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Magnificent Life, A In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol's childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing. Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results of his last two plays, Pagnol starts doubting his ability to pursue his work. That is until Little Marcel - the young boy he used to be - appears to him as if by magic. Together, they will explore Marcel Pagnol's incredible life and bring back to life his most cherished encounters and memories...

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Animation, Biography

Choral, The 1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) – driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Blue Moon On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Becoming Led Zeppelin Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary

Eleanor the Great In "Eleanor The Great", June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell.

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writers block. When her best friend (Pablo Pauly) gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment…and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle.

Year: 2025
Language: English & French

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Based on Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of the same name, DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT captures the childhood of 7-year-old Bobo on her family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence in 1980. Conflicted by her love for people on opposing sides, she tries to make sense of her life in a magical way. Through her seven-year-old gaze we witness Rhodesia’s final days, the family’s unbreakable bond with Africa, and the deep scars that war leaves on survivors.

Year: 2025
Language: English, Shona
Genre: Drama

Penguin Lessons, The Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.

Year: 2025
Language: English, Spanish

On Swift Horses Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Into The Deep Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Action

Endless Cookie Through a series of vignettes - some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre - this animated feature documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.

Year: 2025
Language: English and Cree
Genre: Documentary, Animation

Finalement Dans un monde de plus en plus fou, Lino, qui a décidé de tout plaquer, va se rendre compte que finalement : tout ce qui nous arrive, c’est pour notre bien !

Year: 2025
Language: Français
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Musical

Friend, The Based on the bestselling novel, writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) bequeaths her Apollo, his 150lb Great Dane.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Paul Sujet à la dépression et à l’anxiété sociale, Paul a trouvé refuge dans la servitude de femmes qui l’accueillent pour exécuter des ménages. En exposant ses routines doucement excentriques sur les réseaux sociaux, il combat la solitude et avance un jour à la fois.

Year: 2025
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary

Private Life, A The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

Year: 2025
Language: French

Unidentified Sparked by the discovery of the lifeless body of a teenage girl in the desert; When no one claims the body, Noelle Al Saffan, a newly divorced, true crime aficionado who recently lost a child of her own, gets obsessively involved. Despite a ticking clock that seemingly guarantees the girl’s senseless death will be discarded as a cold case, Noelle is determined to identify the body and uncover the truth. She slowly unravels a mystery entangled within a traditional society in transition, where women are learning to create more space for themselves and to take control of their own destinies.

Year: 2025
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama

Things You Kill, The Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience. Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.

Year: 2025
Language: Turkish

Desert Dawn

Year: 2025
Genre: Crime, Action

East of Wall EAST OF WALL is an authentic portrait of female resilience in the 'New West' inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher, who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty, and unresolved grief, all while providing refuge for a group of wayward neighborhood teens.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Oh, Hi! Iris (Molly Gordon) has met her perfect guy, Isaac (Logan Lerman), and is enjoying their first romantic getaway together — what could go wrong? This clever and charmingly odd dark comedy takes on the highs and lows of modern dating and the ways it makes us all a little crazy.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Merrily We Roll Along Spanning three decades, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along charts the turbulent relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two lifelong friends — writer Mary and lyricist & playwright Charley. Originally produced on Broadway in 1981, then becoming an inventive cult-classic ahead of its time, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Stephen Sondheim’s most celebrated and personal songs.

Year: 2025
Language: English

Bang Once a killer, now the mark." Bang (Jack Kesy), one of the most feared hitmen, questions his violent life after a near-death experience. Seeing a future beyond bloodshed, he wants out—but his crime boss won’t let go without a fight.

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Action

Venue de l'avenir, La Aujourd'hui, en 2024, une trentaine de personnes issues d'une même famille apprennent qu'ils vont recevoir en héritage une maison abandonnée depuis des années. Quatre d'entre eux, Seb, Abdel, Céline et Guy sont chargés d'en faire l'état des lieux. Ces lointains "cousins" vont alors découvrir des trésors cachés dans cette vieille maison. Ils vont se retrouver sur les traces d'une mystérieuse Adèle qui a quitté sa Normandie natale, à 20 ans. Cette Adèle se retrouve à Paris en 1895, au moment où cette ville est en pleine révolution industrielle et culturelle. Pour les 4 cousins, ce voyage introspectif dans leur généalogie va leur faire découvrir ce moment si particulier de la fin du 19ème siècle où la photographie s'inventait et l'impressionnisme naissait. Ce face à face entre les deux époques 2024 et 1895 remettra en question leur présent et leurs idéaux et racontera le sens de : La venue de l'avenir

Year: 2025
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

President's Cake, The While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients and prepare the mandatory cake in THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE.

Year: 2025
Language: Arabic, English
Genre: Drama

Kiss of the Spider Woman Argentina, 1983. With the country’s military dictatorship waging a brutal war against its political opponents, prisoners Valentín and Molina find themselves thrown together in a cramped cell. Initially at odds, they begin to bond as Molina narrates the story of his favorite movie, “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” From Bill Condon, the Academy Award®-winning writer-director of Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast, comes a visionary new interpretation of the literary and cultural landmark.

Year: 2025
Language: English & Spanish

Compulsion On the island of Malta, two women get engaged in a string of horrifying murders.

Year: 2025
Genre: Thriller, Action

Nuremberg The Allies, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon), have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust while a US Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is locked in a dramatic psychological duel with former Reichsmarschall Herman Göring (Russell Crowe).

Year: 2025
Language: English

Exit Protocol An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.

Year: 2025
Genre: Action

Perfect Gamble, The Two gamblers released from prison decide to open an illegal casino, but get entangled with the mafia, with one gambler's girlfriend caught in the middle.

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action

Reverence The circumstances behind a missing teenage girl spirals out of control after her traumatized father and a determined detective search for answers.

Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Action

Scarlet From visionary Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda (MIRAI) comes a powerful, time-bending animated adventure about SCARLET, a medieval-era, sword-fighting princess on a dangerous quest to avenge the death of her father. After failing at her mission and finding herself gravely injured in the “Otherworld,” she encounters an idealistic young man from our present day who not only helps her to heal but shows her the possibility of a future free of bitterness and rage. When confronted again by her father's killer, Scarlet faces her most daunting battle: can she break the cycle of hatred and find meaning in life beyond revenge?

Year: 2025
Language: Japanese
Genre: Animation

Voice of Hind Rajab, The January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. NOTE: The film is based on real events and emergency calls recorded by the Palestine Red Crescent. The voices on the phone are real.

Year: 2025
Language: Arabic, English
Genre: Drama

Tribe Called Love, A Set in a Somali neighbourhood in Toronto, the film follows teenagers Farah and Halima as they fall in love despite warnings to stay apart because they’re from different tribes. When Farah’s family relocates to Vancouver, the relationship ends abruptly — until they reconnect in their twenties in Toronto. But the same cultural barriers that once divided them soon resurface. Will their love be strong enough to rewrite their fate, or are some histories destined to repeat themselves? This modern-day Romeo and Juliet cautionary tale explores whether cultural barriers can truly be overcome.

Year: 2025
Language: English, Somali

Meadowlarks Inspired by her own acclaimed documentary "Birth of a Family", Tasha Hubbard’s "Meadowlarks" tells the story of four Cree siblings, separated since childhood and now in their fifties, who agree to meet for the first time over a holiday weekend in Banff.

Year: 2025
Language: English & French

Longing Daniel, a wealthy New York bachelor (Richard Gere), is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers that a Canadian ex-girlfriend (Suzanne Clément) had given birth to a son after they split up 20 years ago.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Deaner '89 Hard-luck metalhead Dean Murdoch (Paul Spence) reveals how he finally made it, taking us back to the '80s – when being a hockey jock was a badge of honour, Jazzercise was a national movement, seatbelts were optional, and teachers were as drunk as their students.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy

Red Right Hand Cash (Orlando Bloom) is trying to live an honest and quiet life taking care of his recently orphaned niece Savannah (Chapel Oaks) in the Appalachian town of Odim County. When the sadistic kingpin Big Cat, (Andie MacDowell) who runs the town, forces him back into her services, Cash learns he’s capable of anything – even killing – to protect the town and the only family he has left. As the journey gets harder, Cash is drawn into a nightmare that blurs the lines between good and evil.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

Apprentice, The The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump's ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Kneecap When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.

Year: 2024
Language: English, Irish

Room Next Door, The Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Between the Temples A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Cash Out Thrust into his brother’s botched bank robbery, a heist mastermind (John Travolta) stumbles into his biggest score yet…but can he escape alive?

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Outlaws, The Helmed by the directorial duo of Joey Palmroos and Austen Paul, The Outlaws plunges viewers into a world where a group of renegades, off the back of completing a successful heist, awaken to the shocking discovery that their every drop of their precious loot has vanished. Suspicion and tension rise amongst the group of five as the outlaws scramble to uncover the traitor among them, setting the stage for intense confrontations and high-stakes drama.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Action, Western

Betrayal Three brothers return to the remote woodland where they killed their abusive father only to discover his shallow grave is now empty, forcing them to question one another's loyalty with devastating consequences as fear and paranoia set in.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Mafia Wars An ex-con gets released early from prison only to be forced into an undercover unit of six men and on his first day the other five are all killed. Now he must go face-to-face with the men who he was tasked to spy on, not knowing if they know who he really is.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Stoic, The It follows a group of mercenary leaders in a country retreat after pulling off a raid on a drugs gang. Things take a turn for the worse after they raise the attentions of 'The Stoic', a man from an ancient clan of smugglers.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Outrun, The After living life on the edge in London, Rona (Saoirse Ronan) attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.

Year: 2024
Language: English

I'm Still Here BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book, the film tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.

Year: 2024
Language: Portuguese

Return, The After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned from the Trojan War, but much has changed in his kingdom. His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Hard Truths Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh reunites with actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Oscar nominee for Leigh’s SECRETS & LIES) for his latest — a tough but compassionate and intimate film about family life that marks his return to a contemporary setting.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Whiteout This harsh thriller film opens with an armed raid on the Russian offices of an international corporation. Brutally kidnapped & taken hostage, some workers end up in a labor camp in the middle of nowhere. Two hardened inmates, Kurt and Anthony (Douglas Nyback and Joel Labelle), save Henry (James McDougall) from the lecherous grip of another inmate and his henchman. Henry finds himself in a position to help his new associates escape, igniting a chaotic prison break that engulfs the men and the other prisoners. Those who make it out alive will face several days of deadly terrain and grueling obstacles in their journey for survival.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Everyone is Going to Die An entrepreneur is attempting to reconnect with his daughter on her Birthday. The party is interrupted and they are taken hostage by two masked female robbers who appear to have real problems with the Patriarchy.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Memoir of a Snail Grace Pudel (voiced by Sarah Snook) is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee), she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky (Jacki Weaver), who is full of grit and lust for life. From Academy Award-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, "Memoir of a Snail" is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Animation

His Father's Son A determined aspiring chef, Amir struggles to carve out a path for himself and gratify the expectations of his parents, Farhad and Arezou – while his younger brother, Mahyar, appears to cruise through life effortlessly. When Amir’s parents receive news that a family friend from Iran has died and left his inheritance solely to Mahyar, the unexpected bequest triggers a chain of revelations that reshape the brothers’ dynamic and unravel truths about the family’s hidden past.

Year: 2024
Language: English and Farsi
Genre: Drama

Parthenope Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.

Year: 2024
Language: Italian, English

Laws Of Man At the dawn of the Cold War, two U.S. marshals pursue a wanted murderer in the deserts of Nevada.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Last Showgirl, The The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Directed by Gia Coppola, The Last Showgirl co-stars Oscar®, SAG® Award and Golden Globe® winner Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly’s best friend, who brings her own unique interpretation and brilliance to the story, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Aberdeen ABERDEEN is a raw, authentic drama interwoven with pockets of humor that shines a light on the indomitable Aberdeen, a middle-aged Indigenous climate change refugee who has been forced from her home due to flooding. As she begrudgingly adjusts to big-city life, Aberdeen must face the inter-generational cycle of trauma that has been tearing her family apart for 5 generations in order to protect her grandchildren.

Year: 2024
Language: English, Ojibway

L'attachement Sandra, quinquagénaire farouchement indépendante, partage soudainement et malgré elle l’intimité de son voisin de palier et de ses deux enfants. Contre toute attente, elle s’attache peu à peu à cette famille d’adoption.

Year: 2024
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Last Spark of Hope, The A woman tries to cope with loneliness in a post-apocalyptic reality, but a conflict arises between her and her only companion, a robot equipped with artificial intelligence.

Year: 2024
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi

Resurrection Road An elite squad of six Black soldiers, led by ex-slave Barabbas, have been sent on a suicide mission; to infiltrate a Confederate fort deep in the Arkansas woods and blow up its long-range guns, altering the course of the war.

Year: 2024

In Vitro On a struggling cattle farm some years in the future, a woman discovers the unsettling consequences of her husband's animal breeding technology.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Lovely In Toronto’s St. James Town, an aspiring young boxer fights for his shot at the pros—until an unexpected twist forces him to choose between the life he’s chasing and the one that’s just begun.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama

River of Blood

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Action

We're Not Safe Here After vanishing, a woman returns with a chilling tale. Now, she and her friend are hunted by a dark force that twists fear into reality.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Traumatika Mikey's night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he's about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Horror

Delivery Run A food delivery driver gets caught in a deadly chase in the icy Minnesota wilderness, pursued by a crazed snowplow driver for unknown reasons, facing life-threatening situations and forced to outsmart his relentless pursuer alone.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Action

40 Acres Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the first Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm against those hell-bent on taking their 40 ACRES.

Year: 2024
Language: English and Cree

Can I Get a Witness? It's the future and we’ve solved all the world’s problems: mitigated climate change, eradicated poverty, achieved trans-species equality. There’s just one catch… humans have to end life at 50 and teenage artists have to document it. It’s Kiah’s first day on the job.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Birds Who Fear Death, The Two brothers, disinherited and desperate for cash, journey into the Canadian wilds to find themselves, their people and their fortune.

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Wicked Little Letters A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Wake A struggling actress is desperate to land the lead role in a Hollywood remake… but is it worth dying for?

Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Movie Man, The An eccentric entrepreneur looks back on his life’s work ––owning and operating an idiosyncratic multiplex cinema in the forest of Northern Ontario.

Year: 2024
Language: English

Taste of Things, The France, 1885. The talented cook Eugenie has worked for the preeminent gourmet Dodin for the last two decades. Their mutual admiration turns into a romance, and gives rise to dishes, one more delicious than the next, that confound even the world’s most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin, so he decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Year: 2023
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Promised Land, The In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King, in exchange for a royal title. The heath meant certain death – a godforsaken place haunted by ravenous wolves, highwaymen, and a brutal and unforgiving nature. The sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel, believes this land belongs to him and does everything in his power to drive the captain away.

Year: 2023
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

Memory Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

Year: 2023
Language: English

Food, Inc. 2 In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Escape Best friends Carla and Tamsin, embark on a serene island vacation seeking relaxation and adventure. Their idyllic getaway takes an ominous turn when a ruthless criminal gang kidnaps them. As the gang soon discovers, they have gravely underestimated the strength and determination of these two women. What was meant to be an easy score becomes a high-stakes game of survival, as Carla and Tamsin turn the tables on their captors, transforming a vacation nightmare into a gripping tale of empowerment, resilience, and unexpected retribution.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

End of the Rope When a family mysteriously disappears, the local sheriff struggles to keep order in a town set on vengeance. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action, Mystery, Western

Duchess Follows a tough, working-class, petty criminal who morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in a murky underworld, in the treacherous world of diamond smuggling.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Daaaaaali! A French journalist meets the iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí on several occasions for a documentary project that never came to be.

Year: 2023
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Sunray: Fallen Soldier A war veteran calls on friends from his past to hunt down those responsible for the death of his daughter. Along the way, he learns more about himself than he anticipated as a violent crime syndicate unravels in his wake.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Action

Joan Baez I Am A Noise Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Immediate Family IMMEDIATE FAMILY tracks the rise and collaborations of a group of legendary session musicians Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, and Waddy Wachtel through the 1970s and onward, chronicling their illustrious partnerships and their formidable record of hit-making.

Year: 2023
Language: English

Four Daughters The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors to re-enact the story of Olfa and her daughters.

Year: 2023
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama, Documentary

Anselm In "Anselm", Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 3D and 6K-resolution, the film presents a cinematic experience of the artist’s work which explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history, inspired by literature, poetry, philosophy, science, mythology and religion.

Year: 2023
Language: German, English
Genre: Documentary

Close to You Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes along-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday. Once there, he confronts unresolved wounds and reconnects with an old friend.

Year: 2023
Language: English

Which Brings Me to You Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend's wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

In the Fire A doctor (Amber Heard) from New York travels to a remote plantation in the 1890s to care for a disturbed boy who seems to have inexplicable abilities. She begins treating the child, but in doing so ignites a war of science versus religion with the local priest who believes the boy is possessed by the Devil and is the reason for all the village's woes. Directed by Conor Allyn (No Man’s Land), he co-wrote the film with Pascal Borno (Children of the Corn) and Silvio Muraglia (After the Wedding).

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Boudica: Queen Of War After her family is slain and her land stolen, warrior queen Boudica (Olga Kurylenko) leads a fierce rebellion against the Roman Empire, inspiring her people to fight for freedom.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action

Black Noise Members of an elite security team deployed to rescue a VIP on an exclusive island.The rescue mission becomes a desperate attempt to survive, escape the island and elude the sinister presence that seeks to harm them.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Portrait, The After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Lord of Misrule Directed by William Brent Bell (THE BOY, ORPHAN: FIRST KILL), LORD OF MISRULE follows Rebecca Holland (Tuppence Middleton), who has recently taken over as priest of a small town. When her young daughter Grace (Evie Templeton) goes missing at the local harvest festival, a desperate search begins. The closer they edge towards finding Grace, the more secrets emerge from the town’s dark past. Soon, Rebecca must decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice to rescue her daughter from the grip of evil.

Year: 2023
Language: English

The Delinquents Buenos Aires bank employee Morán (Daniel Eliás) dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he’ll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker holds on to the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román (Esteban Bigliardi) heads to a remote rural idyll to hide the funds. There, he encounters a mysterious woman who will transform his life forever.

Year: 2023
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

How to Have Sex Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker’s directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out.

Year: 2023
Language: English

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras’ struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power …

Year: 2023
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama

Animal Kingdom, The In a world hit by a wave of mutations that are gradually transforming some humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife, who is affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he embarks with Émile, their 16-year-old son, on a quest that will change their lives forever.

Year: 2023
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Freud's Last Session On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. FREUD’S LAST SESSION interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

Year: 2023
Language: English

Last Resort Tells the story of a former special forces soldier who becomes a one-man army when his wife and daughter are taken hostage during a bank robbery.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Action

Kokomo City A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers in New York and Georgia as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

League, The Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI) and executive produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (Oscar winning SUMMER OF SOUL), THE LEAGUE celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Little Richard: I Am Everything One of a kind rock 'n' roll icon who shaped the world of music.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Persian Version, The Coming from two countries at odds with each other, Iranian-American Leila (Layla Mohammadi) strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures, while boldly challenging the labels society is so quick to project upon her. When her family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, Leila navigates her relationships from arms length in an effort to keep her “real” life separate from her family life.

Year: 2023
Language: English and Farsi
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Shayda Shayda, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardized.

Year: 2023
Language: English and Farsi

Teachers' Lounge, The Carla Nowak (LEONIE BENESCH), a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Carla tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the structures of the school system. The more desperately she tries to do everything right, the more the young teacher threatens to break.

Year: 2023
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Shortcomings Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Strange Way of Life A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship....

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Western

Shrapnel A former Marine and his old war buddy face off against the Mexican cartel behind the disappearance of his daughter.⁣

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Flood, The A daring jail break during a dangerous Louisiana hurricane is interrupted by a horde of large hungry alligators.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action

Island, The When his brother is killed, LAPD officer Mark (Michael J. White) leaves the city to return to the island he grew up on. Seeking answers and ultimately vengeance, he soon finds himself in a bloody battle with the corrupt tycoon who's taken over the island paradise.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

3 Days in Malay

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, War, Action

Due Justice (fka Palido) In the heart pounding thriller, DUE JUSTICE, former marine Max (Kellan Lutz) experiences a devastating loss when his beloved wife and daughter are brutally murdered in a cold blooded act of violence. Consumed by grief and driven by revenge, Max embarks on a relentless mission to hunt down those responsible.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Operation Napoleon A lawyer sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German World War II airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.

Year: 2023
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Thriller

Carlos (2023) The immersive and intimately-crafted documentary CARLOS catapults us into rock icon Carlos Santana’s life and musical trajectory. Filmmaker Rudy Valdez bolsters this personal narrative with pulsating, never-before-seen footage — guided by Santana himself, and in his own words.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

They Shot the Piano Player A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, "They Shot The Piano Player" captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.

Year: 2023
Language: English, Spanish

Deliver Us When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy that a woman will give birth to twin boys: one the Messiah, the other the Anti-Christ.

Year: 2023
Language: English

Stones And Brian Jones, The Featuring revealing interviews with all the main players and unseen archive released for the first time, "The Stones and Brian Jones" explores the creative musical genius of Jones, key to the success of the band, and uncovers how the founder of what became the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world was left behind in the shadows of history.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mob Land A sheriff tries to keep the peace when a desperate family man violently robs a pill mill with his brother-in-law, alerting an enforcer for the New Orleans mafia.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action

Tripped Up Four girlfriends take a chaotic road trip to a mind-blowing food festival.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Beyond Utopia A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, BEYOND UTOPIA embeds with a courageous pastor as he works tirelessly to guide various individuals attempting to flee one of the most oppressive places on Earth: North Korea.

Year: 2023
Language: English/Korean
Genre: Documentary

Seeding, The A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Ruthless Harry (Dermot Mulroney) is a high school wrestling coach recovering from the loss of his daughter who was murdered in a brutal attack. When one of his students disappears under conditions eerily similar to his daughter's, Harry decides to finally take matters into his own hands to hunt down the men responsible for her kidnapping and will stop at nothing to rescue her from their human trafficking operation.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Peasants, The The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colourful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

Year: 2023
Language: Polish

We Grown Now In 1992 Chicago, as Michael Jordan solidifies himself as a champion, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Hellhound In the heart of Bangkok, a seasoned hitman on the cusp of retirement finds himself pulled back into the deadly world he’s yearning to leave behind. Reluctantly accepting a final assignment, he believes it to be a routine job. However, as the intricacies of the mission unravel, he is plunged into a whirlwind of intrigue, danger, and unexpected alliances, causing his last endeavor to spiral into a treacherous odyssey that challenges his skills, convictions, and the limits of his own morality.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Bad Shepherd, The When a group of friends go hunting and accidentally kill someone carrying a bag full of money, their friendships are put to the test when the bag's true owner comes looking.

Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) A documentary on the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-lived, longest reigning British monarch and longest serving female head of state in history.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

You Can Live Forever When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Temps des secrets, Le Marcel Pagnol embarks on his last summer vacation before high school and returns to his beloved hills in Provence. His summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of first loves and secrets.

Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Children, Family

Phantom of the Open, The THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN follows Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Comedy

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singersongwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.” This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: The songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving testimonies from major recording artists for whom “Hallelujah” has become a personal touchstone. Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen’s personal notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Into the Weeds: Dewayne "Lee" Johnson vs. Monsanto Company Into the Weeds tells the powerful story of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, a former Bay Area groundskeeper who takes on a multinational agrochemical corporation after a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Year: 2022
Language: English

Agent Game

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Pure Grit Pure Grit is both a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story. Chronicling three years in the life of a young Native American bareback horse racer, her dogged determination, and the relationships that sustain her. Sharmaine dreams of becoming a champion. She is determined to ride and win. It's been a year since she's raced. A year since her sister was paralyzed in a catastrophic accident on the track. Sharmaine quit racing to care for her. In the remote Wyoming wilderness of the Wind River reservation, Sharmaine and her girlfriend Savannah begin to build a life for themselves. They hope for better. But the atmosphere at home soon turns toxic and the young lovers are forced to leave for the industrial Commerce City, Denver. The city brings freedom and opportunity, but also distractions and a strain on their fledgling relationship. When racing season starts up, Sharmaine and Savannah hit the road and put it all on the line. With a new horse from her city earnings, Sharmaine sees the potential for a fresh start. But life, like the race track, doesn't always go according to plan.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Simulant A humanoid A.I.'s attempt to win over a widow's heart places it in the path of a government agent trying to stop the rise of machine consciousness.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

Notre Dame on Fire A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Drama

So Much Tenderness Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, an environmental lawyer rebuilds her life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter, only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.

Year: 2022
Language: English/Spanish
Genre: Drama

Living LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Deep in the Forest "Deep in the Forest" is a thriller about a group of progressives who are forced to hide out at a remote ski lodge during a near-future civil war between the American Right and the American Left.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Siege of Robin Hood After the merciless Sheriff of Nottingham orders a brutal attack on his family, a young man named Robin swears bloody revenge on the men responsible, vowing to restore freedom to those trapped under the realm's oppressive rule.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action

Framing Agnes After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of trans actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Bitterbrush In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel The end of a long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Cryo

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Altar Boy A passive-natured teenager struggles to navigate the school year while trying to break free from the persona built around his religious upbringing.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama

My Old School In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary

I Like Movies Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

I Love My Dad Inspired by writer, director, and star James Morosini’s true life experience, I LOVE MY DAD follows Chuck (Patton Oswalt), a hopelessly estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin (Morosini). Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl (Claudia Sulewski) and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son. A thrilling comedy with an unexpected twist, I LOVE MY DAD also stars Rachel Dratch, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker and Ricky Velez.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Therapy Dogs The Class of 2019 at Cawthra Park Secondary School is gearing up for their senior year. Teen angst fills the hallways. Nervous students convene in classrooms. Hopeful romantics ask each other out for prom. Amidst these moments of self-discovery, friends Ethan and Justin set out to shoot a film under the pretense of being a yearbook project, recording pivotal moments and character portraits during this tumultuous stage of adolescence. No one at Cawthra Park seems to be prepared for what will come next in their rebellious filmmaking adventure.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Dig A widowed father and his daughter whose house is up for demolition, are taken hostage by a dangerous couple, who won't stop until they retrieve what lies beneath the property.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Smoking Causes Coughing A group of vigilantes called the "tobacco-forces" is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.

Year: 2022
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

One Fine Morning Sandra (Lea Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their friendship soon blossoms into a passionate affair.

Year: 2022
Language: English, French, German
Genre: Drama, Romance

Ernest And Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia Ernest and Celestine are travelling back to Ernest’s country, Gibberitia, to fix his broken violin. This exotic land is home to the best musicians on earth and music constantly fills the air with joy. However, upon arriving, our two heroes discover that all forms of music have been banned there for many years - and for them, a life without music is unthinkable. Along with their friends and a mysterious masked outlaw, Ernest and Celestine must try their best to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.

Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Adventure, Family, Animation

November (2022) 5 days into the heart of the French anti-terrorism services during the hunt for suspects after the 13/11/2015 attacks in Paris.

Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Hunted

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Supercell A teenage boy runs away to follow his fathers footsteps, legendary storm chaser Bill Brody.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Shadow Master After being slain by a group of criminals, a man reborn with animal-like superpowers makes it his mission to right the wrongs of his city.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action

Turn Every Page - The Adventures Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb Turn Every Page explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects at the culmination of a journey that has consumed both their lives and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers, and readers.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Carmen Benjamin Millepied’s CARMEN is a gritty modern day tale, with a majestic score by Nicholas Britell, and dream-like dance sequences that evoke magic realism. The story follows a young and fiercely independent woman who is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother, another strong and mysterious woman. Carmen survives a terrifying and dangerous illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard who cold-bloodedly murders two other immigrants in her group. When the border guard and his patrol partner, Aidan—a Marine with PTSD—become embroiled in a deadly standoff, Carmen and Aidan are forced to escape together.

Year: 2022
Language: Spanish & English
Genre: Drama, Musical

Next Exit Two strangers decide to partake in a controversial medical procedure which allows people to commit painless suicide following the scientific discovery that an afterlife does exist…

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Decision to Leave A detective falls for a mysterious widow after she becomes the prime suspect in his latest murder investigation.

Year: 2022
Language: Korean
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

There There A lover's doubt in the cold light of morning leads a chain of uneasy intimacies--counselors, disruptors, peacemakers and fire-starters--every one looking to have a little faith rewarded.

Year: 2022
Language: English

752 Is Not a Number Toronto dentist Hamed Esmaeilion is determined to uncover the truth behind the missile attacks that downed Ukrainian Flight PS752 shortly after its takeoff from Tehran on January 8, 2020, killing all 176 on board, including Hamed’s wife and nine-year-old daughter.

Year: 2022
Language: English and Farsi
Genre: Documentary

Hunt After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho (LEE Jung Jae) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (JUNG Woo Sung) are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president...

Year: 2022
Language: Korean
Genre: Thriller, Action

Blue Jean In BLUE JEAN, it’s England,1988, and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean (Rosy McEwen) a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Repeater Find. Kill. Repeat. For hit man Smith (Paul Sidhu), these are the only words to live by. But a botched job in Colombia forces him to take a high-stakes open contract arranged by his handler, Mann (Corbin Bernsen). Smith's latest target? The hacker-activist Rousseau (Nick Moran), who has run afoul of corrupt corporations and powerful men like Silver (James Faulkner), the boss of a criminal empire. In the border towns of Mexico, Smith confronts local gangs, competing contract killers Botha (Gary Daniels) and Sykes (Kristanna Loken), and a crisis of conscience with deadly consequences.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action

Heart of A Champion A heartwarming family film starring Casper Van Dien, Edward Furlong, and YaYa Gosselin. A 14-year-old coping with the divorce of her parents, a new school, and typical teenage growing pains finds purpose and pride in a lost horse she cares for and trains for a state competition.⁣

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Family

Sanctuary A wickedly dark comedy follows dominatrix, Rebecca (Emmy Award® nominee Margaret Qualley), and her wealthy client, Hal (Christopher Abbott), as they engage in a high stakes role playing game for power and control. In the wake of inheriting his father’s hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with Rebecca. A battle of wills ensues over the course of one incredibly fraught night, with both Rebecca and Hal struggling to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Transfusion A former Special Forces operative is thrust into the criminal underworld in a bid to prevent his only son from being taken from him.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action

Siege, The International assassin Walker is compromised during a mission and sent to a reassignment center for a new identity. During his stay at the facility, a ruthless assault team storms the compound searching for someone their boss has lost. Walker begrudgingly falls in with skilled hitwoman Elda and her mysterious ward Juliet in order to survive the night.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action

Daliland In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography

L'immensita The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.

Year: 2022
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Foreign

Baby Ruby The tightly scripted world of a vlogger and influencer unravels after she becomes a mother, in noted playwright Bess Wohl's feature debut.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

It Ain't Over An intimate portrait of a misunderstood American icon, this emotional and uplifting documentary about Yogi Berra takes us beyond the caricatures and "Yogisms," and into the heart of a sports legend whose unparalleled accomplishments on the baseball diamond were often overshadowed by his off-the-field persona.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography

Old Way, The An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action, Western

Night Train A single mom struggling to make ends meet as a Hollywood teamster evades capture by a ruthless FBI Agent while running black market medical supplies in her legendary souped-up pickup truck.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Moving On Two old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to get revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Compassionate Spy, A A gripping real-life espionage thriller about controversial Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided classified nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

June Zero Set during the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of the Jews during World War II, and based on true accounts, it tells its story from the intertwined perspectives of three largely unrelated figures: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator for the prosecution and a Holocaust survivor; and a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant.

Year: 2022
Language: Hebrew / Arabic
Genre: History, Drama

What's Love Got to do with It How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs to her eccentric mother Cath's (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Dark Asset A charming guy attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him.

Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Julia JULIA will tell the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film will trace Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography

A Glitch in the Matrix What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Asher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. Leaving no stone unturned in exploring the unprovable, the film uses contemporary cultural touchstones like THE MATRIX, interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a wide array of voices, expert and amateur alike. If simulation theory is not science fiction but fact, and life is a video game being played by some unknowable entity, then who are we, really? A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX attempts to find out.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Hands that Bind A farm hand struggles to establish roots for his family in a world that is increasingly unfamiliar and, as a darkness settles over the land and mysterious occurrences begin, his paranoia and desperation escalate.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

All My Puny Sorrows Based on the international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, ALL MY PUNY SORROWS unexpectedly infuses wry humour into this heart-wrenching story of two loving sisters: one a gifted pianist (Sarah Gadon) obsessed with ending her life, the other a struggling writer (Alison Pill) who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Prisoners of the Ghostland In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Lost Leonardo, The THE LOST LEONARDO is the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and the restorer discovers masterful Renaissance brushstrokes under the heavy varnish of its cheap restoration, the Salvator Mundi’s fate is determined by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power. As its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity: is this painting really by Leonardo da Vinci?

Year: 2021
Language: English, French
Genre: Documentary

Mothering Sunday A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Salvatore, Shoemaker of Dreams In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.

Year: 2021
Language: Italian, English
Genre: Documentary

12 Mighty Orphans 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS tells the true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes—or even a football—to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The architect of their success was Rusty Russell, a legendary high school coach who shocked his colleagues by giving up a privileged position so he could teach and coach at an orphanage. Few knew Rusty's secret: that he himself was an orphan. Recognizing that his scrawny players couldn't beat the other teams with brawn, Rusty developed innovative strategies that would come to define modern football.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family

Jockey An aging jockey (Clifton Collins Jr.), hopes to win one last title for his longtime trainer (Molly Parker), who has acquired what appears to be a championship horse. But the years – and injuries – have taken a toll on his body, throwing into question his ability to continue his lifelong passion. And the arrival of a young rookie rider (Moises Arias), who claims to be his son, and whom he takes under his wing, further complicates the path to fulfilling his dream.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Cryptozoo Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Animation

They Who Surround Us A Ukrainian farmer living in Alberta loses his wife in a tragic accident. Guilt and grief send him into an emotional spiral where mysterious and inexplicable events force him to relive traumatic incidents from his childhood in Ukraine.

Year: 2021
Language: English

Censor After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror

First Date Conned into buying a shady ‘65 Chrysler, Mike’s first date with the girl-next-door, Kelsey, implodes as he finds himself targeted by criminals, cops, and a crazy cat lady. A night fueled by desire, bullets and burning rubber makes any other first date seem like a walk in the park.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Comedy

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Year: 2021
Language: Romanian
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Parallel Mothers Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.

Year: 2021
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Twist A Modern take on the classic tale of Oliver Twist.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Action

Colony, The Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Blood Conscious A vacationing family turns the tables on a mass shooter who claims to be fighting demonic forces.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Ride the Eagle

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Apache Junction

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Western

False Positive As if getting pregnant weren't complicated enough, Lucy sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about her fertility doctor.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Mystery

Boiling Point Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

I'm Your Man In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.

Year: 2021
Language: German, English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Ninjababy When Rakel (23), finds out she’s six months pregnant after a not-so-romantic one-night stand, her world changes. Her boyfriend, who’s not the father, is kind of ok with her having a baby. But Rakel is absolutely not ready to be a mother. Since abortion is no longer an option, adoption is the only answer. That’s when Ninjababy, an animated character who insists on making Rakel’s everyday life a living hell, turns up. He climbs out from her note book, jumps into her tea cup, and keeps reminding her what a terrible person she is.

Year: 2021
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Only the Animals Following the disappearance of glamourous housewife Evelyne Ducat (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in the French highlands, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case. Elegantly structured and darkly funny, Dominik Moll’s seamy thriller reveals the secret connections of a lonely farmer, an unfaithful husband and wife, a lovelorn waitress and an African con artist to expose a world of greed, lust, betrayal, desperation and murder spanning the wintery French highlands to the sun kissed streets of Sierra Leone. With his finest cast to date, including an astonishing performance by Denis Ménochet (Inglorious Bastards), ONLY THE ANIMALS finds Dominik Moll at the height of his filmmaking powers as he masterfully exposes the secret connections that lie at the underbelly of Evelyne’s disappearance.

Year: 2021
Language: Français
Genre: Drama

Gagarine Youri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarine Cité, a vast red brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. From the heights of his apartment, he dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when plans to demolish his community’s home are leaked, Youri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save Gagarine, transforming the estate into his own “starship” – before it disappears into space forever.

Year: 2021
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Mayday Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she's not the killer they want her to be.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama

Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story Celebrating the music, food, and arts and crafts of all of Louisiana since 1970, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, is an essential showcase of the rich heritage of the region, and hundreds of thousands attend the event each year. Local music heroes are joined on 14 stages by some of the most important figures in entertainment, highlighting the connections between Louisiana culture and the world.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Learn to Swim After a tragic event, Dezi (Thomas Antony Olajide), a Toronto jazz musician, flees in an attempt to rebuild his life, only to find himself haunted by his grief and truths of his past.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Burning Sea, The On Christmas Eve 1969, the Norwegian government announces something that will change Norway forever: One of the world's largest offshore oil discoveries is a fact, and Ekofisk becomes the start of an unprecedented financial adventure. 50 years of experience has given us many answers, but we might have yet to fully understand the consequences of our operations at sea. Will the adventure last or have we created one of the largest mass destruction weapons in the world?

Year: 2021
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Drama

American Night A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Last Man Down John Wood left the pieces of a broken civilisation behind, to go back to his roots in the woodland, after a virus pandemic struck the world.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action

American Sicario Follows the story of a high-ranking Mexican-American lieutenant of the Feliz Cartel who was the first known American Sicario.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action

Compartment No. 6 A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

Year: 2021
Language: Russian, Finnish Saami
Genre: Drama

Red Rocket Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Catch the Fair One A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Moonfall In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award® winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, “Midway”) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, “Game of Thrones”) believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Roland Emmerich & Harald Kloser & Spenser Cohen, the film also stars Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, and Donald Sutherland.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Agnes Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama

Barbaque

Year: 2021
Language: French
Genre: Horror, Comedy

You Are Not My Mother In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama

Italian Studies A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NYC, she connects with a group of teenagers - in conversations both real and imagined - and searches for a way home.

Year: 2021
Language: English & French
Genre: Drama

Wildhood A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother and reclaim his Mi'kmaw heritage.

Year: 2021
Language: English, Mi'kmaq
Genre: Drama

Girl on the Mountain, The When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama

Warhunt In Warhunt, when Ruthless Major Johnson (Rourke) sends out a squad of his bravest soldiers (Rathbone, Knepper) on a dangerous rescue mission after the violent crash of a World War 2 cargo plane, they are soon attacked by a powerful, supernatural force. Fighting for their sanity and struggling to survive profound horrors, they must uncover the shocking truth behind the force before the Nazis, and remove all evidence that it ever existed, even at the cost of their own lives.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action

Legend of la Llorona, The While vacationing in Mexico, a couple discovers their son's disappearance is tied to a supernatural curse.

Year: 2021
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Requin, The A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Here Before A taut and sophisticated psychological thriller set in Northern Ireland.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Hyperions, The Professor Ruckus Mandelbaum invents the Titan badge, a dazzling new device that gives humans superpowers but also creates a rift between the empowered.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action

So Cold the River A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Ultrasound After his car breaks down, Glen spends one hell of an odd night with a married couple, setting into motion a chain of events that alter their lives plus those of several random strangers.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Indemnity Theo Abrams is an ex-Cape Town fireman suffering from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, unable to return to work due to the psychological trauma sustained during a failed rescue mission. An increasingly frustrated and volatile Theo's world is rocked when one morning, he wakes up next to his wife's murdered corpse with no recollection of what transpired and all evidence suggesting that he's killed her. When the police label him as the prime suspect, Theo goes on the run, and is soon being hunted by Deputy Chief of Police, Alan Shard, a notoriously ruthless soldier of the law, who is hell-bent on catching Theo as one last act of service before he officially retires. However, when an unknown third party is thrown into the mix, Theo discovers an alarming connection between the sinister forces hunting him in an attempt to silence him permanently for a reason he can't comprehend; and a recent investigation his wife was conducting into a global armament contractor. When connecting the dots becomes a matter of life and death, Theo becomes embroiled in a desperate fight for survival and must figure out who really murdered his wife before a terrifying conspiracy changes the course of a nation forever.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action

Bull Bull mysteriously returns home after a 10 year absence to seek revenge on those who double crossed him all those years ago.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Hostile Territory In post-civil war America, when a Union soldier is presumed dead, his children are mistakenly sent away on the orphan train. This is a wild-west story of people uniting for the greater good, and children forced to grow up quickly.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Western

Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the seminal award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime: Nick Cage.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Diabolik The dark and romantic story of the first meeting between master thief Diabolik and Eva Kant, set in the fictional state of Clerville in the late 1960s. Inspector Ginko is on the hunt for the criminal, trying to stop his evil plans.

Year: 2021
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime, Action

How to Please a Woman When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Good Boss, The Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.

Year: 2021
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy

Shepherd Eric Black is lost after the mysterious death of his adulterous wife. Running from his past to a new job as a Shepherd, he finds himself trapped alone on a majestic, weather-beaten island with an ominous secret. One mans spiraling madness meets a vengeful supernatural force. What starts as the perfect wind-swept escape becomes a race to save his sanity and his life

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Piggy During the sweltering summertime of rural Spain, Sara carries an extra load of teenage agony due to the perpetual bullying from her peers. She’s also an outsider at home—her parents and little brother just don’t understand her—so, feelings internalized, she’s often found buried in her headphones, drowning out her surroundings. One day, Sara’s usual solo dip at the local pool is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious stranger in the water and an exceptionally grueling bout of abuse at the hands of three girls. But, in a strange twist of fate, along the way home Sara witnesses her bloodied tormentors being kidnapped in the back of the stranger’s van.

Year: 2021
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Return of Tanya Tucker - Featuring Brandi Carlile, The Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.

Year: 2021
Language: English

Take the Night When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

My Favorite Girlfriend My Favorite Girlfriend is a sparkling, romantic comedy with a unique twist, starring Tyler Johnson (“Sons of Thunder”) and Bonnie Piesse (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”) from writer/director Amanda Raymond (You Are My Home). It’s complicated for new couple Conrad and Molly. He’s a handsome, aspiring chef who leads a perfectly structured life. She’s a cute, bubbly social media influencer prone to spontaneity. The attraction is immediate for the mismatched duo and everything is going great until Southern charmer “Vanessa” shows up. Followed by bad-ass rocker “Silk”, and more. The woman of Conrad’s dreams is actually several of them. Molly has multiple personalities which can switch in a heartbeat. Is he cheating on Molly if he has sex with “Silk?” And can he choose a favorite when he loves them all?

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Runner, The After being busted for drug possession, Aiden, a troubled Teenager is forced by the cops to go undercover and risk his life to bring down a dangerous drug king pin.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

House of Darkness

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Comedy

Return to Seoul After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on (an unexpected) journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

Year: 2021
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama

American Murderer American Murderer is based on the true story of Jason Derek Brown - a charismatic con man turned party king who bankrolls his luxurious lifestyle through a series of scams. When his funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet and, in the process, becomes the FBI's most unlikely - and elusive - top ten fugitive.

Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Ambush, The When three soldiers are ambushed in hostile territory, their commander leads a daring mission to rescue them. From the director of TAKEN.

Year: 2021
Language: Arabic
Genre: War, Action

Death of a Ladies' Man Inspired by the work of Leonard Cohen, and set to some of his most beloved music, Death of a Ladies' Man tells the story of a carousing college professor whose life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

My Salinger Year In New York City in the late ‘90s, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) is a young aspiring writer who lands a day job at J.D. Salinger’s literary agency. While her eccentric, old-fashioned boss Margaret (Sigourney Weaver) assigns her to answer Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, Joanna struggles to find her own voice.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Pompéi Victor and his little brother scrape by through the thieving of artifacts as part of a community of vagrant children. Victor et son petit frère Jimmy survivent dans un environnement où la misère sentimentale semble éternelle. L’arrivée de Billie et son romantisme fou ébranlent les croyances de chacun…

Year: 2020
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Funny Boy Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Percy Based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser, who challenges a major conglomerate when the company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer’s crops. As he speaks out against the company’s business practices, he realizes he is representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the world fighting the same battle. Suddenly, he becomes an unsuspecting folk hero in a desperate war to protect farmers’ rights and the world’s food supply against what they see as corporate greed.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Ride Like a Girl The incredible true story of Michelle Payne, who overcame impossible odds and became one of the first female jockey champions in the world.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family, Biography

Lie Exposed When recovering alcoholic Melanie (Leslie Hope) learns devastating news, she leaves her husband (Bruce Greenwood) in Toronto and heads to Los Angeles for a bender. In LA she meets a mysterious tintype photographer (Jeff Kober) and agrees to pose for him at his downtown studio. Upon her return to Canada, freshly sober Melanie and husband Frank stage a surprise art show for their friends. The exhibition of the tintype photos ignites passionate, provocative, incendiary and disparate discussions amongst the group, none of whom know Melanie is the subject of this intimate and provocative work.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Falling John (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Monica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. His father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis’s mind is declining, so John brings him west, hoping he and his sister, Sarah (Laura Linney), can help their father find a home closer to them. Their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s angry refusal to change his way of life in any way. In his directorial debut, Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts of a contemporary family. Willis’s abrasive nature, by turns caustic and funny, is aggravated by memory loss, bringing past and present into conflict. As father and son finally confront events that have torn them apart, including their differing recollections of John’s mother, Gwen (Hannah Gross), we embark on a journey from darkness to light, from rage and resentment to acceptance and hard-won grace.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

We Summon the Darkness A night of fun and youthful debauchery between three best friends and a group of aspiring musicians takes a deadly turn.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy

Whistlers, The A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing and spitting.

Year: 2020
Language: Romanian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Comedy

Climb, The Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond - until Mike sleeps with Kyle's fiancée. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Slash/Back In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

Year: 2020
Language: English, Inuktitut
Genre: Horror

I Still Believe From the creators of I Can Only Imagine comes an inspiring love story for the ages. Rediscover the wonder of love in I STILL BELIEVE, the real-life story of chart-topping singer Jeremy Camp. A hopeful reminder that faith tested is faith worth sharing, I STILL BELIEVE stars K.J. Apa, Britt Robertson, Nathan Parsons, Melissa Roxburgh, Shania Twain, and Gary Sinise. The new movie from Jon and Andrew Erwin (directors) and Kevin Downes (producer),

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Burnt Orange Heresy, The An ambitious art critic steals a rare painting and becomes consumed by his own greed as the operation spins out of control, in Giuseppe Capotondi's (The Double Hour) thriller based on Charles Willeford's noir novel and starring Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Claes Bang, and Mick Jagger.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Beans Inspired by true events, BEANS is about a Mohawk girl on the cusp of adolescence who must grow up fast and become her own kind of warrior during the armed stand-off known as the 1990 Oka Crisis.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Guns Akimbo An ordinary guy gets guns bolted to his hands, and finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that publicly streams the violent proceedings.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy

Best Sellers A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Collective Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians — and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

Year: 2020
Language: Romanian
Genre: Documentary

Cave Rescue Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world... An international team of elite divers is mobilized to rescue a boys soccer team trapped in a cave by rising floodwaters.

Year: 2020
Language: Chinese
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Australian Dream, The The Australian Dream uses the remarkable and inspirational story of AFL legend and passionate advocate for Indigenous causes, Adam Goodes, as the prism through which to tell a deeper and more powerful story about race, identity and belonging.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Two of Us Pensioners Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier) have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades. From the point of view of those surrounding them, including Madeleine's meddling daughter (Léa Drucker), they are simply two neighbours sharing a hallway during their sunset years. In reality, this landing is a bridge between two worlds: one belonging to a widowed, doting grandmother, the other to a free-spirited, fiercely independent woman who longs to spend her life with the person she loves. Clandestinely, Nina and Madeleine share a tender life, moving freely between their apartments until, one day, an unexpected event closes the portal. In this new reality, their secret cannot remain hidden if they are to stay together — and their unconditional love is put to the test.

Year: 2020
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Six Minutes to Midnight Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight A quirky rom-com about the tick-tocking relationship between a Filipina girl and a Mennonite boy.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Burden When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Truffle Hunters, The Deep in the forests of Northern Italy resides the prized white Alba truffle. Desired by the wealthiest patrons in the world, it remains a pungent but rarified mystery. It cannot be cultivated or found, even by the most resourceful of modern excavators. The only souls on Earth who know how to dig it up are a tiny circle of canines and their silver-haired human companions—Italian elders with walking sticks and devilish senses of humor—who only scour for the truffle at night so as not to leave any clues for others. Still, this small enclave of hunters induces a feverish buying market that spans the globe. With unprecedented access to the elusive truffle hunters, filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Last Race, 2018 Sundance Film Festival) follow this maddening cycle from the forest floor to the pristine restaurant plate. With a wily and absurdist flare, The Truffle Hunters captures a precarious ritual constantly threatened by greed and outside influences but still somehow protected by those clever, tight-lipped few who know how to unearth the magic within nature.

Year: 2020
Language: Italian
Genre: Documentary

Shadow of Violence, The (fka Calm With Horses) The enforcer for an Irish criminal family is torn between his loyalty to his bosses and his increasingly complex personal life. Starring Barry Keoghan.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Occupation: Rainfall Two years into an intergalactic invasion of earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Action

Fight, The When a migrant mother is separated from her child, when a transgender soldier is at risk to lose his career, when reproductive rights and basic voting rights are under attack — five unsung heroes take legal action to protect our freedoms. THE FIGHT is an inspiring, emotional look at four pivotal cases and the lawyers on the front lines of relentless attacks on civil liberties. Directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres capture the rollercoaster ride of the thrill and defeat in these deeply human battles.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Nine Days A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama

Assassins The puzzling murder of Kim Jong Un’s brother in an Malaysian airport sparks a captivating investigation. At the center of the story, two women are on trial. Who are they? Fierce assassins or pawns in a twisted game? The story goes far beyond the headlines, probing further into each woman’s upbringing, one in rural Indonesia and one in Vietnam. ASSASSINS questions every angle of this case, from human trafficking to high-level political espionage to the inner dynamics of the North Korean dynasty.

Year: 2020
Language: Korean
Genre: Documentary

I Am Greta The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta—a shy student with Asperger’s—in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Amulet An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror

Death of Me A husband and wife on a remote South Pacific island holiday awaken one morning with a hangover and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him murdering her.

Year: 2020
Language: English

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan Chronicles the life and music of the legendary singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan leading up to his 60th birthday celebration.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Alone Set in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, the film follows recently widowed Jessica who, fleeing the city in a desperate attempt to cope, is kidnapped and locked away in a mysterious man’s cabin. Her escape from the clutches of this murderous captor land her in the heart of the untamed wilderness, with only her wits to rely on for survival as her pursuer closes in.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Stray This beautiful film from director Elizabeth Lo brings us into the world of Zeytin, a stray dog living life on the streets of Istanbul. Deceptively simple and wonderfully touching, Stray is a tour-de-force of documentary filmmaking. Lo shows us the fragile world through Zeytin’s eyes, taking the audience to seemingly impossible places, all while staying quite literally grounded. Just when you think you have settled into the rhythm of the film, the brilliance of Lo’s vision becomes clear. The camera begins to focus not just on Zeytin and her ragtag bunch of fellow strays; we are also introduced to the revealing parallels of the young Syrian refugees that inhabit the same streets as these dogs.

Year: 2020
Language: Turkish, English
Genre: Documentary

The Tunnel When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it’s every man for himself.

Year: 2020
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Thriller

398 Days: Hostage The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.

Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama

Breaking Surface A winter diving trip in Norway turns into a desperate race against time for two sisters when one of them becomes trapped on the bottom of the ocean by falling rocks.

Year: 2020
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller

Mortal A young man must discover the origins of his God-like powers before he is captured by the authorities.

Year: 2020
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action

Hidden Life of Trees, The When Peter Wohlleben published his book "The Hidden Life of Trees" in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.

Year: 2020
Language: German
Genre: Documentary

Boys vs. Girls It’s the summer of 1990, and Camp Kindlewood is forced to go co-ed for the first time in its 77 year history, sparking a prank-filled battle of the sexes.

Year: 2020
Language: English

12 Hour Shift Over the course of a twelve-hour shift, a nurse and a group of black market organ-traders attempt a heist that could lead to their demise. Co-starring David Arquette and Mick Foley.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy

John Lewis: Good Trouble Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles Documenting the collaboration between world renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi (Jerusalem, Plenty) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this feature film follows five visionary pastry makers as they endeavor to construct an extravagant food gala based on the art exhibit "Visitors to Versailles." Exploring the relationship between modern-day social media and the open court of the French Monarchy, the film studies the alarmingly cyclical intersection between food, culture, and history.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Another Round There's a theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. If Churchill won WW2 in a heavy daze of alcohol, who knows what a few drops might do for them and their students? Initial results are positive, and the teachers' little project turns into a genuine academic study. Both their classes and their results continue to improve, and the group feels alive again! As the units are knocked back, some of the participants see further improvement and others go off the rails. It becomes increasingly clear that while alcohol may have fueled great results in world history, some bold acts carry consequences.

Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters In this multi-story rom-com, Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons and Maggie Grace are perfectionist wedding planners, even though their own relationships are far from perfect. Also starring Oscar-winner Diane Keaton.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Delete History In a provincial suburb, three neighbours are overtaken by new technologies and social media. There's Marie, who could be about to lose the respect of her son because of a sex tape; Bertrand's daughter, a victim of online bullying; and Christine whose Uber ratings are refusing to take off. With the help of small-time crooks and a genuine hacker, they resolve to fight the mighty windmills of contemporary life: the Big Tech companies. Maybe their battle is screwed from the beginning - but you never know...

Year: 2020
Language: Français
Genre: Comedy

Zappa With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Alex Winter’s assembly features appearances by Frank’s widow Gail Zappa and several of Frank’s musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, Ruth Underwood, Ray White and others.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Don't Tell a Soul When Matt (Fionn Whitehead) convinces his younger brother Joey (Jack Dylan Grazer) to rob a house to pay for their sick mother Carol’s (Mena Suvari) medical bills, security guard Hamby (Rainn Wilson) falls in a well chasing them. Now Hamby must match wits with these two teenagers, as Joey’s conscience gets the best of him wanting to help out Hamby, and Matt becomes increasingly aggressive, fearful they will be caught. As the tension rises, so does the violence, and as Joey tries to do what’s best for his family, these two brothers will come head to head, as Hamby tries to outsmart them both.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Wrong Turn A hiking expedition in the Appalachian Trail goes horribly wrong when it is confronted by "The Foundation", a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror

I Carry You With Me Academy-Award® nominee Heidi Ewing's luminous, moving debut as a narrative filmmaker, follows a tender romance spanning decades. Starting in provincial Mexico and continuing as first Iván, then Gerardo, journey towards sharing a life together in New York City, I CARRY YOU WITH ME is an intimate love story, as well as a soulful rumination on family, sacrifice, regret, and ultimately, hope.

Year: 2020
Language: Spanish & English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Ip Man: Kung Fu Master Ip Man’s promising career as a policeman is threatened when he’s framed for murder and targeted by the mob.

Year: 2020
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action

Escape from Auschwitz After capturing Kazimierz Piechowski at the Hungarian border, he is sent to Auschwitz where he is forced to move corpses from the gas chambers to the crematorium.

Year: 2020
Language: Czech with English subtitles

Supernova Sam (Academy Award winner Colin Firth) and Tusker (Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci) are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself Storyteller and Conceptual Artist Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show In February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to legendary singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte, who would become the first Black American to host a late night TV show for a whole week.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Enforcement For unclear reasons, a young immigrant taken into police custody has fallen into a coma. Meanwhile, two police officers are on routine patrol in a notorious Copenhagen ghetto area. When the news of the youngster’s death gets out, all hell breaks loose and the two edgy (anti)heroes have to fight tooth and claw for a way out. A sharp-edged adventure of life-and-death urgency that delivers an acute social commentary, without resorting to simpleminded blame games or clean-cut definitions.

Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Crime, Action

Bring Me a Dream On the run for murder, Avery Quinn bursts into Alpha Omega Pi house looking for help. Desperate to prove her innocence and her sanity, she holds a handful of people hostage and forces them into the reality of her ongoing nightmare. As a last resort, she summons the legendary Sandman and from that point on, all of the unfortunate souls inside have two choices: Face their worst nightmares...or...face the Sandman

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror

Toll, The A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural force.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Vagrant Frank - a homeless alcoholic - lives a fruitless existence. All that begins to change when he finds a puppy that was left to die in a garbage bin.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Delicieux France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first restaurant.

Year: 2020
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Bandar Band Manijeh Hekmat's music-infused twist on a road movie follows a band's day-long journey across a flooded landscape to Tehran.

Year: 2020
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama

American Traitor: The Trial Of Axis Sally An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcast Nazi propaganda during World War II. She was dubbed Axis Sally by the American GIs who simultaneously loved and hated her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally's eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Sun Children 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground.

Year: 2020
Language: Persian
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Riders of Justice RIDERS OF JUSTICE follows recently-deployed Markus, who is forced to return home to his care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. But when a survivor of the wrecked train surfaces claiming foul play, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller, Action, Comedy

Held In HELD, Emma (Jill Awbrey) and Henry's (Bart Johnson) marriage is losing its spark. In an effort to reconnect, they vacation to a remote high-end rental, complete with automated smart house features and integrated security. However, after suspecting a nighttime intruder they decide to flee, only to become forcibly trapped inside by the automated security system. Emitting from the house, an unknown 'Voice' watches their every move through an array of hidden cameras, revealing an intimate and unsettling knowledge of their relationship. While the situation grows increasingly brutal, Emma and Henry must work together to uncover the truth and find a way out before it's too late.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Initiation Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Crime

Human Voice, The A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him.

Year: 2020
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama

Swan Song SWAN SONG follows retired hairdresser and local bar performer icon Pat Pitsenbarger (Kier) who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client's dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past - and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. SWAN SONG is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering oneself, and looking gorgeous while doing so.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Apples Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.

Year: 2020
Language: Greek
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Memories of My Father The story about a Colombian writer's father. His father was an University md professor who promoted tolerance and human rights in his country. Writer exposes his feelings related to his lovely father and he describes his family story and all drama related with the killing of his father. It is a moving film based on a book with the same title. It is a sample of violence related events to political Colombia's social life during last three decades.

Year: 2020
Language: Spanish, English dub
Genre: Drama

Persian Lessons Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over.

Year: 2020
Language: German, French, English
Genre: War, Drama

Together A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the lockdown in London.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Gift from Bob, A

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Family

End of Us, The After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they'll try to move on without moving out.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Humans, The Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Award-winning play, The Humans explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds them together.

Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama

American Carnage

Year: 2020
Language: English

Goalie The life of a professional hockey player was not always a glamorous one. For legendary goaltender Terry Sawchuk, each save means one more gash to his unmasked face and one more drink to numb the pain. Even with a wife and seven children at home, he is haunted by the void left from his childhood which he tried to fill with cheering crowds. Sawchuk traveled across the country racking up 103 shutouts and 400 stitches to his face, proving that this is a man who lives, breathes, and dies a goalie.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography

Trading Paint John Travolta, Shania Twain and Michael Madsen star in this thrilling race car actioner about a father-and-son driving duo and their nemesis.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action

Berlin, I Love You An omnibus of ten stories set in the German capital, this is the latest installment in the Cities Of Love franchise (Paris, je t’aime/New York, I Love You/Rio, Eu Te Amo), featuring a star-studded cast including Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Luke Wilson.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Breaking Habits Cheated and betrayed by her bigamist husband of 17 years, once high-flying corporate exec Christine Meeusen fled penniless with her young children as her American dream began to unravel. Determined to fend for her family, she discovered the lucrative business of cannabis farming and met her calling as founder of medicinal-marijuana empire Sisters of the Valley. Shedding her former life, Christine became Sister Kate — on a mission to provide her medicinal products to those in need. Fighting off the county sheriff, and protecting her crop from deadly black market thieves, BREAKING HABITS is a story of rebellion, hope and revival. This is Sister Kate’s journey to becoming the head of a fast growing enterprise and a voice for the unheard.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Body at Brighton Rock Wendy, a part time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she’s capable enough to do the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon what might be a potential crime scene. Stuck with no communication after losing her radio and with orders to guard the site, Wendy must fight the urge to run and do the harder job of staying put — spending the night deep in the wilderness, facing down her worst fears and proving to everyone - including herself - that she’s made of stronger stuff than they think she is.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama

Come to Daddy Norval’s (Elijah Wood) life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off alcohol-related struggles. So when he receives an unexpected letter from his estranged father requesting a visit, Norval catches a bus up to his dad’s secluded and scenic waterfront home. Maybe reconnecting with his father will give Norval the emotional fulfillment he’s been lacking. Before long, though, he notices something off about his dad, an uneasy feeling triggered by inappropriate comments and a possible over-dependence on booze. Norval quickly realizes that his hope of father/son bonding is doomed. Instead of a family reunion, he finds himself in waking nightmare.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy

Unthinkable, The TV, internet and telephone networks are down amidst a mysterious attack, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained events begin to take place.

Year: 2019
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

Never Grow Old When outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, an undertaker thrives until his family comes under threat and the death toll rises. Starring John Cusack.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action, Western

Haunting of Sharon Tate, The 26-year-old pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff) becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death at the hands of the Manson Family.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Hail Satan? A shocking and hilarious look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial, outsider religious group known as The Satanic Temple.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Ailo's Journey Ailo's Journey is an uplifting story of a newborn Arctic reindeer’s first year of life, warmed by an endless mother’s love as she watches over his adventures with other creatures. Narrated by Donald Sutherland.

Year: 2019
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Environment, Children, Documentary, Family

Vita & Virginia VITA & VIRGINIA is the true story of the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography

Brink, The When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post — though some say he still has a direct line to the White House — he became free to peddle influence as a perceived kingmaker, turning his controversial brand of nationalism into a global movement. THE BRINK follows Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. To maintain his power and influence, the former Goldman Sachs banker and media investor reinvents himself — as he has many times before — this time as the self-appointed leader of a global populist movement. Keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter, Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Domino In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, a police officer seeks justice for his partner’s murder by a mysterious man. Directed by Brian De Palma, starring Guy Pearce and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime

Ask Dr. Ruth The incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

There Are No Fakes A painting by an iconic Native artist leads the rock star who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Photograph A struggling Mumbai street photographer pressured to marry by his grandmother convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit. Despite vast cultural differences, the pair develops a surprising connection that challenges their worldviews in a wistful and funny romance from Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox). Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra.

Year: 2019
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Souvenir, The A young film student in the early 80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Cold Case Hammarskjöld The mysterious death of a former United Nations Secretary-General is dug up decades later, uncovering an unbelievable crime far worse than anyone could have ever imagined.

Year: 2019
Language: English & French
Genre: Crime, Documentary

Bottom of the Ninth, The After serving 17 years in prison for a violent crime, a former baseball player returns to his Bronx neighborhood. Starring Sofía Vergara, Joe Manganiello and Burt Young.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama

Where's My Roy Cohn? Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

David Crosby: Remember My Name Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography

Pavarotti Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, Academy Award winning filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary story- teller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Dead Water When a relaxing getaway turns deadly, a former Marine must risk his life once again to save his wife and best friend from a modern-day pirate.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Mike Wallace is Here A look at the career of '60 Minutes' newsman, Mike Wallace.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Pain and Glory Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

Year: 2019
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Cunningham The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan's documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography

Tone-Deaf In this suspenseful and hilarious thriller, a woman rents a country house from a mysterious widower who struggles to hide his psychopathic tendencies.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy

American Dreamer A rideshare driver who makes extra cash chauffeuring a drug dealer finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child. Starring Jim Gaffigan.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime

Mob Town Local trooper Ed Croswell (David Arquette) foils a mafia summit in rural New York and exposes the mob’s brutal tactics to the wider world.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime

3022 After Earth suffers a cataclysmic extinction-level event, four astronauts marooned on a dying space station must embark on a desperate fight for survival amidst the mind-shattering horror of what it means to be the last humans alive. Starring Kate Walsh and Omar Epps.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Danger Close On a rubber plantation in August 1966, 108 young and inexperienced soldiers fight for their lives against 2500 Vietnamese forces.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: War, Action

After The Wedding Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present as mysteries unravel.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Vivarium A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Mister America From the hilarious minds of comedians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, the duo behind ON CINEMA, comes a political satire involving a murder charge, e-cigarettes, an EDM festival, and a campaign to unseat the San Bernardino District Attorney.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

I See You In this nail-biting thriller starring Helen Hunt, strange occurrences plague a small-town detective and his family, as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Rogue Warfare In this shoot ‘em up actioner, a group of military operatives from around the world join forces to fight an elite underground terrorist network.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action

Frankie Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Knives Out Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fresh, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell, KNIVES OUT is a fun, witty and stylish whodunit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing until the very end.

Year: 2019
Genre: Mystery

I Am Vengeance An ex-soldier-turned-mercenary sets out to take down those responsible for the murder of his best friend and a sinister conspiracy.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action

Easy Land Jasna, a Serbian architect and mother, wants to create a better future for her daughter Nina, but her mental illness proves to be a problem in their relationship.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Traitor, The The real life of Tommaso Buscetta the so called "boss of the two worlds", first mafia informant in Sicily 1980's.

Year: 2019
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography

Jay & Silent Bob Reboot The stoner icons who first hit the screen 25 years ago in CLERKS are back! When Jay and Silent Bob discover that Hollywood is rebooting an old movie based on them, the clueless duo embark on another cross-country mission to stop it all over again!

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Wrinkles the Clown Forget Pennywise… Your worst nightmare’s come to life in this bonkers documentary about Florida’s infamous freaky clown who became an internet sensation when hired by parents to terrorize their naughty children.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Documentary, Comedy

Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins A passionate documentary on Molly Ivins, Pulitzer Prize-nominated political journalist, best-selling author, and Bill of Rights warrior, who took no prisoners, leaving both sides of the aisle laughing.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Scandalous Sex! Gossip! Scandal! A wild and probing look at the most infamous tabloid in US history, the National Enquirer, and how it has fed our obsessions with the rich, famous and powerful by pumping out salacious, shocking stories, while stretching the limits of journalism and blurring the lines between truth and fiction.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Little Joe A genetically engineered plant species scatters its seeds, causing uncanny changes in human beings, in this Cannes award-winning sci-fi.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Greed Michael Winterbottom skewers the fast-fashion industry in this scathing farce about the grotesque inequality between a retail billionaire (Steve Coogan) and the female garment workers who toil on his trendy clothing line.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Kill Team, The A young American soldier in Afghanistan is disturbed by his commanding officer’s behaviour, and is faced with a violent and dangerous moral dilemma. Starring Alexander Skarsgard and Nat Wolff.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Action

In Fabric In this haunting ghost story starring GAME OF THRONES' Gwendoline Christie, a cursed dress passes from person to person… with devastating consequences.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Comedy

Great War, The During the last days of World War I, a group of soldiers are sent behind enemy lines to rescue a lost platoon.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: War, Action

Last Vermeer, The While Joseph Piller (Bang), a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the witty, debonair aesthete, Han van Meegeren (Pearce) was hosting hedonistic soirées and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Goring and other top Nazis. Following the war, Piller becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration — a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence, Piller, with the aid of his assistant (Krieps), becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save his life.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Slay the Dragon A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. Slay the Dragon follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Human Factor, The With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, THE HUMAN FACTOR is the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of pulling off the impossible - securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Silencing, The A reformed hunter living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local Sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Crazy About You Dumped by his girlfriend and sponsored by media scoundrel Brian King, desolate Jake walks all-but-naked up Western Australia's coast for charity, in the hope his gesture will win back Jasmine, until he meets mesmerizing backpacker Valerie.

Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Giant Little Ones (GLO) Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. Giant Little Ones is a heartfelt and intimate coming-of-age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of love without labels.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama

0r1g1n Unkn0wn After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, an investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface that threatens the future of earth as we know it.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi

Higher Power From the producer of the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises, comes a new sci-fi movie with mind-blowing special effects that follows an ‘everyman’ who wakes up to discover he’s been given god-like powers that are controlled by a maniacal scientist.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness The third installment in the GOD'S NOT DEAD film series. Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Quake, The In this pulse-pounding race-against-time disaster thriller, a family tries to survive a major earthquake. Sequel to THE WAVE.

Year: 2018
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

Before We Vanish Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being - all sense of good, evil, property, family, belonging - leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake.

Year: 2018
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Lemonade Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.

Year: 2018
Language: Romanian
Genre: Drama

How to Talk to Girls at Parties When a beautiful and rebellious alien teenager (Elle Fanning) meets a wannabe human punk-rocker, they embark on an adventure through the punk scene of 1970s London.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Samson After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Action

In the Fade Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

Year: 2018
Language: German / Greek
Genre: Drama, Crime

Final Year, The A sweeping, insiders’ account of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team during their final year as they set out to define their legacy, promote diplomacy and react to the unexpected rise of Donald Trump. Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House, the State Department, and the machinery of American power.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

All the Devil's Men A bounty hunter is forced to go on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him to a deadly battle with a former military comrade and his private army.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action

Occupation A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating alien ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Black Water A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

Mercy, The The nail-biting true story of an amateur sailor’s solo attempt to sail the globe. Starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Biography

An Ordinary Man A fugitive war criminal forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid - setting them both on a collision course with the past.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama

Under the Tree UNDER THE TREE follows a man who is accused of adultery and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat between suburban neighbors unexpectedly and violently reached a boiling point, soon spiraling out of control.

Year: 2018
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Escape of Prisoner 614 Two inept, small-town Sheriff's Deputies catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Comedy

Final Score When a packed sports stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed terrorists, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save the unknowing crowd.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action

Kayak to Klemtu 14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters. She's prepared to handle all of the challenges the wildlife, the weather, the water, and her gear have to offer up. The most challenging of all is that she has to bring her dysfunctional family with her. Her neurotic aunt, her cranky uncle, her wayward cousin, and the memory of her late uncle all come along for the ride to make it a fun and amazing adventure. From Tla'Amin to Klemtu, BC, this family navigates their blend of cultures and desires, while their spirits honour the coast as a place for each of us to call home and protect.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Canadian, Drama, Family

Mara As a criminal psychologist digs into the mystery of an ancient demon who kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and races to save herself before she dares to fall asleep again.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime

RBG A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Three Identical Strangers A jaw-dropping, stranger-than-fiction tale of three long-lost identical brothers who are joyously reunited, only to discover an unimaginable secret about their pasts.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Speed Kills John Travolta stars in this action-packed true story of an ‘80s speedboat champion and multimillionaire caught between the mob and the law.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Skate Kitchen In the first narrative feature from The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder (newcomer Rachelle Vinberg) from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy (Jaden Smith), but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip. Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film's authenticity, which combines poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Boundaries Single mom Laura (Farmiga), along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry (MacDougall) is forced to drive Jack (Plummer), her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home. The road trip veers off course when Jack decides to make a couple 'stops' and Henry asks to see his ne'er-do-well dad Leonard (Cannavale), completely upending Laura's attempt to hold her family together and ultimately forcing her to finally see her father for the man he really is.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Puzzle Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Bad Reputation A music documentary that dives into the life and career of the first female punk rocker, Joan Jett.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Guilty, The A dispatch duty police officer enters a thrilling race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

Year: 2018
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller

Status Update After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, Kyle Moore (Ross Lynch) stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

Siberia When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia to find him. Starring Keanu Reeves.

Year: 2018
Language: English, Russian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action, Romance

Lizzie Oppressed, independent-minded Lizzie Borden experiences a sexual awakening when a pretty new maid is hired and the two develop an intimate relationship. But Lizzie explodes in rage and violence when her domineering parents try to control her desires. A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Biography

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander.

Year: 2018
Language: English, Russian, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, with English Subtitles
Genre: Documentary

Never Look Away German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

Year: 2018
Language: German
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama

Quest of Alain Ducasse, The With 23 restaurants worldwide and 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse fearlessly continues creating trendy new places, building schools, writing books and launching major projects.

Year: 2018
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Under the Silver Lake From the dazzling imagination that brought you It Follows comes a delirious neo-noir fever dream about one man's search for the truth behind the mysterious crimes, murders, and disappearances in his East L.A. neighborhood. Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels. From writer-director David Robert Mitchell comes a sprawling, playful and unexpected mystery-comedy detective thriller about the Dream Factory and its denizens—dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter-pop groups, nightlife personalities, It girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors, and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all. Mining a noir tradition extending from Kiss Me Deadly and The Long Goodbye to Chinatown and Mulholland Drive, Mitchell uses the topography of Los Angeles as a backdrop for a deeper exploration into the hidden meaning and secret codes buried within the things we love.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

American Chaos For six months before the election, director Jim Stern traveled red states asking about Donald Trump's appeal, and why voters were untroubled by things he had said and done. What he learned was a lesson in the central differences dividing America and the cultural divide that is tearing apart our democracy today.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Happy Prince, The The last days of legendary poet, playwright and novelist, Oscar Wilde. Starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Shoplifters After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them...

Year: 2018
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Crime

Support The Girls The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Summer of 84 In the summer of 1984, four teens suspect that their neighbor, a police officer, might be the serial killer being featured on the local news.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Changing Saddles A city teen decides to spend her summer at her family-owned horse ranch in a small southern town, and care for her sick mother.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family

Capernaum A politically-charged fable, featuring mostly non-professional actors, about a child who launches a lawsuit against his parents.

Year: 2018
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama

Love, Gilda In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

What Keeps You Alive On the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives when they find themselves pitted against the most unexpected of adversaries: each other.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Dogman Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

Year: 2018
Language: Italian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

The House That Jack Built The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer over the course of 12 years and depicts the murders that truly develop Jack as a serial killer.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Woman At War Halla is a committed undercover eco-terrorist trying to save Iceland’s natural landscapes from industrialist destruction, but when a long-desired child becomes available for adoption, she must choose between the greater good and her own dreams.

Year: 2018
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Cold War A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.

Year: 2018
Language: Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian
Genre: War, Drama, Romance

Viking Destiny In this battle-packed actioner, an exiled Viking princess builds an army in an attempt to win back her rightful throne.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action

Becoming Astrid A coming-of-age story depicting the early years of the beloved Swedish author of 'Pippi Longstocking', who defies the conventions of the time and builds a life and career as a single mother.

Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: History, Drama, Biography

Galveston A hitman (Ben Foster) returns to his hometown where he rescues a young prostitute (Elle Fanning) and plans to exact revenge on the man who set him up. From the writer of "True Detective".

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Free Solo The documentarian duo behind 2015’s acclaimed Meru return to high altitudes, this time as renowned rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to do what no climber has done before: ascend free solo — without safety ropes — up the 3,000-foot cliff of El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Sunset 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is nonetheless sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill. While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store, to host guests of uttermost importance, a man abruptly comes to Irisz, looking for a certain Kálmán Leiter. Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows Kálmán’s tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest, where only the Leiter hat store shines, into the turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.

Year: 2018
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama, Mystery

White Crow, The A young man of just 22, dressed in a black beret and a dark narrow suit, is on an airplane flying from St Petersburg to Paris. It is 1961 and Rudolf Nureyev, not yet the imperious figure of legend, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling for the first time outside the Soviet Union. Parisian life delights Nureyev and the young dancer is eager to consume all the culture, art and music the dazzling city has to offer. But the KGB officers who watch his every move become increasingly suspicious of his behavior and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint. When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger. From Nureyev’s poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at the epicentre of western culture in Paris in the early 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget airport, “THE WHITE CROW” is the true story of an incredible journey by a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever.

Year: 2018
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Harrowing, The A detective is plunged into a living hell when he goes undercover and unlocks the truth behind a demonic myth.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Tyrel A black man attends an otherwise all-white weekend of drunken bro debauchery at a cabin in the Catskills.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Divide and Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes Alexis Bloom charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mail Order Monster A mail order robot monster helps a young girl cope with bullies at school.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi

Border When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Romance

Wind, The In this sinister western-horror mash-up, a woman moves to the American frontier to settle it with her husband, ,but an evil presence soon makes itself know and infects her.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Western

Ruben Brandt, Collector Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art. "The Collector" quickly becomes the most wanted criminal in the world. Gangsters and headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching a hundred million dollars. A cartel of insurance companies entrusts Mike Kowalski, a private detective and leading expert on art theft, to solve the "Collector Case."

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Animation

Maiden The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary

All Is True The final days in the life of the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography

Aniara A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars collides with an asteroid, knocking it off course. Slowly, the passengers realize they’ll never make it to their destination, or back to Earth…

Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Red Joan The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Biography

King of Thieves Michael Caine stars in the incredible true story of the biggest and most daring diamond heist in British history.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Comedy

Vanishing, The Gerard Butler stars in this true crime psychological thriller about three lighthouse keepers locked in a tense battle for survival.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Aquarela AQUARELA takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is AQUARELA’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling cinematic clarity.

Year: 2018
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Black '47 An Irish mercenary fighting for the British Army abandons his post to seek revenge on those responsible for the death of his family, in this action-packed war thriller. Starring Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan, Jim Broadbent, James Frecheville and Stephen Rea.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Peterloo The epic recreation of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. Directed by 7-time Oscar nominee, Mike Leigh.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, War, Drama

Vigilante, A In this thrilling crime mystery, a vigilante (Olivia Wilde) helps victims escape their domestic abuser.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Boat, The A lone fisherman encounters an abandoned sailboat, soon finding himself caught in a fight for survival against an unknown enemy.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Public, The When the homeless occupy a city library to escape freezing temperatures, it triggers an extreme reaction by local authorities and media. Starring Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez and Taylor Schilling.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Professor, The (FKA Richard Says Goodbye) A college professor (Johnny Depp) lives his life with reckless abandon, a biting sense of humor, and a touch of madness.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Dead Trigger In the near future, a deadly virus has turned millions into bloodthirsty zombies. Unable to stop the virus, the government recruits an elite team to combat the zombie menace. Starring Dolph Lundgren.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi

The Command (FKA Hostile Waters FKA Kursk) In this nail-biting action-thriller, sailors fight for survival on a sinking submarine while their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Action

Nightingale, The From the writer and director of The Babadook. A young Irish convict chases a British officer through the wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence committed against her family.

Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action, Western

Grizzlies, The Inuit youth in a small community gain a powerful sense of pride through the sport of lacrosse, in this true-story account of tenacity, renewal, and inspiring resilience.

Year: 2018
Language: English, Inuktitut
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography

Happy End Isabelle Huppert stars in this drama about a well-off French family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern France, oblivious to the human misery unfolding in migrant camps a few miles from their home.

Year: 2017
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama

Black Site Delta A group of military prisoners must fight off a terrorist attack on their prison which, unbeknownst to them, is a cover for a secret drone control facility.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action

Menashe Performed entirely in Yiddish, a language not used in cinema for many decades, MENASHE follows a kind, hapless grocery store clerk as he struggles to make ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven. But in the wake of his wife Leah’s death, tradition prohibits Menashe from raising his son alone, so Rieven’s strict uncle adopts him, leaving Menashe heartbroken. Meanwhile, though Menashe seems to bungle every challenge in his path, his rabbi grants him one special week with Rieven before Leah’s memorial and a chance to prove himself a suitable man of faith and fatherhood.

Year: 2017
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama

Case For Christ, The Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Revolt An action-packed sci-fi thriller about humankind’s last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, an American soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. As they journey through the battlefield in search of refuge, their bond will be tested when the soldier discovers his true identity.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Beach Rats Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. With his father dying and his mother wanting him to find a girlfriend, Frankie escapes by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online. As his chatting and webcamming intensify, Frankie simultaneously enters into a cautious relationship with a young woman. Inevitably, Frankie’s struggle to reconcile his competing desires lead to irreparable consequences.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Resurrection of Gavin Stone, The A struggling actor is forced to do community service at a local church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual Passion Play, only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family

Call Me By Your Name CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Year: 2017
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance

Novitiate Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, NOVITIATE is about a young girl's first experience with love. In this case, her first love is God. Raised by a vehemently non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into all the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threating the course of nuns’ lives. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and the changing administration. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Julie's Test Film

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action

Fantastic Woman, A A transgender singer faces scorn and discrimination after the sudden death of her older boyfriend.

