Tag: Priority 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A film producer struggles with suicidal despair.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The history of American film criticism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents’ loft.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France

Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.

Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Stars: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Masaaki Akahori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In 1993 Kanao and Shoko are a Tokyo couple awaiting the arrival of their first child. Although both have studied art, Kanao works as a shoe repairman which doesn’t stretch his rather laid-back style and Shoko works in a small publishing firm. Their home life is marked by some clashes between her attempts at regimentation, including scheduling their sex life on a calendar, and his flirting with other women. Kanao is offered work as a courtroom sketch artist and becomes a witness to the most sensational murder trials of Japan through the next 8 years. He must cope with the ugliness and breakdown in civility he encounters.

Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated… and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.

Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Stars: Algenis Perez Soto, Jose Rijo, Walki Cuevas
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA | Dominican Republic

Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.

Director: So Yong Kim
Stars: Gil-Byung Chae, Jung Gil Ja, Shin Hyun Je
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | South Korea

In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.

Director: Julia Sweeney
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study class. What she learns there leads her to new questions, and in search for answers she explores meditation, Buddhism and New Age gurus, then describes what she learned from the sciences and from sharpening her critical thinking skills. She discovers that to accept the truth leads to surprising revelations. She concludes by sharing how this effects her family.

Director: Peter von Bagh
Stars: Siiri Angerkoski, Ritva Arvelo, Susanna Haavisto
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Finland

History and the spirit of XXth century Helsinki through the cinema, documentary footage, architecture, art and politics.

Director: Vanessa Gould
Stars: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Vincent Floderer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Depicts a cast of fine artists and eccentric scientists (from MIT and NASA) who have devoted their lives to the unlikely medium of modern origami. Through their determination to reinterpret the world in paper, they arouse a fascinating mix of sensibilities towards art, form, expressiveness, creativity and meaning.

Director: Attila Gigor
Stars: Zsolt Anger, András Márton Baló, Péter Blaskó
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hungary | Sweden | Ireland

Badly needing money for the treatment of his ill mother, pathologist Tibor Malkáv accepts the proposition of a stranger to murder someone he doesn’t know a thing about.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Stars: David Antoon, Vincent Cannistraro, James Cullen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“The End of America” details the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism. It’s not a “lefty” taught-to-me, but rather a historical look at trends in once-functioning democracies from modern history that are being repeated in our country today. It gives any reader (or viewer of the lecture) a much-needed history lesson and constitutional refresher. Most importantly, it puts the recent gradual loss of civil liberties in the U.S. in a historical context. The average American might not be alarmed at AT&T selling our private information to the federal executive, but when this action is seen as part of a larger series of erosions and events, a pattern emerges with unfortunate consequences that become disturbingly clear.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Finland | Germany

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Director: Mark N. Hopkins
Stars: Chris Brasher, Chiara Lepora, Davinder Gill
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.

Director: Mariano Llinás
Stars: Mariano Llinás, Walter Jakob, Agustín Mendilaharzu
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina

In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark

A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.

Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Villmar Björkman, Linnea Cart-Lamy, Leif Edlund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | France

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

Director: Majid Majidi
Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him – incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

Director: Don Hardy, Dana Nachman
Stars: Jack Cummings, Jackie Cummings, Allen Grafton
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

The story of several families who have their lives destroyed when their hometown is whipped into a frenzy by allegations of child molestation.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their “A Bigger Bang” tour.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Director: Erik Poppe
Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Norway | Sweden | Germany

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

Director: Benoit Pilon
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii’s illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages.

Director: Max Färberböck
Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany | Poland

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Director: Steven C. Smith
Stars: Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie making in the early 1930s, and those same factors which resulted in the drastic turn to working under the code for the twenty or so years starting in 1934.

Director: Gini Reticker
Stars: Janet Johnson Bryant, Etweda Cooper, Vaiba Flomo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A group of women rise up to peace to Liberia and help bring to power the country’s first female head of state.

Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Isle Of Man | USA

In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar”, directed by a young Orson Welles.

Director: Sean Donnelly
Stars: Kelly McCormick, Tiffany, Jeff Turner
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, claim to be in love with the 80’s pop singer Tiffany.

Director: Felix Moeller
Stars: August Zirner, Alice Harlan, Lotte Harlan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Finland

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940) – required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure – save for Leni Riefenstahl – is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan’s epic Kolberg (1945) was the basis for Inglourious Basterds (2009)’s pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.

Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Denmark | Germany | Norway | France | Sweden | Finland | Czech Republic

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany | France | Czech Republic

A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho
Genre: Music, Romance
Country: Portugal | France

Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August

Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Stars: Michael Brown, George W. Bush, Julie Chen Moonves
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.

