NEW RELEASES SEEN, 2026
([v] video piece; [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; *
grade changed upon repeat viewing; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)
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At Night (Beatrice Gibson, France / U.K.)
Chronovisor (Kevin Walker and Jack Auen, U.S.)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Matthew Rankin, Canada)
Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari, Japan / France / Germany) [s]
[7]
Air (Alexander Barancheyev, U.S. / Latvia / Andorra) [s]
Am I Mourning What I Never Lost? (R. James Edwards, Canada) [s]
The Arab (Malek Bensmaïl, Algeria / Belgium / France / Switzerland / Saudi Arabia)
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
Black Trees (Francisco Rojas, Chile) [s]
Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert (Yuen Woo-Ping, China)
Broken Rage (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) [m]
Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts - Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (Louise Weard, Canada)
The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh, U.S. / U.K.)
Chronicle of Tiredness (Natalia Marín, Spain) [s]
Clarissa (Chuko and Arie Esiri, U.S. / Nigeria)
Dao (Alain Gomis, France / Guinea-Bissau / Senegal)
A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, South Korea) [s]
A Date with Shirley (Ken Jacobs, U.S.) [m]
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece / France / Germany / Romania)
The Day She Returns (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
Depression (Bram Ruiter, Netherlands) [s]
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude, France / Romania)
Dooni (Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold, U.S.) [s]
Duse (Pietro Marcello, Italy / France)
Everything Else is Noise (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada / Germany)
Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović, Croatia / Italy / Slovenia)
Flim Flam (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s]
(for once I dreamed of you) (Kate Solar, Canada) [s]
Forever...Forever (Johann Lurf, Austria) [s]
Forgetting (Antoni Orlof, Poland) [s]
Fractais Tropicais (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil / Portugal)
How to Excel at Everything (Marion Balac, France) [s]
I Love Boosters (Boots Riley, U.S.)
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming (Isabelle Stever, Germany / Ukraine)
In Spite of Hell (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany) [s]
Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman (Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karina Kampire, Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers, Dem. Rep. of Congo / Belgium) [m]
Kata Tjuta, West of Uluru (Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy, Australia) [s]
Koki, Ciao (Quenton Miller, Netherlands) [s]
Last Stop for the Circular Ticket (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi, France / Germany)
Local Sensations (Tulapop Saenjaroen, Thailand) [s]
London (Sebastian Brameshuber, Austria)
The Loneliest Man in Town (Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, Austria)
Lost in the Water (Alison Chhorn, Australia / Cambodia) [s]
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Joel Alfonso Vargas, U.S.)
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec, Germany / France)
nearer to thee in a triptych (Matt Whitman, U.S.) [s]
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson, Canada)
Ouarda Ouarda: yet another floral film (Samy Benammar, France) [s]
Out Iris (Rushnan Jaleel, India) [s]
Penkelemes (Onyeka Igwe, Nigeria / U.K.) [s]
Phytophonics (Karel Doing, Australia) [s]
Practice Towards Light (Jonathan Seungjoon Lee, South Korea) [s]
PROJECTIONIST PLEASE FOCUS (Linda Izcali Scobie, U.S.) [s]
A Pure Portion of Anxiety (Chae Yu, South Korea) [s]
Pure Reason (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada) [s]
Rage Bait (Damon Packard, U.S.) [s]
Rain Set Action (Kelly Reichardt, U.S. / Austria) [s]
The Remotes (John Torres, Philippines / U.S.)
Resurrection (Bi Gan, China / France)
The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao, Hong Kong)
Rumkugeln Roll Around (Sasha Pirker, Austria) [s]
See Through the Hollowed Blue Hellebore (Jiayi Chen, U.S.) [s]
Subtle (Henry Hills, U.S.) [s]
Surrendur (Karthik Pandian, U.S.)
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun, U.S. / U.K.)
Things Many Eyes Have Seen (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland) [s]
Travelers' Suite (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil / Portugal) [s]
Tulsa (Scott Stark, U.S.) [s]
Unmeasurable Particles (Francisco Rojas, Chile) [s]
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Thailand / Singapore / France / Germany)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania, France / Tunisia / U.S. / U.K. / Cyprus / Saudi Arabia / Italy / Netherlands)
A Weak & Panicked Animal (Jake Starr, Australia) [s]
The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants (Burak Çevik, Turkey / Germany / U.K. / Croatia) [s]
What We Said to Brussels Airlines (Collectif Faire-Part, Democratic Republic of Congo / Belgium) [s]
Yes (Nadav Lapid, Israel / France / Cyprus / Germany)
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And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was (Justin Jinsoo Kim, South Korea)
Animal Eye (Carlo Nasisse, Costa Rica / U.S.) [s]
Anniversary (Jan Komasa, U.S. / Ireland)
Anomalies dans le paysage (Félix Caraballo, France) [s]
An Archive of Disappearing Sounds (Michaela Michalak, Canada) [s]
The Bend in the River (Robb Moss, U.S.)
