Winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week, Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo made waves with her fearless debut. Illuminating the limits of the medical establishment, the vagaries of gender, and the uncertainties of belonging, XXY is a coming-of-age favorite among young queer audiences.

One of cinema’s most talented filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel, brings all her powers of sensual, evocative visuals to this dream-like mystery, which plunges fearlessly into the mindstate of a woman—an incredible María Onetto—on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d’Or.