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- DirectorSophie HydeStarsTilda Cobham-HerveySam AlthuizenImogen Archer16-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.
- DirectorCharles PoekelStarsKentucker AudleyJason SheltonOona RocheA heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsSarit LarryAvi ShnaidmanLior RazA kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
- DirectorBatin GhobadiStarsHussein Hassan AliHelly LuvFeyyaz DumanMardan is a police officer who one day meets Leila, whose husband has disappeared. Mardan takes it on himself to solve the mystery.
- DirectorYannis VeslemesStarsVangelis MourikisAlexia KaltsikiDaniel BoldaPhotophobic Zano, arrives in the city for the very first time. The year is 1984 and Athens beckons. A vampire and a fine dancer, Zano quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city. All he really wants is a ''warm'' girl.
- DirectorMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiStarsHryhoriy FesenkoYana NovikovaRosa BabiyA deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsLaura Peterson-AardamTarmo SongMirt Preegel"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"
- DirectorNesimi YetikStarsTansu BiçerAytaç ArmanNihal G. KoldasStory of a male house keeper who has big dreams as a singer.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDandara de MoraisGeová Manoel Dos SantosMaria Salvino Dos SantosThe August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.
- DirectorRamin BahraniStarsAndrew GarfieldMichael ShannonLaura DernA recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.
- DirectorAna Lily AmirpourStarsSheila VandArash MarandiMarshall ManeshIn the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsAmy AdamsChristoph WaltzDanny HustonA drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsMichael KeatonZach GalifianakisEdward NortonA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
- DirectorTony AyresStarsSullivan StapletonAlex RussellJessica De GouwAn ex-convict is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. But his new life is challenged when his foreboding and charismatic former cell mate arrives in town.
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsEce DizdarTilbe SaranTaner BirselDeniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.
- DirectorJustin SimienStarsTyler James WilliamsTessa ThompsonKyle GallnerThe lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.
- DirectorMia Hansen-LøveStarsFélix de GivryPauline EtienneVincent MacaignePaul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
- DirectorAsia ArgentoStarsGiulia SalernoCharlotte GainsbourgGabriel GarkoRome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsChloë Grace MoretzJames CaanMary SteenburgenKaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.
- DirectorDavid ZellnerStarsRinko KikuchiNobuyuki KatsubeKanako HigashiA jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money.
- DirectorIra SachsStarsJohn LithgowAlfred MolinaMarisa TomeiAfter Ben and George get married, George is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper housing -- a situation that weighs heavily on all involved.
- DirectorJon StewartStarsGael García BernalKim BodniaDimitri LeonidasIranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
- DirectorMike van DiemStarsJeroen van KoningsbruggeGeorgina VerbaanJan DecleirAfter signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and must find a way to get out of their binding contracts.
- DirectorJames Napier RobertsonStarsCliff CurtisJames RollestonKirk TorranceA brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
- DirectorGuy MaddinEvan JohnsonStarsRoy DupuisClara FureyLouis NeginIn this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.
- DirectorRichard LaGraveneseStarsAnna KendrickJeremy JordanTamara MintzA struggling actress and her novelist lover each illustrate the struggle and deconstruction of their love affair.
- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerStarsAdi RukunM.Y. BasrunVolker HanischA family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
- DirectorCharlie McDowellStarsMark DuplassElisabeth MossTed DansonA troubled couple vacate to a beautiful getaway, but bizarre circumstances further complicate their situation.
- DirectorAndy BichlbaumMike BonannoLaura NixStarsMike BonannoAndy BichlbaumBenadette Chandia KodiliComedy troupe The Yes Men stage phony events and press releases in an effort to bring attention to environmental dangers and corporate greed.
- DirectorKevin SmithStarsJustin LongMichael ParksHaley Joel OsmentA brash and arrogant podcaster gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Canada to interview a mysterious recluse... who has a rather disturbing fondness for walruses.
