Friday February 27 to Thursday March 5, 2015

“One of the most effortlessly pleasurable distractions in the Cannes festival program, Gabriel Polsky's solo directing debut is a playful documentary about the former Soviet Union's national ice hockey squad, an all-conquering machine schooled under military training-camp conditions as an ideological propaganda weapon.

Oscar Winner! Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography A fading actor (Michael Keaton) best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play.

Canadian blues musician Harry Manx exploits his signature East-meets-West style to great effect at every turn, mastering the Mohan Veena (a 20-string sitar-guitar hybrid) as easily as he does the lap steel guitar, the harmonica, the stomp box and the banjo.

Julianne Moore won the Best Actress Oscar for her moving portrayal of a renowned linguistics professor with early on-set Alzheimer's. "The triumph of Still Alice is that it's not about an illness; it's about a person."