A sensorial and immersive trip into a teen’s psyche, Madeline’s Madeline boldly dissects mental health, racial tensions, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance. Starring Miranda July, Molly Parker, and standout newcomer Helena Howard, this is relentless, electrifying cinema.

Blurring boundaries between past and present, memory and truth, Christopher Makoto Yogi’s hypnotic film is a life-affirming reckoning with death’s inevitability. Full of luscious images and sounds, moving to the gentle rhythm of a dream, I Was a Simple Man is attuned to the beauty of existence.