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A young boy sits in a barn in front of a donkey. He looks up at the animal, with a content expression on his face.

The Beauty of the Donkey La Beauté de l'Âne

Dea Gjinovci  |   Switzerland, Kosovo, France, U.S.

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

French, Albanian
Family Affairs, Historical, Political
Seen in black and white, a man and a woman walk down a city street while the man smokes.

Breathless À bout de souffle

Jean-Luc Godard  |   France

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.

French
Crime, Drama
A young woman stands on a snowy hillside, looking off into the distance nervously.

The Girl in the Snow L'Engloutie

Louise Hémon  |   France

1899. The arrival of an idealistic teacher in a remote Alpine village unsettles the superstitious locals in this evocative, atmospheric slow burn.

French, Italian
Drama, Mystery, Sex and Sexuality, Women-Centered
Three children sit in an open and bright room, talking to a woman. The woman stands in the doorway, pushing a stroller.

The Love That Remains Ástin sem eftir er

Hlynur Pálmason  |   Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France

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

Icelandic, English, Swedish, French
Drama, Family Affairs
A man in period clothing stands on a ship. A sail behind him features a red cross-like symbol.

Magellan Magalhães

Lav Diaz  |   Portugal, Spain, France, Philippines, Taiwan

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan embarks on a brutal campaign of colonial conquest in Southeast Asia, but madness soon takes hold.

Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, French
Biopic, Drama, Historical
Seen in black and white, a man in sunglasses sits on a bench, smoking.

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater  |   France

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.

French
Drama, Film on Film, Historical
A phone is propped up on a laptop, showing a woman's smiling face.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Sepideh Farsi  |   France, Palestine

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.

English, French, Arabic
Political, Social Commentary, Women-Centered

Shorts 1: After Dark

Various  |   France, Jordan, Palestine, Sweden, U.K., U.S.

Unfulfilled dreams, dark obsessions, and illicit desires take center stage in this program that transports viewers into the bold and blood-curdling world of genre film. From ventriloquist dummies to unrequited love, these shorts expose our darkest fears… and create new ones.

Arabic, English, French, Swedish
Comedy, Drama, Family Affairs, Horror, LGBTQ, Romance, Science Fiction, Social Commentary, Thriller, Women-Centered

Shorts 2: Animation

Various  |   Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Finland, France, Ireland, Japan, Portugal

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.

Chinese, English, French, No Dialogue, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
Animation, Art, Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Environmental, Family Affairs, Mystery
A group of people and a dog sit on a vast, empty beach. They hold bags and luggage, looking tired.

Sirât

Oliver Laxe  |   France, Spain

After a young woman goes missing at a rave, her father and brother brave the arid Moroccan landscape searching for her in a world on the brink of collapse.

Spanish, French
Family Affairs, Music, Road Movie, Thriller
Still from The Stranger: In a black-and-white seaside scene, a young man in a loose button-down shirt and high-waisted trousers stands against a wooden beam, looking out toward the ocean with a solemn, pensive expression.

The Stranger L'Étranger

François Ozon  |   France

Algiers, 1938. A young man shows utter indifference to the events of his life, even as he lands in jail on murder charges in this searing adaptation of Camus’ classic.

French
Crime, Drama, Literary Adaptation
Poster of film, an illustrated boy looks up towards the sky with a small row of wooden houses behind him.

Sugar Cane Alley Rue Cases Nègres

Euzhan Palcy  |   France, Martinique

In 1930s French-colonized Martinique, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the hope for his community, and his grandmother will do anything to see his ambitions realized.

French, Creole
Coming of Age, Family Affairs, Historical, Literary Adaptation
A young woman holds a baby close to herself, resting her forehead on the baby's head.

Young Mothers Jeunes Mères

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne  |   Belgium, France

Living together in a group home in Belgium, five teenage girls wrestle with the newfound responsibilities of parenthood in this warmly humanist social drama.

French
Drama, Family Affairs, Social Commentary, Women-Centered
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