Brady Corbet’s acting career was quietly developing with roles in the likes of Melancholia, Simon Killer, and Force Majeure, when he surprised us all with his directorial debut: this stunning and ambitious rumination on violence scored by Scott Walker. A visually arresting period fantasy!

Mona Fastvold’s hypnotic short—soundtracked by Daniel Blumberg—is captivated by similarly rapturous rhythms as crescendo in The Testament of Ann Lee. With anonymity and synchronicity twisting to sudden abandon, Discipline is an eerie study in girlhood that is performed, tried fitfully on for size.