Tag: Priority 2

Director: Yevgeny Bauer
Stars: Vitold Polonsky, Olga Rakhmanova, Vera Karalli, Mariya Khalatova
Genre: Drama, Horror, Silent
Country: Russia

Andrei lives a secluded life with his aunt, studying and thinking about his now-deceased mother. His friend Tsenin is concerned, and tries to get Andrei to accompany him to social events. After watching the actress Zoya Kadmina perform, Andrei is fascinated with her, and is then astounded to receive a note from her. He has only one brief meeting with her, and then three months later he is shocked to learn of her death. He now becomes obsessed with her memory, and he decides that he must find out all that he can about her.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Hilda Borgström, Georg Grönroos, Aron Lindgren, William Larsson
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Sweden

Financial struggles separate a single mother from her children.

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: UK

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, showing people doing everyday activities. It is ranked of high historical importance. Kinemacolor later influenced and replaced by Technicolor, which was used from 1916 to 1952.

Director: N/A
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, History, Silent
Country: USA

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are included.

Director: Edwin S. Porter
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Marguerite Thévenard, Bleuette Bernon, André Deed
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play “La Biche au Bois”, the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.

Director: J. Stuart Blackton
Stars: J. Stuart Blackton
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: USA

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Director:Svenska Biografteatern
Stars: N/A
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: Sweden

Old film of New York City in the year 1911. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to the United States. It was released two years later.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Terence Davies
Stars: Kate Phillips, Tom Blyth, Jeremy Irvine, Jack Lowden
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA

Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Lin Gallagher
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.

Director: Dash Shaw
Stars: Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Alex Karpovsky, Zoe Kazan
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA

Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Yunhee Cho, Lee Hye-yeong, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sahar Goldust, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don’t go as planned.

Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Jürgen Tarrach
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.

Director: Xavier Giannoli
Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium

Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist.

Director: Audrey Diwan
Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant, Jehnny Beth
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They’re friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Stars: Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Isabella Rossellini, Joe Gabler
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Feature adaptation of the animated short film interviewing a mollusk named Marcel.

Director: Maria Speth
Stars: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada

A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychiatrist bent on exposing him.

Director: Rebecca Hall
Stars: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada

“Passing” follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

Director: Kristine Stolakis
Stars: Michael Bussee, Alan Chambers, Ricky Chelette, James Dobson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Former leaders of the “pray the gay away” movement contend with the aftermath unleashed by their actions, while a survivor seeks healing and acceptance from more than a decade of trauma.

Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Joe Eldred, Mike Foreman, Ed Gavagan, Dan Laurine
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests battle for justice.

Director: Mathieu Amalric
Stars: Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet, Sacha Ardilly
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A woman one day simply walks out on her family. Or does she?

Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Chile

Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Director: Andreas Koefoed
Stars: Mohammad Bin Salman, Robert K. Wittman, Jerry Saltz, Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: Denmark, France

The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.

Director: Edgar Wright
Stars: Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Beck, Jane Wiedlin
Genre: Documentary, Music, Biography
Country: UK, USA

A musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with Ron and Russell Mael celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks.

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: John Waters, Mary Woronov, Barbara Walters, Lou Reed
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.

Director: Julia Ducournau
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh
Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Country: France, Belgium

Alex Lowe’s ill-fated climb and his son’s arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.

Director: Laura Wandel
Stars: Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret, Lena Girard Voss, Simon Caudry
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children’s and adult’s worlds.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Monaco

The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.

Director: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Stars: Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher, Carolyn Payne
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.

Director: Feras Fayyad
Stars: Amani Ballour, Samaher, Alaa
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Germany | France | UK | USA | Qatar | Syria

Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.

Director: Alice Winocour
Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France | Germany

An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.

Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Saadia Bentaïeb, Laurent Kumba, Jovial Mbenga
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

After a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.

Director: Shannon Murphy
Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

Milla, a seriously ill teenager falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents worst nightmare.

Director: Jérémy Clapin
Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d’Assumçao
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK | Germany

The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Antonio Pastich
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Denmark | Norway | Chile | Sweden

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.

