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The Empty Hands
The Empty Hands (空手道) is a 2017 Hong Kong karate drama directed by Chapman To, starring Stephy Tang as Mari Hirakawa, who must fight to reclaim her father's dojo from ex-yakuza Chan Keung.
The First Lap (초행)
The First Lap (초행, Chohaeng) is a 2017 South Korean drama by Kim Dae-hwan, starring Kim Sae-byuk and Cho Hyun-chul as a cohabiting couple visiting parents amid marriage pressure; it won Locarno's Best Emerging Director award.
The Florida Project
The Florida Project is Sean Baker's 2017 A24 drama about six-year-old Moonee, her mother Halley, and motel manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe) living week to week at the real Magic Castle motel in Kissimmee, near Disney World; a $3 million Cannes Directors' Fortnight film with 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince (2018) is Rupert Everett's directorial debut biopic of Oscar Wilde's final years in exile, premiering at Sundance and Berlin, released by Sony Pictures Classics, grossing $464.5K in the US.
The Hero (2017 film)
The Hero (2017) is an American drama directed by Brett Haley, starring Sam Elliott as aging Western actor Lee Hayden facing pancreatic cancer; Sundance premiere, The Orchard release, $4.1M box office.
The Insult (قضية رقم 23)
The Insult (قضية رقم 23, L'Insulte) is Ziad Doueiri's 2017 Arabic courtroom drama about a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee whose drainpipe dispute escalates into a national trial; Lebanon's first Oscar nominee, with Venice Best Actor for Kamel El Basha.
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018 film)
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) is Sara Colangelo's American remake of Nadav Lapid's Israeli film Haganenet, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a Staten Island teacher obsessed with a five-year-old poetic prodigy; Sundance Directing Award winner, released by Netflix.
The Only Living Boy in New York (film)
The Only Living Boy in New York is a 2017 American drama directed by Marc Webb, written by Allan Loeb, starring Callum Turner, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, and Cynthia Nixon; a college graduate enters an affair with his father's mistress.
The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind is an unfinished Orson Welles film satirizing Hollywood, shot between 1970 and 1976 and completed by his collaborators for a 2018 Netflix release.
The Pirates of Somalia (film)
The Pirates of Somalia (Dabka) is Bryan Buckley's 2017 biographical drama starring Evan Peters as journalist Jay Bahadur, with Barkhad Abdi and Al Pacino, based on Bahadur's 2011 book about embedding with Somali pirates in Puntland.
The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑)
The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑) is Kim Yang-hee's 2017 South Korean debut drama about a Jeju poet (Yang Ik-june), his wife (Jeon Hye-jin), and a boy (Jung Ga-ram); Jeonju Cinema Project, Toronto Discovery, 12,685 admissions.
The Show (2017 film)
The Show, originally titled This Is Your Death, is a 2017 American thriller directed by and co-starring Giancarlo Esposito, with Josh Duhamel and Famke Janssen, about a reality show whose contestants kill themselves on air; it premiered at SXSW and earned a Metascore of 35.
The Wife (2017 film)
The Wife (2017) is a drama directed by Björn Runge, adapted by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer's 2003 novel, starring Glenn Close as Joan Castleman, wife of a Nobel-winning novelist (Jonathan Pryce). Premiered at TIFF 2017; released 2018 by Sony Pictures Classics; Close earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.
To the Bone (film)
To the Bone (2017) is Marti Noxon's Netflix drama debut, starring Lily Collins as Ellen, a 20-year-old with anorexia nervosa in a group home, with Keanu Reeves; praised and criticized for its anorexia portrayal.
Tracey (翠丝) (2018 film)
Tracey (翠絲) is Jun Li's 2018 Hong Kong drama debut, the first HK feature on transgender identity, starring Philip Keung as a 51-year-old optometrist who transitions; Ben Yuen won a Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor award.
Transit
Transit (2018) is Christian Petzold's German-French drama adapting Anna Seghers's 1944 exile novel, set in present-day Marseille, starring Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer, a Berlinale competition entry with 9 wins and 26 nominations.
Tulip Fever
Tulip Fever (2017) is Justin Chadwick's period drama, from Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Deborah Moggach's 1999 novel, starring Alicia Vikander and Dane DeHaan; a long-delayed flop scoring 10% on Rotten Tomatoes and $2.4 million at the US box office.
Wonder (film)
Wonder is a 2017 American drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, adapted from R.J. Palacio's novel, starring Jacob Tremblay as Auggie Pullman, a boy with facial differences starting school.
Wonder Wheel (film)
Wonder Wheel is a 2017 American period drama written and directed by Woody Allen, set in 1950s Coney Island and starring Kate Winslet, Jim Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.
Youth (芳华) (2017 film)
Youth (芳华, Fang Hua) is Feng Xiaogang's 2017 Chinese war-drama adapted from Yan Geling's novel, starring Huang Xuan and Miao Miao as PLA cultural-troupe members; released 15 December 2017 after a censorship-related withdrawal, earning 1.422 billion yuan in China.
Zama (2017 film)
Zama (2017) is Lucrecia Martel's fourth feature, an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 novel, premiering at Venice. It stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a colonial magistrate waiting for a royal transfer that never comes.