Genre: Historical

This stunning early 20th century tale recounts the life of Modesta, a rebellious Sicilian born into poverty who believes she’s destined for more.

London, WWII. 9-year-old George, sent to the countryside by his mother, embarks on an epic journey to return home and reunite with his family.

Newly restored, this bold, original Chicago drama follows two love stories, set nearly a century apart, that echo each other in salient ways.

An imaginative, surreal chronicle of the return of 26 stolen artifacts from Paris to their rightful home in Benin. How should they be received?

In this hybrid documentary, a trans man becomes immersed in an LGBTQ archive, and its oral histories push against stigmas and binaries to illuminate his desires.

A powerful reclamation of pioneering South African photographer Ernest Cole, whose astute, vivid portraits of racial injustice have been largely forgotten – until now.

Karoline, a pregnant factory worker in post-WW1 Copenhagen, accepts a job at an adoption agency where she uncovers a terrible secret.

In the lead-up to her baptism, 16-year-old Grace ponders God, her relationship to friends and family, and the idea of sin and repentance while staying under her grandmother’s roof. Set in the American south of the 1950s, Grace looks at the constants of adolescence, regardless of place or time.

1917. A British civil servant flees his post in Burma to avoid his fiancee. Undeterred, she embarks on a journey across Asia to find him.

A medieval English village is threatened when a nefarious landowner makes plans for profit-driven agriculture in this breathtaking atmospheric fable.

A dual-screen, fictionalized recreation of Eddie Hazel’s famous 10-minute guitar solo on the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain.” According to a much-shared anecdote, George Clinton elicited an especially soulful performance by telling Hazel to imagine his mother’s passing as he recorded the track.

Newly discovered archival footage shot in Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb is mixed with images of the city in the present moment. This work is a haunting meditation on war and memory.

Brazil, 1971. Amid a military dictatorship, a mother of five is forced to reinvent herself after a violent and arbitrary act by the authorities.

Following artist Richard Hunt as he sculpts a monument to civil rights icon Ida B. Wells, this inspiring film weaves the stories of these two Black pioneers.

After 20 years away, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) returns home to win back his queen (Juliette Binoche) and kingdom from a group of power-hungry suitors.

In rural Azerbaijan, an aging projectionist teams up with an aspiring young filmmaker to bring movies back to their small town.

Virtually unseen for 50 years, this jubilant documentary features a soul-stirring display of contemporary Black musicians at Chicago’s 1972 Black Expo.

Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, the film follows a U.S. broadcasting team that quickly adapts from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage.

Sandra Hüller leads a stellar cast in this heist comedy about a group of East Germans who steal a fortune in soon-to-be-obsolete currency.

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.

Three rebellious friends trapped at a remote New Zealand institution for delinquent girls grasp at freedom in this riveting coming-of-age tale.