Switzerland
Directors: Benny Jaberg and Pascal Hofmann

This cinematic kaleidoscope is an enigmatic journey into the heart of an intensely imaginative boy who would grow up to be one of Swiss cinema’s most extraordinary artists. A natural storyteller, Daniel Schmid was reared during the 1940s in an old hotel that became his stage, its guests his characters. He’d grow up to direct film, theater, and opera alongside Fassbinder, von Praunheim, and Schroeter. This luminous documentary proves wonderful things can happen when a child discovers the art of expression.

English, German with minutes, 83 min.

Hungary
Director: József Pacskovszky

A wealthy couple recovering from a tragedy hires a mute orphan to serve as their housekeeper and silent confessor, providing her with lodging and the loving parents she never had. But when she attempts to bring an outsider into their circle, their shared fantasy of domestic bliss shatters as they’re forced to confront the unspoken lies buttressing their fragile peace. Beautiful black-and-white cinematography casts light and shadow on this story of secrets and surrogates.

Hungarian with minutes, 104 min.

USA
Director: John Madden

Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington star in The Debt, the powerful story of Rachel Singer, a former Mossad agent who endeavored to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal

112 min.

Australia
Director: Ariel Kleiman

Life is brutal and short onboard a Russian submarine in Deeper than Yesterday.

Russian with subtitles, 20 min.

USA
Director: Julian Grant

In a plague-ravaged near future, a virus-infected, flesh-eating man comes into possession of a newborn baby. He must take up with a vulnerable, uninfected woman to protect the child from other post-apocalyptic horrors and an unfeeling paramilitary group patrolling the ruins. Shot on location in the Chicagoland area, this Romero-esque chiller is a zombie movie seen through fresh eyes

100 min.