Named for a highly peculiar variety of shellfish with great significance to the people of the Algarve, the latest by the Portuguese team of Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves combines animation and documentary for an exquisitely rendered rumination on a community's relationship with the sea.

Out clubbing with friends, a woman acts according to the roles and rules she's been taught only to discover that different ones may apply in Anette Sidor's incisive look at gender norms and modern mores.

As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while always conscious of his father's shadow.

A young single mother faces a major challenge in her efforts to find herself a temporary bit of freedom in this engaging and empathetic drama by Mick Robertson and Margaret Rose.

Marc-André Grondin delivers a searing performance in Pier-Philippe Chevigny's viscerally powerful drama about a recently incarcerated man trying to reintegrate into a society that has little place for him.

While travelling in an unknown desert, the four-legged characters in Alison McAlpine's delightfully enigmatic and visually sumptuous film come upon a place that may expand their (and our) understanding of the cosmos.

Thrilling performances by Haley Joel Osment and Marin Hinkle help intensify the blend of suburban dread and existential absurdity in directors Maika Monroe and Simone Faoro's skillful adaptation of a story by Samantha Hunt.