Year: 2017
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Brigsby Bear Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story...

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Blind A novelist (Alec Baldwin), blinded in a car crash which killed his wife, embarks on an affair with the neglected wife (Demi Moore) of an indicted businessman.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Wilde Wedding, The While preparing for her wedding to husband number four (Patrick Stewart), a retired film star (Glenn Close) invites husband number one (John Malkovich) and their collective families to a summer weekend in the country.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Ghost Story, A With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost (Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Academy Award-nominee Rooney Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An unforgettable meditation on love and grief, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal—a wholly-unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance

It Comes At Night Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something worse. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his breakout debut KRISHA with the psychological horror-thriller IT COMES AT NIGHT, centering on a teenaged boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he grapples with mounting terrors — external and otherwise — in the aftermath of an unnamed cataclysm. Secure within a desolate home with his vigilant, protective and heavily armed parents (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo), 17-year-old Travis navigates fear, grief and paranoia amid scarce resources as a desperate young couple (Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough), with their own child, seeks refuge in his family home. Despite the best intentions of both families, panic and mistrust boil over as the horrors of the outside world creep ever closer. But they are nothing compared to the horrors within, where Travis discovers that his father’s commitment to protecting the family may cost him his soul.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

6 Days In 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, England, taking everyone hostage. After 6 days, a group of highly trained SAS soldiers launched an epic raid to end the standoff.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Action

Churchill Tensions mount for the beleaguered British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days leading up to infamous Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, France in June, 1944. Fearful of repeating his deadly mistakes from World War I in the Battle of Gallipoli, exhausted by years of war, plagued by depression and obsessed with his historical destiny, Churchill is reluctant to embark on the large-scale campaign, one that the entire war effort hinges upon. Clashing with his Allied political opponents U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (John Slattery) and British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Julian Wadham), the troubled Churchill receives support and devotion from his wife, the brilliant and unflappable Clementine Churchill (Miranda Richardson). With her strength and shrewdness, “Clemmie” halts Winston’s physical, mental spiritual collapse and inspires him on to greatness.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, War, Drama, Biography

Borg vs. McEnroe The story of the tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe, culminating in their encounter at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships men's final.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography

Racer And The Jailbird, The Set against the background of a brutal crime gang in Brussels, a tragic love story between Gigi, a high-flying gangster, and Bibi, a young racing driver with very upper-class roots.

Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Crime

Roxanne, Roxanne In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Ingrid Goes West Following a series of self-inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) escapes a humdrum existence by moving out West to befriend her Instagram obsession and LA socialite Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen). After a quick bond is forged between these unlikeliest of friends, the façade begins to crack in both women's lives — with comically malicious results.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Marjorie Prime Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's "Prime" relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past. Built around exceptional performances from a veteran cast, MARJORIE PRIME shines a light on an often-obscured corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its interactions with mortality. Bringing us robustly into the future, Michael Almaryeda's poetic film forces us to face the question - If we had the opportunity, how would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would we decide to forget?

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Hunter's Prayer, The Lucas, (Sam Worthington), a solitary assassin, is hired to kill a young woman, Ella, (Odeya Rush) but when he can’t bring himself to pull the trigger, the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, Their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Lovers, The Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Kill Switch A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

Gracefield Incident, The A video game developer embeds a camera into his prosthetic eye, which inadvertently captures a terrifying battle against extraterrestrials.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Small Town Crime An alcoholic ex-cop (John Hawkes) seeks justice for the murder of a teen prostitute in this gritty crime-noir. Also starring Octavia Spencer and Robert Forster.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Undertow (INTL)

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Little Hours, The Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Armed Response When a team of highly trained operatives becomes trapped inside an isolated military compound, they begin to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they hunt down what killed the previous team.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Gun Shy An aging rock star (Antonio Banderas) is forced to navigate deadly jungles and ruthless bandits to rescue his super-model wife (Olga Kurylenko) from kidnappers.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action

Take Every Wave TAKE EVERY WAVE tracks the remarkable life and legendary career of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. Much admired by the public, though often disdained or ignored by the surf industry itself, Laird is a unique sports icon — an athlete who has refused to compete professionally yet has dominated big wave surfing as no other figure in history has ever done. Laird's biographical story is told against the backdrop of a winter surf season on Kauai, where El Niño storm systems threaten to bring the biggest surf in decades. Mixing never-before-seen archival footage, with contemporary verité scenes shot in Southern California, Bermuda and Kauai, TAKE EVERY WAVE weaves the past and present into an intimate and compelling portrait of a superstar athlete at the top of his game. Threaded throughout is a revealing, deeply personal interview with Laird as well conversations with the family members, friends, collaborators and detractors who know him best. Take Every Wave provides an intimate, uncompromising look at a lifetime devoted to riding giant surf—and the price an athlete pays for greatness.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary

Loving Vincent On July 27, 1890, a gaunt figure stumbled down a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French country town of Auvers. The man was carrying nothing; his hands clasped to a fresh bullet wound leaking blood from his belly. This was Vincent van Gogh, then a little known artist; now the most famous artist in the world. His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot. LOVING VINCENT tells that story.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Animation, Mystery, Biography

Adam at the Wedding Still reeling from his break-up with his college sweetheart Allison (Cobie Smulders), Adam (Justin Long) is devastated when she invites him to her wedding.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Killing Gunther A group of assassins decide to kill Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger), the world's greatest hit-man, but their plan turns into a series of fumbled encounters as Gunther seems to always be one step ahead.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy

Singularity In 2020, a super-computer attacks mankind. Ninety-seven years later, a teenage boy, lost in a world run by machines, meets a female survivor searching for the last human stronghold. Starring John Cusack.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Only Living Boy in New York, The Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and an artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents' Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey. Thomas's world begins to shift when he discovers his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas ends up sleeping with his father's mistress, launching a chain of events that will change everything he thinks he knows about himself and his family.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Mark Felt - The Man Who Brought Down the White House MARK FELT - THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE centers on “Deep Throat”, the pseudonym given to the notorious whistleblower for one of the greatest scandals of all time, Watergate. The true identity of the secret informant remained a mystery and source of much public curiosity and speculation for more than 30 years. That is until, in 2005, special agent Mark Felt shockingly revealed himself as the tipster. This unbelievable true story chronicles the personal and professional life of the brilliant and uncompromising Felt, who risked and ultimately sacrificed everything – his family, his career, his freedom – in the name of justice.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Biography

Meditation Park Mina Shum directs an all-star cast — including Cheng Pei Pei, Sandra Oh, Tzi Ma, and Don McKellar — in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother who is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s undergarment in his laundry.

Year: 2017
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Drama

Tribes of Palos Verdes, The When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness. Starring Jennifer Garner and Alicia Silverstone.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

I Remember You An elderly woman hangs herself in a church. A grieving father searches for the truth about what happened to his missing son. And a trio of young city dwellers unleash a sinister force when they begin renovating a cursed home on a remote island. They don't know it yet, but each of these strangers is connected by a disturbing, decades-old secret -- a mystery that holds the key to a series of terrifying supernatural events. Based on the acclaimed novel by the "Queen of Icelandic Crime," this atmospheric chiller is both a hair-raising ghost story and a powerful tale of life beyond death.

Year: 2017
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Rebel in the Rye The world of legendary writer J. D. Salinger is brought vividly to life in this revealing look at the experiences that shaped one of the most renowned, controversial, and enigmatic authors of our time. Set amidst the colorful backdrop of mid-20th century New York City, REBEL IN THE RYE follows a young Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) as he struggles to find his voice, pursues a love affair with famed socialite Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch), and fights on the frontlines of World War II. It’s these experiences that will inform the creation of his masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye, bringing him overnight fame (and notoriety) and leading him to withdraw from the public eye for the rest of his life. Co-starring Kevin Spacey and Sarah Paulson, REBEL IN THE RYE offers a tantalizing window into the life and times of a little-understood genius who broke the rules and redefined American literature.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography

Final Portrait FINAL PORTRAIT is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend, Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, promises Giacometti, will take only a few days and so Lord agrees — ultimately wondering “how much longer can it go on like this?”

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography

Loveless Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alexey. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alexey disappears…

Year: 2017
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama

Rider, The After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

High Fantasy Four young South African friends on a camping trip on an isolated farm wake up to discover they’ve all swapped bodies. As they navigate a labyrinth of so-called Rainbow Nation politics, they capture their bizarre predicament in selfie videos - with hilarious and tragic results.

Year: 2017
Genre: Drama

Hangman A homicide detective (Al Pacino) teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Foxtrot Michael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. While his sedated wife rests, Michael spirals into a whirlwind of anger only to experience one of life's unfathomable twists, which rival the surreal military experiences of his son.

Year: 2017
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama

Wonder Wheel WONDER WHEEL tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro captures a tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950s Coney Island.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Wife, The Based on the novel by the bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, THE WIFE interweaves the midcentury story of a couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—a lifetime’s shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and genuine, mutual love.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

China Hustle, The In 2008, Wall Street brought the economy to the brink of collapse with a shell game based on bankrupt mortgages… Nine years later, the stock market is sky high again, and the game has gone global. There are no good guys in this story, but there are a few people—a ragtag band of short sellers—who are sick of being lied to. THE CHINA HUSTLE follows their story through Wall Street, China and your retirement savings to uncover the biggest heist you’ve never heard of.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Disobedience Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria) directs Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in this adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel about a woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish community after the death of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Forgiven, The After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Seagull, The THE SEAGULL is the heartbreaking and funny story of friends and lovers, all of whom are in love with the wrong person. The movie is timely in its depiction of the tragic consequences of narcissism, particularly on young dreams and romantic love. Based on the Play by Anton Chekhov

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Marvin A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.

Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Marrowbone Four siblings seek refuge in an old home after the death of their mother, only to discover that the house has another, more sinister, inhabitant.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Revenge When a millionaire brings his sexy mistress to his annual hunting trip with his buddies, things get out of hand, and soon the men become the hunted.

Year: 2017
Language: English & French
Genre: Thriller, Action

Let The Sunshine In Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material). Isabelle (Binoche) is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. There’s a caddish banker (Xavier Beauvois) who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married; a handsome actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who’s working through his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist (Alex Descas) who’s skittish about commitment. What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.

Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Retaliation A victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Mobile Homes In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Jasper Jones JASPER JONES is a riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town’s mixed race outcast, shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie’s life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1968, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the breakup of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.

Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Teen, Drama, Family, Mystery

Big Time Big Time follows Danish architect Bjarke Ingels over a period of 5 years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the New York skyscraper called W57 and World Trade Center 2, projects that will change the skyline of Manhattan. According to The Wall Street Journal he has ‘rapidly become one of the design world’s biggest stars’. An intimate insight into the life of a genius innovative mind and his struggle to maintain his own persona while making the world a better place to live.

Year: 2017
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Documentary

Leaning Into the Wind Sixteen years after the release of the ground-breaking film Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time director Thomas Riedelsheimer has returned to work with the artist. Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy follows Andy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates Goldsworthy’s mind as it reveals his art.

Year: 2017
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Documentary

Desierto A deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of illegal immigrants through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border.

Year: 2017
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Tale, The A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.

Director: Jennifer Fox
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Handmaiden, The A Korean woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a conman's plot to defraud her.

Year: 2016
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Romance

Drifter, The A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime

Paradox A group of young scientists are working on a time-travel project, sending one of their own ahead one hour. He returns pleading with them to shut it down, explaining that within that hour, they will all die.

Director: Mike Hurst
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi

Pandemic Featuring non-stop action from a first-person perspective, Pandemic puts you in the middle of every fire fight in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, where a global epidemic threatens the future of humanity.

Director: John Suits
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action

Lovesong Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Trust, The Two dirty cops (Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood) team up to break into a mysterious vault. Once they find out what’s inside, it’s too late to turn back.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

I Am Wrath When the police are unable to catch his wife’s brutal killers, a former black-ops agent (John Travolta) takes justice into his own hands.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action

Last Heist, The A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer (Henry Rollins).

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action

Cell Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack star in Stephen King's apocalyptic thriller about a mysterious signal that reprograms the minds of cellphone users around the globe.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi

Kill Command An elite squad of marines are sent to a remote island to train with the soldiers of the future: intelligent machines with a devastating capacity to kill. But the exercise soon takes a terrifying turn when the machines become sentient, leaving the soldiers in a desperate fight for survival.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi

Love & Friendship In this delightfully hilarious Jane Austen adaptation, Kate Beckinsale stars as the seductive and manipulative Lady Susan, who uses devious tactics to win the heart of the eligible Reginald De Courcy.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Burn Country THE FIXER follows Osman (Dominic Rains) who is granted asylum in the United States after acting as a fixer for US journalists in Afganistan. He lands in a small bohemian town in Northern California, and lives on the couch of his friend’s mother (Melissa Leo) while working on the crime blotter for the local newspaper. Restless and eager to find purpose in the context of his new life, he befriends a couple of locals—the eccentric and unstable Lindsay (James Franco) and the elusive Sandra (Rachel Brosnahan)—recruiting them to help him penetrate the town’s peculiar subculture. When Lindsay mysteriously goes missing, Osman gets drawn into the town’s dark underbelly in order to find him. As things begin to take a dangerous turn, Osman is forced to confront the untenable reality of his situation.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

We Are X X Japan was formed by childhood friends, Yoshiki and Toshi, who ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late 80’s with their melodic metal and flamboyant fashion. With more than 30 million albums sold worldwide, X is the most successful rock band in Japanese history. However, their success never translated to the West, despite influencing many popular American bands. In the fall of 1997, at the height of their success, X broke up - devastating millions of fans and leaving enigmatic leader Yoshiki to battle physical and spiritual demons in a solitary campaign to bring their music to the world. Almost twenty years after the tragedy-fueled split, the band prepares to reunite for a show at the legendary Madison Square Garden while struggling to reconcile a haunted past with the insatiable thirst for perfection that has made them legendary. WE ARE X is the story of the most influential band in the world that you’ve never heard of…yet.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mostly Sunny There is no one else in the world like Sunny Leone. An adult film star of Sikh heritage, Sunny is attempting to cross over into mainstream Bollywood. Her life is the subject of much controversy in a conservative Indian culture where pornography is illegal. Curiosity about her life and career makes an enhanced eBook the ideal digital media extension to complement the feature documentary.

Year: 2016
Language: English/Hindi
Genre: Documentary

Café Society Café Society is Woody Allen's star-studded retro comedy about a young New Yorker who moves to Hollywood and falls for the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Gleason When NFL player Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS at 34, they gave him no more than 5 years to live. Steve embarked on a courageous journey to fight the illness, recording a video journal along the way for his newborn son.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Innocents, The (Agnus Dei) In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.

Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: History, Drama

Alien Arrival An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells a tale of survival set amongst the distant stars. Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies, neither of whose ideology he believes in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

Wiener-Dog In this riotous comedy, an adorable dachshund puppy finds itself shuffled from one oddball owner to the next, including two couples, a veterinary nurse (Greta Gerwig), a screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a cranky old woman (Ellen Burstyn).

Year: 2016
Language: English & Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Window Horses Rosie, a young poet, travels to a poetry festival in Iran and discovers her own voice while opening herself to those of others in this whimsical, animated coming-of-ager.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Animation

Skiptrace A Hong Kong cop (Jackie Chan) pursues a notorious crime lord with the help of a brash American gambler (Johnny Knoxville) in this action comedy from the director of Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy

Where is Rocky II? In 1979, American artist Ed Ruscha allegedly made a fake rock out of resin and hid it among real ones somewhere in California's vast Mojave Desert. Named Rocky II after the Sylvester Stallone film, the work is never spoken about publicly nor is it listed in any catalogue of Ruscha's work. Obsessed with this mystery piece, Academy Award winning screenwriter Pierre Bismuth sets out to find it in his directorial debut. Probing and inventive, this thoroughly original art quest blends documentary and fiction, and is as enigmatic as the mystery it seeks. WHERE IS ROCKY II? features High Fidelity and Gross Pointe Black screenwriter DV De Vincentis, Sherlock Holmes and Invictus writer Anthony Peckham, and Mike White of School Of Rock fame, alongside art world luminaries such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art director Philippe Vergne, philanthropist and collector Eli Broad, and Hammer Museum chief curator Connie Butler.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Infiltrator, The Federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes undercover on a high-stakes mission to infiltrate the criminal network of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Based on the incredible true story.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography

Manchester by the Sea A critically acclaimed drama about a man who must face his painful past when he returns to his Massachusetts hometown after the sudden death of his brother. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Levelling, The Somerset, England. Trainee veterinarian Clover Catto returns to the farm where she grew up after hearing news that her brother Harry has died in what appears to be a suicide. Finding the family home in a state of horrendous disrepair following the 2014 floods that devastated the area, Clover is forced to confront her father Aubrey about the farm, the livestock and, crucially, the details surrounding Harry's death. Clover's discoveries send her on an emotional journey of reckoning with her family, her childhood and herself.

Year: 2016
Genre: Drama

31 Rob Zombie's latest follows five carnival workers who are kidnapped and forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns. Welcome to 31.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Ascent Through a grey blanket of clouds, we barely discern the contours of Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces. 4,500 exceptional and diverse photographs from the past 150 years form the basis for Ascent. Made entirely with stills, it is a filmic experiment balancing between documentary and fiction, photography and film, where an English woman and her deceased Japanese partner, Hiroshi, lead the way. As Mount Fuji is climbed across geographical, temporal and cultural divides, the narrative unfolds, exploring unexpected paths.

Year: 2016
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: Drama, Documentary

Ordinary World The story follows former punk rocker Perry (Billie Joe Armstrong) who is ten years into his band's "indefinite hiatus" and is struggling with his adjustment to the real world (which includes working in his family's hardware store). When Perry's hotshot attorney wife and precocious young daughter forget his 40th birthday, his brother takes pity and gives him the money to throw a huge rockstar blowout in a fancy New York hotel. At the party, Perry's punk past clashes hilariously with his middle-aged reality as he encounters crazy former bandmates and an old-flame-turned-manager, who offers him a chance to revive his stalled career.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Comedy

Paris Can Wait Eleanor Coppola's feature film directorial and screenwriting debut at the age of 81 stars Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane as a Hollywood producer's wife who unexpectedly takes a trip through France, which reawakens her sense of self and her joie de vivre. Anne (Lane) is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successfully driven but inattentive movie producer (Alec Baldwin), she finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband (Arnaud Viard). What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a journey of discovery involving mouthwatering meals, spectacular wines, and picturesque sights.

Year: 2016
Language: English & French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Comedian, The De Niro plays a comic icon who has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. He’s a strain on his younger brother and his wife and is being forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he finds inspiration by meeting the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Colossal After Gloria (Anne Hathaway) loses her job and is kicked out of her boyfriend’s apartment, she leaves her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Kill Ratio An American covert operative (Tom Hopper) fights to save an Eastern European democracy from a ruthless coup d'etat by the country’s military leader.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action

Definites, The

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. Using James Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material, this incendiary film is a sobering reminder of how far we've yet to go.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Last Face, The A passionate and poignant story of two lovers brought together—and brutally torn apart—by violent conflict in a war-torn country. Starring Academy Award® winners Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Assignment, The This jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller from the great Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) stars Michelle Rodriguez as a lowlife killer put through full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon (Sigourney Weaver).

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Frantz In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.

Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: History, War, Drama

Bad Batch, The THE BAD BATCH follows Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a savage band of cannibals led by the mysterious Miami Man (Jason Momoa). With her life on the line, she makes her way to The Dream (Keanu Reeves). As she adjusts to life in 'The Bad Batch' Arlen discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who's standing next to you.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

B-Side, The: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Risk The Academy Award-winning director of Citizenfour turns her camera on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, offering an intimate portrait of the cypherpunk underground in an era of ever-increasing surveillance and secrecy.

Year: 2016
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: Documentary

My Art A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Killing Ground A young couple’s romantic camping trip turns into a waking nightmare when they discover the scene of a horrific crime.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Journey, The The Journey is the gripping account of how two men from opposite sides of the political spectrum came together to change the course of history. In 2006, amidst the ongoing, decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, representatives from the two warring factions meet for negotiations. In one corner is Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall), the deeply conservative British loyalist; in the other is Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney), a former Irish Republican Army leader who has devoted his life to the cause of Irish reunification. Opposites in every way, the two men at first seem to have little chance of ever finding common ground. But over the course of an impromptu, detour-filled car ride through the Scottish countryside, each begins to see the other less as an enemy, and more as an individual—a breakthrough that promises to at last bring peace to the troubled region. Driven by two virtuoso central performances, The Journey is a more-relevant-than-ever reminder of how simple humanity can overcome political division. John Hurt costars.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Wakefield A successful suburban lawyer withdraws from his life and hides-out in the loft of his garage, where he secretly watches his family move on without him.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Red Dog: True Blue An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Family

Dark Crimes Jim Carrey stars as a detective investigating the murder of a slain businessman.. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

First Monday in May, The Every spring, New York City is home to the biggest night in fashion: The Met Gala. The First Monday in May takes you behind the scenes of this ultra-exclusive affair, where the world’s top designers and celebrities come together to showcase fashion as fine art.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Julieta Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar adapts three stories from Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro for this time-tripping tale about the relationship and eventual rupture between a teacher and her beloved daughter.

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2016
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance

One Thousand Ropes Retired boxer Maea lives a quiet, comfortable but lonely life, working as a baker and also as a traditional healer and midwife, atoning for his violent and damaging past. He is still enmeshed in his guilt and remorse, which day and night taunt and haunt him. When his estranged daughter Ilisa comes back to him seeking refuge, he has the rare chance to return to her, what he stole from her mother and change her future; and she in turn takes her opportunity, to change his.

Director: Tusi Tamasese
Year: 2016
Language: Somoan, English, Fijian
Genre: Drama

Date For Mad Mary, A A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words This documentary explores the life and career of avant-garde musician Frank Zappa entirely via archival footage of the man, including interviews and concert performances.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography

Tempest Storm Tempest Storm is a feature documentary that follows the controversial life story of America's greatest exotic dancer, who at 87 years old is preparing for her final and most important act: to repair her broken relationship with her daughter Patricia, who she walked away from fifty years ago.

Director: Nimisha Mukerji
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

I'm Not Ashamed The inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott - the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

God's Not Dead 2 A high-school teacher's response to a student's question about Jesus lands her in big trouble, leading to an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom - and the public square - once and for all.

Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Unless An accomplished writer and translator, Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) is dumbfounded after the recent actions of her eldest daughter, Norah (Hannah Gross). For no clear reason, Norah has dropped out of university to spend her days panhandling on the sidewalk outside of Toronto landmark Honest Ed’s. She holds a cardboard sign with only one word: “Goodness”.

Director: Alan Gilsenan
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Call Up, The A group of hardcore gamers are invited to test a state-of-the-art virtual reality warzone, but things turn sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.

Director: Charles Barker
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart reunites with director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this artful ghost story about a young woman trying to reconnect with the spirit of her departed brother.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Equity In this financial thriller, a senior investment banker (Anna Gunn) is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Elle A high-powered businesswoman's brutal sexual assault elicits both erotic fantasies and dreams of revenge.

Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Toni Erdmann A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.

Year: 2016
Language: German, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Whole Truth, The Keanu Reeves and Renée Zellweger star in this thriller about a defense attorney (Reeves) who fights to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

USS Indianapolis After delivering key components for the atomic weapons that would end WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis face a harrowing nightmare as their ship goes down in the shark infested Philippine Sea. Based on a true story.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: War, Action

Before I Wake A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - become reality as he sleeps.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama

Hillsong This inspiring film chronicles the spectacular rise of the Christian band, Hillsong UNITED, to a worldwide recording and concert sensation.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Family

Eagle Huntress, The A 13-year-old girl trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her family to become an eagle hunter. Narrated by Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley.

Year: 2016
Language: Kazakh
Genre: Adventure, Documentary, Family

Rehearsal, The Stanley, a naïve 1st year drama school student, meets Isolde, 15, whose sister has been caught having sex with her tennis coach. Jolted into a precocious sexual awakening, Isolde initiates a relationship - a first for both of them. Everything changes when Stanley’s drama group hits on the tennis scandal as fertile material for their end of year devised show. Stanley soon finds himself in morally tricky territory as his growing intimacy with Isolde provides secrets that feed his status in the group. Soon the boundaries between private and public, fact and fantasy, real and performed begin to dissolve… THE REHEARSAL is a darkly comic, razor-sharp look at adolescence, sexual awakening and the tricky process of becoming who we are.

Director: Alison Maclean
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Maudie MAUDIE, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. MAUDIE charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.

Director: Aisling Walsh
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography

Paterson A week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a city bus driver in Paterson, NJ, as he balances the demands of his working-class job with his passion for poetry and the creative yearnings of his stay-at-home wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). Jim Jarmusch wrote and directed this meditative, slice-of-life dramedy.

Year: 2016
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

I, Daniel Blake A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they battle the impersonal, bureaucratic forces of the benefits system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance. British master Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes for this timely drama with equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Vincent N Roxxy When Vincent saves Roxxy from a violent assailant, they unexpectedly fall in love. But when a sadistic gangster from their past shows up, their brief solace is shattered.

Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Black Code Toronto-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Nicholas De Pencier (Four Wings and a Prayer, Watermark) examines the complex global impact that the internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy and activism.

Director: Nick De Pencier
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer Norman Oppenheimer (Gere) only wants to matter. Living a lonely life in the shadow of power and money, he uses any angle or connection to put himself in a position of significance. He is an opportunist, just not a very good one. Until he finally bets on the right horse by buying a pair of expensive shoes for Micha Eshel (Ashkenazi), a lowly Israeli politician. When Micha becomes Prime Minister, Norman finds himself in the center of a geopolitical drama beyond anything he could have imagined. Using his small-time skills, Norman tries to solve a growingly complex puzzle with big-time implications. This everyman’s journey is filled with the comedy, drama, and tragedy of a man propelled out of anonymity yet ultimately too small to ever be valued.

Year: 2016
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Race to Win When a greedy rancher threatens to seize their horse farm, a young woman must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the horse race of her life, or her family will lose everything.

Director: Teddy Smith
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family

Gift Horse, A 10-year-old Amanda loves to spend time at the local horse ranch, owned by business tycoon Mr. Canton. When tragedy strikes Amanda's family, a beautiful, challenging horse named Misty helps her cope. Misty is rejected by Mr. Canton's spoiled daughter, Abigail, but with the help of an inspiring horse trainer, Amanda proves that Misty is a champion.

Director: Teddy Smith
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Family

Forbidden Room, The A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldier all get more than they bargained for as the wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery

3 Coeurs One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. They wander through the streets until morning, talking about everything except themselves, in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. Marc takes the first train back, and sets a date with Sylvie in Paris, a few days later. They know nothing about each other, but this is much more than a game. It's the way it has to be. Sylvie keeps the date. Misfortune befalls Marc, and he cannot. He searches for her and ends up finding someone else. Sophie. He does not know that she is Sylvie's sister. Marc and Sylvie meet again. Their unparalleled harmony still exists... but it is too late...

Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Spare Parts Spare Parts is a true life story about four underdog students who beat the odds and build a robot with little more than a dream. With no experience, 800 bucks and used car parts, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they learn not only how to build a robot - they learn to build a bond that will last a lifetime.

Director: Sean McNamara
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Natasha A forbidden romance develops between a 16-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant and his 14-year-old cousin-by-marriage - a girl from Moscow with a scandolous past.

Director: David Bezmozgis
Year: 2015
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Drama

Amy A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse became an international sensation with her unforgettable voice and intimate lyrics. But with her meteoric rise to fame came invasive media attention that, coupled with her troubled relationships and addictions, led her into a cycle of self-destruction. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly beautiful film invites audiences to remember and celebrate Amy as a brilliant artist rather than the tabloid fodder she sadly became.

Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography

Slow West Set at the end of the 19th Century, 'Slow West' is an American western filtered through the eyes of European filmmaking. The story centers on 16-year-old Jay Cavendish who has travelled from Scotland to Colorado to be reunited with the woman with whom he is infatuated. He is quickly confronted by the dangers of the frontier and so teams up with a mysterious traveler named Silas, who agrees to protect him for cash. Jay's journey is fraught with danger, double-crossing and violence as he comes to realize that America is not easy on the innocent.

Director: John Maclean
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Western

Brooklyn BROOKLYN tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Director: John Crowley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Autrui On a bitingly cold winter night, Lucie, an introvert young woman, offers shelter to Eloi, a homeless man on the verge of freezing to death in the streets. This charitable gesture will entwine the two of them in a complex relationship and help them to find fresh hope, each in their own way.

Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Florida At over 80, Claude Lherminier has lost none of his charm and presence. He has decided to visit his youngest daughter, Alice, who is married to an American and living in Miami. Soon we've rewound several weeks to follow the events leading up to Claude's trip. Claude has two daughters, Alice and Carole. Carole, the eldest, is the single mother of a 20-year old son. Things are not easy for her, whether in the workplace or sentimentally. In addition, she is the one who has to take care of her father, who has lately been having trouble with his memory. It's hard to say just how advanced Claude's condition really is. Often he plays up his forgetfulness and uses it to tyrannize the people around him. At other times he seems truly lost, confusing faces, places and even his age. That discrepancy, as comical or as droll as it may sometimes be, gradually becomes the cause of his friends and relations' distress.

Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Unbranded On an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada, four young cowboys riding wild mustangs embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With exquisite cinematography of breathtaking terrain from the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone, Unbranded celebrates the worth of these magnificent creatures while exposing the issues that threaten their very existence.

Director: Phillip Baribeau
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Meru After suffering dramatic set backs in their lives, three close friends, who are among the world's best professional climbers, battle their complicated pasts, inner demons and nature's harshest elements in an attempt to climb the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, considered the ultimate prize in the exclusive high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Every Thing Will Be Fine EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, based on an original script by the Norwegian Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, tells the story of Tomas (James Franco), a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. Even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. The film follows Tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness.

Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Man Up When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date under the clock at Waterloo Station, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong? Man Up is an honest, heartwarming romantic comedy about taking chances and rolling with the consequences. One night, two people, on a first date like no other...

Director: Ben Palmer
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

MI-5 Based on the BAFTA-winning hit TV series that has sold to more than 60 countries worldwide. When charismatic terrorist Adam Qasim (Elyes Gabel) escapes from MI5 custody during a high profile handover, the legendary Harry Pearce (Peter Firth), Head of Counter-terrorism, is blamed. Disgraced and forced to resign, no-one's surprised when Harry disappears one night off a bridge into the Thames...

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action

400 Days In preparation for a journey into deep space, four astronauts are sent on a simulated mission that lasts 400 days. But when they emerge from the ship, they realize it may not have been a simulation after all…

Director: Matt Osterman
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Fits, The While training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.

Director: Anna Rose Holmer
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Angry Indian Goddesses ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES is India's first female buddy movie with a fresh, realistic portrait of women in India today. Frieda, a fashion-commercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she's getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette party that lasts for a full week-a riotous roller-coaster ride in a sumptuous setting. Through the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.

Director: Pan Nalin
Year: 2015
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Viva Jesus is a hairdresser for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father Angel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.

Director: Paddy Breathnach
Year: 2015
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Beeba Boys Deepa Mehta mixes guns, bhangra beats, bespoke suits, cocaine and betrayal in BEEBA BOYS: an adrenaline-charged portrait of an Indo-Canadian gang war, depicting an exciting and violent clash of culture and crime. Gang leader Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda) and his young, loyal, and brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention and openly compete with an old-style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver underground drug and gun industries. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken and family bonds are shattered as the Beeba Boys (the "nice boys") will do anything to be seen and to be feared, in a white world. BEEBA BOYS is a modern gangster film by an internationally celebrated female director; a movie where stereotypes are intentionally challenged and which takes us deep inside this Indo-Canadian underworld - a specific culture that no crime movie has explored before.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Departure A nuclear family unravels in the South of France.

Director: Andrew Steggall
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Faith of Our Fathers With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son. FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: a story of fatherhood; a journey of brotherhood.

Director: Carey Scott
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Mustang Five beautiful and beguiling young sisters become imprisoned in their own home, forbidden by their controlling, conservative elders from having any contact with the outside world.

Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Year: 2015
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama

Standoff A 12-year-old girl witnesses a murder and is chased by the assassin to an isolated farmhouse occupied by a suicidal man holding a shotgun with a single shell. A tense standoff ensues over the next 24 hours as the two desperate men fight for the little girl’s life and engage in physical and psychological warfare.

Director: Adam Alleca
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Woodlawn A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent while battling racial tensions on and off the field in Woodlawn, a moving and inspirational new film based on a remarkable true story. Starring Academy Award® winner Jon Voight as college football coaching legend Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings).

Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Avril et le Monde Truqué In an alternate history where Napoleon's heirs rule France, scientists and scholars have gone missing for years, leaving behind a world deprived of their technological innovations. In this land powered by coal and steam, young April searches for her missing scientist parents.

Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Neon NEON celebrates the beauty, colour and vibrant history of the neon sign from an International perspective as we face a world where it will soon be lost and superceded by L.E.D. signage. Neon is 100 years old and the craft and construction has changed very little, making neon one the greenest forms of light ever produced and an amazing and enduring force of colour and light in the visual landscapes of our lives.

Director: Lawrence Johnston
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Oddball An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.

Director: Stuart McDonald
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Family

Sunday Horse, A After a near-fatal accident, a determined young rider (Nikki Reed) defies all odds to chase her dreams of competing in a national horse-jumping championship. Inspired by a true story.

Director: Vic Armstrong
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family

Wave, The In this pulse-pounding thriller, a geologist tries to prevent a tsunami from destroying a popular tourist destination. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many as possible, including his own family.

Director: Roar Uthaug
Year: 2015
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action

Man Who Knew Infinity, The Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons star in this inspirational biopic about an early-20th century mathematician whose groundbreaking theories revolutionized the field.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography

Adderall Diaries, The Based on the bestselling memoir by Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries is the story of an author (James Franco) paralyzed by writer's block and an escalating drug dependency who is sucked down the rabbit hole of a high-profile murder case. As Elliott becomes increasingly obsessed with the trial, his own nightmarish childhood memories resurface, particularly of his cruel and distant father (Ed Harris). But when his estranged father returns with his own story to tell, fact and fiction become blurred in an amphetamine-induced haze.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

Little Men Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony (Michael Barbieri) at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake’s parents, Brian and Kathy (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle), and Tony’s mother, Leonor (Paulina Garcia), threatens to become contentious.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

History's Future Part fiction, part documentary, part speculative essay on the contemporary world, HISTORY’S FUTURE is about one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil – and through his own mind. After a violent mugging causes him to lose his memory, a man known only as ‘MP’ (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey – a search not only for his own identity but also for enlightenment about a world in crisis. On his travels from country to country, through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP gains insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West – into what commentators have called an age of ‘rolling catastrophe’. As such the film deals not with the crisis itself, but with the array of feelings it has triggered. By the time his journey ends, MP has learned to survive, newly armed with an understanding of how we live today.

Year: 2015
Genre: Drama

Colonia A young woman (Emma Watson) embarks on a desperate journey to rescue her boyfriend from a mysterious and dangerous cult.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Romance

Other Half, The A psychological drama that centers on a passionate love affair between a self-destructive drifter and a bi-polar woman.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Blackcoat's Daughter, The Stranded at their Catholic prep school over winter break, two young girls fall into the terrifying grasp of an unseen evil force. Meanwhile, a mysterious hospital escapee (Emma Roberts), charts a course towards the school.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Survivalist, The In a kill-or-be-killed post-apocalyptic future ravaged by starvation, a lone survivalist is threatened by two women claiming to seek food and shelter.

Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi

Do You Believe? A dozen different souls—all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ … even if they don't believe it. Yet. When a local pastor is shaken to the core by the visible faith of an old street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a faith-fueled journey that powerfully impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.

Director: Jonathan M. Gunn
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Second Mother, The After leaving her daughter for 13 years in Bahia to work as a nanny raising a boy in São Paulo, Val decides to bring her daughter, Jessica, to live with her at her employer's house. The intimacy of her biological daughter with her boss' son seems to turn into a time bomb.

Director: Anna Muyalert
Year: 2015
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama

Where to Invade Next Where to Invade Next is an expansive, rib-tickling, and subversive comedy in which Moore, playing the role of "invader", visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world - they're just waiting to be co-opted.

Director: Michael Moore
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Miles Ahead MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career-defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle's bravura directorial debut is not a conventional biopic but rather a unique, no-holds-barred portrait of a singular artist in crisis.

Director: Don Cheadle
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Biography

Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl's sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.

Director: Marielle Heller
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Lace Crater After a bizarre sexual encounter with a ghost, a twenty-something woman (Lindsay Burdge) begins experiencing inexplicable changes in her body.

Director: Harrison Atkins
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Mystery

Nailed! A romantic comedy about a naïve small town waitress (Biel) who gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable and erratic behavior that leads her to Washington, DC, where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young Congressman (Gyllenhaal) who takes up her cause and searches for the courage to save her.

Director: David O. Russell
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Meddler, The Susan Sarandon delivers one of her most richly satisfying performances in this insightful and winning comedy-drama about an incessantly doting mother who, after her husband passes away, follows her daughter (Rose Byrne) to Los Angeles and makes an unexpected connection.

Director: Lorene Scafaria
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Son of Saul October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

Director: László Nemes
Year: 2015
Language: Hungarian
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama

Maggie's Plan A young woman whose determination to have a child involves her in a love triangle with an unhappy academic and his eccentric critical-theorist wife.

Director: Rebecca Miller
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Grandma Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) unexpectedly shows up needing $600 before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.

Director: Paul Weitz
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Gridlocked Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.

Director: Allan Ungar
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Action

Bronze, The In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.

Director: Bryan Buckley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Comedy

Lady in the Van, The A big screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett's iconic and celebrated memoir, directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. Their unique story is funny, poignant and life-affirming.

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography

High Rise In this visionary tale based on J.G. Ballard’s classic novel, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi

Land of Mine In this based-on-fact war drama, a group of German POWs are put to work by the Allies, defusing their own landmines on the west coast of Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

Director: Martin Nadvliet
Year: 2015
Language: Danish, German
Genre: History, War, Drama

Mr. Gaga Mr. Gaga tells the story of Ohad Naharin, renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.

Year: 2015
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Documentary

Irrational Man When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Infinitely Polar Bear Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana star in this comedic drama about a manic-depressive Harvard dropout struggling to care for his two daughters as his estranged wife attends graduate school in New York City.

Director: Maya Forbes
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

13 Minutes A carpenter from Königsbronn in Swabia, Georg Elser was a man who could have changed world history and saved millions of human lives. If only he had had 13 more minutes. With 13 more minutes, the bomb he had personally assembled would have torn apart Adolf Hitler and his henchmen. But this was not to be, and on 8 November 1939, Hitler left the scene of the attempted assassination earlier than expected - leaving Elser to fail catastrophically.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Year: 2015
Language: German
Genre: War, Drama, Biography

I Saw The Light The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.

Director: Marc Abraham
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Biography

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Director: Sam de Jong
Year: 2015

Coming Home Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2014
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama, Romance

Kung Fu Elliot Elliot Scott plans on becoming Canada’s first action hero with his third low-budget action film, Blood Fight. This bizarre story spans two years in the life of Elliot, his supportive partner Linda Lum, and their cast and crew of outrageous dreamers striving to achieve success. As Linda tries to ground Elliot in reality and commit to their relationship he retreats further and further into his world of make-believe. Elliot sees himself as a moralistic hero; however, as Linda probes into Elliot’s impressive martial arts history, his Asian lineage, and his tragic past, she begins to unravel all of Elliot's tall tales. With everyone’s hopes and dreams pinned on Elliot, this film asks, “can you believe in your dreams too much before you end up living in a fantasy world?”

Director: Matthew Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Comedy

Gemma Bovery Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Flaubert’s 19th century novel, Madame Bovary. Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma (Arterton) soon tires of their ‘simpler’ life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.

Director: Anne Fontaine
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Wild Tales A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

Director: Damián Szifron
Year: 2014
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy

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

Director: François Ozon
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Duke of Burgundy Day after day, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn's punishment and pleasure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship, Evelyn's obsession with erotica quickly becomes an addiction that may push the relationship to a breaking point.

Director: Peter Strickland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery

It Follows For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.

Director: David Robert Mitchell
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Seymour: An Introduction 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: Ethan Hawke
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Boychoir A recently orphaned 12 year old boy is sent to a musical boarding school by an anonymous donor – no-one expected this rebellious loner to achieve the standards required to join the Boychoir – a choral band of brothers who travel the world and maintain the school’s famed status.

Director: François Girard
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family

Life Partners Life Partners tells the comedic tale of two lifelong best friends, Paige and Sasha. The two are polar opposites who turn to each other for all of life's up and downs. All is fine until Paige meets Tim, a young and charming doctor. As the relationship heats up, Paige and Sasha must learn how to work Tim into their friendship.

Director: Susanna Fogel
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Son of a Gun While locked up for a minor offence, 19-year-old JR (Brenton Thwaites) becomes apprentice to the enigmatic Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor), a calculating crime boss with connections both inside and out. After helping Lynch and his crew orchestrate a daring prison escape, JR is invited to join in on their next job – a high stakes heist that promises to deliver millions. But as they plan the heist, JR begins to suspect he is being played and soon finds himself on a collision course with his mentor, in a very dangerous game.

Director: Julius Avery
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action, Family

Over Your Dead Body A theatre troupe rehearsing a classic play of murder, betrayal and phantasmagorical vengeance find life bloodily imitating art backstage, in this wild cinematic detour from madly prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike.

Director: Takashi Miike
Year: 2014
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror

Electric Boogaloo ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS centres on the story of two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the ‘American dream’ launched an indie studio that would produce over 120 exploitation films from 1979 – 1989. No one could have anticipated just how close these two outsiders would get in nearly taking over both Hollywood and the UK film industry. Their passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed. Ultimately this passion would come between them and the company they built together. This is a one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever.

Director: Mark Hartley
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Documentary

Salt of the Earth Co-directed by master filmmaker Wim Wenders (Pina), The Salt of the Earth takes us on a stunning visual odyssey as we see the world through the eyes of one of the greatest image-makers of the last century - world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado. Having captured some of the major events of our recent history, Salgado is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories and grandiose landscapes as tribute to the planet's beauty.

Director: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Year: 2014
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Documentary

5 to 7 20-something aspiring writer Brian enters into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. The catch? She's married, and can only meet him for brief trysts in fancy Manhattan hotels. Co-starring Frank Langella, Glenn Close, and Olivia Thirlby, this sexy romantic romp captures the giddy thrill of being young and in love.

Director: Victor Levin
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Salvation, The After killing the men who murdered his newly arrived wife and son, immigrant settler Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) unleashes the fury of the local gang and its ruthless leader (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who rule their frontier town. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, Jon must fight for his life, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart.

Director: Kristian Levring
Year: 2014
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Drama, Western

Extinction Deep in the Amazon jungle a research team lead by Professor Howson (Ben Loyd Holmes - Skyfall) strive to protect vulnerable and endangered species, but when their guide Carlos (Ernesto Cantu - World War Z) abandons them, they begin to realize they are in the hunting ground of an apex predator.

Director: Adam Spinks
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

5 Flights Up 5 Flights Up is set over a weekend where a couple must decide whether or not to sell their Brooklyn walk up of 40 years. The story takes a comedic turn when the dynamic couple have to contend with eccentric open house guests, their pushy realtor niece, and the health of their beloved family dog - all while navigating a New York on edge from what turns out to be an media-generated terror threat.

Director: Richard Loncraine
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Aloft ALOFT tells the story of a struggling mother, Nana Kunning (Jennifer Connelly) and her evolution into a renowned artist and healer. When a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) tracks down her son Ivan (Cillian Murphy) 20 years after Nana abandoned him, she sets in motion an encounter between the two at the very edge of the earth that will bring the very meaning of their lives into question, and force them to contemplate living life to its fullest, despite the distance between them and the uncertainties littering their paths. Healing will bring warmth, even in the coldest place on earth.

Director: Claudia Llosa
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Dancing Arabs Dancing Arabs tells the story of Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy from the town of Tira whose parents send to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity – trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him. Feeling foreign and alienated, Eyad realizes that in order to be accepted as an equal, in order to allay people’s suspicions, in order to work, to love, and, above all, to belong – he has to make personal sacrifices.

Director: Eran Riklis
Year: 2014
Language: Arabic/English/Hebrew
Genre: Drama

American Heist James (Hayden Christensen) owes his life to his older brother Frankie (Adrien Brody) after Frankie took the rap for a crime they both committed. After Frankie serves his time, he convinces James to join him in an ill-fated bank robbery in the hopes that one last job will change both their lives.

Director: Sarik Andreasyan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Preggoland When 35-year-old Ruth ruins a baby shower with her juvenile antics, her old high school cronies-who are all mothers now-promptly de-friend her. But when she is later mistakenly thought to be ‘with child’ she is inexplicably welcomed back into the group. Although she initially tries to come clean, the many perks of pregnancy are far too seductive to ignore. Preggoland is a comedy about our societal obsession with babies and the lengths we’ll go to be part of a club.

Director: Jacob Tierney
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Rançon de la gloire, La Eddy, recently out of prison, needs money to support his family. With the death of Charlie Chaplin announced on television, Eddy decides to steal his casket, and demand ransom from the deceased actor’s family.

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Hungry Hearts New York City newlyweds Jude and Mina have a seemingly perfect relationship. But things take an unsettling turn with the birth of their son. Convinced that the baby must be kept free of all contaminants, Mina (Alba Rohrwacher) becomes increasingly isolated from the world and outrageously protective of the baby, while Jude (Adam Driver) tries to cope with his wife's escalating obsessions.

Director: Saverio Costanzo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance

Robot Overlords Following an alien invasion, Earth’s inhabitants are forbidden from leaving their homes while their new Robot Overlords carry out their mysterious research. But when a band of adoptive siblings find a way to override their implants, a quest begins to find a missing father, even if it means defying an empire.

Director: Jon Wright
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

Face of an Angel, The Why are we fascinated by murder? Inspired by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, FACE OF AN ANGEL looks beyond the salacious headlines to explore both the media and the public's obsession with violent stories, whether fictional or real.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2014
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Time Out of Mind

Director: Oren Moverman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

What We Have Haunted by his life on stage in France, Maurice Lesmers seeks refuge in a remote town in Northern Canada where he discovers there is little outlet for his gay appetite for anonymous one-night stands. To make ends meet, Maurice takes a job tutoring French to 15-year old Allan, a shy student struggling at school, and auditions for the local theatre company’s French production of Molière’s The Miser. When he lands the leading role, Maurice is surprisingly drawn to the company’s handsome manager, Michael. But their relationship is endangered when Maurice gets caught up in Allan’s adolescent world and risks everything to protect his young student from a relentless bully and the hardships of coming out.

Director: Maxime Desmons
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama

When Animals Dream 16-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.

Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby
Year: 2014
Language: Danish
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery

Daughter, The In the last days of a dying logging town Christian (Paul Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry's (Geoffrey Rush) wedding to the much younger Anna (Anna Torv). While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver (Ewen Leslie), who has stayed in town working at Henry's timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver's wife Charlotte (Miranda Otto), daughter Hedvig (Odessa Young) and father Walter (Sam Neill), he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver's family apart. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.

Director: Simon Stone
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Manglehorn Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, AJ Manglehorn (Al Pacino), a small-town locksmith, tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend (Holly Hunter).

Director: David Gordon Green
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Snowman From childhood, Kevin Fogolin dreamed of living and working in the mountains. After breaking the shackles of small-town expectations, his dream comes crashing down in a helicopter avalanche bombing mission gone horribly wrong. In the aftermath, Kevin and his childhood friend, freeskiing icon Mike Douglas, are forced to confront the risks and rewards of following their passion for the mountains. Set in British Columbia's rugged Coast Mountain Range, SNOWMAN is a familiar tale of dreaming big and a life where the greatest risk is not daring to dream at all.

Director: Mike Douglas, Anthony Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Documentary

Rams In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.

Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Year: 2014
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama

Early Winter David, 45, works long nights as a night guard in a retirement home. He dotes on his children, plies his wife with latest model gadgets and cars, and keeps the wheels of his life turning with painkillers and antidepressants. But when he catches her with a lover, his life spirals out of control, bringing him to the brink of insanity, gaunt and alone, but free, maybe, for the first time in his adult life.

Director: Michael Rowe
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Lobster, The A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Creative Control In a near-future Brooklyn, David is an overworked, tech-addicted advertising executive working on a high profile campaign for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Envious of his best friend Wim's charmed life and obsessed with his entrancing girlfriend Sophie, David uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her; but he isn't prepared for what happens when the line between reality and virtual reality begins to blur.

Director: Benjamin Dickenson
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Dheepan Winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes. An improvised "family" flees civil war in Sri Lanka only to end up in another violent conflict in Parisian slums.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2014
Language: French, Tamil
Genre: Drama, Crime

Fall Father Sam Ryan, (Michael Murphy), an aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral. The letter, from "Christopher," confronts him about an incident that happened 40 years ago. Father Sam was a young, charismatic priest, serving a remote, Northern Ontario parish. Christopher was a 14-year-old adolescent, whom Sam mentored. The letter asks Father Sam for the truth: what did take place all those years ago? Were lines blurred or crossed? What choices were made?

Director: Terrance Odette
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Pact 2, The A woman who is plagued by nightmares involving a serial killer learns her dreams have a horrifying connection to the real world.

Director: Dallas Richard Hallam, Patrick Horvath
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Un été en Provence Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo go on holiday in Provence with their estranged grandfather, whom they have never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holiday they dreamed of, especially since their parents have just announced that they are splitting up. But despite the initial disappointment and the inevitable clash of generations, over the course of their turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by the other.

Director: Roselyne Bosch
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance

Merchants of Doubt Documentarian Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) investigates the shadowy world of professional skeptics, whose services are bought and paid for by corporations, think tanks and other special interests to cast doubt and delay public and governmental action on climate change.

Director: Robert Kenner, Maya Anand
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

God's Not Dead

Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

By the Gun Nick Tortano is an ambitious criminal from the streets of Boston whose life spirals out of control once he joins the mafia. When he comes head-to-head with the ‘Boss’ (Harvey Keitel), Nick’s girlfriend, family, and friends’ lives are placed in danger. To protect himself and the ones he loves, Nick is forced to gun down anyone that stands in his way.

Director: James Mottern
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Green Prince, The This real life thriller tells the story of one of Israel's prized intelligence sources, the son of a top Hamas leader. Under the code name "The Green Prince", he is recruited to spy on his own people for over a decade. Focusing on his complex relationship with his handler, this is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, impossible choices - and of a friendship that defies all boundaries.

Director: Nadav Schirman
Year: 2014
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Documentary, Biography

Foxcatcher Based on true events, FOXCATCHER tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers. FOXCATCHER is a rich and moving story of brotherly love, misguided loyalty and the corruption and emotional bankruptcy that can accompany great power and wealth. As with Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller's previous feature films, CAPOTE and MONEYBALL, he explores large themes in society through his complex character portraits of real people.

Director: Bennett Miller
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography

Elsa & Fred "Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true.

Director: Michael Radfort
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Difret Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village, the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia's oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self-defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the continuing work of her women's legal-aid practice to save Hirut's life.

Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Year: 2014
Language: Amharic
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography

Red Army From Oscar® nominated and Emmy award winning filmmakers, RED ARMY is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union. RED ARMY is an inspiring story about the Cold War played out on the ice rink, and a man who stood up to a powerful system and paved the way for change for generations of Russians.

Director: Gabe Polsky
Year: 2014
Language: English, Russian
Genre: History, Documentary, Biography

Princess Grace Nicole Kidman stars as legendary Hollywood actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in this lavish biographical drama from acclaimed director Olivier Dahan. Six years after leaving Hollywood to become Princess of Monaco, Grace, now a mother of two, considers a comeback in the movies against her husband's wishes. But with political strife threatening war in her country, Grace must choose once and for all between her life as a film star and her role as princess.

Director: Olivier Dahan
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography

Ritournelle, La Brigitte and Xavier have a good life. Their farm exploitation prospers and their children have left home to live on their own…A man of few words, Xavier spends most of his time taking care of the cattle. A sophisticated dreamer, Brigitte keeps hoping for something else, something more... To escape the monotony of her everyday life, she decides to go on a solo, whirl-wind weekend in Paris. And the French capital does indeed offer freedom and adventure…

Director: Marc Fitoussi
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Lambert & Stamp In the crazy, chaotic gospel of chance that is LAMBERT & STAMP, aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This brilliant, but unlikely, partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the High Numbers a rebellious restlessness that was just what they were looking for. Abandoning their plans to make a film, they instead decided to mentor and manage this group, which evolved into the iconic band known as the Who. The result was rock 'n' roll history.

Director: James D. Cooper
Year: 2014
Language: English, French, German
Genre: History, Documentary, Biography

Long Way Down, A A Long Way Down is a funny and charming comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots and Sam Neill. On New Year’s Eve, four strangers meet atop a London skyscraper, each looking for a way out. Instead, these perfect strangers make a pact to stay together until Valentine’s Day, sparking a media frenzy as they help one another find the beauty in being alive. Based on the novel by acclaimed writer Nick Hornby (About a Boy, Fever Pitch).

Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Labyrinth of Lies Frankfurt 1958: nobody wants to look back to the time of the National Socialist regime. Young prosecuting attorney Johann Radmann comes across some documents that help to initiate the trial against some members of the SS who served in Auschwitz. But both the horrors of the past and the hostility against his work bring Johann to the point of meltdown. It is nearly impossible for him to find his way through this maze; everybody seems to have been involved or guilty.

Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Year: 2014
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Goodbye to All That Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation) stars as a newly single dad navigating the good, the bad, and the weird of the 30-something singles scene in this whip-smart comedy. When his wife unexpectedly informs him that she wants a divorce, well-meaning but oblivious husband Otto Wall (Schneider) finds himself thrust back into bachelorhood. Cue a hilarious sequence of romantic encounters—from reconnecting with a former crush to online dating—as Otto searches for the real thing amidst a string of one night stands.

Director: Angus MacLachlan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Love Is Strange Ben and George take advantage of New York's new marriage laws and tie the knot after being together for 39 years. Unfortunately, the Catholic school where George teaches does not approve and they reluctantly fire him, forcing the couple to split up and stay with friends while they sell their apartment and look for cheaper housing. George crashes with two gay police officers, while Ben, who's a painter, bunks with his nephew's family in Brooklyn -- a temporary situation that weighs heavily on all involved.

Director: Ira Sachs
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Little Accidents When a mining disaster tears at the fabric of an Appalachian coal-mining town, the lives of three very different inhabitants become inexplicably tangled in a web of secrets. Amos Jenkins, the sole survivor of the tragedy, unwillingly becomes a focal point of the resulting investigation. As tensions rise over who to blame for the deadly mishap, the teenage son of a top executive at the coal mine goes missing. Diane, the boy's mother, grows emotionally estranged from her husband Bill as they search in vain for their child. Turning to the local church for support, Diane not only finds a comforting friend in Amos, but also meets one of her son's classmates, Owen Briggs, whom she learns was present at the time of his disappearance.

Director: Sara Colangelo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Heartbeat Justine, paralyzed by stage fright, gave up a far fetched dream of becoming a singer songwriter and tucked her heart away, ignoring what it was desperately trying to tell her: that in order to live, it needs to beat. Now accustomed to avoiding what makes her heart beat, Justine is stuck. She lives in a mausoleum - the house she inherited from her grandmother; writes uninspired copy for a data management company and lies to her best friend, Lorna, about continuing to sleep with her ex, Ben. After Ben leaves town, putting an end to their late night trysts, Justine, depressed and unfulfilled, picks up her dusty guitar and finally faces the music - her music - and her heart begins to beat again. Heartbeat mixes Justine’s live-action story about facing her greatest fear with an animated fable about the joy of her beating heart.

Director: Andrea Dorfman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Romance, Comedy

Our Little Sister Three sisters - Sachi, Yoshino and Chika - live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings...

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Year: 2014
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama

Boyhood Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. It's impossible to watch Mason and his family without thinking about our own journey.

Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Diplomatie August 25th, 1944. The Allies enter Paris. Warsaw has been destroyed three weeks earlier by the Germans. Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup), German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler’s orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. And yet, Paris is not destroyed. For what reasons did von Choltitz refuse to carry out the Fuhrer’s commands, despite his boundless loyalty to the Third Reich? Was it Raoul Nordling (André Dussollier), Swedish consul-general to Paris, who made the General change his mind?

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: War, Drama

Ironclad: Battle for Blood Brace yourselves for another brutal battle, as one of the few survivors of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to protect his family’s estate from fierce Celtic raiders. With a new battleground and a new enemy, IRONCLAD: BATTLE FOR BLOOD promises to deliver the same ferocious, adrenaline-filled action and gory kills that defined IRONCLAD.

Director: Jonathan English
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action

Hard Drive Hard Drive is the story of one young man’s unexpected plunge into adulthood–from youthful restlessness to the uplifting joy of first love.

Director: William D. MacGillivray
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance

Open Windows From the visionary director behind the sci-fi classic Timecrimes comes another technical masterpiece. Elijah Wood stars as Nick, a super fan who has won a contest to meet his favourite actress, Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey), star of a series of sci-fi action films. But when Jill refuses to honour the contest, her manager—an ominous figure named Chord—makes Nick an offer he can't refuse: the opportunity to spy on Jill through his computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star, unaware that his actions will put both himself and Jill in mortal danger.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action, Sci-Fi

I Put a Hit on You A brokenhearted woman teams up with her ex-boyfriend to try and stop the hitman she accidentally hired to kill him.

Director: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Comedy

Testament of Youth Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it's a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Director: James Kent
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography

Free the Nipple Inspired by true events, Free the Nipple follows a group of young women who take to the streets of New York City topless, to protest the archaic censorship laws in the United States. Activist Liv and With set out to start a movement and change the system through publicity stunts and graffiti installations while armed with First Amendment lawyers. The film explores the contradictions in our media-dominated society, where acts of violence and killing are glorified, while images of a woman's body are censored by the FCC and the MPAA. What is more obscene: Violence or a Nipple?

Director: Lina Esco
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Jimmy's Hall In 1921 Jimmy opened a dance hall, where he encouraged young Irish men and women not only to dance, but to discuss the cultural oppression and poverty of the time. However, Jimmy's past as a leader of the Revolutionary Workers' Group, a predecessor of the Communist Party of Ireland, sparked protests against Jimmy running a hall where he was influencing young people.

Director: Ken Loach
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography

Whiplash Andrew Neyman is a 19-year-old drummer, dreaming of greatness but unsure if his dream will ever come true. He attends a cutthroat music conservatory and practices at all hours of the day, but he's haunted by the failed writing career of his father and wonders if he has what it takes to leave a mark. Then he meets Terence Fletcher, a larger-than-life music instructor with a very particular teaching style. Under Fletcher's ruthless direction, Andrew begins to pursue perfection at any cost – even his humanity.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama

Anniversary, The On the morning of their 20th wedding anniversary, Teresa's husband Sam goes for a run and keeps on running. Teresa carries on with the dinner celebrations figuring he'll show up eventually. As the evening unfolds we realize Sam ran away a year ago and Teresa's tenacity is holding onto his return. Their teenage son, Nicky, gives the party a bit of magic as he spikes the food with some hallucinogenics causing a wide variety of effects on the dinner guests. After a lot of laughter, tears and awkward embraces, Teresa realizes the truth about Sam's departure and what it means to say I Love You.

Director: Valerie Buhagiar
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Riot Club, The Two young men are inducted into the exclusive, debaucherous company of Oxford's elite "Riot Club", in this scathing dissection of the British class system.

Director: Lone Sherfig
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Astérix - Le Domaine des dieux Julius Caesar unveils his latest plan to get rid of those indomitable Gauls once and for all. As his army has not been able to crush "the last pocket of resistance", he decides to try a stealth invasion: civilization delivered to the village gates! He builds a new Rome? The Land of the Gods? around Asterix's village, pressuring the Gauls to assimilate or vanish. Despite Asterix and Obelix's plans to stop the construction work, the buildings quickly rise and the Roman citizens start to peacefully invade their surroundings, bringing chaos to Asterix's village. Could this finally mean victory for Caesar?

Director: Alexandre Astier, Louis Clichy
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Homesman, The Mary Bee Cuddy, 31, lives a solitary existence in a God-fearing mid-western town. She is designated by members of her church to take back East three women who have lost their minds. On the way from Nebraska to Iowa, where those women will at last find refuge, Mary Bee saves the life of Briggs, a claim-jumper and outlaw. He agrees to help in her mission through snowstorms and perilous encounters with settlers, Indians and the harshness of the Frontier territory.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Western

Leviathan In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Director: Andreï Zviaguintsev
Year: 2014
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama, Crime

God's Pocket In the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, Mickey Scarpato's crazy stepson, Leon, is killed in a construction “accident,” and Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. Mickey finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle compounded by a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay.

Director: John Slattery
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime

Machine, The Amidst a future cold war, a scientist develops a game-changing android weapon called The Machine. But when it shows signs of consciousness and is ordered to be destroyed, it fights back with vengeance.

Director: Caradog W. James
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Hellion Hard-drinking Texas single dad Hollis (Paul) struggles to raise his two boys, including rebellious teenager Jacob (first-time actor Josh Wiggins in a stunning breakthrough performance). Seething with anger, Jacob finds release in the high-risk, white-knuckle world of motocross—but his increasingly reckless behavior threatens to spin out of control.

Director: Kat Candler
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Dark Horse SPC Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the country, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners - for whom he's become a source of inspiration and hope - he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.

Director: Louise Osmond
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary

Devil's Hand, The In the small, isolated village of New Bethlehem, members of the quietly devout community live in fear. The Elders have warned that an ancient prophecy may soon be fulfilled – that upon turning 18 years old, one of six girls, all born on the sixth day of the sixth month, will become the “Devil’s Hand.” As that day approaches, one-by-one the girls begin to die. Could this be the act of a serial killer, a village elder, or the horrific prophecy come true...?

Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Premature You're in highschool. Facing the biggest day of your life. You need to nail a college interview ensuring your admittance to your parents' beloved alma mater. To keep cool when your life-long crush finally seems to show interest. And then you wake up one morning and realize someone's playing a sick joke, because you're reliving the day's events over and over...and over again. Are you A.) stuck in a dream? B.) Experiencing déjà vu? C.) Having a psychotic break? Whether it's finding a way to get into college, into your life-long crush's pants, or having an even bigger epiphany, you must figure out how to break the cycle before losing your mind. This is the set-up for Premature, the hilarious-yet-heartfelt comedy from first time feature director (and co-writer) Dan Beers that won over audiences at this year's SXSW. An ingenious collision between Groundhog Day and American Pie.

Director: Dan Beers
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy

Crème de la crème, La Three sophomore business students take their professors theories and apply the business model to their social lives and those of others, hiring beautiful women to act as their dates in order to inflate their popularity. Soon enough, their concept takes off like a rocket, but at a cost.

Director: Kim Chapiron
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Mr. Turner MR. TURNER explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography

Land Ho! A pair of ex-brothers-in-law set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavík nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This bawdy adventure is a throwback to 1980s road comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.

Director: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Still Alice Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama

That Sugar Film An expectant father undertakes a perilous/delicious mission to see what the hidden sugars in seemingly healthy products can do to both his body and brain chemistry in this eye-opening new documentary that must be seen to be believed.

Director: Damon Gameau
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Saint Laurent The life of acclaimed fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent during the peak of his career, from 1967 to 1976.

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography

Kelly & Cal Kelly, a punk-rocker turned suburban mom, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn't yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.

Director: Jen McGowan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family

Louder Than Words This inspiring film, based on a true story, finds a couple, John (David Duchovny) and Brenda (Hope Davis) trying to put their life back together after the tragic death of their young daughter, Maria (Olivia Steele-Falconer). As they deal with their numbing grief, they discover a way to honor their daughter's wish for health and well-being for all children. With the help of their community, led by good friend Bruce (Timothy Hutton), they establish a children's hospital called the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital... a state of the art health facility that brings the whole family into the healing process. Instead of being torn apart by their tragedy, John and Brenda celebrate their very special daughter and help thousands of children and their families.

Director: Anthony Fabian
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family

I'm So Excited! Described as "a light, very light comedy", the film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, is set almost entirely on an aeroplane and is about intimate relationships of lovers.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy

Nymph()maniac Nymph()maniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman's journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He brings her home to his flat where he cares for her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushy branched-out and multifaceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.

Director: Lars von Trier
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Fanny (La Trilogie Marseillaise) Fanny loves Marius and is expecting his child, but he has set off on a 5-year journey at sea without knowing about the baby. For the sake of the baby's future, Fanny agrees to marry a prosperous shopkeeper. Meanwhile, Marius has finally realized his profound love for Fanny but his father convinces him to stay out of her life for the sake of the child's future and the honor of the family.

Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Henri After the death of his wife, restaurant-owner Henri is urged by his daughter and friends to leave the restaurant open, catering to the new patrons from the neighbourhood hospital for the mentally handicapped. It is here that Rosette, beautiful, young, and a little odd (although her mental difficulties are only mild), comes into Henri's life.

Director: Yolande Moreau
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama

4 Soldats During a Civil war, four soldiers aged 15 to 21 meet and bond. Trapped in an adults' war that they neither understand nor want any part of, Mateo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin save themselves by creating a kind of family, making their home in a cabin by a pond. Slowly, each of them finds his place. The family grows with the arrival of young Gabriel, who must be trained to their ways. The narrator, Dominique, immerses us in this beautiful, poignant, fleeting story.

Director: Robert Morin
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi

Elle s'en va Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) suddenly finds herself abandoned by her lover and facing the loss of the family restaurant. What begins as a drive around the block turns into a road trip filled with chance encounters, the rekindling of Bettie's relationship with her daughter, and a new bond with her grandson.

Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas - an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Armstrong Lie, The Lance Armstrong was considered one of the greatest sports figures of all time and put competitive cycling into the global spotlight, by beating cancer and winning the Tour de France seven times. That success earned him an immense fortune and worldwide fame. His was also one of the most influential and inspiring sports stories of recent memory and became a pop culture phenomenon, thanks to his Livestrong initiative. Beginning in 2009, documentarian Alex Gibney followed Armstrong for four years chronicling his return to cycling after retirement, as he tried to win his eighth title. Unexpectedly, Gibney was also there in 2012 when Armstrong admitted to doping, following a federal criminal investigation, public accusations of doping by his ex-teammates, and an investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency, that led USADA's CEO, Travis Tygart, to conclude that Armstrong's team had run "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."

Director: Alex Gibney
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Watermark Watermark is a feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Inside Llewyn Davis From legendary directors Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit), Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a brilliant but troubled folk singer struggling to make it as a musician in 1960s New York. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund—and brimming with unforgettable music produced by T Bone Burnett—Inside Llewyn Davis is “a great film by two American masters.” (Variety)

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama

Lunchbox, The Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self and find an anchor to hold on to in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes

Director: Ritesh Batra
Year: 2013
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Gangster's Tale, A A Gangster's Tale (starring John Malkovich) is a riveting story of two best friends who grow up to become fierce enemies. As they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour in their community of banished criminals, they try to overcome who they are and where they're from. They may be destined for a life of violence but can they live this life with honour?

Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box When his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped, a brave 17-year-old boy must do everything he can to find them. Following a trail of clues that lead to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, he discovers a hidden realm of monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth – but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of the world, and his family at stake, he will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box!

Director: Jonathan Newman
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Family

Selfish Giant, The THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrapdealer – the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten – keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, becoming more like Kitten. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event, which transforms them all.

Director: Clio Barnard
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama

These Final Hours It's the last day on earth, twelve hours before a cataclysmic event will end life as we know it. James makes his way across a lawless and chaotic city to the party to end all parties. Along the way, he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose who is desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility, James is forced to come to terms with what really matters in life as the final hours tick away.

Director: Zak Hilditch
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Austenland “AUSTENLAND” is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with all things Jane Austen. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen–crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency–era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Based on the novel by Shannon Hale (who also co-wrote the script), the film was written and directed by Jerusha Hess (writer, Napoleon Dynamite) and produced by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films.

Director: Jerusha Hess
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Fine Step, A A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy strikes when Cal and Fandango are involved in a serious accident, ending Cal's horse riding days forever. Cal's devastation is slowly overcome when his new neighbour, 14 year old Claire Mason (Anna Claire Sneed, Glee) takes an interest in Fandango and convinces him that Fandango's competing days might not be over.

Director: Jonathan Meyers
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family

Blue Jasmine After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Diego Star A serious accident occurs onboard the Diego Star, a dilapidated Russian cargo ship. Traoré, a mechanic from the Ivory Coast, is unfairly blamed for it. The ship is towed to the nearest shipyard for repairs. In the interim, crewmembers find shelter with the inhabitants of the small local village. Far from everyone he loves and knows, Traoré is engulfed by the Quebec winter.

Director: Frédérick Pelletier
Year: 2013
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama

Attila Marcel Paul is in his thirties and lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, a pair of elderly aristocrats who have raised him since the age of two, and who dream of him becoming a piano virtuoso. His life boils down to a daily routine spent at the grand piano in the salon, and his aunts' dance classes where he works as an accompanist. Cut off from the outside world, Paul has grown old without ever having lived. That is, until the day he meets Madame Proust, a neighbor who lives on the fourth floor. This eccentric lady knows how to make a herbal infusion which, when combined with music, can stir the most repressed of memories. Thanks to her, Paul will discover the secret of his own past, and find the key to finally unlock his life.

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Knight of the Dead Hunted by assassins, a band of crusading knights escorting the holy grail are forced into a forbidden valley of black death. What they discover is far more terrifying than the plague. Overrun by hordes of flesh eating zombies, they're only chance of survival is to hack and slash their way to freedom.

Director: Mark Atkins
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Fantasy, Action

Jodorowsky's Dune In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet. Starring his own 12 year old son Brontis alongside Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era, including HR Giger and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel DUNE was poised to change cinema forever.

Director: Frank Pavich
Year: 2013
Language: English, French, German
Genre: Documentary

Uvanga Uvanga is the story of a 13 year-old boy looking for himself in a world that gave him life, but it is a world that he does not know. The boy and his mother make a two-week visit north so that he can connect with his deceased father’s family. Their emotions will follow unexpected trajectories, paralleled by the disorienting High Arctic summer and its twenty-four hours of sunlight.

Director: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Year: 2013
Language: English, Inuktitut
Genre: Drama

Né quelque part A 26 year-old law student, Farid, must go to his parents’ homeland Algeria under his ill father’s instructions, to try and save the family home from demolition. Having no interest in the culture or country, Farid is slowly won over by the many characters, including his swindler cousin. After a riotous night of partying, his cousin steals all his documents, escaping to France. Now Farid is stuck in Algeria, trying to find a way back to France, where his father’s condition has worsened.

Director: Mohamed Hamidi
Year: 2013
Language: French, Arabic
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Tracks From director John Curran (The Painted Veil, We Don't Live Here Anymore) comes TRACKS, which tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) who begins to photograph her voyage. The film, adapted from Davidson's own memoirs, was produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning (The King's Speech, Shame).

Director: John Curran
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Biography

Gloria Gloria is 58 years old and still feels young. Making a party out of her loneliness, she fills her nights seeking love in ballrooms for single adults. This fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives everything as she feels it may well be her last, leaves her dancing between hope and despair. Gloria will have to pull herself together and find a new strength to realize that, in the last act of her life, she could burn brighter than ever.

Director: Sebastián Lelio
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Salauds, Les (Bastards) Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate - her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter is spiralling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte has installed his mistress and her son. But he hasn't planned for Sandra's secrets, which muddy the waters...

Director: Claire Denis
Year: 2013
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance

9 Mois Ferme Ariane Felder's pregnant. It's quite surprising because the young judge is a very straight-laced hardened bachelorette. It all gets even more surprising when a paternal test reveals that the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal charged for a frightful assault. Ariane, who remembers nothing, tries to understand what on earth happened and what she should be expecting.

Director: Albert Dupontel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Everyday Is Like Sunday Everyday Is Like Sunday is a comedy/drama aiming the lens at post-collegiate characters stuck between their imminently-ending youth and impending adulthood. The film follows Mark, Jason, and Flora, as they realistically attempt to pull themselves out of economic and emotional doldrums.

Director: Pavan Moondi
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Hateship, Loveship A feisty teenage girl (Hailee Steinfeld) orchestrates a romance between her nanny (Kristen Wiig) and her father (Guy Pearce) in this funny and moving love story based on award-winning Canadian author Alice Munro’s acclaimed short story. Also starring Nick Nolte, Christine Lahti, Sami Gayle and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Director: Liza Johnson
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Only Lovers Left Alive Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance, Comedy

Fading Gigolo In this hilarious sex comedy, Woody Allen stars as Murray, a cash-strapped guy who "pimps" his shy friend Fioravante (John Turturro) out as a male escort to pay the bills. As business begins to boom, Fioravante finds an unexpected connection with one of his clients, while Murray soon discovers that the life of a pimp is not so easy. Also starring Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, and Liev Schreiber.

Director: John Turturro
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Empire of Dirt Going home was never an option for single mother Lena Mahikan (Cara Gee). But when her 13-year-old, Peeka (Shay Eyre) overdoses in the streets of Toronto, she is forced to return home to her estranged mother and face a life-long legacy of shame and resentment. Empire of Dirt is a story about second chances and summoning the power of family to soothe the pain of cyclical damage.

Director: Peter Stebbings
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Last Keepers, The When the teenage daughter of a reclusive family of artists falls in love with an unusual boy at school, she awakens mysterious powers and discovers ancient family secrets that will change her life forever.

Director: Maggie Greenwald
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Family

Drinking Buddies Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They're perfect for each other, except that they're both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between "friends" and "more than friends" really blurry? Beer.

Director: Joe Swanberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Notebook, The In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during wartime with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults. Adaptation of the bestseller by Agota Kristof "Le Grand cahier".

Director: János Szász
Year: 2013
Language: Hungarian
Genre: War, Drama

Before Midnight We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.

Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2013
Language: English, Greek
Genre: Drama, Romance

Boule et Bill A film adaptation of the comic series created by Jean Rogan in 1959. It relates the adventures of seven-year-old boy Boule and his dog Bill, a Cocker Spaniel, as well as that of Boule's mother and father and Caroline the turtle.

Director: Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy, Family

Cutie and the Boxer Once a rising star in the '70's New York art scene, 80-year-old "boxing" painter Ushio Shinohara is prepping for his latest show, hoping to reinvigorate his career. His wife and de facto assistant, Noriko, seeks her own recognition through her "Cutie" illustrations, which depict their chaotic 40-year marriage. Cutie and the Boxer captures two lives united by a dedication to art-making for a touching meditation on the eternal themes of love and sacrifice.

Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Year: 2013
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: Documentary

Face of Love, The THE FACE OF LOVE is a romance filled with intrigue, surprise, and reflections on the mystery of love. Five years after losing the love her life, Nikki (Bening) falls in love again...at first sight. Tom (Harris) is an art teacher with a kind heart and a great zest for life, but what he doesn't know is that he's also a near perfect double for Nikki's deceased husband. Seduced by the chance to live as if her husband was never lost, Nikki spirals into a fantasy of the present as past, while Tom must unravel the mystery behind her immediate and unconditional love.

Director: Arie Posin
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz In the closing stages of WWII, an elite squad of Russian soldiers fall victim to a counter-attack by the Nazis. Those who aren’t killed are taken to a secret bunker where horrifying experiments are under way to create a breed of undead Nazi super soldiers. In order to survive, the prisoners must outrun and outgun the most vicious and powerful enemies they have ever faced.

Director: Kieran Parker
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

Michael H. Profession: Director How should violence be portrayed on the screen? What causes the family unit to fall apart? And, more generally, how does Evil worm its way into our so-called "civilised" Western societies? Already present in Michael Haneke's initial film work, these issues continue to haunt all his films. As we follow the director from Vienna to Paris, from northern Germany to Rumania, he reveals his philosophical and moral thinking.

Director: Yves Montmayeur
Year: 2013
Language: German
Genre: Documentary

Past, The Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran at his French wife Marie's request, in order to finalize their divorce. During his brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her daughter Lucie. Ahmad's efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Mystery

Marius (La Trilogie Marseillaise) The story takes place in the Old Port of Marseille, in the Bar de la Marine run by César and his son Marius. Marius dreams of embarking on one of the ships that sail past the bar, heading off to distant horizons. Fanny, a pretty young woman who sells shellfish outside the bar, has been secretly in love with Marius since childhood. Without admitting it, Marius has always loved Fanny back. When Marius is due to leave on a exploration vessel, Fanny tries to keep him back by revealing her love for him. She succeeds in fanning his jealousy by provoking a fight between Marius and the sea captain Panisse, an old friend of César's, who, despite being much older than Fanny, is enamored with her.

Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Animal Project, The Leo (Aaron Poole) is a mid-30s widower, single parent, and struggling acting teacher. His relationship with his teenage son (Jacob Switzer) is rocky, and he's dissatisfied with his everyday life. So, after he has an unusual and inspiring dream, he decides to shake things up by having the group of actors he teaches do something called "The Animal Project" -- whereby they will all don furry mascot suits and become 'animals' in the real world. It's a long, rainy night, and not everything goes as planned. But in the process of opening themselves up to the unknown, each participant in The Animal Project not only learns something about themselves, but also has the chance to grow a little bit.

Director: Ingrid Veninger
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Magic in the Moonlight Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Look of Love, The The true tale of British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan of "24 Hour Party People", "The Trip"). A modern-day King Midas, Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain - at the cost of losing those closest to him.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography

Afterparty On the night of his brother's wedding, best man Charlie (Graham Coffeng) gets the old gang back together for a fun-filled, post reception after party, at the newlyweds' home, where he has been staying for several weeks. Unsure of how to proceed with his own troubled marriage, Charlie reunites "the fellas" fifteen years after high school, in hopes that revisiting the past will help him find clarity for the future. What he finds, however, is that while his friends have all taken different paths, they are all faced with similar conundrums that comes with being in one's thirties.

Director: Michelle Ouellet
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama

L'amour est un crime parfait The new film by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu (To Paint or Make Love), 4th adaptation of a novel by Philippe Djian (Betty Blue, Blue Hell, Unforgivable)

Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama

En Solitaire (Turning Tide) François Cluzet (The Intouchables) stars in this high seas adventure as a sailor determined to win a grueling 3-month-long solo around-the-world yacht race. After a brief lay-up, Yann (Cluzet) rejoins the race and discovers a teenage stowaway. While realizing his dream of winning is imperiled by the presence of the young man, Yann's hostility slowly gives way to empathy and an understanding of his predicament.

Director: Christopher Offenstein
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Sports, Drama

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis This documentary about a concert that was held at Town Hall in New York City celebrates the music from the film Inside Llewyn Davis. It follows the musicians from rehearsal to performance and includes a roster of over twenty artists including Patti Smith, Jack White, Marcus Mumford and Joan Baez.

Director: Christopher Wilcha
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Tim's Vermeer Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer ("Girl with a Pearl Earring") manage to paint so photo-realistically -- 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces; on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney; and eventually even to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen's Vermeer.

Director: Teller
Year: 2013
Language: Dutch, English
Genre: Documentary

Dirty Wars This eye-opening documentary lays bare the dirty little secret of America’s War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. Drone strikes, night raids and government-condoned torture occur in hidden corners across the globe, generating unprecedented civilian casualties. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history, exposing covert ops, unidentifiable fighters who act with impunity and "kill lists" where no target is off-limits.

