Two young brothers hope to visit their estranged father who lives far away as this beautiful Tajik drama takes them on a picturesque train journey across the rural landscape of little villages and hills.
The sheer human will to survive is depicted in this unimaginably true story that is told viscerally and sensitively, based on the tragic Andes flight disaster of 1972.
Harrowing but essential, this ground-zero document of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the vantage point of an Associated Press journalist in the besieged city of Mariupol bluntly reminds us of the humanitarian cost of war.
A wuxia classic that pushed the genre to more brutal and grittier ends, as a martial artist must master a new fighting style after inexplicably losing an arm.
This Locarno Golden Leopard winner with some fascinating use of sound and camera is boldly conceived if occasionally uneven, shot clandestinely in Tehran as a driver heavily reliant on GPS finds existential purpose in healing people with drugs.
You don’t need to know much about legendary conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein to enjoy this decently made ‘love story’ biopic with standout performances by Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan.
This tense German drama about a theft incident in a school perceptively reflects the state of the world today in a classroom, backed by an excellent lead performance by Leonie Benesch.
A family consisting of four generations of Palestinian women is the subject of this highly personal documentary that sheds an affirmative light on stories of displacement—from their lands and themselves.
Bursts of warped creativity punctuate this rather inscrutable Singaporean experimental drama about the discomfiting nature of personal fantasies and quiet acceptance in matters of life and death.
Beguiling if also bewildering, this newly-restored pre-’79 Iranian rarity is ultimately elusive and muddling in its thematic exploration of paranoia, traditions and taboos, as a mysterious wounded man drifts ashore on a boat.
Eternality Tan 