From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), Crossing is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations. 

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s eighth feature is ingrained with literary references that touch on existential and philosophical questions, such as the place of religion in our lives, while also rendering a sensitive and distinctive portrait of young people in contemporary Turkey.

Thérèse, who runs a village bar, believes that her former husband, who was tortured and disappeared by the Gestapo at the end of the Second World War, has walked back into her life. But he has lost his memory. What ensues is an intense, impossible and one-sided love story – a Durassian speciality. This rarely screened first film by New Wave editor Henri Colpi, written by Marguerite Duras, won the Palme d'Or in 1961.This rarely screened first film by New Wave editor Henri Colpi, written by Marguerite Duras, won the Palme d'Or in 1961.

Directed by David Schickele, Bushman follows Gabriel (Paul Elam Nzie Okpokam), a young Nigerian, living in San Francisco. Lovestruck and culturally stranded he faces the harsh realities of life in the 60’s.

In the town of Staadt, which is run by capitalists by day and Stalinists by night, David and Sabana have been tasked with guarding “the Jew”: a man set to be executed as soon as the Stalinist night falls. Jaune le soleil is, in Duras’s words, “a film about language”, in which “the purpose of the image is to carry the word”.

From filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) comes a daring tale of betrayal, accusations and desire.

From acclaimed writer and activist Paul B. Preciado, Orlando, My Political Biography told through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel.