Directed by Halina Dyrschka • 2019 • Germany

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange...

Directed by Tamra Davis • 2010 • United States

The brief but bright-burning life of influential artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is vividly recounted in this illuminating documentary directed by the superstar painter’s friend Tamra Davis. Set against the vibrant creative backdrop of New York City in ...

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 Soi Cheang • 2015 • Hong Kong, China, Thailand
Starring Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam

A sequel in name only to KILL ZONE, the giddily frenetic KILL ZONE 2 (a.k.a. SPL 2: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES) teams action virtuosos Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, and Zhang Jin with Hong Kong megastars Simon Yam...

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 Bernardo Bertolucci • 2003 • France, Italy, United Kingdom
Starring Eva Green, Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel

This late-career triumph from Bernardo Bertolucci is an intoxicating homage to love, sex, cinema, and the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s, suffused with the wide-eyed wonder of...

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 Johnnie To • 2004 • Hong Kong
Starring Nick Cheung Ka-fai, Richie Jen, Kelly Chen

Opening with a dazzling, seven-minute-long tracking shot and never letting up from there, this typically dynamic action thriller from director Johnnie To explores the gulf between the truth and what the...

Directed by Sylvia Chang, Joan Chen, and Li Shaohong • 2022 • China
Starring Zhou Xun, Sammi Cheng, Jackson Yee

A trio of China’s leading women filmmakers—Sylvia Chang, Joan Chen, and Li Shaohong—join forces for this three-part anthology about women navigating a new world of uncertainty amid the...

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2000 • China
Starring Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong

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

Directed by Liu Jian • 2023 • China
Starring Dong Zijian, Zhou Dongyu, Ren Ke

Strikingly detailed, hand-drawn animation vividly evokes the idle, idealistic world of slacker youth in the precious days before adult responsibility in Liu Jian’s charmingly wistful slice-of-life gem. In 1990s China, ...

Directed by Wen Muye • 2018 • China
Starring Xu Zheng, Zhou Yiwei, Wang Chuanjun

Based on the true story of a Robin Hood–esque people’s hero who took on big pharma, this rousing blend of comedy and social drama was a box-office smash in China that actually effected change in government policy re...

Directed by Diao Yinan • 2014 • China
Starring Liao Fan, Gwei Lun-mei, Wang Xuebing

Bone-deep disillusionment and startling moments of visual invention suffuse this noir immersion into the seedy underbelly of contemporary Chinese society, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin Film Festiva...

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 Lee Chang-dong • 2018 • South Korea, Japan
Starring Steven Yeun, Ah-in Yoo, Jong-seo Jun

Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this internationally acclaimed psychological drama from Lee Chang-dong is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frust...

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 Lee Daniels • 2012 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey

Lee Daniels’s follow-up to his breakthrough feature PRECIOUS is a deliciously pulpy, swamp-steamy slice of Southern gothic delirium featuring an all-star cast led by Matthew McConaughey, playing...

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...

Directed by Zhang Lü • 2023 • China
Starring Xin Baiqing, Huang Yao, Tian Zhuangzhuang

Gu Wentong (Xin Baiqing), a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang (Huang Yao). A divorcé with a six-year-old daughter ...