Tag: Priority 3

Director: Derek Dennis Herbert
Stars: Kane Hodder, Mike Aloisi, John Carl Buechler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The emotional story of Kane Hodder who survived a harrowing childhood and near-death accident to become one of films biggest and most beloved horror icons.

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

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

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

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

Director: John Maggio
Stars: Marion Barry Jr., Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about Ben Bradlee, the iconic editor of The Washington Post.

Director: Nick Kelly
Stars: Dermot Murphy, Jacob McCarthy, Peter Coonan
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

An unlikely friendship develops between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an institutionalized teen suffering from Asperger’s syndrome.

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

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

Director: Andrew Kightlinger
Stars: Jessica Rothe, Bates Wilder, Forrest Weber
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France

A wayward millennial escapes to a South Dakota ranch, unhinging her Uncle’s placid alcoholic life.

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

Multiple stories of taxi drivers while they work one night.

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

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

Director: Joe Berlinger
Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Taner Akçam, Hagop Asadourian
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.

Director: Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir
Stars: Gail Abarbanel, Richard Bell, Joe Biden
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.

Director: Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
Stars: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Amr Al-Azm, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Xuan Liang, Chun Zhang
Stars: Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: China

A 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran

Teenage girls consigned to the Iranian “Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre” discuss their troubled lives and reveal what brought them there.

Director: Andrei Dascalescu
Stars: Ion Barbu, Catalin Cenusa, Mihai Barbu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania

In Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Sam Blair, Joe Martin
Stars: Csanad Szegedi
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Hungary

An anti-Semitic far-right politician’s astonishing transformation after finding out he is Jewish.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | Germany | Austria

Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.

Director: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens
Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Todd Fisher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An intimate portrait of actress Debbie Reynolds and her relationship with her beloved children, Carrie and Todd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | USA

The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Jérôme Reybaud
Stars: Pascal Cervo, Arthur Igual, Fabienne Babe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A man leaves his home unannounced, and spends four days wandering around France.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Jamal Cavil, Maisha Diatta
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France | Germany | USA

An exploration into our planetary past and a search for humanity’s place in the future. With narration by Cate Blanchett.

Director: Sally Wainwright
Stars: Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, Chloe Pirrie
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

A chronicle of the Brontë sisters’ battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | UK

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

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

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

Director: Pawel Lozinski
Stars: Ewa Szymczyk, Hanna Maciag, Bogdan de Barbaro
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland

Two adult women – a mother and her daughter – take part in a family therapy to improve their painful relationship.

Director: Dash Shaw
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An earthquake causes a high school to float into the sea, where it slowly sinks like a shipwreck.

Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Stars: Nancy Rooney, Harry Mapplethorpe, George Stack
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Germany

An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

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

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

Director: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Stars: Christa Epperlein, Petra Epperlein, Uwe Epperlein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her father’s 1999 suicide.

Director: Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Stars: Kiet Engel, Haya Khleif, Branche Jovanovski
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don’t understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.

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

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

Director: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Stars: Robin Bourland, Daisy Coleman, Charles Coleman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the effects that online bullying has on the lives of teenagers and their community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | France

The story of a Danish commander, who is accused of civil murder in Afghanistan, while trying to save his squad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: David Sington
Stars: Herbert A. Fuchs, Sammy Silverwatch, Nick Yarris
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: UK

A convicted murderer who has spent 23 years on Death Row tells his story.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The iconic cartoons of The New Yorker have become an instantly recognizable cultural touchstone over the past 90 years, and Leah Wolchock’s intimate documentary offers an unprecedented glimpse into the process behind the cartoons. The film follows cartoon editor Bob Mankoff as he sifts through hundreds of submissions and pitches every week to bring readers a carefully curated selection of insightful and humorous work.

Director: Andrew Cividino
Stars: Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada

While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.

Director: Roberto Berliner
Stars: Glória Pires, Luciana Fregolente, Simone Mazzer
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil

Based on the true story of Dr. Nise da Silveira, a psychiatrist in Brazil who treated her patients with art instead of electroshock therapy.

Director: Catherine Corsini
Stars: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

A young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.

Director: Patrick Shen
Stars: John Cage, Pico Iyer, Garry Moore
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Belgium | China | Germany | Hong Kong | India | Japan | Taiwan | UK

A film about our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives.

Director: Hannes Holm
Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Tim Nailer Foley, José Manuel ‘El Doctor’ Mireles, Paco Valencia
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother’s madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Carmen Herrera
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: USA

Carmen Herrera is one of the oldest working artists today. She was a pioneering abstract painter in the ’40s and ’50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career, as she approaches her 100th birthday.

