Tag: Priority 3

Director: Justin Simien
Stars: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany | Switzerland

A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.

Director: Charles Poekel
Stars: Kentucker Audley, Craig Butta, Maria Cantillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman’s beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city.

Director: Amanda Wilder
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.

Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city’s history.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.

Director: Antonio Tublen
Stars: Patrik Karlson, Izabella Jo Tschig, Per Löfberg
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden | Denmark

A man experimenting with sound discovers he can use it for mind control. He begins testing it on his neighbors, with increasingly unforeseen consequences.

Director: Anthony Chen
Stars: Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen, Angeli Bayani
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Japan | Taiwan | France

In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.

Director: Valeria Golino
Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Irene, nicknamed ‘Honey’, has devoted herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering, even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile | Spain

A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.

Director: Mariana Rondón
Stars: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela | Peru | Argentina | Germany

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.

Director: Katell Quillévéré
Stars: Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-Ching Lu
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan | France

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.

Director: Ritesh Batra
Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India | France | Germany | USA | Canada

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Stars: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Palestine

A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he’s tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier’s killing.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy | Belgium | Iran

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife’s request for a divorce.

Director: Rick Rowley
Stars: Jeremy Scahill, Nasser Al Aulaqi, Saleha Al Aulaqi
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s expanding covert wars.

Director: Alexandre Moors
Stars: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An abandoned boy is lured to America and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by the real-life events that led to the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks.

Director: Jehane Noujaim
Stars: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: UK | Egypt | USA

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China | Japan | France

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Director: Lake Bell
Stars: Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An underachieving voice coach finds herself competing in the movie trailer voice-over profession against her arrogant father and his protégé.

Director: David Wnendt
Stars: Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.

Director: Ryan McGarry
Stars: Danny Cheng, Andrew Eads, Jamie Eng
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

A notorious trauma bay in an inner-city E.R. earns its keep as the ‘hurt locker of medicine’ as new, idealistic and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war zone. When the hospital moves to a swank new building, the rush fades and bureaucracy gridlocks the state-of-the-art facility, and the doctors are faced with the unexpected realities of life and death in a safety-net health-care system on the brink of overload.

Director: Samantha Buck
Stars: Alyce Barnhardt, Carla Byrd, Robert Caspar
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

JFK High School, located in the midst of a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs, ranging from those on the autism spectrum to those with multiple disabilities. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate in the spring of 2012, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation.

Director: John Curran
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

Director: Chris Eska
Stars: Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer
Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.

Director: Robert May
Stars: Charlie Balasavage, Joanne Balasavage, Justin Bodnar
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Kids For Cash is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, Kids For Cash exposes a shocking American secret. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small town celebrates a charismatic judge who is hell-bent on keeping kids in line…until one parent dares to question the motives behind his brand of justice. This real life thriller reveals the untold stories of the masterminds at the center of the scandal and the chilling aftermath of lives destroyed in the process – a stunning emotional roller coaster.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Evelyne Brochu, David Cronenberg
Genre: Short
Country: Canada

An interview between a doctor and a patient who is convinced that a nest of bugs is growing in her breast.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

Director: Ragnar Bragason
Stars: Thora Bjorg Helga, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland

A girl is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in the dark music of Black Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.

Director: Alexandros Avranas
Stars: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

An unnerving story about a horrid family drama kept behind closed doors, and an elaborate facade where appearances can be deceiving, and nothing is as it seems.

Director: Alicia Scherson
Stars: Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Rutger Hauer
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Chile | Germany | Spain

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

Director: Ryan White
Stars: Freda Kelly, Paul McCartney, John Lennon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: UK | USA

A documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles.

Director: Eliza Hittman
Stars: Gina Piersanti, Nyck Caution, Giovanna Salimeni
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Lila wants to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy who will “sleep with anyone” and tries to insert herself into his world, putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada

Two lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, are trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic’s probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from Flo’s past.

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | France | Germany

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (‘Paradise: Love’) and her aunt does missionary work (‘Paradise: Faith’), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

Director: Ryan Coogler
Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Director: Rolf de Heer
Stars: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.

Director: Lukas Moodysson
Stars: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Denmark

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

Director: Clio Barnard
Stars: Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.

Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On first day he assaults another inmate and several guards. He’s offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?

