Writer-director Felipe Gálvez emerges as a startling new voice in Latin American cinema with this searing revisionist western. Capturing majestic landscapes with a painterly eye, Chile’s official Oscar® entry is a singularly immersive reckoning with national myth-making and its attendant violence.

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.

Tending to still-open wounds left by the Vietnam War, Minh Quý Trương’s transfixing and redolent film excavates spectral histories, once buried under the sands of time. Lighting up the darkest pits of the earth, coruscating touches between furtive lovers burn with the fieriness of queer passions.