Tag: Priority 3

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner’s daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.

Director: Anna Broinowski
Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Australia

A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that “Forbidden Love” author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.

Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Baki Davrak, Nurgül Yesilçay, Tuncel Kurtiz
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Turkey | Italy

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father’s former girlfriend.

Director: Steven Okazaki
Stars: Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida, Kiyoko Imori
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Using extensive interviews with survivors and archival footage, an examination reveals the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Director: Pavla Fleischer
Stars: Eugene Hutz, Pavla Fleischer, Boban Markovic
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York’s Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and his musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about him. The Pied Piper of Hutzovina follows Eugene and Pavla on their subsequent road trip through Eugene’s home country, Ukraine.

Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Stars: Nicholas Kristof, Brian Steidle
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Sudan

A documentary that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Stars: Forrest J. Ackerman, John Badham, Diane Baker
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Director: David Sington
Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Stephen Armstrong
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK | USA

The crew members of NASA’s Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Yeon Park, Jun-yeong Jang
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea | Japan

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients’ dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong

As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Iran

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal’s brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.

Director: James Moll
Stars: Vivian Delman, Monika Hertwig, Reinhardt Hertwig
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“Inheritance” is the story of Monika Hertwig and her journey to accept the truth about her father, Nazi commander, Amon Goeth, who was portrayed by actor Ralph Fiennes in “Schindler’s List.” As part of Monika’s search for information, she reaches out to Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a woman who had been enslaved by Monika’s father during the war. More than sixty-years after Monika’s father was executed for his war crimes, in a historic and painful moment, these two women meet, bringing closure, yet raising new questions.

Director: György Pálfi
Stars: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary | Austria | France

Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland | Germany | Denmark

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu
Stars: Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon, Alexandre Steiger
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad | France | Belgium | Austria

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father’s own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks.

Director: Hae-sung Song
Stars: Nayoung Lee, Dong-Won Gang, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A suicidal girl started to visit a convicted murderer awaiting execution every Thursday.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | France

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Guillermo Pfening, Martina Gusman, Victoria Vescio
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Italy | UK

In Patagonia, a successful interior designer’s life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.

Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Carolyn Eby, Taegu Andy Kang, Madgalena Karasinska
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | South Korea | USA

A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.

Director: Julie Gavras
Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.

Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Tabu
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | India

American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family’s unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

Director: Guillaume Canet
Stars: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | UK

An accidental discovery near a doctor’s estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife’s hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he’s letting on?

Director: Nia Di Nata
Stars: Jajang C. Noer, Shanty, Dominique Agisca Diyose
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia

This is the story of women those are live in polygamy life. It’s about their consequence to accept the status as other wife.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg

A divorced mother of two boys reaching adulthood decides to sell their house, find love and get on with her life away from her husband and sons; a decision that will lead to an escalating fraternal dispute.

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Anna Geislerová, Josef Abrhám, Jana Brejchová
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic

A flood in Prague has damaged Marcela and Jarda’s home. He behaves boorishly over their son’s asthma so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom’s, a possessive woman whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed for possession of a stolen car (he’s a mechanic who’s turned his garage into a chop shop). Benes, the urbane man whose car it is, befriends Marcela, and soon she has options. Jarda’s mother and her mother push her in opposite directions. Jarda has animal magnetism, Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may be at cross purposes. The Cold War is over, Czechs are free to behave well or badly. What’s best?

Director: Pascale Ferran
Stars: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Hippolyte Girardot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium | France

A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence’s erotic tale.

Director: Hilary Brougher
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

Director: Philippe Lioret
Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lili returns from holidays and learns that her twin brother left the house after a violent argument with their father.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Stars: Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Algeria | France | Morocco | Belgium

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Director: Jon Fauer
Stars: Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

110 of the world’s top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

Director: Malcolm Ingram
Stars: Jim Bishop, Terry Capps, Jackie Cox
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.

Director: Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish
Stars: James Akins, Arik Ascherman, Bishop Barltlett Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Seung-woo Kim, Hyun-Jung Go, Seon-mi Song
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend’s girlfriend.

Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | France | Japan

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Director: Frank Theys
Stars: Jay McMahon, Osman Bakar, Michel Baudry
Genre: Documentary, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium

Technocalyps examines transhumanism. Experts and scientists discuss whether human beings will use discoveries in genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence to enhance their bodies and minds beyond their current physical and mental forms.

Director: Michael Verhoeven
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Germany

The popular reaction to a German museum exhibit detailing the war crimes and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany’s regular armed forces is explored.

Director: Mark Verkerk
Stars: Phra Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto, Khun Ead, Pan Sean
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | France

Buddha’s Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who – armed only with his faith and skills and master boxer skills – wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children, fight drug abuse, and preserve a vanishing way of life.