Director: Josh Cooley
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

When a new toy called “Forky” joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | France

An aging film director suffering from chronic illness and writer’s block reflects on his life.

Director: Darius Marder
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Belgium | USA

A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms, Marie Burman
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | Norway | France

With ABOUT ENDLESSNESS, Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.

Director: Antoneta Kastrati
Stars: Adriana Matoshi, Astrit Kabashi, Fatmire Sahiti
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Kosovo | Albania

Haunted by her long suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

Director: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Stars: Waad Al-Kateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Sama Al-Khateab
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | Syria | USA

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

Director: Lulu Wang
Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Stars: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair.

Director: Midge Costin
Stars: Erik Aadahl, Ioan Allen, Richard L. Anderson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of the history and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.

Director: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
Stars: Nanfu Wang, Zaodi Wang, Zhimei Wang
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin, Karin Eberhard
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog’s creative and personal vision which was share with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of ‘In Patagonia’ and a champion of the nomadic life.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.

Director: Marie Kreutzer
Stars: Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria

A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.

Director: Marielle Heller
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: China | USA

Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.

Director: Denis Do
Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Louis Garrel, Colette Kieffer
Genre: Animation, War
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg | Cambodia | Reunion

The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Ah-In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea | Japan

Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

Director: Sandi Tan
Stars: Sandi Tan, Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Stars: Rebecca Hall, John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: France | UK | Germany | Poland | USA

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Director: Philippe Lesage
Stars: Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin, Pier-Luc Funk
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.

Director: Panos Cosmatos
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK | Belgium

The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Director: Marcus Lindeen
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Fe Seymour, Maria Björnstam
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Germany | USA

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behavior. Although the project became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three month journey. Through extraordinary archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition on a full scale replica of the raft, this film tells the hidden story behind what has been described as ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

Director: Bing Liu
Stars: Keire Johnson, Bing Liu, Zack Mulligan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi’nan Diao
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: China | France | Japan

A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.

Director: Eva Trobisch
Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans Löw
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Janne’s new boss’s brother-in-law rapes her, but she doesn’t report the incident and continues her way of life as usual. But her silence has consequences, not only for her but also for the love that she feels for her friend Piet.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Poland | UK | France | Belgium

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what’s right.

Director: Ramón Salazar
Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Susi Sánchez, Greta Fernández
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

A high-class old lady receives the unexpected visit of her long-time stranded daughter that she had left over thirty years ago, asking a strange request: to spend ten days the two together.

Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Thomas Adlam, William Argent, John Ashby
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: UK | New Zealand

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Director: Blitz Bazawule
Stars: Ama K. Abebrese, Joe Addo, Henry Adofo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ghana | USA

A man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.

Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland | France | Ukraine

Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.

Director: Stephen T. Maing
Stars: Manuel ‘Manny’ Gomez, Sandy Gonzales, Rukia Lumumba
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Republic of North Macedonia | France | Germany | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Sweden | Qatar

An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father’s deteriorating indulgence into gambling.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: France | Spain | Romania | Belgium | USA

In 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix), chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally.

Director: Patrick Wang
Stars: Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry, James Marsters
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple–performance artists from China–come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Iran | USA

A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.

Director: Nancy Schwartzman
Stars: Mark Cole, Anthony Craig, Rachel Dissell
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

An account of a notable sexual assault that took place in Steubenville, Ohio in 2012, and the role that social media played in the crime and on the community.

Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile | Germany

Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.

Director: Peter W. Kunhardt
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the final years in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director: Bi Gan
Stars: Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China | France

A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.

Director: Salvador Simó
Stars: Jorge Usón, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Spain | Netherlands | Germany

The true story of how Luis Buñuel made his third movie.

Director: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland | Switzerland | UK | France | USA

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Lukas Feigelfeld
Stars: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Austria | Germany

Paranoia & Superstition in 15th Century Europe.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile | Argentina | France | Spain | USA

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France

Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they’ve already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara’s staying.

Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea | USA

Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Director: Julia Ducournau
Stars: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

Director: Cristi Puiu
Stars: Mara Elena Andrei, Mirela Apostu, Eugenia Bosânceanu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | France | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Republic of North Macedonia

Centers around a family gathering on the anniversary of a patriarch’s recent death.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania | France | Belgium

A film about compromises and the implications of the parent’s role.

Director: Maren Ade
Stars: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany | Austria | Monaco | Romania | France | Switzerland

A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach.

Director: Anna Zamecka
Stars: Ola Kaczanowski
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland

‘Communion’ reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.

Director: Kôji Fukada
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Taiga Nakano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio’s family life.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Greece | Brazil

A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents’ battle over a dress shop lease.

Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d’Assumçao, Marc Susini
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Spain | Portugal

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Katia Krafft
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany | Canada

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

Director: Bill Morrison
Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

Director: Fabien Delage
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

Director: Fabien Delage
Stars: Alexandre Aja, Dave Alexander, Jean-Jacques Bernard
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

A documentary investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.

Director: Keith Maitland
Stars: Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Crime
Country: USA

Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.

Director: Babak Anvari
Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK | Jordan | Qatar | Iran

As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.

Director: Ken Loach, Laura Obiols
Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | France | Belgium

After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Bertrand Tavernier, François Truffaut, Jean-Paul Gaultier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Bertrand Tavernier’s personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.

Director: Errol Morris
Stars: Elsa Dorfman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman.

Director: Sébastien Laudenbach
Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Philippe Laudenbach
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener and the prince in his castle. A long journey towards the light…

Director: Emil Ben-Shimon
Stars: Evelin Hagoel, Igal Naor, Orna Banai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

A bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.

Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s ranch in West Texas.

Director: Trey Edward Shults
Stars: Krisha Fairchild, Alex Dobrenko, Robyn Fairchild
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.

Director: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.

Director: Anna Rose Holmer
Stars: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Da’Sean Minor
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

While training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.

Director: László Nemes
Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary

A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.

Director: Vitaliy Manskiy
Stars: Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong, Hye-Yong
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czech Republic | Russia | Germany | Latvia | North Korea

A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.

Director: Sebastian Schipper
Stars: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat
Genre: Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA

A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.

Director: Martin Zandvliet
Stars: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark | Germany

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Tsring Chodron, Tsewang Dolkar, Jiangcuo Seba
Genre: Drama
Country: China

A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

Director: Stig Björkman
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Alicia Vikander, Pia Lindström
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Germany

A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Mauritania | France | Qatar

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives — which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith — abruptly disturbed.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany

A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.

Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Stars: Shira Haas, Keren Mor, Ori Pfeffer
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar’s role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan-an ethereal boy who joins her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevallier
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland | France

A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.

Director: Edet Belzberg
Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Raphael Lemkin, Matt Mitler
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Netherlands | France | Chad | Rwanda

Four modern stories of remarkable courage while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term ‘genocide’. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ‘A Problem From Hell’, ‘Watchers of the Sky’ traverses time and continents to explore genocide and the cycle of violence.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria

Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don’t recognize.

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden | Germany | Norway | France | Denmark

Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.

Director: Peter Strickland
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D’Anna
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK | Hungary

A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Italy

Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.

Director: Steven Knight
Stars: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Belgium

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France

Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.

Director: Isao Takahata
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | USA

An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood’s silent era.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France

A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany

A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan’s 8-year absence from exploring the world.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Ann Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Australia

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Director: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran

It’s been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.

Director: David Weissman, Bill Weber
Stars: Ed Wolf, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.

Director: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton
Stars: Jeff Adachi, James H. Billington, Robin Blaetz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | France | Italy

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hair-dresser agrees to foster him on week-ends.

Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sienna Guillory, Annie Hardy
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young man faces the abrupt loss of his friend.

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Stars: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: France | UK

A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday… Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | Australia

The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Stars: Werner Herzog, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.

Director: Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan, Elias Koteas
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on the late Elia Kazan.

Director: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Hye-ja Kim, Won Bin, Goo Jin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl’s horrific murder.

Director: Sebastián Silva
Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile | Mexico

A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison.

