President, The (Dreyer)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Richard Christensen, Christian Engelstoft, Hallander Helleman, Halvard Hoff
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Denmark

The judge in a Danish town sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, and is rather sure that she will be sentenced to death. She became pregnant from an aristocrat who didn’t want to marry her.

 

J’accuse! (Gance)

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Genre: Drama, Horror, War, Silent
Country: France

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

 

Satan’s Rhapsody (Oxilia)

Director: Nino Oxilia
Stars: Lyda Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini, Giovanni Cini
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Silent
Country: Italy

A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.

 

Satan Triumphant (Protazanov)

Director: Yakov Protazanov
Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Polycarpe Pavloff, Aleksandr Chabrov
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Russia

Pastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

 

Immigrant, The (Feuillade)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama, Silent
Country: USA

Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.

 

Judex (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen, Édouard Mathé
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Silent
Country: France

A twelve-part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

 

Tramp, The (Chaplin)

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Billy Armstrong, Lloyd Bacon, Bud Jamison
Genre: Short, Comedy, Silent
Country: USA

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.

 

Fantomas: The Man in Black (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Silent
Country: France

In Part Two of Louis Feuillade’s 5 1/2-hour epic follows FantÃ’mas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.

 

Unseen Enemy, An (Griffith)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Silent
Country: USA

The physician’s death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor’s small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father’s household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall. But the resourceful girls use the telephone to call their brother who has returned to town. He gets the message and organizes a rescue party.

 

Golden Beetle, The (de Chomón, Zecca)

Director: Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
Stars: N/A
Genre: Fantasy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A sorcerer tosses an iridescent little beetle into a flaming ceremonial cauldron, and much to his amazement, a six-winged fairy in the body of a beautiful young woman emerges. Is his sorcery potent enough to tame her?

Voyage Across the Impossible, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d’Alcy, May de Lavergne
Genre: Action, Adventure, Short, Silent
Country: France

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Bluebeard (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy, Bleuette Bernon, Thomas White
Genre: Short, Horror, Silent
Country: France

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Let Me Dream Again (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Tom Green, Laura Bayley
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Short, Silent
Country: UK

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.

Joan of Arc (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Bleuette Bernon, Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy
Genre: Drama, History, Short, Silent
Country: France

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Grandma’s Reading Glass (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Harold Smith
Genre: Drama, Short, Silent
Country: UK

A child borrows his grandmother’s magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what he is doing. The child looks next at grandma’s eye, then at a kitten.

As Seen Through a Telescope (Smith)

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

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men do now?

One-Man Band, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy Short, Silent
Country: France

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair.

X-Ray Fiend, The (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Short, Silent
Country: UK

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès’ accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

Annie Oakley (Dickson, Heise)

Director: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Stars: Annie Oakley
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison’s Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

Kiss in the Tunnel, The (Smith)

Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Laura Bayley, George Albert Smith
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: UK

A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (Muybridge)

Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Stars: Gilbert Domm, Sallie Gardner
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

The clip shows a jockey, Domm, riding a horse, Sally Gardner. The clip is not filmed but instead consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.

Balance, A (Harumoto)

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

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

Wojnarowicz (McKim)

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

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

Uppercase Print (Jude)

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

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

Wolf of Snow Hollow, The (Cummings)

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

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

Windermere Children, The (Samuels)

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

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

Truffle Hunters, The (Dweck, Kershaw)

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

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

Go-Go’s, The (Ellwood)

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

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

Earth Is Blue as an Orange, The (Tsilyk)

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

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

Sylvie’s Love (Ashe)

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

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

Spontaneous (Duffield)

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

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

Some Kind of Heaven (Oppenheim)

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

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

Sisters with Transistors (Rovner)

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

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

Identifying Features (Valadez)

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

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

Shithouse (Raiff)

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

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

Days (Tsai)

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

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

Residue (Gerima)

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

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

Pretend That You Love Me (Haver)

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

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

On the Record (Dick, Ziering)

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

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

News of the World (Greengrass)

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

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

Miss Juneteenth (Peoples)

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

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

Mayor (Osit)

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

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

Red Moon Tide (Patiño)

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

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

Little Fish (Hartigan)

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

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

Lapsis (Hutton)

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

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

Painter and the Thief, The (Ree)

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

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

Holler (Riegel)

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

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

Herself (Kail)

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

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

Final Account (Holland)

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

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

Hidden Life of Trees, The (Adolph, Haft)

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

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

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Woliner)

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

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

Beans (Deer)

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

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

Lost Bullet (Pierret)

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

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

Asia (Pribar)

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

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

Alone (Hyams)

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

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

After Love (Khan)

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

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

Thousand Cuts, A (Diaz)

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

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

A Chiara (Carpignano)

Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Swamy Rotolo, Pio Amato, Leonardo Bevilacqua, Susanna Amato
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France

Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.

Night of Knowing Nothing, A (Kapadia)

Director: Payal Kapadia
Stars: Bhumisuta Das
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, India

L writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

Ali & Ava (Barnard)

Director: Clio Barnard
Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook, Ellora Torchia, Shaun Thomas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

ALI and AVA, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of AVA’s past relationship, and ALI’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.

All My Friends Hate Me (Gaynord)

Director: Andrew Gaynord
Stars: Georgina Campbell, Christopher Fairbank, Joshua McGuire, Dustin Demri-Burns
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK

Pete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him. Is he being punished, is he paranoid, or is he part of some sick joke?

Azor (Fontana)

Director: Andreas Fontana
Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Carmen Iriondo, Juan Trench
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, France, Argentina

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Jude)

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Found (Lipitz)

Director: Amanda Lipitz
Stars: Lily Bolka, Chloe Lipitz, Sadie Mangelsdorf, Liu Hao
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

The story of three American teenage girls-each adopted from China-who discover they are blood-related cousins on 23andMe. Their online meeting inspires the young women to confront the burning questions they have about their lost history.

Great Freedom (Meise)

Director: Sebastian Meise
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.

I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) (Kali, Molina)

Director: Kelley Kali, Angelique Molina
Stars: Wesley Moss, Kelley Kali, Dominique Molina, Lucas Byrd
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

When a recently widowed mother becomes houseless, she convinces her 8-year-old daughter that they are only camping for fun while working to get them off of the streets.

Lamb (Jóhannsson)

Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Poland, Sweden

A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

Mad Women’s Ball, The (Laurent)

Director: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel ‘Le bal des folles’ by Victoria Mas.

Summit of the Gods, The (Imbert)

Director: Patrick Imbert
Stars: Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France

A photojournalist’s obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

Listening to Kenny G (Lane)

Director: Penny Lane
Stars: Clive Davis, Craig Ferguson, Kenny G, James Gardiner
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.

Mad God (Tippett)

Director: Phil Tippett
Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world’s preeminent stop-motion animator.

Memory Box (Hadjithomas, Joreige)

Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Stars: Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clémence Sabbagh
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, Canada, France, Qatar

The lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.

Montana Story (McGehee, Siegel)

Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague, Gilbert Owuor, Kimberly Guerrero
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.

No Sudden Move (Soderbergh)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, Jon Hamm
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what’s really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.

Prayers for the Stolen (Huezo)

Director: Tatiana Huezo
Stars: Guillermo Villegas, Mayra Batalla, Eileen Yañez, Alejandra Camacho
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, USA

Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.

Not Going Quietly (Bruckman)

Director: Nicholas Bruckman
Stars: Ady Barkan, Cory Booker, Tracey Corder, Kamala Harris
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.

Olga (Grappe)

Director: Elie Grappe
Stars: Anastasiia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio, Théa Brogli
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Switzerland, France, UK

A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland, who is working to secure a place at the country’s National Sports Center. When the Euromaiden revolt breaks out in the country, anxieties rise as her family gets involved.

Small Body (Samani)

Director: Laura Samani
Stars: Celeste Cescutti, Ondina Quadri
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Slovenia

Italy, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks herself on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter’s soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.

President (Nielsson)

Director: Camilla Nielsson
Stars: Nelson Chamisa
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Norway, United States, United Kingdom

A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe’s 2018 presidential election.

Rebel Dykes (Shanahan, Williams)

Director: Harri Shanahan, Siân A. Williams
Stars: Indigo Azidahaka, Karen Fisch
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

REBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.

Rehana (Saad)

Director: Abdullah Mohammed Saad
Stars: Azmeri Haque Badhon, Afia Jahin Jaima, Kazi Sami Hassan, Afia Tabassum Borno
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar

An assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault where she knows both the victim and the perpetrator.

