Tag: Priority 4

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: David Evans
Stars: Niklas Frank, Horst von Wächter, Philippe Sands
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK | Austria | Poland | Ukraine

A human-rights lawyer conducts conversations with two men whose fathers were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII – Nazi Governors and consultants to Adolf Hitler himself.

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: Leigh Janiak
Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.

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.

Director: Rachel Boynton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | Denmark | USA

The film’s central story follows a small group of American explorers at Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy. Between 2007 and 2011, with unprecedented, independent access, Big Men’s two-person crew filmed inside the oil company as Kosmos and its partners discovered and developed the first commercial oil field in Ghana’s history. Simultaneously the crew filmed in the swamps of Nigeria’s Niger Delta, following the exploits of a militant gang to reveal another side of the economy of oil: people trying to profit in any way possible, because they’ve given up on waiting for the money to trickle down.

Director: Dave Grohl
Stars: Trent Reznor, Tom Petty, Mick Fleetwood
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A documentary on the fabled recording studio that was located in Van Nuys, California.

Director: Penny Lane
Stars: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon’s closest aides – and convicted Watergate conspirators – offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Director: Sophie Hyde
Stars: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Imogen Archer
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.

Director: Erik Matti
Stars: Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines

Inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.

Director: Bill Plympton
Stars: Sophia Takal, Jeremy Baumann, Alex Markowitz
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden “soul machine”, Ella takes the form of Jake’s numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.

Director: Steph Green
Stars: Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Will Forte
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland | Germany

An American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.

Director: Dan Krauss
Stars: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary that unveils the moral tensions that tear at soldiers’ psyches through the lens of one highly personal story: Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield’s pleas went unheeded. Left on his own and with threats to his life, Private Winfield was himself drawn into the moral abyss, forced to make a split-second decision that would change his life forever.

Director: Zaza Urushadze
Stars: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Estonia | Georgia

In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man Ivo has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.

Director: Dawn Porter
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.

Director: Robin Campillo
Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster’s involvement in a controlling street gang.

Director: Neil Drumming
Stars: Dorian Missick, Suzy Jane Hunt, Gbenga Akinnagbe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Members of a once-promising hip-hop group, now in their late 30’s, struggle with regret, disappointment, and change on Election Night 2008.

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Stars: Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France

Paul is a sweet man-child, raised – and smothered – by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. (He does express himself through colorful suits that would challenge any Wes Anderson character in nerd chic.) Paul’s aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbor. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.

Director: Martin Provost
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Tony Benn
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

Director: Jillian Schlesinger
Stars: Dick Dekker, Kim Dekker, Laura Dekker
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: USA

14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | France

A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.

Director: Anthony Wonke
Stars: Sue Jane Taylor
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

Fire in the Night relives the tragic events that occurred on the Piper Alpha rig on 6th July 1988. It was a catastrophe that killed 167 men and left only 61 survivors, each of whom had to fight for their lives to escape the huge, labyrinthine structure and the flames that were consuming it. The documentary features astonishing testimonies from men who found themselves in the midst of an inferno that destroyed a rig which was, at one time, the world’s single largest oil producer. Speaking to survivors and rescuers, many of whom have never spoken on camera before, this film uses dramatic reconstructions to show the horror of this disaster and how the survivors escaped the burning rig.

Director: Hilla Medalia
Stars: Pierre Dulaine, Yvonne Marceau, Alaa Bubali
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: USA | Israel

Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.

Director: Nanouk Leopold
Stars: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | Germany

A middle aged farmer, living with his old and bedridden father, tries to find truth in life.

Director: J.P. Chan
Stars: Jo Mei, Andrew Pang, Teyonah Parris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie about life that smashes into a funny movie about death. It’s a story about family, loss, secrets, letting go, and starting anew.

Director: Matt Adams
Stars: Charlie Todd, Ben Folds, Daniel Berman
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

The extraordinary story of a group of twenty-somethings who seized the streets of New York, transforming the meaning of comedy, performance and art through forming ‘Improv Everywhere,’ a prank collective ten years in the making.

Director: Kim Mordaunt
Stars: Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Suthep Po-ngam
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | Thailand | Laos

Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.