Director: Lee Daniels
Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran | France

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

Director: Adam Elliot
Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania

A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece

Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.

Director: Chuan Lu
Stars: Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China | Hong Kong

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Jean, his loving wife and son live a simple, happy life. At his son’s homeroom teacher Madamoiselle Chambon’s request, he volunteers as substitute teacher and starts to fall for her delicate and elegant charm. His ordinary life between family and work starts to falter.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Stars: Isaiah Zagar, Julia Zagar, Ezekiel Zagar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of Julia Zagar and her husband Isaiah, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete.

Director: Lance Hammer
Stars: Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man’s suicide affects three people’s lives.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

Scampia Vele is the corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

Director: Sion Sono
Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

Director: Götz Spielmann
Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Austria

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Italy | Germany

Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie – he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport – and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.

Director: David Lebrun
Stars: Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: USA

The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times “one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery”, Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Terence Davies
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

Director: Philippe Claudel
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Director: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Stars: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Using only word of mouth, two lifelong best friends and Internet comedians, Rhett & Link, embark on a search for the long-lost teacher of the first grade class where they met.

Director: Jason S.
Stars: Jay Aaseng, Jeremy Alter, David Lynch
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of David Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire (2006). We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. The director of the documentary immersed himself in David Lynch’s world; living and working at Lynch’s home. His unobtrusive style has captured a personal side of David Lynch not seen before.

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | USA | Australia | Japan | France

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK | France | USA

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.

Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Stars: Marília Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Brazil

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia | France

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jan Wikbladh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Germany | France | Denmark | Norway | Japan

You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved.

Director: Various international directors
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Louis Negin
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin’s home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Director: Gonzalo Arijon
Stars: Jose Algorta, Roberto Canessa, Alfredo Delgado
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Uruguay | Argentina | Spain | USA

For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Italy

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he’s captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France | Italy

Diana, the “People’s Princess” has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen (Dame Helen Mirren) and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the public.

Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden | UK | Norway

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Barry Pepper, Joseph Cross
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Albert Maysles
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kyôka Suzuki, Genzô Wakayama
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A young boy is tired of the city and escapes into the country. Two strangers trade him a strange seed. The boy accepts and the seed sprouts into a miniature planet, which continues to grow.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | Japan

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Director: Stanley Nelson
Stars: Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland | UK | Germany | Italy | Spain | France | Belgium | Switzerland | Netherlands

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Stars: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father’s conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs.

Director: Marshall Curry
Stars: Jen Bluestein, Cory Booker, Bill Bradley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey in which a City Councilman, Cory Booker, attempted to unseat longtime mayor Sharpe James.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Canada | USA

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Stars: Claus Hansen Petz, Arkadiusz Rydellek, Barbara Hinz
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Austria

OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest – and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas.

Director: Doug Block
Stars: Carol Block, Doug Block, Ellen Block
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA

Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents’ 54-year marriage was a good one. But when his mother dies unexpectedly and his father swiftly marries his former secretary, he discovers two parents who are far more complex and troubled than he ever imagined. 51 Birch Street is a riveting personal documentary that explores a universal human question: how much about your parents do you really want to know?

Director: Michael Apted, Paul Almond
Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

In 1964, to explore the adage “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” World in Action filmed seven-year-olds. Every seven years, Michael Apted visits them. At 49, 12 agree to talk about family, work, their hopes, and the series. We also see footage from previous interviews. Some marriages seem stronger; some have ended. Being a parent or a grandparent dominates life’s pleasures. Simon has found responsibility; John’s charity work flourishes. Neil remains in politics, against all odds. Jackie leads the critique of a more deliberately-present Apted and the series’ intrusiveness. None enjoy participating; all are reflective; several surpass expectations.

