Gagarine
A charming French film that has its feet in working-class solidarity and its head in the stars.
Director Goran Stolevski’s folk/psychological/body/art-house horror may burrow under your skin and lodge itself there.
Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.
The annual event offers a spotlight on women directors and coming-of-age stories, a festival staple.
An unflinching, immersive look at childhood bullying that plunges us deep into a child’s agitated POV.
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.
Bhutan’s vast landscape overwhelms with its beauty, and as the village of Lunana and its people calmly make an impact on the protagonist, Lunana makes one on the viewer.
A lot of activity takes place around a wistful antihero buffeted by events: a noble deed that goes awry, a social media pile-on, and a good old-fashioned vendetta.
