Tag: Priority 3

Director: Andrew Durham
Stars: Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Director: Julian Glander
Stars: Jack Corbett, Miya Folick, Tavi Gevinson
Genre: Animation
Country: USA

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, UK

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

Director: Viktor Kossakovsky
Stars: Michele De Lucchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Germany, UK, USA

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

Director: Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim
Stars: I. King Jordan, Jerry Covell, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Discover the story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard about. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead a revolution—and change the course of history.

Director: Petra Costa
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil, USA, UK

Through deep examination, this documentary from Oscar nominee Petra Costa explores the profound impact of evangelism on Brazil’s political landscape.

Director: Constance Tsang
Stars: Wu Ke-Xi, Lee Kang-Sheng, Xu Haipeng
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.

Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella, Thomas Gullestad
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

Director: Trương Minh Quý
Stars: Phąm Thanh Hài, Đào Duy Bảo, Định Nguyên Thį Nga
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.

Director: Morrisa Maltz
Stars: Landon Adams, Lily Gladstone, Raymond Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Jazzy navigates the space between childhood and young adulthood. When her best friend moves away, Jazzy experiences both a sense of loss and her first inkling of independence.

Director: Kim A. Snyder
Stars: Suzette Baker, Weston Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

Director: Tamara Kotevska
Stars: Nikola Conev, Jana Coneva
Genre: Documentary
Country: North Macedonia, USA

Inspired by the folktale of the boy Siljan, who, after a quarrel with his father, turns into a stork and leaves home, the film is a story about the relationship between a farmer and a white stork.

Director: Carson Lund
Stars: Keith William Richards, Stephen Radochia, Cliff Blake
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France, Singapore

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.

Director: Roshan Sethi
Stars: Jane Levy, Will Pullen, David Strathairn
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When Naveen brings his fiance Jay home to meet his family, his traditional Indian parents must contend with accepting his white partner and helping them plan the most fabulous same sex Indian wedding the Bay Area has ever seen.

Director: Jay Duplass
Stars: Michael Strassner, Liz Larsen, Olivia Luccardi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A newly sober man’s Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

Director: Cole Webley
Stars: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young girl discovers the truth about her family’s seemingly spontaneous road trip.

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

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii’s fate while emergency services strain.

Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Stars: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

Tom, a tennis pro washed up on a holiday island. Now he’s the coach at a hotel resort, hitting countless balls over the net to tourists. When he crosses paths with a particular tourist family, it seems he’s found an escape of his own.

Director: Bernard MacMahon
Stars: Led Zeppelin
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA, UK

The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970.

Director: Kate Beecroft
Stars: Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After the death of her husband, Tabatha- a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer- wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.

Director: Annapurna Sriram
Stars: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Damian Young
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A young woman seeks to break a curse by raising $1000 for psychics in a pre-millennium alternate universe. She navigates the seedy underbelly of Trashtown via scooter, encountering bizarre characters along the way.

Director: Paul Gandersman, Peter Hall
Stars: Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

After finding mysterious video clips, siblings investigate the strange recordings and uncover a disturbing secret spreading through their Texas town.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve.

Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Stars: Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann Fahy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp. He finds community with others who lost homes, while reconnecting with his daughter and ex-wife.

Director: Mark Jenkin
Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK

Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Stars: Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Gudnason, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, France, Finland, Sweden

Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.

Director: Dolores Fonzi
Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Camila Pláate, Laura Paredes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina

A woman hospitalized for pain discovers she’s pregnant. After a medical emergency, she faces criminal charges. With support from her attorney and women’s rights advocates, she fights for justice in a landmark case that could change lives.

Director: Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran, Qatar, Chile, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, United States

First female councilor in her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi challenges tradition by teaching girls to ride motorcycles and fighting child marriage, while facing doubts about her motives.

Director: Cherien Dabis
Stars: Saleh Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Mohammad Bakri
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.

Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Germany, France, Hungary

Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden. An encounter.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods – but every cure has costs.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Léa Drucker, Jonathan Turnbull, Mathilde Roehrich
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Case 137 is seemingly just another case for Stéphanie, an investigator at the IGPN, the police of the police. But an unexpected element will trouble Stéphanie and transform case 137 into something more than a simple number.

Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine, USA

A Ukrainian platoon’s mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. A journalist accompanies them, witnessing the ravages of war and the growing uncertainty about its conclusion.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Ronnie Lazaro, Ângela Azevedo
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain, Philippines, France, Taiwan

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands in 1519. He quells mutinies, attempts to subjugate indigenous people and ultimately faces death in the Philippines.

Director: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
Stars: Seymour Hersh
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the United States. Hersh’s breakthrough reportage has brought to the public’s attention many of the most damning constitutional wrongdoings and cover-ups.

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruby Cruz
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA

When a young man’s crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it’s his ultimate fantasy come true. But when the fantasy ends, all three are left with sobering consequences, forcing them to be responsible for their actions.

Director: Lawrence Lamont
Stars: Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States

When best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.

Director: Duncan Skiles
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jack Quaid, Cecile Cubiló
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

When a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next-door neighbor, a bitter and retired security guard, to help him find the missing person.

Director: Hasan Hadi
Stars: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, Qatar, USA

In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake the President’s birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Sofie Gråbøl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden

A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.

Director: LAndrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman
Stars: Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of the United States’ deadliest prison systems.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Amer Hlehel
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

Director: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
Stars: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie. Jason Isaacs
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada

When Diana wakes from a coma with memory loss, she and her husband seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test and Diana begins to question her husband’s true motives.

Director: Benny Safdie
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sports
Country: USA

The story of mixed-martial arts and UFC champion, Mark Kerr.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

Director: Matt Johnson
Stars: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Country: Canada

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

As their marriage unravels, Alex faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene. Meanwhile, his wife Tess confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities.

Director: Signe Baumane
Stars: Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Matthew Modine
Genre: Animation
Country: Latvia, Luxembourg, USA

From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grew older something didn’t seem right with the concept of love: the more she tried to conform, the more her body resisted. A story about the acceptance of the inner female rebellion.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Hye-young, Song Sun-mi, Cho Yun-hee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A series of interactions take place between an established film director, his estranged daughter interested in interior design, an interior designer, and others inside a multi-story commercial and residential building.

Director: Morrisa Maltz
Stars: Lily Gladstone, Raymond Lee, Richard Ray Whitman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.

Director: Del Kathryn Barton
Stars: Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Josh Lawson
Genre: Fantasy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia

After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.

Director: Gina S. Noer
Stars: Aurora Ribero, Arawinda Kirana, Aulia Sarah
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia

Two best friends who create ASMR content together discover a world of personal exploration that leads them both toward harrowing outcomes.

Director: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Stars: Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA

The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Director: Emmanuelle Nicot
Stars: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassy
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France

One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Lene Maria Christensen, Anders W. Berthelsen
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark

Over the course of a week, sisters Inger and Ellen find their relationship challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. Inger reveals her struggles with schizophrenia to the group, receiving both pity and discrimination. On arrival, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine

A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide comfort and safety. It may be humble and somewhat run-down, but this house is filled with love and offers up to nine months of refuge to kids whose fate will be determined by the system. During this short time, the caretakers try to nurture within them a sense of stability and normalcy.

Director: Denny Tedesco
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

If you listen to 1970s pop music, you’ve undoubtedly heard these guys play, but do you know their names? This documentary highlights five talented men—Danny, Leland, Rus, Waddy, and Steve— who shunned the spotlight for themselves yet enjoyed decades of success as session musicians on iconic tracks. Interviewees include their collaborators James Taylor, Don Henley, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Phil Collins, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards, Steve Jordan, and dozens more who take us behind the scenes on the songs that shaped an era.

Director: Nisha Pahuja
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.

Director: Chandler Levack
Stars: Isaiah Lehtinen Romina D’Ugo Krista Bridges
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Director: Charlotte Le Bon
Stars: Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: Canada, France

A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

Director: Colin West
Stars: Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama
Country: USA

When the host of a failing children’s science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.

