Festival Film List

When a curious time traveler falls from the sky, 10-year-old Iris resolves to help her new friend return to the future in this thrilling animated adventure.

Visiting Kosovo with her father, a filmmaker reenacts memories from his childhood to help him reconcile youthful traumas in this lyrical documentary.

As a global crisis escalates, a young man in Seoul counts down the hours to his impending military service, reflecting on his choice to enlist.

Gross-out gore takes center stage when a mistreated young woman summons a jinn to curse her stepfamily in this award-winning revenge film.

In this animated docu-fiction hybrid, queer coyote Bouchra sets out to make a film, hoping to make sense of her mother’s struggle to accept her sexuality.

In Tokyo’s dynamic cityscape, two siblings reckon with the absence of their mother and the return of their estranged father, a renowned architect.

Jean-Luc Godard’s breakthrough follows small-time crook Michel, who steals a car, murders a policeman, and then reconnects with old flame Patricia in Paris.

A road-trip through “tornado alley” yields an evocative cinematic essay mapping the natural disaster as destructive event and iconic American symbol.

In this warmly spirited drama, eighty-year-old María plots to remain in her beloved Tangier home even as her daughter threatens to displace her.

When 17-year-old Christy moves in with his older brother as a last resort, he finds unexpected paths forward within a complex and tight-knit community.

A young Quechua woman is torn between the sacred midwifing tradition she practices and the temptation of becoming a singer in the big city.

From the Oscar-winning director of CitizenFour comes a film about Chicago journalist Seymour Hersh and the need to hold those in power to account.

A woman’s near-death experience unravels her psyche and the perfect life she has built, sending her on a surreal journey through trauma and memory.

A man traverses Georgia’s vast countryside in search of his missing daughter in this bold, meditative landscape film shot entirely on an outdated cellphone.

At 18, the warm and curious Emi is starting to spread his wings as he sets out in search of his biological parents and puzzle together the pieces of his own story.

This inspirational story of reclamation follows a 90-year-old film pioneer on a mission to restore his images of Ghana’s journey to independence.

In this striking horror film, a teen boy’s embrace promises an end to pain—until the dark side of his power comes into disturbingly detailed focus.

This sensitive, deeply felt tale of friendship follows twelve-year-old best mates Ish and Maram, whose bond is tested after a police stop-and-search.

When Vahid thinks he recognizes his former torturer, he sets out to prove the man’s identity even as he’s plagued by doubt in this gripping revenge thriller.

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) embarks on a journey of self-discovery, accompanied by his devoted manager (Adam Sandler).

A dreamy, tragicomic chronicle of one year in the life of an Icelandic family of five as the parents navigate their separation.

In suburban Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

After surviving a violent car crash in the countryside, dazed Laura is taken in by a mysterious local woman whose devoted care belies a dark past.

In a remote mining town, a girl raised by a queer family searches for the truth about a mythical illness said to be spread by a loving gaze.

If Invasion of the Body Snatchers traded pods for human pyramids and took place in a Japanese high school, it would be New Group.

This playful love letter to cinema reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the forces that shaped the French New Wave.

Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory camping trip in Kelly Reichardt’s breakout, microbudget portrait of companionship and vanishing ideals.

Budapest, 1957. The young Andor’s life is turned upside down when a menacing, brutish man appears in town claiming to be his father.

This powerful and suspenseful epic charts a group of characters caught up in the tumultuous historic moment when Palestinians united against Britain’s colonial rule.

Unlucky nine-year-old Lamia is forced to get creative when she’s tasked with baking a cake in celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Early 1700s. Venice. At the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage young violinist Cecilia is awakened to the power of her musical gift with the arrival of a zealous new composer, Antonio Vivaldi.

Through a series of intimate video calls, an Iranian filmmaker grows closer to a young Palestinian photographer as the conditions in Gaza crumble around her.

When a reclusive farmer finds the lifeless body of a girl on his land, his search for truth unearths the darkness lurking among the reeds.

In a future society that has lost the desire to dream, a curious creature catalogues the fantasies of rebel “Fantasmers,” creating a wild cinematic tapestry.

Eight-year-old Katya is spending summer with her grandparents in the Russian countryside. Just beyond the rolling hills and serene landscapes, a war is raging.

Some worlds can only truly be conjured outside of physical reality. These eight thrilling shorts unfold in an inventive array of visual and narrative styles that come together to form a vibrant snapshot of contemporary animation.

This eerie, uncommonly powerful collage explores inherited trauma and patriarchal abuses across four generations of farmworking women.

Inspired by his favorite TV detective Kojak, an eleven-year-old boy in 1980s Dublin is drawn into the city’s underbelly as he investigates his older brother’s disappearance.

From the Oscar-nominated director of Honeyland comes a heartwarming story of family, storks, and sustainability in North Macedonia.

Focusing on the 1969 student protests at Montreal’s Concordia University, this powerful film confronts the buried legacy of racism in Canada.

An actress playing a gender-nonconforming historical figure fights to empower their legacy in this enchanting film on filmmaking.

Vengeful ghosts, possessed vacuum cleaners, and a supernatural sense of justice converge in this charmingly absurd fable of memory, loss, and grief.

With a terrified Palestinian girl on the line awaiting help, emergency volunteers scramble to send an ambulance across Gaza to save her in this harrowing true story.

A quixotic poet drives his girlfriend to her parents’ home on the outskirts of Seoul. As a lazy afternoon becomes a drunken evening, his ideals are tested.

A filmmaker, enlisting the help of his winsome family, blends fiction and reality to create an intimate, tender monument to his late mother.