During the COVID-19 pandemic, renowned South African artist William Kentridge opens the doors to his Johannesburg studio to lay bare his creative process. Combining animation, collage, performance, and conversations with doppelgängers, Kentridge reflects on culture, history, and political memory.

A difficult yet rewarding film from the equally complex Danish provocateur Lars von Trier! This fiercely polemical, little-seen sequel to Dogville tackles a topic as sensitive as slavery, all the while maintaining its predecessor’s Brechtian premise, anti-American bent, and yes, its brilliance.

Calling the shots on the first feature ever directed by a Palestinian woman, Annemarie Jacir is nothing short of a pioneer in Arab cinema. This sophomore feature was Palestine’s official entry for the 2012 Oscars®: a delicate coming-of-age drama, and an insightful study of absence, exile, and war.

Abderrahmane Sissako gathers enormous debates into this riveting film, putting the world’s financiers on trial. Opposing monolithic forms of power, the writer-director breaks up his excoriating critique with self-reflexive frolicking—a mini spaghetti western!—and the lilting details of Malian life.

While working as a teacher and basketball coach in Alabama, RaMell Ross filmed the local community over the course of five years. A profound humanism lies at the heart of this impressionistic, politically evocative work—a welcome portrait of the Black American South, nominated for the Oscars®.