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MUSTANG

Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Five young sisters living in a coastal Turkish village on the Black Sea are placed under the tyrannical regime of traditional morality by their guardians, in the poignant, award-winning first feature by Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

UN PLUS UNE

Directed by Claude Lelouch

A successful film composer (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist) falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in this glorious romantic drama from the great French director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman).

OUR LITTLE SISTER

Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

After their estranged father's death, three twentysomething sisters discover that they have a teenaged step-sibling, in this gentle, deeply affecting family drama from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son). Canadian Distributor

PARISIENNE

PEUR DE RIEN

Directed by Danielle Arbid

Set in 1990s Paris, the new film from French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid is a coming-of-age story about a young woman from Beirut whose relationships and encounters reveal different facets of her new country, and of herself.

FAMILIES

BELLES FAMILLES

Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Grand Budapest Hotel) stars in this rollicking and romantic country-house farce from lauded director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Horseman on the Roof).

DÉGRADÉ

Directed by Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser

Thirteen women find themselves trapped in a Gaza hair salon during a stand-off between police and a local gangster, in this audacious and incisive feature debut from twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

Directed by Joachim Trier

An aging schoolteacher (Gabriel Byrne) grappling with the recent death of his photojournalist wife (Isabelle Huppert) attempts to reconcile with his two very different sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid), in the first English-language feature by acclaimed Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Reprise).

VICTORIA

Directed by Sebastian Schipper

A beautiful young Spanish nightclubber in Berlin becomes wheelwoman for a quartet of bank robbers, in this stunning heist thriller shot in a single extended take.

WE MONSTERS

WIR MONSTER

Directed by Sebastian Ko

A husband and wife struggle with their consciences after they try to conceal a terrible crime committed by their teenage daughter, in this riveting suspense drama from German director Sebastian Ko.

THE WHITE KNIGHTS

LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS

Directed by Joachim Lafosse

Elgin/​Winter Garden Theatres Visa Screening Room (Elgin)

Cannes prizewinner Vincent Lindon (Bastards) stars as the head of a NGO trying to rescue 300 children from the civil war in Chad, in the new drama from Belgian director Joachim Lafosse (Our Children).

IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN

L’OMBRE DES FEMMES

Directed by Philippe Garrel

A Parisian documentary filmmaker becomes embroiled in a romantic triangle, in this luminous love story from the great director Philippe Garrel (Frontier of Dawn,Regular Lovers).

A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS

Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman makes her debut as writer and director with thisadaptation of the best-selling memoir by celebrated Israeli author Amos Oz.

DHEEPAN

Directed by Jacques Audiard

Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.

MOUNTAINS MAYDEPART

SHAN HE GU REN

The new film from Mainland master Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin) jumps from the recent past to the speculative near-future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

MA MA

Directed by Julio Medem

Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz stars in the new film from fearless Spanish director Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia, Chaotic Ana), about a woman recently diagnosed with cancer who forms an unexpected bond with a soccer scout (Luis Tosar) whose wife has been gravely injured in a car accident.

EVERY THING WILL BEFINE

Directed by Wim Wenders

A tragic car accident links the lives of a struggling writer (James Franco), his long-suffering girlfriend (Rachel McAdams), a grieving mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and a publisher's assistant (Marie-Josée Croze), in this intricate and beautifully shot 3D drama from master director Wim Wenders (Pina).

YOUTH

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Two old friends (Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) reflect on their past, present, and the beauty and absurdity of the world during a vacation in the Swiss Alps, in the lovely and heart-warming new film from Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty).