Author: various
Date: 2001
Genre: Poetry
Country: various
Nearly 1,000 poems with commentary on the lives and works of poets dating from the 10th century to the present.
Tag: Priority 4
Life of Dylan Thomas, The (Fitzgibbon)*
Author: Constantine FitzGibbon
Date: 1965
Genre: Biography
Country: USA
A comprehensive 1965 biography of the Welsh poet, written by a friend who used private papers for the first full-scale account. The book details Thomas’s tumultuous life, including his career, personal struggles with debt and drink, and his eventual death in America, presenting a candid look at the poet’s life and work.
One Writer’s Beginnings (Welty)*
Author: Eudora Welty
Date: 1984
Genre: Essays
Country: USA
In the essays, Ms. Welty explains the inescapable bond between her childhood in Mississippi and her later career as a writer. She shares details from her childhood and her relationship with her parents, Christian Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty. She discusses how these two critical relationships, and other relationships from her childhood, contributed to her literary voice. The book has been praised as revealing “the confluence of past and present as the design of Welty’s life and art by making such intersection the structural principle behind her life story as an artist.”
World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990, The (Wright)*
Author: Charles Wright
Date: 1990
Genre: Poetry
Country: USA
The World of Ten Thousand Things gathers The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), Zone Journals (1988), and a new group of poems, “Xionia,” into one volume, allowing us to see Wright’s work of the past decade as, in essence, one long poem, a meditation on self, history, and the metaphysical that is among the most ambitious and resonant creations in contemporary American poetry.
1,000 Years of Irish Prose (various)*
Author: Various
Date: 1952
Genre: Various
Country: UK
This comprehensive anthology collects the best of Irish prose from the past millennium, from classic folk tales to the best of modern fiction. Highlights include works by James Joyce, Bram Stoker, and Maeve Binchy, as well as lesser-known gems that showcase the breadth and depth of Ireland’s literary heritage.
Major Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, The (various)*
Author: Various
Date: 19th Century
Genre: Poetry
Country: UK
The mood and concerns of the Victorian age are revived here through the poetry of Tennyson, Arnold and Browning. The editor’s perspective introduction probes the psychological alienation and isolation of the Victorian poets, explores the influences the Romantics had upon their poetry, and demonstrates how the Victorians moved the poetic tradition toward the twentieth century. Included are biographical sketches of each poet, bibliographical notes and critical annotations.
Mythology (Hamilton)*
Author: Edith Hamilton
Date: 1942
Genre: Mythology
Country: USA
It retells stories of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology drawn from a variety of sources. The introduction includes commentary on the major classical poets used as sources, and on how changing cultures have led to changing characterizations of the deities and their myths. It is frequently used in high schools and colleges as an introductory text to ancient mythology and belief.
Endless Life: The Selected Poems (Ferlinghetti)*
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Date: 1981
Genre: Poetry
Country: USA
Showcases the poet’s commitment to political and social activism through his work. Ferlinghetti, who embodies the spirit of the Beat generation, emphasizes the importance of artistic integrity and the avoidance of complicity with government influences. The collection highlights his vision of a collective consciousness aimed at challenging societal norms and advocating for change through accessible, public poetry.
De Profundis (Wilde)*
Author: Oscar Wilde
Date: 1897
Genre: Letter
Country: UK
A letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to his friend and lover Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. In its first half, Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which resulted eventually in Wilde’s conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. He indicts both Lord Alfred’s vanity and his own weakness. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterizes as a romantic, individualist artist. The letter begins “Dear Bosie” and ends “Your Affectionate Friend”.
Fanny Hill (Cleland)*
Author: John Cleland
Date: 1749
Genre: Erotic Novel
Country: UK
It is considered “the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel”. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
Passion (Winterson)*
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Date: 1987
Genre:
Country: UK
The novel depicts a young French soldier in the Napoleonic army during 1805 as he takes charge of Napoleon’s personal larder.
Prince, The (Machiavelli)*
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Date: 1532
Genre: Philosophy
Country: Italy
A 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes. Many commentators have viewed that one of the main themes of The Prince is that immoral acts are sometimes necessary to achieve political glory.
Mating (Rush)*
Author: Norman Rush
Date: 1991
Genre:
Country: USA
It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. It focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon, a controversial American social scientist who has founded an experimental matriarchal village in the Kalahari Desert.
Dust Tracks on a Road (Hurston)*
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Date: 1942
Genre: Autobiography
Country: USA
It begins with Hurston’s childhood in the Black community of Eatonville, Florida, then covers her education at Howard University where she began as a fiction writer, having two stories published under the guidance of Charles S. Johnson. It also covers her anthropological work under Franz Boas that led to her study Mules and Men.
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow)*
Author: Saul Bellow
Date: 1953
Genre: Picaresque Novel, Bildungsroman
Country: USA
An impulsively active, irresistibly charming and resolutely free-spirited man, Augie March leaves his family of poor Jewish immigrants behind and sets off in search of reality, fulfillment, and most importantly, love. During his exultant quest, he latches on to a series of dubious schemes – from stealing books and smuggling immigrants to training a temperamental eagle to hunt lizards – and strong-minded women – from the fiery, eagle-owning Thea Fenchel, to the sneaky and alluring Stella. As Augie travels from the depths of poverty to the peaks of worldly success, he stands as an irresistible, poignant incarnation of the American idea of freedom.
Foucault’s Pendulum (Eco)*
Author: Umberto Eco
Date: 1988
Genre: Postmodern, Encyclopedic Novel
Country: Italy
Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum.
But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real. When occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Umberto Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.
Child in Time, The (McEwan)*
Author: Ian McEwan
Date: 1987
Genre:
Country: UK
The story concerns Stephen, an author of children’s books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate.
Man for All Seasons, A (Bolt)*
Author: Robert Bolt
Date: 1960
Genre: Play
Country: UK
The plot is based on the historical events leading up to the execution of Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England, who refused to endorse Henry VIII’s wish to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon, who did not bear him a surviving son, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn.
Innocent, The (McEwan)*
Author: Ian McEwan
Date: 1990
Genre:
Country: UK
The novel takes place in 1955–56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 Operation Gold, to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to tap phone lines of the Soviet High Command. Leonard Marnham is a 25-year-old Englishman who sets up and repairs the tape recorders used in the tunnel. He falls in love with Maria Eckdorf, a 30-year-old divorced German. The story revolves around their relationship and Leonard’s role in the operation.
Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem)*
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Date: 1999
Genre: Detective Novel
Country: USA
Told in first person, the story follows Lionel Essrog, a private investigator who has Tourette’s, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. Essrog works for Frank Minna, a small-time owner of a “seedy and makeshift” detective agency disguised as a transportation company. Together, Essrog and three other characters who are all orphans from Brooklyn—Tony, Danny, and Gilbert—call themselves “the Minna Men”.
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)*
Author: Aristotle
Date: c. 335 to 322 BCE
Genre: Philosophy
Country: Ancient Greece
Aristotle’s best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. It consists of ten sections, referred to as books, and is closely related to Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics. The work is essential for the interpretation of Aristotelian ethics.
View from the Bridge, A (Miller)*
Author: Arthur Miller
Date: 1955
Genre: Play
Country: USA
The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love for, and almost an obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice’s orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice’s cousin Rodolpho.
Operation Shylock (Roth)*
Author: Philip Roth
Date: 1993
Genre: Autobiographical Fiction, Spy
Country: USA
The novel follows narrator “Philip Roth” on a journey to Israel, where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence mission—the “Operation Shylock” of the title.
Loved One, The (Waugh)*
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Date: 1948
Genre: Satire
Country: UK
About the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The (Chabon)*
Author: Michael Chabon
Date: 1988
Genre: Coming of Age
Country: USA
A college graduate’s defining summer crossing his gangster dad and exploring love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.
Mezzanine, The (Baker)*
Author: Nicholson Baker
Date: 1988
Genre:
Country: USA
It narrates what goes through a man’s mind during a modern lunch break.
