Africa United

Debs Gardner-Paterson

United Kingdom

Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream – to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.

Aftershock

Feng Xiaogang

China

The most successful Chinese movie of all time, Aftershock is based on the novel of the same name by Chinese Canadian author Zhang Ling. An intimate epic, the film sweeps across three crucial decades in recent Chinese history and ...

All About Love

Ann Hui

Hong Kong, China

All About Love takes a rare look at not only the lives of queer women, but also the challenges of creating a family. Ann Hui expertly balances the serious themes of motherhood, sexuality and discrimination, rarely addressed in Ho...

Amazon Falls

Katrin Bowen

Canada

Characters reveal hidden depths as Katrin Bowen’s first feature tells the tale of a struggling actress named Jana. Delving into the high-stakes world of keeping up appearances for which Los Angeles is infamous, Amazon Falls craft...

American Beauty

Sam Mendes

USA

Hilariously macabre, this is a tale of suburban angst taken to extremes. Lester (Kevin Spacey) is a sexually frustrated forty-something who quits his job in favour of full-time self-indulgence. His neurotic wife pursues various i...

Amigo

John Sayles

USA

The US occupation of the Philippines in 1900 provides the backdrop to this story of squad of American soldiers who occupy a village and learn how to live and negotiate with the natives. They focus on the local head man who finds ...

L' Amour Fou

Pierre Thoretton

France

Yves Saint Laurent built one of fashion's most celebrated empires. This moving documentary chronicles his rise, his lifelong partnership with Pierre Bergé and their decision to auction off a lifetime of precious art and objects.

Angst Essen / Eat Fear

Ming Wong

Angst Essen / Eat Fear is a compressed remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's interracial melodrama Ali: Fear Eats The Soul in which Ming Wong himself plays all the roles, including the Moroccan male and German female protagonist.

Another Year

Mike Leigh

United Kingdom

A happily married, middle-aged couple are visited by a number of unhappy and lonely friends who use them as confidantes. When an unmarried friend falls for their young son, they watch as events unfold. The film stars Jim Broadben...

ANPO

Linda Hoaglund

Japan, USA

ANPO depicts resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings and photographs, as well as animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan’s foremost contemporary artists.

Anything You Want

Achero Mañas

Spain

Four year-old Dafne's life is unhinged when her mother Alicia suddenly dies. Her father Leo tries to be both father and mother to her, but Dafne really just wants her mom. Leo strives to be just that, and in the process, nearly l...

Armadillo

Janus Metz

Denmark

Winner of Cannes Critics Week, Armadillo is a harrowing portrayal of the current conflict in Afghanistan. The film follows a contingent of Danish troops into the chaos of combat in a way that stirs debate over the rules of engage...

As If I Am Not There

Juanita Wilson

Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden

As If I Am Not There relates one woman’s experience of the horrors that took place at the beginning of the Bosnian War. Disturbing and powerful, the film is an important testament to the survivors of the atrocities in the former ...

At Ellen's Age

Pia Marais

Germany

A German flight attendant falls into increasingly bizarre adventures when she leaves her husband, quits her job and joins a radical group of animal activists.

ATTENBERG

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Greece

A dying architect and his emotionally stunted daughter inhabit the remains of a once booming industrial community in the middle of nowhere, now populated by the precious few who didn’t have the heart to leave it behind.

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Andrei Ujica

Romania

Culled from one thousand hours of archival footage and four years in the making, this spellbinding montage epic unfolds as if from the nostalgic, solipsistic memory of former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu, after his reign was ...

Autumn

Aamir Bashir

India

Shot in striking, widescreen images in India's Kashmir region, Bashir's debut tells the story of Rafiq, a young man struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother, who has disappeared in the ongoing border conflic...

Away from Her

Sarah Polley

Canada

When Fiona’s (Julie Christie) memory starts to deteriorate, her husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent) must move her to a rest home. Distressed by the intimate relationship she strikes up with fellow patient, Aubrey (Michael Murphy), Gra...

Bad Faith

Kristian Petri

Sweden

On her way home from work Mona finds the victim of a serial killer. She is shocked but the experience triggers something within and her fascination becomes obsession. She decides to find the killer on her own. Her hunt leads to v...

Balada Triste (The Last Circus)

Álex de la Iglesia

Spain, France

Álex de la Iglesia's genius for dark humour is at its most eloquent in his latest parody about the Spanish Civil War. Two clowns attack and disfigure one another in jealous rages over a beautiful dancer. In the name of love, they...

The Bang Bang Club

Steven Silver

Canada, South Africa

The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise...

Barney's Version

Richard J. Lewis

Canada, Italy

From producer Robert Lantos, Barney’s Version is a film based on Mordecai Richler's prize-winning comic novel. Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. Barney’s candid confessi...

Beautiful Boy

Shawn Ku

USA

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life. Stars Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.

Beginners

Mike Mills

USA

When his seventy-one-year-old father (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) must explore the honesty of his own relationships. From the director of Thumbsucker.

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

Jonathan Sobol

Canada

Raucous, charming and very funny, Jonathan Sobol's comedy A Beginners Guide to Endings follows three sons as they deal with their gambler father's somewhat complicated legacy. Featuring the legendary Harvey Keitel, the film also...

Behind Blue Skies

Hannes Holm

Sweden

In Hannes Holm's beautiully crafted Behind Blue Skies, Bill Skargard stars as a young man on the cusp of manhood who escapes his troubled home to work at a summer resort, but somehow finds himself embroiled in one of the most sca...

