by Hannah Strong
Three teenagers develop unusual methods for exploring their emotions in Jannis Lenz’s drama.
by Rafa Sales Ross
Marcho Bechis’ tense drama documents a man’s return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.
by Yasmine Kandil
Ali Asgari’s Tehran-set drama squanders an emotional premise by failing to provide a real insight into its central character.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s damning and stark documentary outlines the horrifying extent of civilian deaths in Palestine through interviews with former IDF operatives.
A Tehran family find themselves at odds during a time of personal crisis in Mohsen Gharaei’s tense domestic drama.
Jacqueline Lentzou’s second feature is an ambitious and sensitive yet unusual coming-of-age story.
by Sonya Vseliubska
Grzegorz Dębowski’s taut feature follows a Polish burglar who assumes the identity of a dead stranger’s girlfriend, with unexpectedly tender results.
Drawing from personal experience, Manuel Wetscher’s coming-of-age drama about two boys reckoning with a world-changing secret is a little too restrained for its own good.
A sullen teenager living in Okinawa finds his life upended by the arrival of a boy raised on a nearby American airbase in Xavier Tera’s feature debut.
Edoardo Gabbriellini presents a sensitive and haunting take on a crime that shocked Italy.
Despite the presence of the excellent Ellen Burstyn, Kornél Mundruczó’s avian-based road movie never takes flight.
by Marshall Shaffer
Alba Rohrwacher is a HR manager struggling to manage people and performance in Stéphane Brizé’s effective workplace drama.
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