Playlist
<p>A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.</p>
<p>Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents</p>
<p>Will Arnett and Laura Dern play a couple whose separation leads to unpredictable midlife self-reckonings, most dramatically in Alex’s wild career pivot to become a confessional stand-up comic. Director Bradley Cooper’s beautifully lived-in third feature is both lacerating and sweet-souled, funny and tender.</p>
<p>Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s monumental latest details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.</p>
<p>Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, , leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.</p>
<p>An investigative documentary that follows journalist Seymour Hersh as he uncovers and exposes significant politically sensitive stories—continuing Poitras’s acclaimed engagement with high‑stakes investigative journalism and governmental power.</p>
<p>Celebrated Argentinian artist Lina survives a fall in the icy waters of a lake in Switzerland, triggering a haunting journey through trauma, memory, and motherhood. Milagros Mumenthaler’s bold third feature immerses us in Lina’s fractured world—beautiful, fragile, and charged with emotional urgency.</p>
<p>The legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, through the latter part of her life and her legendary career is now long over.</p>
<p>In Claire Denis’s absorbing and intimate film, set at a white-run construction site in West Africa, Albouny (Isaach de Bankolé) demands the return of his brother’s body, killed in a mysterious work accident, but the site’s foreman (Matt Dillon) is clearly hiding the truth.</p>
<p>In the charged, unexpected metacinematic drama from German director Ulrich Köhler (In My Room, NYFF56), an ambitious new movie production of Medea, drastically altered from Euripides’s original play, becomes the center of a series of unresolvable contemporary tensions.</p>
<p>Centered on White House staffers grappling with an impending missile strike on America, this gripping drama unfolds in real-time as tensions escalate.</p>
<p>Sérgio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the jungle. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As the neo-colonial dynamics amon</p>
<p>With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.</p>
<p>Described as a tightly guarded mystery film, It Was Just an Accident begins with a minor incident that triggers a series of escalating consequences. The narrative delves into the unforeseen ramifications of a seemingly trivial event, exploring themes of fate and the interconnectedness of human actions</p>
<p>Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.</p>
<p>Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.</p>
<p>Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger's forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.</p>
<p>Two blustery 50-somethings, have an obsession: going for their last drink. One night, they run into Giulio, a shy architecture student, whose way of seeing the world and love will be transformed as the trio wander from bar to bar of Veneto</p>
<p>Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.</p>
<p>Historical drama in black and white. We follow the life of Beatrice Barbosa de Magallanes in contrast to the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, her husband. Beatrice fights for her survival and that of her children, while the navigator tries to carry out an impossible maritime expedition. Beatrice will die young, in a world too old for her.</p>
<p>In 1970, Mooney and two cohorts wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. When holding onto the art proves more difficult than stealing them, Mooney is relegated to a life on the run.</p>
<p>Laura’s life is upended when she is in a car crash with her boyfriend who is killed. Laura wanders into the house and life of a family of strangers, who offer to take care of her, but their motivations turn out to not be as simple as they first appear.</p>
<p>After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.</p>
<p>Armed men kill Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, court case opens in 2018. community voices and trial footage amid colonial land struggles.</p>
<p>A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.</p>
<p>This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, NYFF56) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema, unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles and genres.</p>
<p>With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.</p>
<p>Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.</p>
<p>Against the threatening specter of 1977 Brazil, we meet Marcelo, a man in his 40s who has recently moved to Recife to escape a violent past, but finds himself becoming an agent of chaos.</p>
<p>An intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.</p>
<p>A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.</p>
<p>A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.</p>
<p>1937: When a prisoner's letter escapes destruction, idealistic prosecutor Kornev uncovers NKVD corruption. His pursuit of justice in Stalin's USSR becomes a dangerous journey into the heart of a system devouring its own.</p>
<p>Over the winding course of one languorous day, a good-natured thirtysomething poet meets his girlfriend’s parents and sister at their suburban home—and his anxieties gradually surface. Hong Sangsoo’s latest keeps revealing new emotional layers.</p>