Director: Julian Higgins
Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Jeremy Bobb, Jefferson White
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Western, Thriller
Country: USA

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she’s drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

Director: Antonio Lukich
Stars: Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Nataliia Hnitii
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine

Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving the country. As a result, they both go to Luxembourg in search of their dad: Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasylii thinks he is a scoundrel.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Romania, Sweden

A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.

Director: Maryam Touzani
Stars: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Messioui, Zakaria Atifi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Denmark, France, Morocco

Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim’s secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina’s illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico, Peru

Valeria’s joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she’s cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she’s forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.

Director: Saim Sadiq
Stars: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.

Director: Andy Mitchell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey, USA

Cat experts dive into the mind of the feline to reveal the true capabilities of the pouncing pet in this captivating and cuddly documentary.

Director: Frances O’Connor
Stars: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Genre: Romance, Drama, History
Country: Australia, UK

The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France, USA

Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara’s murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara’s complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim’s life soon turns into a haunting obsession.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

Director: Saeed Roustaee
Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Saeed Poursamimi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp Eirik Sæther Fanny Vaager
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Norway, Sweden

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend’s recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo’s cultural elite.

Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.

Director: Trevor Beck Frost, Melissa Lesh
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Back from war in Afghanistan, a young British soldier struggling with depression and PTSD finds a second chance in the Amazon rainforest when he meets an American scientist, and together they foster an orphaned baby ocelot.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Michelle Thrush
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Thriller
Country: USA

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

Director: Martine Syms
Stars: Diamond Stingily, Erin Leland, Cammisa Buerhaus
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Director: Carey Williams
Stars: Donald Watkins, RJ Cyler, Sebastian Chacon
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA

Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.

Director: Thomas M. Wright
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Fletcher Humphrys
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Australia, UK, USA

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Anaïs Demoustier
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy
Country: France

Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Stars: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Sarah Adina Smith
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, IU
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy
Country: South Korea

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Stars: Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.

Director: Joe Hunting
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: USA, UK

Filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality (VR), this immersive and revealing documentary roots itself in several unique communities within VR Chat, a burgeoning virtual reality platform. Through observational scenes captured in real-time, in true documentary style, the film reveals the growing power and intimacy of several relationships formed in the virtual world, many of which began during the COVID-19 lockdown, while so many in the physical world were facing intense isolation.

Director: Santiago Mitre
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner
Genre: History, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Director: Christian Tafdrup
Stars: Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

Director: Sacha Jenkins
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong’s legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.

Director: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.

Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands, USA

George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison, travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.

Director: Daniel Roher
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

Director: Michael Morris
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Marc Maron, Andre Royo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Director: Tonya Lewis Lee, Paula Eiselt
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.

Director: Chloe Domont
Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Country: USA

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.

Director: Amanda Kim
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, South Korea

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would arise from the interconnected metaverse of today’s world.

Director: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi
Stars: Evelyne Ily Juhen, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Emeka Amakeze
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France, Nigeria

In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious daughter Zinwe and skeptical protégé Prisca warn Efe about unrest among the villagers. With the sudden arrival of a mysterious rebel deserter named Jasper, a conflict erupts, leading to a violent clash of ideologies and a crisis of faith for the people of Iyi.

Director: Margreth Olin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway

With Olin’s 85-year-old father as guide, we experience Norway’s most adventurous valley, Oldedalen in Nordfjord. He grew up here, and here generations before him have lived in balance with nature.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Japan

The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.

Director: Minhal Baig
Stars: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

Director: Savanah Leaf
Stars: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Keta Price, Doechii
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

Director: Luna Carmoon
Stars: Saura Lightfoot, Leon Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.

Director: Joanna Arnow
Stars: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Peter Vack
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Director: Veerle Baetens
Stars: Charlotte De Bruyne, Rosa Marchant, Sebastien Dewaele
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.

Director: D. Smith
Stars: Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

Director: Koen Mortier
Stars: Thibaud Dooms, Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Antilles, Belgium, Netherlands

The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.

Director: Adrien Beau
Stars: Ariane Labed, Kacey Mottet Klein, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France

Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.

Director: Benjamin Cantu
Stars: Walter Arlen, Howard Myers, Klaus Mueller, Morgan M. Page
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.

