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Based on the remarkable true events that shocked a nation, and marked a fall from innocence in American culture, the murder of Kitty Genovese and the 37 who “did nothing” is re-imagined through th...
Director: Puk Grasten
A Long Way From Home
A couple realise their dream of retiring to the South of France. Their life changes dramatically when they meet another, younger couple.
Director: Virginia Gilbert
A Midsummer Night's Dream
From the mind of award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King on Broadway, Frida, Titus) comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Director: Julie Taymor
A Radiant Girl
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and the theatre.
Director: Sandrine Kiberlain
A Reggae Session
Gathered together for one night in a lifetime, the legendary names of Reggae music and more met at Fort Charles, Jamaica, in a musical event that would reverberate around the world.
Director: Stephanie Bennett
A Regular Woman
A Regular Woman portrays a glimpse of life for a free spirited young woman living with an ultra-conservative Turkish Muslim family in Berlin.
Director: Sherry Hormann
Aalto
A documentary film journey into the life and work of one of the greatest modern architects: Alvar Aalto, and his partnership with his wife Aino.
Director: Virpi Suutari
Advocate
ADVOCATE deconstructs controversial activist and Jewish-Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel, who has made a career out of defending Palestinians.
Director: Philippe Bellaiche
All Eyes Off Me
Three loosely connected chapters portray a confident generation of young Israelis who are ready to try anything and everything.
Director: Hadas Ben Aroya
Ambrosia
A married fashion designer's excitement at landing her dream job becomes complicated when her lesbian boss expresses a romantic interest in her.
Director: Baharak Saeid Monir
Amorous
Four Londoners move to an isolated cottage to test social conventions and their own inhibitions by swapping partners and exploring unconventional sex.
Director: Joanna Coates
Amour Fou
Based on the double suicide of German romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel, this period piece is a wry denunciation of dying for love.
Director: Jessica Hausner
An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell
Finding unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed an oeuvre of work that has garnered international acclaim.
Director: Molly Bernstein
Angry Inuk
The film interweaves the reality of Inuit life with the story of their challenge to both the anti-sealing industry and those nations that mine resources on Inuit lands while simultaneously destroying ...
Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Antonia's Line
A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
Director: Marleen Gorris
Arcadia
Greta's dad is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is their mother.
Director: Olivia Silver
Arranged
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman, both being subjected to arranged marriages, in Brooklyn.
Director: Diane Crespo
As If I Am Not There
After just moving to Sarajevo, a young woman is imprisoned in a Bosnian war camp.
Director: Juanita Wilson
Bad Roads
Four short stories set along the roads of Donbass during the war. Ukraine's official 2022 Oscar submission.
Director: Natalya Vorozhbit
Being Thunder
Sherenté, a Two Spirit teenager performs in fancy shawl dance competitions at annual powwows despite the insensitive behavior of tribal leaders.
Director: Stéphanie Lamorré
Between Shadow and Soul
BETWEEN SHADOW AND SOUL is a reworking of THE THIRD WIFE into a silent feature, following a girl in a 19th century arranged marriage in Vietnam.
Director: Ash Mayfair
Beyond Borders: Stories of Interfaith Friendship
Bille
An extraordinary creative little girl attempts to comprehend the adult world and prove her own value in late 1930s Europe.
Director: Inara Kolmane
Blush
An Israeli high school girl struggles in the pursuit of her identity due to family issues, until she falls in love with the new girl at her school.
Director: Michal Vinik
Borrowed Time
A teenager with the wrong friends and a grumpy old man form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles.
Director: Jules Bishop
Breathe
Two teens embark on a close new friendship that quickly escalates toward an inevitable and extraordinary collapse. Directed by Melanie Laurent.
Director: Mélanie Laurent
Cam Girl
Desperate after losing her dream job in advertising, Alice starts a sexy webcam site with three friends.
Director: Mirca Viola
Carmilla
An atmospheric, coming-of-age love story steeped in eerie mystery and inspired by the gothic novel of the same name.
Director: Emily Harris
Cassandro, the Exotico!
After 26 years and dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, gender-bending lucha libre star, Cassandro, is far from retiring. .
Director: Marie Losier
Children of the Mist
In the misty mountains of Vietnam, a teenage girl comes of age as she faces the local custom of "bride kidnapping" in this documentary.