<p>A film set in a fictional world where there are no longer adults. The kids live without governance and do what they please.</p>
<p>A quietly poetic documentary by Tsai Ming‑liang, Hui jia (Back Home) captures the filmmaker’s homecoming to Taipei, blending still long takes and observational visuals over 65 minutes to meditate on memory, urban alienation, and reconnection with one’s origins.</p>
<p>In the gritty outskirts of Medellín, Barrio Triste captures a hallucinatory day and night in the lives of youth navigating the raw edges of survival, desire, and escape. Through hypnotic imagery and a pulsating score by Arca, Stillz crafts a poetic portrait of street life where violence and tenderness coexist. With a loose, dreamlike narrative, the film drifts between moments of silence, chaos, and intimacy, as its characters search for meaning amid a crumbling urban reality. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, Barrio Triste is an audiovisual descent into the textures of marginalization and resilience, blurring the line between fiction, documentary, and music video.</p>
<p>Shot using 3D animation, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s singular and affecting debut feature Bouchra combines documentary techniques with an inventive narrative structure, exploring the relationship between Bouchra, a queer Moroccan Coyote filmmaker, and her cardiologist mother (also a Coyote), who lives in Casablanca.</p>
<p>Set in contemporary Transylvania, the film opens with a Dracula actor fleeing a restaurant show, triggering a chaotic chase by tourists and staff. Parallel stories—some AI-generated—offer diverse takes on the Dracula myth, blending pulp, avant-garde, comedy, action, and political satire in a playful, multi‑layered mosaic</p>
<p>Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City for the summer. He is interning at a gallery exhibiting the work of an atypical, older artist he has encountered in the past. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters—both artistic and erotic—open breaches in his everyday reality.</p>
<p>Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa’s enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.</p>
<p>Masao Adachi distills six decades as a filmmaker and revolutionary into this biopic of a Japanese outlaw, combining archival material, restagings, and fantasy for a story of terror and resistance.</p>
<p>Taking her dad’s job at the Olin Corporation as its starting point, Lee Anne Schmitt interweaves meditative reflections on her biography and her own body with a history of the rise and widespread influence of conservative think tanks in the United States.</p>
<p>Hair, Paper, Water... is an intimate correspondence film between two filmmakers, Nicolas Graux in Belgium and Trương Minh Quý in Vietnam, made during the pandemic. They exchange letters in audiovisual form, exploring themes of isolation, identity, and memory. This poetic dialogue moves between personal landscapes, distant homes, and the temporal suspension brought about by confinement.</p>
<p>Shimmering with beauty and freighted with mystery, Gabriel Azorín’s feature debut—set in the vicinity of an ancient Roman bath in the Spanish countryside—is a cosmic hangout film that announces its director as a major new voice.</p>
<p>Rhayne Vermette’s (Ste. Anne, NYFF59) newest feature spins an eerie tale about humanity’s uneasy relationship with the natural world, featuring a mysterious narrative, tactile visuals, and dense soundscapes.</p>
<p>A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy’s point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’ (1984)</p>
<p>A playful, Beckett‑inspired tale where successive pairs of characters bid farewell: a mother and her son, an elderly blind pianist, a caretaker and her charge, two actors endlessly rehearsing a scene that will never be performed. Shot between Switzerland and Buenos Aires, the film infuses improvised documentary fragments and fictional structure in the spirit of El Pampero Cine.</p>
<p>Comprising 12 arresting tableaux of the landscapes and shoreline of Fogo Island off Newfoundland, Windward is a work that heightens one’s senses and underscores director Sharon Lockhart’s remarkable eye for color, composition, light, and shadow.</p>
<p>Rediscovered MiniDV footage from Gaza in 2001 frames the filmmaker’s search for a former prison‑mate, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As they journey from north to south Gaza, the film evokes memory, loss, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life in a place forever changed</p>
<p>Drifting through the streets of former East Berlin neighborhoods, Morning Circle traces the unsteady affective terrain of isolation and displacement, assimilation and oppression. In Basma al-Sharif’s (O, Persecuted, NYFF52) film, the bureaucratic condescension and violence of a residency interview sits alongside domestic scenes featuring a father and his young son. The film uncovers the loss and thrumming tensions of exilic life under Western Europe’s smooth gray surfaces.</p>
<p>Shimmering, kinetic, blue-black images of dancers accompany an impassioned rereading of a eulogy for Sylvester, a.k.a. “Dooni” (1947–1988), the legendary “Queen of Disco.” Weaving mourning with movement, Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s (Black Bus Stop, NYFF57) film reanimates gospel singer and preacher Walter Hawkins’s words, which mark a small but pivotal moment in the history of HIV/AIDS, channeling their sense of grief and celebration into the present.</p>
