"Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"

Busan International Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Fantasia International Film Festival

Stylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...

Rotterdam International Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...

Buenos Aires Int’l Independent Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
Brooklyn Film Festival

At the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, among all the theatres, you can find Estudio Luisita. From 1958 to 2009, the photographic studio produced iconic images of the stars of Buenos Aires sho...

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Cinekid Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival

11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...

Toronto International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Fajr Film Festival

Based on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...

Seattle International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
Whistler Film Festival

When young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...

"Vanishing Days marks the emergence of an artist with an audacious vision." The Hollywood Reporter

Berlin International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

First time director Zhu Xin's impressive debut feature is a surreal, poetic and dreamlike...

Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

A young Wayúu woman named Doris has a dream that she reunites with her deceased cousin. When she tells her grandmother about the dream they decide that her vision is the inception of an ancient ritual. Do...

"a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist

SXSW Film Festival
Hot Docs International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Dreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...

Fantasia International Film Festival
Quebec City Film Festival
Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival

This suspenseful sci-fi focusses on David (François Arnaud), a man on a unique trip that doesn't take him from one place to another but from one moment in time to another. Seeking to bette...

Toronto International Film Festival
DOC NYC

Filmmaker Danae Elon was born in Israel to an Austrian Jewish refugee who became a leftist journalist and a mother who has been going to occupation protests since Danae was a child. Her father asks that she never return, but after his death, for reas...

“By emphasizing live performance and audio recordings over interviews, Kahan lets Kirk's talent speak for itself.” - Chicago Reader

Raindance Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival

Jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk spent his career and life defying conventional limitations. Born blind,...

"Drljaca's camera travels each scene with slow insistence on its remarkable beauty." Globe and Mail

Toronto International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

Igor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...

"...a heartening celebration of progress and a cautionary reminder of all the broken lives and lonely hearts trampled along the way." Screendaily

Sheffield Doc/Fest
IDFA
Seattle International Film Festival

This expertly edited compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both d...

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
IDFA

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Over forty years have passed since th...

Hof International Film Festival
American Documentary Film Festival

A feature length documentary that unpacks the origins of California desert rock music, providing a unique insight into the Coachella Valley music scene in the 80s and 90s which begat bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age and Kyus...

"A powerful work of activist cinema." Toronto Star

Hot Docs Film Festival
Montreal International Documentary Festival
DOXA Documentary Film Festival

On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural propert...

"A revelatory documentary, Birth of a Family is a family-reunion doc unlike any you’ve seen before." POV Magazine

Hot Docs International Film Festival
Edmonton International Film Festval

In this deeply moving feature-length documentary from filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, three sisters and a brother m...

Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival

Winner of the Best Director at Golden Horse Awards, director Vivian Qu pens a thoughtful story on security, solidarity, and abuse. As main character Mia struggles with the responsibility of knowing ...

Lulu Ali Ismail's directorial debut pens the beautiful and poetic coming of age story of Hibo, Asma, and Deka, three girls navigating their final high school semester. The blossoming young women question what it means to be educated in Djibouti and where class separates them as they select school...

Wander Life is a tender portrait of middle school for introverts. Hinano, a soft spoken and unassuming student, hides from her school mates in fear of being bullied. One day, seeking shelter at the school's infirmary, Hinano befriends her school nurse Shindo. The two confide in each other and Shi...

"The filmmaking debut of actress-turned-writer/director Yûka Eda, it might be the latest recent Japanese effort to take on female yearning and marginalisation, but this involving feature is a mature addition to the growing thematic subgenre." - Screen Daily

Hong Kong International Film Festival
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"Gun Runners is a contextual, intimate look inside a world most of us know nothing about." The Globe and Mail

Hot Docs
Palm Strings Film Festval

Director Anjali Nayar's fascinating, inspirational film follows two former warriors from Northern Kenya. Julius Arile and Robert Matanda, as they look...

Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan Cuts New York

In 1726, Sanchu Okayama, farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes before infighting leads to suppression by the Samurai class. Banding together, the farmers prepare for battle. A young farmer, Jihei is ex...