The Big Chill

Lawrence Kasdan

USA

When a group of friends reunite for the funeral of a friend who has committed suicide, they realize how much they’ve changed since the idealism of their youth. Each has a deep need to re-establish intimacies they once shared in t...

The Big Picture

Eric Lartigau

France

Paul Exben is a success story. He has a great job, a glamorous wife and two wonderful sons, except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new id...

Biutiful

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Spain, Mexico

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted real...

Black Ocean

Marion Hänsel

Belgium, France, Germany

Three young boys aboard a French naval vessel in 1972 take part in nuclear tests in Mururoa, in the Pacific. Black Ocean explores about the relationships of the men on board who are confronted with discipline, violence, solitude ...

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky

USA

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company. Black Swan...

Blame

Michael Henry

Australia

A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out, they find themselves on the dark side of justice.

Blessed Events

Isabelle Stever

Germany

37 year-old Simone decides to go out alone on New Year’s Eve. The next morning, she wakes up next to a stranger, and a few weeks later discovers that she’s pregnant. When she runs into the stranger again she is surprised by his r...

Block-C

Zeki Demirkubuz

Turkey

Zeki Demirkubuz's career-launching feature debut dissects the melancholy and repression inherent in bourgeois life in dreary apartment blocks.

Blue Valentine

Derek Cianfrance

USA

Blue Valentine is the story of love found and love lost, told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosli...

Boxing Gym

Frederick Wiseman

USA

Documentary master Frederick Wiseman explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.

Break Up Club

Barbara Wong

Hong Kong

Barbara Wong captures the mood of Hong Kong's young generation and delivers an ultra-modern romantic comedy about the end of one's innocence and the understanding that love is ultimately about the sacrifices one must make. Jaycee...

Brighton Rock

Rowan Joffe

United Kingdom

Based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel, we follow the odd relationship between a young thug on the rise in the British underground and a tea room waitress who witnesses a crime he has committed.

Brownian Movement

Nanouk Leopold

The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

Acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Nanouk Leopold explores a young mother's desires and needs in the langorous and atmospheric The Brownian Movement.

Bunraku

Guy Moshe

USA

In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett), a young samurai and a bartender (Woody Harrelson) plot revenge against a ruthless leader (Ron Perlman) and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assass...

Buried

Rodrigo Cortés

Spain, USA

When Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) wakes up six feet underground with no idea who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a...

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman

Wuershan

Hong Kong, China, USA

A tale of revenge, honour and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.

The Call

Stefano Pasetto

Italy/Argentina

Two woman, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity, meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind the...

Carancho

Pablo Trapero

Argentina, South Korea, France, Chile

Sosa (Ricardo Darin) is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Lujan, he tries to leave this dark business b...

Casino Jack

George Hickenlooper

Canada

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Werner Herzog

USA

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. He puts 3-D technology to a profound use,...

Ceremony

Max Winkler

USA

Along with his unwilling best friend, a young guy looks to crash the wedding of an older woman with whom he's infatuated. Stars Uma Thurman.

Chico & Rita

Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando

Spain, United Kingdom

Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba teams up with famed designer, Javier Mariscal to create an epic animated love story that occurs around the time of the Cuban Revolution.Highlighting a pivotal moment in the evolution of jazz...

The Christening

Marcin Wrona

Poland

Michal (Wojciech Zielinski) hopes to change his luck and escape his criminal past. But when he’s pursued by a violent gang,he desperately tries to find a way to save his family.

Cirkus Columbia

Danis Tanovic

Bosnia, Herzegovina

After twenty years of exile, a husband returns to his hometown in Herzegovina to settle some scores with his ex-wife, armed with a new Mercedes, a sexy new girlfriend and a mangy black cat.

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Alex Gibney

USA

Investigating the sex scandal that forced New York’s Governor to resign, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney gains revelatory interviews from Spitzer, his most frequent escort and his Wall Street enemies that bring new perspective...

Cold Fish

Sion Sono

Japan

Equal parts black humour and bloody dementia in this true crime portrait of a Japanese tropical fish dealer responsible for over forty murders.

Confessions

Tetsuya Nakashima

Japan

Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions is one of Japan's most important films of the year. A stylized mixture of cruelty and compassion, the film spins the dark tale of vengeance of a teacher whose little daughter has been killed by two...

The Conspirator

Robert Redford

USA

While an angry nation seeks vengeance, a young union war hero must defend a mother accused of aiding her son in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Directed by Robert Redford, the film stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright...

Conviction

Tony Goldwyn

USA

Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy® Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for murder and sent...

Cool It

Ondi Timoner

USA

Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner trains her camera on Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who takes on the issue of climate change, challenging the status quo, and pointing toward new ...

Crash

Paul Haggis

USA

Crash is a deeply felt meditation on redemption in the wake of tragedy. As beautiful as it is provocative, this powerful epic won accolades for director Paul Haggis and its ensemble cast. Rife with moments of intolerance, Crash i...

Crying Out

Robin Aubert

Canada

Three generations of men from the same family drunkenly careen across the Québécois countryside in an emotionally powerful journey through the past from one of Québec’s most intriguing young filmmakers.

Curling

Denis Côté

Canada

Set in a village in Quebec, Denis Côté’s Curling follows inveterate loner Jean-François, a single father, and his isolated 12-year-old daughter Julyvonne. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François devotes an awkward energy to ...