Deptford Trilogy, The (Davies)*
Author: Robertson Davies
Date: 1970-1975
Genre: Trilogy of Novels
Country: Canada
The trilogy consists of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972), and World of Wonders (1975). The series revolves around a precipitating event: a young boy throws a snowball at another, hitting a pregnant woman instead, who goes into premature labor. It explores the longterm effects of these events on numerous characters.
Sir Gawain and the Green Night (anonymous)*
Author: “Gawain Poet”
Date: late 14th century
Genre: Narrative Poem, Chivalric Romance, Arthurian Tale
Country: UK
It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition. It is an important example of a chivalric romance, which typically involves a hero who goes on a quest that tests his prowess.
Everything That Rises Must Converge (O’Connor)*
Author: Flannery O’Connor
Date: 1960
Genre: Short Stories
Country: USA
It includes all three of O’Connor’s O. Henry Award-winning stories: “Greenleaf” (1957), “Everything That Rises Must Converge” (1963), and “Revelation” (1965). In addition, it contains two stories that were published for the first time via the collection: “Parker’s Back” and “Judgement Day”.
Professor’s House, The (Cather)*
Author: Willa Cather
Date: 1925
Genre:
Country: USA
When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the route his life is taking. He keeps on his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. The marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home and added two new sons-in-law, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he has nothing to look forward to.
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)*
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Date: 1913
Genre: Autobiographical Novel
Country: UK
It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers, which exert complex influences on the development of his manhood.
Vanishing Half, The (Bennett)
Author: Brit Bennett
Date: 2020
Genre: Historical Fiction, Family Saga, Mystery
Country: USA
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
Americanah (Adichie)
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Date: 2013
Genre:
Country: Nigeria
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.
Savage Detectives, The (Bolaño)
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Date: 1998
Genre: Postmodern
Country: USA
The novel tells the story of the search for a 1920s Mexican poet, Cesárea Tinajero, by two 1970s poets, the Chilean Arturo Belano (alter ego of Bolaño) and the Mexican Ulises Lima.
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie)
Author: Salman Rushdie
Date: 1988
Genre: Magical Realism
Country: UK
Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.
Dharma Bums, The (Sagan)
Author: Jack Kerouac
Date: 1958
Genre:
Country: USA
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and “yabyum” in San Francisco’s Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums is sparked by Kerouac’s expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt)
Author: Hannah Arendt
Date: 1951
Genre: Essays
Country: USA
Hannah Arendt’s first major work, where she describes and analyzes Nazism and Stalinism as the major totalitarian political movements of the first half of the 20th century.
Lucky Jim (Amis)
Author: Kingsley Amis
Date: 1954
Genre: Bildungsroman
Country: USA
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain’s new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch’s, deliver a lecture on ‘Merrie England’ and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch’s awful son Bertrand.
Naked Lunch (Burroughs)*
Author: William S. Burroughs
Date: 1959
Genre: Science Fiction, Surrealism
Country: France
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked Lunch‘s formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution has exerted its influence authors like Thomas Pynchon and J. G. Ballard; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media in general.
Ada or Ardor (Nabokov)*
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1969
Genre: Science Fiction
Country: USA
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle’s country estate, in a ‘dream-bright’ America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.
Gift, The (Nabokov)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1938
Genre: Metafiction
Country: Russia
The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor’s pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor’s elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1936
Genre:
Country: USA
Albinus – rich, married middle-aged and respectable – is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus introduces her to the American movie producer Axel Rex, she sees her chance – and plotting, duplicity and tragedy ensue.
Glory (Nabokov)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1932
Genre:
Country: Russia
‘In general Glory is my happiest thing.’ ‘The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one’s chest, or in the casual vision of Martin’s mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end – just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day’ – Vladimir Nabokov
Eye, The (Nabokov)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1930
Genre: Novella
Country: Russia
Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress’ husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little about his own life from the opinions of his distracted, confused fellow-émigrés. Nabokov’s shortest novel, The Eye is both a satirical detective story and a wonderfully layered exploration of identity, appearance and the loss of self in a world of word-play and confusion.
King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1928
Genre:
Country: Russia
‘Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest’, Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. ‘If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in’ – Nabokov darts a glance to the reader – ‘he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there…
Portrait of a Lady, The (James)
Author: Henry James
Date: 1881
Genre: Tragedy
Country: USA
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a ‘young woman affronting her destiny’, Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy.
All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)
Author: William Shakespeare
Date: 1623
Genre: Play, Romance
Country: UK
A poor doctor’s daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young count she chooses refuses to consummate the marriage and flees to Florence – after setting her a seemingly impossible task. Depicting the triumph of trickery over youthful arrogance, All’s Well That Ends Well is among Shakespeare’s darkest romantic comedies, yet it remains a powerful tribute to the strength of love.
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Author: William Shakespeare
Date: 1623
Genre: Comedy, Play
Country: UK
A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper. Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this sparkling and irresistible comedy.
Women in Love (Lawrence)
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Date: 1920
Genre:
Country: UK
Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence’s greatest novel, Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun’s relationships-the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptor-Women in Love is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)*
Author: Joseph Conrad
Date: 1902
Genre: Novella
Country: UK
Delve into the harrowing journey of Marlow as he ventures up the Congo River in Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” This evocative tale exposes the grim realities of European colonialism in Africa, the darkness within the human soul, and the profound horrors lurking beneath the guise of civilization. As Marlow confronts the enigmatic figure of Kurtz, Conrad crafts a narrative rich in symbolism and profound existential questioning. “Heart of Darkness” remains a vital read, not just for its literary brilliance but for its incisive critique of imperialism and exploration of humanity’s darkest corners.
Hard Times (Dickens)
Author: Charles Dickens
Date: 1854
Genre:
Country: UK
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his young daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and “bully of humility” Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.
Mayor of Casterbridge, The (Hardy)
Author: Thomas Hardy
Date: 1886
Genre:
Country: UK
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled “A Story of a Man of Character,” Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
Silas Marner (Eliot)*
Author: George Eliot,
Date: 1861
Genre:
Country: UK
An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
Bleak House (Austen)
Author: Jane Austen
Date: 1853
Genre:
Country: UK
As the interminable case of ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce’ grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
Winter of Our Discontent, The (Steinbeck)
Author: John Steinbeck
Date: 1961
Genre:
Country: USA
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Zevin)
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Date: 2022
Genre:
Country: USA
The novel follows the relationship between two friends who begin a successful video game company together.
Mahabharata (Vyasa)
Author: Vyasa
Date: circa 8th century BCE – 3rd century BCE
Genre: Epic
Country: Ancient India
Originally published in the year 1951, the huge popularity of the book has resulted in the book being re-printed several times. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: “What is not in it, is nowhere.” But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine. It is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival.
O Pioneers! (Cather)
Author: Willa Cather
Date: 1913
Genre: Historical Fiction
Country: USA
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: “Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives. Yet they suffice for us to call him great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style.”
Cousin Bette (Balzac)
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Date: 1846–1847
Genre:
Country: France
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice.
Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot)
Author: George Eliot
Date: 1860
Genre: Psychological fiction
Country: UK
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family’s worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.
Ramayana, The (Valmiki)
Author: Valmiki
Date: 7th century BCE – 3rd century CE
Genre: Epic
Country: Ancient India
India’s most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India’s cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 b.c. The epic of Prince Rama’s betrayal, exile, and struggle to rescue his faithful wife, Sita, from the clutches of a demon and to reclaim his throne has profoundly affected the literature, art, and culture of South and Southeast Asia-an influence most likely unparalleled in the history of world literature, except, possibly, for the Bible.
Mandarins, The (Beauvoir)
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Date: 1954
Genre:
Country: France
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her—Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler—and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.
My Ántonia (Cather)
Author: Willa Cather
Date: 1918
Genre: Historical Fiction
Country: USA
The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions on both children, affecting them for life.
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Author: John Steinbeck
Date: 1937
Genre: Tragedy
Country: USA
They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck’s work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual’s existence meaningful.
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Date: 1825–1832
Genre:
Country: Russia
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin’s verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other
characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin’s own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Date: 1962
Genre: Historical Fiction
Country: Russia
This crisp, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Khrushchev himself, during the Russian thaw, is said to have authorized the publication of this spare, stark description of life in a Siberian labour camp.
Père Goriot (Balzac)
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Date: 1834
Genre:
Country: France
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune. He befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for wealth.
Good Earth, The (Buck)
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Date: 1931
Genre: Historical Fiction
Country: China
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather)
Author: Willa Cather
Date: 1927
Genre:
Country: USA
Willa Cather’s best known novel is an epic–almost mythic–story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows–gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.
Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas)
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Date: 1846
Genre: Historical Novel, Adventure
Country: France
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s, Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution.
Man Without Qualities, The (Remarque)
Original Title: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Author: Robert Musil
Date: 1930–1943
Genre: Modernist, Philosophical, Historical
Country: Austria
“The Man Without Qualities” is a satirical novel set in Vienna during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It follows the life of Ulrich, a thirty-two-year-old mathematician, who is in search of a sense of life and reality but is caught up in the societal changes and political chaos of his time. The book explores themes of existentialism, morality, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world.
Les Misérables (Hugo)
Author: Victor Hugo
Date: 1862
Genre: Epic Novel, Historical Fiction, Tragedy
Country: France
Set in early 19th-century France, the narrative follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his journey towards redemption. The story touches upon the nature of law and grace, and elaborates upon the history of France, architecture of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. It is known for its vivid and relatable characters, and its exploration of societal and moral issues.
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Date: 1869
Genre: Historical Novel
Country: Russia
Set in the backdrop of the Napoleonic era, the novel presents a panorama of Russian society and its descent into the chaos of war. It follows the interconnected lives of five aristocratic families, their struggles, romances, and personal journeys through the tumultuous period of history. The narrative explores themes of love, war, and the meaning of life, as it weaves together historical events with the personal stories of its characters.
Kite Runner, The (Hosseini)
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Date: 2003
Genre: Tragedy, Coming of Age, Historical Fiction
Country: USA
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.
Eagles of the Republic (Saleh)
Director: Tarik Saleh
Stars: Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri, Zineb Triki
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden
George Fahmy, Egypt’s most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.
American Doctor (Teng)
Director: Poh Si Teng
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, State of Palestine, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark, Japan
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Seeds (Shyne)
Director: Brittany Shyne
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning land.
Sex (Haugerud)
Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Stars: Jan Gunnar, Røise Thorbjørn, Harr Siri Forberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality and identity. One has a same-sex encounter without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity. The other finds himself in dreams where he is seen as a woman.
Folktales (Grady, Ewing)
Director: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Norway
On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.
Griffin in Summer (Colia)
Director: Nicholas Colia
Stars: Everett Blunck, Owen Teague, Abby Ryder Fortson
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Griffin is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He’s also fourteen years old. When his mom hires a handsome 25-year-old handyman, Griffin’s life and his new play take an inspired turn.
I Wish You All the Best (Dorfman)
Director: Tommy Dorfman
Stars: Corey Fogelmanis, Miles Gutierrez-Riley
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
A non-binary teen is kicked out of their North Carolina home after coming out to their ultra-religious parents. As a result, they move in with their estranged sister and her husband. Though the two are welcoming, they continue to struggle with anxiety further exacerbated by their parents’ rejection. As such, they try to keep a low profile at school. However, after they meet a proudly bisexual classmate, their life begins to look a little more hopeful.
When Fall Is Coming (Ozon)
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Country: France
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression… until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.
Eternal You (Riesewick, Block)
Director: Moritz Riesewick, Hans Block
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany, Netherlands, USA
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
Every Little Thing (Aitken)
Director: Sally Aitken
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (Davidtz)
Director: Embeth Davidtz
Stars: Lexi Venter, Embeth Davidtz, Zikhona Bali
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Eight-year-old Bobo grows up on her family farm in Rhodesia in 1980 during the final days of the Bush War to end British colonial rule. Her eyes see conflict, the family’s bond to the land, and the lasting wounds that war imprints on those who live through it.
Sally (Costantini)
Director: Cristina Costantini
Stars: Sally Ride, Tam O’Shaughnessy
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Sally Ride’s groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, unveils their covert 27-year romance and its accompanying sacrifices.
Ghost Trail (Millet)
Director: Jonathan Millet
Stars: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture.
Merrily We Roll Along (Friedman)
Director: Maria Friedman
Stars: Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, Daniel Radcliffe
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.
Sketch (Worley)
Director: Seth Worley
Stars: Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (Falconer)
Director: Sierra Falconer
Stars: Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Dominic Bogart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Lives intertwine around Green Lake as a girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters operate a bed-and-breakfast, and a fisherman is after the catch of his life.
Endless Cookie (Scriver, Scriver)
Director: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver
Stars: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver, Kristin Scriver
Genre: Documentary
Country: Animation, Canada
Exploring the complex bond between two half brothers — one Indigenous, one white — traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa to bustling 1980s Toronto.
Ice Tower, The (Hadžihalilović)
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.
Things You Kill, The (Khatami)
Director: Alireza Khatami
Stars: Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, Singapore
Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.
Wake Up Dead Man (Johnson)
Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway
When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.
Meeting with Pol Pot (Panh)
Director: Rithy Panh
Stars: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Gueï
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Cambodia, France, Qatar, Taiwan, Turkey
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide.
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Farsi)
Director: Sepideh Farsi
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist who describes her life confined in Gaza during the current regional conflict.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Joseph)
Director: Kahlil Joseph
Stars: Penny Johnson Jerald, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Bria Henderson
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, Sci Fi
Country: USA
American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Loktev)
Director: Julia Loktev
Stars: Olga Churakova, Irina Dolinina, Sonya Groysman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.
Corey Feldman vs. the World (Hume)
Director: Marcie Hume
Stars: Corey Feldman, Darci Carpenter, Brittany Chapman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Corey Feldman embarks on a surreal rock tour with lingerie-clad ‘angels’, facing disastrous events that compel him to confront Hollywood abuse allegations and personal secrets.
Little Trouble Girls (Djukić)
Director: Urška Djukić
Stars: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia
16-year-old Lucia joins Catholic school choir, befriends senior Ana-Maria. During choir retreat at convent, Lucia’s attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith.
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Cattet, Forzani)
Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Stars: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci Fi
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, France
A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.
Cactus Pears (Kanawade)
Director: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Stars: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Canada, UK
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried.
What Does That Nature Say to You (Sang-soo)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Ha Seong-guk, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents’ house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations.
Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, The (Céspedes)
Director: Diego Céspedes
Stars: Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany
1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Twelve-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth.
Blue Trail, The (Mascaro)
Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro
Genre: Drama, Sci Fi
Country: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands
To maximize economic productivity, the Brazilian government orders elderly people to move to remote housing colonies. A 77-year-old woman refuses and embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.
Rosemead (Lin)
Director: Eric Lin
Stars: Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
An ailing woman takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.
Mirrors No. 3 (Petzold)
Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: Germany
After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty’s family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.
Eagles of the Republic (Saleh)
Director: Tarik Saleh
Stars: Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri, Amr Waked
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland
Egypt’s most adored actor, George Fahmy, falls into disgrace with the authorities overnight. On the verge of losing everything, George is forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.
Romería (Simón)
Director: Carla Simón
Stars: Llúcia Garcia, Mitch, Tristán Ulloa
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany
With her mother’s diary in hand, Marina’s search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.
Amrum (Akin)
Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Diane Kruger, Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.
My Father’s Shadow (Davies)
Director: Akinola Davies Jr.
Stars: Sope Dirisu
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Nigeria
Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
Poet, A (Soto)
Director: Simón Mesa Soto
Stars: Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade, Guillermo Cardona
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden
An aging poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might be unwise. His own poetic pursuits led nowhere, leaving him a stereotypical obscure writer.
Calle Málaga (Touzani)
Director: Maryam Touzani
Stars: Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter’s decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the belongings of a lifetime. Along the way, she rediscovers love and desire.
