Intimacy is brilliantly weaponized in this standout film from American rising star Kit Zauhar. Assembling a chamber drama with staggering performances and bruising humor, she twists space and sound into battle zones of emotion where closeness is at once bitter and erotic, touching and barbed.

Katarina Zhu writes, directs, and stars in her subtly sexy debut feature, which draws from the metal-blue glow of the screen for its portrait of modern alienation. With a milky-white rabbit and sensitive strokes of empathy, Bunnylovr burrows for tender moments among lurking danger and suspense.