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  • Mama Boy FINAL

    Mama Boy

    Xiao-hong, a painfully shy, almost thirty-year-old fish store employee, lives alongside his control-freak mother, Meiling, who…

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    Karaoke

    Karaoke follows Meir and Tova, a middle-class couple in their 60s who are getting tired of…

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    Huesera

    Best New Narrative and Nora Ephron Prize Winner, 2022 Tribeca Film Festival After years of trying…

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    The Hole in the Fence

    A group of boys from a prestigious Mexican private school attends an exclusive summer camp designed…

  • Hard Shell, Soft Shell FINAL

    Hard Shell, Soft Shell

    Az is a hopelessly romantic (or just hopeless?) twenty-something oyster farmer, plying his trade in the…

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    Godland

    San Sebastian Film Festival Winner, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Jury Award Upon arrival to the Danish colony of Iceland…

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    From Sudan to Argentina

    World Premiere When the construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened to destroy the Ancient Egyptian…

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    EO

    Official Oscar© Selection—Poland At age 84, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Deep End, Moonlighting) has directed…

  • Cow Who Sang Song FINAL IMAGE

    The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future

    Following the disappearance of thousands of fish in a river in southern Chile, a several decades-deceased…

  • Concerned Citizen FINAL IMAGE

    Concerned Citizen

    Things are going well for Ben and Raz, a well-to-do gay couple from Tel Aviv. After…

  • Beautiful Beings FINAL IMAGE

    Beautiful Beings

    2023 Oscar® Selection, Iceland Addi, a teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, is the nominal…

  • Neighbours FINAL

    Neighbours

    In a little village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 80s, six-year-old Sero experiences his…

  • Noise of Engines FINAL

    The Noise of Engines

    Placed on compulsory leave from a Canadian customs college, Alexandre takes the opportunity to make a…

  • The Worst Person in the World FINAL

    The Worst Person in the World

    Preceded by the short film The Wind and the Kite. The newest film from acclaimed director…

  • Sudanese FINAL

    Sudanese Film Group Shorts

    During the 1970s and 1980s, as a myriad religious and political factions waged an endless civil…

  • All My Friends Hate Me FINAL

    All My Friends Hate Me

    Preceded by the short film The Acolyte. All Pete (Tom Stourton) wants is to spend his birthday…

  • Lunana FINAL

    Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

    Shot on solar powered batteries on location at the world’s most remote school, director Pawo Choyning…

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    I Don’t Fire Myself

    Jeong-eun, a tenacious young woman, refuses to submit to her company’s blatant attempts to have her…

  • Main Still In Front of Your Face

    In Front of Your Face

    The newest film from Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, In Front of Your Face follows an actress…

  • Hive-FINAL

    Hive

    In her first feature film, writer-director Blerta Basholli delves into the true story of Fahrije Hoti,…

  • The Hand of God FINAL

    The Hand of God

    From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, comes the story of Fabietto Schisa, a boy growing up…

  • The Girl and the Spider FINAL

    The Girl and the Spider

    After living with her friends Mara and Markus for years, Lisa is finally moving into her…

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    Flee

    Preceded by the short film There Was Nobody Here We Knew. This animated documentary from Executive…

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    Fighter

    Fighter follows Jin-ah, a North Korean refugee who is struggling to earn enough money to bring…

  • Dachra FINAL

    Dachra

    Tunisia’s first horror movie, Dachra follows three young journalism students who venture to an isolated village…

  • Nudo Mixteco FINAL

    Nudo Mixteco

    Preceded by the short film La Utopia de la Mariposa. Three stories intertwine during a celebration in…

  • Parallel Mothers FINAL

    Parallel Mothers

    Described as “a little bundle of joy” by critics, Parallel Mothers is the story of two…

  • Persians Lessons FINAL

    Persian Lessons

    An unconventional friendship grows between the German chef of a concentration camp kitchen and a young…

  • Petite Maman FINAL

    Petite Maman

    After the death of her grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly joins her parents in taking stock of her…

  • The Raft FINAL

    The Raft

    Four teenage die-hard soccer fans, construct a raft to sail from Israel to Cyprus to watch…

  • Aloners FINAL

    Aloners

    Preceded by the short film BJ's Mobile Gift Shop. Jin-ah prefers to be on her own. She…

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    The Speech

    This comedic film d’auteur directed by Laurent Tirard follows 35-year-old Adrien at a disastrous family dinner…

  • FINAL

    And Then We Danced

    A passionate tale of love and liberation set amidst the conservative confines of modern Georgian society, And…

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    First Love

    Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese director of over 100 films, returns with a hysterically absurd crime…

  • COWBOY JOE FINAL

    Cowboy Joe

    Screens before the feature film Driveways. Set in New York City, Cowboy Joe is a punchy…

  • OH MERCY FINAL

    Oh Mercy!

