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Silverio is an esteemed Mexican documentary filmmaker going through an existential mid-life crisis. Returning to his homeland for a few days, he is visited by dreams, old friends, ghosts, and his own uneasy conscience. From the director of Birdman.

In his 90s, the great documentarian Fred Wiseman has made his first fiction film, a bittersweet vignette based on the letters and diaries of Sophia Tolstoy, and her (off-screen) husband, Leo. "Valuable and insightful." Guardian

Generations is a bundle that deepens our understanding of home, lineage and family for communities within the SWANA region and its diaspora. These films discuss intergenerational trauma, the tension between 'here' and 'there' and how land follows us wherever we go.

Veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski returns in triumphant form with this tale of animal life. Sometimes harsh, sometimes sweet, always beautiful, EO tells the story of a donkey and its journey through a world dominated by humans.

Flee is a powerful, deeply personal animated documentary that tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a secret he's kept for 20 years; one that threatens to derail the life he's built for himself and his soon-to-be husband.

America in the age of anxiety, as experienced by Professor of Hitler Studies Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and multiple kids... A chemical spill leads to an airborne toxic event and the mass evacuation.