Passionate and rebellious Mary Wollstonecraft finds a kindred spirit in poet Percy Shelley. When tragedy strikes and the couple lose their baby daughter, Mary strikes back, finding the courage to transform her pain into the world’s first science fiction novel, Frankenstein.
A young screenwriter spends the summer in his hometown. He moves between beaches and bars, facing raw emotions and passions. Abdellatif Kechiche’s (Blue is the Warmest Color) new film is a daring, eye-riveting work.
An Israeli woman makes contact with men from the occupied territories through dating web sites. Through phone calls and encounters, ideas of sexuality and oppression are re-examined.
A spectacular animated film. Four-year-old Kun’s life turns upside-down when his baby sister gets all the attention. But things improve when he discovers a magic garden where he meets his relatives at different points in their lives.
In 1993, a teenage girl is sent to a Christian boarding school to “treat” her homosexuality. There, she forges a path through pseudo-psychological clichés. Winner of the Sundance FF Grand Jury Prize.
A factory worker assembles an enigmatic machine that produces liquid drops from the moonlight.
A short film that revives an epitomal instance of racism against Afro-Americans: the lynching of teenager Emmett Till in 1955. His uncle, a preacher from Mississippi, tries to protect his nephew against the blood-thirsty racists.
A surreal film combining historical events and the story of twins separated at birth. Twenty years later, they meet on the Orient Express: one, a wealthy woman; the other, an anarchist. A restored copy of the Caméra d'Or winner, Cannes, 1989.
Ami was killed in the 1967 War. 50 years later, Shaked, the film's director and Ami's nephew comes upon a family secret. In between visits to his grandma, Shaked seeks to uncover the truth behind Ami's life and death.
Sam’s father is rarely at home. He travels for business but keeps up his relationship with Sam by giving him lessons in suitcase packing. This is an aesthetically hypnotizing delight based on stop-motion technique, dolls, and sets.
In 1977, Chantal Akerman returns to New York. Urban scenes are combined with the reading of letters from her mother that gradually reveal Akerman’s need to detach herself from her roots while raising questions about the physical meaning of “home.”
The last year in the life of legendary rock star Nico (The Velvet Underground) is fertile ground for a thrilling film with an exemplary performance by Trine Dyrholm in the lead role. Winner of the Venice FF Horizons Award.
Celebrated director Chantal Akerman, who died in late 2015, creates a painfully poignant documentary of the final months in her mother’s life and bares the profound and complex mother-daughter relationship.
When a cemetery caretaker discovers the body of a young woman, he embarks on a surreal journey in search of the circumstances of her death. Alireza Khatami’s debut is an enthralling work which was awarded three prizes at the Venice Film Festival.
Twenty-three-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: To speak out on behalf of the Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS militants. Nadia is forced to revisit these realities, for without her testimony the genocide might go completely unnoticed.
A fascinating chronicle of the Metropolitan Opera’s history including archival footage, recordings, and interviews with legendary pillars of this great institution. A celebration for lovers of opera, architecture, and cinema at large.
When Sima decides to get close to the one thing that matters to her, she has no idea of the price she will have to pay.
Personal diaries by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, never-before-seen archives and exclusive interviews, create a dramatic journey into the backstage of the Oslo peace accords.
The 2016 US presidential elections were far more distorted in Russia than in the US. This film reveals how Putin’s ownership over the media nurtured conspiracy theories and audiences with an insatiable appetite for propaganda.
Moving to Paris to study film at the Sorbonne, Étienne meets other students who share his passion for cinema. They face heart break and moral dilemmas as they wander through the city, succumbing to their sexual desires.
Belfast, the swinging early 70s. Laurence throws a party. In the midst of the dancing, drinking, and romancing, his “crazy” cousin Mickey arrives. By morning, they realize that extreme partying comes at a heavy price.
A Holocaust survivor with a disfigured face returns to Berlin. When she finds her husband, he does not recognize her but suggests she help him claim his “dead” wife’s inheritance. Christian Petzold collaborates with actress Nina Hoss to create a powerfully poignant film.
A young father embarks on fake business trip to purge his darkest desires. When he meets the call girl he plans on murdering, he finds a kindred creative sadist. A dark thriller-black comedy adapted from Ryû Murakami’s novel.
A lawyer is consoled as his wife lays unconscious. But when her condition improves, he slowly deteriorates. Babis Makridis’s direction of screenwriter Efthimis Filippou’s (The Lobster) comic-tragedy is flawless.
