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Animalia
Sofia Alaoui’s quietly powerful feature debut, featuring a breakout central performance by Oumaïma Barid, takes aim at Morocco’s wealthy elite.
Behind the Mountains
A father tries to reconnect with his son and show him a fascinating discovery, in this social drama which revels in magical realism.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Radu Jude’s follow-up to the Golden Bear-winning Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a pin-sharp, caustically funny critique of workplace culture and oppression.
Eileen
A shy prison guard falls for the facility’s glamorous new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd’s intoxicating adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s psychosexual thriller.
Foremost by Night
A desperate search, three deaths, two robberies and an escape are all thrown into the mix in Víctor Iriarte’s ambitious reimagining of film noir.
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Cannes Caméra d’Or winner Thien An Pham’s debut locates us in stranger-than-fiction places in bustling Saigon and the picturesque Vietnamese countryside.
Last Summer
French cinema’s great provocateur Catherine Breillat returns with a sharp and cruel tale of seduction and manipulation in a bourgeois household.
Little Girl Blue
Marion Cotillard gives an extraordinary performance in this formally daring docu-drama, in which a film director investigates her mother’s life and untimely death.
Music
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, Angela Schanelec’s enigmatic adaptation of the Oedipus myth is a shapeshifting puzzle.
Omen
Koffi’s epileptic seizure, prior to his trip back home to Kinshasa, acts as an omen for the turbulence that awaits him, in rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji’s Cannes winner.
The Peasants
Using an advanced oil painting animation technique, The Peasants is a visually thrilling rendering of Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize-winning tale.
Power Alley
Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy.
A Prince
Artist and farm worker Pierre Creton’s hybrid film, set amongst the rural landscape of Normandy, combines the wonders of gardening with stark physicality.
Red Island
French writer-director Robin Campillo offers a searching exploration of memory and politics, in this boldly conceived story of boyhood in 1970s Madagascar.
Samsara
Berlin Film Festival award winner Lois Patiño’s assured third feature transports us to magical places in Laos and Zanzibar, where the visible and the invisible merge.
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