Tag: Priority 4

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer
Stars: Ellen Page, Kate Mara, Amy Seimetz |
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause.

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

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

Director: Mina Shum
Stars: Pei-Pei Cheng, Tzi Ma, Sandra Oh
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.

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

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

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Beizaee, Nasim Adabi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

A drama about corruption and injustice in Iranian society. You are the oppressed, or you have to join the oppressor to survive!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Jim Strouse
Stars: Jessica Williams, Chris O’Dowd, LaKeith Stanfield
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendship with a guy while on the rebound from a break-up.

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

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

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

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

Director: Vahid Jalilvand
Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Aghaee, Hediyeh Tehrani
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran

When Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic pathologist, comes to work he encounters a corpse that looks familiar.

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

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

Director: Everardo González
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

A documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.

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

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

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

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

Director: Adrian Goiginger
Stars: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy Miliker, Lukas Miko
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria | Germany

Seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of the Austrian city Salzburg, famous for culture and classical music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Scotty Bowers, Lois Bowers, William Mann
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
Stars: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Japan | USA

A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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

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

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

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

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Giles New
Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

Based on “The Little Broomstick” by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Michael Matthews
Stars: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dlamini
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: South Africa

Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.

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

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

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

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

Director: Alexandra Dean
Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Árpád Sopsits
Stars: Károly Hajduk, Gábor Jászberényi, Zsolt Anger
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary

True story of a serial killer in 1950-60s Hungary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain | Germany

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Adam Irving
Stars: Charles Bilal, Courtney Brown, Sally Butler
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA

How one man’s love of transport led to a lifetime of incarceration.

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

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

Director: Jane Gull
Stars: Steven Brandon, Shana Swash, Sarah Ioannou
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Luke, an independent young man with Down’s syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ju-hyuk Kim, Yoo-Young Lee, Hae-hyo Kwon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel’s “That Obscure Object of Desire”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Stars: Heather Linebaugh, Daniel Hale, Lisa Ling
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.

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

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

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

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

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

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government’s reaction surprised even the most seasoned activists across China. ‘The Road from Hainan’ follows Sparrow as she was chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors.

Director: Matthew Newton
Stars: Julianne Nicholson, J. Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez-Richmond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.

Director: Roger Mainwood
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Country: UK | Luxembourg

The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs.

Director: Ted Braun
Stars: William Ackman, Douglas M. Brooks, William Cohan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Writer/director Ted Braun follows controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history.

Director: Toni Myers
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Samantha Cristoforetti, Scott Kelly
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of Earth and beyond as seen from the International Space Station. Narrated by Jennifer Lawrence.

Director: Sara Taksler
Stars: Bassem Youssef, Jon Stewart, Shadi Alfons
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.

Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Stars: Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Alexandra Angelova
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Greece

A reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry’s head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.

Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard, Emmy Boissard Paumelle
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Belgium

Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Germany | Belgium

Some young folks, tired of the society they’re living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Eri Fukatsu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

Director: Neasa Ní Chianáin, David Rane
Stars: Dermot Dix, Amanda Leyden, John Leyden
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | Spain

Long careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English, and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: “Reading. ‘Rithmetic. Rock ‘n’ roll!” But leaving is the hardest lesson.

Director: Adam Nimoy
Stars: Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Canada | USA

An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).

Director: Nele Wohlatz
Stars: Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.

Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Tom Brokaw, Harold Brown, Allan Childers
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Documentary of 1980’s near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser’s award-winning book of the same name.

Director: Maria Jose Cuevas
Stars: Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Rossy Mendoza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico

An honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty, while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame and the chance for happiness.

Director: Susan Glatzer
Stars: Hilary Alexander, Evita Arce, Kimberly Clever
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Sweden | USA

Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.

Director: Amma Asante
Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic | UK | France | USA

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Director: Kasper Collin
Stars: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | USA

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran | France

While both participating in a production of “Death of a Salesman,” a teacher’s wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife’s traumatized objections.

Director: Peter Foott
Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland

Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago’s South Side.

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland

The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.

Director: Tonislav Hristov
Stars: Ivan Fransuzov, Angela Jekova, Vangel Jekov
Genre: Documentary
Country: Finland | Bulgaria

A small and stubborn Bulgarian village facing the Turkish border has been resisting foreign invaders since the times of the Roman and Ottoman Empires. Now its electorate of 38 elderly Bulgarians is deciding on future of Europe. The Great Gate, as the village has been called for centuries because of its location on the doorsteps of the former Ottoman Empire, has found itself in the middle of European crisis, as at night asylum seekers sneak across the border causing fear and unrest.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | France

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Director: Lloyd Stanton, Paul Toogood
Stars: Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

The craft, creative process and complicated lives of stand-up comedians.

Director: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger
Stars: Imogen Poots, Daniel Brühl, Jens Söring
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: Germany | Denmark | UK | Sweden | Netherlands

The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County.

Director: Doug Nichol
Stars: Silvi Alcivar, Ken Alexander, Tom Hanks
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | India | Canada | USA

California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.

Director: Brendan Byrne
Stars: Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Ireland | UK

In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive, non-violent protest to be classified as a political prisoner became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. Sands’ death after 66 days marked a key turning point in the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and brought a global spotlight to the Northern Irish conflict which eventually triggered international efforts to resolve it.

Director: Vincent Garenq
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany

Based on a true story, KALINKA is about the struggle of Andre Bamberski to bring justice to his daughter Kalinka who died in disturbing circumstances. After 27 years of investigation to hunt down her presumed murderer, Bamberski will finally get the killer kidnapped and brought to justice.

Director: Tamer El Said
Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt | Germany | UK | United Arab Emirates

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia | France | Germany

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day – she grows a tail and turns her life around.

Director: Michal Marczak
Stars: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Poland | UK

A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city’s streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.

Director: Louise Osmond
Stars: Ken Loach, Jim Allen, Lesley Ashton
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Documentary on the life and times of Ken Loach. His politics in British TV and Cinema and the chaos he has caused the establishment for 50 years.

Director: Aaron Brookner
Stars: Aaron Brookner, John Giorno, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK | USA

Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William Burroughs’ bunker until his nephew Aaron unearths his uncle’s story and the memory of everything he was.

Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Stars: Mario Fanfani, Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Théo and Hugo encounter each other’s bodies in a sex club. They talk, things blur into the haziness of unbridled desire, then take shape for a moment as their gaze meets before they resume their exploration and lose themselves anew. A few moments later the two men feel the need to go outside. Together they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and aimlessness and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations?

Director: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
Stars: Andrea Crosta, Ian Stevenson, Prince William
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria

Wildlife activists in take on poachers in an effort to end illegal ivory trade in Africa.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Ian Buruma, Guo-Qiang Cai, Wen-You Cai
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao’s China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.

Director: Asaph Polonsky
Stars: Sharon Alexander, Shai Avivi, Tomer Capon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

Director: Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger
Stars: Peter Martins, David Prottas, Wendy Whelan
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary on the great American Ballerina Wendy Whelan

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Javier Pereira
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Spain

Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they’d never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.

Director: Andrew Dominik
Stars: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | France

Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.

Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Stars: Diane Dassigny, Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Frot
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France | Canada | Belgium

Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?

Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Stars: Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma
Genre: Drama
Country: India

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Director: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Higgs, Eric Loscheider
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA | France

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Director: Rama Burshtein
Stars: Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel

When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.

Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Stars: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Sweden | Germany

The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.

Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Stars: Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland | Denmark

In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.

Director: Justin Bare, Matthew Miele
Stars: Harry Benson, Carl Bernstein, Bryant Gumbel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

What we know today about many famous musicians, politicians, and actresses is due to the famous work of photographer Harry Benson. He captured vibrant and intimate photos of the most famous band in history;The Beatles. His extensive portfolio grew to include iconic photos of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, and Dr. Martin Luther King. His wide-ranging work has appeared in publications including Life, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Benson, now 86, is still taking photos and has no intentions of stopping.

