February 6 – February 26, 2014
15 Years and One Day
Directed by Gracia Querejeta
Margo (Maribel Verdú) is struggling to deal with her son Jon, a rebellious and free-spirited teenager who runs with a …
2 Autumns, 3 Winters
Directed by Sebastien Betbeder
This whimsical tale of ennui and the transformative power of calamity stylishly employs New Wave-inspired visuals, animation, reality-style confessionals, and …
A Gun in Each Hand
Directed by Cesc Gay
A Gun in Each Hand is a witty and brutally hilarious collection of portraits of 40-something men and the changing gender …
Aftermath
Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski
A gripping psychological thriller, Aftermath tells the story of two estranged brothers, Franek and Josef, who discover a terrible secret that forces …
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Directed by Arnaud des Pallieres
Arnaud de Pallières’s adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s 1808 novella, a classic of German Romanticism, explores a fault line between …
Aglaja
Directed by Krisztina Deak
In the hope of a better life, a Hungarian-Romanian family of circus artists escapes from the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania …
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Directed by Declan Lowney
“Those who have hungered for the big-screen debut of Steve Coogan’s singular comic creation need wait no longer: Alpha Papa has landed, …
American Dreams in China
Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
In 1985, in the midst of China’s economic reform period, three college students in Beijing—an overzealous country boy who refuses …
Antboy
Directed by Ask Hasselbach
A delightful adventure spoof based on the popular Danish children’s books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen, Antboy has enough action, comedy, …
Aya of Yop City
Directed by Clement Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet
Based on the series of young adult graphic novels, this vibrant animated tale unfolds in a colorful, working-class neighborhood in …
Back to 1942
Directed by Feng Xiaogang
In 1942, Henan province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of …
Before Snowfall
Directed by Hisham Zaman
How far would you go to restore your family’s honor? As the oldest man in his household, Siyar confronts that …
Belle
Directed by Amma Asante
Often missing from the gorgeous settings, romances, and sophisticated language of English period dramas is the institution at the foundation …
Bends
Directed by Flora Lau
Bends straddles the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and tells the emotionally touching story of Anna, an affluent housewife, and Fai, her chauffeur, …
Best of the Shorts
Directed by Various
This program features the best short films from the 37th Portland International Film Festival—as voted by audiences during the festival.
Borgman
Directed by Alex Van Warmerdam
A dark, mischievous, and unsettling fable about a strange vagabond, Borgman takes the concept of home invasion to captivating new levels. Driven …
Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
Directed by Ektoras Lygizos
Based on Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun’s 1890 novel Hunger, Lygizos fashions a confronting, visceral take on contemporary Greece’s stultifying economic and …
Cairo Drive
Directed by Sherief Elkatsha
Cairo, Egypt. 20 million people. 23,600 miles of road. Two million cars. Taxis, buses, donkey carts, and swarms of people, …
Cheatin’
Directed by Bill Plympton
An adult tale of love, jealousy, revenge, and murder—infused with Plympton’s surreal sense of humor—Cheatin’ takes its inspiration from the work …
Child’s Pose
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this dark tragicomic exposé chronicles the efforts of an …
Circles
Directed by Srdan Golubovic
Circles unfolds as a triptych, exploring the moral convolutions of guilt and complex story strands that emerge from one fateful moment. …
Closed Curtain
Directed by Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi
Still banned from making films for 20 years, celebrated Iranian director Jafar Panahi defied Islamic authorities to make this daring …
Code Black
Directed by Ryan McGarry
“C-Booth,” the trauma bay at the LA County Hospital, was the first, the toughest, and the best training ground for …
Coffee In Berlin
Directed by Jan Ole Gerster
Gerster’s wry, breezy first feature (a.k.a. Oh Boy) swept all of the major German Film Awards this year with its sly …
Coherence
Directed by James Ward Byrkit
A group of friends and ex-lovers learn why you should not throw a dinner party the night a mysterious comet …
Cycling With Moliere
