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 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 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 Neo Sora • 2023 • Japan
Starring Ryuichi Sakamoto

A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is the swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. As a parting gift, in late 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with on...

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 Pierre Creton • 2023 • France
Starring Antoine Pirotte, Pierre Creton, Grégory Gadebois

Shortlisted for the Cannes Queer Palm award, this subtly surreal pastoral from ever-fascinating outsider auteur Pierre Creton is a strange and sensuous saga of botany and sex that unfolds across g...

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • 2023 • Turkey
Starring Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan (Musab Ek...

Directed by Anthony Chen • 2023 • China, Singapore
Starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao

Three lost souls find tentative connection in a frozen world in this delicate, lyrical tone poem of youthful alienation and longing. In cold, wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northeastern border, young...

Directed by Lila Avilés • 2023 • Mexico
Starring Naíma Sentíes, Monserrat Marañón, Marisol Gasé

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for her terminally ill father’s birthday party, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day...

Directed by Wim Wenders • 2023 • Germany
Starring Anselm Kiefer, Anton Wenders, Daniel Kiefer

In ANSELM, Wim Wenders creates a hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 6K resolution—and released theatrically in 3D—th...

Directed by Rosine Mbakam • 2011 • Belgium, Cameroon
Starring Pierrette Aboheu, Karelle Kenmogne, Cécile Tchana

Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam has distinguished herself with her incisive observational documentary portraits of African women. With MAMBAR PIERRETTE, her f...

Directed by Claire Simon • 2023 • France

Timely, intimate, and deeply empathetic, OUR BODY observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, veteran documentarian Claire Simon questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the d...

Directed by Ellie Foumbi • 2021 • United States
Starring Babetida Sadjo, Souleymane Sy Savane, Jennifer Tchiakpe

Ellie Foumbi’s elegant moral thriller is a grippingly intense exploration of trauma, revenge, and forgiveness that stands as one of the most exciting feature debuts in recent memory. ...

Directed by Paul B. Preciado • 2023 • France
Starring Oscar-Roza Miller, Yanis Sahraoui, Liz Christin

“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography” as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Pr...

Directed by Cyril Schäublin • 2022 • Switzerland
Starring Stefano Knuchel, Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski

A singularly arresting, precision-crafted tale of time, radical politics, and burgeoning love unfolds amid the bucolic beauty of a Swiss town in this intellectually and stylistically captiva...

Directed by Carolina Cavalli • 2022 • Italy
Starring Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

The boldly assured debut feature from writer-director Carolina Cavalli is a hip, deadpan portrait of a young woman looking for human connection—in all the wrong ways. Born into an uppe...

Directed by Chie Hayakawa • 2022 • Japan, Philippines
Starring Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura, Stefanie Arianne

In a dystopian future, Japan’s government launches Plan 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic ...

Directed by Saim Sadiq • 2022 • Pakistan
Starring Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan

The first Pakistani film to debut at Cannes—where it was awarded both the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard category and the Queer Palm—this tender, emotionally captivating debut from writer-director Saim Sa...

Directed by Christian Petzold • 2023 • Germany
Starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel

While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon (Thomas Schubert) and photographer Felix (Langston Uibel) are surprised to encounter Nadja (Paula Beer), a mysterious young woman staying as a gues...

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson

The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychol...

Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe • 2022 • United States
Starring John Waters, Karyn Kusama, Justin Benson

The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography—from his early short THE ALPHABET to his recent television serie...

Directed by Helena Wittmann • 2022 • France, Germany
Starring Angeliki Papoulia, Denis Lavant, Vladimir Vulević

In her spellbinding, immersive second feature, director Helena Wittmann invites us to relinquish control and join her on a Mediterranean voyage unlike any other. After a stirring encou...