Director: Alê Abreu
Stars: Vinicius Garcia, Marco Aurélio Campos, Lu Horta
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Brazil

A little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.

Director: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez
Stars: Chabbi Lal Gandharba, Anish Gandharba, Bindu Gayek
Genre: Documentary
Country: Nepal | USA

A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.

Director: Aarón Fernández Lesur
Stars: Kristyan Ferrer, Adriana Paz, Eliseo Lara Martínez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain | France | Mexico

On the desolated coast of Veracruz, Mexico, 17-year-old Sebastián takes over running his uncle’s small & cozy rent-by-the-hour motel. There all by himself much of the time, he meets Miranda, a regular customer who comes to the motel to meet a lover who always keeps her waiting. There together with time to kill, Sebastián and Miranda begin to get to know each other, and an ambiguous game of seduction begins between them.

Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Randal Douc, Jean-Baptiste Phou
Genre: Documentary
Country: Cambodia | France

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Japan | France | USA

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Director: Albert Serra
Stars: Vicenç Altaió, Lluís Serrat, Eliseu Huertas
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | France | Romania

Famous lover Casanova now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula during a journey to Transylvania.

Director: Joaquim Pinto
Stars: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel, Serge Daney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Portugal | Spain

Joaquim Pinto, who has been living with HIV for more than two decades, looks back at his life in cinema, at his friendships and loves, at the mysteries of art and nature – while undergoing an experimental drug treatment.

Director: Ramon Zürcher
Stars: Jenny Schily, Anjorka Strechel, Mia Kasalo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany

A family in a house, and a chain of events that take place, on an ordinary evening that they plan to have dinner with relatives.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Germany

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

Director: Marta Cunningham
Stars: James Bing, Jeremy Bing, Rosalie Black
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who may have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it? Looking beyond all the copious news coverage of this tragic event, Valentine Road tells the story of two victims: the deceased and the murderer. With keen insight, the film connects the human wreckage of Larry’s and Brandon’s troubled lives-both physically abused, both from broken homes, and both searching for a sense of belonging.

Director: Mami Sunada
Stars: Hayao Miyazaki, Yumiko Miyoshi, Toshio Suzuki
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Follows the routines of those employed at Studio Ghibli, including filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki as they work to release two films simultaneously, The Wind Rises and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

Director: Bill Siegel
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Muhammad Ali, David Susskind
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: USA

The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.

Director: Talal Derki
Stars: Abdul Basset Saroot
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Syria | Germany

A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.

Director: Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren
Stars: John Wojtowicz, Carmen Bifulco, Jeremy Bowker
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary portrait of the late John Wojtowicz, whose attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery was the real-life inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

Director: Sam Fleischner
Stars: Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Andrea Suarez Paz, Azul Zorrilla
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story of an autistic youth named Ricky who, after a particularly difficult day at school, escapes into the subways. It’s here that he starts his real journey, on a days-long voyage of discovery while, above ground, his mom frantically searches for him.

Director: Mark Levinson
Stars: David Kaplan, Fabiola Gianotti, Sherwood Boehlert
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time — or perhaps their greatest failure.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.

Director: Theo Love
Stars: David Mahfood, Peggy Mahfood, Bill Parr
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, 10 churches burn to the ground in just over a month igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. No stone is left unturned and even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Families are torn apart and communities of faith struggle with forgiveness and justice in this incredible true story.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain | France

A gang of armed robbers finds a safe haven in a secluded village crammed with witches–only to encounter the bizarre, the unexpected, and the occult. Can they save themselves, and the rest of the world from the next witch apocalypse?

Director: Frank Pavich
Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Director: Lawrence Shapiro
Stars: Charlie Adler, Pamela Adlon, Carlos Alazraqui
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Several voice actors discuss their art and their careers.

Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Stars: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Zurab Gogaladze
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia | Germany | France

Set in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992. Friends Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Anahid Modrek
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system, is also one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. The film, At Berkeley, shows the major aspects of university life, its intellectual and social mission, its obligation to the state and to larger ideas of higher education, as well as illustrates how decisions are made and implemented by the administration in collaboration with its various constituencies.

Director: Andreas Johnsen
Stars: Weiwei Ai, Andreas Johnsen, Lao Ai
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Denmark | China | UK

A documentary reflects on artist Ai Weiwei’s battle against the lawsuit thrust upon him by the Chinese government in an effort to silence him.

Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Stars: Caitlin Atwater, Bradley Bannon, Freda Black
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Explosive developments – implicating both the forensics laboratory of the police department of North Carolina, and Duane Deaver, its chief – recently saw the convicted subject of ‘The Staircase’, Michael Peterson, released from jail after serving eight years of a life sentence, pending a retrial.

Director: Sini Anderson
Stars: Kathleen Hanna, Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the “riot grrrl” movement of the 1990s.

Director: Ralph Fiennes
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.

Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Stars: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | USA

Follows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.

Director: Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi
Stars: Kambuzia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Jafar Panahi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a young woman fleeing from the authorities. Refusing to leave, she takes refuge in the house. But come dawn, another unexpected presence will change everything.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Stars: Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: France | Austria

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the “model ghetto”, designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn’t even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the “Final Solution” like never before.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry, Richard Feynman
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: France

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall
Stars: Gore Vidal, Howard Auster, James Best
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Italy

This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal’s America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal’s acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore’s political views and his concern at the present state of American democracy using interviews and historical footage of his famous appearances on television and talk shows over the last fifty years. In the recently filmed interviews Gore examines the course of American history and policy making and draws dramatic conclusions on the fate of the nation in the modern age.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Anonymous, Anonymous, Ramin Parham
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…

Director: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Stars: Cindy Bitney, David Crone, Jessica Mitchell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Shane Bitney Crone’s plans to marry Tom Bridegroom in California after the same-sex marriage law is passed takes a tragic turn when his partner of six years accidentally dies and Tom’s family refuses Shane from attending the funeral.

Director: David Lowery
Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

Director: Sébastien Betbeder
Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Maud Wyler, Bastien Bouillon
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Arman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in the park. When he literally bumps into Amélie – slightly cynical but nevertheless lovely – on the jogging path, he’s dead-set on making a connection with her. As a bit of contrived fate brings them together, Arman’s best friend Benjamin suffers an unexpected stroke, relegating him to the hospital for weeks where he falls for his doting young physical therapist. Over the course of two autumns and three winters, Arman, Amélie and Benjamin share the incidental moments, unexpected accidents, unconventional love stories and unforgettable memories that will define who they are.

Director: Ursula Meier
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | France | Mexico | USA

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China | France

Lu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her husband businessman Qiao Yongzhao entering the hotel with a young girl. A few hours later the girl Sun Xiaomin is run over and killed on a nearby motorway by a group of joyriding rich kids but when the police arrive they notice that Sun had been attacked before she was run over.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong

A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

Director: Cate Shortland
Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia | Germany | UK

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents’ beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates

An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Aniello Arena, Paola Minaccioni, Loredana Simioli
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | India

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

Director: Moussa Touré
Stars: Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laïty Fall, Malaminé ‘Yalenguen’ Dramé
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Senegal | Germany

A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA | France

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Director: James Ponsoldt
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Nick Offerman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Rita Marley
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

Director: Peter Nicks
Stars: Sean Bennett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

Director: Dror Moreh
Stars: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Israel | France

A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.

Director: Jem Cohen
Stars: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | USA

When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.

Director: Ron Morales
Stars: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido de la Paz
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines

When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student’s increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend’s family.

Director: Pablo Berger
Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain | Belgium | France

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Director: Amy Berg
Stars: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Misskelley
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: New Zealand | USA

An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

Director: Kim Nguyen
Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada

Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Director: Keith Miller
Stars: Shanon Harper, Junior Adolph, Ernest Bastien
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A recently reformed drug dealer, now working as a claims adjuster by day and bouncer by night, receives earth-shattering news, compelling to make peace with his past and search for freedom beyond the concrete jungle of New York City.

Director: Nabil Ayouch
Stars: Abdelhakim Rachi, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Tunisia | Morocco

A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.

Director: Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark

The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.

Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Paul Simon, Maya Angelou, Okeyrema Asante
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | South Africa

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | UK | Germany | Japan | Australia | USA

From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America’s criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.

Director: Christopher Kenneally
Stars: Derek Ambrosi, Michael Ballhaus, Andrzej Bartkowiak
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil

The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Lorraine Toussaint
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband’s well-being while he’s incarcerated – leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel

When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | Singapore

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Claire Bodson, Niels Arestrup
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium | Luxembourg | France | Switzerland

Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle fall in love. Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle have children. But unlike them, they accept to give up their autonomy by agreeing to live with Mounir’s well off adoptive father, Doctor André Pinget. On the material level, all is well. But a house is not a home, and Murielle feels more and more stifled..

Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Stars: Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents’ bitter custody battle.

Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Stars: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA

A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.

Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain | Thailand | USA

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | France

A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman’s relationship with her lover.

Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In Manhattan, film-maker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a fling. As their relationship becomes one fueled by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.

Director: David France
Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

The story of two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India

A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania | France | Belgium

The friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In the months after the heady weeks of May ’68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.

Director: Nisha Pahuja
Stars: Pooja Chopra, Manasvi Mamgai, Marc Robinson
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Two young women follow completely divergent paths in the new, modernizing India-one wants to become Miss India, the other is a fierce Hindu Nationalist prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | Denmark | Norway

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

Director: Joss Whedon
Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: UK

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple’s epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Shay Modaressi
Stars: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Santiago Figueroa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | France

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Director: Sophie Huber
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Sam Shepard
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Switzerland

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor’s enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid scenes with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry. The fragile soul of an actor emerges from the poignant collage.

Director: Shola Lynch
Stars: Angela Davis, Eisa Davis
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.

Director: Brad Bernstein
Stars: Tomi Ungerer, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Depicts one man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator.

Director: Marcelo Gomes
Stars: João Miguel, Maeve Jinkings, Marcelo Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | France

A woman tries to make a life for herself in a violent Brazilian city.

Director: Laurent Boileau, Jung
Stars: Maxym Anciaux, Cathy Boquet, Mahé Collet
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | South Korea | Switzerland

Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.

Director: Jeffrey Kimball
Stars: Regina Alvarez, Anya Auerbach, Mike Bryant
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.

Director: Terence Nance
Stars: Alisa Becher, Jc Cain, Dexter Jones
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An artist’s shortsighted film about a failed relationship is reedited into a more collaborative, more inclusive work of art.

Director: Lee Hirsch
Stars: Ja’Meya Jackson, Kelby Johnson, Lona Johnson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.

Director: Dee Rees
Stars: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Aasha Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Director: Cindy Meehl
Stars: Buck Brannaman, Gary Myers, Bibb Frazier
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An examination of the life of acclaimed ‘horse whisperer’ Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become a well-known expert in the interactions between horses and people.

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: John C. Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Bridger Zadina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

The story of a bullied fifteen-year-old boy in a small town as he struggles to adjust to his difficult life.

Director: Joseph Cedar
Stars: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.

Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Erik Hemmendorff, Ruben Östlund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | France

An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the ‘little brother number’ or ‘brother trick’, involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.

Director: Nadav Lapid
Stars: Yiftach Klein, Yaara Pelzig, Michael Moshonov
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France

A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.

Director: Valérie Massadian
Stars: Kelyna Lecomte, Marie Delmas, Alain Sabras
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A journey into the darkness of her childhood. The world from her height.

Director: Clay Jeter
Stars: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers, Haley Strode
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A series of vignettes involving memories of companionship and sexual awakening shared by two second cousins.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan …

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, Hailu Qin
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people’s home.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | France | Germany

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret.

Director: Ignacio Ferreras
Stars: Tacho González, Álvaro Guevara, Mabel Rivera
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Spain

An astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.

Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A sex addict’s carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.

Director: Cyril Tuschi
Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Germany

Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn’t he stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky.

Director: Patrick Wang
Stars: Sebastian Banes, Patrick Wang, Trevor St. John
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When his partner Cody dies in a car accident, Joey learns that their son, Chip, has been willed to Cody’s sister. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.

Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Jane Alexander, Lindsay Almond Jr., Edward L. Ayers
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: USA

A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era.

Director: Duncan Jones
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA | Canada | France | Germany

A soldier wakes up in someone else’s body and discovers he’s part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Stars: Stephanie Sigman, Noé Hernández, Irene Azuela
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico

After entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang’s bidding.

Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Stars: Jean Barney, Chloé Berthier, JB Blanc
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Canada

Three characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland | Germany | Canada

A dramatization of one man’s rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Philippe Decouflé, Naamah Alva, Daizy Blu
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

A look inside Paris’ Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.

