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- DirectorMichael ShowalterStarsKumail NanjianiZoe KazanHolly HunterPakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.Opening Night
- DirectorGillian RobespierreStarsJenny SlateJay DuplassAbby QuinnIn 1995, a teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan discovers that her father is having an affair.Centerpiece Gala
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsAugust DiehlStefan KonarskeVicky KriepsThe early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.Closing Night Gala
- DirectorTheresa RebeckStarsAnjelica HustonBill PullmanDavid MorseMiddle-aged siblings feud over possession of their father's estate in this sibling rivalry dramatic comedy.Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award for Anjelica Huston
- DirectorBrett HaleyStarsSam ElliottLaura PreponKrysten RitterAn ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.An Afternoon with Sam Elliott
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsCristiana CapotondiAmbra AngioliniFiorella MannoiaThe owners of an Italian textile factory sell majority of property to a multinational company.Official Competition
- DirectorClaudia HuaiquimillaStarsAndrew BargstedEliseo FernándezFrancisco Pérez-BannenAgainst the backdrop of an impending environmental crisis, two troubled adolescents strive to find their place in the world in this stirring debut film from Chile, which weaves together political themes both social and personal.Official Competition
- DirectorEliza HittmanStarsHarris DickinsonMadeline WeinsteinKate HodgeA Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet.Official Competition
- DirectorJian LiuStarsChanglong ZhuKai CaoJian LiuA city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.Official Competition
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraRym Ben MessaoudSabah BouzouitaHedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rim and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.Official Competition
- DirectorNana EkvtimishviliSimon GroßStarsIa ShugliashviliMerab NinidzeBerta KhapavaA woman separates from her family after 52 years in a multi-generational Georgian household to begin her own adventure. To the shock of her relatives, she leaves everything behind to start again.Official Competition
- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsMaj-Doris RimpiOlle SarriÁnne Biret SombyA reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.Official Competition
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsAleksandr GorchilinMasha TokarevaNatalya PavlenkovaMiddle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.Official Competition
- DirectorAna Felicia ScutelnicuStarsWillem MenneAndrei MorariAnisoara MorariAnishoara is a 15 year old girl, who lives in a beautiful old village in Moldova. She raises without mother and for several years she cares for her little brother Andrei and her drinking father Petru. She works in hte neighboring pension, to earn little money and food. Her neighbors Vasiluta and Mihai are very kind people, having several kids by their own, and look after young Anishoara and Andrei.New Directors Competition
- DirectorChloé RobichaudStarsEmily VanCampMacha GrenonSerge HoudeEmily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.New Directors Competition
- DirectorDavy ChouStarsSobon NuonCheanick NovMadeza ChhemAn adolescent who leaves rural Cambodia to become a construction worker only to be reunited with his missing older brother.New Directors Competition
- DirectorJackie van BeekStarsDavid ElliotChelsie Preston CrayfordJodie HillockAfter surviving a fatal car crash, teenage runaway Tia moves in with the strangers involved in the accident, threatening the family's delicate balance.New Directors Competition
- DirectorMichele VannucciStarsMirko FrezzaAlessandro BorghiVittorio VivianiAt 39 years of age Mirko has just left prison. In the outskirts of Rome, a new future waits for him. When he is elected president of the homeowners' committee, he realizes he can dream of a different kind of existence.New Directors Competition
- DirectorMbithi MasyaStarsNyokabi GethaigaElsaphan NjoraPaul OgolaA young woman with no memory of her life or death, is helped with assimilation to the afterlife by a ghost.New Directors Competition
- DirectorCharlotte SielingStarsSøren MallingJakob OftebroAne Dahl TorpSimon, king of the Danish art scene, sees his life turned upside down when his unknown son Casper turns up.New Directors Competition
- DirectorHamé BourokbaEkoué LabiteyStarsReda KatebSlimane DaziMélanie LaurentJust out of prison, Nas returns to his neighborhood, Pigalle, where he finds his friends and his older brother Arezki, boss of the bar Le Prestige. Nas is determined to recreate a name and Le Prestige could well serve as a springboard .New Directors Competition
- DirectorHana JusicStarsMia PetricevicNiksa ButijerArijana CulinaWhen Marijana's dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over the role as head of the family. The new power constellation also gives her new freedom that she has to find out a way to deal with.New Directors Competition
- DirectorAntonin PeretjatkoStarsVincent MacaigneVimala PonsPascal LégitimusMarc Châtaigne, a trainee at the Ministry of the Standrard, is sent to French Guyana to prepare the construction of Guyaneige, the first indoor ski station of Amazonia.New Directors Competition
