Pillion
Dir. Harry Lighton
Given the other depictions of BDSM on film, we weren’t sure how Pillion would turn out. Much more so with…
Young Hearts
Dir. Anthony Schatteman
Because of the progress society has made, modern day gay romances don’t need to rely on tragedy for conflict. That’s…
All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light is a political film that has many smart and moving things to say about the…
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Dir. Johan Grimonprez
In the 1950s and 60s, as Congo freed itself from Western rule, it also played a vital role in the…
Youth (Spring)
Dir. Wang Bing
Teenagers forced to grow up quickly and spend their prime years wiling away at garment factories sounds like a grim…
The Secret Agent
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…
White Balls on Walls
Dir. Sarah Vos
This sociologically revealing documentary follows the attempts of the largely “snow-white” staff of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk art museum to refresh the…
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Dir. Bianca Stigter
In this documentary by Bianca Stigter, a three-minute home video of a nondescript Jewish town in Poland is examined in…
Beautiful Beings
Dir. Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
There are many ways through which a friendship can form, but sometimes, it’s due to compassion for someone who needs…
Close
Dir. Lukas Dhont
Leo and Remi are close. They play, eat, and sleep together, and in between those moments, they share every thought…
The Mole Agent
Dir. Maite Alberdi
Going deep undercover, integrating one’s self into a group without any suspicion, and passing out information to another party… That’s…
Close to Vermeer
Dir. Suzanne Raes
Less a documentary on Johannes Vermeer himself and more about the art scholar’s mission to study ideas of beauty and…
Drowning by Numbers
Dir. Peter Greenaway
Murdering your spouse is bad, so it’s slightly bizarre how Drowning by Numbers has an unbothered, even amused, attitude towards…
Character
Dir. Mike van Diem
When someone does everything they can to stop you, even to the point of irrationality, that’s hater behavior. This is…
Tokyo Sonata
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Known for his horror films, Kiyoshi Kurosawa shifts gears and presents a family drama in Tokyo Sonata. In the film,…
Son of Babylon
Dir. Mohamed Al Daradji
Travelling across the country is the plot of plenty of coming-of-age films, but for Ahmed in the Son of Babylon,…
Winter in Wartime
Dir. Martin Koolhoven
If you’ve watched any World War II film, the plot of this historical drama would be familiar. A boy grows…
I Dream in Another Language
Dir. Ernesto Contreras
An indigenous language is dying, and the last two people who speak it have not spoken to each other in…
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Dir. Stig Björkman
A wonderful homage to the woman, actress, and mother based largely on her own archives and interviews with her four…
The Queen of Versailles
Dir. Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield’s film follows the Siegel family’s decline from opulent abundance to gaudy ruin. Mega wealth, delusions of grandeur, and…
Wolf
Dir. Jim Taihuttu
Look, Wolf has a familiar, even cliché, plot. The idea of having a lead wanting to shift their life around…