Director: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Ireland

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an up-tight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

Director: Maïwenn
Stars: Karin Viard, JoeyStarr, Marina Foïs
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters an affair with one of her subjects.

Director: Valérie Donzelli
Stars: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix
Genre: Drama
Country: France

When their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival.

Director: Chanoch Ze’evi
Stars: Bettina Göring, Katrin Himmler, Monika Hertwig
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Israel | Germany

A look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler’s command.

Director: Ralph Fiennes
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Director: Tom McCarthy
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach’s chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.

Director: Ben Rivers
Stars: Jake Williams
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

After working at sea, a man realizes his dream of moving to the middle of the forest.

Director: Julia Loktev
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA | Germany

An engaged couple’s backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.

Director: Frédéric Jardin
Stars: Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg

A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld finds his secret life exposed when he and his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a powerful drug dealer, a move that puts his son’s life in jeopardy.

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.

Director: Andrés Baiz
Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Martina García, María Soledad Rodríguez
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia | Spain

Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend’s mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance. But, can he look beyond the facts?

Director: Vera Farmiga
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A chronicle of one woman’s lifelong struggle with her faith.

Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Stars: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde, Henriette Steenstrup
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Norway

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Director: Steve James
Stars: Tio Hardiman, Ameena Matthews, Toya Batey
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.

Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden

One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

Director: Yoav Potash
Stars: Deborah Peagler, Joshua Safran, Nadia Costa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman, despite the injustices she has experienced, first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution, and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for her connection to the murder of her abuser. Her story takes an unexpected turn two decades later when a pair of rookie land-use attorneys cut their teeth on her case — and attract global attention to the troubled intersection of domestic violence and criminal justice.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey | Bosnia and Herzegovina

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France | UK | Germany | USA

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.

Director: Ross McElwee
Stars: Adrian McElwee, Ross McElwee
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | France

Filmmaker Ross McElwee (Sherman’s March, Bright Leaves) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, a young adult who seems addicted to and distracted by the virtual worlds of the internet. To understand his fractured love for his son, McElwee travels back to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany for the first time in decades to retrace his own journey into adulthood. A meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, and the digital versus analog divide.

Director: Lech Majewski
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland | Sweden

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel’s painting. The theme of Christ’s suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.

Director: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Hafsia Herzi, François Damiens
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France

Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi’s cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette
Genre: Drama
Country: France

At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century, exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries, and most of all, slavery.

Director: Michael Collins
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA | UK

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.

Director: Michael Perlman
Stars: Ethan Gutmann, David Kilgour
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction… The award winning “Free China: The Courage To Believe” tells the story of a mother and former Communist Party member, Jennifer Zeng, who along with more than 70 Million Chinese were practicing a belief that combined Buddhism and Daoism until the Chinese Government outlawed it.

Director: Bill Filipiak, Louise Palanker
Stars: Bill Cowsill, Bob Cowsill, Richard Cowsill
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

The story of the real-life family pop group consisting of six kids and their mother that inspired TV’s “Partridge Family.”

Director: Kelly Duane, Katie Galloway
Stars: Scott Crow, Brandon Darby, Matthew Vadum
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A pair of childhood friends from Texas who set out to prove themselves.

Director: Tom Lin
Stars: Jiao Xu, Hui-Min Lin, Rene Liu
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan | China | Hong Kong

12-year-old Mei grew up with her grandparents in the mountains, but now lives with her parents in the city. Her parents constantly fight and she ignored at home. Mei withdraws into her own world and imagination.

Director: Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss
Stars: Joshua Milton Blahyi Jr., Janice Blahyi, Joshua Blahyi
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA | Georgia | Liberia

Tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked – a brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia’s horrific 14-year civil war. Today, the General has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as Evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi. This portrait takes viewers on Joshua’s crusade to redeem his past, as he confronts his victims and attempts to rehabilitate the former child soldiers who once fought for him. Whatever you make of him — liar or madman, charlatan or genuine repentant — the film challenges viewers to ask important questions about both the power and the limits of forgiveness, amid a nation’s search for healing and justice.

Director: Joshua Marston
Stars: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Albania | Denmark | Italy | UK

An Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.

Director: Gilles Penso
Stars: Ray Harryhausen, Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

The life and work of the renowned film visual effects artist and producer.

Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Kimberlee Acquaro
Stars: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jean Kilbourne, Jim Steyer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

Director: Gorô Miyazaki
Stars: Sarah Bolger, Chris Noth, Anton Yelchin
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Director: David Gelb
Stars: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.

Director: Danfung Dennis
Stars: Nathan Harris, Ashley Harris, The Marines of Echo Company
Genre: Documentary, Action, History
Country: USA | UK | Afghanistan

What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.

Director: Corinna Belz
Stars: Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.

Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
Stars: Charles Eames, Ray Eames, James Franco
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America’s most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American culture. ‘Eames: The Architect & The Painter’ draws from a treasure trove of archival material, as well as new interviews with friends, colleague, and experts to capture the personal story of Charles and Ray while placing them firmly in the context of their fascinating times.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Joon-Sang Yoo, Sang-Jung Kim, Seon-mi Song
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Bobby Fischer, David Edmonds, Anthony Saidy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | UK

‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’ is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer’s career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th century.

Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand

Set on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Jeong-hie Yun, Da-wit Lee, Hee-ra Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany | Ukraine | Netherlands

A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.

Director: Cheol-soo Jang
Stars: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A woman subject to mental, physical and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

Director: David Barker
Stars: Alexandra Meierhans, Ivan Martin, Michael Godere
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A harrowing psychological thriller from a widely acclaimed filmmaker, Daylight pits a couple lost in America against a conniving gang of kidnappers, in David Barker’s rigorous and personal re-imagining of the genre film.

Director: Rafi Pitts
Stars: Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Mahmoud Babai
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | Germany

In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: China

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Director: Jason Spingarn-Koff
Stars: Teasa Copprue
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by a virtual world — reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality.

Director: Celine Danhier
Stars: Amos Poe, Ann Magnuson, Becky Johnston
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

During the punk rock stage in the late ’70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of “Do it yourself” independent filmmaking.

Director: Mark Landsman
Stars: Craig Baldwin, Craig Green, Conrad O. Johnson Sr.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Alumni from Houston’s storied Kashmere High School Stage Band return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for their beloved band leader who turned the struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.

Director: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Yu-mi Jung, Seong-kun Mun
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

A love story between a middle-aged professor, a young student who prepares a movie and a student/film-maker who drinks too much.

Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan | UK

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile | Mexico

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende’s presidency, an employee at a Morgue’s recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

Director: Jennifer Arnold
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A young Kenyan’s life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.

Director: Jalmari Helander
Stars: Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland | Norway | France | Sweden

In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko
Stars: Igor Sergeev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia

Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Portugal | France

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada | France

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother’s last wishes.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Director: Dover Koshashvili
Stars: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast.

Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Stars: Pat Tillman, Josh Brolin, Mary Tillman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Mystery
Country: USA

Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn’t done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev’s riveting and enraging documentary.

Director: Simon Rumley
Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.

Director: Robin Hessman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA | UK | Russia

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today’s Moscow.

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Stars: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Germany | Switzerland

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Stars: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter’s death.

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

Director: Baran bo Odar
Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Stars: Won Bin, Sae-ron Kim, Tae-hoon Kim
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.

Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Stars: Lance Henriksen, Lathrop Walker, Andrew Keegan
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A young analyst talks with an old man claiming to be from the future – a dystopian future.

Director: Yael Hersonski
Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Germany | Israel

A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia | Japan

The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Pilar López de Ayala, Isabel Ruth, Filipe Vargas
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal | Spain | France | Brazil

A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

Director: Marius Holst
Stars: Benjamin Helstad, Trond Nilssen, Stellan Skarsgård
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway | France | Sweden | Poland

Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Tracie Thoms, Omari Hardwick
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.

Director: Juanita Wilson
Stars: Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland | Sweden | Republic of North Macedonia

A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson’s drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.

Director: Elijah Drenner
Stars: Robert Forster, Eric Schaefer, Eddie Muller
Genre: Documentary, Action, Comedy
Country: USA

A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent movie era to the 1970s.

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family’s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.

Director: Fred Cavayé
Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Samuel, a male nurse, saves the life of a thief whose henchmen take Samuel’s wife hostage and force him to spring their boss.

Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Stars: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, B. Ruby Rich
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

Director: Adrian Grenier
Stars: Med Abrous, Alec Baldwin, Nicholas Barber
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that examines the relationship between celebrity and society.

