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International Competition

Masterful, stylish, and bold, these powerful cinematic statements represent the best in modern filmmaking from around the globe.


A woman looks over another womans shoulder, the second woman looks into a bucket.

All We Imagine As Light

Payal Kapadia  |   France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Malayalam, Hindi
Drama, Romance, Women Centered

The lives of three women living in working-class Mumbai are explored in this soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and womanhood.

A woman peers over a model set containing a ski hill, Mount Rushmore, a rocketship, and a roller coaster

The End

Joshua Oppenheimer  |   Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom
English
Family Affairs, Music, Science Fiction

In this Golden Age musical about one of the last families on earth, the sudden arrival of a stranger threatens the equilibrium of their seemingly perfect existence.

A black and white image of a man sitting in the rain. He clutches a bouquet of flowers, two people stand in the background.

Grand Tour

Miguel Gomes  |   Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China
Portuguese
Drama, Historical, Romance

1917. A British civil servant flees his post in Burma to avoid his fiancee. Undeterred, she embarks on a journey across Asia to find him.

A group of people working around an old wooden house and large wheel.

Harvest

Athina Rachel Tsangari  |   United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States
English
Drama, Environmental, Historical

A medieval English village is threatened when a nefarious landowner makes plans for profit-driven agriculture in this breathtaking atmospheric fable.

A black woman, wearing black lipstick, sunglasses, and a sequin helmet/mask sits with her hands on the wheel of a car.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Rungano Nyoni  |   Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland
Bemba, English
Drama, Sex and Sexuality, Women Centered

On an empty road in the night, Shula stumbles across her uncle’s dead body. As his funeral begins, family secrets prompt a reckoning.

An old man smiles, in the background two boys laugh.

The Quiet Son Jouer avec le feu

Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin  |   France
French
Drama, Family Affairs, Social Commentary

When his sons’ paths begin to radically diverge, a father must figure out how to love and support them both in this intimate, urgent family drama.

A woman stands in the foreground, two women stand behind her. They all look somewhat concerned.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof  |   Germany, Iran, France
Farsi
Drama, Family Affairs, Social Commentary, Thriller

When Iman’s handgun mysteriously goes missing, he reaches a breaking point in this tense domestic drama crossed with a paranoid political thriller.

A family of 5 in the kitchen. The father talks to the young boy while the two girls look at their mother.

The Sparrow in the Chimney

Ramon Zürcher  |   Switzerland
German
Drama, Family Affairs

Still grieving the death of her overbearing mother, Karen hosts a family gathering that turns fiery as the ghosts of her past reveal themselves.

A woman lays on a narrow bed, her hand resting on her forehead.

Suçuarana

Clarissa Campolina & Sérgio Borges  |   Brazil
Portuguese
Drama, Road Movie, Women Centered

Wandering in search of her mother’s homeland, a woman forms an unlikely bond with workers in an abandoned factory in this mystical road movie.

A man in a tshirt and jeans sits on a stone wall with a blue sky behind him.

Super Happy Forever

Kohei Igarashi  |   France, Japan
Japanese
Drama, Romance

A heartbroken Sano returns to the seaside resort where he fell in love with his wife five years earlier in this unconventional, affecting romance.

Two feet dangle over the edge of a tipped over row of plane seats in the middle of the jungle

Transamazonia

Pia Marais  |   France, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, Brazil
English, Portuguese
Drama, Environmental, Mystery

A healer and her evangelist father are at the center of a conflict between an indigenous community and illegal loggers in this mystical eco-thriller.

A woman in church looks over her shoulder

Vermiglio

Maura Delpero  |   Italy, France, Belgium
Italian
Drama, Historical, Women Centered

Set amid the majestic Italian Alps, this intimate drama chronicles a year in the life of a young war bride and her sisters in the wake of WWII.

A freckled red-headed woman stands on a porch.

When the Light Breaks Ljósbrot

Rúnar Rúnarsson  |   Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Icelandic
Drama, Women Centered

A group of art students reckon with a sudden, inexplicable loss over the course of a long Icelandic summer day.

Program Patron

Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum Family Foundation