Saloum (Herbulot)

Director: Jean Luc Herbulot
Stars: Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Roger Sallah, Mentor Ba
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Senegal

2003, three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (Agrelo)

Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Stars: Frank Biondo, Linda Bove, Fran Brill, Northern Calloway
Genre: Documentary, Family, History
Country: USA

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children’s series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.

Stuck in the Groove (Golonka)

Director: Taylor Golonka
Stars: Aki Abe, Rusty Apper, Sharone Bechor, Pilak Bhatt
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with the experts, musicians and fans alike, ‘Stuck in the Groove’ takes you on a journey of vinyl-mania, music and nostalgia.

Sundown (Franco)

Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Tim Roth, Albertine Kotting McMillan, Samuel Bottomley, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden

Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.

Auschwitz Report, The (Bebjak)

Director: Peter Bebjak
Stars: Noel Czuczor, Peter Ondrejicka, John Hannah
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter–two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, and with the help and resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind, courageously stand their ground against Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence can save lives.

Beta Test, The (Cummings, McCabe)

Director: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe
Stars: Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK

An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.

Bombardment, The (Bornedal)

Director: Ole Bornedal
Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen, Caspar Phillipson, Danica Curcic, Susse Wold
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark

The fates of several Copenhagen residents collide when a WWII bombing mission accidentally targets a school full of children.

Hunt for Planet B, The (Kahn)

Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Stars: Janet Arenberg, Jon Arenberg, Natalie Batalha, Natasha Batalha
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars.

Last Cruise, The (Olson)

Director: Hannah Olson
Stars: Kent N. Frasure, Rebecca Frasure, Jerri Jorgensen, Mark Jorgensen
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, DIAMOND PRINCESS chronicles the first and largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner.

Many Saints of Newark, The (Taylor)

Director: Alan Taylor
Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony’s struggles and the influence his family – especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti – had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.

Novice, The (Hadaway)

Director: Lauren Hadaway
Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone, Jonathan Cherry
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA

A college freshman joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

Rescue, The (Chin, Vasarheyli)

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Bancha Duriyapunt, Apakorn Youkongkaew, Anan Surawan, Woranan Ratrawiphukkun
Genre: Documentary, Action, Mystery
Country: UK, USA

A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

White Tiger, The (Bahrani)

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Vedant Sinha
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA

An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.

Torn (Lowe)

Director: Max Lowe
Stars: Conrad Anker, Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Alex Lowe, Sam Lowe
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

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

Try Harder! (Lum)

Director: Debbie Lum
Stars: Alvan Cai, Shealand Fairchild, Rachael Schmidt, Richard Shapiro
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Seniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.

Val (Poo, Scott)

Director: Ting Poo, Leo Scott
Stars: Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Mercedes Kilmer, Joanne Whalley
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Documentary centering on the daily life of actor Val Kilmer featuring never-before-seen footage spanning 40 years.

Most Beautiful Boy in the World, The (Lindström, Petri)

Director: Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
Stars: Kristina Lindström, Luchino Visconti, Mario Tursi, Björn Andrésen
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Sweden, Germany, France

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen’s life.

West Side Story (Spielberg)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez
Genre: Musical, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

What Josiah Saw (Grashaw)

Director: Vincent Grashaw
Stars: Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze, Kelli Garner
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

Wood and Water (Bak)

Director: Jonas Bak
Stars: Lena Ackermann, Anke Bak, Theresa Bak, Alexandra Batten
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

As she enters retirement, a mother leaves behind her solitary life in rural Germany and memories of a once perfect family life and travels to protest-ridden Hong Kong, a place that has kept her son away from her for many years.

Hala (Baig)

Director: Minhal Baig
Stars: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.

 

Ema (Larraín)

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Mariana Di Girólamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.

 

Hope (Sødahl)

Director: Maria Sødahl
Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Terje Auli
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway | Sweden

The relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis.

 

Tench (Toye)

Director: Patrice Toye
Stars: Line Pillet, Greet Verstraete, Tijmen Govaerts
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

A kindhearted twenty-something struggling with his pedophile urges is put to the test when a young girl moves in next door.

 

Share (Bianco)

Director: Pippa Bianco
Stars: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.

 

Monos (Landes)

Director: Alejandro Landes
Stars: Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Colombia | Argentina | Netherlands | Germany | Sweden | Uruguay | USA | Switzerland | Denmark | France

On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

 

Colewell (Quinn)

Director: Tom Quinn
Stars: Karen Allen, Kevin J. O’Connor, Hannah Gross
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

For thirty-five years, Nora has been the postmaster of Colewell, when the USPS decides to close her office, she must choose whether to relocate for a new position or face retirement in Colewell.

 

Synonyms (Lapid)

Director: Nadav Lapid
Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Israel | Germany

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

 

Saint Maud (Glass)

Director: Rose Glass
Stars: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.

 

Jezebel (Perrier)

Director: Numa Perrier
Stars: Tiffany Tenille, Numa Perrier, Brett Gelman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In the last days of her mother’s life, 19 year old Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her older sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of internet fetish cam girls. Tiffany becomes popular as the only “live black model” at the new adult site and soon becomes too close to one of her frequent callers. Dynamics shift in the sister relationship as each woman explores and exploits their sexuality, using their created fantasy worlds as an escape from the realities of their challenging real life circumstances.

 

Better Days (Tsang)

Director: Derek Tsang
Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Jackson Yee, Fang Yin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: China

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, all while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

 

Premature (Green)

Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green
Stars: Zora Howard, Joshua Boone, Michelle Wilson
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Seventeen year-old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious Isaiah in her path toward self-discovery. Her entire world is turned upside down as she travails on the rigorous terrain of young love in the summer before she leaves for college.

 

Ad Astra (Gray)

Director: James Gray
Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: China | USA

Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

 

Jojo Rabbit (Waititi)

Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: New Zealand | Czech Republic | USA

A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

 

Beanpole (Balagov)

Director: Kantemir Balagov
Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

 

1917 (Mendes)

Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | UK | India | Spain | Canada | China

April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

 

VFW (Begos)

Director: Joe Begos
Stars: Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA

A group of old war veterans put their lives on the line to defend a young woman taking shelter in their local VFW post, who’s running from a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of drug addled punks.

 

Plagiarists, The (Parlow)

Director: Peter Parlow
Stars: William Michael Payne, Emily Davis, Lucy Kaminsky
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.

 

Assistant, The (Green)

Director: Kitty Green
Stars: Julia Garner, Owen Holland, Jon Orsini
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

 

Jawline (Mandelup)

Director: Liza Mandelup
Stars: Nick Champa, JJ Hannon, Austyn Tester
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The film follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.

Son, A (Barsaoui)

Director: Mehdi Barsaoui
Stars: Sami Bouajila, Najla Ben Abdallah, Youssef Khemiri
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia | France | Lebanon | Qatar

11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.

Sun, A (Chung)

Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Stars: Chien-Ho Wu, Yi-wen Chen, Samantha Shu-Chin Ko
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.

Painted Bird, The (Marhoul)

Director: Václav Marhoul
Stars: Petr Kotlár, Nina Sunevic, Alla Sokolova
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia | Ukraine

A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.

Tremors (Bustamante)

Director: Jayro Bustamante
Stars: Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | France | Luxembourg

The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.

Human Nature (Bolt)

Director: Adam Bolt
Stars: Jennifer Doudna, George Church, Alta Charo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A breakthrough called CRISPR opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. A provocative exploration of its far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it.

Ford v Ferrari (Mangold)

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.

Dark Waters (Haynes)

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

Clemency (Chukwu)

Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Stars: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Waves (Shults)

Director: Trey Edward Shults
Stars: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russell
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA | Canada

Traces the journey of a suburban family – led by a well-intentioned but domineering father – as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.

Rest of Us, The (Chin-Yee)

Director: Aisling Chin-Yee
Stars: Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Abigail Pniowsky
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.

Kingmaker, The (Greenfield)

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Stars: Imelda Marcos, Etta Rosales, Ferdinand Marcos
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Denmark | USA

An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided a nation.

Truth, The (Koreeda)

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Japan | Switzerland

A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne’s autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a mother who never grows old.

Whistlers, The (Porumboiu)

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazar
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Romania | France | Germany

Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a policeman who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception.

Circus of Books (Mason)

Director: Rachel Mason
Stars: Karen Mason, Barry Mason, Micah Mason
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US.

Queen & Slim (Matsoukas)

Director: Melina Matsoukas
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Canada

A couple’s first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.

