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- DirectorVadim JendreykoStarsSvetlana GeierAnna GötteHannelore HagenFirst her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.
- DirectorCharles AtlasStarsAnohniCharles AtlasThomas BartlettIn 2006 Antony and the Johnsons and Charles Atlas took their collaborative performance TURNING to major cities in Europe. This documentary film explores the heart of that performance.
- DirectorLaura TerrusoStarsWyatt CenacGreta LeeMaria DizziaA struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.
- DirectorAna Lily AmirpourStarsSuki WaterhouseJason MomoaJayda FinkIn a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.
- DirectorGuillermo ArriagaHector BabencoÁlex de la IglesiaStarsYaël AbecassisDemián BichirRicha ChadhaThe first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof.
- StarsToshirô YanagibaTomoya NagaseKotomi KyônoAsakawa is a journalist. He is witness to the strange death of a biker. Later this day, he learned that his niece Tomoko died suddenly of heart failure at the same time as the biker .So, he decide to go to the cottage where Tomoko and three of those friends were Then, he find a videotape and watch it. The curse is going on, now.
- DirectorNathan SilverStarsDeragh CampbellHenri DouvryJason GiampietroA black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in 90's suburban New Jersey.
- CreatorAhmed Al BakerStarsHana ChamounHemwant TiwariNatasha HenstridgeWhen a rocket launch goes awry, a group of strangers are holed up in a cave in the desert trying to survive, while the corporation that launched the rocket attempts to figure out went wrong.
- DirectorJun GengStarsBenbin GuXarxu WangGang XuWhen a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results.
- DirectorAndré CayatteStarsAnnie GirardotHardy KrügerBernard FressonAfter her daughter is kidnapped and killed, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
- DirectorGiddens KoStarsYu-Kai TengKent TsaiBonnie LiangShu-wei is an unpopular student who is a constant target for the school bullies, but he ends up joining forces with them when they encounter two demonic sisters who feast on human flesh at night, and they manage to capture one of them.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsJosé Mário BrancoManuela de FreitasMiguel GonçalvesAn author writes a story entitled "O som da terra a tremer", and the story constantly entwines itself with his private life.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsJulio JungÁngel ToledoGabino CarihuentroAn author comes back to his hometown in Patagonia, four decades after fleeing it during the repressive Pinochet regime.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsTsuyoshi AbeYumi AdachiMika AkizukiManami is captured by blood thirsty trigger happy vampires, and taken to their hotel, where they keep prisoners as future meals. They are all instructed to find a partner to survive, when a vampire clan from Transylvania interferes.
- StarsArlan GodthaabAngela ColonTed WangLife is Horrible is a horror comedy on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist.
- DirectorAneek ChaudhuriStarsSanchari DuttaParomita MukherjiDiganta NagThe Wife's Letter is an adaptation of Salvador Dali's artform and an amalgamation with Rabindranath Tagore's short story of the same name. Here, the protagonist named X is the personified variable in Mathematics who is suffering from schizophrenia and hence, his personality is not constant and varies. In this story, a LEAF has been considered to be a constant and X must be equal to that LEAF in order to validate language. This is an attempt to prove that Mathematics does not constitute emotions, sentiments and is comprising mere calculations; however, one's life cannot be completely manipulated. Here, the protagonist travels through three worlds to discover himself trying to equate himself to the LEAF.
- DirectorBrad AndersonStarsMarisa TomeiVincent D'OnofrioHolland TaylorNew Yorker Ruby Weaver believes she has found the man of her dreams in Sam Deed, who is her best catch in some time--except that he assures her that he came from the future.
- DirectorAlvaro de la BarraStarsPablo de la BarraI was born in secrecy in Chile, one month before the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973. My parents, militants of the MIR party, were shot dead in a military ambush just outside my kindergarten when they were coming to get me. I remained underground and soon after went into exile. I grew up under a different name and only had two pictures of my parents. I have always kept those pictures with me, wherever I went, whatever my name was, and whatever the nationality my passport indicated. The Chilean justice system recognized me as the son of my parents, now I want to know what those names actually mean. Back in Chile, once again a country with a consolidated democracy, but I remain a person with two different identities.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMarcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
- StarsGillian AndersonTeresa GallagherRasmus HardikerThe story follows Ronja, a young girl whose father is the chief of a tribe of bandits. They live in a huge castle in the forest with the bandits. In this story Ronja encounters mystical creatures as she explores and experiences life in the forest. Somewhere along the lines she makes friends with another young child much like herself. The title is based on the fantasy story Ronia the Robber's Daughter, written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
- DirectorWilson YipStarsFrancis NgLouis KooLan LawPolicemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess. Meanwhile, each man develops a romantic relationship.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsBrigitte LinMaggie CheungLeslie CheungA broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
- DirectorAlejo MoguillanskyStarsMaría VillarWalter JakobMargarita FernándezAndersen's "Little Match Girl", Bresson's donkey, the relationship between a German guerrilla and an Argentine pianist, and Helmut Lachenmann trying to stage an opera with the orchestra of the Teatro Colón on strike. In the middle of all that, Marie and Walter try to survive with their daughter.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsMarine VacthGéraldine PailhasFrédéric PierrotAfter losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
- DirectorLeigh WhannellStarsLogan Marshall-GreenMelanie VallejoSteve DanielsenSet in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.
