A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

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.

Assigned with adapting a story that shared striking parallels with his own life, Shōhei Imamura’s debut feature tells the tragi-comic tale of a down-and-out kabuki troupe and their idealistic young director, who finds himself caught between artistic ambition and his other, decidedly more carnal, desires.

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.

Written and directed by Clio Barnard, Ali & Ava (2021) is a tender, uplifting and unconventional love story set in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Praised for its naturalistic performances and humane portrayal of working-class life, Ali & Ava offers a hopeful, free-thinking reminder that love can challenge assumptions, break down barriers and arrive when we least expect it.