Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2023 • United States
Starring Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger

Directed and cowritten by Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites viewers to weave in and out of the mind of the celebrated southern gothic writer Flannery O’Connor as she ponders the great questions of her wr...

Directed by Ray Yeung • 2024 • Hong Kong
Starring Maggie Li Lin-lin, Patra Au Ga-man, Tai Bo

What happens to a lifetime of love when it collides with the harsh realities of a bureaucratic system that doesn’t recognize your relationship? That’s the question at the heart of this profoundly poignan...

Directed by Axelle Ropert • 2016 • France
Starring Bastien Bouillon, Mélanie Bernier, Antonin Fresson

Director Axelle Ropert puts a fresh spin on the 1930s-style screwball comedy with this charmingly literal take on the old adage that “love is blind.” Demand is low for rebetiko (Greek folk music...

Directed by Payal Kapadia • 2021 • France, India
Starring Bhumisuta Das

Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes tak...

Directed by Lee Daniels • 2012 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey

Lee Daniels’s follow-up to his breakthrough feature PRECIOUS is a deliciously pulpy, swamp-steamy slice of Southern gothic delirium featuring an all-star cast led by Matthew McConaughey, playing...

Directed by Richard Linklater • 2006 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson

In a not-too-distant future where America has lost its “war” on drugs, Fred (Keanu Reeves), an undercover cop obsessed with taking down a notorious drug dealer, is one of many people hooked ...

Directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou • 2004 • United States
Starring Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee

The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité TAKE OUT, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggli...

French-cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent forty years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from BOY MEETS GIRL and THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE to HOLY MOTORS and the recent musical ANNETTE. In his new film, he lovingly evoke...

Directed by Catherine Breillat • 2023 • France
Starring Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin

After a decade-long absence, Catherine Breillat triumphantly returns with an exploration of the themes that have made her one of cinema’s most rousing and controversial directors: the ecstasies...

Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami • 2023 • Iran
Starring Majid Salehi, Gohar Kheirandish, Farzin Mohades

Unfolding in nine incisive vignettes, this elegantly minimalist, powerfully subversive portrait of the everyday absurdity of life under authoritarianism follows an array of Iranians...

Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland
Starring Arthur MacCaig

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over thirty years of ...

Directed by Zhang Lü • 2023 • China
Starring Xin Baiqing, Huang Yao, Tian Zhuangzhuang

Gu Wentong (Xin Baiqing), a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang (Huang Yao). A divorcé with a six-year-old daughter ...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 2007 • United States
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke

Renowned director Sidney Lumet brought five decades of cinematic mastery to bear in his final film, a riveting thriller that achieves the weight of Greek tragedy. A typically virtuosic Phil...

Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi • 2023 • Japan
Starring Hitoshi Omika, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani

In a secluded, snowy mountain village, widower and single father Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) leads a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for a friend’s udon shop. Yet this peaceful exist...

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 2001 • Japan
Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki

In Tokyo, a group of young people begin to experience strange phenomena involving missing coworkers and friends, technological breakdown, and a mysterious website that asks them, “Do you want to meet a ghost?” After th...

Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler • 2023 • United States

A timely, riveting documentary that unfurls with the energy and suspense of a thriller, BAD PRESS—winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression—offers unparalleled in...

Directed by Alex Ross Perry • 2015 • United States
Starring Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Kentucker Audley

Elisabeth Moss delivers a fearless performance in this tour-de-force portrait of psychological breakdown directed by her frequent collaborator Alex Ross Perry. She stars as Catherine...

Directed by Bas Devos • 2023 • Belgium
Starring Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong, Cédric Luvuezo

In this luminous, gossamer-delicate portrait of human connection, Stefan (Stefan Gota), a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, says goodbye to his friends as he prepares to leave the city and retur...

Directed by Bertrand Bonello • 2023 • France, Canada
Starring Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda

Léa Seydoux stars in this visually audacious, mind-bending epic as a woman who falls in love with the same man (George MacKay) across three different incarnations of their lives: in belle-...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2023 • Brazil

The latest from acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, AQUARIUS) is a multidimensional journey across time, sound, architecture, and filmmaking that explores the rich, complicated history of the filmmaker’s home city of Reci...

Directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach • 2023 • France
Starring Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch

Wracked with guilt after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda, widowed mother Paulette resolves to do anything to make it up to her. What does the girl want? A meal of chic...

Directed by Sam Green • 2022 • United States

This immersive sensory odyssey from Academy Award–nominated documentarian Sam Green (THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND) explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together thirty-two specific auditory explorations into a meditation on the power of so...

Directed by Ann Oren • 2022 • Germany
Starring Simone Bucio, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Sebastian Rudolph

Ravishingly shot on lush 16 mm, the audaciously erotic, playfully surreal debut feature from Ann Oren crosses lines of gender and species on a visceral journey into sexuality, control, and ...