Enchanted by a child’s curious gaze, An Urban Allegory is quintessential Alice Rohrwacher. Together with street artist JR, the supernal filmmaker assembles a kaleidoscopically playful vision of art, tracing how it moves through this stage of magical light and alluring shadow we call the world.

Unrecognizable as a spoiled influencer with a thirst for danger, Adèle Exarchopoulos is a delightful ball of anxiety in Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist comedy. A cautionary tale against the trappings of modern fame, this acerbic satire indulges in the worst of human behaviors with cartoonish glee.

Documentarian Jonathan Millet makes his fiction debut with this electrifying revenge thriller. Featuring a tightly wound lead in Adam Bessa, who plays a Syrian exile on the hunt for his prison torturer, Ghost Trail hitches the refugee drama to the spy movie for a riveting game of cat and mouse.