Cabiria (Pastrone)

Director: Giovanni Pastrone
Stars: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano, Carolina Catena
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Silent
Country: Italy

Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.

 

Fantômas: The False Magistrate (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Mesnery
Genre: Crime, Drama, Silent
Country: France

Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work.

 

Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print (Feuillade)

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas, Renée Carl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Silent
Country: France

The mystery of the drama is the appearance of the finger-print of a dead artist upon the neck of Princess Sonia Danidoff, whom Fantomas, as Nanteuil, relieves of her pearl necklace, and again on the body of Thomery, a merchant also done to death by the arch villain.

 

New York Hat , The (Griffith)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Short, Silent
Country: USA

The young village minister was not quite as discreet as he might have been in fulfilling the strange trust left by the dying mother, but it certainly worked for the common good.

 

Automatic Moving Company, The (Bosetti, Cohl)

Director: Romeo Bosetti, Émile Cohl
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: France

A film of more than unusual interest. Those who are familiar with the length of time it takes to make a picture wherein all the furniture in the house moves out automatically, will appreciate the great labor of making this film.

 

Four Troublesome Heads, The (Méliès)

Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: France

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison.

Kid Detective, The (Morgan)

Director: Evan Morgan
Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first ‘adult’ case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Half of It, The (Wu)

Director: Alice Wu
Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to become his friend – or fall for his crush.

Forty-Year-Old Version, The (Blank)

Director: Radha Blank
Stars: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.

Duke, The (Michell)

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

Disciple, The (Tamhane)

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Stars: Aditya Modak, Arun Dravid, Sumitra Bhave, Deepika Bhide Bhagwat
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India

Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.

Spaceship Earth (Wolf)

Director: Matt Wolf
Stars: Kathelin Gray, Marie Harding, William Dempster, John Allen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth’s ecosystem, in 1991.

Son of Monarchs (Gambis)

Director: Alexis Gambis
Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Tenoch Huerta, William Mapother, Electra Avellan
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.

Never Gonna Snow Again (Szumowska, Englert)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Stars: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, Germany, Netherlands

Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community of his clients.

Servants (Ostrochovský)

Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
Stars: Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland

Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they’ll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they’ll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

Slalom (Favier)

Director: Charlène Favier
Stars: Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier, Marie Denarnaud, Muriel Combeau
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium

Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star.Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?

My Little Sister (Chuat, Reymond)

Director: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Stars: Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland

Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.

Rising Phoenix (Bonhôte, Ettedgui)

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Jean-Baptiste Alaize, Ryley Batt, Ellie Cole, Philip Craven
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK

The history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world’s third largest sporting event.

Riders of Justice (Jensen)

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Rebuilding Paradise (Howard)

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Woody Culleton, Michelle John, Matt Gates
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The community of Paradise, California, a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, attempts to rebuild after devastating wildfires in 2018.

Father (Golubovic)

Director: Srdan Golubovic
Stars: Goran Bogdan, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin, Milica Janevski
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A Serbian man fights to regain custody of his children.

Notturno (Rosi)

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy, France, Germany

Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.

No Ordinary Man (Chin-Yee, Joynt)

Director: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
Stars: Billy Tipton Jr., Holden Bernstein, Kate Bornstein, Ryan Cassata
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Canada

No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton.

Nine Days (Oda)

Director: Edson Oda
Stars: Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Benedict Wong
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.

Mandibles (Dupieux)

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium

When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.

Lorelei (Doyle)

Director: Sabrina Doyle
Stars: Jena Malone, Pablo Schreiber, Ryan Findley, Cory Ellis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A working-class fable about a biker, a mermaid and three shades of blue.

Night of the Kings (Lacôte)

Director: Philippe Lacôte
Stars: Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Côte d’Ivoire, Canada, Senegal

A young man is sent to “La Maca”, a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Whaler Boy, The (Yuryev)

Director: Philipp Yuryev
Stars: Vladimir Onokhov, Kristina Asmus, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Nikolay Tatato
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Belgium

A young hunter sets off an a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.

Josep (Porter)

Director: Aurel
Stars: Sergi López, Emmanuel Vottero, Xavier Serrano, David Marsais
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium

A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.

John Lewis: Good Trouble (Porter)

Director: Dawn Porter
Stars: Elijah Cummings, Anthony Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Ayanna Pressley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The film explores Georgia representative’s, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.

I Carry You with Me (Ewing)

Director: Heidi Ewing
Stars: Armando Espitia, Yael Tadeo, Raúl Briones, Alberto Juárez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

His House (Weekes)

Director: Remi Weekes
Stars: Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Matt Smith
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK

A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.

Gunda (Kosakovskiy)

Director: Viktor Kosakovskiy
Stars: Gunda
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway, USA, UK

Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.

Ballad of a White Cow (Moghadam, Sanaeeha)

Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Stars: Maryam Moghadam, Alireza Sani Far, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Avin Poor Raoufi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France

Mina’s life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter’s sake.

Gagarine (Liatard, Trouilh)

Director: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Stars: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Yuri fights to save his home town – which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin – from demolition.

Father Soldier Son (Davis, Einhorn)

Director: Leslye Davis, Catrin Einhorn
Stars: Brian Eisch, Isaac Eisch, Joey Eisch, Roxanne Gregory
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.

Farewell Amor (Msangi)

Director: Ekwa Msangi
Stars: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.

Enemies of the State (Kennebeck)

Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Stars: Joel Widman, Stuart Anderson, Nemo Baletic, Angela Barbosa
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An American family becomes entangled in a bizarre web of secrets and lies when their hacker son is targeted by the U.S. government, making them all ENEMIES OF THE STATE.

Emma. (de Wilde)

Director: Autumn de Wilde
Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China

In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.

Dear Comrades! (Konchalovskiy)

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

Breaking Fast (Mosallam)

Director: Mike Mosallam
Stars: Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy, Amin El Gamal, Patrick Sabongui
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.

Being a Human Person (Kulumbegashvili)

Director: Fred Scott
Stars: Roy Andersson, Johan Carlsson, Martin Serner, Pernilla Sandström
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, Sweden

At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process.

Beginning (Kulumbegashvili)

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvili
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana’s inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.

Assassins (White)

Director: Ryan White
Stars: Siti Aisyah, Hadi Azmi, Anna Fifield, Doan Thi Huong
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

An account of the two women convicted of assassinating Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The film follows the women’s trials in an attempt to understand whether they are trained killers or simply pawns.

All In: The Fight for Democracy (Cortes, Garbus)

Director: Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus
Stars: Carolyn Abrams, Robert Abrams, Stacey Abrams, Debo Adegbile
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary takes a look at the history, and current activism against voter suppression; barriers to voting that most people don’t even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.

Acasa, My Home (Ciorniciuc)

Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Stars: Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache, Mihaela Murgoci
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania, Germany

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.

Secret Love, A (Bolan)

Director: Chris Bolan
Stars: Terry Donahue, Pat Henschel, Diana Bolan, Kim Donahue
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Falling in love in 1947, two women — Pat Henschel and pro baseball player Terry Donahue — begin a 65-year journey of love and overcoming prejudice.

Most Beautiful Thing, A (Mazzio)

Director: Mary Mazzio
Stars: Common, Arshay Cooper, Ken Alpart, David Banks
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Narrated by Common, this film chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, coming together to row in the same boat).

7 Prisoners (Moratto)

Director: Alexandre Moratto
Stars: Christian Malheiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Lucas Oranmian, Vitor Julian
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca, but becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking.

Attica (Curry, Nelson)

Director: Traci Curry, Stanley Nelson
Stars: Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Arthur Harrison, Al Victory
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.

Ascension (Kingdon)

Director: Jessica Kingdon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.

Babi Yar. Context (Loznitsa)

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Hans Frank, Dina Pronicheva, Anastasya Osmachko, Vladimir Artobolevsky
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands, Ukraine

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.

Becoming Cousteau (Garbus)

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Carol Burnett, Vincent Cassel, Louis Malle, Fidel Castro
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the life, passions, achievements and tragedies surrounding the famous explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau, featuring an archive of his newly restored footage.

Belfast (Branagh)

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.

Benedetta (Verhoeven)

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Netherlands

A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.

Boiling Point (Barantini)

Director: Philip Barantini
Stars: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Ray Panthaki
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.

Brighton 4th (Koguashvili)

Director: Levan Koguashvili
Stars: Levan Tedaishvili, Giorgi Tabidze, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco

Georgian wrestler Kakhi travels to Brooklyn to help his son out of a gambling debt.

Bring Your Own Brigade (Walker)

Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: Trina Cunningham, Mike Davis, Don Hankins, Chad Hanson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An investigation into our landscape’s hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.

Come from Away (Ashley)

Director: Christopher Ashley
Stars: Petrina Bromley, Jenn Colella, De’Lon Grant, Joel Hatch
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

7,000 passengers are stranded after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a small town in Newfoundland, where they were housed and welcomed. Filmed live on stage at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York City.

Costa Brava, Lebanon (Akl)

Director: Mounia Akl
Stars: Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Yumna Marwan, Nadia Charbel
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar

A couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.

Cousins (Gardiner, Smith)

Director: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith
Stars: Rachel House, Ana Scotney, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Cohen Holloway
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand

Entwines the very different lives of three Maori girls, cousins, through tumultuous decades, after one of them is taken from her family and raised in an orphanage.

Girl and the Spider, The (Zürcher, Zürcher)

Director: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
Stars: Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Switzerland

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.

Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, The (Katz)

Director: Ana Katz
Stars: Raquel Bank, Daniel Katz, Nicolás Levin, Valeria Lois
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

Sebastián, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

Encanto (Bush, Howard, Smith)

Director: Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith
Stars: Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: United States

A Colombian teenage girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.

Faya Dayi (Beshir)

Director: Jessica Beshir
Stars: Murano Mlbb, Kawa Sherif, Salih Sigirci
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Ethiopia, United States, Qatar

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today.

Four Hours at the Capitol (Roberts)

Director: Jamie Roberts
Stars: Eddie Block, Buddy Carter, James McGovern, Leah Han
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A chronicle of the incursion at the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C., many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Futura (Marcello, Munzi, Rohrwacher)

Director: Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.

Ahed’s Knee (Lapid)

Director: Nadav Lapid
Stars: Avshalom Pollak, Nur Fibak, Oded Azulay, Michal Benkovitz Sasu
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Israel, Germany

An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.

Hating Peter Tatchell (Amos)

Director: Christopher Amos
Stars: Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Peter Tatchell, George Carey
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

The profound life story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience rocked the establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed tyrants in the fight for equality.

Hive (Basholli)

Director: Blerta Basholli
Stars: Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi, Aurita Agushi, Kumrije Hoxha
Genre: Drama
Country: Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania, North Macedonia

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision.

Hold Your Fire (Forbes)

Director: Stefan Forbes
Stars: Shuaib Raheem
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Brooklyn, 1973. Shu’aib Raheem tried to steal guns for self-defense, starting the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to reform police use of violence and save lives by using words, not guns.

