The Straight Story
David Lynch surprised many people in 1999 with this tender and moving road movie about an old man who travels hundreds of miles on a lawn mower to visit his sick brother.
Maria Montessori
Biopic about Maria Montessori, an impressive woman who was ahead of her time and fought for a new method of education. Starring Jasmine Trinca (La Meglio Gioventù).
Palingdans
Documentary about the mysterious sex life of the eel. With the eel threatened with extinction, research into its reproduction takes on a new urgency.
Here
A Romanian construction worker in Brussels returns to his homeland, but first visits friends and acquaintances with a pan of soup. An intimate, poetic ode to the invisible inhabitants of the Belgian capital.
Ezra
Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro star in this family drama about divorced parents struggling with how best to raise their autistic son.
Looking for Langston + Panel discussion
Experimental film by Isaac Julien about poet Langston Hughes; a prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual and artistic movement around African-American artists that emerged in the 1920s.
Explanation for Everything
Stinging Hungarian social satire in which a lazy high school student becomes a hero of the far right. When Abel fails his final history exam, it results in a tabloid-fuelled culture war.
Nata Per Te
The fact-based, moving story of a gay man who wants to adopt a baby with Down syndrome who has been abandoned in the hospital. He encounters a wall of rigid court rules.