Films

Norway’s inflexible child protection laws disrupt the lives of a devout immigrant family in Cristian Mungiu’s atmospheric Palme d’Or-winning family drama and legal thriller, starring superstars Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan.

Fed-up communities in Louisiana and Appalachia's Rust Belt find themselves thrust into an unlikely role—that of accidental activists—as they take on factory polluters and fracking practices that have had devastating effects on the health of their friends and families.

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first feature in a decade, this chilling reimagining of La femme infidèle and Unfaithful masterfully explores the depths of corruption in Putin’s Russia through a story of crime and infidelity.

Fifteen years after her landmark documentary Miss Representation, Jennifer Siebel Newsom returns to confront the ways social media, AI, and online misogyny are weaponized against girls, threatening the future of the next generation of female leaders.

Veteran documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney presents a dispassionate, mesmerizingly complex, and terrifying portrait of Elon Musk, taking as inspiration the billionaire’s musing that contemporary reality might be a computer simulation and video game.

Forced to flee their own country, independent Russian journalists continue to chronicle Putin’s war on free speech—and Ukraine—in this equally vivid follow-up to Julie Loktev’s acclaimed 2024 documentary.

Nearly a half-century of Iranian political repression and resistance unfolds through one family’s experience, illustrated by home movies and other archival materials in this highly personal documentary from expatriate Pegah Ahangarani.

Legendary documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple completes the workers’ trilogy she began 50 years ago with this vivid, on-the-ground look at often rancorous labor struggles in the era of delivery apps and the gig economy.

When filmmaker Gabriela Pena returns to Valparaíso, Chile, to renovate the house her family left behind decades earlier, she unearths how silences, unspoken fears, and absences have shaped their relationships and approaches to love.

A pair of CIA agents, Easter Island, and a mysterious assignment: Martin McDonagh delivers a darkly funny, visually stunning thriller fueled by the irresistible chemistry of John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell.

Sam Rockwell will be honored with a special MVFF Tribute Program, featuring a screening of Wild Horse Night, clips from his career, and an in-depth conversation, and preceded by an earlier screening of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, another Martin McDonagh film starring Rockwell, whose performance earned him an Academy Award.