Director: Linda Hattendorf
Stars: Linda Hattendorf, Jimmy Mirikitani
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary about red-beret-ed Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor, Linda Hattendorf, persuades elderly Jimmy to move in with her, while seeking a permanent home for him. The young woman delves into the California-born, Japan-raised artist’s unique life which developed his resilient personality, and fuels his 2 main subjects: cats and internment camps. The editor films Jimmy’s remarkable journey back into his incredible past.

Director: Christiane Cegavske
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA

A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart’s desire.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Iran

On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks — a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Pegi Young
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

Director: Gisela Grischow, Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Jean Arthur, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | USA

Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

Director: Andrew Jenks
Stars: Bill Delarm, Andrew Jenks, Dotty Shepard
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

At 19 years old, Andrew Jenks moved into an assisted living facility in Florida with two friends in order to document life there and to glean what lessons he could from the senior population. In turns moving, hilarious and disturbing, this documentary should be required viewing for every young adult with aging parents.

Director: Joe Halderman
Stars: Ruslan Aushev, Shamil Basayev, Dmitry Beliakov
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dead.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada | USA

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Stars: Slavoj Zizek
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Austria | Netherlands

Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia | Italy | Switzerland | France

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov’s quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.

Director: Vladan Nikolic
Stars: Sergej Trifunovic, Geno Lechner, Peter Gevisser
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | Serbia and Montenegro

Told through a looping, non-linear narrative from each of the characters’ points of view, the film reconstructs the stories of a Yugoslav hit man, his former lover and her police officer boyfriend, as their paths cross in New York.

Director: Lajos Koltai
Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary | Germany | UK | Israel | France | USA

14-year-old György’s life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Germany

The marriage between Gabrielle and Jean begins to fray after the discovery of a letter that belongs to Gabrielle.

Director: Van Fischer
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, David E. Allen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, Ned is placed in a mental hospital where he is mesmerized by a young black girl who believes Adolf Hitler was reincarnated in her. What follows is a gritty character study and poignant love story of two people brought together by a seemingly impossible connection. As a result of that connection, they both find that there is more to a person than what is on the surface.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won’t throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?

Director: Charles Sturridge
Stars: John Lynch, Samantha Morton, Peter O’Toole
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | France | Ireland | UK

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Fang Mei
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Taiwan

Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.

Director: Rowan Woods
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Director: Algimantas Puipa
Stars: Valentinas Masalskis, Steven Berkoff, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Lithuania | UK

The story about one man- an artist and an intellectual- who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. ‘The Professor’ is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called “freedom” of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.

Director: Jessica Sanders
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A gripping, emotionally charged film that follows wrongfully convicted men freed by DNA evidence after decades in prison as they struggle to transition back into society.

Director: Gregory Colbert
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeanne Moreau, Enrique Rocha
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.

Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: New Zealand | USA | Germany

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

Director: Ali Selim
Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Mexico | USA

Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.

Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi, Shi-hoo Kim
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.

Director: Emmanuel Carrère
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, “how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?” She doesn’t think it’s a great idea, for the 15 years they’ve been married, she’s never known him without his ‘stache. He shaves it off anyway, but when he sees his wife, she doesn’t notice, neither do their friends at dinner that night, neither do his co-workers. Marc finally flips out, shouts at everyone, tells them he’s tired of their little joke, and what do they really think. His wife and co-workers are appalled, what is he talking about, he’s never had a mustache. In fact, he’s imagining other things as well, or is he?

Director: Fabián Bielinsky
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Manuel Rodal, Dolores Fonzi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain | France

A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Germany | UK | France

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | UK | USA

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?

Director: Keith Beauchamp
Stars: Mamie Till Mobley, Wheeler Parker, Simeon Wright
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.

Director: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

‘The Devil’s Miner’ tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support his family.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France

Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Seung-Yun Lee, Hee Jae, Hyuk-ho Kwon
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea | Japan

A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents’ lives for a few days.

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere growingly tense; he is an alcoholic and becomes increasingly drunk the more often they stop. After a fierce discussion they split and both have to face great danger during the night.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Canada | UK

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Director: Agnès Jaoui
Stars: Marilou Berry, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Italy

A french girl gifted with a great voice, has a complex about her weight and her appearance.

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Argentino Vargas, Francisco Dornez, Yolanda Galarza
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | France | Netherlands | Switzerland

Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the prvince of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.

Director: Jorge Gaggero
Stars: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina, Marcos Mundstock
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routine and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.

Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Luxembourg | Italy | Switzerland

Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?

Director: Andrés Wood
Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile | Spain | UK | France

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other’s world as political tensions in their country increase.

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Stars: Petr Forman, Emília Vásáryová, Jan Tríska
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic

The discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers kicks into a gear a series of tragic, comic events.

Director: Stephen Chow
Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong | China | USA

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious “Axe Gang” while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Director: Christian Bauer
Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Canada | Germany

During WWII, the U.S. formed an elite intelligence unit — mostly German Jewish academics — at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Tasked with devising ways to break the morale of the SS, these men are often credited with bringing an early end to the war. Some of these heroes, who are now in the eighties, are reunited in this documentary.