- DirectorJorge Riquelme SerranoStarsGastón SalgadoPaula ZúñigaPaulina UrrutiaChameleon invites us into the darkest corners of the human mind as an unexpected guest interrupts a couple's last day together, transforming their peaceful farewell.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsAntonio de la TorreRoberto ÁlamoJavier PereiraInspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they'd never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsRaquel KarroRodrigo BolzanNeto MachadoThe loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorCarlos LechugaStarsLola AmoresEduardo MartinezCesar DomínguezThe story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorFabio MeiraStarsPriscila BittencourtIsabela TorresMarco RiccaIn the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorEmiliano TorresStarsAlejandro SievekingCristian SalgueroAdrián FondariAfter years of working on an 'estancia' in Patagonia, the Old Foreman is forced to retire and a younge'r man takes his place. The change is difficult and challenging for both men. Each one must survive the oncoming winter.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorJosé María CabralStarsJean JeanRamón Emilio CandelarioJudith Rodriguez PerezJulián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.Ibero-American Competition
- DirectorDavid HeinzStarsJoe PurdyAmber RubarthKrisha FairchildTwo strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorKogonadaStarsJohn ChoHaley Lu RichardsonParker PoseyA Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorAnthony OnahStarsDave RegisterAml AmeenLucy GriffithsA young Nigerian-American financier struggles with love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions steer him down a criminal path.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorJenée LaMarqueStarsConstance WuAngela TrimburJosh FademA lesbian bachelorette weekend goes awry when one of the brides admits she's never had an orgasm.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorRachel LambertStarsMichael Abbott Jr.Marin IrelandMadisen BeatyA man who testified against his brother returns to his rural Kentucky hometown twenty years later to face his fractured family.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorDavid DodsonMark DodsonStarsCindy Lou AdkinsWarren FarinaDon HannahAn investigation into the tragic end of Apollo 18, the last US mission to the moon in 1973. In interviews conducted in 1998, on the 25th anniversary of the incident, witnesses and participants peel back the layers of mystery surrounding the events that nearly destroyed an American institution.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorS.J. ChiroStarsSophia Mitri SchlossKate MoennigSara CoatesLane is a 13-year-old girl coming of age on a Northern California commune in the 1970s. While Lane enjoys the freedom of living off-the-grid with her mother and younger siblings, she craves a stable "normal" life, a life she's only seen in pictures from a stolen Sears catalog. Lane must navigate her troubled mother Hallelujah while trying to care for her younger brother and sister.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorNick NavedaStarsTravis TopeKatherine HughesIsrael BroussardA recent high school graduate cares for his mother and navigates his first relationship in the wake of his father's suicide.New American Cinema Competition
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyRussian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbas, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict's deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.Documentary Competition
- DirectorEmer ReynoldsStarsFrank DrakeCarolyn PorcoJohn CasaniIt is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space - the first human-made object ever to do so.Documentary Competition
- DirectorRaed AndoniStarsRamzi MaqdisiMohammed KhattabWafa MariSome Palestinians who were held in an Israeli detention center are assembled to re-enact their experience in an effort to heal.Documentary Competition
- DirectorSierra PettengillPacho VelezStarsRonald ReaganNancy ReaganMikhail GorbachevMade up entirely of archival news and White House footage, this documentary captures the pageantry, absurdity, and mastery of the made-for-TV politics of Ronald Reagan.Documentary Competition
- DirectorCullen HobackStarsErin Brockovich-EllisMarc EdwardsRahul GuptaIn this scandalous political thriller, an investigation into a chemical spill spirals into an indictment of the entire system meant to protect drinking water, revealing cover-ups at the highest levels of government.Documentary Competition
- DirectorPascale LamcheStarsWinnie MandelaAnné-Mariè BezdropZindzi MandelaWinnie Madikizela Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and intriguingly powerful contemporary female political figures. Her rise and seeming fall from grace, bear the hallmarks of epic tragedy.Documentary Competition
- DirectorJun GengStarsBenbin GuXarxu WangGang XuWhen a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results.China Stars Showcase
