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- DirectorJero YunStarsJang Dong-yoonOh Gwang-RokLee Na-youngA Chinese student travels to Seoul in search of his mother, whom he has not seen for fourteen years.
- DirectorWoo-Ping YuenStarsJin ZhangDave BautistaYan LiuWhile keeping a low profile after his defeat by Ip Man, Cheung Tin Chi gets into trouble after getting in a fight with a powerful foreigner.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsSôsuke IkematsuYû AoiRyûsei MaedaSet during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan, Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure to be replaced by war and conflict across the land the swordsman feels restlessness creep upon him.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsThelonius Serrell-FreedSophie Lane CurtisJacqueline BissetA nostalgic serenade for the loss of "real cinema". A requiem for Hollywood's past.
- DirectorAdilkhan YerzhanovStarsSultan AbzalovTulemis AlishevDinara BaktybaevaAfter her father's untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city. She has to find money to pay off the large family debt that her father left behind, in order to save her mother from jail. Friends since their village childhood, her loyal, but penniless admirer Kuandyk follows her just to make sure his sweetheart is safe. Saltanat's uncle introduces her to a possible groom, who promises to pay off her family's debts. But Saltanat's hopes are dashed, when she discovers that the men in this city don't keep their word. When Kuandyk tries to help Saltanat get the money through other ways, he ends up finding himself in more trouble than he bargained for. Although life keeps dealing them bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give up, no matter what the odds.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTim Blake NelsonWillie WatsonClancy BrownSix tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPenélope CruzJavier BardemRicardo DarínLaura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
- DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsJean-Marc BarrOlga SimonovaJohn RobinsonThe marriage of Tana and Milan Labat is going through a crisis. They are constantly quarreling while their 16-year-old daughter goes missing at her birthday party. The couple redefine their marriage as they set off to find their child.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsElín HallEyrún Björk JakobsdóttirLára Jóhanna JónsdóttirDrawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsRobert PattinsonJuliette BinocheAndré 3000A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
- DirectorMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsMateusz KosciukiewiczAgnieszka PodsiadlikMalgorzata GorolA man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.
- DirectorKim NguyenStarsJesse EisenbergAlexander SkarsgårdSalma HayekA pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJosé Luis FerrerIsmael FritschiJuan López-TagleToby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDogu DemirkolMurat CemcirBennu YildirimlarAn unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardDimitri BasilJean-Pierre GosNothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.
- DirectorDavid OelhoffenStarsMatthias SchoenaertsReda KatebAdel BencherifDriss and Manuel are two childhood friends who end up taking opposite paths: Manuel chose to embrace the thug life, while Driss becomes a cop. When Manuel's biggest deal goes terribly wrong, the two men meet again and come to realize they both need each other to survive in their worlds.
- DirectorUlrich KöhlerStarsHans LöwElena RadonicichMichael WittenbornA bored man suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared though he isn't sure what happened.
- DirectorEthan HawkeStarsBen DickeyAlia ShawkatJosh HamiltonA reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloElena Sofia RicciRiccardo ScamarcioA film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsMarianna FontanaReinout Scholten van AschatAntonio FollettoWith Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMarcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
- DirectorAriel VromenStarsJordan RoccaMarwan KenzariHenry AndrawesAs his country prepares for war, top Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan makes contact with Israel and wades into a shadowy game of high-stakes espionage.