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Germany | Sweden | Norway

Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present will require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer, while time is running out.

Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive a prize. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Thomas Campanella, Vincent D’Onofrio, Mindy Fullilove
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

Director: Rodrigo Grande
Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Clara Lago
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Spain

A paraplegic computer engineer in a wheelchair starts hearing noises and voices of bank robbers in his basement.

Director: Steve James
Stars: Thomas Sung, Hwei Lin Sung, Cyrus Vance Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States’ 2008 mortgage crisis.

Director: Dagur Kári
Stars: Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Sigurjón Kjartansson
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland | Denmark

Fusi, a 43 year old man, still lives with his mother. His daily life is characterized by monotonous routine. The appearance of vibrant Sjöfn and young neighbour Hera will upset his old bachelor habits.

Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania | Bulgaria | Czech Republic | France

Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

Director: Santiago Mitre
Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina | Brazil | France

An intellectual young law student who renounces a promising career to become a schoolteacher in a remote poor village is forced to make a puzzling decision, in the aftermath of her rape.

Director: Alain Gsponer
Stars: Anuk Steffen, Anna Schinz, Lilian Naef
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany | Switzerland | South Africa

A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.

Director: François Delisle
Stars: Luc Senay, Simon Poitras, Didier Lucien
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of reconciliation. Chorus is a love story that emerges from mourning and leads to two survivors clinging to each other as if to heal the deepest cut of all.

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Stars: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Two mismatched personal trainers’ lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.

Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela | Mexico

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

Director: Danielle Arbid
Stars: Manal Issa, Vincent Lacoste, Paul Hamy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lina is a Lebanese Student that just arrived to Paris to continue her studies in a French University in 1993, only to find that the Chaos that was home was no different than what she will witness in the French capital. But Paris will offer her the opportunity to find herself and acquire a new self confidence that she didn’t know she had in herself.

Director: Avishai Sivan
Stars: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel

An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.

Director: David Pablos
Stars: Nancy Talamantes, Óscar Torres, Leidi Gutiérrez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | France

Young Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family’s prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.

Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who’s surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.

Director: Liang Zhao
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: China | France

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Jonny Greenwood, Ehtisham Khan Ajmeri, Nihal Khan
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Musician Jonny Greenwood travels to Rajasthan, where he performs with a multitude of Indian musicians.

Director: Pablo Trapero
Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

Director: Paddy Breathnach
Stars: Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Luxembourg

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Germany

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

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

‘The combination is simple: a lot of slow motion portraiture combined with a soundtrack of snippets of people’s conversation and interview. This straightforward method yields one of the most powerful and compassionate statements on race, on politics, on class, on policing, on drugs, that I’ve encountered in contemporary American cinema.’ – Zach Campbell Critics RoundUp

Director: Laura Israel
Stars: Robert Frank, Sid Kaplan, June Leaf
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Canada | France | USA

Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings, Josinaldo Alves
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Netherlands

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region’s booming clothing industry.

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Stars: Harun Farocki, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: France | Switzerland | Germany

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

Director: Yaniv Rokah
Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Renée Zellweger, Yaniv Rokah
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Country: USA

Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found “home” at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi’s passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood’s red carpets.

Director: Jayro Bustamante
Stars: María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala | France

On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal

A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orfanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece | Germany

A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?

Director: Scott Cooper
Stars: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | UK

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Director: Fernando González Molina
Stars: Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Macarena García
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spanish | Kriolu | Aragonese

After the death of her father, a young Spanish woman discovers a partial letter. As she searches for the answers, she embarks on a journey that takes her back to Africa, where she unfolds the secrets of her family.

Director: Clément Cogitore
Stars: Jérémie Renier, Swann Arlaud, Marc Robert
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

While on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu’s men start vanishing one by one without explanation.

