Europe & UK

Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.

In Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear–winning drama, a summer getaway on Germany’s Baltic coast unravels against the backdrop of looming wildfires.

A charming character study about love, liberty and the pursuit of forbidden fruit, set in the Georgian countryside.

An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.

This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.

Oscar-winning Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia fuses horror and expressionistic dance in this haunting ballet inspired by Woyzeck and Frankenstein.

Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat shine in the stirring new work from Anthony Chen, which explores how friendship can salve the traumas of the past.

After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.

Winner of the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes Critics’ Week, this coming-of-age drama is a stirring social-realist fiction debut.

In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.

Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.

Moving cities is the perfect excuse to throw a party … and unpack some awkward home truths.

Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.

In this beautifully bittersweet hand-drawn ode to friendship, a dog must find new meaning when misfortune separates him from his robot buddy.

A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.

Becoming one with nature takes a dystopian turn in this visionary rotoscoped romance.