Slated for a late January release by A24, Aidan Zamiri’s satire of a cultural phenomenon also features Alexander Skarsgard, Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant and Hailey Benton Gates.
From porn to LGBTQ visibility and various other empowered marginalized voices, David Shadrack Smith’s Sundance entry covers a tumultuous chapter of media.
BAFTA-winning TV director Molly Manners’ debut feature stars Galaxie Clear and Marni Duggan as teenage BFFs who give themselves the assignment of falling in love.
Director Poh Si Teng followed a trio of doctors who performed surgeries at the Nasser Medical Complex while the war raged on, risking their lives to save others.
She also starred in ‘Dragstrip Riot’ and ‘High School Hellcats’ before co-founding Childhelp, the nonprofit organization dedicated to helping abused, neglected and at-risk kids.
Irish director Sinéad O’Shea examines life inside the 1% in a documentary that probes wealth inequality, moral responsibility and a subject unafraid to push back: “The rich cannot help but get richer, [and] that gap is getting more and more difficult to bridge.”
Writer-director Rafael Manuel expands his award-winning 2021 short into a debut feature that depicts an elite country club as a paradise of exploitation.
Filmed over a 10-year period, the documentary by directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes follows a Syrian girl and her family as they escape their war-torn homeland and make a new life in Germany.
Writer-director Beth de Araújo’s second feature stars newcomer Mason Reeves as an 8-year-old girl confronted with very adult fears after witnessing a violent crime.
Molly Manners’ first feature blends teenage obsession, early-2000s nostalgia and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in a tender portrait of formative friendship.
