Aferim!! 2016 - Trailer

Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble's wife. While the unflappable Costandin comments on every situation with a cheery aphorism, his son takes a more contemplative view of the world. On their odyssey they encounter people of different nationalities and beliefs: Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and Hungarians. Each harbors prejudices against the others which have been passed down from generation to generation. And even when the slave Carfin is found, the adventure is far from over...

Director: Radu Jude
Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu

Genre: Foreign, Drama, Comedy
Run Time: 1 hour 46 minutes
In Theaters January 22nd, 2016

Cast: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Cuzin Toma, Alexandru Dabija, Alexandru Bindea, Luminita Gheorghiu

Mojin: The Lost Legend 2015 - Trailer

Some people have a special gift. They're able to travel between the realms of the living and the dead... and tomb raiding can mean big business. Welcome to the world of the Mojin. Based on the #1 best-selling series of novels and starring Shu Qi, Chen Kun, Angelababy, and Huang Bo, MOJIN: THE LOST LEGEND pits a trio of legendary grave robbers against scholars, rivals, and the law—until an offer from a mysterious stranger tempts them into one last heist… an adventure that will test their skills, their friendship, and ultimately their mortal souls.

Director: Wu Ershan

Genre: Action and Adventure, Foreign, Fantasy
In Theaters December 18th, 2015

Cast: Shu Qi, Chen Kun, Angelababy

Son of Saul 2015 - Trailer

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.


Director: László Nemes
Writers: László Nemes, Clara Royer

Genre: Drama, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 47 minutes
In Theaters December 18th, 2015

Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Sándor Zsótér, Marcin Czarnik, Jerzy Walczak, Uwe Lauer, Christian Harting, Kamil Dobrowolski

Ip Man 3 2015 - Trailer

Donnie Yen ignites the screen in a return to his iconic role of Ip Man, the real-life Wing Chun Kung Fu master who mentored Bruce Lee. In this explosive third installment of the blockbuster martial arts series, when a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer (Mike Tyson) make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand. Fists will fly as some of the most incredible fight scenes ever filmed play out on the big screen in this soon-to-be classic of the genre.

Director: Wilson Yip
Writers: Lai-yin Leung, Chan Tai-Li, Edmond Wong

Genre: Action and Adventure, Foreign
In Theaters January 22nd, 2015

Cast: Donnie Yen, Mike Tyson

Hard Labor 2015 - Trailer

In HARD LABOR, a middle-class couple slowly succumbs to the allures of entrepreneurship—and the horrors of a schizophrenic job market. As Helena (Helena Albergaria) gets ready to start her own business (a small grocery store), her white-collar husband Otávio (Marat Descartes) is let go from his job. Determined to stay afloat, Otávio goes on a series of ego-crushing job interviews and begins to adapt to the needs of a new economy. Helena, now the household’s breadwinner, discovers that the building housing her store has a sinister story in its past. Beautifully translating the evanescent forces of cyber-age economics into a Grand Guignol of kitchen-sink sensibilities, HARD LABOR is unlike any other Brazilian film you’ve seen in the last decade.


Director: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Writers: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra

Genre: Horror, Foreign, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 39 minutes
In Theaters October 30th, 2015

Cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Gilda Nomacce, Naloana Lima, Lilian Blanc, Thiago Carreira, Hugo Villavicenzio

The World of Kanako 2015 - Trailer

An uncompromising revenge thriller of operatic scope, The World of Kanako is a nonstop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu (Kôji Yakusho, 13 Assassins, Babel) on the hunt for his missing teenage daughter, Kanako. What he discovers in his search is an unsettling and harrowing web of depravity––surrounding both Kanako and himself. As Akizaku stumbles along a shocking trail of drugs, sex and violence, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the revelations that affect all he holds dear. A wildly kinetic and startlingly venomous throwback to the best that Asian extreme cinema has to offer, The World of Kanako offers a trip right up to the edge of a man's private hell––and over it.

Director: Tetusya Nakashima

Genre: Foreign, Thriller, Action and Adventure
Run Time: 2 hours
In Theaters December 4th, 2015

Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu

The Assassin 2015 - Trailer

In 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from the family of a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her former betrothed. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, THE ASSASSIN is a martial arts film like none made before it.

Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Genre: Drama, Foreign, Romance

Run Time: 1 hour 47 minutes
In Theaters October 16th, 2015

Cast: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Satoshi Tsumabuki

The Pearl Button 2015 - Trailer

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian indigenous people, of the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Writers: Patricio Guzmán

Genre: Documentary, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 22 minutes
In Theaters October 23rd, 2015

Xenia 2015 - Trailer

The Greek Submission for the OscarⓇ for Best Foreign Language Film Winner of Gold Hugo Best Film at the Chicago International Film Festival XENIA follows two young brothers in search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother Odysseus who lives in Athens and they journey to Thessaloniki where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the television talent show “Greek Star” where he pursues his fantasy of becoming a singing star. A comic and touching road trip of two brothers connecting and searching for their dreams.

Director: Panos H. Koutras
Writers: Panos H. Koutras, Panagiotis Evangelidis

Genre: Foreign, Drama, Romance
Run Time: 2 hours 8 minutes
In Theaters October 9th, 2015

Cast: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia

Saving Mr. Wu 2015 - Trailer

Saving Mr. Wu is a crime drama based on the true story of China’s famous celebrity kidnapping case. Mr. Wu (played by acclaimed film star Andy Lau) is kidnapped by Zhang Hua (Wang Qinyuan) along with three accomplices and demanding a ransom of 3 million RMB. In the ensuing 20 hours, the Chinese detectives led by Chief Xing (Liu Ye) quickly form a task force and sweep the city. Time is of the essence, as Mr. Wu is ordered to be killed at 9pm, regardless of whether or not the money is collected. Hua is eventually apprehended alone, and a dangerous mental showdown develops. As the deadline rapidly approaches, the detectives and captors collide in a dramatic showdown that leaves the audience on the edge of their seats. Saving Mr. Wu is directed by Ding Sheng, one of China’s most unique and visually compelling action directors (Little Big Soldier, Underdog Knight, Police Story 2013).

Director: Ding Sheng
Writers: Ding Sheng

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 46 minutes
In Theaters October 2nd, 2015

Cast: Andy Lau, Liu Ye, Wu Ruofu, Wang Qianyuan

Difret 2015 - Trailer

From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama DIFRET, based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village’s tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband. Local law demands a death sentence for Hirut, but Meaza, a tough and passionate lawyer from a women’s legal aide practice, steps in to fight for her. With both Hirut’s life and the future of the practice at stake, the two women must make their case for self-defense against one of Ethiopia’s oldest and most deeply-rooted traditions.

Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Writers: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

Genre: Drama, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 39 minutes
In Theaters October 23rd, 2015

Cast: Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere, Haregewine Assefa, Brook Sheferaw, Mekonen Laeake, Girma Teshome

The Man Who Saved the World 2015 - Trailer

On September 26, 1983, an alarm sounded to indicate that American missiles had been launched against the Soviet Union. Incredibly, Russian Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov defied direct orders to counter attack and ignored what his state of the art warning systems were telling him; he followed his gut and declared a false alarm, thus spared the world a nuclear holocaust. Two decades later, this forgotten hero travels to the U.S. to accept an award from the United Nations and finally receives acknowledgement for his historical deed. But Petrov is more interested in meeting actors Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner than accepting awards. Through accurate and compelling reenactments of actual events, this historical thriller and personal redemption story reminds us how close we came to World War III, billions of lives lost and likely the complete extinction of the human race.

Director: Peter Anthony

Genre: Thriller, Foreign, Documentary
Run Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
In Theaters September 18th, 2015

Cast: Kevin Costner, Sergey Shnyryov, Nataliya Vdovina, Stanislav Petrov, Walter Cronkite, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Ashton Kutcher

The Moving Creatures 2015 - Trailer

In Caetano Gotardo’s lyrical omnibus film The Moving Creatures, three very different mothers are confronted, through three very different trials-by-ordeal, with the limits of motherhood. With little fanfare (and not a whiff of the blatant “interconnectedness” often de rigeur among multi-story films), the daily rhythms and textures of three families unfold before us. And at the end of each story, all three mothers emerge from their private crucibles with an understanding — though one that can only be expressed in a way that erupts into the film’s very reality.

Director: Caetano Gotardo
Writers: Caetano Gotardo

Genre: Drama, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 37 minutes
In Theaters September 11th, 2015

Cast: Cida Moreira, Andrea Marquee, Fernanda Vianna, Rômulo Braga

Jafar Panahi's Taxi 2015 - Trailer

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver/director. His camera, placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama and cinema.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Writers: Jafar Panahi

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 21 minutes
In Theaters October 2nd, 2015

Cast: Jafar Panahi