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USA | 2024 | 123
In this delicious adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's beloved novel, an author (Naomi Watts) inherits a Great Dane after her best friend (Bill Murray) commits suicide. This enormous (and irresistible) dog wreaks havoc on her happily solitary New York life.
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Germany | 2024 | 135
Driven by a quest for perfection, John Cranko (Sam Riley) is the toast of 1950s London until he's prosecuted for homosexuality. Recruited by the Stuttgart Ballet, the manic workaholic revitalizes the company and builds a world-renowned ensemble while grappling with destructive urges in this dance-infused tribute to the virtuoso choreographer.
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Romania | 2024 | 104
Featuring a wealth of exciting archival footage and interviews with contemporaries Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, and Billie Jean King, this fascinating portrait explores a bygone era in tennis history through the lens of Ilie Nǎstase, Romania’s handsome, charismatic yet temperamental bad-boy champion.
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Argentina | 2024 | 96
In this entertaining equestrian-themed psychological thriller-comedy, a legendary jockey on a downward spiral must compete for a powerful gangster. A catastrophic race brings life-altering, gender-bending, and romantic consequences for everyone involved.
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Philippines | 2024 | 91
Just days before her team’s tryouts for the Olympics, dedicated young gymnast Sunshine (a powerful Maris Racal) discovers she is pregnant. In a country where abortion is illegal, she must embark on a desperate and risky journey to fight for her autonomy.
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Sweden | 2024 | 91
In a heartfelt effort to rekindle his 80-year-old father’s zest for life, filmmaker Filip Hammar surprises him with a road trip to the French coastal town where they spent family holidays to revisit cherished memories in this touching and humorous first-person documentary. Audience Award, Newport Beach.
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USA | 2024 | 84
Winner of the 2024 Tribeca Audience Award, this fast-paced comedy follows a New York Sabbath dinner that spirals hilariously out of control as several generations of modern Jews grapple with the tensions between secular and religious life – all while contending with a dead body in the bathroom.
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USA | 2024 | 104
Liza Minnelli tells her own story in this fabulous salute to an iconic talent. It's all here: her childhood in mother Judy Garland's shadow, her bonds with mentors Kay Thompson, Charles Aznavour, and Bob Fosse, her up-and-down marriages, and the triumphs of Broadway and Cabaret.
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Lithuania | 2024 | 88
This subtle, powerful drama depicts a family tragedy through shifting perspectives and timelines. During what was meant to be a peaceful weekend in the countryside, two sisters on summer holiday with their families experience a life-altering event.
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Belgium/France | 2024 | 153
Based on a notorious real-life case, this gripping Belgian noir follows a young maverick policeman's obsessive pursuit of justice against an international pedophile ring. His quest puts him at odds with his superiors, his family and, ultimately, the law itself.
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USA | 2024 | 104
This mesmerizing, music-rich documentary charts the dazzling rise and tormented fall of keyboard genius and conflicted gay artist Billy Preston. Follow his journey from gospel roots in the 1950s to inspired collaborations with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, to the 1970s in Topanga Canyon.
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USA | 2024 | 98
With a career spanning eight decades, Ottawa-born singer-songwriter Paul Anka has left a lasting mark on the music industry. In this all-encompassing tribute, brimming with archival footage and candid moments, Anka – still going strong – offers in his own words a vivid glimpse into his remarkable life and enduring legacy.
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USA | 2024 | 99
Prepare to be outraged and moved by this impassioned film about the fight for reproductive rights in Texas, featuring extraordinary women and a brave lawyer who wage an uphill battle against the state's draconian laws, which have put the lives of so many women in peril.
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Iceland/Finland/Czech Republic | 2024 | 104
In this endearing dramedy, two childhood friends receive an opportunity to keep their seafood restaurant in the picturesque Westfjords open year-round. When one comes out as a trans woman, their long-standing friendship is tested, revealing new perspectives on life and identity.
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Spain/Italy | 2024 | 112
Based on a true story, this riveting drama follows council member Nevenka Fernández as she is relentlessly pursued by the town mayor, a man used to getting what he wants. Her decision to report him transforms her courageous fight into Spain's first #MeToo case.
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Israel | 2024 | 107
The feature debut from Tom Nesher (daughter of Avi Nesher, subject of the documentary His Own Way, also at the festival) is a fierce drama inspired by family tragedy. When her beloved brother dies, Eden (Lia Elalouf) takes desperate measures to fill the void. Winner of multiple awards, including the Viewpoints Award at Tribeca.
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Note: Filmmaker Tom Nesher is one of <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/variety-10-directors-to-watch-2025-1236213938/" target="_blank">Variety's 10 Directors to Watch for 2025</a>!
