Riz Ahmed’s new film begins with an alien invasion and turns into something else.

This is not the sort of film in which you forget that you are watching actors.

One might think that a film named after the capital of Northern Ireland and set in 1969 just as the Troubles were heating up wouldn’t give you the warm and fuzzies. Yet Kenneth Branagh’s semiautobiographical film does.

A subtle work concerned with the intimate relationship between the real and the fantastic, fed by memory and imagination.

From Somalia, a family drama that ranks high among the gems of the festival.

Riz Ahmed, who co-wrote the screenplay, delivers a riveting performance in a movie with a lot on its mind.

During the pandemic lockdown, filmmakers from all over the world contributed to this anthology. Some of the results are heartening and surprising.

This tense, unnerving tale of an orphaned girl’s entrapment in a criminal family throbs with pain and danger under a tightly controlled surface.

Emma Dante’s intense, punishing film follows five, then four siblings from a fateful childhood day through a harsh old age.