Director: Nick Cheuk
Stars: Lo Chun-Yip, Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei, Sean Wong Tsz-Lok
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore

High school teacher Cheng looks back to his repressed childhood memories, as he finds an anonymous suicide note in the classroom. He strives hard to prevent another tragedy from happening, meanwhile facing a series of family problems, his wife is divorcing him, and his father is dying.

Director: Phạm Thiên Ân
Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam

After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.

Director: Lisa Cortés
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.

Director: Amanda Mustard, Rachel Beth Anderson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A photojournalist turns her lens on the decades of sexual abuse her family and community experienced at the hands of her grandfather in this unflinching portrait of intergenerational trauma, family secrets, and redemption.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Director: Robert Hloz
Stars: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík
Genre: Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechia, Poland

It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.

Director: Anna Hints
Stars: Kadi Kivilo, Maria Meresaar, Elsa Saks, Marianne Liiv
Genre: Documentary
Country: Estonia, France, Iceland

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Genre: Crime, History, Drama
Country: France

A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.

Director: Monia Chokri
Stars: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada, France

Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?

Director: Babak Jalali
Stars: Anaita Wali, Zada Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor’s guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

Director: Erica Tremblay
Stars: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Following her sister’s disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what’s left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.

Director: Dan Hartley
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA

As Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the Harry Potter films, David Holmes’ work has been seen worldwide by millions of people. Tragically an on-set accident ended what David calls “the best job in the world,” leaving him paralyzed. Like the on-screen character he helped bring to life, David is determined to continue seeking adventure and living life to the fullest despite mounting obstacles.

Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Stars: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.

Director: Michael Lockshin
Stars: Yevgeni Tsyganov, Yuliya Snigir, August Diehl
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia

Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer’s works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He’s kicked out of the Soviet Writer’s Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita – his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel’s central character is Woland – a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer’s downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.

Director: Jason Yu
Stars: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Kuk-hee, Lee Kyung-jin
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea

Hyun-su and Soo-jin have just gotten married. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. ‘Someone’s inside.’ From that night forward, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of the night before. Soo-jin is overwhelmed with anxiety that he’d hurt her family while she sleeps and can barely sleep a wink because of this irrational fear. Despite sleep treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and she begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger…

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Country: France

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.

Director: Charlotte Regan
Stars: Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun, Laura Aikman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she’s forced to confront reality.

Director: Ariane Louis-Seize
Stars: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.

Director: Indianna Bell, Josiah Allen
Stars: Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan, Elena Carapetis
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: Australia

Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality…

Director: John Carney
Stars: Eve Hewson, Orén Kinlan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jack Reynor
Genre: Music, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, USA

Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician, and harmony for this frayed Dublin family.

Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg
Genre: History, Drama, Action
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen’s fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life…?

Director: Matt Johnson
Stars: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Rich Sommer
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, Finland, USA

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.

Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

Director: Cord Jefferson
Stars: Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Director: Carla Gutierrez
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.

Director: Titus Kaphar
Stars: André Holland, Andra Day, John Earl Jelks
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, a Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.

Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Stars: Zhao Tao, Zhubin Li, Pan Jianlin, Zhou Lan, Zhou You
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France, Japan

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.

Director: Elizabeth Sankey
Stars: Elizabeth Sankey, Sophia Di Martino, Catherine Cho
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Elizabeth Sankey’s deeply personal documentary examines the relationship between the cinematic portrayals of witches and the all-too-real experiences of postpartum depression by utilizing footage that spans the entirety of film history alongside heartrending personal testimony.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Stars: Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, France, Iceland, Netherlands

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

Director: Mahdi Fleifel
Stars: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France, Greece, Netherlands, UK, State of Palestine

The stakes couldn’t be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.

Director: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Jesse Williams, Lily Rabe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in the rehearsals her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.

Director: Sandhya Suri
Stars: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Naval Shukla
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France, Germany, UK

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

Director: Nathan Silver
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly de Leon
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

Director: E.oni
Stars: Kim Go-eun, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Jung Whee, Oh Dong-min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

Free-spirit Jae-hee and closeted Heung-soo deeply connect over being misfits and begin living together. The pair ceaselessly rely on each other as they navigate the complexities of love and romance in the big city of Seoul.

