Director: Andrew Durham
Stars: Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Director: Ivy Meeropol
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Following a series of great white shark attacks that dominated the headlines, one Cape Cod community renegotiates its relationship with the marine environment. Local residents, fishermen, and environmentalists are forced to confront dramatic changes to their way of life. How far can we push nature before it bites back?
Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France
The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.
Director: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.
Director: Roddy Bogawa, Storm Thorgerson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Music, Documentary
Country: UK
Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.
Director: Suzanne Raes
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands
In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.
Director: Thomas Tancred
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled.
Director: Kenneth Dagatan
Stars: Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, James Mavie Estrella
Genre: War, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
Director: Chloe Domont
Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.
Director: Zackary Drucker, Kristen Parker Lovell
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.
Director: Amanda Kim
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, South Korea
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would arise from the interconnected metaverse of today’s world.
Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
Director: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi
Stars: Evelyne Ily Juhen, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Emeka Amakeze
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France, Nigeria
In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious daughter Zinwe and skeptical protégé Prisca warn Efe about unrest among the villagers. With the sudden arrival of a mysterious rebel deserter named Jasper, a conflict erupts, leading to a violent clash of ideologies and a crisis of faith for the people of Iyi.
Director: Davina Pardo, Leah Wolchok
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.
Director: Julie Cohen
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.
Director: Margreth Olin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway
With Olin’s 85-year-old father as guide, we experience Norway’s most adventurous valley, Oldedalen in Nordfjord. He grew up here, and here generations before him have lived in balance with nature.
Director: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Stars: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Estéban
Genre: Animation
Country: France, Italy
Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter — only she can’t cook and shopkeepers are on strike.
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Japan
The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.
Director: Goran Stolevski
Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, USA
Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together.
Director: Noora Niasari
Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Leah Purcell
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.
Director: Minhal Baig
Stars: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.
Director: Savanah Leaf
Stars: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Keta Price, Doechii
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.
Director: Raven Jackson
Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jayah Henry
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
Director: Ena Sendijarević
Stars: Hayati Azis, Renée Soutendijk, Lisa Zweerman
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Netherlands, Réunion, Sweden
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
Director: Luna Carmoon
Stars: Saura Lightfoot, Leon Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK
The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
Director: Turner Ross, Bill Ross
Stars: Micah Bunch, Nathaly Garcia, Nichole Dukes, Tony Aburto, Makai Garza
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place none of them has ever been— the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away.
Director: Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami
Stars: Majid Salehi, Gohar Kheyrandish, Farzin Mohades
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Iran
A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.
Director: Luke Gilford
Stars: Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.
Director: Joanna Arnow
Stars: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Peter Vack
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sweden
A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man’s death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to confess her role in the tragedy, she hopes to move forward, but the country’s growing unrest threatens to reveal her secret.
Director: Veerle Baetens
Stars: Charlotte De Bruyne, Rosa Marchant, Sebastien Dewaele
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.
Director: Billy Luther
Stars: Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan, Sarah H. Natani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family’s past and themselves.
Director: D. Smith
Stars: Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Stars: Angela Davis, Alexa Rachelle Jennings, Rafa Marinho
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Country: USA
Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi’s bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.
Director: Koen Mortier
Stars: Thibaud Dooms, Natali Broods, Boris Van Severen
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Antilles, Belgium, Netherlands
The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.
Director: Adrien Beau
Stars: Ariane Labed, Kacey Mottet Klein, Grégoire Colin
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France
Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.
Director: Stephen Kijak
Stars: Rock Hudson, Joe Carberry, Tim Turner, Lee Garlington
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public “ladies’ man” persona to his private life as a gay man.
Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
Stars: Mouna Hawa, Haitham Omari, Yumna Marwan
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Stars: Kim Raver, Fotinì Peluso, Mia Maelzer, Katharine King So
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Director: Benjamin Cantu
Stars: Walter Arlen, Howard Myers, Klaus Mueller, Morgan M. Page
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.
Director: Nick Cheuk
Stars: Lo Chun-Yip, Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei, Sean Wong Tsz-Lok
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
High school teacher Cheng looks back to his repressed childhood memories, as he finds an anonymous suicide note in the classroom. He strives hard to prevent another tragedy from happening, meanwhile facing a series of family problems, his wife is divorcing him, and his father is dying.
Director: Phạm Thiên Ân
Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam
After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.
Director: Lisa Cortés
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.
Director: Amanda Mustard, Rachel Beth Anderson
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A photojournalist turns her lens on the decades of sexual abuse her family and community experienced at the hands of her grandfather in this unflinching portrait of intergenerational trauma, family secrets, and redemption.
Director: Patricia Font
Stars: Enric Auquer, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa, Ramon Agirre
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Spain
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather’s teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.
Director: Lucy Walker
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter future for her daughters.
Director: Errol Morris
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.
Director: Ivan Sen
Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Australia
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Germany
This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil
Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.
Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Canada, Poland
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major’s house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
Director: Marija Kavtaradzė
Stars: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas, Gediminas Rimeika
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Spain, Sweden
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
Director: Robert Hloz
Stars: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík
Genre: Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechia, Poland
It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.
Director: Anna Hints
Stars: Kadi Kivilo, Maria Meresaar, Elsa Saks, Marianne Liiv
Genre: Documentary
Country: Estonia, France, Iceland
Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood.
Director: Giuseppe Fiorello
Stars: Samuele Segreto, Gabriele Pizzurro, Fabrizia Sacchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A sunbaked Sicilian town in the summer of 1982 provides the vivid backdrop to this tender romantic drama about two teenagers who fall in love, but much to the disapproval of those around them. Gianni is a handsome but shy teen who works as a car mechanic at his stepfather’s garage but is mercilessly taunted by the macho townsmen for being a homosexual. With his family life no better, Gianni withdraws into himself until one day he meets Nino, a curly-haired boy with an infectious smile. As the two become close and fall in love, the moral rumblings from their families and neighbors begin to erupt. With all against them, the boys decide to make a stand.
Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Stars: Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis, Wavyy Jonez
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.
Director: Laurel Parmet
Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Director: Cédric Kahn
Stars: Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Genre: Crime, History, Drama
Country: France
A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.
Director: Luke Korem
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice having left an abusive household, they shared a similar upbringing, as well as a future goal: to become famous superstars. In a few short years, their dreams came true. Rob and Fab, better known as Milli Vanilli, became the world’s most popular pop duo in 1990 and won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. However, their ascension to success came with a devastating price that ultimately led to their infamous undoing.
Director: Monia Chokri
Stars: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam, Choeying Jatsho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bhutan, France, Taiwan, USA
An American travels to Bhutan searching for a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
Director: Kristian Mercado Figueroa
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Zoë Chao, Natalie Morales, Geoff Stults
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Country: USA
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they’re better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Director: Babak Jalali
Stars: Anaita Wali, Zada Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor’s guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Director: Zhang Yimou
Stars: Shen Teng, Jackson Yee, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
During China’s Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui’s palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.
Director: Erica Tremblay
Stars: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Following her sister’s disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what’s left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.
Director: Maite Alberdi
Stars: Paulina Urrutia, Augusto Góngora, Gustavo Cerati
Genre: Documentary
Country: Chile, USA
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: N/A
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Paolo Pierobon
Genre: History, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić
Stars: Alexis Manenti, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Miki Manojlović
Genre: Thriller, History, Drama
Country: North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.
Director: Jeanne Herry
Stars: Birane Ba, Leïla Bekhti, Anne Benoît, Dali Benssalah
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Since 2014, France’s restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
Director: Dan Hartley
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
As Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the Harry Potter films, David Holmes’ work has been seen worldwide by millions of people. Tragically an on-set accident ended what David calls “the best job in the world,” leaving him paralyzed. Like the on-screen character he helped bring to life, David is determined to continue seeking adventure and living life to the fullest despite mounting obstacles.
Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Stars: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Stars: Barbara Demick, Kim Sung-eun, Lee Hyeon-seo, Lee So-yeon
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.
Director: David Wnendt
Stars: Levy Rico Arcos, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling, Vincent Wiemer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan
Director: Felipe Gálvez
Stars: Camilo Arancibia, Heinz K. Krattiger, Mark Stanley
Genre: Western, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Taiwan, UK
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
Director: Jason Yu
Stars: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Kuk-hee, Lee Kyung-jin
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Hyun-su and Soo-jin have just gotten married. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. ‘Someone’s inside.’ From that night forward, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of the night before. Soo-jin is overwhelmed with anxiety that he’d hurt her family while she sleeps and can barely sleep a wink because of this irrational fear. Despite sleep treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and she begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger…
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Country: France
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.
Director: Christopher Zalla
Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Haddad, Jennifer Trejo
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and perhaps even their genius.
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
In the middle of a performance of the play “Le Cocu”, a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
Director: Charlotte Regan
Stars: Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun, Laura Aikman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she’s forced to confront reality.
Director: Ariane Louis-Seize
Stars: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.
Director: Laura Moss
Stars: Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Horror, Science Fiction
Country: USA
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Director: Indianna Bell, Josiah Allen
Stars: Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan, Elena Carapetis
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: Australia
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality…
Director: Michel Franco
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, UK, USA, Chile
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain
D’Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
Director: Jérémie Périn
Stars: Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Njo Lobé
Genre: Animation, Mystery, Action, Science Fiction
Country: France
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.
Director: Pascal Plante
Stars: Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Élisabeth Locas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.
