This luminous miniature of speculative science fiction from Portuguese artist-filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques ponders the very meaning of the nuclear family. Shot on 16mm and bathed in natural light, Becoming Male in the Middle Ages is a provocative meditation on gender, identity, and reproduction.

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Scrappy low-budget filmmaking has a new kid on the block in actor, director, and writer Kit Zauhar. Zeroing in on an Asian-American student’s premature case of postgraduate drift, she brings an altogether different charm to independent cinema with her wry, plucky, and perceptive first film.

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Widely celebrated as “the mother of all Holocaust films,” Polish director Wanda Jakubowska’s remarkable work is based on her experiences in Auschwitz, where she returned to shoot as early as 1948. Resilience shines through in this beautifully crafted paean to female solidarity in the darkest times.

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Vicky Krieps is luminous as a woman under the influence in this mysterious family drama from the French multihyphenate Mathieu Amalric. Told in puzzle-piece fragments, the film has the beautiful fragility of broken glass and feels, contrary to the title, as though it would be hazardous to touch.

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