Cairo Conspiracy
​Walad min al-Janna

Tarik Saleh
Sweden/France/Finland/Denmark  ·  2022

This firebrand thriller set in Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the country's most respected religious teaching institution, deftly explores the tangled state of modern-day Egypt.  
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First Cow

Kelly Reichardt
USA ·  2019 

An odd couple find friendship and free enterprise amongst the untamed, early 1800s landscapes of the Northwest frontier in Kelly Reichardt's perfectly pitched dramedy. 
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Happening
​L'événement

Audrey Diwan
France ·  ​2021

Taking out Best Film at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, this powerful and timely abortion drama is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author, Annie Ernaux. 
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Hatching
​Pahanhautoja

Hanna Bergholm
Finland/Sweden  ·  2015 

A young gymnast copes with her demanding mother by caring for an oversized egg in this wicked Finnish satire that's part body horror and part creature feature. 

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Hit the Road
​Jaddeh khaki

Panah Panahi
Iran  ·  2021

Stunning road movie from debut Iranian director Panah Panahi wowed festival audiences with its rich emotional nuance and sly political critique. 

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Joyland

Saim Sadiq
​Pakistan  ·  ​2022

A married man falls for a glamorous trans dancer in this daring and emotionally intense love story from Pakistani first-time writer-director Saim Sadiq.  

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Shiva Baby

Emma Seligman
USA ·  2020
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Dizzying and captivating, Emma Seligman's debut feature stars Rachel Sennott as a young woman at a family wake who cannot escape her sugar daddy, her ex-girlfriend or her own lies.  

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Cow

Andrea Arnold
UK  ·  ​2021

The acclaimed direct of Red Road and American Honey shifts to documentary to create an immersive, highly empathetic yet completely unflinching portrait of one dairy cow's life.

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We Were Once Kids

Eddie Martin
Australia ·  ​20121

This doco revisits the cultural landscape and controversy of Kids and discovers what happened to the kids who starred in the film after the cameras stopped rolling. 

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