Seo-jin YOON
A dead cat hanging by its neck, an omen of doom, precipitates a family’s downfall in Yoon Seo-jin’s existential horror film debut.
Francisca Alegría
As fish die, a mother miraculously comes back to life, in Francisca Alegría’s debut, an ecological fable and magical realist ghost tale.
Amanda Kramer
A Primetime Saturday Night Network Television Spectacular curdles into nightmare juice in Amanda Kramer’s uneasily honest television satire.
Tyler Taormina
Fragments of Americana form a foreboding, midnight mosaic in the latest from daring American filmmaker Tyler Taormina.
Daigo Matsui
The six years of Teruo and Yo’s relationship are told in reverse chronology in Daigo Matsui’s beloved COVID-set romance.
Suze and Arthur question their own sexuality after a deadly encounter with a leather-clad gang in Amanda Kramer’s beatnik-era phantasmagoria.
Jonathan Davies
The discovery of a mysterious hurdy-gurdy leads an amateur musician down an audiophile rabbit hole in Jonathan Davies’s shimmering, open-ended debut.
Natalia Sinelnikova
The utopia of a “curated” high-rise community is disturbed in Natalia Sinelnikova’s chilling, speculative debut.
Carlo Francisco Manatad
Son, mother, and friend find ways to survive in the rubble of Typhoon Haiyan. Carlo Francisco Manatad’s award-winning debut, a magical-realist take on the disaster film.