September 15-17
A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT/TUSEN GANGER GOT NATT*. Norway, 2013 (drama, 117 min.) Dir.: Erik Poppe. With: Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. However, she loves both her family and her work.
FELIX & MEIRA*. Canada, 2014 (drama, 105 min.) Dir.: Maxime Giroux. With: Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron, Luzer Twersky. An unusual romance blossoms between Meira, a Hasidic Jewish wife and mother, and Felix, a Secular loner, who meet in a local Montreal bakery: two lost souls from the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.
October 6-8
IDA*. Poland/Denmark 2013 (drama, 82 min.) Dir.: Pawel Pawlikowski. With: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik. Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014.
GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM/GETT: LE PROCES DE VIVIANE AMSALEM*. Israel/France/Germany, 2014 (drama, 115 min.) Dir.: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlmoi Elkabetz. With: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian. In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce. Only rabbis can legitimate a marriage or its dissolution but this dissolution is only possible with the full consent of the husband. Viviane's husband, Elisha, will not agree to the divorce.
November 10-12
FORCE MAJEURE/TURIST*. Sweden, 2014 (thriller, 120 min.) Dir.: Ruben Östlund. With: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren. A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, the family's dynamic has been shaken to its core, with Tomas and Ebba's marriage hanging in the balance. Jury Prize, Cannes 2014.
CALVARY. Ireland/UK, 2014 (drama, 98 min.) Dir.: J.M. McDonagh. With: Brendon Gleeson, Kelly Reilly. After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
December 8-10
WILD TALES/RELATOS SALVAJES*. Argentina, 2014 (black comedy, 122 min.) Dir.: Damián Szifrón. With: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa. Six modern short stories involving distressed people and revenge in a changing and often dehumanizing society. Nominee for Palme d'Or, Cannes and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014.
NEBRASKA. US, 2013 (adventure, 114 min.) Dir.: Alexander Payne. With: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes marketing prize.
January 12–14
LEVIATHAN/LEVIAFAN*. Russia, 2014 (drama, 140 min.) Dir.: Andrey Zvyagintsev. With: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova. In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014.
ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD. Canada, 2013 (documentary adventure, 89 min.) Dir.: Suzanne Crocker. Thought-provoking and personal documentary that offers a sociological commentary on what today's life has evolved into for most of us and what happens when a courageous family chooses a seemingly simpler life.
February 9-11
TIMBUKTU*. France/Mauritania, 2014 (drama, 97 min.) Dir.: Abderrahmane Sissako. With: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki. A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014. (Violence).
THE NOTEBOOK/A NAGY FUZET*. Hungary/Austria, 2013 (war drama, 112 min.) Dir.: Janos Szász. With: László Gyémánt, András Gyémánt, Piroska Molnár. Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival by studying and learning from the evil surrounding them.
March 8-10
TANGERINES/MANDARIINID*. Estonia/Georgia, 2012 (war drama, 87 min.) Dir.: Zaza Urushadze. With: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nuganen, Mikheil Meskhi. While war rages in 1990 Georgia, Ivo, an Estonian man, has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. With a bloody conflict at his door, Ivo is forced to take in a wounded man who was left behind. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014.
ELEPHANT SONG. Canada, 2014 (drama, 110 min.) Dir.: Charles Binamé. With: Bruce Greenwood, Xavier Dolan, Catherine Keener. A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
April 5-7
WINTER SLEEP/KIS UYKUSU*. Turkey, 2014 (drama, 196 min.) Dir.: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. With: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag. Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. As the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities. Palme d’Or, Cannes 2014.
May 3-5
TRACES OF SANDALWOOD/RASTROS DE SANDAL*. Spain/India/France, 2014 (drama, 95 min.) Dir.: Maria Ripoli. With: Aina Clotet, Naby Dakhli, Nandita Das. Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, cannot forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was separated after their mother’s death. She follows a clue that leads her to Barcelona. Public Award, Montreal Film Festival 2014. (to be confirmed)
TRACKS. Australia, 2013 (adventure, biography, drama, 112 min.) Dir.: John Curran. With: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl. Robyn Davidson, a young woman from Brisbane, goes on a 1700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog, Diggity.