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“An arthouse breakthrough for Switzerland's gifted Zürcher brothers.” —Variety

The latest film from acclaimed writer and director Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat, The Girl and The Spider), The Sparrow in the Chimney is a “darkly engrossing psychodrama of pent-up domestic tensions.” (Variety) With “deep, bold dives into the nightmarish and the surreal” and a venomously comedic touch, this is the “rare film that feels like a catharsis for protagonist and director both,” (The Film Stage).

“Powerfully raw, ultra-realistic.” —Variety

Led by Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Anna Grace and recent Academy Award-nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (KING RICHARD) and featuring energetic, all-female soundtrack featuring 1990s musical icons Queen Latifah, PJ Harvey, Roxanne Shante, Salt-N-Pepa, the newly restored award-winning Sundance indie, GIRLS TOWN, is one of the first films of its kind to frankly address sexual violence as women experience it.

“A stellar work of genius on every level” —Film Threat 

Gritty, mean and intense from the get-go, TATSUMI recalls the explosive “true document” yakuza films of celebrated director Kinji Fukasaku while adding a fresh perspective to its violent proceedings.

“Funky, evocative....mesmerizes from start to finish” —The Contending

Petersen Vargas’s propulsive, erotic drama, SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING, artfully utilizes a roadtrip structure to disguise what becomes “a beautiful rumination on the significance of chosen family in the queer community, and the lengths we sometimes have to go to to achieve it.” (Frameline)

“One of the most thoughtful, truthful and tactful depictions of the pandemic ever put to screen.” —The Wrap

From acclaimed director Lou Ye (Suzhou River, Summer Palace), AN UNFINISHED FILM combines fiction and documentary footage to create “an utterly unique and very important movie about Covid, the crisis that affected all of us.” (The Guardian).

“A feverish op-art dream that turns on us at every corner.” —Slant Magazine

An outrageous, rabble-rousing contribution to the Roman Porno redux series, ANTIPORNO is an expectation-defying, antic study in blighted eroticism, damaged psyches, and shifting power dynamics, set against outlandishly theatrical backdrops; “a feverish op-art dream that turns on us at every corner.” (Slant Magazine)

“Pleasures of the flesh and pains of the soul potently combine in AROUSED BY GYMNOPEDIES.” —Variety

A modern take on the “Roman Porno” genre from director Isao Yukisada, AROUSED BY GYMNOPEDIES is an “engaging and ultimately touching portrait of love, loneliness and loss of youth” (Variety).

“[A] taut, haunting character study.” —RogerEbert.com

Executive produced by Naomi Osaka and co-produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Leonardo van Dijl's NYTimes Critic's Pick, JULIE KEEPS QUIET, is a "tense, absorbing movie of silences and absences... a gripping study in dysfunction and repression." (The Guardian)

“Truly impressive...the shocking ending, conclud[es] the movie in outstanding fashion.” —Asian Movie Pulse

After his wife dies, Joe struggles to raise his now non-verbal daughter Sophia on his own in the Malaysian countryside. Desperate for work Joe finds a job as a handyman for a mysterious woman who claims she can help Sophia speak again. But as her unorthodox treatment progresses, Joe and Sophia begin experiencing terrifying visions that threaten their grip on reality.

Ceramic artist Tokiko takes teenage runaway Haruka as her lover and apprentice, but their relationship soon becomes overcome by infidelity and abuse. Produced as part of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno Reboot series, WHITE LILY is directed by Hideo Nakata, the master behind such J-horror classics as Ringu and Dark Water.

“Paula Beer turns in another dynamite performance.” —Filmuforia

Starring Paula Beer (Transit, Undine, and Afire), STELLA: A LIFE tells the shocking real life story of Goldschlag and the great evils ordinary people are capable of when faced with making a morally impossible choice.

“Dramatic, eventful and moving.” —Eastern Kicks

A tribute to Noboru Tanaka’s classic Roman Porno film Night of the Felines, DAWN OF THE FELINES is a modern and unflinching update to the genre famously created by the Nikkatsu film studio in the 1970s, offering a portrait of women living on the edge of society while negotiating their agency, connection, and dignity.