Marona’s Fantastic Tale (Damian)

Director: Anca Damian
Stars: Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno Salomone, Thierry Hancisse
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: France | Romania | Belgium

After an accident, a little dog remembers all the different masters she’s had successively and loved unconditionally.

End of Sentence (Adalsteins)

Director: Elfar Adalsteins
Stars: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Ireland

After being widowed, Frank Fogle reluctantly embarks on a journey to honor his wife’s last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son, Sean, along for the trip. As Sean steps out of prison the last thing on his mind is a foreign road trip with his alienated father. What he needs is a fresh start in California. But when his travel plans collapse he reluctantly accepts his father’s proposal in return for a ticket to the West Coast and a promise that they never have to see each other again. Between a disconcerting Irish wake, the surfacing of an old flame, the pick up of a pretty hitchhiker and plenty of unresolved issues, the journey becomes a little more than father and son had bargained for.

Apollo 11 (Miller)

Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Stars: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

16 Shots (Rowley)

Director: Rick Rowley
Stars: Anita Alvarez, Dean Angelo, Alma Benitez
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

Ghost Town Anthology (Côté)

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

In a small and isolated town, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end.

Midnight Family (Lorentzen)

Director: Luke Lorentzen
Stars: Juan Ochoa, Fer Ochoa, Josue Ochoa
Genre: Documentary, Action, Crime
Country: Mexico

In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.

High Flying Bird (Soderbergh)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: André Holland, Melvin Gregg, Eddie Tavares
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

During a pro basketball lockout, a sports agent pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business proposition.

Corpus Christi (Komasa)

Director: Jan Komasa
Stars: Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Alice (Mackerras)

Director: Josephine Mackerras
Stars: Emilie Piponnier, Martin Swabey, Chloé Boreham
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Australia | France

She did everything right, until it all went wrong.

Invisible Life (Aïnouz)

Director: Karim Aïnouz
Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Germany

Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Wolf)

Director: Matt Wolf
Stars: Michael Metelits, Marion Stokes
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.

Mister America (Notarnicola)

Director: Eric Notarnicola
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, Terri Parks
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After representing himself and beating a murder charge, a concert promoter runs for the San Bernardino District Attorney’s office against the prosecutor of his case.

In Search of Darkness (Weiner)

Director: David A. Weiner
Stars: Tom Atkins, Doug Bradley, John Bloom
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An exploration of ’80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

Honeyland (Kotevska, Stefanov)

Director: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
Stars: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Republic of North Macedonia

The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

Fantastic Fungi (Schwartzberg)

Director: Louie Schwartzberg
Stars: Brie Larson, Andrew Weil, Giuliana Furci
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

Advocate (Bellaiche, Jones)

Director: Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones
Stars: Lea Tsemel, Yasser Joubeh, Suheila Dweik
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Israel | Canada

A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.

Zombi Child (Bonello)

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret – not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.

To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa)

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Shôta Sometani, Tokio Emoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Uzbekistan | Qatar

A young Japanese woman named Yoko who finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Engel)

Director: Janice Engel
Stars: Ben Barnes, Paul Begala, Pat Buchanan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

RAISE HELL: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril, and said “Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.” Molly’s words have proved prescient. Now it’s up to us to raise hell.

Swallows of Kabul, The (Breitman, Gobbé-Mévellec)

Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Stars: Simon Abkarian, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: France | Switzerland | Luxembourg | Monaco

Summer 1998, Kabul in ruins is occupied by the Taliban. In love despite the daily violence and misery, Mohsen and Zunaira want to believe in the future. But a senseless act by Mohsen will upset their lives forever.

Last Breath (da Costa, Parkinson)

Director: Richard da Costa, Alex Parkinson
Stars: Duncan Allcock, Duncan Allcock, Kjetil Ove Alvestad
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Belgium | Sweden

A deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue. With access to amazing archive this is the story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.

Tale of Three Sisters, A (Alper)

Director: Emin Alper
Stars: Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Germany | Netherlands | Greece

Three young girls are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia, one after another, after failing in more affluent foster families.

And the Birds Rained Down (Archambault)

Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Andrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Three elderly hermits live in the woods. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women – A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.

White, White Day, A (Palmason)

Director: Hlynur Palmason
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark | Sweden

An off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

Give Me Liberty (Mikhanovsky)

Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky
Stars: Chris Galust, Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer, Maxim Stoyanov
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.

Dolemite Is My Name (Brewer)

Director: Craig Brewer
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Brügger)

Director: Mads Brügger
Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza
Genre: Documentary, Animation, History
Country: Denmark | Norway | Sweden | Belgium

Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Girl (Dhont)

Director: Lukas Dhont
Stars: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | Belgium

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

José (Cheng)

Director: Li Cheng
Stars: Enrique Salanic, Manolo Herrera, Ana Cecilia Mota
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | USA

José lives with his mother in Guatemala. It’s a tough life in one of the most violent and religious countries. When he meets Luis, he’s thrust into new-found passion and pain.

Pity (Makridis)

Director: Babis Makridis
Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Pavlos Makridis
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | Poland

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

Grass (Hong)

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Joobong Kee, Jae-hong Ahn
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

In a small Café, Min-hee Kim plays a guest who prefers to observe but not interact with the other guests herself.

Jinn (Mumin)

Director: Nijla Mumin
Stars: Simone Missick, Zoe Renee, Hisham Tawfiq
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.

Loveling (Pizzi)

Director: Gustavo Pizzi
Stars: Karine Teles, Otávio Müller, Adriana Esteves
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Germany

Irene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.

Joy (Mortezai)

Director: Sudabeh Mortezai
Stars: Anwulika Alphonsus, Mariam Sanusi, Angela Ekeleme
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria

Joy, a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking, is instructed by her exploiter Madame to supervise Precious, a teenage girl who is not ready to accept her fate.

Cam (Goldhaber)

Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Stars: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she’s been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

3 Faces (Panahi)

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Iran

Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.

Holiday (Eklöf)

Director: Isabella Eklöf
Stars: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark | Netherlands | Sweden

A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.

Calibre (Palmer)

Director: Matt Palmer
Stars: Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A shocking deed turned their weekend trip into a nightmare. Now their only hope is to swallow their paranoia and act normal.

Load, The (Glavonic)

Director: Ognjen Glavonic
Stars: Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia | France | Croatia | Iran | Qatar

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.

Relaxer (Potrykus)

Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian, Andre Hyland
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge – the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man – and he can’t get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.

Maiden (Holmes)

Director: Alex Holmes
Stars: Frank Bough, John Chittenden, Bruno Du Bois
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK

The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.

Border (Abbasi)

Director: Ali Abbasi
Stars: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden | Denmark

A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.

Stan & Ollie (Baird)

Director: Jon S. Baird
Stars: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

Laurel and Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song – a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.

Crystal Swan (Zhuk)

Director: Darya Zhuk
Stars: Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yuriy Borisov
Genre: Drama
Country: Belarus | USA | Germany | Russia

In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Gloria Bell (Lelio)

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile | USA

A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.

Dogman (Garrone)

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | France

A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.

Number 37 (Dumisa)

Director: Nosipho Dumisa
Stars: Aphinda Afaika, Irshaad Ally, Ben Appolis
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Africa

Entrapped in his apartment, Randal Hendricks, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to Emmie, a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal, named Lawyer, commit murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme.

Love Sonia (Noorani)

Director: Tabrez Noorani
Stars: Abhishek Bharate, Riya Sisodiya, Mrunal Thakur
Genre: Drama
Country: India

Inspired by real life events, Love Sonia is the story of a young girl’s journey to rescue her sister from the dangerous world of international sex trafficking.

Incredibles 2 (Bird)

Director: Brad Bird
Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA

The Incredibles hero family takes on a new mission, which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world.

Dead Souls (Wang)

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Switzerland | France

A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.

Unlovable (Yoonessi)

Director: Suzi Yoonessi
Stars: Charlene deGuzman, John Hawkes, Melissa Leo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.

Nae Pasaran (Sierra)

Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Stars: Bob Fulton, Stuart Barrie, John Keenan
Genre: Documentary, Animation, History
Country: UK | Chile

In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.

Donbass (Loznitsa)

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Ukraine | France | Netherlands | Romania | Poland

In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.

Guilty, The (Möller)

Director: Gustav Möller
Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

All About Nina (Vives)

Director: Eva Vives
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Brodie Reed, Charlotte Newhouse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Nina is a stand-up comedian who sees her life turned upside down when she meets Rafe.

