*Closing Night*

The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be a whole lot different. SPENCER [...]

Originally planned as a joint train trip with her lover, the shy Finn Laura embarks on the journey to the arctic port of Murmansk to visit ancient rock paintings alone by herself. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment [...]

Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle — which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation. They’re guided by a secret culture and training passed down through generations, as well as by the [...]

Inspired by true events, "SEBERG" tells the story of the "Breathless" star and darling of the New French Wave, Jean Seberg, who, in the late 1960s, was targeted by an illegal FBI surveillance program. Seberg’s political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal made her a target of the FBI’s ruthless attempts to [...]

In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun where her family has gathered under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding to avoid telling their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai (grandma), that she’s been given mere weeks to live. Billi, who has a secret of her own, [...]

“A gangster’s ex-girlfriend struggles to adapt to life and find her way in the new "capitalist" China after five years in prison, in the latest from Festival favourite Jia Zhang-ke. More than any filmmaker of his generation, Jia Zhang-ke has crafted a body of work that holds a mirror to contemporary China in all its [...]

“The latest from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows) begins with the mischief and intrigue of a heist movie, but Shoplifters is much more. Osamu (Lily Franky), a middle-aged man, and Shota (Kairi Jyo), a young boy, walk into a grocery store. They play it cool, not speaking but, rather, signalling to each other with [...]

“The film drop-kicks you into a cosmos of pain, depravity and blunt-force trauma with only the faintest flickers of light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not an experience to relish, exactly, but it’s still one that’s fully capable of blowing you away. The Scottish director begins this, her first film since We Need [...]

“In ancient Greece, King Agamemnon learned this the hard way, invoking the wrath of the gods for killing one of Artemis’ beloved deer, for which he was obliged to sacrifice his own daughter, Iphigenia. The obvious lesson: Don’t kill deer. But what if the deed is already done? That’s the premise of Dogtooth director Yorgos [...]

“(...) The film is permeated with explorations of the ever-popular theme of love, and features a plethora of Russian movie stars, including Renata Litvinova, Vladimir Mashkov, Mikhail Efremov, and Evgenii Tsyganov. “About Love” preserves Melikian’s playful visual and narrative style, defies rigid genre prescriptions, and ultimately takes up the same questions as her earlier feature [...]