    Roubaix police chief Daoud and newcomer Louis grapple with a peculiar case of murder, deceit, and…

  • FORMAN FINAL

    Forman vs. Forman

    Through a collection of archival footage, early interviews, and material from private archives, this nostalgic documentary…

  • THOSE WHO REMAINED FINAL

    Those Who Remained

    In post-World War II Budapest, 16-year old Klara reluctantly lives with her great-aunt, desperately hoping her…

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    Default

    Default turns the fallout of the 1997 Asian financial crisis in Korea into riveting entertainment. The film follows three storylines: Si-hyun’s shows…

  • SIBYL FINAL

    Sibyl

    Tired of mundane sessions with her clientele, therapist Sibyl drops multiple patients and pursues her dream…

  • ZOMBI CHILD FINAL

    Zombi Child

    Beginning in 1962, this film focuses on the true story of Haitian man Clairvius Narcisse, who…

  • I LOST MY BODY FINAL

    I Lost My Body

    In a desperate attempt to get back to its body, an amputated hand escapes from its…

  • HUMORIST FINAL

    The Humorist

    Set in the waning days of the Soviet Union, The Humorist is a portrait of a…

  • GRASS FINAL

    Grass

    A young woman, Areum (Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden) sits in the corner of a small café…

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    Ghost Town Anthology

    The frigid, small Québécois village of Irénée-les-Neiges is ominously disrupted by the unexpected death of local…

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    Beanpole

    In 1924 two women, Iya, a nurse, and Masha, a recently returned soldier, struggle to reassemble…

  • Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story

    Atlantics

    In a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, many souls have been lost to the sea in an…

  • WILD GOOSE LAKE FINAL

    The Wild Goose Lake

    Mob boss Zhou Zenong desperately tries to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop and…

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    The Traitor

    The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, a man who brought down La Cosa…

  • VARDA BY AGNES FINAL

    Varda by Agnès

    Photographer, installation artist, and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague Agnès Varda returns with a characteristically bittersweet…

  • TEHRAN CITY OF LOVE FINAL

    Tehran: City of Love

    Three downhearted individuals— an ex-champion bodybuilder, an overweight beauty clinic secretary, and a dispirited religious singer—long…

  • SYNONYMS FINAL

    Synonyms

    When Israeli twenty-something Yoav moves to Paris, France,he intends to rid himself of his nationality and…

  • THE SOWER FINAL

    The Sower

    Preceded by the short film Copan En Espera. Amongst the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico,a rural multi-grade…

  • SEA OF SHADOWS FINAL

    Sea of Shadows

    When Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers join forces to poach the rare totoaba fish in…

  • PARASITE FINAL

    Parasite

    The Park Family is the picture of aspirational wealth. The Kim family is rich in nothing…

  • PORTRAIT LADY FINAL

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    In eighteenth century France, the elusive Héloïse has rejected her mother’s previous attempts to commission a…

  • FINAL

    Parwareshgah (The Orphanage)

    In Soviet-era Afghanistan during the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat makes his living on the streets of…

  • PAIN AND GLORY FINAL

    Pain and Glory

    Renowned director Salvador Mallo is facing the decline of his career. As he looks back on…

  • NICHIMAL SON FINAL

    Nichimal Son (Blooming Music)

    Screens before the feature film Artemio Evlia relocates to Zinacantán out of love for her husband and…

  • MIDNIGHT FAMILY FINAL

    Midnight Family

    In one of Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family operates a for-profit ambulance, competing with…

  • BUTTERFLIES FINAL

    Kelebekler (Butterflies)

    After a traumatic event in childhood, siblings Cemal, Kenan, and Suzan left their village of Hasanlar…

  • JADDOLAND FINAL

    Jaddoland

    Director Nadia Shihab returns to her home in Lubbock, Texas,to visit her mother, an artist from…

  • IVE GOT ISSUES FINAL

    I’ve Got Issues

    Self-loathing, loneliness, death, discrimination, injustice, oppression, and the atom bomb, I’ve Got Issues is a unique comic…

  • GOLDEN HARVEST FINAL

    The Golden Harvest

    In this “6,000-year-old love story,” director Alia Yunis explores the complicated relationship between the people of…

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    Fig Tree

    Set in 1989, director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s feature debut follows 16-year-old Mina as she navigates coming of…

  • THE FATHER FINAL

    The Father

    Valentina’s death takes quite a toll on her husband, Vassil. When it’s discovered that a neighbor…

  • FAMILY ROMANCE LLC FINAL

    Family Romance, LLC

    Preceded by the short film Pilgrim Werner Herzog’s latest narrative focuses on Japan’s bizarre rent-a-family business, a…

  • EK LADKI FINAL

    Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)

    Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love…

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    Dolce Fine Giornata

    Maria Linde, a renowned poet and Nobel Prize winner, lives in her glorious Tuscan villa surrounded…

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    Deerskin

    At the start, Georges is seemingly just a middle-aged, bearded loner living in a small-town motel.…

  • COMING HOME FINAL

    Coming Home

    In October of 2014, director Ricardo Preve led a diving expedition on the shore of Barra…

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    Coapan En Espera

    Screens before the feature film The Sower.  An experimental documentary from director Federico Cuatlacuatl, Copan En Espera…

  • The Cave FINAL FINAL

    The Cave

    For the past eight years, the war in Syria has brought death and destruction to millions.…

  • CABINET OF DR. C FINAL

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    In anticipation of the historic film's 100th-anniversary premiere in Berlin, Feb 26th, 1920, this repertory screening…

  • BACURAU FINAL

    Bacurau

    Teresa returns to her village of Bacurau, located in Brazil’s semi-arid sertão, following the death of…

  • Artemio FINAL

    Artemio

    Preceded by the short film Nichmal Son: Musica Que Florece Artemio was born in the United…

  • AI WEIWEI FINAL

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    While under house arrest in Beijing at the hands of Chinese authorities, artist and activist Ai…

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    Diamantino

    Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star (Carloto Cotta), loses his special touch and ends his career in…

  • Sunset FINAL

    Sunset

    On the brink of World War I, Irisz Leiter arrives in Budapest desperately looking for work…

  • The Third Wife FINAL

    The Third Wife

    In late 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May is chosen to be the third wife of…

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