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- DirectorPeter MettlerThe huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
- DirectorRobert PersonsStarsWilliam DavidsonOne last trip down the rabbit hole before it gets paved over. A deep geography. What is above and what is below. What came before and what will come after. Agrarian fantasies, sacrificial rites, and excavations. A story told with maps, dreams, and prayers. A map lesson in three parts. A history of the State of Georgia - or Anywhere. Deer trail becomes Indian trail becomes county road.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsSermet YesilTürkü TuranSerkan KeskinA strange man with otherworldly talents becomes both a friend and a pariah in a small Turkish town in this drama from writer and director Reha Erdem. Yahya is nearly in a panic when his young son falls into the river on a wintry day and looks lifeless when he's pulled from the water.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsPaprika SteenMichael FalchSara-Marie MalthaActress Thea tries to adjust to life after rehab, 1 1/2 years after a divorce in which her ex won custody of their two sons.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsNathaniel BrownPaz de la HuertaCyril RoyAn American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
- DirectorThomas HeiseStory created from fragments in motion of observations from theatre and everyday life.
- DirectorChris Kelly ImmelStarsChristèle CervelleJean-Philippe LongetMarie, a theoretical physicist, searches in island seclusion for an understanding of the universal "unattainable." The natural world inexorably and wordlessly folds in around her even as she struggles to understand it through formal means.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsKrystyna JandaPawel SzajdaJan EnglertIn small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband from cancer.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- DirectorJohan MelinStarsAdam BrixRasmus EltonNicolei Faber"Profetia" is a metaphysical Multi-plot epic about love, life and death in the harsh North West parts of Copenhagen. A woman stands by a fire, burning the stories about love she has written down over the course of a lifetime. One by one her stories seem to come true and converge around her. People, bound by love & blood, will meet and confront each other over the course of one single day. Can they change what seems to be written?
- CreatorRon E. ScottStarsCarmen MooreEric SchweigMichelle ThrushBlackstone is an authentic drama that explores the dynamics of family, power and politics on a First Nation reserve.
- DirectorPaul ClipsonSphinx on the Seine is a film poem: the beginning of a metaphysical journey, musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world. These images follow one after the other, but geographically span thousands of miles and large passages of time between each cut.
- DirectorPaul HarndenBen Rivers
- DirectorAsiel NortonStarsMark AaronLucy AddenSean ThomasAs a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
- DirectorAndrey EshpayStarsChulpan KhamatovaIgor GordinSergey PerelyginBased on Vladimir Nabokov's work. In the center of a picture - history of the artist Troshcheykin, his wife Liouba, her mother and sister. They live abroad, in the provincial small town inhabited by compatriots. Unexpected return to the city nobody Barbashina overturns family life. Five years ago in a jealousy attack this person shot at Troshcheykin and his wife, has wounded them and, having got for six years to prison, has promised to return and finish begun.
- DirectorMary Helena ClarkAn impressionist sea ponders the movements of creatures, seeing them in its dreams like dots swimming on its surface, carried along by the waves that slow the immense motion of its waters.
- DirectorDeimantas NarkeviciusThe everyday scenes are of both the city and countryside, close-ups of people when they are relaxing, and hard at work, and of big crowds at an official outdoor gathering. The interior views are of private and public spaces. The images are suggestive of the ordering of the people's lives.
- DirectorTakashi Makino
- DirectorTakashi Makino
- DirectorJanez LapajneStarsNatasa Barbara GracnerBranko ZavrsanTjasa ZeleznikThe breathtaking opening vistas of Personal Baggage, with a choral score to match, give fair but subliminal warning to the audience: this film will twist you and turn you. A talented but spoilt young man smothered in the affection of his adoring mother and heedless of his aloof father; his grandfather, a benevolent but self-important patriarch; and his new girl-friend, a creature of voluptuous innocence wrestling with the torment of a dysfunctional home, are the central characters in this ensemble narrative of strained love and spiralling desire. The masterfully portrayed characters reveal the inexorable issues, or baggage, they bring with them, and ultimately their own baggage becomes a ruinous physical burden. The peripheral, chorus-like characters, including a reclusive painter and her friend, an unworldly man of the woods, provide their own touching story, but offer no redemption. And surrounding the entire film is the remote yet haunting presence of the Slovenian forests, which have been slowly yielding up their own gruesome historical baggage, a subtext that director Janez Lapajne uses to excruciatingly ironic effect.