Winter Flies (Omerzu)

Director: Olmo Omerzu
Stars: Tomás Mrvík, Jan Frantisek Uher, Eliska Krenková
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | Slovenia | Poland | Slovakia | France

Two mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu’s road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth.

Museo (Ruizpalacios)

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Simon Russell Beale, Ilse Salas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico

In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.

Kusama: Infinity (Lenz)

Director: Heather Lenz
Stars: Yayoi Kusama
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Artist Yayoi Kusama and experts discuss her life and work, from her modest beginnings in Japan to becoming an internationally renowned artist.

Insect (Svankmajer)

Director: Amy Adrion
Stars: Ava DuVernay, Brenda Chapman, Caroline Libresco
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.

Half the Picture (Adrion)

Director: Amy Adrion
Stars: Ava DuVernay, Brenda Chapman, Caroline Libresco
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.

Slut in a Good Way (Lorain)

Director: Sophie Lorain
Stars: Romane Denis, Anthony Therrien, Rose Adam
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada

One tipsy evening, Charlotte, the recently heartbroken, Megan, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, the shy romantic, stumble into the ‘Toy Depot’. Charmed by the male employees, the girls fill out a job application and quickly become part of the ‘Toy Depot’ gang. Charlotte has found the guys to be particularly helpful in getting over her heartbreak, to say the least. But has she taken it too far? The film explores teenage girls’ desires, the blurred lines between sex and friendship, and the unfair double standard imposed upon girls. It is a story of desire, self-censorship, and self-assertion.

Becoming Astrid (Christensen)

Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Stars: Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Trine Dyrholm
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden | Denmark

Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children’s books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.

Price of Everything, The (Kahn)

Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Stars: Jeff Koons, Paul Schimmel, Larry Poons
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.

Mouthpiece (Rozema)

Director: Patricia Rozema
Stars: Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Maev Beaty
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expresses the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman’s head, during a 48-hour period as she tries to organize the affairs for her mother’s funeral.

Mercury 13 (Sington, Walsh)

Director: David Sington, Heather Walsh
Stars: Joyce Case, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary profiles women who were tested in 1961 for spaceflight, but had their dreams dashed when only men were chosen to become astronauts.

In My Room (Köhler)

Director: Ulrich Köhler
Stars: Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Michael Wittenborn
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany | Italy

A bored man suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared though he isn’t sure what happened.

Evelyn (von Einsiedel)

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Stars: Orlando von Einsiedel
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Following his Oscar winning The White Helmets, Orlando von Einsiedel turns his camera on his own family as they attempt to cope with a devastating loss. When his brother, newly diagnosed as schizophrenic and suffering from intense depression, took his own life at 22, Orlando and his other two siblings buried the trauma, rarely talking about it. Over a decade later, the remaining family set out on a hiking tour, visiting landscapes Evelyn liked to walk, to reflect on his life and death. The result is an intensely personal and moving take on the emotional impact of suicide within a family and a powerful account of the benefits of creating safe spaces for emotional communication.

Colette (Westmoreland)

Director: Wash Westmoreland
Stars: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France | Hungary | Netherlands

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Capernaum (Labaki)

Director: Nadine Labaki
Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon | USA | France | Cyprus | Qatar | UK

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Bisbee ’17 (Greene)

Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Ken Boe
Genre: Documentary, Western
Country: USA

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Season of the Devil (Diaz)

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Piolo Pascual, Shaina Magdayao, Bituin Escalante
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Philippines

A young and fearless doctor opens a clinic for a poor community in a remote village of the Phillipines. However, she disappears without a trace. Her husband, a poet and teacher seeks the truth of her vanishing.

We the Animals (Zagar)

Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Stars: Evan Rosado, Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.

Colony, A (Dulude-De Celles)

Director: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Stars: Robin Aubert, Emilie Bierre, Madeleine Blais-Tremblay
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Between high school pressure and family disorganisation, Mylia is trying to find her bearings. Meeting Jacinthe and Jimmy will lead her to outline a new life.

Prosecuting Evil (Avrich)

Director: Barry Avrich
Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Christian Wenaweser, David Scheffer
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Canada

A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.

Pandas (Douglas, Fellman)

Director: David Douglas, Drew Fellman
Stars: Kristen Bell, Wen Lei Bi, Rong Hou
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

In the mountains of Sichuan, China, a researcher forms a bond with Qian Qian, a panda who is about to experience nature for the first time.

Night Comes On (Spiro)

Director: Jordana Spiro
Stars: Dominique Fishback, Jill Rene, Tatum Marilyn Hall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.

Let Me Fall (Zophoníasson)

Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Stars: Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir, Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iceland | Finland | Germany

Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.

Heiresses (Martinessi)

Director: Marcelo Martinessi
Stars: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova
Genre: Drama
Country: Paraguay | France | Germany | Norway | Brazil | Uruguay | Italy

Chela and Chiquita are both descended from wealthy families in Asunción and have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection.

Fireflies Are Gone, The (Pilote)

Director: Sébastien Pilote
Stars: Karelle Tremblay, Pierre-Luc Brillant, François Papineau
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother’s influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.

Working Woman (Aviad)

Director: Michal Aviad
Stars: Liron Ben-Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promotes her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant afloat, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered, she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self-worth.

Hasta los dientes (Estrada)

Director: Alberto Saúl Arnaut Estrada
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico

On March 19th 2010, the Mexican government announced the death of two hitmen, armed to the teeth, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Days later, it was discovered that they were in fact honor students who had been tortured and murdered by the military, who later tried to disappear them in a common grave.

Silence of Others, The (Bahar, Carracedo)

Director: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo
Stars: María Martín, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain | France | Canada | USA

The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking ‘Argentine Lawsuit’ and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy.

#Female Pleasure (Miller)

Director: Barbara Miller
Stars: Deborah Feldman, Leyla Hussein, Rokudenashiko
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Germany

#FEMALE PLEASURE embarks on a journey to discover the remaining obstacles that stand in the way of female sexuality in the 21st century.

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Neville)

Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind, in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.

Too Late to Die Young (Castillo)

Director: Dominga Sotomayor
Stars: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | Brazil | Argentina | Netherlands | Qatar

During the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three teenagers face their first loves and fears.

Sauvage / Wild (Vidal-Naquet)

Director: Camille Vidal-Naquet
Stars: Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here – longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.

On Her Shoulders (Bombach)

Director: Alexandria Bombach
Stars: Nadia Murad, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.

Monrovia, Indiana (Wiseman)

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

Following the 2016 presidential election, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary dissects small-town America to understand how its values impact and influence the political landscape of the nation.

Los Reyes (Osnovikoff, Perut)

Director: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile | Germany

Chola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.

Life in the Doghouse (Davis)

Director: Ron Davis
Stars: Ron Danta, Danny Robertshaw
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

LIFE IN THE DOG HOUSE will tell the inspiring stories of Danny and Ron’s Rescue (501c3). The film will showcase their unique approach to dog rescue and adoption, which has enabled them to rescue and adopt out 10,000 dogs.

Hotel by the River (Hong)

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ju-bong Gi, Min-hee Kim, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

It is the dead of winter and a poet invites his sons to join him at a hotel for a reunion. The hotel also hosts a newly single woman who has a friend keep her company and with whom she shares a room, strolls and conversations. The poet is drawn to the beautiful girls and cannot resist the temptation to discover more. Their lives intersect, connect and disconnect and potentially become a metaphor for modern life.

Daughter of Mine (Bispuri)

Director: Laura Bispuri
Stars: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Germany | Switzerland

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

Black Mother (Allah)

Director: Khalik Allah
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Jamaica | USA

From red light districts to lush rain-forests, ‘Black Mother’ is a loving and lyrical ode to Jamaica and its people, a visual poem that is at once deeply felt love letter and ecstatic street-corner prayer.

Bathtubs Over Broadway (Whisenant)

Director: Dava Whisenant
Stars: David Letterman, Martin Short, Chita Rivera
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
Country: USA

A Late Night comedy writer stumbles upon a hilarious, hidden world of corporate entertainment and finds an unexpected connection to his fellow man. Tribeca and WGA Award winner.

Another Day of Life (de la Fuente, Nenow)

Director: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow
Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Vergil J. Smith, Tomasz Zietek
Genre: Animation, Biography
Country: Spain | Poland | Belgium | Germany | France | Hungary

A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.