Director: Zhangke Jia
Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Dong Liang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France | Japan

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Director: Louie Psihoyos
Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA | China | Hong Kong | Indonesia | Mexico | UK | Japan

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Director: Anna Muylaert
Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Maria Rueff
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Switzerland

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Spain | Chile | Switzerland

Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet’s coup d’état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.

Director: Kim Longinotto
Stars: Brenda Myers-Powell, T.T., Keena
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.

Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland

In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Stars: Marta Blanc, Max Brebant, Roxane Duran
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium | Spain

The only residents of young Nicholas’ sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland

Balancing between the past and the present, the darkness and the light, within the musky stone walls of Santa Chiara’s 17th-century convent prison in Bobbio, a sinful Sister and a cultivated night owl Count are somehow linked together.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Thailand | UK | Germany | France | Malaysia | South Korea | Mexico | USA | Norway

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Diane Besnier
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.

Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Rosa Delor, Emanuela Forgetta, Patricia Gil
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

After his classes, the teacher is questioned by his wife. The wife is skeptical about the new Academic project his husband is devising. The teacher is trying to build up a new “Academy of the Muses”that, inspired by the Classics will help to build up a brand new World through a real commitment to Poetry. The controversial project triggers a round of scenes on words and desire.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Laura Obiols
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old traditions and adapting to American values.

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Stars: Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu, Corneliu Cozmei
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania | France

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.

Director: Marc Silver
Stars: Lucia McBath, Ron Davis, Michael David Dunn
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving November 2012, four boys in a red SUV pull into a gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls. With music blaring, one boy exits the car and enters the store, a quick stop for a soda and a pack of gum. A man and a woman pull up next to the boys in the station, making a stop for a bottle of wine. The woman enters the store and an argument breaks out when the driver of the second car asks the boys to turn the music down. 3 1/2 minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead. 3 1/2 MINUTES dissects the aftermath of this fatal encounter.

Director: Leyla Bouzid
Stars: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Tunisia | France | Belgium | United Arab Emirates | Switzerland

A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Stars: Bishop Agapit, Catherine Ashton, Serhii Averchenko
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Ukraine | USA

A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

Director: Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto
Stars: Anaïs Bordier, Samantha Futerman, Kanoa Goo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: UK | France | South Korea | USA

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.

Director: Stanley Nelson
Stars: Blair Anderson, Omar Barbour, Julian Bond
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years.

Director: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

Director: Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez
Stars: Andrea Alzuri, Eva Ojanguren, Josu Cubero
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain | Japan

Three children decide to leave their homes looking for a better life.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Switzerland

Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. But the new girl in his life finds out that Manon has a lover. When she tells Pierre, the time comes for difficult decisions all round.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Min-hee Kim, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A married film director falls for a young painter – twice.

Director: Daniel Raim
Stars: Lillian Michelson, Harold Michelson, Bill Krohn
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Harold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood in 1947, where they became the film industry’s secret weapons. Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them. Theirs is the greatest story never told-until now.

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: Aaron Burckhard, Chad Channing, Don Cobain
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: USA

An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany | India | USA

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Marc-André Grondin, Philippe Katerine
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

It’s 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Director: Sara Hirsh Bordo
Stars: Lizzie Velasquez, Hillary Clinton
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

A documentary following the life of Lizzie Velasquez, her triumphant journey to the other side of bullying, and her mission to inspire and empower a more positive online environment.

Director: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Uncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas, a 94-resident town so tucked away “you’ve got to be lost to find it”.

Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway | Netherlands

Forsaken in a new Oslo apartment, a frail blind woman battles to come to terms with her condition, as she slowly retracts into an elaborate fantasy bubble. Are her stories fanning her suspicions, or is this what total blindness looks like?

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Argentina | Denmark | France | Mexico | USA | Germany | Brazil | Netherlands

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

Director: Matthew Warchus
Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France | USA

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Director: Yann Demange
Stars: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In 1971, a young and disorientated British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.

Director: Kaan Müjdeci
Stars: Okan Avci, Cakir, Ezgi Ergin
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey

An eleven-year-old boy and a weathered fighting dog develop a strong relationship after the boy finds the dog wounded in a ditch, left to die.

Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Italy

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Drama
Country: India

When an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.

Director: Robert Greene
Stars: Brandy Burre, Michael Tomlinson
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.

Director: Mélanie Laurent
Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels.

Director: Yuriy Bykov
Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia

Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.

