Rebelling against the banality of work, Rodrigo Moreno’s playful and restorative Cannes highlight reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure in which love and epiphanies bloom. A beguiling and defiant quest for personal freedom that dares to embrace the strangeness of life with open arms.

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.

Remarkably bold filmmaking from Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso, the enigmatic Jauja is a postcolonial political allegory rendered in witty shots dazzlingly colored and composed. A film hypnotic and transfixing, minimalist and expressionistic. Starring Viggo Mortensen.