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA | India

Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy | France | UK

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | Canada

Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Director: Steve Hoover
Stars: Gennadiy Mokhnenko
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Ukraine | USA

Gennadiy calls himself “Pastor Crocodile.” He’s known throughout Ukraine for his years working to rehabilitate drug-addicted kids. But he’s also a vigilante who uses any force necessary to carry out his moral vision. Gennadiy believes he has made Mariupol a better place, but now, the violence in Ukraine threatens everything.

Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Stars: Sanâa Alaoui, Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium

A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city’s gang culture increases each year. It’s in this criminal milieu that directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set Black, a pulse-pounding contemporary take on a Shakespearean tragedy.

Director: Craig Zobel
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland | Switzerland | USA

In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Peter Agnefjall, Tasso Azevedo
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions.

Director: Alex Infascelli
Stars: Emilio D’Alessandro, Alex Infascelli, Roberto Pedicini
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | UK

S Is For Stanley is the story of Emilio D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick’s personal driver. A Friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and brought together two apparently opposite people, that found their ideal journey companion far away from their homes.

Director: Barbara Kopple
Stars: Sharon Jones, Starr Duncan-Lowe, Binky Griptite
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.

Director: Jeremy Sims
Stars: Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Mark Coles Smith
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn’t have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.

Director: Louise Osmond
Stars: Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian ‘Daisy’ Vokes
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK

An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse

Director: Nicolas Steiner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland | Germany

From Mars to Earth and underneath. Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels deep down under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry and lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that’s parked in his driveway.

Director: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson
Stars: Radley Balko, William ‘Dub’ Lawrence
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of ‘Dub’ Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigation skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.

Director: Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Tina Fey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Life is an adventure for a young monkey and her son, living among ancient ruins in the jungle. But when her family is forced from their home, she must lead them to safety amidst strange new creatures and surroundings.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Raphael, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

During the never-ending TV taping for a New Year’s Eve program, peoples personal lives clash and eventually explode out into the open.

Director: César Augusto Acevedo
Stars: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Edison Raigosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia | France | Netherlands | Chile | Brazil

After having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into.

Director: Grant Gee
Stars: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen, Ara Güler
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK | Ireland

Base on a novel of the Nobel Prize writer Orhan Pamuk ‘The Museum of Innocence’. Set in Istanbul during 1975 to 1984, a story of a man who collects various objects of a woman as memory during their love period.

Director: Chanya Button
Stars: Laura Carmichael, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joe Dempsie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

Director: Colin Hanks
Stars: Russ Solomon, Chuck D, Chris Cornell
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: USA | Japan

‘All Things Must Pass’ is a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Tower Records, and its legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon.

Director: Sean McAllister
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: UK | France | Lebanon | Syria

Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

Director: Yang Zhang
Stars: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of “Shariff”, a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government’s counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, (T)ERROR illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks who is watching the watchers.

Director: Liz Garbus
Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the “High Priestess of Soul.”

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Stars: Andrew Sensenig, Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

In the cold, wintery fields of New England, a lonely old house wakes up every thirty years – and demands a sacrifice.

Director: Nick Berardini
Stars: Rick Smith, Tom Smith
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Canada | USA

In the early 2000s, two brothers found tremendous success when their company began selling a device that has been called ‘the biggest revolution in law enforcement since the radio.’ But as their company grew, they made decisions that would have lasting impact on both the public and their increasingly skeptical customer base.

Director: Chad Gracia
Stars: Andrei Alexandrovich, Fedor Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Ukraine | UK | USA

As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.

Director: George Amponsah, George Amponsah
Stars: Marcus Knox Hooke, Kurtis Henville
Genre: Documentary, Action, Crime
Country: UK

The police killing of Mark Duggan in London, 2011, ignited the worst civil unrest in recent British history and made headlines around the globe.

Director: Anne Bogart, Holly Morris
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there – semi-officially, for years.

