Kristen Stewart makes her directorial debut with a rousing adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir.
A young girl living in a sleepy Chilean mining town reckons with prejudice that emerges when a mysterious illness sweeps the residents in Diego Céspedes' modern western.
A 12-year-old boy at a water polo summer camp experiences the vitriol of his peers in Charlie Polinger's arresting feature debut.
This robust if hardly revelatory police procedural coasts on an detailed and charismatic lead performance from Léa Drucker.
A phenomenal and unique portrait of a group of thrill-seeking ravers entering into a spiritual abyss in this extraordinary new film by Oliver Laxe.
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa returns with this dark tale of Stalinist oppression that is very relevant for these current times.
Laura Wandel's second feature unravels the complexity of a mother-son relationship within the confines of a paediatric ward.
Mascha Schilinski's beguiling drama follows four generations living in the same rural German farmhouse and the cyclical nature of their trauma.
Robin Campillo completed this final feature by Laurent Cantet, a beautiful, bittersweet study of a teenage boy finding his way in life.
Wes Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Julia Ducournau are among the contenders for this year’s Golden Palm.
By Mark Asch
An Iranian judge appointed to Tehran's Revolutionary Court grapples with dissent both at work and at home in Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically charged thriller.
Two sisters share an unshakable bond in Ariane Labed's uniquely strange feature debut.
Noémie Merlant's sophomore feature, co-written by Celine Sciamma, is a riotous black comedy set on the hottest day of the year in Marseilles.
An archetypal good girl meets a boy from the wrong side of the tracks in Gilles Lellouche's sweeping melodrama.
A young enforcer for a Brazilian gangster finds himself hiding out at a sleazy sex hotel in Karim Aïnouz's neo-noir.
By Jenna Mahale
Payal Kapadia's first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance, concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.
Ben Whishaw rises to the occasion of essaying the poet, provocateur and political dissident Eduard Limonov.
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