Compartment Number 6 (Kuosmanen)

Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Stars: Yuriy Borisov, Seidi Haarla, Valeriy Nikolaev, Yuliya Aug
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Russia, Estonia, Germany

As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

I Was a Simple Man (Yogi)

Director: Christopher Makoto Yogi
Stars: Steve Iwamoto, Constance Wu, Tim Chiou, Kanoa Goo
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A family in Hawai’i faces the imminent death of their eldest as the ghosts of the past haunt the countryside.

Hole, The (Frammartino)

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Stars: Claudia Candusso, Paolo Cossi, Mila Costi, Carlos José Crespo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany

The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.

In the Heights (Chu)

Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A film version of the Broadway musical in which Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.

Jockey (Panahi)

Director: Panah Panahi
Stars: Pantea Panahiha, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.

Jockey (Bentley)

Director: Clint Bentley
Stars: Clifton Collins Jr., Moises Arias, Molly Parker, Logan Cormier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.

King Richard (Green)

Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Stars: Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Saniyya Sidney
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.

Box, The (Vigas)

Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Stars: Elián Gonzalez, Hernán Mendoza, Hatzín Navarrete, Cristina Zulueta
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA

A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.

Lingui (Haroun)

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro, Briya Gomdigue
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Germany

Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.

Luzzu (Camilleri)

Director: Alex Camilleri
Stars: Jesmark Scicluna, Marlene Schranz, David Scicluna, Marta Vella
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Malta

A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta’s black-market fishing industry.

Marx Can Wait (Bellocchio)

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Alberto Bellocchio, Letizia Bellocchio, Marco Bellocchio, Maria Luisa Bellocchio
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director’s twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.

Murina (Kusijanovic)

Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic
Stars: Gracija Filipovic, Danica Curcic, Leon Lucev, Cliff Curtis
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia

A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.

Neptune Frost (Uzeyman, Williams)

Director: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Stars: Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire, Elvis Ngabo
Genre: Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Rwanda, France, Canada

An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.

On the Count of Three (Carmichael)

Director: Jerrod Carmichael
Stars: Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, Lavell Crawford
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut and stars in On the Count of Three, a darkly comic feature about two best friends, Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott), on the last day of their lives.

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (Harari)

Director: Arthur Harari
Stars: Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Cambodia

When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.

Bloody Oranges (Meurisse)

Director: Jean-Christophe Meurisse
Stars: Alexandre Steiger, Christophe Paou, Lilith Grasmug, Olivier Saladin
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A retired couple deeply in debt try to win a rock dance competition. A minister is suspected of tax fraud. A teenager makes the acquaintance of a pervert.

Petrov’s Flu (Serebrennikov)

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

Unclenching the Fists (Kovalenko)

Director: Kira Kovalenko
Stars: Milana Aguzarova, Alik Karaev, Soslan Khugaev, Khetag Bibilov
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

Tale of King Crab, The (de Righi, Zoppis)

Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Stars: Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Ercole Colnago, Bruno di Giovanni
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Argentina

In the 19th century, a wandering drunkard in Italy is cast out of his village for a crime. He is exiled to Tierra del Fuego, where he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption.

Sabaya (Hirori)

Director: Hogir Hirori
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

Film follows a group into Syria’s Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.

White Fortress , The (Drljaca)

Director: Igor Drljaca
Stars: Pavle Cemerikic, Sumeja Dardagan, Jasmin Geljo, Kerim Cutuna
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina

When a chance encounter brings together two teens from opposite sides of life in post-war Sarajevo, a blossoming romance conceals their desperate and disturbing motives.

Forever Prisoner, The (Gibney)

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Stephen Gaudin, Chantell Higgins, Daniel Jones, Steven Kleinman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.

Mitchells vs the Machines, The (Rianda, Rowe)

Director: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe
Stars: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Hong Kong

A quirky, dysfunctional family’s road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope.

Phantom, The (Forbes)

Director: Patrick Forbes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: UK

Carlos DeLuna was arrested in 1983 aged 21 for the murder of Wanda Lopez, and protested his innocence until his execution, declaring that it was another Carlos who committed the crime.

Another World (Brizé)

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anthony Bajon, Marie Drucker
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.

Reflection (Vasyanovych)

Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Stars: Roman Lutskyi, Stanislav Aseyev, Oleksandr Danyliuk, Vasiliy Kukharskiy
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine

Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life.

Wild Roots (Kis)

Director: Hajni Kis
Stars: Gusztáv Dietz, Zorka Horváth, Kati Andai, Réka Babócsai
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Slovakia

A wild 12 year old girl who has been with her grandparents decides against their advice to seek out her father, a bouncer with a temper who is just getting out of prison.

Writing with Fire (Ghosh, Thomas)

Director: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
Stars: Meera Devi, Shyamkali Devi, Suneeta Prajapati
Genre: Documentary
Country: India

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.

Leave No Traces (Matuszynski)

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Stars: Tomasz Zietek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

Hand of God, The (Sorrentino)

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, United States

In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.

Întregalde (Muntean)

Director: Radu Muntean
Stars: Maria Popistasu, Ilona Brezoianu, Alex Bogdan, Luca Sabin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

A group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong.

Anaïs in Love (Bourgeois-Tacquet)

Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Follows Anaïs, a 30-year old woman that is broke and has a lover she doesn’t think she loves anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her, but Daniel lives with Emilie – who Anaïs also falls for.

 

Stella (Verheyde)

Director: Sylvie Verheyde
Stars: Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guerard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents’ bar.

 

To Let (Ra)

Director: Chezhian Ra
Stars: Dharun Bala, T. Arul Ezhilan, Mk Mani
Genre: Family
Country: India

The struggle of a family of three as they search for a house to rent after being given an ultimatum to vacate their house by their land lady.

 

Lara (Gerster)

Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Stars: Tom Schilling, Rainer Bock, Corinna Harfouch
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany

It’s Lara’s 60th birthday, and this very evening, her son will be giving his debut piano concert. Lara mapped out his musical career. But Lara is not welcome at his debut performance. Even if Lara engages, everything gets out of control.

 

Luce (Onah)

Director: Julius Onah
Stars: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.

 

Aurora (Tervo)

Director: Miia Tervo
Stars: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Elá Yildirim
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland

Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.

 

Litigante (Lolli)

Director: Franco Lolli
Stars: Antonio Martinez, Alejandra Sarria, David Roa
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | France

A single mother balances taking care of her mother during her fight with cancer while dealing with a corruption scandal at work.

 

Goldie (de Jong)

Director: Sam de Jong
Stars: Slick Woods, George Sample III, Danny Hoch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. A story about displaced youth, ambition and strength.

 

Dirty God (Polak)

Director: Sacha Polak
Stars: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady-Girard
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | UK | Belgium | Ireland

A young British mother struggles to reclaim her life after a brutal acid attack leaves her severely scarred.

 

Atlantics (Diop)

Director: Mati Diop
Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | Senegal | Belgium

In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.

 

Label Me (Kreuser)

Director: Kai Kreuser
Stars: Nikolaus Benda, Renato Schuch, Jogi Kaiser
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

No kissing. No passive penetration. For Waseem the rules are very clear: When Lars pays him for sex then only in a way that he can reconcile with his heterosexuality. On the one side the refugee from Syria living in a shelter, on the other side the wealthy German with a loft apartment – the differences couldn’t be more crass and yet both are connected by a sincere interest in each other. Their relationship is rooted in a constant alternation between dominance and longing for closeness. The playful power struggle between the two of them reveals their inability to hide their fears and longings from one another and to keep up their carefully constructed facades.

 

Hustlers (Scafaria)

Director: Lorene Scafaria
Stars: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

 

Citizen K (Gibney)

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.

 

Brink, The (Klayman)

Director: Alison Klayman
Stars: Steve Bannon, Louis Aliot, Sean Bannon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A fly-on-the-wall chronicle of embattled former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s global mission to spread extreme nationalism.

 

Ms. Purple (Chon)

Director: Justin Chon
Stars: Mark Krenik, Jake Choi, Courtney Bandeko
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman who works as a karaoke hostess in Koreatown reconnects with her estranged brother in the final days of their father’s life.

 

Collective (Nanau)

Director: Alexander Nanau
Stars: Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania | Luxembourg

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

 

Moffie (Hermanus)

Director: Oliver Hermanus
Stars: Kai Luke Brummer, Barbara-Marié Immelman, Michael Kirch
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: South Africa | UK

Nicholas has long known he is different, that there is something shameful and unacceptable in him that must stay hidden, denied even. But South Africa’s minority government are embroiled in conflict at the Angolian border and all white young men over 16 must serve two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime and its culture of toxic racist machismo. The ‘black danger’ is the real and present threat; what is wrong with Nicholas and others like him can be rooted out, treated and cured like a cancer. But just when fear pushes Nicholas to accept unspeakable horrors in the hopes of staying invisible, a tender relationship with another recruit becomes as dangerous for them both as any enemy fire.

 

Kuessipan (Verreault)

Director: Myriam Verreault
Stars: Brigitte Poupart, Étienne Galloy, Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community who promised each other to stick together no matter what. But their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy.

Seventeen (Arévalo)

Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Stars: Biel Montoro, Nacho Sánchez, Lola Cordón
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

To find a shelter dog he befriended, a 17-year-old boy escapes a juvenile detention center and is joined on his quest by his older brother.

Fire Will Come (Laxe)

Director: Oliver Laxe
Stars: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Abrao
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Luxembourg

Amador is a notorious Galician arsonist who has been accused of causing a new fire. Lois, a young firefighter, explores the depths of a forest on fire. Their destinies are linked by the power of a mysterious fire.

Les Misérables (Ly)

Director: Ladj Ly
Stars: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.

August Virgin, The (Trueba)

Director: Jonás Trueba
Stars: Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz, Isabelle Stoffel
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Eva is not satisfied with her life. In an act of faith, she decides to stay in Madrid over the summer, when all the other locals leave. August offers her a chance to start from scratch.

2040 (Gameau)

Director: Damon Gameau
Stars: Damon Gameau, Eva Lazzaro, Zoë Gameau
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker’s daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.

Turnover (Palmer)

Director: Linda Palmer
Stars: Isabella Blake-Thomas, Donna Mills, Jamie Brewer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA

Café owner Peter, leaves his disgruntled manager Henry, to take care of business, and he instead hires a crew of misfits. Peter returns to an unrecognizable business but soon learns the value of camaraderie with the new team.

State Funeral (Loznitsa)

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands | Lithuania

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin’s funeral.

Only the Animals (Moll)

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany

A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don’t know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.

Madre (Sorogoyen)

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Marta Nieto, Jules Porier, Alex Brendemühl
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

Ten years have passed since Elena’s son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.

