Reclaiming a collection of still and moving images taken by the IDF from the archive collection of the Palestine Research Center in Beirut in the summer of 1982, this poignant exploration of identity, memory, and resistance, uses a unique blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques to create a counter-narrative to loss—a cinematic sabotage to restore looted memories.

The debut feature film of premier French provocateur Catherine Breillat, is an adaptation of her novel, Le soupirail. Fourteen-year-old Alice Bonnard as she returns home from boarding school on summer vacation. Burdened by boredom and her own burgeoning sexuality, Alice’s adolescent desires latch onto Jim, a surly young worker employed at her father’s sawmill.

Musician Marc Ribot will perform a live score to accompany Yakov Protazanov’s pioneering 1924 sci-fi film Aelita: Queen of Mars, which is celebrating its centennial anniversary.

Willie Stark is a dynamic backwoods personality who rides a wave of populist fervor straight into the governor's mansion, only to fall prey to the corruption he pledged to fight. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, this dynamic political noir took home the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In an old house in an unnamed Midwest town, former child-prodigy writer Barbara Fowler and her sci-fi author husband Richard are entwined in a love triangle with their pious maid Based on a true story and built around the labor of writing, Fairfield, Iowa-based director and screenwriter Graham Swon is currently adapting the film into a novel.

Inspired by Terry Masear's book, Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood, this joyous documentary offers profound truths and moments of wonder in a deceptively simple story. In tending to fragile yet resilient hummingbirds, Masear finds a sense of healing from her own past.

Filmed in live action and rotoscoped to animation, this manga adaptation follows 11-year-old Karin who finds herself abandoned by her father in a small Japanese town. Her grandfather asks his jovial but rather capricious ghost cat, Anzu, to look after her. As their spirited personalities collide, sparks fly.

Based on Arnold Wesker's 1957 play of the same name, this comedic drama follows a melting pot of restaurant workers at a Times Square restaurant. Amidst the pandemonium of the kitchen, an undocumented cook (Raúl Briones) falls for an American waitress (Rooney Mara) who coolly keeps their affair hidden until a shocking revelation.

A trio of fortysomething actors living in Mexico City who happen to be in a mundane love triangle navigate unorthodox auditions for the same film. In discussions they begin to reminisce on an acting workshop that leads into a unique retelling of Aladdin.

A Refocus Film Festival Short Film Block featuring personal works from up-and-coming directors and anchored by the latest a piece by Leos Carax the reflects on his 40 year career while paying homage to Jean-Luc Godard.

When her parents split, Renko, a bright and energetic 6th grader, is left alone with her mother, Nazuna, in Kyoto. As Nazuna sets out new rules for their life together, Renko makes plans of her own, seeing to it that any changes happen on her terms. Adapted from Hiko Tanaka's novel, this gem of a film is a breathtaking masterpiece begging for rediscovery.

Oscar-nominated director RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) poetically adapts Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for his narrative debut. After being sent to the brutal Nickel Academy as punishment for a crime he didn’t commit, Elwood Curtis meets Turner, a kindred spirit who becomes his closest ally.

A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn when she believes she may be turning into a dog. Based on the novel by Iowa City's Rachel Yoder.

In this unconventional prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid rock-doc, Alex Ross Perry blends performance footage and interviews with a biopic, a staged jukebox musical, and a gallery exhibit to tell the story of the iconic ‘90s rock group Pavement.

High school seniors in the 1970s, Jun and Ibuki form a band, drawn to each other by their shared love of glam-rock. As the demands of adulthood loom, the young couple drifts apart. Years later, the band reunites. Will Jun and Ibuki reunite as well? Inspired by Kensuke Ide's 2021 concept album Strolling Planet ’74.

Pioneering director Sarah Maldoror presents a revolutionary bombshell–an electrifying chronicle of Angola’s awakening independence movement and a stirring hymn to those who risked everything in the fight for freedom. Based on the novella The Real Life of Domingos Xavier by José Luandino Vieira.

When the community of Covas do Barroso, Portugal discovers that the British company Savannah Resources plans to build the largest open-pit lithium mine in Europe just a few meters from their homes, they decide to organize and expel them from their lands. Using the people as actors, incorporating footage from their protests, and playing their protest songs, director Paulo Carneiro worked with the villagers to document their resistance as a tool for intervention. U.S. PREMIERE

While making a delivery to the local convent, devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) makes a shocking discovery kept by the convent in his sleepy Irish town that threaten to disrupt his perception of the past and the peace of his community.

Young Edmond Dantès is arrested for a crime he did not commit. After a daring escape from his island prison he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo to exact his revenge in this thrilling adaptation that is Alexandre Dumas by way of Mission: Impossible.

In collaboration with Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami people, this documentary follows leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed rituals and trenchant comments on the ruthless logic of a materialistic outside culture. Based on the shaman's book of the same name, the film holds up a mirror to capitalist societies that threaten the survival of humanity as a whole.

A young boy dodges monsters, warriors, and natural forces on a rescue mission to save his surrogate father, who has fallen under a mysterious spell while searching for a legendary textile. In this latest film from China’s indie animation auteur, Busifan, traditional ink wash paintings become a vivid landscape for a colorful and fantastical adventure.

Orson Welles’ thrilling and cinematic adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel follows Josef K (Anthony Perkins), a meek bank clerk as he is accused of an unspecified crime. Forced to navigate an increasingly hostile bureaucracy as he seeks both answers and the opportunity to clear his name, Josef K’s reality crumbles around him.

Armed only with the family video camera, Suha captures the Second Intifada from within the West Bank at the start of the 2000s. Woven into her images of family life under occupation, Suha makes promises to God to spare her family. Seventeen years later, her filmmaker son Yousef finds the footage and assembles it, excavating his own forgotten childhood in the process.

Repurposing archival footage from personal recordings and news reports and incorporating diary entries of the time as voiceover, this city symphony starts with the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium. But as the frame of reference steadily broadens, adjacent realities of 1965 are juxtaposed—the New York World’s Fair, the Watts riots filtering through from the East Coast on television.

Ubu, a crass duke, murders King Wenceslau at the suggestion of his scheming wife. When Ubu takes the throne, Poland plunges into chaos, with the country at the mercy of Ubu’s whims and eccentricities. Paulo Abreu’s adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s turn-of-the-century satire, rendered in stark black and white, captures the cruelty and irrational behavior living at the core of fascism. U.S. PREMIERE

Emilia Jones stars as the titular translator who leaked classified documents leading to a 63 month prison sentence in this humorous and heartfelt inside look into a public figure known for one courageous act and a funny name. Susanna Fogel (Cat Person) directs this adaptation of Kerry Howley's 2017 profile for New York Magazine.

Using a unique, text-centered approach, Matías Piñeiro adapts Sea Foam, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues With Leucò. Exploring heartbreak and desire through a conversation between the poet Sappho and Britomartis, who threw herself into the sea to escape the advances of a man, Piñeiro creates a unique cinematic hybrid, asking the audience to read the film by filming both the act of reading and images associated with the story.