Tuner (Roher)
Director: Daniel Roher
Stars: Leo Woodall, Havana Rose Liu, Lior Raz
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
A talented piano tuner’s meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.
Two Prosecutors (Loznitsa)
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania
In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.
Urchin (Dickinson)
Director: Harris Dickinson
Stars: Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Karyna Khymchuk
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A young addict living on the streets of London is given a shot at redemption, but his road to recovery soon curdles into a strange odyssey from which he may never escape.
She Rides Shotgun (Rowland)
Director: Nick Rowland
Stars: Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A girl marked for death must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows: her father. An adaptation of Jordan Harper’s award-winning novel.
Mr Nobody Against Putin (Griffiths)
Director: James Griffiths
Stars: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany
A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school’s transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.
Ballad of Wallis Island, The (Griffiths)
Director: James Griffiths
Stars: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.
Honey Don’t! (Coen)
Director: Ethan Coen
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
A small-town private investigator delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.
Black Bag (Soderbergh)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter’s murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
Zootopia 2 (Bush, Howard)
Director: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan
Genre: Animation
Country: USA
Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.
Housemaid, The (Feig)
Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
A struggling young woman is relieved by the chance for a fresh start as a maid for a wealthy couple. Soon, she discovers that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.
Red Point of Marriage, The (Kalangie)
Director: Sabrina Rochelle Kalangie
Stars: Marsha Timothy, Oka Antara, Sheila Dara, Jaden Ocean
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
A couple’s relationship hits rock bottom after 11 years – until an intriguing young woman reawakens emotions and threatens to end their marriage.
Nude Tuesday (Ballantyne)
Director: Armağan Ballantyne
Stars: Jackie van Beek, Damon Herriman, Jemaine Clement
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, New Zealand
When middle-aged suburban couple, Laura and Bruno are gifted a remote couples’ retreat for their anniversary, they decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits. Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, Laura and Bruno uncomfortably enter a world of laughter workshops, tantric dance, sexual liberation and emotional animals, helmed by the charismatic guru Bjorg Rassmussen. When new temptations start to take hold, the couple are pushed to the brink forcing them to look within to find what they really want. But will they bare all to get it?
Apolonia, Apolonia (Glob)
Director: Lea Glob
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechia, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Poland
When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. The talented Apolonia was born in an underground theater in Paris and grew up in an artists’ community—the ultimate bohemian existence. In her 20s, she studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, one of the most prestigious art academies in Europe. Over the years, Lea Glob kept returning to film the charismatic Apolonia and a special bond developed between the two young women.
Bruiser (Warren)
Director: Miles Warren
Stars: Jalyn Hall, Trevante Rhodes, Shamier Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a burgeoning mentorship with mysterious drifter Porter.
Aisha (Berry)
Director: Frank Berry
Stars: Letitia Wright, Josh O’Connor, Lorcan Cranitch
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Aisha, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, is floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. As her situation becomes increasingly dire, Aisha struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.
Aurora’s Sunrise (Sahakyan)
Director: Inna Sahakyan
Stars: Anzhelika Hakobyan, Tamara Chalkhifalaqyan
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: Armenia, Germany, Lithuania
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.
Nothing Lasts Forever (Kohn)
Director: Jason Kohn
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching crime that threatens the value of every diamond ever mined. At stake is nothing less than the universal symbol of love and commitment – the engagement ring.
Karaoke (Rosenthal)
Director: Moshe Rosenthal
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabai, Rita Shukrun
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi) is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itzik’s karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.
Scarlet (Marcello)
Director: Pietro Marcello
Stars: Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Noémie Lvovsky, Louis Garrel
Genre: History, Romance, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy
A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.
Unrest (Schäublin)
Director: Cyril Schäublin
Stars: Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Monika Stalder
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Switzerland
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh”) of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.
Small, Slow But Steady (Miyake)
Director: Sho Miyake
Stars: Yukino Kishii, Tomokazu Miura, Masaki Miura
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Mister Organ (Farrier)
Director: David Farrier
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: NZ
Following reports of fraudulent car clamping in Auckland, journalist and filmmaker David Farrier opens an investigation that pushes him to the limits of his sanity in this incredible true story of psychological warfare.
Monica (Pallaoro)
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Stars: Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.
Chile ’76 (Martelli)
Director: Manuela Martelli
Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Qatar, USA
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Klondike (Gorbach)
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach
Stars: Oksana Cherkashyna, Serhii Shadrin, Oleh Scherbyna
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, Ukraine, USA
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
Lighting up the Stars (Jiangjiang)
Director: Liu Jiangjiang
Stars: Zhu Yilong, Yang Enyou, Wang Ge, Liu Lu
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.
Mars One (Martins)
Director: Gabriel Martins
Stars: Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião, Ana Hilário
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it’s time to leave home
Return to Dust (Ruijun)
Director: Li Ruijun
Stars: Wu Renlin, Hai Qing, Yang Guangrui, Dengfeng Zhao
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: China
Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth’s cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive.
Other People’s Children (Zlotowski)
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Stars: Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother… which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Pez Outlaw, The (Storkel, Storkel)
Director: Bryan Storkel, Amy Bandlien Storkel
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan farmer, boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of poverty and finally find a purpose in his mundane life.
Tori and Lokita (Dardenne, Dardenne)
Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Stars: Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj, Tijmen Govaerts
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
Pamfir (Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk)
Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk
Stars: Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Solomiia Kyrylova, Stanislav Potiak
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Chile, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Ukraine
When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.
Nostalgia (Martone)
Director: Mario Martone
Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
Upon Entry (Rojas, Vásquez)
Director: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez
Stars: Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí, Ben Temple, Laura Gómez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their professional careers and start a family in ‘the land of opportunities’. But upon entering New York airport’s immigration area, they are taken to the secondary inspection room, where border officers will subject them to an unpleasant inspection process and a psychologically grueling interrogation.
Alcarràs (Simón)
Director: Carla Simón
Stars: Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Albert Bosch
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction – and the loss of far more than their home.
Am I OK? (Notaro, Allynne)
Director: Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she’s moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
Eight Mountains, The (Vandermeersch, van Groeningen)
Director: Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen
Stars: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Lupo Barbiero
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, UK
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Entergalactic (Moules)
Director: Fletcher Moules
Stars: Kid Cudi, Jessica Williams, Laura Harrier, Ty Dolla Sign
Genre: Animation
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
Stutz (Hill)
Director: Jonah Hill
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.
Beasts, The (Sorogoyen)
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Marina Foïs, Denis Ménochet, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
Girl in the Picture (Borgman)
Director: Skye Borgman
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.
Athena (Gavras)
Director: Romain Gavras
Stars: Dali Benssalah, Anthony Bajon, Alexis Manenti
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
Country: France
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
Sidney (Hudlin)
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, USA
This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, and more.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Fabian)
Director: Anthony Fabian
Stars: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson
Genre: History, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, UK
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Piggy (Pereda)
Director: Carlota Pereda
Stars: Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Country: France, Spain
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
Nanny (Jusu)
Director: Nikyatu Jusu
Stars: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
Leonor Will Never Die (Escobar)
Director: Martika Ramirez Escobar
Stars: Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama, Comedy
Country: Philippines, USA
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
Both Sides of the Blade (Denis)
Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He does not notice her, but she is overtaken by the sensation that her life could suddenly change. François gets back in touch with Jean. For the first time in years. He suggests they start working together again. From here on, things spiral out of control.
Mija (Castro)
Director: Isabel Castro
Stars: Doris Muñoz, Jacks Haupt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Doris Muñoz is a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her biggest client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom “making it” isn’t just a dream: it’s a necessity.
Last Flight Home (Timoner)
Director: Ondi Timoner
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Eli Timoner, a dedicated husband, father, and entrepreneur who founded the airline Air Florida in the 1970s, decides to medically terminate his life. During the 15-day waiting period, the bedridden but sharp-witted Eli says goodbye to those closest to him and helps them prepare for his departure. While his loved ones look back on Eli’s successes and devastating blows, they struggle to reconcile his choice.
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (Cohen, West)
Director: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.