Director: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Stars: Paul Bosche, Alfredo del Rio, John DiGiacomo
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

This film tells the story of the massive police raid of Stonewall in June 1969.

Director: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten
Stars: Bruce Barlow, Deloy Bateman, Michelle Benward
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An inside look at former FLDS teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.

Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan ‘Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Country: USA

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

Director: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Stars: Damon Albarn, Mike Smith, Wayne Hernandez
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK

An insightful rockumentary looking at the history of the British rock band, Blur, as they head out on the road for their 2009 reunion tour.

Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania

Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he’s shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Germany

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella by the celebrated Madame de Lafayette, the action centers on the love of Marie de Mezières for her dashing cousin Henri de Guise, thwarted when her father’s political ambitions force her into marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, whom she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman with a disdain for warfare, and soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky
Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia

One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren’t communicate.

Director: Tamra Davis
Stars: Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

Director: Craig McCall
Stars: Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston’s The African Queen and King Vidor’s War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Director: Andrei Ujica
Stars: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Stefan Andrei
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Romania | Germany

The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Spalding Gray, Forrest Gray, Kathie Russo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the art of Spalding Gray who drew from real life experience to create a compelling and deeply personal series of monologues.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, Hee-jin Choi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: South Korea | USA

Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.

Director: Liang Zhao
Stars: Zhang Weiye, Xiao Yuan
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | Switzerland | UK | France | Belgium | Finland

It is a fantastic documentary about Chinese govt’s systemic oppression and persecution toward ordinary folk who petition the government.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Simon Yam
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong | France

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter’s family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Director: Samuel Maoz
Stars: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel | France | Germany | UK

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Stars: Karen O’Toole
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

MINE is the powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. MINE explores how tragedy intensifies that bond and is told from the perspective of original guardians, rescuers, and adoptive parents of the voiceless victims of Katrina.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The story of Mussolini’s secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

Director: Louie Psihoyos
Stars: Richard O’Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico

A Honduran young girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the American border.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Hervé Loos
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Portugal | France

Intimate portrait of the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son’s friend, makes her senses kindle.

Director: Cherien Dabis
Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates | Canada | Kuwait | Jordan

A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.

Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland | Spain | USA | United Arab Emirates

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Director: Bruno Dumont
Stars: Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The aspirant nun Céline van Hadewijch is invited to leave the convent where she studies and she returns to the house of her parents in Paris. Céline meets her outcast Muslim teenage friend Yassine Chikh in a café and they hang around together. Céline tells that he is only her friend since she is committed with God and will stay virgin since her body belongs to God. Yassine introduces Céline to his older brother and religious leader Nassir Chikh and he invites the teenage girl to participate in his religious seminars. However, Nassir is actually a terrorist and the confused Céline is the perfect tool for his cell.

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Ludovic Berthillot, Hafsia Herzi, Pierre Laur
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France

Armand, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is a popular middle-aged homosexual. Just as he was getting sick of life, he falls in love with a young girl called, Curlie, and goes on the run from her parents and the police.

Director: Bartosz Konopka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: Poland | Germany

The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls.

Director: Armando Iannucci
Stars: Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.

Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.

Director: Warwick Thornton
Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.

Director: Hae-jun Lee
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Ryeowon Jung, Yeong-seo Park
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir
Genre: Fantasy
Country: France

An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.

Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany | Israel | UK

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.

Director: Peter Hanson
Stars: Allison Anders, Jane Anderson, Doug Atchison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

War stories and life lessons from the industry’s top writers.

Director: Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: USA

The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.

Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.

Director: Lixin Fan
Stars: Changhua Zhang, Yang Zhang, Suqin Chen
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Canada | China | UK

A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.

Director: Juan José Campanella
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Argentina | Spain

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior – both of which still haunt him decades later.

Director: Maren Ade
Stars: Lars Eidinger, Birgit Minichmayr, Hans-Jochen Wagner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.

Director: Havana Marking
Stars: Habib Amiri, Setara Hussainzada, Rafi Naabzada
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

A look at how contestants on the a musical contest program “Pop Idol” in Afghanistan risk their lives to appear on the show.

Director: Ounie Lecomte
Stars: Sae-ron Kim, Do Yeon Park, Ko Asung
Genre: Drama
Country: France | South Korea

Inspired by her childhood, French-Korean filmmaker Ounie Lecomte recounts the emotional journey of a little girl abandoned by her father in an orphanage.