Bernd (Jan Soldat, Austria) [s]
The Black Box is Orange (Yuula Benivolski, Canada)
Body, remember... (Matthew Berka, U.K.) [s]
Bouchra (Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, U.S. / Italy)
Buried in the Snow (Cherlyn Hsing-hsin Liu, U.S. / Taiwan) [s]
CAMP (Avalon Fast, Canada)
Case 137 (Dominik Moll, France)
A Correspondence (Ben Balcom and Josh Weissberg, U.S.) [s]
Dialogue of Energies (J.M. Martinez, U.S.) [s]
Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh, Denmark / Finland / France / Sweden)
Eight Bridges (James Benning, U.S.)
Erupcja (Pete Ohs, U.S.)
Estuary (tidal) (ebb) (Julie Murray, U.S.) [s]
Exit 8 (Genji Kawamura, Japan)
Extra Life (and Decay) (Stéphanie Lagarde, France / Netherlands) [s]
Fantasy (Isabel Pagliai, France)
Flies (Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico)
Forbidden Fruits (Meredith Alloway, U.S. / Canada)
Forever Your Maternal Animal (Valentina Maurel, Costa Rica / Belgium / France / Mexico)
Fragments Of (Elena Calvo, Spain) [s]
Geomeunyeo (Park Kyujae, South Korea) [s]
Humboldt USA (G. Anthony Svatek, U.S.)
Is God Is (Aleshea Harris, U.S.)
Jones Street (Silvia Turchin, U.S.) [s]
Last May in Theaters (Arief Budiman, Soutk Korea / Indonesia) [s]
Maddie's Secret (John Early, U.S.)
Magellan (Lav Diaz, Philippines / Portugal / Spain / France / Taiwan)
Manfriet (Jan Soldat, Austria) [s]
Manifesto of Feeble and Bitter Love (Abinadi Meza, U.S. / Mexico) [s]
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil) [s]
Memories of Lightning (Riccardo Giacconi, Italy)
Mounds Above the Earth (Jiayi Chen, U.S.) [s]
Narrative (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand / South Korea) [m]
Ndjimu (Deep Cobalt) (Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Democratic Republic of Congo / U.S.) [m]
The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, U.K. / U.S.)
The Orbit of Minor Satellites (Chris Sullivan, U.S.)
Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt, U.S.) [s]
Pixel Metabolism's Interface Ulcer (Zhongyao Wang, China) [s]
Polychora (Abinadi Meza, U.S. / Mexico) [s]
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin, U.K.)
The Sheep Detectives (Kyle Balda, U.K. / U.S.)
Sheep in the Box (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi, France / Germany / Hungary)
Soumsoum, the Nights of the Stars (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Chad / France)
Three Kilometres to the End of the World (Emanuel Pârvu, Romania)
Tony (Matt Johnson, U.S.)
Trial of Hein (Kai Stänicke, Germany)
Two Pids (John Smith, U.K.) [s]
Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Sho Miyake, Japan)
Veronique (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s]
Voicemails for Isabelle (Leah McKendrick, U.S.)
Wounded Edges (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland) [s]
Xtended Release (Joshua Gen Solondz, U.S.) [s]
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Alpha (Julia Ducournau, France / Belgium)
Bay Area Sampler Quilt (Amy Reid, U.S.) [s]
blue and sentimental (Chloë Gordon, Canada) [s]
Canticle of the Sun (Nathan Swann, U.S.) [s]
A Circle As the Center of the Whole (Utkarsh, India) [s]
Cursive (Serena Lee, Canada) [m]
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (David Frankel, U.S.)
Document With No End (Kym McDaniel, U.S.) [s]
du soleil, que ça existe (Charlotte Clermont, Canada / Finland) [s]
Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Lynne Sachs, U.S.)
The Fence (Claire Denis, France / U.S.)
Foam of Worlds (Anna Marziano, Italy / Germany)
Fuori (Mario Martone, Italy / France)
Getting LOST (Taylor Morden, U.S.)
Gorg O Mish (Radin Khodadadi, Canada / Iran) [s]
Glaxo (Benjamin Naishtat, Argentina / Brazil)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan, France / Italy)
Herida (Wounded Gazelle) (Diana Esther, Domimican Republic) [s]
Hiding Places (Magdalena Bermudez, U.S.) [s]
I Was There (Kamila Kuc, U.K. / Poland) [s]
The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak (Tianhui Wu, U.K.) [s]
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason, Iceland / Denmark / France / Sweden)
Mother Future Self (Tori Lancaster, U.S.)
