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Jonas Carpignano completes his Southern Italian trilogy in the city of Calabria, where African refugees, the Roma community and the mafia coexist, focusing for the first time on a young female protagonist: a teenager (Swimmy Rotolo) who absorbs shocking discoveries about her. . The result is a film about an intimate gambling relationship. -David Rooney
after young
Colin Farrell and Jody Turner-Smith star as a couple whose family harmony suffers when an android brother who bought them for an adopted Chinese daughter collapses in writer-director Kogonada’s sophisticated sci-fi drama. The film’s hidden emotional power pushes him forward. – Dr.
PASSIONATE Annals
The restless young Parisian (Anais Demostier, charming) falls in love with her ex-partner, the famous writer, played by the brilliant Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, in the seductive debut of Charlene Bourgeois-Take. It’s a kinetic portrait of how she stumbles on love, comes back to it, lets go, and then comes back. -Lovia Giarkie
girl and spider
The Day of Movement – Logistics, Emotions – confirms the ideal configuration of the two Berlin directors Ramón and Silvan Zurcher in their surprisingly original second film. With more than a dozen characters revolving around a young woman and a roommate who leaves her behind, the film portrays the strangeness of an acquaintance, at once incomprehensible and transparent, comical and touching. – Sherry Linden
it happens
Audrey Divan’s drama (winner of last year’s Venice Film Festival) is an urgent chronicle of a young woman’s struggle for control of her body. The stunning Anamaria Vartolomei plays a cheerful student in 1960s France who is faced with an unplanned pregnancy without legal forms of abortion. It’s more current than ever, but this sympathetic work of social realism doesn’t require recent titles to be relevant or engaging. – Dr.
touch the road
Panah Panahi (son of famous Iranian author Jafar Panahi) makes his film debut in this heartwarming and witty family road movie. Attributing to it the slow realism of the Iranian new wave, he builds a sophisticated and surprising story about a young man who cuts ties with those close to him to find his own path. -Jordan Minzer
Lingui, sacred bonds
Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroon’s wonderful and deeply moving drama is about a single mother and her pregnant teenage daughter seeking an abortion in a country where it is technically legal but impossible to access. The filmmaker unravels the bonds between women and slowly reveals how far they will go to protect themselves and each other. – LG
ᲑᲐᲢᲝᲜᲘ. Bachmann and his gang
Film director Maria Spett attends the provincial German class — the director and her sixth graders, mostly from immigrant families — where impromptu sessions and juggling lessons are as likely as math and grammar lessons. A result like Frederick Wiseman’s is one of the most awarded documents of recent times. – SL
playground
A 7-year-old boy navigates the tense social dynamics of his new school when his older brother Laura Vandel starts bullying him in his first film. With atrocious precision and sheer generosity, the film explores its young protagonists, drawing dire conclusions about Darwin’s ostensibly idyllic setting. – LG
blush
A 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl is torn between remaining a faithful daughter or unleashing a wild side when intense emotions suddenly begin to transform her into a giant red panda in this hilarious, cuddly sorceress from Pixar. Sandra Oh brings her quick and smart character into the role of a controlling mother. – Dr.
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