Film-Forward

The innovative choreographer, dancer, singer, and filmmaker clearly knows not just how to laugh, but how to get the last laugh.

A smug, tongue-out gesture at sensitive topics or a sharp-eyed tapestry of American dysfunction?

This beautiful and painful coming-of-age tale features a powerhouse performance by eight-year-old Lexi Venter.

Elizabeth Bouvia and her demand for the right to die is at the center of Reid Davenport’s angry, unapologetically polemical documentary.

A potential love story between a seemingly unlikely pair: a White, straight, taciturn Essex mechanic and a gay Indian drag queen.

If an existentialist action film is even possible, Cloud would be a prime example.

A moody, intriguing picture about a family vacation that turns into a nightmare.

In a Paris-set, candy-colored—though melancholic—portrait, a young sex worker finds herself at a crossroads.

Two Palestinians who have left their families behind in Lebanon are stranded in Athens, dreaming of living in Germany.