Blue Moon

The saddest man you ever knew, or dynamic, alert and fun? Opinions on Broadway songwriter Lorenz Hart, who died of pneumonia and alcoholism in 1943, vary. This film imagines him…

The Ballad of Wallis Island

The former members of a once somewhat popular folk duo (who were also lovers) are reunited on an isolated island for a concert, arranged by their number-one fan, eccentric millionaire…

The Dialogue Police

A compelling, intense report from the streets of Stockholm – and in one tragic sequence, the city of Visby, where a murder in 2022 shook the political establishment during a…

Rabbit Trap

Wales, 1976; a couple (Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen) living in an isolated cabin are visited by a mysterious child (Jade Croot). There are things to be appreciated in this trippy…

Good Boy

Not another Cujo (1983), but a low-budget horror movie with a story about a dog sensing that things are not right in a house where an old man met a…

Small Things Like These

It’s 1985 and Christmas is coming to the Irish town of New Ross, where coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) comes across a teenage girl in a local convent who…

Two Prosecutors

In 1937, a young prosecutor (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) suspects corruption within the local NKVD in Bryansk and tries to interrogate an elderly political prisoner. Based on a short story written by…

Eagles of the Republic

The most famous actor in Egypt, George Fahmy (Fares Fares), gets an offer he’d better not refuse: playing President al-Sisi in a hagiographic biopic. The final entry in the director’s…

Is This Thing On?

After separating, Alex Novak (Will Arnett) tries something radically different, standup comedy, finding the experience therapeutic. The filmmakers were inspired by the real-life story of British comedian John Bishop for…