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This razor-sharp drama mixes three characters, a secret from their past, and one small apartment into an explosive concoction. Tape is provocative in its #MeToo politics and stirs the heart with its depiction of personal pain.

When a burned Quran is found on the set of a film, tensions rise between the filmmaker and the refugees recruited as extras for the shoot. As the conflict escalates, a young assistant finds herself drawn into a widening web of paranoia and conspiracy.

When 13-year-old Karolina is chosen to be part of the main lineup of an acclaimed children's choir, it draws unwanted attention. Broken Voices is a gutting account of a grave abuse of power based on a real-life story.

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.

Cheng-Chui Kuo’s drama is a lively, bittersweet ode to love and friendship. Following four friends through a night of drinking, reminiscence, and revelation, the film explores love and its discontents while paying tribute to Taipei.

A nurse finds herself pushed to the brink as she attempts to maintain order over one high-pressure night in a Swiss hospital’s surgical ward. Petra Volpe’s drama unfolds at an exhilarating pace and instils a deep sense of admiration for its heroine.

Wistful in tone and graceful in its direction, Zhuo Bian’s film stars Li Zhenping as Xie Shuwen, an elderly widower trying to find a measure of peace in his final years. While not without its sad moments, this is undoubtedly a life-affirming work.

In the Bolivian Andes, a teen raised by a midwife longs to trade ancestral birth songs for a spotlight in the city. Álvaro Olmos Torrico's The Condor Daughter is a lyrical, tender story of inheritance, ambition, and the power to choose your own path.

This haunting, meditative drama refracts global anxieties through the story of a white-collar worker and the pregnancy she's concealing from her macho husband. Deeply conflicted about her pregnancy, a twist of fate exposes the truth…

Blending sci-fi and family drama, My Father's Son takes us through the past, present, and future of a computer engineer. As a child, Qiao is bullied by his father; in the present, his father is laid to rest; and in the future, he’s resurrected via AI.

Keiko Tsuruoka’s film tells the story of an actor returning home to confess a sad secret. Filling the roles of writer, director, cinematographer, and editor, she has created a graceful work about the small moments that make up so much of our lives.

Ryan (Peter Dreimanis) and Andie (Leah Fay Goldstein) meet in the aftermath of a car crash, forging a friendship that slowly cruises towards something deeper. The film succeeds both as a breezy romance and a poignant reflection on commitment and freedom.

In Tehran, Seti dreams of singing freely in the streets. Bidad, directed by Soheil, is a raw, urgent portrait of resistance, courage, and hope. A must-see film about one woman's voice echoing a generation's fight for freedom.

This bracing political drama tells the story of female sweatshop workers in Myanmar and their courageous struggle for justice. It’s a dark, unflinching work, in which the depiction of oppression is meant to spark outrage and action.

This gritty, Bronx-set romance follows two teenagers in love, an unplanned pregnancy, and the poverty that encumbers them. And yet, this is a vivacious, heartwarming work — funny without being frivolous and tender without being sentimental.

A lovely, ruminative movie set in the Pacific Northwest during the first half of the last century. Robert (Joel Edgerton) plays a Robert Grenier, a taciturn lumberjack who comes to appreciate the life slipping between his fingers.

Ash Mayfair's romance gives us San (Trân Quân), a trans woman saving up for gender-affirming surgery, and Nam (Võ Diên Gia Huy), her macho lover. They fight for their freedom and dignity against a society in which the odds are stacked against them.

This charming film presents a core sample from the life of a NYC location scout: leafletting, awkward interviews, and traffic trouble galore... The social interactions, which range from cozy to creepy, are portrayed with a casual, ingratiating naturalism.

When the identity of her sperm donor is revealed, a curiosity-driven journalist seeks him out under the false pretext of interviewing him about his company. What begins as a calculated encounter gradually deepens into a genuine connection.

Inhabiting the back alleys and dangerous streets of New York City, this gripping, deeply humane film stars Chang Chen as Lu, a delivery driver in a race against time to raise money for his family.

Thirty-something professor Ali leads an apparently stable life. But when his ailing mother dies under ambiguous circumstances, he starts to unravel, resulting in an act that shatters our understanding of his person.

Set in the Chilean desert, this 80s drama centers on a commune of queer outcasts, including 11-year-old Lidia and her mother. When her mom's abusive ex-lover reappears in their lives with tragic consequences, the group decides to fight back.

Radu Jude's Silver Bear winner is an anguished drama of conscience about a bailiff traumatized by an eviction that ends in tragedy. What more could she, or should she, have done?

Fifty years after being separated during the Sixties Scoop, four Cree siblings reunite for the first time on a long weekend trip to Banff. Tasha Hubbard’s sensitive drama relates an emotional and life-affirming story of kinship and belonging.

Two middle-aged drunkards drive across the Veneto region on a freewheeling bender, taking a young college student along for the ride. A celebration of the spirit of drink and the kinds of stories told around a table of old friends and too much wine.

Winner of the Caméra d’Or and Director’s Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes, Hasan Hadi’s fable-like drama set in 1990s Iraq follows an impoverished child's quest into the city to scrounge up ingredients for birthday cake for Saddam Hussein.