"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...

"one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily

Toronto International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival

After dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...

Rotterdam International Film Festival
Art of the Real
Montreal International Documentary Festival

A hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes for a compelling film diary in While We Are Here. The film focuses on Lamis, a Lebanese woman, who has just moved to New York and...

"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...

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 ...

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...

"...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...

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
LA Indie Film Fest

An aspiring young comic, Ali (Madeline Brewer from “Orange is The New Black) is haunted by her father’s comedy legacy, and often hides behind the possibility of failure when it comes to taking any chances on advancing her career. In an ef...

Sheffield Doc/Fest
CPH:DOX
Mill Valley Film Festival

Jaha's Promise tells the remarkable story of activist Jaha Dukureh, as she returns home to Gambia from the U.S. to campaign against the female genital mutilation practices that almost destroyed her life. Having endured the devastating impact o...

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...

"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...

"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...

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 ...

"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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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...

Tokyo International Film Festival

Writer director Mayu Akiyama’s debut film is a fresh and surprising romantic drama focussed on an unusual relationship. When aspiring journalist Nasa (Eri Tokunaga) meets 'friend-for-hire' Sota (Atsushi Hashimoto) she decides to engage his services with a view t...

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...

"Second Star on the Right winningly captures our varying levels of maturation and individualism, with beauty and style." Film Inquiry

Palm Springs International Film Festival
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival

Emilia is a 30-something bisexual woman who teaches acting classes to children, but is tr...

Hot Docs Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film Festival

Marie Clement's The Road Forward is a musical documentary that utilizes numerous filmmaking techniques to powerful effect. Using the story of Canada’s first Indigenous newspaper, The Native Voice, as its focal point, this particularly distincti...

SXSW

Wendy Schneider’s illuminating documentary pays tribute to the history of Madison, Wisconsin-based recording studio, Smart Studios and its connection to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990s. Featuring fantastic archive material and contributions from its founders and many of the...