- DirectorMorgan MatthewsStarsAsa ButterfieldRafe SpallSally HawkinsA socially awkward teenage maths prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
- DirectorTimothy George KellyStarsMac DeMarcoXarah DionLisa Gamble-Montreal (in Canada) is an island where the indie scene is blossoming like nowhere else in the world. And in the true spirit of the music, Timothy George Kelly's brand new DIY film takes us to pop-up shows on rooftops, in subways, at playgrounds and in parking lots.
- DirectorStuart MurdochStarsEmily BrowningOlly AlexanderHannah MurrayAs Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.
- DirectorFlorian HabichtStarsPulpJarvis CockerNick BanksBritpop band Pulp found fame on the world stage in the mid-1990s with anthems including "Common People" and "Disco 2000". Twenty five years and 10 million album sales later, they return to their hometown for their last UK concert.
- DirectorMichael ObertStarsLouis SarnoSamedi Mathurin BokombeJim Jarmusch25 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?
- DirectorSam DunnReg HarkemaScot McFadyenStarsDoris BuchruckerAlice CooperSheryl CooperSuper Duper Alice Cooper is the twisted tale of a teenage Dr Jekyll whose rock n roll Mr Hyde almost kills him. It is the story of Vincent Furnier, preacher's son, who struck fear into the hearts of parents as Alice Cooper, the ultimate rock star of the bizarre. From the advent of Alice as front man for a group of Phoenix freaks in the 60s to the hazy decadence of celebrity in the 70s to his triumphant comeback as 80s glam metal godfather, we will watch as Alice and Vincent battle for each others' souls. The is the first ever 'doc opera' - a dizzying blend of documentary archive footage, animation and rock opera that will cement forever the legend of Alice Cooper.
- DirectorBent HamerStarsAne Dahl TorpLaurent StockerHildegun RiiseWhen Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale.
- DirectorShira GeffenStarsSarah AdlerSamira SarayaDoraid LiddawiSelf Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.
- DirectorJoel PotrykusStarsJoshua BurgeJoel PotrykusTeri Ann NelsonParanoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.
- DirectorBelinda SallinStarsH.R. GigerCarmen Maria GigerStanislav GrofA look at the life the dark surrealist Swiss artist, H.R.Giger shot a year before his death.
- DirectorBitte AnderssonStarsPeggy SandsAlle ErikssonM. WågensjöA lesbian rock band sets off on a road trip to a battle of the bands in the big city. A mysterious billionaire with an army of ninjas, cyborgs and roller derby girls is doing everything to stop them. Their journey is a whacky adventure filled with motorcycle gangs, prison riots and flamboyant musical numbers
- DirectorDave McKeanStarsBen DanielsDervla KirwanStephanie LeonidasAfter losing their baby, Grant and Christine visit a friend in his isolated and idyllic sea-side house. Over a long week-end, secrets are revealed and the life of the dead child is lived out in a series of fantastic dreams.
- DirectorJonas Alexander ArnbyStarsSonia SuhlLars MikkelsenSonja Richter16-year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious deaths happen and Marie can feel something strange happening to her body.
- DirectorLevent SoyarslanStarsUgur AkkusHarun AkustaTaies FarzanAli Baltaoglu, a construction magnate with high-flying ambitions and deep ties with the government who dreams of carrying Europe's Alps to the Black Sea in a Dubai-like metropolitan city concept, sponsors three guys -who are not even in the film business- to film a documentary about the urban legends of Turkey's Black Sea region.
- DirectorStéphane LafleurStarsJulianne CôtéPierre-Luc LafontaineLuc SenayWhile her parents are away, a young woman and her friend are hanging out for the summer, and are joined by her brother and his bandmates.
