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- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsSofía OteroPatricia López ArnaizAne GabarainDuring a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDeniz CelilogluMerve DizdarMusab EkiciA young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
- DirectorLang WuStarsKang-sheng LeeMeng LiKe RenHan Jiangyu, who has been away from his hometown for ten years, returns to his hometown, trying to regain his old love with his former lover Su Hong. Han's old friend Chen Kai participated in the house purchase plan, so Han Jiangyu and Su Hong had to face their own problems and face the difficulties of life together.
- DirectorDustin Guy DefaStarsMichael CeraHannah GrossSophia LillisThe plan to make a trip back home as short as possible begins to unravel as Eric finds himself balancing the challenging relationship with his two sisters and his addiction to a local poker game.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsThomas SchubertPaula BeerLangston UibelA group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- DirectorJames BenningIt centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned town and looking for the traces of a Black cultural history.
- DirectorBabatunde ApalowoStarsTope TedelaRiyo DavidMartha EhinomeBambino and Bawa meet in Lagos and hit it off immediately. During their long trips around the city, they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society which considers homosexuality taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.
- DirectorMarie Amachoukeli-BarsacqStarsLouise Mauroy-PanzaniIlça Moreno ZegoAbnara Gomes VarelaSix-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsSandra HüllerSwann ArlaudMilo Machado-GranerA woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsOumaima BaridMehdi DehbiFouad OughaouAs she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAnselm KieferDaniel KieferAnton WendersAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
- DirectorJian LiuStarsZijian DongDongyu ZhouXu ChangchuSet in China in the 1990s, takes a look at youth featuring a group of art students.
- DirectorIli BareStarsKatrina AdamsLiam BroadyPat CashEvery January, the Australian Open commands global attention, but when off-court drama steals the show, Australia itself becomes part of the spectacle.
- DirectorTomás BojarAdéla KomrzýArtistic endeavor isn't about competing; even so, applicants still have to be placed in order of merit at the academy's entrance exams. But how do you assess artistic talent? And what role can art play in today's world?
- DirectorMakbul MubarakStarsKevin ArdilovaArswendy Bening SwaraHaru SandraA young man working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.
- DirectorAlice EnglertStarsJennifer ConnellyAlice EnglertAna ScotneyA former child actress seeking enlightenment at a retreat led by a spiritual leader navigates the close but turbulent relationship with her daughter.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsHyeonseo LeeSung-eun KimSo-yeon LeeThe story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
- DirectorRamata-Toulaye SyStarsKhady ManeMamadou DialloBinta Racine SyA young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
- DirectorMel EslynStarsSterling K. BrownMark DuplassIn the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
- DirectorJack ClarkJim WeirStarsMackenzie FearnleyShabana AzeezBen HunterA bride-to-be is invited to her fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details of their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsTony MusanteSuzy KendallEnrico Maria SalernoAn American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
- DirectorLaura MossStarsMarin IrelandJudy ReyesA.J. ListerA morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl's mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, they enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return.
- DirectorMatt JohnsonStarsJay BaruchelGlenn HowertonMatt JohnsonThe story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
- DirectorDario ArgentoGeorge A. RomeroStarsAdrienne BarbeauHarvey KeitelRamy ZadaA duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
- DirectorElene NaverianiStarsEka ChavleishviliTemiko ChichinadzeLia AbuladzeEtero, 48, single in a Georgian village, encounters gossip. She unexpectedly falls for a man, caught between a relationship or independence. She navigates her emotions while grappling with societal norms, searching for happiness.
- DirectorPierre FöldesStarsAmaury de CrayencourMathilde AuneveuxArnaud MaillardA giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsPedro HestnesNuno FerreiraInês de MedeirosVicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It's their secret. Clara, the primary school assistant, is fascinatingly beautiful, and secretive, and (may be) she knows it aswel. There are other secrets, though: the origin of the money that appears at Vicente's house; the relationship between Vicente's well-to-do uncle and his girlfriend; the relationship between the four people who once played the cards together, and now can't stand each other.
- DirectorGeorgia OakleyStarsRosy McEwenKerrie HayesLucy HallidayIn 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsDongyu ZhouHaoran LiuChuxiao QuThe blossoming relationship between three young adults in their twenties.
- DirectorRenée Nader MessoraJoão SalavizaStarsFrancisco Hyjno KrahoIlda Patpro KrahoLuzia Cruwakwyj KrahoThrough her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzIn the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJames FranciscusKarl MaldenCatherine SpaakTwo journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.
- DirectorCarolina MarkowiczStarsMaeve JinkingsCésar BordónRômulo BragaA family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsMia WasikowskaKsenia DevriendtLuke BarkerA teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsSong Kang-hoLim Soo-jungOh Jung-seDescribed as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsNathalie BoutefeuThe film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsJeffrey CirioStina QuagebeurErina TakahashiFollows an outsider's search for belonging, set in a dilapidated former Arctic research station.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele LaviaA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
- DirectorXiaopeng TianFabiola StevensonStarsTingwen WangSu XinKuixing TengA girl strays into the dreamy deep sea world. In the deepest part of the sea, all secrets are hidden.