Director: Jun Ichikawa
Stars: Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

Director: Gregg Araki
Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Netherlands

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Director: Marie Nyreröd
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreröd
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Finland

All three documentaries were mainly shot in the home of Ingmar Bergman. This was the first time ever that a filmmaker had access to Ingmar Bergman in his home at the small island Fårö in the Baltic Sea. ‘Bergman and Cinema’ starts with “Frenzy” from 1944 and ends with “Saraband” from 2003. It contains unique behind-the-scenes material from Bergman’s private archive. ‘Bergman and Theatre’ is about some of Bergman’s 125 theatrical stagings and about his delight with the TV medium, with successes as “Scenes from a Marriage”. In ‘Bergman and Fårö Island’ he talks about the childhood that shaped him. He shows where he shot his film “Persona” and fell in love – and he lists his worst demons.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany | Italy

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister’s bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Director: Lucrecia Martel
Stars: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Italy | Netherlands | Spain

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran | France | Iraq

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Italy

The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Samir Khader, Josh Rushing, George W. Bush
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Paris 2002. Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq…).

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Stars: Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium | France | UK | Japan

A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.

Director: Walter Salles
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Argentina | USA | Chile | Peru | Brazil | UK | Germany | France

The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life’s calling.

Director: Gianni Amelio
Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Andrea Rossi, Charlotte Rampling
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Germany | France | USA

Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | USA

Tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora’s a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

Director: Jacques Richard
Stars: Henri Alekan, Catherine Allégret, Jo Amorin
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Stars: Evelyn Glennie, Fred Frith, Roxane Butterfly
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | UK

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.

Director: Mark Wexler
Stars: Haskell Wexler, Mark Wexler, Billy Crystal
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficult genius and a son’s path out of the shadow of a famous father.

Director: Lech Majewski
Stars: Claudine Spiteri, Chris Nightingale, Barry Chipperfield
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Italy | Poland

Based on his own novel Metaphysics, Lech Majewski crafts intimate passion plays and creates “a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death” (CHICAGO READER). When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where the artist’s work becomes the background for their physical passion and emotional discovery.

Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Stars: Maya Banno, Takahiro Satô, Tadanobu Asano
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A spell of time of a rural family’s slightly surreal life.

Director: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city’s notorious red light district.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece | France | Italy | Germany

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos’ trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis’ family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming…

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Bruno Todeschini, Éric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Two brothers with a problematic relationship in the past, find together again when the elder one gets a dangerous disease and asks his brother to accompany him to several doctors.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Taiwan

The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search for a cafe that’s frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching.

Director: Je-yong Lee
Stars: Mi-sook Lee, Yong-jun Bae, Do-yeon Jeon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband’s coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran

An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.

Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem, Ilham Abdelwahed
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Morocco

A cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman’s yearning for a nineteen year local girl. Raja is an orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush garden. Fred’s attempt to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.

Director: Martin Doblmeier
Stars: Martin Doblmeier, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adele Schmidt
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.

Director: Sue Brooks
Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

Director: Tamás Sas
Stars: Patricia Kovács, Gábor Máté, Józsa Hacser
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary

A one-room drama about a very young woman and her middle-aged lover.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what’s more, “She gave him her eyes”…

Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Stars: Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara Drukarova
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Georgia

The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family’s adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.

Director: Erik Van Looy
Stars: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium

Vincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer.

Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy | Spain | UK

A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: The Dalai Lama, Lama Lhundup Woeser, Takna Jigme Sangpo
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Austria | Italy

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Director: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Stars: Santino Majok Chuor, Jarrid Geduld, Peter Kon Dut
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.

Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Takashi Miike
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand | Japan | Netherlands

A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada | France

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.

Director: Laura Gabbert
Stars: Lucille Alpert, Irja Lloyd
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Lucille and Irja are retired residents of Sunset Hall, a Los Angeles home for the elderly. Residents of Sunset Hall are retired radicals; they have retired from work but not from protesting against injustice. Bitter Lucille considers herself a realist. Wheelchair-bound Irja is sunny and optimistic. Lucille was raised a Jew but always aspired to assimilate. Irja wants to explore all sorts of new traditions. Through the lives of these women, Sunset Story shows the life at Sunset Hall: teachers, a dancer, an engineer, a social worker, and others, all living out their golden years in a unique environment.

Director: Geramie Barmé, Richard Gordon, Carma Hinton
Stars: Xiaoping Deng, Qing Jiang, Nanyang Li
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

About the shifting, unpredictable currents behind the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this documentary shows the various phases of the 12 years from 1964 through the purging of the Gang of Four at the end of 1976, with some retrospective information about the Long March and the 1958 Great Leap forward.

Director: Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia
Stars: Rick Rubin, Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

The story of the punk rock band The Ramones.

Director: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
Stars: Janchiv Ayurzana, Chimed Ohin, Amgaabazar Gonson
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: Germany | Mongolia

When a Mongolian nomadic family’s newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada

A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Soo-jung Lim
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea

A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.

