Film-Forward

Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.

This fierce drama follows in the footsteps of other recent Ukrainian films examining the effect of war in the Donbass region.

An absorbing documentary about how one of the most popular Broadway musicals was transformed into a hit movie.

A moving snapshot of life in Ukraine’s volatile Donbass region.

A gay love story set on an air force base in 1970s Estonia.

A tender valentine to quirky, independent bookshops.

The love story of married volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft and their shared passion for up-close and personal investigation of volcanoes.

An immersion into an almost hermetically sealed world that is so detailed and uncomfortable that parts of it feel like a documentary.

A family heads for the Iranian borderlands in a story of flight and escape.