Directed by Nathan Silver | 70 mins | 2013

Twenty-five-year-old force of nature Natalia escapes a bruising relationship and lands like a tornado touching down in the lives of a best friend and a kindly shelter manager. Silver’s feel for the helter-skelter of existence and its volatility in the f...

Directed by Nathan Silver | 70 mins | 2015
A group home for recovering addicts teeters into cult-like territory in Silver’s hot-house drama, starring a dream team of micro-indie talent including Keith Poulson, Deragh Campbell, and Eleonore Hendricks. Shot on analog video and set in the early 1990...

Directed by Nathan Silver | 71 mins | 2018
When a French theater director (Maëlle Poesy-Guichard) comes to New York to direct an autobiographical play about her disastrous last relationship, a chain reaction of romantic escapades is set off by her two stars (Esther Garrel and Keith Poulson). Each...

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 157 mins | 2011
Against the majestic Turkish countryside, a roaming police investigation reveals more about the investigators and the tragicomedies of everyday life than about the foggy facts of the case. Ceylan’s gorgeously shot, masterfully paced story has a nove...

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 188 mins | 2018
An aspiring writer comes back to the village where he was born only to find that he can’t escape the debts owed by his father. Quintessentially Chekhovian, the beautifully shot story captures the ache and the ironies of the young man’s predicament, ...

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 105 mins | 2008
Ceylan’s unsettling noir sets up a doomed love triangle between a corrupt politico, his chauffeur who takes the rap for his crimes, and his lover—who happens to be his chauffeur’s wife. A work of true stylistic bravura, the shifting story deploys sk...

Directed by Andrew Bujalski | 100 mins | 2009
One of the acclaimed writer-director’s unsung gems is a casually nuanced portrait in contrasts between twenty-something twin sisters, Jeannie and Lauren, in Austin, Texas. While Jeannie (who’s paraplegic) keeps a steely eye on her vintage shop, Lauren...

Directed by Lucrecia Martel | 115 mins | 2017
A scruffy bureaucrat for the Spanish crown hopelessly angles for ways to get ahead in this audacious vision of 18th-century colonial empire, adapted from Antonio de Benedetto’s 1956 novel of the same name. Don Diego’s anti-epic progress in a far-flung...

Directed by Rungano Nyoni | 93 mins | 2017
A young Zambian girl is accused of being a witch and then pressed into soothsaying service by a slick government official in this strikingly shot deadpan satire. Skewering superstition and corruption, it’s a feminist exposé of exploitation done with dazz...

Directed by Aaron Schimberg | 88 mins | 2013
Schimberg’s uncanny debut feature is a handcrafted American Gothic pastiche that’s like sitting in on hidden scenes from the 19th century. Lost soldiers, ghosts and lovers, schoolhouse lessons and cabaret songs—these dispatches from the past possess th...

Directed by Matías Piñeiro | 60 mins | 2012
A group of actresses who are putting on all-female Shakespeare productions find that the theatrical swirl of frisky intrigue is blurring the boundaries between onstage and off. Filmed with a witty feel for the ongoing dance of social life, Piñeiro’s ele...

Directed by Matías Piñeiro | 75 mins | 2006
When several artist friends get together in a country house, what follows isn’t a relaxing vacation but a rapid-fire roundelay of conspiracies and capers. Characteristically laced with double layers of meaning, Piñeiro’s romp plays out in personal rival...

Directed by Matías Piñeiro | 92 mins | 2007
Piñeiro’s delightful debut feature skips along with a coterie of Buenos Aires friends, galvanized by one devilishly playful woman with a penchant for games of love and chance. With New Wave brio, the film kicks off Piñeiro’s cycle of contagiously rhythm...

Directed by Michael Haneke | 108 mins | 2003
A family flees to the countryside because of an unexplained crisis in the world and finds that societal breakdown is well underway. Haneke’s lacerating, under-seen portrayal of civilization collapse was a bellwether for the cinema’s all-consuming 21st-...