MIFF List 2017

Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

It's the summer of 1983, and 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, who's working as an intern for Elio's father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening desire.

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

After her release from a psychiatric ward, a woman obsessed with social media moves to LA to stalk an Instagram star, but her plan takes a dark turn.

The vibrant character portrait of a young woman on the threshold of a much-needed change.

A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his girlfriend of 10 years.

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

An earthquake causes a high school to float into the sea, where it slowly sinks like a shipwreck.

A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class, where she discovers her alter-ego, Lucy.

Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.

A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet.

10-year-old Shi Tou, the son of a migrant laborer, grows up alone with his grandmother. Sharing a reward with a classmate or waiting until his father returns, obeying his teacher or protecting his friend - which one should he choose?

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently convicted and executed.