- DirectorJemaine ClementTaika WaititiStarsJemaine ClementTaika WaititiCori Gonzalez-MacuerViago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
- DirectorMami SunadaStarsHayao MiyazakiYumiko MiyoshiToshio SuzukiFollows the routines of those employed at Studio Ghibli, including filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki as they work to release two films simultaneously, The Wind Rises and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
- DirectorAndreas DalsgaardVivana GomezViviana Gómez EcheverryViolence is a fact of everyday life in Colombia, where the drug cartels have kept the country in an armed conflict for decades, and where almost all families have lost a loved one.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
- DirectorWiam BedirxanOssama MohammedStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimA look at first-hand video accounts of violence in modern-day Syria as filmed by activists in the besieged city of Homs.
- DirectorMarianna FranceseJaad GailletStarsMustafa KayaAn incredible story. A man who changes radically his life to live in the most rumored Istanbul area, Tarlabasi.
- DirectorSophie DeraspeWhen well-known Syrian blogger Amina Arraf - purportedly kidnapped by local authorities during the Arab Spring - was revealed to be an elaborate hoax persona, an entire international community realized it had been catfished.
- DirectorJesse MossStarsJay ReinkeAndrea ReinkeAlan MezoBroken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
- DirectorJessica OreckStarsMariusz A. WolfTatyana ZbirovskayaA descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.
- DirectorJimmy GoldblumAdam M. WeberSince the 1970s New Delhi's magicians, puppeteers, and circus performers have called the tinsel slum, the Kathputli Colony, their home. Last year the government issued relocation permits to the colony residents; the slum is to be bulldozed, cleared for development. Experience the last remnants of a culture born out of folk art and molded by poverty.
- DirectorDesiree AkhavanStarsDesiree AkhavanRebecca HendersonHalley FeifferShirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsGeraldine ChaplinYanet MojicaRicardo Ariel ToribioAn older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an irresistible storm.
- DirectorJustin KellyStarsJames FrancoZachary QuintoEmma RobertsBased on the fascinating true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who becomes a Christian pastor after identifying as a heterosexual.
- DirectorJim ChuchuStarsKelly GichohiPaul OgolaTim MutungiA collection of five vignettes about Kenya's LGBT community.
- DirectorLarry ClarkStarsLukas IonescoDiane RouxelThéo CholbiA story centered around a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris.
- DirectorRobert GreeneStarsBrandy BurreDaytona LoveMichael TomlinsonActress Brandy Burre gave up a recurring role on a TV series to start a family. Years later, her domestic life crumbles when she tries to reclaim her former career.
- DirectorLina MannheimerStarsCatherine Robbe-GrilletBeverly CharpentierDominique CorringerThe most famous dominatrix in France creates sadomasochist "Ceremonies" in her chateau. Catherine Robbe-Grillet, age 84, defies the relations between power and submission, sensuality and physical pain.
- DirectorMatías PiñeiroStarsJulián Larquier TellariniAgustina MuñozAlessio Rigo de RighiA year after his father's death in Mexico, Victor returns to Buenos Aires with a twofold mission. On the one hand, he brings with him a new project for his former theater company; on the other, he abandons his part as The Princess of France and takes up a new role in front of five actresses who know him all too well, but who don't know that time to work will soon become a time to think again about lost loves.
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsRoger EbertChaz EbertGene SiskelThe life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.
- DirectorNancy D. KatesStarsNoël BurchLucinda ChildsPatricia ClarksonREGARDING 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. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today.
- DirectorCem KayaStarsMelih GülgenIzzet GünayHüseyin ZanTurkey in the 1960s and 70s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world even though its film industry did not have enough written material to start with. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world.
- DirectorJennifer M. KrootStarsGeorge TakeiBrad TakeiWalter KoenigA look at the many roles played by eclectic actor/activist George Takei, whose wit, humor and grace have helped him to become an internationally beloved figure and Internet phenomenon with 7-million Facebook fans and counting.
- DirectorMohammad Ali AtassiZiad HomsiHow to make a film on violence without directly showing or reproducing it? The film Our terrible country attempts to respond to this approach by taking us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous, dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma, Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home country for a temporary exile.
