Taking inspiration from an infamous runaway hippo, this shapeshifting adventure won Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale. Traveling through timelines, planes of consciousness, and dazzlingly diverse forms of experimentation, Pepe summons specters of violence with eclectic, mystical style.

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.