Directed by Philippe Le Guay
Popular television celebrity Gauthier Valence (Lambert Wilson) embarks on a train journey to Brittany’s Île de Ré with a clear …
Disciple
Directed by Ulrika Bengts
Finland, summer 1939: 13-year-old Karl is an eager-to-please orphan sent by the state to work at an isolated Baltic island …
Eat Sleep Die
Directed by Gabriela Pichler
Winner of the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival and the top Swedish national Guldbagge Awards, Pichler’s remarkable film …
Ernest and Celestine
Directed by Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Ernest and Celestine is the winner of France’s Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature and numerous other festival prizes. Tucked away …
Finding Vivian Maier
Directed by John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Street photographer Vivian Maier was a mystery even to those who knew her. A secretive nanny in the wealthy suburbs …
Gabrielle
Directed by Louise Archambault
Gabrielle is a 22-year-old woman with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that often slows cognitive skills while increasing outgoingness and …
Google and the World Brain
Directed by Ben Lewis
Lewis’s engaging documentary uses science fiction writer H.G. Wells’s prophetic declarations of a “complete planetary memory for all mankind,” or …
Heli
Directed by Amat Escalante
Heli works at a car factory and tries hard to provide for his young wife, son, and sister Estela. Twelve-year-old …
Horses of God
Directed by Nabil Ayouch
Two young soccer-loving friends, Yachine and Nabil, grow up under the fierce protection of Yachine’s older brother, Hamid. But in …
I Am Yours
Directed by Iram Haq
Mina is a young single mother living in Oslo with her six-year-old son Felix. A Norwegian-Pakistani, she has a troublesome …
Ida
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Orphaned during World War II and raised in a rural convent, Anna is about to take her own vows. But …
Ilo Ilo
Directed by Anthony Chen
Chen’s bittersweet drama about the relationship between a 10-year-old boy named Jiale and his caretaker Teresa in late 1990s Singapore …
In Bloom
Directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross
It’s 1992 in Tbilisi, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but 14-year-old best friends Eka and Natia are unfazed …
It’s All So Quiet
Directed by Nanouk Leopold
Leopold takes a precise look at solitude and sexuality in this sensitive and delicate film, based on a novel by …
Just a Sigh
Directed by Jerome Bonnell
In the short break between performances of an Ibsen play in Calais, stage actress Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) makes a quick …
Juvenile Offender
Directed by Kang Yi-kwan
An appeal for societal and personal reform, this intimate crime drama peers into the consequences of cyclical, intergenerational abandonment as …
La Ultima Pelicula
Directed by Raya Martin, Mark Peranson
“Film and digital, documentary and fiction all do battle as an egomaniacal director journeys to the Yucatán to prepare for …
Le Week-End
Directed by Roger Michell
In this witty and wise romantic drama, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan shine as a long-married academic couple who attempt …
Levitated Mass
Directed by Doug Pray
Levitated Mass chronicles the journey of a 340-ton granite boulder that was moved from a quarry in Riverside to the Los …
Maidentrip
Directed by Jillian Schlesinger
“At just 14 years old, Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage ‘to become the youngest person ever to …
Manakamana
Directed by Stephanie Spray, Pancho Velez
“Spray and Velez’s (literally) transporting film—shot inside a cable car that carries pilgrims and tourists to and from a mountaintop …
Mary Queen of Scots
Directed by Thomas Imbach
This sumptuous historical drama provides a riveting psychological portrait of the woman who became a pawn in the 16th-century conflict …
Metro Manila
Directed by Sean Ellis
“Seeking a brighter future in Manila, Oscar and his family flee their impoverished life in the rice fields of the …
My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill
Directed by Marc Boréal, Thibaut Chatel
Based on the award-winning book of the same name, this winner of the Special Jury Award at the Annecy International …
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Why does Seoul student Haewon keep dozing off? Is she depressed by her mother’s departure for Canada? Tired of her …
Nothing Bad Can Happen
Directed by Katrin Gebbe
Young Tore belongs to the fervent Jesus Freaks, a fundamentalist Christian punk movement rebelling against established religion whilst at the …
