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- DirectorTobias NölleStarsGeorg FriedrichTilde von OverbeckKamil KrejcíA lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
- DirectorAndrew NeelStarsBen SchnetzerNick JonasGus HalperReeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there in the name of "brotherhood" tests him and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsRosalie ThomassKaori MomoiNami KamataA young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.
- DirectorJames SchamusStarsLogan LermanSarah GadonTijuana RicksIn 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
- DirectorMaximiliano SchonfeldStarsRubén DemingFlorencia DomínguezElio GuerraA young woman arrives at a farm threatened by a plague. The bewildered farmers yield to her interventions and the immediate neighborhood come to think of Alejandra as their great hope and she starts to be revered like a saint.
- DirectorIra SachsStarsGreg KinnearJennifer EhlePaulina GarcíaA new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsOmar AdilovTimur AidarbekovMadiyar AripbayIn a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
- DirectorJochen HickStarsKurt BiedenkopfMario RölligSahra WagenknechtEven now, twenty-five years after German reunification, historians are still debating whether the GDR was an illegitimate state. In his current work, Jochen Hick tells the story of ex-GDR citizen Mario Röllig. Hick accompanies him as he visits his parents and his former colleagues but also the sites of his attempted flight from the GDR and his incarceration. Röllig was arrested in Hungary in 1987 for attempting to flee the German Democratic Republic; in 1988 the Federal Republic of Germany purchased his freedom. Today he regularly talks about his experiences in schools; he also volunteers as a guide at the former Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen in Berlin that is now a memorial. Hick stays close to his subject at all times but remains neutral, instead observing and asking questions from behind the camera.
- DirectorOndi TimonerStarsMatt SmithMarianne RendónJohn Benjamin HickeyA look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
- DirectorAaron BrooknerStarsAaron BrooknerJohn GiornoJim JarmuschAn intertwining tale of past and present this Award Winning Sundance documentary rediscovers NYC filmmaker Howard Brookner and his body of work, unveiled by his nephew, after being buried in William S. Burroughs bunker for over 30 years.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsTakeshi KitanoHidetoshi NishijimaSayuri OyamadaWhile on vacation with his wife, a writer begins following another man and woman who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
- DirectorJumana MannaRobert Lachmann was a German-Jewish ethnomusicologist. In the 1930s, his radio show "Oriental Music" explored the musical traditions of Palestine and included regular live performances by musicians from different ethnic and religious groups.
- DirectorDaichi SugimotoStarsYuta KatsukuraDaichi SugimotoRika SugimotoThe protagonist loved catching lizards when he was in grade school. Now he has entered an art university, which was a dream come true, but where has the excitement of catching lizards gone? A story of a young man born in the Heisei Era is depicted through the realistic portrayal of his everyday communication and distance between his friends and mother.
- DirectorRachel LangStarsSalomé RichardClaude GensacLazare GousseauCharts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsGérard DepardieuAudrey BonnetSwann ArlaudDepardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a palpable sense of placelessness and it doesn't take long before the hunter's dog disappears and he finds himself lost.
- DirectorBrodie HiggsStarsRob AlecSwann ArlaudPeter BarronThe surrealists are alive and well in contemporary Berlin. Living together in a decaying commune called the Glasshouse, the luminaries of art's most controversial scene wrestle with a city inclined to be rid of them, an art world being bought out by the rich, and years of wild living and simmering grudges. When founding figure Jacques dies and Lexia, a mysterious Bosnian stray is added to the mix, they plan one final provocation - an attack on punk pioneer Malcolm's fashion show - but they soon discover that betrayal taints even the purest of humanity's dreams.
- DirectorOffer EgozyStarsAlexandra AnthonyPersephone ApostolouEddie KehlerAn absurdist, pastel noir that documents events after an artist flees New York and winds up dead in a small town. A local sheriff, an old lover, and a distant friend try to sort out what's happened and, in the process, confront the ways that their own needs and desires have created the mysteries that surround them.
- DirectorEugène GreenStarsVictor EzenfisNatacha RégnierFabrizio RongioneA discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.
- DirectorIdan HaguelStarsIlanit Ben-YaakovGalia IshaiMohammad BakriMira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back.
- DirectorBenedek FliegaufStarsAngéla StefanovicsBálint SótonyiMiklós Székely B.A mother seeks out her estranged father in the aftermath of her mother's death.
- DirectorJoaquin del PasoStarsJavier ZaragozaRamiro OrozcoIrene RamirezIt's Friday morning at Pan American Machinery Inc., a company specializing in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events pulls them off their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse. The discovery changes everything - the company is bankrupt, the elderly workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope of any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they agree to lock themselves in their workplace.
- DirectorPetr VáclavStarsKlaudia DudováZdenek GodlaMiroslav HanusA paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. Weary of life and caring for her two sons, she develops an attraction to the nightclub bouncer, but he is in love with the club stripper, who is in turn waiting for the father of her child to return from the same prison where our prison guard works. A story about the demons of our day.
- DirectorDanae ElonStarsLuai Musa HatibAmos Touitou ElonAndrei Touitou ElonP.S. Jerusalem is about a family's personal journey to establish themselves in Jerusalem in a quest to find a place they can call "home."
- DirectorHugo Vieira da SilvaStarsNuno LopesIvo AlexandreDavid CaracolAt the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorAhu ÖztürkStarsAsiye DinçsoyNazan KesalDidem InselelNesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
- DirectorNikola LjucaStarsMilos TimotijevicTamara KrcunovicMaria KraakmanThe wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.
- DirectorMåns MånssonStarsAnders MosslingHilal ShomanIsaak ThedoridisA poet and writer gets fired from his job at a local newspaper after writing a review of his own work. To make ends meet he gets a job at the shipyard, a world completely different from the one he is used to.
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsEmma BellSara VertongenRose WilliamsThe story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHidetoshi NishijimaYûko TakeuchiToru BabaTakakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all.
- DirectorPernilla AugustStarsSverrir GudnasonKarin Franz KörlofLiv MjönesAn adaptation of Hjalmar Söderberg's novel "The Serious Game" from 1912. The great Swedish love story.
- DirectorDon CheadleStarsDon CheadleEmayatzy CorinealdiEwan McGregorAn exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
- DirectorMorgan NevilleStarsYo-Yo MaKinan AzmehKayhan KalhorCellist Yo-Yo Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreJohnny FancelliChristina FancelliTo learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.
- DirectorBartek DziadoszColin MacCabeChristopher RothStarsJohn BergerBen LernerColin MacCabeThe Seasons in Quincy' is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. It was produced by the Derek Jarman Lab, an audio-visual hub for graduate filmmaking based at Birkbeck, University of London, in collaboration with the composer Simon Fisher Turner.
- DirectorDominik MollStarsFrançois DamiensVincent MacaigneVeerle BaetensPhilippe Mars is a pleasant 40-something whose meeting with a psychotic college friend who is in search of love profoundly changes his life.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraRym Ben MessaoudSabah BouzouitaHedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rim and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsTemuera MorrisonAkuhata KeefeNancy BrunningFrom the author of "The Whale Rider", a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
- DirectorBenoît DelépineGustave KervernStarsGérard DepardieuBenoît PoelvoordeVincent LacosteChaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsRory CochraneJoel McKinnon MillerMichael HarneyNero, a deported Mexican, returns illegally to the U.S in search of his identity. He joins the U.S army as a Green card soldier, a shortcut to citizenship. Lost in a maze, Nero fights to obtain his nationality.