Director: Boris Lojkine
Stars: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow
Genre: Drama
Country: France

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.

Director: Pamela Adlon
Stars: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch, Oliver Platt
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

Director: Alessandra Lacorazza
Stars: Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Dreya Renae Castillo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Christopher Reeve, Dana Reeve, Matthew Reeve, Will Reeve
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK

Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.

Director: Shuchi Talati
Stars: Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiron
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, India, Norway, USA

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.

Director: Dani de la Orden
Stars: Emma Vilarasau, Enric Auquer, Maria Rodríguez Soto
Genre:  Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy

Montse, divorced and with two children who have long ignored her, prepares for a family reunion at her home on the Costa Brava.

Director: Amber Sealey
Stars: Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Rosemarie DeWitt
Genre:  Drama
Country: USA

Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student’s untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Iceland, UK

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.

Director: Jang Jae-hyun
Stars: Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin, Lee Do-hyun
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family’s ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

Director: Josh Margolin
Stars: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Action
Country: Switzerland, USA

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Elliott Heffernan, Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

Director: Rich Peppiatt
Stars: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí, Josie Walker
Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor, Zendaya
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA

Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he’ll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Waldstätten
Genre: Thriller, History, Drama, Crime
Country: Germany, France

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who’s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

Director: Ron Fricke
Stars: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil, China, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, USA

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play “Eurydice.” These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It’s up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun…

Director: Paolo Virzì
Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Director: Naomi Kawase
Stars: Nijiro Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda
Genre: Drama, Biopic
Country: USA

A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland, UK

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Director: Pierre Huyghe
Stars: N/A
Genre: Experimental, Art
Country: USA

The ‘Human Mask’ film is inspired by a real situation in Japan, in which a monkey – wearing the mask of a young woman – has been trained to work as a waitress. The film opens with footage of the deserted site of Fukushima in 2011, the camera functioning as a drone scaling the wreckage. This is followed by scenes of the monkey alone in her habitat, silhouetted against the empty, dark restaurant.

Director: Omer Fast
Stars: Ed Speleers, Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Nicholas Farrell
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK

A London man who loses his memory when he’s struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.

Director: Gregory Jacobs
Stars: Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Stars: Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Arak Amornsupasiri, Atchara Suwan
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, Netherlands, France, Qatar

A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters’ lives.

Director: Paul King
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Stars: Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Matt Lucas
Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Musical, Comedy
Country: USA, UK

In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of first love.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Genre: Drama
Country:France, Germany

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, USA

Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company’s female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio’s hidden underground chambers.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Shayna McHayle
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side ‘sports bar with curves’, Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely – but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?

Director: Blindspotting
Stars: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

Director: Pietro Marcello
Stars: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Carlo Cecchi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Director: Regina King
Stars: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hwa, Song Sun-mi, Kim Sae-byuk
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

While her husband is on a business trip, Gam-hee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul.

Director: Ephraim Asili
Stars: Chris Jarell, Eric Lockley, Nyabel Lual, Nozipho McLean
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: USA

Based on real events, the film’s protagonist inherits a house in West Philadelphia that becomes home to an urban collective for activists of color. The increasingly claustrophobic drama unfolds as the group attempts to live together and find consensus through Black political discourse and social philosophy.

Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: France, French Polynesia, Germany, Portugal, Spain

Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Lee Hye-young, Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hwa, Park Mi-so
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who’s been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

Director: Marie Kreutzer
Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Director: Cyril Schäublin
Stars: Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Monika Stalder
Genre: Drama, History
Country: German

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh”) of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers.

Director: James Gray
Stars: Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA

In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Director: Sara Dosa
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA

A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.

Director: Maria Schrader
Stars: Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Director: Shaunak Sen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: India, UK, USA

Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi’s apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.

Director: Owen Kline
Stars: Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Director: Domee Shi
Stars: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park
Genre: Animation
Country: USA

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Alexander Sagabashi, Vakhtang Kuchava, Fabio Mastrangelo
Genre: Drama, Animation, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Russia

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh
Genre: History, Drama
Country: UK, USA

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Stars: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg,

Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.