<p>Collaging text and sound along with the grainy distortions of inkjet-printed imagery, Justin Jinsoo Kim’s (Personality Test, NYFF59) refractory archival dig pieces together the story of Lee Kyung Soo, an orphan of the Korean War adopted by a U.S. Naval officer in Westchester. With its careful manipulation of microhistorical fragments, A Real Christmas summons the neocolonial mythologies of the United States in the 1950s through its news media, uncovering traces of alternate voices and narrative lacunae.</p>
<p>The night flowers in Daria’s garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes. A tale of patriarchal violence combined with botanical (mis)uses, told from the archives of Iranian cinema.</p>
<p>Deliriously hybridizing fuzzy video, warm analog film grain, and the busy static of digital glitch, Yace Sula’s As Told by a Corpse subjects a home movie of a naming ceremony for a newborn infant to a series of raucous mutations, offering glimpses of bodies and identities in flux, unruly and ungovernable.</p>
<p>More than one thousand single-frame images of candles, each a photograph excerpted from reference encyclopedias, production manuals, and how-to guides, mark time’s passage in Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived. A solemn and hallucinatory memento mori, Mungo Thomson’s meticulous reanimation of ephemeral photographs evokes a unique experience of duration, a tension between the moving and the still.</p>
<p>In A Metamorphosis, Lin Htet Aung transforms the uncanny and absurd experiences of what it is like to grow up with state television propaganda into a kind of counter-broadcast, redefining the compositions and narratives that defined them. This distorted, eerie broadcast explores the daily experiences of living in a dictatorship and the imagery you get accustomed to as a child, accompanied by a lullaby that will haunt you afterwards: Yee, lé-lé! Yee, lé-lé-</p>
<p>A damaged film shot in 1982 in a Latin American country documents the violence that took place on 9 May that year. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicions of manipulation of the truth.</p>
<p>A swarm of bodies and lights clashes with the orderly grids of modernist architecture in Slet 1988, which takes its title from Yugoslavia’s final mass performance-celebration of socialism’s achievements. Through the body of 74-year-old dancer Sonja Vukićević and the late-1980s diaries of a teenage girl, Marta Popivoda’s incisive film contrasts the collective gatherings of the Socialist Federal Republic’s decline with the rise of nationalism and isolation in the present.</p>
<p>Sweaty bodies and drought-wracked landscapes collide in Whammy Alcazaren’s (Bold Eagle, NYFF61) frenzied sci-fi fantasy, a tale of love and basketball, earthquakes and tsunamis, treasured pasts and dismal futures. As extreme heat burns the planet and surviving a waterless Philippines becomes increasingly impossible, Jelson and Ipe try to live, laugh, and love their way through a climate catastrophe rendered in addled digital collage and cartoon hysteria. Don’t cry, or you die.</p>
<p>Having lived in his home for 12 years, Jacob, a painter, faces the threat of eviction like many New Yorkers. At the heart of this portrait lies ‘an exploration of what makes a house and how a house shapes a way of life.</p>
<p>Distilling riotous energies and vibrant sensations, Karthik Pandian’s discursive and polyphonic film traverses geographic expanses in search of a subterranean spirit of collectivity, kinship, and exchange. Titled with a word that has many homophones across different languages—Dakota, Ojibwa, and Sanskrit—Anoka locates a shared space in which to build anti-colonial solidarity across language, culture, and time.</p>
<p>This 6-minute video re-presents the 19th-century “Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley” with new narration, text overlays, and music. New Red Order transforms it into a “Land Back” rave—a sharp critique of settler-colonial history, mound desecration in St. Louis, and the erasure of Indigenous landscapes</p>
<p>Images cascade and collide in Acetone Reality, as animation, found images, and the artists’ own video recordings crash against a dialogue between computer-generated voices exploring the wonders of acetone and the nature of meaning. Across Sara Magenheimer (Art and Theft, NYFF55) and Michael Bell-Smith’s (Rabbit Season, Duck Season, NYFF53) teetering montage, blocky pixels, smeared colors, and cryptic iconography constitute an “insane, yet validated reality.”</p>
<p>Clickworkers in Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines talk about their working day: they edit and label countless images of traffic on US streets to be used as training material for self-driving cars.</p>
<p>Gamespace becomes a therapeutic alternate reality in And If the Body, which examines the clinical uses of VR and other imaging technologies to treat patients with severe spinal cord injuries and other neuromuscular disorders. Toby Lee’s film explores the interface between the physical and the technological, a zone in which the real and the virtual body blurs into one.</p>