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USA | 2024 | 110
Startlingly intimate, this verité immersion into the lives of three fervent Trump supporters culminates at the January 6 insurrection. Illuminating, unsettling, and surprising, this purely observational document lays bare its swaggering subjects and the movement challenging the foundations of American democracy.
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Palestine | 2024 | 96
This award-winning documentary, filmed over five years by a collective of Palestinians and Israelis, captures the systematic destruction of the villages of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank by the Israeli military. It's both a shattering exposé and a nuanced story of cross-cultural friendship.
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USA | 2024 | 93
Dive into the life and work of the great modernist architect R.M. Schindler, who broke from the International Style (Richard Neutra was his bitter rival; Frank Lloyd Wright a difficult mentor) and introduced the California concept of indoor/outdoor living. Narrated by Meryl Streep and Udo Kier.
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France/Spain/Portugal | 2024 | 102
The director of <i>Stranger by the Lake</i> concocts a sly brew of sex, religion, and murder in a provincial French village where the return of a polyamorous former local sets off a macabre chain of erotic events as unpredictable as it is perversely funny.
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Greece/Bulgaria/USA | 2024 | 99
Set in a ghostly, off-season Greek resort town, this haunted tale of grief and lost love begins when a retired doctor and his wife are summoned to identify the victim of a tragic car accident. What follows is a mysterious quest in a slippery realm where the dead seem to coexist with the living.
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United Kingdom/USA | 2024 | 93
This jaw-dropping true crime documentary thriller begins with the online harassment of a journalist in 2019. As the threats grow more ominous and bizarre, the FBI enters the scene, and this wild yarn broadens to expose a conspiracy with chilling implications for us all.
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Spain/Chile | 2024 | 110
Still grieving her husband's loss, a woman and her daughter receive an eviction notice to vacate their home in Barcelona, setting in motion a life-altering opportunity for them to rebuild by returning to their abandoned roots.
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South Korea | 2024 | 90
In this enigmatic comedy, a mysterious French woman (Isabelle Huppert) drifts through Seoul, blending into the everyday and vanishing into the background. Struggling without money or means, she finds solace in makgeolli (Korean rice wine), and takes up work as a French teacher for two Korean women.
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Germany | 2024 | 125
Set in Berlin in 1942, this stirring true story follows Hilde Coppi (<i>Babylon Berlin</i> star Liv Lisa Fries), a member of an anti-Nazi group “Red Orchestra” who falls in love with her cohort, Hans (Johannes Hegemann). Imprisoned by the Gestapo while eight months pregnant, she faces the ultimate test of love and courage.
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United Kingdom | 2024 | 120
After inheriting her late husband's position as a police constable, Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is drawn into a high-profile case where police corruption makes justice elusive for the lower classes. Thankfully, she finds guidance from the magnetic feminist Inspector Sharma (Sunita Rajwar).
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Congratulations to the <i>Santosh</i> team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
Hong Kong | 2024 | 126
The densely populated Kowloon Walled City becomes a battleground between ruthless crime boss Mr. Big and a fierce band of protectors led by the citadel's formidable leader, Cyclone. Meanwhile, a young refugee is caught in the martial arts melee in this nerve-jangling action spectacular.
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Bhutan/Hungary | 2024 | 94
In this heartwarming, multi-layered study, Amber Kumar Gurung collects data for the Gross National Happiness Index by going door to door in the Bhutanese Himalayas. Along the way, he uncovers a complex portrait of life experiences that mirrors his own struggles and quest for happiness.
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Canada | 2024 | 86
As a monument to their whirlwind romance and boundless creativity, Alan and Adrianne St-George hand-built a lavish 63-room castle in the Illinois countryside. Now, as Alan faces a future without the love of his life, he channels his grief into art, preserving the extravagant home as a shrine to their real-life fairy tale.
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USA/Ukraine | 2024 | 109
The heroic efforts of zookeepers and volunteers to rescue 5,000 animals under Russian bombardment from the Feldman Ecopark in Ukraine during the early days of the war are recounted in this edge-of-your-seat document. It is both a harrowing and uplifting testament to courage under fire.
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Congratulations to the <i>Checkpoint Zoo</i> team on receiving the Desert Views Award at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival!
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USA/Poland/Germany | 2025 | 100
A Hollywood filmmaker learns of a treasure trove of priceless stamps stolen by a Nazi officer from concentration camp victims and buried in a house in Poland. Employing an <i>Argo</i>-like fake-movie ruse, he and his team set out to find the treasure, but run into complications they never expected.
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USA | 2024 | 90
Hit the open road with Desiree Wood as she rallies her fellow women long-haul truck drivers to battle a predatory, misogynistic industry. These hard-bitten, freedom-loving drivers offer wonderful company in this artfully shot film.
