Three women tell their stories of transit between Colombia, Mexico, and Canada in intimate voiceover: their reasons for migrating; the physical, linguistic, institutional challenges they endured; and their aspirations for the future of their children and themselves.

Deliquescent colors and luscious soundscapes mark Dane Komljen’s Afterwater, which follows three trios of characters as they traverse three bodies of water in three time periods and become lost in densely verdant landscapes or adrift on the surfaces of lakes.

In Beatrix, debut filmmakers Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner render a young woman’s experience of boredom and solitude through a set of mundane activities, as she explores a suburban house alone.

Through a mix of staged and documentary scenes, Jonathan Perel’s Camouflage follows a writer on his daily runs through and around the ruins of Campo de Mayo, a large military base on Buenos Aires’s outskirts that was an infamous site of detentions, torture, and disappearances during Argentina’s Dirty War.

The continual restaging and reformatting of the past is the theme of Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Come Here, which follows four young actors on an oneiric trip to the site of the infamous Death Railway, built by conscripted local workers and Allied prisoners of war during World War II. Screening with Peter Tscherkassky’s Train Again in 35mm.

A stark juxtaposition of boredom and violence, Zhengfan Yang’s film forms an oblique chronicle of America’s tumultuous recent years through two discordant mediums: scenes of daily life seen from his apartment window in Chicago, and the persistent chatter heard over the city’s police scanner.

Mixing vivid 16mm footage with hand-processed abstractions, Jacquelyn Mills’s film is a portrait of conservationist Zoe Lucas, one of the lone inhabitants of Sable Island, a 26-mile sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia.

If from Every Tongue It Drips explores questions of distance and proximity, identity and otherness, through scenes from the daily interactions between two Sri Lankan women—a poet and a cameraperson.

A Marble Travelogue traces the strange and circuitous route of white marble quarried in Greece and shipped to China to be made into souvenirs, which are in turn returned to Europe to be sold to Chinese tourists.

A surprising and transformative road movie, David Easteal’s remarkable debut feature takes the viewer on a three-hour journey from a single perspective: that of a camera fixed in the backseat of a car, riding along with a middle-aged man on his evening commutes home from work through suburban Melbourne over the course of a year.

Washing color fields and glitching alien voices call us into Jorge Jácome’s Super Natural, a lush cinematic ecosystem carrying us from life’s liquid beginnings through multiple cycles of sleep, interspecies encounters, and media formats.

Bridging temporalities and locations—Haiti, Canada, the U.S.—This House narrates the events around the unexplained death of a 14-year-old girl in 2008 through staged tableaux, lyrical voiceover, and vivid 16mm cinematography.

Tracing a wayward journey across Chile to New York and Iowa and back again, two friends attempt to research an urban legend about an American priest who, after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, emigrated to South America.

Inspired by a set of improvisations by the American composer and sound artist Alvin Curran, Éric Baudelaire’s triptych of stories reconstructs the volatile period of radical struggle in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy and the United States. Screening with Maria Rojas Arias’s Abrir Monte.

Diop’s first feature follows Steve, a 25-year-old Black man from the Paris suburbs who seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at France’s prestigious Cours Simon drama school. Screening with Diop’s Towards Tenderness.

A powerful work of latter-day cinema vérité, Alice Diop’s second feature chronicles the operations of a refugee medical clinic at the Avicenne Hospital just outside Paris.

In this nuanced, sophisticated, and wonderfully engaging documentary, filmmaker Alice Diop creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of people from largely Black and immigrant communities in the Parisian suburbs.