Filmmaker Jafar Panahi, banned from making films and placed under house arrest by the Iranian government, invites friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb to follow him and shoot something that's not a film. Palisades Tartan hide caption
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Nik (Tristan Halilaj, left) and his younger brother, Dren (Elsajed Tallalli), must both stay indoors to avoid violent retaliation after their father kills a member of another family. Anila Jaho/IFC Films hide caption
Orange You Glad We Wound Up Here? George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) play an unemployed Manhattan couple who stumble into a hippie farming commune whose denizens include characters played by Justin Theroux and Alan Alda. Gemma La Mana/Universal PIctures hide caption
Dryn (Konstantin Balakirev, left), Fred (Maksim Matveev), and Bob (Igor Voynarovsky) rebel against the cultural norms in the Soviet Union of the '50s, adopting colorful clothing, hairstyles and a mode of living that earned them the derogatory moniker stilyagi, or "stylish people." Leisure Time Features hide caption
George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) are plugged-in New Yorkers who go off the grid on a Georgia commune in David Wain's comedy Wanderlust. Universal Pictures hide caption
Fiona Gordon (left) plays a woman who claims to be a fairy and promises three wishes to hotel night clerk Dom (Domininque Abel). Gordon and Abel are two of the three co-writer-directors of The Fairy. Laurent Thurin-Nal/Kino Lorber hide caption
The documentary Putin's Kiss charts four years in the life of Masha Drokova, who became famous as the girl who publicly kissed Vladimir Putin. Courtesy of the filmmaker hide caption
Small Wonder: Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler) is an inches-tall Borrower whose family lives within the walls of a human household. Walt Disney Pictures hide caption
Cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Matthias Schoenaerts) boxes with unseen demons in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead. Drafthouse Films hide caption
Insurance agent and bourgeois pedophile Michael (Michael Fuith) takes Wolfgang (David Rauchenberger), the 10-year-old boy he's holding captive, on a rare trip outside. Strand Releasing hide caption
In isolated Barrow, Alaska, a fight between three boys over a girl turns violent, leaving Aivaaq (Frank Qutuq Irelan, left) and Qalli (Josiah Patkotak) with a secret that tests the bonds of their friendship. Silverwood Films hide caption
Gods Of Carnage: CIA agents FDR (Chris Pine, left) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) suit up to complete a covert mission. Their friendship is strained when they fall for the same woman. Kimberley French/20th Century Fox hide caption
Linda Cardellini plays a vet who returns from overseas with no way to make sense of where she was and what it meant in director Liza Johnson's new drama Return. Dada Films hide caption
Sewage worker Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz, right) and Krystyna Chiger (Milla Bankowicz) peek from their underground hideaway in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Jasmin Marla Dichant/Sony Classics hide caption
A rural farmer (Janos Derzsi) sits in the void-like darkness of his single-room farmhouse in The Turin Horse. Cinema Guild hide caption