Director: Richard Schickel
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Sydney Pollack, Bill Irwin
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Narrated by Sydney Pollack, film critic Richard Schickel’s dazzling two-hour plus documentary to one of the towering figures in film: Charles Chaplin. Hardcore Chaplin fans may not find much new material here, but more unfamiliar admirers will gain some valuable information about one of the most famous personalities of the 20th century.

Director: Kim Bartley, Donnacha O’Briain
Stars: Hugo Chávez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | Netherlands | UK | Germany | France | Finland

In April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.

Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Khieu ‘Poev’ Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Cambodia | France | Belgium | Canada | Australia | Switzerland | Czech Republic | Finland

A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.

Director: Manish Jha
Stars: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Sushant Singh
Genre: Drama
Country: France | India

A disturbing saga about male chauvinism and mistreatment of women in India.

Director: Maren Ade
Stars: Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

Director: Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya
Stars: Tôru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Director: Peter Webber
Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Luxembourg | France | Belgium | USA

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Stars: Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

After nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the cop on his tail. An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected.

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.

Director: Kwon-taek Im
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Sung-Ki Ahn, Ho-jeong Yu
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Korea

In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.

Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

Director: Niki Caro
Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand | Germany

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Director: Tareque Masud
Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

Director: Carlos Sorin
Stars: Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.

Director: Chris Leavens
Stars: Jack Nance, John Achorn, Leo Bulgarini
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Biography of actor Jack Nance, who became famous when he appeared in the 1977 cult film “Eraserhead.”

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Germany | Spain

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get “in between the wolf’s teeth and avoid being chewed up”. Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada

After her beloved husband’s suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can’t run away from forever.

Director: Alireza Raisian
Stars: Leila Hatami, Nezam Manouchehri, Mehran Rajabi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple’s transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife’s heart.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Shahab Ebrahimi, Faegh Mohamadi, Allah-Morad Rashtian
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

Director: David Strohmaier
Stars: Lowell Thomas, Fred Waller, Jim Morrison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes the viewer back to a lost era of movie showmanship, placing this American cinema phenomenon into historical perspective.

Director: Tom Piozet
Stars: Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Bodan Litnanski, Macha Makeïeff, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.

Director: Elia Suleiman
Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Morocco | Germany | Palestine

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.

Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Stars: Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.

Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK | Germany | USA | Vietnam | Australia | France | Canada

An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Director: Steve Rosenbaum
Stars: Rasheed J. Daniel, Peter DiPilato, Jim Goetz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This documentary from director Steven Rosenbaum presents the experiences of a diverse group of regular Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Featuring footage from the area surrounding the World Trade Center shot as early as 10:05 a.m. on the day of the tragedy, SEVEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER looks at the way 9/11 changed the lives of a firefighter’s wife, a Muslim-American woman, an 11-year-old boy, and many others.

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Stars: Brian Cox, Henry Kissinger, Anna Chennault
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | Denmark | France | Canada | Australia

A film about the war crimes of the American diplomat, Henry Kissinger.

Director: Paul Justman
Stars: Joe Hunter, Jack Ashford, Uriel Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Germany | France

M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.

Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Richard Eyre
Stars: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Director: Hae-sung Song, Hae-sung Song
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Cecilia Cheung, Dae-Hoon Jeong
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.

Director: Michael Cuesta
Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.

Director: Pan Nalin
Stars: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Neelesha Barthel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India | Germany | France | Italy | Switzerland

A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man’s struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman’s struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending.

Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat’s secret changes both their lives.

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Venus Seye, Mame Ndoumbé, Awa Sene Sarr
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Senegal

A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.

Director: Cristi Puiu
Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Dragos Bucur, Ioana Flora
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania

A newbie agrees to deliver the wrong merchandise for money. He will learn soon that this trip will change his views about life, forever.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Anne Kathryn Parma, Ashley Edwards, Evyn Clark
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.

Director: Christian Frei
Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Switzerland

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Russia | Netherlands

From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by ‘Pieter Jansz Saenredam’, ‘Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers’, Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Andreas Schelfhout, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel, Charles Henri Joseph Leickert.

Director: Dover Koshashvili
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | France

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza’s parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Canada

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it’s wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose’s mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

Director: B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro, Carlos Bolado
Stars: Moishe Bar Am, B.Z. Goldberg, Shlomo Green
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a group of seven local children between 1995 and 1998. They all have a totally different background. These seven children tell their own story about growing up in Jerusalem. Through this portrait of their generation, we see how deep rooted and almost insoluble the problems of the Middle East have become. When the protagonists speak out in an epilogue a couple of years later, it becomes apparent that all have lost their childlike innocence.

Director: Nicole Holofcener
Stars: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Troy Ruptash
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany

During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Shôzô Îzuka, Mami Koyama
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.

Director: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany

A group of old friends reminisce about their lives over the years after the death of one of their crew.

