A teacher stuck in a rut finds her routine disrupted when an old friend from college reappears.
This delightful anthropological comedy from the Zellner brothers documents an eventful year in the life of four ambling Sasqatch.
Isabelle Huppert proves she’s one of the great comic performers in this delightfully meandering character piece from Hong Sang-soo.
Olivier Assayas offers a wistful, meandering and amusingly philosophical exploration of life during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Author and regular Claire Denis collaborator Christine Angot creates a harrowing portrait of a family collectively suppressing its traumas.
Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
A lunatic piece of sci-fi social realism in which Bruno Dumont brings flying churches and sexed-up aliens to France's Opal Coast.
In the Japanese costal town Ushimado, a colony of stray cats eke out a fraught existence alongside the human residents, documented by filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda.
A drifting bodybuilder and a reclusive gym employee fall hard for each other with devastating consequences in Rose Glass's explosive thriller.
Saoirse Ronan stars as a young woman battling alcoholism on the Orkney Isles in Nora Fingscheidt's adaptation of Amy Liptrott's bestselling memoir.
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 Aaron Schimberg's effective sophomore feature.
Outgoing artistic director Carlo Chatrian delivers the world cinema goods for his final edition at the helm.
By Carly Mattox
Set within a Parisian gynecological clinic, Claire Simon's powerful documentary focuses on the myriad stories of patients who seek advice and care.
Makoto Shinkai's third feature continues his fantastical vision with a teenage girl who accidentally opens a magical portal, but fails to make the same impact as Your Name and Weathering With You.
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