- DirectorRodrigo MorenoStarsDaniel ElíasEsteban BigliardiMargarita MolfinoBank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.
- DirectorFaouzi BensaïdiStarsFehd BenchemsiAbdelhadi TalbiRabii BenjhailePetty crooks Mehdi and Hamid travel through remote areas of Morocco to recover loans for their agency from villagers. Their usual day takes a turn when they meet a highwayman.
- DirectorGiacomo AbbruzzeseStarsMorr NdiayeWahab OladitiSalem KisitaAfter a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsElio GermanoChiara ContiElisabetta RocchettiA college film student, obsessed with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, investigates a murder committed in the apartment building across from his and suspects that his seductive neighbor hired a girlfriend to commit the deed.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsAdonis SklavenasAdriana TeplytskaAggelos GeorgiadisJacqueline escapes her war-torn country to a Greek island. She meets an unmoored tour guide and the two become close as they each find hope in the other.
- DirectorSavanah LeafStarsTia NomoreErika AlexanderKeta PriceAn intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsTilda SwintonLouisAugust JoshiReturning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenChiara MastroianniAlaina CliffordMurphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.
- DirectorMelisa LiebenthalStarsRocío StellatoVladimir DuránFederico SackOne day, Marina no longer recognizes herself. Is she ill, a different person, prettier? Those around her take it in their stride, her doctor is puzzled, the authorities block her ID card.
- DirectorAndrew DurhamStarsEmilia JonesScoot McNairyNessa DoughertyA young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad.
- DirectorSam H. FreemanNg Choon PingStarsGeorge MacKayNathan Stewart-JarrettNima TaleghaniFollows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsAdriano CelentanoEnzo CerusicoMarilù ToloIn 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.
- DirectorSafi FayeStarsIbou N'DongIn Fad'jal, Safi Faye tells the story of a Serer village in the groundnut basin of Senegal. Using the words of their ancestors passed on by oral folklore, the villagers trace the history of their village and their difficulties in working their land and living off their produce. Fad'jal is an extraordinary boundary defying film that interweaves ethnographic footage, intimate observation of everyday village life and fictionalised historical scenes. With it, Faye carefully encourages the viewers to reflect both on African history and storytelling, and on the intersection of fiction and documentary.
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsElina LöwensohnChrista ThéretJulia RiedlerConan's life at different stages is shown with a different aesthetic and rhythm from the Sumerian era to the near future.
- DirectorRoger ScholesThe Coolbaroo Club was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid, submitting its Aboriginal population to unremitting police harassment, identity cards, fraternization bans, curfews, and bureaucratic obstruction. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas - among them Nat "King" Cole, Harold Blair and the Harlem Globetrotters. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the Coolbaroo League, founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people. "More shaming than a hundred news stories, this chirpy, dignified and scathing documentary by Roger Scholes does more than just recall a less tolerant time and place. In a modest way, it lifts the lid on postwar relations in this country. Some wonderful interviews with feisty former club members, especially several still remarkably articulate old women. This is a shaming documentary but an educative and surprisingly forgiving one.
- DirectorLidia DudaZosia, Oskar and Kinga start their first year at the boarding school for visually impaired and blind children. Like fledglings, they are too young to leave home. Facing the separation from their parents, they try to support each other.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsMichael BrandonMimsy FarmerJean-Pierre MarielleA musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
- DirectorBabak JalaliStarsAnaita Wali ZadaGregg TurkingtonJeremy Allen WhiteDonya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
- DirectorShu Lea CheangStarsSarita ChoudhuryPedro PietriChing GonzalezYoung lesbian parents Shareen and Claire are raising their 5-year-old daughter Honey in a converted garage on Staten Island. Shareen salvages refuse with her pickup truck while Claire waits tables at the hip Naga Saki restaurant in Manhattan, caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. As a ghost barge bearing nuclear refuse circles the planet in search of a willing port, household pets begin to glow ominously, then disappear; and people start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated, the couple's daughter Honey mysteriously vanishes, and a group of young New Yorkers strike back in an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world.
- DirectorNick KozakisStarsGeorgia EyersDan EwingTim PocockLara is a woman tormented, torn between science and faith. Her husband pushes her to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, and a ruthless exorcist tries to save her soul by putting an innocent woman through hell.
- DirectorNicole NewnhamStarsDakota JohnsonShere HiteMichael ConradShere Hite's bestselling book The Hite Report liberated female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous surveys. Her findings rocked the American establishment and conversations about gender and sexuality.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsLioPascale SalkinDelphine SeyrigEmployees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love; they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it. Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle boys.
- DirectorMohamed KordofaniStarsEiman YousifSiran RiakNazar GomaJust before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid.
- DirectorPaul GoldmanStarsKate AlexaChristine AnuMary BainbridgeThe wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoStarsMontserrat HernandezMaría de los Ángeles Pacheco TapiaLuz María Vázquez GonzálezIn the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorFox MaxyStarsRuth FishSergio MejiaSuavitel PaperAn embodied rumination of both male and female power, healing and haunting, all within an apocalyptic world. A transformation that courses through unknown terror to untamed collective joy.