Director: Babak Payami
Stars: Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Abidi, Youssef Habashi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran | Italy | Canada | Switzerland

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Chile | Belgium | Spain

True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case built against him before & during this period by a young Spanish prosecutor, Carlos Castresana.

Director: Claude Lanzmann
Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: France

A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.

Director: Edet Belzberg
Stars: Cristina Ionescu, Mihai Alexandre Tudose, Violeta ‘Macarena’ Rosu
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation’s reckless population growth policy during its communist era.

Director: Jill Sprecher
Stars: Alan Arkin, John Turturro, Matthew McConaughey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life’s cold unpredictability.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Iran | France

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Qi Shu, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan | France

The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

Director: Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas
Stars: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Portugal

Two directors struggle to survive in the movie industry.

Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?

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

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

Director: Marisa Sistach
Stars: Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, Arcelia Ramírez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Netherlands

A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped. Rebellious tomboy Yessica is frequently in trouble at school and at home, with its lower middle-class limitations. She is always at odds with her mother, bullying stepfather, and despicable stepbrother, Jorge. Then Jorge strikes a deal with a friend, helping the man trap Yessica and rape her, in exchange for money. Terrified and ashamed of the attack, Yessica remains silent, seeking comfort in her friendship with innocent and childlike Miriam, from a more stable home, though reared by a poor single mother. Tragedy unfolds as Yessica increasingly relies on Miriam and begins to get the naive girl into trouble, until Miriam finds she is no longer in control of her fate.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Alan Stanford
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.

Director: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Itô
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Japan

The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou’s dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA | UK

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Stars: Jung-jae Lee, Ji-Hyun Jun, Mu-saeng Kim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea

In 1999, a voice actor moves from Il Mare, a seaside house, and she leaves a Xmas card in its (magical) mailbox. He, an architect student, receives it in 1997, and so begins a friendship separated by 2 years.

Director: Norio Tsuruta
Stars: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan

In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest…

Director: Hilary Birmingham
Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Mongryong marries the beautiful Chunhyang without telling his father, the Governor of Namwon. When his father is transferred to Seoul, Mongryong has to leave Chunhyang and finish his exams. Chunhyang, being the daughter of a courtesan, is also legally a courtesan. She is beaten and imprisoned when she refuses to obey the new Governor Byun, as she wishes to be faithful to her husband. After three years, Mongryong passes his exam and becomes an emissary to the King. He returns to Namwon, disguised as a beggar, just before Chunhyang is to be flogged to death at the governor’s birthday celebration.

Director: Hilary Birmingham
Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tully Coates, Jr., with his good looks and chiseled body, is the local heartthrob, and while he has a new girlfriend virtually every night, he’s incapable of getting close to anyone. His younger brother Earl, the shy and sensitive type, frequents the local revival house. The only common bond between these disparate siblings is Ella Smalley, an intelligent and even-tempered young woman who returns to their Nebraska hometown to intern at a local veterinarian’s clinic. Meanwhile, their father, Tully, Sr., a rancher who gets by with the help of his two sons, carries a brooding sadness, a hint of past wounds too long in healing. The family dynamic is changed forever when several secrets surface.

Director: Laís Bodanzky
Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket.

Director: Bob Giraldi
Stars: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

At a popular NYC Italian restaurant on a dramatic, busy evening, there are 2 gangsters, cop detective, food-critic, ex bookmaker owner, his chef son, indebted gambler sous-chef etc.

Director: Stanley Tucci
Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund, and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he’s overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad, and writes a 1942 piece about him, “Professor Seagull”, bringing Gould some celebrity, and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he’s often crashed. Gould’s touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat, lead to a break-up, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould’s death, and Mitchell’s unveiling of the secret.

Director: Alan Zweig
Stars: Alan Zweig, Harvey Pekar, Don McKellar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Alan Zweig investigates the wacky world of record collecting.

Director: F.A. Brabec
Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales – glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light – make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.

Director: Dan Cohen
Stars: Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg, Bess Armstrong
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After 30 years on the road, a veteran jewelry salesman is forced to show his young replacement the tricks of the trade, but when the kid introduces him to the ladies of the “Altoona Riding Club,” the old dog is introduced to a whole new set of “tricks.”

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Switzerland

Jean Barnery is a young Protestant cleric in Barbazac in 1900 when he divorces his severe wife after falling in love with Pauline, the independent-minded niece of an upper-crust parishioner. Jean’s also an heir to a high-end porcelain factory in Limoges. He gives his fortune to his wife to assuage his guilt over the divorce. He pursues Pauline; they marry and live idyllically in Switzerland. Then, duty calls: his family asks him to come to Limoges to run the business. He accepts, ignoring Pauline’s wishes. His new responsibilities, as well as his fighting in the Great War, change him and his relationship with Pauline.