Director: Joel Potrykus
Stars: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.

Director: Debra Granik
Stars: Ronnie Hall, Felipe Angel Padilla, Felipe de Jesus Padilla
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A contemplative portrait of Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall: biker, Vietnam Vet, and lover of small dogs.

Director: Seong-hun Kim
Stars: Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA | France

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands

A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital’s central square.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Stars: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Director: Fabrice du Welz
Stars: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Genre: Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

Fervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.

Director: Adam Wingard
Stars: Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany | Poland

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | Congo

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

Director: Damián Szifron
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain | France | UK

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

Director: Carlos Vermut
Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter’s last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors’ costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city’s dark underbelly.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.

Director: Teodora Mihai
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: Belgium | Romania

Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Torn between adolescence and heavy responsibilities, the teenage girl struggles to keep everyone afloat.

Director: Stéphane Lafleur
Stars: Julianne Côté, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Luc Senay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

While her parents are away, a young woman and her friend are hanging out for the summer, and are joined by her brother and his bandmates.

Director: Zachary Wigon
Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Lyn Sheil, Louisa Krause
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend whom he met on the Internet has been living in the same city as him, and he sets out looking for her.

Director: Paul Harrill
Stars: Ashley Shelton, Bryce Johnson, Linds Edwards
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When a tragedy shatters her plans for domestic bliss, a seemingly typical Southern newlywed gradually transforms into a spiritual seeker, quietly threatening the closest relationships around her.

Director: Lav Diaz
Stars: Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Hazel Orencio
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.

Director: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
Stars: Jason Carrión, Paxx Moll, Alberic Prados
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico | USA

A documentary about the power of transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico.

Director: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Germany

A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.

Director: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France | Germany

After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband’s compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Stars: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horvát
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary | Germany | Sweden

Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.

Director: Chris Moukarbel
Stars: Beth Stebner, Keegan Hamilton, Jaime Rojo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary chronicling the famed street artist’s “31 works of art in 31 days” in New York city.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Denmark | Indonesia | Finland | Norway | UK | Israel | France | USA | Germany | Netherlands

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

Director: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A twenty-something comedienne’s unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Switzerland | Germany

A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.

Director: Mathieu Amalric
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?

Director: Mary Dore
Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Alta, Judith Arcana
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.

Director: Signe Baumane
Stars: Signe Baumane
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Latvia

Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.

Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands

A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the ‘tribe’.

Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Lauryn Hill, Kati Outinen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Finland | Denmark | USA

The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.

Director: Darius Clark Monroe
Stars: Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie Foumbi
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of family, friends…and victims.

Director: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic | Mexico | Argentina

An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an irresistible storm.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

“The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces… and suddenly it is also then, the mid ’70s and the time of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim.” This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa’s “Colossal Youth” with Ventura again playing himself.

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA | Germany

When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man’s true identity – oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré’s novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Stars: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer, Sirius Flatz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

Alex moves to Los Angeles for a new job; Sergi stays in Barcelona. They love each other, but maintaining a relationship through technology proves challenging.

Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Stars: Hera Hilmar, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland

A Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.

Director: Gabriel London
Stars: Scoot McNairy, Shea Whigham
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: Canada | USA

When a legendary escape artist comes up for parole after 30 years behind bars, a chance for freedom must be weighed against his infamous past.

Director: Brian Knappenberger
Stars: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.

Director: Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi
Stars: Barbara Epstein, W.H. Auden, Isaiah Berlin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | Japan

A documentary on the history and influence of the New York Review of Books.

Director: James Simone, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Due to 12 y.o. Anna’s asthma, she’s sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the Japanese countryside. She likes to be alone, sketching. She befriends Marnie. Who is the mysterious, blonde Marnie.

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden

After his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.

Director: Joe Swanberg
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After a break up, Jenny moves in with writer Kelly, her filmmaker husband, and their child. Despite a rocky start, Jenny’s influence helps Kelly realize that an evolution in her life, career and relationship is necessary for her happiness.

Director: Stuart Murdoch
Stars: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK

As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

Director: John Pirozzi
Stars: Norodom Sirivudh, Norodom Sihanouk, Sisowath Kossamak
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Cambodia | France

Through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, ‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll’ examines and unravels Cambodia’s tragic past, culminating in the genocidal Khmer Rouge’s dismantling of the society and murder of two million of its citizens. Combining interviews of the surviving Cambodian musicians themselves (a total of 150 hours of interviews were filmed) with never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, this documentary tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country.

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: 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.