Joaquin Phoenix plays the role of the tragic Beau, a kind yet paranoid man who sets out on a journey to his feared mother.

Optimistic documentary about the struggle of young people – from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to remote villages in Malawi – for a better world.

Impressive feature debut about a gym teacher who must anxiously keep her sexual orientation hidden in Margaret Thatcher’s England.

Intimate documentary about a woman who grew up in an orphanage in Cape Verde and became a global star nicknamed the ‘barefoot diva’: singer Cesária Évora.

Intimate documentary about a woman who grew up in an orphanage in Cape Verde and became a global star nicknamed the ‘barefoot diva’: singer Cesária Évora.

The story of an investigative priest who is commissioned by the Vatican to investigate a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary in a village in Limburg.

Romantic ode by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917, Skyfall) to the magic of cinema and human connections. With yet another splendid role by Olivia Colman.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is all at once: sci-fi comedy, relationship drama, an action film about martial arts and a drama about the love between mother and daughter....

Ensemble comedy by Cesc Gay – often called the Spanish Woody Allen – about the hilarious, painful, and extremely awkward curveballs life sometimes throws us.

Conspiracy thriller starring Isabelle Huppert as a whistleblower who shakes up the French nuclear industry, but gradually doubts arise about her story.

Comedic crime caper by Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Époque), set against the backdrop of the French Riviera; a sunny place for dark people.

Idiosyncratic portrait of artist Edvard Munch, focusing on the emotional world of the painter of The Scream. Opening film of IFFR earlier this year.

Warm and comic animation film in which Alain Ughetto tells the life story of his Italian grandparents; a story of love and family, and ups and downs.

Brooding anti-thriller about colonial bureaucracy and geopolitical power games on French Polynesian Tahiti. Film of the year according to Cahiers du Cinema.

Only for PhD Academy and FHML members.

Japan’s Oscar entry is a dystopian drama about a near future in which the government launches a program encouraging seniors to commit euthanasia.

Animation film about the clever cat Maurice who earns a lot of money hunting rats. All goes well until Maurice arrives in the town of Bad Blintz, where there are no rats at all!...

Tender drama based on a novella by Claire Keegan about the unexpectedly joyful summer of a neglected 10-year-old girl in rural Ireland in the early 1980s.

Psychological drama by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) with a phenomenal Brendan Fraser as a lonely, severely overweight man who wants to give his life meaning again. The film won 2 ...

Masterful, grotesque satire in which Ruben Östlund (THE SQUARE) hilariously mocks the super-rich on a heady cruise. Winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or.

French drama about a 29-year-old man who has been in a heterosexual relationship for years but falls under the spell of a young drag queen from the Paris nightlife scene.

Acclaimed drama by Todd Field with Cate Blanchett as the brilliant, demanding, sometimes downright tyrannical American conductor of a prestigious German orchestra.

Intimate and moving family chronicle about a single mother who moves to Paris from the Ivory Coast with her two young sons in the late 1980s.

Intimate and moving family chronicle about a single mother who moves to Paris from the Ivory Coast with her two young sons in the late 1980s.

Heart-warming drama about a 92-year-old woman who asks a taxi driver to drive her to some of the most momentous locations of her life.

This documentary about legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog offers a kaleidoscopic picture of a radical visionary and dreamer.