- DirectorPeter ThompsonLOWLANDS is a feature cinematic essay that moves between chronological and geographical zones and events including the 1996 trial of a Bosnian Serb for crimes against humanity, the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and the relationships between them. The film culminates in a dream by Catharina Bolnes, the widow of Johannes Vermeer, embodied in a contemporary chamber opera/masque.
- DirectorPhylis GellerStarsJudy BondsJoe LovettRandall Maggard
- DirectorNoa Ben-HagaiStarsHiam AbbassAt 14 my grandmother's sister disappeared from her home in Israel. Years later, she started sending my family letters with a desperate plea for contact, from a refugee camp, where she lived as an Arab. My Jewish family chose to turn their back on their Arab relative. I discovered her letters after my grandmother died and I set on a painful quest, uncovering the past. I search for my lost family in territories occupied by my country and reveal a story that could only be told in the war-torn Middle East, about one family, on both sides of a conflict.
- DirectorMarin MalesevicStarsMilivoje ObradovicAleksandar DjuricaStrahinja BojovicA surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.
- DirectorJ.J. KelleyJosh ThomasStarsJ.J. KelleyJosh ThomasTwo best friends build their own kayaks and paddle alone for 97 days in the wilderness over 1,300 miles from Alaska to Seattle and survive to talk about most things.
- DirectorFélix LajeunessePaul RaphaëlStarsTanya TagaqA thought-provoking meditation on the seal-hunt and what it means to the traditional way of life for the Inuit.
- DirectorAlfonso AlvarezThad PoveyA single channel, high-definition video derived from a live performance piece, Nightsoil utilizes found footage that the filmmakers physically reconstituted through hand-processing, scratching, tinting, and other hands-on techniques.
- DirectorCornelia GeiserJean-Marie StraubStarsCornelia Geiser
- DirectorRob RayCanaries in the Coalmine is an investigation into the mystery and symbolism of the American landscape. Canaries in the Coalmine examines details in the American landscape to question the interconnectedness of desire and the intended and unintended outcomes of fulfilling that desire.
- DirectorIlisa BarbashLucien Castaing-TaylorIn the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.
- DirectorCharlotte SielingStarsSidse Babett KnudsenMohammed Al-BakierAnders W. Berthelsen3 ex/potentially ex couples in Copenhagen, interconnected by extramarital affairs or work at the theater, are having problems as are their kids.
- DirectorJon GunnStarsMira SorvinoBarry PepperCole HauserA young boy is torn away from his adoptive parents by his alcoholic, abusive birth parents.
- DirectorKarolle WallStarsFlorence JamesA nudibranch (sea snail) dances to the drum beat and rhythm of an aboriginal, Coast Salish Song. It bears an environmental message passed on for thousands of years: If we are to save our environment, appreciate our coastal, marine ecosystems, we must pay attention and bear witness to every tiny aspect of what lies before us.
- DirectorRamin BahraniStarsWerner HerzogBarbara WeetmanA plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsKudzani MoswelaChantelle BurgerTammy RichardsA sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
- DirectorMarzieh MakhmalbafMohsen MakhmalbafStarsSafar KhakdodovMahmadulloh KabirovElizaveta NisSomewhere in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1992, a man walks into a low-end bar and sits silently, observing the people around him, not speaking. The mysterious stranger starts to get the attention of the other customers.
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsHassan PourshiraziYounes GhazaliMohammad RabbaniRahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.
- DirectorSung-il JungStarsShin Ha-kyunJung In-sunMoon Jeong-HeeThe story begins with a man left by his girlfriend on Christmas Eve and unfolds across the city of Seoul.
- DirectorHeinz EmigholzForty-two architecture projects with Austrian origins.
- DirectorLee Hae-junStarsJeong Jae-yeongJung Ryeo-wonYeong-seo ParkA failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.
- DirectorMariya NikiforovaA year-long study of a pond.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsLena KostyukRoma BurlakaZhan DanielTwo young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
- DirectorBen RussellStarsMonie PansaBenjen PansaErwin AkobeThe film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, in a rehearsal of the voyage undertaken by their ancestors, who escaped from slavery at the hands of the Dutch 300 years prior. A path still traveled to this day, its changing topography bespeaks a diverse history of forced migration.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJosh HartnettNu Yên-Khê TranLee Byung-hunEx-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.
- DirectorScandar CoptiYaron ShaniStarsFouad HabashNisrin SiksikElias SabaAjami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
- DirectorGreg MottolaStarsJesse EisenbergKristen StewartRyan ReynoldsIn the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsNicolas CageEva MendesRussell M. HaeuserTerence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
- DirectorNoah BuschelStarsMichael ShannonFrank WoodAmy RyanPrivate detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsAdrien BrodyEmmanuelle SeignerElsa PatakyIn Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsGael García BernalMichelle WilliamsMarife NecesitoWhen a father has to leave his family in New York, for a business trip to Thailand in the gaming industry, fatal destinies collid.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsIsaach De BankoléAlex DescasJean-François StéveninThe story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsabelle HuppertChristopher LambertIsaach De BankoléAmidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
- DirectorTi WestStarsJocelin DonahueTom NoonanMary WoronovIn 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsRinko KikuchiSergi LópezMin TanakaA dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.
- DirectorLior ShamrizStarsChloe GriffinTal MeiriJoshua BogleLucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsMichael ShannonWillem DafoeChloë SevignyInspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
- DirectorUwe BollStarsKristanna LokenDavid O'HaraNoah Dalton DanbyAmerican journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsTahar RahimNiels ArestrupAdel BencherifA delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss. But his gradual rise through the mob's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsSimon AbkarianPatrick J. AdamsRiz AhmedA young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone.
- DirectorUwe BollStarsEdward FurlongShaun SiposSam LevinsonA heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
- DirectorRy Russo-YoungStarsStella SchnabelSimon O'ConnorZachary TuckerA kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
- DirectorPaul KingStarsEdward HoggSimon FarnabyVerónica EcheguiA young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
- DirectorJohn G. YoungStarsJulia Carothers HughesElizabeth DennisTerrance EppsAfter 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.
- DirectorTomas MasinStarsKrystof HádekKarolina GruszkaMartin HubaA 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he writes lyrics for many of the underground rock band hits by 'The Plastic People of the Universa', a group heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground.
- DirectorByambasuren DavaaStarsUrna Chahar-TugchiHicheengui SambuuChimed DolgorA promise, an old, destroyed horse head violin and a song believed lost lead the singer Urna back to Outer Mongolia. Her grandmother was forced to destroy her once loved violin in the tumult of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The ancient song of the Mongols, "The Two Horses of Genghis Khan", was engraved on the violin's neck. Only the violin's neck and head survived the cultural storm. Now it is time to fulfill the promise that Urna made to her grandmother. Arrived in Ulan Bator, Urna brings the still intact parts of the violin - head and neck - to Hicheengui, a renowned maker of horse head violins, who will build a new body for the old instrument in the coming weeks. Then, Urna leaves for the interior to look there for the song's missing verses. But she will be disappointed. None of the people whom she meets on the way appears to still know the old melody of the Mongols.
- DirectorPeter BrosensJessica WoodworthStarsMagaly SolierJasmin TabatabaiOlivier GourmetA former war photographer and her physician husband are caught up in a riot when locals in an Andean village vent their unhappiness with contamination from a nearby mine.
- DirectorBob BalabanStarsJoan AllenJeremy IronsEd Begley Jr.Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
- DirectorVardis MarinakisStarsSofia GeorgovassiliChristos PassalisDespoina BebedeliGreece, 1654. A seriously wounded Janissary arrives at a cloister situated on a cliff, and the sisters take him in and care for him. Sister Anthi, one of those who tends him, falls in love with the soldier and eventually helps him escape. The central focus of the film does not come out of its historical context but is derived from the relationship between the two main characters and, above all, from the quest for freedom and identity for young Anthi. The initially silent sister, hiding a surprising secret, discovers heretofore unknown desires that lead her to a radically altered view of herself.
- DirectorRyan WardStarsRyan WardRebecca McMahonShantelle CanzaneseA socially disconnected young man with Tourette's Syndrome undergoes an experimental surgery to correct his disorder, but as his symptoms start to fade so does his ability to heal the sick and dying.
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsDragos BucurVlad IvanovIon StoicaA police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsJason PalmerDesiree GarciaSandha KhinAfter connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsDominique ThomasLola CrétonDaphné BaiwirAn adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab HosseiniThe mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsHilda PéterNorbert TankóLászló MátrayIn the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder. When her village discovers her secret, Katalin's husband rejects her. With nothing to lose, she is free to seek revenge on the perpetrators. As she puts human faces to horrible acts, she is forced to consider that morality might not be as black and white as she had imagined.
