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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The Arab (Malek Bensmaïl, Algeria / Belgium / France / Switzerland / Saudi Arabia)

Broken Rage (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) [m]

Dao (Alain Gomis, France / Guinea-Bissau / Senegal)

A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, South Korea) [s]

Duse (Pietro Marcello, Italy / France)

Everything Else is Noise (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada / Germany)

How to Excel at Everything (Marion Balac, France) [s]

Koki, Ciao (Quenton Miller, Netherlands) [s]

The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi, France / Germany)

Local Sensations (Tulapop Saenjaroen, Thailand) [s]

London (Sebastian Brameshuber, Austria)

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson, Canada)

Resurrection (Bi Gan, China / France)

The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao, Hong Kong)

Surrendur (Karthik Pandian, U.S.)

Things Many Eyes Have Seen (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland) [s]

Tulsa (Scott Stark, U.S.) [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]

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]

Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh, Denmark / Finland / France / Sweden)

Eight Bridges (James Benning, U.S.)

Exit 8 (Genji Kawamura, Japan)

Extra Life (and Decay) (Stéphanie Lagarde, France / Netherlands) [s]

Fantasy (Isabel Pagliai, France)

Fragments Of (Elena Calvo, Spain) [s]

Geomeunyeo (Park Kyujae, South Korea) [s]

Last May in Theaters (Arief Budiman, Soutk Korea / Indonesia) [s]

Magellan (Lav Diaz, Philippines / Portugal / Spain / France / Taiwan)

Narrative (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand / South Korea) [m]

Pixel Metabolism's Interface Ulcer (Zhongyao Wang, China) [s]

Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Sho Miyake, Japan)

Wounded Edges (Yannick Mosimann, Switzerland) [s]

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Alpha (Julia Ducournau, France / Belgium)

blue and sentimental (Chloë Gordon, Canada) [s]

Cursive (Serena Lee, Canada) [m]

Document With No End (Kym McDaniel, U.S.) [s]

Fuori (Mario Martone, Italy / France)

Gorg O Mish (Radin Khodadadi, Canada / Iran) [s]

Herida (Wounded Gazelle) (Diana Esther, Domimican Republic) [s]

The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak (Tianhui Wu, U.K.) [s]

Pasaj [Alley] (Defne Kirmizi, Turkey) [s]

Pillion (Harry Lighton, U.K. / Ireland / Netherlands)

The Rabbit Always Dies (Oona Taper, U.S.) [s]

The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold, U.S. / U.K. / Sweden / Cyrpus / Hungary)

Unless the Eye Catch Fire (Brandon Poole, Canada) [s]

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Another Earth (Ben Russell, France) [s]

Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / Laos)

bio (space/opal) (Cassie Packham, Canada) [s]

Caves of Our Insides (Sabīne Šnē, Latvia) [s]

FoUBARthes: Death of the Author (Dayna McLeod, Canada) [s]

Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, U.S. / U.K.)

Limonov. The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov, France / Italy / Spain)

The Noise of Time (Patricio Escartín, Mexico) [s]

The River Train (Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale, Argentina)

Send Help (Sam Raimi, U.S.)

Unerasable! (Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos, Belgium / Thailand / Sweden)

Weird Absurd Whatever (Zeynep Dadak and Çiçek Kahraman, Turkey) [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.)

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[W/O]

Ella McKay (James L. Brooks, U.S.)

Krakatoa (Carlos Casas, Spain / U.K. / Poland)

Peak Everything (Anne Émond, Canada)

briefly sampled

Eberhard as Seen by Amit (Amit Dutta, India / Switzerland)

Suburbia, There and Back (Damien Cattinari, France) [m]

Urchin (Harris Dickinson, U.K. / U.S.)

The Vanishing Point (Bani Khoshnoudi, Iran / U.S. / France)

We Are the Fruits of the Forest (Rithy Panh, Cambodia / France)