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 ...
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.
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 ...
Wang
Bing
France, Belgium
A political ghost story that gives voice to atrocious memories, The Ditch draws from Wang Bing's experience as a documentary filmmaker and lays bare a dramatic hidden chapter of China's communist history. It recounts the harrowin...
Michelangelo
Frammartino
Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration – by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, until completely purified – The Four Times is a genre-defying work of cinematic transcendence...
Douglas
Gordon
United Kingdom, Germany, France
Two musicians return to a haunted landscape and play the concerto of their lives.
Michael
Nyman
United Kingdom
Legendary composer Michael Nyman fails to answer an interview question. Music takes over.
Sophie
Fiennes
United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands
Major contemporary artist Anselm Keifer profiled in the style of his work.
Vincent
Gallo
USA
Shot in black-and-white, this fiercely independent film traces the steps a young photographer takes to fulfil the dying wishes of a beautiful young woman, including getting a job in a funeral parlour so he can oversee her cremati...
Nicolás
Pereda
Mexico, Canada, Netherlands
Toronto resident Nicolas Pereda explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary to evoke the atmosphere of the place in his latest feature, Summer of Goliath. It's a hot summer in the rural Mexican community of Huilotepec...
Catherine
Martin
Canada
After vibrant young violinist Anna dies, her mother Françoise leaves Montreal and takes refuge at the country home of her maternal ancestors in Kamouraska. She has given up on life, but an old friend labours to revive her desire...
Federico
Veiroj
Uruguay
Jorge has been working at the Cinematheque in Montevideo, Uruguay, for 25 years. Its imminent closing forces him to
take drastic steps and become the star of his own life. Shot in black and white, A Useful Life is an entertaining...