Director: Rick Rowley
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Documentary

Under the Skin (2013) From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial - or something in between. A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again. Based on the novel by Michael Faber, this film examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.

Director: Jonathan Glazer
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi

Java Heat A pulse-pounding thriller from beginning to end, Java Heat dives headlong into the world of international espionage. In the exotic and dangerous paradise of Indonesia, undercover FBI agent Jake (Kellan Lutz) poses as a college professor to gather intel on a new breed of terrorist. When the Sultana of Java disappears after a bombing, Jake finds himself at the center of a criminal investigation. As Jake inches closer to the truth, he becomes the target of a mysterious hit man (Mickey Rourke) who will stop at nothing until the American is dead.

Director: Connor Allyn
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Guten Tag Ramón (INTL)

Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish, German
Genre: Drama

Khumba An all-star voice cast brings to life this epic adventure of a one-of-a-kind zebra named Khumba who is born with only half his stripes. After being rejected by his superstitious herd, Khumba embarks on a daring quest to find a legendary waterhole rumored to grant zebras their missing stripes. But when he discovers a villainous leopard on his trail, he must find the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.

Director: Anthony Silverston
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family, Animation

Lucky Them Toni Collette stars as Ellie Klug, a beloved rock journalist working for a struggling music magazine. When her boss (Oliver Platt) orders her to look into the mysterious disappearance of a onetime local rock star, who also happens to be her ex, Ellie joins forces with a music-hating, dot com millionaire (Thomas Haden Church) to hunt down the singer.

Director: Megan Griffiths
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Marque des Anges, La A choir master is found mysteriously murdered in a Paris church with his eardrums blown out and no witnesses. Investigating is homicide Police Commander Lional Kasdan (Gérard Depardieu), just-retired but desperate to come back to action. Kasdan teams with a short-tempered younger cop, Interpol Captain Frank Salek, who believes the murder is connected to a secret organization that he’s been tracking. Together they work to crack the case, leading to a dark secret from the Captain’s past.

Director: Sylvain White
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Thriller

Au Bonheur des Ogres While his mother is off on one romantic adventure or another, Benjamin, professional scapegoat and oldest son, is responsible for his horde of siblings. But when strange incidents happen wherever he goes, police and colleagues begin to eye him suspiciously. It soon becomes a matter of life and death to find out what is going on and who is so interested in ruining his life.

Director: Nicolas Bary
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Invisible Woman, The Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility”.

Director: Ralph Fiennes
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Romance, Biography

Last Days on Mars, The On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member believes he has made an astounding discovery - fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. As crew members start to vanish one by one, they begin to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not yet dead.

Director: Ruairi Robinson
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Omar Omar is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girlfriend Nadja. By night, he's a freedom fighter ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek and Amjad. Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant.

Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Year: 2013
Language: Arabic, Hebrew
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Kiss of the Damned A Hollywood writer develops an obsession with a seductive female vampire, leading him into the hidden world of the eternal. When her violent sister arrives and unleashes her anger on the local town, loyalties are put to the test, and the entire vampire community is threatened.

Director: Xan Cassavetes
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Jack & Diane Jack (Riley Keough) and Diane (Juno Temple), two teenage girls, meet in New York City on a hot summer day and become instant friends. Bubbly and naive, Diane’s charming innocence softens tomboy Jack’s tough-skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving at the end of the summer she pushes Diane away. Overwhelmed by her new feelings, Diane's emotions begin to cause mysterious and violent changes to her body. Young love is a monster – can Jack and Diane survive?

Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Molière à Bicyclette A TV heartthrob embarks on a journey with a clear mission in mind: to convince his old friend and once great actor to return to the stage in the lead of Molière's The Misanthrope. But for three years this friend has lived in solitude, avoiding the pressures of the limelight. Can he be coaxed out of retirement or will his misanthropic ways get the better of him?

Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2012
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Giant Mechanical Man The Giant Mechanical Man is a funny and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines the lengths we're willing to go in order to find the perfect partner. Janice (Jenna Fischer of The Office) is down on her luck. Out of work and living with her well-intentioned but overbearing sister, she is struggling to build a fulfilling life. When she meets Tim (Chris Messina), a street performer whose unique talents as a "living statue" don't exactly pay the bills, she recognizes a kindred spirit. Also featuring Topher Grace, Malin Akerman and Bob Odenkirk.

Director: Lee Kirk
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure Unraveling a series of clues left behind by his grandfather, Mickey Matson and his friends embark on a magical journey in search of a mythical ancient device. With the future of the world hanging in the balance, they will have to outsmart and outrun an evil conspiracy that dates back to the civil war.

Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Family, Mystery

All in Good Time Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes impossiblity that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity.

Director: Nigel Cole
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Haute Cuisine Hortense Laborie, a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit. The authenticity of her cooking soon seduces the President, but the corridors of power are littered with traps...

Director: Christian Vincent
Year: 2012
Language: French, English
Genre: Comedy, Biography

No In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote Yes or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot's minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Rust and Bone It all begins in the North of France. Ali suddenly finds himself with a five year-old child on his hands. Sam is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister in Antibes. There things improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, she takes the child under her wing and the weather is glorious. Ali first runs into Stephanie during a night club brawl. He drives her home and leaves her his phone number. He is poor, she is beautiful and self-assured, a princess: his complete opposite. Stephanie trains killer whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together. When Ali sees her next, his princess is confined to a wheel chair: she has lost her legs and quite a few illusions. He simply helps her, with no compassion or pity. And she comes alive again.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2012
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama

Do Not Disturb When old college friends Ben and Jeff reunite and go to a wild party, they make a booze-induced decision that is about to turn all of their lives upside down. Witnessed by Lily and Monica, their sexy party hosts, Ben and Jeff's project looks much scarier in the hangover light of day... but neither has the guts to be the wimp who pulls out!

Director: Yvan Attal
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Avant que mon Coeur Bascule Sixteen-year-old Sarah, standing alongside a highway, pretends to be in trouble. Duped drivers pull over to help - and are robbed. Under the teen’s gaze, a man dies. Sarah’s life will never be the same again.

Director: Sébastien Rose
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Fill the Void On the verge of her marriage, a young Orthodox Hassidic girl and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth -- and when her sister's husband is pressed to remarry and her mother makes a startling proposition, she is forced to choose between her obedience to her family and her heart's desire.

Director: Rama Burshtein
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama, Romance

West of Memphis West of Memphis is an examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.

Director: Amy Berg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Documentary

Crawlspace Deep in the heart of the Australian desert lies Pine Gap, a top-secret underground compound run by the United States military. When the base comes under attack from unknown forces, an elite team is sent in to extract the military scientists. There they encounter a beautiful young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group discovers the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

Director: Justin Dix
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Reality Reality is a dark comedy about a charming man whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, his own reality begins to spiral out of control, making for one of the most compelling tragicomic character studies since Scorsese's The King of Comedy.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2012
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy

How to Survive a Plague David France’s HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE tells an astounding story of activism and innovation – about AIDS survival, not death – which has been overlooked until this timely documentary. Culled from a massive trove of archival footage, the film is both epic and intimate, tracking a small group of people, most of them HIV-positive, in their nine-year-long battle to save their own lives. They end up saving 6,000,000.

Director: David France
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Payback Based on Margaret Atwood' s best-selling book 'Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth', PAYBACK offers a fascinating look at debt, tracing how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of the planet. The film explores the link between debtor and creditor in a variety of contexts - from the mountains of northern Albania to the tomato fields of southern Florida -blending compelling stories of 'owing' and 'being owed' with the insights of renowned thinkers like Karen Armstrong, Louise Arbour, William Rees and Raj Patel, as well as personal reflections from Conrad Black and others. Story and insight are brought into sharper focus by the acute observations of Atwood herself, who demonstrates that 'debt' as an idea lies at the very core of human experience.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal Lars Olaafsen , once a young celebrity in the art world is slipping away fast into the land of has-beens. Ronny, his long-time art dealer wants his meal ticket back but Lars refuses to paint. His creativity comes at too high a cost. His inspiration is carnage – blood, guts and limbs – and he’s vowed to never go down that dark road again. An overly eager Ronny arranges a job for Lars teaching art in a small town. It’s a “therapeutic measure” – a means to conquer his need to paint while in the “safety” of a country retreat… Despite the odd assortment of local eccentrics (and a couple of hostile teachers) things look promising overall for Lars at his new job. That is, until he meets 30-year-old Eddie, a brawny mute who attends the school and harbours a dark and sordid secret of his own…

Director: Boris Rodriguez
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy

Diaz The film recounts the night of July 21 2001, when 400 police officers raided the Diaz school in Genoa, injuring several nonviolent activists in town for the G8. Amnesty International called it "the most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country after the second world war".

Director: Daniele Vicari
Year: 2012
Language: Italian, French, German, Spanish, English
Genre: Drama

Under the Bed Two years ago Neal knew there was something under his bed but no one believed him. When he burned down the family home trying to kill it he was sent to live with relatives. Now he’s back, but his little brother Paul is being terrorized by the same monster. With no support from their parents the two brothers must band together to get rid of the creature, and their nightmares, once and for all.

Director: Steven C. Miller
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Royal Affair, A Nominated for an Academy Award, A Royal Affair is an epic romance about the scandalous love triangle between a Queen, her German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen), and the mad King of Denmark. Drawn together in the pursuit of freedom for their people, their high-flown idealism is undone by blind passion in this notorious true story of illicit love and political intrigue.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Year: 2012
Language: English, Danish, German
Genre: History, Drama, Romance

Hunt, The Following a tough divorce, 40 year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a small comment. A random lie. And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like an invisible virus. The shock and mistrust gets out of hand, and the small community suddenly finds itself in a collective state of hysteria, while Lucas fights a lonely fight for his life and dignity.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Year: 2012
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama

Love is all you need LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED is directed by Golden Globe (R) and Oscar (R) winning filmmaker Susanne Bier, written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. Philip (Brosnan), an Englishman living in Denmark, is a lonely, middle-aged widower and estranged single father. Ida (Dyrholm) is a Danish hairdresser, recuperating from a long bout of illness, who's just been left by her husband for a younger woman, Thilde. The fates of these two bruised souls are about to intertwine, as they embark for a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Philip's son and Ida's daughter. With warmth, affection and confidence, Susanne Bier has shaken a cocktail of love, loss, absurdity, humor, and delicately drawn characters that will leave only the hardest heart untouched. It is a film about the simple yet profound pains and joys of moving on - and forward - with your life.

Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2012
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Karakara Pierre, a retired professor, ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (or she) may take him.

Director: Claude Gagnon
Year: 2012
Language: Japanese, English
Genre: Drama

Summit, The In August 2008, 18 mountain climbers reached the top of K2. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had died or simply vanished into thin air. With breathtaking cinematography and jaw dropping reenactments, The Summit is a thrilling attempt to solve the mystery of what happened on K2 that fateful day.

Director: Nick Ryan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Sightseers Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina's led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn't take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina's meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris's dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Something in the Air Following his critical triumphs Summer Hours and Carlos, Olivier Assayas returns with his semi-autobiographical new feature Something in the Air. The film follows Gilles, a graduating high school student in Paris deeply involved in the counterculture of the time. While Gilles begins to realize that his interests lie more in the revolutions in music and art, he finds himself pulled into ever more dangerous political protests by the people around him.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2012
Language: French, English, Italian
Genre: Drama

L'Homme qui Rit A carnival boss (Gérard Depardieu) rescues two orphans in a winter storm - a beautiful, blind girl and a boy whose face is deformed by a scar that makes him look as though he's constantly laughing. They travel together for many years performing a show in which the boy is the star - people come from everywhere to see The Man Who Laughs. As he becomes famous and rich, he gradually grows distant from the only two people in the world who love him for what he is.

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Ernest et Celestine Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities.

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Wadjda WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Year: 2012
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama

Room 237 ROOM 237 is a subjective documentary feature which explores numerous theories about Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining" and its hidden meanings. This guided tour through the most compelling attempts to decode this endlessly fascinating film will draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out. Discover why many have been trapped in the Overlook for 30 years.

Director: Rodney Ascher
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

For Greater Glory What would you pay for the price of freedom? In the exhilarating action epic For Greater Glory, an impassioned group of men and women risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country. Starring Oscar-nominee Andy Garcia (The Godfather), Oscar-winner Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) and Eva Longoria, the film’s adventure unfolds against the 1920s Cristero War, a civil war between peasant guerrillas defending the Church and the Mexican state.

Director: Dean Wright
Year: 2012
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: History, War, Drama

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job”)! Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs—a billion of them. Featuring cameos from Awesome Show regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today!

Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Still Mine Based on true events and laced with wry humour, STILL MINE is a heartfelt love story about an 89-year-old New Brunswicker (James Cromwell) who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his wife (Geneviève Bujold) whose memory is starting to go. Although Craig Morrison is using the same methods his father, a shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. Craig quickly gets on the wrong side of an overzealous government inspector, who finds just about everything unacceptable, including the unstamped wood Craig has milled from his own trees. As Irene becomes increasingly ill – and amidst a series of stop-work orders – Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance.

Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Everybody Has A Plan In this gritty thriller, Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings, The Road, Eastern Promises) stars as a successful doctor who conspires to escape his life by assuming the identity of his identical twin brother, a dying criminal. However, his plan backfires when he’s plunged into the sordid depths of his brother’s backwater village, a deadly place where unsettled scores soon embroil him in a desperate fight for survival.

Director: Ana Piterbarg
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Human Scale, The 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Why do modern cities repel human interaction and ignore humans’ needs for inclusion and intimacy? For 40 years, Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities, and in this fascinating and illuminating film, he outlines how our approach to urban architecture can and should change.

Director: Andreas Dalsgaard
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Frances Ha Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. She is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. She has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Greta Gerwig shines in Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, a modern comedy about a charming 27-year-old who wants so much more than she has, but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.

Director: Noah Baumbach
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview Shot in 1995 for “Triumph of the Nerds,” a PBS documentary series, most of this hour-long interview by Robert X. Cringely was, until now, presumed lost. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview offers rare and intriguing insights into the mind of the late Apple chief executive and high-tech visionary.

Director: Paul Sen
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Blood Pressure Nicole, 41, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids, who is at a point in her life when she is asking if ‘this is it,’ or whether there’s something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous Observer who knows her daily habits, and her potential, intimately. He has a plan for her, if she is interested. The letter contains a green card that she should place in her window, if she wishes to pursue the mysterious relationship. If not, she should throw the letter away, and she will never hear from the Observer again. After a few days of internal debate, she puts the card in the window and begins a long relationship with the elusive Observer, who puts her on a program that starts by changing her life, but ultimately threatens everything that has meaning for her.

Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Amour Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2012
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Midnight's Children “Born in the hour of India’s freedom. Handcuffed to history” MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman, and Shiva, the offspring of wealthy Muslims, are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. Their lives become mysteriously intertwined and are inextricably linked to India’s whirlwind journey of triumphs and disasters. From the unlikely romance of Saleem’s grandparents to the birth of his own son, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is a journey at once sweeping in scope and yet intimate in tone. Hopeful, comic and magical – the film conjures images and characters as rich and unforgettable as India herself.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Queen of Versailles, The THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff.

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

To Rome With Love TO ROME WITH LOVE is a story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into. Starring Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page.

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2012
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Maniac Maniac stars Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) as Frank, a brutal serial killer with a fetish for scalps. Psychologically damaged from an abusive childhood, he uses the fresh scalps for his mannequin collection. When a friendship develops with a beautiful art student, Frank struggles to overcome his psychotic urges, but his twisted obsession only escalates and his compulsion to stalk and kill is unstoppable.

Director: Franck Khalfoun
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson and Liev Schreiber star in this explosive political thriller about a brilliant young man (Riz Ahmed) from Pakistan whose meteoric rise on Wall Street puts the American Dream well within his reach. But when the Twin Towers are attacked, his dream turns into a nightmare as he finds himself embroiled in a hostage crisis and torn between the conflicting ideologies of his two homelands.

Director: Mira Nair
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Struck by Lightning Chris Colfer (“Glee”) stars as Carson Phillips, a small-town high-school senior with big-league ambitions and no one who believes in him. Desperate to escape his hometown and make it big in New York City, Carson, along with his new best friend (Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids), devises a scheme to blackmail the jocks and cheerleaders into writing for his literary magazine. Also starring Christina Hendricks ("Mad Men"), Allison Janney (Juno, "The West Wing"), Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family"), Angela Kinsey ("The Office") and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding).

Director: Brian Dannelly
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

In No Particular Order In No Particular Order gives us a glance into Sarah’s life as she messily navigates her way through her late twenties, following a path of meaningless encounters, hangovers, and unmet expectations. Under constant pressure from her newlywed sister to take some responsibility for her life, and after an obsession with a married man and a reconnection with an old fling, Sarah is forced to re- explore her self destructive ideas surrounding commitment and relationships, and confront the effects of her choices on her and those around her.

Director: Kristine Cofsky
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Thanks for Sharing From Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right), Thanks for Sharing is a sharply comic and deeply moving look at a new kind of modern family, as a group of friends in recovery learns to face life together with heart, humour and humility. Academy Award-nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins and Broadway star Josh Gad (“The Book of Mormon”) anchor a stellar ensemble that includes Academy Award-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, and pop star Alecia “Pink” Moore in her first film role.

Director: Stuart Blumberg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Smashed Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isn't as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies she's told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood.

Director: James Ponsoldt
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Love, Marilyn Two boxes of Marilyn Monroe's private writings were discovered in the home of her acting coach, 50 years after her death. Reading her letters onscreen are a star-studded cast including Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks, Uma Thurman, Viola Davis and Adrien Brody. In this fascinating and illuminating film, Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus takes an intimate look at the life, death and legacy of a pop icon and offers a glimpse of the human being inside the bombshell.

Director: Liz Garbus
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography

Grabbers An idyllic remote Irish island is invaded by enormous bloodsucking tentacled aliens. With islanders turning up decapitated and drained of blood, the inhabitants learn that the creatures—called Grabbers—are allergic to alcohol, making intoxicated people toxic to eat. Overrun and under attack, the hopeless locals realize that in order to stay alive through a storm that's keeping everyone trapped on the island, they're going to have to band together at the pub and do their best to survive the night.

Director: Jon Wright
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Simon Killer A heartbroken American on a soul-searching trip to Paris finds his buried secrets clawing their way to the surface in this neo-noir thriller from writer/director Antonio Campos (Afterschool). Lovelorn in the aftermath of a recent break-up with his longtime girlfriend, American college graduate Simon (Brady Corbet) wanders the streets of Paris aimlessly, and drifts into a sex parlor where he encounters mysterious prostitute Victoria (Mati Diop). His emotions suddenly reawakened, Simon hatches a plan to blackmail one of her wealthy clients -- a crime that has some unexpected repercussions for all involved.

Director: Antonio Campos
Year: 2012
Language: English, French
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Girl Most Likely (Imogene) Imogene (Kristen Wiig) is a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man (Darren Criss) sleeping in her old bedroom and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Holy Motors We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old to the point of dying; sometimes destitute, sometimes wealthy. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man…

Director: Leos Carax
Year: 2012
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama

Searching for Sugar Man In the late ‘60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of music.

Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography

Pieta In this intense and haunting drama, a loan shark mercilessly collects debts from desperate borrowers. One day, a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. After coldly rejecting her, he gradually accepts her into his life and decides to quit his cruel job to seek a better path. When a dark secret resurfaces, he realizes it may be too late to escape the horrific consequences already set in motion.

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 2012
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Crime

Margarita Behind the facade of a beautiful urban home, a combination of complacency and bad investments has left power couple Ben and Gail disconnected, resentful and just about broke. When the cash-strapped yuppies fire their teen-aged daughter's lesbian Mexican nanny, Margarita, they set off a chain of events that lead to her deportation.

Director: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert
Year: 2012
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Dinosaur Project, The The Dinosaur Project follows a team of explorers searching for a mythical, river-dwelling creature in the jungles of Africa. After their helicopter is brought down by a flock of strange birds, they discover a lost kingdom of dinosaurs thought to have been extinct for 65 million years. Very quickly the team realizes they have gravely underestimated the safety of the jungle they came to explore.

Director: Sid Bennett
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi

Picture Day Forced to repeat her senior year of high school, Claire’s (Maslany) reputation is sliding from bad-ass to bad joke. Armed with an acid tongue and shielded by ever-present headphones, Claire locks onto the only student clueless to her sordid rep: Henry (Van Wyck), a nerdy freshman she used to babysit. At night, Claire escapes to raucous concerts where she catches the eye of 33-year–old Jim (McCarthy, frontman of The ElastoCitizens), a would–be rock star who feeds on young fans’ adoration. Jim leads her into an intoxicating world of hard-partying musicians, while at school, Claire takes Henry under her wing. She reinvents her dorky friend as the mysterious rebel, throwing Henry’s life into hilarious turmoil. As Claire dances across the surface of these relationships, she eventually learns hard lessons about the difference between sex, intimacy, and friendship.

Director: Kate Miles Melville
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

For No Good Reason Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renowned artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S. Thompson.

Director: Charlie Paul
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: History, Documentary, Biography

Rebelle Rebelle is a brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.

Director: Kim Nguyen
Year: 2012
Language: French, Lingala
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Shadow Dancer The story centers around single mother Collette McVeigh -- a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son’s life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in the MI5 and return home.

Director: James Marsh
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Populaire Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that's not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she'll have to compete in a speed typing competition.

Director: Regis Roinsard
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Sports, Romance, Comedy

Thérèse Desqueyroux In the late Claude Miller's exquisite adaptation of this classic novel, Audrey Tautou (Amélie) stars as Thérèse, a provincial housewife in 1920s France, suffocating in her arranged marriage to a boorish landowner. When her best friend falls madly in love, Thérèse sees first-hand the awesome power of passionate love and what is missing in her own life. Yearning to break free from the fate imposed upon her, she resorts to extreme measures in a desperate bid for freedom.

Director: Claude Miller
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Emperor Based on true events, Emperor brings to life the secret maneuvers that won peace in post-WWII Japan. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones), now the de facto ruler of the devastated and hostile Empire, is faced with a difficult mission that will decide Japan’s fate. To help him he assigns an expert in Japanese culture—and psychological warfare—General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), to covertly investigate the looming question: should the Japanese Emperor, worshiped by his people but accused of war crimes, be punished or saved?

Director: Peter Webber
Year: 2012
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: History, War, Drama

Gatekeepers, The Ninety hours of interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet (Israel’s top security agency) are condensed into a thought provoking, informative, and insightful documentary that examines Israel’s counterterrorism operations. The visually captivating documentary sheds light on the decision making process of these men as well as the morally ambiguous world in which they functioned; all within Israel’s political climate and historical context.

Director: Dror Moreh
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew, English
Genre: History, War, Documentary

Cornouaille When Odile visits her family home on the coast of Brittany for the first time since she was a young girl, she is immediately confronted by tragic memories of her father’s accidental death. Faced with ghosts from her past and unsettled by new encounters, Odile slowly loses her grip on reality. Is the house haunted or are her memories playing tricks on her? Once a rational, independent woman, Odile experiences a shift that will change her life forever.

Director: Anne Le Ny
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama

End of Time, The Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday. THE END OF TIME is, at once personal, rigorous and visionary. Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.

Director: Peter Mettler
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Superstar Martin Kazinski is a humble worker. Just another face in the crowd. One morning, as normal, he takes the metro. But it's not a normal day. People are looking at him. A stranger asks for his autograph; another takes his picture. A third just wants to shake his hand. It must be a mistake, a hoax, some sort of joke. Soon, his name is all over the TV, the radio, the internet. Martin Kazinski – with no particular talent, no connections and no idea why – has suddenly become a celebrity. It's incomprehensible. But it's a fact. When he tries to find out why, his fame just grows. The more he questions it, disowns it, denies it – the more famous he becomes. Martin is trapped in a never-ending, ever-expanding media maelstrom. And the worst is yet to come.

Director: Xavier Giannoli
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Stories We Tell STORIES WE TELL is an inspired, genre-twisting film by Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley, and produced by Anita Lee for the NFB. Her playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a profound portrait of a complicated and deeply loving family.

Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Grand Affair, A On the brink of WWII, the seductive Solal (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a high-ranking official at the League of Nations, grows obsessed with beautiful Ariane, an aristocrat and wife of his subordinate. When Ariane succumbs to Solal's charms, their passionate affair leads the lovers to a tragic fate.

Director: Glenio Bonder
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Late Quartet, A When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.

Director: Yaron Zilberman
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama

Outpost: Black Sun A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.

Director: Steve Barker
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

At Any Price In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious HENRY WHIPPLE (Dennis Quaid) wants his rebellious son DEAN (Zac Efron) to help expand his family’s farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family’s entire livelihood.

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sports, Drama

Celeste and Jesse Forever CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER is about two people who met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, they decide to get divorced and attempt to stay best friends while pursuing other relationships. This plan is not as simple as they had imagined. Celeste -- imperious, successful and driven -- is convinced that divorcing the boyish Jesse is the right thing to do. Jesse passively accepts this transition into friendship, even though he still is in love with her. As the reality of their separation sets in, Celeste slowly and painfully realizes she has been cavalier about their relationship. But her timing with Jesse is less than fortuitous. While navigating the turbulent changes in their lives and in their hearts, these two learn that in order to truly love someone, you may have to let them go. The film is a humorous and honest examination of a broken heart and the long, hard road it takes to heal it.

Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Free Samples A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.

Director: Jay Gammil
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Renoir The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father's fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.

Director: Gilles Bourdos
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: History, Drama, Romance, Biography

Rebellion (L'ordre et la morale) A man struggles to defuse an explosive situation with tragic results in this riveting drama based on actual events. In 1988, France was wracked with political division. After a band of separatists seize a police station, twenty-six officers are taken hostage and three are killed. A counter-terrorism expert is assigned to deal with the situation, and while a peaceful solution at first seems possible, political forces soon necessitate more aggressive options.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: History, Drama, Action

Lovely Molly Newlyweds Molly (Gretchen Lodge) and Tim (Johnny Lewis) move into Molly’s deceased father’s house in the countryside. A recovering addict, Molly struggles to regain footing in her simple existence, and her grip on reality begins to waver. Her erratic behaviour is a warning sign to her friends and family, whose interventions drive her further into solitary torment and spur a deep, dark infidelity within her. From the co-director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.

Director: Eduardo Sánchez
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Red Dog This is the story of a legendary, lovable red dog who roamed the outback looking for his original master, finding his way into the hearts of everyone he meets, bringing people and communities together, some who find love, and others who find themselves. Based on true events.

Year: 2011
Language: English

Higher Ground Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir, 'This Dark World', the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust in human relationships as well as in God.

Director: Vera Farmiga
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Salt of Life, The House husband Gianni has many things to worry about while his retirement slips by doing boring chores for his wife, mother, daughter and pretty neighbour. But romance is not one of them. One day his old friend Alfonso, inspired by his own surprising sexual escapades, decides it's time for Gianni to get a girlfriend and reacquaint himself with some of life's pleasures.

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Year: 2011
Language: Italian
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Midnight Son Something is happening to Jacob. Sunlight wreaks havoc on his skin and he's developing a hunger for human blood. When he falls in love with a beautiful bartender, his loneliness comes to an end. But his condition is worsening, forcing him to stalk the streets for prey and making him the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders.

Director: Scott Leberecht
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. Having released five gold and platinum selling albums within eight years, A Tribe Called Quest has been one of the most commercially successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history, and regarded as iconic pioneers of hip hop. The band's sudden break-up in 1998 shocked the industry and saddened the scores of fans, whose appetite for the group's innovative musical stylings never seems to diminish.

Director: Michael Rapaport
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Miss Bala Laura dreams of becoming a beauty queen. But when she witnesses a gang hit in a nightclub, the mob rigs an upcoming pageant and she’s dragged into the world of drug cartels and corrupt cops. Acting as their mule, she is pressured into carrying cash across the border and being a sex-slave to the boss. Every act of resistance she makes – going to the police and warning intended targets – just gets her in deeper.

Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish, English
Genre: World Cinema, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Other F Word, The What happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians -- punk rockers -- become society's ultimate authorities -- dads? With a large chorus of Punk Rock's leading men -- Blink 182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Pepper's Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath --The Other F Word follows Jim Lindberg, 20 year veteran of skate punk band, Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting out his band's anthem, "F*** Authority", to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.

Director: Andrea Blaugrund
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Documentary, Comedy

Amy George Thirteen-year-old Jessie wants to be an artist, but beleives that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a true artist, he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and woman. Amy George is a microbudget independent drama about a time in a boy's life when he is at his least likeable.

Director: Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Stella Days Martin Sheen stars as a parish priest in mid-1950’s Ireland, caught in a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, and Rome and Hollywood. In an attempt to raise funds for his church and merge his passion for film with his faith, he opens a small cinema in his community - The Stella - provoking conflict with the Bishop and the parishioners.

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

I Melt With You When four college friends meet up at a spectacular ocean villa for their annual reunion, career and family responsibilities get left behind. But when things spiral out of control, a pact they made as young men is challenged and old secrets threaten to bring them all down. I Melt With You is a visually dazzling trip deep into the male psyche, starring Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay, and featuring Sasha Grey.

Director: Mark Pellington
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Toutes Nos Envies Claire has it all: a perfect husband, two adorable kids and a rewarding job as a judge. Celine, an impoverished acquaintance, is being sued by credit agencies and Claire gets involved in her case. When Claire is diagnosed with inoperable cancer, she refuses treatment and tells no one, hoping to spare her family and use her time left to fight for the working poor.

Director: Philippe Lioret
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Not Another Not Another Movie Max Storm (Chevy Chase) is the owner of Sunshine Studios, the worst movie studio on the planet. Faced with the possibility of going out of business, Max hires his brother (Michael Madsen), his goon friend (Vinnie Jones), a washed up director (Burt Reynolds), and an idiot writer to save their skins. With no script, no money and no idea what they're doing, they set out to make the biggest spoof movie of all time – Not Another Not Another Movie.

Director: David Murphy
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Source des femmes, La In a remote, desert village the well is at the top of a treacherous mountain path, and the job of collecting the water is up to the women. After one fall and one miscarriage too many, young newly-wed Leila suggests going on a love strike, arguing that refusal to grant sexual favours is the only power the women truly have over their men.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Year: 2011
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Forgiveness of Blood, The Rudina may be only fifteen but dreams of going to university and making something of her life. When her father is accused of murder after a neighbourly squabble over land ownership, the entire family is forced to accord to the dictates of the Kanun - a centuries old system of laws which prohibits any of her brothers from leaving their home. Forced with the responsibilities of her father's affairs, Rudina flourishes while her older brother gives in to anger and frustration and determines to put an end to the feud.

Director: Joshua Marston
Year: 2011
Language: Albanian
Genre: Drama

Take Shelter A working-class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of an apocalyptic storm signal something real to come or the onset of an inherited mental illness he's feared his whole life. The film stars Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire), Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Katy Mixon (Eastbound & Down), and Kathy Baker (Edward Scissorhands).

Director: Jeff Nichols
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Pour l'amour de Dieu Montreal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail?

Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Footnote FOOTNOTE is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. FOOTNOTE is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son.

Director: Joseph Cedar
Year: 2011
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Requiem Pour une Tueuse A highly skilled assassin, in search of a new life, accepts a final hit posing as the lead soprano for a Swiss opera company. Her mark: a handsome co-performer whose business dealings threaten the interests of a powerful corporation. But things don’t go as planned in this high-class, high-tension thriller.

Director: Jérôme Le Gris
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Thriller

Separation, A Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2011
Language: Persian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Gerhard Richter Painting The title says it all. Corinna Belz's documentary is an unprecedented and oddly dangerous journey into the studios of Gerhard Richter, widely considered among the world's most important living painters. Famously cranky and iconoclastic, Richter is an ideal subject to illuminate the deep fissures in the contemporary art world. His career has been a high-wire balancing act between eye-popping, colourful abstractions -- seen in start-to-finish construction throughout much of the film -- and enormously famous photorealist portraiture. He has also been an influential essayist on the subject of art-making and its place in the world.

Director: Corinna Belz
Year: 2011
Language: German, English
Genre: Documentary

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film. While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film. With humor and insight, POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD unmasks the marketing process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions.

Director: Morgan Spurlock
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Carnage Set in contemporary Brooklyn, New York, CARNAGE centers on two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.

Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Deep Blue Sea, The Hester Collyer (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), with whom she has fallen passionately in love. Set in post-war Britain, this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness - but is at heart a deeply moving love story. Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what - or whom - should Hester choose?

Director: Terence Davies
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Roméo Onze Working at the family restaurant and living under his parents’ roof, Rami occupies a world meticulously controlled by his father. Intensely shy but curious about women, Rami escapes online and constructs an avatar called Roméo 11, a confident and successful businessman. Rami’s lies, both online and to his family, will soon catch up with him.

Director: Ivan Grbovic
Year: 2011
Language: French, Arabic
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Shut Up Little Man Shut Up Little Man features the real-life comical rants, hateful harangues, drunken soliloquies, and audible fistfights of Raymond and Peter – two booze-swilling homicidal roommates in a low-rent district of San Francisco. When two friends secretly tape-record the loud and abusive fights of their next door neighbors, they accidentally create one of the world's first 'viral' pop-culture sensations.

Director: Matthew Bate
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Comedy

First Position Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman's award-winning documentary, FIRST POSITION, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, FIRST POSITION paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.

Director: Bess Kargman
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Greetings to the Devil Angel (Edgar Ramirez - Carlos), a former guerrilla rebel, is seeking a fresh start after turning in his arms and giving up his violent ways. But after a victim from his former life kidnaps his daughter, Angel is given 72 hours to track down and murder the members of his former guerilla unit.

Director: The Orozco Brothers
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action, Mystery

Robotropolis While a group of reporters is covering the unveiling of a high-tech facility run completely by robots, one of the machines short circuits and goes haywire. Mayhem and panic spread while the reporters must fight their way out of the building to survive. But when they reach the outside, they discover the battle has only just begun.

Director: Christopher Hatton
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

Restless RESTLESS recounts the romance between two teenagers, orphaned, funeral-crashing Enoch (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), and Annabel (Mia Wasikowska). They meet at a funeral and bond over their mutual morbid obsession, which they have for opposite reasons: Enoch lost his mother and father in an automobile accident that, he claims, left him dead for three minutes before he bounced back, while Annabel has brain cancer, which will take her within a few months.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Project Nim From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Director: James Marsh
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Godfathers of Ganja Miami in the '70s and '80s is a pot smoker’s paradise, with countless tons of marijuana being smuggled into the region through three key channels: The Black Tuna Gang, the ganja-worshipping Coptic Church, and the residents of Everglades City. These notorious smuggling rings are eventually brought down by the White House, leading to fierce showdowns with the cops and hundreds of arrests. The Godfathers of Ganja is a fascinating and often hilarious portrait of the rise and fall of Miami’s stoner culture, and the endlessly entertaining “godfathers” who drove it forward.

Director: Billy Corben
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Trishna Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, TRISHNA tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Dark Horse Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development; an avid toy collector and a woman who is the dark horse of her family.

Director: Todd Solondz
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Rites of Spring After abducting the daughter of a wealthy socialite, a group of kidnappers retreat to an abandoned school—unaware that their hideout will soon become the hunting ground for a bloodthirsty creature preparing for its annual killing spree.

Director: Padraig Reynolds
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Future, The When Sophie and Jason decide 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. In Miranda July's charming film, the adopted cat Paw Paw is the source of anxiety, illumination, and the film’s narration.

Director: Miranda July
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Comedy

Eastern Mystics n every generation there are people who reach out beyond the cultural and religious boundaries of their time, and even beyond the limits of their own thoughts, searching for answers to life’s deepest mysteries. We call these seekers mystics. In this groundbreaking documentary, well-known mystics from the Buddhist, Hindu, Advaita, and Taoist traditions discuss their own awakening experiences, the nature of mysticism, religious tolerance, love and compassion, spiritual practices, the many paths to truth, and world peace. Their comments and personal messages to the world weave together a tapestry of wisdom, compassion and promise.The mystics encourage us to look beyond our apparent differences, to realize the one truth that unites us all, and most importantly, to manifest that truth in our daily lives. They exhort us to discover The Sacred in the Ordinary.

Director: Eric Temple
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Swell Season In 2008, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová captivated audiences and earned two Academy Awards for their musical collaboration in the film ONCE. As their fictional romance blurred with reality, they fell in love, recorded an album, and embarked on a world tour. Fueled by two years of exhilaration, performance, and psychological turmoil, THE SWELL SEASON is much more than a musicdocumentary. It is a volatile and intimate portrait of a romance that fractures in the face of life on the road and personal tragedy. As Glen and Markéta’s relationship unhinges, ultimately music prevails as their enduring connection.

Director: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary

Late Bloomers In a romantic comedy a man and a woman love each other but everything conspires to drive them apart. Despite their true feelings, they separate now so they can be together later. The man and woman are Adam and Mary. But Mary and Adam aren't your typical 20 or 30-year-old couple; they're nearing 60. Like many 60-year-old couples of the 21st century, they're high functioning. And what's more, they do it with style. They deftly juggle children, grand children, work and friends, with all the joys and disappointments that come with married life. Until one day they realize, to their great surprise, they've entered the senior category. And they react to this realization in totally opposite ways.

Director: Julie Gavras
Year: 2011
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Drama

Take this Waltz When Margot (Michelle Williams), 28, meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, TAKE THIS WALTZ leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.

Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Revenge of the Electric Car In this entertaining sequel to Who Killed the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes us behind the scenes with four of the world’s leading auto-industry visionaries as they race to create the best electric car. Narrated by Tim Robbins, Revenge of the Electric Car conveys the passion and drive of these leaders as they steer a struggling industry toward a sustainable future.

Director: Chris Paine
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Présumé coupable A man wrongly accused of an unspeakable crime battles to prove his innocence in this gripping and heartfelt drama. Torn from his family and entangled in a legal nightmare, Alain’s life is turned completely upside down. Jailed, he is forced to fight against prosecutors eager for convictions in this controversial and shocking case. Based on a true story.

Director: Vincent Garenq
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Thriller, Drama

Turn Me On, Goddammit! In this offbeat coming-of-age comedy, Alma is a small-town girl with a big imagination and an even bigger libido. Horny and looking for love, she has only her kindly phone sex operator to cure her boredom. After a titillating encounter with a school heartthrob, she gains the uncomfortable nickname “Dick Alma”, and that’s when her troubles begin. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Tribeca Film festival, Turn Me On, Goddammit! perfectly balances candid sexual content with earnest teenage awkwardness.

Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Year: 2011
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, The It's 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth" she's been clinging to and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother - both of them really searching for themselves…. The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within…

Director: Tara Johns
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Impardonnables (Unforgivable) Francis, 60, arrives in Venice seeking peace and quiet to write his next crime novel. When he meets Judith, a former model much younger than himself, it is love at first sight. But writer’s block and growing jealousy push Francis to desperate measures in this seductive and suspenseful film.

Director: André Téchiné
Year: 2011
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Drama

Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (Neiges du Kilimandjaro, Les) Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. They have been in love for more than thirty years. Their children and grandchildren delight them. They have plenty of close friends. They are proud of their union and political struggles. Their conscience is as clear as their view of life. This happiness will be shattered along with their French window by two young men, armed and masked, who beat them, tie them up, snatch their wedding rings and flee with their credit cards and snatch to go for a trip to Kilimanjaro.

Director: Robert Guediguian
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Tomboy Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. Upon arriving in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare? Dare. Laure pretends to be 'Michael,' a boy like the others…different enough to get the attention of Lisa who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Detachment DETACHMENT is Director Tony Kaye's (American History X) uniquely stylized portrait of the American education system as seen through the eyes of Henry Barthes (Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody), an educator with a true talent to connect with his student, yet has chosen to bury his gift. By spending his days as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form an attachment to either students or colleagues. When a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administration has created an apathetic student body, Henry quickly becomes a role model as a teacher who actually cares about the well-being of these students. In finding an unlikely emotional connection to the students, teachers, and a runaway teen he takes in from the streets, Henry realizes that he's not alone in his life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

Director: Tony Kaye
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Last Call at the Oasis From Academy Award-winning director Jessica Yu and the producer's of "Food, Inc." LAST CALL AT THE OASIS examines the imminent threat to the water supply in Nevada and California, illustrating the environmental, social and political factors that have resulted in a fast-approaching crisis.

Director: Jessica Yu
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Into the Abyss Nine years after the murder of three people in Texas, director Werner Herzog takes us inside the minds and hearts of the convicted killers (one of whom was executed soon afterward). The victims' families, the prison’s chaplain and a former executioner, help trace the legacy of this horrific crime.

Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Documentary

Damsels in Distress DAMSELS IN DISTRESS is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university - the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men - including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) - who threaten the girls' friendship and sanity.

Director: Whit Stillman
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Skin I Live In, The Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Omar m'a tuer Omar Killed Me is a gripping adaptation of the real-life case of a Moroccan gardener accused of murdering his wealthy employer on the Côte d’Azur. Many who followed the case believed the man to be innocent, yet watched idly as he suffered under a penal system unwilling to look beyond circumstantial evidence and racial prejudices.

Director: Roschdy Zem
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography

Neil Young Journeys This past May, Neil Young brought his solo tour to Toronto's Massey Hall, an iconic venue in the city of his birth. Jonathan Demme was on hand to capture the two nights, which highlighted new songs from the album Le Noise. In Neil Young Journeys, Demme intersperses Massey Hall concert footage with brief scenes from a road trip through Ontario.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary

Mill & The Cross, The Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, portrays Jesus staggering to his crucifixion, lost in a panoramic landscape crowded with hundreds of villagers and red-caped horsemen. In depicting Jesus’ plight as one among many vignettes, while soldiers on horseback loom threateningly, Bruegel boldly transposes Christ’s passion and death to sixteenth-century Flanders—a time when the Belgian people were suffering terribly under brutal Spanish occupation. Lech Majewski mischievously invites the viewer to live inside the aesthetic universe of the classic painting "The Procession to Calvary" as we watch it being created.

Director: Lech Majewski
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama

Midnight in Paris This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. It stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni among others.

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2011
Language: English & French
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

Tous les Soleils Alessandro is a music teacher who shares his apartment with his 15-year-old daughter and his anarchist brother. His burn-out brother refuses to move out and his daughter constantly tries to evade her overbearing father. One day a beautiful young woman falls into Alessandro's life. Will he take his chances with her? And more importantly, will he manage to get the rest of his life together?

Director: Philippe Claudel
Year: 2011
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Comedy

In Darkness IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Stumbling upon a group of Jews in the sewers, he agrees to hide them for a price. What starts out as a straightforward business arrangement becomes something unexpected, as they all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of intense danger.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Year: 2011
Language: Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian
Genre: War, Drama

Fightville Yell out "fight!" on a street corner and a crowd will always come running--at once attracted and repelled by the violent spectacle of man acting on his most primal urge. The draw of two men fighting is as old as civilization itself, but as far back as Plato, the sport of fighting has been at odds with the notion of a civil society. Over the last decade, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has grown from a controversial no-holds-barred gladiatorial sideshow into a billion dollar phenomenon eclipsing boxing as the dominant combat sport in the world. But far from Las Vegas, in sweat-soaked gyms and low-rent arenas across America, the big lights are but a dream. Here, men fight to test their mettle, fortified with the mythic promise that an ordinary man can transform into a champion. FIGHTVILLE is about the art and sport of fighting: a microcosm of life, a physical manifestation of that other brutal contest called the American Dream

Director: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary

Marécages (Wetlands) 14-year-old Simon feels starkly out of place on his parents’ dairy farm. Life on the farm is demanding, but no matter how hard Simon tries, he cannot live up to his father’s expectations. Resentments simmer, so when a tragic accident hits close to home, the question of blame haunts the family and the possibility for forgiveness seems remote.

Director: Guy Édoin
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Greening of Whitney Brown, The Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.

Director: Peter Skillman Odiorne
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Life in a Day Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) team up to offer this candid snapshot of a single day on planet Earth. Compiled from over 80,000 YouTube submissions by contributors in 192 countries, Life in a Day presents a microcosmic view of our daily experiences as a global society. From the mundane to the profound, everything has its place as we spend 90 minutes gaining greater insight into the lives of people who may be more like us than we ever suspected, despite the fact that we're separated by incredible distances.

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary

Proie, La A bank robber’s life turns upside-down after he entrusts sensitive information to a former cellmate who is more dangerous than he appears. In this high-octane, prison-break drama - where deception is the name of the game - it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.

Director: Eric Valette
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Uninhabited A young couple arrives on a deserted coral island for a romantic camping holiday, only to discover that the island has a ghost seeking revenge for a past outrage. Soon, their dream holiday becomes their worst nightmare.

Director: Bill Bennett
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Exit Through the Gift Shop He transforms cityscapes around the world into brilliant works of street art. Some call him a genius--others, a criminal. Though his true identity remains a secret, graffiti artist Banksy has become one of pop culture's greatest icons. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows the attempts of an eccentric L.A. thrift shop owner to capture the ever-elusive Banksy at work--only to have the mischievous artist turn the camera back on him with hilarious results. Is it all real? Or could this be Banksy's greatest stunt yet?

Director: Banksy
Year: 2010
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary

Shrine, the After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village. They travel there hoping to investigate, but soon encounter a series of bizarre occurrences – an otherworldly cloud of fog, a haunting statue drenched in blood, and a chamber of decaying bodies. They were warned to get out, but now that they've discovered the town's deadly secret, the locals won't let them leave…

Director: Jon Knautz
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Re-Cut When twin girls are found dead in their family's barn, reality star-turned-TV reporter Meredith Phillips and her camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the grisly deaths. As the reporters delve deeper into the mystery, they find themselves face-to-face with the small town's disturbing secret. Edited together from the crew's multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives, and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.

Director: Fritz Manger
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Our Home The selfish doctor Andre Luiz dies, and awakens in a kind of limbo called "Umbral". After a painful numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lard" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for the self-evolution and awaiting for reincarnation. Sooner Andre Luiz changes his behavior becoming a more self-aware and altruist man.

Director: Wagner de Assis
Year: 2010
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Loose Cannons Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio, Eden Is West) has a comfortable life in Rome as an aspiring writer and a steady relationship with his boyfriend Marco-a life he has kept secret from his family. So when he's called back to his hometown of Lecce in Italy's deep south to help run the family pasta business, he decides to finally reveal his homosexuality to his conservative family and hopefully get out of his business obligations in the process. But when his plans are thwarted by his brother, Tommaso gets stuck on the path that he was desperately trying to avoid.

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Year: 2010
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Tête en Friche, La (My Afternoons with Marguerite) Academy Award®-nominee Gérard Depardieu stars in this heart-warming, feel-good story as Germain, a barely literate middle-aged man who faces constant ridicule from those around him. But his life takes a turn for the better when he meets Margueritte, an elderly woman with a passion for reading who introduces him to the beautiful world of French literature. With Margueritte’s warmth and guidance, Germain develops the maturity and confidence necessary to take control of his destiny, and live the life he’s always wanted.

Director: Jean Becker
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Films of Amos Gitai

Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 2010
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama

Inside Job From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End In Sight"), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, INSIDE JOB was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? This engaging and uplifting film tells the story of the catastrophic disappearance of bees and takes us inside the mysterious world of the beehive. From the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world, Queen of the Sun reveals both the problems and solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature. “One of the most beautiful nature films I’ve seen.” – Roger Ebert, CHICAGO TIMES

Director: Taggart Siegel
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Drama, Documentary

Precious Life Born without an immune system, four-month-old Palestinian boy Mohammad Abu Mustaffa will die without a bone marrow transplant, a procedure that can only be done in an Israeli hospital. A desperate plea from his doctor to save Mohammad’s life leads Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar to document this complex and emotional story. As Israeli and Palestinian doctors put aside their differences to protect the child, we are forced to confront the more personal ramifications of life in Gaza.

Director: Shlomi Eldar
Year: 2010
Language: Hebrew, English, Arabic
Genre: Documentary

L'Italien With a successful career and wedding bells in his future, Dino “The Italian” Fabrizzi has the perfect life. Unfortunately, it’s all built on a lie. His real name is Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor his girlfriend—and even less so his parents—are aware of his false identity. In 10 days Ramadan will begin, and Mourad has promised his sick father that he will observe the religious rite for him. Now, Dino is going to have to think fast if he wants to keep his complicated double life from crashing down around him.

Director: Olivier Baroux
Year: 2010
Language: Français
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Norwegian Wood Published in 1987 and since translated into 33 languages, NORWEGIAN WOOD is a story of loss and heartbreak in a time of global instability. Haruki Murakami's bestselling novel is brought to the screen by Tran Anh Hung (Golden Lion winner for CYCLO and Academy Award nominee for THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA) and features Japanese rising star Kenichi Matsuyama (DEATH NOTE, DETROIT METAL CITY) and Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL) alongside newcomer Kiko Mizuhara.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Year: 2010
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Romance

Dans ton Sommeil One year after her son's tragic death, a vulnerable woman named Sarah accidentally hits a young man during a late night drive. Wounded and frightened, he frantically explains that he’s being hunted down by a homicidal maniac whom he caught ransacking a house. Sarah, reminded of her son, tries to protect the boy from his relentless attacker, triggering a heart-pounding cat-and-mouse chase with a shocking, life-altering twist…

Director: Caroline du Potet, Eric du Potet
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, A A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP is a remake of the 1985 directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, BLOOD SIMPLE. Transposing the Coen Brother's celebrated mix of dark humor and riveting suspense to China, the film is helmed by Zhang Yimou (director of THE RED SORGHUM, TO LIVE, HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and other masterpieces), one of the most eminent directors of the "Fifth Generation". This black comedy thriller is an exposé of how intense desires can consume humanity, and the irony that life never submits to our calculation.

Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2010
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Comedy

Four-Faced Liar, The 4 Face-Liar tells the story of a group of New York 20-somethings. Bridget is a hip, womanizing lesbian who loves Emily Bronte, and who lives with her guy pal Trip. One night, they meet straight-laced New York newbies Greg and Molly at their favorite hangout, The Four-Faced Liar. Molly is a bit appalled by free spirited Bridget – but she’s also attracted to her, and in time, the friends’ lives are hilariously complicated when the two women fall in love.

Director: Jacob Chase
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie It could be said that Paul Exben has the perfect life - great career, big house, glamorous wife and two young sons. But when he finds out that his wife has eyes for an old friend, Paul makes a fatal error and kisses that perfect life goodbye. Escaping alone to an isolated coast, Paul steals the life he thought he always wanted, but pays for it with everything he leaves behind.

Director: Eric Lartigau
Year: 2010
Language: French, English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

My Normal Natalie’s a young lesbian from the Lower East Side trying to balance her quest to become a filmmaker with her lifestyle as a highly successful dominatrix. When she meets a hot new girlfriend and lands an internship on a real movie set, she’s surprised to find she isn’t happy. To make her dreams a reality, Natalie must use her unique talents to get what she really needs.

Director: Irving Schwartz
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Elena Undone Fate brings two diversely different women together, and sets them on a collision course that will shatter their preconceived notions about love, life and the power of one's soul.

Director: Nicole Conn
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Nostra Vita, La (Our Life) This award-winning drama (Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival) about life and love tells the story of a working-class man from the suburbs of Rome. In order to keep his job and support his growing family, he conceals a shocking secret. However, when tragedy turns his world upside-down, he must come face-to-face with his past, and look to the help of friends and family to triumph against the odds.

Director: Daniele Luchetti
Year: 2010
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Woody Allen's YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. Despite these characters' attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality, and perilous hot water. Taking its title from the prediction fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, illustrates with wry humor how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

L'amour Fou Yves Saint Laurent is heralded as one of the greatest fashion designers of the twentieth century. Together with his once-lover and longtime business partner, Pierre Bergé, the Yves Saint Laurent Couture House broke boundaries that shook the world of fashion, forever changing the way women dressed. With echoes of Lagerfeld Confidential, Valentino: The Last Emperor and The September Issue, L'Amour Fou is a grand tribute to an empire of decadence and beauty. This gorgeously lush biopic of one of the greatest names in fashion will stay with you, and linger in your mind. As Saint Laurent once said, "Fashions fade, style is eternal", and this gorgeously stylish film will not soon fade from memory.

Director: Pierre Thoretton
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Boys Life 7

Year: 2010
Language: English

Smash His Camera Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Marlon Brando broke his jaw and Steve McQueen shot him a look that would have killed (if looks could kill). Academy Award® winning director Leon Gast (When We Were Kings) tells the incredible story of notorious, reviled paparazzo Ron Galella, whose controversial tactics have led to some of the most iconic celebrity photographs ever, and opened a Pandora's Box of issues including right to privacy, freedom of the press and the ever-growing vortex of celebrity worship.

Director: Leon Gast
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Outrage (Kitano) The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai clan holds sway in the face of constant betrayal and ever-changing allegiances. Sanmo-kai chairman Ototomo (played by Kitano himself) learns that his henchman Ikemoto has struck an alliance with the drug-dealing Murase family, and is not best pleased, to say the least. The ensuing retaliation triggers an orgy of killings, territorial invasions and score settling while law enforcement officers, too corrupt to intervene.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Year: 2010
Language: Japanese, English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Winter in Wartime Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, thirteen-year-old Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel‘s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as Michiel is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. Wartime's harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, and his own burden of responsibility.

Director: Martin Koolhoven
Year: 2010
Language: Dutch/German
Genre: Drama

Howl James Franco stars as counter-culture revolutionary Allen Ginsberg, who recounts the road trips, love affairs and search for personal liberation that led to the most electrifying work of his career: the poem Howl. Meanwhile, in a San Francisco courtroom, Howl is on trial as prosecutor Ralph McIntosh (David Strathairn), defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm), and a host of witnesses (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams) debate the artistic merits of the controversial poem, and whether or not it should be banned from publication.

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography

Old Cats Isadora (Bélgica Castro) and Enrique (Alejandro Sievking) live a comfortable life. They have a modest yet elegant apartment in Santiago’s old downtown district - complete with a lovely terrace and mountain views. Well into their 80’s, they both maintain their independence and live happily with their books, their eclectic art and most of all with their beloved two ample cats. That is until, one day, the building’s elevator breaks and unable to descend the ten flights down - Isadora is left a prisoner in her own home. At the same inconvenient time, Isadora’s passionate “wild child” daughter Rosario (Claudia Celedón) and her butch female lover, Hugo, (Catalina Saavedra) come for a visit with a new 'scheme' of how to make them all rich. The one glitch is that the elderly couple must sign over the lease to their apartment. Using many of the same actors as THE MAID, Sebastián Silva and co-director Pedro Peirano have made a touching film of black humor and pathos.

Director: Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva
Year: 2010
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Mother A peaceful community is rocked by the horrific discovery of a murdered schoolgirl dangling over the ledge of a building. Local detectives, anxious to finger someone for the crime, unjustly convict a mentally challenged man. But in the mind of his fiercely protective mother, this case is far from closed. Fed up with incompetent officials, she conducts her own investigation into the killer's true identity. To clear her son's name, she's willing to do whatever it takes. Critically-acclaimed director Bong Joon-ho (The Host) delivers a chilling look at the depths of maternal devotion in this beautifully crafted murder mystery that draws you in and keeps you guessing at every turn.

Director: Bong Joon-ho
Year: 2010
Language: Korean
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Somewhat Gentle Man, A Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man: he has no special wishes and makes no demands. If he's given some food and a place to sleep, he will give people what they want in return, whether it be a little affection... or murder. Ulrik has killed some people and landed in jail - it's all part of the job when you're a gangster. Now Ulrik is out again, and his boss Jensen is waiting on the outside. Stubborn and proud, Jensen demands that Ulrik kill the snitch that ratted him out.

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Year: 2010
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy

Teenage Paparazzo When precocious 13-year-old paparazzo Austin Visschedyk snapped a photo of celebrity Adrian Grenier (HBO's Entourage), little did he know his life was about to change. Turning the tables on the juvenile paparazzo, Grenier stepped on the other side of the lens in an attempt to mentor a teenager obsessed with the lure of the Hollywood lifestyle. Grenier develops a meaningful relationship with his camera-clicking young friend as he attempts to reconcile their mutual exploitation. Indeed, Grenier puts himself on the line here, trying to make sense of his own recently acquired fame.

Director: Adrian Grenier
Year: 2010
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary

Of Gods And Men Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay…come what may. This stunning tale of faith and heroism is based on a remarkable true story.

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Year: 2010
Language: French, Arabic
Genre: History, Drama

Petals Petals is an intimate journey into a traditionally risqué and taboo subject: the vagina. Visual artist Nick Karras has set out to challenge society's pre-conceived notions about the vagina with a provocative series of photographs displaying its remarkable beauty and diversity. Exploring reactions to the project from sexperts to people on the street, Petals sparks a funny and engaging dialogue that will make you think outside the box.

Director: Beck Peacock
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Prankster, The Chris Karas is the brilliant leader of The Pranksters, a secret society that rights the wrongs of high school by pulling sophisticated pranks on deserving oppressors. But with graduation looming ahead, Chris longs for more from life. Guided by the homespun wisdom of his charmingly eccentric Uncle Nick, Chris embarks on a challenging path of self-discovery and romance. Hilarious, heartfelt, and magical, The Prankster is an exciting new high school comedy, destined to be the next teen classic.

Director: Tony Vidal
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Good Food, Bad Food We've been warned about the impending disasters facing our food supply - GOOD FOOD, BAD FOOD shows us that solutions to "McFood" do exist. Farmers, philosophers and economists have their say in this revealing documentary about the environment and the consequences of big agribusiness. Filmmaker Coline Serreau delivers a refreshing and optimistic message on the state of cultivation by exploring organic and local alternatives to the global food production industry.

Director: Coline Serreau
Year: 2010
Language: French, English
Genre: Documentary

Meute, La While driving through a northern rural wasteland, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker. They stop in a truck-stop restaurant run by a woman named Spack. When Max disappears in the bar, Charlotte decides to investigate and things take a turn for the worse. Charlotte finds herself in Spack's gruesome human farm, with other prisoners, semi-alive or dead, reared for their blood to feed Spack's "kids"- a pack of blood thirsty ghouls, who come out of the earth each night to be fed fresh human blood.

Director: Franck Richard
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Happy Happy Kaja is an optimistic and easygoing housewife—despite her loneliness and the fact that her husband won’t have sex with her. So when the “perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check, leading to a full-on affair and the inevitable secrets and lies that come with it.

Director: Anne Sewitsky
Year: 2010
Language: Norwegian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Pièce Montée (The Wedding Cake) Based on Blandine Le Callet's acclaimed novel, The Wedding Cake follows a dashing bride and groom down the aisle and through their over-the-top wedding reception. Family, in-laws and grumpy old priests prove to be more than the newlyweds can handle, resulting in a chain of events that threatens to bring the matrimony to a halt.

Director: Denys Granier-Deferre
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Curling Curling is a lyrical look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François devotes most of his time to his 12-year-old daughter, Julyvonne, whom he obsessively protects from the outside world. Their simple existence in the remote countryside revolves around each other until a series of disturbing occurrences and secrets threatens to destroy the fragility of their relationship.

Director: Denis Côté
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Love Shack A dysfunctional "family" of adult film stars reunites for a memorial porn shoot following the death of legendary producer, Mo Saltzman. Along the way, the film's hapless director must contend with dueling Divas, bickering couples, emotionally-scarred tag-team brothers, and a dominatrix with low self-esteem. Given its all-star cast and lofty pedigree, the film should be the greatest porno of all time. In the tradition of Waiting for Guffman and Spinal Tap, LOVE SHACK is a mockumentary that does for the adult film industry what Best in Show did for dog shows. Hilariously inappropriate!

Director: Gregg Sacon, Michael B. Silver
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Modra 17-year-old Lina plans to visit her extended family in Modra, a small town in Slovakia, for a week during the summer holidays. After being dumped by her boyfriend, she spontaneously invites a cute boy from school named Leco to join her instead. Not long after their arrival, however, Lina and Leco discover that they have little in common. To make matters worse, Lina's family mistakenly assumes that romance is afoot.

Director: Ingrid Veninger
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Mao's Last Dancer Two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) celebrates the inspirational true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin in this stunning adaptation of Li’s best-selling autobiography. When granted the opportunity of a lifetime to train with the renowned Houston Ballet, eighteen-year-old Li leaves behind a life of poverty and oppression in Communist China to embark on a transformative journey to the West, where he soars to stardom—and meets the love of his life. But he soon learns that his quest for freedom must come at a price.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Year: 2010
Language: English, Mandarin
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Romance, Biography

Dumbstruck The “dummies” may be small, but the hearts are huge in this hilarious and touching portrait of five ventriloquists who dream of taking their passion for entertaining to the masses. Share a rollercoaster of emotions with a quirky and unique cast of characters: Kim, a former beauty queen; Dylan, an introverted 13-year-old; Wilma, a 6-foot-5 former security guard; Dan, a successful cruise ship performer; and Terry, who emerges from obscurity to win “America's Got Talent” and sign a multi-million dollar Vegas deal.

Director: Mark Goffman
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Crime d'Amour (Love Crime) Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, apowerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far - to the point of no return.

Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
Language: French, English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Freakonomics In 2005, economist Steven Levitt teamed up with journalist Stephen Dubner to bring us the best-selling phenomenon “Freakonomics”, a revelatory investigation into the hidden side of everything that introduced us to a new way of understanding our world. Now, six rogue filmmakers behind some of the most acclaimed documentaries in recent years have brought Levitt and Dubner’s groundbreaking vision to life, compiling a series of fascinating, visually arresting and often hilarious case studies that prove the key to unlocking the mysteries of everyday life lies in one very important question: what’s the incentive?

Director: Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Immaculate (Sans Laisser de Traces) Etienne seems to have everything; he's got a beautiful wife, financial success, and is about to become the CEO of a major corporation specializing in household cleaning products. However, during a chance reunion with a long-lost friend, Etienne reveals a shocking secret: his success is based on a cleaning formula he stole years back. When he attempts to make amends with the man he wronged, he gets caught in a dangerous web of murder, blackmail and infidelity.

Director: Grégoire Vigneron
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Taqwacores, The Yusef, a first-generation Pakistani engineering student, moves off-campus with a group of Muslim punks in Buffalo, New York. His new "un-orthodox" house mates soon introduce him to Taqwacore- a hardcore, Muslim punk rock scene that only exists out west. As the seasons change, Taqwacore influences the house more and more. The living room becomes a mosque during the day, while it continues to host punk parties at night. Ultimately, Yusef is influenced by Taqwacore too, as he begins to challenge his own faith and ideologies. The Taqwacores deals with the complexities of being young and Muslim in modern-day America.

Director: Eyad Zahra
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Happiness Runs Happiness Runs, the sophomore feature from director Adam Sherman, confronts head on a hangover of free love and rampant drug use lingering well past the hippie 60s. Loosely based on experiences from Sherman's own youth, the film is a stylishly conceived consideration of the boundaries of hedonism and the dangers of a world where personal pleasure is the first consideration.

Director: Adam Sherman
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Life, Above All LIFE, ABOVE ALL is a emotional and universal drama about a young girl (stunningly performed by first-time-actress Khomotso Manyaka) who fights the fear and shame that have poisoned her community. The film captures the enduring strength of loyalty and a courage powered by the heart. Directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz (MAPANTSULA, PARIS JE T'AIME), it is based on the international award winning novel "CHANDA'S SECRETS" by Allan Stratton.

Director: Oliver Schmitz
Year: 2010
Language: Pedi
Genre: Drama

Dry Land, The James arrives home to West Texas from Iraq. He doesn't remember much about the war, and it's soon clear he has post traumatic stress. He takes a job at an abattoir. After an alcohol-fueled fights with co-workers and his wife, he seeks help at the VA. He returns to find she's leaving him until he can regain control. He leaves his dog with his ailing mother and drives northeast to visit an Army buddy and find out what it is he can't remember. His friend won't say much, so James drives on to Walter Reed Hospital where another friend convalesces.

Director: Ryan Piers Williams
Year: 2010
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama

Kiss Me Again Carlo and his friends, now in their forties, long for the care-free days of bachelor pads and casual affairs. Now, there are children to get to school, bills to pay and routines to follow. They must find the passion and excitement that drove their relationships and careers or will be left wondering: what happens next?

Director: Gabriele Muccino
Year: 2010
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Romance

The Constance Talmadge Double Feature: Her Night of Romance/Her Sister from Paris In HER NIGHT OF ROMANCE, an heiress traveling in England disguises herself to discourage fortune-hunters. She falls in love with a handsome nobleman (Ronald Colman) who is secretly impoverished. When they spend a night alone at his former estate, they are forced to pretend that they are married, a situation that threatens to unravel their storybook romance just as it is getting started. HER SISTER FROM PARIS allowed Talmadge to demonstrate her comic range in dual roles: a frumpy-but-faithful housewife and her sophisticated twin sister. When a hausfrau’s husband (Colman) begins to lose interest in his wife, the arrival of her twin, a dancer and “woman of the world,” provides just the right impetus to reinvigorate their relationship. Talmadge was truly an icon of the silent screen. At the end of the era, she chose (without regret) to retire from motion pictures and enjoy her personal life, without ever having made a “talkie.”

Director: Sidney Franklin
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Gardiens de l’Ordre, Les While responding to a disturbance call, a police officer is murdered by a suspect high on a strange glowing drug. In defense, the officer’s long-time partner, Julie, has no choice but to shoot back. When the suspect—a prominent politician’s son—recovers, Julie and new partner Simon are wrongly accused of using excessive force. Without the support of their superiors, Julie and Simon must infiltrate a drug-fueled underworld to find the dealer behind the new and highly dangerous drug, known on the streets as Sphinx.

Director: Nicolas Boukhrief
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Sound of Mumbai, The A group of children from the slums of Mumbai, India, are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform The Sound of Music with a classical orchestra. As they prepare for their magical moment in the spotlight, they hold immense hope that it could change their lives for the better. Director Sarah McCarthy crafts a heartwarming and uplifting story that celebrates not only the power of dreams, but a uniquely charming rendition of the Rodgers & Hammerstein favourite that's sure to change your association with it forever.

Director: Sarah McCarthy
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

In A Better World The latest film from Academy Award nominated director Susanne Bier (AFTER THE WEDDING, BROTHERS), IN A BETTER WORLD revolves around the lives of two Danish families who cross each other, and an extraordinary, but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait. Soon, friendship transforms into a dangerous alliance and a breathtaking pursuit in which life is at stake.

Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2010
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama

Flamenco, Flamenco Another generation. Another flamenco. And Carlos Saura is always taking it a little step further. Sixteen years after his groundbreaking film FLAMENCO Saura thinks "there is a really mighty new flamenco; a flamenco of young talents," and introduces these newcomers, accompanied by some of the great living maestros such as Manolo Sanlucar, Paco de Lucia, Tomatito and José Mercé. Trying to recapture the lighting and atmosphere of flamenco, gigantic reproductions of works by Spanish painters like Goya form the background, FLAMENCO, FLAMENCO is the greatest exponent of producing musical cinema through film, art, music, dancing and incredibly beautiful singing.

Director: Carlos Saura
Year: 2010
Language: Spanish
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary

Film Socialisme In Godard's latest masterpiece, politics are discussed aboard a luxury liner, where none of the passengers can understand each other; two children challenge their parents in a family tribunal as the media looks on; and the past and future of Europe are debated around the globe. A breathtaking meditation on the decline of modern culture, Film Socialism is "a must-see work by one of the greatest artists of our time." (Toronto International Film Festival).

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Year: 2010
Language: Français
Genre: Drama

The Norma Talmadge Double Feature: Kiki/Within the Law From World War I until the Great Depression, the most famous sisters in the entertainment world were the Brooklyn-raised Talmadges: Norma, Natalie and Constance. Norma, the eldest, was a dramatic actress of great talent and restraint, and revered by a public that could identify with the brave, tragic heroine through a myriad of melodramas and tragedies. Appearing in vehicles with exceedingly high production values and helmed by some of Hollywood’s finest directors, Norma developed into one of the screen’s greatest actresses, and by 1920 had eclipsed Mary Pickford as the top worldwide female box-office attraction. KIKI showcases Norma in a rare comedic performance. A high-spirited Parisian gamine is determined to become a chorus girl and win the heart of the Follies manager — even if it means performing some rather unladylike stunts. WITHIN THE LAW follows a shopgirl who is unjustly accused of stealing, and then sent to jail.

Director: Clarence Brown, Frank Lloyd
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Senna Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, SENNA unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favour of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and is previously unseen.

Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary, Biography

Day I Was Not Born, The Whilst changing flights in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, and without knowing a word of Spanish, a young German woman feels connected with Argentina when she hears a children’s song and decides to stay in the country to get to know it, and herself, better. Her father returns to Buenos Aires to join her and confesses that she was born in Argentina , a daughter of one of the “Disappeared”, during the years of military dictatorship. The father has to fight not to lose his daughter because of the lie.

Director: Florian Micoud Cossen
Year: 2010
Language: German, Spanish
Genre: Drama

Illusionist, the THE ILLUSIONIST is a story about two paths that cross. An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act meets a young girl at the start of her life's journey. Alice is a teenage girl with all her capacity for childish wonder still intact. She plays at being a woman without realizing the day to stop pretending is fast approaching. She doesn't know yet that she loves The Illusionist like she would a father; he already knows that he loves her as he would a daughter. Their destinies will collide, but nothing - not even magic or the power of illusion- can stop the voyage of discovery.

Director: Sylvain Chomet
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Animation

Legacy: Black Ops Idris Elba portrays Malcolm Gray, a decorated anti-terrorist black-ops soldier. When a military effort to assassinate a chemical weapons dealer ends in Gray's capture and torture, he later finds himself back in his Brooklyn apartment struggling to overcome the effects of severe paranoia and anxiety. While isolated, he reflects on the inconsistencies of the assignment gone wrong and begins to question the loyalty of his own brother, a senator on the verge of a presidential campaign.

Director: Thomas Ikimi
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Life with Murder 20-year-old Mason Jenkins was convicted of brutally murdering his 18-year-old sister with multiple rifle shots to the head and chest. Overwhelming forensic evidence delivered an airtight case against him, yet Mason maintained his innocence, forcing his grief-stricken parents into a difficult decision: break with their son or stand by him unconditionally. Compiled from astonishing footage shot over a 10-year period, Life With Murder follows the evolving relationship of a family struggling to survive in the wake of tragedy.

Director: John Kastner
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Documentary

Oliver Sherman Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on - to a wife, two children, and a reliable job in a quiet, rural town. Upon arriving, Sherman seems at first a harmless, if awkward, shell of a man. But as he inserts himself further into the Pages' lives, he reveals himself to be an angry, unstable individual prone to great jealousy and deep resentment. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he'd left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.

Director: Ryan Redford
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama

Thieves by Law They've appeared as menacing villains in some of Hollywood’s greatest crime thrillers. Now, meet the real godfathers of the Russian Mafia. Thieves by Law reveals shocking tales of murder, torture and extortion from three mobsters-turned-businessmen so cold-blooded they would have Tony Soprano begging for mercy. Covering everything from their strict codes of honour to the meaning behind those tattoos made so famous by Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises, these kingpins expose every last dark detail of the most feared crime syndicate in the world.

Director: Alexander Gentelev
Year: 2010
Language: Russian/Hebrew
Genre: Documentary, Biography

Lost Journey Arriving in Toronto from Iran, 19-year-old Pedram Abasi embarks on a journey shared by millions of people every year, adapting to a new language and culture. His aunt and uncle take him in and are delighted by his progress, until he meets Nima and Chrissy, who introduce him to a world of all night raves, promiscuous sex, and taking Ecstasy till sunrise. Before long, his family begins to regret letting him live with them. With his education in peril and his life on a downward spiral, Pedram have to get his life back on track before all hope is lost.

Director: Ant Horasanli
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Jo pour Jonathan In a world where ambition amounts to little more than a few material possessions, Thomas has everything that his younger brother Jo wants: a job, a car, and a hot girlfriend. When Jo fails his driving test he lies to his friends and steals his brother's car, but his increasing delinquency ultimately forces the brothers into a dangerous situation that takes both their lives on a turn.

Director: Maxime Giroux
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Émotifs Anonymes, Les Angélique and Jean-René are "emotionally-challenged" and terminally single. While looking for a sales manager for his small chocolate factory, Jean-René hires Angélique, a master chocolatier operating secretly to avoid attention. When their shared passion for chocolate boils into a passion for each other, they must overcome their fears to realize their professional dreams and sample the bittersweet tastes of love.

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Way, The From director Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen comes a modern-day odyssey – the soulful journey of a man rocked by personal crisis who sets off on an epic mountain trek, thinking he is utterly lost, only to keep bumping into surprise moments of community, companionship and inspiration that begin to steer his way. This spirited road-movie-on-foot crosses territory that is alternately comic, adventurous and keenly moving, even as it becomes an unforeseen gift from a son to his father.

Director: Emilio Estevez
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy

Score: A Hockey Musical 17-year-old Farley has the stick-handling skills to be the next Sidney Crosby—not that Farley has any idea who that is. His sheltered life consists of being homeschooled by his pacifist parents, hanging out with Eve, the beautiful girl next door, and playing shinny with the local rink rats. However, his idyllic world is turned upside down when he becomes an overnight success in a major hockey league, throwing him into a whirlwind of media hype and endorsement deals. Farley soon learns that there’s an ugly side to hockey fame, which not only threatens to compromise his values, but his relationship with Eve.

Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Comedy, Musical

Get Low For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Duvall). People say he's done all manner of unspeakable things - that he's killed in cold blood; that he's in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers - and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. It's not your usual funeral for the dead Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a "living funeral," in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Black), to win over Felix's business. Buddy is no stranger to Felix's dark reputation, but what he discovers is that behind Felix's surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out.

Director: Aaron Schneider
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Gasland After receiving an offer of $100,000 for the natural gas drilling rights to his property, filmmaker Josh Fox travels across the country to investigate the potential hazards. What he discovers is shocking: contaminated groundwater that bubbles and hisses, residents suffering from chronic illnesses, and—perhaps most disturbingly—flammable tap water. They’re all consequences of a rapidly expanding drilling campaign that’s guaranteeing unsuspecting landowners a quick and easy payoff, but leaving behind a burning trail of secrets, lies and catastrophic environmental damage. Welcome to Gasland.

Director: Josh Fox
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Transfer A wealthy couple decides to pay for a new procedure that allows their minds to be transferred to younger, purchased bodies. But there's a catch: the host bodies wake up as themselves for four hours each night and have ideas and desires of their own.

Director: Damir Lukacevic
Year: 2010
Language: German, French, English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Last Circus, The (Balada Triste) Álex de la Iglesia's genius for dark humour is at its most eloquent in his latest parody about the Spanish Civil War. Two clowns attack and disfigure one another in jealous rages over a beautiful dancer. In the name of love, they destroy the very object of their affection.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Year: 2010
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film Horror and sci-fi veteran Lance Henriksen (Alien, Near Dark) takes you through a fascinating look at the history of the American horror film, examining the earliest monster movies of the silent era up to the scariest modern-day masterpieces. Highlights include interviews with genre masters Roger Corman, John Carpenter and George A. Romero, plus clips from classic films like The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hostel, Rosemary's Baby and many more!

Director: Andrew Monument
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Tree, The After the sudden loss of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn: her father whispers to her through the leaves of the magnificient tree by their house. Simone is convinced that he's come back to protect her family. Soon, Simone's three brothers and Dawn also take comfort in the reassuring tree. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts dating George. Simone moves into the treehouse and refuses to come down. With branches infiltrating the house and roots destroying the foundations, the tree seems to be siding with Simone. Dawn refuses to let the tree take control of her family...

Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Rabies A brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets out on a race against time to find help. In a twist of fate the rescue of the sister becomes inadvertently intertwined with the lives of a group of young tennis players, a ranger and his dog, as well as a team of policemen.

Director: Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Year: 2010
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

De Vrais Mensonges Emilie (Audrey Tautou) puts her heart into running her busy hair salon in the sunny south of France. When she receives anonymous love letters, she decides to forward them to her heart-broken mother in the hopes of spicing up her love life. This leads to messy entanglements and a slew of misunderstandings when the secret admirer is revealed.

Director: Pierre Salvadori
Year: 2010
Language: French, English
Genre: Romance, Comedy

Another Year A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.

Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Jules Verne's Mysterious Island In this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel, a group of Civil War POWs and two young women from the 21st century find themselves lost in space and time, marooned on a mysterious desert island. Faced with defending themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures, and an active volcano that's ready to blow, they must find a way to survive and escape the island...before it claims them forever.

Director: Mark Sheppard
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Rio Sex Comedy Join the hilarious misadventures of a group of expats gone wild in this “delirious comedic romp”* through the beaches and favelas of Rio de Janeiro. A fugitive American ambassador (Bill Pullman), a British plastic surgeon (Charlotte Rampling) and a French anthropologist filmmaker (Irène Jacob) each get caught up in the excitement and chaos of the city’s exotic charms, leading to erotic encounters, off-the-wall hijinks and more than a few surprising twists along the way.

Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Year: 2010
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Tamara Drewe Based on Posy Simmonds' beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's classic Far From the Madding Crowd) this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastorale is a far cry from Hardy's Wessex. Tamara Drewe's present-day English countryside - stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows - is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown tail over teakettle. Tamara - once an ugly duckling - has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book - sex appeal.

Director: Stephen Frears
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Marine Story, A Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.

Director: Ned Farr
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Perfect Host Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage. As the wine flows and the evening progresses, we become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be.

Director: Nick Tomnay
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Comedy

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga Werner Herzog presents a picturesque documentary about the life of the indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. With the commentary written and narrated by Herzog, the camera follows a trapper through all four seasons of a year.

Director: Dmitry Vasyukov
Year: 2010
Language: English, Russian
Genre: Documentary

Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell, The One morning, Quincas Wateryell doesn't wake up after another night of partying in sleazy bars and brothels. When the news reaches the family he despised, his funeral looks like being another humiliation for his daughter Vanda. All of Bahia's high society wants to honor the man she claims left to marry an Italian heiress. But first, with her husband and uncle, Vanda must watch over the corpse in Quincas' squalid hotel room, where his four best drinking buddies gather to give him the send-off he deserves. When the family members are asleep, they sneak Quincas out for one last phenomenal party. With Vanda and the police on their tail, Quincas and his buddies' offbeat rampage provokes chaos and unforeseen consequences...

Director: Sérgio Machado
Year: 2010
Genre: Comedy

Imogène McCarthery Scottish-born Imogène McCarthery is working as the Secretary to the Admiralty in London, where she lives and pines for her native land. To her surprise and delight, she is selected for a top-secret mission delivering blueprints to her hometown, as her disarming appearance is unlikely to arouse suspicion. But when she returns to Scotland, plans begin to go awry as Imogène comes face to face with Bolshevik agents and realizes she may be in over her head.

Director: Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Mystery

Feed The Fish Joe Peterson is a burned-out children's book writer who's on the brink of a mid-life crisis. With his career at a standstill and his relationship in shambles, he leaves town with his best friend to do the Polar Bear Plunge in the dead of winter in Northern Wisconsin. On his quest for inspiration, Joe encounters three generations of a dysfunctional family that includes an obsessed law enforcement professional, a wise old fisherman and a muse with a pair of hockey skates. With the crew's help, Joe finds his lost passion, survives an assault by a tyrannical ex-girlfriend, and stays out of the way of the law. In the end, he gets the girl and publishes again but not before testing the icy waters of Lake Michigan on a snowy winter day.