Director: Hà Lệ Diễm
Cocoon
In the heat of a shimmering summer, Nora falls for Romy and discovers a whole new world.
Director: Leonie Krippendorff
Coffee with Cinnamon
Director: Glenda Nicácio
Comedy Confessions
A journey into the lives of three struggling comedians who have decided to pursue their dreams despite the harsh realities of being homeless.
Director: Gabrielle Sebastian
Corpo Celeste
When a 13-year-old-girl is thrown into Confirmation classes, she discovers the hypocrisy of the Church, and struggles to come of age despite the misguided adults around her.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Cure: The Life of Another
Linda and Eta, two 14-year-old girls, best of friends, retreat to a secluded beach beneath the cliffs; the morning after, only one of them returns.
Director: Andrea Staka
Curiosa
A steamy love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, based on the relationship between 19th-century poets Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
Director: Lou Jeunet
Day and Night
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them
Director: Sabine Derflinger
Dead Pigs
The debut film, set in a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai, from director Cathy Yan (BIRDS OF PREY).
Director: Cathy Yan
Dede
Director: Mariam Khatchvani
Electric Shadows
A delivery boy is asked to pet sit for one of his customers. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies.
Director: Jiang Xiao
Ever After (Endzeit)
A zombie virus epidemic has infected all but two German cities. Vivi and Eva flee the struggling community in Weimar for the other safe-haven: Jena.
Director: Carolina Hellsgård
Fanny: The Right to Rock
The untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.
Director: Bobbi Jo Hart
Finding Gaston
Meet chef Gaston Acurio and follow him in a journey to find out the stories, the inspirations and the dreams behind the man that has taken his cuisine outside the kitchen in a mission to change his co...
Director: Patricia Perez
For a Woman
On the death of her mother, Anne makes an unsettling discovery: an old photo will cast doubt on her very origins, as she uncovers a mysterious uncle her parents welcomed into their lives after World W...
Director: Diane Kurys
Foreign Letters
From different worlds, Ellie and Thuy form a powerful bond that helps Ellie cope with the hardships of adjusting to her new life in the states.
Director: Ela Thier
Found Memories
Rita, a young wandering photographer, finds herself in a secluded mountain village where she discovers transcendence in the resident’s everyday lives.
Director: Julia Murat
Francesco
Based on Herman Hesse's Francis of Assisi, FRANCESCO, starring Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham Carter, paints an intimate portrait of St. Francis, one of the most beloved, influential and compl...
Director: Liliana Cavani
Fraulein
Soon after beautiful Ana starts working in a Zurich café, her boundless energy and sexuality push her bosses’ limits and a terrible secret comes to light.
Director: Andrea Staka
Glory
A good deed and a missing watch morally entangle the lives of a railroad worker and a workaholic PR executive.
Director: Kristina Grozeva
Hamlet
A film of the ground-breaking Royal Exchange Theater production of Hamlet, with renowned British actress Maxine Peake in the title role.
Director: Sarah Frankcom
Her Name is Sabine
An intelligent, moving and beautiful documentary portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
I Am Not A Witch
When 9-year old orphan Shula is accused of witchcraft, she is exiled to a witch camp.
Director: Rungano Nyoni
I Am Yours
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Director: Iram Haq
In Between
Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
In Country
With striking historical accuracy, rare archival footage and a deeply personal inspection on the effects of PTSD, In Country artfully activates the similarities between past wars and the military conf...
Director: Mike Attie
In the Name of
A Catholic priest in rural Poland must face the truth of his own sexuality when he meets an intriguing young local.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Inch'Allah Dimanche
A deeply moving portrait of an Algerian woman’s experience as an immigrant in France at a time when racial violence ran deep.
Director: Yamina Benguigui
Jaffa
A beautiful Israeli girl plans to elope with a Palestinian mechanic, but a shocking & sadistic turn of events will change their lives forever.
Director: Keren Yedaya
Jasper Jones
A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14.
Director: Rachel Perkins
Joy Womack: The White Swan
This documentary follows several years in the life of Joy Womack, the first American woman to sign a contract with Russia's Bolshoi Ballet.
