International Showcase
The International Showcase highlights innovative independent narrative and documentary features from outside of the United States. Films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best International Feature, Best Narrative Feature, or Best Documentary Feature.
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In this acclaimed, bone-chilling documentary, former members of Indonesian paramilitary death squads—unrepentant for horrors inflicted nearly fifty years ago—revisit their past through reenactments that conflate their history of violence with the gangster and action movies they revered in their youth. (Denmark/Norway/UK)
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Directed By: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Produced By: Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram Ten Brink, Anne Köhncke
Featuring: Anwar Congo, Adi Zulkadry, Herman Koto, Jusuf Kalla
★ North American Premiere: In Guinea, one of the world’s poorest countries, students of all ages must go on a nightly quest for electric lights under which to study. Documentarian Eva Weber beautifully portrays these young people’s determination to find a brighter future for their country and themselves. (UK)
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Directed By: Eva Webber
Produced By: Claire Neate James, Kat Mansoor
Bernard Rose’s tense, unsettling update of Leo Tolstoy’s Master and Man stars Danny Huston as a desperate, arrogant real estate speculator whose edgy relationship with an equally desperate chauffeur leads to a fateful encounter on the snowbanks of Colorado. (UK)
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Directed By: Bernard Rose
Written By: Bernard Rose
Produced By: Luc Roeg, Naomi Despres
Featuring: Danny Huston, Matthew Jacobs
Inspired by an inflammatory court case about euthanasia, maestro Marco Bellocchio has fashioned a powerful and stylish meditation on life and death, politics and love. Isabelle Huppert stars as a devout diva whose daughter lies in a coma. (Italy)
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Directed By: Marco Bellocchio
Written By: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli
Produced By: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
Featuring: Isabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino, Maya Sansa
In Hong Kong action master Johnnie To’s latest, undercover cops and drug dealers play an exhaustive, brutal game of one-upmanship as a police inspector doggedly works his way through a Mainland drug syndicate, aided by a turncoat gangster who’s working all the angles. (China)
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Directed By: Johnnie To
Written By: Ryker Chan, Wai Ka-Fai, Yau Nai-Hoi, Xi Yu
Produced By: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Featuring: Sun Honglei, Louis Koo, Huang Yi, Gao Yungxiang, Wallace Chung, Hao Ping, Gan Tingting
A bear and a mouse could never be friends, right? That’s ridiculous. It’s impossible! Yet when lumbering, grumbling Ernest and plucky little Celestine are thrown together by accident, the two discover they have more in common than anyone ever imagined in this wondrously animated family film. (France)
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Directed By: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Written By: Daniel Pennac
Produced By: Didier Brunner,Stephan Roelants, Philippe Kauffmann, Vincent Tavier
Featuring: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner
A crew of seafaring artists, scientists and philosophers sail to one of the most remote and beautiful areas in the world—the frozen fjords of northern Greenland—to ponder provocative questions about our place in the world. (Denmark)
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Directed By: Daniel Dancik
Produced By: Michael Haslund-Christensen
When time-honored traditions fail in a remote village in the Ardennes Forest, nature falls out of order and the villagers slowly drift from reality, waiting for a spring that may never come, in this strikingly stylized, playfully surreal fable. (Belgium/Netherlands/France)
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Directed By: Peter Brosens, Jessica WoodWorth
Written By: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Produced By: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, Philippe Avril, Sébastien Delloye, Diana Elbaum, J.B. Macrander, Joop van Wijk
Featuring: Aurelia Poirier, Django Schrevens, Sam Louwyck, Gill Vancompernolle
During a long, grey Russian winter at the end of World War Two, an orphaned 8-year-old boy undertakes a perilous train trip from Russia home to the Ukraine, his tragic journey unfolding in bold black and white images both timeless and indelible. (Ukraine)
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Directed By: Eva Meymann
Written By: Eva Neymann
Produced By: Alexander Tkachenko
Featuring: Kobetskoy Dmitriy, Golubeva Yekaterina, Veksler Mikhail, Bibliv Vitalina, Linetskiy Vitaliy
Stephen Hook’s dream-girl, Ida, is an English lass with gorgeous big brown eyes. She also loves to eat grass and moo loudly—not unusual for a dairy cow. The Moo Man is an inspiring document of a dairy farmer’s deep love for a vanishing way of life. (United Kingdom / Germany)
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Directed By: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier
Produced By: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier
Featuring: Stephen Hook
★ North American Premiere: An ill-advised affair between a college student and her film professor lies at the beguiling heart of acclaimed Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo’s latest, which follows a young woman as she drifts between a series of past and possible future romantic entanglements. (Korea)
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Directed By: Hong Sangsoo
Written By: Hong Sangsoo
Produced By: Kim Kyounghee
Featuring: Jung Eunchae, Lee Sunkyun
As her warrior husband lies in a coma, a beautiful Muslim woman unburdens herself of a lifetime of repressed rage and desire in this passionate, taboo-shattering provocation from Afghan novelist/filmmaker Atik Rahimi. (Afghanistan/France/Germany/UK)
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Directed By: Atiq Rahimi
Written By: Atiq Rahimi, Jean-Claude Carrière
Produced By: Michael Gentile
Featuring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamidrez Javdan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat
In this rousing, pioneering gem–the first Saudi Arabian film ever directed by a woman–a remarkable 10-year-old girl named Wadjda challenges centuries of male tradition when she sets her sights on buying a forbidden bicycle. (Saudi Arabia/United Arab Emirates/Germany)
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Directed By: Haifaa Al Mansour
Written By: Haifaa Al Mansour
Produced By: Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
Featuring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf
Separated by war from his father, and restlessly cooped up in a refugee camp, a young Palestinian boy secretly embarks on a journey of adventure with an unshakable resolve to be free. (Palestine/Jordan, 2012)
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Directed By: Annemarie Jacir
Produced By: Ossama Bawardi
Featuring: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri
With remarkable candor and a delightful nonchalance, the maids at a Chilean sex hotel, completely unfazed by the moans and groans that echo throughout walls, share their takes on love, romance, marriage and, of course, sex. (Chile)
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Directed By: Valentina Mac-Pherson, Patricia Correa
Written By: Patricia Correa, Valentina Mac-Pherson
Produced By: Sergio Allard, Ricardo Carrasco