Director: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Sean San Jose
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Stars: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah, Poppy Allen-Quarmby
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.
Director: Paola Cortellesi
Stars: Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano
Genre: History, War, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. An Italian box office phenomenon and winner of six Italian Academy Awards.
Director: John Carney
Stars: Eve Hewson, Orén Kinlan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jack Reynor
Genre: Music, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician, and harmony for this frayed Dublin family.
Director: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
Director: Francis Galluppi
Stars: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.
Director: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
Stars: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Ayo Edebr
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless “crypto-bro” son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
Director: Sam Wrench
Stars: Taylor Swift
Genre: Music, Documentary
Country: USA
The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour.
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain
D’Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King’s Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen’s confidante.
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
Director: İlker Çatak
Stars: Leonie Benesch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer
Genre: Drama
Country: German
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Director: Tina Satter
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner returns from running errands to find two FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia. An Air Force veteran and yoga instructor, Winner spends the next two hours being questioned about her work as an intelligence contractor — specifically, whether she leaked a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg
Genre: History, Drama, Action
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen’s fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life…?
Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
The unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his estate at Graceland.
Director: Demián Rugna
Stars: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.
Director: Matt Johnson
Stars: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Rich Sommer
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.
Director: Bradley Cooper
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.
Director: Cord Jefferson
Stars: Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh
Genre: History, Drama
Country: UK, USA
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Director: Justine Triet
Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Stars: Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Country: Japan
When a young boy begins behaving strangely, shocking truths emerge as the story unfolds through the eyes of his single mother, a teacher who is believed to be responsible, and the child himself.
Director: Pablo Berger
Stars: Ivan Labanda, Tito Trifol, Rafa Calvo, José García Tos
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Animation, Drama
Country: France, Spain
A lonely dog’s friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Director: Radu Jude
Stars: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazăr
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Croatia, France, Luxembourg, Romania
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
Director: Celine Song
Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Director: Víctor Erice
Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, Spain
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Director: Ira Sachs
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Stars: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg,
Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”
Director: Angela Schanelec
Stars: Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marissa Triantafyllidou
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Greece, Serbia
Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to seek out his presence, takes care of him, records music for him. Jon’s eyesight begins to fail … From then on, for every loss he suffers, he will gain something in return.
Director: Claire Simon
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Jean-Pierre Troisgros, Marie Badaut, Jean Troisgrois, Pierre Troisgros
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, France
Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel’s sons are continuing the family business: César runs the Michelin-starred restaurant, “Le Bois sans feuilles” (“The Leafless Wood”), and Léo is in charge of one of the other two Troisgros restaurants, “La Colline du colombier” (“The Dovecote Hill”).
Director: Trần Anh Hùng
Stars: Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche, Patrick d’Assumçao
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Japan
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bağcı
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Czechia, France, Poland, USA
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine..
Director: Bas Devos
Stars: Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong, Cédric Luvuezo, Teodor Corban
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Stefan, a migrant construction worker living in Brussels, is planning a trip home to his mother in Romania. In preparing for his voyage, he reconnects with local family members over gifted bowls of homemade soup, interacts with strangers, and discovers a revivifying commune with nature. This leads him to an unexpected connection with Shuxiu, a Chinese-Belgian bryologist studying the local moss.
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal
A cowboy arrives in a village in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in a the Amazon forest.
Director: Pat Collins
Stars: Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy, Sean McGinley
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
Director: Wei Shujun
Stars: Zhu Yilong, Chloe Maayan, Hou Tianlai, Tong Linkai
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: China
1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman’s body is found by the river. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that leads to an obvious arrest. His superiors hurry to congratulate him, but several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behaviour of his fellow citizens.
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children’s clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Director: Wang Bing
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Netherlands
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children’s clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Director: Lila Avilés
Stars: Naíma Sentíes, Montserrat Marañon, Marisol Gasé
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark, France, Mexico
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Osaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi’s house offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to nature.
Director: Sebastián Silva
Stars: Sebastián Silva, Jordan Firstman, Catalina Saavedra
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.
Director: Raven Jackson
Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jaya Henry
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
Director: A.V. Rockwell
Stars: Teyana Taylor, William Catlett, Josiah Cross, Aven Courtney
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Elizabeth Pinard, Alice Costa, Karyna Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the volcano Fogo. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through music and singing.
Director: Emma Seligman
Stars: Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Stars: Shin Seok-ho, Ha Seong-guk, Kim Seung-yun, Kim Min-hee
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
A director, a cinematographer, and an actress spend the days leading up to a movie shoot together on-location, waiting for the director to come up with an idea for what the film will be about.
Director: Ulises de la Orden
Stars: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Julio César Strassera, León Arslanián
Genre: History, Documentary
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Norway
Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people and other State crimes.