Utama (Grisi)
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque, Félix Ticona
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, France, Uruguay
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
I Didn’t See You There (Davenport)
Director: Reid Davenport
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze — gawked at by strangers — or paradoxically rendered invisible, ignored or dismissed by society. The arrival of a circus tent just outside his apartment prompts him to consider the history and legacy of the freak show, in which individuals who were deemed atypical were put on display for the amusement and shock of a paying public. Contemplating how this relates to his own filmmaking practice, which explicitly foregrounds disability, Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world from his wheelchair without having to be seen himself.
Couple, A (Wiseman)
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Nathalie Boutefeu
Genre: Romance, Drama, History
Country: France, USA
“A Couple” is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other. Leo Tolstoy insisted that they read their diaries aloud to guests at dinner parties. The Tolstoy’s were also a dysfunctional couple, arguing frequently and being very unhappy with each other while occasionally enjoying passionate moments of reconciliation. The film is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from their letters to each other and their diary entries.
2nd Chance (Bahrani)
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.
Catherine Called Birdy (Dunham)
Director: Lena Dunham
Stars: Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Lesley Sharp
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.
Tantura (Schwarz)
Director: Alon Schwarz
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel, State of Palestine
The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence. Palestinians call it “Nakba” (the Catastrophe). In the late 1990s, graduate student Teddy Katz conducted research into a large-scale massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948. His work later came under attack and his reputation was ruined, but 140 hours of audio testimonies remain.
Riotsville, USA (Pettengill)
Director: Sierra Pettengill
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.
Bad Axe (Siev)
Director: David Siev
Stars: Michael Meinhold, Chun Siev, Austin Turmell, Skyler Janssen
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.
Dos Estaciones (González)
Director: Juan Pablo González
Stars: Teresa Sánchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community’s main source of economy and pride.
RRR (Rajamouli)
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Stars: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Olivia Morris, Ray Stevenson
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama
Country: India
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries’ journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
Is That Black Enough for You?!? (Mitchell)
Director: Elvis Mitchell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
Territory, The (Pritz)
Director: Alex Pritz
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil, Canada, Denmark, USA
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.
My Imaginary Country (Guzmán)
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, France
This documentary explores the protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.
Descendant (Brown)
Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
History exists beyond what is written. The Africatown residents in Mobile, Alabama, have shared stories about their origins for generations. Their community was founded by enslaved ancestors who were transported in 1860 aboard the last known and illegal slave ship, Clotilda. Though the ship was intentionally destroyed upon arrival, its memory and legacy weren’t. Now, the long-awaited discovery of the Clotilda’s remains offers this community a tangible link to their ancestors and validation of a history so many tried to bury.
After the Bite (Meeropol)
Director: Ivy Meeropol
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Following a series of great white shark attacks that dominated the headlines, one Cape Cod community renegotiates its relationship with the marine environment. Local residents, fishermen, and environmentalists are forced to confront dramatic changes to their way of life. How far can we push nature before it bites back?
Silver Dollar Road (Peck)
Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France
The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.
Close to Vermeer (Raes)
Director: Suzanne Raes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands
In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.
Last Stop Larrimah: Murder Down Under (Tancred)
Director: Thomas Tancred
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled.
In My Mother’s Skin (Dagatan)
Director: Kenneth Dagatan
Stars: Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, James Mavie Estrella
Genre: War, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
Stroll, The (Drucker, Lovell)
Director: Zackary Drucker, Kristen Parker Lovell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.
King Coal (Sheldon)
Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.
Cassandro (Williams)
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
Judy Blume Forever (Pardo, Wolchok)
Director: Davina Pardo, Leah Wolchok
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.
Every Body (Cohen)
Director: Julie Cohen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.
Shayda (Niasari)
Director: Noora Niasari
Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Leah Purcell
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.
Sweet Dreams (Sendijarević)
Director: Ena Sendijarević
Stars: Hayati Azis, Renée Soutendijk, Lisa Zweerman
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Netherlands, Réunion, Sweden
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
Gasoline Rainbow (Ross, Ross)
Director: Turner Ross, Bill Ross
Stars: Micah Bunch, Nathaly Garcia, Nichole Dukes, Tony Aburto, Makai Garza
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place none of them has ever been— the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away.
National Anthem (Gilford)
Director: Luke Gilford
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.
Goodbye Julia (Kordofani)
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sweden
A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man’s death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to confess her role in the tragedy, she hopes to move forward, but the country’s growing unrest threatens to reveal her secret.
Frybread Face and Me (Luther)
Director: Billy Luther
Stars: Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan, Sarah H. Natani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family’s past and themselves.
Stamped from the Beginning (Williams)
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Angela Davis, Alexa Rachelle Jennings, Rafa Marinho
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: USA
Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi’s bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (Kijak)
Director: Stephen Kijak
Stars: Rock Hudson, Joe Carberry, Tim Turner, Lee Garlington
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public “ladies’ man” persona to his private life as a gay man.
Inshallah a Boy (Rasheed)
Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Haitham Omari, Yumna Marwan
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
Braid, The (Colombani)
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Stars: Kim Raver, Fotinì Peluso, Mia Maelzer, Katharine King So
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Teacher Who Promised the Sea, The (Font)
Director: Patricia Font
Stars: Enric Auquer, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa, Ramon Agirre
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather’s teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (Walker)
Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter future for her daughters.
Pigeon Tunnel, The (Morris)
Director: Errol Morris
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.
Irena’s Vow (Archambault)
Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Canada, Poland
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major’s house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
Slow (Kavtaradzė)
Director: Marija Kavtaradzė
Stars: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas, Gediminas Rimeika
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Spain, Sweden
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
Fireworks (Fiorello)
Director: Giuseppe Fiorello
Stars: Samuele Segreto, Gabriele Pizzurro, Fabrizia Sacchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A sunbaked Sicilian town in the summer of 1982 provides the vivid backdrop to this tender romantic drama about two teenagers who fall in love, but much to the disapproval of those around them. Gianni is a handsome but shy teen who works as a car mechanic at his stepfather’s garage but is mercilessly taunted by the macho townsmen for being a homosexual. With his family life no better, Gianni withdraws into himself until one day he meets Nino, a curly-haired boy with an infectious smile. As the two become close and fall in love, the moral rumblings from their families and neighbors begin to erupt. With all against them, the boys decide to make a stand.
Adults, The (Defa)
Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Stars: Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis, Wavyy Jonez
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.
Starling Girl, The (Parmet)
Director: Laurel Parmet
Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Milli Vanilli (Korem)
Director: Luke Korem
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice having left an abusive household, they shared a similar upbringing, as well as a future goal: to become famous superstars. In a few short years, their dreams came true. Rob and Fab, better known as Milli Vanilli, became the world’s most popular pop duo in 1990 and won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. However, their ascension to success came with a devastating price that ultimately led to their infamous undoing.
Monk and the Gun, The (Dorji)
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam, Choeying Jatsho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bhutan, France, Taiwan, USA
An American travels to Bhutan searching for a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
If You Were the Last (Figueroa)
Director: Kristian Mercado Figueroa
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Zoë Chao, Natalie Morales, Geoff Stults
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Country: USA
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they’re better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Full River Red (Yimou)
Director: Zhang Yimou
Stars: Shen Teng, Jackson Yee, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
During China’s Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui’s palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.
Four Daughters (Ben Hania)
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: N/A
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (Bellocchio)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Paolo Pierobon
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Guardians of the Formula (Bjelogrlić)
Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić
Stars: Alexis Manenti, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Miki Manojlović
Genre: Thriller, History, Drama
Country: North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.
All Your Faces (Herry)
Director: Jeanne Herry
Stars: Birane Ba, Leïla Bekhti, Anne Benoît, Dali Benssalah
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Since 2014, France’s restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
Sun and Concrete (Wnendt)
Director: David Wnendt
Stars: Levy Rico Arcos, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling, Vincent Wiemer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan
Settlers, The (Gálvez)
Director: Felipe Gálvez
Stars: Camilo Arancibia, Heinz K. Krattiger, Mark Stanley
Genre: Western, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Taiwan, UK
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
Radical (Zalla)
Director: Christopher Zalla
Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Haddad, Jennifer Trejo
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and perhaps even their genius.