- DirectorGordon ChanStarsWenzhuo ZhaoSammo Kam-Bo HungRegina WanA maverick commander and a young general join forces to battle pirates who pillage small villages in 16th-century China. The violent clash of wits and weapons will ultimately decide who rules the land.China Stars Showcase
- DirectorJian LiuStarsChanglong ZhuKai CaoJian LiuA city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.China Stars Showcase
- DirectorXuebo WangStarsShengcang YangShengcang YangChenghua LiMa Zishan (Yang Shengcang) is an aging Muslim farmer, part of the Hui minority. He and his family eke out an existence farming on an arid moonscape in China's northwest Ningxia province. Forty days after his wife dies, Ma must perform a memorial service and invite his village neighbors to a feast. He and his adult son (Yang Shengcang, different actor with same name) make the difficult decision to sacrifice their aging cow for the service, but the cow soon stops eating and drinking, as if in anticipation of its slaughter. Old Ma tenderly cares for the animal, washing it and attempting to feed it; perhaps he sees something of himself in the loyal old beast. Both of them are approaching the end of their natural lifespans, as is the hardscrabble way of life that characterizes their village.China Stars Showcase
- DirectorWancang BuStarsLingyu RuanYan JinLili ZhouThe daughter of a peasant family that works on a landowner's property is in love with the owner's son but the parents force them to separate.She lands up having a child out of wedlock.China Stars Showcase
- DirectorYuancheng ZhuStarsBingyan YanDeshun WangLiya Ai"The Song of Cotton" based on the America's National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner China-born author Ha Jin's novel "A Pension Plan". The young woman Mianhua ("Cotton") gets a job that she has no past experience of: a full-time caretaker. Her client is an old stubborn boxer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease with a son (with his later wife) living overseas taking no care of him, and a daughter with his ex-wife who hires Mianhua. Yet the daughter distrusts and despises all nannies for "knows only lying, abusing, and taking advantages"; so is her attitude towards Mianhua. Under the same roof, however, the old man and Mianhua start to develop a trusty and warm relationship over time where he even starts to mistake Mianhua as his ex-wife whom he owed a love debt to. All of a sudden, Mianhua finds out that she got pregnant...China Stars Showcase
- DirectorYang ZhangStarsJinpaSonam NyimaChoenyi TseringA killer is entrusted with a sacred mission.China Stars Showcase
- DirectorWai-Man YipStarsNicholas TseYou GeAnthony Chau-Sang WongA Cantonese street cook and his chief rival, a French-trained Michelin-starred chef, discover they have a lot in common as they prepare for a world-famous culinary competition. An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between rival cooks, but their rivalry takes an unexpected turn when they discover a common foe and combine their skills in a fusion of East and West.Culinary Cinema
- DirectorScott Hamilton KennedyStarsRaoul AdamchakCharles BenbrookKarl Haro von MogelUsing the controversy over genetically-modified foods as its entry point, 'Food Evolution' shows how easily fear and misinformation can overwhelm objective, evidence-based analysis.Culinary Cinema
- DirectorPablo GascaStarsAlberto AlbarranMarco BetetaSalomé FreixasLives with flavor is a biographical documentary series of Mexican gastronomy through its protagonists a mouthwatering experience that will make us laugh, cry and enjoy the natural and cultural beauty of Mexico, that pretends to be a journey that will reveal: the flavor of life.Culinary Cinema
- DirectorDustin Harrison-AtlasTwo chefs in DC struggle to open their first restaurants. Against all odds, one becomes the most famous new chef in America. Starring Aaron Silverman (Rose's Luxury) and Frank Linn (Frankly...Pizza!). Feat. Michel Richard & Danny Meyer.Culinary Cinema
- DirectorLuis GonzalezStarsSabiha ApaydinMaksut AskarMehmet GürsShaped in a travelogue, Turkish Way tells the journey and experiences of the three Roca brothers in their trip across Turkey. Its describes their process of learning about one of the most unknown , powerful and ancient cuisines of the world.Culinary Cinema
- DirectorKatherine Fairfax WrightStarsWayne BradyBrittanie BrantBlair CarrizalesFollow singer and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall as he launches an original musical based on growing up gay in Texas and finding showbiz success.Face the Music
- DirectorEmma FranzStarsJoey BaronBrian CamelioNels ClineThe normally private Seattle native and Grammy-winning guitarist opens up for an exploration of his life, work, and musical process.Face the Music
- DirectorCatherine GundDaresha KyiStarsEugenia LeónJesusa RodríguezTania LibertadThe life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.Face the Music
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsJohn BarrymoreMartha MansfieldBrandon HurstDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.Face the Music
- DirectorAustin PetersIn the spring of 2016, global music sensation Major Lazer performed a free concert in Havana, Cuba for an unexpected audience of almost half a million people. A concert documentary evolves into an exploration of youth culture in a country on the precipice of change.