<p>A simulation center inside the maternity ward of Elmhurst Hospital provides the setting for Carolyn Lazard’s astutely observational video, which documents an all-Black obstetrics team of doctors, nurses, and midwives as they rehearse a complex childbirth scenario with a ventriloquized mannequin for a patient. Deriving its title from the shared agreement among participants in a training simulation, Fiction Contract lingers on the careful staging and surreal performance of care during an exercise designed to reduce racial disparities in maternal mortality.</p>
<p>Blake Williams’s (Something Horizontal, NYFF53) 3D travelogue of the American Southwest is a literal adventure in stereoscopy and retrospection, capturing the textured desert landscapes, snaking powerlines, streaming atmospheres, and hazy roadsides in fractured glimpses and headlong motion. Gesturing toward cinema’s roots in 19th-century phantom rides and panoramas, FELT finds a dynamic new form for the sensory experience of space and movement.</p>
<p>Vivid floral specimens slosh exuberantly in a water tank, elegantly pirouette in superimposition, pulse and mutate in dizzying stroboscopic single-frame edits. Continuing Jodie Mack’s (The Grand Bizarre, NYFF56) long-term project of animating alternative materials, Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love is an ecstatic and visceral reflection on temporality, both human and botanical, an amorous affirmation of death and life.</p>
<p>Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of direct and stop-motion animation, the eye begins to experience the scale of an image anew. At times segueing into a flicker, but maintaining a charmed form of attention to the marks of pencils and the channels dredged in emulsion by a paintbrush, all to a curious soundtrack of pulses and bleeps.</p>
<p>Dizzying, otherworldly, and truly experimental, toward a fundamental theory of physics deploys a reconstruction of the Time-Slice camera, a circular rig invented by cinematographer Tim MacMillan, that uses 293 lenses shooting simultaneously to capture different points of view in 16mm. Recalling Eadweard Muybridge’s protocinematic experiments in capturing movement, as well as the abstract lichtspiel of intermedia artists such as László Moholy-Nagy, Thomas Wilfred, and Jim Davis, Victor Van Rossem’s 3D film captures three-dimensional light-objects that are at once spectral and tangibly present, a ballet of abstract radiance and undulant color.</p>
<p>A lush, transporting triple-projection, As a Tree Walks to Its Forest loops both double 8 and 16mm hand-processed film to immerse us in a dreamlike journey through wooded landscapes. A mosaic of superimposed fragments and textures, Jiayi Chen’s expanded film work rearranges the spectator’s perception of forest ecology and other natural phenomena—wind, water, bark, grass, overstory—reimagining its topography as a continually shifting woodland reverie.</p>
<p>Jeremy Allen White inhabits a legend in Scott Cooper’s exceptionally moving biographical drama, chronicling the early-’80s crossroads in Bruce Springsteen’s career when he crafted the intensely personal acoustic songs that would become his mythic album Nebraska.</p>
<p>Daniel Day-Lewis roars back to the screen for his first role in eight years in this emotionally charged family drama directed by Ronan Day-Lewis about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence on a path toward familial redemption, co-written by father and son.</p>
<p>A portrait of one crucial night in the melancholy life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke, in a tour de force), Blue Moon is a surprising yet entirely fitting addition to the Richard Linklater canon.</p>
<p>“Truffaut‑style love story” paired with themes of Italian power and personal response to cultural shifts. The film stars Paolo’s longtime muse Toni Servillo as the “Presidente” and Anna Ferzetti as Dorotea, suggesting an introspective character study under political and emotional pressure.</p>
<p>The unflaggingly vital American cinema legend gets the definitive portrait his epochal career deserves in Rebecca Miller’s five-part documentary, told through Scorsese’s own words and new interviews with creative collaborators and family members.</p>
<p>This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.</p>
<p>A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida’s “stand your ground” laws.</p>
<p>A directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.</p>
<p>The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.</p>
<p>This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatima. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She has become my eyes in Gaza, and I, her connection to the outside world. We have kept this line of life going for almost a year. The bits of pixel and sound that we exchanged have become the film that you see.</p>
<p>Follows the story of a brave princess who transcends time and space.</p>
<p>In this funny, moving documentary from director Ben Stiller—the most personal film of his career—he tells the story of his parents: the comedy duo of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who were a beloved mainstay of 1960s and ’70s American culture.</p>
<p>A lone bird researcher finds footage of a feral child on his hidden trail camera deep in an unexplored forest.</p>
<p>Set in a flooded and burning digital wasteland, ghosts argue about genetic testing, grief, and love.</p>