Yannick (Dupieux)
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
In the middle of a performance of the play “Le Cocu”, a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Origin (DuVernay)
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
Memory (Franco)
Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, UK, USA, Chile
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady, The (Bourboulon)
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain
D’Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
Io Capitano (Garrone)
Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
Theater Camp (Gordon, Lieberman)
Director: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
Stars: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Ayo Edebr
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless “crypto-bro” son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, The (Bourboulon)
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain
D’Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King’s Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen’s confidante.
Reality (Satter)
Director: Tina Satter
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner returns from running errands to find two FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia. An Air Force veteran and yoga instructor, Winner spends the next two hours being questioned about her work as an intelligence contractor — specifically, whether she leaked a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Priscilla (Coppola)
Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
The unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his estate at Graceland.
Truth vs. Alex Jones, The (Reed)
Director: Dan Reed
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
Filmed over four years with unprecedented access, this documentary chronicles the riveting courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ families against Alex Jones and his website, InfoWars.
Intercepted (Karpovych)
Director: Oksana Karpovych
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, France, Ukraine
Intercepted is a journey through Ukraine that reveals the banality of evil behind the Russian invasion with the shocking juxtaposition of two realities: the Ukrainians who have been suffering and resisting the war violence, and the Russian military, and civilians, who have been perpetrating it.
New Kind of Wilderness, A (Jacobsen)
Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Stars: Maria Gros Vatne, Nikolaus Ithell Payne, Freja Vatne Payne
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.
Unfinished Film, An (Ye)
Director: Lou Ye
Stars: Qin Hao, Mao Xiaorui, Qi Xi, Liang Ming, Huang Xuan
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Singapore
In January 2020, director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted a decade earlier. With the shoot almost complete, rumors regarding an illness begin to circulate. Some cast and crew manage to leave before the hotel is put on lockdown. Everyone remaining is confined to their rooms, and the director must decide whether to halt filming once more as Wuhan is shut down in the early days of a terrifying pandemic.
Commandant’s Shadow, The (Völker)
Director: Daniela Völker
Stars: Hans-Jürgen Höss, Kai Höss, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Genre: Documentary, War, History
Country: Germany, Israel, Poland, UK, USA
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face. This is the first time the descendant of a major war criminal meets a survivor in such a private and intimate setting, Anita’s London living room. Together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, the four protagonists explore their very different hereditary burdens.
Dying (Glasner)
Director: Matthias Glasner
Stars: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.
Kix (Révész, Mikulán)
Director: Bálint Révész, Dávid Mikulán
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Croatia, France, Hungary
Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 10 wild years of their young lives.
Cloud (Kurosawa)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Ryosuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
Sujo (Valadez, Rondero)
Director: Fernanda Valadez, Astrid Rondero
Stars: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Sandra Lorenzano
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, USA
When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.
Los Frikis (Schwartz, Nilson)
Director: Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson
Stars: Adria Arjona, Héctor Medina, Eros de la Puente
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, “Frikis” bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It’s there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
Kingdom, The (Colonna)
Director: Julien Colonna
Stars: Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes. Forced to go on the run, father and daughter will learn to face one another, to understand and love each other.
Grand Theft Hamlet (Grylls, Crane)
Director: Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
Stars: Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, Jen Cohn, Tilly Steele, Dipo Ola
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Machinima
Country: USA
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Stormskerry Maja (Lymi)
Director: Tiina Lymi
Stars: Amanda Jansson, Linus Troedsson
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja becomes aware of a new era: a woman can be an equal partner instead of a mere bystander. The couple have children, and life is good until trouble sets in: war arrives on the island, Janne is forced to flee from the English troops, and Maja and the children are imprisoned. The family also faces many financial difficulties and death. Years pass, but Maja remains strong and stays in Stormskerry despite all the hardships and difficulties.
Colors Within, The (Yamada)
Director: Naoko Yamada
Stars: Sayu Suzukawa, Akari Takaishi, Taisei Kido,Yasuko, Aoi Yuki
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the ‘colors’ of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn’t play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections.
High Tide (Calvani)
Director: Marco Calvani
Stars: Marco Pigossi, James Bland, Marisa Tomei, Bill Irwin
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Lourenço decides to leave his homophobic family and country behind to get lost in the queer mecca of Provincetown, until the intense and unexpected romance with Maurice, who also feels lost in today’s America, changes his life forever.
Lost Children, The (von Einsiedel, Houghton, Duran)
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton, Jorge Duran
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Colombia, UK, USA
After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestral wisdom as an unprecedented rescue mission unfolds.
Lake George (Reiner)
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Stars: Carrie Coon, Shea Whigham, Glenn Fleshler, Max Casella
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Newly released from prison, a white-collar criminal, used to dealing with numbers, is tasked with one last job by his boss: kill the boss’ girlfriend before she talks.
Brother and 7 Siblings, A (Laurens)
Director: Yandy Laurens
Stars: Chicco Kurniawan, Amanda Rawles, Fatih Unru
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
After the untimely death of his older siblings, a struggling young architect suddenly becomes a “single parent” for his nephews. When the opportunity for a better life arises, he must choose between his love life, career, or his nephews.
New Year That Never Came, The (Mureșanu)
Director: Bogdan Mureșanu
Stars: Adrian Văncică, Nicoleta Hâncu, Emilia Dobrin
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Serbia
On the brink of counter-revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amidst protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.
Lesson Learned (Szimler)
Director: Bálint Szimler
Stars: Paul Mátis, Anna Mészöly, Ákos ‘Dadan’ Kovács, Inez Mátis
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.
Holy Cow (Courvoisier)
Director: Louise Courvoisier
Stars: Clément Faveau, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard, Dimitri Baudry
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Totone and his band of friends, local barflies, spend most of their summer scouring the Jura dances. Following the sudden death of his cheese-making father, Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.
I Am Nevenka (Bollaín)
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Mireia Oriol, Urko Olazábal, Ricardo Gómez, Lucía Veiga
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain
In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both sentimental and professional, by the mayor, a man accustomed to doing his will politically and personally. She never decides to report, although she knows that she will have to pay a very high price: her environment does not support her, the society of Ponferrada turns its back on her and the media subjects her to a public trial. A story inspired by real events that turns its protagonist into a pioneer by taking an influential and popular politician to court for sexual and workplace harassment for the first time.
Last Dance, The (Chan)
Director: Anselm Chan
Stars: Michael Hui, Dayo Wong Chi-Wah, Michelle Wai Si-Nga
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.
Bramayugam (Sadasivan)
Director: Rahul Sadasivan
Stars: Arjun Ashokan, Mammootty, Sidharth Bharathan
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Country: India
Thevan, a folk singer of the Paanan caste, has a fateful encounter when escaping slavery, leading to discover an ancient tradition altering his destiny.
Southern Chronicles, The (Miškinis)
Director: Ignas Miškinis
Stars: Džiugas Grinys, Robertas Petraitis, Digna Kulionytė
Genre: Comedy
Country: Lithuania
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Devil’s Bath, The (Franz, Fiala)
Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Stars: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid
Genre: Mystery, History, Horror, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.
Let Go (Bornebusch)
Director: Josephine Bornebusch
Stars: Josephine Bornebusch, Pål Sverre Hagen, Sigrid Johnson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.
La Cocina (Ruizpalacios)
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Anna Díaz, Motell Gyn Foster
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Mexico, Sweden, USA
It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned.
Manjummel Boys (Chidambaram)
Director: Chidambaram
Stars: Soubin Shahir, Sreenath Bhasi, Balu Varghese
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Country: India
Manjummel Boys, based on a real story, is about a bunch of friends who set out on a trip to Kodaikanal and the events that occur there.
Porcelain War (Bellomo, Leontyev)
Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia, Ukraine, USA
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
Red Virgin, The (Ortiz)
Director: Paula Ortiz
Stars: Najwa Nimri, Alba Planas, Aixa Villagrán, Patrick Criado
Genre: History, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
My Favourite Cake (Moghaddam, Sanaeeha)
Director: Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Stars: Lily Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoureh Ilkhani
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Iran, Sweden
Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.