I Am Mother (Sputore)

Director: Grant Sputore
Stars: Rose Byrne, Maddie Lenton, Luke Hawker
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia

In the wake of humanity’s extinction, a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

All of Us (Wallyn)

Director: Willem Wallyn
Stars: Delfine Bafort, Ellis De Beule, Gilles De Schryver
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.

Wet Season (Chen)

Director: Anthony Chen
Stars: Jia Ler Koh, Christopher Ming-Shun Lee, Shi Bin Yang
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore | Taiwan

A teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.

Two Popes, The (Meirelles)

Director: Fernando Meirelles
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Italy

Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Other Lamb, The (Szumowska)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Stars: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland | Belgium | USA

A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.

Heroic Losers (Borensztein)

Director: Sebastián Borensztein
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Verónica Llinás
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Argentina | Spain

In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.

Incitement (Zilberman)

Director: Yaron Zilberman
Stars: Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitay Yaish Ben Ousilio, Anat Ravnitzki
Genre: Thriller
Country: Israel

Details the year leading to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), from the point of view of the assassin.

How to Build a Girl (Giedroyc)

Director: Coky Giedroyc
Stars: Beanie Feldstein, Cleo, Dónal Finn
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.

Platform, The (Gaztelu-Urrutia)

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain

A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.

Cunningham (Kovgan)

Director: Alla Kovgan
Stars: Carolyn Brown, John Cage, Ashley Chen
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Germany | France | USA

The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan’s 3D documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Burning Cane (Youmans)

Director: Phillip Youmans
Stars: Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, Dominique McClellan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.

Egg (Wang)

Director: Robert Jury
Stars: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. His peculiar decision has a profound effect on the whole community, though his actions yield an outcome that no one ever expected.

Working Man (Jury)

Director: Robert Jury
Stars: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. His peculiar decision has a profound effect on the whole community, though his actions yield an outcome that no one ever expected.

Blonde One, The (Berger)

Director: Marco Berger
Stars: Gaston Re, Alfonso Barón, Malena Irusta
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

In the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Gabriel has just moved in with his colleague, Juan. Shy and reserved, Gabo is reluctant to follow Juan’s wandering hands and meaningful looks.

River and the Wall, The (Masters)

Director: Ben Masters
Stars: Ben Masters, Jay Kleberg, Filipe DeAndrade
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Country: Mexico | USA

Five friends travel from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico along the Rio Grande via bicycle, horseback, and canoe, exploring the relationship between the river and the proposed wall along America’s border with Mexico.

Perfect Candidate, The (Al-Mansour)

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Stars: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali, Nora Al Awad
Genre: Drama
Country: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali, Nora Al Awad

A determined young Saudi doctor’s surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town’s first female candidate.

Mustang, The (de Clermont-Tonnerre)

Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium

The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict, who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs.

Leftover Women (Medalia, Shlam)

Director: Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia
Stars: Hua Mei Qiu, Min Xu, Qi Gai
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | USA

In China, single women are under immense pressure to marry young or face the stigma that comes with being “leftover.” Leftover Women follows three hopeful singles seeking to define love on their own terms.

Unknown Saint, The (Aljem)

Director: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Stars: Younes Bouab, Salah Ben Saleh, Bouchaib Semmak
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Morocco | France | Qatar

A criminal returns to the fake grave where he buried his loot years before and discovers that it has become the shrine of an unknown saint and a thriving little village.

Cordillera of Dreams, The (Guzmán)

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Jorge Baradit, Vicente Gajardo, Francisco Gazitúa
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile | France

Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the government. However, he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture and a place on the map.

No.7 Cherry Lane (Yonfan)

Director: Yonfan
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Wei Zhao, Alex Tak-Shun Lam
Genre: Animation
Country: Hong Kong | China

Ziming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.

County, The (Hákonarson)

Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Stars: Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark | Germany | France

A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.

Weasel’s Tale, The (Campanella)

Director: Juan José Campanella
Stars: Graciela Borges, Oscar Martínez, Luis Brandoni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A group of four old friends conformed by a film director, a film writer, an actress and her husband share a big house in the country. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple who resourcefully and deceitfully seek to get them to sell the house to develop a real estate project of their own.

Song Without a Name (León)

Director: Melina León
Stars: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru | Spain | USA | Chile

Georgina’s newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.

Edge of Democracy, The (Costa)

Director: Petra Costa
Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Brazil

Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.

Talking About Trees (Gasmelbari)

Director: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Stars: Manar Al Hilo, Suleiman Ibrahim, Altayeb Mahdi
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Sudan | Chad | Germany | Qatar | United Arab Emirates

Four older Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan, not without resistance. Their ‘Sudanese Film Club’ have decided to revive an old cinema, and again draw attention to Sudanese film history.

See You Yesterday (Bristol)

Director: Stefon Bristol
Stars: Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow, Astro
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA

Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.’s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (Beauvais)

Director: Frank Beauvais
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. France, still in shock from the November terror attacks, is in a state of emergency. I feel helpless, I suffocate with contained rage. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.

Lucky Grandma (Sealy)

Director: Sasie Sealy
Stars: Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Set in New York City’s Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck – and in the middle of a gang war.

Mystery of Henri Pick, The (Bezançon)

Director: Rémi Bezançon
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Belgium

An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece, in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by the publishers. The text is signed Henri Pick, a Breton pizza maker who died two years earlier.

Good Intentions, The (Blaya)

Director: Ana García Blaya
Stars: Javier Drolas, Jazmín Stuart, Amanda Minujin
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status-quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

Days to Come, The (Marques-Marcet)

Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Stars: Maria Rodríguez Soto, David Verdaguer, Lupe Verdaguer Rodríguez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

Vir and Lluis have been dating for a year now. Vir finds out she is pregnant. During the next nine months, Vir and Lluis will live their fears, joys, expectations and realities that, during their pregnancy, grow before them.

Come As You Are (Wong)

Director: Richard Wong
Stars: Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, Ravi Patel
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film ‘Hasta La Vista’.

Who You Think I Am (Nebbou)

Director: Safy Nebbou
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?

Where’s My Roy Cohn? (Tyrnauer)

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Roy M. Cohn, Ken Auletta, Marie Brenner
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues – from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump.

Disappearance of My Mother, The (Barrese)

Director: Beniamino Barrese
Stars: Benedetta Barzini, Beniamino Barrese, Stephanie DeBaillew
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.

Sea of Shadows (Ladkani, Bogle, Podolsky)

Director: Richard Ladkani, Sean Bogle, Matthew Podolsky
Stars: Romel Eduardo Ledezma Abaroa, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Hector Capetillo
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: Austria | Australia | Germany | USA

The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.

Memory: The Origins of Alien (Philippe)

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Stars: Bijan Aalam, Tim Boxell, Axelle Carolyn
Genre: Documentary, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Switzerland

An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film “Alien” with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.

Endless Trench, The (Arregi, Garaño, Goenaga)

Director: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Canada

1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (Lewkowicz)

Director: Max Lewkowicz
Stars: Marc Aronson, Michael Bernardi, Jerry Bock
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The origin story behind one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when “tradition” was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Pemberton)

Director: Justin Pemberton
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Kate Williams, Thomas Piketty
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | New Zealand

Adapting one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time, Capital in the 21st Century is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, shining a new light on the world around us and its growing inequalities. Traveling through time from the French Revolution and other huge global shifts, to world wars and through to the rise of new technologies today, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future.

Bacurau (Dornelles, Filho)

Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: Brazil | France

After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.

American Factory (Bognar, Reichert)

Director: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Stars: Junming ‘Jimmy’ Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Those Who Remained (Tóth)

Director: Barnabás Tóth
Stars: Károly Hajduk, Abigél Szõke, Mari Nagy
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of national conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.

Hal (Scott)

Director: Amy Scott
Stars: Allison Anders, Judd Apatow, Rosanna Arquette
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Hal Ashby’s obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby’s uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

1985 (Tan)

Director: Yen Tan
Stars: Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

Egg (Palka)

Director: Marianna Palka
Stars: Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Centers on conceptual artist Tina (Reiner), when she introduces her eight-month pregnant art school rival (Hendricks) to her non-traditional surrogate Kiki (Camp). The truth comes outs and the patriarchy fights to hang on.

Luz (Singer)

Director: Tilman Singer
Stars: Luana Velis, Johannes Benecke, Jan Bluthardt
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany

Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.

Mid90s (Hill)

Director: Jonah Hill
Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

Mirage (Paulo)

Director: Oriol Paulo
Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darín, Javier Gutiérrez
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain

Two storms separated by 25 years. A woman murdered. A daughter missed. Only 72 hours to discover the truth.

Ricordi? (Mieli)

Director: Valerio Mieli
Stars: Luca Marinelli, Linda Caridi, Giovanni Anzaldo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A love story told through the memories of two nameless lovers in different stages of their lives.

Rojo (Naishtat)

Director: Benjamín Naishtat
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France | Netherlands | Germany | Belgium | Switzerland

In Argentina pre-coup d’etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.

Rams (Hustwit)

Director: Gary Hustwit
Stars: Naoto Fukasawa, Dieter Rams
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

It is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design.

Peterloo (Leigh)

Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Invisibles (Petit)

Director: Louis-Julien Petit
Stars: Patricia Mouchon, Khoukha Boukherbache, Bérangère Toural
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Following a municipal decision, SDF Women’s Shelter, will close. There are only three months left for social workers to reintegrate at any cost the women they care for: falsification, pistons, lies – From now on, everything is allowed.

Void (Salmenperä)

Director: Aleksi Salmenperä
Stars: Laura Birn, Tommi Korpela, Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a successful actress and a struggling writer.

Prayer, The (Kahn)

Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.

Kanarie (Olwagen)

Director: Christiaan Olwagen
Stars: Schalk Bezuidenhout, Hannes Otto, Germandt Geldenhuys
Genre: Drama, Musical, War
Country: South Africa

A coming-of-age war musical about a small town boy who gets chosen to serve his compulsory two year military training in the South African Defence Force Choir and Concert group- known as the “Canaries”- during the height of the Apartheid regime.

Cut Off (Alvart)

Director: Christian Alvart
Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Germany

Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

Mug (Szumowska)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Malgorzata Gorol
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.

Last Race, The (Dweck)

Director: Michael Dweck
Stars: Marty Berger, Barbara Cromarty, Jim Cromarty
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

A sumptuous Sundance doc depicting the Long Island birthplace of stock car racing where only one track remains. Located on prime real estate, the real tors are circling. The property is worth millions and only the love and integrity of the track’s community and elderly owners keep the bulldozers at bay. Stunning cinematography immerses us in the intimate world of grassroots racing, at a time when its future is in the balance. Can this great blue collar American pastime survive?

Mutant Blast (Alle)

Director: Fernando Alle
Stars: Pedro Barão Dias, Maria Leite, João Vilas
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA | Portugal

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse.

Still Human (Chan)

Director: Oliver Siu Kuen Chan
Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Crisel Consunji, Sam Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A paralyzed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino domestic worker who has put her dream on hold and came to the city to earn a living. These two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons, and as they learn more about each other, they also learn more about themselves. Together, they learn about how to face the different seasons of life.

