I'd focus on Maren Ade's Everyone Else (Kent Jones wrote an essay in this month's Film Comment about this German film and comparable on-screen relationships citing Cassavetes and Bergman examples), Zhao Dayong's three hour documentary film (Ghost Town) about how China's Cultural Revolution didn't benefit everyone and (see pic) Samuel Maoz's circa 1982 film (Lebanon) which will screen at Venice, TIFF and at the Lincoln Center - not bad for a first time filmmaker!
Sony Pictures Classics will showcasing Broken Embraces, An Education and one of the best pictures of the year in A Prophet to North American audiences, while TIFF's North American premiere of Todd Solondz's latest means that Life During Wartime will be in Venice as well.
"Rejoice in the fact that one of world cinema’s great artists is doing anything but resting on his laurels: Pedro Almodovar’s giddily unclassifiable The Skin I Live In might be the most challenging and unsettling movie of the Spanish auteur’s career, while still maintaining his usual unabashed humor and novelistic nuance."