Director: Angela Schanelec
Stars: Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marissa Triantafyllidou
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Greece, Serbia

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to seek out his presence, takes care of him, records music for him. Jon’s eyesight begins to fail … From then on, for every loss he suffers, he will gain something in return.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Jean-Pierre Troisgros, Marie Badaut, Jean Troisgrois, Pierre Troisgros
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France

Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel’s sons are continuing the family business: César runs the Michelin-starred restaurant, “Le Bois sans feuilles” (“The Leafless Wood”), and Léo is in charge of one of the other two Troisgros restaurants, “La Colline du colombier” (“The Dovecote Hill”).

Director: Trần Anh Hùng
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche, Patrick d’Assumçao
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal

A cowboy arrives in a village in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in a the Amazon forest.

Director: Pat Collins
Stars: Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy, Sean McGinley
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

Director: Wei Shujun
Stars: Zhu Yilong, Chloe Maayan, Hou Tianlai, Tong Linkai
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: China

1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman’s body is found by the river. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that leads to an obvious arrest. His superiors hurry to congratulate him, but several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behaviour of his fellow citizens.

Director: David Fincher
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children’s clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.

Director: Raven Jackson
Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jaya Henry
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Director: A.V. Rockwell
Stars: Teyana Taylor, William Catlett, Josiah Cross, Aven Courtney
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Shin Seok-ho, Ha Seong-guk, Kim Seung-yun, Kim Min-hee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A director, a cinematographer, and an actress spend the days leading up to a movie shoot together on-location, waiting for the director to come up with an idea for what the film will be about.

Director: Halina Reijn
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Netherlands

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: China | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | Portugal

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | USA

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.

Director: Matthew Rankin
Stars: Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Matthew Rankin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.

Director: Guan Hu
Stars: Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhang-ke, Zhou You
Genre: Drama
Country: China

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls embark on a journey together.

Director: Josh Greenbaum
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When Will Ferrell’s good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

Director: Alex Thompson, Kelly O’Sullivan
Stars: Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen, Kupferer Tara Mallen
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

Director: Shiori Itō
Stars: Shiori Itō, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Shinzo Abe
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan | UK | USA

Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

Director: Anthony Schatteman
Stars: Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.

Director: Jiří Mádl
Stars: Vojtěch Vodochodský, Ondrej Stupka, Tatiana Pauhofová
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechia | Slovakia

In the heady days of the 1968 Prague Spring, a group of Czechoslovak Radio journalists risk not just their careers but their lives to distribute independent news amidst national and regional tumult. Orphaned brothers Tomáš and Pája are caught in the struggle for freedom.

Director: Klára Tasovská
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Czechia | France | Germany | Slovakia

After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Libuše Jarcovjáková, a young female photographer, strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.

Director: Johan Grimonprez
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.

Director: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

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.

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.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Nils Aréhn
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Sweden

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood
Genre: Short, Comedy, War, Silent
Country: USA

Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson, Bert Appling
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama, Silent
Country: USA

The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, André Luguet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Silent
Country: France

After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?

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.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller
Genre: Crime, Drama, Short, Silent
Country: USA

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

Director: Émile Cohl
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: France

The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.

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?

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

From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.

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

It’s December 24th, and ‘Santa Claus’ is busy feeding his reindeer and finishing up the toys that he will soon deliver. Meanwhile, the children in a large family hang their stockings over the fireplace, and then are put to bed.

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

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

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

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

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.

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

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.

Director: N/A
Stars: William McKinley, Joseph Garney Cannon, John Dalzell, George Dewey
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA

Short film which documents William McKinley’s presidential inauguration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Director: Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton
Stars: Winsor McCay, John Bunny, Maurice Costello, George McManus
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: USA

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move – and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: 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.

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.

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.

Director: Theo Anthony
Stars: Theo Anthony, Keaver Brenai, Robert Cunniff, Ross McNutt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.

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.

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.

Director: Sam Pollard
Stars: Kerry James Marshall, Kehinde Wiley, Carrie Mae Weems, Amy Sherald
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An in-depth look at the works of up-and-coming Black visual artists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Damien Bonnard, Gabriel Merz Chammah, Patrick Descamps
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg

Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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