Lemonade (Uricaru)

Director: Ioana Uricaru
Stars: Mãlina Manovici, Dylan Smith, Steve Bacic
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania | Canada | Germany | Sweden

Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.

Ayka (Dvortsevoy)

Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Stars: Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, Sergey Mazur
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | Germany | Poland | China | France | Kazakhstan

A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.

Ága (Lazarov)

Director: Milko Lazarov
Stars: Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Sergei Egorov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Germany | France

In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth. Nanook and Sedna’s traditional way of life starts changing – slowly, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable deaths and the ice has been melting earlier every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world – and to their daughter Ága, who has left the icy tundra a long time ago due to family feud. When Sedna’s health deteriorates, Nanook decides to fulfill her wish. He embarks on a long journey in order to find Ága.

One Last Deal (Härö)

Director: Klaus Härö
Stars: Heikki Nousiainen, Pirjo Lonka, Amos Brotherus
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

An elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.

Cold Blue, The (Nelson)

Director: Erik Nelson
Stars: V.G. Alexander, Paul Haedike, Mort Kimmel
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A tribute to one of the world’s great filmmakers and the men of the 8th Air Force who flew mission after suicidal mission in the Second World War.

Socrates (Moratto)

Director: Alexandre Moratto
Stars: Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji, Jayme Rodrigues
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

After his mother’s sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo’s coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

One Day (Szilágyi)

Director: Zsófia Szilágyi
Stars: Zsófia Szamosi, Leó Füredi, Ambrus Barcza
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A day in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.

Accused, The (Tobal)

Director: Gonzalo Tobal
Stars: Lali Espósito, Emilio Vodanovich, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Mexico

A young student is the only one accused of the brutal murder of her best friend, a case that is excessively reported by the media. Cornered by the evidence, she must face her own doubts about what really happened.

Third Wife, The (Mayfair)

Director: Ash Mayfair
Stars: Hong Chuong Nguyen, Long Le Vu, Nu Yên-Khê Tran
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam

In 19th century rural Vietnam, May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will force her to decide between living in safety and being free.

Tel Aviv on Fire (Zoabi)

Director: Sameh Zoabi
Stars: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Luxembourg | Israel | France | Belgium

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise – until the soldier and the show’s financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.

Vanished, The (Lee)

Director: Chang-hee Lee
Stars: Sang-kyung Kim, Hee-ae Kim, Kang-woo Kim
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea

The body of Yoon Seol Hee disappears at the National Institute of Scientific Investigation. Detective Woo Joong Shik seeks clues on her disappearance, while her husband Park Jin Han claims she is alive.

Sorry Angel (Honoré)

Director: Christophe Honoré
Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Jacques is an older writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they’ll have to face rejection and sickness to keep it that way.

Our Struggles (Senez)

Director: Guillaume Senez
Stars: Romain Duris, Basile Grunberger, Lena Girard Voss
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France

Olivier is fighting with his comrades at work against injustices, but one night his wife Laura leaves him and the kids on 9 and 6. He must now meet another struggle and face up to his new responsibilities. Can he find a new balance?

Leto (Serebrennikov)

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk
Genre: Biography, Music, Romance
Country: Russia | France

A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.

Las niñas bien (Abella)

Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella
Stars: Ilse Salas, Flavio Medina, Cassandra Ciangherotti
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico’s 1982 economic crisis.

Crazy Rich Asians (Chu)

Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family.

22 July (Greengrass)

Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Norway | Iceland | USA

A three-part story of Norway’s worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway’s political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.

Knife + Heart (Gonzalez)

Director: Yann Gonzalez
Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Mexico | Switzerland

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.

The Panama Papers (Winter)

Director: Alex Winter
Stars: Luke Harding, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.

Searching (Chaganty)

Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Stars: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia | USA

After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.

In Safe Hands (Herry)

Director: Jeanne Herry
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Élodie Bouchez
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France | Belgium

Theo was born an unwanted child. The social services set out to find the perfect home for his adoption.

My Best Friend (Deus)

Director: Martín Deus
Stars: Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Lautaro Rodríguez, Guillermo Pfening
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

Lorenzo is a quiet teenager who lives with his parents and his younger brother in small city in the Argentinean Patagonia. One day, a family friend’s son named Caíto moves south and settles in at Lorenzo’s home. His family is going through difficult times and can’t give much care to him. Caíto is very shy and hardly speaks. Lorenzo is supposed to help him feel at home. They become friends. They spend great amounts of time together. Although Lorenzo doesn’t like sports, he puts up with Caíto’s fascination for mountain biking. They share deep conversations too. They can be very different but they come to understand each other. It won’t be long until everybody at home realizes Caíto is a difficult case. After a couple of days, Lorenzo’s parents feel they’ve had enough. But then, Caíto makes a big confession to Lorenzo.

Fortunate Man, A (August)

Director: Bille August
Stars: Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen’s elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

Love, Gilda (D’Apolito)

Director: Lisa D’Apolito
Stars: Andrew Alexander, Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA

In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.

Butterflies (Karaçelik)

Director: Tolga Karaçelik
Stars: Tolga Tekin, Bartu Küçükçaglayan, Tugce Altug
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey

In a Turkish village, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and each other, they also start to learn more about themselves.

First Man (Chazelle)

Director: Damien Chazelle
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | Japan

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Dear Ex (Hsu, Hsu)

Director: Chih-Yen Hsu, Mag Hsu
Stars: Roy Chiu, Ying-Xuan Hsieh, Spark Chen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan

A teenage boy and his mother are further driven apart when they find out that his father’s life insurance policy is to be received by his lover.

Dachra (Bouchnak)

Director: Abdelhamid Bouchnak
Stars: Yassmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed, Aziz Jebali
Genre: Horror
Country: Tunisia

An investigation into witchcraft leads a trio of journalism students to a mysterious town marked by sinister rituals. Inspired by true events.

Star Is Born, A (Cooper)

Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Utøya: July 22 (Poppe)

Director: Erik Poppe
Stars: Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Solveig Koløen Birkeland
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway

A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.

Oslo Diaries, The (Loushy, Sivan)

Director: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
Stars: Shimon Peres, Dennis Ross, Uri Savir
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | Canada

A group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for an unsanctioned peace talks during the 1990s in order to bring peace to the Middle East.

Quake, The (Andersen)

Director: John Andreas Andersen
Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Edith Haagenrud-Sande
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway

In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the “Oslo Graben” which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.

RBG (Cohen, West)

Director: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

Prospect (Caldwell, Earl)

Director: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl
Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Pedro Pascal
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They’ve secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon’s toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest’s other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father’s greed-addled judgment, the girl finds she must carve her own path to escape.

Manta Ray (Aroonpheng)

Director: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
Stars: Aphisit Hama, Wanlop Rungkumjad, Rasmee Wayrana
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand | France | China

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend’s life – his house, his job and his ex-wife.

Green Book (Farrelly)

Director: Peter Farrelly
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | China

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Dark Money (Reed)

Director: Kimberly Reed
Stars: Jon Tester, Debra Bonogofsky, Jim Peterson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana–a front line in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide–to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impact of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

Supa Modo (Wainaina)

Director: Likarion Wainaina
Stars: Stycie Waweru, Marrianne Nungo, Nyawara Ndambia
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Kenya

Story of a young girl whose dream of becoming a superhero is threatened by terminal illness, inspiring her village to rally together to make her dream come true.

Unstoppable (Min-Ho)

Director: Kim Min-Ho
Stars: Dong-seok Ma, Ji-Hyo Song, Seong-oh Kim
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea

Dong-Chul (Don Lee) and Ji-Soo (Song Ji-Hyo) are a happily married couple. One day, Dong-Chul comes home to find his house in disarray and his wife is missing.

My Masterpiece (Duprat)

Director: Gastón Duprat
Stars: Andrea Acatto, Lucas Aranda, Raúl Arévalo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.

McQueen (Bonhôte, Ettedgui)

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Stars: Bernard Arnault, Joseph Bennett, Detmar Blow
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death.

Letter from Masanjia (Lee)

Director: Leon Lee
Stars: Anonymous, Julie Keith, Fu Ning
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

When a desperate SOS letter penned by a political prisoner turns up in Halloween decorations sold in Oregon, it sparks a nail-biting chain of events that exposes appalling human rights violations and leads to sweeping labor reform in China.

Hillbilly (Rubin, York)

Director: Sally Rubin, Ashley York
Stars: Michael Apted, Ronny Cox, Sam Gleaves
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“hillbilly” is a documentary film that examines the iconic hillbilly image in media and culture. The film explores more than a hundred years of media representation of mountain and rural people and offers an urgent exploration of how we see and think about rural America.

Before the Frost (Noer)

Director: Michael Noer
Stars: Jesper Christensen, Clara Rosager, Magnus Krepper
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

As winter approaches in rural 1850s Denmark, an old farmer (Jens) and his family face starvation. With the harsh circumstances and the prospect of yet another tough winter, Jens agrees to ally with the neighbor family in a marriage between his daughter and their son. However, when the rich farmer at a nearby farm wants to buy Jens’s land, he sees a chance to provide him and his family with an even better life.

Been So Long (Krishnan)

Director: Tinge Krishnan
Stars: Michaela Coel, Mya Lewis, Arinzé Kene
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A dedicated single mother who, on an unusual night on the town, is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger.

Amazing Grace (Elliott, Pollack)

Director: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
Stars: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.

What Keeps You Alive (Minihan)

Director: Colin Minihan
Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada

Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.

Under The Wire (Martin)

Director: Chris Martin
Stars: Ziad Abaza, Janine Birkett, Edith Bouvier
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

In 2012, Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin and photographer, Paul Conroy arrived in Syria to tell the story of civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army.

Kleptocrats, The (Hobkinson, Marking)

Director: Sam Hobkinson, Havana Marking
Stars: Robin Leach
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: UK

Red Granite Pictures was the next big thing following their release of The Wolf of Wall Street and then the walls closed in as their source of funding became the lead story.

Quién te cantará (Vermut)

Director: Carlos Vermut
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Eva Llorach, Carme Elias
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain | France

When Lila, a celebrated but fame-weary and amnesiac singer forgets how to perform, super-fan Violeta steps in to teach Lila how to be Lila once again.

Penguin Highway (Ishida)

Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
Stars: Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Tony Azzolino
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

Tea With the Dames (Michell)

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.

World Is Yours, The (Gavras)

Director: Romain Gavras
Stars: Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France

A small-time dealer dreams of another life but can’t afford it. To escape, he must accept one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.

Claire Darling (Bertuccelli)

Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Alice Taglioni
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In Verderonne, a small village in the Oise, it’s the first day of summer and Claire Darling wakes up convinced to live her last day – She then decides to empty her house and brade everything without distinction, Tiffany lamps to the collection clock. The objects so loved echo her tragic and flamboyant life. This last madness brings back Mary, her daughter, whom she has not seen for 20 years.

