FROM STOCKTON TO YOUR SOFA

Refracting the iconic image of lo-fi band Pavement into new, hybrid forms, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Ross Perry innovatively distorts the music documentary. Joe Keery stars alongside the ’90s group, toying with their slacker-indie commitment to alternative culture with dazzling, hilarious subversion.

Director Levan Akin centers the vital spirit of Istanbul’s trans community in this poignant story of unlikely connection. With three exquisite performances that vividly transcend generational divides, Crossing is a defiant city symphony and a compassionate tale of hope, identity, and forgiveness.

An Oscar®-nominated marvel of exquisite empathy, Magnus von Horn’s masterful vision of early 20th-century Denmark searches for tenderness and morality under fraught circumstances. Drawing on chilling true events that continue to resonate, this gothic parable is a visceral reckoning from the past.

An eye-opening look at Ryuichi Sakamoto’s life, work, and creative process, this portrait shows an artist aware of his responsibility to the world around him. His fascination with the beauty and violence of both nature and humanity is all the more moving as he candidly reflects on his own mortality.

From controversial director Lars von Trier comes the first entry in his Golden Heart trilogy, which was followed by The Idiots and the Palme d’Or winning Dancer in the Dark. Starring Emily Watson in an uncompromising performance, Breaking the Waves remains one of Von Trier’s finest achievements.

Nine agonizing years after Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay returned to Cannes with another acclaimed literary adaptation. Radically reimagining the nature-or-nurture novel, Ramsay—and star Tilda Swinton—transform the text into a chilling film rightfully venerated for its unforgettable visual language.

Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan are arch enemies in this gripping revenge thriller, in which Ireland’s rugged landscapes echo inner torment. Pulling apart the western trope of the strong, silent type, Christopher Andrews’s hard-hitting debut feature reveals old traumas behind fresh wounds.