Private War, A (Heineman)

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Jude)

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | Germany | Bulgaria | France | Czech Republic

“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Waldheim Waltz, The (Beckermann)

Director: Ruth Beckermann
Stars: Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Austria

A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II.

United Skates (Brown, WInkler)

Director: Tina Brown, Dyana Winkler
Stars: Salt-N-Pepa, Reggie Brown, Coolio
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When America’s last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture–one that has remained undiscovered by the mainstream for generations, yet has given rise to some of the world’s greatest musical talent.

Tito and the Birds (Bitar, Catoto, Steinberg)

Director: Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto
Stars: Pedro Henrique, Denise Fraga, Matheus Nachtergaele
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Brazil

The film tells the story of a boy who is responsible, along with his father, for finding the cure for an illness that is contracted after the person takes a fright.

World Before Your Feet, The (Workman)

Director: Jeremy Workman
Stars: Matt Green
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

For over six years, and for reasons he can’t explain, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every block of every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles. THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET tells the story of one man’s unusual personal quest and the unexpected journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.

Ruben Brandt, Collector (Krstic)

Director: Milorad Krstic
Stars: Iván Kamarás, Csaba Márton, Gabriella Hámori
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime
Country: Hungary

Four expert thieves attempt to steal every famous artwork that is haunting their mutual psychotherapist. A detective attempts to find out who the “Collector” is.

People’s Republic of Desire (Wu)

Director: Hao Wu
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China

As an entire generation has come of age on social media, virtual relationships are slowly replacing real-life human connections. And China has taken it to an extreme. Here, live streaming has become the most popular online entertainment for hundreds of millions. People’s Republic of Desire provides a vérité journey into this digital universe, where young performers earn as much as US$150,000 a month singing, dancing or doing talk shows to live, interactive audiences of tens of thousands.

Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like (Paulson)

Director: John Paulson
Stars: Michael Keaton, Judd Apatow, Joyce DiDonato
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Cast members and several guest celebrities from the groundbreaking series share their personal perspectives and insights that pay tribute to television’s longest-running children’s series, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Meeting Gorbachev (Herzog, Singer)

Director: Werner Herzog, André Singer
Stars: Yuri Andropov, James Baker, Leonid Brezhnev
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: UK | Germany | USA

The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.

Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story (Bell)

Director: Ashley Bell
Stars: Ashley Bell, Lek Chailert, Noi Na
Genre: Documentary, Action, Adventure
Country: Thailand | Cambodia | USA

Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist Lek Chailert, embark on a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a 70-year old captive blind Asian elephant and bring her to freedom.

Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher)

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | Switzerland | France | Germany

An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

Dolphin Reef (Scholey, Fothergill)

Director: Keith Scholey, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Natalie Portman
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

Echo, a young Pacific dolphin, seems far more interested in exploring his spectacular coral reef home than learning to survive in it. But lessons from his family may encourage Echo to master his vital role in the marine community.

Blind Spot (Novotny)

Director: Tuva Novotny
Stars: Pia Tjelta, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Per Frisch
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway

BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.

Bergman: A Year in the Life (Magnusson)

Director: Jane Magnusson
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Lena Endre, Thorsten Flinck
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | Norway

Journeying through 1957, the year Bergman released two of his most acclaimed features (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), made a TV film and directed four plays for theatre, Magnusson has amassed a wealth of archive and contemporary interviews, along with a fantastic selection of clips from his vast body of work.

And Breathe Normally (Uggadottir)

Director: Isold Uggadottir
Stars: Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir, Babetida Sadjo, Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Sweden | Belgium

Two women’s lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.

Okja (Ho)

Director: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyun Ahn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea | USA

A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend – a fascinating beast named Okja.

Dolores (Bratt)

Director: Peter Bratt
Stars: Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

In the 1950’s, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer’s union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Novitiate (Betts)

Director: Maggie Betts
Stars: Melissa Leo, Lisa Stewart, Alyssa Brindley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.

Human Flow (Ai)

Director: Weiwei Ai
Stars: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA | China | Palestine | France

Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei’s detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.

Mudbound (Rees)

Director: Dee Rees
Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Detroit (Bigelow)

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

November (Sarnet)

Director: Rainer Sarnet
Stars: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Estonia

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

12 Days (Depardon)

Director: Raymond Depardon
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.

Unrest (Brea)

Director: Jennifer Brea
Stars: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Jessica l e Taylor
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.

Party, The (Potter)

Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Janet (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine.

Double Lover (Ozon)

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium | France | Lebanon

Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

Longing (Gabizon)

Director: Savi Gabizon
Stars: Ella Armony, Shai Avivi, Shmil Ben Ari
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.

Charmer, The (Alami)

Director: Milad Alami
Stars: Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Lars Brygmann
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Sweden

“The Charmer” is an intense psychological drama about Esmail, a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love and his past catches up with him.

Gray State, A (Nelson)

Director: Erik Nelson
Stars: David Crowley, Danny August Mason, Alex Jones
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.

Thirst Street (Silver)

Director: Nathan Silver
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.

Lovers, The (Jacobs)

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.

Princess Cyd (Cone)

Director: Stephen Cone
Stars: Marika Mashburn, Jessie Pinnick, Paul Brian Fagen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

Motherland (Diaz)

Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Philippines | USA

Taking us into the heart of the planet’s busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital’s stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it’s absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.

Sower, The (Francen)

Director: Marine Francen
Stars: Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the next two years, the village is completely cut off. The women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband, so that life may continue to flourish in each of their wombs.

I Kill Giants (Walter)

Director: Anders Walter
Stars: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA | Belgium | Denmark | UK | Sweden | China

Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.

Columbus (Cogonada)

Director: Kogonada
Stars: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.

24 Frames (Kiarostami)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France

24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.

Western (Grisebach)

Director: Valeska Grisebach
Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Bulgaria | Austria

German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.

Transformer (Del Monte)

Director: Michael Del Monte
Stars: Janae Marie Kroczaleski
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender.

Over the Limit (Prus)

Director: Marta Prus
Stars: Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun, Irina Viner
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Poland | Germany | Finland | France

An intimate portrait of the world’s most outstanding rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun who needs to overcome mental fragility to take part in the Olympic Games.

Mr. Roosevelt (Wells)

Director: Noël Wells
Stars: Noël Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After a loved one falls ill, 25 year old struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

Lean on Pete (Haigh)

Director: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.

Workshop, The (Cantet)

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out.

Chasing Coral (Orlowski)

Director: Jeff Orlowski
Stars: Andrew Ackerman, Pim Bongaerts, Neal Cantin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.

Zama (Martel)

Director: Lucrecia Martel
Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina | Brazil | Spain | Dominican Republic | France | Netherlands | Mexico | Switzerland | USA | Portugal | Lebanon

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.

Farthest, The (Reynolds)

Director: Emer Reynolds
Stars: Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, John Casani
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Ireland

It is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space – the first human-made object ever to do so.

Wound, The (Trengove)

Director: John Trengove
Stars: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa | Germany | Netherlands | France

Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.

Araby (Dumans, Uchoa)

Director: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa
Stars: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.

Great Buddha +, The (Huang)

Director: Hsin-yao Huang
Stars: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

One day when Pickle’s and his colleague, Belly Bottom’s television is broken, their lives are changed forever.

On Body and Soul (Enyedi)

Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Hungary

When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it’s difficult in real life.

Keep the Change (Israel)

Director: Rachel Israel
Stars: Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Sondra James
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.

I Am Not A Witch (Nyoni)

Director: Rungano Nyoni
Stars: Maggie Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | Germany | Zambia

In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches’ camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.

Have a Nice Day (Liu)

Director: Jian Liu
Stars: Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: China

A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.

Under the Tree (Sigurðsson)

Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Stars: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland | Poland | Denmark | Germany | France

When Baldwin and Inga’s next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Death of Stalin, The (Iannucci)

Director: Armando Iannucci
Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK | France | Belgium | Canada | USA

Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

One of Us (Ewing, Grady)

Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Stars: Etty, Chani Getter, Ari Hershkowitz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Penetrating the insular world of New York’s Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.

Nico, 1988 (Nicchiarelli)

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Stars: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy | Belgium

The last year of singer Nico’s life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.

Angels Wear White (Qu)

Director: Vivian Qu
Stars: Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Ke Shi
Genre: Drama
Country: China

In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.

I Am Another You (Wang)

Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Dylan, Nanfu Wang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Eating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society’s rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning of freedom – and its limits.

En el séptimo día (McCay)

Director: Jim McKay
Stars: Fernando Cardona, Gilberto Jimenez, Abel Perez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.