Heavy Trip (Laatio, Vidgren)

Director: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren
Stars: Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Heikkinen
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland | Norway | Belgium

Turo (25) is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.

Candidate, The (Sorogoyen)

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Mónica López, Josep Maria Pou
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | France

A Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper expose him to the public eye.

Divide and Conquer (Bloom)

Director: Alexis Bloom
Stars: Tony Waag, Babette Bombshell, Catherine Corcoran
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that explores the rise and fall of the late Roger Ailes, from his early media influence on the Nixon presidency to his controversial leadership at Fox News.

Most Beautiful Couple, The (Taddicken)

Director: Sven Taddicken
Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Luise Heyer, Florian Bartholomäi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | France

Two young teachers, Malte and Liv, are spending their summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast, when they are suddenly attacked by three young men and Liv is assaulted. Two years later, Malte and Liv are not only still together, but demonstrating an amazing strength in dealing with the trauma, determined that it will not tear them apart. But when Malte has a chance encounter with one of the perpetrators, he finds himself driven to seek revenge and sets out in pursuit. But once he is facing the longed-for confrontation, he realizes that the situation has gotten out of control once again. He hasn’t told Liv, he didn’t call the police and now the couple’s fragile relationship, which they have fought so hard to preserve, is threatened once more.

Impossible Love, An (Corsini)

Director: Catherine Corsini
Stars: Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

In the late 1950s in Châteauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, Chantal is a great source of happiness for Rachel. She wishes for Philippe to legally acknowledge his daughter, which would give her his last name. A battle of more than ten years ensues, which will eventually break up all of their lives.

Science Fair (Costantini, Foster)

Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
Stars: Jack Andraka, Anjali Chadha, Ramy Khodeir
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and hormones on their quest to win the international science fair. Only one can be named “Best in Fair.”

Birds of Passage (Gallego, Guerra)

Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia | Denmark | Mexico | Germany | Switzerland | France

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Nossa Chape (Zimbalist, Zimbalist, Duque, Duque)

Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist, Julián Camilo Duque, Julian Duque
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Brazil

NOSSA CHAPE tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, leaving all but three of the players dead. With exclusive access to the new team, families of the deceased, and three surviving players, this documentary shows a team and a city divided about how to handle tragedy – should they focus on keeping the memory of the dead alive or moving on with their own lives?

Nightshifter, The (Ramalho)

Director: Dennison Ramalho
Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Bianca Comparato
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

Twelve-Year Night, A (Brechner)

Director: Álvaro Brechner
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Uruguay | Spain | Argentina | France | Germany

1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: “As we can’t kill them, let’s drive them mad.” The three men will remain in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them is Pepe Mujica – later to become president of Uruguay.

Blood of Wolves, The (Shiraishi)

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Junko Abe, Yôsuke Eguchi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company’s employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.

Island of the Hungry Ghosts (Brady)

Director: Gabrielle Brady
Stars: Arthur Floret, Poh Lin Lee
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | UK | Australia

While the yearly crab migration takes place and locals perform rituals for ghosts, a therapist works in Christmas Island’s asylum seeker detention center.

Cleaners, The (Block, Riesewieck)

Director: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Brazil | Netherlands | Italy | USA | Japan | UK | Sweden | Austria | Switzerland | Denmark | Canada

A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.

Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story (Metz, Plambech)

Director: Janus Metz, Sine Plambech
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Netherlands | Sweden | Thailand

In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand married a Jutland native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to marry and share life with. Acclaimed filmmaker Janus Metz and his anthropologist wife, Sine Plambech, follow four of these Thai-Danish couples over ten years in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.

Spy Gone North, The (Yoon)

Director: Jong-bin Yoon
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Sung-min Lee, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.

Silent Revolution, The (Kraume)

Director: Lars Kraume
Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany

A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman (von Trotta, Assayas, Östlund)

Director: Margarethe von Trotta, Bettina Böhler, Felix Moeller
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | France

Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman’s life and work and explores his film legacy with Bergman’s closest collaborators, both in front and behind the camera, as well as a new generation of filmmakers. The documentary presents key scenes, recurring themes in his films and his life, and journeys to the places at the center of Bergman’s creative achievement and the focal points of his life such as the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, locations and landscapes from his masterpieces, and the stations from his career in Sweden, France and Germany.

Day, A (Cho)

Director: Sun-ho Cho
Stars: Myung-Min Kim, Yo-Han Byun, Hye-Sun Shin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A mystery drama revolving around a father who commits an unethical act in an attempt to save his daughter’s life. Three years later, his actions return to haunt him, trapping him in an endless time loop.

1945 (Török)

Director: Ferenc Török
Stars: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.

Maktub (Raz)

Director: Oded Raz
Stars: Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, Gal Amitai
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

The biggest Israeli blockbuster since 1986. Steve and Chuma, two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfillment for people who write requests on paper and put between the sacred stones of the Wailing Wall.

M.F.A. (Leite)

Director: Natalia Leite
Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr., Leah McKendrick
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free.

Step (Lipitz)

Director: Amanda Lipitz
Stars: Gari McIntyre, Amanda Leonard, Blessin Giraldo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

STEP documents the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore.

Makala (Gras)

Director: Emmanuel Gras
Stars: Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.

Logan (Mangold)

Director: James Mangold
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.

Scaffolding (Yair)

Director: Matan Yair
Stars: Asher Lax, Ami Smolartchik, Yaacov Cohen
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Poland

17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him.

Meteors (Keltek)

Director: Gürcan Keltek
Stars: Ebru Ojen Sahin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands

They come at night and everybody steps out. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the coming hours, the city will be on lockdown: an eclipse appears and meteors start to fall.

Félicité (Gomis)

Director: Alain Gomis
Stars: Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France | Belgium | Senegal | Germany | Lebanon | The Democratic Republic Of Congo

Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.

1922 (Hilditch)

Director: Zak Hilditch
Stars: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A simple yet proud farmer in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to assist. But their actions have unintended consequences.

Stronger (Green)

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Insult, The (Doueiri)

Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Cyprus | Belgium | Lebanon | USA

After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.

Mrs. Fang (Wang)

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: Fang Xiuying
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | France | Germany

Surrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.

Braguino (Cogitore)

Director: Clément Cogitore
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Finland

In the Siberian forest, away from any civilization, a feud is opposing two families whose houses are separated by a river. In the middle of the river stands an island where the kids of the two families are meeting on their own.

Strong Island (Ford)

Director: Paul Damien Williams
Stars: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Mark Grose, Michael Hohnen
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Australia

GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.

In Syria (Van Leeuw)

Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium | France | Lebanon

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. This nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an Audience Award at Berlinale.

Close-Knit (Ogigami)

Director: Naoko Ogigami
Stars: Mugi Kadowaki, Tôma Ikuta, Eiko Koike
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

One spring Hiromi, who is the mother of an 11-year-old girl Tomo, left home for the umpteenth time. Tomo is accustomed to such a mother and as always went to Makio’s place. He is a brother of Hiromi and has lived with Rinko, a pretty girlfriend. Actually, Rinko is a transwoman. She works as a caregiver in a nursing home where Makio’s mother Sayuri who suffers from dementia is living.

Four Hands (Kienle)

Director: Oliver Kienle
Stars: Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christoph Letkowski
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany

After Sophie and Jessica had witnessed a brutal crime when they were kids, Jessica promised her younger sister Sophie: “I will always protect you!” Growing older, this promise became an obsession. Now, Jessica (28) is suffering from paranoia and sees threats to her and her sister everywhere. But Sophie (26) wants to live a normal life without fear, without her sister. She wants to become a pianist and wants to fall in love. When the perpetrators are released of prison after 20 years, Jessica is shocked and wants to confront them. But an accident changes everything. Jessica’s promise to always protect her little sister turns into an existential nightmare.

Killing Jesus (Ortega)

Director: Laura Mora Ortega
Stars: Natasha Jaramillo, Giovanny Rodríguez, Camilo Escobar
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | Argentina

Lita witnesses the murder of her own father, a university professor. Frustrated over the local police she and her family start to investigate the murder themselves. Located at the dark and violent Medellin the quest for truth and revenge starts.

Journey’s End (Dibb)

Director: Saul Dibb
Stars: Paul Bettany, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

A Ciambra (Carpignano)

Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | Brazil | Germany | France | Sweden | USA

In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions – the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.

Trophy (Clusiau, Schwarz)

Director: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Stars: Tim Black, Philip Glass, Christo Gomes
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Namibia | South Africa | Zimbabwe | USA

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

Square, The (Östlund)

Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | France | Denmark | USA

A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

Deminer, The (Hirori, Kamal)

Director: Hogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal
Stars: Fakhir Berwari, Sheyma Ibrahim, Abdulla Fakhir
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

A portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.

Satan’s Slaves (Anwar)

Director: Joko Anwar
Stars: Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Dimas Aditya
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia | South Korea

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

No Intenso Agora (Salles)

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

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China’s Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Menashe (Weinstein)

Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Stars: Menashe Lustig, Josh Alpert, Abraham Bresky
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.

Kingdom of Us (Cohen)

Director: Lucy Cohen
Stars: Jamie-Jodie Shanks, Kacie-Kimie Shanks, Lorie-Lanie Shanks
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK

A father’s suicide sends a family of eight on a journey through childhood memories and treacherous emotional waters in this poignant documentary.

Fake Tattoos (Plante)

Director: Pascal Plante
Stars: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault, Lysandre Nadeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada

Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a brutal punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a marginal teenager who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story unfolds between them, but Theo has to move at the end of the summer in a small town, far away from a painful past.

12th Man, The (Zwart)

Director: Harald Zwart
Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Norway

They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away…

City of Ghosts (Heineman)

Director: Matthew Heineman
Stars: Abdelaziz Alhamza, Mohamad Almusari, Hamoud Almousa
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A documentary that follows the efforts of “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Arrhythmia (Khlebnikov)

Director: Boris Khlebnikov
Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia | Finland | Germany

A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.

Wind River (Sheridan)

Director: Taylor Sheridan
Stars: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.

Saving Banksy (Day)

Director: Colin M. Day
Stars: Ben Eine, Glen E. Friedman, Kelly ‘Risk’ Graval
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Internationally known graffiti artist, Banksy, left his mark on San Francisco in April 2010. Little did he know that this act of vandalism would spark a chain of events that includes one of his rats being removed from a wall, Museums ignorantly turning down a free Banksy street work, and a NY gallerist who has made it his business model to remove Banksy street works from all over the globe doing whatever it takes to get the rat in his possession.

So Help Me God (Hinant, Libon)

Director: Yves Hinant, Jean Libon
Stars: Anne Gruwez, David Derumier, Serge Graide
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France

In this unapologetic and politically incorrect portrait, an extraordinary and eccentric Belgian judge takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life criminal investigations. The stranger-than-fiction documentary makes for a wild and riveting ride.