- DirectorIura LuncasuStarsMarius DamianZaharia VisanPavel UliciMatters of the heart weave themselves into a love pentagon between five actors as they rehearse for a stage play in Bucharest's historic quarter.
- DirectorAneesh ChagantyStarsJohn ChoDebra MessingJoseph LeeAfter his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
- DirectorSam BanningStarsMichelle AlexanderMark ArnoldErwin ChemerinskyCruel and Unusual investigates the historic change to California's Three Strikes Law, which was the harshest sentencing law in the United States. The film tells the personal stories of three individuals sentenced to life under the law for minor, non-violent crimes, including writing a bad check, shoplifting a VCR, and taking a slice of pizza.
- DirectorVadim JeanStarsCorey JohnsonRobert KingHerman Wallace"Cruel and Unusual" is the story of three men who have spent longer in solitary confinement than any other prisoners in the US because of the murder of a prison guard in 1972 at Angola, the Louisiana state penitentiary. Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were convicted by bribed and blind eye witnesses and with no physical evidence. Targeted as members of the Black Panther party the film follows their struggle against the miscarriage of justice and their cruel and unusual treatment. Their story culminated in 2016 with the release of Albert Woodfox after 43 years in solitary confinement.
- DirectorJanet BausDan HuntReid WilliamsStarsAshleyOphelia DeLonteAnna ConnellyFive transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDogu DemirkolMurat CemcirBennu YildirimlarAn unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsSidney PoitierShelley WintersElizabeth HartmanA blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
- DirectorBob ByingtonStarsKieran CulkinNick OffermanMegan MullallyOwing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company Infinity Baby is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who never want to leave the baby bubble - infants that do not age.
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsPhillip MawdsleyNick StringerValerie LilleyThree autobiographical short films made over seven years about a young gay man coming to terms with his Catholic schooling, his homosexuality and guilt, his parents and their deaths, despair and loneliness.
- DirectorVincente DiSantiStarsDrew LeightyVincente DiSantiKatie SchwartzA hiker's survival skills are put to the test, when he stumbles upon the remains of an old abandoned camp and discovers its long dark secrets.
- DirectorRaúl de la FuenteDamian NenowStarsArtur QueirozLuis Alberto FerreiraCarlota MachadoA gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsDaijirô HaradaNobuko OtowaKeiko ToriiAfter leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings.
- DirectorDelphine DétrieStephanie is a young single mother. Parisian by birth, she left everything to realize her dream and live closer to nature. Located in Normandy, in the heart of the salt meadows of the Cotentin, she reinvents herself by learning the profession of shepherdess. At the head of her flock, she discovers on a daily basis the joys and difficulties of her new rural life.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorTalal DerkiStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimAbu OsamaTalal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
- DirectorRaMell RossStarsLatrenda 'Boosie' AshKarmyn BryantKorbyn BryantA kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.
- CreatorShin'ichirô WatanabeStarsKazuya NakaiGinpei SatoAyako KawasumiFuu, a waitress who works in a teahouse, rescues two master swordsmen, Mugen and Jin, from their execution to help her find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers."
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMaría ValverdeJolene AndersenDolores FonziIt will tell the haunting story of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ties that bind a parent to a child.
- DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsFrancisco José Gómez RomeroIsrael Gómez RomeroÓscar RodríguezIsra and Cheíto are two brothers who have gone their separate ways. When Isra comes out of prison and Cheíto's long mission in the navy comes to an end, they both return to the isle of San Fernando, their hometown. The brothers' reunion will refresh the memory of their father's violent death while they were still little, while the need for restoring and making it up with each other will bring them back together.
- DirectorAdina PintilieStarsLaura BensonTómas LemarquisChristian BayerleinTogether, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsAdriano TardioloAgnese GrazianiAlba RohrwacherAn unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.
- DirectorBi GanStarsTang WeiJue HuangSylvia ChangA man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
- DirectorAriel RotterStarsErica RivasMarcelo SubiottoSusana PampínIn this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her husband, accepts the courtship of a charming but mysterious older suitor.
- DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsRosa SalazarChristoph WaltzJennifer ConnellyA deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
- DirectorBrad AbrahamsStarsDavid HugginsDavid Huggins lost his virginity to an alien woman -among 100 other extra-terrestrial encounters -and chronicled it all in surreal paintings, few of which have ever been seen. Love & Saucers is his story.
- DirectorMatthieu RytzStarsAnote TongTiemeri 'Sermary' TiareAto Raatati GarstangA look at the devastating effects that climate change has on the people living on Kiribati, a low-lying atoll in the Pacific.
- DirectorAlexander MonelliStarsJeff MattoxVirgil CardamoneMatt McClanahanUnable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free.