My Dead Friend Zoe (Hausmann-Stokes)
Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Inspired by a true story, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran—thanks to the presence of her dead best friend from the Army—is at odds with her estranged Vietnam Veteran grandfather and her VA counselor.
Vermiglio (Delpero)
Director: Maura Delpero
Stars: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium, USA
Set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, a series of dramatic, consequential events unfold after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier, who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with a provincial family’s eldest daughter.
Children’s Train, The (Comencini)
Director: Cristina Comencini
Stars: Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Christian Cervone
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
MadS (Moreau)
Director: David Moreau
Stars: Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
A teenager stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman and the night takes a surreal turn.
Number 24 (Andersen)
Director: John Andreas Andersen
Stars: Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Philip Helgar, Magnus Dugdale
Genre: History, War, Drama
Country: Norway
On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man’s drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country.
Fall Guy, The (Leitch)
Director: David Leitch
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Action, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Count of Monte-Cristo, The (de La Patellière, Delaporte)
Director: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Stars: Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.
Order, The (Kurzel)
Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists.
Unstoppable (Scott)
Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Dunn
Genre: Thriller, Action
Country: UK, USA
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and proves to be unstoppable until a veteran engineer and young conductor risk their lives to try and stop it with a switch engine.
Nine Muses, The (Akomfrah)
Director: John Akomfrah
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ghana, UK
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (Madsen)
Director: Michael Madsen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark Finland Italy Sweden
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels – that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Şerban)
Director: Florin Şerban
Stars: Ada Condeescu, George Piștereanu, Mihai Constantin
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Sweden
A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he’s told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.
Ditch, The (Bing)
Director: Wang Bing
Stars: Cheng Zhengwu, Niansong Jing, Xiangnian Li, Renjun Lian
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, South Korea
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
We Have a Pope (Moretti)
Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Jerzy Stuhr
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope’s fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
¡Vivan las Antipodas! (Kossakovsky)
Director: Viktor Kossakovsky
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Ned Dennehy
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down.
Tyrannosaur (Considine)
Director: Paddy Considine
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Ned Dennehy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph’s life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.
Summer of Giacomo (Comodin)
Director: Alessandro Comodin
Stars: Giacomo Zulian, Stefania Comodin, Barbara Colombo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.
Faust (Sokurov)
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Eega (Rajamouli)
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Stars: Sudeep, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nani, Adithya Menon
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Country: India
Nani is a flower decorator, madly in love with his neighbor Bindhu. He gets killed by the baddie, Sudeep, a powerful businessman. Nani comes back as a housefly to get his revenge.
Thousand Suns, A (Diop)
Director: Mati Diop
Stars: Magaye Niang, Wasis Diop, Myriam Niang
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Senegal
In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots “Touki Bouki.” Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, “A Thousand Suns” investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents “Touki Bouki.” What has happened since?
Paddington (King)
Director: Paul King
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, USA
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.
Li’l Quinquin (Dumont)
Director: Bruno Dumont
Stars: Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Lucy Caron, Alane Delhaye
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France.
Journey to the West (Ming-liang)
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Stars: N/A
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Taiwan
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marseille, he decided to make a film as tourist, capturing the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine in the late summer of that year. He also invited famous French actor, Denis Lavant, to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng playing Xuanzang. “Journey to the West” was invited to be the opening short film at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.
Park Lanes (Everson)
Director: Kevin Jerome Everson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long, unbroken sequences of assembly and fabrication focus on the bodies of African American and Vietnamese American workers, while both mobile and fixed cameras transform their acts into pure movement.
Staying Vertical (Guiraudie)
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Stars: Damien Bonnard, India Hair, Raphaël Thiéry
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.
Human Surge, The (Williams)
Director: Eduardo Williams
Stars: Sergio Morosini, Shine Marx, Domingos Marengula
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Portugal
Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest.
Dreamed Path, The (Schanelec)
Director: Angela Schanelec
Stars: Miriam Jakob, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Maren Eggert, Phil Hayes
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no longer loves him. The paths they both take lead them to Kenneth and Theres.
Sleep Has Her House (Barley)
Director: Scott Barley
Stars: N/A
Genre: Mystery
Country: UK
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Day After, The (Sang-soo)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-hee, Kim Sae-byuk, Cho Yun-hee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.
Closeness (Balagov)
Director: Kantemir Balagov
Stars: Darya Zhovner, Olga Dragunova, Veniamin Kac, Nazir Zhukov
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Whispering Pines 10 (Moulton)
Director: Shana Moulton
Stars: Shana Moulton
Genre: Art, Experimental
Country: USA
In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, video and performance artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and new age kitsch, creating situations in turn comic, contemplative, and surreal.
L. Cohen (Benning)
Director: James Benning
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.
Asako I & II (Hamaguchi)
Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Erika Karata, Masahiro Higashide, Rio Yamashita, Sairi Ito
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (Mosese)
Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Stars: Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Lesotho, South Africa, USA
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
Year of the Discovery, The (Carrasco)
Director: Luis López Carrasco
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain, Switzerland
In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain’s global empire with the discovery of America – Spain proudly presented itself to the international community as a modern, developed, dynamic country through the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the Expo in Seville. But for filmmaker Luis López Carrasco (1981, Murcia), 1992 was also the year in which the regional parliament building in Cartagena was razed during furious protests against the threatened closure of various local industries. El año del descubrimiento revives this almost forgotten history in a typical Spanish bar in Cartagena, where different generations come together to drink, eat, smoke and talk.
Woman King, The (Prince-Bythewood)
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Stars: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim
Genre: History, Drama, Action
Country: Canada, USA
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
Dry Ground Burning (Pimenta, Queirós)
Director: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós
Stars: Léa Alves da Silva, Joana Darc Furtado, Andreia Vieira
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Crime
Country: Brazil, Portugal, USA
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh”) of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers.
Green Border (Holland)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Czechia, France, Poland, USA
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine..
Youth (Spring) (Bing)
Director: Wang Bing
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Netherlands
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children’s clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Trial, The (de la Orden)
Director: Ulises de la Orden
Stars: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Julio César Strassera, León Arslanián
Genre: History, Documentary
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Norway
Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people and other State crimes.
April (Kulumbegashvili)
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Georgia | Italy
Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn’s death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.
Traveler’s Needs, A (Sang-soo)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hye-young, Kwon Hae-hyo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Nyoni)
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Stars: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland | UK | USA
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Dahomey (Diop)
Director: Mati Diop
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Senegal
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.
By the Stream (Sang-soo)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Kim Min-hee, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee, Ha Seong-guk
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
After a scandal breaks out among several students involved in the production of a skit, a lecturer at a South Korean women’s college brings in her uncle, a famous actor, to bring the work to fruition.
Crossing (Akin)
Director: Levan Akin
Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanlı
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | France | Georgia | Sweden | Turkey
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
Meiyazhagan (Kumar)
Director: C. Prem Kumar
Stars: Arvind Swamy, Karthi, Rajkiran, Jayaprakash, Sri Divya
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin’s wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the help of the unknown man, Arul reconnects with his past.
From Ground Zero (multiple)
Director: Multiple
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Jordan, State of Palestine, Qatar, Switzerland
“From Ground Zero” is a compelling project that brings together 22 short films created by talented filmmakers from Gaza. Launched by Rashid Masharawi, a notable Palestinian filmmaker, the initiative emerged amid the backdrop of conflict, aiming to provide a platform for young artists to express themselves through their craft.
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.
Devilish Tenant, The (Méliès)
Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Charles Claudel, Octavie Huvier, François Lallement, André Méliès
Genre: Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: France
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
Man with the Rubber Head, The (Méliès)
Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Silent
Country: France
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
Sherlock Holmes Baffled (Marvin)
Director: Arthur Marvin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Short, Silent
Country: USA
Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.
Autour d’une cabine (Reynaud)
Director: Émile Reynaud
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Animation, Short, Silent
Country: France
The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board.
Buffalo Running (Muybridge)
Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA
Individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.