Director: Michael Matzdorff
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Robber, The The Robber tells the story of a multitalented man: Johann Rettenberger is a successful marathon runner and a serial bank robber. Soberly and precisely he measures his heart rate, strain, stamina and efficiency – both during training runs and bank raids, from which, concealed beneath a ludicrous mask and armed with a pump gun, he takes flight from the police. He lives, undiscovered, with his girlfriend Erika in Vienna. However, his addiction to the passion, the kick, the exercise and the symmetry of the perfect robbery propels him to take off for a regular fix

Director: Benjamin Heisenberg
Year: 2010
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Nenette Born in the jungles of Borneo 40 years ago, Nénette the orangutan is now the most senior inhabitant of the world’s oldest zoo -- and the star of this awe-inspiring, tender and funny film, from the director who charmed the world with 2002’s Etre et Avoir. What we see is Nénette, going about her daily business; what we hear are the voices of the many visitors who pass comment on her every day, and reveal more about themselves than they think.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Boy It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters. Inspired by his Oscar-nominated short, Two Cars, One Night, Taika Waititi offers a charming. funny, and earnest coming-of-age story where everybody has some coming of age to do-particularly Alamein (affably played by Waititi himself). Never short on humor, Waititi's story is ultimately about three boys (one grown) reconciling fantasy with reality.

Director: Taika Waititi
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Nom des Gens, le Young extrovert Baya Benmahmoud lives by this classic motto: "Make love, not war". In order to convert them to her cause, she sleeps with her political enemies - which means a lot of men, because every conservative is her enemy. So far, she's gotten good results. Until she meets Arthur Martin, 40-something. She figures that with such a common name (there are more than 10,000 Arthur Martins in France), he's bound to be a real conservative and thus hard to convert. Yet, names are treacherous and things aren't always what they seem. Baya and Arthur are as different as two people can be, but when they fall in love, sparks fly...

Director: Michel Leclerc
Year: 2010
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Jeu de la Mort, le Based on a groundbreaking experiment conducted in the ‘60s, The Game of Death puts 80 unassuming research subjects to the test in a fake game show where becoming rich could cost you your life. Research subjects are instructed to inflict extreme pain on a contestant who stands to win one million euros, no matter how much they scream for mercy. The result is a shocking and unsettling study of human behavior that questions the terrifying future of reality TV.

Director: Christophe Nick
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Mooz-lum Pulled between his strict Muslim upbringing by his father and the normal social life he’s never had, Tariq Mahdi enters college in a state of confusion. New relationships with Muslims and non-Muslims alike challenge his already shaken ideals, and the estrangement with his mother and sister troubles him. With the help of new friends, family and mentors, he begins to find himself and open up to an Islam he hasn’t been exposed to. But when the attacks of 9/11 happen without warning, he is forced to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.

Director: Qasim Basir
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Socalled Movie, The With over 2.5 million YouTube hits for his music video "You Are Never Alone," Montreal-based musician, filmmaker, cartoonist and magician Josh Dolgin—aka Socalled—has set the creative world ablaze. His unique style blends cosmic visuals with his own mash-up of hip-hop, funk and traditional Jewish folk music. Director Garry Beitel takes viewers on a journey inside the mind of the man who has been dubbed "The Yiddish James Brown," exploring his art, life and everything in-between that makes him so damn fascinating.

Director: Garry Beitel
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Plan B Bruno is dumped by his girlfriend; behind a calm, indifferent expression, his mind plans a cold, sweet vengeance. She, a modern girl, keeps on seeing him once in a while, but has another boyfriend, Pablo. Bruno becomes Pablo's friend, with the idea of eroding the couple, maybe introducing him to another woman. But, along the way, the possibility of a plan B arises, a more effective one, which will put his own sexuality into question.

Director: Marco Berger
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Demain dès laube (Tomorrow at Dawn) Mathieu is a classical pianist undergoing an "existential crisis", according to his estranged wife turned agent, Jeanne. When his mother is hospitalized with cancer, he is left to watch over his younger brother, Paul, who lives for role-playing in historic battle re-enactments. Mathieu decides to join his brother and inadvertently becomes involved in a grave match of honour, discovering that these actors take their role-playing to deadly serious extremes.

Director: Denis Dercourt
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

InSearchOf When was the last time you had sex? Was it good? Was it safe? In Search Of explores the lives of ten entangled characters who use sex as a vehicle to gain something out of life without thinking about the repercussions or consequences of their actions.

Director: Zeke Zelker
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Sound of Insects, The A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site reveals the man committed suicide by self-imposed starvation. Inspired by this true event and by the novella 'Until I Am a Mummy' by Shimada Masahiko, Insects sensuously evokes the mysterious man's last days.

Director: Peter Liechti
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mandrill Chilean action star Marko Zaror shows off the skills and charisma that made him a major box office draw in South America in this thriller. Mandrill (Zaror) became an orphan at an early age when a gang of thugs murdered his parents. The boy was taken in by his uncle Chone (Alejandro Castillo), who taught young Mandrill how to defend himself through an exhaustive course in the martial arts. Mandrill became a prodigy in battle, and now makes his living as a hit man; working for an underworld syndicate, he's a suave but deadly killer for hire who hopes to someday find and take out the men who killed his Mom and Dad.

Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Thriller, Action

Broken Embraces Fourteen years ago, a writer lost his sight and his lover in a car accident, and is now reduced to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. He has completely erased his original identity. Harry lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help of her former and always faithful production manager, Judit Garcia, as well as of her son, Diego, who acts as his secretary, typist and guide. But, one night, Diego has an accident and Harry must look after him. In the long night of sitting up with the boy, he tells him of his past as if it was a story. A story portrayed by a photo of a couple of lovers embracing. A photo torn to pieces, resulting in broken embraces.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Drama

End of the Line, The Scientists predict that if we continue fishing as we are now, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048. In The End of the Line, we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. The film examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna brought on by increasing western demand for sushi, the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish, and the profound implications of a future world with no fish...

Director: Rupert Murray
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky Paris, 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his The Rite Of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized, but the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again -- a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her villa in Garches so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins...

Director: Jan Kounen
Year: 2009
Language: English/French/Russian
Genre: Drama

Love the Beast Hollywood superstar Eric Bana (Munich, Star Trek) delivers an exhilarating love letter to classic muscle cars and their die-hard owners in his directorial debut. Featuring conversations with fellow car enthusiast Jay Leno, Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson and Dr. Phil, Love the Beast chronicles Eric's twenty-five year journey with his very first car, a Ford XB Falcon Coupe he's nicknamed "The Beast." In 2007, the duo tackled the Targa Tasmania Rally, a grueling five-day endurance event that totaled The Beast and nearly cost Eric his life. Left to pick up the pieces, will he find the strength to rebuild his faithful companion?

Director: Eric Bana
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Education, An Jenny is a bright young girl on the cusp of her 17th birthday who finds herself in a whirlwind romance with a much older David. Prior to meeting David, Jenny was trying to excel in her life by going to a prep school to get into Oxford. Once she sees the lifestyle David can provide, one she never imagined might so easily be hers, she is hooked and thoughts of Oxford go out the window. Then, when things are looking pretty good for Jenny with the dashing (yet a little too smooth) David, the truth hits her like a ton of bricks. Jenny goes from being a bright eyed school girl to a sophisticated young lady and then all the way back to questioning if she really knows who she is at all. Will David be the making of Jenny or her undoing?

Director: Lone Scherfig
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Signes Vitaux, les Simone, a beautiful university student in her sexual prime, engages in a torrid romance with a struggling musician. Her carefree world comes crashing down when she receives the news of her grandmother’s shocking death. Now, struggling with profound new questions, she seeks clarity by comforting dying patients in their final days. But her altruistic act soon becomes an obsession, causing a rift with her increasingly frustrated lover.

Director: Sophie Deraspe
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Erreur de la Banque en Votre Faveur When Julien Foucault, head waiter at the highly venerable merchant bank Berthin-Schwartz, finds out he is to be made redundant, he sees it as an opportunity to realise his long-held dream of opening a restaurant with his best friend Etienne. However, after 17 years of good and loyal service, the bank refuses to give him any financial backing. Julien thus decides to profit from the confidential information of which its employees make use. But the employees catch him red-handed in the act of insider dealing and decide to play a Machiavellian trick on him.

Director: Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Please Give Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) and their teenage daughter Abby purchase the apartment next door in order to expand their two bedroom Manhattan apartment. Their only problem is the old cranky lady, Andra, living in it, and that they've got to wait for her to die. Andra is cared for by her sweet granddaughter Rebecca (Rebecca Hall) who has no life, and is blatantly rejected by her other highly cynical granddaughter, Mary (Amanda Peet). Simply waiting for Andra to die becomes complicated when the two families' lives intersect, resulting in a dramatic comedy about love, death, and liberal guilt from Nicole Holofcener (Friends With Money, Lovely and Amazing).

Director: Nicole Holofcener
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

David's Birthday A group of friends rent a magnificent house by the sea to spend the summer together. The unexpected arrival of Shary and Diego's son David sets something off in everyone, especially Matteo, an accomplished psychoanalyst who is married to Francesca. David's lonely and enigmatic uncle Leonard senses the reasons behind the dangerous tension, hidden beneath layers of silence and friendly banter. This vacation will indelibly mark everybody's life.

Director: Marco Filiberti
Year: 2009
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama

Maison Des Contes, La (Eleonore's Secret) Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children's literature. They are the original characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they will disappear along with their stories forever! When his parents start selling off the books, Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny friends.

Director: Dominique Monféry
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Animation

Rivers Wash Over Me After his mother dies, Sequan, a sensitive teenager from Brooklyn, moves in with relatives living in a small town plagued with secrets hidden deep within its lush, rural Alabama terrain. Sequan finds refuge in a friendship with a troubled girl who astutely hones in on his true sexuality and introduces him to her cute brother.

Director: John G. Young
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: GLBT

London River In the wake of the 2005 terrorist bombings, Elisabeth (two-time Academy Award®-nominee Brenda Blethyn), a widow from a small farming community, travels to London in search of her missing daughter. As she cautiously navigates a world unlike her own, she repeatedly crosses paths with Ousmane (Silver Berlin Bear-winner Sotigui Kouyaté), a Muslim man attempting to locate his missing son. Before long, Elisabeth and Ousmane come to the shocking realization that their children share a connection, and if they have any hope of finding answers, they must put aside their cultural differences and work together.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Year: 2009
Language: English, French, Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Mystery

Maid, The Raquel has served as the Valdes family's maid for over two decades. At the age of 41, the stress of her job is finally starting to take its toll, triggering a series of crippling headaches and dizzy spells. The mother of the household decides to hire an additional maid to lighten the workload, but this doesn’t sit well with Raquel. Hell-bent on protecting her territory, she uses a barrage of passive-aggressive tactics to drive her would-be helpers away, one after another. Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, "The Maid" is a humorous and touching story that will sweep you off your feet.

Director: Sebastián Silva
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Like Dandelion Dust Winner of a dozen Audience Choice Awards for Best Picture, Like Dandelion Dust tells the story of a young boy, Joey, who lives an idyllic life with his adoptive parents on the coast of Florida. It's a postcard childhood until the day they receive a disturbing phone call: Joey's birth parents want him back. One family is determined to keep the son they love, the other to begin the life they've always dreamed of. With Joey's future hanging in the balance, someone must make the bravest decision of their life.

Director: Jon Gunn
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Tidal Wave When a South Korean geologist discovers that seismic activity in the Sea of Japan could trigger a deadly megatsunami, his warnings go unheeded by government officials. The premonition soon proves true, though, as a towering 500-mile-an-hour wave charges toward a popular beachfront community called Haeundae, obliterating everything in its path.

Director: Je-gyun Yun
Year: 2009
Language: Korean
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action

New Twenty, The Five best friends in their late 20's face the disintegration of their tightly knit urban tribe. Gay and straight, white and brown, driven and aimless, this disparate group lives and breathes New York City with a vivid emotional realism that captures the tenor of a new generation. Winner - Best Leading Actress Award - Nicole Bilderback, OUTFEST Winner - Best 1st Time Director Award, Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival

Director: Chris Mason Johnson
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: GLBT

Under the Mountain When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces—shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland's ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Jones (Sam Neill), and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil...before it destroys them.

Director: Jonathan King
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi

La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets: Genus by Wayne McGregor, Le Songe de Medée by Angelin Preljocaj, La Maison de Bernarda by Mats Ek, Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, Casse Noisette by Rudolph Nureyev, Orphée and Eurydice by Pina Bausch, and Romeo and Juliette by Sasha Waltz. The film shows the work involved in administering the company and the coordinated and collaborative work of choreographers, ballet masters, dancers, musicians, and costume, set, and lighting designers.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Kimjongilia From Executive Producer Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Cold Creek Manor), KIMJONGILIA is the first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea. NC Heikin's stylish, deeply moving documentary is centered around astonishing interviews with survivors of North Korea's vast and largely hidden prison camps, and interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original scenes that illuminate the contours of daily life for a people whose every action is monitored and every thought could bring retribution.

Director: N.C. Heikin
Year: 2009
Language: English/Korean
Genre: Documentary

Secret in their Eyes, The With THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES, Argentinean writer-director-editor Juan Jose Campanella has created a multi-layered and poignant thriller interweaving the personal lives of a state prosecution investigator and a judge, with a manhunt spanning twenty-five years. Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin (Ricardo Darin), decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five year old unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene (Soledad Villamil), the beautiful judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years, Benjamin's initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks, as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamin's search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, testing the limits of a man seeking justice and personal fulfillment at last.

Director: Juan José Campanella
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Nuages sur la ville Jean-Paul (Jean-Pierre Lefebvre) is a public servant, tired of toiling at his soul-destroying job. As a writer, he feels out of touch with the times and longs for inspiration. Touching on the many themes of modern malaise, director Simon Galiero delivers a biting portrayal of media obsession in the 21st century. Starring three of Quebec’s most notable filmmakers, Galiero highlights through ironic parable the difficulties facing the contemporary artist: the precarious nature of social status, the lost direction of art, and the heavy heart of cynicism.

Director: Simon Galiero
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Rapt Based on the real-life kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean Empain in 1978, Rapt follows the downfall of wealthy entrepreneur Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal, Munich). Kidnapped, beaten and held for ransom, Graff slowly deteriorates while he waits for his wife and colleagues to pay the enormous sum. On the outside, however, his reputation as a respectable business and family man collapses as the press digs up his shocking double life, threatening not only his marriage, but his survival.

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Soul Power In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. The dream-child of Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine, this music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. SOUL POWER is a verité documentary about this legendary music festival (dubbed “Zaire ‘74”), and it depicts the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, among a host of others. At the peak of their talents and the height of their careers, these artists were inspired by this return to their African roots, as well as the enthusiasm of the Zairian audience, to give the performances of their lives. SOUL POWER finally provides today’s audience the opportunity to experience this historic musical event.

Director: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Loren Cass A vivid tale of troubled youth, Loren Cass conjures an authentic and menacing emotional landscape shared by three young people in contemporary suburban Florida. Though scripted by Fuller in the aftermath of the 1996 St. Petersburg riots when he was just 15 years old, this “lyrical portrait of angry, disaffected teens” (Village Voice) evokes the unquenchable need, psychic pain and seething rage of disenfranchised youth from any era. Jason (Travis Maynard), a pierced and inked skinhead, takes impulsive and self destructive chances with everyone and everything around him, while his garage mechanic friend Cale (Fuller) embarks on a fleeting, benumbed romance with Nicole (Kayla Tabish), a promiscuous diner waitress. Jason, Cale, and Nicole’s coolly hypnotic, realistic journey to nowhere reveals the bruised young underbelly of a new American century.

Director: Chris Fuller
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

L'Armée du Crime In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberté. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin, and the Manouchian group ultimately have to answer for their brutal role in defending France as the cradle of freedom.

Director: Robert Guédiguian
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: History, War, Drama

Good Heart, The Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic clubhouse: no new customers, no fraternizing with customers and, absolutely no women. Lucas is a quick study, but their friendship is put to the test when the distraught and beautiful April (Isild Le Besco) shows up at the bar seeking shelter, and Lucas insists they help her out.

Director: Dagur Kári
Year: 2009
Language: German, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Grown Up Movie Star Ray, a disgraced NHL star who was once a hometown hero, returns to Newfoundland following a drug conviction, only to have his wife Lillian leave him for another man and the pursuit of stardom. Left with his precocious daughters, Ruby and Rose, Ray struggles to find his sexual identity, while teenage Ruby begins to spiral down a dark path that leads to a potentially dangerous romance with Ray's best friend, Stuart.

Director: Adriana Maggs
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Undertow In a tiny Peruvian seaside village, where traditions run deep, Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a young fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a scandalous secret. He's in love with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a painter, who is ostracized by the town because he's gay. After a tragic accident occurs, Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela—and the entire village.

Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Nature of Things with David Suzuki Rare wildlife, unique perspectives, cutting-edge science and tech--Canada's longest running documentary series, the award-winning The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, cuts through the hype to bring you the latest stories from the frontlines of science and the environment. For more information on The Nature of Things check out: Nature of Things at CBC.ca

Director: various
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Purple Sea From the novel Minchia di Re by Giacomo Pilati comes a scandal hidden in 19th century Sicily between two young women, Angela and Sara. Angela isn't like other girls her age, she fears nothing and nobody. She can't hide her feelings for Sara. To maintain the forbidden relationship, she changes her outward appearance to disguise herself as a man. The chains that had imprisoned her existence suddenly disappear and she becomes powerful, but in her heart she never denies her identity as a woman. As intense and compelling as only young love can be, the two women challenge the rules of society in order to be together.

Director: Donatella Maiorca
Year: 2009
Language: Italian
Genre: History, Drama, Romance

Hungry Ghosts, The Alums of the hit TV show The Sopranos reunite in Michael Imperioli’s directorial debut, a gripping tale of interconnected New Yorkers attempting to find spiritual fulfillment as they struggle with drugs, alcohol and sex. Frank (Steve Schirripa), a late-night DJ with a cocaine addiction, is forced to confront his ex-wife, Sharon (Sharon Angela), when their depressed teenage son vanishes into a world of sexual promiscuity. Meanwhile, philosophical seeker Gus, fresh out of a detox program, searches for his ex-lover, Nadia.

Director: Michael Imperioli
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Cooking with Stella When Canadian diplomat Maya (Lisa Ray) and her stay-at-home husband, Michael (Don McKellar), are relocated to exotic New Dehli, they inherit a household of Indian servants ruled by the sweet and charming Stella (Seema Biswas). An out-of-work chef back home, Michael implores Stella to impart her culinary wisdom and help him spice up his own repertoire. After some initial resistance, she agrees to mentor the wide-eyed westerner. As the two prepare a mouthwatering array of colourful and sumptuous cuisines, an unlikely bond begins to form. But Stella isn't who she appears to be. In fact, she's secretly cooking up a few schemes of her own...

Director: Dilip Mehta
Year: 2009
Language: English/Hindi
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Drool Anora Fleece has got it rotten in this hilarious and unconventional dark comedy. Her husband is abusive, her children are disresepctful and she lives in the middle of nowhere and feels like a nobody. Then Imogene Cochran moves into the neighbourhood and the women quickly become more then friends. All hell breaks loose when Cheb, Anora's husband, discovers the women's tryst and he winds up dead!

Director: Nancy Kissam
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

It Might Get Loud Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing favorite instruments, guitars both found and invented. Concentrating on the artist’s musical rebellion, traveling with him to influential locations, provoking rare discussion as to how and why he writes and plays, this film lets you witness intimate moments and hear new music from each artist. The movie revolves around a day when Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge first met and sat down together to share their stories, teach and play.

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Last Station,The After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary (she's copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!), suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and even celibacy. After she's born him thirteen children!

Director: Michael Hoffman
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Robsessed Robert Pattinson, or "R-Patz" as the press has affectionately nicknamed him, became an international heartthrob after starring as Edward Cullen in the chart-topping blockbuster, Twilight. Now, Robsessed offers an exclusive, insider’s look into the world of R-Patz, following his path from a young schoolboy, to his early modelling and acting jobs, all the way through to landing his dazzling role in the Twilight saga.

Director: Irene Antoniades
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Nature of Existence, The What is the most important question there is? After exploring the phenomenon of STAR TREK fans in the acclaimed documentary TREKKIES, filmmaker Roger Nygard is taking on THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE, traveling the globe to the source of the world's philosophies, religions, and belief systems, interviewing spiritual leaders, scholars, scientists, artists and others who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.

Director: Roger Nygard
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Hannah Free Starring Sharon Gless ("Burn Notice," "Queer as Folk," "Cagney & Lacey") in a tremendous performance, "Hannah Free" tells the moving story of the lifelong love affair between two very different women. Weaving between past and present, the story reveals how they maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelity, and family denial.

Director: Wendy Jo Carlton
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Toe to Toe Toe to Toe tells the story of the friendship and rivalry between lacrosse mates Tosha and Jesse, two senior girls at a competitive Washington, D.C. prep school. Tosha is an African American scholarship student from Anacostia, one of Washington's poorest areas, while Jesse is a troubled and promiscuous white girl from the ritzy suburbs of Maryland. The two forge a close and genuine bond on the field, but their friendship unravels as they navigate through race and class related obstacles. When Jesse and Tosha discover that they've both been dating the same boy, the conflict becomes explosive. "Toe to Toe" is a powerful reminder of the transforming power of honesty and the way that those who test us often make us better.

Director: Emily Abt
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Job, The Stuck in a dying industrial town, Bubba Brady finds himself bouncing endlessly from one dead-end job to the next. The only thing that keeps his wheels turning is Joy (Taryn Manning, Hustle & Flow), a fragile diner waitress and fellow lost soul. His luck appears to change when he crosses paths with a drifter (Ron Perlman, Hellboy) who offers up a promising job lead. To his amazement, Bubba is hired on the spot. But the demands are far more sinister than he anticipated. Does he have the killer instincts to get the job done?

Director: Shem Bitterman
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy

Moon Starring: Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. Sam Bell is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. He's been a faithful employee for 3 long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium 3. The precious gas holds the key to reversing the Earth's energy crisis. Isolated, determined and steadfast, Sam has followed the rulebook obediently and his time on the moon has been enlightening, but uneventful. The solitude has given him time to reflect on the mistakes of his past and work on his raging temper. But 2 weeks shy of his departure from Selene, Sam starts seeing things, hearing things and feeling strange. And when a routine extraction goes horribly wrong, he discovers that Lunar have their own plans for replacing him and the new recruit is eerily familiar. Before he can return to Earth, Sam has to confront himself and the discovery that the life he has created, may not be his own. It's more than his contract that is set to expire.

Director: Duncan Jones
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Persécution Daniel (Romain Duris) is a typically cool and collected guy who appears to handle things with great ease—except his girlfriend, Sonia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), with whom he shares a tumultuous love/hate relationship. When a bizarre stranger (Jean-Hugues Anglade) begins inexplicably stalking him, Daniel’s steadfast disposition gives way to growing frustration and paranoia, putting his already troubled romance with Sonia to the ultimate test.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance

Cairo Time Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.

Director: Ruba Nadda
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Picture Me Supermodel Sara Ziff offers an insider's view of the glitzy world of high fashion modeling. From photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan, and Paris, this intimate account features in-depth interviews with noted photographers, designers, and the models themselves, giving voice to those who are often seen, but rarely heard.

Director: Ole Schell and Sara Ziff
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Prophet, A Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the while secretly devising his own plans...

Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Macabre Two newly weds Adjie and Astrid, along with 3 of their best friends decided to have an interstate road trip as a last attempt to reconcile Adjie with his estranged little sister Ladya. Their trip is however abruptly interrupted when they run into Maya, a strange girl out of nowhere, who wanders aimlessly into their path. "I've been robbed" is all she has to say. The friends unanimously decided to give her a ride to her isolated house by the end of the woods. Maya introduces Adjie and friends to her blue-blooded mother Dara, a woman of ageless enigma and few spoken words. Dara insists that their kindness should be repaid with a dinner feast. This is where the night turns into a crimson-hell for the 6 friends, who find themselves trapped and hunted down by Dara and her cult-like family of her three deadly protégés, born and raised to systematically eliminate unsuspecting passers-by for one nefarious reason.

Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Year: 2009
Language: Indonesian
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Diamant 13 Diamond 13 traces the slow descent into hell of a policeman faced with a society ruled by money, the corruption of his colleagues and the shadow of death. Mat (Gérard Depardieu ) is a member of the 13th night division of the criminal police. His lifelong friend, Franck Novak (Olivier Marchal) - who works for the drug squad - has been involved for some time in shady dealings. But the confines of morality are easily crossed and when Franck goes too far Mat has to take matters into his own hands.

Director: Gilles Béat
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Spooner Herman Spooner (Matthew Lillard) is a used car salesman who still lives at home with his parents. He meets the girl of his dreams, Rose (Nora Zehetner), but on their perfect date, she breaks the news that she is about to leave for the Philippines. How far will Spooner go to keep Rose in town and show her he really does know how to spoon?

Director: Drake Doremus
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Malice in Wonderland Lewis Carrol's classic fable Alice in Wonderland is given a tongue-in-cheek reimagining in the dark and twisted Malice in Wonderland. Alice (Lost's Maggie Grace), an American law student studying in London, tumbles down a cerebral rabbit hole after being struck by a cab driver named "Whitey" (Danny Dyer as our modern White Rabbit) and suffering from amnesia. Awaking amidst the city's seedy underbelly, she desperately searches for a way to recover her lost memories and escape the clutches of her psychedelic nightmare.

Director: Simon Fellows
Year: 2009
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Mystery

Dernier Pour la Route, Le The autobiographic story of a reporter confronting his alcoholism at a retreat in the French Alps. He meets a quirky cast of recovering addicts -- including a loudmouthed lush and a vodka-sipping vixen -- who reveal the hazards of falling off the wagon as they encourage him to admit his own dependency and start anew.

Director: Philippe Godeau
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague Montreal, 1885: A train conductor traveling inbound from Chicago is admitted to a small hospital with symptoms resembling chickenpox. His disease quickly spreads, and as the number of infected multiplies, a sobering reality sets in: smallpox -- history’s silent killer -- has returned. Containment is possible, but Montreal is a city divided by language, class and religion. A complete societal collapse is imminent. Montreal, present day: A flight attendant is grounded with flu-like symptoms. Her ailments subside, but more severe cases soon crop up. The unbelievable is confirmed: smallpox -- a disease thought to have been eradicated -- has returned. As the death toll rises, racism and scapegoating divide the city. Montreal stands on the brink of collapse.

Director: Jefferson Lewis
Year: 2009
Language: English/French
Genre: Documentary

Act of God From the award-winning director of "Manufactured Landscapes" comes "Act of God," a film that explores the paradox of being singled out by randomness and raises questions about chance, fate, and the meaning of life. Exploring seven stories from around the world, "Act of God" responds to these questions while keeping the sky and what comes out of it as a central visual metaphor. Paul Auster, the best-selling novelist who was struck as a teenager, anchors the film, along with improvisational musician Fred Frith, whose original compositions demonstrate the ubiquity of electricity in our bodies and in the universe.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2009
Language: English, French
Genre: Documentary

Get Ready for School Get Ready For School helps kids to make the transition to school. As Sticks prepares to go to school, Gisèle and his puppet friends Jay and Melvin help him talk about his fears and concerns: How do I make a friend? What do I do if I have a question? What if I get hungry? This six-part series helps to highlight common fears for kids, parents and caregivers so children can familiarize themselves with what's ahead. Polkaroo's Number Wonders Synopsis: Discover the wonderful world of numbers with Polkaroo! Using music, kids and a computer-animated Polkaroo, Polkaroo's Number Wonders helps preschoolers learn about numbers and counting in a fun way.

Director: TVO Kids
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Children

Love & Savagery In 1968, Michael McCarthy travels from Newfoundland to Ireland to explore the Burren, a rich geological wonder. There he meets Cathleen, a beautiful woman who has devoted herself to God and the church from a young age. Michael falls hopelessly in love, and Cathleen finds herself torn between her faith and her newly discovered desires. As Michael pursues his beloved, his persistence stirs anger and violence in her small town. Ultimately, Cathleen must decide which love she is to follow...

Director: John N. Smith
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Pornography: A Thriller This intriguing thriller weaves together three different but curiously related stories centering on the mysterious disappearance of quintessential "boy-next-door" porn star Mark Anton.

Director: David Kittredge
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Domination Masculine, La In the starkness of reality, actions rarely adhere to ideals. We live in a society that deems the sexes to be equal, but is this how the gender dynamic functions in the 21st century? Are we charting towards equality, or are we on the brink of a return to the patriarchal ideals of past generations? Director Patric Jean sets out to reflect on these questions in "Male Domination", a candid look at the current state of sexual relationships in the modern world.

Director: Patric Jean
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Le Père de mes enfants (The Father of my Children) Grégoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all — a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Grégoire's reserves — both financial and emotional — reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested.

Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Reel Injun Hollywood has an impressive track record -- one that spans more than 4000 films -- of blatantly misrepresenting Native people and their cultures. Featuring interviews with filmmakers and activists such as Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch and Russell Means -- and clips from hundreds of classic films including Stagecoach, The Outlaw Josey Wales and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Dances with Wolves -- Reel Injun delves into the fascinating history of the Hollywood Indian with razor-sharp insight and humour, tracing its checkered cinematic evolution from the silent film era to today.

Director: Neil Diamond
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Western

Eclipse, The Mystery, suspense, and romance intertwine in The Eclipse, a ghostly tale set on the shores of small-town Cobh, Ireland. Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) has been experiencing abnormal occurrences in his home. While volunteering at the town literary festival, he bonds with a supernatural author named Lena - the only person willing to entertain his otherworldly stories. Their growing relationship is complicated, however, by Lena's ongoing affair with another author (Aidan Quinn). As the festival progresses, the trajectories of these three people head toward a shocking, life-altering conclusion.

Director: Conor McPherson
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance

Power Kids The next generation of martial arts masters has arrived. Get ready for the Power Kids—a ferocious quintet of high-flying, butt-kicking warriors poised to take the world by storm. Tragedy strikes the clan when one of its members falls ill. He's in desperate need of a heart transplant, but the hospital carrying his donor heart is being held for ransom by a menacing terrorist group. Their demands are simple: a huge sum of money delivered within four hours. With no time to spare, the Power Kids must infiltrate the hospital, take down the terrorists, and save their friend's life.

Director: Krissanapong Rachata
Year: 2009
Language: Thai
Genre: Thriller, Action, Comedy

Mein Kampf In 1910, young Adolf Hitler migrates to the cultural beacon of Vienna, determined to conquer the world as a famous painter. Upon his arrival, he moves into a hostel occupied by Schlomo, an elderly Jewish Bible salesman who takes the brash and arrogant artist under his wing. But when Hitler is callously rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts, Schlomo attempts to save his increasingly radical and suicidal disciple by pushing him towards a career in politics—a fateful and ironic decision that will forever impact the course of human history.

Director: Urs Odermatt
Year: 2009
Language: German
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography

Damned United, The Starring: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, & Jim Broadbent Set in 1960’s and 1970’s England, THE DAMNED UNITED tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of football - an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County building teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor. Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don’s boys, would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough’s belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. This is that story. The story of The Damned United.

Director: Tom Hooper
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Siffleur, Le Armand is horrified when he finds out that a property developer with mafia connections is putting the squeeze on his favourite restaurant. But Armand never gets mad—he leaves that to his identical twin brother, Maurice "The Whistler." When Maurice rides into town in his Aston Martin and designer suit, the mob and corrupt local politicians are in trouble. But what if Maurice and Armand are one and the same?

Director: Philippe Lefebvre
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Countess, the Based on the chilling true story of Erzsébet Báthory (Julie Delpy), The Countess chronicles the infamous Hungarian noble's tragic fall from grace -- and subsequent descent into madness. When her blossoming romance with the dashing István (Daniel Brühl) is sabotaged by the young nobleman's father, Thurzó (William Hurt), Countess Báthory is left heartbroken and confounded. Convinced that her fading beauty is to blame, she begins to practice a ritual that she believes holds the key to eternal youth: bathing in the blood of young virgins.

Director: Julie Delpy
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: History, Horror, Thriller, Drama, Biography

Outrage Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick ("This Film Is Not Yet Rated") delivers a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. "Outrage" boldly reveals the hidden lives of some of our nation's most powerful policymakers, details the harm they've inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media's complicity in keeping their secrets.

Director: Kirby Dick
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

White Ribbon In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions? Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, and Rainer Bock star in director Michael Haneke's Palm d'Or-winning period drama.

Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2009
Language: German
Genre: Drama

Theatre of War In this gripping documentary, Academy Award Winner Meryl Streep (It's Complicated, Mamma Mia!), for the first time, allowed cameras to record her preparation for her lead stage performance in Bertolt Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. Along with co-star, Academy Award Winner Kevin Kline (Wild Wild West, The Big Chill), this amazing documentary not only offers a plenitude of insights into the actress's craft, but also focuses on the play itself--whose themes of warfare and violence have both parallels to life in the present in addition to Brecht's tortured history in America.

Director: John Walter
Year: 2009
Language: English/German
Genre: Documentary

Panique au Village Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise their pal Horse with a homemade barbeque pit goes awry when the 50 million bricks they accidentally ordered online show up on their doorstep. This sets off a raucous chain of events as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra (complete with a giant snowball-throwing robot penguin) and discovers a parallel underwater universe of treacherous, pointy-headed creatures. And with panic a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine girlfriend the flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar) ever find a quiet moment alone? A Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y!

Director: Vincent Patar/Stéphane Aubier
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Family, Animation

Peter and Vandy A riveting and unique take on a couple's relationship. PETER AND VANDY takes us on a journey, showing us the romantic beginnings and shaky turns that inevitably develop after Peter, a terminally insecure architect, falls for an art gallery employee. With star-making performances by Jason Ritter (HAPPY ENDINGS) and Jess Weixler (TEETH), the film is an innovative and fresh look at the relationship of a young couple in Manhattan and the exhilaration and frustrations love can bring.

Director: Jay DiPietro
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Waterlife - Cancelled Waterlife follows the cascade of the Great Lakes from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, telling the story of the last huge supply of fresh water on Earth. Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, Waterlife is a cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted. Narrated by Gord Downie, lead vocalist of The Tragically Hip and Waterkeeper’s Trustee of Lake Ontario. Featuring music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.

Director: Kevin McMahon
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Tales from the Golden Age The last fifteen years of the Ceausescu communist regime were, without question, the worst in Romania's history. Not surprisingly, the Ceausescu propaganda machine shared a different opinion, referring to that period as "the golden age". By adapting the period's most popular myths, Golden Palm winner Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) recaptures the humorous spirit that kept Romanians alive during their darkest hour.

Director: Cristian Mungiu, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru
Year: 2009
Language: Romanian
Genre: History, Drama, Comedy

Soul Kitchen Gut-busting laughs are on the menu in Fatih Akin’s hilarious follow up to his critically acclaimed hits Head-On and The Edge of Heaven. When down-and-out restaurateur Zinos attempts to follow his recently relocated girlfriend to Shanghai, he leaves his troubled blue-collar restaurant, Soul Kitchen, in the hands of his shady ex-con brother—a disastrous decision that puts the restaurant’s future in jeopardy. But if the brothers can stop their bickering and pull it together, Soul Kitchen might have one last shot at survival…

Director: Fatih Akin
Year: 2009
Language: German / Greek
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Happy Tears California-based sisters Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) have traveled down very different paths in their adult lives. Jayne, a ditsy, self-centered shopaholic, married the wealthy son of a famous artist. Laura, a pragmatic environmental research biologist, ended up with a handful of children. When their father's mental health takes a turn for the worse, Jayne and Laura head back home to deal with the situation, leading to a chaotic family reunion brimming with laughter and tears.

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Exploding Girl, the While home in New York City for spring break, twenty-year-old Ivy finds her romantic life in turmoil. As her relationship with her college boyfriend falls to pieces, she begins to develop a newfound bond with her long time best friend, Al. Overwhelmed by the increasing weight of the situation, Ivy wrestles to keep her emotions in check; if she fails, her crippling epilepsy could consume her at any moment.

Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Fille du RER, La (The Girl on the Train) Jeanne (Émilie Dequenne) is a young woman living in the suburbs of Paris with her widowed mother Louise (Catherine Deneuve). Her slacker lifestyle is disrupted when she sparks an online courtship with Franck, an aspiring wrestler. When their real-life romance becomes destructive, Jeanne responds by going public with a story of being attacked on the train, casting herself as a mistaken victim of a hate crime.

Director: André Téchiné
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Inspector Bellamy Police chief Paul Bellamy (Gerard Depardieu) and his wife Françoise are vacationing in Nimes. Their quiet holiday is interrupted by the arrival of Paul's half-brother, Jacques, who has a propensity for drinking and deception. But family problems are put aside when Bellamy is contacted by Noël Gentil, a man on the run who appears to be responsible for murder. Trusting his intuition, Bellamy embarks on a private investigation to help Gentil clear his name.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

I, Don Giovanni Venice, 1763. When writer and libertine Lorenzo Da Ponte is exiled to Vienna, he is introduced to the King’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival's ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring the unknown Da Ponte as his librettist. But Da Ponte’s free spirit and amorous wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.

Director: Carlos Saura
Year: 2009
Language: Italian/German
Genre: History, Music & Live Performance, Drama

Quelque chose à te dire Meet the Celliers: your typical, dysfunctional family. Mother Mady is a vivacious sixty-year-old who gossips mercilessly about her children, while her retired husband Henry shows strange signs of regression. Their eldest child, Antoine, is a CEO who excels at declaring bankruptcy; sister Alice, rebounding from two abortions, compulsively paints portraits of a drug-addled Madonna; while nurse Annabelle reads the fortunes of her patients in intensive care. The Celliers’ lives take an unexpected turn when they encounter Jacques, a lonely, disillusioned police officer. The outsider fans the flames of their comfortable family neuroses, and conflict erupts – for better or for worse.

Director: Cécile Telerman
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Easier with Practice Davy Mitchell is an introverted writer struggling on tour to promote his unpublished short stories. His lonely nights heat up when Davy receives a seemingly random phone call from a woman named Nicole. The sultry stranger seduces him into an intense session of phone sex, sparking an erotic and intimate relationship that is based entirely around phone calls that she initiates. Davy wants to make it work, but he becomes frustrated when she refuses to give out her number. Fed up with her games, he determines to meet Nicole in person. That is, if she ever calls again

Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Diamonds Following a trail of greed and obsession, this powerful miniseries traces the international web that brings us diamonds - the world's purest and most dazzling gems. From the fashionable enclaves of London, to the icy tundra of the Canadian Arctic, to the war-ravaged villages of Sierra Leone, DIAMONDS takes us inside the glamorous - and sometimes dangerous and illegal - international diamond industry.

Director: Andy Wilson
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Rudo y Cursi Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael García Bernal) Verdusco are brothers who work at a banana plantation and also play soccer for the village team. Nicknamed “Tough” because of his personality and football style, Beto dreams of becoming a professional soccer player; Tato’s dream is to be a famous singer, and both share the dream of building a house for their mother, Elvira (Dolores Heredia). They have a change in luck when “Batuta”, a soccer talent scout, discovers them accidentally. Tato is the first to move to the big city where he becomes the star goal scorer for the prestigious Deportivo Amaranto (Amaranto Club). Although Beto feels he has been betrayed and left behind, he soon travels to Mexico City to become the goalkeeper for Atlético Nopaleros (Nopaleros Team). At the very real possibility of fulfilling all of their dreams, the siblings must face an innate rivalry as well as their own demons and limitations.

Director: Carlos Cuarón
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Comedy

Joueuse (Queen to Play) Hélène works as a hotel maid in a small Corsican village. Her humdrum routine is interrupted one day when she notices a young couple playing chess. Fascinated by the game and eager to learn it, Hélène seeks the help of Mister Kröger (Kevin Klein), a doctor in the village who reluctantly agrees to be her mentor. Under his guidance, she prepares for a tournament -- but she is not prepared for the passion she will discover and the profound effect it will have on her life.

Director: Caroline Bottaro
Year: 2009
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama

Let's Make Money The financial crisis is sending shockwaves all over the world, yet most of us have no idea where our money is. The only sure thing is that it's not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank has submitted it for circulation in the global money market. Following the tracks of money through the world-wide finance system, Let's Make Money points out the consequences of our greed for money.

Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
Year: 2008
Language: German, Spanish, English, Tamil and French
Genre: Documentary

One Week When confronted with his mortality, Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) impulsively buys a vintage motorcycle and sets off on a road trip that starts in Toronto and ends up on Vancouver Island in the town of Tofino. Humourous, profound and extremely moving, One Week uses the great Canadian landscape as the backdrop to the story of a man and his life’s journey. In the search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.

Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2008
Language: English & French
Genre: Adventure, Canadian, Drama

S is for Sexy A series of shorts from across the globe focuses on gay men looking for love. There is some success and there is some failure but each short offers a geniune slice of humanity.

Director: Johnathon Blanc, Jason Butchman etc
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT

Nurse.Fighter.Boy NURSE: JUDE is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. FIGHTER: SILENCE is a ‘past his prime’ boxer who fights illegally to survive. BOY: CIEL is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care causing their three fates to be forever entwined.

Director: Charles Officer
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Loft Five friends, all married men, share a luxury loft apartment – a secret getaway they use to meet their mistresses. Their carefree affairs take an ill-fated turn when the body of a dead woman is found chained to the bed. Afraid to go to the police, lest their lecherous digressions be revealed to their wives, the men stay quiet. Certain that one among them must be the killer, they soon grow suspicious of one another. As their paranoia grows, they run the risk of destroying old friendships and outing their dark secret to the world.

Director: Erik Van Looy
Year: 2008
Language: Flemish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance, Mystery

Sugar Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.

Director: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Donkey Punch It's party time on the Mediterranean and three hot girls are out to lose themselves in a hedonistic whirlwind of sun-soaked, booze-drenched, depraved fun. When a group of likeminded lads offers to keep the party going by taking them to their luxury yacht, it's just the glamourous adventure the girls are up for. The evening suddenly erupts into a drug-fuelled frenzy of bizzare sex acts including the 'donkey punch,' savage violence and a ruthless fight for survival ...

Director: Oliver Blackburn
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Crime

Harvard vs. Yale Harvard Stadium November 23, 1968. With Vietnam raging, Nixon in the White House, and issues from civil rights to women's lib dividing the country, Harvard and Yale, both teams undefeated for the first time since 1909, meet for the annual climax of the Ivy League football season. On the blue-blooded Yale campus, gridiron fever has made local celebrities out of a Yale team led by quarterback Brian Dowling, who hadn't lost a game that he finished since the 7th grade, and who was the role model for Doonesbury's "B.D." At civil unrest scarred Harvard, a melting pot team of working class players, antiwar activists, and a decorated Vietnam vet set aside their differences for the Big Game. Together, Yale and Harvard stage an unforgettable football contest that baffled even their own coaches.

Director: Kevin Rafferty
Year: 2008
Language: English

Baghead While the Duplass Brothers were shooting their last feature film The Puffy Chair, a crew member raised the question “what’s the scariest thing you can think of?” Someone immediately said “a guy with a bag on his head staring into your window.” Some agreed, but some thought it was downright ridiculous and, if anything, funny (but definitely not scary). Thus, BAGHEAD was born, an attempt to take the absurdly low-concept idea of a “guy with a bag on his head” and make a funny, truthful, endearing film that, maybe, just maybe, was a little bit scary, too.

Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

CJ7 From Stephen Chow, the director and star of Kung Fu Hustle, comes CJ7, a new comedy. Ti (Stephen Chow) is a poor father who works all day, everyday at a construction site to make sure his son Dicky Chow (Xu Jian) can attend an elite private school. Despite his father's good intentions, Dicky, with his dirty and tattered clothes and none of the "cool" toys stands out from his schoolmates like a sore thumb. Ti can't afford to buy Dicky any expensive toys and goes to the best place he knows to get new stuff for Dicky - the junk yard! While out "shopping" for a new toy for his son, Ti finds a mysterious orb and brings it home for Dicky to play with. To his surprise and disbelief, the orb reveals itself to Dicky as a bizarre "pet" with extraordinary powers. Armed with his "CJ7" Dicky seizes this chance to overcome his poor background and shabby clothes and impress his fellow schoolmates for the first time in his life. But CJ7 has other ideas.

Director: Stephen Chow
Year: 2008
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

India Reborn MYTH AND MIGHT: An array of charismatic characters introduces you to the world’s newest superpower. Experience the rich tapestry of India’s ancient myths played out against the modern might of this sprawling, diverse democracy. INDIA ON THE MOVE: Capture the excitement of cities pulsating with new wealth from a surging economy. Experience the despair of a countryside rife with loss and longing. MANUFACTURING DREAMS: Through the prism of Bollywood, Manufacturing Dreams pulls back the curtain on the new India, revealing a cast of diverse characters caught in a world of bright spectacle… and stark divisions. MOTHER INDIA: Tradition and modernity collide and merge in a spicy and delicious episode about “the land of a thousand dishes” during a time of unparalleled change.

Director: various
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Redbelt Set in the west-side of Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types, Redbelt, is the story of Mike Terry (Chewitel Ejiofor), a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai’s code. Terry and his wife Sondra (Alicia Braga), struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry’s life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time of his life.

Director: David Mamet
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Downloading Nancy Albert (Rufus Sewell) comes home from work one day to find a note from his wife Nancy (Maria Bello) saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis (Jason Patric). Nancy and Louis take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in her life. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.

Director: Johan Renck
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Late Fragment Eyelids smeared with black shadow, a teenage girl pulls the trigger on a sleeping man. In an instant, lives shatter: A distant mother is haunted by love, lust, betrayal and memories of a dead man. She lives in a world of denial. A repressed man has lost everything - marriage, career and the respect of his son. He sees blood on the floor. Now it’s gone. Onstage in a nightclub, a beautiful young man dances provocatively for an older one. He could be a lover. Or a father. Or a stranger. Faye, Kevin and Théo - three troubled strangers, three lives fractured by thoughts and acts of seething violence. In the interactive feature film Late Fragment, you navigate their interlocking narratives with a simple click. These characters meet only in a series of Restorative Justice group sessions for perpetrators and victims of violent crime. There they confront their histories and you, the audience, unravel their secrets by piecing together the cinematic narrative in front of you.

Director: Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron, Mateo Guez
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

I've Loved You So Long A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Director: Philippe Claudel
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Memoires des anges, la Luc Bourdon's The Memories of Angels is a poignant collage of Montreal’s glorious and romantic past, brimming with poetic delicacy and exuberance for life. Assembling clips from over 100 films produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film revisits the famous figures, symbolic places and colourful residents of the Montreal of the ’50s and ’60s.

Director: Luc Bourdon
Year: 2008
Language: Français, English
Genre: Documentary

Tony Manero Raul Peralta, a middle-aged criminal in 1970's Chile, is obsessed the idea of impersonating Tony Manero, John Travolta¹s character in Saturday Night Fever. Every Saturday night, he unleashes his passion for the film's music by imitating his idol and leading a small group of dancers as they perform at a bar in the outskirts of the city. His dream of being recognized as a successful showbiz star is about to become a reality when a Tony Manero impersonating contest is announced on national television. However, his obsession to reproduce his idol's likeness and perfect his act drives him to commit a series of violent crimes and thefts, leading to shocking violence and murder.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Year: 2008
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Secret Défence A counter terrorism thriller following the interconnected lives of an undercover agent and the terrorist she’s following. Diane, a language student, is recruited by the French secret service. Pierre, a troubled young man, falls under the influence of an Islamist fanatic who believes that terrorism is a legitimate means to achieve his objectives. Trained and indoctrinated for missions which are beyond them, they are both drawn into a chain of events from which they seem incapable of escaping …

Director: Philippe Haïm
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Thriller

Narrows, The "The Narrows" is a gritty crime drama set in New York City. Mike Manadoro (Kevin Zegers), a 19-year-old from Brooklyn, will do almost anything to get out of his neighborhood and away from his father (Vincent D'Onofrio) to study photography at a Manhattan university. When local mob boss Tony offers Mike a high paying job delivering mysterious packages, he takes it. Juggling new friendships, old loyalties, a new romance (Sophia Bush), an old romance (Monica Keena) and the world of organized crime, Mike's choices invite dangerous and potentially fatal consequences for himself and everyone around him.

Director: Francois Velle
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Mes Stars et Moi Fascinated by actresses, Robert is undoubtedly the clingiest fan in French cinema. A handling agent by night in a large artistic agency, he devotes his days to "his" stars, whom he follows relentlessly, not hesitating to interfere in their lives. Working together on the same film set, his three favourite actresses discover one day that they have the same problem...with the same fan. They thus decide to join forces and settle their score with him: they were his idols, but they become his worst nightmare!

Director: Laetitia Colombani
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Mia et le Migou Mia is a young South American girl. Just after her tenth birthday she has a premonition and decides to leave her village to go look for her father. Her dad works at a giant construction site whose goal it turn a rain forest into a luxury resort. But that's a long way from Mia and the journey will be difficult. She must climb a tall mountain, surrounded by a mysterious forest filled with unknown creatures. At the heart of the forest, Mia discovers a very special tree with marvelous powers. An extraordinary adventure for all...

Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Family, Animation

Stoning of Soraya M., The Based on Freidoune Sahebjam’s acclaimed international best-seller, Academy Award® nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (“House of Sand and Fog”) stars in the heroic role of Zahra, an Iranian woman with a burning secret. When a journalist (Jim Caviezel, “The Passion Of The Christ” ) is stranded in her remote village, she takes a bold chance to reveal a truth that the villagers will stop at nothing to keep hidden. And so unfolds the remarkable story of Soraya, a woman whose cruel husband conspires against her by trumping up charges of infidelity, which carry a severe and unimaginable penalty. Based on a true story, this powerful tale of persecution becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule.

Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Year: 2008
Language: Persian/English
Genre: Drama

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai One person can make a difference! TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into Kenya's "Greenbelt Movement" —a globally recognized movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. TAKING ROOT details how Maathai mobilized women to rally against deforestation, poverty, embedded economic interests, and government corruption ... becoming a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. TAKING ROOT captures a world view in which nothing is perceived as impossible ...

Director: Alan Dater and Lisa Merton
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long) This powerful story of familial struggles and redemption follows a shell-shocked Juliette (Scott-Thomas), who returns to live with her younger sister Lea (Zylberstein) after being banished from the family for 15 years. An enormous critical and box office success in France, Scott-Thomas' phenomenal performance has already been singled out by critics for end-of-year award consideration.

Director: Phillipe Claudel
Year: 2008
Language: French/English
Genre: Drama

Pageant PAGEANT takes you behind the scenes as 52 ordinary gentlemen go to extraordinary lengths to be crowned Miss Gay America®. PAGEANT follows five of the most talented and beautiful female impersonators as they prepare to dominate in this underground competition. The contest is about the art of illusion, so enhancements such as hormones are forbidden. Instead, the men work their magic using makeup, costumes, and movement. Interviews with the competitors, their families and support teams reveal the hopes and dreams that motivate these men, while stunning musical numbers show off their amazing talents.

Director: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern-Fingerhut
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Shuttle Jules and Mel are returning from a girls’ weekend vacation in Mexico. They board an airport shuttle, along with two frat boys and a nervous accountant, for what should be a short trip home. But when the driver takes a detour through a seedy neighborhood, he sparks a chain of terrifying events that will test his passengers’ character and strength. Against this gruesome and relentless oppressor, they will face the fight of their lives - and they will have to be fierce and resourceful if they are to have any chance of survival.

Director: Edward Anderson
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Drifting Flowers OFFICIAL SELECTION, BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL! WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD, BEST WOMEN'S FILM: PITTSBURGH GLBT FILM FEST Teddy Award-winning Director Zero Chou (Spider Lilies) weaves three poetic tales as the lesbians in Drifting Flowers seek their true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band’s tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.

Director: Zero Chou
Year: 2008
Language: Mandarin
Genre: GLBT

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast-moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson's life--his intense and ill-fated relationship with the Hells Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, and much more.

Director: Alex Gibney
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography

Frozen River Courtney’s feature-length script is set in a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between New York State and Quebec where the lure of fast money presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be making minimum wage. Strapped for money and having been deserted by her husband, working class Ray (Melissa Leo), reluctantly teams up with Lila (Misty Upham), a widowed Mohawk Indian, to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. in the trunk of a Dodge Spirit. Both women swear each trip will be their last, but one final run across the river leads to a showdown with the law on all sides.

Director: Courtney Hunt
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

French Lovers Have All The Answers Why is it that French lovers seem to have all the answers, while the rest of us have only questions? Could it be that French is the true language of love? English journalist Jed Winter is a skeptic, and while interviewing a celebrated French film-maker, he finds his own romantic life plays out like the plot of a French film. When his long-term girlfriend, Cheryl, refuses to marry him and instead forces him into couples counseling, Jed begins to realize that his own emotions aren't as straightforward as he once believed. And it isn't until his relationship falls apart that Jed truly falls in love - the French way.

Director: Jackie Oudney
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Man on Wire On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. James Marsh’s documentary brings Petit’s extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as “the artistic crime of the century.”

Director: James Marsh
Year: 2008
Language: English/French
Genre: Documentary, Biography

The Toe Tactic Writer-director-animator Emily Hubley’s feature length debut The Toe Tactic is a “highly emotional fable” (Gillian Reagan, New York Observer) that imaginatively fuses live action and animation (in the style Hubley memorably brought to life in Hedwig and the Angry Inch). A light-hearted and perceptive exploration of memory, regret and the nature of reality itself, The Toe Tactic follows Mona Peek (Lily Rabe) on an impulsive visit to her abandoned suburban childhood home. There, her lonely life is shaken by a flood of grief for her dead father and nostalgia for the world the two shared in decades gone by. A lost wallet and a buried bone become the keys to a playfully fractured reality of talking dogs, a single mom, her son, his piano teacher, an amorous elevator man, an eccentric dowager, and the intricate web of secrets, longings and intersections that connects them.

Director: Emily Hubley
Year: 2008
Language: English

Tyson Tyson is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a startlingly complex, fully-rounded human being emerges. The film ranges from Tyson’s earliest memories of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, to his rollercoaster ride in the funhouse of worldwide fame and fortunes won and lost. It is the story of a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon, a figure conjuring radical questions of race and class. In its depiction of a man rising from the most debased circumstances to unlimited heights, destroyed by his own hubris, TYSON emerges as a modern day version of classic Greek tragedy.

Director: James Toback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Wackness, The Its the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana. The newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. The Wackness centers upon a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck)a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley), a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression. Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, The Wackness captures the spell of 1994--a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, The Wackness is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.

Director: Jonathan Levine
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and the enduring I ? NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos, and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings, the documentary offers audiences a much richer appreciation for one of the great modern renaissance men. Artfully directed by first time filmmaker Wendy Keys, the film glances into everyday moments of Glaser's personal life and capture his immense warmth, humanity and the boundless depth of his intelligence and creativity.

Director: Wendy Keys
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

De L'autre côté du lit (Changing Sides) Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman... But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?

Director: Pascale Pouzadoux
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Flow: For Love of Water The world water crisis has rapidly become one of the most topical issues of our day as our global resources dwindle. Tensions continue to mount between politics, the environment and human rights in the battle for the future of our planet’s supply of drinking water. Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary FLOW (For Love Of Water) investigates this crisis at the global and human scale like never before, begging the question: Can anyone really OWN water? FLOW offers a scathing look at the emergence of a world water cartel as well as an examination of the solutions we can embrace in the future. FLOW will make you thirsty for change!

Director: Irena Salina
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

North Face In 1936, the Nazi party was fervently demonstrating its superiority to the rest of the world. Turning its attention toward the "unclimbable" North Face of the Eiger, German officials commissioned two competing teams to conquer the treacherous rock wall. The ascent goes smoothly at first, but an accident brings the teams together, forcing them to battle the elements as one in an exhilarating race against time.

Director: Philipp Stölzl
Year: 2008
Language: German, French, Italian with English subtitles
Genre: Adventure, History, Thriller, Sports, Drama, Biography

Forgotten Woman, The Following the international success of Deepa Mehta’s Oscar-nominated film Water, which has achieved, to date, sales of over $15 million and more than 1,000,000 viewers, Ms. Mehta received thousands of letters from the audience. After viewing the film, many wanted to know more about the state of widows in India today. The Forgotten Woman was made in direct response to this interest and aims to bring about an understanding of the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions of widows in India today, who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated from and shunned by the society at large. The film explores how these widows, coerced by their families to give up their possessions, become non-entities in society.

Director: Dilip Mehta
Year: 2008
Language: Bengali/Hindi/English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Orgies and the Meaning of Life Orgies and the Meaning of Life is a funny and exciting film illuminating the inner and outer life of Baxter Goode, a man trying to find an ending to his book (about a sex obsessed stick figure searching for a portal to the three dimensional world) even as his father, a best selling Christian author, tries to stop him. His life is further complicated by his search for the ‘one’, a woman he is sure will liberate him from his long addiction to orgy fantasies. Both of these pursuits are somehow connected to God, who may or may not be a stick figure, and Baxter’s lesbian roommate, who may or may not be imaginary.

Director: Brad T. Gottfred
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Crime est Notre Affaire, Le A delightful whodunit, this adaptation of Agatha Christie's "The House of Lurking Death". tells the comedic adventures of Belisaire and Prudence Bersford. Prudence ventures off to a creepy chateau in the middle of a forest to solve a murder mystery. When her husband catches up with her, the pair of amateur sleuths bumbles their way through solving the crime!

Director: Pascal Thomas
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Take Out Authentic, suspenseful, funny, and alive with surprising detail, Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s Take Out reveals an unseen world of illegal Chinese immigrants at work in New York City. A day in the life of Ming Ding (Charles Jang) begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming’s squalid apartment. Their ultimatum is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill: “You give us $800 tonight, or your debt is doubled.” With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job -- anonymously and almost wordlessly delivering Chinese food on Manhattan’s Upper West Side -- in which to pay off his thuggish creditors. Deftly combining professionals and non-actors with ingenious DV photography, Take Out intelligently illuminates an immigrant underdog and his small community of harried co-workers with the same in-the-moment, pragmatic honesty with which Ming endures the constant deprivations of life on the American margin.

Director: Sean Baker & Shih-Ching Tsou
Year: 2008
Language: English and Chinese

Sex: How To Do Everything SEX: How To Do Everything is a groundbreaking ten-part series featuring renowned sexperts Em & Lo setting out to whip your sex life into seriously seductive shape. Each episode is full of information, interviews and how-to demonstrations from various models illustrating a variety of different techniques, from the ordinary to the super-scandalous. Aimed equally at guys and gals, singles and couples - Em & Lo will stop at nothing to dish out all there is to know about everything from orgasms and seduction to roleplay and toys. So don't be afraid of some explicit explorations of sex in every flavor - SEX: How To Do Everything is a fun-loving series designed to get you having better sex and more of it.

Director: Andy Devonshire
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Surviving Crooked Lake Four friends take an overnight canoe trip to celebrate their last year of camp together. 14-year-old Steph is deathly afraid of water, and is only persuaded to go when her brother Jonah agrees to be their guide. But their fun-filled adventure takes a dark turn when an accident claims Jonah¿ life. The girls are suddenly stranded - lost and alone in the wilderness. It doesn¿ help when Steph insists that they bring Jonah¿ body along, making their uncertain journey home all the more perilous.

Director: Sascha Drews, Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Mr. Right In this colourful romantic comedy, a group of beautiful, successful young men experience the pleasures and pitfalls of their complicated modern urban relationships. Living fast-paced and flashy lives in London, the men seem to orbit Louise, a woman who serially dates men who turn out to be gay. The friends’ love lives entangle as they help one another navigate careers, aspirations, love, and even parenthood. And as their lives overlap in the pursuit of sex, love, and fortune, they will have to learn what love and friendship are truly about.

Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Comedy

Sicilienne, la The Sicilian Girl is inspired by the true story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old girl who suffers the loss of her father and brother, slain members of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. Unwilling to grieve in silence, Rita collaborates with anti-Mafia police investigators to bring her family’s murderers to justice. But in order to honour her family, she must betray another – putting herself, and anyone willing to help her, in grave danger.

Director: Marco Amenta
Year: 2008
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Crime

Hollywood je t'aime After a breakup, gay Parisian Jerome impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. Like many before him, he plans to pursue his secret dream to become a movie star – and, of course, to find love along with fame and fortune! Completely naïve about what he is getting into, Jerome nonetheless hooks up with some colorful locals, and stumbles headlong into an acting role. Nothing about Hollywood quite matches Jerome’s fantasies, however, and his misadventures are both hilarious and touching.

Director: Jason Bushman
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Frontrunners Frontrunners follows four charming and idiosyncratic high school candidates as they run for Student Council President in one of the most competitive high schools in America - New York City's Stuyvesant. These teenage candidates face the same political issues as candidates of any age; picking the right running mates, shaking as many hands as possible, preparing for televised debates, impressing the pundits and journalistic community, addressing sensitive race-related issues and mobilizing an apathetic voter base. A smart and funny documentary that shows politicking and the pluralities of the US electoral system through an adolescent experience.

Director: Caroline Suh
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Kreutzer Sonata, The Edgar (Danny Huston) is married to beautiful pianist Abby (Elisabeth Röhm), but despite two children and a happy marriage, sexual jealousy overtakes him when Abby starts working with a handsome young violinist. Edgar's possessiveness begins to overwhelm him and his marriage, as a tragic ending slowly develops into a certainty. Danny and Anjelica Huston shine in this adaptation of the short story by Leo Tolstoy, set to the music of Beethoven.

Director: Bernard Rose
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Children of Huang Shi, The About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Rachel Getting Married When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party’s abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demmes films, Rachel Getting Married paints a strikingly perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait. Director Demme, first-time writer Jenny Lumet, and the stellar acting ensemble leaven the drama of these difficult but compelling people with wry affection and generosity of spirit.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Sans Rancune! While attending boarding school in post-war Belgium, 17-year-old Laurent searches for his father, who disappeared during an air raid. He feels as though he has found him in the charismatic French teacher, Vapour, an eccentric figure who inspires Laurent to become a writer. Laurent’s quest to find his father becomes entangled in the plot of his first novel, and as he investigates his uncertain past, he will be forced to confront the truth of his present.

Director: Yves Anchar
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Training Rules TRAINING RULES examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes to be dismissed from their college team due to allegations of homosexuality. The film follows the lawsuit filed by student athlete Jennifer Harris in 2006 against Portland and Penn State. This high profile case ignited the world of women’s collegiate sports. It inspired the discussions so sorely needed to end discrimination based on sexual orientation that pervades organized sport. Powerfully narrated by international swimming great Diana Nyad (National Public Radio), TRAINING RULES is a riveting must-see film.

Director: Fawn Yacker and Dee Mosbacher
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Headless Woman, The A mysterious and intriguing tale of a woman who may have killed someone or something while driving on a dirt road. Dazed and confused, she tries to piece together what happened, while her husband systematically tries to erase her tracks. From the acclaimed director of THE HOLY GIRL, Lucrecia Martel’s third feature explores the intricacies of class in a male dominated society.

Director: Lucrecia Martel
Year: 2008
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Return to Sleepaway Camp It's summer as usual at Camp Manabe, where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak, where he worked two decades earlier...

Director: Robert Hiltzik
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Mystery

Don't Look Down (No mires para abajo) When his father dies, grief-stricken 19-year-old Eloy begins an unusual habit of sleepwalking. One night, stumbling across rooftops in a daze, he accidentally tumbles into the open window of his beautiful neighbor, Elvira - nine years his senior. Her intense desire for Eloy is heightened by her studies of tantric sex techniques and quickly she takes him as her willing pupil. Entwined by destiny, the two are soon exploring hidden realms of eroticism the young man never knew existed...as she opens his eyes to the possibilities of lovemaking, he's introduced to new worlds that allow him to leave his body and travel through time and space.

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Year: 2008
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Triage TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI'S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA follows the powerful odyssey of James Orbinski, a humanitarian and doctor who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. In TRIAGE he returns to Africa to ponder the meaning of his life's work and the value of helping others. Drawing on his experience deep in the trenches of genocide and famine, this extraordinary man relives the triumphs and tragedies of relief work in Somalia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bristling with energy, TRIAGE brings the causes and cures of conflict into sharp focus through Orbinski's unflinching, fearless perspective.

Director: Patrick Reed
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Last Stop 174 Based on true events, "Last Stop 174" tells the story of Sandro, a boy who loved to rap, to kiss, and whose dream was to see Copacabana. Sandro witnessed the murder of his mother and then moved to his aunt's, from where he escaped and became a street child. The movie tells the parallel saga of Marisa, a mother searching for her son who was stolen from her when he was still a baby, by the drug kingpin of the ghetto where she lived. The two stories intertwine and culminate in the hijacking of a city bus.

Director: Bruno Barreto
Year: 2008
Language: Portugese
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Dante 01 Deep in the abyss of space, a floating asylum for the criminally insane known as Dante 01 orbits the volatile surface of planet Dante. Throughout the ship's twisted corridors, inmates are used as guinea pigs in a host of highly dangerous experiments. When an enigmatic new inmate arrives, armed with the mysterious ability to heal, a deadly struggle for control is ignited. Blending arresting visuals with cryptic storytelling, visionary filmmaker Marc Caro ("Alien Resurrection") delivers a mind-bending sci-fi nightmare that will leave you breathless.

Director: Marc Caro
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Half Life Writer-director Jennifer Phang's bold film combines live action with amazing animated flights of fancy to tell a powerful story. In a changing world, a precocious boy and his jaded sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's charmingly manipulative boyfriend. Through imaginative powers, they escape their confining homelife, save their self-destructive mother, and finally, reinvent their world in a mind-bending conclusion.

Director: Jennifer Phang
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Ashes of Time Redux Ashes of Time Redux is inspired by Louis Cha's novel "The Eagle-Shooting Heroes." It centers on a man named Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung). Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to carry out contract killings. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of this solitude...

Director: Kar Wai Wong
Year: 2008
Language: Cantonese with English Subtitles
Genre: World Cinema

I Can See You Three aspiring ad-men take a weekend in the wilderness to brainstorm their assignment: the re-branding of a once popular cleaning product. Out in the woods, strange technical anomalies begin to plague their equipment. As night falls, the trio encounters temptress Summer Day (Heather Robb) fanning old flames and inflaming old rivalries. A mysterious disappearance sparks a harrowing descent into unreality. This double-feature DVD also features THE VIEWER... A brand new 3D stereoscopic short film from director Graham Reznick.

Director: Graham Reznick
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Hello, Goodbye Alain (Gerard Depardieu) is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele (Fanny Ardant) most of his adult life. Looking for a change and eager to embrace their Jewish heritage, they decide to pull up stakes and move from Paris to Tel Aviv. But fate puts a damper on their enthusiasm when the apartment they rented is not at all what they expected, their baggage gets lost en route, Alain's job falls through, and to add insult to injury, Gisele strikes up an uncomfortably close friendship with a handsome young rabbi (Lior Ashkenazi).

Director: Graham Guit
Year: 2008
Language: French, English
Genre: Comedy

Let The Right One In A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale, serious young girl, she only comes out at night and doesn’t seem affected by the freezing temperatures. Coinciding with Eli’s arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. Blood seems to be the common denominator - and for an introverted boy like Oskar, who is fascinated by gruesome stories, it doesn’t take long before he figures out that Eli is a vampire. But by now a subtle romance has blossomed between Oskar and Eli, and she gives him the strength to fight back against his aggressors.

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Year: 2008
Language: Swedish
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance

Not Quite Hollywood Unashamedly packed full of pubes, boobs, tubes... and Kung Fu, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is a fast-moving journey through Australian genre cinema of the '70s and early '80s - a forgotten cinematic era. Featuring outrageous anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking, a smattering of international names (including 'Ozploitation' devotee Quentin Tarantino), NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD will charm and thrill you with its infectious love of Aussie movies.

Director: Mark Hartley
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Dear Zachary On the evening of Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania. The prime suspect, his ex- girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. Johns, Newfoundland -- where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for little Zachary to learn about his father -- until Shirley Turner, whom Canada allowed to walk free on bail while awaiting extradition to the United States, took matters into her own hands....

Director: Kurt Kuenne
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Documentary, Biography

S.O.P. Standard Operating Procedure Errol Morris, Academy Award® winning documentary filmmaker, trains his camera on the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, the photographs that exposed the scandal and the procedures and legal opinions that made it possible. After two-plus years of investigation, yielding a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs, Morris discovers that "Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an expose and a coverup. An expose,because the photographs offer us a glimpse of the horror of Abu Ghraib; and a coverup because they convinced journalists and readers they had seen everything, that there was no need to look further." While exposing the previously unpublicized scope of the abuse Morris tries to answer the essential and unresolved question, "how could American values become so compromised that Abu Ghraib and the subsequent coverup-could happen?"

Director: Errol Morris
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Growing Op GROWING OP is a provocative dramatic comedy about a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is either paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed neo-hippie criminals, Quinn Dawson is a lonely kid who yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world around him. When his new neighbor Crystal turns out to be the blonde girl of the his dreams, Quinn is motivated to rebel against his parents and attend high-school for the first time.

Director: Michael Melski
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Unwinking Gaze, The The Unkwinking Gaze was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China. David and Goliath is played out in front of us as the world’s emerging superpower and the Dalai Lama walk a tightrope over an issue of global importance.

Director: Joshua Dugdale
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Let the Right One In Limited Edition Bullied and lonely, Oskar is a timid 12 year old boy whose dream for a friend finally comes true when Eli moves in next door. The strange young girl is ghostly pale, only comes out at night and is unaffected by freezing temperatures. Coinciding with Eli's arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders that cause Oskar's inquisitive mind to race. Caught between the innocence of childhood romance and the truth of Eli's identity, this darkly atmospheric tale is also an unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence.

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Year: 2008
Language: Swedish with English Subtitles
Genre: Thriller

Lost Song Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple's happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the yong woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth's distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens it's grip.

Director: Rodrigue Jean
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Gates, The In February, 2005, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed 7,500 arches (gates), curtained with orange cloth that waved and billowed and decked miles of walkways in Central Park in Manhattan. "The Gates" stood for 16 days, the first unfurled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who championed the project, giving it the okay after the artists 25-year quest to gain approval. Archival footage shows pro-and-con debates and various mayors and commissions turning down the project. By the end, "The Gates" installed, the camera travels a winter landscape, orange shining through trees and reflected in ponds. Passers-by, quintessential New Yorkers, express pleasure. Art dwarfs the nay-sayers.

Director: Albert Maysles, Antonio Ferrera
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Resurrection County When traveling through Resurrection County, watch your step and mind the signs. One false move could be your last. When two suburban couples roll into the backwoods southern town of Enoch for a weekend of all-terrain riding, their camping trip turns deadly at the hands of bloodthirsty locals who don't take kindly to outsiders.

Director: Matt Zettell
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Terribly Happy White-knuckle suspense meets delightfully quirky noir in Terribly Happy, an expertly crafted mood piece that plays like a collaboration between David Lynch and the Coen brothers. After suffering a nervous breakdown, straight-laced cop Robert Hansen is pulled away from his wife and children in the city and reassigned to what feels like "The Twilight Zone"--a remote small town inhabited by a collection of strange, enigmatic characters. In the blink of an eye, his first case appears: a damsel in distress seeking protection from her booze-guzzling husband. Probing the townspeople for answers merely sinks Robert deeper into mystery and danger. Can he escape the clutches of his nightmare and make it back to his family?

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Year: 2008
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Colin Already a worldwide phenomenon with huge media coverage, Colin is the first zombie movie told from the zombie's perspective. Our hero Colin is bitten by a zombie; he dies and returns as one of the undead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse. Made for only $75, this is the zombie phenomenon that cannot be missed!

Director: Marc Price
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action

Every Little Step EVERY LITTLE STEP explores the incredible journey of A CHORUS LINE from ambitious idea to international phenomenon. The film compares and contrasts the original musical with the current revival and investigates the societies in which they’ve debuted, and why the themes are so timeless and universal. It goes behind the scenes with exclusive interviews and footage of a revival’s audition process, revealing the dramatic journey of the performers, unfolding a story of life imitating art.

Director: Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Go Fast When special agent Marek’s friend, Jean-Do Paoli, is killed in action by drug traffickers, Marek asks to be posted to a new undercover drug unit. There he infiltrates a gang that makes quick cash smuggling hashish using fast cars and high-powered speed boats. Racing from Morocco to Spain, and then on to France, Go Fast is an adrenaline rush fueled by fast action, dangerous deals, and one man’s quest for vengeance.

Director: Olivier Van Hoofstadt
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action

Queen and I, The 30 years after filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani participated in the revolution to overthrow the Shah and the Monarchy regime in Iran, she finds herself still fascinated by the former queen whose fairytale life had intrigued her as a child. Disillusioned by the Islamic revolution that betrayed her trust and forced her into exile, Persson Sarvestani turns the focus to her new film to an unlikely subject: Queen Farah Pahlavi, wife of the former and late Shah of Iran. In the process of filming the antagonist of her revolutionary past for almost two years, Persson Sarvestani and her former enemy encounter frequent confrontations and revelations that evolve into an unforeseen journey of two women in exile, who have more in common than either of them could envision.

Director: Nahid Persson Savestani
Year: 2008
Language: Persian/English
Genre: Documentary

Julia (2008) Julia (Tilda Swinton) struggles to maintain her flamboyant lifestyle of partying and one-night stands. An alcoholic at 40, surviving on nickel-and-dime jobs, Julia will lie, cheat, and steal to get what she wants. But when her desire and desperation drive her to commit an extremely violent act, she is forced to choose between life and death...

Director: Erick Zonca
Year: 2008
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Class, The (Entre les Murs) Click on the PRESS tab (above, right) to download the study guide. Cannes Film Festival - Golden Palm Winner Francois and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeapordize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. Francois insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods...

Director: Laurent Cantet
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Drama

New Protocol, The One morning, Raoul Kraft learns that his 18-year-old son has died in a car accident. Soon after, Diane, a young activist from Paris, arrives with a troubling revelation: It may not have been an accident after all. She tells Kraft that his son was part of the testing protocol for a new medication, and the drug’s side-effects could have cost him his life. Kraft leaves with Diane for Paris to investigate his son’s death and with Diane’s help, he leaves his simple world behind. Pursued, attacked, shot at... they go on the run and get caught up in the New Protocol, where the truth is never what you expect …

Director: Thomas Vincent
Year: 2008
Language: French/English/German
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action, Mystery

Legend of the Tsunami Warrior On the treacherous high seas, a battle for power intensifies as a rebel prince joins forces with a rogue band of pirates to overthrow the kingdom of Pattani, led by Queen Hijau and her two daughters. The key to victory lies in a massive, state-of-the-art cannon submerged deep in the ocean's abyss, guarded by enormous jelly fish. Who will wield the prized artifact depends upon which party can master the ancient art of Dim Lum -- the power to manipulate the forces of the ocean.

Director: Nonzee Nimibutr
Year: 2008
Language: Thai
Genre: Adventure, World Cinema, History, Fantasy, Action

Three Monkeys If you ignore the truth, will it go away? This is the central theme of THREE MONKEYS, a film noir whose title refers to the adage: see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Best Director prize for this story about a politician who hits a pedestrian with his car and asks his driver to take the rap. Gradually the driver and his family discover their lies beget tragedy. More narrative than Ceylan's previous Cannes favorites (DISTANT and CLIMATES), THREE MONKEYS bears all his trademarks, including brooding cityscapes, a natural soundtrack, and breathtaking cinematography.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Year: 2008
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama

Pedro This exciting new feature film celebrates the extraordinary life of Pedro Zamora; a young man who when he found out he was HIV positive at 17, made the courageous decision to dedicate the rest of his life to speaking out about his condition in an attempt to raise awareness about the disease in his community. His appearance on The Real World brought his story and his message to MTV’s youthful audience and beyond; and when Zamora’s health began to deteriorate in late 1994 (after he left the show), it became front page news nationwide, and his death at age 22 provoked a worldwide outpouring of grief.

Director: Nick Oceano
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Inju Alex Fayard, a successful crime novel author, has been invited to Japan for the release of his latest book. One night, he encounters Tamao, a geisha, who confides to him her fears. One of her former lovers, who may well be Shundei Oe, a novelist famous for his extremely violent and disturbing books, is threatening to kill her. Fayard, an Oe specialist, agrees to help her and finds himself pitted against a man who turns his trip into a bloody investigation where fiction becomes indistinguishable from reality.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Mystery

Heaven on Earth Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young woman who travels from India to Canada to marry Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj), a man she has never met. Her dream of a new life morphs into a nightmare as marriage to Rocky and his family becomes a numbing spiral of confusion and pain. Chand finds hope in her friendship with Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a street-smart woman from Jamaica who works with Chand at a laundry factory. Rosa gives Chand a magical root and promises that it will make Rocky fall deeply in love with her. The experiment ends in a surreal parallel life that mirrors an Indian fable involving a King Cobra.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2008
Language: Punjabi, English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Down to the Dirt Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town in Newfoundland. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret… as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with his father. When Keith meets the darkly exotic Natasha, his life is changed forever. Scary, sexy, and funny -- and sometimes all three at once – Down to the Dirt is a raw and poignant adaptation of the internationally acclaimed novel .. a visceral, darkly humorous chronicle of the transformative power of love, and the improbable roads that lead to redemption

Director: Justin Simms
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Resolution 819 The United Nations’ Resolution 819 was adopted by the UN Security Council to verify and condemn crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Balkans Conflict, after the independence of Bosnia Herzegovina. With this mandate, the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague sends volunteer French police officer Jacques Calvez to Srebrenica to find evidence of the genocide carried out by the Bosnian Serbs. After six years of research, and hampered by countless obstacles, Calvez institutes proceedings that bring formal accusations against Karadzic and Mladic.

Director: Giacomo Battiato
Year: 2008
Language: French, English
Genre: History, War, Drama

Mulligans Two college friends take a journey home. One of them makes a mistake that may tear a family apart. Sometimes there are no second chances, sometimes there are no mulligans.

Director: Chip Hale
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Canadian, Drama

Ready? Okay! In this hilarious and touching comedy, single mom Andrea struggles to understand her young son Josh. He's smart, happy and enthusiastic - and he's also obsessed with dresses and dolls. And although Andrea convinces him to join the school wrestling team, Josh's true heart's desire is to be a cheerleader. Stars: Carrie Preston (Duplicity, True Blood) as Andrea; Michael Emerson (Lost) as her gay neighbor Charlie; and introducing Lurie Poston as the kid who calls Maria Von Trapp his most influential role model!

Director: James Vasquez
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Junior There's no margin for error, no getting drunk, and no breaking curfew in the high-stakes game of junior hockey. Capture the joys and anguish of young Baie-Comeau players throughout an entire season when the team isn't doing well and the pressure to win is intense. Junior juxtaposes the life the hockey players wish to have - signing autographs and playing for the fun of it - against the reality of the money and wheeling and dealing of the junior hockey league organization. This is not your typical sports documentary: Superb filmmaking and the boys' rough and tumble passage to manhood play out in an entertaining drama which took the Best Canadian Documentary Award at Hot Docs 2008.

Director: Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault
Year: 2008
Language: English/French
Genre: Documentary

Insoumis, Les When a notorious gangland boss escapes from police custody and goes into hiding, it’s up to a tough big-city cop - Vincent Drieu - to track him down. Near the end of his career, Drieu is hardened, disillusioned, and resents being assigned to a hellhole of a town where crime is completely out of control. But unlike his demoralized colleagues, Drieu is determined to carry out his assignment, using whatever means necessary…

Director: Claude-Michel Rome
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

How to Cook Your Life HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE is a cheerful documentary about the art of cooking and the art of cooking your life without burning it, putting too much salt or overcooking it. Food and being determine life, and life determines food. Doris Dörrie and the cooking Zen priest, Edward Brown demonstrates that eating is more than just the intake of food. Cooking is a festival of senses, and an act of love and generosity. During the summer of 2006, Doris Dörrie and her crew filmed Edward Brown at his cooking classes at the Buddhist center, Scheibbs in Austria and the two Californian Buddhist centers, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center in San Francisco, where he teaches people of all generations. Practical and entertaining, Edward Brown knows how to translate those philosophical thoughts into today’s zeitgeist. HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE can change your view on cooking, eating and your own life. You will never again cut your vegetables the way you used to.