Director: F. Gary Gray
Stars: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

Director: Jeanie Finlay
Stars: Jerry Adams, Sharon Attaway Nettleton, Gail Brewer-Giorgio
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

‘There are many that believe that Elvis is still alive – if he is alive he wears a mask and goes by the name Orion’ (Nashville News 1979) ORION’s the story of Jimmy Ellis, an unknown singer plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme which had him masquerade as Elvis…back from the grave. With an outlandish fictional identity torn from the pages of the best selling novel Orion by Gail Brewer Giorgio, the backing of the legendary birthplace of rock ‘n roll; Sun Records and a voice which seemed to be the very twin of Presley’s himself, the scheme – concocted in the months after Presley’s death mushroomed into a cult phenomena – and the ‘Elvis is alive’ myth was begun.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Luísa Cruz
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Switzerland

Continuation of the Arabian Nights stories by the structure were adapted to modern life in Portugal in three innings and the third chapter “The Owners of Dixie” has three chapters.

Director: Stevan Riley
Stars: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bernardo Bertolucci
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend’s story.

Director: Celso R. García
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Silverio Palacios
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Five men are hired to paint the lines of a road. Painting 1 km/hour is slow enough to learn the lines between good and evil, laughter and despair, life and death. The challenges they face will change their lives forever.

Director: Jason Krawczyk
Stars: Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Kate Greenhouse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

Jack, a social outcast, is thrust out of his comfort zone when the outside world bangs on his door and he can’t contain his violent past.

Director: Jacob Bernstein, Nick Hooker
Stars: Tom Hanks, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.

Director: Ciro Guerra
Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Colombia | Venezuela | Argentina

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Director: Hao Zhou
Stars: Li Fu, Ma Suying, Geng Yangbo
Genre: Documentary, Drama, News
Country: China

DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.

Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA | UK

In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town’s doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.

Director: Ermalo Magradze
Stars: David Kamkamidze, Rezo Esadze, Buba Khotivari
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia

A school teacher meets a dying billionaire, inheriting his estate and becoming a philanthropist.

Director: Rodrigo Plá
Stars: Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre, Hugo Albores
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico

When her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, Sonia Bonet (Jan Raluy) takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point: with her son in tow, she attempts to fight the system.

Director: Álvaro Longoria
Stars: Álvaro Longoria, Simon Cockerell, Kang Hyoin Gyu
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain | France

Granted controlled access by national officials, filmmaker Álvaro Longoria tours North Korea to contrast his findings to the typical Western depiction of the nation.

Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Canada

In this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Steve Jobs, Alex Gibney, Steve Wozniak
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A look at the personal and private life of the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Américo Silva, Amar Bounachada
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal | France | Germany | Switzerland

The final trilogy of adaptation of Arabian Nights story by the structure in Portugal modern life between 2013-2014 in three chapter.

Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Alassane Sy, Koudous Seihon, Adam Gnegne
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | USA | Germany | Qatar

Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.

Director: Károly Ujj Mészáros
Stars: Mónika Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary

iza’s a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An unemployed factory worker is trying to make ends meet in working-class France.

Director: Jerry Rothwell
Stars: Robert Hunter, Patrick Moore, Paul Watson
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: Canada | UK | Netherlands

In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world’s imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How To Change The World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Director: Douglas Tirola
Stars: Danny Abelson, Judd Apatow, Kevin Bacon
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA | UK

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never-before-seen footage.

Director: Vibha Bakshi
Stars: Kiran Bedi, Mr. Arvind Gaur, Dipankar Gupta
Genre: Documentary
Country: India

‘Daughters of Mother India’, is an Indian filmmaker’s journey on the aftermath of the horrific rape and murder of a 23 year old old medical intern in Delhi on 16 December 2012. The film is India’s story of resolve, hope and courage against the fight on gender violence. The film goes inside Indian society, the Government and looks at the swift and radical changes being made in the Police, the Judiciary and community groups, who are provoking for the first time, a national dialogue on the current sexist attitudes of Indian society and how to change them. For the first time, in the long history of the Police force, the Police Commissioner of the Capital of India, Delhi granted permission for a camera to be allowed inside the Delhi Police Control and Command room.

Director: Mor Loushy
Stars: Amos Oz
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Israel | Germany

The 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war ended with Israel’s decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking – a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzniks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. ‘Censored Voices’ reveals the original recordings for the first time.

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Stars: Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico

Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.

Director: Albert Maysles
Stars: Iris Apfel, Harold Koda, Dries Van Noten
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93-year-old style maven who has had an out-sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88-year-old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles.

Director: Keith Miller
Stars: James ‘Primo’ Grant, John Diaz, Wanda Nobles Colon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A member of the notorious Bloods since he was 12 years old – both in the film and in real life – Primo takes John, the son of his slain mentor, under his wing, versing him in the code of the streets. Set in East New York, FIVE STAR blends documentary and fictional storytelling as director Keith Miller carefully avoids worn clichés of gang culture to offer a compelling portrait of two men forced to confront the question of what it really means to be a man.

Director: Tom Fisher
Stars: Daniel Cerqueira, Richard Johnson, Gemma Jones
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Radiator will have its British Premiere 58th London Film Festival on 15th October 2014 and features the oldest, oddest couple by a very long chalk. It is a darkly comic examination of family life, marriage, age and love.

Director: Naji Abu Nowar
Stars: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates | Qatar | Jordan | UK

In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.

Director: Kanu Behl
Stars: Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Shivani Raghuvanshi
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India

Titli, the youngest member of a car-jacking brotherhood wants to escape the family business. He and his wife form a pact to set free from their family roots. But is escape possible?

Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde
Stars: Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid, Cesar Ramos
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico

Four stories of love and disgust between men of different generations facing their conflicts and their fears

Director: Mark Raso
Stars: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada | USA | Denmark

When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it’s time to grow up.

Director: Johanna Hamilton
Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson
Genre: Documentary, History, Thriller
Country: USA

The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau’s numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.

Director: Masaharu Take
Stars: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai, Yôzaburô Itô
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) lives at home with her parents, passing the days in self-indulgent grunginess. Ichiko’s recently divorced younger sister Fumiko has moved back home with her young son. One day, after a particularly heated argument, Ichiko charges out of the house for good. With few employment options to support herself, Ichiko works the night shift at a 100 yen shop (dollar store). On her way home each day she passes a boxing gym where she watches Yuji Kano (Hirofumi Arai) silently practice, developing a crush on him. The pair starts seeing each other and things change for Ichiko… At last, the bell rings and longtime loser Ichiko’s rematch with life begins!

Director: Chris Rock
Stars: Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown is spending a day interviewing comedian and recovering alcoholic Andre Allen, star of the hit film franchise Hammy The Bear, about a cop in a bear suit. Chelsea has forgotten her audio recorder, so they first go to her apartment. While there they discuss a magazine article about the Cinderella complex. Chelsea explains that Cinderella left something behind to let the prince know that she wanted to see him again..

Director: Bille August
Stars: Ghita Nørby, Paprika Steen, Danica Curcic
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

Three generations of a family coming together over a weekend. A sick mother’s wish to die before her disease worsens gets harder to handle as old conflicts come to the surface.

Director: Gareth Evans
Stars: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia | USA

Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

Director: Eugène Green
Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.

Director: Paul Katis
Stars: David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK

Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg – or your life.

Director: Afia Nathaniel
Stars: Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Pakistan | Norway | USA

In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl’s marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.

Director: Francesco Munzi
Stars: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Silhol
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.

Director: John Magary
Stars: Josh Lucas, Stephen Plunkett, Lucy Owen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A comic drama about rage, doubt, lust, madness, and other brotherly hand-me-downs.