Dim the Fluorescents (Warth)

Director: Daniel Warth
Stars: Claire Armstrong, Naomi Skwarna, Andreana Callegarini-Gradzik
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.

See You Up There (Dupontel)

Director: Albert Dupontel
Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Canada

November 1919. Two soldiers – a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant – start a memorial con. But in the France of the Roaring Twenties, their adventures soon turn dangerous.

Everybody Loves Somebody (Mastretta)

Director: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Stars: Karla Souza, José María Yazpik, Ben O’Toole
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico

A successful and single career woman asks her co-worker to pose as her boyfriend at a family wedding back home in Mexico. Her situation gets complicated when her ex shows up at the ceremony.

Dawn Wall, The (Lowell, Mortimer)

Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Stars: John Branch, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: Austria | USA

In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

Tehran Taboo (Soozandeh)

Director: Ali Soozandeh
Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany | Austria

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

Nobody’s Watching (Solomonoff)

Director: Julia Solomonoff
Stars: Guillermo Pfening, Rafael Ferro, Paola Baldion
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain | Colombia | Brazil | USA

NADIE NOS MIRA is a film about the struggle of self-imposed exile; how the pleasures of anonymity and freedom contrast with the pain of loneliness and loss that shapes immigrant experience. NICO, mid 30’s, is a young Argentine actor fighting to build a career in the US, without assistance, or connections, never too far from heart-breaking failure, but often blinded by the mirage of immediate success.

Most Beautiful Island (Asensio)

Director: Ana Asensio
Stars: Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman’s struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.

Our Time Will Come (Hui)

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China | Hong Kong

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.

Leaning Into The Wind (Riedelsheimer)

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Stars: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Germany

Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.

One Cut of the Dead (Euda)

Director: Shin’ichirô Ueda
Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Serraille)

Director: Léonor Serraille
Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

In her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she’ll make it anywhere.

Hitler’s Hollywood (Suchsland)

Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Rike Schmid, Hans Henrik Wöhler
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Germany

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.

Far From the Tree (Dretzin, Ephron)

Director: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron
Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.

Good Manners (Dutra, Rojas)

Director: Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
Stars: Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Brazil | France | Germany

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.

Woman Captured, A (Tuza-Ritter)

Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Stars: Marish, Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Genre: Documentary
Country: Hungary | Canada | Czech Republic | Germany

A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.

32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (Litoff)

Director: Hope Litoff
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

She’s beautiful, artistic, loved and can’t stand to be alive. 32 PILLS traces the fascinating life and mental illness of my sister, New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and my struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.

Life and Nothing More (Esparza)

Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Stars: Andrew Bleechington, Regina Williams, Robert Williams
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | USA

Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young black man in today’s America. With his mother longing to find more to her life than parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.

Whose Streets? (Folayan, Davis)

Director: Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis
Stars: Lezley McSpadden, Michael Brown Sr., David Whitt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.

Season in France, A (Haroun)

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.

Work, The (McLeary, Aldous)

Director: Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous
Stars: Chris Renton, Brian Nazarof, Eldra ‘Vegas’ III Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.

Rape of Recy Taylor, The (Buirski)

Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Recy Taylor, Robert Corbitt
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.

Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, The (France)

Director: David France
Stars: Kurt Wolfe, Sue Yacka, Catherine Shugrue Dos Santos
Genre: Documentary
Country: Greece | USA

Victoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson’s family, friends and fellow activists.

Directions (Komandarev)

Director: Stephan Komandarev
Stars: Haralan Alexandrov, Dimitar Banenkin, Vasil Banov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | Republic of North Macedonia

Multiple stories of taxi drivers while they work one night.

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Surya)

Director: Mouly Surya
Stars: Marsha Timothy, Egy Fedly, Tumpal Tampubolon
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Indonesia | France | Malaysia | Thailand

Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.

Get Me Roger Stone (Bank, DiMauro, Pehme)

Director: Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro, Morgan Pehme
Stars: Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Paul Manafort
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary exploring the life and career of notorious Republican dirty trickster and longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, who helped create the real estate mogul’s political career.

My Happy Family (Ekvtimishvili, Grob)

Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia | Germany | France

In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.

Kedi (Torun)

Director: Ceyda Torun
Stars: Yaman Barlas, Sari, Arzu Göl
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey | USA

A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

Frantz (Ozon)

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.

Obit. (Gould)

Director: Vanessa Gould
Stars: Bruce Weber, William McDonald, Margalit Fox
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Writers and editors from the New York Times discuss their unique approach to writing the obituaries of public figures.

Kiki (Jordenö)

Director: Sara Jordenö
Stars: Loretta Coombs, Takima Coombs, Afrika Juicy Couture
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | USA

A group of LGBTQ youths of color unite to form a safe gathering space.

Tramps (Leon)

Director: Adam Leon
Stars: Callum Turner, Grace Van Patten, Michal Vondel
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A young man and woman find love in an unlikely place while carrying out a shady deal.

La Flor (Llinás)

Director: Mariano Llinás
Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Argentina

A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.

Spa Night (Ahn)

Director: Andrew Ahn
Stars: Joe Seo, Youn Ho Cho, Haerry Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A closeted Korean-American teenager takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, only to discover an underground world of gay sex at the spa that both scares and excites him.

Lovesong (Kim)

Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Riley Keough, Jena Malone, Jessie Ok Gray
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The relationship between two friends deepens during an impromptu road trip.

Apprentice (Boo)

Director: Junfeng Boo
Stars: Firdaus Rahman, Wan Hanafi Su, Mastura Ahmad
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Germany | France | Hong Kong | Qatar

Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.

13th (DuVernay)

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.

Colossal (Vigalondo)

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada | USA | Spain | South Korea

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Zero Days (Gibney)

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.

Tempestad (Huezo)

Director: Tatiana Huezo
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.

Rat Film (Anthony)

Director: Theo Anthony
Stars: Theo Anthony, Dan Deacon, Matt Fouse
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. “Rat Film” is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat–as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them–to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem”.

Loving (Nichols)

Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.

Julieta (Almodóvar)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.

Creepy (Kurosawa)

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan

Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn’t know him at all.

Werewolf (McKenzie)

Director: Ashley McKenzie
Stars: Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil, Mark Woodland
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.

Teacher, The (Hrebejk)

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Zuzana Mauréry, Zuzana Konecná, Csongor Kassai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia | Czech Republic

The arrival of Maria Drazdechova, associated with the Communist party, to a school in Bratislava in 1983 worries parents, students and colleagues.

Sami Blood (Kernell)

Director: Amanda Kernell
Stars: Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Ánne Biret Somby
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden

A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930’s at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Like Crazy (Virzi)

Director: Paolo Virzì
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Carnelutti
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Two quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.

All This Panic (Gage)

Director: Jenny Gage
Stars: Dusty Rose Ryan, Delia Cunningham, Lena M.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.

Woman’s Life, A (Brizé)

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the 19th-century.

Indivisible (De Angelis)

Director: Edoardo De Angelis
Stars: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is another trait which cloaks them in fascinating charm: they are siamese twins. They support their family with their singing like a well oiled company/entertainment machine. This idyllic situation ends when a notable English doctor sees them at a first communion in Casertavecchia. He sentences them to the possibility of a normal life when he states, “I can separate you.”

In Between (Hamoud)

Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Israel

Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

Quiet Passion, A (Davies)

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Emma Bell, Sara Vertongen, Rose Williams
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Belgium | USA | Canada

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Window Horses (Fleming)

Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Stars: Ellen Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sandra Oh
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

Their Finest (Scherfig)

Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Sweden | France

A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.

Silicon Cowboys (Cohen)

Director: Jason Cohen
Stars: Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.

Innocents, The (Fontaine)

Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Poland

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Lady Macbeth (Oldroyd)

Director: William Oldroyd
Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.

Cameraperson (Johnson)

Director: Kirsten Johnson
Stars: Jacques Derrida, Kirsten Johnson, Roger Phenix
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Women Who Kill (Jungermann)

Director: Ingrid Jungermann
Stars: Annette O’Toole, Sheila Vand, Deborah Rush
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan’s new love interest is a murderer.

Weiner (Kriegman, Steinberg)

Director: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Stars: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Jordan Zain Weiner
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and today’s political landscape.

Last Laugh, The (Pearlstein)

Director: Ferne Pearlstein
Stars: Renee Firestone, Klara Firestone, Gilbert Gottfried
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.

Bad Kids, The (Fulton, Pepe)

Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Stars: Vonda Viland, Julia Alexander, Laura Ambrosius
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.

