Hit the Road
A family heads for the Iranian borderlands in a story of flight and escape.
Film-Forward
Paris, 13th District
Director Jacques Audiard goes lighter this time around with a study of reckless and sometimes feckless youth.
You Won’t Be Alone
Director Goran Stolevski’s folk/psychological/body/art-house horror may burrow under your skin and lodge itself there.
Intregalde
Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.
Huda’s Salon
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2022
The annual event offers a spotlight on women directors and coming-of-age stories, a festival staple.
Playground
An unflinching, immersive look at childhood bullying that plunges us deep into a child’s agitated POV.
Brighton 4th
Ruin porn addicts will revel in the film’s rich dinginess, while others may be pulled in by a gruffly sentimental story of a purehearted immigrant putting his life on the line for distinctly lesser men.