Spotlight

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.

Two women in a government office, one standing above the desk, another seated behind it, having a passionate conversation. An American flag featured behind them.

Black Perspectives Documentary Spotlight

14th

DirAva 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.

Protesters stand in a crosswalk with their arms raised to stop traffic on a city street, as a woman in a wheelchair leads them in their protest.

Disability in Focus Spotlight

Being Heumann

DirSiân 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.

A man and a woman walk through a sprawling rocky desert. The woman wears a red dress and has short brown hair, the man wears sunglasses, a black windbreaker and gray pants. They both have serious expressions as they walk.

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The Beloved El ser querido

DirRodrigo 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 bald, bearded man in a yellow shirt and green jacket sits behind many houseplants, peering though.

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A Bit of Light Kami Nour

DirAli 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.

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair stands tensely in a modern home, looking troubled, while a blurred man watches from a hallway behind her.

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Bunker

DirFlorian 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.

A bride and groom shout and celebrate as they bike along a busy city street, the groom wears an olive suit and the bride a simple wedding dress.

Black Perspectives Spotlight

Dao

DirAlain Gomis

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

A woman with blonde hair in an office meeting, holds a pen near her chin, listening intently.

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A Good Little Soldier Un bon petit soldat

DirStéphane Brizé

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

A man in sweats, a beanie, and hand wrappings lifts both his fists triumphantly in the air against a hazy city skyline.

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I Play Rocky

DirPeter Farrelly

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

A woman in pink with blonde curly hair and a patterned skirt dances happily with a man with black curly hair in a black button down and pants in front of a wall-to-wall library of vinyl records.

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It Will Happen Tonight Succederà Questa Notte

DirNanni 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.

A woman looks up, melancholy, she is wrapped in blankets seated inside a rustic thatched shelter in black-and-white, surrounded by woven palm walls and bamboo flooring. With her are an unlit lantern, cups, and a book.

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Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors Makikiraan Po

DirLav Diaz

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

Shot upside down, a man in a heavy fur lined coat lies solemnly in the snow with his eyes closed.

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A Long Winter

DirAndrew 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.

In a cozy home with pink walls, many friends gather around a table with drinks and cigarettes, some chat and enjoy each others' comany while a few of the guests wear solemn expressions. The room is warmly lit by a lamp, as the night is visible through the large windows.

OutLook Spotlight

The Man I Love

DirIra 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.

A man, woman, and their son sit at a long wooden dinner table at night, behind them is a dark forest seen through large windows. They converse among their plates of food and wine glasses, the teen and woman happily interact as the man at the head of the table sits tensely with his hands folded at his mouth.

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Minotaur

DirAndrey 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.

Documentary Spotlight

Musk

DirAlex Gibney

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

A person in black-and-white wears a large hat and a burlap collared shirt, they have their necklace in their mouth as they stare into the distance, tall grasses and an empty sky behind them.

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Rose

DirMarkus 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.

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The Beloved El ser querido

A Bit of Light Kami Nour

A Good Little Soldier Un bon petit soldat

It Will Happen Tonight Succederà Questa Notte

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors Makikiraan Po

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