Drama
La Syndicaliste
This investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics tells the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), an influential head union representative who became a whistleblower and was violently targeted for exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector.
Synonyms
Based on the real life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman), Synonyms tells the story of a young Israeli who moves to Paris with little more than a dictionary and an obsession with erasing his origins.
T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Oscar® nominee Ralph Fiennes’s exquisite performance of Nobel Prize winner T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology).
Tehran Taboo
In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law.
Tesnota (Closeness)
A poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Test Pattern
Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New Orleans Film Festivals, this gripping social thriller centers on a Black woman and her white boyfriend as they seek care following a sexual assault, offering a unique exploration of institutional racism and sexism from a Black female point of view.
Tey (Today)
In a village outside Dakar, the gods – or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Until nightfall, the film follows him making his goodbyes to those around him – his family, his friends, his lover, his children, his wife.
The Road to Mother
Spanning nearly nine decades from the 1930s to the present, The Road to Mother is a sweeping yet personal epic that follows several generations of a Kazakh family that is determined to stay united through war, famine, collectivization, and separation. Focusing on a young man who is torn away from hi…
There Is No Evil
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, Berlinale Golden Bear winner There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the death penalty, or resist and risk everything.
This is Not a Movie
Twisted, apocalyptic satire, THIS IS NOT A MOVIE envisions the end of the world through the bi-polar mind of a strung-out pop-culture addict. Starring Edward Furlong and Peter Coyote, with a jagged, atmospheric score from Slash.
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…
Tikkun
A young Israeli ultra-Orthodox man experiences a crisis of faith in this formally daring black-and-white drama that employs bravura, often shocking imagery.
Tom of Finland
This stirring biopic follows the life of the artist whose proudly erotic drawings of leather-clad studs served as an emblem of gay liberation and influenced art, fashion and culture for decades to come.
Tommaso
Willem Dafoe is an American artist living in Rome with his family, played by Abel Ferrara’s real-life wife and daughter. Their tumultuous relationship is set against his day to day life as a teacher, ex-pat, and recovering addict.
Tommy Guns
This Locarno award-winner has elicited comparisons to the work of Claire Denis, Miguel Gomes, and even M. Night Shyamalan. What starts out as a portrait of the final days of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola playfully swerves from art house drama to war film to zombie flick to escape thriller with …
Touch Me Not
Filmmaker Adina Pintilie’s Golden Bear winner is a brave and raw look at bodies, intimacy, and empathy, exploring the private lives and sexual desires of four people with an approach that blurs the line between fiction and documentary.
A Touch of Sin
Written and directed by master Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), a man widely regarded as "one of the best and most important directors in the world" (The New Yorker), this reflection on capitalist China focuses on four people, living in four different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.
Tuesday, After Christmas
One of the central figures to emerge from the cinema of the Romanian New Wave, director Radu Muntean has created in TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS a tense, emotionally resonant drama about a middle-aged man caught between his commitment to his family and his affair with a younger woman.
Two Pianos
After years of exile, pianist Mathias (François Civil) returns to France when his former mentor Eléna (Charlotte Rampling) invites him to perform a series of concerts. But soon after his arrival, a chance encounter with a child who looks just like him throws Mathias into turmoil, threa…
Uncle John
Uncle John is a dark morality tale that opens on a cold and mysterious murder. What follows is an unexpected, genre-bending journey between two seemingly disparate stories that ultimately converge in this tense and chilling psychological thriller.
Unit 7
In the gritty thriller UNIT 7 (Grupo 7 ), a group of renegade cops decides to take the law into their own hands. The drug problem in Seville, Spain is spiraling out of control as the city prepares to host the 1992 World Exposition. With pressure from the government mounting to clean up the city, an …
Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. Based on the classic novel by Väinö Linna, Unknown Soldier broke box office records in Finland, becoming the highest-grossing movie in dec…
Utama
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple who have spent their whole lives herding llamas are faced with a dilemma when an extended drought threatens their traditional way of life. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival.
Violeta Went to Heaven
The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood (Machuca) traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of i…
Walk Proud
A wrong-side-of-the-tracks Chicano kid who runs with an L.A. street gang yearns for a way out, and with the help of his girlfriend decides to start a new life.
When I Saw You
Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the cha…
When Night Is Falling
When Camille meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservative life, not to mention her engagement, into disarray.
White Room
When an aspiring writer with writer's block witnesses the murder of famous singer Madeline X, he attends her memorial and encounters a woman connected to her. He follows her home and discovers her nightly visits to a secret room.
Who's Driving Doug?
A sheltered college student named Doug (RJ Mitte, Breaking Bad) changes his life forever when he hires underachieving driver Scott (Ray William Johnson). In order to escape his oppressively loving mother (Daphne Zuniga, Melrose Place), Doug agrees to go on a spontaneous road trip with Scott and his …
Wife of a Spy
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller, which follows a Japanese woman during WWII who begins to suspect her husband’s Western connections may…
Willow
Comprised of three stories and three unlikely heroines, Willow is a powerful, poignant, brilliantly acted, and visually stunning look at motherhood spanning centuries.
The Woman Who Left
In this Tolstoy-inspired story of revenge deferred, a woman discovers after 30 years in prison that her fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.
The World is Full of Secrets
The World is Full of Secrets is a devilishly creepy film about a group of girls telling scary stories in the dark.
The Worst Ones
Winner of the top prize at Cannes Un Certain Regard, this thought-provoking and darkly funny film-within-a-film follows a production crew filming in a working-class French neighborhood and explores the ethical thorniness of casting non-actors for the sake of "gritty" authenticity.
The Wound
Brimming with sex and violence, John Trengove’s award-winning film is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s Xhosa culture.
Yes
Dissident filmmaker Nadav Lapid once again takes critical aim at the Israeli government in this blistering satire about artistic submission. In the days following October 7, a musician resolves to say “yes” to everything. Surrendering himself and his art to Israel’s social, politic…
Young Ahmed
The Dardenne Brothers won this year's Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis.
Zizou and the Arab Spring
Férid Boughedir charmingly pulls off a lighthearted comedic fable about, of all things, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Tunisia. This year we’re treating the Friends of the Film Festival to the sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him…