My Life as a Zucchini (Barras)

Director: Claude Barras
Stars: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Life, Animated (Williams)

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A coming of age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.

Untamed, The (Escalante)

Director: Amat Escalante
Stars: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico | Norway | Denmark | France | Germany | Switzerland

A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

Baden Baden (Lang)

Director: Rachel Lang
Stars: Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Lazare Gousseau
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium | France

Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.

Her Love Boils Bathwater (Nakano)

Director: Ryôta Nakano
Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Aoi Itô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame. She needs to retrieve her husband who has vanished and get the family business restarted. She needs to help her daughter be able to pick after herself. Will the family bonds grow stronger or wither?

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (Schrader)

Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Tómas Lemarquis, Barbara Sukowa, Valerie Pachner
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria | Germany | France

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right attitude” toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.

Edge of Seventeen, The (Craig)

Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

Heal the Living (Quillévéré)

Director: Katell Quillévéré
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.

Endless Poetry (Jodorowsky)

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | UK | France

Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.

Ornithologist, The (Rodrigues)

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
Stars: Paul Hamy, João Pedro Rodrigues, Xelo Cagiao
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal | France | Brazil

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.

Don’t Call Me Son (Muylaert)

Director: Anna Muylaert
Stars: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Dani Nefussi
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother’s actions and must try to cope with his biological family.

Chronicles of Melanie, The (Kairiss)

Director: Viesturs Kairiss
Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Edvins Mekss, Ivars Krasts
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia | Czech Republic | Finland

Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.

Son of Joseph, The (Green)

Director: Eugène Green
Stars: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

A discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.

In This Corner of the World (Katabuchi)

Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Stars: Non, Ava Pickard, Kenna Pickard
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life’s amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.

Hermia & Helena (Piñeiro)

Director: Matías Piñeiro
Stars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Diop
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | USA

Hermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.

Disturbing the Peace (Apkon, Young)

Director: Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young
Stars: Chen Alon, Jamil Qassas, Avner Wishnitzer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | Palestine | USA

In a world torn by conflict -in a place where the idea of peace has been abandoned-an energy of determined optimism emerges. When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? DISTURBING THE PEACE is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us and, with the power of our convictions, take action to create new possibilities.

Big Sonia (Soliday, Warshawski)

Director: Todd Soliday, Leah Warshawski
Stars: Sonia Warshawski, SuEllen Fried, Caroline James Kennedy
Genre: Documentary, Family, History
Country: USA

In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than thirty years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to revisit her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, BIG SONIA also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth-telling to heal us all.

Student, The (Serebrennikov)

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

Perfect Strangers (Genovese)

Director: Paolo Genovese
Stars: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles.

Unknown Girl, The (Dardenne, Dardenne)

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium | France

A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.

Burn the Place You Hide (Knights)

Director: Richard Knights
Stars: Thomas Hansen, Espen Mellingen, Terje Hansen
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

British documentary about the late Norwegian artist St Thomas, in which the distinction between life, art, reality and imagination become increasingly unclear.

Spy (Feig)

Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA | UK | France | Hungary | Germany

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

Chi-Raq (Lee)

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.

Office, The (To)

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Yun-Fat Chow, Eason Chan
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong

A musical set mainly in a corporate high-rise. Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is an earnest young man who naively enters the world of high finance with noble intentions. Kat on the other hand has a secret.

Kaili Blues (Gan)

Director: Bi Gan
Stars: Yongzhong Chen, Yue Guo, Linyan Liu
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China

While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.

Taxi (Panahi)

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran

Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

Demon (Wrona)

Director: Marcin Wrona
Stars: Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska, Andrzej Grabowski
Genre: Marcin Wrona
Country: Poland | Israel

A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.

Sherpa (Peedom)

Director: Jennifer Peedom
Stars: Russell Brice, Tim Medvetz, Phurba Tashi Sherpa
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | Nepal

A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 6400 m (21,000 ft) as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. In 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay had reached the summit in a spirit of co-operation and brave optimism. Now climbers and Sherpas were trading insults – even blows. What had happened to the happy, smiling Sherpas and their dedication in getting foreigners to the top of the mountain they hold so sacred? Determined to explore what was going on, the filmmakers set out to make a film of the 2014 Everest climbing season, from the Sherpas’ point of view.

Club, The (Larraín)

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Chile

A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced Priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.

Invitation, The (Kusama)

Director: Karyn Kusama
Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.

Mustang (Ergüven)

Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Stars: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France | Germany | Qatar

When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.

Truman (Gay)

Director: Cesc Gay
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Dolores Fonzi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain | Argentina

Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián’s faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián’s complicated situation.

Tanna (Butler, Dean)

Director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
Stars: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia | Vanuatu

Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister’s loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.

Marguerite (Giannoli)

Director: Xavier Giannoli
Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Czech Republic | Belgium

It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience acts as if she was the diva she believes she is.

Assassin, The (Hou)

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Yun Zhou
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Taiwan | China | Hong Kong | France

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

Kind Words, The (Zarhin)

Director: Shemi Zarhin
Stars: Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf, Rassabn Abes
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Canada

Follows three siblings who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.

Danish Girl, The (Hooper)

Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA | Germany | Denmark | Belgium | Japan

A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Nina Forever (Blaine, Blaine)

Director: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine
Stars: Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham, Mandeep Dhillon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK

Suicidal Rob starts dating a colleague at the supermarket. But whenever they have sex, his dead girlfriend, Nina, pops up.

Francofonia (Sokurov)

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Germany | Netherlands

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

Our Little Sister (Koreeda)

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.

Hunting Ground, The (Dick)

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, Claire Potter
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families.

Family Affair, A (Fassaert)

Director: Tom Fassaert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | Denmark | South Africa

On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him. She was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the 1950s, and a mother that put her two sons into a children’s home. Fassaert decides to accept her invitation. But when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession, his venture becomes much more complicated than he could ever have imagined.

Very Semi-Serious (Wolchok)

Director: Leah Wolchok
Stars: Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Emily Flake
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The iconic cartoons of The New Yorker have become an instantly recognizable cultural touchstone over the past 90 years, and Leah Wolchock’s intimate documentary offers an unprecedented glimpse into the process behind the cartoons. The film follows cartoon editor Bob Mankoff as he sifts through hundreds of submissions and pitches every week to bring readers a carefully curated selection of insightful and humorous work.

Sleeping Giant (Cividino)

Director: Andrew Cividino
Stars: Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada

While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.

Nise: The Heart of Madness (Berliner)

Director: Roberto Berliner
Stars: Glória Pires, Luciana Fregolente, Simone Mazzer
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil

Based on the true story of Dr. Nise da Silveira, a psychiatrist in Brazil who treated her patients with art instead of electroshock therapy.

Summertime (Corsini)

Director: Catherine Corsini
Stars: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

A young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.

In Pursuit of Silence (Shen)

Director: Patrick Shen
Stars: John Cage, Pico Iyer, Garry Moore
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Belgium | China | Germany | Hong Kong | India | Japan | Taiwan | UK

A film about our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives.

A Man Called Ove (Holm)

Director: Hannes Holm
Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

Cartel Land (Heineman)

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Tim Nailer Foley, José Manuel ‘El Doctor’ Mireles, Paco Valencia
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.

My Golden Days (Desplechin)

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother’s madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.

100 Years Show, The (Klayman)

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Carmen Herrera
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: USA

Carmen Herrera is one of the oldest working artists today. She was a pioneering abstract painter in the ’40s and ’50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career, as she approaches her 100th birthday.

Racing Extinction (Psihoyos)

Director: Louie Psihoyos
Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA | China | Hong Kong | Indonesia | Mexico | UK | Japan

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Second Mother, The (Muylaert)

Director: Anna Muylaert
Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

Happy Hour (Hamaguchi)

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Pearl Button, The (Guzmán)

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Spain | Chile | Switzerland

Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet’s coup d’état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.

Dreamcatcher (Longinotto)

Director: Kim Longinotto
Stars: Brenda Myers-Powell, T.T., Keena
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.

Lure, The (Smoczynska)

Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland

In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.

Évolution (Hadzihalilovic)

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Stars: Marta Blanc, Max Brebant, Roxane Duran
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium | Spain

The only residents of young Nicholas’ sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?

Blood of My Blood (Bellocchio)

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland

Balancing between the past and the present, the darkness and the light, within the musky stone walls of Santa Chiara’s 17th-century convent prison in Bobbio, a sinful Sister and a cultivated night owl Count are somehow linked together.