Director: Michael Obert
Stars: Louis Sarno, Samedi Mathurin Bokombe, Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Germany

25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded over 1000 hours of original BaAka music. Now he is part of the BaAka community and raises his pygmy son, Samedi. Fulfilling an old promise, Louis takes Samedi to America. On this journey Louis realizes he is not part of this globalized world anymore but globalization has also arrived in the rainforest. The BaAka depend on Louis for their survival. Father and son return to the melodies of the jungle but the question remains: How much longer will the songs of the forest be heard?

Director: Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier
Stars: Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as “I’ll Take You There”, “Brown Sugar”, and “When a Man Loves a Woman”.

Director: Jason Osder
Stars: Birdie Africa, Ramona Africa, Wilson Goode
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Poland

An actress attempts to convince a director how she’s perfect for a role in his upcoming production.

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Austria

Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.

Director: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson
Stars: George Tiller, Warren Hern, Leroy Carhart
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. AFTER TILLER moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients’ lives. AFTER TILLER shows them confronting harassment from protesters, challenges in their personal lives, and a series of tough ethical decisions.

Director: Jason DaSilva
Stars: Alice Cook, Jason DaSilva
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Canada

In 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier doctors had told him that he had multiple sclerosis, which could lead to loss of vision and muscle control, as well as a myriad of other complications. Jason tried exercise to help cope, but the problem only worsened. After his dispiriting fall on the beach, he turned to his Mom, who reminded him that, despite his disease, he was still a fortunate kid who had the opportunity to pursue the things he loved most: art and filmmaking. Jason picked up the camera, turned it on his declining body, and set out on a worldwide journey in search of healing, self-discovery, and love.

Director: Jim Mickle
Stars: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA | France

The Parkers, a reclusive family who follow ancient customs, find their secret existence threatened as a torrential downpour moves into their area, forcing daughters Iris and Rose to assume responsibilities beyond those of a typical family.

Director: Chad Hartigan
Stars: Paul Eenhoorn, Demetrius Grosse, Tom Plunkett
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Martin Bonner has just moved to Nevada from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.

Director: James Toback
Stars: James Toback, Alec Baldwin, Jessica Chastain
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival, cinema art, money, glamor and death.

Director: Tomasz Wasilewski
Stars: Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.

Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Stars: Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Anthony Okungbowa
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria | USA

Adenike and Ayodele, a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, are having trouble conceiving a child – a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save or destroy her family.

Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez
Stars: Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Adriana Barraza
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Germany

Ramon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend’s aunt.

Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Stars: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara, Alex Shinohara
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband’s assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.

Director: Steve Hoover
Stars: Rocky Braat, Steve Hoover, Anitha
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentarian visits best friend in India to see the mutual unconditional love that keeps his buddy bonded to a village hostel housing AIDS-afflicted children.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Stars: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: UK

Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.

Director: David Trueba
Stars: Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.

Director: Anup Singh
Stars: Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany | India | Netherlands | France

Umber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.

Director: Marc Bauder
Stars: Rainer Voss, Angela Merkel
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria | Germany

A former banker in Germany, who entered the business with the advent of modern computer systems reminisces of his working years in some of the world-leading banking corporations.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An account of the American Evangelicals’ attempts to indoctrinate their Christian Right beliefs in Uganda.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan | France | Hong Kong

50 men live for 12 months in a madhouse, they passing their days in a single plane and having little contact with the medical team. Every one of the inmates is not there for mental health problems but for had killing someone for committing a crime against public officials.

Director: Chiemi Karasawa
Stars: Elaine Stritch, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité.

Director: Edgar Reitz
Stars: Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany | France

Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.

Director: Sebastian Junger
Stars: Chris Anderson, Peter Bouckaert, James Brabazon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Documentary about deceased photojournalist Tim Hetherington directed by Sebastian Junger. Together with his friend and long-term collaborator Sebastian, Tim had travelled the world documenting conflicts in Afghanistan, Liberia and Libya among other locations. Best known for their 2010 film ‘Restrepo’ which was nominated for an Academy Award, the two strived to capture the humanity within conflict situations and with their images they focused on the individuals involved and their experiences of the violence surrounding them. Unfortunately, in 2011 Tim was killed by a mortar blast and this film is a tribute and celebration of the legacy he has left behind and includes Sebastian conducting interviews with those who knew Tim best.

Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Director: Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq
Stars: Shehr Ali, Qayyum Bhai, Abdul Sattar Edhi
Genre: Documentary, Drama, News
Country: Pakistan | USA

A poor runaway boy and a reluctant ambulance driver in Karachi. Their two lives come together through a dying humanitarian upon whom so much of their daily lives depend.

Director: Roberto Minervini
Stars: Sara Carlson, Colby Trichell, Tim Carlson
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Italy | Belgium

Sara, a girl being home-schooled on a goat farm alongside her 11 siblings, finds her devout values challenged after she meets Colby, an amateur bull rider.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Eun-chae Jung, Sun-kyun Lee, Joon-Sang Yoo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea

The secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?

Director: Hiner Saleem
Stars: Korkmaz Arslan, Golshifteh Farahani, Suat Usta
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq | France | Germany

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.

Director: Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: France | Belgium

Somewhere in the forest, a stranded ladybug joins forces with a squad of black ants to retrieve a tin box of delicious sugar cubes to the hive. A battalion of fierce red ants has already set their sights on the loot. Who shall prevail?

Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Stars: Thanapob Leeratanakajorn, Chonnikan Netjui, Patcha Poonpiriya
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Thailand

Mary is in her last course of school. She’ll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relatins and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.

Director: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
Stars: Sam Berns, Leslie Gordon, Scott Berns
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A moving look at a couple’s inspiring efforts to save their only son Sam from the rare and fatal premature-aging disease of progeria.

Director: Diego Quemada-Díez
Stars: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | Spain | Guatemala

A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile | France

In a Chilean little town, the son of an uprooted couple, formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother, tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.

Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Charlotte Bøving, Johann Pall Oddson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland | Germany | Norway

A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses’ perception.

Director: Mitra Farahani
Stars: Bahman Mohasses
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Iran | France

A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called “Persian Picasso,” whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.

Director: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Nazif Mujic, Senada Alimanovic, Semsa Mujic
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | France | Slovenia | Italy

A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy, cooks, bakes and cares for their two small daughters. One day, she feels a sharp pain in her abdomen. At the hospital she is told there is something wrong with the baby she is carrying: “They say it’s dead.” She is at risk of septicaemia and they must operate immediately. But Senada has no medical insurance; since the operation will cost much more than the family can afford the hospital’s head refuses to treat her. A race against time together with a mounting sense of hopelessness played by a cast of non-professional actors re-enacting an episode from their own lives.

Director: Daniel Dencik
Stars: Per Bak Jensen, Jonas Bergsøe, Bo Elberling
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Greenland

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

Director: Nicolas Vanier
Stars: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Chatelier
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France

A six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.

Director: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Tanaquil Le Clerq, Jacques d’Amboise, Barbara Horgan
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike – her elongated, race-horse physique became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. Her unique style, humor and authenticity redefined ballet for all dancers who followed. Amazingly, she was the muse to not one great artist but two; both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins loved her as a dancer and a woman. Balanchine married her and Robbins created his famous version of Afternoon of a Faun for Tanny. Tanaquil Le Clercq was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. On a tour of Europe, she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

Director: Neil Barsky
Stars: Ed Koch, George Artz, Wayne Barrett
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A documentary on Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA | Taiwan | UK | Canada

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortêncílio Aquina
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal | Germany | Brazil | France | Spain

A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor’s maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.

Director: Grant Gee
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Tacita Dean, William Firebrace
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Using the late WG Sebald’s book “The Rings of Saturn” as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author’s account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.

Director: Denis Côté
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | France

Along the rhythm of the seasons, beasts and humans regard each other. ‘Bestiary’ unfolds like a picture book about mutual observation. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loose, tranquil and indefinable elements.

Director: Candida Brady
Stars: Paul Connett, Jeremy Irons, Evangelos Kalafatis
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.

Director: Ziad Doueiri
Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lebanon | France | Qatar | Belgium | Egypt

An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Director: Plan B
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Lee Allen
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.

Director: Julian Pölsler
Stars: Martina Gedeck, Luchs, Karlheinz Hackl
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany | Netherlands | Belarus | Russia | Latvia

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.

Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church’s Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

Director: Thymaya Payne
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Crime
Country: Estonia | Philippines | Denmark | USA | Somalia | Canada

Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon and forces you to rethink everything you thought you knew about pirates.

Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Stars: Yoon-seok Kim, Jung-jae Lee, Hye-su Kim
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea

After a heist in South Korea, a gang of 5+1 fly to Hong Kong to look into a heist, in a Macau casino, of a $30M diamond, planned by someone unreliable. He brings in HK thieves as well. Can anyone be trusted?

Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Tessa Ia, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzalo Vega Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | France

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.

Director: Jamie Meltzer
Stars: Brandon Darby, Scott Crow, Lisa Fithian
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on radical left-wing activist turned FBI informant, Brandon Darby.

Director: Chang-min Choo
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Seung-ryong Ryu, Hyo-joo Han
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea

A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

Director: Tom Donahue
Stars: Deborah Aquila, Risa Bramon Garcia, Ellen Chenoweth
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director – Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood.

Director: Elie Wajeman
Stars: Pio Marmaï, Cédric Kahn, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance, a past lover, a lifelong friendship and his brother’s addiction.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | Germany | Jordan | United Arab Emirates | USA

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Stars: Bernard, Catherine, Christian
Genre: Documentary, Romance
Country: France

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

Director: Alice Winocour
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Francesca Pinto
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA | France

A look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus route and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of school.

Director: Jeremy Gardner
Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.

Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Stars: Harold Evans, Don McCullin, Michael Parkinson
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

To many, Don McCullin is the greatest living war photographer, often cited as an inspiration for today’s photojournalists. For the first time, McCullin speaks candidly about his three-decade career covering wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent and the photographs that often defined historic moments.

Director: Annemarie Jacir
Stars: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri
Genre: Drama
Country: Palestine | Jordan | Greece | United Arab Emirates

1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees.

Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Denmark | Canada | Croatia

A look at the lives of two teenage girls – inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa — growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark | Sweden | Czech Republic | Germany

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician – and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Director: Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez
Stars: Donald Austin, Brendan Doogie Milewski, Craig Dougherty
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about Detroit told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.

Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori
Stars: Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Paraguay | Spain

Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.

Director: Mark Jarrett
Stars: Billy Harvey, Jeff Palmiotti, Leonora Lim-Moore
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan | USA

Two Ex-Pat Kindergarten teachers in Taiwan embark on a quixotic odyssey to bury a fellow countryman.

Director: Steven Feinartz
Stars: Eddie Pepitone, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Cult-Comic Eddie Pepitone’s life is on display in this unhinged portrait of creativity, enlightenment and rage.

Director: Emin Alper
Stars: Tamer Levent, Reha Özcan, Mehmet Özgür
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey | Greece

When some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.

Director: Bing Wang
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Hong Kong

Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. Their parents are nowhere to be seen. The three little girls send their days working in the fields or wondering in the village. As their aunt finds difficult to provide food to the girls, the father returns to the village. He has come to take the girls with him to the city but he then agrees to leave the older one under the supervision of her grandfather.

Director: Andrew Semans
Stars: Will Rogers, Eleonore Hendricks, Rebecca Lawrence Levy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There’s just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that something has been left behind. A seemingly inconsequential object, but one Paul feels is of great importance to his dissertation and, therefore, to his future: a battered, personally annotated hardcover copy of ‘Little Dorrit’ by Charles Dickens. He will have to retrieve it from his former roommate – the obstinate Nancy. As he becomes increasingly consumed with the retrieval of ‘Little Dorrit’, Paul’s relationship and career unravel.

Director: Markus Imhoof
Stars: Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Belgium | Tunisia | Morocco

An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.

Director: Adam Leon
Stars: Ty Hickson, Tashiana Washington, Joshua Rivera
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When their latest work is buffed by a rival crew, two determined graffiti writers embark on an elaborate plan to bomb the ultimate location: the New York Mets’ Home Run Apple.

Director: Ross Ashcroft
Stars: Dominic Frisby, Gillian Tett, Lawrence Wilkerson
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: UK

The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn’t bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Joi Johannsson
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Iceland

Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.

Director: Jeff Orlowski
Stars: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.

Director: Leslie Zemeckis
Stars: Lea Thompson, Nancy Allen, Timothy Stack
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A biography of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who started as “freaks” in side shows, then went on to be stars of Vaudeville and films.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

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

A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.

Director: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA | Japan

One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.

Director: Michael Paul Stephenson
Stars: Victor Bariteau, Tina Bariteau, Gwen Bariteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An original documentary which follows three families in a small seaside town in Massachusetts as they prepare for their annual home made haunted houses. This story highlights their long journey from planning to opening day and cleanup until next year and the obstacles which face them during the process.

Director: Kim Cummings
Stars: Nina Kaczorowski, Lukas Hassel, George Katt
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The hardest choices in life are the ones we think we’ll never have to make.

Director: Manuel von Stürler
Stars: Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron, Pascal Éguisier
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Switzerland | France | Germany

A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Portugal

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Stars: Je’Daiah Ballantyne, Michelle Ballantyne, Rochelle Ballantyne
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school’s champion chess team.

Director: Marten Persiel
Stars: David Nathan, Anneke Schwabe, Bill Clinton
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Country: Germany

This Ain’t California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens. The film follows its three heroes from their childhood in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows them to 2011.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Ririva Eona Mabi, Paula Asadi, Bal Kumari Gurung
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: South Korea | Israel | Iran | UK

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith’s birth – Iran.

Director: Amy Seimetz
Stars: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A couple takes a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Director: James Marsh
Stars: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | Ireland

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare.

Director: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
Stars: Garrison Saenz, Kevin Conway, Skye Elmore
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A documentary on three teenagers living in a small desert town in Southern California.

Director: Sally El Hosaini
Stars: James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being British Arabs growing up on the streets of gangland London.

Director: Jesse Vile
Stars: Jason Becker, Dan Alvarez, Ehren Becker
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, they said he would never make music again. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Adrian Dunbar
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | Ireland

A chronicle of Terri Hooley’s life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene.

Director: Brett Morgen
Stars: Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

Legendary British rock band The Rolling Stones mark their 50th year together.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

Director: Marc Wiese
Stars: Shin Dong-Hyuk, Oh Yangnam, Hyuk Kwon
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Germany | South Korea

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.

Director: Mads Matthiesen
Stars: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.

Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Stars: Morton Downey Jr., Glenn Beck, Victoria Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr.

Director: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson
Stars: Ane Kruse, Lars Kristian Kruse, Ilannguaq Egede
Genre: Documentary, Family, News
Country: Denmark | UK | Greenland

Village At The End Of The World is a witty, surprising and ultimately feel good portrait of an isolated village of 59 people and 100 sledge dogs, surviving against the odds.

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

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.

Director: Felix van Groeningen
Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium | Netherlands

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.

Director: Anand Gandhi
Stars: Aida Elkashef, Yogesh Shah, Faraz Khan
Genre: Drama
Country: India | Netherlands

The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.

Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | France | USA

A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.

Director: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret
Stars: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret, Henry Chapier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing France with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation of an extraordinary travel journal. Depardon revisited important places from his past as a reporter: Chad, Venice and Cannes. Previously unseen footage from his archive has also been added to create an intimate, compelling and revelatory ‘Journal de France’ – a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes.

Director: Jared Moshe
Stars: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.

Director: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Stars: David Bahati, David Kato, Gilles Muhame
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA | Uganda

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Director: Jong-bin Yoon
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

Director: Seung-jun Yi
Stars: Cho Young-Chan, Kim Soon-ho, Choi Jungah
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: South Korea | Japan | Finland

Young-Chan comes from planet of snail where deaf blind people live slow and quiet lives. When Young-Chan came to Earth, nobody understood his language and he was desperate. Then an angel walked into his life. Soon-Ho knows how it is to be lonely and soon becomes an inseparable part of his life. Young-Chan also discovers an amazing world under his fingers as he learned to read books with braille. Hopes began to grow and he dreams of writing a book.

Director: Eric Khoo
Stars: Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Animation, Biography, Drama

A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Germany | France | UK | USA

A tribute to the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Kôki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Masami Nagasawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents’ divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Germany | Poland | Spain | USA

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

Director: Miranda July
Stars: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France | Germany | USA | UK

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

Director: Alejandro Landes
Stars: Porfirio Ramire Aldana, Jarlinsson Ramirez Reinoso, Yor Jasbleidy Santos Torres
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia | Argentina | Uruguay | Spain | France

Confined between his bed and his wheelchair, Porfirio – a man who lives in a town on the edge of the Amazon – dreams of being able to fly.

Director: David Sington
Stars: Andrew Luan, Robert Shiller, Louis Hyman
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: UK

An examination of the causes of the economic crisis of 2008.

Director: Stephen Cone
Stars: Molly Kunz, Eric Hulsebos, Tyler Ross
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters – Brea, an introspective pastor’s daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea’s best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time.

Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

Director: Pablo Giorgelli
Stars: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Reluctantly, a dour long-distance truck driver agrees to give a lift to a Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter to Buenos Aires. Can the palpable silence soften up the taciturn trucker’s sullen heart?

Director: Evan Glodell
Stars: Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang “Mother Medusa.”

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Stars: Jingchun Wang, Wenqing Liu, Guo Liuxing Zhong
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: China | France

11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school’s daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang encounters a wounded man on the run and their fates are intertwined.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Leyla Zareh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Shahab Hosseini
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Story of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA | India

Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert’s hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.

Director: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain

You wake day after day to the comfort and security of your home. But how safe is it really?

Director: Michel Ocelot
Stars: Julien Béramis, Marine Griset, Michel Elias
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: France

Tales of the Night weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, to the Land of the Dead. From the imagination of internationally renowned animator Michel Ocelot.

Director: Tristan Patterson
Stars: Sid Rocket, Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father in Fullerton, California, has to come to terms with the fact that it’s time to grow up and be responsible for his son and family.

Director: Sarah Polley
Stars: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada | Spain | Japan

A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

Director: Oren Moverman
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.

Director: Markus Schleinzer, Kathrin Resetarits
Stars: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria

Five months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.

Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Alex Gibney, Dave Kaplan, Bob Costas
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

After the Chicago Cubs blow an opportunity to reach the World Series in 2003, Cubs fans blame the team’s misfortune on fellow fan Steve Bartman, who interfered with a foul ball and prevented Moises Alou from making a catch.

Director: Michael Glawogger
Stars: Emma, Ning, Toh
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany | Austria | Thailand | France

An examination of the lives, needs, troubles and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico.

Director: Sebastián Borensztein
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?

Director: Jim Hemphill
Stars: Lea Thompson, John Shea, Danielle Harris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she’s engaged.

Director: Susanne Rostock
Stars: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

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

Neil Young returns to his birth Canadian province of Ontario to revisit his old haunts and to perform in Toronto’s vintage Massey Hall.

Director: Andrea Segre
Stars: Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.

Director: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway | Sweden | Denmark | Germany

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Director: Júlia Murat
Stars: Sonia Guedes, Lisa Fávero, Luis Serra
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil | Argentina | France

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio’s shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another.

Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Stars: Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Palestine | Israel | France | Netherlands

A documentary on a Palestinian farmer’s chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

Director: Alma Har’el
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har’el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life.

Director: Joe Cornish
Stars: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.

Director: Carl Colby
Stars: William Colby, Dale Andrade, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby’s son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation’s most cloaked actions.

Director: Alison Bagnall
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Olly Alexander, Eleonore Hendricks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Reeling from her husband’s affair, Rose collides with a marooned teenager in a boarded-up Delaware beach town.

Director: Gareth Evans
Stars: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Indonesia | France | USA

A S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

Director: Peter Richardson
Stars: Harry Bruton, Ray Carnay, Cody Curtis
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family
Country: USA

In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person’s request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. ‘How to Die in Oregon’ tell the stories of those most intimately involved with the practice today — terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and friends — as well as the passage of a similar law in Washington State.

Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Kristin Booth
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Canada

A lesbian couple escape from their nursing home and head up to Canada to get married. Along the way, they pick up a young, male hitchhiker.

Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller
Stars: Gedeon Burkhard, Michael Mendl, Catherine Flemming
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Germany

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Sweden | USA

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Israel

Can justice truly be served in the occupied territories given the current system of law administered by Israel for Palestinians?

Director: Gabrielle Provaas, Rob Schröder
Stars: Louise Fokkens, Martine Fokkens
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Netherlands

A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.

Director: Mark Racco
Stars: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Nirvana
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

On Halloween 1991, Nirvana played live at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. Songs from both albums, “Bleach” and “Nevermind”, were performed.

Director: Robert Guédiguian
Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | UK

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Director: Bryan Storkel
Stars: Ben Crawford, Brad Currah, David Drury
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Holy Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America-made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes gambling?