Director: Hideaki Anno
Stars: Shunji Iwai, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Murakami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating “Tomorrow is my birthday” everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera

Director: Bernard Rapp
Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas’ charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

Director: Adam Simon
Stars: George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Country: USA | UK

An examination into the nature of 1960s-’70s horror films, the artists involved, and how they reflected contemporary society.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | China | France

The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Lou Ye, who spent his youth on the banks of the Suzhou, shows the river as a Chinese Styx, in which forgotten stories and mysteries come together.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | UK | Japan

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov, Paddy Considine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Canada

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Director: Charles Kiselyak
Stars: Seymour Cassel, Carol Kane, Jon Voight
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Romance
Country: USA

A look at the life, times, and art of independent film pioneer John Cassavetes through interviews with his family, friends, and admirers of his work.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Eun-ju Lee, Seong-kun Mun, Won-hee Cho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.

Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner’s course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Belgium | Germany | Haiti

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.

Director: Rodrigo García
Stars: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Five California women struggle with personal problems as their own paths unwind in ways unexpected.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Vanessa Martinez
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Limbo tells the story of people trying to reinvent themselves in the Southeastern islands of Alaska. The story revolves around Joe Gastineau, a fisherman traumatised by an accident at sea years before, singer Donna de Angelo and her disaffected daughter Noelle who come into Joe’s life. When Joe’s fast-talking half-brother Bobby returns to town and asks Joe for a favor, the lives of the characters are changed forever.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Jiayi Du, Zheng Fang, Bing He
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China

A young wealthy businessman’s icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw as he is forced to reconnect with his elderly father and mentally challenged younger brother, who together run a public bathhouse.

Director: Emmanuel Finkiel
Stars: Shulamit Adar, Liliane Rovère, Esther Gorintin
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France | Belgium

During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.

Director: Benito Zambrano
Stars: María Galiana, Ana Fernández, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | Canada

While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father’s abusiveness and her mother’s passivity.

Director: Krzysztof Krauze
Stars: Robert Gonera, Jacek Borcuch, Andrzej Chyra
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland

The Debt is a gripping thriller about two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug. Two friends begin a business venture of importing Italian scooters into Poland. With no collateral, they turn to a Russian acquaintance that offers money and support in the beginning and then inexplicably turns violent and vicious. Tension mounts as the two friends begin to understand what must be done. Based on a true story, The Debt is a terrifying tale of ordinary men pushed to their limit.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Anonymous
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Larger in scale, darker in tone, and much more lavishly produced than the previous installments, “Cremaster 2,” is an epic avant-garde western built around classic themes but laced with an intricate (and often whimsical) symbolic framework.

Director: José Luis Cuerda
Stars: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

For Moncho, it’s an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older brother, a budding saxophone player, he makes a trip with the band from their town in Galicia. But it’s also the year that the Spanish Republic comes under fire from Fascist rebels. Moncho’s father is a Republican as is the aging teacher, Don Gregorio. As sides are drawn and power falls clearly to one side, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly what should be the pleasure of coming of age.

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | France

An unabashed kid navigates the filthy world of 1973 Glasgow, preoccupying himself with the equally poor youth around him.

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg, Daniel Valenzuela
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Director: Roko Belic
Stars: Richard Feynman, B.B. King, Kongar-ol Ondar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Vietnam | USA

San Francisco bluesman and composer, Paul Peña makes a musical pilgrimage to the land of Tuva.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Kyung-gu Sol, Yeo-jin Kim, So-Ri Moon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea | Japan

Consists of five phases of a man’s life about why he committed suicide in the end.

Director: Louis Bélanger
Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Sylvie Moreau, Hélène Loiselle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.

Director: Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Stars: Sam Doumit, Martin Goldman, Harry Keitt
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The story of three young boxers and their coach who is determined to guide them in a positive direction in and out of the ring.

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Stars: Maud Forget, Lou Doillon, Robinson Stévenin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian
Genre: Drama
Country: China

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if there’s not one less student when he returns. Within days, poverty forces the class troublemaker, Zhang Huike, to leave for the city to work. Minzhi, possessed of a stubborn streak, determines to bring him back. She enlists the 26 remaining pupils in earning money for her trip. She hitches to Jiangjiakou City and begins her search. The boy, meanwhile, is there, lost and begging for food. Minzhi’s stubbornness may be Huike and the village school’s salvation.

Director: Yuan Zhang
Stars: Lin Liu, Bingbing Li, Yeding Li
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | Italy | Hong Kong

Tao Lan and Yu Xiaoqin are teenage stepsisters. They go to the same high school, sleep in the same bedroom, but couldn’t be more different. The first is wild, a bit of a vagabond, while the other is diligent and studies hard. One day Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and puts the blame on Tao Lin, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence, and is put in jail. 17 years later, a woman by now, she is allowed out and is escorted by a guard to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of the ageing parents, and the guard becomes an eyewitness to the difficult reunion and the girl’s remorse, the anxiety and fear of the mother and the stepfather’s silent struggle to rise above his pain and find forgiveness.

