A sense of otherworldly threat pervades French-Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui’s intriguing philosophical sci-fi Animalia, an extension of her Sundance Grand Jury-winning 2020 short, So What If the Goats Die.

Igor Bezinović weaves archive and interview to recount poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio’s radical 1919 occupation of Fiume (Rijeka, Croatia), revealing the stirrings of European fascism in the wake of World War I.

Peter Watkins' seminal pseudo-documentary sees countercultural dissenters thrown into a brutal California desert tribunal, exposing authoritarian overreach and state-sanctioned violence in America, as filmed in newsreel style by a European crew.

Sergio, an environmental engineer from Portugal, travels to Guinea-Bissau for an impact report. There, lonely in the heat, he encounters Diara and Guilermhe and begins to approach the post-colonial and capitalist forces shaping their lives.

A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is now considered to be one of cinema’s very greatest works.

A double bill that pairs famed street photographer Ho Fan and Sun Po-ling’s experimental feature with Tiffany Sia’s short film that reworks mid-20th-century Hong Kong travelogue footage. 

Nikola is a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies. When his family leaves, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan and an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. 

Colin is a quiet parking attendant, whose steady existence is disrupted by the exploration of pleasure, dependence, and his own limits, when he enters a dominant-submissive relationship with biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). 

A fearless, Palme d’Or winning, tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on.