Nobody's Violence (Denis Côté, Canada)
Our Effed Up World (Alice Maio Mackey, Australia)
Pasaj [Alley] (Defne Kirmizi, Turkey) [s]
Peacocks Come with the Clouds (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Iran / Canada) [m]
La Perra (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile / Brazil)
Pillion (Harry Lighton, U.K. / Ireland / Netherlands)
Plastic Aortas (Malic Amalya, U.S.) [s]
The Rabbit Always Dies (Oona Taper, U.S.) [s]
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Olivia Newman, U.S.)
simulacra (Bruno Varela, Mexico) [s]
The Station (Sara Ishaq, Yemen / Jordan / France / Germany / Netherlands / Norway / Qatar)
Swing Swish Sway (TT Takemoto, U.S.) [s]
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold, U.S. / U.K. / Sweden / Cyrpus / Hungary)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa, France / Germany / Netherlands / Latvia / Romania / Lithuania / Ukraine)
Unless the Eye Catch Fire (Brandon Poole, Canada) [s]
Wildflower Season (Kathleen Quillian, U.S.) [s]
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Another Earth (Ben Russell, France) [s]
Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / Laos)
Beating Hearts (Gilles Lellouche, France / Belgium)
bio (space/opal) (Cassie Packham, Canada) [s]
Black Seas (Erin Weisgerber, Canada) [s]
Caves of Our Insides (Sabīne Šnē, Latvia) [s]
Clay (Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S.) [m]
Detritus (Deborah S. Phillips and Zuzanna Marczak, Germany) [s]
Fast (Rob Tregenza, U.S. / Norway)
FoUBARthes: Death of the Author (Dayna McLeod, Canada) [s]
The Gloaming (Charlotte Pryce, U.S.) [s]
Ground Floor (Gábor Reisz, Hungary / Italy)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, U.S. / U.K.)
Limonov. The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov, France / Italy / Spain)
Mother, You Have Not Died Yet. But You Will. And When You Do, You Will Finally Be Alive Again (Advik Beni, South Africa)
Necropolis (Kevin T. Allen, U.S.) [s]
The Noise of Time (Patricio Escartín, Mexico) [s]
North (Hogan Seidel, U.S.) [s]
Obsession (Curry Barker, U.S. / U.K.)
A Poem (Vasilios Papaioannu, Greece) [s]
The River Train (Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale, Argentina)
Romería (Carla Simón, Spain / Germany)
semipermeable: syringe (Marcos Serafim, U.S. / Mexico) [s]
Send Help (Sam Raimi, U.S.)
Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin, France / Turkey)
Unerasable! (Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos, Belgium / Thailand / Sweden)
Until the Day Ends (Jelena Maksimović, Serbia / Bulgaria / Slovenia / Germany / Montenegro / Croatia)
Weird Absurd Whatever (Zeynep Dadak and Çiçek Kahraman, Turkey) [s]
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas, France / U.K. / U.S.)
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Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (Amy Scott, U.S.)
In the Blink of an Eye (Andrew Stanton, U.S.)
In the Heavenly Cutting Room (Emma Penaz Eisner, U.S.) [s]
Objet a (Ann Oren, Germany / Luxembourg)
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[W/O]
Carolina Caroline (Adam Rehmeier, U.S.)
Ella McKay (James L. Brooks, U.S.)
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (Gore Verbinski, U.S. / Germany)
Krakatoa (Carlos Casas, Spain / U.K. / Poland)
Mother Mary (David Lowery, U.S. / Germany / Ireland / Finland)
Peak Everything (Anne Émond, Canada)
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, Colombia / Germany / Sweden)
briefly sampled
Barrio Triste (STILLZ, U.S.)
The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal, U.S.)
Eberhard as Seen by Amit (Amit Dutta, India / Switzerland)
Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Reft, U.S. / U.K. / Denmark)
I Want Your Sex (Gregg Araki, U.S.)
Suburbia, There and Back (Damien Cattinari, France) [m]
The Serpent's Skin (Alice Maio Mackay, U.S. / Australia)
Urchin (Harris Dickinson, U.K. / U.S.)
The Vanishing Point (Bani Khoshnoudi, Iran / U.S. / France)
Variations on a Theme (Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar, South Africa / Netherlands / Qatar)
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (Rithy Panh, Cambodia / France)
Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennell, U.K. / U.S.)