Director: Roland Suso Richter
Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Götz George, Karoline Eichhorn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany | USA

The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele – the “death angel of Auschwitz”, who killed more than 300.000 people – comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor Peter Rohm has to defend him. But Peter Rohm – himself an expert on Josef Mengele and his crimes – feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only the relationship to his wife but also their lifes. A fictional story around the non-fictional person of Josef Mengele who died in 1979.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Fatma Ceylan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey

This is a movie within movie, which is almost recursive, i.e., the movie inside looks like director Ceylan’s previous movie, Kasaba. It is about the movie director, Muzaffer, going back to his hometown to make a movie using a cast of local people. While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin gets out of his job to help Muzaffer who promises him to find a job in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for 40 days so that he’ll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they get to form the cast for Muzaffer’s movie as well.

Director: Gavin O’Connor
Stars: Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O. Sanders
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A woman and her daughter have been constantly moving from town to town for years, but their newest home might be different from all the others.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Director: Kátia Lund, João Moreira Salles
Stars: Nilton Cerqueira, Carlos Luis Gregório, Paulo Lins
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | Spain

Documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners.

Director: Andrew Shea
Stars: Noble Willingham, Jim Holmes, David Steen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son…

Director: Takashi Koizumi
Stars: Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shirô Mifune
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

During a downpour, a generous ronin and his supporting wife are stranded at a country inn. The ronin comes to the attention of a lord who wants to hire him as an instructor for his men, who treat the ronin with disrespect.

Director: Eric Valli, Michel Debats
Stars: Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland | UK | Nepal

An aging chief’s last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal’s Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet’s salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son’s friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son’s widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey.

Director: Eric Mendelsohn
Stars: Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy, Edie Falco
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A lonely, but talented teacher enjoys a flirtation with the (married) principal of the school, who returns her affections, but is hampered by his family members. Whilst the teacher and principal can steal their fleeting moments during an eclipse.

Director: Marcelo Masagão
Stars: Franz Reichelt
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | UK

The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Country: Switzerland | Germany | UK

The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Director: Barry Levinson
Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the “colored” girl in his class cute – upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Taiwan | France

While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.

Director: John Curran
Stars: Peter Fenton, Sacha Horler, Marta Dusseldorp
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

An unfocused twentysomething (Peter Fenton) moves in with a former co-worker (Sacha Holder), who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex. Curiously, though the two are presented in a tender and humorous light that lets the viewer get involved in concerned about their direction.

Director: Simon Shore
Stars: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.

Director: James Moll
Stars: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Randolph Braham
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the “cleansing” of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. Though these survivors recount the horrors they witnessed and endured as a result of the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” their individual triumphs are a testament to hope and humanity.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A horse meat butcher’s life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Director: Shekhar Kapur
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Director: Steve Yeager
Stars: John Waters, Pat Waters, John Waters Sr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine’s mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland’s last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters’s pictures.

Director: Chris Eyre
Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family (and his tough son Victor), and Victor hasn’t seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold’s remains, but only if Thomas can also go with him. Thomas and Victor hit the road.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.

Director: Michael Glawogger
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Switzerland

A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.

Director: Nicole Garcia
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Realising a dishonest deal has been found out a diamond merchant commits suicide, leaving the gems in question for his wife. Knowing the business from the time before drink largely took over her life, she decides to sober up and sell them herself. Though they attract much interest, no-one legitimate will touch them. As she tries to get her present life straight the lure of the stones means she may have to confront the past as well.

Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A few friends have a weekly fools’ dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.

Director: Srdjan Dragojevic
Stars: Dusan Pekic, Milan Maric, Dragan Bjelogrlic
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Germany

This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.

Director: Garin Nugroho
Stars: Sarah Azhari, Deni Christantra, Christine Hakim
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Indonesia

The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady’s eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Robyn Hitchcock, Deni Bonet, Tim Keegan
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

In this film, director Jonathan Demme documents a live performance by Robyn Hitchcock, an English singer-songwriter.

Director: Erick Zonca
Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Romania | Italy

The Bucharest’s suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if Norica wouldn’t want to marry Gili, her 50’s boss and boyfriend, and if Mitu wouldn’t have to make two years of military service. Mitu’s passion for Norica will make him to get in trouble: drove by his obsession for her, he makes something unforgettable. The society’s resorts start moving and hunting the couple.

Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia
Stars: Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Iran

The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.

Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Stars: Michael Alig, Gitsie, James St. James
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Documentary film exploring the rise of Club Kid legend Michael Alig and his fall in 1996 when he murdered his drug dealer/roommate Angel Melendez.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia

Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.

Director: Jin-ho Hur
Stars: Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha Shim, Goo Shin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

Hahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. What will be the fate of this love – will it be a tragic ending?

Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Stars: Aleksandar Bercek, Vojislav ‘Voja’ Brajovic, Bogdan Diklic
Genre: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Republic of North Macedonia | France | Greece | Turkey

Random Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.

