North America

Enjoy North American storytelling, including tales of migration and revenge, coming of age and coming apart, as well as films starring Tilda Swinton, Jessica Chastain, Ilana Glazer and Jesse Eisenberg.

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.

Dir. Raven Jackson / 2023 / 92 mins / USA / English
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Babes

This raucous ‘mom-com’, written by star Ilana Glazer (Broad City), delivers a bundle of joy from the slapstick indignities of impending motherhood.

Dir. Pamela Adlon / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English
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Blue Sun Palace

The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.

Dir. Constance Tsang / 2024 / 116 mins / USA / Mandarin
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Bob Trevino Likes It

This SXSW award-winner will have you hitting ‘like’ with its tale of a pining daughter and the man who is not her father connecting online and IRL.

Dir. Tracie Laymon / 2024 / 102 mins / USA / English
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Dìdi

This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.

Dir. Sean Wang / 2024 / 93 mins / USA / English, Mandarin
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The Damned

With this twist on the jingoistic, action-packed war movie, Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Director winner Roberto Minervini asks: what’s it all for?

Dir. Roberto Minervini / 2024 / 88 mins / USA, Belgium, Italy / English
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The Dead Don't Hurt

Viggo Mortensen’s second feature is an unconventional western buoyed by the powerful presence of its lead, Vicky Krieps.

Dir. Viggo Mortensen / 2023 / 129 mins / USA, Mexico, Canada, Denmark
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A Different Man

Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) plays a wannabe actor who learns that confidence isn’t skin-deep in this deliciously twisted morality tale.

Dir. Aaron Schimberg / 2024 / 112 mins / USA / English
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I Saw the TV Glow

Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
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Matt and Mara

Anne at 13,000 Feet director Kazik Radwanski re-teams with Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson in this ennui-filled character-driven charmer.

Dir. Kazik Radwanski / 2024 / 80 mins / Canada / English
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Memory

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are exceptional in this dark and difficult love story – director Michel Franco’s most optimistic film to date.

Dir. Michel Franco / 2023 / 103 mins / USA, Mexico / English
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My First Film

Instead of writing off her abandoned first feature as a failure, filmmaker Zia Anger devised this imaginative, self-reflexive piece of autofiction.

Dir. Zia Anger / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
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My Old Ass

If you were a queer Canadian teenager and Aubrey Plaza appeared to you as your future self, would you heed her ominous warning?

Dir. Megan Park / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Problemista

Tilda Swinton plays the boss from hell in this absurdist satire of US immigration policy and the New York art scene from multi-hyphenate Julio Torres.

Dir. Julio Torres / 2023 / 104 mins / USA / English, Spanish
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Sasquatch Sunset

Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg star in undoubtedly the greatest wordless, scatological, horny and tragicomic Bigfoot movie in the history of cinema.

Dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner / 2023 / 88 mins / USA / English
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Sing Sing

In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.

Dir. Greg Kwedar / 2023 / 106 mins / USA / English
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Stress Positions

Bougie Brooklynites behave badly in this queer COVID-set comedy straight from Sundance.

Dir. Theda Hammel / 2023 / 96 mins / USA / English
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Thelma

A 93-year-old grandma’s mission – and, yes, she chooses to accept it – is to reclaim her money from scammers by any means necessary.

Dir. Josh Margolin / 2023 / 97 mins / USA / English
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Vulcanizadora

Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.

Dir. Joel Potrykus / 2024 / 85 mins / USA / English
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Who by Fire

Egos clash in this tense coming-of-age tale set in an isolated cabin in the Canadian wilderness, which won the Berlinale Generation 14plus Grand Prix.

Dir. Philippe Lesage / 2024 / 161 mins / France, Canada / French