Director: Doris Dorrie
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Jihad for Love In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack - from within and without -'A Jihad for Love' is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and eight languages. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma has gone where the silence is loudest, filming with great risk in nations where government permission to make this film was not an option. A Jihad for Love is Mr. Sharma's debut and is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. The director enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, Mr. Sharma makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's characters show for it.

Director: Parvez Sharma
Year: 2007
Language: English/Arabic/Hindi/Persian/Urdu/French
Genre: Documentary

Jane Austen Book Club, The Today’s central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change. We’re still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine. Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within Austen’s beloved narratives.

Director: Robin Swicord
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Timecrimes A man who travels accidentally back to the past and meets himself there. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A scissor-wielding madman with his face covered by a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the toip of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama, and suspense lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who's the murderer? Who's the victim? In Nacho Vigalondo's time-jumping brain-twister, the future is never the same twice!

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Fighter Aicha is a high-school student who is more interested in kung fu than academics. Defying her parents’ strict rules, she begins to train secretly at a professional, co-ed kung fu club. There, she meets Emil, a boy who helps her train for the club championship, and soon wins her heart. As Aicha’s passion for fighting becomes complicated by family conflict and forbidden love, she discovers that the rules of life are not as clear cut as the rules of kung fu.

Director: Natasha Arthy
Year: 2007
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama, Action

Temoins, Les (The Witnesses) Manu arrives in Paris, where he shares a cheap hotel room with his sister Julie. He strikes up a joyous, chaste friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties who opens Manu’s eyes to a different way of life. On a trip out on a speedboat, Adrien introduces Manu to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple who have just had their first child. An unplanned love affair and the onset of the AIDS epidemic - seen by the media and in the collective imagination as a shameful, modern-day plague - upset the ordered tranquility of their individual destinies. Each of them becomes a protagonist in - and witness to - a contemporary tragedy, where those who don’t die may emerge stronger, but not undamaged.

Director: André Téchiné
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Uncorked UNCORKED! is the must-have contemporary guide to wine. This acclaimed and unpretentious public television series strips away the mystique of the world’s most fabled beverage and restores the fun for wine lovers everywhere. Through interviews with some of the most important wine experts, makers and critics, UNCORKED! is as informative as it is entertaining. Narrated by Ted Allen Ted Allen is devoted to making good wine and delicious food accessible to everyone. On the Emmy® Award-winning NBC/Bravo hit Queer Eye, he helped guests and viewers sharpen their cooking and entertaining skills.

Director: Kevin Whelan
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Deuxième Souffle, Le Alain Corneau brings colour and stylized flare to the noir gangster opus in his remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le deuxieme souffle. Gustave Minda, one of France’s most notorious gangsters, escapes from prison and resolves to start fresh. He plans to flee the country with Manouche, the woman he loves. With the police on his heels, Gustave needs one last score to make it work. The job is a success, but the fallout is a disaster. Complications abound, and Gustave will have to do whatever it takes to regain his honour.

Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Brick Lane At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen’s life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.

Director: Sarah Gavron
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

L'île aux trésors (Treasure Island) Adapted from the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is the story of a rag-tag crew of scruffy pirates who set sail for the adventure of a lifetime and a fortune in buried treasure. Without a map or a hope, the team of vagabonds, baronesses and headstrong buccaneers will stop at nothing for their prize. Treasure Island is a fantastic quest for the whole family to enjoy, taking you to the ends of the earth and the edge of your seat.

Director: Alain Berbérian
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Jindabyne On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart, Carl, Rocco and Billy (‘the Kid’) find a girl’s body in the river. It’s too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and report their tragic find. The next morning, instead of making the long trek back, they spend the day fishing. Their decision to stay on at the river is a little mysterious—almost as if the place itself is exerting some kind of magic over them. When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose.

Director: Ray Lawrence
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Youth Without Youth YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH stars Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) as Dominic Matei, a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years prior to World War II. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Mad Detective Detective Bun (Lau Ching Wan) was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief’s farewell party. Branded as ‘mad’ and discharged from the force, he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May (Kelly Lin) ever since. Strangely, Bun has the ability to ‘see’ a person’s inner personality, their subconscious desires, emotions, and mental state. When a missing police gun is linked to several heists and murders, hotshot Inspector Ho (Andy On) calls on the valuable skills of his former mentor Bun to help unlock the killer’s identity. However, Bun’s unorthodox methods point to a fellow detective and take a schizophrenic turn for the worse…

Director: Johnny To, Ka-Fai Wai
Year: 2007
Language: Cantonese/English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action, Mystery

My Father My Lord This modern interpretation of the story of Abraham and Isaac traces the struggles of one Israeli family. With a rigid adherence to religious tenants, a rabbi, his wife and young son lead a life completely devoted to God. As they embark upon their journey to the Dead Sea, a sudden tragedy forces the rabbi to re-evaluate his strict religious beliefs against the wellbeing of his family. My Father, My Lord is a powerful film that artfully explores an extremist worldview put to the ultimate test.

Director: David Volach
Year: 2007
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Steam Steam is an absorbing drama about life's many challenges and rewards. Ruby Dee (American Gangster), Ally Sheedy (High Art) and Kate Siegal (The O.C) are three very different women going through life’s struggles but find solace in each other at the steam room at the local gym.

Director: Kyle Schickner
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Surveillance This fast-paced British thriller stars Tom Harper (Blood And Chocolate, Telstar) as Adam, a gay teacher swept up in a national scandal that starts when his mysterious one-night stand shows up dead - and leads all the way to the British Royal family. In his desperate race to discover the killer, Adam's every move is tracked through the streets of London by hundreds of closed circuit cameras. An exhilarating, edge-of-your-seat mystery, SURVEILLANCE co-stars a tremendous British cast including Brit star Dawn Steele ("Monarch of the Glen"), Sean Brosnan (Pierce Brosnan's son) and gay icon Simon Callow. From the first frame to the last, director Paul Oremland (Like It Is) crafts a paranoid tale that is at once terrifying and wildly entertaining.

Director: Paul Oremland
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Devil Came on Horseback, The THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed.

Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, The An Iraqi journalist, along with his three brothers, in an absurd comedy of errors, was suspected of plotting the assassination British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The siblings eventually wound up at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, where they were physically and mentally tortured by American soldiers for months - though there was no evidence against them.

Director: Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker
Year: 2007
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: Documentary

Sacred Love-Making Sacred Love-Making is the kind of film that will awaken all of your senses, challenge you, enrich your intimate understanding, increase your spontaneity, cultivate your artistry, and– without a doubt– make you a better lover. Watch as best-selling author and relationship expert, Karinna Kittles-Karsten, introduces ancient Taoist love secrets and rituals for deeper sexual satisfaction and emotional connection as she guides you through the Sacred Love-Making experience in this exquisitely beautiful, breakthrough educational DVD. Karinna helps two married couples, one together four years and one twenty, take their most intimate relationship experience to new levels of passion, connection, communication, pleasure, freedom and sublime union. Follow these two couples at two different stages of their relationships and discover how you and your partner can experience the sensually sublime.

Director: Matt Levin
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mang Shan Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a 'wife' by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers' apathy and selfishness. When help finally arrives it is only the beginning of another tragedy...

Director: Yang Li
Year: 2007
Genre: Drama

Entre les Mains de Michel Tremblay “Fiction is a letter that I’m writing to myself to make sense of the world.” These are the words of Michel Tremblay and the opening of this delicate and touching documentary that explores the creative mind behind Les Belles Soeurs. From Glasgow to Tokyo, from Key West to Montreal, In the Hands of Michel Tremblay sensitively paints the portrait of a singular career.

Director: Adrian Willis
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Dakota Brian and Jack were inseparable; now they barely speak. Their formerly close-knit group has all but disbanded in the wake of encroaching adulthood. But when Jack tries to hang himself from a plant hook while house-sitting, he inadvertently triggers an impromptu reunion that brings the old gang back together and could change everything... forever. Welcome to DAKOTA: friendship, fistfights, concussions, quarter-life crises, blow-ups, breakdowns, toy guns, telemarketing, love, lies, and breakfast - all in someone else's home. In this dark, offbeat comedy everyone comes together to examine what went wrong. Along the way, they may just remind each other what went right.

Director: Matthew Atkinson
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Newcastle A coming-of-age tale combining the gorgeous Australian surfing beaches with raw energy, music and rebellion of teen culture. 17-year-old Jesse and his brothers live in the small town of Newcastle. Jesse spends his time chasing waves and battling with his resentful older brother. Jesse's got the natural skills to surf his way into the international circuit, but can he overcome his equally natural ability to sabotage himself? On a get-away weekend with his friends, Jesse discovers what is really important in life.

Director: Dan Castle
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Elijah Told with a surprising combination of heart and humour, Elijah balances drama and comedy to create an entertaining portrait of Elijah Harper, one of the first Aboriginal politicians in Canada. Billy Merasty commands the screen with his light, but heartfelt portrayal of Harper, with help from the all-star supporting cast that includes Gary Farmer, Lorne Cardinal, Maury Chaykin, Glen Gould and Gabrielle Miller. Unexpectedly funny, Elijah is a fresh take on one of the key figures in recent Canadian history

Director: Paul Unwin
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Je Crois Que Je L'Aime (Could this be Love) Lucas is a wealthy and handsome industrialist recovering from a recent heartbreak until he finds himself falling head over heels for Elsa, an acclaimed ceramist and fresco artist. Elsa is also enamored but unsure of her new suitor. While Elsa is creating a fresco for Lucas’ office foyer, he hires a private investigator to discover why this enchanting woman is still single.

Director: Pierre Jolivet
Year: 2007
Language: French/Japanese/Italian/English/Italian/Cantonese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Walk All Over Me Arriving from a small town, a young woman looks up the only person she knows in couver, and learns she is doing very well as a full-time dominatrix. Thinking it is a route she herself can exploit for some fast cash, she selects a potential client, only to find he is being pursued by three very bad men, who will stop at nothing to retrieve a large sum of money they believe he has stolen from them. The young woman suddenly finds herself both in the middle and in the way.

Director: Robert Cuffley
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Delice Paloma Need a construction permit? How about company tonight? Then Ms. Aldjéria is your woman; there's no job she can't handle. The woman who has given herself the surname of her country, Algeria, isn't shy and won't back down from a challenge - no scam is too daunting, no con is too brazen. With a little beauty and low morals, the women she recruits can make a good living. Her latest, Paloma, is a big hit, especially with Riyad, Ms. Aldjéria's son. Now with the purchase of Caracalla Springs, the Aldjéria clan has a chance to change their lives... but it may prove to be one scam too many.

Director: Nadir Moknèche
Year: 2007
Language: French/Algerian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Ex Drummer In this blackly comic film, Dries, a popular author, is approached by three disabled misfits seeking a drummer for their punk rock band - "The Feminists". The singer is a misogynist skinhead who literally lives his life upside down; the bass player has a paralyzed arm due to a masturbation accident, and the deaf guitarist lives in squalor with his druggie wife and baby daughter. Dries deliberately forces the group’s snarling punk spirit into a downward spiral of chaos and explosive violence. His disability? He can’t play drums. Set to a throbbing punk soundtrack, Ex Drummer dispenses rapid-fire shots of equal-opportunity political incorrectness, taking no prisoners!

Director: Koen Mortier
Year: 2007
Language: Flemish
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy

Normal NORMAL explores the lives of three strangers who are struggling for control, having failed to confront their roles in a tragic accident two years earlier. Catherine is a well-to-do suburban mother who has lost the ability to connect on any level with her surgeon husband and twelve-year-old son after the loss of her elder son. Walt is a failed writer and philandering university professor who deals with impending middle age and haunting memories by sabotaging every relationship around him. Jordie is a sensitive teenager who made a wrong choice one night and although he’s paid the price, still can’t halt his journey downward.

Director: Carl Bessai
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Without the King Swaziland is Africa's last absolute monarchy and a nation at a dangerous crossroads. The people demand democracy and an end to starvation, while the king insists on banning political parties. The people want relief from a 43 per cent AIDS/HIV infection rate, the world's highest, while the king prices a fleet of luxury limousines. Against this backdrop of blatant inequality, we meet the royal family: Princess Sikhanyiso, a teenage rapper and eldest child; Queen LaMbikiza, a headstrong outsider and first of 12 wives; and King Mswati III, a distant figure out of touch with his home and country. The camera captures the birth of a nation's revolution, a struggle to reconcile First and Third World orders.

Director: Michael Skolnik
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Shelter Me Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them. Gradually Anis establishes himself in the life of the couple and for a brief moment, the three manage to help and support each other in an unusual and emotionally intricate relation. Yet this precarious balance is short-lived: Anis loses his job and is rejected by Mara whom he has fallen in love with and Anna has to witness her idyllic domestic arrangement fall to pieces.

Director: Marco S. Puccioni
Year: 2007
Language: Italian
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Persepolis The poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.

Director: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Year: 2007
Language: French/Persian/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

My Kid Could Paint That In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown - and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. And then, five months into Marla’s new life as a celebrity and just short of her fifth birthday, a bombshell dropped. CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur painter. Embattled, the Olmsteads turned to the filmmaker to clear their name.

Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Operation Filmmaker Soon after the fall of Baghdad, a charismatic 25-year-old film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of his film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes his life forever. Watching in the U.S., actor Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi a dream opportunity-to come to Prague to intern on an American movie (Everything is Illuminated). Once on set, however, frustrated expectations and cross-cultural misunderstandings complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors, and good intentions quickly devolve into bad vibes. Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqi's life, as his visa nears expiration and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms.

Director: Nina Davenport
Year: 2007
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

O'Horten Odd Horten has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. How could Horten get himself in such an awkward situation when he should be celebrating his retirement? Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women’s red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!

Director: Bent Hamer
Year: 2007
Language: Norwegian
Genre: World Cinema

Sleuth The Anthony Shaffer play originally brought to the screen in 1972 gets the remake treatment in this updating that finds Michael Caine stepping into the role of the brilliant thriller writer portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the original, and Jude Law following in Caine's footsteps as the young hairdresser who steals the literary giant's wife, only to find himself subsequently swallowed up in an elaborate revenge scheme.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

La Zona Set against the gritty canvas of Mexico City, The Zone paints a visceral picture of a society torn apart by class conflict. An affluent suburban neighborhood known as The Zone stands fortified by cement walls, barbed wire and security cameras amidst a poverty-stricken city. It's a plush sanctuary exclusive to Mexico's elite, where justice reigns outside the law. When a violent storm breaches The Zone's barrier, three teenage outsiders sneak in and attempt a petty robbery that ends in tragedy, triggering a heated vigilante manhunt for the only surviving intruder.

Director: Rodrigo Plá
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama

How She Move Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.

Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Global Warning Box Set Three award-winning films about our planet in peril. Manufactured Landscapes: A stunning documentary by award-winning director Jennifer Baichwal - follows photographer Edward Burtynsky to China, as he captures the effects of the country's massive industrial revolution. Crude Awakening: Compelling, intelligent, and highly disturbing, the film visits with the world's top experts and comes to a startling but logical conclusion - our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. The Refugees of the Blue Planet This film unveils the way widespread destruction from more frequently-occurring natural disasters has caused the number of environmental refugees (25 million) to outnumber - for the first time in history - those fleeing from war or political persecution (23 million).

Year: 2007
Language: English & French
Genre: World Cinema, Environment, Canadian, Documentary

Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le mulet), The Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s critically acclaimed and awarding winning film, ‘The Secret of The Grain,’ is a poignant French drama that follows the story of a Tunisian immigrant, Slimane Beiji. One day, he is suddenly dismissed after 35 years as a shipyard worker. Ashamed that he can no longer provide for his family, he buys an old boat and opens up a restaurant that features his ex-wife’s couscous recipe as the signature dish. Along the way he faces contemptuous bankers, disapproving government workers and relentless urgings from his sons to return to his home country. His only supporter is from Rym, played by award-winning newcomer Hafsia Herzi, a loving daughter with a relentless drive. She is the catalyst that helps her father pursue his dreams. This touching and beautifully composed film plunges into the heart of a changing culture, focusing on the trials and tribulations of a man and his family, and the dreams that inspire individuals to fight for their cause.

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Eden Log A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels, demonic pursuers and an abandoned civilization awaits Tolbiac when he is awakened in a cave without any recollection of how he came to be there. The dead body laying next to him is only the first clue to discovering his identity, as he propels through a journey of survival in a cemetery-like world created by a mysterious organization called Eden Log.

Director: Franck Vestiel
Year: 2007
Language: French, English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Terror's Advocate Jacques Verges is the kind of lawyer that people love to hate. Over several decades, he's made a career of defending some of the most despised figures of our time - from anti-colonial bombers in Algeria, to left-wing extremists like Carlos the Jackyl, to right-wing dictators like Slobodan Milosevic. At the height of his career he disappeared for an eight year period that no investigator has ever been able to account for. Then he reappeared - refusing to disclose where he had been - and continued where he left off, taking on even more controversial clients.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Year: 2007
Language: French/English/German/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

I Really Hate My Job I Really Hate My Job sizzles its way through one steamy night and the lives of five feisty women with delusions of grandeur, working in a London restaurant. Customers come and go, unaware of the real concerns of these women; a rat or two in the kitchen, bitter arguments about life and art, as well as a coup d’état in the kitchen… all overshadowed by the anticipation of the arrival of a famous Hollywood movie star. You might assume they’re just three waitresses, one cook and a dishwasher, but they see themselves as an artist, an actor, a lover, an author and a revolutionary.

Director: Oliver Parker
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Up the Yangtze In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather’s youth to trace the surreal life of a “farewell cruise” that traverses the gargantuan waterway. Singularly moving and cinematically breathtaking, UP THE YANGTZE gives a human dimension to the wrenching changes facing not only an increasingly globalized China, but the world at large.

Director: Yung Chang
Year: 2007
Language: English, Mandarin
Genre: Documentary

Counterfeiters, The The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested and placed in a German concentration camp, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan...

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Year: 2007
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Planet B-Boy With compelling characters and vibrant dance sequences, PLANET B-BOY is set in the International world of B-boying - the urban dance more commonly known as "breakdancing." Weaving between the vivid backdrops of Osaka, Paris, Seoul and Las Vegas, unforgettable images frame the intimate stories of dancers who struggle for their dreams despite being misunderstood by larger society and even their own families. An American dancer in Vegas looks for his big break; a Korean son seeks his father’s approval; a twelve-year-old boy in France confronts his family’s racism - all the b-boys’ lives collide in Germany where their skills are put to the ultimate test: the "Battle of the Year" finals, with crews from 18 nations vying for the title of World Champion. PLANET B-BOY features electrifying dance performances and astonishing displays of power and grace, showing how a street dance from New York has evolved into an inspiring art form for a new generation around the world.

Director: Benson Lee
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary

Three Robbers, The (Les Trois Brigands) A young orphan girl named Tiffany has her life changed when her carriage is stopped by three robbers. Instead of returning to her overbearing “Auntie” at the orphanage, the charming and clever little girl convinces the robbers that her father is a wealthy king in India who will pay a healthy ransom for her safe return. Blinded by promises of gold, the bumbling robbers agree to take Tiffany captive - she even helps them write the ransom note! With a wonderfully witty script, dramatic design and bold use of colour, this film is a cinematic treat for audiences of all ages.

Director: Hayo Freitag
Year: 2007
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Crime, Comedy, Family, Animation

Price of Sugar Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. Father Hartley must go up against one of the country's most powerful sugar baron families, the Vicinis, and even the government of the Dominican Republic to give voice to these Haitians, frequently receiving threats to his own life. Filmmaker Bill Haney - in addition to documenting the abysmal living conditions of the cane workers - portrays a developing country trying to find balance between capitalism and the need for unskilled labor and the illegal immigrants who inevitably bear the load. "The Price of Sugar" raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.

Director: Bill Haney
Year: 2007
Language: English/Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Manufacturing Dissent Michael Moore, world famous muckraker and flag bearer for the documentary renaissance, has the camera turned on him in this revelatory critical biography by Canadian filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine. They follow Moore on the cusp of the release of Fahrenheit 9/11, the subsequent Slacker Uprising Tour and the 2004 US election. But even as they doggedly pursue an elusive interview with Moore (sound familiar?), the filmmakers find many former associates and subjects willing to talk. Some of the findings are quite shocking, calling into question not only Moore's practice as a documentarian, but also the effectiveness of his self-centred approach to political filmmaking. Seeking to separate the fact, fiction and legend that surrounds Moore, Melnyk and Caine ultimately offer a balanced portrait and an effective starting point for further discussion of Moore's contentious work and political filmmaking in general.

Director: Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Dernier Gang, Le From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and his gang. They are capable of emptying a series of safes under the very nose of the police who are bewildered by the calm audacity shown by the group. But how long will the inseparable gang manage to avoid bloodshed, endure the boredom of being on the run in the tropics and have a love life, whilst at the same time playing hide-and-seek with the police? This is an especially difficult task, as they have to contend with Milan, a cop who has been determined to defeat them ever since their first criminal activities in the neighbourhood. Obsessed by Simon’s gang, Milan’s sole purpose in life is to catch the leader.

Director: Ariel Zeitoun
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Drama

In Mom's Head (La Tete de maman) 20 years ago, a few years before I was born, Mom was in love with a young man. 20 years ago, they separated and the bastard, when he left, took with along him my mother's smile. I need to find him to set things right. Otherwise, I'll die. LULU - 15 years old

Director: Carine Tardieu
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

J'Attends quelqu'un (Waiting for Someone) A small town... Divorced father and café manager Louis is more than fond of Sabine. They often meet at a hotel in the afternoon. But he pays each time, because she’s a prostitute. He keeps his painful secret to himself, not even telling his close sister Agnes. A schoolteacher, Agnes has been married to Jean-Philippe for a long time. But love and years together can’t withhold periods of sadness. One day, Agnes meets Stephane, a young man she knew when he was a child. Distraught, he too, carries a heavy secret...

Director: Jérome Bonell
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Crude Impact CRUDE IMPACT deftly explores the interconnection between human domination of the planet and the discovery and use of oil, exposing our deeprooted dependency on the availability of fossil fuel energy. It examines the future implications of peak oil — the point in time whenthe amount of petroleum worldwide begins a steady, inexorable decline. Journeying from the West African delta region to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, from early man to the unknown future, CRUDE IMPACT chronicles the collision of our insatiable appetite for oil with the rights and livelihoods of indigenous cultures, other species and the planet itself. It is a thought-provoking story filled with discovery, sorrow, outrage, humor and ultimately, hope.

Director: James Wood
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Fille Coupée en Deux, La From the celebrated director Claude Chabrol comes the darkly sensual A Girl Cut in Two. A young woman, Gabrielle, is torn between two wealthy lovers: Charles, a middle-aged writer; and Paul, the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. Vying for Gabrielle's attention, the two men form an intense rivalry. They both claim to love her, but their motives, and the tactics they will resort to, remain unclear.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Edge of Heaven, The Retired widower Ali sees a solution to loneliness when he meets prostitute Yeter. Ali proposes to the fellow Turkish native to live with him in exchange for a monthly stipend. Ali’s bookish son Nejat seems disapproving about his bully father’s choice. But the young German professor quickly grows fond of kind Yeter, especially upon discovering most of her hard-earned money is sent home to Turkey for her daughter’s university studies. The accidental death of Yeter distances father and son even more, emotionally and physically. Nejat travels to Istanbul to begin an organized search for Yeter’s daughter Ayten. He decides to stay in Turkey and trades places with the owner of a German bookstore who goes home to Germany. What Nejat doesn’t know is that 20-something political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having fled the Turkish police.

Director: Fatih Akin
Year: 2007
Language: German/Turkish/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Garbage Warrior What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of "earthship biotecture" by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and function converge in eco-harmony. Shot over three years and in four different countries, Garbage Warrior is a timely portrait of a determined visionary, a hero of the 21st century.

Director: Oliver Hodge
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Truands Enter the brutal world of Parisian organized crime, where aging mob boss Claude Corti rules over his pack of power-hungry thugs with an iron fist. In this empire of fast cars, upscale drugs and expensive women, money is God and Corti’s people are always rewarded for their devotion. But when they disobey, his creative use of power drills and metal rods makes them wish for death. Power and money, however, cannot buy trust...

Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Breakfast with Scot Adapted from the novel by Michael Downing, BREAKFAST WITH SCOT is a touching and very contemporary comedy that tells the story of an "alternative" family finding its feet. Eric (Tom Cavanagh) lives for all things hockey. At 36, he's managed to turn his stint playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs into a full-time gig commentating for sports TV. He's living the dream! But when Eric's boyfriend Sam (Ben Shenkman) announces that they're to become temporary guardians of a young boy, Eric's comfortable world shatters. Enter Scot (Noah Bernett) -- a recently orphaned, sweet, vulnerable, yet oddly resilient kid, who also happens to be a swishy 11 year-old sissy-of-a-boy -- and Eric's mirror opposite. Freaked out by Scot's "joie de vivre", Eric and Sam gently nudge Scot away from scented hand cream, excessive twirling, and kissing the school bully, towards a more "acceptable" pastime - hockey. But after Scot's disastrous first game, Eric begins to rethink the compromises he's made.

Director: Laurie Lynd
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy

Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains Last year, former President Jimmy Carter dove headfirst into the most controversial topic in international politics, publishing the book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Following the path of Carter's recent book tour, Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme reveals a complex individual who, with the gusto and determination of a youngster, criss-crosses the county to get his message of peace across, even as that message creates a media onslaught in which his credibility and judgement are called into question.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mirage Man A different kind of superhero, Marko Zaror stars as a man who dons the hero mask reluctantly, keeping it on only because it seems to help his emotionally disturbed brother. No wires, no CGI -- just loads of heart, a healthy dose of humor and a stunning physical performance from Zaror and his dedicated team of stuntmen, a team so dedicated that they don't even pull their punches.

Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Muffins for Granny The sad history of the Canadian government's residential school program has had a profound effect on First Nations peoples across the country. For filmmaker Nadia McLaren, it’s personal history as well; her Ojibway grandmother was forced into a residential school and its repercussions have echoed through her family. Looking to understand her loving but troubled grandmother, McLaren interviews seven First Nations elders about their experiences in residential schools. Mixing stark animated moments with human faces and home movie footage, Muffins For Granny is a raw and honest documentary about a difficult chapter in Canadian history — a chapter that, for some, is not over.

Director: Nadia McLaren
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

No End In Sight The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a lucid, jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Crazy Love Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines. With the cooperation of the principles, Burt, now 79, and Linda, 68, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness. CRAZY LOVE recently had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and earned the Best Documentary award at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Director: Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Sick Nurses Hell hath no fury like a nurse scorned in this gruesome but witty horror story from Thailand. Dr. Tah is a charming but devious surgeon who has a profitable side business, supplying black market dealers with fresh human organs for transplant. Dr. Tah's staff of seven nubile nurses help him find a steady source of victims, but one of his aides, Tahwan, is shocked to find that her sister Nook is on the doctor's list of upcoming cases, and threatens to turn him in to the police. Dr. Tah puts Tahwan under the knife to keep her quiet, and she conveniently dies during surgery. A few days later, as Dr. Tah is receiving an award for his work saving lives, the ghost of Tahwan begins stalking the halls of the hospital, and she seeks violent revenge against the doctor and her fellow nurses who failed to come to her rescue. Quite possibly the most entertaining Thai horror movie ever made... An instant classic!

Director: Piraphan Laoyont and Thodsapol Siriwiwat
Year: 2007
Language: Thai
Genre: World Cinema, Horror, Crime

Vieille Maîtresse, Une (Last Mistress, The) This future wedding is on everyone’s lips. The young and dissolute Ryno de Marigny is betrothed to marry Hermangarde, an extremely virtuous gem of the French aristocracy. But some, who wish to prevent the union, despite the young couples’ mutual love, whisper that the young man will never break off his passionate love affair with Vellini, which has been going on for years. In a whirlpool of confidences, betrayals and secrets, facing conventions and destiny, feelings will prove their strength is invincible...

Director: Catherine Breillat
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Romance

Itty Bitty Titty Committee This latest fabulous movie from Jamie (But I’m a Cheerleader) Babbit is a dynamic, romantic, frequently funny and politically astute movie with a smart script, rockin’ soundtrack and terrific ensemble cast that includes sexy young Melonie Diaz as the new dyke on the block who falls in with a great gang of Feminist troublemakers called Clits in Action (CiA), and then falls in love with leader of the pack, Nicole Vicius. Unfortunately, Nicole has a girlfriend - Melanie Mayron - and, as they say, drama ensues.

Director: Jamie Babbitt
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Comedy

Far North Deep in the bone-chilling Arctic Tundra, two women -- an enigmatic warrior (Michelle Yeoh) and her innocent companion -- battle for survival against sub-zero temperatures, scarce food supplies and hostile soldiers. When a mysterious man (Sean Bean) is found collapsed near their camp, he's nursed back to health and permitted to stay, but his presence creates an increasingly dark rift between the women that climaxes in a shockingly brutal act of vengeance.

Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance

Steep Whether it's jumping out of a helicopter hovering above the powdery slopes of Alaska's mountain ranges or trying to outrun an avalanche in the French Alps, STEEP traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers to the death-defying daredevils of today.

Director: Mark Obenhaus
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Princess of the Sun (La Reine Soleil) The Princess of the Sun follows the adventures of a bubbly and fiercely independent young Egyptian princess named Akhesa who longs to find her mother, Queen Nefertiti. With the help of Prince Tut, the two escape the Royal Palace and travel down the Nile on an action packed adventure to find Elephant Island, where Queen Nefertiti awaits. With innocence their only weapon, Princess Akhesa and Prince Tut overcome many tests and ordeals, and encounter an extraordinary adventure that will unite them forever.

Director: Phillipe Leclerc
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, History, Fantasy, Family, Animation

Who Killed The Electric Car? It was among the fastest, most efficient production car ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the EV-1; examining the cultural and economic ripple effects caused by its conception and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.

Director: Chris Paine
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Stone's Throw, A Set in the achingly beautiful world of rural Nova Scotia, A Stone’s Throw follows the journey of photojournalist Jack Walker, who arrives unannounced in the remote seaside town where his sister, Olivia lives a carefully constructed and insulated life with her two children. Jack, charming but guarded, is reticent about both the reason for his visit and the secrets of his recent past.

Director: Camelia Frieberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

DarkBlueAlmostBlack DarkBlueAlmostBlack is a state of mind, an uncertain future, a colour: a colour that we don't always recognize and which varies depending on the light, the medium and the mood. After his father suffers a stroke, Jorge is forced to take over his job. He has spent the last few years working hard, caring for his father and finishing college, but now he wants to strike out on his own. Through his brother Antonio, he meets Paula, a woman with whom he develops an unusual relationship. Through her, Jorge learns to stop feeling responsible for everything and finally confront his own wishes, ignoring what the world expects of him. Everything should change for Jorge as a result... but it may not.

Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

I Served the King of England Jan Dítì (Ivan Barnev) is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. Jan falls in love with Líza (Julia Jentsch), a Sudeten German proud of her Aryan blood. They marry, and soon after Líza is sent to serve on the Polish front, while Jan remains behind to serve as a nurse in a Nazi SS Research Hospital, but when she returns, she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had ‘left behind’ … After Líza’s less than heroic death, Jan sells the stamps and becomes … a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years. Upon his release Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life – and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events.

Director: Jiri Menzel
Year: 2006
Language: Czech with English subtitles
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Black Book When the hiding place of the beautiful Jewish singer Rachel Steinn is destroyed by a stray bomb, she decides with a group of other Jews to cross the Biesbosch to the already liberated south of the Netherlands. However, their boat is intercepted by a German patrol and all the refugees are massacred. Only Rachel survives. She joins the resistance, and under the alias Ellis de Vries manages to get friendly with the German SD officer Müntze. He is very taken with her and offers her a job. Meanwhile, the resistance devise a plan to free a group of imprisoned resistance fighters with Ellis' help. The plan is betrayed and fails miserably. Both the Resistance and the Germans blame her. She goes into hiding once more, with Müntze in tow. Together they wait for the war to end. Liberation does not bring Ellis freedom; not even when she manages to expose the real traitor. Every survivor is guilty in some way.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 2006
Language: Dutch/German/English/Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Offside In Iran, all Women Are banned from men's sporting events. In June of 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the World Cup. A disparate group of girls, united only by their desire to see their beloved team play live and in-person, disguise themselves in myriad ways, risking arrest to try to get into the game.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Year: 2006
Language: Farsi
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Great Happiness Space, The The 'Great Happiness Space' is Osaka's Rakkyo Café: a club run by ambitious young entrepreneur Issei, where a core staff of 20 young men are groomed to become the top male escorts in the city. But contrary to expectations, these boy-toys are (mostly) heterosexual, and their clients are strictly female: attractive young women who are willing to spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars on these sharp-dressing, smooth-talking young men - buying their time, 'financially worshipping' them, in return for 'sweet conversation' and ... ahem, other services. A cold-eyed study of love for sale, this is one of the most puzzling, paradoxical, and provocative documentaries of the year. -Edinburgh International Film Festival

Director: Jake Clennell
Year: 2006
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

This Film is Not Yet Rated This breakthrough film from Oscar®-nominated director Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith) is an unprecedented investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its profound impact on American culture. Including interviews with top filmmakers such as Kevin Smith (Clerks 2), Atom Egoyan (Where the Truth Lies), Matt Stone (South Park) and John Waters (A Dirty Shame), this film examines the most controversial ratings decisions in recent history, as well as the MPAA’s efforts to protect copyright and control culture in the name of piracy and profit. Ultimately, Dick tries to uncover Hollywood’s best-kept secret: the identities of the ratings board members themselves. The result is a movie about movies unlike any other movie ever made.

Director: Kirby Dick
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Right of the Weakest, The (La Raison du plus faible) It's the story of people who have nothing anymore. No work, no hope, no future, and who cling to their memories and the lies of the past. It's the story of three men who dream that something is still possible, in spite of everything. It's the story of men who take up arms to go and find money where it lies, in other men's pockets because they feel they have a right to it! A story without good guys and bad guys. A story of the weak and the strong. In which all the characters have their reasons, in which they all pick sides. It's a story in which some will die while others will survive but which will leave no one unscathed. In the decaying industrial town of Liege, Belgium, three men dream of escape from their endless days of drudgery and of buying a moped for their friend's wife. They decide to organize a large-scale hold-up. As expected, nothing goes to plan.

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Hula Girls Based on a true story... It is 1965 and in Japan, the country has started to shift from coal to oil. One by one the old mining towns begin their long slow decline. But for one small town way up north, its leaders and mining company officials have come up with an idea to develop Japan's first Hawaiian Village. And what's a Hawaiian Village without a troupe of Hula dancers? The only problem is, no one knows how to do the dance, or even knows what the Hula is! The skepticism and conservatism of the locals is gradually overcome as their daughters fall under the spell of one talented and determined dance instructor from the big city of Tokyo.

Director: Sang il-Lee
Year: 2006
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama

East Side Story In East Los Angeles, handsome young Diego works at his family’s restaurant while secretly having an affair with a hunky but super-closeted real estate agent, Pedro. For the largely Latino neighborhood, the landscape is literally changing as white folks move in, including gay couple Wesley and Jonathan. Diego, increasingly frustrated with his hush-hush situation with Pedro (who, making matters worse, romantically pursues a female relative of Diego’s!), falls for Wesley. But racist and homophobic friends, relatives and, in Wesley’s case, a pissy ex-boyfriend guarantee this affair will be no picnic!

Director: Carlos Portugal
Year: 2006
Language: English/Spanish
Genre: Comedy

Things To Do An unstable and indifferent office worker, Adam Stevenson, decides to leave his job and escape to his childhood home to reevaluate his "life strategy". Upon his return, Adam is greeted by the under concern of his baby boom parents and quickly aligns with the lazy comforts of his backyard, yearning for a summer of sulk and solitude. A chance encounter at the grocery store reunites him with Mac, an unusual acquaintance from his past who acts as the perfect catalyst for Adam to turn the wheel of change and rebirth. Together the underachieving duo set out to complete a "Things To Do" list, a collection of bizarre aspirations plucked from the gaps of an incomplete adolescence.

Director: Ted Bezaire
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy

Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses) Summer Rain is a lushly romantic, beautifully crafted paean to young men coming of age in southern Spain in the 1970s. We follow the lives of three young men--each of whom must confront his past, as well as his future, while indulging in the expected pursuits of youth on the threshold of adulthood, especially, of course, love and sex. And as each discovers what life's erratic fortunes have in store for him, they must venture forth, leaving this past and their youthful indiscretions behind. - Sundance Film Festival

Director: Antonio Banderas
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Journey to Armenia (Voyage en Armenie, Le) The story centres on a father and his daughter. Barsam is ailing. Anna, a cardiologist, detects a problem with his heart and urges surgery. These two do not have the warmest of relationships, so it is perhaps no surprise that the stubborn patriarch refuses his daughter's advice. He disappears from France, back to Armenia. Anna, grappling with age-old issues - she feels her father ruined her mother's life - sets off in ill-tempered pursuit, helped by the irrepressible and equally irresponsible Yervanth, a family friend who acts as Anna's guide when she touches down in the land of her father. What ensues is classic: Anna does not know the country at all, does not speak its language and resents being forced into a place where she is not in control. Her search for her father drives the entire film. At the same time, through a series of tiny encounters and, most importantly, through the warmth of its inhabitants, Armenia gradually breaks down the resistance of this outsider.

Director: Robert Guédiguian
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) The captivating story of an aging German piano teacher who finds a young genius pupil incarcerated in the women's prison. Flashbacks of wartime add depth to the already dramatic setting, as the girl in question is an alienated, angry little punk with a difficult past. This encounter of two very different women tells of rebellion and surrender, pain and longing for the truth - and of the immense power of music.

Director: Chris Kraus
Year: 2006
Language: German
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama

Entrance, The A police detective is swept into a web of deception and, in search of the truth, finds herself in a contest with forces of the occult. Ryan James, a street-savvy drug dealer, has escaped from the hands of his kidnappers. Jen Porhowski, a strong-willed and dedicated detective, skeptically tries to separate fact from fiction in Ryan's account of the night's horrifying events. As the two are drawn further into the case, a greater truth unravels, drawing attention to writings from centuries ago. As detective Porhowski tries to save lives she soon finds that the life that needs saving is her own.

Director: Damon Vignale
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Love for Sale After two years of living in São Paulo, Hermila returns to her village in northeastern Brazil with her newborn son, anxiously awaiting the arrival of her husband. Time passes slowly here and the wait becomes an even heavier burden as she slowly realizes that she's been abandoned. Determined to raise enough money to leave the stifling environment of her hometown, she comes up with an unlikely prize to raffle off - one conceived during her chats with newfound friend and local prostitute Georgina. What is most powerful, however, is the spirit of this abandoned young single mother, who is determined to live life to the fullest and not let other people determine her future.

Director: Karim Ainouz
Year: 2006
Language: Portugese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema explores the emergence of gay and lesbian films from the beginning of the gay rights movement in the 1960s to the “New Queer Cinema” of the 90s, the proliferation and influence of gay and lesbian films festivals, the discovery by the film business of the gay market; the explosion of gay images in the mainstream media and the current phenomenon of all things gay. The story of gay and lesbian cinema is closely related to the world surrounding it, and the use of popular culture is a backdrop against which the film examines important cultural, political and social moments- and movements that intersect with gay life.

Director: Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Documentary

Klimt The lavishly erotic paintings of Gustav Klimt were the subject of great controversy and scandal in Austria at the turn of the 20th century. Amidst the opulence and decadence of Vienna, Klimt depicts the most productive, and tumultuous, period of the artist's life. From his passionate, hedonistic affair with the notorious French dancer Lea de Castro, to his battle with an oppressive government for control of his work, Klimt, as performed by John Malkovich and directed by award-winning filmmaker Raul Ruiz, is a feverish and sensual homage to a man who insisted on living his life as he painted it.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Year: 2006
Language: English/German/French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Transylvania Zingarina arrives in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend Marie, Zingarina throws her body and soul into a romantic quest in this fascinating land.

Director: Tony Gatlif
Year: 2006
Language: French/Romanian/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Vitus Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: he has hearing like a bat, he plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopaedias at the age of five. It is no wonder his parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him. They want Vitus to become a pianist. However, the child prodigy prefers to play in his eccentric grandfather’s workshop. He dreams of flying and of a normal childhood. Ultimately, with one dramatic leap, Vitus takes control of his own life.

Director: Fredi M. Murer
Year: 2006
Language: Swiss/German/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Refugees of the Blue Planet Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From the Maldives to Brazil, and even closer to home, here in Canada, the disturbing accounts of people who have been uprooted are amazingly similar. The enormous pressure placed on rural populations as a result of the degradation of their life-supporting environment is driving them increasingly further from their way of life. The Refugees of the Blue Planet sheds light on the little-known plight of a category of individuals who are suffering the repercussions of this reality: environmental refugees. They are constantly growing in number and often have no legal status, even though their right to a clean and sustainable environment has been violated.

Director: Hélène Choquette & Jean-Philippe Duval Hélène Choquette et Jean-Philippe Duval
Year: 2006
Language: English & French
Genre: Environment, Canadian, Documentary

Reprise REPRISE is a playful film about friendship, madness and creativity, about love and sorrow, great ambitions and the often unpleasant clash between youthful presumptions and reality. With its somewhat un-Norwegian structure, REPRISE has a distinct style and narrative technique which moves the story forward in a rich and enthusiastic manner.

Director: Joachim Trier III
Year: 2006
Language: Norwegian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Loving Annabelle Simone Bradley is Saint Theresa's prized young poetry teacher who finds peace and security within the boarding school walls. Annabelle is a charismatic and enchanting new student who quickly draws attention for her rebellious behavior. Fearing Annabelle will influence the other students, rigid Headmistress (Ilene Graff), instructs Simone to keep an eye on Annabelle and get her under control. Simone, however, quickly learns that the real challenge is not Annabelle's behavior but the attraction budding between the two. As Annabelle pursues her teacher, she unleashes the passion that has been locked deep inside Simone, who must decide whether or not to enter an affair that could cost her everything. Inspired by the classic lesbian drama Maedchen in Uniform, out writer-director Katherine Brooks unveils this passionate tale of forbidden love with intelligence, wit and sensitivity.

Director: Katherine Brooks
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: GLBT

Jean Philippe Fabrice is the biggest Johnny Hallyday fan in the world. But one day he wakes up in a subtly different reality... a world where his music idol doesn’t exist! So Fabrice sets out to discover what happened to Jean-Philippe Smet, the man known as Johnny Hallyday. He’s shocked to find that Jean-Philippe is just an ordinary average joe running a bowling alley. This starts a hilarious uphill mission to resurge his idol. But is it possible?

Director: Laurent Tuel
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Driving Lessons Ben (RUPERT GRINT) is a shy, bookish 17-year old begins another unpromising summer vacation when his absurdly straitlaced world is turned upside down when he gets a job assisting Evie (JULIE WALTERS), an eccentric retired actress. Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once, Evie enters Ben's life with a cataclysmic force. Suddenly caught between two worlds, Ben starts to gravitate towards his employer's unconventional and often bizarre ways, even though it continually gets him into trouble with his highly-strung and overbearing mother (LAURA LINNEY). What follows is a journey in which Ben and Evie help each other move forward in their radically different lives, as Ben is forced to confront how he was brought up and who he wants to be.

Director: Jeremy Brock
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Fiction Alex is a successful, married filmmaker who’s stalled on his new script and faces a creative crisis. Seeking inspiration and distance from family distractions, he goes to stay with an old friend in the stunning Catalan Pyrenees. At dinner with mutual friend Judith, Alex is introduced to her guest Mónica, a violinist. Over dinner, the four reflect on their lives, the decisions they’ve made and who they have become.

Director: Cesc Gay
Year: 2006
Language: Catalan/Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Heros de la famille, Le (Family Hero, The) Cabaret owner Gabriel dies unexpectedly and his absent children make the trek from Paris to Nice to attend the funeral. Friends, lovers and former wives (including Catherine Deneuve) are equally grief-stricken and curious about what Gabriel left behind. The reading of the will results in a bombshell: Gabriel has unexpectedly left the Blue Parrot Cabaret to his completely uninterested children, rather than to his devoted friend. He’s also left strict instructions that the show must go on; the dysfunctional family must keep the Blue Parrot running!

Director: Thierry Klifa
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Special After enrolling in an experimental drug study, a lonely and depressed comic book geek named Les (Michael Rapaport) believes he has gained a host of bizarre supernatural powers -- the ability to levitate, read people's minds and even walk through walls. Donning a homemade superhero costume, he puts his newfound abilities to use on the streets, fighting crime and protecting the world from the forces of evil. Has he truly become humanity's unlikely savior? Or is he simply losing his mind?

Director: Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Comme t'y es belle (Gorgeous) This delightfully entertaining French take on Sex and the City follows four women trying to balance work, romance, religion and motherhood. Life is a daily soap opera with flirtations, affairs and infidelities, but friendship is the common thread that bonds these women together through all their highs and lows.

Director: Lisa Alessandrin
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Takva: A Man's Fear of God Muharrem is a strict Muslim who lives his life by the rules and rites of an arch-conservative religious order. His fear of God is so unconditional that he captures the attention of the order’s sheikh - who offers him a position of responsibility. Muharrem’s job is to collect the rents from the order’s Istanbul properties. For the first time, he is confronted with the modern world - witnessing sin, hypocrisy and blasphemy. Worse still, Muharrem has to confront his own personal temptations.

Director: Ozer Kiziltan
Year: 2006
Language: Turkish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Follow My Voice "Follow My Voice? With the Music of Hedwig" weaves the compelling, courageous stories of four students at New York's controversial Harvey Milk School with a unique chronicle of the yearlong creation of "Wig in a Box," the album whose songs poignantly echo these teens' struggles and aspirations. Audiences around the world became instant "Hed Heads" as Hedwig, like everyone who was ever young, questions "The Origin of Love," dreams of a "Sugar Daddy," feels like a "Freak" and curses a "Wicked Little Town." Through a dramatic and vibrant combination of verité documentation, student video diaries, and rare in-studio scenes of artists recording tracks, Follow My Voice offers a powerful look at this unlikely intersection of youth, gender and rock. Includes Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, Cyndi Lauper, Ben Folds, The Breeders, Yo La Tengo, John Cameron Mitchell, They Might Be Giants and more.

Director: Katherine Linton
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Documentary

Iraq In Fragments An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. 2007 Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary.

Director: James Longley
Year: 2006
Language: Arabic/Kurdish/English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Exterminating Angels After scandalizing France with 2002’s Secret Things, controversial director Jean-Claude Brisseau returns with this semi-autobiographical story of a director whose curiosity leads to unexpected consequences. Francois is holding auditions for his upcoming film about female sexuality. He expects the process to be unconventional but could never predict the dangers... As his female cast embarks on a journey of intense physical pleasure-seeking they become emotionally involved with the director and with each other.

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Toi et Moi (You and Me) Ariane, a writer of photo-novels for the magazine "Toi et Moi", has a tendency to use and embellish her own love life and that of her sister Léna in her work. However, their life is no storybook: Ariane clings to a man who couldn't care less about her while Léna grows bored with her own boyfriend. But what if Ariane surrendered to the love of Paolo, the handsome Spanish builder who works in her building? And what if Léna let her heart beat for Mark, the virtuoso violinist she has just met? Between the real world and photo-novels, will the two sisters find true love at last?

Director: Julie Lopes-Curval
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Crude Awakening, A Our civilization¿ addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with disaster. Compelling, intelligent, and highly disturbing, the film visits with the world¿ top experts and comes to a startling but logical conclusion our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. The world¿ oil supplies are peaking and the crisis of global shortage looms; we are running out of oil and we don¿ have a plan.

Director: Basil Gelpke & Ryan McCormack
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Emma's Bliss Diagnosed with a fatal disease, Max impulsively leaves Germany to live out the brief remainder of his life on a beach in Mexico. Instead, he crashes his stolen car into a pig farm run by Emma, a wise seductress whose unique perspective on life and death helps Max achieve the ultimate liberation.

Director: Sven Taddicken
Year: 2006
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Away from Her "Away From Her" is the lyrical screenplay adaptation of celebrated author Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." "Away From Her" is a beautifully moving love story that deals with memory and the circuitous, unnamable paths of a long marriage. Married for 50 years, Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona's (Julie Christie) commitment to each other appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. This serenity is broken only by the occasional, carefully restrained reference to the past, giving a sense that this marriage may not always have been such a fairy tale. This tendency of Fiona's to make such references, along with her increasingly evident memory loss, creates a tension that is usually brushed off casually by both of them. As the lapses become more obvious and dramatic, it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore the fact that Fiona is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Selon Charlie A town on the Atlantic ocean, in off season. Three days, seven characters, seven lives, each person in search of themselves. They meet, miss and collide, and after they leave their lives will never be the same again.

Director: Nicole Garcia
Year: 2006
Language: French/English/German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

U Mona is a sad princess who lives in a castle by the sea. One day an adorable unicorn named U appears and declares that she is there to help Mona find happiness. The two become inseparable and U introduces Mona to a whole new world - full of joy and adventure. Soon Mona discovers the wonder of music and develops a budding attraction to a young guitarist. But this creates a big dilemna for U... What will happen to her if Mona finds the missing happiness which was the sole reason for U's existence?

Director: Grégoire Solotareff & Serge Elissalde
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema

For the Love of Dolly This uniquely energetic film offers a super in-depth look at five of Dolly Parton's most enthusiastic and passionate fans including an adorable gay couple whose house is packed to the rafters with Dollybilia. Although very different, the people in this film share a common purpose - their love of Dolly and a need to be close to her.

Director: Tai Uhlmann
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Documentary

Running with Arnold Running With Arnold is a politically-charged documentary that tells the fascinating and humorous story of one of the most famous men of our time. From his childhood in post World War II Austria, through his days as a weightlifting champion and action movie star, the film exposes Arnold Schwarzenegger's life in all of its sordid glory. We watch how Arnold's ambition for fame and power has led him on a 'take no prisoners' political career that resulted in his winning a circus campaign to become the leader of the world's fifth largest economy as Governor of California.

Director: Dan Cox
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Mon Colonel 1995, Paris. Retired Colonel Raoul Duplan was found at his home, shot in the head. An anonymous letter was sent to investigators: "The colonel died in Saint-Arnaud". 1957, St. Arnaud, eastern Algeria: a young officer/lawyer, Guy Rossi takes office with Colonel Duplan. The machine of special powers and institutionalized torture begins quietly under way. She will turn the lawyer into an executioner, and catch up with Duplan forty years later.

Director: Laurent Herbiet
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: History, War, Drama, Crime

Quarter Life Crisis Dumped on his 27th birthday by his college sweetheart Angel (Lisa Ray, Water, Bollywood Hollywood) for being indecisive, Neil makes a silly bet that takes him on a wild ride through New York’s singles scene, accompanied by four testosterone-packed imbecile buddies and one crazy scheming New York taxi driver (comic sensation Russell Peters). On these madcap adventures Neil journeys from life choice paralysis to real life manhood.

Director: Kiran Merchant
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Tick Tock Lullaby Cartoonist Sasha (writer-director Lisa Gornick) and her attorney girlfriend Maya (Brit TV phenom Raquel Cassidy) have heterosexual procreation envy. If only they could get pregnant by mistake like everyone else does, laments Sasha. Bursting with smart, tender observations on prospective parenthood, Tick Tock Lullaby is a clever exploration of sexuality and the search for sperm in hip thirty-something London as Sasha and Maya struggle with whether (and how) to have a baby. A wry comedy feature about one of life's biggest decisions and how the more you have to think about it, the harder it is.

Director: Lisa Gornick
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Comedy

Maxed Out Maxed Out takes viewers on a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. With coverage that spans from small American towns all the way to the White House, the film shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of "preferred customer" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer while the rich keep getting richer. Hilarious, shocking and incisive, Maxed Out paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real for most of us.

Director: James D. Scurlock
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Quinceanera Magdalena is the daughter of a Mexican-American family in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With her 15-birthday approaching, all she can think about is her boyfriend, her Quinceanera dress, and the Hummer Limo she hopes will carry her on her special day. But a few months before the celebration, Magdalena falls pregnant. As the elaborate preparations for her Quinceañera proceed, it is only a matter of time before her religious father finds out and rejects her. Forced out of her home, Magdalena moves in with great-great uncle Tomas, an old man who makes his living selling a Mexican hot drink in the street. Already living with him is Carlos, Magdalena’s cousin, a tough cholo who was thrown out by his parents. Carlos does not disguise his disapproval of Magdalena’s arrival. The back house rental where Tomas has lived happily for many years is on a property that was recently purchased by an affluent white gay couple. Worlds collide when they become entangled in the lives of their tenants.

Director: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Year: 2006
Language: English & Spanish
Genre: GLBT, Drama

L'Intouchable (The Untouchable) On her birthday, Jeanne finds out from her mother that her father is Indian, a Hindu she met on her travels. An "Untouchable", her mother says. Jeanne is an actress. She abandons the rehearsals of Brecht’s "Saint Joan of the Stockyards", which her lover is directing. To get to India right now, she needs money. She accepts a role in a movie that she had refused before. We see her play the part like a self-inflicted ordeal. She leaves for India. She searches for her father, just misses him, finds him, and leaves him. She comes back.

Director: Benoit Jacquot
Year: 2006
Language: English/French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Twice Upon a Time (Desaccord Parfait) In their youth, Alice and Louis were lovers. Their romance fascinated a nation; he was a director and she was his muse, until Alice abruptly left France for England and never looked back. Thirty years later, Louis is being presented an award in England and Alice has been selected to present it to him...

Director: Antoine de Caunes
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Entre Adultes (Among Adults) Six men and six women, 12 adults love, lie, manipulate, cheat and confide in, and leave each other... In this merry-go-round of sex and love, we are invited into the bedrooms and lives of six couples that are interconnected in surprising and provocative ways. This intimately raw feature film was written, shot and edited in only 18 days, with just 2 video cameras and a microphone.

Director: Stéphane Brizé
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Spider Lilies Taiwanese pop icon Rainie Yang stars as Jade, a spunky webcam girl lustfully pursuing her first love, Takeko (the strikingly handsome Isabella Leong) a Taipei tattoo artist. Meanwhile, an undercover agent is investigating Jade’s webcam activity and Takeko is grappling with the tragedies of her past. From Taiwan’s hottest female director Zero Chou, this youthful melodrama is a cinematic exploration of love and memory featuring an awesome soundtrack and a great cast. This terrific lesbian drama has gotten rave reviews (from AfterEllen.com, the San Francisco Chronicle and Curve Magazine) and comes to DVD fresh from its great success at LGBT film festivals around the world.

Director: Zero Chou
Year: 2006
Language: Mandarin
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Jesus Camp Jesus Camp follows a group of children to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire Summer Camp", where kids are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future. By the directors of the critically acclaimed The Boys of Baraka.

Director: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Family Law Ariel Perelman is an attorney, just like his father... except very different. While his father earns a hefty wage representing a variety of colorful petty criminals, Ariel deals, literally, with ghosts. He works for the justice department representing clients in absentia. His life is manageable but rather grey, until he marries a beautiful woman he’d felt was outside his reach and then has a son of his own. But following an unexpected turn of events, Ariel is faced with some life-changing decisions that will force him to either remain in the shadow of his father or truly become his own person.

Director: Daniel Burman
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Still Life The Three Gorges dam is the largest electricity-generating facility in the world. A lake approximately 650 km long will form behind it, forcing the relocation of more than 1 million people and permanently flooding many villages. The town of Fengie is already under water, but its new neighborhood hasn’t been finished yet, turning the inhabitants into refugees of progress. Still Life distills the melancholy and apprehension of the villagers as they attempt to come to terms with their new environment. They begin to let their old lives wash away and attempt to build new ones. Director Jia Zhang-ke, a supremely gifted visual artist with profound understanding for character and narrative, brings forth a critically acclaimed film of lyrical beauty that highlights China’s new reality.

Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Year: 2006
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Volver Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish (Castilian)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Paprika Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a genius scientist by day, and a kick-ass dream warrior named PAPRIKA by night. In this psychedelic sci-fi adventure, it will take the skills of both women to save the world... In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the DC Mini it is able to act as a dream detective to enter into people’s dreams and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen, sending the research facility into an uproar. In the wrong hands, the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate a dreamer’s personality while they are asleep. Renowned scientist, Dr. Atsuko Chiba, enters the dream world under her exotic alter-ego, code name PAPRIKA, in an attempt to discover who is behind the plot to undermine the new invention.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Year: 2006
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema

My Dad Is Into Terrorism In the mid-1980s, Gilles Boulouqe’s high-profile investigation into a series of terrorist bombings in Paris made him an overnight celebrity and marked the end of a normal family life for his wife and children. Based on the memoir by his daughter, My Dad Is Into Terrorism recounts Boulouque’s devotion to his work, his ultimate undoing at the hands of the media (and possibly his own superiors) and the downward slope to his eventual suicide.

Director: William Karel
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Curse of the Golden Flower China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns with his second son, Prince Jie, to celebrate the holiday with his family despite the chilled relations between the Emperor and the Empress. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Xiang, her stepson, have had an illicit affair. Feeling trapped, Prince Xiang dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan, the Imperial Doctor’s daughter. Price Jie, the faithful son, worries over the Empress’s health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? Meanwhile, The Emperor harbors clandestine plans that only the Imperial Doctor is privy to. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor’s family from the Palace. While they are en route, assassins attack them. Chan and her mother are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dar surprises.

Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2006
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

American Hardcore Generally unheralded at the time, the early-80s Hardcore Punk Rock scene gave birth to much of the rock music and culture that followed. There would be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for Hardcore pioneers such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Hardcore was more than music — it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. The participants constituted a tribe unto themselves — some finding a voice, others an escape in the hard-edged music; some sought a better world, others were just angry and wanted to raise hell. AMERICAN HARDCORE traces this lost subculture, from its early roots to its extinction. The film is based on Steven's book AMERICAN HARDCORE: A Tribal History (Feral House), which detailed the scene's rise and fall, and came out in 2001.

Director: Paul Rachman
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

My Name is Juani (Yo soy la Juani) Juani, a vivacious girl from the Spanish provinces, is sick of her small town life, dead-end job and deadbeat boyfriend. After her best friend is abused by her boyfriend, and Juani finds her own boyfriend in bed with another woman, the two decide to pack their bags and head for Madrid to seek fame, fortune, and most importantly... fun.

Director: Bigas Luna
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Manufactured Landscapes (digital) Manufactured Landscapes is a feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. The Three Gorges Dam, factory floors a kilometre long and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in Super-16mm film, the documentary extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary

Son of Man In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty and sectarianism are endemic. The neighboring Alliance has invaded under the pretense of restoring peace. Promises of a transition to open democratic rule are marred by summary executions and brutal massacres. As the civil war reaches new heights, a divine child is born to a lowly couple. As he grows and witnesses the inhumanity of the world he lives in, his angelic guardians offer him an escape to the heavens. He refuses. This is his world and he must try to save it from the work of evil men and from the darkness working through them. As an adult, he travels to the capital, gathering followers along the way from the armed factions of rebels across the land. He demands that his followers give up their arms and confront their corrupt rulers with a vision of non-violent protest and solidarity. Inevitably, he attracts the attention of the Judean tribal leaders who have struck a power-sharing deal with the aloof Governor Pilat

Director: Mark Dornford-May
Year: 2006
Language: English and Xhosa
Genre: Drama

Sandman Director J.T. Petty dives into the seedy world of underground horror films, drawing on interviews with filmmakers, actors and experts on the genre. Examining the connection between horror film and voyeurism, Petty draws some disturbing conclusions linking these hard-core fetish films with mainstream horror films. The end result is a documentary that will unnerve even the most hardened horror fans.

Director: J.T. Petty
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Documentary

Gymnast The talented Jane Hawkins (Dreya Weber, Lovely & Amazing) was an impressive gymnast at the top of her game until a devastating injury ended her career. Now she pours the passion, strength and discipline that once fueled her sport into maintaining both a tedious job as a massage therapist and a loveless marriage. A chance meeting leads sets Jane on a new path: performing a CirqueDu Soleil style aerial act with a mysterious and beautiful dancer named Serena (Addie Yungmee). As the stunning pair prepares to audition their act for a Las Vegas show, the gravitational pull between the two women becomes increasingly unavoidable...

Director: Ned Farr
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Manufactured Landscapes Manufactured Landscapes is a feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. The Three Gorges Dam, factory floors a kilometre long and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in Super-16mm film, the documentary extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Canadian, Documentary

Iraq in Fragments (Blu-Ray) An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. 2007 Academy

Director: James Longley
Year: 2006
Language: Arabic/Kurdish/English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Lust for Power (L'Ivresse du pouvoir) The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I Heart Huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious judge known as "the piranha" of the judiciary system, who puts her personal life on the back burner to pursue white-collar criminals with their private hands in public pockets. After gaining fame for locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her intoxicating power further than ever and winds up isolated in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Eden This foodie fable, which won the Audience Award at last year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, orbits around Gregor, a Bavarian chef famed for his ‘erotic cuisine’, and it’s a perverse romantic comedy in which food really can be better than sex. Gregor, fat, fiftyish, surly and seriously set in his ways, is not looking for love, but when he concocts a to-die-for chocolate cake for a child’s birthday, love, in the form of the girl’s sensually deprived mother, comes looking for him.

Director: Michael Hofmann
Year: 2006
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Esma's Secret (Grbavica) A story about contemporary Sarajevo. Esma, a single mother, wants to grant her twelve-year-old daughter's, Sara, wish to participate in a school trip. A certificate proving her father is a war martyr would allow her a discount. But Esma repeatedly avoids Sara's requests for the certificate. She would rather find a way to pay full price for the trip. Esma believes not telling the terrible truth about Sara's father is a way to protect both her and her daughter.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Year: 2006
Language: Bosnian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Education of a Fairy, The Toy inventor Nicolas meets widowed ornithologist Ingrid and her son Raul on a plane. Not long after his encounter, Nicolas and Ingrid are married and living an idyllic existence in a beautiful old house in the Catalan countryside. The imaginative Nicolas tells Raul stories about the enchanted world of fairies as they explore their neighbouring forest, blurring the line between reality and fiction. One day Raul chances upon a woman in the forest - could she be the fairy he's been seeking?

Director: José Luis Cuerda
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish/French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Petit lieutenant, Le "Nathalie Baye, who received this year's César for best actress, leads an outstanding ensemble as a Parisian detective and recovering alcoholic who teams with a bright-eyed rookie. Two years sober, Inspector Caroline Vaudieu is an elegant 50ish supercop returning to the helm of a criminal unit after the relative safety of a desk job. Newcomer Antoine inspires Caroline's maternal affection; he's about the same age as her son would be, had he not died in childhood. Antoine impulsively chooses a Paris assignment as a ticket out of Normandy (and eagerly) throws himself into the case at hand -- a series of murders of street people on the banks of the Seine." -THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Director: Xavier Beauvois
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Don't Come Knocking Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed...

Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Water A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal. - The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred Hind texts) Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2005
Language: Hindi
Genre: World Cinema, Canadian, Drama

Italian, The Based on the true story of a small Russian boy abandoned in an orphanage who goes in search of his birth mother. A childless, affluent couple from Italy comes to a provincial Russian children's home to find a child for adoption. When the Italian couple singles out six-year-old ragamuffin Vanya Solntsev as their prospective choice, the other orphans give Vanya a new nickname: The Italian. They envy Vanya, imagining that he is destined for a life of ease in sunny Italy. But plucky little Vanya has other plans. He decides to track down his birth mother, teaching himself to read in order to learn her address from his personal file locked in the home's office. After stealing his records, Vanya sneaks out of the orphanage and boards a commuter train headed for the city, with the orphanage staff and police in close pursuit. Fearing that Vanya will make them lose a very lucrative adoption deal, the orphanage attempt to find the runaway child by any means necessary.

Director: Andrei Kravchuk
Year: 2005
Language: Russian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

End of Silence, The Torn between the comforts of her native Russia and the dream of a new life in Canada, the beautiful and talented ballerina Darya (played by world renown Russian ballerina Ekaterina Chtchelkanova) finds herself alone, poor and sinking in uncertainty. But a ray of hope arrives when Darya tumbles into a love affair with Eddie, a young antiques dealer struggling to let go of his past. Beloved Canadian musician Sarah Harmer makes her acting debut as Nora, a mysterious woman in Eddie’s life. The End of Silence is an evocative love story that follows three people as they experience freedom, heartbreak, love and friendship.

Director: Anita Doron
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Good Boy, The The story follows Angel (Gonz lez), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, just back from Argentina. A former boxer with past ties to Angel's mother and his deceased father, he offers Angel a way out of his dead-end life. Along the way, Angel will have to decide who he truly wants to be and, more importantly, what he's willing to give up.

Director: Alberto Rodríguez
Year: 2005
Language: Spainish
Genre: Drama

Heights "Heights" follows five characters over twenty-four hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel (Elizabeth Banks), a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan (James Marsden), a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana (Glenn Close) learns that her husband has a new lover, and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel’s paths cross with Alec (Jesse Bradford), a young actor, and with Peter (John Light), a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel so that Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.

Director: Chris Terrio
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Enfant, L' (The Child) Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia’s unemployment benefits and the panhandling and petty theft committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. She returns home after Jimmy’s birth to find that Bruno has sublet their apartment to total strangers. After an initial and promising change of heart about becoming a father and changing his ways, Jimmy becomes little more to Bruno than a new source of wealth. Desperate for money and unable to face his parental responsibilities, Bruno sells Jimmy to a black market connection, who promises to find the child an adoptive home. Realizing the error in his actions Bruno sets out to try and undo his callous deed, leading him to a powerful personal transformation.

Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

White Countess, The Shanghai. 1936. Crossroads of the world and into this city of political intrigue comes Sofia, a Russian Countess who, with the remains of her family, has been left stateless by the Revolution. Forced by her reduced circumstances to support herself and her family as a bar-girl and taxi dancer, Sofia forms a relationship with Jackson, a blind former diplomat who opens an elegant bar; The White Countess. Their curious relationship matures but they are caught up in the fall of the city to the Japanese invaders.

Director: James Ivory
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Paper Moon Affair A mysterious Japanese woman arrives in a small fishing village in a remote corner of the Pacific Northwest. Trapped in a troubled marriage, Keiko finds distraction in the delicate art of origami. When she wakes up one morning to find herself abandoned, Keiko takes control of her life and develops intense bonds with two locals. Her friendship with the much-younger Hart offers him an escape from his alcoholic father, whiles her encounters with Vern, the local authority, spark a mutual longing for change. A poetic tale of three people torn between familial obligation and the desire for something more.

Director: David Tamagi
Year: 2005
Language: English, Cantonese, Japanese
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Quiet, The Popular cheerleader Nina Deer’s (Elisha Cuthbert) seemingly unblemished suburban world is turned upside down when her parents (Edie Falco and Martin Donovan) adopt their recently orphaned goddaughter Dot (Camilla Belle). Dot’s arrival delivers a blow to Nina’s idyllic social life and triggers the unraveling of the family’s darkest secrets. Both Nina’s family and friends, including the school hunk Connor (Shawn Ashmore, The X-MEN trilogy), develop an odd fascination with Dot and confide in her their troubling secrets. Dot quietly shoulders the burdens and secrets of those around her, while continuing to hold what is perhaps the biggest secret -- her own. Directed by Jamie Babbit (BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER), THE QUIET is about family secrets, friendship, trust and betrayal. Through Nina’s eyes, Babbit takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride— through the hilarious and often crude interactions of high schools students and a family where happy faces disguise ugly truths.

Director: Jamie Babbit
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Niagara Motel The guests of this low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls are not your typical tourists. A waitress being recruited to star in low budget porn, a young couple with criminal pasts struggling to recover their child, and a middle class husband with a rapidly disintegrating marriage. Throw into the mix a woeful drunken motel manager, a prostitute, a small time hustler, an underachieving staple salesman, the owner of the motel, his physics studying daughter, and a social worker with a Christian bias. Watch as tragedy waltzes with unpredictable comedy in an intense dance of life.

Director: Gary Yates
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Sabah Sabah (Arsinée Khanjian) is a 40-year-old Arab woman living in Toronto. One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man: she’s Muslim, he’s not. Keeping him secret from her family, she embarks on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.

Director: Ruba Nadda
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Mon petit doigt m'a dit Based on a mystery by Agatha Christie. An elderly woman disappears. The town seems to be hiding a dark secret. Tombs that are better left untouched, a mysterious doll that returns from the past, and who (or what?) is killing off a group of pensioners at the local retirement home? It may take some sorting out but Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford (Catherine Frot and André Dussollier) are on the case!

Director: Pascal Thomas
Year: 2005
Language: French, English
Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Thumbsucker It’s not easy growing up, no matter what age you are... Justin Cobb (LOU PUCCI) still sucks his thumb at 17. He wants to stop and knows that his thumbsucking is disrupting his family, his love life and his identity. The only thing that changes his behavior is hypnosis therapy administered by his "guru" orthodontist. But while Justin felt this would solve all his problems and he would finally be "normal," his troubles were really just beginning. Thumbsucking was only a symptom of a deep-seated fear: that he and his father aren’t good enough for his mother, and that she would leave them. Thumbsucking was the only way to soothe this fear. Once that is gone Justin spirals into manic behavior, is diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin, which becomes a substitute for his thumb. When the high of the prescription drugs and a newfound success at school crash, Justin turns to pot and sex to replace his thumb.

Director: Mike Mills
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Mouth to Mouth How Sherry loses her virginity, her illusions and her lip ring in one trippy road trip across Europe. Sherry is searching for a place to belong where she can still be herself. She thinks she has found this in SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge. Harry, the group's leader, begins harvesting ripe grapes and ready minds through his own methods of hard work and punishment. The stakes are high within this volatile group. Two deaths ensure the submission of most of the recruits but not Sherry, or the apparently craziest street person, Mad Ax. Into this Shangri-la comes Sherry's mother. Failing to persuade Sherry to leave, she decides that SPARK has more to offer than single parenthood in London. Disillusionment complete, Sherry stands up for what she knows is right, denounces SPARK, and escapes with Mad Ax into the unknown.

Director: Alison Murray
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Peindre ou faire l'amour (To Paint or Make Love) Is there life thirty years after marriage? The kids have gone abroad to study. The shadow of retirement is on the horizon and a social life consists of seeing the same friends for drinks to organize the following Sunday’s game of golf... Of course life goes on and it can be full of surprises.

Director: Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Puffy Chair, The After failing as both a NYC indie rocker and a booking agent, Josh's life is pretty much in the toilet. When he tries to figure out where it all went wrong, he comes up with an idea that would be a small yet life changing victory. He decides to buy a 1985 Lazy Boy on EBay, just like the one from his childhood living room, and deliver it cross-country to his Dad as a surprise birthday gift. Things get complicated when both Josh’s long-term girlfriend and his eccentric brother ask to join him on the adventure. It quickly becomes three very different people and a giant purple puffy chair in a too-small van, and one of them has to go before the trip ends.

Director: Jay Duplass
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

I For India In 1965, Yash Pal Suri left India with his wife and daughter. Over the next 40 years, he used his Super 8 camera to send his family back home images of his new life in the U.K. while his relatives in India responded with their own "cine-letters" full of tales about village life. The result is a bittersweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, and a chronicle of immigration in 1960s Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.

Director: Sandhya Suri
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

House of Sand, The Aurea (Fernanda Torres) is brought to the northern Brazilian town of Maranhão by her insane husband Vasco, who suffers from delusions that the barren land may be profitably farmed. A calamitous turn of events leaves Aurea, now pregnant, and her mother Maria alone in the desert in a house full of sand. They eventually find friendship and food through Massu, who lives at a quilombo (a self-sustaining society originally formed by escaped slaves). Aurea wrestles with her unhappy fate but slowly grows accustomed to the new rhythm of life in the dunes. Years pass and we find Aurea at peace in the desert, while her wild and sexually promiscuous daughter Maria lacks social propriety. Maria yearns to see the outside world and her dream is eventually fulfilled. However, the reality of the sand dunes - manifested through sweeping shots of the horizon, the sound of the wind skimming the sand and the soft, assured pacing of Waddington's direction - will never leave her psyche.

Director: Andrucha Waddington
Year: 2005
Language: Portuguese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Sketches of Frank Gehry "Sketches of Frank Gehry" about the acclaimed architect, Frank O. Gehry, is director Sydney Pollack's first feature length documentary. The two men have been friends for many years, and Pollack completed the film over a period of five years, starting in 2000. Frank Gehry loves to sketch; it is the beginning of his architectural process. And it is his love of the sketch that gave Pollack his first clues to the style of this documentary film. Beginning with Gehry’s own original sketches for each major project, the film explores Gehry’s process of turning these abstract drawings, first into tangible, three-dimensional models, often made simply of cardboard and scotch tape, then into finished buildings of titanium and glass, concrete and steel, wood and stone. The dialogue between Pollack and Gehry, as intimate as that of any two friends of long standing, courses like a continuous melodic line through the film.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Dying Gaul, The Robert Sandrich (Peter Saarsgard) is a fledging screenwriter whose life changes when he is offered a million dollars for his latest and most personal work: The Dying Gaul, the raw, heartbreaking autobiographical story of the death of his gay lover. But there’s a catch, the studio thinks the project will only work if Robert changes his dead lover to a woman. Things get further complicated as Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), the smooth, ruthless studio executive chasing after the screenplay, lures Robert into an affair with his wife Elaine (Patricia Clarkson). The Dying Gaul is a wholly original tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite.

Director: Craig Lucas
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Romanzo Criminale (Crime Novel) Rome, 1960’s. Three young criminals, Lebanese (Pierfrancesco Favino), Ice (Kim Rossi Stuart) and Dandy (Claudio Santamaria), with the help of a makeshift gang of thugs, including Black (Riccardo Scamarcio), an extremist who thinks he’s the last samurai, kidnap and brutally kill a rich proprietor. With the ransom money in hand, they decide to invest it, together, in the heroine business. It’s the birth of a smart and ruthless organization, which crushes all its rivals, assumes total control of the drug trade, and imposes its brutal criminal rule on Rome. Interspersed with incidents from Italy's turbulent social history 'Crime Novel' exposes links between career criminals, terrorists and corrupt politicians.

Director: Michele Placido
Year: 2005
Language: Italian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Moustache, La One day, thinking that it will make your wife and friends smile, you shave off the moustache you have had for the last ten years. The only thing is, no one notices-or worse still, they are pretending not to notice. In fact, everyone seems convinced that you have never had a moustache in the first place. Are you going mad? Are people trying to make you think you are? Or is this possibly part of a more menacing disturbance in the world's order?

Director: Emmanuele Carrère
Year: 2005
Language: French, English, Cantonese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Breakfast on Pluto Breakfast on Pluto tells the wild, rollicking story of Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a catty, beleaguered Irish transvestite who becomes involved with the Irish Republican Army while on a quest to reunite with his mother. Told in thirty-six short chapters, this delirious frenzy is the second collaboration between Neil Jordan and author and screenwriter Patrick McCabe, who gave us the equally inventive and scatalogical The Butcher Boy. Outrageous star Cillian Murphy shines as the "svelte gamine" Kitten, supported by the venerable Liam Neeson as a sympathetic local priest and Jordan regular Stephen Rea in an eccentric cameo appearance.

Director: Neil Jordan
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Lives of Others, The East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the “operation” is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in The Lives of Others – in love, literature, free thinking and speech – makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A dangerous game has begun...

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Year: 2005
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles From three-time Academy Award nominated director Zhang Yimou comes a moving story of one man¡¦s journey across China's heartland. RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES stars the legendary actor Ken TAKAKURA, and Japanese stars Shinobu TERAJIMA and Kiichi NAKAI. After years of painful estrangement, Takata's ill son still refuses to see him. Crushed, the old man quietly slips out of the hospital, but not before Rie gives him a videotape to watch. Rie hopes what Takata sees on the tape will help him get to know his son again. Takata plays the tape and learns that Ken-ichi is studying a form of Chinese folk drama that dates back more than a thousand years. Hoping to bridge the gap between himself and his son, Takata decides to find legendary actor Li Jiamin and videotape his performance for his dying son, Ken-ichi.

Director: Zang Yimou
Year: 2005
Language: Mandarin/Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Eve & The Fire Horse Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion.

Director: Julia Kwan
Year: 2005
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Dignity of the Nobodies, The Once a thriving country with the agricultural capacity to feed hundreds of millions, Argentina has been devastated by an orgy of exploitation at the hands of multinational corporations and lending institutions. Stories and testimonials paint a harrowing picture of globalization, while examples of organized resistance inspire, as documentarian Fernando Solanas chronicles the struggle of the "nobodies": the workers, the small farmers and the indigenous people who are teaming up to fight for their dignity and for their future.

Director: Fernando E. Solanas
Year: 2005
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Lucid Joel Rothman, a thirty-two-year-old psychotherapist, has been having trouble sleeping ever since his wife left. The hours of insomnia are spent obsessively listening to her final angry message and drawing sheep on the wall. Meanwhile, his newest patients are suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and, under his compromised care, are getting increasingly worse. Rapidly approaching rock bottom, Joel becomes increasingly unstable as the line between doctor and patient begins to blur...

Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Friends With Money Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack and Catherine Keener star as a quartet of west coast, life-long friends who have achieved a level of comfort in their lives and have now settled into a life of designer clothes, charity events, and caring for the men (and offspring) in their lives. But as they approach 'a certain age,' unsettling things are starting to throw their comfortable lives off balance.

Director: Nicole Holofcener
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

U-Carmen The most-performed opera in the world gets a new spin in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, which sets the famous opera Carmen in modern-day South Africa. The music, translated and sung in Xhosa and mixed with traditional song, gives the film a thrilling synthesis of Xhosa culture and European opera, while still telling the age-old story of love and obsession, duty and desire, jealousy, revenge and madness.

Director: Mark Dornford-May
Year: 2005
Language: Xhosa
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Angel-A A man meets a woman in Paris. Down-on-his-luck petty criminal Andre (Jamel Debbouze) has reached the end of his rope. Irreversibly in debt to a local gangster, with no one to turn to, his only solution is to plunge himself into the Seine. Just as he is perched to do so, a fellow bridge-jumper beats him to the water. Diving in, he saves Angela (Rie Rasmussen), a beautiful, statuesque and mysterious woman. As they pull themselves out the water, the two form a bond and venture into the streets of Paris determined to get Andre out of the hole he has found himself in. As Andre will find out, not all debts are financial, and sometimes the solutions to life¹s problems are found in the unlikeliest of places. Is Angela simply repaying Andre for his kindness, or are there other forces at work beyond his comprehension?

Director: Luc Besson
Year: 2005
Language: French/Spanish
Genre: World Cinema

Gentille Fontaine Leglou’s life is right on track. She’s beautiful, has a great career and is madly in love with her live-in boyfriend. So it defies all logic that his proposal should send her into such a tailspin of confusion... yet there she is. Whether her hesitation has to do with the charms of a long-time patient or is just symptomatic of a quarter-life crisis, Fontaine has to figure out just how "content" she actually is - because either way, she’s going to have to make that fateful decision - YES or NO...

Director: Sophie Fillières
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Start Walking (Saint Jacques...La Mecque) Director Coline Serreau's warmhearted comedy Stop Walking! (Saint Jacques. . .La Mecque) concerns a trio of estranged siblings who must complete a road trip together in order to collect an inheritance after their mother dies. The high-strung businessman Pierre, mousy teacher Clara, and drunken loser Claude, must travel together in order to each earn the millions their mother left them or else it all goes to charity. - Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Director: Coline Serreau
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

In My Country A Washington Post journalist (Jackson) is sent to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during Apartheid are invited to come forward and confront their victims ñ and are thus granted amnesty. He meets an Afrikaans poet (Binoche) who is covering the hearings for radio ñ and is shattered by the accounts of the cruelty and depravity committed by her fellow countrymen. They both must question their sense of identity as their story unfolds.

