Tag: Priority 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Bo Hu
Stars: Yu Zhang, Yuchang Peng, Uvin Wang
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.

Director: Göran Uhlin, Richard Gardt
Stars: Zulmai Afzali, Alexander Bard, Arg Blatte
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

A Swedish Elephant is a feature-length documentary film about the Swedish society of today.

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

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

Director: Lila Avilés
Stars: Gabriela Cartol, Agustina Quinci, Teresa Sánchez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China | Hong Kong | USA

Life and intrigue in an ancient Chinese court.

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

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

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

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

Director: Crystal Moselle
Stars: Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | UK | Brazil

A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Susan Lacy
Stars: Jane Fonda, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.

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

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

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

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

Director: Arantxa Echevarría
Stars: Zaira Romero, Rosy Rodríguez, Moreno Borja
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

The love story of two roma women.

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

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

Director: Bora Kim
Stars: Ji-hu Park, Sae-byeok Kim, Seung-Yun Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Seoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Irek Dobrowolski
Stars: Stanislav Szukalski, Glenn Bray, Robert Williams
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland | USA

This documentary chronicles the life of Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) from his early years in Chicago, to his time in Poland and Los Angeles, and his artistic and political contributions to the world.

Director: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Stars: Sandra Bland, Robert E. Brzezinski, Brian Encinia
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An investigation into what happened to activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody after a routine traffic stop.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: RaMell Ross
Stars: Latrenda ‘Boosie’ Ash, Quincy Bryant, Daniel Collins
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Country: USA

Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.

Director: Johanna Demetrakas
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Phyllis Chesler, Judy Chicago
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change.

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

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

Director: Ron Mann
Stars: Eszter Balint, Christine Bougie, Nels Cline
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Canada

Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars.

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

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

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

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

Director: Pamela B. Green
Stars: Alice Guy, Richard Abel, Marc Abraham
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Pamela B. Green’s energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Teemu Nikki
Stars: Matti Onnismaa, Jari Virman, Hannamaija Nikander
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland

A man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.

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

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

Director: Peter Nicks
Stars: Cat Brooks, Jonathan Cairo, Ben McBride
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

THE FORCE goes inside an embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America’s most violent yet promising cities.

Director: Xavier Legrand
Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.

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

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

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

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

Director: Björn Runge
Stars: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Sweden | USA

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: Jan Rader, Patricia Keller, Necia Freeman
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Rima Das
Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A young village girl in northeast India wants to start her own rock band.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.

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

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

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

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

Director: Jessica M. Thompson
Stars: Stephanie Beatriz, Conrad Ricamora, Michael Stahl-David
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After her world is irrevocably changed, a successful New York City architect struggles to regain intimacy and control in her life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Danny Gold
Stars: Carl Reiner, Iris Apfel, Tony Bennett
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Carl Reiner tracks down several nonagenarians to show how the twilight years can be rewarding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Korpela, Dome Karukoski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | Germany

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.

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: 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.