Celestial blues are speckled with red and religious icons flicker and fall in Alice Rohrwacher’s first feature. With cinematography by Hélène Louvart, the filmmaker braids the discoveries of girlhood into towering questions of faith to create a coming-of-age tale that is at once lived-in and divine.

Giulio Bertelli’s absorbingly experimental debut feature pins down the world of athletics and its clashing atmospherics. Setting the sterility of competitive environments against the animal intimacies of endurance and exhaustion, this unique film thinks nothing of genre confines or barriers of pain.