The festival can boast of its own discovery, the world premiere of director Diana Peralta’s debut film, a family drama of regret and remembrance.

A moving drama focusing on characters living on society’s periphery and winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.

A young gay man with HIV/AIDS comes home to Texas for Christmas with the intent of coming out to his conservative, deeply religious, working-class parents.

two families growing into one in this part faux-documentary, part-sincerest of drama.

The struggling everyday life of a working-class African American family in Northern Florida.

A wistful look at the difficulties of conformity.

Director Mike Mills pays sympathetic tribute to his mother’s life in this comedy/drama set in the late 1970s.

A classic family drama and the first feature film version of a play by August Wilson.

It’s hard to imagine another American film this year with as many fine acting moments. Watching actor Casey Affleck, who looks like an eternally youthful choir boy, fight his inner demons is worth the price of admission alone.