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With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. Winner—Best Leading Performance at Berlin Winner—Best Actress at SITGES NYFCC Awards—Best Actress Golden Globes Nominee—Best Actress Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominee—Best Director, Lead Performance "Byrne is magnificent...a howl of maternal desperation spiked with jagged humor."—NYTimes Critic's Pick "A brave, searing interrogation of the roles [mothers are] forced to play in society and the massive weight of holding a life in one’s hands."—The Film Stage
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Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art. Winner — Palme d'Or at Cannes Golden Globes Nominee—Best Picture, International Feature, Screenplay, Director NYFCC Awards—Best Director Gotham Awards—Best International Feature, Director, Original Screenplay "A cry from the heart, a comic howl in the dark and one of the year’s essential movies. The premise—victimized men and women turn the tables on their victimizer—is the stuff of law and culture, daydreams and nightmares."—NYTimes Critic's Pick "An ideal melding of the filmmaker Panahi was and the filmmaker he’s been forced to become. It’s an endlessly fascinating and extraordinarily powerful work."—NYMag In Persian with English subtitles.
In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Lee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), Resurrection conjures vast and ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. Winner—Special Jury Prize at Cannes "Bi Gan's Beautiful, sprawling and boundary-pushing hallucination Resurrection makes the case that—as its title emphatically announces—the movies themselves have remarkable staying power."—Manohla Dargis, NYTimes Critic's Pick "A magnificent intoxicant of a movie...is no ordinary love letter to cinema. It’s more like a love labyrinth—a multi-tiered maze, full of secret passages, shadowy rooms, and winding staircases...a glorious and hugely ambitious work."—Justin Chang, The New Yorker In Mandarin w/English subtitles.
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Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right in the middle of their complex family dynamics. Winner—Grand Prix at Cannes Golden Globes Nominee—Best Picture, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress (x2), Director, Screenplay, International Feature "Trier remains blissfully attuned to the absurdity of life, a sensitivity that he uses to help attenuate the crushing sadness that few directors with an eye on the box office dare to risk. He’s very good at wowing you with film form, but it’s the deep feeling in his work that is transcendent."—Manohla Dargis, NYTimes Critic's Pick In Norweigan, Swedish, French, English w/English subtitles.
Based on the beloved memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and marking the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water is a raw and unflinching portrait of survival, sexuality, and self-invention. The film traces Lidia’s life from her earliest memories in the Pacific Northwest, as a promising swimmer, through fractured relationships, near-motherhood, addiction, and encounters with artistic heroes. Told as a fluid memory wash, the story transforms trauma into art, embodying Yuknavitch’s defiant voice that made her work a modern cult classic. It is not only a chronicle of a woman becoming a writer, but a visceral journey through the wreckage and resilience of a life lived against the grain. "These realities just arrive; they’re part of the liquid flow of life. But by the end we emerge as if baptized."—Variety "Subconscious world dominates the conscious, and memories obliterate linearity."—RogerEbert.com "Subjective cinema par excellence."—The Film Stage
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Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner—Best Actor, Best Director at Cannes NYFCC Awards—Best Actor, International Film Golden Globes Nominee—Best Motion Picture, Actor, Non-English Language Feature Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominee—Best International Film "A fastidiously elegant nightmare...one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive."—Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com "Mendonça Filho...[is] a glorious nonconformist. He ignores niceties and genre hierarchies, embraces high and low, and mixes the refined in with the crude, an approach that is at once aesthetic and ethical. Here, life can be brutalizing, but there is also love, song, the hot sun, cold beer and, of course, there is also Carnival."—Manohla Dargis, NYTimes Critic's Pick "Mendonça telegraphs a righteous indignation that’s nonetheless hopeful, a vision of openhearted generosity and multigenerational solidarity in the face of ruthless authority, then and now."—Richard Brody, The New Yorker In Portuguese, German w/English subtitles.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. Winner—Grand Jury Prize at Venice Golden Globes Nominee—Best International Film "Hania’s film asks you to do the same: to remember her smile, her voice, her love of the sea, and her."—RogerEbert.com "Exceptionally powerful...the film takes their helplessness in the moment and makes it something cosmic and civilizational."—Bilge Ebiri, NYMag In Arabic with English subtitles.