
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, Israel, Norway

An in-depth look into the unique bond between Evangelical Christianity and the Jewish State.

Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Stars: Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache, Mihaela Murgoci
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania, Germany

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.

Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Stars: Amal Clooney, Ronaldo ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa, Rodrigo R. Duterte, Patricia Evangelista
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Philippines

A look at how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte uses social media to spread disinformation.

Director: Chris Bolan
Stars: Terry Donahue, Pat Henschel, Diana Bolan, Kim Donahue
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Falling in love in 1947, two women — Pat Henschel and pro baseball player Terry Donahue — begin a 65-year journey of love and overcoming prejudice.

Director: Mary Mazzio
Stars: Common, Arshay Cooper, Ken Alpart, David Banks
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Narrated by Common, this film chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, coming together to row in the same boat).