Devika Girish

In this wry Finnish drama, a disabled man embarks on a journey to visit his girlfriend, encountering inaccessible infrastructure and evil goons along the way.

This observational documentary about an aging farming couple on the Icelandic coast unfolds like an elegy to a life lived off the land.

This month’s picks include a Latvian satire about World War II, a family portrait by an Indian documentarian, an Oedipal thriller from Mexico and more.

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton executive produced this documentary, which follows a young Afghan mayor as she navigates upheavals wrought by the Taliban’s return to power.

This month’s picks include a postmodern Tamil rom-com, a stylish period drama from Vietnam, an Argentine film about a writer undergoing a creative crisis and more.

Martine Syms’s whip-smart satire brings the invisible, everyday negotiations of a Black artist to startlingly visual life.

This month’s picks include a Ukrainian documentary, a Mexican thriller and a French-Arab drama about poetry and young love.

This month’s picks include a buoyant queer romance from Germany, a Malayalam-language mafia thriller and a South African horror flick.

Gillian Armstrong, Jane Campion, Essie Coffey and others had waited years to tell their stories, as a Museum of the Moving Image series shows.

Alice Diop’s observational documentary is a beautiful, loose-limned portrait of Paris’s suburbs.

This documentary about Syrian refugee artists explores the role of art in the face of war and displacement.

Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance opens with the protagonist, Julian (Eric Lockley), sorting through a large chest of books in the West Philadelphia house

Maya Da-Rin’s extraordinary film details the intimate life of an Indigenous family in the Brazilian city of Manaus.