Director: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
Stars: Mariella Frostrup, Zabou Breitman, Karoline Herfurth
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK

The mysterious lives of flamingos are captured on film with a birds-eye view of the animals living in Africa.

Director: Shane Meadows
Stars: Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: Germany | Finland | Netherlands

An ‘essayistic’ documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt’s paintings into seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate entities. However, reality was different.

Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.

Director: Brendan Toller
Stars: Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Noam Chomsky
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Many sources all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores. Will these stores die or will they survive?

Director: Tom Donahue, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker
Stars: Cindy Sherman, John Waters, Eric Bogosian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on art-scene commentator Paul Hasegawa-Overacker’s relationship with enigmatic photographer Cindy Sherman.

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Stars: Antoine L’Écuyer, Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada

Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there’s Léa, the exasperating girl who’s always right about everything. In the summer of ’68, when mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain. Destroy the neighbors’ house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Léa. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned.

Director: John Carney
Stars: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Director: João Moreira Salles
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil

Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn’t edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.

Director: Jin-ho Hur
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Gin-goo Kim, In-Sook Kim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

A love story about two people who meet while battling serious illnesses.

Director: John Crowley
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Shaun Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA | China | Taiwan

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.

Director: Chris Smith
Stars: Nana Patekar, Venkatesh Chavan, Jhangir Badshah
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A boy in abject poverty works in a hotel and becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa, India. His life gets turned upside-down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family who lives at the house.

Director: Anna Melikyan
Stars: Mariya Shalayeva, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Mariya Sokova
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia

In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.

Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain | Mexico

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

Director: Jennifer Venditti
Stars: Penny Baker, Billy P., Heather Pelletier
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“I’m not black, I’m not white, not foreign, just different in the mind. Different brains, that’s all,” explains 15-year-old Billy in Jennifer Venditti’s provocative coming of age film. Billy’s intuitive commentary and intimate verite footage reveal a unique attitude as he responds to a painful childhood, first time love, and his experience as an outsider in small town Maine. By turns humorous and disturbing, this portrait challenges the viewer to understand a triumphant teen on his own terms.

Director: Joanna Hogg
Stars: Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend’s family on holiday in Tuscany.

Director: Tom McCarthy
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Director: Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Kang-ho Song, Hye-jin Jang
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A woman moves to the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to fit in, another tragic event overturns her life.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Director: Ivan Zivkovic
Stars: Goran Susljik, Nebojsa Glogovac, Vojin Cetkovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia

Unsuccessful radio host Rasa makes a small party in his alcoholic father’s run-down apartment, and one of his guests is his neighbor Ivan who takes antipsychotics.

Director: Eran Kolirin
Stars: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Israel | USA | France

A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.

Director: Yung Chang
Stars: Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Campbell Ping He, Cindy Shui Yu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Simon Baker, Kelli O’Hara, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Short
Country: Spain

Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.

Director: Ron Lamothe
Stars: Thomas Clausen, Will Forsberg, Leonard Knight
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A 2007 documentary film by Ron Lamothe about Christopher McCandless notable for coming to a different conclusion on McCandless’s death than Sean Penn’s film, Into the Wild, and Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild.

Director: Susan Dynner
Stars: Craig Aaronson, Colin Abrahall, Adri
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk’s Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where punk rock music and culture continue to thrive.

Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany | Canada | USA | France

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | UK

Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.

Director: Stephen Walker, Sally George
Stars: Joe Benoit, Helen Boston, Louise Canady
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

A documentary on a chorus of senior citizens from Massachusetts who cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and other unexpected musicians.

Director: Daniel O’Connor, Neil Ortenberg
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like “Tropic of Cancer” and “Naked Lunch” to publication.

Director: Oliver Hodge
Stars: Michael Reynolds, Chris Reynolds, Shauna Malloy
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home – then set out to build it.

Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
Stars: Sabine Bonnaire
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Director: Richard Schenkman
Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA | Germany | France | Spain

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.

Director: Michèle Ohayon
Stars: J.P. Gillain, Jeroen Krabbé, Marieke Oudejans
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: USA

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. 1943: Holland is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party – a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack’s pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, the husband, the wife and the lover find themselves at the same concentration camp; actually living in the same barracks. When Jack’s wife objects to the “girlfriend” in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.

Director: Jim Brown
Stars: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bill Clinton
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.

Director: Henry Corra
Stars: Sal Abbatiello, Afrika Bambaataa, Wayne Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A two-hour documentary that tells the story of one astonishing year in New York City history. The documentary is told chronologically and weaves together the stories of the emergence of hip hop, punk and disco, graffiti art, and sexual liberation. In the background are the major political events and social issues of the day — crime, urban decay, financial woes, the infamous blackout, drugs, Son of Sam, the bitter mayoral election and the overall poverty that gripped the city.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Taiwan

A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.

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: 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: 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.