Film-Forward

Foreign

The Old Oak

Another potent Ken Loach-Paul Laverty collaboration.

Otro Sol, The Rim, The Permanent Picture | New Directors/New Films 2024

Within the wide and varied films at the festival, many of the Hispanic cinema offerings stand out.

Wicked Little Letters

The novelty of a movie aimed at a typical anglophile audience with uptight British people swearing and reading vulgar words eventually wears thin.

Karaoke

A gregarious new neighbor upends the lives of two retired empty nesters.

La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film casts a beguiling spell, but like all altered states, it can also leave you disoriented.

Àma Gloria/The Rapture/Sisterhood/Auction | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Most of the 21 films on this year’s lineup rely on stories that center around the various ways we connect with others.

Io Capitano

Director Matteo Garrone is scrupulous in his attention to the harrowing logistics of a Senegalese immigrant’s journey to Italy.

Banel & Adam, Just the Two of Us, Red Island | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

One could argue that the festival couldn’t occur at a better time, when French films are enjoying success in the U.S. this year.

All to Play For, No Love Lost, Toni | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.