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Spain/France/Portugal | 2024 | 125
Winner of the top prize at Spain's San Sebastián Film Festival, Catalan provocateur Albert Serra's documentary on youthful bullfighting sensation Andrés Roca Rey offers a hypnotic, unflinching, and intimate view of the controversial sport and the isolating nature of fame. Warning: contains depictions of animal harm.
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Canada | 2024 | 89
In this whimsical ensemble comedy, two kids find a banknote frozen in ice, a tour guide leads baffled visitors, and a government drone returns home to uncover something amiss with his family, creating a mosaic of wintry Winnipeg that’s both comically surreal and profoundly human.
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Congratulations to the <i>Universal Language</i> team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
Spain | 2024 | 101
Enric Marco (Eduard Fernández) has spent years crafting a convincing lie: that he was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. His charm and alleged bravery even earn him the presidency of the Spanish Association of Holocaust Victims. But one day, the truth catches up with him.
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Italy/South Africa/USA | 2024 | 100
In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Armed with his field notes and loyal dog Birba, she searches for a prizewinning truffle to save his home.
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Costa Rica | 2024 | 90
This intimate and lyrical exploration of the bodies of mature women and their sexuality follows three women in their twilight years, and invites everyone – regardless of gender, identity, or age – to question their own notions of pleasure and desire.
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Senegal, Benin, France | 2024 | 68
In 2021, 26 looted treasures traveled from France to Benin, West Africa, where they are displayed in a high-tech museum. The latest from Mati Diop (</i>Atlantics</i>, PSIFF 2020) is a thought-provoking, multi award-winning hybrid documentary that explores how the return of these powerful pieces is received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence.
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Congratulations to the <i>Dahomey</i> team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
USA | 2024 | 92
In a post-apocalyptic landscape devoid of human life, a meet-cute occurs between a buoy and a satellite. Through the online devices left by humanity, they begin a romance that blurs the lines of their AI hardwiring. Featuring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, this bold directorial debut is a wry, genre-defying exploration of modern connection.
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Czech Republic | 2024 | 131
Set in 1968, a pivotal moment in modern Czech history, this dynamic and suspenseful drama follows the international office at Czechoslovak Radio led by editor Milan Weiner, whose commitment to honest journalism and the truth puts the organization in the crosshairs of the secret police.
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Congratulations to the <i>Waves</i> team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
Argentina/Uruguay | 2024 | 90
With the intrigue of a detective story, this poignant documentary combines testimonials, archival material, animation, and reenactments to explore a dark chapter in Argentina's history: the infamous "death flights" carried out by the country's brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship, in which 30,000 people were disappeared.
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USA | 2024 | 105
Filmed over 21 years, this is the story of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, whose ever-evolving identity as a rabbi, drag queen, and religious reformer, raises provocative questions about the future of Judaism. Determined to reform conservative Judaism from within, he encounters fierce resistance from all sides.
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Spain/Belgium | 2024 | 122
In the 9th century, a nun becomes an abbess tasked with repopulating and Christianizing the border territories in conflict with the Moors. Her determination to fulfill her mission compels her to confront her family, the nobility, and ultimately the mighty Church itself.
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Taiwan | 2023 | 111
In this thought-provoking drama, an affluent landlord nicknamed Old Fox teaches an 11-year-old boy the ways of wealth. But will these skills prevail over the values of kindness and generosity instilled by his economically struggling father?
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USA | 2024 | 93
Inspired by the birth of his grandson, filmmaker Bobby Roth gathered 50 friends – including Peter Coyote, Henry Winkler, and Michelle Satter – to take stock of their lives, loves, mistakes, and regrets in this wonderfully candid examination of the journeys we've taken.
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Cambodia | 2024 | 112
Eager to restore their image, the Khmer Rouge invite three French journalists to tour the Cambodian countryside and interview the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The journalists, however, uncover the stark reality behind the propaganda, leading to a far more perilous journey than anticipated.
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USA | 2024 | 85
Venus Xtravaganza, the 23-year-old star of the iconic voguing documentary <i>Paris is Burning</i> (1990), was murdered before its release. Now, in this moving celebration of her life and legacy, her three New Jersey brothers team up with her ballroom family to reopen the unsolved case.
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New Zealand | 2024 | 124
When grief-stricken Mareta (Anapela Polataivao) takes a substitute teaching role at an elite prep school, she forms a choir to unite the privileged yet disconnected students. As they prepare for an all-school competition, her passion for life is reignited, transforming her students forever in this rousing crowd-pleaser.
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Australia | 2024 | 97
When her spoiled teenage daughter Audrey falls into a coma, a delusional, washed-up soap star seizes the opportunity for a second chance by assuming her identity, hurling the wildly dysfunctional Lipsick family into a whirlwind of deceit, absurdity, and uproarious revelations.
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