Director: Ayan Mukherjee
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Supriya Pathak
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India

A spoiled young adult living in Mumbai experiences a change in his lazy ways when he meets a woman at a party, who inspires him to “wake up.”

Director: Elia Suleiman
Stars: Menashe Noy, Elia Suleiman, Baher Agbariya
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK | Italy | Belgium | France | Palestine | Israel

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

Director: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Western
Country: UK | France | USA

In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges – a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.

Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Plagued by guilt, a corrupt police official attempts to solve the case of a missing schoolgirl after seeing connections between her disappearance and a rash of prior abductions.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Germany | Norway

A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.

Director: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

An intimate and moving account of one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.

Director: Gloria La Morte, Paola Mendoza
Stars: Paola Mendoza, Sebastian Villada, Laura Montana
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A story based on facts which offers a fresh take on the issue of new immigrants in the United States. Mariana totes her two children from Colombia to reunite with her husband in Queens, New York. Her life is devastatingly turned around when her husband abandons the family. The woman and her kids have to fend for themselves in a foreign country. Mariana desperately searches for work. In the end, she resourcefully navigates a surprising avenue for making some money, the city’s recycling.

Director: Pedro González-Rubio
Stars: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Mexico

Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.

Director: Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes
Stars: Irandhir Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness.

Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Stars: Margrét Dagmar Ericsdóttir, David G. Amaral, Simon Baron-Cohen
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iceland

The mother of an autistic child is determined not to accept the pessimistic prognosis for her son.

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Warren Clarke, Paddy Considine, James Fox
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A team of investigators attempt to stop a serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper from claiming his next victim, but uncover something far more terrifying.

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Stars: Stéphane Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Belgium | Luxembourg | France

Cowboy and Indian’s only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse’s birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they’ll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

Director: Andrew Monument
Stars: Lance Henriksen, Larry Cohen, Joe Dante
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Country: USA

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Alice de Lencquesaing
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

A film producer struggles with suicidal despair.

Director: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea
Stars: Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary.

Director: Claude Miller, Nathan Miller
Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and begins a relationship with her which slowly drives him to an act of madness.

Director: Phil Grabsky
Stars: Emanuel Ax, Jonathan Biss, Riccardo Chailly
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK

The first truly comprehensive feature length cinema documentary ever made about Beethoven. With over 60 live performances.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Stars: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.

Director: Gerald Peary
Stars: Roger Ebert, Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

The history of American film criticism.

Director: Wael Mandour, Yusri Nasrullah
Stars: Mona Zaki, Mahmoud Hemida, Hasan El-Raddad
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt

A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women’s issues.

Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier
Stars: Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Canada | Palestine | Israel | Lebanon

About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü
Genre: Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | Japan

When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Director: Reshef Levi
Stars: Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Shmil Ben Ari
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

A family in the 80s with five kids get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.

Director: Brillante Mendoza
Stars: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines | France | South Korea | Hong Kong

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real “star” of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.

Director: Ik-joon Yang
Stars: Kkobbi Kim, Hwan Lee, Ik-joon Yang
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

A bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | France

The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.

Director: Dennis Gansel
Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany | France

A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Chile | Brazil

A man is obsessed with John Travolta’s disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).

Director: Nash Edgerton
Stars: David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia

A man’s life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.

Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | Germany | Spain | Lithuania

A Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

Director: Martin Provost
Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.

Director: Megumi Sasaki
Stars: Paula Antebi, Will Barnet, Robert Barry
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.

Director: Courtney Hunt
Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Yeong-ho Kim, Su-jeong Hwang, Eun-hye Park
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

“Night and Day” is centered around the mixed emotions found in traveling. Characters in the film are Sung-nam Kim, an artist selected by the Korean government that escaped from Seoul and currently resides in Paris, student Yoo-jung Lee studying painting in Paris, Sung-in Han waiting for her husband Sung-nam Kim, and North Korean Kyeong-su Yun also studying in Paris.

Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Stars: Askhat Kuchencherekov, Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Samal Yeslyamova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan | Russia | Germany | Poland | Switzerland | Italy

On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It’s dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who’s slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa’s later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa’s dreams? What about the other lambs?

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Matt Boren, Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA