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- DirectorXiaogang GuStarsZhenyang DongHongjun DuWei MuA feature film shot over the course of two years intended to capture the changing of the seasons along the river in a town in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou city.
- DirectorSelina MilesStarsColin CassidyMartha CooperIn 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become influential to the global movement of street artists.
- DirectorLevan AkinStarsLevan GelbakhianiBachi ValishviliAna JavakishviliA passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.
- DirectorThorbjørn ChristoffersenAnders MatthesenStarsAlfred Bjerre LarsenEmma Sehested HøegAnders MatthesenA possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsLaysla De OliveiraLuke WilsonDavid ThewlisVeronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
- DirectorCarlo SironiStarsClaudio SegaluscioSandra DrzymalskaBruno BuzziLena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law cause in Italy the surrogate motherhood is forbidden. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matter. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only think about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
- DirectorXin ZhuStarsLi JiangJing HuangYan ChenA muggy summer of 2009, reality and memory tangled together, water from the canal soaked everyone in those vanishing days.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJean DujardinAdèle HaenelAlbert DelpyA man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsAntonio de la TorreMónica LópezJosep Maria PouA Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye.
- DirectorHenrik GeorgssonStarsEmil AlménJohan ErikssonMagnus HöqqvistA documentary about the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis, an obsession with fatal consequences.
- DirectorAdam BoltStarsJennifer DoudnaGeorge ChurchAlta CharoA breakthrough called CRISPR opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. A provocative exploration of its far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it.
- DirectorRéka SzabóStarsEmese CuhorkaÉva Pusztai-FahidiRéka SzabóAlone, Eva Fahidi returned home to Hungary after WWII. At 20 years of age, she had survived Auschwitz Birkenau, while 49 members of her family were murdered, including her mother, father, and little sister. Today, at age 90, Eva is asked to participate in a dance theatre performance about her life's journey. This would be her first experience performing on a stage. Reka, the director, imagines a duet between Eva and a young, internationally acclaimed dancer, Emese. Reka wants to see these two women, young and old, interact on stage, to see how their bodies, and stories, can intertwine. Eva agrees immediately. Three women - three months - a story of crossing boundaries. Whilst the extraordinary moments of Eva's life are distilled into theater scenes, a truly wonderful and powerful relationship forms among the three women.
- DirectorBarnabás TóthStarsKároly HajdukAbigél SzõkeMari NagyA lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of national conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
- DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalNisrin ErradiDouae BelkhaoudaAbla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman, knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever.
- DirectorJong-un LeeStarsSol Kyung-guJeon Do-yeonYoon Chan-youngAfter April 2014 - A story of those left behind Jung-il and Soon-nam miss their son, Su-ho, who passed away in a terrible accident. His family's longing for him only gets bigger as his birthday approaches. Su-ho's birthday without Su-ho - Family and friends plan to gather and present their special memories of him as gifts. One day a year, where we all come together for you - "We will never forget you."
- DirectorRichard LadkaniSean BogleMatthew PodolskyStarsRomel Eduardo Ledezma AbaroaRafael Pacchiano AlamánHector CapetilloThe vaquita, the world's smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the "cocaine of the sea." Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.
- DirectorSafy NebbouStarsJuliette BinocheNicole GarciaFrançois CivilClaire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
- DirectorFederico BondiStarsStefania CasiniBetty PedrazziAntonio PiovanelliDafne is a self-aware and bright young woman with Down syndrome. When her mother dies, she has to attend to her father too, on top of attempting to process her own grief.
- DirectorHalina DyrschkaStarsErnst Peter FischerJulia VossAnna Laestadius LarssonThe first abstract artist was a woman, misjudged and concealed, Hilma Klint rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre.
- DirectorRobin LutzStarsDonald CoxeterGeorge EscherJan EscherFeature documentary about the life and work of MC Escher.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsYann Yann YeoJia Ler KohChristopher Ming-Shun LeeA teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.
- DirectorMarie ClementsStarsTantoo CardinalLink BakerMichelle ThrushAfter a Gwich'in-Canadian soldier is captured by the Taliban, he finds himself reflecting on the death of his cousin.
- DirectorDan PopaThe sea and its swimmers, fishers and ships as you've never seen them before. This sensory journey, structured as a symphony, was filmed on four continents.
- DirectorHeather YoungStarsAndria EdwardsShan MacDonaldWhen an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsIdir Ben AddiOlivier BonnaudMyriem AkheddiouA Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.
- DirectorNinian DoffStarsLewis GribbenRian GordonViraj JunejaAn anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsLisa AitkenPat BiancoTiffany BlomA volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.
- DirectorJohn SkoogStarsAron SkoogAgnieszka PodsiadlikBillie ÅstrandA story composed of fragments of lives lived in the periphery. Based on stories gathered and formed among the people who live in the region, Ridge turns the setting into the film's node and main character. But like shadows over the landscape, some protagonists are distinguished: Beata, a seasonal worker who comes to Sweden for the first time, Aaron, a young man with a broken heart returning to the place where he grew up, and Billie, a girl lost in her first summer vacation. As the film follows their lives, which slowly merge with the landscape, a map is drawn of the confusion between machines, people and animals. It becomes clear how they all depend on each other, in this era where the future is obscured by man's violent imprint on the planet.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
- DirectorP.J. LetofskyStarsDion NeutraRaymond Richard NeutraBarbara LamprechtNeutra - Survival Through Design is a comprehensive documentary encompassing the 125 year life, work and times of Architect Richard Neutra- the legacy which continues today thru son Dion Neutra. From his upbringing in 'Imperial' Vienna in 1892, his 1920's Berlin/Bauhaus days, to Los Angeles in 1925 via Chicago working with Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, and his road to become the preeminent Modernist Architect of our day, Survival Through Design is a personal, passionate, cross cultural, colorful story.
- DirectorPhillip YoumansStarsWendell PierceKaren Kaia LiversDominique McClellanAmongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.
- DirectorVincenzo NataliStarsLaysla De OliveiraAvery WhittedPatrick WilsonAfter hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Oklahoma but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.
- DirectorFrederikke AspöckStarsJacob LohmannAnders MatthesenChristopher LæssøFollows a celebrity financier who ends up in prison. After being assaulted by a gang of bikers in the prison, he ops for voluntary solitary confinement. During this time he joins the choir, aiming for the top of it's hierarchy.
- DirectorSam FriedlanderStarsDanny PudiEmily ChangBen GoldsmithWhen two couples with mixed feelings about having kids hatch a plan to share one baby, it seems like the perfect compromise--until things spiral out of control.
- DirectorKenneth J. HarveyStarsMary PrattFeminist painter or traditional housewife? Displaced and isolated, Mary Pratt's life was a highly complicated one of delicate rebellion. Award-winning filmmaker, Kenneth J Harvey, reconstructs Mary Pratt's life from archival footage dating back to the 1950s, across decades, and up to Mary's final interview conducted by Kenneth in 2017.
- DirectorBecs ArahangaAmberley Jo AumuaMatasila FreshwaterStarsRo Mereani Adi TuimatanisigaAr-Ramadi LongopoaBetsy Lania LuitoloA portmanteau feature film by 9 female Pacific filmmakers and filmed on seven Pacific islands. It is about the journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsMelvil PoupaudDenis MénochetSwann ArlaudThree men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsYann Yann YeoJia Ler KohChristopher Ming-Shun LeeA teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.
- DirectorPuloma BasuRob Hatch-MillerStarsChris VanderlooJosh MadellDaniel GivensFor 20 years indie record store Other Music was an influential hub of music culture in NYC. Featuring Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol and more, the film reminds us that the spirit of the much-loved destination will live on.
- DirectorCarl HunterStarsBill NighySam RileyAlice LoweA detective fantasy / family drama where a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son.
- DirectorAmp WongJi ZhaoStarsKaiji TangJames SieFaye MataA love story between a snake spirit and a snake hunter.
- DirectorMirrah FoulkesStarsDaisy AxonDon BridgesMichael PapasSeaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob rule.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsAntonio de la TorreMónica LópezJosep Maria PouA Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye.
- DirectorJohannes NyholmStarsLeif EdlundYlva GallonKatarina JacobsonAs a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
- DirectorKathleen HepburnElle-Máijá TailfeathersStarsViolet NelsonElle-Máijá TailfeathersCharlie HannahAfter a chance encounter on the street, a woman tries to encourage a pregnant domestic abuse victim to seek help.
- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsFriedrich MückeKaroline SchuchDavid KrossEast Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.
- StarsTony WalkerLynn JohnsonCharles FurneauxDirector Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
- DirectorSofia BohdanowiczDeragh CampbellStarsDeragh CampbellAaron DanbyElizabeth RuckerA young woman discovers letters in a Harvard archive that her great-grandmother wrote to a fellow Polish poet.
- DirectorAli JaberansariStarsForough GhajabagliMehdi SakiAmir Hessam BakhtiariThree disenchanted characters: an ex-champion bodybuilder, an overweight beauty clinic secretary and a dispirited religious singer, yearn for love and connection in Tehran.
- DirectorJoey KleinStarsImogen PootsNeve CampbellAlex WolffAfter the untimely death of his mother, a teenager befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.
- DirectorCarine BijlsmaStarsDave ChappelleD'AngeloJesse JohnsonD'Angelo had it all: two platinum selling albums, a sold out world tour and a body chiselled to perfection. However, one day at the height of his career in 2000 the soul singer vanished. For 12 years he descended into darkness. Out of nowhere, in December 2014, his third album Black Messiah was suddenly released: soundtrack of the lost years.
- DirectorErin DerhamStarsAllis MarkhamJohn McCormackJaap SinkeAn inside look into the world of taxidermy and the passionate artists from all over the world who work on the animals.
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLise Leplat PrudhommeAnnick LavievilleJustine HerbezIn the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay true to her mission.
- DirectorDestin Daniel CrettonStarsMichael B. JordanJamie FoxxBrie LarsonWorld-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsPetr KotlárNina SunevicAlla SokolovaA young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
- DirectorJessica OreckStarsAlyssa LozovskayaMaksim BlinovVladimir KoshevoyA true story, set in the future. About seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.
- DirectorLuke LorentzenStarsJuan OchoaFer OchoaJosue OchoaIn Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
- DirectorMatthew RankinStarsDan BeirneSarianne CormierCatherine St-LaurentDetermined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
- DirectorDaniel ScheinertStarsMichael Abbott Jr.Virginia NewcombAndre HylandDick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don't want anybody finding out how. That's too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
- DirectorMikhaël HersStarsVincent LacosteIsaure MultrierStacy MartinAfter his sister is brutally killed, David finds himself in charge of his 7 year old niece, Amanda.
- DirectorJacek BorcuchStarsKrystyna JandaKasia SmutniakAntonio CataniaThe stable family life of a poetess begins to fall apart as she makes a controversial speech to appreciation.
- DirectorJared P. ScottStarsInna ModjaSonghoy BluesDidier AwadiAcademy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God (2002)) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall.
- DirectorDan PopaThe sea and its swimmers, fishers and ships as you've never seen them before. This sensory journey, structured as a symphony, was filmed on four continents.
- DirectorPetter SommerJo Vemund SvendsenStarsKnut AkselsenNils AndersenLars Tefre Baade25 Norwegian men in a men's choir are rehearsing for their biggest gig ever: Warming up for Black Sabbath. But at the same time their conductor is dying from cancer.
- DirectorKim Yoon-seokStarsYum Jung-ahKim So-jinKim Hye-junTwo teenage girls struggle through their dysfunctional parents' affair.
- DirectorPeter NelsonStarsBret AdeeJeff AndersonAlan ArdA cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat.
- DirectorOliver Siu Kuen ChanStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongCrisel ConsunjiSam LeeA paralyzed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino domestic worker. The two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons, and as they learn more about each other, they also learn more about themselves.
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsEmily BeechamBen WhishawKerry FoxAlice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsTrine DyrholmGustav LindhMagnus KrepperA successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
- StarsAgnès VardaSandrine BonnaireHervé ChandèsAgnès Varda, photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. Taking a seat on a theatre stage, she uses photos and film excerpts to provide an insight into her unorthodox oeuvre.
- DirectorSara SummaStarsMassimiliano BossaMauro de FeliceMichela ImperatoreAmidst the sun-bleached fields of southern Italy, a farming family's isolated existence becomes besieged by a sinister destiny.
- DirectorYaron ShaniStarsStav AlmagorEran NaimStav PatayThe private life of policeman Rashi is thrown out of balance by a sudden loss of authority on the job.
- DirectorNicholas Manting BrewerDanny had a normal life, but one day everything changed.
- DirectorSonia Bonspille BoileauStarsLake DelisleCarmen MooreMcKenzie Deer RobinsonSet in the late 90s, Rustic Oracle is a dramatic feature about Ivy, an 8-year-old girl trying to understand what happened to her big sister who has vanished from their small Mohawk community. With minimal clues, Ivy and her mother Susan embark on an unwelcome journey to find Heather which will ultimately bring the pair closer together despite challenging circumstances. Behind the story of desperation, told through the eyes of a child, lies one of hope, growth, awakening and love.
- DirectorBen RiversAnocha SuwichakornpongStarsArak AmornsupasiriNuttawat AttasawatÓliver LaxeThe landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. It captures the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsAugust DiehlValerie PachnerMaria SimonThe Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
- DirectorJocelyn DeBoerDawn LuebbeStarsJocelyn DeBoerDawn LuebbeBeck BennettSuburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsCarlos AcostaSantiago AlfonsoKeyvin MartínezThe director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. A dancer who did not want to dance.
- DirectorYonah LewisCalvin ThomasStarsKacey RohlAmber AndersonMartin DonovanA popular undergrad faking cancer struggles to maintain her secret.
- DirectorYe LouStarsBoran JingSongwen ZhangJia SongThe Chief of Construction Committee leaps to his death from a tall building. Yang Jiadong, a rookie cop, begins investigating it. Forced out of his job and to the safety of Hong Kong, he endeavors to discover the truth.
- DirectorEdward NortonStarsEdward NortonGugu Mbatha-RawAlec BaldwinIn 1950s New York, Lionel, a private detective with Tourette syndrome, sets out to uncover the mystery behind his mentor and only friend Frank's murder. Scouring the jazz clubs and slums of Brooklyn, he soon uncovers a web of secrets.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
- DirectorYonfanStarsSylvia ChangWei ZhaoAlex Tak-Shun LamZiming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong's turbulent times of 1967.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKris HitchenDebbie HoneywoodRhys McgowanHoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsJonathan PryceAnthony HopkinsJuan MinujínBehind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.