Nobuhiko Obayashi
A career coda, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s LABYRINTH OF CINEMA is a deeply humanist and endlessly delirious journey through Japan’s wartime and film history.
Noah Hutton
Noah Hutton’s speculative LAPSIS is an alt-present sci-fi thriller most relevant to the horror of our current, late-capitalist moment.
Kana Yamada
The lives of female escorts intersect in Kana Yamada’s debut LIFE: UNTITLED, a remarkable update of the Japanese brothel film tradition.
Jung Hyuk-ki
A delightful hybrid of boxing drama and quirky rom-com, directed and edited with utmost precision and flair.
Xia Magnus
A young Filipina nurse wrestles with the Regan’s family secret in Xia Magnus’ densely atmospheric, American Gothic debut SANZARU.
Sabrina Mertens
Something is quietly rotting away under the surface of familial life in Sabrina Mertens' entrancing TIME OF MOULTING.