A multidimensional work of vision and ambition, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions expands visual artist Kahlil Joseph’s installation into a feature film, an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience.

Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz makes his feature debut with this gangland tale, a Los Olvidados for the LiveLeak era that melds high-speed heists and found-footage textures with supernatural eeriness.

Suffused with alluring atmospherics and a slight air of the oneiric, Hong Kong-born (and future Éric Rohmer editor) Mary Stephen’s debut feature evocatively traces the uncertain relationship between two Chinese women in Shanghai in 1935.

Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz makes his feature debut with this gangland tale, a Los Olvidados for the LiveLeak era that melds high-speed heists and found-footage textures with supernatural eeriness.

In Claire Denis’s absorbing and intimate film, set at a white-run construction site in West Africa, Albouny (Isaach de Bankolé) demands the return of his brother’s body, killed in a mysterious work accident, but the site’s foreman (Matt Dillon) is clearly hiding the truth.

In his towering new achievement, animator-director Mamoru Hosoda transports viewers to jaw-dropping fantasy worlds, combining weighty Shakespearean themes with wondrous anime imagery as he conjures a phantasmal riff on Hamlet.

Lucrecia Martel’s (Zama, NYFF55) expansive and enlightening first feature documentary takes a sweeping approach to the tragic true story of a member of Argentina’s Indigenous Chuchagasta community who was killed trying to defend his people from being forcibly evicted from their land.

Sergio has traveled from Lisbon to Guinea-Bissau to meet with locals and research the possibility of his European company constructing a highway in this epic, scrappy, sexually fluid portrayal of the contemporary postcolonialist liberal mindset. Winner, Best Actress, Cannes Un Certain Regard for Cleo Diára.

The biggest action-adventure film ever made in India, Ramesh Sippy’s towering 1975 “Curry Western” is a delirious four-course meal of action, musical numbers, Indian cinema’s most iconic actors, and jaw-dropping widescreen 70mm cinematography.

For the past six decades, Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the U.S. This arresting documentary, released at a crucial moment for the freedom of the press, tells the wide-ranging story of this breakthrough reporter.

Shimmering with beauty and freighted with mystery, Gabriel Azorín’s feature debut—set in the vicinity of an ancient Roman bath in the Spanish countryside—is a cosmic hangout film that announces its director as a major new voice.

Christian Petzold’s (Transit, NYFF56) haunting, beautifully crafted new film stars Paula Beer as a pianist from Berlin who’s taken in by a mysterious woman in an isolated country house after surviving a violent car crash.

A celebrated fashion designer finds it impossible to readjust to her former life after surviving a shocking plunge into an icy lake in Argentinean filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler’s existential puzzle, a work of compelling psychological interiority.

The spirit of cinematic revolution is alive and well in Richard Linklater’s affectionate and wildly entertaining passion project, which transports the viewer back to a creative landmark: the 1959 making of Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard.

Ira Sachs’s mesmerizing latest film is based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) narrates the events of the previous day in minute detail.