Director: Margaret Brown
Stars: Meccah Boynton-Brown, Doug Brown, Bob Cavnar
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion as seen through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on.

Director: James Kent
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | Denmark

A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I – a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Director: Gabe Polsky
Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Russia

The story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.

Director: Alberto Rodríguez
Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Spain

Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.

Director: July Jung
Stars: Doona Bae, Sae-ron Kim, Sae-byeok Song
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Young-nam was a promising graduate of the police academy before she was transferred to the small seaside village, as a result of misconduct. On her first day in the village, she encounters Dohee, a girl living in the town with a gloomy looking face. As Young-nam tries to acclimate to her new surroundings, Dohee’s grandma died in a car accident. To protect the girl from her stepfather’s abuse, Young-nam lets Dohee stay at her place, but things become more mysterious as she gets to know her.

Director: Pascale Ferran
Stars: Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France

In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.

Director: Eddie Martin
Stars: Tas Pappas, Ben Pappas, Tommy Caudill
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: UK | Australia

All This Mayhem is a searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas’ intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.

Director: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Director: Asaf Korman
Stars: Liron Ben-Shlush, Dana Ivgy, Yaakov Zada Daniel
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

Cheli, 27, is raising her mentally challenged 24yo sister, Gaby, alone. When the social worker finds out that Cheli leaves Gaby alone in the house while Cheli is at work, Cheli is compelled to place Gaby in a day program. For the first time in her life, Cheli shares Gaby’s care with someone else; her daily routine collapses and the huge void left by Gaby’s absence makes room for a man in Cheli’s life in the shape of Zohar, who inadvertently creates a chink in the sisters’ symbiotic relationship. While Cheli hangs on to Zohar’s love for all she’s worth, her inability to have a normal, intimate, and emotional relationship with anyone but her sister forces them into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing, and torturing are crossed.

Director: David Oelhoffen
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: France

Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Ryô Kase, So-Ri Moon, Young-hwa Seo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology – and so must we?

Director: Camilla Nielsson
Stars: Paul Mangwana, Robert Mugabe, Douglas Mwonzora
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | Zimbabwe

In politically unstable Zimbabwe, a new constitution is being put together by the ruling party of strongman Robert Mugabe and the divided opposition. Various political, local and personal interests are bogging the process down.

Director: Yi’nan Diao
Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China

An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle’s pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.

Director: J.P. Sniadecki
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network, ‘The Iron Ministry’ traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture.

Director: Scott Crawford
Stars: Fred Armisen, Brendan Canty, Dave Grohl
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.

Director: Julia Marchese
Stars: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Edgar Wright
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.

Director: James D. Cooper
Stars: Kit Lambert, Christopher Stamp, Roger Daltrey
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary that reveals how the unlikely partnership between aspiring filmmakers Christopher Stamp and Kit Lambert produced one of the greatest rock bands in history: The Who.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Germany

A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Germany | UK

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Director: Hubert Sauper
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Austria

As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.

Director: Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Stars: Ariel Hsing, Michael Landers, Lily Zhang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Three teenagers’ quest to qualify for the 2012 US Olympic table tennis team.

Director: James Napier Robertson
Stars: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand

A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.

Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.

Director: Terry McMahon
Stars: Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford, Philip Jackson
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Ireland

When a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

Director: Robert Kenner
Stars: Frederick Singer, Naomi Oreskes, Jamy Ian Swiss
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.

Director: JK Youn
Stars: Jung-min Hwang, Yunjin Kim, Dal-su Oh
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea

Amid the time of Korean War, a young boy’s vow to take care of his family marked the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning 60 years.

Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Canada

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Director: Hans Herbots
Stars: Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan van Assche
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium

Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all – looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.

Director: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland | UK

After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.

Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Stars: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

The August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.

Director: Ian Cheney
Stars: Ian Cheney
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, History
Country: USA | Taiwan | China

Who was General Tso, and why are we eating his chicken? This feature documentary explores the origins and ubiquity of Chinese-American food through the story of an iconic sweet and spicy chicken dish.