Director: Tamara Jenkins
Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Bryna Weiss
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Germany | France | Spain

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

Director: Radwan El-Kashef
Stars: Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib, Abla Kamel
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt

This film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial ‘other side’. The womenfolk, those too old and those too young are left behind… and as the years pass, only letters return, telling tales of loneliness and hard-times. A young man, Ahmed, grows-up under these surroundings and has to deal with being the de-facto man-in-charge; when several of the migrant workers return one day, everyone has to come to terms with things being forever changed.

Director: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran | UK

A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran’s tribunals.

Director: Alexandra Isles
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Rosetta LeNoire, Dick Campbell
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O’Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Director: Steve Humphries
Stars: Dervla Kirwan, Martha Cooney, Christina Mulcahy
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being “too pretty” (believe it or not).

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun, Maksim Sukhanov
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia | France

Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.

Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Philip Bosco, Julie Harris
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A biography of the life and work of the American architect.

Director: Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack
Stars: Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate’s perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

Director: Kaige Chen
Stars: Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China | Japan | France

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king’s cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Director: Julio Medem
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain | France

In cold Lapland Finland, under the eternal midnight sun, two ardent lovers reunite once again after a long period apart, governed by a powerful and eloquent circular motif woven by destiny, faith, and love. Can they deny their destiny?

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan ‘Zika’ Todorovic, Branka Katic
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | France | Germany | Austria | Greece

Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.

Director: Aleksey German
Stars: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementev
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia | France

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin’s Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called “doctors’ plot.”

Director: Amos Kollek
Stars: Anna Thomson, Matthew Powers, Tahnee Welch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man (Matthew Powers) whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Mariya Lipkina
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Denmark

A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon

Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Iran

Leila and Reza meet in a kind of celebration and fall for each other. Having discovered their love, they get married soon only to find out the infertility of Leila. That’s when Reza’s authoritative mother starts wheedling Leila to persuade Reza into second marriage for the sake of having a grandchild. Leila accepts at first but is unaware of her own strain threshold.

Director: John Woo
Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind, who murdered his only son. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Director: Andrej Kosak
Stars: Demeter Bitenc, Miranda Caharija, Nina Ivanic
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia

A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he’ll fall in love, make friends and discover the world of punk rock. The latter will put him into the troubles with his strict father.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Havva Saglam, Cihat Bütün
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they’ve done.

Director: Víctor González
Stars: Mabel Dai, Gustavo Domínguez, Omar Fanucci
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

A portrait of a couple, living in poverty and prostitution. Couple is joined by a second woman, and problems escalates.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Juliette Gautier, Ivon Orvain, Anne Céline Auche
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Director: Ademir Kenovic
Stars: Mustafa Nadarevic, Almedin Leleta, Almir Podgorica
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | France

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani, Kazem Mojdehi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself. In this ingenious and daringly original feature, world renowned director Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, Crimson gold) has wrapped a blunt political critique inside the layers of a deceptively simple film.

Director: Mike van Diem
Stars: Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands | Belgium

Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Director: Robert Duvall
Stars: Zeki Demirkubuz
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.

Director: Robert Duvall
Stars: Robert Duvall, Todd Allen, Paul Bagget
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krassner, John Lennon
Genre: Documentary, Short, Musical
Country: USA

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, curated by David Ross, presently Director of Whitney Museum, in New York. On the same day an unusual group of John’s and Yoko’s friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krasner, and many others, gathered to celebrate John’s birthday. This film is an visual and audio record of that event.

Director: Pavel Chukhray
Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Mikhail Filipchuk
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia | France

A woman meets a man who isn’t the right man for her – but she hasn’t realised it yet…

Director: John Singleton
Stars: Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Short
Country: Russia

Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past.

Director: Antonio Mitrikeski
Stars: Agnieszka Wagner, Nikola Ristanovski, Marija Atanasovska
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Republic of North Macedonia | Poland

A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.

Director: Ka-Fai Wai
Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Carman Lee, Francis Ng
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong

When Ah-Gou, a smalltime Hong Kong street rascal, visits a fortune teller and hears that soon he will face a life-changing choice, he surely can’t imagine that his life reached a middle point without return. Will he go to Mainland China with his fellow gangsters to close a deal on a couple of stolen cars? Or will he instead chose to accompany his friend on a trip to kill a mafioso in Taiwan?

Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Stars: Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | Argentina

19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Dan Rivera González
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | Mexico

Humberto Fuentes is a wealthy doctor whose wife has recently died. In spite of the advice of his children, he takes a trip to visit his former students who now work in impoverished villages. His trip soon becomes a quest, politically awakening him when he finds out that one of his students was killed by the army.

Director: Noah Baumbach
Stars: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he’s very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of Lester’s slightly wacky current partner Ramona – arrogant best-selling author Dashiell. Lester joins Dashiell’s therapy group under an alias to find out if Dashiell still has any feelings for her.

Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Ireland

The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.

Director: Arthur Dong
Stars: Donald Aldrich, Corey Burley, Raymond Childs
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA