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Award winners and critical favorites, these auspicious films from the world’s most celebrated directors are some of the year’s most acclaimed and accomplished.


14th

Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay investigates the 14th Amendment, exploring its many facets, from who gets to belong in America to the rights they’re entitled to.

Being Heumann

Siân Heder

In 1977, disability rights activist Judy Heumann leads a historic 28-day occupation, uniting protesters in a fight for accessibility laws and equal rights.

The Beloved El ser querido

Rodrigo Sorogoyen

When a legendary filmmaker (Javier Bardem) offers his estranged daughter a role in his latest film, tensions percolate and old wounds are reopened.

A Bit of Light Kami Nour

Ali Asgari

After deciding to end it all, Arash spends a final day with his family in this moving expression of life’s mysterious beauty and its ability to puncture despair.

Bunker

Florian Zeller

When an architect (Javier Bardem) is recruited to design a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire, his wife (Penélope Cruz) begins to question their marriage.

Dao

Alain Gomis

Parallel timelines weave together a contemporary French wedding and an ancestral funeral in Guinea-Bissau for a West African diasporic family.

A Good Little Soldier Un bon petit soldat

Stéphane Brizé

In this tense drama, HR manager Carla is given an impossible directive: create a supportive, human-centered workplace while casting off the slough.

I Play Rocky

Peter Farrelly

The electrifying true story of how Sylvester Stallone bet everything on himself to play the lead role in Rocky against seemingly impossible odds.

It Will Happen Tonight Succederà Questa Notte

Nanni Moretti

After an unforgettable meet-cute, Matteo and Greta’s paths cross over the years – but the timing is never right in this seductive tale of love and its possibilities.

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors Makikiraan Po

Lav Diaz

A 17th century Spanish priest brutally colonizing the Philippines orders his converts to transport a cartload of marble through a marauder-filled jungle.

A Long Winter

Andrew Haigh

In 1950s Colorado, a family in an isolated mountain home is rocked by tragedy just as snow squalls and plummeting temperatures descend for the season.

Minotaur

Andrey Zvyagintsev

A Russian businessman’s comfortable life is thrown into chaos when he begins to suspect his wife of infidelity in this dark, sardonic moral fable.

Musk

Alex Gibney

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney delivers the definitive portrait of one of the most controversial and unchecked figures of our time: Elon Musk.

Rose

Markus Schleinzer

When an unknown soldier arrives in a pious 17th century village staking claim to land there, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity force a reckoning.

The Man I Love

Ira Sachs

An artist dying of AIDS throws himself into one final theater role in this vivid portrait of artistic community in 1980s New York City.

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