A wedding celebration takes on a special poignancy in Lulu Wang’s wonderfully warm, bittersweet look at the intricacies of family dynamics featuring a bravura breakout performance from Awkwafina.

Family ties become a trap from which an artist and mother must find a way to escape in this absorbing, emotionally layered portrait of a woman coming apart in order to become whole.

A kaleidoscopic cross-section of American society passes through the van of a frenzied medical transport driver over the course of a crazy day in this wry, breathlessly freewheeling road movie.

Sibling bonds are both rekindled and tested in this achingly alive tale of two sisters who travel to their family’s home in the Dominican Republic where they must confront the past while learning to let go.

A group of trans and genderqueer Brooklyn artists and activists attempt to carve out a utopian space for themselves in this luminous, bracingly intimate tale of love, literature, and collective struggle.

Unfolding in a millennial pink, vaporwave haze, Liza Mandelup’s disquieting documentary is a sobering look at teen dreams and disillusionment in the age of social media stardom.

Peter Sarsgaard delivers a quietly compelling performance in this spellbinding tale of a silence-obsessed man searching for harmony in an often dissonant world.

What begins as a documentary about magician-comedian The Amazing Johnathan becomes a playfully self-reflexive, wild ride story about a filmmaker’s own personal and artistic anxieties.

Tales of childhood wonder, black vampires, and queer intimacy are featured in this wide-ranging selection of shorts from vital new voices.

A young woman journeys through the joys and pains of first love on the way to becoming herself in this achingly raw, Harlem-set romance.

A teenage sleepover in the 1990s becomes a prelude to unseen horror in this trancelike, visually sublime fusion of avant-garde aesthetics and classic old-dark-house atmospherics.

In this poetic rumination on Audre Lorde’s memoir about her experiences with breast cancer, a chorus of women share healing, cathartic messages about what is means to be a woman dealing with illness.

Filmmaker Brett Story turns to everyday New Yorkers to discover what the future holds in an era when global warming and late stage capitalism have seemingly set us on an apocalyptic path of no return.

Tayarisha Poe’s hyper-stylish immersion into the competing cliques that control an exclusive Pennsylvania prep school is a potent look at the dark side of the teenage drive to be “perfect.”

An American expat in Hong Kong and a Korean man in New York each experience the thrill and disorientation that comes with being a stranger adrift in a strange land in these bittersweet travelogues.

Nick Kroll and Olympian Alexi Pappas star in this funny, heart-racingly intimate tale of human connection shot on location during the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang.

With humor, vitality, and a subtle political conscience, this warmly human documentary profiles the 2012 graduating class at a majority-black high school in Flint, Michigan as they prepare for prom.

As filmmaker Rodney Evans confronts the loss of his sight, he embarks on an inspiring artistic and philosophical journey to discover what it means to truly see.

Eugene Mirman reflects on the end of an era in New York City comedy in this warm, generous, and hilarious inside look at the beloved annual festival he hosted for ten years.

Jeff Goldblum weaponizes his idiosyncratic charm to sinister effect as a libidinous lobotomist in outsider provocateur Rick Alverson’s eerie, enigmatic odyssey into the dark side of 1950s American society.

This electrifying mix of documentary and narrative brings to life the incredible true story of a group of young undocumented activists who risked everything to infiltrate an ICE detention center.

Traveling from a black Southern barbershop to underground Bushwick to the US-Mexico border, these short form documentaries illuminate the margins of American society.

Death haunts a close-knit community in this evocatively spare, slow-burn documentary spellbinder about vanishing traditions and disappearing lives in rural Mexico.

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