Director: Dina Burlis
Karl Marx City
25 years after the collapse of the GDR, filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the proletarian Oz of her childhood to find the truth about her late father’s suicide and his rumored Stasi past.
Director: Petra Epperlein
La Boyita
Jorgelina’s summer with Mario, who’s in the midst of an adolescence transformation, sets them on a road to discovery and, ultimately, acceptance of the mysteries of sexuality that will bring the y...
Director: Julia Solomonoff
Line 41
LINE 41 documents a Holocaust and Lodz Ghetto survivor's return back to today's Lodz (Poland)
Director: Tanja Cummings
Lines of Wellington
This lavish, star-studded epic set during the great Napoleonic Wars chronicles the lives of both the nobility and the poor against a tapestry of love affairs, deceit, intrigue and violence.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Love Me
Sasha is an attractive young Ukranian woman who finally decides to end her dead-end relationship with a married man. Cemal, bound by tradition to marry a girl he's never met, is dragged by his uncle a...
Director: Maryna Gorbach
Lovecut
Through different intersecting stories, LOVECUT tells about three teenage couples and their conflicts with identity, love and sexuality.
Director: Iliana Estañol
Madeinusa
A young woman of privilege and a man of no social status meet as a small town prepares to wallow in forbidden pleasure in this satiric drama
Director: Claudia Llosa
Marquise
Véra Belmont directs this decadent tale of the rise and fall of the ravishing actress, Marquise played by (Sophie Marceau, BRAVEHEART).
Director: Véra Belmont
Moon, 66 Questions
Artemis returns to Athens to care for her estranged, ill father, Paris. After uncovering a secret, she begins to understand him more than ever.
Director: Jacqueline Lentzou
My Art
Single, New York City artist Ellie Shine is looking to gain inspiration and tranquility as she house sits for a friend in upstate New York.
Director: Laurie Simmons
My King
Acclaimed auteur Maïwenn's magnum opus about the real and metaphysical pain endured by a woman who struggles to leave a destructive relationship with a charming yet extremely self-centered lothario.
Director: Maïwenn
My Little Sister
A once successful playwright sacrifices her life for her brother and thereby rediscovers what it feels like to be alive.
Director: Stéphanie Chuat
Narcissister Organ Player
Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary showcasing her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of racial identity and sexuality.
Director: Narcissister
Nina
NINA is a LGBTQ debut feature, painting a sensitive portrait of a strong yet confused woman trapped in her role as a wife and daughter.
Director: Olga Chajdas
Nude Area
Two teenage girls and their mutual fascination and attraction.
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Oddsockeaters
Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock.
Director: Galina Miklinova
Off White Lies
A father and his daughter live through the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.
Director: Maya Kenig
Oh Lucy!
When her English-instructor John suddenly disappears from class, Setsuko travels halfway around the world in search of him to the outskirts of Southern California.
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi
Once Upon A River
Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River is the story of Native American teenager Margo Crane in 1970s rural Michigan.
Director: Haroula Rose
Only When I Dance
This stunning documentary follows two teenage ballet dancers aspiring to leave their violent favela homes in Brazil to join a revolutionary dance company in the US
Director: Beadie Finzi
Out of Love
A love story in which love and hate collide, reinforce one another, intermingle, fuse, make a pact, and kill one another.
Director: Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito
Over The Limit
OVER THE LIMIT a nail-biting documentary about the intense physical and mental labor put into a sport that thrives on its beautiful aesthetics.
Director: Marta Prus
Playground
Laura Wandel's prize-winning debut film looks at schoolyard bullying through the eyes of two young siblings.
Director: Laura Wandel
Puppylove
A lonely teen's friendship with a free-spirited British neighbor pushes her to break free of the bonds of childhood.
Director: Delphine Lehericey
Puzzled Love
Sun and Lucas fall head over heels in love while they are exchange students in Barcelona, and they try not to think about being separated at the end of the term.
Director: Gaby Amione
Queen of Glory
Ghanaian-American Sarah is all set to abandon her Ivy League doctoral program to follow her married lover across the country....
Director: Nana Mensah
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
An intimate look at the life and creative process of feminist, rebel and visual artist Audrey Flack over her often-controversial 40-year career.
Director: Deborah Shaffer
Rafiki
When love blossoms between two daughter's of political rivals, Kena and Ziki, are faced with choosing between happiness and their safety.
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Remembrance
Inspired by actual events, REMEMBRANCE depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in Poland 1944.
Director: Anna Justice
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich--pioneers flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and...
Director: Margy Kinmonth
Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
The fragile Lia, and the sadist Viktor, have a very strong and passionate relationship.
Director: Guilia Brazzale
Room 304
Tales of sex, violence and corruption unfold as the lives of guests and staff intersect at a Copenhagen hotel.
Director: Birgitte Staermose
Rose Plays Julie
A young woman seeking her biological mother journeys into dangerous territory in this psychological thriller.
Director: Christine Molloy
Scarlet Diva
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
Director: Asia Argento
Second Coming
Busy parents Jackie and Mark are shocked when she inexplicably becomes pregnant.
Director: Debbie Tucker Green
She Wolf
She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires.
Director: Tamae Garateguy
Sign Painters
SIGN PAINTERS examines the painters who persevered despite dwindling demand for the specialized skill and catalyzed a resurgence in the craft.
Director: Sam Macon
Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
While traveling to California to attend her baby shower, a pregnant woman takes a side trip to find her long-estranged mother.
Director: Annie J. Howell
Still the Water
On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Tanta Agua
Divorced father Alberto takes his two adolescent children on vacation and refuses to let the incessant rains ruin his plans for quality family time.
Director: Ana Guevara
The Earth is Blue as an Orange
To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children make a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
Director: Iryna Tsilyk
The Forest for the Trees
Melanie, a young idealistic teacher starts her first job at a city high school. But soon she discovers her dream life is a world away.
Director: Maren Ade
The Last Autumn
A desolate farm, pushed up against the Arctic Ocean has been breeding sheep for centuries. This is the last autumn they herd their sheep.
Director: Yrsa Roca Fannberg
The Lesson
A school teacher's morality is turned upside down when she takes drastic measures to stop the foreclosure of her home.
Director: Kristina Grozeva
The Maneater
Jezabel, a rebellious young woman, lives for extreme life experiences until she almost hits rock bottom. She hides her fragility and fear of love until she crosses paths with a young priest.
Director: Natalie Saracco
The Miracle of the Little Prince
The passionate translators of best-selling children’s book The Little Prince, fight for the preservation of their endangered languages.
Director: Marjoleine Boonstra
The Mission
THE MISSION follows four American LDS teenagers who to travel to the frozen, forested lands of Finland.
Director: Tania Anderson
The Republic of Love
Based on a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, a romantic comedy about the barriers facing the lucky and the unlucky-in-love in the 21st century.
Director: Deepa Mehta
The Sower
When the men of their village are taken, the women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband.
Director: Marine Francen
The Third Wife
After becoming the third wife to a wealthy landowner in 19th century Vietnam, May struggles with family and the prospects of motherhood.
Director: Ash Mayfair
The War Show
A Syrian radio DJ shares her experiences in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring.
Director: Andreas Dalsgaard
Three Worlds
Three people are affected by the same tragedy, and each reacts to it in a different way.
Director: Catherine Corsini
True Mothers
A couple decide to adopt a baby after battling infertility. When the birth mother confronts them, they are forced to question their own parenthood.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Twin Flower
Two adolescents, damaged by life. Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start.
Director: Laura Luchetti
Watchtower
A troubled young hostess is rescued from a shocking calamity by a fire warden fighting demons of his own.
Director: Pelin Esmer
White Riot
A motley crew of mavericks band together with top punk bands to create Britain's biggest-ever civil rights movement, Rock Against Racism (RAR).
Director: Rubika Shah
Wildland
Ida moves in with her aunt and cousins after the tragic death of her mother. The home is filled with love, but the family leads a criminal life.
Director: Jeanette Nordahl
Women Composers
An examination of the historical and personal circumstances under which three remarkable women created their works in the 1800s and early 1900s.
Director: Kyra Steckeweh
XXY
The story of an intersexual fifteen-year-old and the challenge presented by her medical condition.
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Yarn
Every stitch tells a tale. International artists and knitters take a simple skein of yarn to create their extraordinary ideas and stories.
Director: Una Lorenzen
You Will be Mine
Marie and Emma develop a deep need for one another after they become roommates.
Director: Sophie Laloy