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Channeling influence from the movies into her mesmerizing movements, Mitski gives live performances that find kindred spirit in cinema. Playing with speed, color, and freeze frames to electrifying effect, her first concert documentary embraces the transformative power of both film and music.

Pastel calm and easy camaraderie are interrupted by leaky reality in Constance Tsang’s beautifully assured debut feature. Starring Tsai Ming-liang favorite Lee Kang-sheng, this tenderly bruising film lets loss and intimacy ripple its serene waters—as if two koi fish swirling in each exquisite frame.

Instincts both maternal and carnal clatter like shards of glass in a blender in this uncompromising portrait of a woman on the edge from director Lynne Ramsay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in a frenzied pas de deux, Die My Love inflames the exposed nerves of delirium and desire.

With sharp wit and cathartic intensity, Coralie Fargeat turns toxic beauty culture inside out in her Oscar®-winning latest feature. Powered by a career-best performance from Demi Moore, The Substance fearlessly bulldozes its way into the midnight-movie pantheon and the feminist canon.

Love and obsession are two sides of the same coin in this daring thriller from The Bear writer-producer Alex Russell, featuring rising stars Archie Madekwe and Théodore Pellerin. In a glitzy LA ruled by social currency, Lurker luxuriates in the suspense and the dark irony of celebrity worship.

The delicate spirit of Yasujirō Ozu’s domestic dramas lives on in Wayne Wang’s gentle portrait of a Chinese-American household unsettled by the tides of change. Words of love, care, and even grievance spill over mouth-watering family meals, where food becomes a conduit for cultural inheritance.

One of the greatest films from legendary Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, this ravishing romantic comedy, newly restored in 4K, serves up a masterclass in controlled chaos. With Sylvia Chang leading an exuberant ensemble cast, Shanghai Blues is a glorious ode to the golden age of Hollywood screwball.

The first Nigerian film ever to screen in Official Selection at Cannes, this prizewinning debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr. is steeped in feeling and lyrical imagery. Bathing the father-son bond in a tender glow, this vibrant coming-of-age tale gathers up precious things amid political tumult.

Iconic auteur Jim Jarmusch’s acclaimed return to anthology filmmaking abounds with wryly resonant observations on the family unit. Sketching finely detailed portraits with its starry ensemble cast (including a gloriously rumpled Tom Waits), this offbeat triptych finds universals in idiosyncrasies.

A beautifully modulated turn from Alia Shawkat complicates the broader fun of this zany war satire, costarring Callum Turner. A playfully shot debut feature, Atropia lands its different strands skillfully: touching human drama, tangly undercover romance, and confrontational send-up of US militarism.

Writer-director Carmen Emmi handcuffs obsession to power in this confident debut set in ‘90s New York, detecting erotic fixations in homophobic policing. With one furtive eye on William Friedkin’s cult classic Cruising, Plainclothes searches fuzzy videotape surveillance footage for forbidden desire.

Chapters one to three of Julia Loktev’s unmissable five-chapter documentary encapsulate the Russian government’s crackdown on perceived enemies of the state. Seeing more than paranoia, the director’s close rapport with her subjects surfaces defiant camaraderie and unwavering commitment to truth.