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Sweden | 2022 | 120
Legendary Swedish director Lasse Hallström traces the life and spiritual journey of trailblazing abstract painter Hilma af Klint (played magnificently by both Tora Hallström and Lena Olin) in this kaleidoscopic and impassioned portrait of an extraordinary woman and artist far ahead of her time.
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USA | 2022 | 96
At a swimming pool in 1987 El Paso, two outcast teenagers – the handsome, troubled Ari and the cultured, confident Dante – become instant friends. But when Dante wants friendship to turn into romance, the conflicted Ari recoils. This beautiful, multilayered exploration of first love and self-acceptance casts a beguiling spell.
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Sweden/France/Finland/Denmark | 2022 | 126
In this bold and nuanced thriller from the director of the award-winning The Nile Hilton Incident, a gifted student at Al-Azhar University in Cairo finds himself a reluctant pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite after the Grand Imam suddenly dies.
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Morocco/France/Belgium/Denmark | 2022 | 118
In this remarkable story of love, longing and acceptance, middle-aged couple Mina and Halim run a traditional caftan boutique in Morocco. When a handsome young apprentice joins the shop, Halim's desires are soon ignited.
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France | 2022 | 123
While researching for her next book, novelist Rama attends the trial of a woman on the stand for infanticide. As the accused makes her case, Rama begins to re-evaluate her relationship with her mother, as well as her own pregnancy, in filmmaker Alice Diop’s award-winning masterwork.
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USA | 2022 | 101
Funnyman Jim Gaffigan assumes dual roles in this clever sci-fi comedy as both a mild-mannered family man with aspirations for space travel and his mysterious neighbor who, literally, falls out of the sky, setting in motion a series of bizarre and reality-bending events.
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USA/Canada | 2022 | 92
The word “homosexual” did not appear in the Bible until 1946. Scholars, linguists, theologians and others have concluded it was a mistranslation, one that has had deadly consequences for the LGBTQ community. Sight unseen, this revelatory film has already been fiercely attacked by Christian conservatives.
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Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands/Czech Republic | 2022 | 123
A savagely bullied teenager forms a tentative rapport with a trio of tough outsiders. Together, they experiment with aggression and violence but also, in stark contrast to the uniformly toxic adult masculinity that surrounds them, learn about loyalty and love.
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Sweden/USA | 2023
A Man Called Otto tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grump who’s given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that will turn his world around.
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Singapore/South Korea | 2022 | 90
Two things warm Auntie’s heart: her adult son and Korean soap operas. As her son eyes a move from Singapore to faraway Los Angeles, Auntie decides to take a much-needed vacation alone to her beloved South Korea, where she will embark on the comic adventure of a lifetime.
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USA | 2022 | 86
Womens’ bodies have been objectified, commodified, airbrushed and exploited in the movies for a century. In this lively, clip-rich corrective, industry insiders from Jane Fonda to Rosanna Arquette to Janet Leigh’s body double in Psycho reveal the naked truths behind Hollywood’s male gaze, and how they’re fighting back.
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USA | 2022 | 120
This magnificent documentary chronicles the centuries-long fight led by the Lakota Nation to reclaim their sacred Black Hills after it was stolen by a treaty-violating government. This essential deep-dive into history reveals how the U.S. systematically and brutally tried to erase the Native culture, and how the Lakota people are fighting back.
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Israel | 2022 | 90
A love letter to the power and beauty of photographic imagery, this intimate portrait of acclaimed photojournalist Micha Bar-Am offers a meditation on memory, violence and Israeli identity, and explores the relationship between sound and picture, movement and stillness, as a frozen moment becomes imbued with meaning and emotion.
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Romania/France/Belgium/Sweden | 2022 | 125
From the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (PSIFF 2008), this gripping drama set in rural Transylvania looks at the ethnic conflicts, economic resentments and personal turmoil roiling in a Romania still in thrall to dangerous traditions and beliefs. The arrival of Sri Lankan migrants only adds fuel to the fire.
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Ukraine/Turkey | 2022 | 100
In a small Eastern Ukrainian village near the Russian border, an expectant couple refuses to evacuate at the start of the Donbas war. Amid wreckage and simmering interpersonal resentments, they attempt to rebuild their bombed home.
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USA | 2022 | 89
What began as a filmic investigation into vaccine resistance during a resurgent measles epidemic took a radical turn with the explosion of COVID-19. Exploring the “anti-vax” movement both historically and in the angry political present, this vital account probes the divides and disinformation that threaten our future.
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USA | 2022 | 85
Filmmaker So Yun Um grew up in her parents’ liquor store – one of many Korean-owned shops in the predominantly Black South Los Angeles. In her probing first feature, Um reflects on what it means to be a second generation “liquor store baby” in a post-George Floyd America.
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USA | 2022 | 101
No Oscar®-winning film captured its tumultuous time as indelibly as 1969’s X-rated Midnight Cowboy. Rich with interviews and archival footage, this ambitious documentary chronicles not just its unlikely creation, but the cultural, sexual and political undercurrents that fueled John Schlesinger’s classic movie.
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France | 2022 | 122
After a sudden death in the family shatters the well-ordered life of 17-year-old Lucas (Paul Kircher in a starmaking debut), the teen flees to Paris. Full of lust and rage, Lucas hurls himself into sex with older men to process his grief.
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Canada | 2022 | 125
In this remarkable story of perseverance and resilience, a farmer in India seeks justice for his 13-year-old daughter after she is raped by three men. Risking retaliation as tensions mount during the court process, the family refuses to back down, and becomes a beacon of hope for survivors in India.
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Bolivia/Uruguay/France | 2022 | 87
Struggling to survive in an increasingly parched and arid Bolivian Altiplano, elderly Quechua couple Virginio and Sisa come to the realization that their home may no longer be sustainable. When their grandson arrives, all three are faced with impossible decisions.
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Israel/USA | 2022 | 82
Architect Ben thinks of himself as a socially progressive, enlightened gay man. But an interaction with neighbors in his gritty south Tel Aviv neighborhood challenges his view of himself in this smartly crafted, multilayered satire about racial privilege, xenophobia and identity.
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USA | 2022 | 90
In this soul-warming documentary, we meet the brave Christian mothers – indoctrinated by anti-gay bias in their fundamentalist and Evangelical churches – who band together to protect their queer and trans children. At risk of losing their friends and communities, they make the grand leap from prejudice to Pride protests.
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USA | 2022 | 88
In this masterly example of personal filmmaking, 82-year-old Ralph Arlyck takes stock of his life and those of his friends in upstate New York. Entering the last lap of his life, Arlyck contemplates mortality and the challenges and blessings of growing old in this wise, humorous and lovely cinematic gift.
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Canada | 2022 | 117
In this touching drama set in the 1990s, a Korean single mother raises her son in the Canadian suburbs. Over the course of an especially tumultuous decade, both must navigate the difficulties of fitting in, growing apart, and attempting to find each other again.
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Canada | 2022 | 86
In 2002, members of the persecuted Chinese spiritual group Falun Gong staged a hijacking of China’s state TV network. Twenty years later, the exiles lucky enough to escape the regime's brutal crackdown reflect on their daring heist – recreated in stunning animation – in this thoughtful documentary that pulses with the heartbeat of a thriller.
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France | 2022 | 91
The amazing nonagenarian talent Line Renaud is incandescent as Madeleine, a tough broad with a hard-earned appreciation for friendship and life’s little pleasures. Over the course of a taxi ride through Paris with a stressed-out driver (comic legend Dany Boon) she changes his life.
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Canada | 2022 | 104
When the astronauts aboard the first manned vessel to Mars start experiencing interpersonal problems, a “B team” is assembled on Earth to mimic their trajectory and hopefully get to the heart of the matter. This amusingly peculiar and deadpan sci-fi comedy skyrockets to new frontiers of hilarity.
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India | 2022 | 116
In this delightfully barbed mix of drama, wit and suspense, a wealthy businessman hires a retired publisher to regale him with stories to help cure his insomnia. But as their bond deepens, the possibility that both men harbor ulterior motives slowly begins to surface.
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Italy | 2022 | 100
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews from Aix-les-Bains travels to Calabria to harvest citrons for their Sukkot celebrations. Fatefully, the rabbi’s daughter and the farm owner both realize they are kindred souls bound by tradition and family, and long for self-realization.
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Canada | 2022 | 96
In a provincial Canadian town, the friendship between two teenage girls – one secular, the other a devout Jehovah’s Witness – turns to passion in this fresh, sensitive story of first love. Made by a filmmaker who grew up queer in a Witness family, this depiction of the conflict between faith and desire radiates authenticity.
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USA | 2022 | 97
Examining the afterlives of the subjects of many of the most acclaimed documentaries of the past 40 years – Hoop Dreams, Capturing the Friedmans, The Wolfpack, The Staircase, The Square – this fascinating film asks us to ponder the ethical and moral ramifications of documentary filmmaking.
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Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland | 2022 | 104
In this tense drama set in small-town Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion, highly respected professional Václav resists joining the Communist Party, much to the detriment of his health and family life.
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Brazil | 2022 | 115
The four members of a loving working-class family wrestle with the distress of growing up against the cruel backdrop of Bolsonaro’s far-right Brazil. This lovingly shot and expertly performed ensemble drama is a deeply affecting snapshot of a family’s quiet rebellion.
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USA/UK | 2022 | 102
In this real-life espionage story that doubles as a swooning romance, the great documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams) profiles nuclear physicist, defiant leftist and American spy Ted Hall, whose incredible life is recounted by his widow and confidante Joan, with whom he shared more than 50 years of marriage – and government secrets.
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France | 2022 | 119
On the precipice of retirement as Head Seamstress at the Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop, Esther (legendary French icon Nathalie Baye) is robbed by a young woman. But rather than turn her in to the police, Esther enlists the petty thief as her dressmaking protégé.
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