- DirectorCarlos BoladoStarsJack Kohler
- DirectorDeborah StratmanA meditation on freedom and technological approaches to manifest destiny.
- DirectorAndrew BujalskiStarsTilly HatcherMaggie HatcherAlex KarpovskyA pair of identical twin sisters -- one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other -- 'same face, different bodies.'
- DirectorXiaolu GuoStarsLu HuangYibo WeiGeoffrey HutchingsThis is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her entrapment begins anew.
- DirectorBrandon StrathmannCarlene StrathmannThe Plastic Perils of the Pacific tackles the dangers posed by plastic garbage in the open sea with humor. Our hero, a neurotic little red crab, finds his paradise under assault by the intrusion of a water bottle. He undertakes a fantastic journey through the beautiful realm of a coral reef meeting and helping other sea-life along the way.
- DirectorKen McMullenStarsSteven BarberJustinian BuckleyJacques DriencourtA disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsAmitai AshkenaziBen EidelEliran EyalFrom Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history.
- DirectorYuval YefetUsing solely striking visuals and unsettling music, the film explores the Israeli landscape that is being taken over by raw concrete.
- DirectorJean-Marie StraubStarsGiovanna DaddiGiovanna Giuliani
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsCoco MartinMaria Isabel LopezJulio DiazA young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
- DirectorHaim TabakmanStarsZohar StraussRan Khalil DankerTinkerbellA married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
- DirectorHélène CattetBruno ForzaniStarsCassandra ForêtCharlotte Eugène GuibeaudMarie BosAs a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
- DirectorStéphane AubierVincent PatarStarsStéphane AubierJeanne BalibarNicolas BuysseCowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsAlain CavalierCatherine DeneuveVanessa WidhoffA video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsMarciano MartínezYull NúñezAgustin NievesA musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.
- DirectorCarsten AschmannDriving through the mountains. The sounds of chords, beauty, art and death echo through the places and elements. The trip ends in the city of Venice which appears exhausted and deserted.
- DirectorPeter LiechtiStarsPeter MettlerAlexander TschernekNikola WeisseA 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. Who was this man? Why did he kill himself in such a manner? 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.
- CreatorEileen HeislerDeAnn HelineStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottThe daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana.
- DirectorAleksandr GornovskiyKaren ShakhnazarovStarsVladimir IlinAleksey VertkovAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyySimultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.
- DirectorNancy J. RodwanStarsStuffy Shmitt"A Noiseless Patient Spider" ventures to connect images with Walt Whitman's words. Follow the spider whose strong will and tenacious spirit are depicted in black and white paintings along with a soulful reading of the poem by musician/actor Stuffy Shmitt.
- DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsRiley O'BryanKate Lyn SheilBruno Meyrick JonesTyrone aimlessly embarks upon an obfuscating journey into nonsensical frustration as he tries to locate German V-2 rockets at the end of World War II, as a soldier in the United States Army's Operation Paperclip.
- DirectorJo DanieliStarsNoella NegrilloKolina MokiaoLarry Noa KawaiThe epic historical documentary "Native Of Owhyhee" tells the story how Hawaii turned from an ancient "pagan" society into one of the most literate Christian nations in the world of the 1800s. It is the story of tribal cults and sacrifices, of legendary magical ways of living predating the era of the settlement of Polynesia, of indigenous traditions in the islands through the eras, and it features the intersection of cultures in Hawaii as well as the fate of several young Hawaiian sailors and a Prince who played historical key-roles in the era of greatest changes shortly after Western contact, together with the pioneer American Christian missionaries. The film features 56 speakers from Hawaii and New England and ten native Hawaiian narrators, over 1000 historical images, historical film-clips and great original Hawaiian and New England music.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsTommy Lee JonesJohn GoodmanPeter SarsgaardA detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.
- DirectorPhilip YungStarsTai-BoSo-Ying HuiHiu-Fai Kwok
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsMads MikkelsenMaarten StevensonAlexander MortonForced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.
- DirectorErmek TursynovStarsGulsharat ZhubyevaTurakhan SadykovaErzhan NurymbetA woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is not such a bad catch after all but domestic bliss does not last long.