Director: John Boorman
Year: 2005
Language: English/Afrikaans
Genre: Drama

Little Man Sometimes the greatest love story is about your very own family. Little man is the story of how a micro-preemie brought a family to its knees. When Nicholas is born 100 days early, he weighs only one pound and faces impossible odds for survival. As he struggles for life, so struggle filmmaker Nicole Conn and political activist Gwen Baba to keep their family from disintegrating under the unrelenting stress and chaos of hospitals, emergency medical crises and a crushing blow to trust. Little man explores the core of the human spirit as a family realizes that they are capable of enduring what they never thought possible.

Director: Nicole Conn
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Devil & Daniel Johnston, The "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" is a stunning portrait of a musical and artistic genius who nearly slipped away. Director Jeff Feuerzeig exquisitely depicts a perfect example of brilliance and madness going hand in hand with subject Daniel Johnston. As an artist suffering from manic depression with delusions of grandeur, Daniel Johnston’s wild fluctuations, numerous downward spirals and periodic respites are exposed in this deeply moving documentary.

Director: Jeff Feuerzeig
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

FC Venus When Anna discovers that her boyfriend Pete intends to waste an entire month attending the World Cup in Germany with his soccer-obsessed friends, she decides that she’s had enough. Putting together a team comprised of soccer-widowed wives and girlfriends, Anna challenges Pete and his friends to the highest stakes game yet: if the men win, the women must never again give them a hard time over their obsession, but if the women win, the men must give up playing and watching soccer - forever!

Director: Joona Tena
Year: 2005
Language: Finnish with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

In Bed (En la Cama) In Bed... the place where you love, where you dream - and where you betray. Two strangers loving each other, clinging to each other, betraying the other - becoming intimates, finding love and losing it in only one night. In a cheap motel room Daniela and Bruna spend the night together. They hardly know the other one, having only met in a cafe a few hours earlier. Two strangers, who make love to each other, tell there life stories to one another, who get to know each other in only one night. Memories and dreams, truths and lies, tears and desires, betrayal and honesty, love and hate are all closely entwined in that night. Behind the veil of words two strangers become intimates but with the light of the sunrise this intimacy will already belong to the past.

Director: Matias Bize
Year: 2005
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Junebug When Madeleine, a British-born dealer in regional, "outsider" art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new, younger husband George extend the trip to include an introduction to his family: his prickly mother Peg; his taciturn father Eugene; his angry younger brother Johnny, who has always suffered in the shadow of his over-achieving brother; and Johnny’s very pregnant and innocently garrulous wife Ashley. Although Ashley immediately takes to the sophisticated Madeleine and embraces her as a sister, the other members of George’s family are less than receptive. With George falling into his old routine of spending time alone, Madeleine relies almost entirely on Ashley to help her navigate the family dinners, Church meetings and Ashley’s baby shower, all while desperately trying to close the deal on the artist. Tensions mount when Ashley goes into labor. Each family member’s priorities, Madeleine’s included, are confronted.

Director: Phil Morrison
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman (TOMMY LEE JONES) kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico. Guillermo Arriaga's dramatic and poetic script weaves past and present as it gradually reveals a great friendship, the lonely subterfuge of an illegal migrant's life, the cost of a promise made and kept, and culminates in the redemption of a callous if accidental killer.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Scenes of a Sexual Nature Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we¿e all involved in it. However, the only thing that truly connects us is our attempt to connect. Whether it is emotional, physical, subliminal or sexual, as human beings we need to make contact with others. But what are the rules? How do we really know whether someone likes us let alone is in love with us? How do we decide whether to connect with another person for a moment indeed a lifetime? The word that gets used most when discussing these issues is love. According to many great thinkers love is an unattainable notion that is driven more by need than reality, according to others it is the only thing that makes the otherwise intolerable idea of life remotely worth attempting. Scenes Of A Sexual Nature is a film that looks at some of our attempts to find it and how we behave in love, in lust and in trouble.

Director: Ed Blum
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Secret Life of Words, The A solitary, mysterious woman (Sarah Polley) who is trying to forget her past is brought to an oil rig to look after a man (Tim Robbins) who has been temporarily blinded. A strange intimacy develops between them, breaking down the walls of silence and cynicism with shared secrets, truths, lies, humour and pain.

Director: Isabel Coixet
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Two Sides of the Bed Javier and Pedro live happily with their new girlfriends, Marta and Raquel. Javier is about to marry Marta, but he and Pedro are unaware that Marta and Raquel are secretly in love. When the boys find out, they are all sent into a rollercoaster of hilarious situations and sexual confusion that puts their lives and options into question in this follow-up to the hit film The Other Side of the Bed.

Director: Emilio Martinez Lazaro
Year: 2005
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Our Daily Bread Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistic of this system which provides our society's standard of living. OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn't always easy to digest - and in which we all take part.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Year: 2005
Language: German, Polish
Genre: Documentary

Caché / Hidden Georges (Auteuil), a television talk showhost, and his wife Anne (Binoche) are living the perfect life of comfort and security. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street with no clues as to who shot it, or why. As more tapes arrive containing images that are disturbingly intimate and increasingly personal, George launches into an investigation of his own as to who is behind this. As he does so, secrets from his past are revealed, and the walls of security he an Anne have built around themselves begin to crumble.

Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Layer Cake Sleek, well dressed and polite, our unnamed hero (Daniel Craig) is a consummate professional. Treating cocaine and ecstasy like any other commodity, he has made a fortune for himself by keeping his hands clean and staying under the radar. Having made the decision to retire, his aim is to break free from the world of crime, drugs and violence and live a simple, quiet life with the money he has amassed. But before this can happen, crime boss Jimmy Price wants two last favors from him. First, he must track down the missing, drug addict daughter of powerful criminal Eddie Temple. Second, he must negotiate the sale of a huge shipment of ecstasy with The Duke, a loose cannon petty crook playing well out of his league. What should be a routine transaction is anything but and nothing goes according to plan. Instead, duplicity and hidden alliances become the order of the day, in a struggle for power that reaches from the crack dens London to the highest ranks of British society.

Director: Matthew Vaughn
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Social Genocide Having survived a political assassination attempt in 1991, Director Fernando Solenas attacks his subject relentlessly and isn't afraid to name names and point fingers. Of the country's current $170-billion debt, Solenas estimates $10 billion ended up in the pockets of crooked politicians. This is 2005's The Take with sleeves rolled up, ready to fight.

Director: Fernando Solanas
Year: 2004
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Silent Love, A Norman, a shy teacher from Montreal meets Gladys, a beautiful, impulsive Mexican woman through the services of an Internet agency. Full of hope, Norman flies to Mexico to ask Gladys to marry him and move to Montreal. Gladys agrees on one condition, that her widowed mother, Fernanda, come along. Norman readily agrees, unaware of the romantic sparks that are about to fly...

Director: Federico Hidalgo
Year: 2004
Language: English & Spanish
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Red Lights It’s a summer holiday weekend in Paris. Antoine (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and Hélène (Carole Bouquet) are on their way to pick up their children at summer camp, thus joining thousands of other vacationers on the highways to the south of France. Frustrated by the freeway, Antoine takes a byway detour, much to Helene's displeasure, and then leaves her in the car as he stops for a drink. Once they're back on the road, their bickering escalates. Antoine then stops again to continue drinking at another tavern, although this time, Helene warns that she won't be there when he gets back. Still he defies her and goes into the bar, taking the car keys with him. He panics when he leaves the bar and discovers she has left. Believing that she has taken the train, he drives like a madman to the next station, but the last train is just pulling out. Driving away in a state of dread, he picks up a strange hitchhiker- not knowing he might have already crossed the path of his soon-to-be-missing wife...

Director: Cédric Kahn
Year: 2004
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Ma mère Upon discovering her husband has died in a car crash, Hélène (Isabelle Huppert) launches into a wild series of parties, gradually involving her son Pierre (Louis Garrel) in her drugging, drinking and sex-fuelled nights out. When she mysteriously flees, her son is left in the care of her mistress Réa (Joana Preiss) and Hansi (Emma de Caunes), an icy blonde sadist with whom he falls in love. As the film evolves, we realize that this is a period of initiation for the young man until his mother can return and fully bring him to sexual maturity and adulthood.

Director: Christophe Honore
Year: 2004
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

In the Realms of the Unreal Henry Darger was an elderly recluse who spent his childhood in an Illinois asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. To the outside world he lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but in his mind he'd created a haunting, fantasy dreamscape. When Henry Darger died alone at the age of 81, his landlords discovered hundreds of brilliant and disturbing paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000 page illustrated novel (The Realms of the Unreal), which told the epic story of the virtuous Vivian Girls, seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against, goddless, child-enslaving men. Featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning (I AM SAM, CAT IN THE HAT) and Larry Pine (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE ICE STORM), the music of Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal and the work of a team of animators, this wholly original film tells the story of a hidden universe.

Director: Jessica Yu
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Yes YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.

Director: Sally Potter
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

November After a dinner out, photographer Sophie Jacobs (Cox) and her boyfriend Hugh (Le Gros) stop at a corner store for a late night snack. While Sophie waits unaware in the car, Hugh is murdered in a violent robbery. Haunted by guilt, Sophie goes on with her life as best she can: teaching photography at a local art college, meeting her mother (Archer) for lunch, and visiting her therapist (Dunn). But one day at school, a slide mysteriously appears in the projector’s carousel: an image of what looks like her car in front of the corner store the night of the shooting. Are these paranoid visions stemming from her grief and guilt, or does someone know something about the murder? As her investigation deepens, more strange events start to occur, drawing into question exactly what happened the night of Hugh’s death. As Sophie struggles with her memory of that night, her life becomes like a photograph itself, an image refracted through a lens, with as much outside the frame as in.

Director: Greg Harrison
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama

I, Claudia "I, Claudia" is an adaptation of the hit one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson. Claudia is an "official" pre-teen, still reeling from her parents' divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Claudia speaks to us from inside the boiler room of her school where she stores all the things that are secret and dear to her. Incensed and incredulous at the adult world around her, she is irrepressibly funny about it at the same time. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather Douglas, her father's new girlfriend Leslie and the school custodian Drachman - shed light on her situation.

Director: Chris Abraham
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

She Hate Me Wharton-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make "easy" money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.

Director: Spike Lee
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Bad Education Celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar's latest is a classic film noir set in Madrid, 1960 - 1980. Two kids, Ignacio and Enrique, discover love, cinema and fear in a religious school. Father Manolo, the school principal and their literature teacher, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three characters meet twice again, at the end of the 70s and in the 80s. The re-encounter will mark the life and death of some of them.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2004
Language: Spanish(Castilian)/Latin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Gunner Palace GUNNER PALACE reveals the complex realities of the situation in Iraq not seen on the nightly news. Told first-hand by our troops, 'Gunner Palace' presents a thought provoking portrait of a dangerous and chaotic war that is personal, highly emotional, sometimes disturbing, surprisingly amusing ... and thoroughly fascinating. Filmmaker Michael Tucker, who lived with 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a. "The Gunners" for two months, captures the lives and humanity of these soldiers whose barracks are the bombed-out pleasure palace of Uday Hussein (nicknamed Gunner Palace), situated in the heart of the most volatile section of Baghdad. With total access to all operations and activities, Tucker's insider footage provides a rare look at the day-to-day lives of these soldiers on the ground -- whether swimming in Uday's pool and playing golf on his putting green or executing raids on suspected terrorists, enduring roadside bombs, mortar attacks, RPGs and snipers.

Director: Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Baadasssss! In Baadasssss! Mario Van Peebles sharply observes his father Melvin’s (played by Mario) struggles to raise money to fund Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) under the guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin ducked creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch of Negroes and hippies couldn’t have come by that camera equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily losing sight in one eye, Melvin managed to whip into shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film. The film had a winning formula - a hip, empowered black lead and a driving, energetic soundtrack with music from the then up-and-coming band Earth Wind and Fire. Maurice White of Earth Wind and Fire also contributes new music to the new film. Before the Wright Brothers, there was no manned flight. Before Melvin Van Peebles, there were no films that would dare depict a brother standing up to the "man" and living to tell about.

Director: Mario Van Peebles
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Grand Voyage, Le A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Réda finds himself obligated to drive his traditionalist Muslim father from their French suburban home to Mecca, on a pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam - the hajj. Within these tight confines, father and son discover that the wide cultural and generational gap between them is a catalyst for confrontation. Yet each time a seemingly irreparable split arises, its resolution brings another level of understanding to their relationship. With several unexpected passengers attaching themselves to the pair along the way, humour intertwines with this heartwarming "road movie with a difference" (June Givanni, Toronto International Film Festival).

Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
Year: 2004
Language: French (Bulgarian, Arabic, Italian, Turkish)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Riding Giants Riding Giants takes us along surfing’s timeline from it’s early Polynesian roots, to its rebirth in the early 20th Century, to the development of a fledgling surf culture along the coast of Southern California in the 1940s highlighting the group of extraordinary adventurers that emerged: surfers who, not satisfied with the mere recreational and social aspects of the sport, began searching for bigger and bigger waves, pushing the boundaries of performance to explore the “unridden realm.” Riding Giants is the story of these big wave riders, of where and how their quest began, of the classic characters who throughout the eras chased their dreams out into the blue water, and who still do today, riding 50, 60 and even 70 foot waves in a manner once considered the realm of fantasy.

Director: Stacy Peralta
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

House of Flying Daggers The Tang Dynasty, one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history at its height, is in decline. Unrest is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that are forming in protest. The largest, and most prestigious of these rebel groups is the House of Flying Daggers, which is growing ever more powerful under a mysterious new leader. Two local captains, Leo and Jin are ordered to capture the new leader and the two hatch an elaborate plan. Captain Jin will pretend to be a lone warrior called Wind and rescue the beautiful, blind revolutionary Mei (Zhang Ziyi) from prison, earning her trust and escorting her to the secret headquarters of the House of Flying Daggers. The plan works, but to their surprise, Jin and Mei fall deeply in love on their long journey to the House. Danger lurks in the forest surrounding them, and the wind is still, as if sensing the tension in the air. What lies ahead for Jin and Mei, these star-crossed lovers?

Director: Yimou Zhang
Year: 2004
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Imaginary Heroes IMAGINARY HEROES is a look at one long year in the lives of an ostensibly typical, upper-middle-class suburban family. It tells a tale of a family in crisis with wit, warmth and a very contemporary sardonic spin. Following a sobering family tragedy, the Travises go to pieces. Teenaged son Tim (Emile Hirsch), the black sheep of the family, walks through his life like it’s a bad dream. His father Ben (Jeff Daniels) begins treating his wife and children like strangers and completely disengages from the world around him, while his mother Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) takes to smoking pot and letting loose with all the considerable sarcasm she can muster. Meanwhile, she wages a bitter feud with the next-door neighbor over carefully concealed secrets that threaten to tear the family apart. With elements of pathos, salty humor and self-discovery, Imaginary Heroes is ultimately about what it means to be part of a family -- the good, the bad, and everything in between.

Director: Dan Harris
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Outing Riley Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he's at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads. The death of his father and a fishing trip with his brothers provide occasions when he could tell them, but he fails. When he screws his courage to the sticking point, how will they react, and how will he deal with their reactions? He imagines a movie of his rather boring life - surrounded by possibilities - but can anything overcome the insular narrow-mindedness of a big Irish Catholic family in Chicago?

Director: Pete Jones
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Lightning in a Bottle On February 7th, 2003, renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations commandeered the stage at New York City's Radio City Music Hall to pay tribute to their common heritage and passion - the blues. Shared with thousands of fans in attendance, legendary performers from roots, rock, jazz and rap joined forces for a once-in-a-lifetime "Salute To The Blues" benefit concert whose proceeds went to musical education. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, produced by Alex Gibney and directed by Antoine Fuqua, LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE captures the night's magic and weaves a history of the blues through the juxtaposition of performances, backstage interviews, rehearsals and archival clips of some of the greatest names in American music, from blues royalty like Buddy Guy, and B.B. King, to their musical heirs ranging from John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt to Mos Def and India.Arie. LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE follows the story of the week leading up to the concert - including rehearsals.

Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Une vie à t'attendre About to settle into a life of marital bliss with his girlfriend, Claire, Alex is thrown when his first love, Jeanne, reappears in his life after twelve years. Married with a family of her own, Jeanne gives into her lingering passion and renews the affair with her former lover. Alex suddenly finds himself at a crossroads of rationality and recklessness, discretion and desire...

Director: Thierry Klifa
Year: 2004
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Drama, Romance

Up & Down In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers discover theirtruckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby behind. In a small Prague apartment, Franta (Jiri Machacek) and Mila (Natasa Burger) dream of having a child, but Franta - on probation because of his soccer hooliganism past - is not allowed to adopt, and Mila is unable to conceive. After cashing in on her savings, Mila decides to buy a baby from a pawnshop that fronts a den of thieves and pickpockets. Meanwhile, an unusual family reunion is taking place: Academy professor Otto (Jan Triska) collapses while teaching, prompting his estranged son Martin (Petr Forman, son of director Milos) to return to Prague from Australia to see his father and his mother, Vera (Emilia Vasaryova), long separated from Otto whom she still pines for. Otto is now living with the beautiful and much younger Hana (Ingrid Timkova), who works in a refugee aid center helping immigrants to adjust to their new lives...

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Year: 2004
Language: Czech/English/German/Russian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Kung Fu Hustle Set amid the chaos of pre-revolutionary China, small time thief, Sing, aspires to be one of the sophisticated and ruthless Axe Gang whose underworld activities overshadow the city. Stumbling across a crowded apartment complex aptly known as “Pig Sty Alley,” Sing attempts to extort money from one of the ordinary locals, but the neighbors are not what they appear. Sing’s comical attempts at intimidation inadvertently attract the Axe Gang into the fray, setting off a chain of events that brings the two disparate worlds face-to-face. As the inhabitants of the Pig Sty fight for their lives, the ensuing clash of kung fu titans unearths some legendary martial arts Masters. Sing, despite his futile attempts, lacks the soul of a killer, and must face his own mortality in order to discover the true nature of the kung fu master.

Director: Stephen Chow
Year: 2004
Language: Cantonese/Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Hawaii, Oslo Five stories about love are interweaved in Oslo, during the hottest day if the year. A man lies dying in the street, surrounded by people who, on the contrary are more alive than ever. For eleven years, Leon has been dreaming about turning 25. At the age of fourteen he and Aasa made a pact to meet again on this day to be together forever. Now he is frightened that she will not come, but maybe even more frightened that she actually will. The nurse Vidar tries to prevent his premonitions by keeping himself awake from his dreams. He is a night watch at the institution where Leon lives and has dreamt that Leon and Aasa will never meet. The people in Hawaii, Oslo cross each others paths and meet one another - like the streets in a city. Everyone is running from something, searching for something or dreaming of something else on this destined day. Everyone is looking for love and finding companionship.

Director: Erik Poppe
Year: 2004
Language: Norwegian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Wilby Wonderful Today in the small East Coast island town of Wilby, Carol French, the local realtor, is trying to sell the Mayor a house that belonged to her recently deceased mother-in-law. Her police officer husband Buddy is in the middle of an investigation into the town’s deviant underbelly. It seems that Buddy is also about to begin a love affair with the wrong-side-of-the-tracks just-back-in-town Sandra Anderson. Meanwhile, Sandra’s daughter Emily isn’t very happy that her mother has given her a handful of condoms to use with her new one-track-mind boyfriend. Add to the mix the apparently dyslexic sign painter Duck MacDonald, and MacKenzie Fisher, the Mayor’s algebra-challenged young daughter, and it’s just another Thursday in Wilby. But then why is Dan Jarvis trying to kill himself in all the wrong places? Where are all the drugs suddenly coming from? And, what’s Carol French going to do about that body in the closet?

Director: Daniel MacIvor
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy

Exils Two young lovers embark on a daunting pilgrimage from Paris across Spain to Algeria, by train, bus and foot, in the hope of discovering the land their parents fled decades ago. Fueled by passion and intoxicated with freedom, they defiantly take to the road with music as their only belonging, en route to a country that everyone else is trying to escape... backwards on the path to exile and spiritual awakening.

Director: Tony Gatlif
Year: 2004
Language: French, Arabic, Romany and Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Touch of Pink Alim (Jimi Mistry) is so caught up in the romance, style and dreams of old Hollywood that he thinks he's living with the spirit of Cary Grant (Kyle MacLachlan). A young, Ismaili Canadian based in London, Alim lives with a handsome, charming intelligent English boyfriend, Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried), who is completely unaware of his lover's fantasy life. Alim and Giles are happy together, despite Cary's presence, until Alim's mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew) shows up for a visit. Totally unaware that her son is gay, let alone that he is living with Giles, Nuru has come to London to find Alim a proper Ismaili-Muslim girlfriend and to convince him to come home to Canada. With his mother in the picture, Alim's different worlds quickly begin to collide, and he has to choose between his fantasy life with Cary and the earthlier pleasures of real life. Touch of Pink combines a contemporary clash of cultures, values and sexuality, with the pleasures of an old fashioned romantic comedy.

Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Syrian Bride Mona’s wedding day is the saddest day of her life. She knows that once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to marry Syrian TV star Tallel, she will never be allowed back to her beloved family in Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967. The Syrian Bride is a story about physical, mental and emotional borders and the will to cross them. A story about a family trying to cope with its ability to define boundaries and deal with them - focusing on Mona’s sister Amal, a modern woman trapped in a tradition and culture she wants to break out of.

Director: Eran Riklis
Year: 2004
Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew, Russian, French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Merchant of Venice Set in 16th century Venice, Shakespeare’s timeless comedy/drama follows the fates and fortunes of a group of Christian noblemen and their interactions with the Jewish moneylender Shylock. Antonio (Jeremy Irons) borrows money from Shylock (Al Pacino) to help his young penniless friend Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) in his quest to win the hand of the fair Portia (Lynn Collins). Bitter at Antonio’s insults, Shylock stipulates very specific terms if he defaults on the loan. As Antonio’s shipping business is devastated by storms, Shylock is further angered by his daughter’s elopement with the nobleman Lorenzo (Charlie Cox). The loan falls due and Shylock claims his forfeit in the form of a pound of Antonio’s flesh. As Bassanio desperately tries to save Antonio from this fate, miraculous help comes from an unexpected quarter.

Director: Michael Radford
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Scared Sacred In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out on a unique pilgrimage. Visiting the ‘Ground Zeros’ of the planet, he asks if it’s possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history. Ripper travels to the minefields of Cambodia; war-torn Afghanistan; the toxic wasteland of Bhopal; post-9/11 New York; Bosnia; Hiroshima; Israel and Palestine. This powerful documentary captures his five- year odyssey to discover if humanity can transform the ‘scared’ into the ‘sacred’. In each place, he unearths unforgettable stories of survival, ritual, resilience and recovery.

Director: Velcrow Ripper
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Saving Face Saving Face is a romantic comedy about a daughter struggling to understand her mother's heart, which ultimately allows her to understand her own. It is the story of unspoken loves, contemporary and cultural taboos, and the journey of two women towards living their lives honestly.

Director: Alice Wu
Year: 2004
Language: English/Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Warriors of Heaven & Earth After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan. Finally, his request seems to be granted, and as battles against the invading Turkish armies intensify, Lai Xi promises to bring Wen Zhu back to the capital city of Changan. Instead, he is sent to the West to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female and child prisoners. Li and Lai Xi battle, but finally agree to delay their final personal fight until the caravan carrying Wen Zhu and a Buddhist monk is brought to safety. The monk, however, is carrying a sacred and powerful pagoda that attracts the attention of the region's ruthless overlord, Master An (Wang Xueqi). Lai Xi and Lt. Li, accompanied by Li's former posse of soldiers, who have forsaken their peaceful new lives to return to his side, must face the cruelty of the desert.

Director: Ping He
Year: 2004
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Somersault After making a misjudged advance towards her mother’s boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne and starts a new life for herself. But when she falls for the son of a wealthy local farmer, her self-destructive tendencies resurface and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down. An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young woman’s sexual awakening.

Director: Cate Shortland
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Love That Boy Phoebe (Nadia Litz of The Five Senses) is a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. With a month until college ends, she's given herself a "To Accomplish Before Graduation" list, which includes everything from picking wild mushrooms to learning how to kayak. When her roommate points out that what Phoebe really needs is a boyfriend, she simply adds that to her list. After the demise of her first relationship - her "boyfriend" didn't even know they were going out - Phoebe inadvertently falls in love. The only problem is, he's 14.

Director: Andrea Dorfman
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Green Butchers Sick of being pushed around by their tyrannical boss, two old friends decide to start their own organic butcher shop. Unfortunately they get off to a rough start and business is less than spectacular. But after accidentally locking a visiting electrician in the freezer overnight, Svend is left with a frozen body on his hands...and a gruesome opportunity. Soon business takes off and locals are lining the street for their new mystery dish, but the two friends are left wondering how they’ll continue to meet demand... The Green Butchers is a pitch-dark comedy that teeters between horror and hilarity. Twisted with both the morbid and amusing it has a distinct taste and is well worth digging into... if you've got the stomach.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2003
Language: Danish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Zelary It is the 1940's and the Czech lands have been occupied by the Nazis. Eliska is a young woman who was unable to complete medical school because the Germans closed the universities and now works as a nurse in a city hospital. She is also involved in the resistance movement. One night, a man from a rural mountain area is brought to the hospital with serious injuries and desperately needs a transfusion. Eliska is the only one with the same blood type. Her blood saves his life and a connection is formed between the two that in the course of the story becomes an extraordinarily strong relationship between the modern, cosmopolitan, and educated Eliska and the barbaric, salt of the earth man with the soul of a child, Joza. The resistance group that the doctors are involved in is discovered and hunted by the Gestapo and suddenly their lives are threatened. Joza is asked to Eliska in his remote mountain cabin. Eliska is forced become a new woman: Hana, the wife of a mountain man.

Director: Ondrej Trojan
Year: 2003
Language: Czech/Russian/German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye) In contemporary Russia young brothers Vanya and Andrey have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Running home after a fight with neighborhood kids the boys are shocked to discover their father has returned after a twelve-year absence. Vanya and Andrey find themselves alternately tested, scolded, scrutinized and ignored by their father through a changing series of encounters and hardships. Vanya and his father's test of wills escalates into bitter hostility and sudden violence as the trio arrives at their mysterious island destination. The dubious sanctuary of a rickety light tower, the desperate reassurance of a stolen knife, the cryptic allure of a rusting strong box and the fleeting safety of a hastily patched boat give evidence to the ultimately tragic conclusion of Vanya and Andrey's harrowing father and son journey and the heartbreakingly transitory nature of their reunion.

Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Year: 2003
Language: Russian with English subtitles

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring The exquisitely beautiful and very human drama Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is entirely set on and around a tree-lined lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breath-taking landscape. The film is divided into five segments; each season representing a stage in a man’s life. Under the vigilant eyes of Old Monk, Child Monk learns a hard lesson about the nature of sorrow when some of his childish games turn cruel. In the intensity and lushness of summer, the monk, now a young man, experiences the power of lust, a desire that will ultimately lead him, as an adult, to dark deeds. With winter, strikingly set on the ice and snow-covered lake, the man atones for his past actions, and spring starts the cycle anew… With an extraordinary attention to visual details, such as using a different animal (dog, rooster, cat, snake) as a motif for each section, writer/director/editor KIM Ki-duk has crafted a totally original yet universal story about the human spirit.

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 2003
Language: Korean
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Little Brother of War Confronted with the death of his parents, eight-year-old Jay Williams (Brett Sherwood) is reluctantly taken in by his mother's estranged sister and her down and out boyfriend. Confused and disoriented, Jay finds no comfort in his aunt's dysfunctional lifestyle. With great determination, he departs on a cross-country journey to the World Lacrosse Championships in Chicago, believing his mother and father to be in attendance. Finding himself in circumstances far beyond his years, Jay seeks solace within his imagination and brings to life a mystic story of centuries past. Years of working the streets, and a failed marriage, have left Detective Anthony Rosetti (Frank Cassini) jaded, and numb. Not until he crosses paths with a lost, yet persistent young Jay, does he begin to question his choices of the past and the direction his life is taking. Fantasy is interwoven with reality and, in a triumph of spirit; a jaded cop and an orphaned boy find friendship and liberation from their fears.

Director: Damon Vignale
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Since Otar Left Three Georgian women - strong-willed matriarch Eka (90-year-old former dental assistant and fledgling star Esther Gorintin), her long-suffering daughter Marina (Nino Khomassouridze) and rebellious granddaughter Ada (Freeze, Die, Come To Life's Dinara Droukarova) - all live together in their stately yet crumbling apartment in contemporary Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic. Eka pines for her beloved son Otar, a physician who is now a construction worker in Paris. Marina is deeply resentful of her mother's obsession with her absent brother, while Ada endures their bickering and yearns for a more adventurous existence. When a friend of Otar's calls with tragic news, Marina and Ada must make a seemingly impossible choice: Do they keep Eka from learning the truth?

Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Year: 2003
Language: French/Georgian/Russian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

3-Iron Tae-suk (JAE Hee) drifts around on his motorcycle looking for empty houses to stay in. Tae-suk lives in the empty house until the owners return, but never steals or ruins anything. He simply guards the houses for a few days, fixing broken items, and even does the owners' laundry. Before leaving, he puts everything back as it used be. One day, sneaking into a wealthy home, Tae-suk meets his destiny - a married woman named Sun-hwa (LEE Seung-yeon) who has been tormented by her abusive husband. That same night, Tae-suk wakes up suddenly to find Sun-hwa staring at him. He runs out, but the phone rings suddenly. It's Sun-hwa's husband. Tae-suk overhears their conversation and realizes that Sun-hwa has an unhappy marriage and life. Sun-hwa looks silently at him as if she is begging for him to save her.

Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Year: 2003
Language: Korean
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Ginger and Cinnamon When Stefania breaks up with her boyfriend Andrea, little does she realize what the summer has in store for her. She winds up on vacation at a Greek resort 'Isle of love' with her 14 year old niece. Unfortunately, her teenage niece has something more than sun and surf on her mind; she decides that this Mediterranean paradise is where she will finally lose her virginity. However, in an ironic twist, the cute guy she has her eye out on turns out to be none other than Andrea, her aunt's ex-boyfriend. This light-hearted "comedy-of-errors" is a valuable lesson in what being a woman means at any age.

Director: Daniele Luchetti
Year: 2003
Language: Italian/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Raja Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.

Director: Jacques Doillon
Year: 2003
Language: French/Moroccan
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

All the Real Girls All The Real Girls is set in a small North Carolina mill town where 22-year-old Paul has spent his entire life. He lives with his mom, works for his uncle and has a small group of lifelong friends (Tip, Bo and Bust Ass) who are rowdy, funny and loyal. Paul's girlfriends, however, are neither lifelong nor loyal; his charm has led to a string of broken hearts for which he feels little if any remorse. But Paul's easy going life and his attitudes about love and women change dramatically when he meets Noel, Tip's 18-year-old sister. Unlike Paul, Noel has spent most of her life away at boarding school but she has just graduated and returned home with no plans for the future. As the summer progresses, things go right, and then wrong, as both Paul and Noel discover that real love comes at a cost that sometimes is too high. But they also realize that their experience was a turning point for both of them and it will bind them together forever.

Director: David Gordon Green
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Housekeeper, The Jacques is a sound engineer and has lived in this quiet section of Paris for years. A few months ago, his wife left him. His new life as a bachelor has slipped into a monotonous grind, as he divides his time between work, the corner bistro and his messy apartment. Then one day he sees a notice on a bulletin board: "Young woman will do housework." Now he finds himself with Laura, a young woman from the outskirts of town. As the days go by, Jacques discovers the charm of this simple girl overflowing with energy. Almost in spite of himself, he once again awakens to a life of the heart. With Laura staying in his apartment for the time being, Jacques is torn at one moment between past and present. He decides to make something happen and runs away to Brittany to be with his old friend Ralph. He gives in to Laura's request to go along, but Jacques may lack the candor and generosity it takes for diving head-first into a sea of adolescent feeling and letting himself drift away.

Director: Claude Berri
Year: 2003
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Mother, The May is an ordinary grandmother from a London suburb. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she falls for Darren, a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter.

Director: Roger Michell
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Silent Waters Ayesha is a Muslim widow with a secret past, living peacefully with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan, close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem is gripped by a religious fervor and takes up with a group of fundamentalists bent on bringing radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbors. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town dangerous passions increase, and soon Ayesha’s haunted past turns her present life upside down.

Director: Sabiha Sumar
Year: 2003
Language: Urdu and Punjabi
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

My Architect: A Son's Journey In My Architect, the filmmaker reveals the haunting beauty of his father's monumental creations and takes us deep within his own divided family, uncovering a world of prejudice, intrigue and the myths that haunt parents and children. In a documentary with the emotional impact of a dramatic feature film (including an original orchestral score), Nathaniel's personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself.

Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Corporation, The Explore the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION includes 40 interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Director: Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Moving Malcolm Vancouver's Ben Ratner pulls triple-duty for Moving Malcolm, his directorial debut, which he also wrote and stars in opposite Elizabeth Berkley (Roger Dodger) and John Neville (Spider). The film won a special jury award at the 2003 Montreal World Film Festival for its incisive and compassionate comedy. Gene (Ratner) is a struggling writer who's dumped at the altar by flighty B-movie actress Liz (Berkley). At odds with his family, friends, and himself, Gene spends the next year toiling away on a voluminous novel that he hopes will win back his former fiancee. Then suddenly Liz shows up at his door, asking Gene to help her father, Malcolm (Neville), move while she's off making a low-budget flick in Prague. Is this Gene's chance to recapture Liz's love?

Director: Benjamin Ratner
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Go Further Go Further, the new film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviors. Throughout, we see Harrelson test his belief that the transformation of our planet begins with the small personal transformations that are within the grasp of each and every one of us, after which... we'll go further.

Director: Ron Mann
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Masked and Anonymous In a fictional America caught up in a civil war that is tearing the nation apart, a benefit concert is being organized. A traveling troubadour named Jack Fate (Bob Dylan) is sprung from jail by his scheming former manager, Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman), to headline a concert with the expectations to bring peace to a country that is entrenched by chaos, lawlessness and pandemonium.

Director: Larry Charles
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Roads to Koktebel After the death of his wife, a man takes to drink and loses his apartment. With nothing left for him in Moscow, he sets off with his eleven-year-old son to his sister’s home at Koktebel in the Crimea. They travel by train and on foot, earning their keep along the way with casual labour. The father is content to travel slowly and at the mercy of chance, however slow their movement may be, but his son longs to reach Koktebel, which he feels holds the key to a new life and emancipation. Frustrated by countless delays, the boy breaks away and continues the journey on his own in search of the sea he has longed to visit.

Director: Boris Khlebnikov & Alexei Popogrebsky
Year: 2003
Language: Russian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Spare Parts (2003) Ludvik is a former speedway champ who has drifted into the lucrative business of people-trafficking, pocketing fistfuls of euros from desperate souls as they are shoved into his van, waiting to be taken across the border into Italy. Young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. In a story straight from the headlines, Ludvik inducts Rudi into the blood-chilling illegal immigrant trade, a squalid world where the refugees are considered disposable, sexual exploitation is par for the course, and the paying customers are just as likely to be drugged and used as "spare parts" (unwilling organ donors), once they are safely over the border.

Director: Damjan Kozole
Year: 2003
Language: Slovenian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Forest for the Trees Melanie leaves home to become a teacher, armed with alternative methods and bright-eyed optimism. Soon enough, though, storm clouds begin to form: she’s tortured by her students and rejected by her colleagues. There’s no comfort in her personal life either, as loneliness begins to take its toll. Eager for some kind of companionship aside from the creepy Thorsten, the only co-worker her age, Melanie orchestrates a "chance meeting" with her attractive neighbour and begins to insinuate herself into her neighbours’ life.

Director: Maren Ade
Year: 2003
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Carandiru In his ninth full-length feature, Hector Babenco creates a loyal adaptation of the book Carandiru Station by Drauzio Varella. The film follows the point of view of a doctor who makes regular visits to the Sao Paulo Penitentiary and hears hundreds of prisoners' stories, about love and passion, crime and friendship. He is also the witness of the survivors of the 1992 massacre that left 111 people dead.

Director: Hector Babenco
Year: 2003
Language: Portuguese (Brazil)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Monsieur Ibrahim During the early 1960's, Paris was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with an energy that promised cultural shifts and social change. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters - a young Jew and an elderly Muslim - begin a friendship. When we meet Moise, also known as Momo (Pierre Boulanger), he is in effect an orphan even though he lives with his father, a man slowly retreating into a crippling depression. His only friends are the street prostitutes who treat him with genuine affection. Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a silent exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on. After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one grownup in Momo's life. Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.

Director: François Dupeyron
Year: 2003
Language: French/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Dopamine Rand is a computer animator, who has created an artificial intelligence creature designed to interact with children and teach them responsibility. When his prototype is forced into practice at a school, Rand encounters Sarah--a teacher he was inexplicably drawn to--at his favorite bar one fateful evening. Sparks fly between them, but fundamental differences in their approaches to love and relationships slow them down to a halt. Will their differences keep them apart, or will love--and maybe a little dopamine--conquer all?

Director: Mark Decena
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Paradise Found Paris, 1880. Paul Gauguin is a successful financier. He lives in Paris with his wife Mette and their four children. But when his passion for painting becomes a mission to revolutionize art, Gauguin must unleash the savage within himself. To do so he gives up his job and comfortable lifestyle, leading his family into a downward spiral of poverty and travels to Tahiti. His voyages take him even further from his beloved family and teach him the true meaning of the word sacrifice. What price must he pay in order to pursue his dream?

Director: Mario Andreacchio
Year: 2003
Genre: Drama, Biography

Saved By The Belles You are who you are and that's the way it is... Saved by the Belles follows gender illusionist Sheena Hershey and neon cyberpunk VJ Scarlet after yet another night of debauchery, as they discover a hot young amnesiac. The Belles baptize the boy Chris and vow to help him recover his lost memory by embarking on a whirlwind tour of Montreal's underground club scene. Through their journey, Sheena and Scarlet soon realize that Chris is not alone in experiencing an identity crisis. This urban fairy tale is a genre-busting sensory odyssey that combines gorgeously vibrant visuals, a propulsive pacing and a pumped-up soundtrack to explore identity, tolerance and freedom.

Director: Ziad Touma
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Middle of the World, The Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. Based on a true story, The Middle of the World follows a family of seven on a journey 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, director Vicente Amorim beautifully explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge. The Middle of the World is an unimaginable road movie, both graceful and tender, about having the courage to pursue your dreams.

Director: Vicente Amorim
Year: 2003
Language: Portuguese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Drifters Adrift between two cultures, Er Di is back in China after being expelled from the United States for working illegally. Once a hopeful stowaway on a quest for the American Dream, he now drifts aimlessly from one day to the next, even as he shares a tender romance with a member of a touring opera troupe. His life lacks meaning until he learns that his American-born son has been brought to China for a visit. Determined to see him, Er Di must overcome the boy’s family, who is determined to prevent a reunion. Soon Er Di realizes there are other measures of success than making it to America.

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Year: 2003
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Tibet: Cry of Snow Lion Ten years in the making, this provocative documentary was filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world" with an unprecedented richness of imagery... from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images never before assembled in one film. A definitive exploration of a legendary subject, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion is an epic story of courage and compassion.

Director: Tom Peosay
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Fog of War, The The Fog of War is a 20th century fable, a story of an American dreamer who rose from humble origins to the heights of political power. Robert S. McNamara was both witness to and participant in many of the crucial events of the 20th century: the crippling Depression of the 1930s; the industrialization of the war years; the development of a different kind of warfare based on air power and the creation of a new American meritocracy. He was also an idealist who saw his dreams and ideals challenged by the role he played in history. Although strictly speaking, neither a work of biography nor a work of history, The Fog of War has produced important, new biographical and historical material. - Errol Morris

Director: Errol Morris
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Facing Windows Giovanna, though still very young, has been married to her devoted husband Filippo for 9 years. She divides her time between her job at the poultry factory, looking after her 2 children, and baking cakes for the local cafe, bearing the weight of responsibility on her shoulders. The strain on Giovanna is increased when Filippo, in his kindness, brings home a refined elderly gentleman who has lost his memory. In trying to help this man Giovanna reluctantly spends more and more time with him, slowly uncovering clues to the mystery of his buried past: a number tatooed onto his forearm, his expertise in the art of the patisserie and the name, Simon... Increasingly irritated by her husband's softness, her fantasies of the ideal are projected onto the handsome mysterious neighbor whom she watches in the hope of adding a little excitement to her life.

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Year: 2003
Language: Italian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Young Adam Featuring a strong cast headed by Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan and Emily Mortimer, YOUNG ADAM is a moody, sensual thriller that takes place on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh during the 1950s. The film focuses on the crisis of Joe (McGregor); a young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les (Mullan) and his enigmatic wife Ella (Swinton). One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon the corpse of a young woman floating in the water and the questions begin. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate the case and a suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that Joe knows more about the drowned woman Cathie (Mortimer) than he will admit. Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the investigation, Joe and Ella embark on a passionate affair. Written and directed by the award-winning filmmaker David Mackenzie, YOUNG ADAM is adapted from novel by the Scottish Beat writer Alexander Trocchi.

Director: David Mackenzie
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Madame Satã Madame Satã is inspired by the legends and myths built around the real life character João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976), also known as Madame Satã. The film is set in the 1930s, in the bohemian neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro, as João Francisco is about to achieve his dream: becoming a stage star. A tall black man - a Brazilian version of Genet - a proud rascal, female impersonator, gangster, convicted prisoner and adoptive father, João Francisco spent most of his life in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Aïnouz's first feature is as feverish as its protagonist. Throughout the film we get to know the cast of characters who surround João Francisco in the sordid yet lively world of Lapa, a cast of pimps, prostitutes, samba composers and bohemians. The film takes us on an intimate journey into the day-to-day life of João Francisco and his close friends, focusing on the crucial period immediately before the Madame Satã myth was created.

Director: Karim Aïnouz
Year: 2002
Language: Portuguese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

In This World

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2002
Language: Persian/English
Genre: Drama

Distant Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms with the growing gap between his artistic ideals and his professional obligations. His tedious workload, coupled with the lingering loss he still feels for his ex-wife (newly married and on the verge of leaving Istanbul for Canada), leaves Mahmut clinging to the melancholic and obsessive routines of his solitary life. Without warning, Mahmut's distant relative Yusuf arrives in Istanbul determined to find a job aboard a ship so that he may fulfill his dream of traveling around the world. In need of a place to stay as he searches for work, Yusuf imposes himself on Mahmut, who resents the sudden intrusion, but nonetheless feels obliged to help his family.As the two men struggle to make a connection, communication is slowly reduced to the bare minimum; and their time together must come to an end.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Year: 2002
Language: Turkish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Dek and Shirley live together with 12-year-old Marlene, her daughter by the sexy, delinquent Jimmy who disappeared years ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Decent-but-dull Dek loves Shirley, so much so that he humiliates her by proposing without warning on national television. Like every other person Shirley has ever met, Jimmy witnesses Dek's TV proposal and he returns to town, convinced that his nerdy rival doesn't stand a chance against a renewed romantic assault from the great love of her life. While Shirley seems destined to succumb to Jimmy’s charms, he hasn’t reckoned on the formidable resistance from their daughter Marlene, his sister Carol, her estranged husband Charlie, their sons Emerson and Lake, Carol’s daughter Donna, her boyfriend Donut... Nor could he anticipate a heroic, last-minute challenge from the mild-mannered, love-sick Dek...

Director: Shane Meadows
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Talk to Her Two men are sitting together by chance. They don't know each other. They are Benigno (a young nurse) and Marco (a writer in his early forties). On the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two women, their eyes closed and their arms extended, are moving to the music of "The Fairy Queen", by Henry Purcell. The piece is so moving that Marco starts to cry. Benigno can see the gleam of his chance companion's tears, in the darkness of the stalls. He'd like to tell him that he too is moved by the spectacle but he doesn't dare. Months later, the two men meet again at "El Bosque", a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. When Marco walks by the door of Alicia's room, Benigno doesn't think twice before speaking to him. It's the start of an intense friendship... as linear as a roller coaster.

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish (Castilian)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Mad Love Laredo, August 22, 1496. A fleet sets sail for Flanders. Its mission, to carry Princess Joan to the Brussels court where she is to be wed to the monarch later to be known as Philip the Handsome. Sparks fly at their first meeting. One look is enough to create mutual attraction and uncontrollable desire. Joan and Philip forget their political obligations and abandon themselves to their emotions. However, destiny has other plans for them. The death of her elder brother, sister and mother, Isabella the Catholic, leave Princess Joan the Queen of Castile and heir to the crown of Aragon. Two battles ensue: the political one, between the Flemish and Castilian nobility, and the tumultuous one that Joan will wage in her marriage bed.

Director: Vincente Aranda
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish (Castilian)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Manito In the 1990’s Washington Heights transformed from the crack-cocaine capital to one of the most vibrant Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S. As the drug dealers disappeared, their violent legacy continued to cast a shadow over the neighbourhood and its residents. Junior Moreno (Frankie G.), an ex-convict struggling to get his life back, is a product of that legacy. His brother Manny, (Leo Minaya) the Salutorian of his high school class, embodies the hope for the future of the neighbourhood. On the night of his graduation party, Manny faces an ill-fated decision that could change his life forever. Junior tries to prevent his little brother from becoming another casualty of the neighbourhood’s violent past.

Director: Eric Eason
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Zhou Yu's Train A dreamlike love story set against the vast landscape of modern China, Zhou Yu’s Train features internationally acclaimed actress Gong Li as Zhou Yu, a young woman torn between her feelings for a shy poet and the persistent affections of a well-meaning young veterinarian. As she rides the train twice a week to cover the great distance between her two lives, we see Zhou Yu make the emotional journey between a fading passion that once inspired great beauty and a trusted friendship that seems destined to be her next great love. Co-starring Tony Leung Ka Fai and newcomer Sun Hong Lei, Zhou Yu’s Train was directed and co-written by Sun Zhou.

Director: Zhou Sun
Year: 2002
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

My Mother Likes Women MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN is a staccato-paced comedy about three sisters whose lives are thrown off-kilter by their mother's sudden sexual awakening. Sofia, (Rosa Maria Sarda from All About My Mother), a renowned pianist, is long separated from the daughters' father. It is on the occasion of her birthday that she delivers a stunning announcement: she has fallen in love again. Clearly smitten, she begins to describe her new lover: somewhat younger... also a pianist. The daughters, thrilled and eager to hear more, are interrupted by the doorbell. A woman walks in... The daring feature debut of Spanish directors Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN traces the emotional landscape of a "modern" family that nevertheless registers seismic shock at this unexpected news. Sofia's daughters are the children of left-wing intellectuals. Yet, even their progressive background hasn't prepared them for the emotions they are about to experience.

Director: Daniela Feijerman
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish / Czech
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary In Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary, Traudl Junge describes on camera for the first time her experience working as one of Adolf Hitler's private secretaries from 1942 until his suicide in 1945. After keeping quiet for nearly 60 years, Frau Junge tells the riveting story of working alongside Hitler until the final collapse of the Nazi regime. Frau Junge is one of only a handful of witnesses to Hitler's last days in his fortified bunker as the Third Reich was collapsing above them. In his final hours, he dictated his final will and testament to her. Frau Junge also worked with Hitler at Wolf's Lair (his field headquarters in East Prussia), at his Bavarian residence at Berchtesgaden and on the Führer's special train. In Spring 2001, André Heller met Traudl Junge and was able to persuade her that it would be fascinating as well as historically important to make a record of her unique experiences... and of her present attitudes to that time, after years of contemplation and self-analysis.

Director: Andre Heller
Year: 2002
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Peck on the Cheek, A A little girl's search for her biological mother who had abandoned her as a newborn baby is brought out poignantly in 'Kannathil Muthamittal'. With films like 'Mouna Ragam', 'Alaipayuthe' and now 'Kannathil Muthamittal', Maniratnam yet again proves that he is at his best when tackling human emotions and relationships. Amudha, adopted by Thiru and Indira and growing up with the couple’s two sons, is blissfully unaware of her parentage, until the couple decides to inform her of it on her ninth birthday. At first shocked into disbelief, Amudha then expresses her determination to seek out for her biological mother. The search takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka, where Amudha comes face-to-face with reality, and reconciles herself to it.

Director: Mani Ratnam
Year: 2002
Language: Tamil/Sinhala
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Small Voices Dreams are what Melinda brought with her the day she left for the far-flung provincial town of Malawig. The young teacher arrives to find a land of coconut and rice fields, and a people barren of hope. Poverty has made the townsfolk passive, resigned to a bitter fate, while others fight in the mountains, staking their lives for some kind of change. "Only the rich can afford to dream. We can't." The words of a child urge Melinda to strive to make the town listen: Poverty does not make victims of people. Hopes are essential, and dreams can be made real. Against the skepticism of the town, Melinda and the children of Malawig join a humble singing contest. Their small voices ring out against darkness, against poverty, death, and despair. Their song awakens in everyone a small flame of hope, a daring to dream, and a willingness to fight for it. Melinda leaves the town believing that it is within one's power to make a difference, that within one's self is a voice waiting to be heard.

Director: Gil M. Portes
Year: 2002
Language: Tagalog
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Satin Rouge A widowed Tunisian seamstress takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in writer- director Raja Amari's sumptuous and sensual Satin Rouge. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, young widow Lilia becomes drawn to an exotic nightclub netherworld of Rubénesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure- seekers. She strikes up a friendship with one of the dancers, then eventually takes the stage herself-quickly becoming the favorite of both cabaret patrons and the club's hot-blooded drummer. As she gradually sheds her shapeless, matronly housedresses for the flamboyantly sequined bar-girl garb, she also begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness. Variety critic David Stratton compares Amari's tale to Douglas Sirk's American suburban melodramas of the 1950s (particularly All That Heaven Allows) calling the film a "handsomely produced and exhilarating romantic drama."

Director: Raja Amari
Year: 2002
Language: Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

HOP All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law. He must embark on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But in order to fight the system, he must enlist the help of a former anarchist and together they will need to apply the secret of the HOP.

Director: Dominique Standaert
Year: 2002
Language: Dutch & French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Quitting In the late 80’s a new film star, Jia Hongsheng, emerged in China. Labeled "the thug idol," he gained fame playing gangsters and heroes in a series of Chinese B-movies. He had his first experience with drugs on the set of "The Kiss of the Spiderwoman." Jia’s naturally fragile mental/psychological state coupled with his experimentation with drugs gradually led him into a state of despair. He stopped acting and cut himself off entirely from all his friends, locking himself in an apartment listening to tapes of his favorite music over and over again. Jia’s parents were members of a small theater troupe in a small town in Northeast China. Overjoyed by their son’s success and distraught at his addiction, they left the troupe that they had been members of their whole lives, packed up all their belongings (bed, TV, furniture and everything they owned) and traveled to Beijing to be with their son. Every character in "Quitting" is played by a real person who was part of Hongsheng’s life.

Director: Yang Zhang
Year: 2002
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Marion Bridge Marion Bridge is the moving story of three sisters torn apart by family secrets. In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behaviour, the youngest sister, Agnes, returns home determined to confront the past in a community built on avoiding it. Her quest sets in motion a chain of events that allows the sisters each in their own way to re-connect with the world and one another. Set in post-industrial Cape Breton, Marion Bridge is a story of poignant humor and drama.

Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Crush Welcome to the deliciously sinful world of the ladies of Crush. Kate (Andie MacDowell), Janine (Imelda Staunton) and Molly (Anna Chancellor) happily engage in weekly rituals of gin guzzling, cigarette puffing, chocolate chugging and men trashing. They are practically successful women who share one common lament - their love lives - or lack thereof. But when Kate embarks on a passionate and capricious romance with a former student (Kenny Doughty), the strength of this female bond is interrupted, resulting in a devious conterattack by the other two members of the "Sad F**kers's Club." Writer-director John McKay's first feature-length film is a sharply observed ode to the triumphs and tragedies of women and the men that accessorize them. Witty, wry, provocative and touching, with breathtaking cinematography of an enchanting England, Crush is a captivating story revolving around the mysteries of love and the power of female friendship.

Director: John McKay
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Wild Dogs, The Set in the hauntingly beautiful city of Bucharest during a cull of stray dogs, The Wild Dogs weaves together a week in the lives of several of the city's residents and visitors. Geordie (Thom Fitzgerald), a visiting Canadian pornographer, Bogdan (Mihai Calota), a reluctant city dog-catcher, and Nathalie (Alberta Watson), the lonely wife of a diplomat, each risks losing everything as they become embroiled in the struggles of Bucharest's abandoned children, gypsies, dogs and beggars.

Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

El Bola ("Pellet") Pablo (El Bola) is a 12-year old boy raised in a violent and unforgiving environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he retreats from his classmates, engaging them only through a dangerous game. The arrival of a new boy at school, from whom he learns a new definition of friendship, leads to the discovery of a family where communication and love prevail over domination and violence.

Director: Achero Mañas
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Sunshine State In Delrona Beach, Marly (Edie Falco) runs the motel her now ailing father (Ralph Waite) founded decades ago. When Marly begins a romance with a landscape architect (Timothy Hutton) who's working for the developers, could he be her ticket out of here? Meanwhile, Desiree (Angela Bassett) has come home to Lincoln Beach, 25 years after she left. She's returned to show off her trophy husband (James McDaniel). Community activist (Bill Cobbs) wants Desiree to help him fight the developers, but she needs to resolve the past before she tackles the future. These are just some of the dozen characters whose stories are interwoven with the community's fate. There's also Marly's environmentalist mom (Jane Alexander), the Chamber of Commerce stalwart (Mary Steenburgen) and the oily developer (Alan King) who stands for "gated communities" and "golf courses." Real people. Real places. Welcome to Florida.

Director: John Sayles
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Auto Focus From Paul Schrader, the acclaimed director of Affliction, The Comfort of Strangers, American Gigolo, Blue Collar and Cat People, and the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, comes Auto Focus, an absorbing glimpse into the colourful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane. Handsome and charming, Crane became well known as the star of television's hit comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Capitalizing on his fame, Crane dove into the freewheeling spirit of the times with relish, having affairs with numerous women. (Auto Focus is a fascinating chronicle of American male sexual identity in the sixties and seventies.) Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978.

Director: Paul Schrader
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Levity Ed Solomon's Levity -- the opening night film at 2002's Sundance Film Festival -- stars a stellar cast that includes Billy Bob Thornton, Holly Hunter, Morgan Freeman and Kirsten Dunst. When Manual (Thornton) is released from prison after 22 years, he seeks redemption by befriending Adele (Hunter), the sister of the 16-year-old boy he killed. But things get complicated when Manual can't bring himself to tell Adele his true identity. The film marks the directorial debut of Ed Solomon, the screenwriter responsible for such films as Men in Black and the two Ted and Bill films. Solomon, who also wrote the script for Levity, came up with the idea, while tutoring at a maximum-security prison during his college years at UCLA.

Director: Ed Solomon
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Respiro Grazia is the affectionate, young mother of three children: a teenaged girl, Marinella, and two boys, Pasquale and Filippo. Vibrant and full of life, Grazia often sings along to the latest hit by Italian pop star Patti Pravo and enjoys finding ways to amuse herself and her children. But Grazia, much like the sea surrounding her island, can also be unpredictable and stormy. Her free-spirited attitude causes talk in the entire village. Grazia's husband, Pietro, lovingly stands by her in the face of small town gossip. But as Grazia's behaviour becomes more reckless, even the powerful shield of her family's love can't protect her. Her husband's relatives become convinced that she is seriously unstable and decide that she needs medical treatment in Milan. But Grazia will have no part of this and her son Pasquale finds a way to protect her and the bond that she shares with her family.

Director: Emanuele Crialese
Year: 2002
Language: Italian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Cuckoo, The Set in 1944 during World War II, The Cuckoo relates the story of two soldiers -- one Russian, the other Finnish -- from different sides of the war. Both men escape from captors and take refuge with Annie, a Lapp woman who lives, much as her ancestors have for centuries, tending reindeer, catching fish and concocting age-old recipes (like the blood-and-milk soup she uses to nurse the Russian soldier back to life). No one speaks the other's language, leading to some strange misunderstandings. The men remain enemies, unaware that their countries are no longer fighting each another, since Finland has just withdrawn from the war. On the other hand, Anni can't believe her good fortune. She's been four years without a man -- and now she has two!

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Year: 2002
Language: Russian, Finnish Saami
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Dogtown & Z-Boys The high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) style of skateboarding is now such a defining element of international youth culture that it's hard to believe it wasn't invented by a skateboard manufacturer. In fact, it was invented in the street, in a place called Dogtown, "where the debris meets the sea." Dogtown was the name of a section of Santa Monica and Venice that lay almost in ruins by the early 1970s, a rundown urban beach neighborhood with a legacy of outlaw surfing. It bred aggressive, territorial competitors with a street-smart sense of style. It was a center for customized cars, graffiti, street gangs and surfboard design.

Director: Stacy Peralta
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Past Perfect Past Perfect takes place over two days, two years apart. On an overnight flight from Halifax to Vancouver, Charlotte (Rebecca Jenkins), an unemployed sales clerk on the verge of giving up on her dream of marriage and children, finds herself sitting next to the nervous and seemingly stuffy Cecil (Daniel MacIvor), a linguistics professor who is in the process of ending a long-term relationship with a woman (Marie Brassard) who does not share his desire for a family. Over the course of the flight Charlotte and Cecil find themselves falling into one another's lives and in love Intercut with their meeting is a Saturday two years later. Charlotte and Cecil now live together in Halifax and are in the midst of a crisis in their relationship. What starts off seeming like a case of a couple's general malaise, reveals itself to be the fallout from a very specific tragedy, one which forces Charlotte and Cecil to decide whether the the end of a dream means the end of the relationship.

Director: Daniel MacIvor
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Man of the Year Maiquel (Murilo Benicio) has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw…all in 24 hours. Based on the award-winning novel by Patricia Melo “O Matador", this vibrant and brazen crime saga follows in the vein of recent Brazilian Cinema such as Vincente Amorim’s Middle of the World, Walter Salles’ Central Station and Fernando Meirelles’ City of God.

Director: José Henrique Fonseca
Year: 2002
Language: Portuguese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Swing Max, an only child, is 10 years old. He loves Manouche jazz, a music he discovered the first time he heard the guitar virtuoso Miraldo play. This music becomes his passion and brings him to the town's Manouche neighbourhood, where he buys an old guitar. Max will learn about Manouche music and culture through the lessons Miraldo agrees to give him. He quickly makes friends with Swing, a young gypsy girl who is the same age as he is and whose charisma, self-confidence and freedom fascinate him.

Director: Tony Gatlif
Year: 2002
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Other Side of the Bed, The Racy romantic farce meets pop musical in Spain's box-office smash The Other Side of the Bed (El otro lado de la cama), an effervescent comedy set in modern Madrid. The film follows the intertwining and increasingly complicated love lives of two couples, who give voice to their roiling emotions in spontaneous bursts of song and dance. Award-winning filmmaker Emilio Martínez-Lázaro (What Max Said, His Master's Voice) directs a delicious cast of acclaimed young performers, including Paz Vega (Talk To Her, Sex and Lucia), Natalia Verbeke (Jump Tomorrow, dot the i), Ernesto Alterio (Deseo aka Beyond Desire) and Guillermo Toledo (Intacto), Alberto San Juan (Insomnio) and María Esteve (Nada en la nevera aka Nothing in the Fridge).

Director: Emilio Martinez Lazaro
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Looking for Leonard A petty crime heroine's life-long daydream is interrupted by the arrival of a romantic Czech computer programmer. Then tragedy strikes, and our sweethearts are left looking for guidance, redemption, and maybe a glimpse of Leonard Cohen in this funny, existential tale of despair and joy for the young and old.

Director: Matt Bissonnette
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy

Love Liza Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at the 2002 Sundance film festival, Love Liza features a tour de force performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of this country's most original actors. Set somewhere in Middle America, Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a successful website designer, suddenly sees his world stop with the untimely death of his young wife Liza. Trying to make sense of everything that has just happened, Wilson turns to his mother-in-law (Kathy Bates) for support. Their relationship intensifies when Wilson refuses to open a letter Liza left behind for fear it will shatter his ideal of the perfect life they shared. As Wilson attempts to rebuild his life, with unopened letter in tow, eccentric behaviour begins to surface taking him on an odyssey of self-pity, self-realization and a curious fascination with remote-control model enthusiasts. Through this temporary comfort, he begins dealing with his grief.

Director: Todd Louiso
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Son Frere Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother’s homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc’s contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. Luc begrudgingly sacrifices his lover, his job and his comfortable life to care for his dying brother. Through the rounds of doctors and the demanding challenges of catastrophic illness, the brothers are forced to examine the meaning of their existence, and their powerlessness in the face of impending doom. They return to their childhood home on the beach, reconnect with their past, and ultimately forge a new and vital relationship.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Year: 2002
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Eye, The The Eye is a supernatural thriller which has redefined fear for Western audiences by offering a glimpse into Eastern rituals and attitudes surrounding death. At the age of two, Wong Kar Mun (Lee Sin-Je) went blind. It's eighteen years later and a new and risky corneal transplant operation restores her vision, but a series of inexplicable events leads her to believe there is more than meets the eye to her newfound gift of sight. Mysterious black-clad figures seem to foreshadow sudden deaths, and horribly disfigured denizens of another side haunt her everyday existence. Unable to define her own identity, she comes to understand that whenever she looks into a mirror she doesn't see herself but instead sees another woman: Ling, the original owner of the corneas. It seems that Mun has inherited Ling's fate and the misery that comes with the ability to see more than she wants to.

Director: The Pang Brothers (Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang)
Year: 2002
Language: Cantonese w/some Thai, Mandarin & English
Genre: World Cinema

Khaled Acclaimed as a powerful and groundbreaking portrait of inner city life, Khaled is the story of a feisty 10-year-old boy (a breakthrough performance by Michael D’Ascenzo) who lives with his chronically ill, single mother in a Toronto housing project. When she suddenly dies, Khaled keeps her death a secret and attempts to carry on with school and his daily life as if everything were normal. But soon the building manager comes looking for the rent, the social worker starts asking questions, and the neighbours begin to notice a strange smell coming from the apartment...

Director: Asghar Massombagi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Pianist, The A brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, is confined to the Warsaw ghetto where he experiences suffering and humiliation. He escapes deportation to the death camps and hides in the ruins of the city. A German officer comes to his aid and helps him to survive ...

Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 2002
Genre: History, Drama

Laurel Canyon The canyon is notable for its varied residents through the years and has served, and continues to serve, as the home to many rock stars, musicians, performers, producers, and the like. Among its current residents are Jane (Frances McDormand), a legendary record producer, currently producing an album for a British band whose lead singer Ian (Allesandro Nivola) is her much younger lover. Jane and the band are creating the album in her Laurel Canyon house where she has a recording studio. Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancé Alex (Kate Beckinsale) are both recent graduates of Harvard medical school. Conservative, solid and serious, the couple find it necessary to move to Los Angeles to complete their studies. Jane has offered her Laurel Canyon home for them to stay in, promising that it will be vacant. But when Sam and Alex arrive Jane and the band are still working in Jane's home recording studio to complete the album. Once in the house, however, things begin to unravel.

Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama

OT: Our Town Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? OT: Our Town follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit.

Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Bollywood/Hollywood Rahul Seth (Rahul Khanna) is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother (Moushumi Chatterjee) and grandmother (Dina Pathak). They are not too keen about his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly (Jessica Paré) who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before you can say "karmic intervention," Kimberly dies in a freak accident and Rahul is devastated. Instead of allowing him to mourn in peace, Rahul's mother sees the opportunity she's been waiting for. She threatens to call off his sister's (Rishma Malik) wedding unless he finds himself a "nice Indian girl." Rahul enlists the services of Sue (Lisa Ray), a fiercely independent escort whom he believes to be Hispanic, and therefore not "married" to the conventions taught to young Indian women. With a wink in her eye, Sue accepts the deal to pose as his Indian bride-to-be. She needs the money and having never been a fan of the typical Indian male, she feels her heart is safe. The charade begins....

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy

Spun For a speed freak, time is an elastic concept. College dropout Ross (Jason Schwartzman) learns this first-hand as he surrenders to a three-day odyssey through a circus-like, crystal-meth hell in the North Los Angeles Valley. It starts when Ross shows up at Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo) dive bungalow, looking to score and desperate enough to risk Spider Mike's paranoid and mercurial temper. Spider Mike's companions at the bungalow that day include his greasy-haired, red-eyed girlfriend Cookie (Mena Suvari), the pimply, video game-addicted Frisbee (Patrick Fugit) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), a giggly Vegas stripper, whose boyfriend The Cook (Mickey Rourke) concocts the local speed supply in his airless, combustible motel room laboratory. With its humor, electric visual style and intensely experiential point of view, Spun explores the razor-fine line between the edge, and over the edge.

Director: Jonas Akerlund
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Winged Migration "For eighty million years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each spring, they fly vast distances. Each fall, they fly back on the same route. This film is the result of four years following their amazing odysseys, in the northern hemisphere and then the south, species by species, flying over seas and continents." - Jacques Perrin (from Winged Migration) Five crews of more than 450 people, including 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers, were necessary to follow a variety of bird migrations through 40 countries and all seven continents. The film covers landscapes that range from the Eiffel Tower and Monument Valley to the remote reaches of the Arctic and the Amazon.

Director: Jaques Perrin
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Environment, Documentary

Mulholland Dr. After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery

Hey, Happy! DJ Sabu’s overactive libido leads him to an unexpected teenage pregnancy. His mythic quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a paranoid “UFO-ologist” to whom aliens promise to appear (as his love child). Spanky is an evil hairdresser trying to foil Sabu’s mission. He is the self-proclaimed “biggest bitch in the world”. The action unfolds at a series of raves on old Garbage Hill in a strange place called Winnipeg. Hey, Happy! depicts an optimistic vision of the apocalypse. Director Noam Gonick says that tens of millions of religious fundamentalists can't be wrong, "There must be a connection between biblical 'end-times' and fags." The sexual libertine as progenitor and the creative potential of boy-boy sex are ideas Noam Gonick likes. Noam Gonick has been named "a Hebrew pornographer of the most dangerous kind". Hey, Happy! is his first feature film.

Director: Noam Gonick
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) Va savoir is a romantic comedy that follows three men and three women as they become entangled in each other's lives during the brief run of a production of Pirandello's "As You Desire Me" in Paris. As these six characters are drawn into an ever-increasing series of interlocking love triangles, the city of Paris serves as a sumptuous backdrop for their romantic misadventures. Sexy and wise, Va savoir explores the vagaries of love without ever losing its sense of fun.

Director: Jaques Rivette
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Secret Ballot An unsuspecting soldier awakens to discover that he can forget about another uneventful day at his lonely seaside post. It's Election Day! A ballot box is parachuted down as a young woman pulls up to the shore of the remote island. To the soldier's surprise, she's actually the government bureaucrat in charge of local voting. The couple gets off to a rocky start since the soldier expects election agents to be men. Whether he wants to or not, the soldier is thrown into an elections adventure that just may put him out of a job. Orders from above force him to accompany the female agent in an army jeep across the island's dusty desert. The agent literally leaves no stone unturned in her search for ballots. Many a surprise lies along their route, as they find themselves in one absurd situation after another. So much can happen in a single day, especially when opposites attract. Views can change, hearts can melt.

Director: Babak Payami
Year: 2001
Language: Farsi (Persian)
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

My Wife Is An Actress My Wife Is An Actress is a screwball romantic comedy about Yvan (Yvan Attal), a successful sports writer married to Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a popular movie star with whom he’s madly in love. The problem is that everyone else in Paris seems to be in love with her too. Her latest film role, opposite John (Terence Stamp), a suave, international star, is enough to send Yvan over the edge, devising all kinds of schemes to test his wife’s fidelity. My Wife Is An Actress makes the directorial debut of actor Yvan Attal who co-stars with his real-life wife Charlotte Gainsbourg in this funny, perceptive look at a peculiarly male form of hysteria. Written and directed by Attal, the film was shot by director of photography Remy Chevrin and produced by Claude Berri with Pierre Grunstein serving as Executive Producer.

Director: Yvan Attal
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Gasoline (Benzina) Benzina is the tenderly dramatic story of two young girls not much over twenty. The story evolves around Stella and Eleonora (nicknamed Lenni), a petrol pump, a snobby, super-bourgeois mother hovering threateningly over Lenni’s life, the two girls’ love affair and their desire to escape. Then, night time and an accident, or maybe a crime… the desperate escape, like an odyssey, with the cumbersome corpse of the mother to get rid of without being seen. Two opposing lives to escape from: Lenni, blonde hair, a conventional bourgeois life; Stella, black hair, a chaotic life and no family.

Director: Monica Stambrini
Year: 2001
Language: Italian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Fidel Fidel Castro is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Rarely are Americans given a chance to see inside the world of this socialist leader. The new documentary film by Estela Bravo, FIDEL, offers a unique opportunity to view the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, historians, public figures and close friends, with footage from the Cuban State archives.

Director: Estela Bravo
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy Ron Jeremy isn't really what you'd call easy on the eyes. Some would even go so far as to say he's unattractive. Yet he's one of the most popular stars in the history of adult film. His fans call him the "Hedgehog." He's short, fat, and hairy. And he's paid very well to have sex with thousands of beautiful women. Some people would call him the luckiest man in the world. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy is a fascinating look at America's unlikeliest sex star: -the young boy with the sweet smile and striking eyes, and the dissatisfied porn actor with a voracious appetite and wicked grin. The film is dense with revealing details of his life. He's rich and famous, but he's notoriously cheap. Some of his female "costars" consider him a sweetheart, while others find him repulsive and refuse to work with him. And he scribbles little notes and phone numbers in a ratty old book, literally like a madman.

Director: Scott J. Gill
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Nine Queens Two small-time swindlers, Juan and Marcos, who team up after meeting in a convenience store and become involved in a half million -dollar deal. Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Marcos steps in, claiming to be a policeman, and drags Juan out of the store. Once they are back on the street, Marcos reveals himself to be a fellow swindler with a much higher stakes game in mind, and invites Juan to be his partner in crime. Juan is skeptical at first, but agrees to work with Marcos after he impresses him with a few sophisticated cons. A once-in-a-lifetime scheme then seemingly falls in their laps -- an old time con-man enlists Juan and Marcos to sell a forged set of extremely valuable rare stamps, The Nine Queens. The tricky negotiations that ensue with a cast of suspicious characters and we begin to ask ourselves, "Who isn't a thief?"

Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish (Argentina)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Son of the Bride At age 42, Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) is having a crisis. He's overwhelmed by his numerous responsibilities and just isn't having any fun. He has spent most of his life frantically trying to run the restaurant his father, Nino (Hector Alterio) founded. He has achieved success, but nevertheless, continues to live in the old man's shadow. Just when Rafael feels the most alone and unable to reach out to anyone, unexpected events lead him to reevaluate his life. A minor heart attack forces him to slow down, and a reunion with Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco), a childhood friend who tries to keep a positive attitude in the wake of personal tragedy in his own life, helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new ways. Most importantly, when his father makes the decision to fulfill his mother's dream of getting married in a church, it gives Rafael a task to focus on, stirring him to action and bringing the family together to create a new memory they can share.

Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish (Argentina)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Last Orders It's a long life - you need lifelong friends. Last Orders is a funny and moving tale of four old friends (Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, David Hemmings and Tom Courtenay) and the last orders of Jack Dodds (Michael Caine) that send them on a journey. Last Orders is an epic story about a remarkable generation that survived a terrible war, a film about ordinary people that shows us that there are no ordinary people. The stories of the early hopes, the children, the affairs, the good times and the bad demonstrate, both to the characters themselves and to the audience, that it's your friends who will break your heart... and your friends who will mend it.

Director: Fred Schepisi
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Morlang Julius Morlang (Paul Freeman) is a successful artist. For fifteen years, he has been married to Ellen, his muse and personal manager. When Ellen (Diana Kent) confesses to a brief affair with a rival up-and-coming artist, Morlang retreats into the arms of a young admirer (Susan Burroughs). An unexpected and devastating development strains Julius and Ellen's relationship even more. Based loosely on a true story, Morlang is a chilling, psychological drama about jealousy, betrayal and revenge.

Director: Tjebbo Penning
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Sex & Lucia Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship. It is as if she is reading forbidden passages of a novel, which the author only now, from afar, allows her to read.

Director: Julio Medem
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Life & Debt Jamaica - land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Using conventional and non-conventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry in Third World countries while substituting sweat-shops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her non-fiction book "A Small Place", LIFE AND DEBT is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.

Director: Stephanie Black
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

He Died With A Felafel In His Hand "He Died With A Felafel In His Hand" is a darkly humorous search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Faithful to the cult novel by John Birmingham upon which it is based, the film follows Danny (Noah Taylor) through a series of hilarious shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia.

Director: Richard Lowenstein
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Legend of Suriyothai, The A story of intrigue, romance and war set in a dramatic period of Thailand’s history, The Legend of Suriyothai is based on actual events in the 16th century. At a time of calm, the neighbouring kingdom of Burma threatens to unsettle the peace. Filmed in an epic style with lavish and spectacular locations, an actual cast of thousands drama, intrigue, a colossal battle and the ascension of a beautiful princess (Suriyiothai) to Queen, and from mortal to legend, this splendid chronicle is a veritable feat of a movie.

Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Year: 2001
Language: Thai
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Happy Men Angel is a regular guy, living a regular life and dreaming of blowjobs. He fears his formidable mother and cheats on his wife, Ana. Suspicious, she persuades her best friend to tail him. Unable to resist, Angel sleeps with the girl. Ana finds out and leaves him, moving in with his gun salesman brother. Angel is humiliated, desperate, and it's killing him. Then a stranger offers him a miracle: A little blue flower to bring Ana back. All he has to do is believe. And as if by magic, Ana returns, more in love than ever. Endless little displays of devotion, constant attention to his every desire, incessant phone calls to the office... Angel can't stand it. He dumps her. For a while, life is sweet for Angel. Now it's Ana who has nothing. Except a friend who owes her a favour. And a stolen gun... Roberto Santiago's debut feature is a relentless absurd comedy: a surreal story of sex, lies and dreams that come horribly true.

Director: Roberto Garcia Santiago
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Fluffer, The Self-effacing, boyish Sean moves to LA to pursue a career in movies but finds it tougher than he imagined. He stumbles onto porn star Johnny Rebel--a handsome, muscled dream of men and women alike--who awakens Sean's deep obsession. But Johnny's straight, or so it seems. Although he works in gay porn, Johnny lives with a stripper girlfriend named Babylon who's willful, charismatic and hard as nails. Sean finds a way to get closer to his idol than even he dreamed possible. But Sean and Babylon's one-sided, "fluffing" relationships with Johnny are precariously balanced, and can only go so far.

Director: Richard Glatzer
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Her Eyes After fifteen years in prison, Mansour and Mohamad are suddenly pardoned while waiting on death row. They return to their lives in Tehran, to the smog and inflation and disorientation of a world so changed and yet so much the same. Mohamad returns to his wife and his daughter Marjan, now twenty years old. Mansour returns to his sister and her family. After their initial elation wears off, the two friends begin to feel confined by the world around them and the judgements that it passes on them - it is as though only their physical bodies have been released from prison, leaving their minds trapped and preventing them from moving on. This mysterious film explores the depths of friendship, the unpredictable nature of love and the blurring of lines between right and wrong, good and evil.

Director: Faramarz Qaribian
Year: 2001
Language: Persian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Inch'Allah Dimanche French/Algerian director Yamina Benguigi brings us a passionate immigrant story of a woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.

Director: Yamina Benguigui
Year: 2001
Language: French/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Pauline & Paulette A delightfully bittersweet story of four elderly sisters and their relationship with each other. For Pauline (Belgium's national treasure, Dora van der Groen), life is simple. She lives with Martha, the eldest, in a small town between Brussels and the seacoast. Martha loves Pauline, and cares for her day in and day out. Pauline has a love for flowers and enjoys running errands in town for her sister Paulette - her idol. Paulette owns a fabric store in town, but her passion is performing at the opera house. When Martha suddenly dies, everyone's world is turned upside down. Neither Paulette or their youngest sister Cecile, who lives in Brussels with her French boyfriend, feel their lives can include the responsibility of caring for their simple minded sister. Both are in agreement to commit Pauline to a nursing home, Martha ultimately dictates the final word, stipulating in her will all her possessions would go to the three sisters on the condition that one of them care for Pauline.

Director: Lieven Debrauwer
Year: 2001
Language: Flemish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Speaking of Sex Dan and Melinda, a young couple from Boise, Idaho, seek help from a female marriage counselor, Dr Paige and a male depression expert -Dr Klink combining in unorthodox ways to solve their marital problems. While Dan "could" have screwed a waitress in his truck, he can't have decent erection with his wife. Referred to Dr Klink for "efficient" treatment, Melinda explains in great salacious detail her oral experiments at getting a rise out of "Mr. Happy" (the name Dan has given to his penis). The very depressed Dr Klink refuses to take her on as a patient but chases after and catches up to Melinda in the Elevator where they spontaneously engage in sex between floors. Now, her spirits lifted, Melinda candidly congratulates Dr Paige for Dr Klink's "method". Enraged by this breach of ethical conduct, Dr Paige gets attorney Connie Barker to sue Dr Klink for $ 30,000000, a figure so impressive that Dan and Melinda react as though they had won the Lottery. To counter attack, Dr Klink gets his in

Director: John Mcnaughton
Year: 2001
Genre: Comedy

Lady & the Duke, The The tale of a beautiful royalist English gentlewoman, Grace Elliott, living perilously in France during the Revolution, and her sometimes affectionate, sometimes tempestuous relationship with Philippe, Duke of Orleans, a cousin of King Louis XVI but nonetheless a supporter of revolutionary ideas. The Lady manages to persuade the Duke to rescue an outlaw, but fails to keep him from voting for the King’s execution. Grace Elliott was born into an old Scottish family in about 1760 and studied in France. She became the mistress of the Prince of Wales, later George IV, to whom she bore a daughter. Then Prince Phillipe, Duke of Orleans, noticed her and brought her back to France in 1786. Their romance was over by the time the Revolution began, but despite their political differences, they remained close friends. The film was inspired by Grace Elliott’s memoirs, Journal of My Life During the French Revolution.

Director: Eric Rohmer
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Inertia In INERTIA, the lives of four characters are sidetracked by desire into deception, adultery, and incest. Joseph cannot accept that Laura doesn't want him anymore. He believes that all she needs is a little "space" to realize what they have together. Joseph believes that, with his friend Bruce's help, he can get Laura back. Laura is currently infatuated with Bruce. Joseph is unaware that Laura and Bruce slept together when Joseph and Laura first started seeing each other. Bruce, who recently married Yumi in an effort to leave his pleasure-seeking lifestyle behind, now finds himself attracted to Joseph's nineteen-year-old cousin, Alex. Alex, on the other hand, is obsessed with Joseph. Joseph innocently believes she moved to the city to attend university but it doesn't take long for him to realize she has other things on her mind.

Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Canadian, Drama

Light of My Eyes Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the pulp science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance encounter with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been lacking in his detached existence. Antonio is drawn into the suffering of Maria's world, where she draws her inner strength from her fragile solitude. A haunting score, poetic atmosphere and award-winning lyrical performances by the two leads evoke the beauty of a precarious existence.

