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Petite Maman
In director Céline Sciamma’s enchanting follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire (PSIFF 2020), she explores the bonds between mother and daughter through the eyes of eight-year-old Nelly, who befriends a mysterious girl in the forest who seems to be her mirror image.
Radiograph of a Family
A strikingly original and poetic portrait of marriage that encapsulates the turbulent history of 20th-century Iran, this artful, award-winning personal memoir documents the fraught union between the filmmaker’s secular Iranian father and increasingly devout Islamic mother.
Shankar’s Fairies
Against the backdrop of a newly liberated India in 1962, this autobiographical family drama follows a young girl as she slowly comes to realize the power dynamic between her wealthy, privileged family and the man who serves them.
Yuni
In this poetic and effervescent coming-of-age tale, teenager Yuni is caught between forging her own path ahead and relenting to her village’s rigid expectations to accept one of many marriage proposals from men she barely knows. In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and Young Cineastes Award.
SATURN RETURN
A rock band in the '90s navigates the narrow path between dazzling success and complete disaster, creating an album that defines a generation and forever changes Spain's music scene. Inspired by one of Spain's most popular bands, this unconventional biopic won multiple top awards at the 2024 Malaga Film Festival.
A Dragon Arrives!
An eye-popping, brain-teasing Iranian film noir in dazzling primary colors, this exhilaratingly odd curio will not be pinned down. “Thoroughly entertaining. . . lands somewhere between a mockumentary, a ghost story and a hard-boiled detective yarn, with a pinch of Indiana Jones tossed in.” The Hollywood Reporter
A Serious Game
An achingly sensual story of love and adultery set in the early years of the 20th century, this is an adaptation of a classic 1912 novel by Hjalmar Söderberg about a passionate affair between a painter and a journalist. “A visual delight [with] a deft screenplay by Lone Scherfig.” Screen
Paint It Black
A young man’s suicide is the springboard for an epic battle between the two women who loved him: his punk girlfriend and his patrician mother. First-time director Amber Tamblyn’s ferocious and flamboyant adaptation of the Janet Fitch novel is a real gothic shocker.
Zacma: Blindness
An intimate, metaphysical art-house drama, Blindness posits a 1962 meeting between a now repentant Julia Prajs Brystygier, aka “Bloody Luna,” the former head of Department V in the Stalinist-era Ministry of Information, and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a man whose 1953 arrest she had facilitated.
'76
The failed 1976 Nigerian coup serves as the real-life backdrop for Izu Ojukwu's taut “Nollywood” love story between an army captain (Ramsey Nouah, excellent), who falls under suspicion after refusing to conspire with the plotters, and his wife (Rita Dominic), who is heavily pregnant.