Accommodating both the downbeat and the surreal, Martín Rejtman’s first feature in nine years treats midlife depression with a holistic sense of humor. Comic scenarios flow into one another with the flexibility of a master yogi, and achieve a strengthened core in The Delinquents’ Esteban Bigliardi.

A bewitching revenge thriller, Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s Locarno prizewinner is as mystical as it is exhilarating. Subverting dominant paradigms of representation to reinvent the genre, Cocote shifts between realist and hallucinatory images, evoking the dizzying torment of broken filiality.