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- DirectorDubravka TuricStarsLana BaricMilivoj BeaderBozica BilicFamily tensions are slowly eroding what should have been a carefree summer for 10-year old Jakov. Shielded by the innocence of a child, Jakov does not understand the cause of the troubles, but can sense a profound injustice in the actions of the grown ups. A series of events ending in tragedy will incite his emotional revolt, but also his feelings of guilt.
- DirectorCarlos ConceiçãoStarsJoão ArraisJulia PalhaMatthieu CharneauWayward boy punishes his mother's lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child's guise.
- DirectorAleksandra TerpinskaStarsJustyna WasilewskaMalwina BussPiotr PolakThe plot of the film takes place in the contemporary world in one of the European cities. It depicts one day of life of three friends who, facing a fictional military conflict in their country, must modify their plans for the future.
- DirectorRobin CampilloStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartArnaud ValoisAdèle HaenelMembers of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
- DirectorChristian SondereggerStarsCobyJacob HuntSara MoundIn a small town in the Midwest, Suzanna, age 23, is transitioning into a man, Coby, while his family struggles to cope.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsPierre DeladonchampsCéline SalletteGrégoire Leprince-RinguetBased on a true story, a soldier deserts during WWI and dresses as a woman to escape the law. This triggers upheavals in his sexual behaviour and couple.
- DirectorAnahita GhazvinizadehStarsRhys FehrenbacherKooyar Hosseini GolkouNicole CoffineauFourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun 'They' and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition. Over this crucial weekend while their parents are away, J's sister Lauren and her maybe/maybe-not Iranian partner Araz arrive to take care of 'They.'
- DirectorYann GonzalezStarsSarah-Megan AllouchMathilde MennetrierAlphonse MaîtrepierreCharacters wander through an erotic maze of love and desire.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeslie CheungFengyi ZhangGong LiTwo boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzStarsThérèse ClercThérèse Clerc is one of the great figures of militantism. From the struggle to legalize abortion to the fight for equal rights of men and women and the battle for gay rights, she's been on the front lines of all of them. She has just learned that she has an incurable disease and has decided to take a last look back over her life, a tender and lucid look at the battles and the love that went with them.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorHouda BenyaminaStarsOulaya AmamraDéborah LukumuenaKévin MischelA street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsDamien BonnardIndia HairRaphaël ThiéryA film maker has to raise a child by himself whilst looking for an inspiration for his new film.
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsGarance MarillierElla RumpfRabah Nait OufellaA young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsKim Min-heeHa Jung-wooCho Jin-woongA woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
- DirectorAnna Cazenave CambetStarsLaurie ReynalMohamed El BrinssiNinon MailletNérac in the early 2000s. Laurie and Mila (13) dance on Gabber music, on the shores of a remote lake. Mila is in love with Laurie and she wants to tell her.
- DirectorHamid AhmadiStarsCharlie ColettaEuan CooperTimothy JamesShahram is a young immigrant who lives in the idyllic countryside of the Cotswolds in England. To integrate into the new society, he chooses a rather radical approach.
- DirectorLuca TothThe native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
- DirectorWregas BhanutejaStarsRosa WinenggarYohanes BudyambaraHosea HatmajiThe experience of Jarwo, who accepted an unexpected offer from a desperate village girl, Diah during a lunch break in a warehouse.
- DirectorErwan Le DucStarsChristophe MontenezNicolas ChupinMaud WylerTwo soldiers, Daniel and Jerome, flee a war we don't see and we know nothing about. Jerome is badly injured, he will die, he says it, he knows it, he is afraid. Then Jerome confesses to Daniel his last will: he does not want to die a virgin, he wants to die loved...
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsCate BlanchettRooney MaraSarah PaulsonAn aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAmy WinehouseMitch WinehouseMark RonsonArchival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsAomi MuyockKarl GlusmanKlara KristinMurphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
- DirectorRick FamuyiwaStarsShameik MooreTony RevoloriKiersey ClemonsLife changes for Malcolm, a geek who's surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.
- DirectorDeniz Gamze ErgüvenStarsGünes SensoyDoga Zeynep DogusluTugba SungurogluWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsLoubna AbidarAsmaa LazrakHalima KaraouaneA group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.
- DirectorClément CogitoreStarsJérémie RenierSwann ArlaudMarc RobertWhile on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu's men start vanishing one by one without explanation.
- DirectorNathan NicholovitchStarsDavid D'IngeoPanna NatUcoc LaiMirinda is a 45 years French crossdresser living as a prostitute in Phnom Penh. His encounter with No Name, a young trafficked girl, gives rise to a new feeling of fatherhood.
- DirectorLionel BaierStarsPatrick LappCarmen MauraIvan GeorgievDavid Miller is sick and has decided to end it all. But despite choosing the place, the date and the method, nothing goes according to plan. Does death lie at the end of this night which is supposed to be his last? Based on a true story, vanity isn't simply just a deadly sin.
- DirectorIgnacio JuricicStarsAndrew BargstedCatalina Vásquez CristiRoxana Campos18-year-old Rodrigo is arrested by the police in a televised raid on the club where he works as a drag queen.
- DirectorAndrei CretulescuStarsRodica LazarDorian BogutaAndi VasluianuOne girl. One car. One night. No coincidence.
- DirectorLucky KuswandiStarsAtreyu Artax MoniagaKemas FauzanStefanny Marcelina SugihartoTwo preteen boys discover their sexuality and the relation between power and sex.
- DirectorCéline DevauxStarsVincent MacaigneGeorge BlagdenSunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don't listen to his answers, they give advice but don't follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it's ok, it is the Sunday lunch
- DirectorIan de la RosaStarsShei BenzidourYolanda CruzAlba MartínezWhat would happen if you didn't feel comfortable with your body? What if you decided to experience with your gender?
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsMelvil PoupaudEmmanuel SchwartzSuzanne ClémentA drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
- DirectorBenjamin ParentStarsMalivaï YakouFinnegan OldfieldLeïla ChoukriBetween classes, two groups of French teenagers talk about the movie they watched on television last night: Brokeback Mountain.
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsPierre DeladonchampsChristophe PaouPatrick d'AssumçaoSummertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsLéa SeydouxAdèle ExarchopoulosSalim KechioucheAdèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
- DirectorYann GonzalezStarsKate MoranNiels SchneiderNicolas MauryAround midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
- DirectorMatthew WarchusStarsBill NighyImelda StauntonDominic WestU.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
- DirectorJuly JungStarsBae DoonaKim Sae-ronSong Sae-byeokA young police officer is sent to work in a small village and takes in a teenager to protect her from her abusive stepfather.
- DirectorSebastiano RisoStarsDavide CaponeVincenzo AmatoLucia SardoPersecuted by his father for being different, androgynous boy Davide, 14, leaves home to live on the streets of Catania.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalAntoine Olivier PilonSuzanne ClémentA widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
- DirectorPanos H. KoutrasStarsKostas NikouliNikos GeliaGiannis StankoglouStrangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsMiles TellerJ.K. SimmonsMelissa BenoistA promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.