Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is as unsettling as it is tender, a punk gothic romance set in the margins of life and death. Glowicki directs and stars as a lonely gravedigger who unexpectedly finds love, only to have it ripped away. Refusing to let go, she claws at fate...
Nic Pizzolatto, best known for creating True Detective, brings his moody sensibilities to the big screen with Easy’s Waltz. Vince Vaughn stars as Easy, a washed up Vegas crooner scraping for one last shot at relevance. Al Pacino plays his slippery mentor, Mickey,...
Isabel Coixet’s Three Goodbyes adapts Michela Murgia’s novel, 'Tre ciotole' into a cinematic elegy. Alba Rohrwacher stars as Marta, a teacher unraveling after the collapse of a long relationship. Elio Germano plays Antonio, her estranged partner, whose presence...
Todd Rohal returns to Midnight Madness with one of the year’s most outrageous titles, Fuck My Son!. The film is pure provocation, a riot of bad taste and sharp satire. Rohal doesn’t just chase shock value, though the film gleefully courts offense; he uses absurdity to...
Yaniv Raz’s Eternal Return is a swooning, magical romance anchored by Naomi Scott and Kit Harington. Scott plays Cass, a guarded young woman whose path collides with Virgil, a man burdened by memory and fate. Their connection unfolds as both love story and...
Byun Sung-hyun transforms a 1970 hijacking into a razor sharp satire with Good News. Sul Kyung-gu commands the screen as a crisis leader trying to steady a nation, while Hong Kyung and Ryu Seung-beom deliver kinetic energy as part of the task force. From the opening...
Kunsang Kyirong’s debut 100 Sunset is a quiet marvel, set in Toronto’s Little Tibet community. It follows Kunsel, played with delicate restraint by Tenzin Kunsel, a reserved teenager who observes her world through the lens of a camcorder. When she befriends Passang...
Yeon Sang ho’s The Ugly strips away spectacle to deliver a slow burning mystery rooted in grief and prejudice. Park Jeong-min carries the film in dual roles, portraying both the son who discovers his mother’s remains decades later and the father who lived through her...
Hikari’s Rental Family explores Japan’s real life rent a relative industry through the eyes of Philip, a lonely actor in Tokyo played by Brendan Fraser. Hired to play husbands, fathers, and sons for clients in need, Philip finds himself blurring the line between...