- DirectorMichael SelditchStarsJean Michel BasquiatKim CattrallLily CollinsA candid fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the creative process and the extraordinary life and career of Emmy-winning costume designer Patricia Field, whose unique vision has impacted fashion and popular culture for nearly six decades.
- DirectorSoda JerkAssembling hundreds of film clips and media images, artist duo Soda Jerk's s narration about the changes undergone by American society since Trump, while relishing in reflecting on contemporary cultural values.
- DirectorDaniel GoldhaberStarsAriela BarerKristine FrosethLukas GageA crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
- DirectorKamal LazraqStarsAyoub ElaidAbdellatif MasstouriMohamed HmimsaA father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body.
- DirectorMolly Manning WalkerStarsAnna AntoniadesMia McKenna-BruceLara PeakeThree 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.
- DirectorDick FontainePat HartleyStarsJames BaldwinDavid BaldwinChinua AchebeJames Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades.
- DirectorAmjad Al RasheedStarsMouna HawaHaitham AlomariYumna MarwanA widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws.
- DirectorThien An PhamStarsLe Phong VuNguyen ThinhVu Ngoc ManhA man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
- DirectorBethann HardisonFrédéric TchengStarsTyson BeckfordStephen BurrowsNaomi CampbellFashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an untold chapter in the fight for racial diversity.
- DirectorRoman LiubyiStarsAnastasiia AnykevychBridget FiskeSofiya GakhAn investigation into the circumstances surrounding the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
- DirectorBishal DuttaStarsMegan SuriNeeru BajwaMohana KrishnanAn Indian-American teenager struggling with her cultural identity has a falling out with her former best friend and, in the process, unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness.
- DirectorAlexandria BombachStarsAmy RayEmily SaliersWinona LaDukeKnown for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.
- DirectorPaloma Sermon-DaïStarsPurdey LombetMakenzy LombetDonovan NizetOne hot and stormy summer by a touristic lake, seventeen-year-old Purdey and her younger brother Makenzy walk the line between experiencing adolescence, finding love and fending for themselves.
- DirectorAlly PankiwStarsRachel SennottOlga PetsaJason JonesSam, a stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD, weighs whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.
- DirectorSafi FayeStarsYvonne NafiMoussa SarrYay SokhnaThe everyday experiences of a Senegalese student in West Berlin are marked by a sense of uneasiness in Europe and his family's expectations in the form of a constant stream of letters.
- DirectorSue BrooksStarsToni ColletteGotaro TsunashimaLynette CurranAgainst the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.
- DirectorMiri NavaskyMaeve O'BoyleKaren O'ConnorStarsJoan BaezGabriel HarrisPauline BaezAt the end of a 60-year 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 the personal struggles she's kept private.
- DirectorShahrukhkhan ChavadaStarsBilkish RefaiFahim ShaikhImtiyaz ShaikhAn unemployed Razzak wants to own an auto, and his daughter Ruba craves for a 100-rupee drink she cannot afford. An unexpected move threatens to alter their life.
- DirectorTyson MowarinStarsMark Coles SmithMark Coles Smith travels to the Kimberley region in Western Australia, where he grew up, to investigate why it has the highest suicide rate in the world, especially among young indigenous men, and what can be done to restore hope.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPaolo PierobonFausto Russo AlesiBarbara RonchiA Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- DirectorNenad Cicin-SainStarsChristiane AmanpourBill ClintonMuhamed SacirbeyBesieged Sarajevans find hope in underground art and music. U2 supports them amid crisis. Culminates in post-war unification concert.
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsJosh O'ConnorCarol DuarteVincenzo NemolatoA group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsLéa DruckerSamuel KircherOlivier RabourdinFollows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.
- DirectorCameron CairnesColin CairnesStarsDavid DastmalchianLaura GordonIan BlissA live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
- DirectorCyrielle RaingouStarsFalta SouleymaneIbrahim AlilouMohamed AlilouA clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.
- DirectorSafi FayeStarsAssane FayeMaguette GueyeSafi FayeNgor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
- DirectorJean RouchStarsDamouré ZikaLam Ibrahim DiaIllo GaoudelAn African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
- DirectorAmandine FredonBenjamin MassoubreStarsAlain ChabatLaurent LafitteSimon FaliuYoung Nicolas lives a childhood full of joy and learning in between camaraderie, arguments, fights, punishments, pranks and games.
- DirectorLisa CortesStarsLittle RichardRalph HarperNewt CollierThe life and career of Little Richard, the one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll icon who shaped the world of music.
- DirectorRay MarshStarsMarlene ClarkLawrence CookWally TaylorA tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.
- DirectorAndy BrownBrian LindstromStarsWeyes BloodJackson BrowneShawn ColvinThe never-before-told story of a folk-rock icon. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, and more.
- DirectorVladimir PerisicStarsJovan GinicJasna DjuricicMiodrag JovanovicA 15-year-old who must accept the unacceptable-that his mother is an accomplice of the regime's crimes
- DirectorJed I. RosenbergGary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band's breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same gonzo impulses derailed his rock star dream.