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A young activist abandons her comrades after a failed mission and takes a spiritual journey into the wilderness, where she’s given a second chance. A breathtaking work of hand-drawn animation and a war cry for political change.

As the Dreadite horde cuts a path of destruction across the land, one man weilds the power to rid the world of their evil — Deathstalker, a ruthless and courageous hero. FX wizard Steven Kostanski conjures a bloody, entertaining hack-and-slash adventure.

Palestinian visionary Elia Suleiman is at the height of his powers with this series of deadpan, interconnected, absurdist vignettes about two Palestinian lovers on either side of an Israeli military checkpoint.

A bawdy (and then some) deconstruction of Romania's most potent IP, Radu Jude parodies the use of AI in filmmaking with his trademark acidic humour. It's about six films in one, and there's something to offend everyone.

Image: © Silviu Gheție

Kim Ilrhan's doc explores the lives of two trans women. Alice is a lighting director who dreams of becoming a dancer; Edhi is a counsellor preparing for gender-affirming surgery. The film is notable for its honesty and its wealth of detail.

A young man leads a solitary existence, living and working in a landfill zone on an island just outside of Taipei. His world shifts when, one day, a mysterious, almost feral young woman floats into his life.

As the death toll on Everest rises, legendary mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an elite team on a life-threatening mission to retrieve the fallen and restore peace to Chomolungma, the sacred “Mother Goddess of the World".

Shot inside a Lenovo factory in Wuhan, Factory is a chilling study of life under global capitalism. Hao Zhou captures a world of control, exhaustion, and quiet revolt. where employees work under surveillance and time itself becomes a mechanism of power.

Sina, Jasna, and Mihrije are three best friends navigating the challenges of young adulthood in contemporary Ljubljana. Their world is blown wide open when they meet Fantasy, a mysterious trans woman with much feminine wisdom.

Inspired by real-life events of a man whose momentary lapse cost him everything, Father is a profoundly unsettling, devastating watch that doubles as a solemn, immaculately realized account of a tragedy of insurmountable proportions.

Jim Jarmusch returns to the anthology format he mastered in earlier films with this triptych of tales involving parents (Tom Waits and Charlotte Rampling) and their grown children (among them, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchette).

Image: © Vague Notion

Timothy Yeung’s film tells the story of four Hong Kong immigrants living in Scarborough, Ontario. With exceptional performances from its four leads, the film explores the Asian diaspora, social malaise, and the hardships of life under late capitalism.