Caicedo (with Pole) (Dickson, Heise)
Director: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Stars: Juan A. Caicedo
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA
King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.
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.
Capybara Walking (Muybridge)
Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary, Short, Silent
Country: USA
Eadweard Muybridge photographs a capybara in motion.
Escamotage d’une dame chez Robert-Houdin (Méliès)
Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy
Genre: Mystery, Short, Silent
Country: France
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
Le squelette joyeux (Lumière)
Director: Louis Lumière
Stars: N/A
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
Lonedale Operator, The (Griffith)
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, Francis J. Grandon
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining company.
And Tomorrow the Entire World (von Heinz)
Director: Julia von Heinz
Stars: Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Andreas Lust
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
How far one is willing to go for the sake of one’s political commitment.
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.
Fight, The (Despres, Kriegman, Steinberg)
Director: Eli B. Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Stars: Brigitte Amiri, Joshua Block, David Cole, Lee Gelernt
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An inside look at the legal battles that lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union are facing during the Trump administration.
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?
Shine Your Eyes (Mariani)
Director: Matias Mariani
Stars: O.C. Ukeje, Indira Nascimento, Chukwudi Iwuji, Oula Alsaghir
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to find his long lost brother.
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.
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (Rios)
Director: Anabel Rodriguez Rios
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela, United Kingdom, Brazil, Austria
Villagers in the Venezuelan community of Lake Maracaibo fight against pollution, corruption and neglect to keep homes and way of life.
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.
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (Costantini, Tabsch)
Director: Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch
Stars: Walter Mercado, Willy Acosta, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Raul de Molina
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Every day for decades, Walter Mercado — the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer — mesmerized 120 million Latino viewers with his extravagance and positivity.
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.
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Horvát)
Director: Lili Horvát
Stars: Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Benett Vilmányi, Zsolt Nagy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Márta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.
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.
City Hall (Wiseman)
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Marty Walsh
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
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.
Boys State (McBaine, Moss)
Director: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Stars: Ben Feinstein, Steven Garza, Robert MacDougall, René Otero
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
Being a Human Person (Scott)
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.
Catch the Fair One (Wladyka)
Director: Josef Kubota Wladyka
Stars: Kali Reis, Shelly Vincent, Kendall Morris, Faye Lone
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Citizen Ashe (Miller, Pollard)
Director: Rex Miller, Sam Pollard
Stars: Johnnie Ashe, Beth Barnes, Loretta Burnette, Stephanie Cookie Carson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UK
Explores the tennis career of Arthur Ashe and his impact on tennis and HIV activism.
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.
Official Competition (Cohn, Duprat)
Director: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez, José Luis Gómez
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
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.
Tsugua Diaries, The (Fazendeiro, Gomes)
Director: Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Carloto Cotta, João Nunes Monteiro
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Follows Crista, Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines, but they are not the only ones.
Palace for Putin. The Story of the Biggest Bribe, A (Navalny)
Director: Alexei Navalny
Stars: Alexei Navalny, Georgy Alburov, Vyacheslav Gimadi, Alina Kabaeva
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
This documentary investigates allegations of how a palace, on the coast of the Black Sea, is allegedly controlled by Russian president Putin, and how its construction was financed through corruption and a network of close associates.
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.
In the Same Breath (Wang)
Director: Nanfu Wang
Stars: Alex Azar, Bill de Blasio, Anthony Fauci, Xi Jinping
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party?
Introduction (Sang-soo)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Seok-ho Shin, Mi-so Park, Young-ho Kim, Ju-bong Gi
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
A young man travels from South Korea to Berlin to surprise his girlfriend.
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.
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Koberidze)
Director: Aleksandre Koberidze
Stars: Ani Karseladze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Oliko Barbakadze, Giorgi Ambroladze
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany
A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
Raya and the Last Dragon (Hall, Estrada, Briggs, Ripa)
Director: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Paul Briggs, John Ripa
Stars: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, Izaac Wang
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.
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.
Simple as Water (Mylan)
Director: Megan Mylan
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war.
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.
One and Only Dick Gregory, The (Gaines)
Director: Andre Gaines
Stars: Kevin Hart, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Chronicles the incredible life and times of legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory.
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.
Cop Movie, A (Ruizpalacios)
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Leonardo Alonso, Raúl Briones, Mónica Del Carmen, Olivia Lagunas
Genre: Documentary, Action, Crime
Country: Mexico
Two professional actors undergo an immersive process to find out what it takes to be a cop in Mexico City.
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.
Full Time (Gravel)
Director: Eric Gravel
Stars: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.
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.
Glance of Music, The (Tornatore)
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Japan, China, Germany
A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
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.
Lillian (Horvath)
Director: Andreas Horvath
Stars: Patrycja Planik
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
An emigrant in New York decides to walk back to her home in Russia.
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.
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.
Climb, The (Covino)
Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Stars: Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.
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.
Late Night (Ganatra)
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Stars: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
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.
Collini Case, The (Kreuzpainter)
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Stars: Elyas M’Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara, Heiner Lauterbach
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Ordinary Love (D’Sa, Leyburn)
Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Stars: Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Esh Alladi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.
Wolf’s Call, The (Baudry)
Director: Antonin Baudry
Stars: François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France
In the near future, a French submarine finds itself in a crisis situation.
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.
Dolce fine giornata (Borcuch)
Director: Jacek Borcuch
Stars: Krystyna Janda, Kasia Smutniak, Antonio Catania
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
The stable family life of a poetess begins to fall apart as she makes a controversial speech to appreciation.
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?
Brittany Runs a Marathon (Colaizzo)
Director: Paul Downs Colaizzo
Stars: Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas, Patch Darragh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Canada
A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
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.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Greenfield-Sanders)
Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Stars: Toni Morrison, Hilton Als, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
Weathering with You (Shinkai)
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Stars: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan | China
A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.
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.
Mike Wallace Is Here (Belkin)
Director: Avi Belkin
Stars: Mike Wallace, Spiro Agnew, Jonathan Alter
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A look at the career of 60 Minutes (1968) newsman, Mike Wallace.
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.
Incredible Shrinking Wknd, The (Caballero)
Director: Jon Mikel Caballero
Stars: Iria del Río, Adam Quintero, Nadia de Santiago
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
It’s not a loop, it’s a countdown: Alba is trapped in her weekend, forced to relive it over and over again, but each repetition gets a bit shorter.
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.
Lady J (Mouret)
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Stars: Cécile de France, Edouard Baer, Alice Isaaz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Fooled by a notorious libertine, a widow plans her revenge.
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.
Two for Joy (Beard)
Director: Tom Beard
Stars: Samantha Morton, Billie Piper, Daniel Mays
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A troubled family’s problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
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.
Distances, The (Trapé)
Director: Elena Trapé
Stars: Alexandra Jiménez, Miki Esparbé, Isak Férriz
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
A weekend in Berlin. Five friends reunited for a celebration. Five lives turn upside-down.
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.
Us and Them (Liu)
Director: Rene Liu
Stars: Boran Jing, Dongyu Zhou, Zhuangzhuang Tian
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
During the hectic chunyun period, 2 strangers traveling home meet on the train.
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.
Bleeding Edge, The (Dick)
Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Robert Bridges, Angie Firmalino, Rita Redberg
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | USA
A look at the unforeseen consequences of advanced technological devices used in the medical field.
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.
Great Buster, The (Bogdanovich)
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Dick Cavett, Frank Capra
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
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.
Kindergarten Teacher, The (Colangelo)
Director: Sara Colangelo
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Ato Blankson-Wood
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Israel | UK | Canada
A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.
Eyes of Orson Welles, The (Cousins)
Director: Mark Cousins
Stars: Mark Cousins, Jack Klaff, Beatrice Welles
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before.
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.
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (Okada)
Director: Mari Okada
Stars: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yôko Hikasa
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Escaping war, a young girl finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son.
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.
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.
Devil We Know, The (Soechtig, Seifert)
Director: Stephanie Soechtig, Jeremy Seifert
Stars: Sue Bailey, Bucky Bailey, Ken Wamsley
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.
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.