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Gripping, poetic, and darkly beautiful, Lin Jianjie’s domestic thriller tells of a high school slacker whose mysterious new friend slowly captures the hearts of his parents. This is a terrific debut from a director with a very bright future in cinema.

This poignant, thought-provoking film is set in the future, when we’ve solved the environmental crisis--at a significant cost. It follows a mother and daughter on their different life journeys; the two storylines converge for a powerful conclusion.

Attempting to escape the illegal gambling business owned by his uncle, Valerio, and Regina are swept into the violent undertow of Rio de Janeiro’s crime world, leaving behind a bloody wake of bodies and betrayal in this bleakly comic tragedy.

A deeply touching family drama about a grandfather fighting for the custody of his newborn granddaughter, who is rejected by her mother after she learns that the child has a rare genetic disorder known as Cat’s Cry syndrome.

Over two decades, across China’s rapidly changing landscape, two lovers meet and part and meet again. In this magisterial film, Jia Zhangke refracts the twenty-first century through a reflexive, retrospective look at his era-defining filmography.

Harvey is a lonely, overweight man who discovers new self-esteem when he submits a photo to Cherub, a gay magazine “For big men and their admirers.” A gentle, ambient character study about the healing power of being admired.

There’s no place like home for the holidays and the extended Balsano family gathers to celebrate Christmas Eve together for perhaps the last time. A warmly humorous yuletide rhapsody, this captures the Christmas spirit and puts a bow on it.

In Nigeria's oldest university, a student film club presents work by Med Hondo, John Akomfrah, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun and others, which spark passionate criticial conversations around ethnicity, gender, colonialism and housing.

When the Pope dies, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) must marshall the Church’s most influential figures and orchestrate the election of a successor. A deeply satisfying, immaculately crafted, psychologically complex morality tale from Edward Berger.

This uplifting documentary follows a curling team from Maple Ridge as they navigate the uncertainties of their teenage years and strive to become Canadian Junior Curling Champions with coaching from three of their moms, who are former Olympians.

The return of stolen cultural artifacts to the Republic of Benin is the inspiration for Mati Diop's Berlin Golden Bear prize winner, which fuses dreamy metaphysics and incendiary political commentary on issues of restitution and self-determination.

As Viktor Orbán dismantles Hungary’s democratic institutions, three women--a journalist, a politician, and a nurse--work tirelessly to fight for their country’s soul. A chilling exposé of far-right nationalism and an inspirational beacon of resistance.