Director: Pip Chodorov
Stars: Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France | USA

What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man’s land. Excluded both from the art world and from the film industry, they bodly created a grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you some of the free, radicals artists who made them.

Director: Han-min Kim
Stars: Hae-il Park, Seung-ryong Ryu, Mu-Yeol Kim
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: South Korea

A skilled Korean archer goes up against the mighty force of Manchus with the sole purpose of rescuing his kidnapped sister.

Director: Constance Marks, Philip Shane
Stars: Kevin Clash, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Oz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children across the globe. Meet the unlikely man behind the puppet – the heart and soul of Elmo – Kevin Clash.

Director: Diego Luna
Stars: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Karina Gidi, José María Yazpik
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico

About a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence.

Director: Aaron Schock
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Mexico | USA

A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st?

Director: Daniel Grou
Stars: Claude Legault, Rémy Girard, Martin Dubreuil
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Canada

A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.

Director: Josh Fox
Stars: Josh Fox, Dick Cheney, Pete Seeger
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.

Director: Mike Magidson
Stars: Gaba Petersen, Knud Therkielsen, Ole Jørgen Hammeken
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Greenland | France

Several years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.

Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Ayrton Senna, Reginaldo Leme, John Bisignano
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: UK | France | USA

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34

Director: Xiaogang Feng
Stars: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.

Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdan, Abu Jandal
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | United Arab Emirates

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Director: Janus Metz
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They’re stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal – no actors.

Director: Bruce McDonald
Stars: Tracy Wright, Molly Parker, Daniel MacIvor
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Stars: Mohsen Kadivar, Mitra Khalatbari, Shadi Sadr
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany

A documentary on Iran’s 2010 Green Revolution.

Director: John Turturro
Stars: John Turturro, Max Casella, Angela Luce
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Italy | USA | Germany

A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.

Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Yoon-seok Kim, Sung-ha Jo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea | USA | Hong Kong

When the attempt to kill a professor goes wrong, a series of violent events are triggered which force a taxi driver to run for his life.

Director: Brendan Fletcher
Stars: Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, Greg Tait
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

TJ’s quest to find the son he’s never known, takes him on a journey across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape. On the road, TJ questions his life of violence… he meets a host of amazing characters who open up a way of life infused with music and hunting and community.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Shima Ohnishi, Ken Yoshizawa
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the ‘god soldier’.

Director: Luis Estrada
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico

El Benny is deported from the U.S. and returns home to a Mexico devastated by the drug wars. He too joins in, and starts climbing the hierarchy, finding a prosperous life, full of money, women, violence and fun.

Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Germany | UK

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | Germany | France

The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Richard Lord
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | Chad

Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the “war effort”, giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son.

Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain | Mexico | France

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Director: René Féret
Stars: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna ‘Nannerl’ Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

Director: Eric Lartigau
Stars: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A successful Paris lawyer is forced to re-invent his life after he makes a fatal mistake.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance from it. Instead she observes it through the songs of Alan Vega’s Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual education lesson she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile is preparing for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be ‘overrated’. Caught between the two men and her collaborator Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.

Director: Jee-woon Kim
Stars: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Joon-hyuk Lee
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea

A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.

Director: Ricardo Calil, Renato Terra
Stars: Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Brazil

A documentary which shows the greatness in the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira of 1967.

Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Norway | Palestine

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden | Germany | Denmark | France

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kerian Mayan
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A young princess is the subject of a tug-of-war among witches, as each struggles to find the suitable antidote to a death sentence inculcated by an evil sister.

Director: Jeremy Sims
Stars: Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Le Marquand
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.

Director: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Stars: Vik Muniz
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil | UK

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Netherlands | Indonesia

Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 – World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2005). Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi. Director and DOP Leonard Retel Helmrich follows this family in a unique way with his breathtaking Single Shot Cinema-technique. Without interviews and voice-overs, Leonard will bring you closer to Indonesia than you will ever get.

Director: Avi Nesher
Stars: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel

During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered.

Director: Mark Romanek
Stars: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.

Director: Sang-soo Im
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Yuh-Jung Youn
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A man’s affair with his family’s housemaid leads to dark consequences.

Director: James Rasin
Stars: Candy Darling, Andy Warhol, Holly Woodlawn
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary on Candy Darling, The Life and Times of the Andy Warhol Superstar.