Of Horses and Men
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
This dry, very Icelandic comedy is a country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in …
Omar
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Omar is a tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar is a Palestinian baker who …
Particle Fever
Directed by Mark Levinson
Physicists from all over the world in search of the theoretical Higgs particle collaborated on the planning and construction of …
People in Places
Directed by Juan Cavestany
To uncover the strange in the ordinary, the unsettling in the everyday: this is the mark of imaginative wizardry that …
Proxy
Directed by Zack Parker
“As a pregnant Esther (Alexia Rasmussen) walks home, she is viciously attacked by a hooded assailant. In the wake of …
Remote Area Medical
Directed by Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman
As the national debate over the future of healthcare continues on, this heartfelt film takes a step back from the …
Salvo
Directed by Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
A hit man for the Sicilian mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold, and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house on …
Stranger By the Lake
Directed by Alain Guiraudie
Franck is a regular at a secluded lakeside beach, a popular hotspot for gay men to sunbathe in the nude …
Stray Dogs
Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang
In Ming-Liang’s vision, existence seems to hang by a thread that could snap at any moment. Under a torrential downpour …
Teenage
Directed by Matt Wolf
Who was the first teenager? Based on punk-historian Jon Savage’s book Teenage: The Creation of Youth, Wolf’s compelling collage of archival …
Television
Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Tradition and technology clash in this satire set in rural Bangladesh. On religious grounds, a local community leader, Chairman Amin, …
The Apostle
Directed by Fernando Cortizo
Ramon, a convict who has escaped from jail, arrives in a remote Galician mountain village searching for a treasure hidden …
The Butterfly’s Dream
Directed by Yilmaz Erdogan
In 1941, with World War II looming, in Zonguldak, an impoverished mining city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, …
The Congress
Directed by Ari Folman
“Folman’s follow-up to his strikingly rotoscoped Waltz with Bashir is a bold, metaphysical sci-fi satire: a live-action set-up that goes down the …
The Day of the Crows
Directed by Jean-Christophe Dessaint
Filled with charming, gorgeous animation, The Day of the Crows is a delightful family film. A father raises his son Courge …
The Don Juans
Directed by Jiří Menzel
In this clever combination of comedy and drama, opera and cinema, a small-town opera company decides to put on Mozart’s …
The Galapagos Affair
Directed by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this gripping, stranger-than-fiction murder-mystery. In 1929, Berlin physician Friedrich Ritter and his lover Dore Strauch left …
The German Doctor
Directed by Lucia Puenzo
Set in 1960, The German Doctor imagines an Argentine family unknowingly befriending Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal notorious for his horrific …
The Golden Dream
Directed by Diego Quemada-Diez
Quemada-Díez brings a gritty realism and social conscience to a story about the excitement and horror young Central American migrants …
The Good Road
Directed by Gyan Correa
Several groups of people are making their way along a desolate stretch of highway in India’s dangerous Kutch region. Seven-year-old …
The Great Passage
Directed by Yuya Ishii
Mitsuya, a shy young bookworm, is the weakest salesman in his division at the Genbu Publishing Company. When transferred to …
The Last Call
Directed by Francisco Franco Alba
From The Producers to Bullets Over Broadway, the challenges of putting on a stage show have proved a rich source of inspiration for …
The Last of the Unjust
Directed by Claude Lanzmann
In 1975, while making his landmark Holocaust documentary Shoah, Claude Lanzmann interviewed Benjamin Murmelstein. Age 70 and living in exile …
The Last Step
Directed by Ali Mosaffa
Inspired by James Joyce’s “The Dead,” this engrossing tale of grief, guilt, and lost love is narrated from beyond the …
The Lunchbox
Directed by Ritesh Batra
Ila (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a lonely Mumbai housewife who yearns to spark the affections of her inattentive husband. She patiently …
The Missing Picture
Directed by Rithy Panh
As the only family survivor of Pol Pot’s reign of terror (1975-1979), Cambodian-French director Rithy Panh has been searching for …