- DirectorMano KhalilStarsBarbara BienzIbrahim GezerNicole HohlThe kafkaesque story of a Kurdish refugee trying to follow his passion of beekeeping in Switzerland.
- DirectorNoémi AubryJeanne GomasClément JuillardOverlapping portraits of migrants and the places where their journeys sometimes come to an abrupt halt-in Europe's buffer zones in Greece and Turkey, which prove to be real "non-places".
- DirectorMehran TamadonStarsMehran TamadonAn atheist, Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon managed to convince four mullahs, all believers in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to come and stay with him for two days and engage in discussion. In this confined space, daily life is combined with debate, an unremitting demonstration of the problematic issue of how to live together, when each side's understanding of the world is so contrary?
- DirectorLiwaa YazjiWhen the bomb comes the first thing we do is to run away, later we remember and think of everything we left behind. We did not bid farewell to our homes, memories, photos, identities and life that passed. It is about how homes haunt the life of the souls that were living in them, as much as they themselves haunt the houses.
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsLola DueñasLaurent LucasHéléna NoguerraFervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.
- DirectorKevin KölschDennis WidmyerStarsAlexandra EssoeAmanda FullerNoah SeganA hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
- DirectorAik KarapetianStarsMaxim LazarevAnta AizupeAris RozentalsA man is fired from his job and begins to stalk his former boss and his wife. After breaking into their home and claiming it for his own, he begins to see ghostly visions.
- DirectorSarah Adina SmithStarsLindsay BurdgeJennifer LafleurAleksa PalladinoSpirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. They find themselves unable to let go of their mother and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsRyohei SuzukiYoung DaisNana SeinoIn an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro crosses the line to conquer all of Tokyo. The war begins.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVenturaVitalina VarelaTito Furtado"The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim." This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa's "Colossal Youth" with Ventura again playing himself.
- DirectorBenny SafdieJosh SafdieStarsArielle HolmesCaleb Landry JonesBuddy DuressA young woman struggles to reconcile her love for her boyfriend and for heroin, as she finds out that suicide is the only way for her boyfriend to forgive her for her misdeed.
- DirectorHoward BrooknerStarsWilliam S. BurroughsAllen GinsbergHerbert HunckeBurroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, including his travels from the American Midwest to North Africa and several personal tragedies. Burroughs: The Movie is the first and only feature length documentary to be made with and about Burroughs. The film was directed by the late Howard Brookner. It was begun in 1978 as Brookner's senior thesis at NYU film school and then expanded into a feature which was completed 5 years later in 1983. Sound was recorded by Jim Jarmusch and the film was shot by Tom DiCillo, fellow NYU classmates and both very close friends of Brookner's.
- DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsRainer Werner FassbinderIrm HermannHarry BaerThomsen presents previously unseen interview footage recorded with Fassbinder throughout their fifteen-year friendship, which spans exactly the length of his career - their first encounter was at the Berlinale in 1969 where Fassbinder's debut was famously booed (you can hear the cries of "Awful!" and "Shame!" on the archive footage), and their last was just three weeks before his untimely death.
- DirectorPeter WhiteheadStarsSyd BarrettNick MasonPink FloydShot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60's Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary '14 hour Technicolor Dream' extravaganza in April '67 at Alexandra Palace. The footage includes performance art by Yoko Ono and a Sgt. Pepper era John Lennon taking in the festivities (John and Yoko had not met then).
- DirectorFrieder SchlaichStarsPatti SmithIn April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsPhillip WilliamsonTwenty years after the death of Derek Jarman, a heretofore unknown Jarman film comes to light. Found by friend Ron Peck, Jarman shot inside Benjy's, a now closed gay nightclub in east London. The film is shown in it's 78 minute unedited glory, meant to be experimental footage to assist friend Peck for the future filming of Peck's Empire State (1987), and set to Frankie Goes to Hollywood, among others.