10-year-old Arco lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls into the past. Iris, a girl his age from 2075, comes to his rescue and tries by all means to help send him back to his era. 2026 Oscar Nominee—Best Animated Feature Winner—Best Feature and Soundtrack Award at Annecy "A time travel fable that feeds the heart as much as the brain, tipping its hat to sci-fi favorites as well as masters of animation from Walt Disney to Hayao Miyazaki. It’s an imaginative treat."—Boston Globe "In its gorgeous animation and stylization of motion blur, Arco pleads us to return to a time when we dreamt about the future as hidden through fluffy clouds and resplendent rainbows."—Screen Rant "Equal parts polished and particular, whimsical and weird....threatens to make skygazers and daydreamers out of anyone who deigns to take the trip."—Little White Lies

**Staff Picks 2026!** The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen from the Clovers, a hip-hop squad from East Compton, by the Toro's former captain.

The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity. "A work of novelistic amplitude...the web of secrets and confessions, schemes and counterplots, short-term pleasures and far-reaching decisions, are couched in dialogue that is pugnacious, vulnerable, comedic, and sometimes richly poetic, and which feels as spontaneous as it is carefully crafted."—Richard Brody, The New Yorker "A movie about the things we don’t say, and the things we project onto each other...Pete Ohs’ best film yet"—The A.V. Club In English, Polish w/English subtitles

**Staff Picks 2026!** Four vignettes on the lives of pre-revolutionary era Cuban people; in Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista’s army. Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation. In Spanish w/English subtitles

From the legendary Hayao Miyazaki comes the beloved story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. It is tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and set out into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki, she embarks on her life journey with her chatty black cat, Jiji, landing the next morning in a sea-side village, where a bakery owner hires her to make deliveries. Rarely has the animator’s art been so brilliantly rendered as in this delightfully imaginative film – a beautiful and timeless story of a young girl finding her way in the world. In Japanese with English subtitles.

**Staff Picks 2026!** Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.

**Staff Picks 2026!** A lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood and unsuccessful attempts to connect with the people around her is sent into a murderous tailspin. Winner—Best Actress, Screenplay at SITGES

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. Winner—Audience Award at SXSW Winner—People's Choice Award at TIFF "It’s movies like these that prove that cinema still has the capacity to surprise, even in criminally goofy comedies like this."—RogerEbert.com "Part guerrilla prank saga, part heartwarming friendship story, and part riff on Back to the Future, the result is an incredibly fine-tuned mishmash of styles and ideas that keeps evolving in surprising ways."—IGN

From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years. Winner—People's Choice award at TIFF Winner—Best Director at SITGES "Wickedly entertaining...Park has made one of the most visually striking films of the year."—RogerEbert.com "[Park] creates a world of whisper-thin boundaries, where chaos and carnage lurk beyond the woods and walls of ordinary life, where one misstep can force you from one reality into another."—NYMag In Korean with English subtitles

**Staff Picks 2026!** The much-anticipated sequel to the worldwide hit family film finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hundredth birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber’s antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it’s up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief…

A special 4/20 screening! When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient’s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. "In Paprika, a gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close."—Manohla Dargis, NYTimes Critic's Pick "Paprika expands your notion of what animation can achieve. You wake from it as if from a dream: spooked, provoked and exhilarated."—Newsweek In Japanese w/English subtitles

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa. Winner—Jury Prize at Cannes Winner—Soundtrack Award at Cannes Winner—Best Film at Chicago IFF 2026 Academy Award Nominee—Best International Feature, Best Sound "An experience of singularly turbulent and transfixing power; for sheer visceral excitement and sustained emotional force, I haven’t encountered its equal this year. It’s an extraordinarily propulsive piece of filmmaking, and every moment of it is suffused with feeling."—The New Yorker "A wild ride and explosive mastery of story elements, themes and emotions that mirror our crumbling world."—Gold Hugo Jury at Chicago IFF "Sirat is The Wages of Fear meets The Vanishing on shrooms; startlingly original, jarringly hilarious and deeply disturbing."—Time Out In Spanish, French, Arabic with English subtitles

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. "Led by immaculate performances, it’s one of the most delightfully nerve-wracking rabbit holes you’re likely to tumble down this year."—IGN "It’s Zendaya’s movie. Her layered performance holds back then lets go as Emma’s full complexity is gradually revealed. If you can’t get onboard with Emma, then you’re the problem—which partly is Borgli’s intention."—S.F Chronicle "I save the zero star designation for movies that I think have no redeeming value whatsoever or are morally repugnant. “The Drama” meets both criteria."—Boston Globe

The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way. "A sonic and visual nightmare that announces its filmmaker as a major talent...Undertone culminates in one of the most truly chill-inducing final acts in recent memory."—RogerEbert.com "Properly scary."—NYTimes Critic's Pick