Best of the Fest

The lives of three women living in working-class Mumbai are explored in this soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and womanhood.

In this unique stop-motion animation, a melancholy misfit recounts the tragic but beautiful tale of her life to her pet snails.

In this real-life docudrama, a woman in China desperate to save her marriage hires a professional “mistress dispeller” to break up her husband’s affair.

Iconic, ironic ‘90s slacker-rock band Pavement gets an appropriately wry and subversive doc, both heartfelt tribute and absurdist deconstruction.

Set amid the majestic Italian Alps, this intimate drama chronicles a year in the life of a young war bride and her sisters in the wake of WWII.