Legion of Brothers (Barker)

Director: Greg Barker
Stars: Jason Amerine, George W. Bush, Mark Nutsch
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, fewer than 100 US Troops were sent on a secret mission to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war-origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the impact of 15 years of constant combat.

Bar, The (de la Iglesia)

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain | Argentina

In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.

Darkest Hour (Wright)

Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Cocote (de Los Santos Arias)

Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Stars: Vicente Santos, Jose Cruz, Yuberbi de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Germany | Qatar | Dominican Republic

An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.

Baltimore Rising (Sohn)

Director: Sonja Sohn
Stars: Devin Allen, Genard Shadow Barr, Elijah Cummings
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Baltimore Rising follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death in police custody.

Arthur Miller: Writer (Miller)

Director: Rebecca Miller
Stars: Joan Allen, Joan Copeland, Peter Falk
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Rebecca Miller’s film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home. This celebration of the great American playwright is quite different from what the public has ever seen. It is a close consideration of a singular life shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a bracing look at success and failure in the public eye; an honest accounting of human frailty; a tribute to one artist by another.

Fantastic Woman, A (Lelio)

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Wonderstruck (Haynes)

Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.

Where Is Kyra? (Dosunmu)

Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Suzanne Shepherd
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens her life.

This is Congo (McCabe)

Director: Daniel McCabe
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA | Congo

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

Sylvio (Audley, Birney)

Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
Stars: Sylvio Bernardi, Meghan Doherty, Kentucker Audley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A small town gorilla joins a local TV program where a series of on-air mishaps send him on a journey of self-discovery.

Mohawk (Geoghegan)

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Stars: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

Love After Love (Harbaugh)

Director: Russell Harbaugh
Stars: Andie MacDowell, Chris O’Dowd, James Adomian
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own.

Venerable W., The (Schroeder)

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Ashin Wirathu, U. Zanitar, Kyaw Zayar Htun
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.

Of Fathers and Sons (Derki)

Director: Talal Derki
Stars: Abu Osama, Ayman Osama, Osama Osama
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Germany | USA | Syria | Lebanon | Netherlands | Qatar

Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.

Indian Horse (Campanelli)

Director: Stephen S. Campanelli
Stars: Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

On Happiness Road (Sung)

Director: Hsin Yin Sung
Stars: Gwei Lun-Mei, Te-Sheng Wei, Bor Jeng Chen
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan

Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?

Cries from Syria (Afineevsky)

Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Stars: Hadi Al Abdullah, Raed Al Saleh, Riad Al-Asaad
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Czech Republic

CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their reality or agrees on what to do about it.

Prayer Before Dawn, A (Sauvaire)

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Stars: Joe Cole, Cherry Miko, Vithaya Pansringarm
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: UK | France | China | Cambodia | USA | Germany

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand’s most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful, The (Yang)

Director: Ya-che Yang
Stars: Kara Wai, Ke-Xi Wu, Vicky Chen
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan

Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a cruel murder.

Unveiling Jerusalem (Rehov)

Director: Pierre Rehov
Stars: Assaf Avraham, Dan Bahat, Gabriel Barkay
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

“Unveiling Jerusalem” offers a historical journey, in search of Salomon’s and Herod’s Temples. Many experts, historians and archaeologists, bring their testimonies, on images, animations and exclusive documents.

Unknown Soldier, The (Louhimies)

Director: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland | Belgium | Iceland

A film adaptation of Väinö Linna’s best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel’s unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.

Testament, The (Greenberg)

Director: Amichai Greenberg
Stars: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Hagit Dasberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Israel

Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.

Nile Hilton Incident, The (Saleh)

Director: Tarik Saleh
Stars: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark | Morocco | France

A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don’t want the case solved.

Served Like a Girl (Heslov)

Director: Lysa Heslov
Stars: Nichole Alred, Jas Boothe, Rachel Engler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Director Lysa Heslov’s documentary, “Served Like a Girl, provides a candid look at several American women as they transition from active duty to civilian life after serving tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Roxanne Roxanne (Larnell)

Director: Michael Larnell
Stars: Chanté Adams, Nia Long, Mahershala Ali
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

In the late 80s/ early 1990s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita “Roxanne Shanté” Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.

Eternal Feminine, The (Beristáin)

Director: Natalia Beristáin
Stars: Karina Gidi, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Tessa Ia
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn’t seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.

Generational Sins (Folmar)

Director: Spencer T. Folmar
Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Dax Spanogle, Barrett Donner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Dying mother Sarah tells her elder son Drew that her last wish is for him to take his younger brother Will to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.

First They Killed My Father (Jolie)

Director: Angelina Jolie
Stars: Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Cambodia | USA

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

Cuba and the Cameraman (Alpert)

Director: Jon Alpert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Life in Cuba for three struggling families over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro.

Just Like Our Parents (Bodanzky)

Director: Laís Bodanzky
Stars: Maria Ribeiro, Clarisse Abujamra, Paulo Vilhena
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

When Rosa’s mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.

Zalozhniki (Gigineishvili)

Director: Rezo Gigineishvili
Stars: Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Georgia | Russia | Poland

The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.

Place in the Caribbean, A (Fanconi)

Director: Juan Carlos Fanconi
Stars: José Zúñiga, Gabriela de la Garza, Lali Gonzalez
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Honduras | USA

Romance is in the air on the picturesque Caribbean island of Roatán, but the troubled pasts of its guests threaten to tame their desires.

Sicilian Ghost Story (Grassadonia, Piazza)

Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Stars: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France | Switzerland

Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.

Distant Barking of Dogs, The (Wilmont)

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Stars: Oleg Afanasyev, Alexandra Ryabichkina, Jarik
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Finland

THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight.

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (Salmerón)

Director: Gustavo Salmerón
Stars: Julita Salmerón, Antonio García Cabanes, Ramón García Salmerón
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain

Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.

Loving Vincent (Kobiela, Welchman)

Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk
Genre: Animation, Biography, Crime
Country: Poland | UK | USA | Switzerland | Netherlands

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (Ridley)

Director: John Ridley
Stars: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Damian ‘Football’ Williams
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.

Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, The (Imbert, Renner)

Director: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner
Stars: Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | Belgium

Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it’s a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas. If you want to take a vacation, keep driving past this place.

Gentle Creature, A (Loznitsa)

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Germany | Lithuania | Netherlands

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

Birds Without Names (Shiraishi)

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Stars: Yû Aoi, Sadao Abe, Tôri Matsuzaka
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Tawako’s boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she still reminisces about him and is attracted to his bad ways. Enter Mizushima who reminds Tawako of her old boyfriend, but soon more transpires to remind the girl of her old relationship.

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (Piscatella)

Director: Joe Piscatella
Stars: Joshua ‘Chi-Fung’ Wong
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.

Other Side of Everything, The (Turajlic)

Director: Mila Turajlic
Stars: Srbijanka Turajlic, Mila Turajlic, Mira Boskic
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Serbia | France | Qatar | Germany | Hungary

For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother’s apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country’s tumultuous political inheritance.

Last Men in Aleppo (Fayyad, Johannessen)

Director: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
Stars: Khaled Umar Harah, Batul, Mahmoud
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Syria

Khaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

Atomic Homefront (Cammisa)

Director: Rebecca Cammisa
Stars: Dawn Chapman, Douglas Clemens, Robbin Ellison Dailey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A terrifying look at the corruption that’s destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.

All the Money in the World (Scott)

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Italy | UK | China

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (Philippe)

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Stars: Marli Renfro, Alfred Hitchcock, Tere Carrubba
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), the “man behind the curtain”, and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.

1987: When the Day Comes (Jang)

Director: Joon-Hwan Jang
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Hae-Jin Yoo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.

Lion (Davis)

Director: Garth Davis
Stars: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | Australia | USA

A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Clash (Diab)

Director: Mohamed Diab
Stars: Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, El Sebaii Mohamed
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Egypt | France | Germany

Set entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.

Net, The (Kim)

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Seung-bum Ryoo, Won-geun Lee, Young-min Kim
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.

Sanctuary (Collin)

Director: Len Collin
Stars: Stephen Marcus, Christopher Dunne, Amy-Joyce Hastings
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland

Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart.

Machines (Jain)

Director: Rahul Jain
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: India | Germany | Finland

Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanising physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries.

Soulmate (Tsang)

Director: Derek Tsang
Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Sichun Ma, Toby Lee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Hong Kong

Two women who have been close friends since adolescence must cope with the changes that maturity brings.

Bugs (Johnsen)

Director: Andreas Johnsen
Stars: Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands | Denmark | France | Germany

In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.

Twice Shy (Ryan)

Director: Thomas Ryan, Thomas Ryan
Stars: Shane Murray-Corcoran, Iseult Casey, Ardal O’Hanlon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland | UK

Andy and Maggie, a young Irish couple, travel to England as the result of an unplanned pregnancy, where Maggie will face the biggest decision of her life.

Sully (Eastwood)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight’s passengers and crew.

Being 17 (Téchiné)

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.

Old Stone (Ma)

Director: Johnny Ma
Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada | China

A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.

City of Joy (Gavin)

Director: Madeleine Gavin
Stars: Christine Schuler-Deschryver, Denis Mukwege Mukengere, Eve Ensler
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Congo

This film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monolgoues”) and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away.

Blue Jay (Lehmann)

Director: Alex Lehmann
Stars: Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Clu Gulager
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.

Trapped (Porter)

Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa, Shiladitya Sen
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India

A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.

Sand Storm (Zexer)

Director: Elite Zexer
Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France

When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.

Gleason (Tweel)

Director: Clay Tweel
Stars: Steve Gleason, Mike Gleason, Scott Fujita
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

After he is diagnosed with ALS, former professional football player Steve Gleason begins making a video diary for his unborn son, as he, his wife, and their friends and family work to raise money for ALS patients as his disease progresses.

Fire at Sea (Rosi)

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Stars: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy | France

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

Esteros (Curotto)

Director: Papu Curotto
Stars: Ignacio Rogers, Esteban Masturini, Joaquín Parada
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France

Two boyhood chums, separated soon after sexually awakening together, re-meet as young men with unspoken sexual tensions lying between them.

Train to Busan (Yeon)

Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Stars: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea

While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

Citizen, The (Vranik)

Director: Roland Vranik
Stars: Cake-Baly Marcelo, Ágnes Máhr, Arghavan Shekari
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Wilson, a black man in his late fifties, has been living as a refugee in Hungary for years. He works as a security guard in Budapest and his main desire is to acquire Hungarian citizenship, but he keeps failing the exams that are required for his application. In preparing for the next exam, he is helped by Mari, a Hungarian woman of roughly the same age who is a history teacher. Unexpectedly the teacher and her pupil start to develop deep affection towards each other.

Divines (Benyamina)

Director: Houda Benyamina
Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kevin Mischel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Qatar

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.

