Films alphabetically – ABC in this list
Above the Knee
Greg Atkins
Canada
Jack’s suit-and-tie career never quite fit. As he summons the courage to dress for the job he wants, he risks changing the way his co-workers and his wife see and treat him.
The Adder’s Bite
Firas Momani
Canada
On the surface, all is calm. In a dark and humid cavern, an abominable ceremony to which grotesque creatures devote themselves is interrupted by the arrival of an intruder. The piercing short The Adder’s Bite, inspired by the bol…
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.
Animal Control
Kire Paputts
Canada
Larry is an amateur taxidermist who, as the pick-up man for the local Animal Services, gets all his specimens through work.
Anne Truitt, Working
Jem Cohen
USA
A lovely, observational portrait of Minimalist painter and sculptor Anne Truitt, who is finally receiving long-overdue recognition for her critical contribution to the American avant-garde painting scene of the 60s.
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 …
ascents in february
Yoel Meranda
Turkey
An abstract, impish spot of light leads the camera onto Istanbul’s streets.
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.
Atlantiques
Mati Diop
Senegal, France
Winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Best Short Film Award, Atlantiques is by Mati Diop, who recently starred in Claire Denis’s 35 Rhums. Atlantiques recounts the oddysey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-thre…
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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.
Aubade
Nathaniel Dorsky
USA
“An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first venture into shooting in color negative after having spent a lifetime …
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…
Bits and Pieces
Various and Anonymous
Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
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…
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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.
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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…
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Zeki Demirkubuz
Turkey
Zeki Demirkubuz’s career-launching feature debut dissects the melancholy and repression inherent in bourgeois life in dreary apartment blocks.
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blue mantle
Rebecca Meyers
USA.
An ode to the sea, where beauty and death often meet.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Burning Bush
Vincent Grenier
Canada, USA
A virtuosic use of video sets this burning bush alight with crimson colour and transcendent allusions.
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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.
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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…
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The Camera and Christopher Merk
Brandon Cronenberg
Canada
Quiet Christopher Merk just found a new apartment. Getting to know his neighbours doesn’t require borrowing a cup of sugar; it means picking up the remote.
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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…
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Casino Jack
George Hickenlooper
Canada
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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,…
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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.
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Champagne
Hans Olson
Canada
Clara’s birthday is just another night shift of staging beds at the local furniture store, until she learns her secret crush James is working his final shift.
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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…
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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.
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Cinematographie
Philipp Fleischmann
Austria
A reinvention of the filmstrip by way of an astonishing 360 degree camera obscura construction, which allows for a continuous single frame to emerge like a scroll rather than a series of frames.
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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.
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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…
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The Closer You Get to Canada
John Bolton
Canada
Adapted from Thomas King’s darkly comic story, two old friends trapped in a futuristic American seniors’ residence try to escape to Canada.
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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.
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Color Field Films 1 & 2
Madison Brookshire
USA
Colour field films made of slow dissolves and winsome wavelength compositions of light.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
Peter Tscherkassky
Austria
Austrian master Peter Tscherkassky’s latest epic is a sly comedy that mines the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde by way of advertising. With references to Méliès, les Lumières, Cocteau and Fernand Léger, COMI…
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Compline
Nathaniel Dorsky
USA
“Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a…
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Concorso di bellezza fra bambini a Torino
Italy
Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute of Netherlands; a parade of pint-sized pulchritude.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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.
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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 …
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