Directed by Yeo Siew Hua • 2024 • Singapore, Taiwan, France
Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Wu Chien-ho, Anicca Panna

A couple grappling with the unsolved disappearance of their daughter are further unsettled when they begin receiving mysterious DVDs containing footage of their daily lives. The moments...

Directed by Isabel Sandoval • 2019 • Philippines, United States
Starring Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren

This poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-...

Directed by Louise Weard • 2024 • Canada
Starring Louise Weard, Aoife Josie Clements, Magda Baker

CASTRATION MOVIE is a fearlessly raw, darkly comic multipart postmodern epic by Louise Weard. ANTHOLOGY I. TRAPS contains two chapters. In the first, INCEL SUPERMAN, a production assistant named Tur...

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun • 2021 • United States
Starring Anna Cobb, Michael J. Rogers, May Leitz

“I want to go to the World’s Fair.” Isolated teen Casey (Anna Cobb) repeats this cryptic mantra three times into the eerie glow of her laptop screen, initiating herself into the viral World’s Fair...

Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2005 • Romania
Starring Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminița Gheorghiu, Doru Ana

Hailed as one of the defining works of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Cristi Puiu’s unflinching, darkly comic bureaucratic nightmare heralded the arrival of the Romanian New Wave as a major cine...

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov • 2024 • France, Italy, Spain
Starring Ben Whishaw, Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Masha Mashkova

Rebel, iconoclast, outlaw, and counterculture provocateur: controversial Russian writer and political dissident Eduard Limonov was all of these things and more. In Kirill...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2005 • United Kingdom, Canada
Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman

In 1957, a young woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hotel room of a superstar, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis–esque comedy team. Now, fifteen years later, journalist Kare...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2012 • Brazil
Starring Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful debut feature is an unsettlingly incisive study of class and simmering urban unrest in contemporary Brazil that unfolds with the gripping, slow-burn tension ...

Directed by Joachim Trier • 2017 • Norway
Starring Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen

Something like Brian De Palma’s CARRIE filtered through a distinctively chilly, Nordic sensibility, this spellbinding supernatural thriller from director Joachim Trier follows Thelma (Eili Harboe), a l...

Directed by Yang Chao • 2016 • China
Starring Qin Hao, Xin Zhilei, Wu Lipeng

Stunningly shot by master cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, THE ASSASSIN), this sublimely mysterious, elegiac odyssey blends breathtaking images of the river that has nurtured Chinese civilizatio...

Directed by Rithy Panh • 2024 • Cambodia, France, Turkey
Starring Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Gueï

Renowned for his hauntingly personal documentaries on the Cambodian genocide and the devastating legacy of the Khmer Rouge, director Rithy Panh returns to narrative filmmaking for the first ...

Directed by Kirsten Tan • 2017 • Singapore, Thailand
Starring Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Penpak Sirikul, Chaiwat Khumdee

With immense heart and a splash of surrealism, this wonderfully eccentric road movie traces a journey across Thailand like no other. When Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh), a successf...

Directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • 2022 • Ukraine, Poland, France
Starring Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Solomiya Kyrylova, Stanislav Potiak

Charged with an almost demonic intensity, this electrifying thriller unfolds in the borderlands of western Ukraine (just prior to the Russian invasion) where...

Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2024 • France, Spain, Portugal
Starring Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay

A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Return...

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 2001 • Taiwan
Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Duan Chun-hao

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s neon-splashed reverie is a dreamlike drift through the night world of early-2000s Taipei. From the year 2011, the wayward Vicky (Shu Qi)—a bar hostess caught between a jealously possessive boyf...

Directed by Maura Delpero • 2024 • Italy, France, Belgium
Starring Giuseppe De Domenico, Tommaso Ragno, Martina Scrinzi

Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero’s exquisite wartime drama, winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. In a majestic...

Directed by Jia Zhang-Ke • 2000 • China
Starring Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong

One of the first masterpieces of twenty-first century cinema, Jia Zhang-Ke’s sophomore feature is an at once epic and intimate vision of the changing China of the 1980s. Unfolding between 1979 and 1990, PLATF...

Directed by Wei Shujun • 2023 • China
Starring Zhu Yilong, Chloe Maayan, Hou Tianlai

When a woman’s body washes up on the shore in small-town China in the 1990s, the local chief of police, Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), is tasked with leading the investigation. An obvious suspect leads to a hasty arrest, ...

Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2023 • United States
Starring Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger

Directed and cowritten by Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites viewers to weave in and out of the mind of the celebrated southern gothic writer Flannery O’Connor as she ponders the great questions of her wr...

Directed by Ray Yeung • 2024 • Hong Kong
Starring Maggie Li Lin-lin, Patra Au Ga-man, Tai Bo

What happens to a lifetime of love when it collides with the harsh realities of a bureaucratic system that doesn’t recognize your relationship? That’s the question at the heart of this profoundly poignan...

Directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou • 2004 • United States
Starring Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee

The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité TAKE OUT, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggli...

Directed by Leos Carax • 2024 • France

French-cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent forty years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from BOY MEETS GIRL and THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE to HOLY MOTORS and the recent musical ANN...

Directed by Catherine Breillat • 2023 • France
Starring Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin

After a decade-long absence, Catherine Breillat triumphantly returns with an exploration of the themes that have made her one of cinema’s most rousing and controversial directors: the ecstasies...

Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami • 2023 • Iran
Starring Majid Salehi, Gohar Kheirandish, Farzin Mohades

Unfolding in nine incisive vignettes, this elegantly minimalist, powerfully subversive portrait of the everyday absurdity of life under authoritarianism follows an array of Iranians...