A fast-talking man claiming to be a former tennis prodigy faces the doubts and derision of the people who cross his path in Fabián Velasco and Miloš Mitrović's acerbically funny character study.

Enriched by cinematography as remarkable as the filmmaker's work on Zaynê Akyol's Rojek, this documentary by director Arshia Shakiba situates viewers amid the oil refineries in Syria's war-ravaged north, a landscape that may seem post-apocalyptic but lives in our ever-more alarming present.

This year's winner of the Short Film Palme d'Or, Nebojša Slijepčević's spare yet powerful drama situates viewers in the shoes of the people faced with a terrifying choice as they witness a horrific crime just beginning to unfold on a passenger train in Bosnia in 1993.

Adapted from a story by Richard Van Camp about an Indigenous youth's battle with an ancient evil, this thrilling and visually stunning animation is a tour de force by award-winning filmmaker and animator Amanda Strong.

Built around a charismatic and continually surprising performance by singer and actor Leah Dou, this stunning effort by Dorothy Sing Zhang transforms a fraught late-night hospital visit into a modern musical about the complex dynamics between mothers and daughters.

Making an indelible impression with her wickedly smart and funny directorial debut, Dakota Johnson shines a spotlight on writer and performer Talia Bernstein, who stars as a queer woman whose friends' expanding conceptions about their relationships gets her wondering about the state of her own.