Cemetery of Splendor (Weerasethakul)

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Thailand | UK | Germany | France | Malaysia | South Korea | Mexico | USA | Norway

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

The Academy of Muses (Guerín)

Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Rosa Delor, Emanuela Forgetta, Patricia Gil
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

After his classes, the teacher is questioned by his wife. The wife is skeptical about the new Academic project his husband is devising. The teacher is trying to build up a new “Academy of the Muses”that, inspired by the Classics will help to build up a brand new World through a real commitment to Poetry. The controversial project triggers a round of scenes on words and desire.

In Jackson Heights (Wiseman)

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Laura Obiols
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old traditions and adapting to American values.

Treasure, The (Porumboiu)

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu, Corneliu Cozmei
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania | France

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.

3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets (Silver)

Director: Marc Silver
Stars: Lucia McBath, Ron Davis, Michael David Dunn
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving November 2012, four boys in a red SUV pull into a gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls. With music blaring, one boy exits the car and enters the store, a quick stop for a soda and a pack of gum. A man and a woman pull up next to the boys in the station, making a stop for a bottle of wine. The woman enters the store and an argument breaks out when the driver of the second car asks the boys to turn the music down. 3 1/2 minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead. 3 1/2 MINUTES dissects the aftermath of this fatal encounter.

As I Open My Eyes (Bouzid)

Director: Leyla Bouzid
Stars: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Tunisia | France | Belgium | United Arab Emirates | Switzerland

A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

Twinsters (Futerman, Miyamoto)

Director: Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto
Stars: Anaïs Bordier, Samantha Futerman, Kanoa Goo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: UK | France | South Korea | USA

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.

Requiem for the American Dream (Hutchison, Nyks, Scott)

Director: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

In the Shadow of Women (Garrel)

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Switzerland

Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. But the new girl in his life finds out that Manon has a lover. When she tells Pierre, the time comes for difficult decisions all round.

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (Raim)

Director: Daniel Raim
Stars: Lillian Michelson, Harold Michelson, Bill Krohn
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Harold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood in 1947, where they became the film industry’s secret weapons. Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them. Theirs is the greatest story never told-until now.

Cobain: Montage of Heck (Morgen)

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: Aaron Burckhard, Chad Channing, Don Cobain
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: USA

An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.

Bridge of Spies (Spielberg)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany | India | USA

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

April and the Extraordinary World (Desmares, Ekinci)

Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Marc-André Grondin, Philippe Katerine
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

It’s 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Uncertain (McNicol, Sandilands)

Director: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Uncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas, a 94-resident town so tucked away “you’ve got to be lost to find it”.

Blind (Vogt)

Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway | Netherlands

Forsaken in a new Oslo apartment, a frail blind woman battles to come to terms with her condition, as she slowly retracts into an elaborate fantasy bubble. Are her stories fanning her suspicions, or is this what total blindness looks like?

Jauja (Alonso)

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Argentina | Denmark | France | Mexico | USA | Germany | Brazil | Netherlands

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

Pride (Warchus)

Director: Matthew Warchus
Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | USA

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

’71 (Demange)

Director: Yann Demange
Stars: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In 1971, a young and disorientated British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.

Sivas (Müjdeci)

Director: Kaan Müjdeci
Stars: Okan Avci, Cakir, Ezgi Ergin
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey

An eleven-year-old boy and a weathered fighting dog develop a strong relationship after the boy finds the dog wounded in a ditch, left to die.

Mommy (Dolan)

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

Pasolini (Ferrara)

Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

Court (Tamhane)

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Drama
Country: India

When an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.

Actress (Greene)

Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Brandy Burre, Michael Tomlinson
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.

Breathe (Laurent)

Director: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels.

Fool, The (Bykov)

Director: Yuriy Bykov
Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.

Buzzard (Potrykus)

Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.

Stray Dog (Granik)

Director: Debra Granik
Stars: Ronnie Hall, Felipe Angel Padilla, Felipe de Jesus Padilla
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A contemplative portrait of Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall: biker, Vietnam Vet, and lover of small dogs.

Hard Day, A (Kim)

Director: Seong-hun Kim
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

Violet (Devos)

Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it.

Selma (DuVernay)

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Eden (Hansen-Løve)

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Alleluia (du Welz)

Director: Fabrice du Welz
Stars: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Genre: Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

Fervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.

Guest, The (Wingard)

Director: Adam Wingard
Stars: Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

Phoenix (Petzold)

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany | Poland

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.

Virunga (von Einsiedel)

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | Congo

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

Wild Tales (Szifron)

Director: Damián Szifron
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain | France | UK

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

Magical Girl (Vermut)

Director: Carlos Vermut
Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter’s last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors’ costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city’s dark underbelly.

Coming Home (Zhang)

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.

Waiting for August (Mihai)

Director: Teodora Mihai
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Romania

Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Torn between adolescence and heavy responsibilities, the teenage girl struggles to keep everyone afloat.

Tu Dors Nicole (Lafleur)

Director: Stéphane Lafleur
Stars: Julianne Côté, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Luc Senay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

While her parents are away, a young woman and her friend are hanging out for the summer, and are joined by her brother and his bandmates.

Heart Machine, The (Wigon)

Director: Zachary Wigon
Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Lyn Sheil, Louisa Krause
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend whom he met on the Internet has been living in the same city as him, and he sets out looking for her.

Something, Anything (Harrill)

Director: Paul Harrill
Stars: Ashley Shelton, Bryce Johnson, Linds Edwards
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When a tragedy shatters her plans for domestic bliss, a seemingly typical Southern newlywed gradually transforms into a spiritual seeker, quietly threatening the closest relationships around her.

From What Is Before (Diaz)

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Hazel Orencio
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.

Mala Mala (Santini, Sickles)

Director: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
Stars: Jason Carrión, Paxx Moll, Alberic Prados
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico | USA

A documentary about the power of transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico.

Gett (Elkabetz, Elkabetz)

Director: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France | Germany

After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband’s compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

White God (Mundruczó)

Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Stars: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horvát
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary | Germany | Sweden

Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.

Look of Silence, The (Oppenheimer)

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Denmark | Indonesia | Finland | Norway | UK | Israel | France | USA | Germany | Netherlands

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

Obvious Child (Robespierre)

Director: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A twenty-something comedienne’s unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.

Wonders, The (Rohrwacher)

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Switzerland | Germany

A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.

Blue Room, The (Amalric)

Director: Mathieu Amalric
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?

Tribe, The (Slaboshpytskyi)

Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands

A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the ‘tribe’.

Concerning Violence (Olsson)

Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Lauryn Hill, Kati Outinen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Finland | Denmark | USA

The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.

Evolution of a Criminal (Monroe)

Director: Darius Clark Monroe
Stars: Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie Foumbi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of family, friends…and victims.

Sand Dollars (Cárdenas, Guzmán)

Director: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic | Mexico | Argentina

An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an irresistible storm.

Horse Money (Costa)

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

“The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces… and suddenly it is also then, the mid ’70s and the time of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim.” This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa’s “Colossal Youth” with Ventura again playing himself.

Most Wanted Man, A (Corbijn)

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA | Germany

When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man’s true identity – oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré’s novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

10.000 Km (Marques-Marcet)

Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Stars: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer, Sirius Flatz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

Alex moves to Los Angeles for a new job; Sergi stays in Barcelona. They love each other, but maintaining a relationship through technology proves challenging.

When Marnie Was There (Simone, Yonebayashi)

Director: James Simone, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Due to 12 y.o. Anna’s asthma, she’s sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the Japanese countryside. She likes to be alone, sketching. She befriends Marnie. Who is the mysterious, blonde Marnie.

Happy Christmas (Swanberg)

Director: Joe Swanberg
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After a break up, Jenny moves in with writer Kelly, her filmmaker husband, and their child. Despite a rocky start, Jenny’s influence helps Kelly realize that an evolution in her life, career and relationship is necessary for her happiness.

God Help the Girl (Murdoch)

Director: Stuart Murdoch
Stars: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK

As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll (Pirozzi)

Director: John Pirozzi
Stars: Norodom Sirivudh, Norodom Sihanouk, Sisowath Kossamak
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Cambodia | France

Through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, ‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll’ examines and unravels Cambodia’s tragic past, culminating in the genocidal Khmer Rouge’s dismantling of the society and murder of two million of its citizens. Combining interviews of the surviving Cambodian musicians themselves (a total of 150 hours of interviews were filmed) with never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, this documentary tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country.