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Bionico’s Bachata

The mockumentary format gives this lively comic drama a jolt of energy as it charts one guy’s romantic endeavours to give his girlfriend the return home from rehab that she deserves.

Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke filters a prismatic contemplation of twenty-first century China’s seismic shifts through two decades of his own films, anchored by regular collaborator Tao Zhao.

Cidade; Campo

The latest film by Juliana Rojas is a captivating diptych showcasing two women’s contrasting lives within urban and rural locations.

Diciannove

This daring and intoxicating debut is a thought-provoking and invigorating exploration of what it means to become an adult, as experienced through the soul-searching journey of an atypical 19-year-old.

Don’t Cry, Butterfly

Dương Diệu Linh’s striking directorial debut is a vividly surreal portrait of a middle-aged woman who finds out her husband is cheating on her.

Eight Postcards from Utopia

Radu Jude’s fascinating experimental documentary uses found footage assembled solely out of post-Socialist Romania advertisements.

Familiar Touch

Grounded in anti-ageist politics, Sarah Friedland’s absorbing first feature portrays the multifaceted reality of an octogenarian woman with a dissipating memory.

Fire of Wind

Between day and night and memory and dream, Marta Meteus’s beguiling debut feature speaks to the absences that disturb the serenity of a Portuguese village.

My Stolen Planet

A mesmerising collage of archive materials reveals a hidden history of collective resistance within Iran’s regime.

The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

A testament to the emotional power of shared memory, Inadelso Cossa’s elegiac and inventive film challenges the societal silence enveloping post-civil-war Mozambique.

Pepe

The ghost of a hippo guides us on this hallucinatory odyssey of exile and animal consciousness, from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias.

Praia Formosa

A slave finds herself transported to contemporary Brazil in this experimental and richly rewarding exploration of the legacies of Brazil’s part in the transatlantic slave trade.

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

The Quay Brothers’ new feature is a distinctive stop-motion work where dreams, fantasies and memories blur, creating a wondrous alternative reality.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Êtat

Johan Grimonprez’s involving film, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

Sugar Island

Johanné Gómez Terrero’s debut fictional feature is a mesmerising reflection on the complex past, present and future lives of Afro-Dominican people in the Dominican Republic.

Viêt and Nam

Trương Minh Quý’s achingly beautiful queer romance ruminates on ghostly spaces where personal yearnings and the suppressed collective psyche both dwell.