Film-Forward

Last year’s Golden Bear winner is a documentary about a facility where the mentally ill can pursue a variety of artistic and artisanal activities.

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

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

Director Jessica Hausner’s baleful satire is animated by deadpan mockery of upper-middle-class Euro groupthink.

An accidental film that is moving, maddening, multifaceted in the questions it poses, and of significant depth.

What the documentary about the actor’s career gets right is Wilder’s love of life itself.

Contemporary France has been altered by a presumably global phenomenon in which mutants have been living among the population for some time.

It’s always a thrill when a film surprises, and Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño’s Samsara, set in Laos and Zanzibar, is a lovely and adventurous work.

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