Adapting Samuel Beckett’s iconic 1957 play “Endgame” with gleeful, reckless abandon, maverick Argentine filmmaker Alejo Moguillansky discovers moments of magic in the registers and resonances of Beckett’s text as repetitions, refractions, music and dance crescendo into a glittering, literary and formal masterwork.

Set in 1937 at the peak of Josef Stalin’s Great Purge — yet chillingly relevant today — Sergei Loznitsa’s dark parable of tyranny is based on a short story by the dissident writer and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was himself imprisoned for nearly 20 years.

Two-time Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot reteams with the Obamas’ Higher Grounds Productions for this documentary spotlighting the remarkable yet under-recognized Ghanaian filmmaker Chris Hesse, who captured essential footage — previously thought to be lost — of the African independence movements as a personal cameraman to...

Germany, 1945: a 12-year-old boy on the isolated North Sea island of Amrum begins to learn the truth about his country, which is on the precipice of total defeat, despite the propaganda fed to him. Fatih Akin directs, from an autobiographical screenplay by octogenarian filmmaker...

László Nemes, an Oscar® winner for 2015’s SON OF SAUL, returns with another trenchant exploration of Hungary’s 20th century history — this time set in 1957, just one year after the USSR brutally suppressed the Hungarian Uprising. Andor (Bojtorján Barabas) longs for the return of...

In this gorgeously crafted and heartfelt drama from Erige Sehiri, three Ivorian women’s close-knit bonds are tested when the Tunisian government ramps up an immigration crackdown that could target each of them.

Radu Jude won the Best Screenplay award at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival for this scabrous black comedy about a guilt-wracked civil servant’s effort to clear her conscience, instead discovering that guilt is only a relative concept in contemporary Romania.

Stuart Cornfeld (AFI Class of 1975) looks back on his colorful career as a creative producer, collaborating with Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, David Lynch, Steven Soderbergh, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro and Ben Stiller, among others. Featuring a wealth of interviews, Joan Bofill’s intimate and...

Set in neutral Switzerland during World War II, this triumphant debut feature is a feminist coming-of-age drama that weighs the costs of courage on two fronts: the neighboring war and a young woman’s refusal to lead a life she never wanted.

Financially struggling musician Y has been tasked with composing a new anthem for a nation he morally opposes. Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s latest tour de force is an absurdist, boldly surprising condemnation of his homeland.

Mascha Schilinski's stunning sophomore feature is a hypnotic, time-traversing portrait of four generations of women living in the same isolated German farmhouse over the course of a century.

Academy Award® winner Brendan Fraser plays an American actor in Tokyo hired by a “rental family” agency to serve as a stand-in for clients who need help with various challenges in their lives, acting as a journalist, groom or even parent in this tender film...

In a Liège group home, five teenage mothers navigate abandonment, fractured families, and the steep learning curve of parenthood — finding unexpected strength and solace in each other’s company in this tender, unflinching drama from the Dardenne brothers.

George Clooney plays famous Hollywood actor Jay Kelly, who embarks on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey across Europe with his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler), where both men are forced to confront their life choices, relationships, and the legacies they’ll leave behind. Written and...

François Ozon brings Albert Camus’ acclaimed 1942 novel to the big screen as a sun-baked, black-and-white neo-noir, a potent blend of psychological thriller and anti-colonial critique.

After jumping into a frigid Swiss lake on a work trip, fashion designer Lina returns to Buenos Aires a changed woman. Now deathly afraid of water, she sleepwalks through life unable to explain her malaise. With surreal flourishes and bursts of absurdity, filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler...

In Amanda Kramer’s fantastical, avant-garde curiosity BY DESIGN, Camille (Juliette Lewis) — motivated by deep-seated envy — makes a fateful wish to be just as desirable as an exquisitely expensive wooden chair.