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Dave Chappelle, Yasiin Bey, Lauryn Hill
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
Country: USA

A mix of Dave Chappelle’s sketch comedy and musical interludes, inspired in part by the 1973 documentary Wattstax.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekili, Güven Kiraç
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | Turkey

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

From legendary French New Wave director Agnès Varda, a triptych of short documentary films exploring the power and vitality of the photograph. Each film separated by 20 years, from her first documentary in the early 60s, through a doc from the early 80s, to her most recent.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

An indictment of modern times divided into three “kingdoms”: “Enfer” (“Hell”), “Purgatoire” (“Purgatory”) and “Paradis” (“Paradise”).

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Japan | UK

About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago, a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the canopy ended in disaster when Dorrington’s friend Dieter Plage fell to his death. With the expedition is Werner Herzog, setting out now with a new prototype of the airship into the Lost World of the pristine rain forest of this little explored area of the world, to record and tell this unique story.

Director: Xan Cassavetes
Stars: Robert Altman, Vera Carlisle Anderson, C.L. Batten
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel’s eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Director: Siddiq Barmak
Stars: Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar, Khwaja Nader
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan | Ireland | Japan | Iran | Netherlands

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France | Austria | Germany

When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father – a man they know only through a single photograph – resurfaces.

Director: Thom Andersen
Stars: Encke King, Ben Alexander, Jim Backus
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.

Director: Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Stars: Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Switzerland | Belgium | France

Filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.

Director: Blair Young, Lance Bangs
Stars: Isobel Campbell, Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

FANS ONLY is an excellent companion to Belle and Sebastian’s albums. It features all of Belle and Sebastian’s videos while on the Jeepster/Matador label (they recently switched to Rough Trade) and also some interesting live performances. These segments are linked together by vintage footage of the band that seems to have been shot for TV a few years ago and by photographs of the band.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from him, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns him that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. He responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can he, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio, Laura Harring
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Germany | Spain

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

The third film of a five-part art-installation epic — it’s part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Kate Dollenmayer, Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she’s still in school, and is looking for a temporary job but a permanent boyfriend. She loves a guy who doesn’t love her (?), ping-pongs between awkward romantic alternatives and even less suitable jobs.

Director: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Brazil

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator’s background.

Director: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Stars: Traudl Junge
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: Austria

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler’s personal secretaries during WWII.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK | Ireland

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: France

A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

Director: Lance Bangs, Kim Gordon, Spike Jonze, Dan Koretzky, Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal
Stars: Stephen Malkmus, Mark Ibold, Scott Kanberg
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999. The DVD also compiles all of their music videos, rare live footage, audio commentary from the band and directors, and two live concerts available with multiple angles.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Pongpas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand | France

The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.

Director: Jeroen Berkvens
Stars: Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Gabrielle Drake
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Netherlands

A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother’s birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and in London, then back to his parents’ home in Tanworth. His parents describe his habits and personality. Two friends and the producer, arranger, sound engineer, and photographer for his three albums comment. His mother, a musician and poet, is an early influence. His quiet folk style made his one tour a disaster. His lack of success and gradual withdrawal end with his death at 26. Eleven of his recordings play on the soundtrack, usually as we see his room, a city, or the Warwickshire countryside.

Director: AJ Schnack
Stars: John Flansburgh, John Linnell, Gina Arnold
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the music group They Might Be Giants.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
Stars: Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong | France | Netherlands

The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who’s an old school friend of Liyan’s and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen’s childhood sweetheart.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.

Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: France

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | France

A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.

Director: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Italy | Belgium | UK | Slovenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Portugal

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his observational camera on The Spring, a Florida shelter for battered women and children. For one-hundred and ninety-six minutes, Wiseman profiles the women and children that have been victim to domestic violence, showing them endure therapeutic, thoughtful lectures and learn from the tireless social workers employed at The Spring that their sanctuary has been found.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico | Spain

After Carlos – a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War – arrives at an ominous boys’ orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.

Director: Martina Kudlácek
Stars: Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Austria | Czech Republic | Switzerland | Germany

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Stars: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland | Spain | Italy

Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Stars: Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical
Country: India

The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | Italy | Switzerland

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

Director: Liv Ullmann
Stars: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden | Italy | Germany | Finland | Norway

An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.

Director: Hans Petter Moland, Tony Spataro
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Sweden | Norway

A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He’s drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.