Director: Giuseppe Piccioni
Year: 2001
Language: Italian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Solo Mia It was love at first sight. In the beginning, Angela did everything she could for the sake of her undying love for Joaquin. When she became pregnant, they were both over the moon. Then, one day, things changed. At first he shouted at her and then he hit her. Things went from bad to worse after that. A rough day at the office was enough for him to give her his first severe beating - brutally so. Angela filed for divorce. Joaquin defied the law and subjected her to the most ruthless harassment in his attempt to get her back. Angela soon realized that her liberation had to come from within. So she confronted Joaquin, deciding to fight fire with fire. Sóló Mia is a tale of love, betrayal and justice.

Director: Javier Balaguer
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

'R Xmas New York. Christmas Time. A big Dominican drug dealer and his wife are buying some presents for their kids. They are desperate trying to find the famous "my size Barbie" for their daughter that looks to be sold out. So they are using most of their connections (almost the same they used for their drug deals). But it's really hard to find. The husband must have a meeting with someone that says he has the doll. The husband goes to the meeting but doesn't come back. Sometimes later the phone rings : he has been kidnapped and they ask for 250 000 $. His wife has got a few hours to bring them the money. She calls all her husband's friends but, one by one, they let her down. She is all alone now and she must save her husband. And these kidnappers looks to be really tough guys. But who are they : gang members ? Policemen ? Drug dealers ? Will her husband die on Christmas Eve ? Will her daughter ever got her "my size Barbie" ?

Director: Abel Ferrara
Year: 2001
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Lan Yu Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle-age, Chen Handong has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong's tastes run more to boys than girls. Lan Yu is a country boy, newly arrived in Beijing to study architecture. More than most students, he is short of money and willing to try anything to earn some. He meets Hangdong in a pool hall, and has what turns out to be a life-changing sexual initiation. Handong and Lan Yu meet often, and the boy is soon secure in his love for the man. But Handong insists that he wants a play-mate, not a companion, and warns Lan Yu that they will eventually break up. Lan Yu is undeterred, until the night he catches Handong with another boy. Handong gives him lavish gifts - a newly built villa and a car - and they begin living together. But again, Handong shies away from his feelings for the boy. But fate can play cruel tricks...

Director: Stanley Kwan
Year: 2001
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama

Trembling Before G-d Trembling Before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. For the first time, this issue has become a live, public debate in Orthodox circles, and the film is both witness and catalyst to this historic moment. What emerges is a loving and fearless testament to faith and survival and the universal struggle to belong.

Director: Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Year: 2001
Language: Hebrew, Yiddish and English
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Documentary

Hush! This funny, poignant comedy, in the gentle tradition of Shall We Dance? and The Wedding Banquet, traces the lives of two handsome boyfriends who become entangled with a young woman who proposes the idea of conceiving a child with them and creating a family. A hit at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival where it played in the Directors' Fortnight, the story gets more complicated as conservative family members try to break up the gay couple's relationship. Ultimately, the guys and the woman carrrying their child come to the realization that they will have to decide for themselves the true meaning of family. Featuring original music by jazz musician Bobby McFerrin, this warm and engaging comedy has won the hearts of filmgoers across the country.

Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Year: 2001
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Amelie

Year: 2001
Language: French

Girl, The A beautiful painter who frequents a Paris nightclub has an affair with a singer. The Painter tells the story of her increasing obsession with the singer. She calls her The Girl. The Painter and The Girl continue to see each other but carry on relationships with other people. One night, a suspicious looking man, who seems to know The Girl, appears in the club. At first The Painter observes him from a distance, but gradually she begins following him. She begins to understand that The Man is threatening The Girl. Suddenly, The Girl disappears. The Painter looks everywhere and eventually learns that The Girl and The Man have left Paris together. Then, all at once, The Girl is back, more elegant than ever. When The Painter finds The Girl in the arms of The Man, she is crushed. She attempts to lose herself in her work but she knows that she must return to The Girl's hotel room where she will find The Man and The Girl together. She also knows that it will be for the last time...

Director: Sande Zeig
Year: 2000
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Nico & Dani In the tradition of "Beautiful Thing" and "Wild Reeds", Nico and Dani is a portrait of adolescent experience set against the blazing sun and azure sea of a small seaside town near Barcelona. Dani and Nico are left on their own at Dani's beach house for a few days; late-night dates and in-house parties promise to be the order of the day. During those ten days of freedom, the two best friends discover love, sex, jealousy and disenchantment and thus cross that vague border separating adolescence from manhood. Nico and Dani explores the sexual and emotional confusion of two boys who have always shared everything and are now about to be pulled apart because of their diverging sexual identities. Nico and Dani successfully captures that moment between the stifling safety of childhood and the invigorating terror of adulthood. Deftly directed by Cesc Gay, Nico and Dani is arguably the finest and the most honest coming-of-age drama in recent memory.

Director: Cesc Gay
Year: 2000
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Signs & Wonders Alec Fenton (Stellan Skarsgård), an American by adoption and his wife, Marjorie (Charlotte Rampling), an American of Greek origin, live with their two children in Athens. Both Alec's business life and his tender relationship with his daughter are guided by a playful but deeply felt need to interpret the smallest details of the world as significant. Under the influence of powerful signs and premonitions, Alec allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with a colleague, Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), eventually leaving his family and returning to America with his lover. Once there, however, the same belief system urges him back home for one final attempt to win back his family. But his new quest is endangered by the presence of a political activist, Andreas (Dimitris Katalifos), in his family's life. Andreas becomes the victim of a series of incidents, each one more threatening than the last. Could it be an unleashing of signs...

Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Year: 2000
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Love Me The story of a doomed love between a young woman in search of romance and a singer who no longer believes in it. She meets him in Memphis. She chases after him. He flees, she pursues. Finally she manages to touch him. But this is also the story of a young woman who takes refuge in dreams to escape from reality and from her past. Where does reality end and imagination begin?

Director: Laetitia Masson
Year: 2000
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Durian Durian Durian Durian is an extension of the life of Fan, the illegal immigrant girl in Little Cheung. Fan strikes up a friendship with fellow immigrant Yan, the hardest working prostitute in town who must endure the harsh conditions of her job on one side of the border (HK) while she tries to turn her profits into a success on the other side of the border (China). One day, the pimp accompanying her gets his head smashed from behind in a random act of violence. The weapon is a strange, spiky fruit known as the "durian". The idealistic and naive views of Hong Kong that the girls share are destroyed by differences in culture, isolated existences, and limited choices. Fruit Chan was born in Canton, China in 1959. A graduate of the Hong Kong Film Centre, Fruit Chan's filmography includes: Finale in Blood (1991), Made in Hong Kong (1996), The Longest Summer (1998), Little Cheung (1999) and Durian Durian (2000).

Director: Fruit Chan
Year: 2000
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Happy Times Zhao is a poor, aging bachelor who hasn’t had luck in love. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, he leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his means. While dining with his intended spouse, Zhao is introduced to her spoiled son and blind stepdaughter Wu Ying. The stepmother sees Wu as nothing but a burden to her and her son since she and her father divorced. Sad and lonely, Wu is interested in only one thing: the prospect of her father coming to take her to Shenzhen so she can have an operation to fix her eyes. As the film reaches its poignant conclusion, both Zhao and Wu’s actions demonstrate the strong bond that has developed between them.

Director: Yimou Zhang
Year: 2000
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Fugitivas ("Fugitives") Twenty-five year old Tony, streetwise and hard-edged, is a small time crook. Together with her boyfriend Juanjo, and a couple of other thugs, she plans to rob a government office in Madrid. Juanjo spins a deceitful tale that involves he and Tony taking his prostitute sister's daughter, Laura, along for the ride as the perfect cover-up - an escape with the money and an escape from the authorities and the other two thugs! The robbery goes off without a hitch but the scheming Juanjo abandons Tony and Laura with the entire stash of cash. Tony and Laura are now fugitives both from justice and the other two thugs. Alone in a strange world, the two girls flee for their lives reaching the most southern point of Spain where the road runs out.

Director: Miguel Hermosa
Year: 2000
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Enchanted Interlude, The It's the summer of 1969 on the Mediterranean Coast. Sun, sex and the onset of the swingin' 70's. Childhood buddies, Paul and Vincent, spend most of their days hanging out on the beach. One particular day, they meet up with Alice and her friend, Eve. As their lives intertwine, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice drifts away, Paul marries Eve, and Vincent weds Marie. Against a backdrop of a decade marked by sexual liberation, The Enchanted Interlude brings us three girls and two boys who cross each other's paths, love one another, split up and reunite. Born in Marseilles in 1963, Michel Spinosa has scripted and directed all of his films starting with several shorts and moving onto the feature, Take Me Away (1994). The Enchanted Interlude is his most recent film feature.

Director: Michel Spinosa
Year: 2000
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Time of Favor Army officer Menachem studies in an Orthodox military yeshiva on the West Bank led by the revered Rabbi Meltzer. Their yeshiva is looked upon warily by the military officers, as led by a fanatic that could lead the company to dangerous ground. Meltzer wants Pini, the prized pupil in his class and Menachem's best friend, to marry his daughter Michal. But as Pini courts Michal, Menachem, strong-willed and passionate, falls in love with her. As the Rabbi's agenda, the Army's control and Pini's desperation all build to a boil, Menachem and Michal's secret passion threatens to destroy more than just their reputations. A violent scheme to blow up the Temple Mount soon puts all their allegiances to the test. From a peaceful desert sunrise on the Wailing Wall to a frantic chase through an 1800 year-old network of tunnels, Time of Favor raises issues of religious faith and duty to one's nation that are inextricably relevant to our lives today.

Director: Joseph Cedar
Year: 2000
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Hotaru Ayako storms out of her tumble-down house after a loud row with her boyfriend - only to walk into the pathway of an oncoming car. One of the first people to come to her aid is a moody potter named Daiji, who thinks that she intended to commit suicide. Though not the case, Ayako - who works as a stripper - is depressed. Daiji invites her to a mountain festival for which he fashioned hundreds of ceramic containers for an outdoor votive candle display. Unfortunately, Ayako's club is raided and she is forced to spend the day in jail. Thinking that she killed herself, Daiji searches desperately for her...

Director: Naomi Kawase
Year: 2000
Genre: Drama

Ivansxtc In this modern adaptation of Tolstoy's THE DEATH OF IVAN ILICH, Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston), Hollywood's most sought after talent agent, is found dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, foul play, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? The story begins with Ivan's death, rewinds back to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West(Peter Weller) onto his company's books, and then witnesses the highs, lows and extreme excesses of his final days.

Director: Bernard Rose
Year: 2000
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Funny Felix This charming tale revolves around a carefree and innocuous Felix in the little town of Dieppe in Northern France. Felix is content living with his boyfriend, Daniel amongst the regular routines of their daily lives. Felix is addicted to a trashy morning soap opera and lightheartedly chugs bottles of water with his daily dose of protease inhibitors. When Felix is laid off from his job he decides to take a road trip to Marseilles to track down the father he's never met. Arranging to meet Daniel in a week's time, Felix sets off, backpack in tow, walking, hitchhiking and borrowing cars to Southern France. Felix eventually meets his father but not before creating an ideal family along the way, complete with a little brother, a grandmother, and a sister. With a beautiful and natural performance by Sami Bouajila as Felix, this engaging and humorous film manages to tackle a myriad of difficult issues - xenophobia, AIDS, racism and homophobia in an innovative and light manner.

Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Year: 2000
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Dad On the Run August 1997. As the Pope arrives in Paris for World Youth Day, 23-year old Jonas, a young Jewish father, is grappling with the ancestral obligation of burying his newly circumcised son's foreskin. To make a tough task tougher, Jonas is unknowingly pursued by a bunch of heavies hired by a jealous husband. To make things harder still, he bumps into a young Romanian girl who is an ardent fan of Pope John-Paul II and a "collector of auras" to boot. Will Jonas let himself be swayed from his age-old duty, or will he find a way to live with his roots and find himself as a father? Dante Desarthe has been directing and producing films since 1986. The three short films he made between 1987 and 1990 all won awards. "Fast" (1994), his debut feature with Karin Viard and Frederic Gelard, was awarded the Grand Prize at the SRF's "Rencontres des Premiers Films" Festival in 1995, as well as the Hachette Foundation Prize.

Director: Dante Desarthe
Year: 2000
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Sans Plomb Marie, a young girl, falls for Ulysse, who works at the petrol station across the road to support his meteorology studies. But Ulysse is lost in his own world and his shyness keeps him away from love. "Sans Plomb" belongs to the category of films that one either likes or one hates. Poetic cinema such as this is always an exercise of perilous style, walking the tightrope between the beautiful and the ridiculous. "Sans Plomb" is a lucid second reading of Homer's Odyssey. Through the play of the actors and the magical music of Elvis Costello, the film manages to create a particular atmosphere, a daydream with screaming colors. The film shifts gracefully between the tender and the comic.

Director: Muriel Téodori
Year: 2000
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Divided We Fall Divided We Fall is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War. Josef and Marie C'Zek are a childless couple trying to lead a normal life in the face of Josef's sterility and the chaos of war that surrounds them. One night, Josef has a chance encounter with David Weiner, the Jewish son of his former employer whose family has long since been deported from their town. David is the only surviving member of his family and has recently escaped from a concentration camp. After brief deliberation, Josef decides to give David refuge in his home. To distract the attention of the German authorities and to protect their neighbours from possible reprisals, Josef takes a job with Horst Prohazka, a Nazi collaborator and former colleague and becomes more and more entangled with the representatives of arbitrary rule. To make matters worse, Horst has a romantic interest in Marie and often visits the couple unannounced.

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Year: 2000
Language: Czech, German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Named "Best Picture of the Year" by over 100 critics nationwide! Two master warriors (Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh) are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat (Zhang Ziyi) prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her deeply romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face to face with their worst enemy - and the inescapable, enduring power of love. Set against 19th-century China's breathtaking landscape, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON is the action-packed, box office smash from acclaimed director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm) featuring stunning martial arts choreography by Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix).

Year: 2000
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance

Km.0 It’s the hottest day of the year in Spain and nobody at Madrid's Plaza del Sol wants to keep their clothes on! Kilometer Zero is the centre point from which distances are measured outward from the capital. But in this fast-paced and witty ensemble comedy, it becomes the meeting point for a host of colourful characters of various sexual orientations. Four sets of strangers independently arrange to meet at Km. 0 at the same time, which leads to most of them accidentally pairing off with the wrong person. This simple premise leads to a variety of entertaining situations, including the proverbial internet-inspired hook up between two horny guys and the male virgin who wants to connect with a hooker before his wedding but takes off with a man instead. Gay and straight intersect for the most sexy mixed-up Spanish comedy on the hottest day of the year.

Director: Yolanda García Serrano and Juan Luis Iborra
Year: 2000
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine Bahman Farjami, a fifty-five year old film director, has not made a film for the past twenty years. The death of other film directors of his generation like Sohrab Shahid Salles and Ali Hatami, and his own heart condition makes him feel that the Angel of Death must be around the corner. Out of desperation, he decides to make a film about his own funeral. His research into Iranian funeral rites and his life in modern Iranian society get tangled together and the process takes him through an emotional roller coaster that leads to his death. Maybe.

Director: Bahman Farmanara
Year: 2000
Language: Persian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Orfeu Orfeu retells the tale of the Greek mythical love affair between Orfeu and Euridice. In the film, Orfeu, a legendary musician and lyricist, is loved by all. His music is powerful enough to make the sun rise and compels everyone to listen. Orfeu leads a mystical existence and holds a position of high esteem in the shantytown community known as Morro da Carioca. The story of Orfeu and Euridice begins on a Saturday of Carnaval. Its action takes place among the least privileged people in Rio de Janeiro - the inhabitants of the favelas. Favelas are shantytowns, within the city of Rio evolving from small communities of workers and unemployed people into bustling, sometimes self-sufficient cities, ruled by violence and drugs amid an ever-increasing population and dismal poverty. On the evening of the Carnaval parade at the Sambadrome, Orfeu shines as the leader of Unidos da Carioca, while Euridice falls victim to a stray bullet. Wild with despair, Orfeu sets off in search of Euridice.

Director: Carlos Diegues
Year: 2000
Language: Portuguese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Kippur Nearly thirty years ago, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel. The brief, intense war that followed called the Yom Kippur War, after the Jewish holiday on which the fighting started, is the subject of Amos Gitai's film. The battlefield action in the film is bloody and relentless; Gitai is working in the close- to-the-ground, hyper-realist mode of Sam Fuller's Big Red One and the opening battle sequences of Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. War, according to this style of filmmaking, is an existential, rather than political, event. The causes and even, in this case, the outcome of the conflict matter less than the experiences of the men who fight. Kippur has been described as an anti-war movie. Not because it takes a stand against the Yom Kippur War, or war in general - the soldiers in the film accept the necessity of fighting, and the film never questions their commitment. Rather, it is because Gitai does his utmost to resist the conventions of the genre.

Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 2000
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Kisses for Everyone (Besos Para Todos) 1965. Cádiz, Spain. Miles from home, Ramón, Alfonso and Nicolás share both their apartment and their commitment to graduate from medical school. All discipline flies out the window, however, when Alfonso and Nicolás turn up with Vicky and Marian, two nightclub dancers. Their arrival blows a refreshing gust of freedom and fun into the atmosphere, but Ramán (Eloy Azorin from All About My Mother), bewildered by the girls' presence, seeks refuge with Father Esparza, who introduces him to a respectable girl from a good family. Unfortunately, Ramán's budding obsession with Vicky only grows and Vicky wastes no time in seducing him. Quarrels over the girls disrupt the guys' relationship. By the end of their academic year, their world has turned topsy-turvy: graduation hangs in the balance and the girls aren't sure how they'll earn a living, but together they all learn how to defend themselves against the world.

Director: Jaime Chávarri
Year: 2000
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Monday One normal Monday morning, a man in a black suit wakes up in a posh hotel room. His memory is fuzzy; he has no idea of where he is, how he got there, or what happened the night before. Suddenly, a packet of purification salts (to ward off evil spirits) drops out of his pocket reminding him of a funeral he went to a few days earlier. He then remembers a café, a bar, some yazuka – Are they only parts of a dream or is it reality reaching out to him? An exquisitely crafted black comedy about an ordinary man sucked deeper and deeper into extraordinary circumstances. Monday is shot through a series of flashbacks in a studied ‘SABU’ style that will keep you on the edge of your seat and wondering how one man’s life got so out-of-control! Sabu is one of Japan’s hottest young filmmakers. His second feature, Postman Blues (’97), was successful at home and abroad, going on to receive acclaim from several international film festivals.

Director: Sabu
Year: 1999
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Einstein of Sex, The Shocking scenes. Revolutionary strides in a field never previously explored. World-famous sexologist and Jewish gay socialist, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, was better known as 'The Einstein of Sex' for his revolutionary work in Sexual Science. In 1897 Hirschfeld founded the first gay political group in history. In 1920 he opened his Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin. The film reveals Hirschfeld through the major figures in his life: from the unfulfilled love affair with Baron von Teschenberg to the happy years with young Karl Giese; from his struggle with his major gay opponet, right-wing writer Adolf Brand, to the presence of his guardian angel, the transvestite Dörchen. Dr. Hirschfeld died in 1935 only 2 years after the Nazis destroyed his Institute. Since this time, all attempts to organize an equivalent institute for sexual science have failed. Up to this day no one has surpassed his accomplishments. The Einstien of Sex tells Dr. Hirschfeld true story.

Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Year: 1999
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Straight Story, The The Straight Story is based on the real life journey of 73-year-old Alvin Straight, a man who decides to travel from his home in Laurens, Iowa, to Mount Zion, Wisconsin, to mend his relationship with his estranged older brother. There's a slightly quirky twist as Alvin insists on making the 317 mile journey on his lawnmower...

Director: David Lynch
Year: 1999
Genre: Drama

Kadosh Set in Mea Shearim, the ultra-orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, Kadosh is a stirring, intimate and sensual portrait of two sisters torn between their love and the ultra-orthodox faith that sustains them. Rivka is a pious and devoted wife who has been passionately married for ten years to Meir, the man she adores. Unfortunately, the couple has not produced any children. Presumed to be barren by her rabbi, Rivka's husband is pressured to leave her for a new wife chosen by the rabbi. Meanwhile, Rivka's younger sister, Malka, is in love with a man who has left the community to live in Israel's modern secular society. Not wishing to leave the only world she has ever known, Malka agrees to marry the man the rabbi has chosen for her. Unfortunately, he turns out to be a brute who treats her terribly. Soon, both sisters are forced to weigh their deep faith and belief in the customs and authority that governs their lives against their emotional needs and sexual desires.

Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 1999
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Jealousy (Celos) All is well in Carmen and Antonio's world. They are a happy couple planning their wedding, building their dream home and enjoying success in their respective careers. All of this is about to change. Antonio stumbles upon an old photograph of Carmen with another man and soon uneasy feelings become torturous thoughts spiraling into obsession. Torn between his love for Carmen and his need to know about her past, Antonio starts a frantic search for information about Carmen's former life. Beautifully shot, Jealousy explores the world of obsession and sensuality within the framework of a thriller. Vincente Aranda has over 20 films to his name including Libertarias. He is one of Spain's most prestigious directors whose work has been shown at international festivals since the early 60's.

Director: Vicente Aranda
Year: 1999
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Monkey'S Mask, The Jill Fitzgerald, a lesbian private detective, dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex, as she falls hopelessly in love with Diana, one of her suspects in a missing person's case. Guided by Diana through a surprisingly sleazy Sydney poetry scene, Jill becomes a victim of her own infatuation.

Director: Samantha Lang
Year: 1999
Genre: Thriller

Day the Ponies Come Back, The Daniel Moulin goes to New York on a business trip and decides to take advantage of his time in the Big Apple to try and locate the father he never knew. The only thing he has to go on however is an address in the Bronx that is 25 years old!

Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Year: 1999
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama

Girl Is A Girl Trevor is a guy in his mid-twenties who has no problems meeting women and getting them into bed but he's searching for his ideal girlfriend in all the wrong places. Trevor charms three women in rapid succession: Clarissa, a sorority girl; Karen, an ex-girlfriend of his friend; and Lisa, the woman who comes closest to Trevor's ideal. But, as Trevor shares his love of sushi, fashion and vintage clothes with Lisa, he fails to notice her fading away to anorexia. Lisa pulls away from Trevor and he immediately moves to Laura, a member of a Grrrl band, who entices Trevor with ecstasy and bliss. Everything's great until he sees Lisa again. Unable to stop idolizing Lisa, Trevor faces the reality of losing the only relationship he has. A Girl is a Girl, with its indie soundtrack and incestuous twenty-something hipsters, does a compelling job of making the viewer wonder if love really exists.

Director: Reg Harkema
Year: 1999
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Little Cheung Meet little Cheung - a rambunctious, charming nine-year-old who delivers take-out orders for his father's restaurant. From brothels to barber shops Little Cheung becomes familiar with his wild Hong Kong neighbourhood and earns big tips at the same time. One day, Little Cheung befriends Fan, a mainland girl living illegally in the city. They spend all of their time together, enjoying one another's company until they fall into the midst of a gangland fight. Miraculously saved by a stranger, Cheung makes it home only to be brutally punished by his father. Little Cheung runs away from home just when Fan is about to be deported. Fruit Chan was born in Canton, China in 1959. A graduate of the Hong Kong Film Centre, Fruit Chan's filmography includes: Finale in Blood (1991), Made in Hong Kong (1996), The Longest Summer (1998), Little Cheung (1999) and Durian Durian (2000).

Director: Fruit Chan
Year: 1999
Language: Cantonese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Journey to the Sun "Journey to the Sun" is a beautiful story of friendship, courage and personal awareness. It chronicles a young man's painful journey through the social realities in contemporary Turkey. Mehmet is young man from Western Turkey who has come to Istanbul dreaming of a better life. There he meets Berzan, a Kurdish man from the East. The two become friends, bonded together in their fears for their future and their struggle to survive the present. But as their lives in the city take a turn for the worse, Mehmet decides to take a deeply moving journey across Turkey to the land of Berzan's dreams... the fabled Kurdistan.

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu
Year: 1999
Language: Turkish & Kurdish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

No More Monkeys Jumpin' On The Bed Six twenty-something Vancouverites cope with sex, obsession, friendship and loneliness. Peter, who is perhaps a little too kind and unassuming, learns that his prospective girlfriend Fiona prefers to maintain a dangerous sexual liason with a bisexual man. As a result, he begins to gravitate toward his ex Claire, who is unhappily enmeshed with her live-in boyfriend Lyle. In the meantime, Claire struggles to land a full-time job as a children's librarian. Unable to hold on to either a job or a boyfriend, Susan begins to slide down a slippery alcoholic slope, while Rick has no problem finding women. Their lives converge in a series of vignettes in which each has an idea of what his/her problem is, but no one feels able to do anything about it.

Director: Ross Weber
Year: 1999
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Lisbon (Lisboa) On a countryside highway in Spain, a tragic accident kills a driver, his wife and child. On the same highway a porn video salesman meets a stranded rich housewife who is desperately fleeing her family and trying to get to Lisbon. Ignorant to the complete picture, João agrees to give Berta a lift to Lisbon. What seems like a casual drive turns into a neck-to-neck car chase with Berta's family. Berta reveals to João that her husband is party to a conspiracy involving her father's company and the driver from the accident at the beginning of the film. Berta was entrusted with evidence - kept safely in a box in Lisbon- that would incriminate her husband. The chase continues as Berta races to Lisbon to expose the crime while her husband tries to force her to go back with him. But Berta is not planning to go that easily. A powerful and gripping film, Lisbon takes the viewer in a world of mystery and confusion that turns into a travelling nightmare.

Director: Antonio Hernández
Year: 1999
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Himalaya Miles from nowhere in the middle of the Himalayas, a village nestles amidst its fields of barley. Its resilient peasant population eeks out a living from the salt of the Tibetan highlands. Each year they mine and trade the salt for grain, transporting it far beyond the huge mountains, down to the lush, rich valleys of Nepal. The annual trek is fraught with danger, testing the bravery of one and all, transforming these simple mountain folk into heroic trailblazers.

Director: Eric Valli
Year: 1999
Language: Tibetan
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Gohatto Kyoto - In the Spring of 1865. At the temple Nishi-Honganji, the Shinsengumi militia is choosing new recruits to become samurai warriors. Commander Isami Kondo (Yoichi Sai) and lieutenant Toshizo Hijikata (Beat Takeshi) are supervising the recruiting process. Those hoping to be chosen must face off the best man in the militia, Soji Okita (Shinji Takeda). Out of all the men present, only two are chosen : Hyozo Tashiro (Tadanobu Asano), a low-level samurai from the Kurume clan and Sozaburo Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda), a handsome young man whose good looks are bewitching. Tashiro is immediately attracted to Kano. Rigid rules and regulations keep order among this group of men and are the unifying force in the face of adversity... But suddenly the militia finds themselves prey to rumors and jealousies... the fascination that the young samurai Kano holds for the others creates confusion all around.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Year: 1999
Language: Japanese
Genre: History, Drama

Solomon & Gaenor Wales in 1911 is a beautiful world, but fraught with racial and economic unrest. Set against the backdrop of the little-known 1911 Tredegar riots, when Jewish businesses in the Welsh valley were attacked and looted, Solomon and Gaenor chronicles a passionate and illicit love affair between Gaenor, a Welsh girl and Solomon, a Jewish boy. Solomon conceals his Jewish identity and courts Gaenor but eventually his identity is revealed and the prejudice and mistrust of their respective families and communities threatens to drive the young lovers apart. An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, Solomon and Gaenor is a moving love story that has been widely praised for the terrific performances of its two young leads, its outstanding cinematography and its use of English, Welsh and Yiddish dialogue that enhance the film's authenticity.

Director: Paul Morrison
Year: 1999
Language: English/Welsh/Yiddish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Karnaval Dunkirk, northern France, February 1998. It's carnival season - a month and a half of festivities, parades and songs that turns the city upside down. After a violent argument with his father, Larbi has decided to flee the family gas station to start a new life in the southern city of Marseille. Forced to spend one last night in Dunkirk, he shelters in a doorway where he is disturbed by Bea and Christian, a tipsy carnival couple returning from a ball. Larbi is charmed by Bea and decides to stick around for a few days to try his luck at convincing her to come with him. By placing his story in the heart of this popular festival, a tradition inherited from the festivals that fishermen held before their departures, Thomas Vincent's film is characterized by its authenticity. He depicts, with poetry and tenderness, a carnival often shown with condescension and scorn.

Director: Thomas Vincent
Year: 1999
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Ghost Dog lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move through the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he reacts strictly in accord with the Way of the Samurai. In Ghost Dog's words, "We're like two ancient tribes, both almost extinct...and everything seems to be changing around us".

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Year: 1998
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action, Film Noir

Run Lola Run Lola (Franka Potente) answers a call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtru), a small-time courier for a big-time gangster. He has a problem: His boss is coming to pick up 100,000 Deutsche Marks in twenty minutes, and he doesn’t have the money. With Manni’s life on the line, Lola runs through the streets of Berlin to reach him and somehow pick up 100,000 marks along the way, making split-second decisions and encountering acquaintances, family, and strangers. As the clock ticks down, the tiniest choices become life-altering (or life-ending), and the fine line between fate and fortune begins to blur.

Year: 1998
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Let it Come Down The quintessential iconoclast, novelist Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky) has lived in Morocco for over fifty years having left the U.S. and an illustrious career as a composer in the 1940s. He was an intimate of Aaron Copland and Gertrude Stein, a peer of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal, and literary godfather to Beat writers William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. His marriage to writer Jane Bowles - both were gay and had significant relationships with others throughout their marriage - is legendary. Together they formed a magnet which drew an extraordinary group of writers and artists to Morocco. In this definitive film biography, Bowles finally speaks out on the subjects he has remained silent about over the years - his work, sexuality, love, and his friends.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 1998
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Lost Son, The In this contemporary film noir, a French private detective operating in London, is asked to find the missing 30-year-old son of a rich elderly couple. His investigations take him on a journey into the darkest parts of both the city and his own soul.

Director: Chris Menges
Year: 1998
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Fishing Trip, The The Fishing Trip tells a story of lost childhood and possible redemption through the eyes and experiences of three young women. Kirsti has come home from college to confront her stepfather, Harold, about a dark family secret. When she arrives, she discovers that Harold has gone north to his remote fishing cabin - the very place where he first sexually assaulted Kirsti and her younger sister Jessie. Kirsti bribes the hostile Jessie and Jessie's best friend, Murdoch, to overcome their fears and go with her to face their past. Buoyed by humour and the resiliency of youth, The Fishing Trip is a deeply affirming testament to the power of love and friendship. Director/producer Amnon Buchbinder, an accomplished short filmmaker, makes his feature film debut with The Fishing Trip. Currently he teaches screenwriting at York University's Department of Film and Video.

Director: Amnon Buchbinder
Year: 1998
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Edge of 17 In the summer of 1984, Eric Hunter (Chris Stafford) is heading towards his senior year in high school working in the fast food restaurant at the local amusement park. He and his best friend Maggie (Tina Holmes) bus tables in their ugly brown polyester uniforms along with handsome Ohio State hotel-management student Rod (Andersen Gabrych). As Rod casts his baby-blue eyes at Eric, Eric finds it increasingly difficult not to flirt back. Bit by bit, Eric begins using the clothes, attitude and even the hair products of the era to express the new person he is becoming. His family and friends don't understand, but his new friends, including bar owner Angie (Lea DeLaria), help him through his life-changing summer with honest advice and a lot of laughs.

Director: David Moreton
Year: 1998
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Earth A young girl with polio, Lenny (Maia Sethna), narrates the story through the voice of her adult self (Shabana Azmi). She is from a wealthy Parsi family who hopes to remain neutral to the rising tensions between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims in the area. She is adored and protected by her parents, Bunty (Kitu Gidwani) and Rustom (Arif Zakaria) and is cared for by her Ayah, the beautiful Hindu woman, Shanta (Nandita Das). Both Dil, the Ice-Candy Man (Aamir Khan) and Hassan, the Masseur (Rahul Khanna) are Muslim and in love with Shanta.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 1998
Language: Hindi, English, Gujarati, Panjabi, Urdu
Genre: War, Drama, Romance

L'ennui A Parisian Philosophy teacher separates from his wife and becomes alienated from the pleasures of his upper middle class life. He has an affair with a 17-year-old girl who is suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Slowly the man loses control of his life and becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties. Cédric Kahn is one of the most talented directors of his generation. His 1994 film, Trop de Bonheur, won both the Jean Vigo Prize and the Cannes Festival's Youth Prize. L'Ennui is his third feature film and was selected for the Venice Festival and won the Louis Delluc prize.

Director: Cedric Kahn
Year: 1998
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Love of man (Amore de Hombre) It's Esperanza's 40th birthday party and she can't help noticing the irony of her life. Here she is without a boyfriend, yet all the guests at her party are intelligent, witty and handsome men. Of course, these guys are gay, and Esperanza loves them all. Her favorite of the bunch is Ramon, a sexy lawyer who is also searching in vain for Mr. Right. Together they commiserate and laugh at the foibles of their love lives and try (unsuccessfully) to fix each other up. When Ramon is temporarily confined to bed after an accident, Esperanza makes the mistake of introducing him to Robert, an attractive masseur whom she hopes can help Ramon's rehabilitation. Ramon quickly becomes obsessed and will do anything to satisfy the very sexy Robert, including sacrificing his close friendship with Esperanza.

Director: Yolanda Garcia Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra
Year: 1998
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Eel, The A man, acting on an anonymous tip, finds his wife in bed with another man and in a fit of rage stabs her to death. Eight years later after being released from prison, he moves to a small, lakeside town and opens a barbershop. In the corner of the shop is an aquarium housing his companion from his prison stay, his pet eel - the only living thing he will talk to. Eventually the town's eccentric characters accept the man and happily make his barbershop their meeting place, while he, desperate to forget his past, guards against any attraction he may feel for women. One day he happens upon a young woman unconscious after a suicide attempt. Once recovered, she comes to work for him in the shop. She would like to know him more intimately, but he remains reluctant. He soon learns, however, that she has a past every bit as painful as his own.

Director: Shohei Imamura
Year: 1997
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Didier It really is not the time for Jean-Pierre, a sports agent, to dog-sit a friend's golden retriever for a week while he is entangled in murky dealings. Yet, this chore will result in the most unbelievable adventures, where his worst nightmare may well be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Director: Alain Chabat
Year: 1997
Language: French
Genre: Sports, Fantasy, Comedy

Season Five In a remote Iranian village, an arranged marriage is about to take place between two archrival families. Meet the Jamalvandis and the Kamalvandis. Surprisingly, the story starts with an indication of a hopeful resolution. Soon enough however, the feud between the families resumes. Karamat, a boy from the Kamalvandis family, decides to break the engagement to Mehrbanou, a girl from the Jamalvandis clan. The familial tension causes the girl's grandfather to have a stroke. Everyone from the village attends the funeral. Soon after, the boy returns to the village with a brand new mini bus and uses it to transport his people to and from the village. In her desperate attempt to compete with Karamat, Mehrbanou sells her land to purchase her own vehicle. The rivalry between the two families intensifies. One day, when only one vehicle returns to the village, Mehrbanou suddenly realizes her feelings for Karamat and organizes a search party.

Director: Rafi Pitts
Year: 1997
Language: Farsi
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Life of Jesus, The A social movie about life nowadays in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They try to pass away the time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arabic immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed by Kader, an young Arab man, Freddy and his friends have an idea: they decide to punish Kader for what they call "a provocation." After they have raped another girl, Marie finally commits to Kader, which seals his fate.

Director: Bruno Dumont
Year: 1997
Language: French/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Le Pari In this French comedy, sisters Murielle (Isabella Ferron) and Victoria (Isabel Otero) are married to men who hate each other -- high-school teacher Bernard (Bernard Campan) and well-to-do Didier (Didier Bourdon), pharmacist in a posh Paris neighborhood. Both chain-smoke, and this leads to a cigarette challenge as they attempt to stop smoking for two weeks in order to prove who is the better man. Quitting brings on manic mood swings, massive food consumption, insomnia, and a host of habits that alter their lives and threaten their marriages

Director: Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan
Year: 1997
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Loose Women Loose Women explores the lives and misadventures of three sexy, single women in New York City. Aspiring actress Rachel and her roommate, Gail, welcome the arrival of their friend Tracy, also a wannabe actress. Together the trio navigates the notorious East Village, the tumultuous working world and the New York dating scene. But the party soon comes to a halt when they discover Gail's dark secret.

Director: Paul F. Bernard
Year: 1997
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance

Sorry Dear, Lucas Loves Me This Spanish outing is largely set in the spacious apartment living room of three gay roommates: the pudgy, glasses-wearing Carlos, pothead/quasi-philosopher Toni and the ever smooth but diminutive Dani. The trouble begins when Toni decides that the trio needs another roommate.

Director: Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso
Year: 1997
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy

All The Rage Gorgeous, intelligent, with a great career and a hot gym sculpted body, Christopher is clearly a member of the gay urban "A-list". He is also an expert at one-night stands, and a master at brushing men off, once he's had them. But lately, Christopher is looking for a more meaningful relationship. Then he meets Stuart, an attractive, slightly chubby and down-to earth guy who spends as little time at the gym as he does selecting his wardrobe. Christopher is thrilled to finally be with a man who loves him for more than his looks, and the two begin a serious relationship…until temptation emerges in the form of Stuart's hunky and horny roommate. With smart dialogue and sharp performances, All The Rage takes a satirical and poignant look at one gay man's obsessive pursuit of physical, sexual and romantic perfection. Roland Tec is a teacher, director and writer who has written extensively for the theatre, including both plays and operas.

Director: Roland Tec
Year: 1997
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy

Nettoyage à sec This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) have run their small-town dry-cleaning shop for 15 years. When they visit a local night club, they see the brother-sister act of Loic (Stanislas Merhar) and Marilyn (Mathilde Seigner), who perform under the name Queens of the Night, and the four soon become friends. Later, the Kuntslers visit Basel, Switzerland, where the siblings are appearing. They learn the team is splitting up and invite the bisexual Loic to help at their shop. He accepts, and his presence alters their outlook on life.

Director: Anne Fontaine
Year: 1997
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health Two soon-to-be lovers meet for the first time in a Paris hotel where the legendary Beatles are staying. Diana, an obsessive fan, cajoles Santi, a hotel office clerk, into hiding with her under John Lennon's bed in order to catch a glimpse of the famous rock star. Following this chance encounter, Diana and Santi spend the next several years going between tumultuous meetings and painful separations, ill-matched nuptials to other partners and troublesome offspring en route to discovering that love, true love, can seriously damage your health.

Director: Manuel Gomez Pereira
Year: 1997
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Mill on the Floss, The It is the story of Maggie and her elder brother Tom, ordinary people swept away by the forces their own passions unleash. They express the central dilemma : the choice between love and loyalty. Based on the novel by George Eliot.

Director: Graham Thaekston
Year: 1997
Genre: Drama

Saltmen of Tibet Since time immemorial, nomadic herdsmen have lived in an extremely harsh environment on the plateau of the Himalayas, pasturing their yaks in the highest meadows of the world. Every spring, the men of the tribe set off with their robust pack animals on an arduous three-month journey to the salt lakes of northern Tibet. The film follows this traditional nomadic caravan, steeped in religious ritual but doomed by technological progress, as it sets off to the salt lakes to haul the "white gold" back to their native valleys. Shot under the most difficult of conditions, The Saltmen of Tibet brings the viewer as close as possible to the mysterious and religious experience of another world. Born in Germany, Ulrike Koch studied Sinology, Japanology and Ethnology at Zurich and Beijing Universities. She served as a casting director for Bernardo Bertolucci's films, "The Last Emperor" and "Little Buddha".

Director: Ulrike Koch
Year: 1997
Language: Tibetan
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary

Libertarias July 19, 1936. The revolution has just started in a town near Barcelona. Maria, a young innocent nun escaping from her convent, which is being ransacked by revolutionaries, finds refuge in a brothel, where she runs into a group of "Libertarias" intent on freeing the prostitutes. Befriended by the group, she joins up with its leader, Pilar, a spiritualist named Floren and a prostitute called Charo, on their way to the front. Within the brutal realities of war, Maria experiences love with a reformed priest and companionship through those she is fighting with, and soon she begins to doubt almost everything she once held to be true. Libertarias is an epic, emotional film that tells the story of six women's fight for freedom, their struggle for justice and their passionate cry for a better world. One of Spain's best known directors, Vicente Aranda has made 17 previous films including "Tiempo de Silencio", "La Pasion Turca", and the internationally acclaimed "Amantes".

Director: Vincent Aranda
Year: 1996
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Microcosmos MICROCOSMOS captures the fun and adventure of a spectacular hidden universe revealed in a breathtaking, close-up view unlike anything you've ever seen! Your family will marvel at a pair of stag beetles dueling like titans. The kids will stare bug-eyed as a magnificent army of worker ants race to stock their larder ... while tyring to avoid becoming a feisty pheasant's dinner. And you'll have a front-row seat to witness an amazing transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, the remarkable birth of a mosquito, and several other minute miracles of life.

Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Year: 1996
Language: French
Genre: Documentary

Time Regained Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Year: 1996
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

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Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Year: 1996
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama, Romance

Fire Radha (the stunning Shabana Azmi) is unwavering in her devotion to her husband, Ashok (Kulbushan Kharbanda), despite their barren and sexless arranged marriage. For 15 years, Radha has been the consummate Indian wife, while Ashok, under the guidance of a spiritual leader, is attempting to rid himself completely of any form of desire. Meanwhile, Ashok’s brother Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi) has brought home his new wife, Sita (Nandita Das), but is unwilling to give up his relationship with his Chinese girlfriend. Added to the mix are Biji (Kushal Rekhi), Ashok and Jatin's infirm mother, who keeps a watchful eye over the family, and Mundu (Ranjit Chowdhry), who works in the family's restaurant and video store under their small apartment. Slowly, Sita's presence causes the threads that held the family together to unravel. Each member tries to hang on to a semblance of allegiance to the deeply rooted traditions of Indian family life…

Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 1996
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Canadian, Drama

Family Resemblances Every Friday night a very ordinary French family get together for dinner. Here we find a mother who knows how to criticize with a simple glance, her two grown sons, one successful, the other not-so-successful, an unmarried daughter with a penchant for making trouble, and two daughters-in-law who are polar opposites. Together, they have been coexisting in feigned politeness, unvoiced opinions and endless concessions, all in the hope of maintaining a typical, close-knit family. But tonight is special! On this particular Friday the group is celebrating a birthday. But before the celebration is in full swing, family politics and petty squabbling erupts into a tour-de-force of comic verbal jousting and dramatic confrontations. While no one emerges unscathed from this settling of old scores, each member of the family leaves with a new appreciation for each other. Family Resemblances is one outstanding and outrageous dinner party that you won't forget.

Director: Cedric Klapisch
Year: 1996
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Huitième Jour, Le One night an aggressive salesmen is drives recklessly down a country road and hits a dog. The dog belongs to a man with Down’s syndrome who has escaped his institution. Despite their differences, the two men forge an extraordinary friendship.

Director: Jaco van Dormael
Year: 1996
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Trois Frères Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.

Director: Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan
Year: 1995
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

Saved By the Light Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts stars in this dramatic adaptation of Dannion Brinkley's best-selling account of his transformation after he was struck by lightning. Roberts portrays an anti-social man who, with the guidance of an expert in near-death experiences, uses the visions and lessons of his accident to become a popular, inspirational speaker. He faces the ultimate test of character and strength, however, when he realizes he has alienated his wife - the one person who loved him when nobody else did

Director: Lewis Teague
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama

Somebody to Love A young and ambitious "Latina", Mercedes, is killing time as a dancer in a seedy cabaret waiting to see her name up in lights in Hollywood. She has an affair with Harry, a married, fading actor, and scorns the love of young Ernesto because he reminds her too much of her poor background. But when Harry has to get together a large sum of money quickly, the young Mexican does not hesitate to execute a contract for a ruthless mafia boss. When Mercedes finally realizes that Ernesto knew he was taking this huge risk to help out his rival, she at last understands the strength of his love, but it might already be too late...

Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Fallen Angels Commonly regarded as one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema, Wong Kar-Wai (Happy Together, In the Mood for Love) has developed a signature style that employs bold, experimental uses of photography, music, and editing to capture the tension of the new millennium. Originally intended to be a third story in his now classic Chungking Express, FALLEN ANGELS has emerged as what some critics have come to consider his “quintessential work.” Set in the neon-washed underworld of present day Hong Kong, FALLEN ANGELS intertwines exhilarating tales of love and isolation, primarily the unconsummated love affair between a contract Killer (Leon Lai Ming) and the ravishing female Agent (Michele Reis) who books his assignments and cleans up after his jobs.

Director: Wong Kar-wai
Year: 1995
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Rough Magic A runaway show girl Myra Shumway from a cabaret magic act in Hollywood is on the run 'down South' having escaped from a marriage to a crooked American Senator...

Director: Clare Peploe
Year: 1995
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy

Liz: The Elisabeth Taylor Story From her radiant performance in "National Velvet" at the age of 12, to her series of tragic and passionate marriages, Elizabeth Taylor has been a larger-than-life celebrity for more than half a century. Based on the unauthorized biography by C. David Heymann, this explosive four-hour mini-series follows Elizabeth Taylor through her personal and professional lives, including the movies, the men, the triumphs, the tribulations, the scandals and the successes.

Director: Kevin Connor
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama, Biography

Murder in the First The tale of one man's descent into inhumanity and another man's determination to bring him back and reveal the truth of his imprisonment. The unlikely friendship that forms between the wealthy and privileged attorney and the troubled, deeply withdrawn convict leads to a triumphant struggle marking the beginning of the end of Alcatraz as a penal institution.

Director: Marc Rocco
Year: 1995
Genre: Thriller, Drama

Dalekmania A nostalgic look back at the making of the 1960's Dalek movies DR WHO AND THE DALEKS and DALEKS - INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. To mark the 30th anniversary of both movies, this documentary reveals their history for the first time - from the extraordinary advertising campaigns, through the hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes to the amazing Dalek publicity appearances via recently discovered archive material and newly shot interviews with the cast and crew.

Director: Kevin Davies
Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary

Par-delà les nuages Told from the dreamlike perspective of a wandering film director, the movie weaves four stories of love and lust, inspired by Antonioni's writings about enigmatic, unrequited or unresolved relationships. Set in several beautiful European locales such as Portofino and Paris, the film uses striking compositions, sensuous shots of lovely nudes and a moving musical score (featuring Van Morrison, U2 and Brian Eno) to create a radiant meditation on love and desire.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Year: 1995
Language: French, English, Italian
Genre: Drama, Romance

Cutthroat Island Morgan Adams is a ravishing young pirate who inherited her ship and one third of a treasure map from her recently assassinated father. She launches on a search for the other two pieces of the map and her father's killers with William Shaw, a charming thief and compulsive liar.

Director: Renny Harlin
Year: 1995
Genre: Adventure, Action

Double Happiness Twenty-two year old Chinese-Canadian Jade Li comes from a traditional Chinese family, who try to put on the perfect public persona at all cost so as to "save face". One primary part of this persona is prosperity. Jade's father hopes that true financial prosperity will become reality through penny stocks. Because of its instability, Jade's parents don't understand or widely publicize Jade's aspirations to be an actress. Their main want for Jade is to date and marry a nice Chinese boy, a goal for which Jade's extended family also strives as they are always trying to introduce her to Chinese boys. They believe that *the* boy is Andrew, with whom Jade even agrees to go out. But Jade, beyond wanting to be an actress, wishes her family had more western sensibilities. She is attracted to a slightly awkward but persistent Caucasian English graduate student named Mark. Jade has to figure out how to both please her family, who would not approve of her dating a Caucasian, and be true to herself.

Year: 1994
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Drama, Romance

I Can't Sleep France is afraid! A "granny killer" is loose in Paris, inciting fear and havoc amongst its residents. Based on the true story of Thierry Paulin who, with his male lover, murdered over twenty elderly women in the eighties, I Can't Sleep is an eerily atmospheric noir of contemporary urban alienation. A series of characters haunt the nights of Paris. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress unaware of the newspaper headlines due to a language barrier; Theo, a moody musician and carpenter from Martinique who longs to return to the safety of his homeland with his wife and son; his brother Camille, a beautiful drag queen who seductively performs at local nightclubs. Director Claire Denis (Chocolat) navigates through a dozen characters who have little in common except location. Their lives briefly intersect and just as quickly separate. A disturbing portrait of dislocation and arbitrary violence, it "will make you look differently at people on the street." (Amy Taubin, Village Voice)

Director: Claire Denis
Year: 1994
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Shanghai Triad Shanghai 1930. Xiao is a kept woman, who is both influential queen of the opium dens and a country girl in fear of her life. She was bought by the Godfather when she was ten years old. Xiao is the source of rivalry between and a source of influence over the two gangs leaders.

Director: Yi-Mou Zhang
Year: 1994
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical

Reine Margot, La 1572-The war of religion between Catholics and Protestants was raging. To reconcile the French, Catherine de Medici decided to marry his daughter, the Catholic Marguerite de Valois, the "Queen Margot" with the Protestant Henri de Navarre, later King Henry IV. During the night of St. Bartholomew while the blood is flowing in the streets of Paris, the "Queen Margot" saves the massacre lord of the Mole. Between the Catholic Margot and the Protestant Mole was born a passion that will switch their fates. More than a great historical drama, the cruel and violent "Queen Margot" is a powerful, majestic film with an impressive distribution.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Year: 1994
Language: French, Italian
Genre: History, Drama, Romance, Biography

Scent of Green Papaya, The A young girl, Mui, becomes a servant for a rich family. Mui is notably peaceful and curious about the world. The family consists of a frequently absent husband, a wife, an older son, two younger sons, and the husband's mother. When the husband leaves for his fourth and final time, he takes all the household's money. He returns ill and passes away shortly after.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Year: 1993
Language: Vietnamese
Genre: Drama

Empty Cradle The harrowing story of two women who are both trying to create a family. Jane Morgan, about to give birth to her third child, is working on putting her marriage back together. While Rita Donohue obtains her babies by stealing them. The two women's paths converge when Rita takes Jane's newborn, claming it died at birth. But no one believes Jane when she declares that her baby is still alive and has been stolen. (based on a true story).

Director: Laurent Cantet
Year: 1993
Genre: Drama

Tango Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Year: 1993
Language: French
Genre: Comedy

No Smoking In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, takes a rest from her spring cleaning. Seated in her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not. Little does she know that her decision will result in two totally different outcomes. When she decides to smoke a cigarette, she is visited by Lionel Hepplewick, the school caretaker who has agreed to help out in her garden. Celia confesses that her husband no longer loves her, that he has taken to drink and risks losing his job. When Celia returns to the house, Sylvie, her maid, appears and tries to engage Lionel’s interest... Now, if Celia has abstained from that cigarette a different set of circumstances would have arisen. Miles Coombes, her husband’s best friend, arrives and starts commiserating with her over her husband’s drunkenness and professional lapses. In fact, this is just a pretext, for Miles is secretly in love with Celia...

Director: Alain Resnais
Year: 1993
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Smoking In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, takes a rest from her spring cleaning. Seated in her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not. Little does she know that her decision will result in two totally different outcomes. When she decides to smoke a cigarette, she is visited by Lionel Hepplewick, the school caretaker who has agreed to help out in her garden. Celia confesses that her husband no longer loves her, that he has taken to drink and risks losing his job. When Celia returns to the house, Sylvie, her maid, appears and tries to engage Lionel’s interest... Now, if Celia has abstained from that cigarette a different set of circumstances would have arisen. Miles Coombes, her husband’s best friend, arrives and starts commiserating with her over her husband’s drunkenness and professional lapses. In fact, this is just a pretext, for Miles is secretly in love with Celia...

Director: Alain Resnais
Year: 1993
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Incident at Oglala In the Native American reservation of Pine Ridge (South Dakota) violence is brewing and an official employed by the government commonly perpetrates extortion. On June 26, 1975 two FBI agents come into the reservation and are killed in a shootout. Leonard Peltier, a Native American who fled to Canada is arrested, extradited and condemned during a trial fraught with perjury and contradictory evidence.

Director: Michael Apted
Year: 1992
Genre: Documentary

Rebels of the Neon God Set amidst the urban jungle of Taipei, Rebels of the Neon God is a stylish tale of teen angst and despair. Centering on four disaffected, disillusioned youth, the story shuttles between the deadpan, petty con games of two Taipei hoods, a young woman who works at a roller rink, and the sullen, lost Hsiao-Kang - a cab driver's son who's being rigorously pressured to study by his parents. Tsai Ming-liang "captures the strange radiance of cheap hotels, video parlours and neon-lit streets" of Taipei (David Overbey, Toronto International Film Festival). Rebels of the Neon God is a keenly observed look at despondent youth whose lives are confined by a relentless, alienating city.

Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Year: 1992
Language: Cantonese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Universal Soldier Luc Devreux and Andrew Scott are members of a prototype military unit known as "Universal Soldiers". These men are part of a top-secret government project to create the perfect warrior and have incredible agility and extraordinary powers. They do not feel pain or emotions and have no memory of their past when they were not yet "UniSols". They are the final result of machine combat until something horrible happens: Devreux and Scott begin to recover their memory and escape the control of their military creators.

Director: Roland Emmerich
Year: 1992
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

It's Nothing Personal Roberta Whitloff, a cop burdened by guilt since the day her brother was killed before her very eyes, has become a danger to everyone. Following a touchy incident, the police close the file on her brother's death. Roberta, a hard and stubborn character, decides to act alone. How will she find the murderer ? Will she discover the real reason for her brother's death ? Roberta, a live wire and obsessive character who works within or without the law, undertakes her investigation with vengeance as her guiding light.

Director: Michael Mccarthy
Year: 1992
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action

Manufacturing Consent Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, the film highlights Chomsky's probing analysis of mass media. A mammoth two-part project, MANUFACTURING CONSENT is nonetheless light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from the "web of deceit" by undertaking a course of "intellectual self-defense." The two-disc 15th anniversary edition of this revolutionary film is accompanied by a rich selection of special features.

Director: Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick
Year: 1992
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary

Doors, The In 1965, Jim meets Ray Manzarek in a UCLA film class. Jim writes poems, Ray plays the organ, they decide to try their luck and form a group called the "Doors" with guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Desmore. The group draws crowds to their first shows in the small clubs on Sunset Strip. The Doors music, lyrics and especially their lifestyle speak to an entire generation. Jim is inspired by two women, Pamela and Patricia, and is open about his attraction to drugs. On stage he seems to be in a state of grace. But his life is a path that inevitably leads to a mysterious and premature death.

Director: Oliver Stone
Year: 1991
Genre: Musical, Biography

Hell Hath No Fury In this Machiavellian thriller Terri's world falls apart the day her husband is brutally murdered by Connie, an old girlfriend who is mentally unstable. Connie then devises a brilliant yet perverse plan to target Terri.

Director: Paul Wendkos
Year: 1991
Genre: Thriller, Crime

Highlander II: The Quickening The RENEGADE VERSION is a re-edited director’s cut of HIGHLANDER 2: THE QUICKENING with 18 minutes of additional footage. It’s 2024 and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery) are back to save planet Earth from an evil corporation. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed are at the core of all the thrilling twists and turns in this stylish action-packed sequel with state-of-the-art special effects. Featuring and a great supporting cast which includes Virginia Madsen (Fire with Fire) as a beautiful revolutionary leader recruited by MacLeod, Michael Ironside (Total Recall) as the villainous Highlander, General Katana and John C. McGinley (The Rock) as the president of the evil corporation. Original music by Stewart Copeland (Rumble Fish) and directed by Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Extinction).

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Year: 1991
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi

Dice Rules They call him America's bad boy comic. He's been vilified, sanctified, at times nearly crucified. But America's #1 comedian, Andrew "Dice" Clay isn't phased by the media spotlight. "I was put on this earth to entertain", he says. "Dice Rules" reveals the real Andrew Dice Clay, not as he has been portrayed in the headlines, but as he intended his fans to know him. He may be provocative, even offensive to some, but for both long-time Dice fans and curious first-timers, "Dice Rules" presents the comedian at his unfettered best.

Director: Jay Dubin
Year: 1991
Genre: Documentary, Comedy

Terminator 2: Judgment Day A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal.

Director: James Cameron
Year: 1991
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

L.A. Story Harris lives in Los Angeles and has had seven heart attacks. He is a weatherman on TV and talks a lot without saying anything. He is married to a beautiful and vain wife and believes he is happy although his life is passing him by. By chance fate intervenes in the form of an electronic display road sign on the highway. Harris notices it one moonless night when his car breaks downs mysteriously: the sign speaks to him and its messages give advice that will change the routine of his existence. First Harris leaves his wife who is sleeping with his agent. Now he is free to dine in French restaurants, go to hotels in Miami, visit museums on roller-skates and pursue the charmingly hysterical salesgirl of a ready-to-wear shop. But there is also Love with a capital L in the form of Sarah, an eccentric English girl who plays the tuba.

Director: Mick Jackson
Year: 1991
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Narrow Margin Robert Caulfield, the district attorney of Los Angeles, has made a mistake. He has been protecting Carol Hunnicut, a prime witness in a murder case. He visits her in her hidden chalet in Canada. But he was careless and he was followed. Robert and Carol must flee. They hide in a train going to Vancouver. But the mafia is close behind. The killers are on board. The couple will go through hell for twenty hours. The train speeds along. The rails wind around the Rocky Mountains. Their only escape is the next car, the next compartment. How will they escape the trained hit men?

Director: Peter Hyams
Year: 1990
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action

Uranus After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind them as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry and only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist.

Director: Claude Berri
Year: 1990
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Total Recall 2084. Quaid is haunted each night by a dream that he is on Mars looking for beautiful Melina. He goes against his wife Lori's wishes and visits the Recall laboratories. They claim that they can help make his dream a reality by offering him an adventurous trip in his mind with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. But the experience has unexpected consequences, the drug awakens a memory that was erased from Quaid's mind. In fact he is not Quaid, he is a dangerous terrorist fighting against a Martian despot, Lori is not his wife she is an enemy agent and the red planet is at the heart of a terrifying plot. Pitiless killers relentlessly chase Quaid and he goes to Mars where other memories and other dangers await him, including Melina, the woman of his dreams. He will make an incredible discovery about his own identity.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1990
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi

Shattered Dreams John Sedders is a brilliant lawyer and his wife Charlotte is the devoted mother of their four children. They appear to be a perfect couple. But one day Charlotte asks for a divorce alleging that her husband has been beating her for years. This is the beginning of Shattered Dreams, the true story of Charlotte whose marriage started like a dream and quickly became a 20-year nightmare.

Director: Robert Iscove
Year: 1990
Genre: Drama

Jacob's Ladder For four years Jacob Singer has been haunted by the painful memory of his combat in Vietnam. He is plagued by hallucinations. When his former psychoanalyst is killed by a car bomb Jacob thinks he will lose his mind. His friend Jezzi tries to comfort him in vain; only his therapist can calm him. One afternoon Jacob runs into a GI from his battalion. This man is also plagued by terrible visions when he is suddenly killed before Jacob's eyes in the same way as his psychoanalyst. At his funeral Jacob sees all his old war buddies who have the same demonic visions. They are convinced that they were used as guinea pigs for chemical warfare in Vietnam and decide to take legal action. Suddenly they all give up. Jacob must find the key to his nightmare alone.

Director: Adrian Lyne
Year: 1990
Genre: Fantasy, Drama

Reflecting Skin, The A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an unforgiving environment in general.

Year: 1990
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Return of the Musketeers, The Twenty years after the death of Milady de Winter, the four musketeers once again go "one for all and all for one." They are called back into service in order to save King Charles I.

Director: Richard Lester
Year: 1989
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action

Music Box Mike Laszlo is a Hungarian refugee living in the United States. Is he a war criminal? His daughter, a famous lawyer, doesn't believe it and defends him. But during her investigation she begins to have doubts.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Year: 1989
Genre: Drama

Lock Up Frank Leone is a model prisoner. Six months before his release he is transferred to Gateway, a high security penitentiary where he meets his archenemy, Warden Drumgoole. Frank must resist the provocations of the Warden if he wants to be released at the end of his sentence. But it isn't easy because the Warden has a huge advantage, he rules the prison. The Warden tries everything to push Frank to revolt or try to escape: humiliation, intimidation, blackmail and brutality. Frank resists patiently until the Warden sets into motion a Machiavellian plan that triggers Frank's fury. Once he is angry he cannot be controlled and turns into a hunted beast with nothing to lose.

Director: John Flynn
Year: 1989
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action

Punisher, The Tough cop Frank Castle and his partner Jake are about to arrest a mafia boss. The operation fails, Castle's family is attacked and he is left for dead. Five years pass and a mysterious vigilante starts killing the mafia members one at a time. His methods reveal an in-depth knowledge of combat and weaponry. The media call him the "Punisher". Jake guesses that it is his long lost friend and tries to halt the bloodbath but Castle won't stop. He believes he is on a crusade to "punish" all gang leaders. But when Japanese gangsters start attacking the women and children of the Mafiosi, Castle remembers his own family. He makes a temporary pact with the godfather. This could be his last mission but the "Punisher" must prevent innocent people from being killed.

Director: Mark Goldblatt
Year: 1989
Genre: Adventure, Action

Peuple Singe, le This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Because of its length and extensive coverage of its subject, it is of particular interest to those who are already keenly interested in its subject matter.

Director: Gérard Vienne
Year: 1989
Language: French
Genre: Documentary, Family

Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw A delightful animated feature about a group of puppies' hair-raising quest to reunite two pieces of a mystical relic stolen by a power hungry villain who plans to take over the world.

Director: Pierre Decelles
Year: 1988
Genre: Children, Animation

Red Heat In Moscow drug trafficker Viktor Rostavili kills the partner of Captain Ivan Danko, then flees to the United States where he sets up new drug trafficking operations. During a police raid he kills the partner of Sergeant Art Ridzik. Danko is sent to Chicago to try to arrest Viktor and bring him back to the Soviet Union. To do this he must work with Ridzik. The men have different methods. Ridzik is cheerful and cunning while Danko is cold and ruthless and prefers violence. The two cops make a great team despite their differences. They both have personal reasons to put the Soviet gangster out of circulation. They embark on a tireless chase to find Rostavili who has decided to turn Chicago into a battlefield.

Director: Walter Hill
Year: 1988
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action

Noble House Ian Dunross, a brilliant businessman with a complete understanding of the complicated cultural traditions of the Orient, is Tai-Pan : the chief of the "Noble House". The company, founded 150 years ago, is responsible for a vast proportion of Hong Kong's wealth, owing to its mighty sea trade. But the Noble House is under threat - from dangerous rivals, competitors, oriental traders and drug dealers .

Director: Gary Nelson
Year: 1988
Genre: Adventure, Action

Traxx At Headleyville, crime is soaring. Drug dealers, thieves and murderers thrive under the protection of Aldo Palucci, the town's godfather. Traxx, a "Rambo" style adventurer, dreams of starting a cookie shop but the gangsters don't like his cookies. To ensure his enterprise works, Traxx resurrects his combat skills and clears the town of anyone who stands in his way. His success wins him not only great popularity but also the heart of the town's gorgeous lady mayor.

Director: Jerome Gary
Year: 1988
Genre: Comedy

Rambo III Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and it's up to Rambo to rescue him.

Director: Peter Mcdonald
Year: 1988
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, War, Action

Nightmare Beach Convicted murderer Edwin "Diablo" Santor, head of "the Demons", a vicious motorcycle gang, has just been executed. Before dying, he swears to Gail that he did not kill her sister. It's Spring Break ! The annual hordes of college students from the frozen North invade the beaches of sunny Florida for the Easter vacation bash. Skip and Ronnie, two college students, are in the same hotel. They meet local resident Gail pushing beers at the beside bar. Ronnie gets drunk and is picking up by Trina, girlfriend of Dawg the local Hells Angels leader. Ronnie follows Trina into a trap. The bikers beat him up and leave him there. Minutes later the mystery rider zaps him. The next day, Skip searches for his missing friend and ends up at the Demon's hangout...

Director: Harry Kirkpatrick
Year: 1988
Genre: Horror, Drama

Date With an Angel Jim, a talented young musician, is going to marry a girl from a well-off family. An angel alights in his swimming-pool in the form of a wonderful woman and upsets his whole life: his friends want to take unfair advantage of this heavenly creature, Jim's bride wants to get rid of her out of jealousy. As for the father-in-law, he would like to use her to save his cosmetics factory...

Director: Tom Mcloughlin
Year: 1987
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy

Million Dollar Mystery On his deathbed, Sidney Preston reveals that he has hidden four million dollars. Eighteen people listen to his last words which include a mysterious sentence uttered in his final breath. The sentence is the clue to the mystery and starts a frantic and eventful treasure hunt across Arizona in search of the money.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Year: 1987
Genre: Comedy

Evil Dead II In an apparently forsaken cottage, Ash and Annie discover a tape-recorder. They turn it on and hear Professor Knoby's voice who successfully translated a Book of the Dead. His words awaken the spirit of Evil. Annie disappears. Ash is pursued by a strange power. On waking up, he is possessed by Evil, but resumes his normal appearance at sunrise. He vainly tries to escape and shelters in the cottage again. Hideous ghosts attack him ...

Director: Sam Raimi
Year: 1987
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Comedy

Extreme Prejudice In Benrey, a small border town between Texas and Mexico, Jack Benteen has a hard time fighting a drug trafficking ring led by his childhood friend Cash Bailey. Jack gets help from a military commando unit sent by the Pentagon. This group of mercenaries is led by the ruthless Hackett and is entirely made up of former Vietnam soldiers. Hackett disobeys his orders and tries to take over Cash's drug trafficking operation for his own benefit. Against his will Jack must temporarily join forces with Cash. While the town becomes the battlefield between traffickers and mercenaries, the two former friends will finally settle their differences. One on one, they will duel.

Director: Walter Hill
Year: 1987
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action

Tandem Michel Mortez is going to and from France to compare a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker player. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.

Director: Patrice Leonte
Year: 1987
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy

The Sacrifice: Remastered 2-Disc Edition (Blu-ray) lexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.

Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Year: 1986
Language: Swedish/French/English
Genre: Drama

Rambo Cartoon .Ramb?. is a thrilling animated TV series featuring the popular action hero John J. Rambo as leader of the Force of Freedom, an undercover strike force. Rambo gives his all in the battle against evil. For this he counts on the unswerving loyalty of the other members of his team. Rambo and the Force of Freedom are ready to face any challenge, for they know they're fighting on the side of good.

Director: Michael Hack
Year: 1986
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation

King Kong Lives King Kong has a weak heart and for ten years has been kept alive by Dr. Amy Franklin. An enormous female gorilla is discovered in the jungle and is given to Amy, who now has the right blood to attempt the impossible : to give King Kong an artificial heart. Awaking from the operation, King Kong is aware of the female gorilla. He sets then both free, overcoming Colonel Nevitt and his guards, and they flee to the mountains ; but they are pursued by Nevitt who is bent on King Kong's destruction...

Director: John Guillermin
Year: 1986
Genre: Adventure, Action

The Sacrifice: Remastered 2-Disc Edition (DVD) lexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.

Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Year: 1986
Language: Swedish/French/English
Genre: Drama

Trick or Treat Eddie, a shy schoolboy, is often ragged by his mates. He is fascinated by Sammi Curr, a rock star, famous for his defiance. When his idol dies, one friend gives him his latest album unpublished copy. In the record, a message is directed to him. From beyond the grave, his idol proposes him to help revenge himself from the undergone affronts. First delighted with this unexpected help, Eddie soon sings small for Sammi Curr, full of hatred, has quite a personal way of avenging Eddie ...

Director: Charles Martin Smith
Year: 1986
Genre: Fantasy

Ran In the 16th century, Lord Hidetora decides to retire and share his territory between his three sons, Taro, Jiro, and Saburo. The latter foreseeing difficulties, opposes his decision. He is consequently disinherited. However the father soon discovers that, mocking his authority, his first two sons begin to fight. Jiro treacherously kills Taro and then Saburo before realising that it is in fact Taro's widow who is responsible for this confusion since she had sworn to revenge Hidetora's murder of her family years ago. Now all that is left for Jiro is to die fighting the enemies of the Hidetora dynasty.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Year: 1985
Genre: Adventure, History, Action

Santa Claus: The Movie Claus, a woodsman, and his wife Anya give beautiful presents to the children in the area each year. This is the origin of the wonderful legend of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus, as the English call him.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Year: 1985
Genre: Comedy, Family

Flash Gordon Animated Ming, Emperor of planet Mongo, wants to destroy Earth. The potential attack has long been predicted by the scientist Zarkov but the Authorities have never believed him. Flash, Gordon, Zarkov and the beautiful Dale Arden are forced to board a rocket which is magnetically led to Mongo. There, they are taken prisoner by Ming whose intentions are to marry Dale and to force Zarkov to work for him. As for Flash, he finds himself under the guard of Princess Aura, Ming's beautiful daughter ...

Director: Mike Hodges
Year: 1985
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi

Rambo: First Blood Part II John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Year: 1985
Genre: Adventure, Action

Desert Hearts Desert Hearts ranks as the all-time classic lesbian favorite romantic film - and also stands as the top-grossing lesbian-made lesbian feature of all time (drawing $2.4 million at the box office). Based on Jane Rule's novel "Desert of the Heart," the movie tells the story of Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for her final divorce papers at a dude ranch where she meets Cay Rivvers (Patricia Charbonneau), a beautiful young casino worker. Cay is a free spirit - an artist by day and casino worker by night, as well as a lesbian. To everyone's surprise, Vivian and Cay hit it off immediately as Cay introduces the shy academic to the wild-west casino scene as well as the breathless beauty of the desert. It's not long before Vivian finds her friendship moving into unexpected passion. And for Cay, it's the first time she has met someone who stirs her deepest emotions.

Director: Donna Deitch
Year: 1985
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama

Not for Publication A humorous tale of muck-raking journalism and political scandal. By night, Lois works for a smutty newspaper, but by day she campaigns for the dashing Mayor of New York, who is touting for re-election on an anti-vice ticket. When she is told to report on an orgy she discovers that politicians are only human - and that far more than bare flesh has been exposed!

Director: Paul Bartel
Year: 1984
Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Tender Mercies A compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out country-and-western star and the young widow he meets in a small Texas motel. With a past littered with the spoils of fame and scarred by the effects of alcoholism, two broken marriages and a painful descent from stardom have left him very low. But Rosa Lee and her young son help him to live life joyfully again.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Year: 1983
Genre: Drama

Let's Spend the Night Together "Let's spend the night together" is a film which makes us relive the concerts of one of the world's most famous rock groups, the Rolling Stones, on an American tour in New Jersey and Arizona in 1981. We find them back at the zenith of their career with their greatest hits : "Honky Tonk Women", "Satisfaction" and many other ones ...

Director: Hal Ashby
Year: 1983
Genre: Documentary, Musical

Frances At 16 she was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle; at 23, a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent. At 27, a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary committal to a mental institution ...

Director: Graeme Clifford
Year: 1982
Genre: Drama, Biography

Evil Under the Sun Who could have strangled the bitchy Broadway superstar as she lay tanning herself on the deserted beach of an exclusive Mediterranean isle ? All of the suspects have excellent reasons for harboring ill-will against the haughty victim. For once, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is nearly outdone ...

Director: Guy Hamilton
Year: 1982
Genre: Crime

Seduction, The At 29, Jaimie is a successful and beautiful TV news announcer. One day, she receives a call from a mysterious admirer, Derek. Flattered at first, Jaimie soon becomes aware that Derek is obsessed with her. Brandon, Jaimie's lover, intervenes and punches Derek. The situation intensifies and, panic stricken, Jaimie begs Brandon never to leave her. But he is shot by Derek in Jaimie's arms. Jaimie's feelings turn to hatred : she becomes the hunter and Derek her prey ...

Director: David Schmoeller
Year: 1982
Genre: Drama

First Blood Johnny Rambo is a Vietnam vet who won many military honours. He is arrested in a small town for loitering. He is treated badly and decides to escape. A manhunt is launched but Rambo knows how to evade traps. His former superior, Colonel Trautman convinces him to surrender.

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Year: 1982
Genre: Adventure, Action

Memoirs of a Survivor Based on the famous novel by Doris Lessing, this is the story of 'D', a housewife trying to carry on after a cataclysmic war. Garbage is piled high in the streets, the near-derelict buildings are covered with graffiti, the electricity supplies are variable and water is collected from a van. 'D" spends her time examining her relations with authority, marauding street gangs and a teenage lodger.

Director: David Gladwell
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Times Square Amidst a fabulous soundtrack of 19 numbers from bands like Suzi Quatro, The Pretenders, Joe Jackson and Talking Heads, two girls fight tooth and nail in the heart of New York City for the freedom to live their own lives as they please. The only person who seems to support them is a radio DJ. And what more do The Sleaze Sisters need? Shot on location amongst the clubs and sex shops of the city, the stupendous climax is a rock concert held in Times Square at midnight.

Director: Allan Moyle
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama, Musical

Mirror Cracked, The A colony of Hollywood ex-patriots have arrived to film the story of Mary, Queen of Scots. Old conflicts reappear - and so does a body. Inspector Craddock is delighted to find that his suspects are none other than his movie heroes but his favorite aunt, the formidable Miss Marple, famous female sleuth, soon gets investigations well under way. Agatha Christie fans, take your seats!

Director: Guy Hamilton
Year: 1980
Genre: Crime

Flash Gordon Ming, evil emperor of the planet Mongo, has begun destroying the Earth. Zarkov, a former NASA scientist, has predicted this extraterrestrial assault and forces Flash Gordon and the beautiful Dale Arden to board his rocket and save the planet. Zarkov, Flash and Dale are magnetically led to Mongo and taken prisoner by merciless Ming ...

Director: Mike Hodges
Year: 1980
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action

S.O.S. Titanic In the early hours of April 15, 1912, a young wireless operator on the R.M.S. Carpathia heard a faint distress signal. Unbelievably, it came from the R.M.S. Titanic, which was then making her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York ... Based firmly upon facts, this is the tragic story of the end of the ship which had been claimed to be unsinkable.

Director: William Hale
Year: 1980
Genre: Drama

Old Boyfriends After his married-life failure, Diane is obsessed with the idea of finding back the men who counted a lot in her life : Lewis, her first lover, Eric, her school-mate, and Jeff who she nearly married to. She will seduce Jeff and Eric in turn, and leave them finally. When she hears Lewis's death in Vietnam, she will have designs on his brother. Then she will come home remorsefully, aware of having disturbed everyone on her way, though she needed go through that experience.

Director: Joan Tewkesbury
Year: 1979
Genre: Drama

Sweeney 2 They're back, and this time they're tougher than ever before! This time Regan and Carter are on the trail of a particularly tough and ruthless gang of bank robbers who always use a gold-plated sawn-off shotgun during their raids. Following a trail of dead bodies, wrecked cars and bundles of banknotes, the two detectives ruthlessly pursue their quarry.

Director: Tom Clegg
Year: 1978
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action

Death on the Nile A murderer strikes on board the luxury Nile steamer 'Karnak' - and Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling case. Set against the sumptuous scenery of the Nile, the events of this murder mystery are played out by a gallery of memorable characters.

Director: John Guillermin
Year: 1978
Genre: Crime

Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, An Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general's widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna's step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law of one of the widow's admirers: a few years before, they had been idealistic lovers and now she can't believe he has settled for a dim wife and a job as a teacher. Amidst parlor games and idle talk of women's rights and peasants' capabilities, Sofia and Misha rekindle their love. Will they flaunt convention, abandon families, and run away to pursue lost dreams? Rescue comes from an unexpected place.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Year: 1978
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama

Killer of Sheep Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life... sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humor. Killer of Sheep was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival. Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry.

Director: Charles Burnett
Year: 1977
Language: English
Genre: Drama

That's Carry On A hilarious feature-length compilation of the funniest moments from 20 years of "Carry On" films. This is a showcase of the best of comic slapstick situations - gags by the "Carry On" gang assembled from the great screen series.

Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1977
Genre: Comedy

Sweeney! Against the lush cosmopolitan setting of British cabinet ministers rubbing shoulders with oil potentates from the East, and beautiful young call girls using every artifice at their finger tips to capture the richest prizes during a London-based oil conference. Detective Inspector Regan and Detective Sergeant Carter accidentally get involved in a gigantic top-level conspiracy against the British government. Masterminded by a multi-racial syndication of illimitable cunning and resources, the conspiracy is ingenious in its very simplicity.

Director: David Wickes
Year: 1977
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action

Man Who Fell to Earth, The Thomas Jerome Newton, a mysterious and complex personality, appears in New York. Despite his curiously frail physical presence, the strength of his intellect and scientific knowledge appear to transcend contemporary human experience. His inventions are of such originality that they will revolutionize the nation's systems of communication, and lead, in approximately three years, to the creating of the largest corporate empire in the United States ...

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Year: 1976
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Likely Lads, The England, 1943. Somewhere in war-torn Britain Mrs Edith Collier capitulated to the advances of her husband Corporal Collier who, flushed with the news from Tunis and Newcastle Brown Ale, wouldn't take no for an answer ... Meanwhile, not many miles away, Lance Bombardier Leslie Ferris was bidding a fond farewell to his fiancee Alice. England 1975. And the tide of war has very definitely not turned in the perpetual sniping between Bob Ferris, his wife Thelma, and Terry Collier, long-time friend of Bob ... Sunday morning fishing on the banks of the Tyne ... Tuesday evening drinking sessions between the boys - nothing changes.

Director: Michael Tuchner
Year: 1976
Genre: Comedy

Films of Nikita Mikalkov, The: Vol. 1 Academy Award winning director Nikita Mikhalkov is often referred to as "the Russian Spielberg". For the first time in the United States, Kino proudly presents a collection of some of his best films spanning almost twenty years including A Slave of Love (1976), Without Witnesss (1983), Five Evenings (1979), the classic Oblomov (1980) and the Academy Award Winner Burnt By the Sun (1994)

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Year: 1976
Language: Various
Genre: World Cinema

Section Spéciale 1941- Following the assassination of a German officer by a young Communist militant, Pierre Pucheu, the interior minister, whose full powers have just been awarded, is trying to pass a special law to judge six other activists ...

Director: Costa-Gavras
Year: 1975
Language: French, English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama

Passenger, The Originally released in 1975, Sony Pictures Classics re-releases Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting portrait of a drained journalist whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. He embarks on a treacherous journey through Africa, Spain, Germany and England.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Year: 1975
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Swallows and Amazons Set in 1929, and based upon Arthur Ransome's immortal children's novel, "Swallows and Amazons" is the story of a group of children who man two sailing dinghies, 'Swallow' and 'Amazon', and plan mock 'sea-battles' in the Lake District. During the summer days, the children allow their imaginations to run wild, until a real drama happens. The Amazon's Uncle Jim has his houseboat burgled and his cabin-trunk stolen, and immediately suspects the Swallows. They must locate the stolen trunk and return it to Uncle Jim before he decides to take action ...

Director: Claude Whatham
Year: 1974
Genre: Children, Drama

Day of the Dolphin, The Jake Terrell, a biologist who devotes his life to dolphin research, has concentrated his efforts for four years on Alpha, an animal born and brought up in the center, and for whom he feels an almost fatherly affection. Regrettably, the outside world insists on trying to use his research for political ends and Jake finds himself trapped tragically between these forces and his own beliefs.

Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 1974
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action, Comedy

Man About the House, A Catering college student Robin Tripp sees nothing unusual about sharing a flat with two girls, Chrissy and Jo. They are seldom bothered by the Landlord, Mr Roper, and his wife until their house is threatened with demolition. Thus begins a series of events, as the occupants attempt to protect their home from the forces of evil under the guise of demolition gangs, supplying many hilarious moments.