Chasing Asylum (Orner)

Director: Eva Orner
Stars: John Howard, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Australia

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia’s cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

Transpecos (Kwedar)

Director: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA

For three Border Patrol agents working a remote desert checkpoint, the contents of one car will reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours will take them on a treacherous journey that could cost them their lives.

Paula (Schwochow)

Director: Christian Schwochow
Stars: Carla Juri, Albrecht Schuch, Roxane Duran
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany | France

The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Newtown (Snyder)

Director: Kim A. Snyder
Stars: Gene Rosen, Syeda Suriya Ahmed, Abbey Clements
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

Hunter Gatherer (Locy)

Director: Josh Locy
Stars: Andre Royo, Jeannetta Arnette, Kellee Stewart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After a 3-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find that she and his family have done what they always wanted to do – forget he exists.

Fences (Washington)

Director: Denzel Washington
Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Canada

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

Chicken People (Haimes)

Director: Nicole Lucas Haimes
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Chicken People is a funny and uplifting look at the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Starting at the largest national poultry competition, likened to the Westminster Dog Show for chickens, Chicken People follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life’s challenges while vying to win the next year’s crown. Both humorous and heartfelt, Chicken People is an unforgettable celebration of the human spirit.

Always Shine (Takal)

Director: Sophia Takal
Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives…forever.

Nice Guys, The (Black)

Director: Shane Black
Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

Afterimage (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Zofia Wichlacz, Bronislawa Zamachowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland

The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

Mahana (Tamahori)

Director: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand

From the author of “The Whale Rider”, a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.

Your Name. (Shinkai)

Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?

Scarred Hearts (Jude)

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Romania | Germany | Belgium | France

Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients’ attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.

Hidden Figures (Melfi)

Director: Theodore Melfi
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Center of My World (Erwa)

Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Stars: Bendix Hansen, Sarah Fuhrer, Louis Hofmann
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | Austria

After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.

Wiener-Dog (Solondz)

Director: Todd Solondz
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

White Sun (Rauniyar)

Director: Deepak Rauniyar
Stars: Dayahang Rai, Asha Magrati, Rabindra Singh Baniya
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Nepal | Netherlands | Qatar | USA | UK

Anti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father’s funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A portrait of post-civil war Nepal during the fragile deadlocked peace process.

Wedding, A (Streker)

Director: Stephan Streker
Stars: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | Pakistan | Luxembourg | France

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.

Kékszakállú (Solnicki)

Director: Gastón Solnicki
Stars: Laila Maltz, Lara Tarlowski, Katia Szechtman
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

Several young daughters of rich industrialists examine in an equally intangible and compelling way the physical and spiritual aspects of a cultural recession.

Hotel Salvation (Bhutiani)

Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani
Stars: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India

Faced with his father’s untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.

Finding Oscar (Suffern)

Director: Ryan Suffern
Stars: Kate Doyle, Scott Greathead, Fredy Peccerelli
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada | Guatemala | USA

FINDING OSCAR is a feature length documentary about the search for justice in the devastating case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. That search leads to the trail of two little boys who were plucked from a nightmare and offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the massacre.

Donald Cried (Avedisian)

Director: Kris Avedisian
Stars: Jesse Wakeman, Kris Avedisian, William Billington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day’s journey into the past.

Under the Gun (Soechtig)

Director: Stephanie Soechtig
Stars: Katie Couric, Ted Cruz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A look at the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children were murdered at their school by a resentful, gun-obsessed shooter, but led to no changes in American federal gun laws.

Queen of Katwe (Nair)

Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.

Peter and the Farm (Stone)

Director: Tony Stone
Stars: Peter Dunning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Peter Dunning, the proprietor of Mile Hill Farm in Vermont who has isolated himself away from his family and often suggests to the filmmakers to make his own suicide a narrative device.

Age of Shadows, The (Kim)

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song, Yoo Gong
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.

Bacchus Lady, The (Lee)

Director: Je-yong Lee
Stars: Yuh-Jung Youn, Hyun-jun Choi, Kim Hye-Yoon
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

The Bacchus Lady looks into the issue of elderly prostitution in South Korea. So-Young, an elderly lady who provides sex services to the male senior citizens using the pretext of selling Bacchus (an energy drink) to them. When So-Young picks up a Korean-Filipino boy named Min-Ho from the clinic she visits after Min-Ho’s mother stabs the doctor (Min-Ho’s father), she takes care of him while seeking a living through prostitution. From her interactions with her former clients, she finds that the golden age in their silver years may not be that bright after all.

Hooligan Sparrow (Wang)

Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Ye Haiyan, Huang, Wang Jianfen
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: China | USA

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government’s reaction surprised even the most seasoned activists across China. ‘The Road from Hainan’ follows Sparrow as she was chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors.

From Nowhere (Newton)

Director: Matthew Newton
Stars: Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez-Richmond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.

Ethel & Ernest (Mainwood)

Director: Roger Mainwood
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Country: UK | Luxembourg

The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs.

Betting on Zero (Braun)

Director: Ted Braun
Stars: William Ackman, Douglas M. Brooks, William Cohan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Writer/director Ted Braun follows controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history.

Tickling Giants (Taksier)

Director: Sara Taksler
Stars: Bassem Youssef, Jon Stewart, Shadi Alfons
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.

Glory (Grozeva, Valchanov)

Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Stars: Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Alexandra Angelova
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Greece

A reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry’s head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.

Lost in Paris (Abel, Gordon)

Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard, Emmy Boissard Paumelle
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Belgium

Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

Nocturama (Bonello)

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

Some young folks, tired of the society they’re living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Long Excuse, The (Nishikawa)

Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Eri Fukatsu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

School Life (Chianáin, Rane)

Director: Neasa Ní Chianáin, David Rane
Stars: Dermot Dix, Amanda Leyden, John Leyden
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | Spain

Long careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English, and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: “Reading. ‘Rithmetic. Rock ‘n’ roll!” But leaving is the hardest lesson.

For the Love of Spock (Nimoy)

Director: Adam Nimoy
Stars: Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Canada | USA

An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).

Future Perfect, The (Wohlatz)

Director: Nele Wohlatz
Stars: Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.

Command and Control (Kenner)

Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Tom Brokaw, Harold Brown, Allan Childers
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Documentary of 1980’s near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser’s award-winning book of the same name.

Beauties of the Night (Cuevas)

Director: Maria Jose Cuevas
Stars: Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Rossy Mendoza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

An honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty, while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame and the chance for happiness.

Alive and Kicking (Glatzer)

Director: Susan Glatzer
Stars: Hilary Alexander, Evita Arce, Kimberly Clever
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Sweden | USA

Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.

United Kingdom, A (Asante)

Director: Amma Asante
Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic | UK | France | USA

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

I Called Him Morgan (Collin)

Director: Kasper Collin
Stars: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | USA

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Salesman, The (Farhadi)

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | France

While both participating in a production of “Death of a Salesman,” a teacher’s wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife’s traumatized objections.

Young Offenders, The (Foott)

Director: Peter Foott
Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland

Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

Southside with You (Tanne)

Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago’s South Side.

Last Family, The (Matuszynski)

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland

The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.

Good Postman, The (Hristov)

Director: Tonislav Hristov
Stars: Ivan Fransuzov, Angela Jekova, Vangel Jekov
Genre: Documentary
Country: Finland | Bulgaria

A small and stubborn Bulgarian village facing the Turkish border has been resisting foreign invaders since the times of the Roman and Ottoman Empires. Now its electorate of 38 elderly Bulgarians is deciding on future of Europe. The Great Gate, as the village has been called for centuries because of its location on the doorsteps of the former Ottoman Empire, has found itself in the middle of European crisis, as at night asylum seekers sneak across the border causing fear and unrest.

Florence Foster Jenkins (Frears)

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Killing for Love (Vetter, Steinberger)

Director: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger
Stars: Imogen Poots, Daniel Brühl, Jens Söring
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Germany | Denmark | UK | Sweden | Netherlands

The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County.

California Typewriter (Nichol)

Director: Doug Nichol
Stars: Silvi Alcivar, Ken Alexander, Tom Hanks
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | India | Canada | USA

California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.

Bobby Sands: 66 Days (Byrne)

Director: Brendan Byrne
Stars: Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Ireland | UK

In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive, non-violent protest to be classified as a political prisoner became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. Sands’ death after 66 days marked a key turning point in the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and brought a global spotlight to the Northern Irish conflict which eventually triggered international efforts to resolve it.

Au nom de ma fille (Garenq)

Director: Vincent Garenq
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany

Based on a true story, KALINKA is about the struggle of Andre Bamberski to bring justice to his daughter Kalinka who died in disturbing circumstances. After 27 years of investigation to hunt down her presumed murderer, Bamberski will finally get the killer kidnapped and brought to justice.

In the Last Days of the City (El Said)

Director: Tamer El Said
Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt | Germany | UK | United Arab Emirates

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Zoology (Tverdovskiy)

Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia | France | Germany

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day – she grows a tail and turns her life around.

All These Sleepless Nights (Marczak)

Director: Michal Marczak
Stars: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland | UK

A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city’s streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.

Uncle Howard (Brookner)

Director: Aaron Brookner
Stars: Aaron Brookner, John Giorno, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK | USA

Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William Burroughs’ bunker until his nephew Aaron unearths his uncle’s story and the memory of everything he was.

Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (Ducastel, Martineau)

Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Stars: Mario Fanfani, Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Théo and Hugo encounter each other’s bodies in a sex club. They talk, things blur into the haziness of unbridled desire, then take shape for a moment as their gaze meets before they resume their exploration and lose themselves anew. A few moments later the two men feel the need to go outside. Together they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and aimlessness and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations?

Autopsy of Jane Doe, The (Øvredal)

Director: André Øvredal
Stars: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

While investigating the murder of a family, Sheriff Sheldon and his team are puzzled with the discovery of the body of a stranger buried in the basement that does not fit to the crime scene. He brings the corpse of the beautiful Jane Doe late night to the coroner Tommy Tilden and requests to have the cause of death until the next morning to have an answer to the press. Tommy’s son and assistant Austin Tilden is ready to go to the movie theater with his girlfriend Emma, but he decides to stay to help his father in the autopsy. Along the stormy and tragic night, they disclose weird and creepy secrets about Jane Doe.

One Week and a Day (Polonsky)

Director: Asaph Polonsky
Stars: Sharon Alexander, Shai Avivi, Tomer Capon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

May God Save Us (Sorogoyen)

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Javier Pereira
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Spain

Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they’d never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.

Louise by the Shore (Laguionie)

Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Stars: Diane Dassigny, Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Frot
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?

Wedding Plan, The (Burshtein)

Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel

When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.

Heartstone (Guðmundsson)

Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Stars: Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland | Denmark

In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.

