Genre: Drama
Fish Tank
Directed by Andrea Arnold
With the arrival of her 2009 sophomore film, Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold (Red Road, American Honey) cemented herself as …
Within Our Gates
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Micheaux, the first Black filmmaker to gain prominence in the US, produced over 40 films during a long career working …
Blue Velvet
Directed by David Lynch
Lynch’s fascination with small-town America perhaps reaches its artistic heights with Blue Velvet, his coming-of-age tale of Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle …
Artico
Directed by Gabriel Velazquez
In Ärtico, winner of special mention honors at the Berlin Film Festival, Jota and Simón are two “quinquis” (nomads), aged 20, …
Giovanni’s Island
Directed by Mizuho Nishikubo
After Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II, the lives of brothers Junpei and Kanta are turned upside-down …
Nuoc 2030
Directed by Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo
Nuoc 2030 is set in a near-futuristic Vietnam, where a beautiful coastal region has been flooded as a result of global …
Xenia
Directed by Panos H. Koutras
After the death of their Albanian mother, two brothers—the younger Dany, a flamboyantly gay teen, and the elder Ody (short …
Horses of God
Directed by Nabil Ayouch
Two young soccer-loving friends, Yachine and Nabil, grow up under the fierce protection of Yachine’s older brother, Hamid. But in …
Thy Womb
Directed by Brillante Mendoza
Following the fortunes of a humble Muslim fisherman and his wife, this lyrical tale of love and beauty questions how …
Breathing in Wartime
Directed by Curtis Taylor
When wartime is a perpetual state, life goes on, but is gentrification progress?
By the Time it Gets Dark
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
One of the most thrillingly assured experimental works of the last several years, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s second feature (following 2009’s Mundane …
Ivan’s Childhood
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
During World War II, young Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev) scurries across Soviet and German lines, having been recruited as a spy …