The New Rijksmuseum
Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk
“The renovation of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum went on for ten long, expensive years, so it is fitting that a documentary on …
The Priest’s Children
Directed by Vinko Brešan
A young Catholic priest takes subversive action to enforce the Church’s position on birth control among his flock and soon …
The Rocket
Directed by Kim Mordaunt
Winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Rocket is a heartwarming coming-of-age tale set in Laos. …
The Sacrament
Directed by Ti West
A shocking tale of devotion gone horribly wrong, The Sacrament offers a disturbing vision of the power of groupthink. Patrick is a …
The Search For Emak Bakia
Directed by Oskar Alegría
In 1926, avant-garde artist Man Ray, a legendary figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements, shot a cine-poem on Spain’s …
The Snow on the Pines
Directed by Peyman Moaadi
Roya (Mahnaz Afshar), a piano teacher about to turn 40, realizes that her marriage to her older husband Ali is …
The Strange Little Cat
Directed by Ramon Zürcher
This droll, comic day-in-the-life chronicles a multigenerational family preparing a dinner in their Berlin apartment. Compared with siblings Karin and …
The Tough Guys
Directed by Christian Lo
Eleven-year-old Modulf fancies himself as something of a superhero, saving the other kids at his school from being bullied by …
The Way We Dance
Directed by Adam Wong
A surprise hit in Hong Kong, the low-budget The Way We Dance, like most dance movies, is a celebration of vibrant …
The Wind Rises
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Miyazaki, co-founder of the legendary Studio Ghibli, eschewing his typically fictional characters ensconced in a fantasy world, instead brings to …
The Zigzag Kid
Directed by Vincent Bal
The Zigzag Kid is a stylish, witty, action-packed caper à la The Pink Panther that also touches on more serious …
Those Happy Years
Directed by Daniele Luchetti
Rome in the 1970s. Young Dario, 8mm movie camera in hand, captures the events that will forever change his family’s …
Thy Womb
Directed by Brillante Mendoza
Following the fortunes of a humble Muslim fisherman and his wife, this lyrical tale of love and beauty questions how …
Tim’s Vermeer
Directed by Teller
In 2001, in his book Secret Knowledge, artist David Hockney argued that some classical painters—Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with the Pearl Earring”) …
Tito On Ice
Directed by Helena Ahonen, Max Andersson
To promote their comic book Bosnian Flat Dog, Swedish artists Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson toured the countries of the former …
Transit
Directed by Hannah Espia
This year’s Philippine submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Transit deals with the struggles of an extended Filipino …
Trap Street
Directed by Vivian Qu
“A poignant and engaging mystery, Vivian Qu’s feature debut plunges us into the fascinating world of state surveillance in China …
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Directed by Denis Côté
Deep in the snow-covered backwoods of Quebec, 61-year-old Vic is trying to escape her criminal past. Fresh out of prison …
Village At the End of the World
Directed by Sarah Gavron, Daniel Katznelson
This rich, real-life human drama, full of humor and hope, is set against the backdrop of steadily melting ice that …
Visitors
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Thirty years after their groundbreaking Koyaanisqatsi (Qatsi trilogy), director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass have joined forces with associate director Jon …
Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)
Directed by Barmak Akram
It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a bright, pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine …
Walesa: Man of Hope
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
This remarkable historical epic, tracing Lech Walesa’s rise from simple shipyard electrician to leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement and Polish …
We Are The Best!
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Stockholm, 1982: 13-year-old best friends Bobo and Klara are united by their feelings of outsiderness—embarrassed by their parents, repulsed by …
What is Cinema?
Directed by Chuck Workman
Chuck Workman is best known for creating unforgettable Oscar montage sequences. In What is Cinema?, he shares his understanding and love …
Young and Beautiful
Directed by François Ozon
Ozon again delves into the mysterious world of the female soul in this story of 17-year-old Isabelle, who has her …