Harry Benson: Shoot First (Bare, Miele)

Director: Justin Bare, Matthew Miele
Stars: Harry Benson, Carl Bernstein, Bryant Gumbel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

What we know today about many famous musicians, politicians, and actresses is due to the famous work of photographer Harry Benson. He captured vibrant and intimate photos of the most famous band in history;The Beatles. His extensive portfolio grew to include iconic photos of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, and Dr. Martin Luther King. His wide-ranging work has appeared in publications including Life, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Benson, now 86, is still taking photos and has no intentions of stopping.

Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (Moland)

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Germany | Sweden | Norway

Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present will require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer, while time is running out.

Distinguished Citizen, The (Duprat, Cohn)

Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive a prize. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.

Fúsi (Kári)

Director: Dagur Kári
Stars: Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Sigurjón Kjartansson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark

Fusi, a 43 year old man, still lives with his mother. His daily life is characterized by monotonous routine. The appearance of vibrant Sjöfn and young neighbour Hera will upset his old bachelor habits.

Aferim! (Jude)

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | Bulgaria | Czech Republic | France

Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

Paulina (Mitre)

Director: Santiago Mitre
Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France

An intellectual young law student who renounces a promising career to become a schoolteacher in a remote poor village is forced to make a puzzling decision, in the aftermath of her rape.

Heidi (Gsponer)

Director: Alain Gsponer
Stars: Anuk Steffen, Anna Schinz, Lilian Naef
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany | Switzerland | South Africa

A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.

Chorus (Delisle)

Director: François Delisle
Stars: Luc Senay, Simon Poitras, Didier Lucien
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of reconciliation. Chorus is a love story that emerges from mourning and leads to two survivors clinging to each other as if to heal the deepest cut of all.

Results (Bujaksi)

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Two mismatched personal trainers’ lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.

From Afar (Vigas)

Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela | Mexico

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

Parisienne (Arbid)

Director: Danielle Arbid
Stars: Manal Issa, Vincent Lacoste, Paul Hamy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lina is a Lebanese Student that just arrived to Paris to continue her studies in a French University in 1993, only to find that the Chaos that was home was no different than what she will witness in the French capital. But Paris will offer her the opportunity to find herself and acquire a new self confidence that she didn’t know she had in herself.

Tikkun (Sivan)

Director: Avishai Sivan
Stars: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel

An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.

Las elegidas (Pablos)

Director: David Pablos
Stars: Nancy Talamantes, Óscar Torres, Leidi Gutiérrez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | France

Young Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family’s prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.

Dope (Famuyima)

Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who’s surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.

Behemoth (Zhao)

Director: Liang Zhao
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | France

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves.

Walk, The (Zemeckis)

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

Junun (Anderson)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Jonny Greenwood, Ehtisham Khan Ajmeri, Nihal Khan
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Musician Jonny Greenwood travels to Rajasthan, where he performs with a multitude of Indian musicians.

Clan, The (Trapero)

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

Viva (Breathnach)

Director: Paddy Breathnach
Stars: Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.

Mia madre (Moretti)

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Germany

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Field Niggas (Allah)

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

‘The combination is simple: a lot of slow motion portraiture combined with a soundtrack of snippets of people’s conversation and interview. This straightforward method yields one of the most powerful and compassionate statements on race, on politics, on class, on policing, on drugs, that I’ve encountered in contemporary American cinema.’ – Zach Campbell Critics RoundUp

Don’t Blink (Israel)

Director: Laura Israel
Stars: Robert Frank, Sid Kaplan, June Leaf
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Canada | France | USA

Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.

Neon Bull (Mascaro)

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings, Josinaldo Alves
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Netherlands

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region’s booming clothing industry.

German Youth, A (Périot)

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Stars: Harun Farocki, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: France | Switzerland | Germany

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

Queen Mimi (Rokah)

Director: Yaniv Rokah
Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Renée Zellweger, Yaniv Rokah
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Country: USA

Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found “home” at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi’s passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood’s red carpets.

Ixcanul (Bustamante)

Director: Jayro Bustamante
Stars: María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | France

On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

Cosmos (Zulawski)

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal

A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.

Chevalier (Tsangari)

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orfanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece | Germany

A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?

Black Mass (Cooper)

Director: Scott Cooper
Stars: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Palm Trees in the Snow (Molina)

Director: Fernando González Molina
Stars: Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Macarena García
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spanish | Kriolu | Aragonese

After the death of her father, a young Spanish woman discovers a partial letter. As she searches for the answers, she embarks on a journey that takes her back to Africa, where she unfolds the secrets of her family.

Meru (Chin, Vasarhelyi)

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA | India

Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Tale of Tales (Garrone)

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy | France | UK

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

Eye in the Sky (Hood)

Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | Canada

Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Almost Holy (Hoover)

Director: Steve Hoover
Stars: Gennadiy Mokhnenko
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Ukraine | USA

Gennadiy calls himself “Pastor Crocodile.” He’s known throughout Ukraine for his years working to rehabilitate drug-addicted kids. But he’s also a vigilante who uses any force necessary to carry out his moral vision. Gennadiy believes he has made Mariupol a better place, but now, the violence in Ukraine threatens everything.

Black (El Arbi, Fallah)

Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Stars: Sanâa Alaoui, Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium

A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city’s gang culture increases each year. It’s in this criminal milieu that directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set Black, a pulse-pounding contemporary take on a Shakespearean tragedy.

Z for Zachariah (Zobel)

Director: Craig Zobel
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland | Switzerland | USA

In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.

Time to Choose (Ferguson)

Director: Charles Ferguson
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Peter Agnefjall, Tasso Azevedo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions.

S Is for Stanley (Infascelli)

Director: Alex Infascelli
Stars: Emilio D’Alessandro, Alex Infascelli, Roberto Pedicini
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | UK

S Is For Stanley is the story of Emilio D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick’s personal driver. A Friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and brought together two apparently opposite people, that found their ideal journey companion far away from their homes.

Miss Sharon Jones! (Kopple)

Director: Barbara Kopple
Stars: Sharon Jones, Starr Duncan-Lowe, Binky Griptite
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.

Last Cab to Darwin (Sims)

Director: Jeremy Sims
Stars: Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Mark Coles Smith
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn’t have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.

Dark Horse (Osmond)

Director: Louise Osmond
Stars: Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian ‘Daisy’ Vokes
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK

An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse

Above and Below (Steiner)

Director: Nicolas Steiner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland | Germany

From Mars to Earth and underneath. Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels deep down under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry and lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.

Peace Officer (Barber, Christopherson)

Director: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson
Stars: Radley Balko, William ‘Dub’ Lawrence
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of ‘Dub’ Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigation skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.

Monkey Kingdom (Linfield, Fothergill)

Director: Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Tina Fey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Life is an adventure for a young monkey and her son, living among ancient ruins in the jungle. But when her family is forced from their home, she must lead them to safety amidst strange new creatures and surroundings.

My Big Night (de la Iglesia)

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Raphael, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

During the never-ending TV taping for a New Year’s Eve program, peoples personal lives clash and eventually explode out into the open.

Land and Shade (Acevedo)

Director: César Augusto Acevedo
Stars: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Edison Raigosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | France | Netherlands | Chile | Brazil

After having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into.

Innocence of Memories (Gee)

Director: Grant Gee
Stars: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen, Ara Güler
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland

Base on a novel of the Nobel Prize writer Orhan Pamuk ‘The Museum of Innocence’. Set in Istanbul during 1975 to 1984, a story of a man who collects various objects of a woman as memory during their love period.

Burn Burn Burn (Button)

Director: Chanya Button
Stars: Laura Carmichael, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joe Dempsie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

All Things Must Pass (Hanks)

Director: Colin Hanks
Stars: Russ Solomon, Chuck D, Chris Cornell
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: USA | Japan

‘All Things Must Pass’ is a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Tower Records, and its legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon.

Syrian Love Story, A (McAllister)

Director: Sean McAllister
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK | France | Lebanon | Syria

Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

(T)ERROR (Cabral, Sutcliffe)

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of “Shariff”, a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government’s counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, (T)ERROR illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks who is watching the watchers.

What Happened, Miss Simone? (Garbus)

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the “High Priestess of Soul.”

Killing Them Safely (Berardini)

Director: Nick Berardini
Stars: Rick Smith, Tom Smith
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Canada | USA

In the early 2000s, two brothers found tremendous success when their company began selling a device that has been called ‘the biggest revolution in law enforcement since the radio.’ But as their company grew, they made decisions that would have lasting impact on both the public and their increasingly skeptical customer base.

Russian Woodpecker, The (Gracia)

Director: Chad Gracia
Stars: Andrei Alexandrovich, Fedor Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Ukraine | UK | USA

As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.

Hard Stop, The (Amponsah)

Director: George Amponsah, George Amponsah
Stars: Marcus Knox Hooke, Kurtis Henville
Genre: Documentary, Action, Crime
Country: UK

The police killing of Mark Duggan in London, 2011, ignited the worst civil unrest in recent British history and made headlines around the globe.

Babushkas of Chernobyl, The (Bogart, Morris)

Director: Anne Bogart, Holly Morris
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there – semi-officially, for years.

Straight Outta Compton (Gray)

Director: F. Gary Gray
Stars: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (Finlay)

Director: Jeanie Finlay
Stars: Jerry Adams, Sharon Attaway Nettleton, Gail Brewer-Giorgio
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

‘There are many that believe that Elvis is still alive – if he is alive he wears a mask and goes by the name Orion’ (Nashville News 1979) ORION’s the story of Jimmy Ellis, an unknown singer plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme which had him masquerade as Elvis…back from the grave. With an outlandish fictional identity torn from the pages of the best selling novel Orion by Gail Brewer Giorgio, the backing of the legendary birthplace of rock ‘n roll; Sun Records and a voice which seemed to be the very twin of Presley’s himself, the scheme – concocted in the months after Presley’s death mushroomed into a cult phenomena – and the ‘Elvis is alive’ myth was begun.

Listen to Me Marlon (Riley)

Director: Stevan Riley
Stars: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bernardo Bertolucci
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend’s story.

Thin Yellow Line, The (García)

Director: Celso R. García
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Silverio Palacios
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Five men are hired to paint the lines of a road. Painting 1 km/hour is slow enough to learn the lines between good and evil, laughter and despair, life and death. The challenges they face will change their lives forever.

He Never Died (Krawczyk)

Director: Jason Krawczyk
Stars: Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Kate Greenhouse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

Jack, a social outcast, is thrust out of his comfort zone when the outside world bangs on his door and he can’t contain his violent past.

Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra)

Director: Ciro Guerra
Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Colombia | Venezuela | Argentina

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Chinese Mayor, The (Zhou)

Director: Hao Zhou
Stars: Li Fu, Ma Suying, Geng Yangbo
Genre: Documentary, Drama, News
Country: China

DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.

Bone Tomahawk (Zahler)

Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA | UK

In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town’s doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.

Monster with a Thousand Heads, A (Plá)

Director: Rodrigo Plá
Stars: Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre, Hugo Albores
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico

When her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, Sonia Bonet (Jan Raluy) takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point: with her son in tow, she attempts to fight the system.