THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA

Documentary on the war in Chechnya, as seen by its youngest victims. Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo takes us to a Russian military school and to see Chechen orphans. In Russian, Arabic and Chechen, with English subtitles.

JUST ONE LOOK

Coming-of-age story set in a quiet Hong Kong island has a young man studying martial arts to exact revenge for the death of his policeman father, whom he believes was murdered by a local thug. An homage to the 1970s golden age of Chinese movies. In Cantonese, with English subtitles.

MUST LOVE DOGS

Romantic comedy from Emmy-winner Gary David Goldberg. Divorced preschool teacher Diane Lane is pushed into online dating by her sisters and finds a perfect match in John Cusack, except his date must be – crazy for canines. And she isn’t.

TONY TAKITANI

Slow-paced Japanese drama in which a talented but lonely illustrator marries a younger woman who has a problematic addiction to designer clothing.

OYSTER FARMER

his Aussie indie comedy, filmed on location along Australia’s scenic Hawkesbury River, tells of a thief who mails his robbery cache to an old oyster-farming community where he later suspects a local looker, Pearl, swiped his loot. It’s a love story, too.

BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS

French-Chinese tale of university students sent to re-education camps during the Cultural Revolution. Two young men try to woo the beautiful granddaughter of a local tailor with stories from a secret find of hidden books – including Balzac.

EDGAR G. ULMER: THE MAN OFF-SCREEN

A documentary about the “King of B-movies.”