A retired Georgian teacher sets out to reunite with her estranged niece in Istanbul in Levan Akin's compassionate third feature.
Alonso Ruizpalacios's bilingual drama takes place during the chaotic lunch rush of a Times Square restaurant, where tensions flare between front of house and kitchen staff.
Hunter Schafer stars in Tilman Singer's second film, about strange occurances at an Alpine resort.
Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are an excellent double act in Adam Schimberg's effective sophomore feature.
June Squibb is a delight in this sweet comedy about an irrepressible 93-year-old who won't take being scammed lying down.
Three families reckon with the dead returning from the grave in Thea Hvistendahl's glacial horror drama.
Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature is an unnerving take on loneliness, isolation, and the enduring mysteries of children's media.
A grand banquet of film has been laid out for the festival's 20th anniversary edition.
Outgoing artistic director Carlo Chatrian delivers the world cinema goods for his final edition at the helm.
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane are a magnificent double act in Nathan Silver's thoughtful take on grief and faith, which sees a cantor in crisis reunite with his childhood music teacher.
By Soma Ghosh
Sav Rodgers weaves personal and pop culture history together as he unpacks the legacy of Kevin Smith's 1997 romantic comedy.
Annie Baker's debut feature about a mother and daughter is magical and assured drama that announces the Pulitzer Prize winner as a filmmaking talent as well as a literary one.
Veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland offers a stirring, stark depiction of the refugee situation in Europe, as Syrians fleeing war face harrowing interrogation at the Polish-Belarusian border.
Imogen Poots shines in this angular, fragmented portrait of English rose-turned-firebrand activist Rose Dugdale from Irish filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy.
Raven Jackson's feature debut announces a striking visual talent, following the story of a young woman's life in rural Mississippi.
This fascinating and melancholy documentary sees an Iranian exile in London looking back to the stranger-than-fiction roots of his formative cinephelia.
This steamy and giddily uneven rural romance from Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet is almost saved by Laia Costa’s committed central performance.
This Greenland-set drama from Danish director Isabella Eklöf, about a husband and father dealing with the trauma of abuse, makes for oppressively grim and only occasionally revelatory viewing.
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