Director: John Robins
Year: 1974
Genre: Comedy

Four Musketeers, The Embittered by her failure in the affair of the queen's necklace, Milady kidnaps the beautiful Constance whose love is shared by d'Artagnan. With the help of his companions, his one aim is to rescue the prisoner. But he arrives too late: Milady has had Constance murdered.

Director: Richard Lester
Year: 1974
Genre: Adventure, Action

Love Thy Neighbour Eddie Booth and his wife Joan live in a neat row of terraced houses - somewhere in England. Living next door are Bill Reynolds and his wife Barbie. The two men work in the same factory. Socialistic avowed racial discriminator Eddie maintains a constant barrage of abuse at Bill, the happy-go-lucky Jamaican with strong conservative views who is quite capable of throwing back as good as he gets. Joan and Barbie are friends, and when the local newspaper runs a Love Thy Neighbour competition they decide to enter it - albeit they will have to lie through their teeth to win.

Director: John Robins
Year: 1973
Genre: Comedy

Twisted Path of Love On the run after killing a member of a notorious Tokyo yakuza, Katsu finds himself returning to his hometown, a small fishing village he hasn’t seen in over five years. While he tries to keep his identity a secret, even from his own mother, he finds himself obsessed with Yuko, a surprisingly liberated woman and the owner of a local cinema. Unfortunately, Yuko is still involved with one of Katsu’s former classmates. A favorite of director Tatsumi Kumashiro, Twisted Path of Love contains stunning scenes of sexual liberation, including a masterful long take where the characters meet on sand dunes at dawn. It is one of the most famous examples of 70’s pinku cinema.

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Year: 1973
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama

Holiday on the Buses A small matter of three crashed buses, one piece of mutilated council property and a written-off car belonging to the Bus Depot Manager adds up to instant dismissal for Stan, Jack and Blakey. But all is saved when Jack and Stan find work in a Welsh holiday camp running the camp's transport - one open top double-decker bus. Saved that is, until they discover that Blakey has been solemnly installed as Camp Security Inspector, which can only amount to some hilarious and chaotic adventures in this, the third of the popular 'Buses' films.

Director: Bryan Izzard
Year: 1973
Genre: Comedy

Three Musketeers, The D'Artagnan makes friends with three of the king's musketeers. Queen Anne of Austria trusts them with the mission of bringing some jewels back from London that she had unwisely given to the duke of Buckingham. Richelieu and Milady try to make them fail in their mission...

Director: Richard Lester
Year: 1973
Genre: Adventure, Action

Steptoe and Son Ride Again Harold Steptoe, innocently going about his business, is lured by a buxom blonde widow into her home, ostensibly to collect her late husband's clothes. Suddenly faced with an impassioned assault, Harold flees. Quite overcome by it all, he drives his horse and cart blindly into a removal van and ends up in York, 200 miles from home. Alas, the three day journey back is too much for the horse. The Steptoes now set about finding a replacement ... and find themselves involved with a greyhound that won't run and a gentleman known as the Godfather of Shepherds Bush.

Director: Peter Sykes
Year: 1973
Genre: Comedy

Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire An All About Eve take on the glamorous world of striptease dancers striving for professional perfection, Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire is the first of director Tatsumi Kumashiro’s films for Nikkatsu’s so-called Roman Porn series. Set in a variety theater in the center of Osaka, a young strip-tease artist, Harumi (Hiroko Isayama), has had enough of the lesbian act she performs with Mari, and is eager to start up her own joint. Unfortunately, her yakuza pimp, Isamu, will do anything to stop her. Later, the police charge her for “obscene exhibitionism” in a show she performs with famed real life Japanese strip queen Sayuri Ichijo. Considered a masterpiece of Pink Cinema, Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire is the film for which Isayama won the Best Actress of the year award from the prestigious Japanese film journal Kinema Jumpo.

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Year: 1972
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama

Henry VIII and His Six Wives As a young man, Henry loves his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the mother of his son. But when his son dies and he has no successor to the throne, he makes himself head of the Church, has his marriage annulled, and marries Anne Boleyn. But Anne bears him only a daughter, and Henry executes her on the grounds of adultery and witchcraft. Jane Seymour provides Henry with a son but dies in childbirth. For the sake of the Protestant league in Europe, Henry marries Ann of Cleves - who is ugly and can speak nothing but Dutch. After his next wife, Catherine Howard, proves unfaithful and is executed, Henry marries Catherine Parr. With her, at last, he finds a kind of peace and happiness.

Director: Waris Hussein
Year: 1972
Genre: History, Drama

Family Life Ken Loach's compassionate film of a mentally disturbed young girl. This is a typical case history of a schizophrenic.

Director: Ken Loach
Year: 1972
Genre: Drama

Our Miss Fred It is World War Two, and Fred Wimbush, a seaside rep actor before he was called up, is playing the heroine in the camp show in France when the Germans arrive. They stop the show and Fred, taken to be an attractive young woman, is immediately offered the protection of the German General, Brincker ...

Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1972
Genre: Comedy

Steptoe and Son All hell is let loose in the Steptoe household when Harold decides to marry an attractive stripper called Zita. First Albert - both resentful and jealous - loses the wedding ring. Then comes more trouble, with Albert joining the newlyweds on their Spanish honeymoon. And there is worse to come. Dad complains of food poisoning, and Harold rushes him home, leaving Zita behind.

Director: Cliff Owen
Year: 1972
Genre: Comedy

Endless Night Michael works as a Rolls Royce chauffeur for rich Americans on tours around Europe. When he meets Ellie, a lovely young American, they are attracted and soon a love affair develops between them. But they are interrupted by a strange, sinister old woman who warns Ellie - 'Go now before the harm is done!'...

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1972
Genre: Crime, Mystery

I am a Dancer Not a life story, but a unique study of the personality and techniques of the world's leading male ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev. A glimpse behind the curtains at the sheer physical hard work and training that produces his electrifying performances on the stage. Excerpts of several ballets are included, with Nureyev partnered by Carla Fracci, Lynn Seymour, Deanne Bergsma and, above all, Margot Fonteyn.

Director: Bryan Forbes, Evdoros Demetriou, Pierre Jourdan
Year: 1972
Genre: Documentary

Mutiny on the Buses Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ... if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park ...

Director: Harry Booth
Year: 1972
Genre: Comedy

Fright Amanda occasionally baby-sits for friends and neighbors, so when the newly-arrived couple in the village ask her to sit for them, she accepts. When the baby is asleep and the parents have left, the house adopts an atmosphere of menace. The simplest domestic sound becomes an assault on the nerves: the relentless tick of the pendulum clock and the tapping, squeaking, breathing of an old house at dead of night. But soon it becomes apparent that her fears are more than just the workings of an over-active imagination ...

Director: Peter Collinson
Year: 1971
Genre: Horror, Crime

Raging Moon, The Bruce Pritchard is a young, active man - until he finds himself struck down by a crippling disease and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is taken to a home for the disabled, but his bitterness and his dislike of rules and regulations only serve to make him angry and withdrawn. But he finds meaning in life once more when he falls in love with Jill, a polio victim. Happy, halcyon days follow for them both - but tragedy hasn't finished with their lives yet ...

Director: Bryan Forbes
Year: 1971
Genre: Drama

On the Buses When the Town and District Bus Company finds itself short-staffed, it is Inspector Blake who comes up with the brilliant idea of employing women drivers. The company is delighted, but the bus crews - led by Stan Butler and his conductor, Jack - are horrified. Not only do they now lose out on overtime but not one of the women is even worth chatting up! Stan and Jack naturally do their best to get rid of the new recruits.

Director: Harry Booth
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy

Up the Chastity Belt Though nobly born, Lurkalot has to make the best of life as a mere serf in Custard Castle. There, between buttering for Sir Coward de Custard, he sells chastity belts and love potions very profitably in the local market place. All goes well until Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives on the scene to seize the castle and the beautiful Lobelia de Custard.

Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy

Percy (1971) The world awaits with bated breath when surgeon Sir Emmanuel Whitbread performs the first-ever penis transplant. The patient, Edwin Anthony, regains consciousness in hospital to learn that his wife Hazel has left him. But he is more concerned with discovering the identity of the late donor. When he finds out that the man was something of a lady-killer, he decides he would like to carry on where his predecessor left off!

Director: Ralph Thomas
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy

Up Pompeii Frankie Howerd plays Lurcio, lurking at the rent-a-girl stall in Pompeii market place. He quarrels with the cheeky Captain Bilius, who leaves him holding a mysterious scroll. The parchment contains the names of a group of conspirators engaged in a plot against Emperor Nero. Lurcio is the man chosen by Nero to assassinate the leader of the conspirators!

Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy

Tales of Beatrix Potter Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggywinke, Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland - indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters - come to life in this colorful and imaginative musical interpretation of her tales, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, composed and scored by John Lanchbery, and danced by members of the Royal Ballet. Five of the famed Victorian author's most well-known stories - with guest appearances of characters from other themes - have been linked to present an enchanting story-line that will thrill adults and children alike.

Director: Reginald Mills
Year: 1971
Genre: Children, Musical

Loot Dennis and Hal are eager to acquire a quick fortune by the most expedient method : robbery. They rob a bank and hide the loot in Hal's recently deceased mother's coffin. They then have to deal with the body and get back the money. Based on Joe Orton's hilarious and controversial play, this off-beat black comedy leads to a surprising but perfectly logical denouement.

Director: Silvio Narizzano
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy

Hoffman Hoffman, secretly in love with his typist, blackmails her into spending a week in his flat, promising not to reveal that her fiancé, Tom, is engaged in crooked deals with cigarette thieves. Learning that Tom is prepared to sacrifice her to save his own skin, she realizes Hoffman's true worth and is prepared to stay with him forever.

Director: Alvin Rakoff
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy

Sunflower Mere days after marrying Giovanna (Sophia Loren), Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) is called to the Russian front to fight for the Italian forces. Years after Antonio is reported missing in action, Giovanna travels to Russia to learn what happened to him, only to discover he's alive. Their reunion is bittersweet, however, as Antonio has married another woman.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Year: 1970
Language: Italian/French/Russian
Genre: Drama

Soldier Blue A convoy and its cavalry escort are ambushed while crossing Cheyenne country. There are only two survivors : Honus, a soldier, and Cresta - a young girl en route to meet her fiancÚ, and they try to reach the nearest fort. After a series of adventures, they join the Cheyennes and warn them about an impending cavalry attack. Despite raising a white flag, the Cheyennes are slaughtered. Honus is imprisoned and Cresta, who has shot her fiancÚ in battle, decides to settle among the Indians.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Year: 1970
Genre: Western

Playboy of the Western World Weary and disheveled, Christy Mahon stumbles into a remote inn on the sweeping Irish coast of County Mayo. He tells a captivating story, claiming that he has murdered his tyrannical father by hitting him on the head with a spade. Pegeen Mike, the innkeeper's daughter, is enthralled, and she persuades her father to employ Christy as a pot-boy. However, no sooner has Christy established himself as the village hero and an object of adoration in every female eye, than his father turns up - in excellent health and vowing vengeance! And the playboy's life - and the lives of all around him - becomes even more joyously complicated.

Director: Brian-Desmond Hurst
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy

Spring and Port Wine The story revolves around one weekend in the Crompton household. Rafe, the father is an obsessive man, despite his sensitivity towards his wife and four children. But major upheavals are taking place in the house and although it has taken a lifetime to bring up the family, everything could be totally lost in one weekend.

Director: Peter Hammond
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy

Entertaining Mr. Sloane Kath, a well-matured blonde, is vaguely mourning her long-dead lover when she stumbles across a comely young psychopath, Mr Sloane, and eyeing him greedily she offers to rent him a room in the mini-gothic house which she shares with her father, 'The Dadda' Kemp. But the appearance of Kath's brother Ed, who is also attracted to Mr Sloane's young leather-clad body, presents problems for Kath. Joe Orton's outrageous black comedy is as fresh and provocative now as it was when it first appeared in 1964.

Director: Douglas Hickox
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy

Railway Children, The From the novel by E. Nesbit; a delightful story of three children who live in an old cottage near the railway line. Every day they watch the trains go by and become great friends with Perks, the porter, and an old gentleman who travels on the 'Green Dragon'. Their involvement with the railway leads to many great adventures and dangers.

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Year: 1970
Genre: Drama, Family

Touch of Love, A Adapted from Margaret Drabble's celebrated novel "The Millstone", this is the story of Rosamund, a postgraduate student who discovers that she is pregnant after her first sexual encounter. She is determined to keep the baby, and has no wish to involve the father in her predicament. But it is only when her baby daughter is taken ill and has to have a heart operation that she realizes that the child is the only important thing in her life.

Director: Waris Hussein
Year: 1969
Genre: Drama

Don't Drink the Water A comedy about the Hollanders, an American family, whose plane is hijacked and lands in Vulgarly, a fanciful country beyond the Iron Curtain. While taking innocent photographs in a forbidden area, the Hollanders are suspected of being spies. After a series of mishaps, they take shelter at the American embassy and eventually escape disguised as Sheiks.

Director: Howard Morris
Year: 1969
Genre: Comedy

Till Death Us Do Part Only one man could speak so much nonsense with such conviction, be so ignorant, prejudiced and loved - Alf Garnett. The film chronicles the history of the Garnett family from the war with Hitler, to a later, and more sporting, battle with some other Germans during the football World Cup. Alf remains the same irascible, off-beam, true-blue patriot and iconoclast who made the TV series the most successful comedy creation since the war.

Director: Norman Cohen
Year: 1969
Genre: Comedy

Avengers, The - Season 6 In this series, Steed acquires a new assistant, Tara King. Compared with her predecessor, Mrs. Emma Peel, Tara relies less on judo more on feminine guile to dispatch her assailants. Miss King will use a coo or a kiss rather than a karate chop, not to mention an occasional brick-in-the-handbag technique! Emotional, earthy, cunning, Tara is thoroughly emancipated, while remaining essentially feminine. This is her real distinction: It's make her devastating! In each episode Steed and his charming colleague first crime in their own inimitable manner with nonchalant efficiency, sophistication and charm.

Director: Don Chaffey
Year: 1968
Genre: Crime

Mad Monster Party? Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of total destruction and decides to retire. He invites all the renowned monsters of the world to his Caribbean island where he will elect an heir who will inherit his awesome secret. Dracula, Dr. Jekyll, The Invisible Man and many others are there ... including his nephew Felix who seems to be totally ignorant of what is happening. Felix falls in love with Dr. Frankenstein's ward, Francesca who, unknown to Felix, is one of Frankenstein's "machines". He is in for a surprise - and so is Francesca, who doesn't know what Felix will turn out to be, as the sun sinks slowly in the west.

Director: Damiano Damiani, Jules Bass
Year: 1967
Genre: Children, Fantasy, Animation

Family Way, The Arthur Fitton and Jenny Piper's wedding is a typical North of England working class affair. But they are both unusually sensitive and find the well-meant but vulgar ribaldry of their relatives and neighbors a terrible obstacle to their efforts to consummate their marriage.

Director: Roy Boulting
Year: 1967
Genre: Drama, Comedy

David Holzman's Diary David Holzman's Diary is one of the most influential films of the 1960s, an "ingenious puzzle movie" (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader) that charts the self-destruction of a media-saturated youth. As news from the Vietnam War and social unrest blares over the radio, David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) unloads comic-neurotic monologues to his 16mm camera. When his relationship with Penny (Eileen Dietz) goes south, he retreats further into moving images, secretly recording his pretty neighbor and even turning his lens to the TV shows he watches. No longer able to deal with life outside celluloid, all of his ties to the real world begin to erode. The "totally delightful satire" (NY Times) of a narcissistic artist is also a well-crafted fiction about the deceptions of cinematic illusionism. Early on, Holzman quotes Jean-Luc Godard's famous dictum that "the cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second." As director Jim McBride teaches and Holzman soon learns, it lies just as often.

Director: Jim McBride
Year: 1967

Don't Look Back Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtrack's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Dylan is playful and enigmatic.

Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Year: 1967
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Earth is an eerie and sinister place in 2150 AD. Subjected to a ferocious Dalek invasion, it has been bombarded with meteorites and cosmic rays. Its cities have been smashed and human beings turned into living dead men - Robomen - able to act only on radioed instructions from their masters. Only a small group of resistance fighters holds out in London. But then a brilliant scientist, Dr Who, is transported into the future by a time and space machine. He arrives determined to destroy the Daleks...

Director: Gordon Flemyng
Year: 1966
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment Morgan Delt is a loving man. He is an artist, fond of flowers, animals and children. But like his jungle hero, the male gorilla, he becomes formidable when in danger. As his wife Leonie decides to divorce him in order to marry a more sensible man, Morgan retaliates by acting out his wildest fantasies. Clad in a hired gorilla costume, he attempts to recapture the affections of his long-suffering wife!

Director: Karel Reisz
Year: 1966
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Man Called Adam, A Adam, a brilliant trumpet player, is burdened with guilt following a car accident in which his wife and child were killed. He finds happiness briefly with another woman but turns to drink and is wrongly convicted as a drug-addict when arrested after a drunken brawl. Desperate for money, his agent books him a series of one night stands and one night, while playing a farewell number with the band, Adam collapses. The audience believe him to be drunk but in fact it is his final curtain.

Director: Leo Penn
Year: 1966
Genre: Drama

Great St. Trinian'S Train Robbery, The The monstrous St Trinian's schoolgirls with their headmistress, Amber Spottiswood, are on the move again. This time to Hamingwell Grange. But the Great Train Robbers have got there before them - and left £21/2 million hidden under the stage. Desperate to retrieve their loot the train robbers pose as caterers at the school Parents' Day, but they have not reckoned with the ferocity of the unbeatable girls of St Trinian's!

Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1966
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Dr Who and the Daleks TARDIS is the latest invention of Dr. Who. A Time And Relative Dimension in Space machine, it can transport passengers to another world, at another time. With his granddaughters, Barbara and Susan, Dr. Who demonstrates the machine to Barbara's boyfriend, Ian. Ian trips and stumbles against the control panel, and the four humans are instantly ejected away from earth. They land in a vast, petrified forest, and soon Dr. Who finds himself involved in a terrible struggle as the peaceable That people fight for their survival against the terrible domination of the monstrous Daleks.

Director: Gordon Flemyng
Year: 1965
Genre: Children, Fantasy

Pop Gear Without doubt one of the most ambitious pop group films ever produced, Pop Gear features Britain's top 16 groups and solo acts of the day ... from Herman's Hermits and The Beatles to Monro and Maughan. All introduced by Jimmy Savile.

Director: Frederic Goode
Year: 1965
Genre: Musical

Three Hats for Lisa A gorgeous continental film star comes to London for the premiere of her latest film and is whisked away by her number one fan, a Cockney docker, and his three friends. The film traces the adventures of the quartet in procuring for Lisa three souvenirs of her trip to London - a bowler, a Busby and a policeman's helmet. An irresistible musical romp.

Director: Sidney Hayers
Year: 1965
Genre: Musical

Gonks Go Beat When the 'Great Galaxian' hears of a somewhat turbulent social situation on Planet Earth, he sends Wilco to smooth out the disagreement between the beat groups of Beatland and the ballad singers of Balladisle. This lighthearted film features a host of top beat groups with 16 great beat and ballad hits.

Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
Year: 1965
Genre: Comedy, Musical

Nothing But the Best Jimmy Brewster is an ambitious clerk who crawls his way to the top of the social pile by using his cocky self assurance and natural cheeky charm to overcome any obstacles...

Director: Clive Donner
Year: 1964
Genre: Comedy

It's All Over Town A fantastic musical romp through the West End of London in the company of Lance Percival and his fat friend, Willie Rushton.

Director: Douglas Hickox
Year: 1964
Genre: Musical

Marriage Italian Style n Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For twenty-two years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her. Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Year: 1964
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy

King and Country During World War I, a young soldier, Hamp, deserts his post, attempting to escape the ever-present sound of guns and walk home. Captain Hargreaves, an aristocratic and British Army lawyer must defend Hamp before the army tribunal, for whom the crime of desertion carries a nasty stigma and the penalty of execution. Initially, Hargreaves approaches Hamp's case with disdain; however, upon learning that Hamp volunteered for duty on a dare, that he is the sole survivor of his unit, and that his wife has been unfaithful in his absence, his efforts on Hamp's behalf become more impassioned and earnest. Faced with the unfeeling face of the army bureaucracy, Hargreaves's arguments fall on deaf ears as Hamp becomes a tool of morale boosting on the eave of the troop's dispersal into an impending bloody battle.

Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1964
Genre: War, Drama

Crooks in Cloisters A gang of hardboiled rogues exchange their London gear for the rough brown robes of a religious order. Make no mistake, they are not undergoing a change of heart, just hiding out until the heat cools off a little and they can return to their nefarious activities in the big city!

Director: Jeremy Summers
Year: 1964
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Unearthly Stranger TP91 is a secret and highly complex formula which will enable man to project himself through time and space. Work in this field is conducted with the utmost security, using the finest scientific brains in the country, but when Dr. Munro succeeds in solving the first part of the formula he is found dead before he is able to pass on the invaluable result. The all-important paper bearing his calculations is in ashes on his desk.

Director: John Krish
Year: 1963
Genre: Sci-Fi

Iron Maiden, The Aircraft designer, Jack Hopkins' hobby is traction engines, and in particular 'The Iron Maiden'. But they constantly lead him into trouble. First he loses a large aircraft order from an American tycoon, then 'The Iron Maiden' is backed into a barn, with an important rally imminent. Now repaired, 'The Iron Maiden', with Jack at the controls, enters the rally, culminating in a hilarious and riotous climax.

Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy

Heavens Above! A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy

It's All Happening Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up as a child should be saved from closure.

Director: Don Sharp
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy, Musical

Mind Benders, The When a distinguished physiologist Professor Sharpey commits suicide, a security officer reveals evidence of treason against him. Enquiries into his work reveal that he was experimenting with an aspect of space physiology called isolation, the study of what happens to a man when all sensation - touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing - is removed.

Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1963
Genre: Drama

Servant, The Tony was rich, indolent, charming and a little stupid. He wanted a manservant to do everything for him. But he was too indolent, too charming and a little too stupid to see that Barrett was bogus to the core. And Barrett, day by day, grew less servile and more indispensable ... With elegant savagery "The Servant" explores the relationship between the servant and his golden young victim.

Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1963
Genre: Drama

Summer Holiday Take a double-decker London Transport bus - across France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and into Greece on the most unforgettable summer holiday ever. Cliff and his friends are bus mechanics who launch a scheme for 'holidays on wheels' by trying it out themselves - after converting a London bus into a luxury mobile hotel. The venture gets off to a good start when they crash into a rickety old car driven by three pretty girls and they decide to take them all the way to Athens.

Director: Peter Yates
Year: 1963
Genre: Romance, Musical

Kind of Loving, A Vic Brown does the 'honorable thing' and marries his girlfriend Ingrid when she learns she is pregnant, even though the attraction is purely physical. The hardships and troubles increase when Ingrid's mother, a possessive and over-bearing woman, comes to live with them, intent on causing tensions between them.

Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1962
Genre: Drama

Go to Blazes A bumbling gang of small time crooks use a fire engine as a means of escape after pulling their jobs. Complications ensue when they are forced to learn how to be firemen in order to deal with emergencies which arise innocently enough during their nefarious travels.

Director: Michael Truman
Year: 1962
Genre: Comedy

Day the Earth Caught Fire, The In a deserted newsroom Peter Stenning writes the biggest news story the world has ever known: 'Within the next few hours the world will know whether this is the end or another beginning'. The combined jolt of nuclear test explosions carried out by the Americans and the Russians has shifted the Earth's orbit and it is now racing towards the sun. Chaos mounts. But four super bombs exploded simultaneously might halt the catastrophic progress. Will the world be doomed or saved?

Director: Val Guest
Year: 1962
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Crooks Anonymous Captain Dandy Forsdyke, phoney man-about-town and flourishing jewel thief, drives his girlfriend mad. Dandy cannot prevent himself from lifting such tempting objects as stray diamond rings and bulging wallets which are not at that moment being used. His girlfriend won't marry him unless he tries to go straight, so Forsdyke is persuaded to join Crooks Anonymous. He becomes a London department store Santa Claus, but weakens when he learns that a quarter-million pounds will be left in the building over the weekend. Complications follow when he talks his fellow ex-crooks into pulling the heist with him.

Director: Ken Annakin
Year: 1962
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Pot Carriers, The James Rainbow, in a moment of jealous rage, attacks his girlfriend and finds himself for the first time in his life on the wrong side of the law. Rainbow finds prison life almost unendurable at first, until he discovers the unexpected friendliness and philosophic acceptance of life among men living in a degrading and inhuman society.

Director: Peter Graham Scott
Year: 1962
Genre: Drama

Payroll Harry Parker and his wife Jackie have a couple of kids, and are happy and are getting along fine. The future looks bright, for Harry and his partner Moore have got the contract to carry the weekly payroll of a large company in their new, bandit-proof car - a security assignment that could lead to many more for the new two-man business. This news comes as a shock to handsome Johnny Mellor's. For months with the help of a weak company employee, he has tailed and timed the old car that used to do the wages run. And that's time well spent when the payroll in question is £100,000 a week.

Director: Sidney Hayers
Year: 1961
Genre: Crime

Long and the Short and the Tall, The The tragic story of seven British soldiers who, trapped behind Japanese lines, are so concerned with arguing out their own destinies that the enemy has to take second place. When they capture a lone Japanese scout and argue over his fate as well, the film shows with a terrible truth that in war there can be no second chances.

Director: Leslie Norman
Year: 1961
Genre: War, Drama

Don't Bother to Knock Having too many girlfriends for his own comfort and safety, a lively young travel agent's troubles begin when he mislays the key to his flat and a friend presents him with several more with his name and address attached. Sentimentally, he gives one to each of the glamorous girls he meets on a continental holiday - all of whom turn up at his flat just as he is planning to marry someone else!

Director: Cyril Frankel
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy

Dentist on the Job Colonel J.J. Proudfoot, the Managing Director of Proudfoot Industries, is bursting with fury as his latest product, a toothpaste called 'Dreem', is not selling well. To save his skin, his Advertising Manager suggests that the firm should engage a dentist to endorse the toothpaste. This would be illegal and any dentist entertaining such a scheme would be liable to be struck off the register. But J.J. knows just the man to help - his cousin, the Dean of King Alfred's Dental College!

Director: C. Michael Pennington-Richards
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy

Pure Hell of St Trinian's, The They're not girls in the fourth form at St Trinian's - they're monsters. They can turn a schoolroom into a battlefield in minutes. Their pastimes range from poker to plastering parents with paint. They can drink whisky with the best, and their motto is 'mayhem'. But their latest trick is the best ever. They burn down St Trinian's. The result? The whole school has to stand trial - at the Old Bailey!

Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy

Raising the Wind A riotous comedy about a group of music students who live in fear of conductor Sir Benjamin Boyd, a tyrant of a master who attempts to prevent the lads from indulging in any 'extra-curricular' activity. When part of the scholarship is to conduct a full orchestra, all imaginable hell is let loose!

Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy

Rebel, The Anthony Hancock sets out for Paris in an effort to prove his worth as an artist. He becomes friendly with a young English artist, Paul, and agrees to share his studio. He makes statements about art which are absolute nonsense, but are so convincing, he is dubbed a genius. Paul returns to London, leaving all his work at Anthony's disposal. When Anthony's fame spreads, an art connoisseur visits the studio and notices Paul's paintings and, overwhelmed by their brilliance, imagines that they are selections of Anthony's work ...

Director: Robert Day
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy

Frightened City, The The 'protection racket' is rampant in London. The basic procedure for the crooks is to threaten shop-keepers and café proprietors with the destruction of their premises unless they pay a regular weekly sum of money for 'protection'. There are six main gangs who run the racket in London and one day it occurs to a certain crooked accountant, Waldo Zhernikov, to amalgamate all the gangs into one vast organization. He employs Harry Foulcher, one of the gang-leaders, to do this for him.

Director: John Lemont
Year: 1961
Genre: Crime, Mystery

Criminal, The Johnny Bannion has spent the last three years in prison devising the biggest robbery of his career. Out of prison, he puts his plans into action. Burying the money in a field, Bannion is arrested before he has a chance to reveal its whereabouts to his gang. They spring him from jail all right, but make the fatal mistake of shooting him before he's given them the full story ...

Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1961
Genre: Crime

No Kidding David Robinson intends to sell the ancient family home of Chartham Place but is persuaded to think again by Tandy the gardener. David hits on the idea of turning it into a holiday home for children of the rich. With renovations well under way, Alderman Spicer pays the Robinsons a visit. Her intention is to use the house for underprivileged children, so she sets out to make things as awkward as possible.

Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy

French Mistress, A For the headmaster of Melbury Public School for Boys, the crisis is sudden. When the new French master arrives at the school, he turns out to be a ... mistress! Her effect on the school's rigidly masculine atmosphere is galvanizing. Madeleine Lefarge's non-academic attributes are exceptional - and she displays them freely in the briefest of shorts and bikinis. Discipline, therefore, rapidly begins to crumble ...

Director: Roy Boulting
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy

School for Scoundrels Adapted from the Stephen Potter novels on 'Lifemanship', this lighthearted comedy shows us how Henry Palfrey changes from a young man with a giant inferiority complex into a confident, assured man-of-the-world after a course at the College of Lifemanship on 'how to win without actually cheating'. Sweet is the moment when he takes his revenge on all who cheated and duped him and steals the beautiful April from the arms of his cocksure rival.

Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy

Two Way Stretch When Soapy Stevens visits his former partners in crime, Dodger Lane, Jelly Knight and Lennie Price, to organise a big diamond theft, he reckons they will have the perfect alibi - for they will all be in jail when the robbery takes place! They engineer their escape in a Black Maria and the diamonds are taken back to jail in a dust cart. It is only when the trio are released the following day that things really begin to go wrong ...

Director: Robert Day
Year: 1960
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Peeping Tom Mark Lewis is a cameraman in a film studio. In his off-hours, he takes nude 'art' photographs which are sold under-the-counter by newsagents. Mark's father was a famous scientist who devoted his life to the study of the psychology of fear, using his own son as his 'guinea pig'. His father would wake him by shining a bright light in his eyes and photograph his terrified reactions with a cine camera. Mark, now an adult, has grown into an insane killer with an obsession to record on celluloid the fear on the face of a victim whom he is about to kill.

Director: Michael Powell
Year: 1960
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Please Turn Over In a quiet suburb of London live the Hallidays. In an effort to impress her father, Jo Halliday secretly writes a book entitled Naked Revolt which becomes a bestseller overnight. Whilst out shopping Janet Halliday meets Ian Howard who is teaching her to drive and he draws her attention to a copy of her daughter's book on sale in a nearby shop. Recognizing themselves as the characters portrayed in the book, the Hallidays now understand the curious stares and behavior of their fellow creatures, who have read the book ...

Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy

Left, Right and Centre TV personality Robert Wilcot is adopted as Tory candidate in the Earndale by-election. Representing Labour is Stella Stoker, the daughter of a Billingsgate fish merchant. Aided by their respective agents, they wade into their campaigns. From the first, Robert and Stella are attracted to each other - but each refuses to admit it!

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1959
Genre: Romance, Comedy

I Was Monty's Double It is 1944! Harvey and Logan, two members of MI5, have been given the almost impossible job of working out a scheme to convince the Germans that the allies' invasion might well take place on the North African coast. Harvey is at a London theatre when, along with the rest of the 'all-Services' audience, he is astonished to see 'General Montgomery' taking the salute. The impersonator is Clifton James, an ex-actor serving in the Royal Army Pay Corps. This starts the most daring and, as it turned out, most successful, impersonation of the war.

Director: John Guillermin
Year: 1959
Genre: War

Nowhere to Go Paul Gregory plans to rob Harriet Jefferson, a visitor to London from his home town of Toronto, of her late husband's collection of rare antique coins worth more than £60,000. By a series of misunderstandings, Gregory eventually finds himself (he thinks) 'shopped' by someone he thought was his ally. By the time he's realized his mistake, it's too late.

Director: Seth Holt
Year: 1959
Genre: Drama, Crime

I'm All Right, Jack When Stanley Windrush leaves the Army, he sees his future as an executive in industry. Unfortunately, Big Business takes the view that it can carry on quite successfully without the contribution of an amiable idiot like Stanley. And so in desperation he seeks the advice of his Uncle Bertram, the head of an arms factory, who is currently planning a shady, get-rich-quick deal. Stanley goes to work for his uncle and unwittingly upsets the elaborate and crooked business scheme.

Director: John Boulting
Year: 1959
Genre: Comedy

Orders to Kill It is 1944. A young US pilot, Gene Summers, grounded after flying fifty combat missions over occupied France, is asked by US Intelligence if he will go as an agent to Paris to kill Lafitte, a man suspected of betraying Free French agents. Gene, treating the assignment as something of a joke, arrives in Paris and tracks down Lafitte, only to discover that what had previously been a face seen only in a photograph is flesh and blood, a small pathetic person who appears totally innocent of any crime ...

Director: Anthony Asquith
Year: 1958
Genre: War

Dunkirk It is early May: the year 1940. In London, the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. Even the official war communiqué's merely report activity on the Front. But Charles Forman, war correspondent, knows better. As the war in France takes a turn for the worse, he signs on with the Merchant Navy and volunteers for the greatest mission ever mounted ... the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Director: Leslie Norman
Year: 1958
Genre: War

Ice-Cold in Alex A thousand square miles of blazing, pitiless desert, and a story so unusual, so gripping that it could spring only from life itself. The Mediterranean of 1942; along the barren North African coast where war has turned towns into smoking ruins, and the grim struggle surges to and fro. But that is just the background; the story is about people, not war - and it happens to be true.

Director: Jack Lee-Thompson
Year: 1958
Genre: War, Drama

Duke Wore Jeans, The The Lords of Whitecliffe are known to be extremely wealthy, but in fact the family fortune is largely sustained by a prize bull and the profits gained from hiring it out for stud. Lord Whitecliffe discovers that, in an oil-rich South American state, the king has an unmarried daughter. His son, the Duke, however, is unwilling to court a girl he has never met ..

Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1958
Genre: Musical

Tommy Steele Story, The Tommy Steele informs his parents that he wants to join the Merchant Navy. Before leaving for Sea School he buys a secondhand guitar with his meager pocket money. Tommy is treated severely by the Chief Steward for paying more attention to his music than his job, and is told to choose between a career in music or at sea. He chooses music. Arriving in London, he wanders aimlessly into a coffee bar in Soho. The proprietor takes a liking to him and offers him a job playing for his customers. Tommy is a tremendous success and a London impresario engages him as a top-of-the-bill act throughout the country.

Director: Gerard Bryant
Year: 1957
Genre: Drama, Musical

Smallest Show on Earth, The A young married couple inherit a small town, run down cinema. Spurred on by a rival cinema owners attempts to buy it off them, they do it up so they can eventually get a bigger sale price. However, they soon find themselves more and more attracted to the fleapit and the three old staff members that go with it.

Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1957
Genre: Comedy

Lucky Jim This hilarious adaptation of Kingsley Amis' comic novel tells the story of Jim Dixon's efforts to keep his post as a junior history lecturer at a provincial university, whilst at the same time stealing the beautiful Christine away from his superior's son.

Director: John Boulting
Year: 1957
Genre: Comedy

Man in the Sky, The John Mitchell, family man and test pilot, is not very pleased with life. His home is too small, his car is old and he's too loyal to ask his already struggling firm for a higher salary. But on his performance in the company's prototype freighter depends the livelihood of the firm. The flight is fraught with disaster, all of the crew and passengers bale out, but Mitchell refuses to give up; he is determined to land the plane safely.

Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1957
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Mystery

Private's Progress We first meet Stanley Windrush at his 'medical' when the MO gently enquires 'You are not a mermaid, are you?', and follow his erratic, out-of-step progress through Gravestone Camp, where his singular lack of prowess at the military arts almost drives his instructor to apoplexy. Next he is posted to a languages course where he learns Japanese - and is promptly sent on an operation which necessitates a fluency in German...

Director: John Boulting
Year: 1956
Genre: Comedy

Hill in Korea, A A small fighting patrol is detailed to search a village in Korea. Chinese armies cut off their retreat to their own lines and the patrol is left with only one possible stronghold, a deserted temple on the summit of the nearby mountain. The wireless operator, a cowardly misfit, gives way to despair and throws away his wireless pack, destroying their last chance of contact with base. Although the patrol manages to destroy a tank sent up by the enemy, both the officer and sergeant realize that hope of rescue or breakout is remote.

Director: Julian Amyes
Year: 1956
Genre: War, Drama

It's Great To Be Young! It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music making. Instruments are confiscated, and in their efforts to raise funds to buy new ones the boys are assisted by Dingle, a very unconventional music master.

Director: Cyril Frankel
Year: 1956
Genre: Comedy

Long Arm, The A burglar alarm signal sends a police car to a London office building. The night watchman lets the police in and persuades them that all is well. But next morning it is found that the safe has been robbed and that the night watchman was an imposter. Detective Superintendent Tom Halliday and his new assistant, Detective Sergeant Ward, are put on the case. Halliday links the robbery with a series of similar crimes committed during the previous two years: in each case the rifled safe was of a particular make.

Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1956
Genre: Crime, Mystery

Constant Husband, The An Englishman wakes in a hotel bedroom suffering from amnesia and sets out to find his identity. He tracks down his wife but soon learns that the job she saw him leave for every morning did not exist. He learns to his disgust that that is the least of his lies. He is a cad and bigamist (or, worse, he has seven wives and identities). His female lawyer tries to keep him out of jail, though he prefers incarceration to multiple matrimony.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1955
Genre: Comedy

Night My Number Came Up, The The Chinese theory that life is pre-ordained and that dreams are a glimpse into the future prompts Commander Lindsay to relate a dream he has experienced to his fellow dinner guests, including Air Marshall Sir John Hardie. The dream involves a Dakota carrying the Air Marshall, an attractive girl, a very important person and five other civilians, who, with a crew of five, number thirteen. The aircraft is lost over the sea, the radio fails, and fuel is running short when, through a break in the clouds, a rock-strewn beach is sighted. The pilot makes desperate attempts to avoid the cliffs. There is a terrible crash, then silence. Lindsay then begins to live out his dream as the different pieces fall into place.

Director: Leslie Norman
Year: 1955
Genre: Thriller

Touch and Go A professional hockey player's selfish world turns upside down when he falls in love with the mother of the kid who mugged him.

Director: Michael Truman
Year: 1955
Genre: Comedy

Ship That Died of Shame, The His Majesty's gun boat 1087 is a proud vessel. So too are its crew members. So, the War over, three of the crew decide to buy and refit the ship for a smuggling venture. One of these, the former crew leader, Lieutenant-Commander Randall, stifles his conscience until the second of the three joins forces with a larger, more ruthless organization. Randall is disgusted and repelled. The '1087' refuses to accept the final degradation ...

Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1955
Genre: Drama, Crime

Ladykillers, The Professor Marcus arrives to take lodgings at the home of delicate Mrs. Wilberforce. By evening he is visited by four friends, as weird and sinister as Marcus himself. So assembles the ugliest set of criminals one could wish to meet. They explain to the unsuspecting lady that they are members of a string quartet meeting to rehearse. The rehearsing, in fact, is for an armed robbery. The robbery over, Mrs. Wilberforce discovers the truth. Therefore she must be eliminated. But who will do it? The arguing of the issue brings about the hilarious twist to this ingenious Ealing comedy thriller.

Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1955
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Dam Busters, The An epic war story of World War II. Scientist Dr. Barnes Wallis believes World War II can be shortened by destroying the Ruhr dams, thus paralyzing the enemy's industrial nerve center. In spite of the difficulties caused by the critical situation at the time, he works steadily to perfect a special bomb of his own invention for the purpose. Air Ace Wing Commander Guy Gibson is chosen to form, train and lead the hand-picked squadron. Flying at tree-top level they cross the Rhine and attack the first dam - Moehne. The bombers seem unable to maintain the accuracy essential for success - then suddenly the masonry begins to crumb.

Director: Michael Anderson
Year: 1955
Genre: War, Drama

Geordie "Geordie" is a charming love story set in the Highlands of Scotland. It tells the story of a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves will ignore him because of his size. So he takes a correspondence course in body-building, becoming one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland and an expert at throwing the hammer.

Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1955
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Contraband Spain When Martin Scott, an American member of a watch-smuggling gang, is found murdered near Urdos, on the Franco-Spanish border, with forged dollar bills in his pocket, F.B.I. agent Lee Scott, Martin's brother, is sent over to investigate. Lee is determined to unravel the events which led to his brother's death.

Director: Lawrence Huntington, Julio Salvador
Year: 1955
Genre: Crime

They Who Dare Lieutenant Graham of the Special Boat Service leads a raiding party to Rhodes. Their mission is to blow up two airfields from which enemy bombers are hampering allied lines of communication in Africa.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Year: 1954
Genre: War, Drama

Rainbow Jacket, The Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy, and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the ultimate sacrifice ...

Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama

Heart of the Matter, The The scene is Freetown, Sierra Leone, in the year 1942. Harry Scobie, Deputy Commissioner of Police, is nearing the end of 15 years' exemplary service. Scobie is a remarkable man - honest, upright and industrious. His chief failing is a passionate pity for the unhappy, the oppressed and the weak, and it is this pity which causes him to commit his first offence and leads to his ultimate downfall.

Director: George More O'Ferrall
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama, Crime

Mambo Giovanna is a salesgirl passionately fond of dancing. Her friend Mario pushes her into Enrico's arms, a moneyed nobleman who spurns her advances. Vexed, she leaves for a ballet tour. On returning triumphantly, she lives with Mario again. He persuades her to marry Enrico, now besotted with her. She agrees and falls in love with him. Following his death she gives away his wealth and devotes her life to dancing.

Director: Robert Rossen
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama

Maggie, The 'Maggie' is one of the fifty-odd puffer boats which chug among the Western Isles of Scotland. Squat, unprepossessing, and badly in need of paint, she is destined for the scrap yard unless her skipper can get her repaired. This seems a forlorn hope - until Mr. Pusey makes his mistake. Mr. Pusey works for the high-pressure American businessman, Calvin B. Marshall, who has a valuable cargo to be shipped to one of the isles. And Mr. Pusey's disastrous error is in allowing, through a misunderstanding, the cargo to be entrusted to the humble 'Maggie' with her crew of four.

Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1954
Genre: Comedy

Eight O'Clock Walk Tom Manning, a taxi driver, is falsely accused of the murder of an eight-year-old girl on a derelict bomb site. Jill, his loyal young wife, bewildered by legal procedure, fights for and wins the active sympathy of Peter Tanner, Junior Counsel for the Defense. Against heavy odds Peter proves himself a barrister of ability and resource.

Director: Lance Comfort
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama, Crime

Holly and the Ivy, The It is Christmas Eve in the little country town of Wyndenham. Inside the rectory all is bustle as Jenny Gregory, the vicar's elder daughter, begins putting up the Christmas decorations. But before this particular Christmas is over the various members of her family will have to discuss and come to terms with a number of difficult subjects, before they can truly claim to have goodwill to all men in their hearts.

Director: George More O'Ferrall
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama

Cruel Sea, The A dramatic story of the Battle of the Atlantic, where the heroes are the men, the heroines are the ships they sail in, and the villain is the cruel sea. On board H.M.S. Compass Rose, an escort ship, is one professional seaman. The others are civilians turned into wartime sailors; men not trained for the rigors and horrors of war. But as the task of keeping open the Atlantic life-line becomes more and more hazardous, so the men are thrown together, hardened and wiser, in companionship. Then the ship is torpedoed. But for the survivors, the greatest fight is only just beginning.

Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1953
Genre: Adventure, War, Drama, Action

Titfield Thunderbolt, The This endearing Ealing comedy tells the story of the inhabitants of Titfield, who endeavor to prove that their single-track railway is the only form of transport for the village. The villains of the piece are two unsavory characters who have introduced a smart brand new single-decker bus to Titfield. Crump and Pearce, owners of the bus company, are determined to cease the running of the Titfield train, by fair means or foul.

Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy

Folly to Be Wise When Captain Paris takes over at a big army camp as Chaplain and Entertainments Officer, the troops are in for some surprises. Captain Paris finds the Garrison Theatre ill attended, as the troops favor the local hostelries in preference to the succession of feminine string quartets and madrigal singers hitherto engaged for their amusement. Paris sets out to remedy this sad state of affairs, but his idea of staging a Brains Trust with local celebrities as the 'brains' turns out to have disastrous results!

Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy

Man Between, The The scene is set in post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern, a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring to East Berlin a man called Kastner, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Finding that Susanne is attracted to the ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she is married to Ivo, whom she thought to be dead. He has recently reappeared and is forcing her help in his plot to capture Kastner.

Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1953
Genre: Drama

Trent's Last Case The body of Manderson, a fabulously wealthy American tycoon, is found in the grounds of his Hampshire mansion, shot neatly through the left eye. The coroner's verdict is suicide, but Philip Trent, famed painter and newspaper reporter, but even more famed crime investigator, is uneasy ...

Director: Herbert Wilcox
Year: 1953
Genre: Crime

Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow George Potts, sanitary engineer at Barworth Atomic Research Centre, leaves for a holiday with a briefcase containing secret plans which he has mistaken for his own briefcase containing washroom designs. He is kidnapped by Soviet agents under the impression he is an atomic scientist, but he remains under the impression that he is being feted as a brilliant sanitary engineer.

Director: Mario Zampi
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy

Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The The sometimes stormy partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan brought about the creation of many well-loved comic operas, such as "Trial By Jury", "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance", "Iolanthe", "The Mikado", "Rudigore", "The Gondoliers" and "Yeoman of the Guard, all of which are featured in the film.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1953
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical

Magic Box, The William Friese-Greene was the first man to produce and patent a commercially practical motion-picture camera based on the principles still used today. He lived for his work, sacrificing himself and his family and fortune to satisfy an obsession - to make pictures move. This is his story and the story of the two women who loved him.

Director: John Boulting
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama, Biography

Sound Barrier, The The dramatic, award winning story of exploration in the air, and of the human problems which beset those who, earthbound, can only sit and wait. John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound into a new world, where speeds of two thousand miles an hour may be commonplace. But his daughter, Susan, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavors as senseless ambition.

Director: David Lean
Year: 1952
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Comedy

Secret People Two girls come from abroad to a small Paddington cafe in the London of 1930, run by Anselmo, an ebullient South European. They are sisters - Maria and Nora - aged 19 and 10. They have been entrusted to Anselmo by their father, an outspoken writer threatened by his own country's police. He has sacrificed himself to save his daughters, while Louis, the young man Maria loves, has stayed behind to continue the struggle.

Director: Thorold Dickinson
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama

Outcast of the Islands Peter Willems, befriended by Captain Lingard, occupies a position of trust with merchant Hudig in a Far East port. When he is discovered stealing he is sacked, but he pretends to commit suicide and Captain Lingard agrees to take him to a secret trading post, run by a man called Almayer. But Willems is soon bored, and hates Almayer who will not give him a share in the running of the post.

Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1952
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action

Mandy A metal tray crashes to the floor but the child in the cot remains motionless. The young parents no longer have doubts: their daughter is deaf. They realize that because Mandy is deaf, she will be dumb. If she cannot hear, she will never learn to speak. The parents, Harry and Christine, quarrel bitterly over the child's education. Christine wants to send her to a school where deaf children are taught to lip-read and speak, but Harry refuses. So Mandy remains at home until, after one violent quarrel, Christine leaves, taking the child with her.

Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama

Cry the Beloved Country Adapted by Alan Paton from his classic novel, this is the story of two very different South Africans - a wealthy white farmer and a poor black priest - who are united through the tragic deaths of their sons, and whose extension of the hand of friendship to one another eventually brings a hope of peace among the bitter turmoil of South African society.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama

Tales of Hoffmann, The While waiting for Stella in a cabaret hall, Hoffman amuses his friends with tales of his past loves: Olympia, the animated puppet of Doctor Coppelius; Giulietta, a Venitian courtesan for whom he killed a man and Antonia who died from singing too much. When Stella finally arrives, Hoffman is completely drunk and she leaves with Lindorf, his arch-enemy...

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy, Musical

Pool of London Dan, a sailor and small-time smuggler, is caught trying to take some nylons from his girlfriend through customs at the Pool of London. Later he meets a man called Vernon who persuades him to smuggle a quantity of stolen diamonds to Rotterdam. But Vernon does not mention that a watchman has been murdered during the theft of these gems.

Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1951
Genre: Crime

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman: Deluxe Edition In this timeless romantic fantasy from director Albert Lewin, Ava Gardner stars as a nightclub singer vacationing in Spain, with whom all men fall hopelessly in love. But Pandora, never having known true love, is indifferent to her suitors affections. Until, one evening, she swims out to a mysterious yacht and meets its captain (James Mason). Mastered in HD from the 35mm negative of the 2009 restoration, this Kino edition preserves Jack Cardiff's ( The Red Shoes) vivid Technicolor cinematography with breathtaking clarity.

Director: Albert Lewin
Year: 1951
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Lavender Hill Mob, The Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. Then one day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six of the gold miniatures are mistakenly sold to a group of English schoolgirls, and just when the amateur thieves think they've finally pulled off their heist without a hitch...

Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1951
Genre: Crime, Comedy

Man in the White Suit, The Sidney Stratton, laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many vicissitudes, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who gives him money and facilities to develop it. When the news of Stratton's invention breaks, however, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves in an artificial alliance, both determined that the fabric must never go on the market.

Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi

Laughter in Paradise When the last will and testament of wealthy, notorious practical joker Henry Augustus Russell is read to his only surviving relatives, it is found that he had remained faithful to his reputation until his last hours. Each of his four relatives will receive a fortune, provided they perform required hilarious, embarrassing or criminal acts. The last laugh is his as at the end: he was broke when he died.

Director: Mario Zampi
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy

Lady With a Lamp, The Born to a life of wealth, ease and elegance, Florence Nightingale rejected the conventional life of her Victorian counterparts and devoted herself to improving conditions of the injured and sick during the Crimean War.

Director: Herbert Wilcox
Year: 1951
Genre: History, Drama

Odette It is 1942, and Britain is at war with Germany. Odette Marie Celine Churchill hears an appeal for holiday photographs of the French coast and sends hers to the War Office. Because of her unique qualifications, she is recruited as a secret agent and is sent to France to join the Resistance movement there.

Director: Herbert Wilcox
Year: 1950
Genre: War, Drama

Seven Days to Noon The receipt of a letter at 10 Downing Street, signed by an eminent atomic researcher and threatening to destroy the seat of Government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament unless the Prime Minister acts to bring his research work to an end, is at first dismissed as a hoax. But the drama grows when Scotland Yard discovers that the researcher has disappeared.

Director: Roy Boulting, John Boulting
Year: 1950
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Happiest Days of Your Life, The Confusion at The Ministry results in a girls school being joined with a boys school, in this rip roaring, laugh a minute, classic English farce.

Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1950
Genre: Comedy

Last Holiday A mild, unambitious and unsuccessful North-countryman is told by his doctor that he has contracted a fatal disease and has only a month to live. He decides to blow his savings on a visit to an exclusive hotel at a seaside resort. He goes to a tailor who explains the clothing and demeanor he needs. At first, he finds it all very stiff and unenjoyable, but by a series of chance contacts he is offered a number of attractive jobs (which of course, he cannot accept) and enjoys his new life and new self. Among the guests is a doctor who is convinced he must have been misdiagnosed.

Director: Henry Cass
Year: 1950
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Dance Hall Georgie, Carole, Eve and Mary work together in a factory, and the four friends go regularly to the local "palais de danse". The story of the joys and sorrows of their young lives is told through their experiences at the dance hall.

Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1950
Genre: Drama

Landfall Flight Lieutenant Roderick Chambers of the RAF finds himself in trouble when he is accused of sinking a British submarine in the English channel. Feeling he can no longer stay with his unit, he volunteers for the extremely dangerous job of test pilot. Can he now redeem himself?

Director: Ken Annakin
Year: 1949
Genre: War, Drama

Kind Hearts and Coronets Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini's mother had been disowned by her noble familly when she married an Italian musician. When her family refuses to let her be buried at the family home, Louis hits on an idea. He can become the tenth Duke of Chalfont if only those between him and the Duke would die. He decides to take matters into his own hands. He will also find himself torn between a woman from his current life and the widow of one of the unfortunately deceased D'Ascoynes.

Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy

Queen of Spades, The It is 1806, and St. Petersburg is in the grip of gambling fever. Each night Herman Suvorin, a poor Captain of Engineers, watches huge fortunes being lost and won. But he does not dare risk losing the money he has so carefully saved from his pay over the years. But then he hears of the Countess Ranevskaya who, by selling her soul many years before, had obtained the secret of winning at cards. He determines to find her and to wrest the secret from her...

Director: Thorold Dickinson
Year: 1949
Genre: Drama

Passport to Pimlico Pimlico dozes during the worst heat wave for years... until London's last unexploded bomb goes off with a deafening roar, flinging the people headlong into a fantastic adventure. Arthur Pemberton and his daughter Shirley, investigating the crater made by the bomb, find treasure and an old document decreeing that Pimlico can be recognized in perpetuity as Burgundian soil. The residents, quick to see the opportunities, dispense with licensing laws, and put themselves on the export list of English firms. The British Government steps in, wires off 'BURGUNDY', sets up customs barriers and cuts off water and electricity.

Director: Henry Cornelius
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy

Third Man, The In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?

Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1949
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Mystery

Reign of Terror The plot starts in France in the year 1774. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.

Director: Anthony Mann
Year: 1949
Genre: Adventure, History, Action

Scott of the Antarctic Captain Scott, after his return from the Antarctic in 'The Discovery' in 1904, was determined to make another voyage. And this he did, in 1909, aboard the 'Terra Nova', an old whaling ship, only to find when he finally reached the Pole, that he had been beaten to it by the Norwegian explorer, Amundsen. Then began the hazardous homeward journey ... a journey that was never to end. Eight months later the bodies of Scott and his men were discovered by a search party.

Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1949
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action

Run for Your Money, A Two Welsh mining brothers are up for fun in London after winning a newspaper singing-contest prize and a free trip to see a rugby match. Not likely since their escort is the paper's fussy gardening correspondent.

Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy

Under Capricorn In 1835, in Australia, Charles meets Sam, an ex-convict, married to Harrieta, an alcoholic whom he falls in love with. Harrietta confesses to Charles that she was actually the one who committed the murder for which her husband was convicted.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1949
Genre: History, Drama, Crime

Fallen Idol, The Based on a Graham Greene short story which he helped adapt, this is a sensitive study of the way in which the small son of a foreign ambassador in London interprets the strange and seemingly illogical behavior of the adults who surround him. He becomes aware of an illicit love affair between Baines, the butler, whom he hero-worships, and one of the typists at the embassy. But when he sees Baines' wife fall to her death while spying on the couple, his interpretation of the cause of her death places Baines in a perilous situation. Convinced his idol is guilty of murder, he tries to help him, but incriminates him instead in what was, in fact, an accidental death.

Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1948
Genre: Drama

Saraband for Dead Lovers From a Germany that was then a collection of small and independent states, George Louis of Hanover succeeded the throne of England. He left behind him a prisoner in the Castle of Ahlden - a woman whose story he determined should die with her - the story of his wife, Sophie Dorothea. "Saraband For Dead Lovers" tells that story; the tragedy of a girl forced for political reasons into a loveless marriage.

Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1948
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action

Hue and Cry Teenager Joe Kirby, fantasizing he's on the track of criminals, finds to his astonishment that it has all come true. He has walked straight into the story of his comic book. Very soon he convinces himself and his adventurous cronies the comic is being used as a means of communication between a master criminal and his gang of thieves.

Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1947
Genre: Crime, Comedy

It Always Rains on Sunday

Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1947
Genre: Drama, Crime

Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby, his widowed mother and sister Kate, seek the help of a prosperous (but villainous) uncle, Ralph Nickleby. Ralph finds Nicholas work with the cruel and miserly Wackford Squeers, proprietor of a school for unwanted boys. Nicholas rebels, and after a fight with Squeers, leaves, taking one of the boys with him. Meanwhile, Ralph Nickleby has found Kate work with a dressmaker. He plans to use Kate to attract the business of Sir Mulberry Hawk. Hawk invites Mrs. Nickleby and Kate to his country home where he plans to press intentions upon Kate. Nicholas, forewarned, arrives in time to deal with Hawk.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Year: 1947
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action

Portes de la Nuit, Les February 1945. In the Paris underground, a manual worker, Jean Diego, meets a tramp who introduces himself as Fate. The tramp foretells that the worker will fall in love with a beautiful woman and that his next few hours will be very dramatic. To Jean’s incredulity the prophecy begins to come true when he meets Malou, a young woman fleeing from an unhappy marriage. Malou’s brother Guy is also warned by the same mysterious tramp that he is destined for an unhappy and imminent death. Ignoring the warning, Guy accosts Malou’s husband Georges and reveals that Malou has fallen in love with Jean. Suspecting that Jean may be armed, Georges reluctantly accepts the gun that Guy offers him...

Director: Marcel Carné
Year: 1946
Language: French
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Mystery

Pink String and Sealing Wax Edward Sutton and his family live in a regency square in Brighton. He is a chemist, also public analyst for the county of Sussex. He is the slave of duty and rules his family with a rod of iron. He refuses to let his daughter Victoria make singing her career. However, after a number of incidents Sutton realizes that the children should be ruled with love rather than fear.

Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1946
Genre: Drama

Dead of Night Walter Craig is summoned to a British estate. The owner is a stranger to him, yet his face is familiar. So are the other guests. Gradually he recognizes them as the people who constantly recur in a dream which always ends in unspeakable horror. He is told other people's supernatural experiences and finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him by providing scientific explanations.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden…
Year: 1945
Genre: Fantasy

Enfants du Paradis, les Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this milestone of cinema in a new high-definition film transfer made from the restored negative.

Director: Marcel Carné
Year: 1945
Language: Français
Genre: Drama, Romance

San Demetrio, London This is a story of British pluck and humor based on a true-life adventure that thrilled the world when, in the autumn of 1940, the petrol tanker 'San Demetrio' was torpedoed by the Germans and her crew was faced with the seemingly impossible task of bringing her back to Britain.

Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1944
Genre: Adventure, War, Drama, Action

Nine Men Sergeant Watson listened to the grumbles of his men, who had been going through a day's heavy training in battle school. They had just come off parade and were in various stages of changing. The Sergeant cut short the grouses and began to tell the story of a desert scrap in which he'd been involved that made their own discomforts look like a day at the circus ...

Director: Harry Watt
Year: 1943
Genre: War

Undercover The scene is Yugoslavia at the beginning of World War II. An old farmer and his wife are celebrating the anniversary of their wedding. With them are their two sons - one an army officer, the other a doctor who has risen above his peasant background to become head of a clinic in Belgrade. The pleasant village rings to the sound of music and laughter. There is no indication yet of the shadow that lies ahead, for the people's confidence is with the army.

Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Year: 1943
Genre: War, Drama

Ghost of St. Michael'S, The Mr. William Lamb's start as the new master of St Michael's school, evacuated to Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye, is not exactly encouraging. He learns that the place is haunted by the ghost of Mad MacKinnon - a ghost that plays phantom pipes when anyone in the castle is to die.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Year: 1941
Genre: Comedy

Ships With Wings An epic story of the courage and self-sacrifice shown by the men of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War.

Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Year: 1941
Genre: War

Proud Valley, The David Goliath, an unemployed stoker from a Cardiff tramp steamer, is making his way up the Welsh valleys in search of work. He falls in with an old street-singer, Bert, who joins company with him, and together they try their luck singing in the little mining village of Blaendy. Many adventures follow...

Director: Pen Tennyson
Year: 1940
Genre: Drama

Convoy A dashing young officer arrives on Captain Armitage's flagship. But the two men are not strangers, for the new recruit is the man who broke up Captain Armitage's marriage by running away with his wife. Their ship is convoying a fleet of merchantmen to England, but they are faced with a terrible conflict between natural feeling and duty when they realize that one ship which fails to join the convoy, and which is being directly threatened by the Nazis, carries Armitage's wife among its passengers.

Director: Pen Tennyson
Year: 1940
Genre: War, Drama

Dark Eyes of London, The A series of mysterious drownings in the Thames starts Inspector Holt of Scotland Yard on the trail of one of London's most sinister and chilling murderers.

Director: Walter Summers
Year: 1940
Genre: Horror, Crime

Let George Do It! A ukelele player drops dead while playing in a band in Norway. There are immediate repercussions in British Intelligence headquarters. The dead man was an agent on the track of a German spy. In the general confusion, instructions are wrongly given to George, a member of a concert party on its way to Blackpool, to proceed to Bergen to take the dead man's place. Only next morning, when the ship docks in Bergen, does he realize his predicament ...

Director: Marcel Varnel
Year: 1940
Genre: Comedy, Musical

No Limit George Shuttleworth's occupation in life is the unromantic one of chimney sweep's help, but the ordinariness of his occupation is mitigated by the eternal romance of his desire to win the Isle of Man TT race. The only asset that he possesses is a machine of doubtful vintage which he has equipped with various gadgets of his own devising. Undeterred by the mockery of his neighbors, George makes up his mind to enter for the race and sets off for the Isle of Man. On the day of the Trials, George's motorcycle develops a speed hitherto undreamed of, and though George tries to check his headlong career, his brakes fail and he makes a record round. George is famous but frightened. Now he's not so sure he wants to ride in the race!

Director: Monty Banks
Year: 1936
Genre: Comedy

Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts 1934-37 For Buster Keaton, the era of the talkies was a tumultuous time. After signing with MGM, the quality of his ambitious, eclectic comedies began to decline, leading to a period of personal setbacks. In 1934, he signed a contract with Earle W. Hammons's Educational Pictures which, despite its name, specialized in comedy short subjects ("The Spice of the Program"). Keaton's move to Educational was a return to his roots, crafting a stream of two-reel comedies in rapid succession, as he had done in the early 1920s, when he first refined his cinematic craft. The films Keaton made at Educational (all sixteen of which are collected here) pay homage to his earlier work (such as Love Nest on Wheels, which revives a number of gags from his very first film, The Butcher Boy), while exploring new possibilities for his recurring comic persona "Elmer".

Director: Charles Lamont, Mack Sennett
Year: 1934
Language: Silent
Genre: Comedy

Number Seventeen A beautiful girl member of a gang of thieves falls in love with a detective who is on the track of her confederates. She saves him from death at the hands of the gang and thereafter the film traces their adventures whilst fleeing from the revenge of her former associates...

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1932
Genre: Crime, Film Noir

Rich and Strange Fred and Emily Hill, a happy young married couple, inherit money and decide to take a world cruise. On board ship their new-found fortune goes to their heads and they tend to go their separate ways. Fred loses most of his money to a fake princess, while Emily also gets involved, but luckily escapes the commitments of her escapade. Their shipboard romances drive them apart but a shipwreck brings them back together. Rescued by a Chinese junk they return to the security of England and home, having had their fill of romance and adventure.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1931
Genre: Adventure, Action, Romance

Skin Game, The The Hillcrests are a wealthy family who have held their country estate for many generations. They cherish the traditions of the landed gentry and regard their neighbors, the Hornblowers, as upstarts; trades people who have fought their way up from the lowest section of society. The Hillcrests consider themselves the moral leaders of the community and on learning that the Hornblowers seek to dispossess the Jackman family after thirty years of tenure, they enter battle in the Jackman defense.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1931
Genre: Drama, Mystery

Manxman, The Pete and Philip, friends from boyhood, are both in love with Kate. When Pete leaves the village and is subsequently reported missing, Kate has an affair with Philip. Pete returns, just as he promised, but by that time Kate is carrying Philip's child ...

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1930
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Murder! Diana Baring, an actress in a touring company, is discovered near the scene of the crime when a woman is found murdered. She is charged with the murder, placed on trial and convicted on circumstantial evidence. One of the jury, however, Sir John Menier, believes in her innocence and undertakes to prove it. His personal investigations take him to the touring company where he questions members of the cast, and others. Through the girl's landlady he hears that a man's voice was overheard near the scene of the crime, on the night of the murder, and eventually he tracks down the killer in an exciting climax in a circus tent.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1930
Genre: Film Noir, Mystery

Moulin Rouge Set in the famous dance halls of Paris, this period romantic tragedy centres on the misadventures of a young nobleman who tries to kill himself when he realizes that he's fallen in love with both a beautiful dancer and her elegant mother.

Director: Ewald-André Dupont
Year: 1928
Genre: Drama

Steamboat Bill, Jr.: Ultimate Edition Flavored with Americana and loaded with cinematic inventiveness, Steamboat Bill Jr. was Buster Keaton's final independent production before joining MGM (where his work suffered a steady decline in quality), a comic masterpiece that represents the full breadth of its maker's remarkable talents.

Director: Charles Reiser
Year: 1928
Language: English intertitles
Genre: Comedy

Farmer'S Wife, The A middle-aged landowner who has been a widower for five years, decides that the time has come for him to choose a wife from among the unattached women of his neighborhood. Thinking himself to be a fine catch he sets about the task of conferring his favor on someone whom he considers to be deserving of the high honour. With the aid of his housekeeper, the faithful Araminta, he compiles a list of eligible females and then sets off on his journey to make his choice.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1928
Genre: Comedy

Ring, The 'One Round' Jack Sanders is a young boxer traveling the country with a boxing booth in a fair. He is in love with the beautiful cashier, his only ambition being to beat all comers and to make enough money to marry her.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1927
Genre: Drama

Metropolis Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score (in 5.1 Stereo Surround) and a modern score by the celebrated Alloy Orchestra, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy über-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers—orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them both.

Director: Fritz Lang
Year: 1927
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi

The General Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. This Kino Ultimate 2 Disc Edition was mastered in HD from a 35mm archive print struck from the original camera negative. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. Every shot has the authenticity and the unassuming correct composition of a Mathew Brady Civil War photograph, wrote film historian David Robinson, No one not even Griffith or Huston and certainly not Fleming (Gone With the Wind) caught the visual aspect of the Civil War as Keaton did.

Director: Buster Keaton
Year: 1926
Language: English
Genre: Comedy

Our Hospitality: Ultimate Edition The Canfields and McKays are locked in a bitter feud, which Willie McKay has avoided while living in the city. During a trip to his old family home he meets Virginia and falls in love. However, after coming into her house he realizes she is a Canfield. Virginia's family wants to kill Willie, but their rigid social code prevents them from doing it while he's a guest in their home. Once he steps outside, however, it's a different story!

Director: John Blystone, Buster Keaton
Year: 1923
Language: Silent
Genre: Comedy

Sherlock Jr./Three Ages A movie projectionist and janitor (Buster Keaton) who is studying to become a detective is in love with a beautiful girl (Kathryn McGuire). On a date he presents her with chocolates and an engagement ring. However, there is another man who's also interested in his girl (Ward Crane). One day he is accused of stealing his girlfriend's father's watch. He falls asleep on the job and dreams that he is a Sherlock Holmes-type detective, solving the case of who stole a valuable pearl necklace. THREE AGES SYNOPSIS: Three plots in three different historical periods—prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and modern times (the Roaring Twenties)—are intercut to prove the point that men's love for woman have not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots, characters played by Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery compete for the attention of the same woman, played by Margaret Leahy.

Director: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Year: 1923
Language: Silent
Genre: Comedy

Fantomas Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade's outrageous, ambitious FANTÔMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe, and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade's own Les Vampires and Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films. René Navarre stars as the criminal lord of Paris, the master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black: Fantômas. Over the course of five feature films (which combined to form a 5 1/2-hour epic), Fantômas, along with his accomplices and mistresses, are pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) and his friend, journalist Jerôme Fandor (Georges Melchior). 3-Disc set Includes Collectible O-Card packaging.

Director: Louis Feuillade
Year: 1913
Language: Silent
Genre: Drama

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Language: English
Genre: Drama

Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs—nearly all of which have never been shown to the public—the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time. MARIA BY CALLAS is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek/American opera singer completely in her own words.

Language: English, French
Genre: Documentary

Little Women

Language: English
Genre: Drama

First Run Features Titles - Various

Judas Kiss

Like It Is

Director: Paul Oremland

Ithaqua

Genre: History, Horror, Action

Spiral: From the Book of Saw A sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in SPIRAL, the terrifying new chapter from the book of SAW. Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game. SPIRAL stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson, and is produced by the original SAW team of Mark Burg and Oren Koules. The film is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Josh Stolberg & Pete Goldfinger.

I Am Vengeance: Retaliation Special-forces operative John Gold is tasked with transporting traitor Sean Teague to a military prison, but a sniper and an extraction team stand in the way.

Language: English
Genre: Action

Oldboy After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.

Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Action, Mystery

East, The During the post-WW2 Indonesian War of Independence, a young Dutch soldier joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain known only as “The Turk.” When the fighting intensifies, the young soldier finds himself questioning - and ultimately challenging - his commander’s brutal strategy to stop the resistance.

Language: Dutch, Indonesian
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama, Action

Old Days

Language: Korean

Rescue, The From Academy Award-winning filmmakers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

Language: English

Devil's Light, The

Unbreakable Boy, The

Project Legion

Language: English

Renegades When a retired Green Beret soldier is murdered by an international drug gang in London, four of his veteran SAS comrades set out to avenge him, dispensing their own brand of justice on the streets of London.

Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action

Self Driver Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured on to a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money. As his first night on the job unfolds, he is pulled ever deeper into the dark underbelly of society, embarking on a journey that will test his moral code and shake his understanding of what it means to have freewill. The question becomes not how much money he can make, but what he'll be compelled to do to make it. If you've got nothing to lose, how far would you go?

Language: English
Genre: Thriller

Thousand Cuts, A While investigating a notorious 30-year-old unsolved murder on a true crime special, the hosts find themselves dangerously intertwined with the case as their relationship begins to derail and mysteriously echo the brutal murders, all on live TV.

Language: English
Genre: Horror

4:30 Movie, The Writer-director Kevin Smith presents his most personal film to date with this coming-of-age story - set in the summer of 1986 - that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local Cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose, as a self-important theater manager (Ken Jeong) and teen rivalries interfere with his best-laid plans. Justin Long, Rosario Dawson, Jason Biggs, and more contribute outrageous characters to this poignant comic valentine to movie-going and the youth of the '80s.

Language: English
Genre: Comedy

High Rollers Master thief Mason (John Travolta) is living the criminal’s dream: island-hopping with his crew and the love of his life, Decker (Gina Gershon), while floating on a sea of stolen cash. But his dream is shattered when his nemesis, the ruthless Salazar, kidnaps Decker and forces Mason and his crew to attempt a near-impossible casino heist in exchange for her return. Hedged in by Salazar’s equally ruthless rivals, and with the FBI on his tail, Mason gambles everything in pursuit of both the big score and the ultimate jackpot: Decker’s life.

Language: English
Genre: Crime, Action

Silent Zone

Fear Below After crashing their van of stolen gold into a river, ruthless gangsters hire desperate divers to retrieve it. But as a relentless bull shark hunts them below, they soon realize the greater threat may be waiting above the surface.

Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action

Parallel Tales

Sexual Life of Belgians 2: Camping Cosmos

Director: Jan Bucquoy
Language: French/Dutch

Priest of Love

Speak Like A Child

Director: John Akomfrah
Language: English

River, The

Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Language: Cantonese
Genre: World Cinema

Sophia Loren Award Collection

Small Time & Where's The Money Ronnie

Director: Shane Meadows
Language: English

Kids Return

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Language: Japanese

Silences of the Palace, The

Director: Moufida Tlatli

Juche Idea, The

Time for Drunken Horses, A

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Language: Persian/Kurdish

Leading Ladies The Camparis are a family of women in which everyone knows her place. Sheri is the larger-than-life, overbearing stage mom. Once a young and beautiful ballroom champion, Sheri now lives vicariously through her youngest daughter Tasi, the darling of the local amateur ballroom circuit. Sheri’s oldest daughter, Toni, is Tasi’s practice partner, the wallflower who must quietly support them all. The only consistent man in the life of the Campari women is Cedric, Tasi’s dance partner and Toni’s best friend. Find out what happens to each as they reexamine their roles in modern life and on the dance floor and learn to "Let Love Lead."

Director: Daniel Beahm, Erika Randall Beahm

Top Secret Trial of the Third Reich

How to Be a Woman As the daughters of the baby boom reached adolescence, the American school system struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development - lessons that were not always being taught at home. To the teacher uncomfortable with such topics, classroom films were a godsend. Often corny, sometimes frightening, these cinematic life lessons provide a fascinating window to the hopes and fears of parents and educators in mid-century America. Thirteen short films are included and feature The Wonders of Reproduction, Attack, How To Make a Sandwich, and Improve Your Personality.

Director: Multiple
Language: English

Radiance

Director: Rachel Perkins
Language: English

Ingrid Bergman: Swedish Film Collection

Director: Ingrid Bergman
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama

Unlucky Monkey

Director: Sabu
Language: Japanese

How to Be a Man For centuries, parents have struggled to usher their children through the magical, often treacherous, journey to adulthood. But in mid-century America, a new form of tutelage was engineered: the classroom film. Suddenly, the prickly issues of sexual development and juvenile delinquency could be addressed in tidy, ten-minute sermons disguised as dramas. There are eleven films in this collection and include Am I Trustworthy?, Act Your Age, The Decision is Yours, and Your Body During Adolescence.

Director: Multiple
Language: English

Kent Nagano et l'osm

Summer in La Goulette, A

Director: Ferid Boughedir
Language: French/Arabic/Italian

Romantic Englishwoman, The

Diary of a Seducer

Director: Daniele Dubroux
Language: French

Kino DVD Titles - Various

Save Me

Maborosi

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu

Leap Year

Fils de l'épicier, Le It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed - driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but eventually prove to be funny and endearing. Ultimately, this surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man rediscovering life and love in the countryside.

Director: Eric Guirado
Language: French
Genre: Drama

Summer of Aviya, The

Director: Eli Cohen

Development, Projects in

Kadosh (Quebec)

Director: Amos Gitai
Language: Hebrew

Interview, The

Director: Craig Monahan

Rosie

Director: Patrice Toye
Language: Flemish

Stella Does Tricks

Director: Coky Giedroyc
Language: English

Urban Feel

Director: Jonathan Sagall
Language: Hebrew

Hyenas

Director: Djibril Diop Mambety
Language: Wolof
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Gaumont Treasures Vol. 2 During its second decade of existence, the Gaumont Film Company continued to prove itself an indomitable force in cultivating and advancing the fledgling art of cinema. It was also a place of great technical innovation. Included in this collection are some of Gaumont's revolutionary experiments in color (the Trichromie process) and synchronized sound (the Phonoscenes). DVD 1 showcases the work of animator Emile Cohl, DVD 2 focuses on Jean Durand (who specialized in slapstick and innovated the "French Western"), and DVD 3 highlights the romantic comedies of Jacques Feyder, while paying tribute to some of French cinema's lesser-known pioneers.

Director: Emile Cohl, Jacques Feyder, Jean Durand

Cremaster Cycle Matthew Barney has been called "the most important American artist of his generation," by The New York Times Magazine. His best-known body of work is The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five visually elaborate films that have become a tour de force on the international art scene. The films are named after the muscle that lifts and lowers the testicles. In Barney's work, the term refers to the idea of gender undifferentiation, which characterizes a fetus's first seven weeks in the uterus before the sexual organs ascend to form a female or descend to form a male body. Although each film is distinct, all explore Barney obsessions: sexually ambiguous genitalia, plus biology, mythology, athletics and aesthetics. Eschewing convention, Barney created the five films out of sequence.

Director: Matthew Barney
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Latin Boys Go to Hell

Director: Ela Troyano

Gaumont Treasures The invention of cinema — and its growth into a sophisticated art form — are vividly brought to life in this massive collection of films from the early years of the influential Gaumont Film Company. Each disc is devoted to one of Gaumont’s artistic directors, who oversaw all film production at the studio, and profoundly influenced not only the identity of the studio but also the evolution of the cinema itself.

Director: Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade, Leonce Perret

Moment of Innocence, A

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Language: Farsi

Salt of This Sea

Kini & Adams

Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo
Language: English

Slave of Love, A

Great Italian Director's Collection

Salaam Cinema

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Tickle in the Heart, A Contemporary klezmer music is a fusion of Eastern European folk tunes with jazz and other influences. The Epstein Brothers, who began their career some 70 years ago, are one of the oldest klezmer bands still playing. The history of the Epstein Brothers is in fact very much the history of klezmer. With klezmer music enjoying an upswing in popularity, the Epstein Brothers enjoy a very active retirement as they take concert halls of Europe and the USA by storm… Featuring unforgettable musical performances.

Director: Stefan Schwietert
Language: English

Under the Domim Tree

Director: Eli Cohen

Unhappy Birthday

Sixth Happiness

Director: Waris Hussein

In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war. Intrigued by the fact that two of Francis's trips - the first to the refugees landing in Lampedusa; the second in 2021 to the Middle East - so closely mirrored the itineraries of his films Fuocoammare (Fire At Sea, 2016) and Notturno (2020), Rosi follows the Pope's Stations of the Cross. He sees what he sees, hears what he says and creates a dialogue between archival footage of Francis' travels, images taken by Rosi himself, recent history and the state of the world today.

Language: Italian
Genre: Documentary, Biography

Girl In the Sneakers, The

Director: Rassur Sadr Ameli
Language: Persian

Taste of Cherry

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

She Likes Girls 4

Genre: GLBT

Strange Fits of Passion

Director: Elise McCredie
Language: English

Passages A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them begins a passionate affair with a younger woman. By director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange), PASSAGES is a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on messy, modern relationships and stars Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Women Talking) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour).

Language: English, French

Red Chapel, The

For the Bible Tells Me So

Summer's Tale

Director: Eric Rohmer
Language: French

Daughter, The (US)

Man Is a Woman

Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Language: French

Passover Fever

Director: Shemi Zarhin

Regie Stickers

Flamenco

Director: Carlos Saura
Language: Spanish

Mee Pok Man A painfully shy noodle-shop owner and a prostitute have a chance encounter when destiny arrives in the form of a car accident.

Director: Eric Khoo

I am Cuba

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Language: Spanish, English
Genre: Drama

She Likes Girls 3

Allocation for Syspro

Relax…It’s Just Sex A mixed group of individuals - lesbian, gays, and heterosexuals who all frequent a local bar struggle to accept each others lifestyles. However when the two gays (Mitchell Anderson, Eddie Garcia) are attacked and fight back and ultimately rape one of their attackers, the group becomes strongly divided on their actions. Jennifer Tilly is the mother hen of the group who tries to hold everyone together. The lesbian lovers (Serena Scott Thomas, Cynda Williams) break up when one admits to having an affair with a man (Billy Wirth).

Director: P.J. Castellaneta
Language: English

Strike: Remastered Edition

Constantine's Sword

Silences du Palais, Les (Que)

Director: Moufida Tlatli

Olive Films - various titles

Avant-Garde 3 From the little theaters of the 1920s to the ad hoc film societies of the ’50s, avant-garde cinema knew no established form and held no predictable position. The boundaries of its history are still hotly debated, but its rough sensibilities informed and permeated the city symphonies of Alberto Cavalcanti, the visual music of Mary Ellen Bute and John Whitney, the classroom films of Sidney Peterson, the confessional film poems of Willard Maas and John E. Schmitz, the Lettrist cinema of Marc’O, and even marginal exploitation films and home movies. Drawn from the rich collections of Raymond Rohauer and the George Eastman House, Kino’s third volume of experimental films continues to illuminate the degree to which cinema’s evolution has been influenced by those filmmakers who occupy its periphery.

Director: Multiple
Language: English

Daddio After landing at JFK Airport, a young woman (Dakota Johnson) takes a cab back to her apartment in Manhattan. During the ride, she and the cab driver (Sean Penn), have unexpectedly honest conversations about numerous topics, including their past and present relationships, sex and power dynamics, loss, and vulnerability.

Language: English

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