Director: Mark Craig
Stars: Eugene Cernan, Fred ‘Baldy’ Baldwin, Alan Bean
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: UK

When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love, and loss.

Director: Ben Cotner, Ryan White
Stars: Ted Olson, Christopher D. Dusseault, Jeffrey J. Zarrillo
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Country: USA

A behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Director: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens
Stars: Barbara Block, James Cameron, Michael deGruy
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Bermuda | Ecuador

Feature documentary about legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle , and her campaign to create a global network of protected marine sanctuaries.

Director: Lacey Schwartz, James Adolphus
Stars: Matthew Noah Word
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A film about denial, race, family secrets and a search for identity.

Director: Eric Lartigau
Stars: Karin Viard, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France | Belgium

A girl, who lives with her deaf parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing.

Director: Alan Hicks
Stars: Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Quincy Jones
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that follows jazz legend Clark Terry over four years to document the mentorship between Terry and 23-year-old blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin as the young man prepares to compete in an elite, international competition.

Director: Leah Meyerhoff
Stars: Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack, Julia Garner
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love.

Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Stars: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil

Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.

Director: Eran Riklis
Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Razi Gabareen, Yaël Abecassis
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | Germany | France

A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.

Director: Arne Birkenstock
Stars: Wolfgang Beltracchi, Helene Beltracchi, Henrik Hanstein
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: Germany

A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.

Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Stars: Harold Evans, Ralph Nader, Michael Sheen
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Before the Internet. Before Social Media. Before Breaking News. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight their corner: Investigative Journalism. This is the story of how Harold Evans fought and won the battle of his and many other lives.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Shanyn Leigh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

George seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, a Manhattan intake center for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Director: Beth Harrington
Stars: Chet Atkins, Lorrie Bennett, John R. Brinkley
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Country: USA

The Winding Stream is a 90-minute High Definition music history documentary-in-progress that tells the story of the American roots music dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes. Starting with the Original Carter Family (A.P., Sara, Maybelle), the film traces the ebb and flow of their influence, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters, the marital alliance with legend Johnny Cash and the efforts of present-day family to keep this legacy alive. No one has yet pulled together all the elements of this family saga in one documentary. The goal of The Winding Stream is to honor this multi-generational family where it stands — at the headwaters of American roots music.

Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Brazil | Italy

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.

Director: Hanna Polak
Stars: Yula, Hanna Polak
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Denmark | Poland | Japan | Netherlands | USA

Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream – to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin’s Russia.

Director: Ethan Hawke
Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke, Sam Bachelor
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.

Director: Nancy D. Kates
Stars: Noël Burch, Lucinda Childs, Patricia Clarkson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag’s life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland | France | UK | Romania

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

Director: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Stars: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelstein, Aliza Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel | Germany

Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.

Director: Michele Josue
Stars: Michele Josue, Judy Shepard, Zeina Barkawi
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA | Morocco | Switzerland

Friends and family reflect on the life and death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in a targeted homophobic attack in Wyoming in 1998.

Director: Rory Kennedy
Stars: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Stuart Herrington
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only–or to risk treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can.

Director: Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker
Stars: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.

Director: Shawn Rech, Brandon Kimber
Stars: Dexter Hammett, Joseph Alex, Jason Patrick
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA

Documentary filmmakers assert that Anthony Porter – a former death-row inmate who was spared the death penalty thanks to the efforts of a college journalism program – was actually guilty, and an innocent man was sent to prison.

Director: Jono Oliver
Stars: Isiah Whitlock Jr., Joe Morton, Gbenga Akinnagbe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.

Director: Sean Dunne
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: USA

The ‘Hillbilly Heroin’ epidemic that’s slowly rotting the soul of rural America.

Director: Richie Mehta
Stars: Rajesh Tailang, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anurag Arora
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | India

A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Germany

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law’s suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.