<p>Cairo, 2007. Abdellah searches for Omar, his old companion who has disappeared among the city’s busy streets. A visit with the legendary Youssef Chahine, a nighttime film shoot at the pyramids, and maritime revelry are all captured on nostalgia-textured video while Omar—a brilliant structuring absence—haunts proceedings until, during a final encounter, comfort is found in cinema and personal touch alike.</p>
<p>A young woman navigates between luxury and street life, finding beauty in both museum silence and city chaos as she searches for authentic connections.</p>
<p>New York’s Miguel Abreu Gallery is at the center of Bingham Bryant’s short, which follows Adrian Dannatt across his eponymous exhibit while observing works from, among others, Pablo Picasso, Guy Debord, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, and Duncan Hannah. Each is captured by cinematographer Sean Price Williams in appropriately textured images while a studious, amusing voice-over jumps between biography and philosophy.</p>
<p>On the cusp of success/failure, two unhinged female filmmakers decide to break up with their boyfriends, and for once, make a bold decision with their lives.</p>
<p>It’s bad luck, warns Grandma Rose, if you dream of eating meat. Upon waking, paranoia carves out scenes of professional butchery and precarious downtown construction sites. The macabre black & white Super 8 images of February Omen are set against the eerie score of duo-sonore, Programmique . Meat follows us from the dream-realm to the waking-world to somewhere-in-between as we listen to Grandma Rose probe superstitious memories.</p>
<p>Reuniting after last year’s Between the Temples, director Nathan Silver and star Carol Kane shift focus to the actress’ 98-year-old mother, Joy Kane—a music teacher and former dancer who lives with Carol on the Upper West Side, and who regales them (and us) with fascinating cultural histories and piano performances over the course of a single afternoon. Carol & Joy is a documentary replete with love, pain, and texture: a close-quarters view of artistic vocation, mother-daughter bonds, and two women’s journeys through one century and into another.</p>
<p>A child runs across well-worn pavement while a subway races above, nearly apocalyptic in its roar—there is no doubt what city we’re in. But for all of Turtle Sandwich’s ground-level grit and classic schoolyard insults—plus some youth-versus-adult mischief that harkens back to silent one-reelers—David Cardoza’s video-game fantasies and meta touches create a more formally sophisticated affair.</p>
<p>Desolate interstitial spaces of a wintry, present-day Montreal—alleyways, bike paths, underpasses, skate parks—contrast with the livelier images of decades-old home videos in Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain. Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.</p>
<p>Now recognized as a landmark work of animation, Mamoru Oshii’s cryptic and mesmerizing experimental allegory Angel’s Egg is perhaps his most personal work and a crucially important film in anime history.</p>
<p>One of the first independent films made in Hong Kong, and an important precursor to the Hong Kong New Wave, T’ang Shushuen’s formidable debut, The Arch adapts a 17th-century Chinese folktale about the suppression of a woman’s desire.</p>
<p>Ossie Davis’s vibrant and fiercely honest third feature, adapted from J. E. Franklin’s popular off-Broadway play, stars Peggy Pettitt as Billie Jean, a misunderstood young Black woman attempting to build a new life for herself by becoming a dancer.</p>
<p>The Upper West Side comes to life in actor-director Henry Jaglom’s freewheeling and dryly comedic fourth feature, in which Karen Black plays a middle-aged woman who forges a topsy-turvy romance with Jaglom regular Michael Emil.</p>
<p>In this newly restored cult favourite by Indian legend Satyajit Ray, four young male urbanites decamp to the countryside for some rest and relaxation, only to have their pride and prejudices challenged by three women.</p>
<p>A structurally fascinating and texturally engrossing meditation on revolution, Flora Gomes’s pioneering debut feature follows a wounded soldier’s devoted wife as she heads to battle to be with her husband during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence.</p>
<p>Suffused with alluring atmospherics and a slight air of the oneiric, Hong Kong-born (and future Éric Rohmer editor) Mary Stephen’s debut feature evocatively traces the uncertain relationship between two Chinese women in Shanghai in 1935.</p>
<p>A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.</p>
<p>Set amid the Lebanese Civil War, Jocelyne Saab’s fiction feature, which centers on the bond formed between a fortysomething painter and a teenager who grew up in war-torn Beirut, is a striking meditation on humanity’s struggle in the face of unthinkable horror.</p>
<p>Howard Brookner’s thorough, compulsively watchable documentary follows theater artist Robert Wilson (who died in July at age 83) as he sets out to create an epic 12-hour opera, a collaboration between six international theater companies, for the 1984 Summer Olympics.</p>
<p>After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.</p>
<p>In this elegant masterwork of Yasuzo Masumura, a widow falls for an idealistic young soldier, but when the Russo-Japanese War breaks out, he’s called to battle, and she goes to extreme lengths to ensure she won’t lose another beloved.</p>