The new film by Alain Gomis is a formally inventive, politically attuned meditation on the enduring ties of the African diaspora, and the meaning of family and community.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi’s debut feature – a tender love letter to Tapoleng, her hometown in South Africa – offers an intimate evocation of a community in transition.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Hanabi is a visceral cinematic adaptation of Yoko Hayasuke’s Journal of a Radioactive Brain, written in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and nuclear disaster.