- DirectorBrett WhitcombStarsPeter BaumannDon BuchlaDorit ChryslerAn exploration of the life and innovations of composer and electronic-music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.Face the Music
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsShirley HendersonPaul PopplewellJames McArdleAn intimate look at life on the road for the band Wolf Alice as they tour Great Britain.Face the Music
- DirectorJean-Stéphane BronStarsStéphane LissnerBenjamin MillepiedMikhail TimoshenkoA behind-the-scenes look at the Paris Opera, under the direction of Stephane Lissner.Face the Music
- DirectorJeff UnayStarsVernon BeachCallie CarmanDelanee CarmanA blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.Northwest Connections
- DirectorPhil BorgesKevin TomlinsonStarsAngeles ArrienPhil BorgesLaura DelanoWhat can we learn from those who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience? During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges often saw these cultures identify "psychotic" symptoms as an indicator of shamanic potential. He was intrigued by how differently psychosis is defined and treated in the West. Through interviews with renowned mental health professionals including Gabor Mate, MD, Robert Whitaker, and Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, Phil explores the growing severity of the mental health crisis in America dominated by biomedical psychiatry. He discovers a growing movement of professionals and psychiatric survivors who demand alternative treatments that focus on recovery, nurturing social connections, and finding meaning. CRAZYWISE follows two young Americans diagnosed with "mental illness." Adam, 27, suffers devastating side effects from medications before embracing meditation in hopes of recovery. Ekhaya, 32, survives childhood molestation and several suicide attempts before spiritual training to become a traditional South African healer gives her suffering meaning and brings a deeper purpose to her life. CRAZYWISE doesn't aim to over-romanticize indigenous wisdom, or completely condemn Western treatment. Not every indigenous person who has a crisis becomes a shaman. And many individuals benefit from Western medications. However, indigenous peoples' acceptance of non-ordinary states of consciousness, along with rituals and metaphors that form deep connections to nature, to each other, and to ancestors, is something we can learn from. CRAZYWISE adds a voice to the growing conversation that believes a psychological crisis can be an opportunity for growth and potentially transformational, not a disease without a cure.Northwest Connections
- DirectorS.J. ChiroStarsSophia Mitri SchlossKate MoennigSara CoatesLane is a 13-year-old girl coming of age on a Northern California commune in the 1970s. While Lane enjoys the freedom of living off-the-grid with her mother and younger siblings, she craves a stable "normal" life, a life she's only seen in pictures from a stolen Sears catalog. Lane must navigate her troubled mother Hallelujah while trying to care for her younger brother and sister.Northwest Connections
- DirectorRobinson DevorStarsRobinson DevorByron GraceShecky GreeneTime swims: modern country-clubbers celebrate an annual Pow Wow party while a 1908 mounted posse chases Willie Boy across the desert.Northwest Connections
- StarsAlycia DelmoreRay TagavillaBasil HarrisTHEN: At the height of President Roosevelt's WPA jobs program, able-bodied men enjoyed myriad opportunities to rebuild their country's physical and cultural infrastructure. They went to work building bridges, painting murals, performing Shakespeare, and much more. In the midst of this national revitalization was born the Department of Municipal Rocketry. Outfitted with rocket packs and stationed on rooftops in cities across the US, the brave men of the DoMR were to be the first line of defense against the imminent atomic, Communist, robotic and alien threats our nation would face in the decades to come. NOW: Over half a century later, those imminent threats have been proven... 'less credible.' But deeply buried and all but abandoned in the Federal bureaucracy, the Department of Municipal Rocketry survives - a relic whose hardware, uniforms and budget haven't changed since the Great Depression. Proud descendants of the original Rocketmen remain quietly vigilant atop rooftops and radio towers. Forgotten and invisible to modern society, Rocketmen still await the order to fly into action. But when that order finally comes, will these Rocketmen be ready...?