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Anything Is Possible • Josh and Benny Safdie on Uncut Gems
They Are All Equal Now • The Irishman’s Epic of Sadness
I Shall Be Released • Amazing Grace and Rolling Thunder Revue
A Concept of Reality • Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral
Far from Paradise • Nina Menkes’ Queen of Diamonds
Garden Against the Machine • Ja’Tovia Gary’s The Giverny Document
Fairytales and Freudian Females • A Conversation with Jessica Hausner
Training to Failure • Lisa Steele’s Very Personal Stories
Works and Days • The Incomplete SOLARIUMAGELANI
Collective • Alexander Nanau, Romania/Luxembourg
Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be • Franco Maresco, Italy
Ne croyez surtout pas que je hurle • Frank Beauvais, France
The Painted Bird • Václav Marhoul, Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia
The Twentieth Century • Matthew Rankin, Canada
A Voluntary Year • Ulrich Köhler and Henner Winckler, Germany
White Lie • Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Canada
Calíwood My Hometown • Luis Ospina, 1949-2019
Silence Is Falling • The Experimental Films of Marinella Pirelli
Où est le cinéma? • On Sontag: Her Life and Work
Progressive and “Progressive”
Jojo Rabbit • Taika Watiti, US
Ad Astra • James Gray, US
In Fabric • Peter Strickland, UK
Mister America • Eric Notarnicola, US
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu • Céline Sciamma, France
Peter Emanuel Goldman’s Pestilent City